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What are some common mistakes made by System Administrators, and how can we avoid them?
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What are some common mistakes made by System Administrators, and how can we avoid them? Please justify your answer and give examples where applicable. |
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Creating backups but not testing the restore procedure properly. Justification: It's easy to lose oneself in backup strategies without considering restore strategies. Examples: I'm sure none are required :) |
I've been on both sides of these in the past: Not letting people know when you're making changes that affect them. Not realising that most people aren't aware of the same issues you are, and penalising them for it. Not knowing when to call in help. Not researching a problem before disturbing someone. |
Biggest mistake? Not understanding that the network you're administering is used by real people who are trying to get real work done. Real people who do not understand what you do or why, and don't need to. And you are not their boss. :) Not understanding this leads to anger and resentment on both sides. It leads to sysadmins making assumptions about what they can and should do. For example, forcing reboots of systems overnight to apply patches will anger the users who didn't save their work before they left home. Bad sysadmin thinks "this is for security, we must do it, people ignore the reboot reminders, they get what they deserve". Good sysadmin thinks "people have weird workflows that work for them, they don't understand security, I have to find ways to help them out and still keep things safe". What that help may be is dependent on the culture. Real people! |
Getting sucked into solving non-technical problems with technical means. For example, if people browsing the internet for personal use is a problem, the answer is not always to install a web filter, monitoring application, and check logs daily. If you have supervisors doing their job and supervising, then people hanging out on Facebook all day won't be nearly as much of a problem. Sometimes reminding people of the company policy is all it takes. And it costs a hell of a lot less to write a policy saying "no facebook, myspace, ebay, and other personal websites" than it does to do the research on a web filter, get a quote, buy it, learn about it, install it, configure and deploy it, and finally provide continued support for it. Now, don't get me wrong, there are certainly lots of great uses for hardware/software web filters, and other sorts of great stuff, but sometimes they are impractical for the situation. For example, a small office of 10 people doesn't need a Websense filter. It needs to have a manager or other kind of supervisor who makes sure to assert their presence in the office so that people know they can't get away with, not only personal browsing, but personal phone calls, and other kinds of slacking that don't involve a computer or other piece of technology (sudoku during work hours, etc). Also, don't ever underestimate the importance of making rounds. Go around the office and ask around with everyone if everything's running swell on their machine. If it isn't, either fix it right there, or schedule some time for it later in the day. It might seem like you're creating work for yourself at first, but overall, if your users are open about the problems they are having, and tell you about it when making rounds, you can stop big problems early and save yourself a lot of time. |
The biggest "common" mistake is when sysadmins don't document anything. |
Believing that you're only making a small change. Nobody will notice. It'll be fine. Avoid by having proper change management procedures. |
Trying to resolve a problem with complicated approaches instead of taking a few steps back and try to see if there's a simple solution. In other words, starting at the end instead of the beginning. I don't know if that makes sense :) |
Changing things and then not being able to repeat those changes. For example, let's say you're trying to get a network service set up on Linux. You read the man page and it says you should edit a certain file. You edit the file, but the service doesn't work. You read the manual again and see some mention of a second file. Edit that file, still no luck. Repeat until the service finally works. Why does the service now work? Is it the last change you made? The first and the last? All the changes together? Do you even remember what files you changed? Now you have to set up the same service again on a different computer (or on the same computer again, after having to restore something from a backup). Can you get it working again? This sort of problem occurs a lot when admins are not thoroughly familiar with a particular product. And given the number of products out there there is no way for everyone to be familiar with everything they set up. This problem is worse on Windows if you're clicking stuff in a GUI becuase you have no idea what is changed and it's much harder to do version control. |
My two golden rules
Running systems on luck rather than on work. I've seen many, many instances of the luck-based approach to systems administration:
Do the work and you take luck out of the equation. For the rest of you, good luck! |
Old phrase from carpentry: measure twice, cut once. When you're pounding out a command on a CLI of some kind, double-check your entry. A single missing option, typo, or misplaced delimiter, can spell success or disaster. Re-read your command before pressing that Enter key. Example
The first one will remove files from a directory; the next one will remove all files from the / directory, which in turn, is everything. Likewise, for those Windows admins out there:
The first moves files and directories, then deletes afterwards; the second moves files and directories, but only removes the files. |
See also What makes a "Good" or "Great" Administrator?. In my experience, avoiding common mistakes is not achieved by having a list of common mistakes in your head the whole time. I think it's one of the qualities that makes a good or great administrator; for example, a good administrator will devise appropriate policies, have them approved, and then follow them -- for example, a change management policy -- which will prevent the most common mistakes caused by changes. It's really about thinking about the bigger picture, and not being caught up in the technical details of whatever you're working on at the moment. I repeat my recommendation of The Practice of System and Network Administration by Tom Limoncelli, Christina Hogan and Strata Chalup; it's the 1000-page answer to your question, but it's absolutely worth it. Plus it's got lots of good stories of common mistakes. |
I have had a good 4years+ experience as a sys admin and have tried several methods to show people the method to what they perceive as 'madness'. I've been feeding users a short brief background as to why some things can and can't be done and they've found it very useful. Users started perceiving ITS in general as a more productive entity that really wants to help users! Never seen this before! Sure there's always the odd troublesome users which fit the cliche' "10% giving 90% of trouble". I guess what I'm trying to say is, one of my biggest mistakes was underestimating the effect of a short brief summary as to why we do what we do. It sure has granted a much healthier relationship with IT in general. |
Believing in unrealistic deadlines. Deadlines, especially unrealistic ones, tend to make life worse, rarely better. For instance, I knew two guys who were responsible for encrypting entire laptop hard drives. These were laptops belonging to sales reps in the field. Their boss made the statement "That'll be done next week." Deadline rolls around, and it's not done. CIO gets concerned and asks these two what the problem is. They state "If we get this remote encryption process wrong we'll turn those laptops into bricks, and require the sales reps to drive to home office to get the problem resolved. We're still testing everything to make sure we know what's going to happen." CIO turns to the manager and says "Why didn't you tell me this last week?" You should never sacrifice quality for quantity, especially if it's just to meet unrealistic deadlines. |
Not doing backups at all and relying on things like RAID or SAN mirroring to protect data. |
Relying on rebooting a machine to fix a problem. Stop providing band-aid fixes to problems because it's quick and has worked in the past. Don't just fix it, fix it! |
admitting that you're the sysadmin, and giving people your phone number ;-) |
Shutting down a remote server when i meant to restart it. Easily done at 3am in the morning. To stop it i set the group policy to only let the administrator shut a server down and ensure everyone logs on using their own account. If you do then ever need to shut the server down you have to log in as the administrator which you should rarely have to do. |
Not having support from upper management for the things you do. User policy? Useless without their approval. Backup solutions, disaster recovery and efficient virtualization projects? Useless without management on your side. Wasting time on things that won't matter, thinking "it's neater" or "it's cheaper". It's one thing to properly mark the cables in a rack or redo a cabling job mess to be able to work with it in the future, but it's another to order a refit of all horizontal cabling because of policy, for an office that is to be abandoned in two months where a few floor-runs and mini-switches would do the job fine 'til then. Oh and a completely different small pet peeve of mine: using the wrong monitoring solution - like a Hobbit or Nagios system for a mostly windows-based network, or the other way around, using a Microsoft monitoring suite for a mostly Linux-based network (not that I've seen that one yet, but the first one is way too common to even make sense). When the Exchange team themselves releases management packs with thousands of rules and written solutions to these problems, it seems wierd to try and redo their work one step at a time. You want to monitor entire services, like "the e-mail system" or "that line of business application" or "that office in Canada" - not individual processes and windows services. And you want to teach the system how to fix a problem once it has occurred, if it doesn't already know how, to prevent a occurrence somewhere else from making too much of a problem. But then again, this is probably just me being a prick again ^^ |
Backing up to the same machine on which the data sits, is a problem I've encountered at two separate customers. Both DBAs were fired when the RAID died, and rightfully so. Off-site backups are your best answer, and although I am echoing previous posts, it's important to ensure that you test your backups. |
A very big mistake I see is not immediately owning up to the mistake. It is understandable to cringe and try to hide (or even try to resolve yourself) but very likely this makes the problem worse. |
A common mistake (that I have made in the past) is becoming dependent on particular tools, shortcuts, or the like. When they aren't there, and you're accustomed to them, it can really throw you for a loop. Be sure that you understand how all your tools work, and that you can replicate their functionality with nothing more than the command line-- you never know when you're going to have to do something critical on a machine you had completely forgotten about, or weren't in control of until recently. |
just a few
Making assumptions on 'what seems sensible'. E.g. A computer isn't turning on, so you think the power supply is shot because that's the sensible thing. Instead the user is calling on their mobile in the middle of a power cut. |
This question is pretty close to the post: "Common mistakes made by System Administrators and how we can avoid them" I'd like to add that one thing to do wrong is to NOT document your work. |
Rushing to conclusions... Stop and think. Make sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth. Quit leading me on wild goose chases when troubleshooting problems and wasting my time reporting things that are really by-design behavior. |
Trusting your end users to tell the truth. Sometimes they may think that if they tell you what really happened that they would suffer some sort of repercussions, or perhaps they don't know which information is relevant. But, at the end of the day, it's best to be skeptical and to ask as many questions as possible. |
That 'management' don't want to pay for anything, often they just need to see a good business-case or to understand the return on their investment. It's as much 'IT's responsibility to manage upwards as it is for management to manage downwards. |

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Today I cracked up while doing homework with a friend, totally lost it. Over what? Bracketing compounds. There's a particular way to describe the patterns of compound words, by describing their constituents: [noun-verb-er]
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Today I slept in until five o'clock.
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Also there was a quite funny bit at the end of the argument when someone asked whether there were any examples of a certain kind of philosopher - because she was one - and the teacher was like....
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Today Miho is still... wondering about her computer. She tried doing the safe mode scan yesterday but she started it at 9, got called in early to work and was there till about 4:30 so when I got home.. there was nothing on my screeen... I have no idea how the scan went. Poop.
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Today Miho just wants to say that you all may think her crazy but she absolutely loves restaurant work. She loves banquet serving more specifically. It's all so hectic and stressful and it moves so fast, but the people never see that. I mean, last night there was a party in every room and all of us servers were running around like crazy, but the people knew this not. I just think it's ridiculously fun. However, I'm not a fan of the teenage servers cause when it comes time to resetting rooms they are sooo slow cause all they do it chat with one another. Urgh.
Today Miho is gonna donate plasma. Hopefully and maybe go apply for a weekend job that goes midnight to noon with a twelve hour break and then starts up again midnight to noon. Then I could be working 3 jobs.
Today Miho thinks instead of 3 jobs, she should just get a full time job and work a part time one too.
Today Miho wonders something. So the other day I was cooking rice in my roommates brand new stainless steel pots from Ikea and I forgot about it. Anywho, long story short, the bottom was totally black. I boiled vinegar in it and scrubs and whatnot and now, now it's shiny, like new again. Anyone wanna explain the magical properties of vinegar to me?
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Vinegar is an environmentally friendly, non-toxic cleaner/antiseptic. You can use it for cleaning, and it does wonders with hair too (though I suggest using shampoo afterwards to get rid of the smell). It's also good for pimples. Why it is so, I do not know. I only know that I love and adore vinegar.
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I had lunch with a good friend of mine, after which I headed off to work. Once I finished work I went to a get together in my sisters place. I have had a good day and a (reasonably) productive one as well.
Today I posted my first post in the shiny new today thread.
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Haha, thanks! Look! I'm from the the past! 8D
And a canoe because I love canoes. I love canoeing. There is nothing quite like hopping in one and going out on a lake early in the morning. You don't make much noise in a canoe and it's a lot easier to observe nature. The action of paddling is soothing, whatever speed you go is something you alone achieve (unless you're going down a stream or river and there's a current). I learned to canoe when I was little on my great-aunt's farm, and learned how to do nifty things like turning and righting one at summer camp. I suppose you could say that canoes remind me of happiness and summer and are a symbol of peace and freedom to me. That and I've just always wanted a canoe. There are a lot of lakes near where I live and it's a shame I never get to go out on them.
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@Tinu: Congrats on 2000 posts! And, yes, canoes are beyond awesome. The only time they're not awesome is when you hit rapids in them. Oh, man, the horrible memories...
My father used to own a canoe, we used to go canoeing all the time in it... I miss those days.
@Ax: It went very well! We only had a day together, so we spent the whole time in each others' company. We ended up packing two days worth of activities into one day, and I was TOTALLY exhausted by the end of it. I went through four cups of coffee, but he had a great time. ^_^ Even with my heart problems being aggravated by caffeine, it was worth it!
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In a 2001 title, cultural critic Peter Pericles Trifonas produces a postmodern reading par excellence of Umberto Eco's views on football. "Umberto Eco and Football," Trifonas writes, "is and is not a text about Eco and football."
Philip Anschutz and AEG marketing shills in Los Angeles, as a New York Times profile of Anschutz last month made clear, have co-opted the language of world football along with its associated passions to serve their own ambitions.
Following a worldwide trend identified decades ago by sensitive souls such as Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, Anschutz has integrated soccer seamlessly into the reality-distorting worldview of the American corporation. Soccer teams and leagues are meant to capture market share, players are properties acquired to serve the corporate agenda. Marketing chiefs and their underlings supply a patter of passive verbs in the course of fashioning a packaged product, much as they might promote a mobile phone or fizzy beverage of no nutritional value. With a background in railroads, telecommunications and movie theaters, Anschutz, whose company owns L.A. Galaxy, Chicago Fire and Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer, has treated soccer as a consumable, as Graham Bowley writes in the Times ("Goal! He Spends It on Beckham," Apr 22).
The sports and entertainment platforms that Mr. Anschutz has developed are also a launching pad for what analysts say is his biggest gamble yet: the rollout of soccer as a major American sport, starring one of the game's thoroughbreds, David Beckham. [see Jan 22]
Packaged with Anschutz's outsized influence over the top levels of American soccer comes a veneer of silence—he declines nearly all interviews, what might be viewed as modesty were it not for the multibillion-dollar portfolio, aggressively pursued right-wing social agenda and notion of attempting "some small improvement in the culture" through production of anodyne, focus group–tested films. The appeal of soccer, reports Bowley, rests in the interpretation, skewed by the domestic game's rise to prominence among suburban youth, of the sport as family-friendly.
Here the naïveté in America's unique soccer culture—an indescribable fusion of grassroots, girls' and women's teams with ethnically aligned tournaments and impromptu play of all stripes, with an emphasis on participation—collides with the "big soccer" of Europe and Latin America: the wellspring of Galeano's lament about world football as a "sad voyage from beauty to duty." Anschutz and the new American owners of Liverpool, Manchester United and Aston Villa have become enlightened to this latter expression and the potential fit between the "unseen hand" of free-market capitalism and a game once viewed as anti-American.
In seeking to repackage the sport as product, in the American mold, Anschutz and Soccer United Marketing—the promotional arm of MLS—may also be attacking what remains of soccer's native countercultural quality. For now, even in enervated suburban land, the game flourishes as a rare space in America for doing rather than consuming. Anschutz and those of like mind seek to make soccer yet another zone of mediated experience. We should hope with London economist Stefan Szymanski, quoted in the Times article, that Americans' "cultural objection to soccer" as a spectator game will prevent Anschutz's ambitions from ever being realized.
Sport as mediated presence already dominates the American wasteland: sport as talk-show blather, as highlight package supercharged with brass and techno blasts, as perpetual exaltation of the victor. We support Simon Kuper in his extolling of suffragettes' forgotten protests against spectator sport (and, to be clear, sport as media attraction is nearly 100 percent male). Kuper, in a 12 May Financial Times column, alludes to two suffragettes knocking the hat off British prime minister Herbert Asquith during a round of golf in 1913 ("Come Back the Suffragettes?"). They also hit him on the head with a magazine. Kuper quotes University of Stirling sports historian Joyce Kay, who writes that one-sixth of suffragettes' attacks in the UK were directed against sports grandstands or pavilions. Kuper extrapolates from the women's anger to the modern need for protest against male sport, "which is taking over the planet":
It is arguably the main global force for dumbing down. It transforms millions of people into hysterics. It is eating up the budgets of public television. It has turned many US universities into philistine playpens for subsidised jocks. It prompts countries and cities to waste billions on hosting sports tournaments, or, in the case of US cities, on issuing bonds to build stadiums for multimillionaire athletes. If a quarter of the energy that goes into the football World Cup were spent on things that mattered, we would have cured malaria by now. In short: where are the Suffragettes when we need them?
From the British Pathe–produced Time to Remember series, a newsreel camera captures suffragette Emily Davison dying under the hooves of Anmer, the horse of King George V, at the Epsom Derby race on 19 Jun 1913. According to Kuper's account, at her funeral came cries of "three cheers for the horse's jockey." (www.britishpathe.com)
Kuper also refers to the attitude of fascination and distaste that Umberto Eco, Italian semiotician and novelist, shows toward football. Eco considers the game in writings translated in Travels in Hyperreality: Essays (Harcourt Brace, 1986)—see also our discussion of the late Jean Baudrillard (Mar 12). Eco, in the essay "The World Cup and Its Pomps" (pp. 167–72), distinguishes starkly between "spectator sports" such as football and "[s]port, in the sense of a situation in which one person, with no financial incentive, and employing his own body directly, performs physical exercises in which he exerts his muscles, causes his blood to circulate and his lungs to work to their fullest capacity. Sport … is something very beautiful, at least as beautiful as sex, philosophical reflection, and pitching pennies."
Eco confesses, writing before the 1978 World Cup finals, that his disdain for football has origins in a youth characterized by athletic failures and a subsequent refuge in books. His father, Giulio, took Eco to a game (to Torino? Genoa? Milan?) at 13, which unleashed a chain of events in Eco's mind, recalled many years after the fact, with the force of existential crisis:
[O]ne day, as I was observing with detachment the senseless movements down there on the field, I felt how the high noonday sun seemed to enfold men and things in a chilling light, and how before my eyes a cosmic, meaningless performance was proceeding. Later, on reading Ottiero Ottieri, I would discover that this is the sense of "everyday unreality," but at that time I was thirteen and I translated the experience in my own way; for the first time I doubted the existence of God and decided that the world was a pointless fiction. … [S]occer for me has been linked with the absence of purpose and the vanity of all things, and with the fact that the Supreme Being may be (or may not be) simply a hole. And perhaps for this reason I (alone, I think, among living creatures) have always associated the game of soccer with negative philosophies.
Eco's argument derives not merely from experience but from theoretical grounding in media, language, psychology and sign systems. In very abbreviated form—further explication appears in Umberto Eco and Football by Peter Pericles Trifonas (Totem, 2001)—football has been manipulated by media sources such that an arbitrary game of fantasy takes on dire consequence. Anschutz and other purveyors of make-believe have accepted football as sign and the underlying lie; they are selling this lie to others, for personal gain. (Arguably, this website performs the same function, although, to date, $15.38 in kickbacks from contextual ad placements perhaps should lead us to peddling more profitable falsehoods.)
The football supporter, according to Eco, is a voyeur—nonparticipant—compensating for the ennui of routine by focusing on a game that, like Groundhog Day, is structured to repeat on successive weekends, for seasons on end. Further, the game creates a virtue out of ceaseless competition and conquest, distracting much of society from injustice that occurs outside the realm of ludi circenses. Despots and corporate scions prefer that attention be focused on the field, that sports chatter be focused on trivia rather than substance, so their own undermining of polity and culture goes unobserved. Trifonas writes:
Umberto Eco reads football as a neurosis of culture. It is a manifestation of something gone awry in the human psyche for which there is neither a reasonable explanation nor an effective cure. For those who are stricken by its debilitating effects, there is no definitive treatment, no painless therapy or intervention to be worked through; there is only the endless suffering of watching the exquisite agon of the game that takes place on the field every football Sunday. Such is the joy and curse of the football fan. The irony is that the punishment is self-inflicted. Or is it? (p. 16)
Eco's writing on the game perhaps lacks historical perspective, or at least fails to ask whether football neurosis is universal or particular to certain forms of mass society. An intriguing aspect of Barney Ronay's 2,500-word scan of socialism's relationship to English football comes from players and coaches themselves, whose political connections sometimes sprang from a club ethos conceived in church or pub. Clubs once "existed as an extension of their local community," writes Ronay, "a living riposte" ("Anyone Want to Play on the Left?" Guardian Sport Blog, Apr 25). Ronay mentions managerial socialists such as Bill Shankly ("The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other") and Brian Clough ("For me, socialism comes from the heart"). However deeply felt, these managers' and players' connections to a wider reality could help make football more of a shared experience.
Ronay interviews Andy Lyons, editor of When Saturday Comes, the independent London-based football monthly to which Ronay is regular contributor. At the magazine's founding in 1986, supporting football in England was "relatively marginalised," Lyons says. But the infusion of television money and ideals of product-packaging has returned the game to the more depressing form imagined in Galeano's and Eco's world-weary musings. Ronay writes:
Various forces have been working on this relationship between supporters and players: the repackaging of the game as televised entertainment and the dilution of the idea of a geographical fanbase; the hyper-inflationary hikes in ticket prices and the emphasis on football as a corporate hospitality product. Going to watch a game at Arsenal's new Emirates ground feels more like attending a stadium rock concert or visiting the Ideal Home exhibition. Your relationship to everyone else inside the stadium has changed. You're united by consumer choice. The people performing in front of you are skilled entertainers.
Lucarelli has fallen out with Livorno supporters of late, but his custom has been the two-fisted salute to identify himself with supporters in the Communist Party stronghold. Famously, he once said, "Some players buy themselves a yacht or a Ferrari with a billion lire. I bought myself a Livorno shirt." (Radiotelevisione Italiana)
Ronay mentions some of the mold-breakers among modern footballers: Cristiano Lucarelli of Livorno, Xavier Zanetti of Internazionale and David James of Portsmouth. Based on almost no evidence, we also imagine Zinédine Zidane in this company. In our fantasy, Zidane's career-ending head butt was directed not toward Marco Materazzi but toward the corrupters of football: the smug, smiling marketing elite who speak of the game as property or as family-friendly entertainment for legions of lost souls. For all its undeniable violence, Zidane's thrust contained an equal measure of theatrical expression. Galeano's words, in Soccer in Sun and Shadow, echo in our ears: "These are days of obligatory uniformity, in soccer and everything else. Never has the world been so unequal in the opportunities it offers and so equalizing in the habits it imposes: in this end-of-century world, whoever doesn't die of hunger dies of boredom."
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schmittd wrote:well rianbay, heres a suggestion
its actually your own "backwards pult" lol
Error-QM wrote:Actually, I came up with the backwards pult whilst collaborating with rian.
rianbay812 wrote:oh! Like that one design we collaborated on one time (but still haven't finished). Let me dig through my 1723 pages of designs to find it
ed: ^^that was a failure.
but here's the pult http://www.fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=11767908
it's really clever for the awkward situation where you have to pult something the opposite direction as the weight is falling.
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Formerly known as the Kata 45, The Kea 45 is a versatile all-mountain activity pack loaded with convenient features in a practical size. Organize gear in the large two pocket top lid or roomy front kangaroo pocket with stealth pocket, or stash small items in the dual stretch side pockets. The P'ax axe attachment allows for one-handed access to tools.
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- Reinforced high wear areas
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Enjoy two hours of coral viewing and snorkelling from the comfort of their glass bottom boat moored inside the calm confined waters of Hardy Lagoon; a coral suspended lagoon in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Easy access into the water from the rear platform of the vessel ensures passengers of all snorkelling skill levels can enjoy this exclusive reef location in ease. The vessel also has an underwater viewing chamber, sun and shade deck areas and is equipped with all snorkelling equipment and flotation devices.
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Visit famous Whitehaven Beach in style by seaplane. Flights depart daily and include a spectacular scenic flight over the Whitsunday Passage and a number of islands of the Whitsunday Island National Park group ... a sprawling archipelago of jewel-green national park islands that sparkle in an aquamarine ocean ... secluded beaches, fringing reefs and towering hoop pines complete the spectacular picture.
Your aircraft will perform aerial work over the amazing swirling sands of Hill Inlet and the expansive stretch of world-famous Whitehaven Beach for that perfect postcard photograph. Land gracefully at an area of the beach with few or no other visitors where you are free to relax, sunbathe, swim and explore this remarkable pure silica beach. Absolute luxury!
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Relax in absolute comfort as their seaplanes showcase the Whitsunday Island National Park and the breathtaking expanse of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park World Heritage Area. During the course of this 60 minute scenic flight you will take in views of Shute Harbour, the Molle Group of Islands, Daydream Island, Whitsunday Passage, Hayman Island, Hook Island, Whitsunday Island (the largest national park island in the group), Whitehaven Beach, the amazing swirling sands of Hill Inlet and then accelerate across the Coral Sea to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park to take in the sights of Bait Reef, home of the amazing stepping stones, Hook Reef and Hardy Lagoon (the most photographed location of the entire Great Barrier Reef Marine Park!). They will also show off one of the biggest natural wonders to you, the perfectly shaped Heart Reef.
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The Growing Revolt Against Grover Norquist
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Two weeks ago I penned a short piece titled "Grover Norquist Collateral Casualty of 2012?" where I broached the question of whether or not Norquist would become a casualty as a result of the coming fiscal cliff negotiations and where I said, "…look for Grover Norquist to politically take a major hit in the resolution of the fiscal cliff crisis." The way things are playing out I think that we can pretty much assume that Norquist is already taking on water and his support and influence seems to be fading with each passing day. Let's review a few recent developments, staring with this:"Grover Norquist: Washington Enemy No. 1 :The man who enforces the no-new-taxes pledge is under fire like never before. Why he still expects Republicans will hold the line"; To wit: "Republicans are facing an avalanche of pressure from the White House, the media and even many on Wall Street to abandon their antitax principles to avoid a "fiscal cliff…The pressure on Republicans to repudiate this oath has never been as intense as it is now. Mr. Obama is claiming a voter mandate to raise taxes, while the media and liberals are declaring that the days of "Norquistism," as they derisively call it, are over. A New York Times story this week claimed that more Republicans are ready to violate the pledge. After the 2011 debt-ceiling debacle, the election losses and the prospect of getting blamed for going over the fiscal cliff, the conventional wisdom is that the GOP has no choice but to fold…I remind Mr. Norquist that the election exit polls show that voters, for the first time in two decades, favor higher taxes on the rich."
In the Senate, several prominent Republicans have already broken ranks with Norquist publicly, Lindsey Graham (R-SC): "When you're $16 trillion in debt, the only pledge we should be making to each other is to avoid becoming Greece, and Republicans — Republicans should put revenue on the table…We're this far in debt. We don't generate enough revenue. Capping deductions will help generate revenue. Raising tax rates will hurt job creation…So I agree with Grover, we shouldn't raise rates. But, I think Grover is wrong when it comes to [saying] we can't cap deductions and buy down debt…I want to buy down debt and cut rates to create jobs, but I will violate the pledge, long story short, for the good of the country, only if Democrats will do entitlement reform." Tom Coburn (R-OK): "I'm all for the very wealthy paying more taxes…Senate Republicans — and many House Republicans — have repeatedly rejected Mr. Norquist's strict interpretation of his own pledge, a reading that requires them to defend every loophole and spending program hidden in the tax code…As a result, rather than forcing Republicans to bow to him, Mr. Norquist is the one who is increasingly isolated politically." John McCain (R-AZ) said Sunday, "that he would support limiting deductions." Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) who said last week that "the pledge is outdated and unhelpful for reducing the national debt…I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge." Bob Corker (R-TN): "I'm not obligated on the pledge…I made Tennesseans aware, I was just elected, the only thing I'm honoring is the oath I take when I serve, when I'm sworn in this January." The senior Republican Senator from Tennessee, Lamar Alexander said that the only oath he's taken is his oath of office." Regarding taxes Alexander said' "I think Republicans have done plenty of talking about revenues on the table…We're ready. It's time for the president to step up."
Of even greater significance is the fact that the defections have now moved beyond the Senate, where Republicans are in the minority, to the Republican controlled House of Representatives. Even fiscal hawk Eric Cantor (R-VA) has publicly distanced himself from Norquist, "When I go to the constituents that have reelected me, it is not about that pledge…It really is about trying to solve problems." While Cantor, like Graham isn't a fan of raising the tax rates he is unequivocally in favor of increasing revenues and he doesn't necessarily tie that to matching adjustments in deductions as required by the Norquist pledge. Peter King (R-NY) said, "everything should be on the table in negotiations to avert the "fiscal cliff." Jeff Flake (R-AZ): "The only pledge I'd sign is a pledge to sign no more pledges…We've got to ensure that we go back and represent our constituents in a way — I believe in limited government, economic freedom, individual responsibility. I don't want higher taxes. But no more pledges." Quoting the political magazine "The Hill" on the comments of Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK): "Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a respected party strategist and former chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, became the most prominent House Republican to suggest that the GOP do what has long been unthinkable within the party: lock in the George W. Bush-era tax rates for annual incomes up to $250,000 without simultaneously extending them for top earners." Diane White (R-TN): "I answer to my constituents, not to a pledge."
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On-Air Monday-Friday -- 5am-10am Saturday -- 6am-10am Birthday 2/18 Age Of Aquarius baby! Hometown Concord, MA Who am I, and why am I here? I'm a husband, dad, sports fanatic, avid golfer, and the Chris part of Chris and Dee in The Morning. Even though I grew up in Boston, I have called Virginia my home since 2001. I met wife in Richmond and we have traveled up and down the east coast before settling in Northern Virginia. Not only did I fall in love with a sweet, southern girl, but I also fell in love with the area-from the weather, things to do and most of all the people. I have two sons who keep me from getting enough sleep and I may complain about them occasionally, but they make everyday fun and interesting. For some reason I have always been an early riser and most days wake up mid-sentence, which works out great since I'm on the air at 5AM daily. I love the show we have created and enjoy hearing from listeners daily about their lives and talking about what's going on in the world. Movies I think I would have made better "Good Will Hunting"- I can rock a Nike track suit way better than Chuckie. "Miracle"- I would have scored the winning goal, played goalie and given the famous Herb Brooks speech simultaneously. "Caddyshack"- Because the world needs ditch diggers and I could chase varmints all day long. Favorite Musical Artist I love U2, Coldplay, and 311 and I've seen all three multiple times (before having kids of course). I haven't been to a real concert since 2005! Favorite TV Shows "Modern Family"- Duh! "Parks and Rec"-Still funny "SpongeBob SquarePants"- Kids make me watch it...really they do! Anything sports related Coolest Concert Experience Sitting on stage for a Pearl Jam at Nissan Pavilion (Jiffy Lube Live.) Eddie Vedder actually told me to, "get out of the way"…I did! Favorite thing about working with Dee... Really...you're gonna throw that at me? Oh well, here goes...since i seem to spend more time with Dee on a daily basis than my family, we've had a chance to learn a lot about each other. We have some of the strangest conversations both on and off the air and it's pretty much a sure thing that she'll make me genuinely laugh everyday. I actually look forward to something she'll do or say that will brighten my, and hopefully, your day! What Would You Do If You Weren't In Radio Sleep!