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SCRIPT REPRINTED FROM THE WHITE PLAINS WEEK INTERNETCAST OF AUGUST 21:
WELL YOU KNOW I WAS ACTUALLY SHOCKED SHOCKED WHEN THE CITY POSTED ON THEIR WEBSITE OPTIMUM SERVICE WAS OUT. I HAD BEEN VIEWING STREAMING PROGRAM ON SUNDAY AND VISITING THE CITY WEBSITE ON SUNDAY, TOO.
NO REASON WAS GIVEN FOR THE OUTAGE.
THERE WAS JUST A LINK TO THE CITY CHANNEL THAT SHOWED THE CITY WEBSITE IF YOU WANTED TO SEE WHITE PLAINS CABLE PROGRAMS
THE RELEASE SAID THE CABLE STATION STAFF AND OPTIMUM WERE TRYING TO LOCATE THE PROBLEM.
WITH SERVICE BEING OUT, WE WERE NOT EVEN TOLD VERIZON SERVICE WAS RUNNING.
WHEN THE CITY ON WEDNESDAY CONFIRMED SERVICE WAS RESTORED. IT SAID THE IT WAS A WIRE PROBLEM IN A PUBLIC BUILDING.
THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT SHOULD BE DISCUSSED WITH THE OPTIMUMS AND VERIZONS OF OUR BRAVE, NEW, CONNECTED WORLD.
CAN THEIR NETWORKS BE STOPPED COLD BY JUST CUTTING A WIRE? REALLY?
MANY SUCH “WIRES” ARE ON TELEPHONE POLLS EASY TARGETS.
CAN THEY BE INADVERTENLY OR ON PURPOS ,SABOTAGED IN A CONNECT-IT-YOURSELF OR DISCONNECT EFFORT TO WIRE UP TO A SERVICE?
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ONE LOOSE WIRE CAN PUT OUT EVERY OPTIMUM SUBSCRIBER IN THE CITY? HOW MANY? THE CITY SHOULD WANT TO KNOW THE EXACT NUMBERS AND WHY
THOUGH THERE WERE SOME WHO HAD SERVICE AND SOME DID NOT. A LOT MORE DID NOT HAVE SERVICE THAN DID.
Why should other utilities like Con Ed have to rely on we the customer to tell them we are out of power? CON ED has a map of outages. They sanctimoniously put IT up when there are widespread power outages.
This Optimum “out” is no minor incident. It is a wakeup call.
My telephone service with Optimum was out three weeks. I went through call after call to Optimum automated service line, where I was consistently asked to reboot the system which did not work. The problem was I could not get connected to the line.
After calling 855 line I finally got a person to talk to. They sent a technician over right away but he could not fix the problem, diagnosing that the wire was down to the house and that another company had to reconnect the wire.
So they arranged for another tech to arrive.
He came last Saturday. He surmised the problem that my line to one phone that was working had be to be connected to the modem (internet was working). He rigged my vitech unit into the modem and voila’ – the phone was back in business.
Despite Optimum being highly responsive and cooperative in working to locate where the short circuit in the network was, they need to look INTO why this happened and make sure it never happens again or this cannot be done intentionally by communications terrorists for lack of a better term.
News judgment has to be made to inform people more explicitly on the front page of the city website or by email from the police or using the phone emergency alert system used for years to notify us of garbage collections.
Had I not gone to the website to look at video I would not have known Optimum was out.
I had electric trains when I was a kid. When a train jumped the track, the layout would be short-circuited and other engines running would stop.
If our communications hookups are as vulnerable as electric train sets are to be knocked out by building maintenance fiddling with connections without knowledge of what they are doing that is a problem. Or perhaps by rats who love the taste of wire were the problem.
Details of the outage should be explored on steps to avoid “short-circuits” no matter how technical a staffer thinks they are, have to be secured.
Washington should stop worrying about ridding the country of people they do not like and pay attention to the networks that connect the country and how vulnerable the networks are to interference. You would think.
Dr Marisa DONNELLEY ‘s newsletter on White Plains Week last week, warned of the rise in smoking among young people.
Dr. Donnelley wrote tobacco and vaping are associated with an increased disease rate in loss of the bone and gums that are holding your teeth IN PLACE. PLUS THERE OCCURS AN INCREASE IN SPACE BETWEEN GUMS AND TEETH.
I SAID IN MY PERSPECTIVE LAST WEEK THAT YOUNG PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO VAPE AS WELL AS THOSE WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
YOU ARE POSING SERIOUS RISK TO YOUR TEETH. IF YOU CONTINUE TO SMOKE CHEW OR VAPE YOU ARE LOOKING AT MISERY AT THE DENTIST AS YOU AGE UP
WAIT THERE IS A REASON I BRING THIS UP –
THE PRESIDENT IS ABOUT TO APPOINT DR. HEIDI OVERTON HEAD OF THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ACCORDING TO A NEW YORK TIMES STORY BY CHRISTINA JEWETT.
MR. TRUMP HAS URGED APPROVAL OF FLAVORED VAPES. MOST RECENTLY, AFTER THE PREVIOUS FDA HEAD, DR. MARTY MAKARY LEFT BECAUSE HE WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF “ALLOWING MAJOR TOBACCO AND VAPE COMPANIES TO SELL FLAVORED E-CIGARETTES.”
A WEEK AFTER THE PRESIDENT LUNCHED WITH TOBACCO AND EXECUTIVES, THE FDA APPROVED MANGO AND BLUEBERRY VAPES.
I RECALL WHEN I INTERVIEWED THE FIRST VAPE SHOP OWNER IN WHITE PLAINS ON PEOPLE TO BE HEARD 5 YEARS AGO.
HE TOLD VAPES WERE INTENDED TO HELP SMOKERS CUT DOWN ON THEIR DEPENDENCE ON THE NICOTINE OF CIGARETTES.
HE TOLD ME THEY HELPED HIM QUIT SMOKIMG BY GRADUALLY GIVING HIM LOWER AND LOWER DOSES OF NICOTINE DOWN TO ZERO IN VAPE FORM.
THE PRESIDENT SUPPORTS THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY AND THE RECREATIONAL USE OF VAPES.
I AM SHOCKED SHOCKED THAT THE LEADERSHIP OF NEW YORK STATE IS ACTIVELY INADVERTENTLY PROMOTING CANNABIS DISORDER (IN VIEW OF THE DAMAGE SMOKING HAS DONE THE LAST 200 YEARS THIS IS DEPRESSSING. AND CAUSING HARD-TO-QUIT ADDICTION, PERSONALITY AND PERFORMANCE DETERIORATION)
THE STATE NEEDS TO LOOK AT A SURVEY REPORTED BY THE TIMES THIS WEEK AND TIGHTEN UP ITS CANNIBIS POLICY IN VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF GROWING CANNIBIS DISORDER IN USERS OF LEGAL MARIJUANA. (I assume it is legal purchases)
SPEAKING OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND THE “WHO KNEW DEPARTMENT” THE TIMES reporter RONI CARIN RABIN REPORTED
“A GROWING NUMBER OF AMERICANS SAY THEIR CANNIBIS USE IS “PROBLEMATIC,” ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY RELEASED WEDNESDAY. { My personal observation: APPARENTLY THE MOVIE REEFER MADNESS (1930S) WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG)
YOU CAN GET ADDICTED TO MARIUANA. THE REASON: HIGHER CONTENT OF THE DRUG TETRAHYDRO CANNABINOL
TETRAHYDRO CANNABINOL IS THE PYSCHOACTIVE COMPOUND IN CANNABIS .
MANY VARIETIES OF CANABIS PRODUCTS TODAY HAVE HIGHER AMOUNTS OF TETRAHYDRO CANNABINOL WHICH MAKES THEM MORE ADDICTIVE. THE STUDY APPEARED IN JAMA PYSCHIATRY .
CANNIBIS USE DISORDER IS DEFINED AS
EITHER BEING UNABLE TO QUIT OR CUT BACK AND CONTINUING TO USE IT —
EVEN THOUGH IT LEADS TO INTERPERSONAL PROBLEMS.
THANKS TO LEGALIZED CANNIBIS IN WHITE PLAINS AND ELSEWHERE WE NOW HAVE THIS STATE-SANCTIONED REVENUE SOURCE MADE TOTALLY LEGAL. DOLLARS ARE THE REASON CANNIBIS WAS LEGALIZED BY THE STATE.
WE HAVE ANOTHER VICE PROMOTED FOR ITS REVENUE PRODUCING BENEFIT TO THE STATE.
WE PROMOTE VAPING IT WITH A FURTHER RISK OF WRECKING TEETH AND CREATING HUGE PROFITS FOR THE TOBACCO AND VAPE COMPANIES.
HERE IS WHAT THE STUDY OF CANNIBIS USE DISCOVERED:
9% OF MEN UP FROM 7% IN 2021 OF MEN USING CANNIBIS HAD THE DISORDER
WOMEN USING THE DRUG IN 2024 21% SAID THEY USED CANNIBIS COMPARED TO 18% IN 2021
30% OF THE SURVEY PARTICIPANTS SHOWED SYMPTOMS OF CANNABIS DISORDER.
PERHAPS THE STATE SHOULD PUT WARNING LABELS ON CANNIBIS PRODUCTS:
WARNING:SMOKING CANNIBIS CAN LEAD TO ADDICTION YOU CANNOT STOP OR QUIT AND DETERIORATE YOUR ABILITY TO CONDUCT PROFESSIONAL TASKS AND RELATE TO OTHERS.
THIS IS JOHN BAILEY REPORTING FOR WHITE PLAINS WEEK. GOOD NIGHT AND THANK YOU
