Sunday, March 16, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
job security.
What flies 700 mph and costs $58M? New private jet
By Marilyn Adams, USA TODAY
Gulfstream Aerospace on Thursday unveiled plans to build the largest, fastest and most expensive private jet for delivery starting in 2012.
Gulfstream said its new G650 will be capable of flying nearly 700 mph, faster than a Boeing 747. It will seat 18, have a full kitchen and bar, and offer individualized entertainment, satellite phone service and wireless Internet access during the flight.
Passengers will be able to sip a cocktail at 51,000 feet, its maximum altitude, the company says.
"The G650 is in a brand new market by itself," said Gulfstream President Joe Lombardo.
At a base price of $58 million, it will cost about $10 million more than its predecessor, Gulfstream's G550. With a flying range of more than 8,000 miles, it will be capable of whisking heads of state, CEOs and other VIPs from New York to Tokyo or Buenos Aires non-stop.
"Gulfstream is staking out the top end," said aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group. "There's always a part of the market that is willing to pay for the best and the biggest."
The new jet's cabin will be the largest ever — 8½ feet wide and 6-feet-5 high — but of relatively traditional metal construction, not man-made composite. The cabin will accommodate 18 passengers seated or eight sleeping in lie-flat beds.
The G650 will be powered by two new Rolls-Royce engines that will take the jet from Dubai to Chicago almost 90 minutes faster than existing long-range jets, Gulfstream says.
Yet because the jet will weigh less than 100,000 pounds, it will be able to land at small airports such as Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, near New York City, and avoid delay-plagued major airports such as New York John F. Kennedy and Chicago O'Hare.
The G650 will be built at Gulfstream's plant in Savannah, Ga. It is expected to make its first flight in 2009.
Gulfstream spokesman Robert Baugniet said 80% of Gulfstream's clients are companies, 12% are governments and 7% are high-worth individuals.
"These jets are no longer the purview of the CEO," he said.
Gulfstream, owned by General Dynamics (GD), commands about a quarter of the $24 billion business jet market, but it accounts for more than half of the market for large-cabin, long-range corporate jets.
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we never steal cars, but we deal hard
whip it real hard, whip it [whip it] real hard
...everyday we hustlin.
By Marilyn Adams, USA TODAY
Gulfstream Aerospace on Thursday unveiled plans to build the largest, fastest and most expensive private jet for delivery starting in 2012.
Gulfstream said its new G650 will be capable of flying nearly 700 mph, faster than a Boeing 747. It will seat 18, have a full kitchen and bar, and offer individualized entertainment, satellite phone service and wireless Internet access during the flight.
Passengers will be able to sip a cocktail at 51,000 feet, its maximum altitude, the company says.
"The G650 is in a brand new market by itself," said Gulfstream President Joe Lombardo.
At a base price of $58 million, it will cost about $10 million more than its predecessor, Gulfstream's G550. With a flying range of more than 8,000 miles, it will be capable of whisking heads of state, CEOs and other VIPs from New York to Tokyo or Buenos Aires non-stop.
"Gulfstream is staking out the top end," said aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group. "There's always a part of the market that is willing to pay for the best and the biggest."
The new jet's cabin will be the largest ever — 8½ feet wide and 6-feet-5 high — but of relatively traditional metal construction, not man-made composite. The cabin will accommodate 18 passengers seated or eight sleeping in lie-flat beds.
The G650 will be powered by two new Rolls-Royce engines that will take the jet from Dubai to Chicago almost 90 minutes faster than existing long-range jets, Gulfstream says.
Yet because the jet will weigh less than 100,000 pounds, it will be able to land at small airports such as Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, near New York City, and avoid delay-plagued major airports such as New York John F. Kennedy and Chicago O'Hare.
The G650 will be built at Gulfstream's plant in Savannah, Ga. It is expected to make its first flight in 2009.
Gulfstream spokesman Robert Baugniet said 80% of Gulfstream's clients are companies, 12% are governments and 7% are high-worth individuals.
"These jets are no longer the purview of the CEO," he said.
Gulfstream, owned by General Dynamics (GD), commands about a quarter of the $24 billion business jet market, but it accounts for more than half of the market for large-cabin, long-range corporate jets.
we never steal cars, but we deal hard
whip it real hard, whip it [whip it] real hard
...everyday we hustlin.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o...
Today is St. Patrick's Day [sort of]. The official day of St. Patrick is Monday, but the official part-ay for St. Patrick is today.
St. Patrick's Day in Savannah can only be described as insanity. Yesterday driving in to work, they already had squares along the parade route blocked off and I counted 36 port-a-potties (not to mention I was behind a truck that was carrying 9 more...) They used to dye the entire river green. (They didn't last year, maybe they will this year?) I think for many, this might be considered a spiritual mecca.
Yesterday I was feeling pretty bitter toward St. Patrick and his day. I have to work today while 300,000 drunk people make it impossible for me to take my normal route, adding a good 30 minutes on my commute home. But what I didn't know about this day was that Corona, in order to commerate Patrick, made specialty light up rings in the shape of shamrocks. [Thank you waiter at Sticky Fingers for giving me one!] So today, as I sit here while everyone's out having a good time, I will hit my ring and make it light up to spread some Patrick cheer in my own way. I saw another one laying on the bar as we were paying and I used MY sticky fingers to get it for The Yankee. The power is ours. :)
Today, on this fake St. Patrick's Day, I leave you with this Irish wish...
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
St. Patrick's Day in Savannah can only be described as insanity. Yesterday driving in to work, they already had squares along the parade route blocked off and I counted 36 port-a-potties (not to mention I was behind a truck that was carrying 9 more...) They used to dye the entire river green. (They didn't last year, maybe they will this year?) I think for many, this might be considered a spiritual mecca.
Yesterday I was feeling pretty bitter toward St. Patrick and his day. I have to work today while 300,000 drunk people make it impossible for me to take my normal route, adding a good 30 minutes on my commute home. But what I didn't know about this day was that Corona, in order to commerate Patrick, made specialty light up rings in the shape of shamrocks. [Thank you waiter at Sticky Fingers for giving me one!] So today, as I sit here while everyone's out having a good time, I will hit my ring and make it light up to spread some Patrick cheer in my own way. I saw another one laying on the bar as we were paying and I used MY sticky fingers to get it for The Yankee. The power is ours. :)
Today, on this fake St. Patrick's Day, I leave you with this Irish wish...
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
well, you can cancel the Amber alert...
I arrived at work today to find quite the chaotic scene. Police, firefighters and some parts of the National Guard were all around my desk with snarling, drooling dogs. They had fax machines and copiers set up around the swath of laptops with maps on the screen of Georgia, the United States, and the world. One uniformed man had just hit send on the fax machine...faxing my security badge picture to all the local hotspots, newspapers and news stations. They were holding up papers that I had touched and the pens I have written with to the noses of bloodhounds, trying to get them to pick up my scent. Right before the police chief "ok'd" the picture for the back of the milk cartons, I walked around the corner. They all proceeded to shout huzzah before they returned to their daily duties and fed the bloodhounds their breakfast.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I was 10 minutes late to work this morning.
I didn't sleep well last night (couldn't go to sleep until 2, had to get up at [what my body felt like] was 4:15.) So I felt like crap this morning. My work cell phone died yesterday, so I didn't have it on for people to call. I had 5 missed phone calls on my desk phone, one being my supervisor, and they were all trying to find me.
I hate this god forsaken place.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I was 10 minutes late to work this morning.
I didn't sleep well last night (couldn't go to sleep until 2, had to get up at [what my body felt like] was 4:15.) So I felt like crap this morning. My work cell phone died yesterday, so I didn't have it on for people to call. I had 5 missed phone calls on my desk phone, one being my supervisor, and they were all trying to find me.
I hate this god forsaken place.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Thursday, March 06, 2008
riot.
i've watched this city burn twice
in my lifetime
and the most notable thing
was the arrival of the
politicians in the
aftermath
proclaiming the wrongs of
the system
and demanding new
policies toward and for the
poor.
nothing was corrected last
time.
nothing will be corrected this
time.
the poor will remain poor.
the unemployed will remain
so.
the homeless will remain
homeless
and the politicians,
fat upon the land, will live
very well.
~ charles bukowski
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thanks boyce.
in my lifetime
and the most notable thing
was the arrival of the
politicians in the
aftermath
proclaiming the wrongs of
the system
and demanding new
policies toward and for the
poor.
nothing was corrected last
time.
nothing will be corrected this
time.
the poor will remain poor.
the unemployed will remain
so.
the homeless will remain
homeless
and the politicians,
fat upon the land, will live
very well.
~ charles bukowski
thanks boyce.
Monday, March 03, 2008
the student becomes the master...
Let me just begin by saying, today has been a terrible day. I mean, horrible...rough...and every synonym in between. Bad day at work, bad day with my family, just...bad.
But tonight, things took a turn for the best. And when I say best, I mean, tonight I experienced something that I never thought I would live to see. It happened, and like a comet, it may be another 75 years before I experience this again...IF it ever happens again in my lifetime.
Drumroll please.
Tonight, I told The Husband something about the Boston Red Sox that he didn't know. It was a news related article, not some obscure fact about the team.
Red Sox Unveil 'Coca-Cola Corner'
I have never been prouder in my life.
As in true Red Sox Nation fashion, I turned up Dropkick Murphys and did this victory dance around my apartment:
But tonight, things took a turn for the best. And when I say best, I mean, tonight I experienced something that I never thought I would live to see. It happened, and like a comet, it may be another 75 years before I experience this again...IF it ever happens again in my lifetime.
Drumroll please.
Tonight, I told The Husband something about the Boston Red Sox that he didn't know. It was a news related article, not some obscure fact about the team.
Red Sox Unveil 'Coca-Cola Corner'
I have never been prouder in my life.
As in true Red Sox Nation fashion, I turned up Dropkick Murphys and did this victory dance around my apartment:
another day, another struggle..
Survey: One-third of workers catching zzz's on jobStory Highlights
Survey suggest workers not getting enough sleep
NEW YORK (AP) -- A survey released Monday by the National Sleep
Foundation says more people on the job should wake up, go home and get more sleep.
The survey of 1,000 people found participants average six hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night on weeknights, even though they estimated they'd need roughly another 40 minutes of sleep to be at their best.
Roughly one-third of those surveyed said they had fallen asleep or become very sleepy at work in the past month.
Just how big a deal that is depends, of course, on your job. Last week, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission acknowledged it should have done more to investigate a tip that security guards routinely took naps while on the job at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant.
It wasn't until a videotape of guards sleeping in a "ready room" at the Peach Bottom plant in south-central Pennsylvania surfaced several months after it got the tip that the NRC announced in September a special investigation.
While sleepy workers know they're not performing as well as they could during the day, work is what's keeping them up nights, according to the survey, which found workdays are getting longer and time spent working from home averages close to four-and-a-half hours each week.
It seems people are also trying to squeeze in more time for themselves and their families, even if it means less sleep. According to the survey, the average time to wake up is at 5:35 a.m. and it's followed by about two hours and 15 minutes at home before heading out to work.
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I find it interesting that this number isn't higher than it is. Not to mention, why would people wake up at 5:30 if they don't have to leave for another 2 hours?! I have to wake up at 5:30 because I have to leave before 6:30. C'mon now...
Survey suggest workers not getting enough sleep
NEW YORK (AP) -- A survey released Monday by the National Sleep
Foundation says more people on the job should wake up, go home and get more sleep.
The survey of 1,000 people found participants average six hours and 40 minutes of sleep a night on weeknights, even though they estimated they'd need roughly another 40 minutes of sleep to be at their best.
Roughly one-third of those surveyed said they had fallen asleep or become very sleepy at work in the past month.
Just how big a deal that is depends, of course, on your job. Last week, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission acknowledged it should have done more to investigate a tip that security guards routinely took naps while on the job at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant.
It wasn't until a videotape of guards sleeping in a "ready room" at the Peach Bottom plant in south-central Pennsylvania surfaced several months after it got the tip that the NRC announced in September a special investigation.
While sleepy workers know they're not performing as well as they could during the day, work is what's keeping them up nights, according to the survey, which found workdays are getting longer and time spent working from home averages close to four-and-a-half hours each week.
It seems people are also trying to squeeze in more time for themselves and their families, even if it means less sleep. According to the survey, the average time to wake up is at 5:35 a.m. and it's followed by about two hours and 15 minutes at home before heading out to work.
I find it interesting that this number isn't higher than it is. Not to mention, why would people wake up at 5:30 if they don't have to leave for another 2 hours?! I have to wake up at 5:30 because I have to leave before 6:30. C'mon now...
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