Americas financial sustainability begins with Made in America

Americas financial sustainability begins with Made in America

Americans must wake up and take action to protect our liberty and way of life.

America must rejuvenate itself and become the huge industrial power it once was.

It starts by re-inventing the wheel and building manufacturing facilities in the United States that employ Americans who produce quality goods at a competitive price with space age technology and modernization.

Organized workforce and benefits has to be revamped to meet today’s economic conditions.

Government and its bureaucracy must be reduced and streamlined. Rules and regulations must be revamped to be conducive to business growth and development.

YJ Draiman for Mayor of LA

11 ways you can reduce your energy usage and costs without sacrificing comfort or building functionality.

11 ways you can reduce your energy usage and costs without sacrificing comfort or building functionality.

1. Assess how your building consumes and wastes energy. Conduct regular energy audits to determine what condition your equipment is in and how it is performing. These audits will show where and how energy is being wasted and prioritizes energy improvement measures.
2. Use more energy-efficient equipment. Install new energy-efficient equipment and replace or eliminate outdated, in efficient equipment. Look for Energy Star labels for equipment and appliances.
3. Match HVAC and lighting output to occupancy. Install programmable building controls that enable systems to provide light, heat and cooling to building spaces only when they are occupied.
4. Maintain equipment for maximum efficiency. Make sure that your equipment is properly serviced and maintained so that it runs as efficiently as possible. Increase operating efficiency of chillers, boilers and packaged cooling equipment through proactive service and maintenance.
5. Maximize lighting efficiency. Upgrade lighting to high-efficiency bulbs and fixtures. Energy efficient lighting uses less energy and generates less heat, reducing your costs and easing the strain on your HVAC systems.
6. Measure water usage and waste. Conduct water audit in your facilities, campus, or geography to determine where water is being used and wasted. Reduce water consumption by installing low-flow equipment and fixing leaks.
7. Schedule cleaning during regular work hours. Experiment with different "day cleaning" schedules. Arrange cleaning schedules to overlap with work hours instead of having cleaning done after hours and keeping the lights, heating and air conditioning on at night. That will reduce energy consumption.
8. Insulate thoroughly. Insulate exterior walls, outlets, pipes, radiators, etc to reduce heat and cooling loss.
9. Meet LEED® standards. Build, renovate, and operate your facilities according to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards. That will benefit your bottom line by lowering operating costs and increasing asset value. It will benefit the environment by conserving energy and water, reducing waste sent to landfills, creating healthier, safer occupant environments, and reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
10. Make building occupants more informed. Educate and engage building occupants to promote energy conservation and reward wise energy decisions and behaviors.
11. Rainwater Harvesting

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.



Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.



The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.



If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.



We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.



War does not determine who is right - only who is left.



Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.



Evening news is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.



A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.



How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?



Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.



I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted pay checks.



Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says "If an emergency, notify:" I put "DOCTOR".



I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.



Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.



You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.



The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!



Hospitality: making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they were.



I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.



There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.



I always take life with a grain of salt, plus a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila.



When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.



You're never too old to learn something stupid.



To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.



If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child?

Draiman for Mayor of Los Angeles

Draiman for Mayor of Los Angeles


“Back to BASICS”

Fiscal responsibility

Family values

Morality

I am not a politician; I am a family man who is fiscally responsible with strong morals

The reason I am not a politician is: because the term politician as defined today stands for – corruption, special interests and pro-government instead of pro-people.

I challenge you today; to do what is good for the people of Los Angeles and than the city.

YJ Draiman for Mayor of LA 2013

YJ Draiman for Mayor of LA 2013
Statement to the voters

It is important that the office of the Mayor be responsive and must represent every resident/stakeholder in his district; the councilman’s operation must be transparent and not selective. We cannot have it business as usual and ignore our residents/stakeholders of District 12.

The current crisis was caused by the present administration, do you want this elected officials and their staff to continue representing you and bring the city of LA to a more severe economic crisis. Do you want to lose basic city services. Taxes and fees are increasing and services are being reduced.

In order to change direction, we must change the leaders and their staff.

We must make Los Angeles more business friendly, more conducive to bring new businesses and overcome the lack of financing that is hurting business and homeowners.
We must make Los Angeles more business friendly - a place where everyone who wants a good job can find one. This transition has to take place without delay, less talk and more action. We need to streamline our policies and reduce red tape that is strangling and hampering the private-sector in Los Angeles. The city of Los Angeles is starving for new business; our taxpayers are paying too much tax. What we need is to instill confidence in our citizens. We need to develop a series of very tough-minded, market-driven, strategies that deliver in the marketplace."
By increasing the new businesses in our city, we will increase revenues to the City and the State.
Our citizens are concerned about jobs and a roof over their head. We must address those issues.
Our education system needs to be revamped and improved.
The city budget must be balanced – reduce waste and increase efficiency.
We must address public transportation expansion and reduce traffic congestion.
Business ethics are deteriorating – we must improve and regain the consumers trust.
I am your candidate, a businessman with varied life experience, that can relate to the voters concerns and life struggles.
Do you want to eliminate waste? – Elect – YJ Draiman

YJ Draiman for Mayor of LA 2013
(March 8, 2011 Election)
Contact: yjdraiman@yjdraiman.org 818-366-6999

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YJ DRAIMAN, Bio

YJ DRAIMAN, Bio
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE COUNCILMAN 12th DISTRICT 2011 – Los Angeles

YJ Draiman is the Independent candidate pursuing Councilman Greg Smith 12th District position in Los Angeles, California. He was raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born December, 1949, YJ is a descendant of European family. After graduation from High School in 1967, YJ studied mechanical engineering in the printing industry and attended Electronic engineering school in New York City 1970-1973.

YJ, age 60, he is a successful Energy/Utility consultant, a businessman and an advocate for reducing waste in government. After working in management capacity for a few years, he opened a Real estate management company at age 27 and also opened a chain of electronic stores for retail and wholesale. While renovating buildings in the late 70’s he discovered the art of energy efficiency, methods of conserving water and reducing costs of telecommunication. In the 80’s joined the deregulated utilities marketing Natural gas, Electricity & Telecommunication, performed utility bill audits.

YJ has been actively involved in various efforts to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy and a strong proponent of renewable energy sources. YJ believes that our energy independence and reduction in the use of Fossil Fuels is crucial to our growth.

YJ is an outdoorsman, community activist and animal lover. He enjoys boating, diving, hiking and flying. He is an environmentalist and believes in the preservation of nature, parks and playground for future generations.

A dedicated family man, YJ married Miriam in 1971. They have two adult children: Son David, 37 and son Benjamin 34.

WHY I AM RUNNING

I have numerous important reasons for caring what happens in Los Angeles – my family and friends.

Our economic strain and the lack of jobs have prompted me to try and do something. Government spending is running rampant, efficiency is non-existent, waste is the rule of the day and bureaucracy is hampering business. We must address these concerns today to protect the future of our children and grandchildren.

Government fiscal discipline is a must. We must make Los Angeles business friendly and look for ways to address the housing crises.

Improving our education system and public transportation will improve the quality of life in Los Angeles

I want future generations to enjoy the freedom our country was based on. Keep our jobs at home and increase productivity and job security.

Sustainability – “We strive to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
We should discourage wastefulness and misuse, and promote efficiency and conservation.

I need your help!

Ways to Use VoIP to Save Money

Ways to Use VoIP to Save Money

1. Get a free phone number and inbound calling with Toktumi hosted VoIP. Hosted VoIP provider Toktumi will give you a free inbound phone number with voice mail. Unfortunately, it won't let you choose the area code, much less the number itself. Still, if all you want is to receive calls and listen to voice mail through your PC, you can't beat the price (you also get five minutes of outbound calling for free). If you're willing to spend $14.95 per month, you get your choice of area codes and a lot of other things. To start with, there's unlimited outbound North American calling, an auto receptionist and the ability to route calls to nine other numbers. You make and answer your calls using either a downloadable softphone with your headset-equipped PC, or through a $29.95 Toktumi adapter for your phone that you connect to your PC with a USB cable.2. Get free hosted IP PBX with Bandwidth.com. Bandwidth.com provides integrated voice and data packages for SMBs. The packages, which it calls BoxSets, come in several bandwidth/phone-line combinations. Recently Bandwidth.com added a perk for users of those BoxSets: free hosted IP PBX service. The service, called Phonebooth, offers everything from auto attendant to four-digit extensions to simultaneous ringing to conference calling to contact-list management. The savings compared to the monthly $50 or more per seat of typical hosted PBX services can be considerable.3. Get free unified voice mail with PhoneFusion Inc. If time really is money, PhoneFusion's unified voice mail service will save you some serious cash. The service, called Fusion Voicemail Plus, lets you forward unanswered calls from all your phone accounts — wireline, cellular, VoIP, home or office — to a single voice mailbox. When someone leaves a message, the service sends a text message to your smartphone. The client software you've loaded onto your handset will display the message as visual voice mail. It will show you the caller ID of the person who left the message, and which of your numbers they called on. You can click to listen, or to reply by calling back or, if it's a mobile number, by sending a text message. The more phone accounts you have, the more time-as-money you'll save. You'll also save the $7.95 per month that traditional carriers typically charge for voice mail on top of basic service. The client software is available for BlackBerry, Linux, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile handsets.4. Use OnState's online call center with Skype Ltd. SMBs typically get call centers in one of two ways: as an add-on function to their IP PBX or as a hosted service. Either way is cheaper than traditional call centers, which are big, centralized, proprietary and expensive. Still, both approaches can cost a fair amount of money. OnState Communications offers a Web-based call-center service that differs significantly from most hosted call centers because it uses Skype as its underlying telephone service. Instead of handling the calls itself, it simply tells Skype where to route them. A basic package runs as little as $30 per seat, one-fifth the cost of some other options.5. Use trixbox Pro and get Internet calling to other users for free. Trixbox Pro is Fonality Inc.'s downloadable open-source IP PBX software. Tech-savvy SMBs and resellers can load it on a server or on a trixbox appliance they buy from Fonality, and create a feature-rich phone system for a fraction the price of proprietary systems. One of the best benefits of trixbox Pro is that it comes with a service called trixNet, which provides free Internet calling between trixbox Pro systems. The systems don't have to both belong to your own company, and you don't even have to know about the other one. If, say, one of your overseas customers also has a trixbox Pro system, you'll have a pleasant surprise at the end of the month when you find out all your calls to that customer were free. When Internet conditions can't support voice-quality transmission, calls fall back to conventional PSTN (public switched telephone network) delivery.6. Send Palringo Ltd. voice IMs instead of making mobile calls. Talking on your smartphone can be better than sending mobile IMs (instant messages) in several ways. First, voice can convey feelings better than text, even with emoticons. Speaking is also quicker and easier than keying or tapping. But making a long cellular call, or multiple calls, when you only need to say a handful of words once every few minutes can make your cellular bill skyrocket. Thus Palringo's voice IMs, which are packetized voice messages delivered over the cellular data network or wifi and the Internet, can save you considerable money in cellular charges. Palringo's service works on every major mobile and PC operating system and on every cellular network, in contrast to PTT (push-to-talk) services, which are restricted to the carriers that offer them.7. Make free conference calls with iotum Inc.'s Calliflower. There's no need to use a cumbersome, expensive professional conferencing bridge for that sudden, urgent analyst briefing. Just go to the Web site of iotum's Calliflower conferencing service, sign in and start setting up a call. A Web-based "dashboard" interface lets organizers create calls, invite participants and manage and record the conference. It also provides attendees with visual information about the call and its participants. Most important, the service is free except for the cost of long-distance calls to the Calliflower number. Participants can save even more money by calling in via Truphone or Skype.8. Make free VoIP calls from wifi hotspots using dual-mode handsets. There are many ways to save money by making VoIP calls from mobile phones. Some approaches use the cellular network to carry a call between the handset and a local access number of the VoIP network. An increasingly popular approach is to use dual-mode handsets equipped with downloaded client software to make wifi calls at hotspots. The key of course is making sure there's software available for the handset in question. MediaRing Ltd. and DeFi Mobile Ltd. both work on Nokia handsets, while fringland Ltd. and JAJAH Inc. also offer iPhone versions.9. Make free video calls with TokBox Inc., no software download required. If you have a dozen or even a few hundred employees, you're probably not in the position to buy a corporate telepresence system at a quarter million dollars or more. But you might benefit from seeing the person you're talking to, and perhaps showing him or her some of your products or materials. If so, you can use TokBox's browser-based Web video calling service. Because it uses Adobe Flash technology, which is present on virtually every Internet-connected PC, it requires no download. And because it's free, all you need is a Web cam to get started.10. Make and receive Skype calls from mobile phones with iSkoot Inc. Internet phone service Skype is the gold standard for saving money on international calls. But for a long time it wasn't easy to make Skype calls from mobile phones. ISkoot is a leader in making that possible. It uses downloaded client software that runs on a broad range of handsets. The software allows users to make and accept calls to and from both Skype users and regular phones. A calls travel from a Skype Internet gateway to the handset over cellular links, and use up both cellular minutes and Skype credits. But they're a lot cheaper than calls using international cellular minutes.11. Make Skype calls while using Yugma Inc.'s Web-conferencing service. VoIP really starts to show its potential when combined with other forms of IP communication. Take Yugma's cross-platform online collaboration or Web-conferencing service. It lets participants share documents, see and even control each other's desktops through a Java-based application. They can also talk via a conventional conference bridge, but those pushing for the maximum savings can use Skype — Yugma is in fact an official Skype Extra application. There's a free version of Yugma for up to 10 participants, though those with heavy collaboration needs will want to go for the premium version, serving from 10 to 500 users at $10 to $90 per month. It runs on Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers. And it's much cheaper than most commercial Web-conferencing services.12. Get a MagicJack for you and the person you talk to most. The Web site video sounds like a daytime TV commercial, but the value is real. Plug one side of a $39.95 MagicJack device into the USB port on your Internet-connected computer, and plug your phone into the other side. Have the person you talk to the most do the same. From then on, the two of you will be able to talk to each other free over your broadband connections. You'll also be able to make unlimited calls in North America at no additional cost for a year after you purchase the device. After that, you'll have to pay $19.95 per year.13. Move to VoIP slowly with RingCentral Inc.'s hosted IP PBX. Maybe you want to benefit from the savings and features VoIP offers, but worry about risking the reputation of your small company on the quality of calls traveling over the Internet. RingCentral addresses your concerns by providing the flexibility and features of hosted IP PBX service while delivering the actual calls to your premises over conventional phone line. If and when you feel comfortable with Internet telephony, you can move to full-fledged VoIP through the company's outbound Digitalline service for $4.99 per line and up. It's a pretty low-risk way to start cutting costs with VoIP.14. Phone home for free with Jaduka. There are a lot of ways to call home from an overseas hotspot using your headset-equipped laptop. But most of them require buying credits on Internet phone services. Jaduka's earthCALLER service lets North American users do it for free. It doesn't even require a software download: the service uses Microsoft Corp.'s ActiveX technology, so it works through a Web browser. Unfortunately for some, that browser is Internet Explorer. Thus Mac users, and Windows users fond of Firefox or other browsers, are out of luck.15. Use a Voxofon LLC calling-card number when away from your office. Voxofon offers several ways to access its cheap international calling service. You can use a PC with headset, Web-activated callback or your mobile phone. But if you're at someone's home or office without access to a PC, you can use another method: just borrow their landline phone, dial a local access number and PIN and then dial the overseas number. It's just like an old-fashioned calling-card service. You don't even have to use your mobile minutes.