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Governor David Paterson says he's got some new ideas about how to bail out the MTA, but so far, he's not telling anyone except for legislative leaders.
"They are reviewing it with their members. If it passes muster, we'll make sure you know about it soon enough and hopefully vote on it as soon as when we get back. And I would like the day to be Monday," said Paterson.
The MTA says it can't count on Albany to act. In addition to fare hikes that take effect May 31, it's planning for a second round of fare hikes and service cuts that could take effect as soon as September. On Thursday, the agency instructed all of its agencies to prepare for a new round of cuts.
One idea that's been mentioned -- closing down the subway system overnight, is unlikely.
"The savings isn't that great, and it is really logistically extremely difficult for us, because the system is so big, to get all the trains into the yards, for instance, is a laborious process."
In fact, a recent internal analysis by New York City Transit concluded the subway was never designed to be shut down. Many stations don't even have gates; railyards aren't big enough to store the entire car fleet at once; and substituting bus service would actually be more expensive.
Still, the analysis does identify certain subway line segments that were recently considered for late-night closure. Among them, the Dyre Avenue branch of the 5 in the Bronx, the Franklin Avenue shuttle, the Lefferts Boulevard branch of the A train, and the Metropolitan Avenue branch of the M.
The segments could still, however, be at risk if there's another round of service cuts.
"These are horrific cuts that are likely. They've already cut away a lot of the fat. They've already cut into the bone. And this is a major amputation."
Of course, there is still hope an Albany rescue will make most of the proposals unnecessary.Closed-door meetings to explain the governor's plan to state lawmakers are scheduled for Monday.
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22.01.07 - By James Slater: The much anticipated super fight between Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather has been announced officially to take place at The MGM Grand in Las Vegas, as we all know. And this choice of venue was no surprise to anyone, what with Vegas being a virtual second home for The Golden Boy. What may have come as a shock, however, is the incredibly high prices that tickets for the fight are going for. A ringside seat will cost a staggering two thousand dollars, while even a cheap seat will set fans back over two hundred bucks.
Surely then, this epic in the making is THE most expensive boxing match in history, at least from the perspective of the punters who will have to shell out a small fortune to witness it live and in person. Epic in the making? Well, thats my point in this article - will the fight serve to give the fans who are fortunate enough to be there value for money?
Lets be honest, its very possible the fight could be a letdown. With so much at stake for both men, the bout may unfold as one being fought with much caution. And while both Oscar and Floyd have given us thrills in the past, especially in Oscars case, they have too given us boring affairs. Indeed, most fans nowadays, if asked if they would rate Pretty Boy at the
top of the list of boxers they most want to see perform, would respond with a resounding no. For while Floyd is without doubt a superbly skilled boxing master, he has received more than his share of negative publicity just lately for failing to please those amongst his fan base that love nothing more than a good, hard fight. Boxing smart is simply Floyds game, and lets face it, who can blame him for using an approach that clearly works for him? Mayweather, having moved up to challenge naturally bigger men, is never going to stand toe-to-toe with them is he? No, Floyd is a master at playing it safe, as his critics put it - Floyd himself would refer to his tactics as something else entirely, of course - and he will surely do so again when he steps in with De La Hoya.
Oscar, as we know, will be the much bigger man. Having fought at light middleweight for some years now The Golden Boy will almost certainly have an advantage over 154 pound newcomer Mayweather. This basically means then, that it will be up to Oscar to provide the fireworks. With it being pretty much a given that Floyd will box in a way not too far removed from the way
in which he did so last time out against Carlos Baldomir, the only way the fight will catch fire for lovers of a slugfest will be if De La Hoya finds a way to force him to deviate from such a game-plan. If he cant, what then? The fight could soon start to anger the fans in attendance, especially considering the vast amounts of cash they have parted with to be there. And while there is nothing wrong with a chess match style fight - a type of boxing match many fans actually prefer as apposed to a brutal war - I sense that boos will begin to fall on the ring if anything other than a classic develops.
With the hype for this one guaranteed to go through the roof many fight fans will simply not tolerate a less than fabulous fight. Both men have, as stated earlier, given us relative disappointments in the past ( De La Hoya Vs. Trinidad, De La Hoya Vs. Mosley II, Mayweather Vs. Baldomir, Mayweather Vs. Castillo, for example ) therefore another one is more than possible. So
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The purpose of this daily feature to share classic game tunes that you've very likely missed. However, it being Week of Hate and all, I felt it was appropriate to end this week's blast of songs with some of my most loathed musics.
Chief among them is this ear-shattering garbage from Sonic Spinball. How this ever, EVER made it through QA is beyond me, with its piercing shrieks and mechanical wails that sound more like a dying robot cat than anything resembling music. Paradoxically, the rest of the Spinball soundtrack kicks ass, but again, it's Week of Hate and I can't end things on a positive note.
Still cherish your N64 now? Cruis'n USA was one of system's first draws, gaining popularity in arcades since 1994 and finally releasing in the fall of 1996. While you may be able to argue the quality of the gameplay (it's shit) you can't deny the music is the dumbest shit ever committed to cartridge. Not necessarily the worst, just the dumbest. Please listen to the whole thing.
And why not, here's a third video. It's from Freaky Flyers, as featured in my 2008 article The cheesiest videogame songs EVER. We discuss this article in the classic TalkRadar 20, so if you've never listened, stop being a bitch and do so.
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I feel that I should log in here my slight change to my diet and exercise plan for the 5% Challenge. It's pretty similar to what I blogged before, however I now have an actually plan in place. I recently signed up for a 30-Day Burn program offered by one of my favorite health and fitness guru's, Dr. Josh Axe. He advocates following a clean, wholesome, organic diet while limiting/eliminating sugars and utilizing Burst Training (his version of HIIT- High Intensity Interval Training or Tabatta Training) as an exercise program. The 30-Day Burn that I joined is giving me 4 weeks of meals plans as well as manual for turning on our fat burning switch. Plus a private FB group for support and questions. Anyway, I just started the program on Sunday and have been doing really well with my eating as well as doing the Burst Training. I love Burst as it is 20 minutes of burst of high intensity exercises. You do a set of exercises for 45 seconds, 30 second rest and then another set for 45 and so on. There are about 6 different exercises targeting a certain area of the body that you repeat 3 times giving you a 20 minute workout. Each workout targets a different area and you incorporate muscle building with cardio. I really enjoy the workouts and the time I spend is great for this busy, working mom. He also has a great warm-up and cool-down that I utilize and I can add in 10 minute strength training SP videos as well.
Anyway, I wanted to do this update for this challenge. I can already attest to seeing big changes in my first week and am anxious and excited for tomorrows weigh-in.
Reasons my Diet/Exercise Plans have not worked well in the past:
1) Time, time, time.... I work a full-time job and have 2 young kids at home. In order to not pay for daycare, my husband works opposite hours from me so my evenings are busy with my 2 kids. I also live about an hour from my job, so close to 2 hours of my day are spent commuting. I got in really early so I can be home in time for my husband to go to work, so getting up early to exercise is very difficult.
2) Bored... I don't find exercise that exciting, even doing something that I enjoy. I prefer curling up a to a good book over going for a bike ride.
3) Eat well all day....snack before bed... I'm pretty good at eating healthy for breakfast and lunch but then at the end of the day after the kids are in bed, there is nothing I like more than relaxing on the couch with a glass (or 2) of wine, my favorite cheese crackers and some good sharp cheddar cheese. And continue eating beyond my allowable calorie range.
So, those are probably my top 3 challenges I have in my life. So how can I get past them??
1) Time. I need to force myself a minimum of 10 minutes of exercising a week. I will post my Win Today Checklist somewhere that will help remind me to do my exercises. If I squeeze them in early in the morning, then I'm done. If not, I can find a point in the evening to do them, even if I wait until the kids are in bed. I also need to commit myself to my new BurstFire DVD that I purchased last month. I can do this!!
2) Bored. Do something different every single day. That at least keeps things interesting.
3) Snacking before bed. I need to recommit to counting calories during the day. If I have any left over at bed time, then premeasure my snack and that's all I get.
Trigger Foods: Cheese and crackers, Mac and Cheese, Potato Chips Hmmmm....not much else for me.
Sources of Trigger Foods: Grocery store.
When I reach for my trigger foods: After a long day of work and after the kids go to bed I like nothing more than relaxing with a glass of wine and salty snacks.
My stragedy to avoid these triggers:
1) Weigh my food out before eating it to make sure I'm staying in my calorie range for the day.
2) Limit the number of days each week that I can partake in my triggers.
3) Find another way to relax in the evening.
Assignment 6 is to write about what motivates me to lose weight.
1. Get healthier - I am blessed to be a pretty healthy person overall, but it never hurts to be as healthy as possible as you never know what may come your way.
2. Set a great example for my children - While I know I can't force my children to live how I want them to live, I do want to do my best for my children. I hope they see me being healthy and will want to follow my lead as they get older. At their current age of 5 and 2, I am lucky that they love to eat fruits and veggies, but I hope that it will carry through into adulthood. If I tell them all the time to choose healthy food options, I want them to see me do the same thing.
3. Love how I look in clothes. I have lost a good deal of weight since joining SP and shopping for clothes has become more enjoyable than it used to be. However, there are still some outfits that I have no felt comfortable enough to wear yet and my hope is to get a great looking body, no matter what weight I'm at, so I can be happy wearing those outfits.
Those are my top 3 reasons for being here and as I continue reminding myself of these motivations, I hope I can finally reach my goals.
Got my Win Tomorrow Checklist made and ready to go.


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It is normal to go through a lot of corruption when a country is developing a a fast pace; instituion of law still needs to be built gradually. Good luck to Indian people.
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It is normal to go through a lot of corruption when a country is developing a a fast pace; instituion of law still needs to be built gradually. Good luck to Indian people.
I believe corruption is rightly focussed by Economist as one of the main endemic festering rotten wound of India but someone over here who started the comments on this articles remains unconvinced. Let me come back about casteism in Pakistan - Perhaps this person from now on will start looking inside its own surroundings first after this -
"Despite their conversion to Islam; Pakistani Muslims still refer to themselves as Jats, Gujjars, Rajputs, etc. This is especially so during match-making in an arranged Nikah (marriage). One instance of the visibility of casteist feelings among Pakistanis is the reference Benazir Bhutto makes in her book 'Daughter of the East', when she says "In my veins runs the blood of a Wadhera".
Wadheras are a Rajput clan from Punjab and Sindh.
It is time that India starts to take steps to route out corruption. Though I sympathize with some lower level positions wanting bribes in order to feed their families and to make up for the bribes they had to pay in order to secure the jobs they have, it is appalling how openly the bribes are being asked for. While on a business trip, and waiting at a traffic signal in Chandigarh, I noticed a policeman stop two taxi drivers in less than a minute, and take something from them and put it in his pocket. Go after the bank accounts of the officials and show no mercy. PERIOD.
Hopefully, the new generation will be more in tune to that approach. About time to get rid of the corrupt politicians and the officials! Kudos for whoever initiated the probes that bagged these rascals.
This is NOT only a problem in India but everywhere. And believe me, I have been approached in many of my business deals all over the world. I have NEVER taken or given a bribe to anyone.PERIOD. I sincerely hope no one does..then see how soon this cancer disappears.
No apologies to anybody. This is how the largest democracy works. The growing middle class is the one agitated most. If they feel stongly, let them show it by coming to the voting booths at the time of elections. Cribbing does not help. It is time to act.
What a national disgrace, do we have the gumption to confront and punish corruption.
@the underaged optimist wrote: Nov 22nd 2010 2:59 GMT
I am not "a south indian and probably from tamil nadu."
You may actually consider me a pro-Pak, pro-China and pro-India commentator. Overall, Pakistani and Indians are basically the same people except the religion and Indo/Pak and Chinese are friends for thousands of years. So let's not lose sight of the big picture here.
Nobody likes corruption (not even its culprits I suppose) but corruption is here to stay in India, and in various ways and means in just about any country. Have you heard of "pork barrel" politics made famous (or infamous) in America's reconstruction times? Or even not too long ago, this very magazine carried a survey highlighting India as the nation with highest rate of shoplifting? So you really have look at the big picture of it.
Corruption should of course be prosecuted, WSJ today reported an estimated illegal Indian holding overseas of over some $400 b due to corruption since India became independent.
But if a nation is so seriously maimed by corruption beyond redemption, would it still be possible to manage a GDP growth of over 8% or more, year after year? So, at the same time something must have been managed right and right enough there to offset the negative economic effects of corruptions committed with some of them happened no doubt because of such growth itself in the first place.
I think that's what happening in India, and that's what happened in most economies, developing or developed.
There is no moral justification for corruption. All I am saying is that corruption should not be used to obscure other detrimental social ills of a nation like the apartheid like Hindu caste practices. It's more rampant and serious than you'd like to see or admit from your living comfort of middle class ambience, and that's "99.9%" no droppings for India.
The core issue is not sacking the corrupt politician or officer but the act of seeking and getting bribe.
Yes, catching a criminal and bringing the criminal to justice is good but stopping the crime from happening is even better.
Ratan Tata - a rare icon of integrity? Of course. The author of this article must have lost his bearings. Ms. Radia, who is confirmed to have lobbied the Telecom ministry for Mr. Raja, was in fact lobbying for the Tatas in official capacity. Mr Tata couldn't have afforded for the post to go to anyone else.
If it was in anybody's interest for Mr. Raja to resume his time at the Telecom Ministry in the second term of the UPA, it was in Mr. Ratan Tata's interest.
Politicians spend a lot of money to get elected, not because of their dedication to principles, people or the nation. They do it to get their hands on a whole lot of loot by robbing the public of hard earned financial support for themselves. The Congress might have alienated itself from the Raja affair,if Jayalalitha had not claimed that Congress was waiting to form a coalition with her. Corruption has become suddenly a hot affair only because the media have played a huge role in exposing it, and becuse of the coming elections. If the media had not publicised the secret lives of our politicians, none of these would have become an issue, and all in the know would have become quietly richer.
India progresses not because of its politicians, but inspite of them due to its demographic divdend. The fact is that A Raja will get re-elected to the parliament next time around because the people who elect governments do not work in offices or read the economist or even use fancy mobile phones but are the poor in villages and slums who will sell their vote to the highest bidder. No respectable middle class person will ever join politics as a profession in India. The middle class is very mobile and their protest is manifested in their preference to use their talent for the private sector and overseas companies instead of the bureaucracy or the military. India is paying the price for ignoring its educated talent and will continue to do so by being governed by the incompetent. For the government to redeem itself it should see to it that Raja gets a lifetime of prison sentence and all his property is confiscated and attached to the exchequer which is otherwise busy squeezing the middle class for tax.
Despite the continuous Western insinuation of shits and corruption like during the Commonwealth Game, the Game has ended with a bang and the Indian economy is not only thriving but growing to be the Superpower. Jai Hinduja.
The Indian way of doing things well include a massive dose of corruption to grease the wheel of commerce and government.
Indian citizens, middle-class or whatever, need to think in terms of the JOB that has to be done now. Every job needs:
a) A plan of some sort, however tentative...
b) Selection of TOOLS to carry out the job
c) Someone, some institution(s) to embody and supervise the work to be done.
Now, I hope I can put my criticisms of the Congress Party in perspective:
a) This party, now ruling India, has to tell Indians that it has a 'plan' to fight corruption, tell them what that plan is......
My Complaint: I don't think this UPA government has a plan......
b) The existing tools for fighting corruption in India are many.. The Prevention of Corruption Act, The Central Vigilance Commission, The Central Bureau of Investigation and so on.
My Complaint: This UPA government and the previous ones presided over by the Congress Party have UNDERMINED and blunted ALL OF THESE TOOLS.
Too long to narrate the story of how everyone of these tools had been distorted, bent and blunted by this most unpatriotic of political parties in India.
This group of sycophantic, 'Empress - Worshippers' don't think of the COUNTRY much. They think mostly of remaining in power.
THAT IS THE REASON WHY THIS GOVERNMENT LOOKED THE OTHER WAY while DMK's nominee, Raja, the Hon'ble Minister for telecommunication was selling the country down the Yamuna. They were afraid that DMK will withdraw their support for them to stay in power till the next general election.
The Congress Party will sup with the Devil himself in order to stay in power. 35 billion dollars loss to the Exchequer is not a worry for them.
@the_underaged_optimist, let me introduce you to Nkab. The person is of Pakistani origin and usually comments on India, China and Pakistan. Nkab enthusiastically laps up everything written about China in its favour and fights against anything written against it like a Chinese would do. Lately, the person has changed on India from delivering acidic excerpts into showering cynical accolades but all infused with the caste droppings and as a result no body takes any notice because 99.9% caste has never been the issue discussed by Economist. What is intriguing is the reason behind this facade? Wonder Nkab 's own caste?, afterall Muslims still practice caste in Pakistan like Hindus in spite of getting converted no matter how much they shout from roof top that all Ummah is one and they can mix with each other but they are as divided as any other religion.
The usual Indian Over-optimism
The article is too optimistic about Indian government and middle class leading change. This is just grossly overoptimistic view of what India is?. People in India think their house, society, caste and near ones is everything...for most of middle class its their India. They dont want to leave their comfort zones to confront their own leaders.
As long as the citizes dont wake up of their slumberland these scams and scandals will be there. The current government's attempt to sideline the 2G scam and trying to brush aside an incredible loss of revenue is another chapter in India's vote centric democracy..rather kleptocracy...no wonder we cant host a simple CWG but dream of Olympics...
"India's fast-growing middle class is thought to be increasingly intolerant of thieving politicians"
In a country where on a small percentage of citizens pays their fair share of taxes, indulging in hiding incomes and tax evasion at every possible opportunity it might be a bit of an over statement.
Everyone will ridicule this scandal and people involved but only people who themselves dont do similar things really have the right to say anything.
I have been an ardent Indian supporter all throughout in most issues but this is one subject that India deserves and needs to take the flak.
Corruption has prevailed and will prevail till humans exist but in developed countries politicians/bureaucrats make money not at the expense of shoddy or no work, they have evolved and are less crude.
In India, the greed has no limits. These %$^%$$#$% (lot of unparliamentary language) want to make money in the tons but do nothing for the people at large.
India's woes would only change by a revolution... another non cooperation or civil disobedience movement probably against the system.
Sad but true
Corruption in India is a deplorable act and puts a tremendous mark on the reputation of the country.
Notwithstanding the pace of India's development, it must realize that a clean, effective leadership is a fundamental requirement, and such actions actually make it harder for it to achieve a credible global status.
I stand corrected--
"I have observed corruption (ideological and monitory) is rampant in West too, most notably in Quebec region of Canada" in the higher echelons of the society.
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I have a pretty jankey aquarium setup, (20 gal, two filters, heavy bio-load, smallish heater) and I have a bunch of questions. First off:
I am running a 20 gal. tetra "cartridge" filter, and am getting quite sick of buying new cartridges for it. I also have an Aquaclear 50, and I am trying to decide whether or not it's worth switching to this system. I also have considered buying a biowheel filtration system, but I am unsure of the benefits.
This leads me to a few questions, and some additional random ones:
1. In an Aquaclear filter, is carbon necessary? I have heard of just using biomax inserts and/or foam
2. How often will I have to change the filter media in the Aquaclear 50?
3. How often will I need to change the filter media in a penguin biowheel system?
4. Which system would you forum users recommend?
5. Why in the world is my Aquaclear impeller rattling and creating so much noise? How can I fix this?
6. Is it ideal for running a filter on it's tank size-limit, or is it better to have like 10 gallons of buffer room? (Aquaclear 50 on a 50 gal, etc)
7. Is brown Algae bad? It's green in places but brown in most others, it's ugly, and I'm worried.
8. How can I keep guppy fry from being eaten? I have hide-grass, rock caves, and any number of other things, but they always just get eaten by my carnivores.
Thanks for your input.
Aquaclears are the best HOB filters, IMO, and an AC50 is the perfect filter for a 20 gallon tank that's overstocked. I use AC50s on my 20 gallon tanks.125 - BGK, pictus cats, silver dollars, kissing gouramis, palmas bichir, delhezi bichir
125 - Red severum, bolivian rams, Turquoise rainbows, irian red rainbows, loaches (angelicus, zebra, kuhli and horseface), plecos (BN, RL and clown), denison barbs, pearl gouramis
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Originally Posted by Ownage Machine300 gallon mega tank: build in progress
75 gallon community tank: tetras, danios, corys, platies, otos, pearl gouramis, bristlenose pleco, assassin snails, red cherry shrimp, bamboo shrimp
70 gallon growout tank: clown loaches, sailfin pleco
60 gallon goldfish tank: fancy goldfish
29 gallon frog tank: 1 bullfrog
10 gallon and 5.5 gallon betta tanks: 1 male betta each, sometimes snails
Remember, no filter will remove nitrates (final breakdown product from ammonia.) You must change your water every week - amount depends on the nitrate reading (don't buy tabs - get a liquid test system for ammonia/nitrites/nitrates and pH.) Many people get away with 15-20%. Discus keepers have to do large WC every day.
In any case, the more WC you do, the better your fish will be (up to a ponit - complete changes can harm the bio-media.
When they say use tank water to clean your filter they mean the throw-away water from the WC - not wash the filter media in the tank ... . Yes, every one knows that but it should be said from time to time.
Get another heater! The worse thing you can do (after not doing regular WC) is letting the tank get to cool. Don't skimp on a heater - the best types are submersible and are mounted near the bottom of the tank. This allows could vertical mixing of the heated water through the tank.
Good luck.
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Oria Tate passed away Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, at Baptist Memorial Hospital – Golden Triangle in Columbus.
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STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University will host 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at 6 p.m. Jan. 28 at Lee Hall's Bettersworth Auditorium as part of the MSU Global Lecture Series. However, Romney's appearance is just the latest in a series of noted speakers from within the upper echelons of American leadership to appear at MSU.
Twenty-five years ago, a sitting U.S. president was the guest speaker for Mississippi State University's commencement.
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The board unanimously approved Shay King, Nita Keys and Elizabeth Bailey to serve on the new board. King and Keys currently serve on the West Point School Board, while Bailey will be a new addition.
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|Nov 06, 2012, 11:18 AM
I would vote for you in a NY second Wayne
Sorry but I just don't play into the whole political thing, I don't follow any of it, so I don't vote because I don't know anything about anybody anyway and don't care, and as soon as there is a political ad on TV the channel is changed for the evening and this week I've been doing anything but watching tv lol I check on some football scores but thats about it. Sorry to sound so anti-american but I'm not, I love this country and all those who stand for what America is about, I have the utmost respect and admiration for all our military forces. but as far as the political thing goes to me its just allot of hot air being blown into the air to get a vote, I can't stand listening to it at all, I'd have much more respect for them if they were talking seriously about their plans and actions to what they think they should do without all the hate mail and ads that go around, So I don't complain about who is in the office or who is in charge, whoever ends up there has my full support and thats that.
Now thankfully I was just asked today to go pick up an 18 wheeler with a sleeper on it and spend however long on the road delivering hospital beds and supplies to the disaster areas on long island and in the city, so I might not be back until tomorrow night sometime probably to reload and do it again. so I won't have to watch any of that stuff tonight
But I hope if you all do like this stuff you have a great election filled with dramatic emotions and laughs and I hope all the people you vote for win.
I feel so Bad feeling this way about it but it just makes me twitch thinking about it LOL have a great day and night all
|Nov 06, 2012, 12:08 PM
Haha Wayne just announced his candidacy for US President! A little late Wayne... but I'll jump right on that campaign trail for you
|Nov 06, 2012, 12:10 PM
I'm going to call all the talk radio hosts and tell them about Waneism and why everyone should abandon the current candidates and vote Wayne instead. Go Wayne he is the change we want to be in the world!
Ok... now back to airplanes...
|Nov 06, 2012, 12:39 PM
OK Wayne what is your last name, I'm going to write you in. I know you'd be a hellva lot better than those other yeah who's
|Nov 06, 2012, 01:47 PM
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I voted for Wayne -President
Kerwin50- Vice president
and for Kerwin50 to get the Grey Machine back up flying!!
|Nov 06, 2012, 02:27 PM
Guys I want you all to know if I'm elected I will put an ear mark on a bill with a free twist for everyone.,
But the way the green machine just got windexed so K49 can't call her the gray machine.
O and I ordered a new sensor for the electronic Ign.
|Nov 06, 2012, 04:54 PM
Wayne, would you please make me secretary of the interior? Thanks!
|Nov 06, 2012, 04:54 PM
Or at least ambassador to the UN?!!! They would love me!! Lol
|Nov 06, 2012, 05:34 PM
Wayne's Platform
If I am elected, nobody gets anything for FREE!! NOBODY! I am turning welfare over to the private sector. I am cutting off foreign aid. If you don't give stuff to the US, you will get the same in return. I am terminating any education program that does not ensure that students actually learn the material before they get credit for it. No new debt will be allowed to accrue. If we can't pay for it, we are not going to do it. The national budget will be limited to 80% of the previous year's tax revenues. The first 10% of the surplus offsets debt and the other 10% goes to making Social Security solvent. I will start a NATIONAL lottery. 100% of the proceeds go to eliminating the National debt. This will be coded in law so that no one gets their grubby paws on it.
The congress will go on the same health plan that the rest of the federal employees have. Congress will not be allowed to vote a raise for themselves. Compensation for members must be approved by a vote of their constituents. Individual members that do well, get paid well, the others stay at the entry level.
All Federal employees, President down, pay for their own vacations. If it is not official business, we don't pay for it.
Businesses get tax credits for every new job they open and hire someone for at least 9 months of the tax year.
Only bona fide citizens vote
States run the stuff inside their borders. The feds only get involved in interstate issues.
We lock down the borders. If you want in, you go through proper channels. If not, we lock you up and you go back where you came from.
Everyone in my cabinet will be a person that has expertise in the area they manage and not a professional politician.
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|Nov 06, 2012, 05:50 PM
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My vote goes to the candidate that can spell correctly.
|Nov 06, 2012, 06:04 PM
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I've changed my mind........I'll vote for the first honest candidate I find. Wayne, let me know when you throw your hat in......I might get a chance to vote in good conscience then!
|Nov 06, 2012, 06:12 PM
Well, I was trying to write while eating an awesome pomegranate.
They are so good. They had nice big ones at Sam's today.
|Nov 06, 2012, 06:37 PM
I voted a bit ago... go wayne lol
On the way home I put 4 flights on the 48 edge at the turf farm. That plane is so much fun. I have really been getting better and better with it and really like flying it more and more. I just hope it continues to stay in one piece with my shenanigans Today was low KE and hover day. I did a few WOT KE passes just a few inches off the ground. That is sooo much fun I'm just glad I didn't dork the plane. I have also been getting a lot better at torque rolling that plane. I remember when I first started flying one of these I had a really hard time getting it to lock into a hover. I used to think it was the plane... now I know I just needed to get more skills
I wish I could tell you about fun interactions with my flying buddies but I have not had a chance to fly with anyone else in a while.
|Nov 06, 2012, 07:43 PM
Here Here Wayne.
Now why didn't you start campaigning last spring?
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In my previous blog I outlined the topic of IT service assurance and the five key things to consider if you are looking to transform your IT department or simply operate it more efficiently with existing assets.
In this blog I will focus on the topic of IT continuity.
With hurricane Sandy recently tearing through the North East of the United States, businesses have been reaching once again for their business continuity plans (BCP). The broad topic of business continuity management (BCM) covers all facets of how to minimise risks and ensure continual delivery of business services, IT being one of the key elements.
Given the devastation a hurricane and other natural disaster can cause shouldn't all businesses build BCM plans to accommodate these situations? Well yes, in the ideal world businesses would minimise or remove all risks - if money was no object. However, in reality budgets are limited and there's often a reticence to sure up defences for something that may never happen.
In larger organisations I commonly see alignment with best practice frameworks such as BS25999 (recently became the ISO22301 standard). In smaller organisations the approach is often more free form, based on perceived priorities that are key to the running the business. Whatever the approach being taken, my discussions with customers focus on the topic of provable and appropriate IT continuity plans as part of their BCM strategy.
From my experience, by far the largest proportion of IT failures come from accidental human and application errors. With this mind I always talk to clients about the following considerations.
Review or create a risk register
First of all understand what your business risk posture is in relation to failures in IT services. This requires consultation with the business owners before any IT solutions should be developed. Put the business services and their reliance on IT into manageable categories with similar importance and recovery objectives. You now have the basis for IT to create appropriate IT continuity solutions without over or under investing.
Establish mature operational disciplines
In general, prevention is better than cure. In other words, operate your production environment with mature operational disciplines and reduce complexity, where you can, through standardising infrastructure and software. Maintaining tight control of the production environment should help minimise the human and application errors. Of course this does not remove the need for IT continuity services (as it is impossible to remove all risk) but such an approach should provide you with better control of known risk.
Frequent and realistic testing
I'm sure that anyone who has been involved in a disaster recovery (DR) test will appreciate the trepidation before the event. Will it work? How much of my weekend will this take? Will we have to come back next weekend? What will we have to change as a result and what will be needed to do that? Full DR testing is an involved process so why not maximise your confidence when these big days are coming up?
Regular simulations that test process and data integrity without impacting the production environment will build this confidence. Factor this consideration into the equation when designing IT continuity solutions to maximise your confidence and demonstrate provable DR.
Understand interactions between application tiers
Business services that rely on IT are often made up of multiple application tiers that interact together to provide the overall service.
Server virtualisation has allowed application workloads to be seamlessly relocated to other physical assets. Having a clear understanding of this is essential to recover failed components of that service. Trying to manually track these interactions is time consuming and error prone. However, this is where automation can play a big part. Consider how you visualise and track the relationships between applications tiers and how you can automate recovery of not only the failed component but also any knock-on effect that has had up or down the stack.
For tier 1 applications with short recovery time objectives (RTO) this is essential to meet those service level agreements (SLAs).
Review SLAs for commoditised and converged architectures
Moving towards commodity hardware and open source software has obvious cost benefits. Similarly, converged architectures (pre-defined vertically aligned hardware stacks) can offer improved simplicity and standardisation.
However, from my experience both need to be reviewed from an IT continuity perspective to ensure they meet the benchmark expected from previous implementations. Also how to do they integrate with existing assets and operational processes already in place? Do you need to create new processes and tools to ensure IT continuity of the services running on these platforms?
Remove the weakest link in the chain
The final consideration is one that can often be over looked by IT continuity professionals, simply because it doesn't naturally fit the reactive recovery of services.
I refer to an old customer who was focused on making sure they had a DR strategy in place. All the focus was put on traditional techniques like backup and recovery, replication, high availability and removing single points of failure from the infrastructure. All of these are key tools to building a DR recovery strategy.
What this customer had overlooked, however, was the need to address another glaring hole in the IT Strategy – information security. What happened? After implementing the very well defined DR strategy their network was attacked with a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, which rendered their customer facing websites unavailable for two days, losing the organisation lots of online business. The moral of the story is that the weakest link in the chain needs to be identified, and it might not always be where you first look.
If you are interested in how Symantec can help your organisation to more closely align business and IT via a short facilitated workshop please contact the author directly (email@example.com).


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