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ITT Corporation (ITT)
Q4 2009 Earnings Call
February 3, 2010; 09:00 am ET
Steve Loranger - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Denise Ramos - Chief Financial Officer
Tom Scalera - Director of Investor Relations
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It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to Tom Scalera, Director of ITT Investor Relations. Tom, you may begin.
Tom Scalera
Thank you, [Russ]. Good morning and welcome to ITT's fourth quarter 2009 investor review. Presenting this morning are Chairman and CEO, Steve Loranger; and Chief Financial Officer, Denise Ramos. I'd like to highlight that this morning's presentation, press release, and reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures can be found on our website at www.itt.com/ir.
As always please note that any remarks we may make about future expectations, plans and prospects, as well as other circumstances set out in our Safe Harbor Statement constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the Safe Harbor Provision. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed in our fourth quarter of 2009 earnings press release and our filings with the SEC.
Now let me turn things over to Steve to begin the call.
Steve Loranger
Good morning and thank you all for joining us today. 2009 was a year of triumph for ITT. Into that extend for the hundreds of ITT employees, who regularly join us for this call, I want to personally thank all of you and your teams for an exceptional performance and contribution in 2009.
This was a year that our leadership and our 40,000 team members were challenged with volatile uncertainty, a year where swift decision were required in the absence of clarity, and a year where our customers were equally challenged and we're not able to predict even what their needs were.
Given this situation, ITT employee chose to win, to steadfastly advance our strategy, to continue to advance in our customers' vital growth area, and to invest in our own contribution to make the world better in safety, security, vitality, and in corporate citizenship. This unwavering commitment to our future was not without a price. It was a price we willingly paid to enable ITT to now take advantage of our current opportunities.
Winning in this new economy meant that we had not only be steady in our strategic investments, but to ensure that our future viability was sound with exceptional execution in overdriving cost reductions essentially establishing new breakeven point for the company and by preserving a liquidity and protecting our balance sheet.
This wasn't easy, 2009 was strategic for many of us, but we're now very energized, because we did it all exceeding our own expectations. What was most remarkable to me was that after all of our employees' hard work, we achieved our highest level of employee engagement scores ever with marked increases in the midst of our most challenging test.
Not only did we finish with best in class business results, ITT was broadly recognized externally for our corporate responsibility and in the accolades. We were ranked No. 30 among the world's best companies by Newsweek's Green Ranking. We remained in the top 100 best corporate citizen by Corporate Responsibility magazine. We were listed among the top 50 for employee diversity with engineering and IT professionals.
We remained the top 10 military employer and again on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, honored by the National Committee of U.S./China Relations for our sustainability work in China and a final for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Corporate Stewardship Awards.
So, while this was our second best year ever in terms of business results, I believe it was our finest performance as a team. So I think it's worth capturing and recognizing some of our employees' terrific efforts in 2009, all of which has built on our strategic foundation and our speedy core as a company.
In 2009, we focused on managing our supply chain, ensuring our cost inputs were synchronized with reductions in volume and we drove cycle time reductions to ensure that volatile changes in the flow of goods were matched with the appropriate levels of working capital.
We performed extremely well operations. On top of that, we increased customer satisfaction, employee engagement as I mentioned and we accelerated our long term strategy. On customers, we aligned with customers need invested in new technologies and we consolidated Motion & Flow Control volume centers around some customer solutions.
The proof of these advances was evident in our impressive list of significant contract wins in 2009. These included CREW 3.3 Jamming program, the Japanese weather satellite, and Indian Irrigation project, as well as a very large Brazilian Oil & Gas project. A new program on one of the world's largest desalination plants in south. Ford Taurus, Escape & Focus components in global India and China.
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Four of 10 clinics of Physiomed, in liquidation, owing more
than $620,000, have been sold and liquidators hope more may
yet be sold.
More than 40 unsecured creditors are likely to be left out of
Five clinics in the wider Dunedin area, four in Christchurch
and one in Lower Hutt operated under the banner of Physiomed
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Physiomed's directors, David Murray and Adrian Hamill, who
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buildings to be demolished, Mr Nellies said. The assets of
clinics for sale had been included in the sale agreements.
Remaining assets would be sold by auction.
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Gattis grand slam leads Braves past Twins 8-3
ATLANTA Evan Gattis kept up an amazing rookie season with his first grand slam, B.J. Upton and Ramiro Pena also homered, and the Atlanta Braves finished off a sweep of the woeful Minnesota Twins with an 8-3 rout on Wednesday.
The Braves stretched their winning streak to six games with a second straight series sweep, making things easy for starter Paul Maholm (6-4). The left-hander held the Twins to an unearned run in 7 1-3 innings.
With the Braves already leading 4-0, Gattis struck again less than 24 hours after his two-out, pinch-homer in the ninth allowed the Braves to pull out a 5-4 win over the Twins in extra innings.
He was swinging away on a 3-0 pitch with the bases loaded in the fourth and launched an opposite-field drive just inside the right-field pole for the 10th homer of his improbable debut season.
As Gattis rounded the bases, the theme from "The Natural" played over the speakers at Turner Field. In the Atlanta dugout, Upton looked on in disbelief, both arms in the air as if to say, "Is this really happening?"
Believe it. The 26-year-old Gattis made the team as a non-roster player in spring training after quitting baseball during college, working a variety of odd jobs, and dealing with bouts of depression that had him contemplating suicide. He still has a picture of his ID card from working as a janitor on his Twitter page.
He eventually returned to baseball after completing a spiritual journey. He got extensive playing time in April while the Braves battled injuries, earning the NL rookie of the month honors, and he's making the most of his more limited chances in May.
Gattis' dramatic homer Tuesday was his third as a pinch-hitter, and it was the fourth time he's hit a tying or go-ahead homer in the eighth inning or later. He got the start at catcher for the series finale, giving Brian McCann the day off.
Vance Worley (1-5) had another dismal outing for Minnesota, failing to make it through the fourth as the Twins lost their eighth in a row. He surrendered eight runs and 10 hits in 3 2-3 innings, also hitting two batters and walking two more. His ERA climbed to 7.21, and it would have been worse if Pena had not been thrown out at the plate in the first attempting to score on a flyout to left fielder Josh Willingham.
Immediately after the game, Worley was demoted to Triple-A Rochester.
Before leaving, Worley's horrendous problems in the first continued when he surrendered two hits and a walk, including Jason Heyward's run-scoring single. In 10 starts, the right-hander had allowed 17 runs and 24 hits in the opening inning.
Atlanta made it 3-0 in the third. Pena hit his second homer of the season and, after Worley plunked a pair of hitters, Chris Johnson came through with a two-out single to bring in another run.
The Braves blew it open in the fourth. Upton, hitting just .153 coming in, led off with a homer into the seats in left-center. After Maholm's flyout, Jordan Schafer singled, Heyward singled, Freddie Freeman walked and Gattis went deep to finish off the Twins.


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LONDON (ICIS)--Indian manufacturer Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) has awarded its first ammonia tender of 2013 to Qatar's Muntajat, market sources revealed on Tuesday.
The 8,000-tonne tender was awarded at $590/tonne (€454/tonne) CFR (cost and freight) Cochin (Kochi) and the shipment must arrive in west coast India by 20 March.
The only other firm to bid for the tender was trading group Transammonia (Trammo) which offered at $625/tonne CFR Cochin.
Doha-based Muntajat (Qatar Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and Distribution Co) took over the marketing, sales and distribution activities of Qatar Fertiliser Co (Qafco) earlier this month.
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Danny Patterson spoke at the March 12 Rotary club meeting. Danny spoke about the upcoming 100th Macon County Singing Convention that will be held at Lafayette Missionary Baptist Church on May 23rd & 24th. Contact Danny at (615)-666-3438 for more information.
Kinsey Emery with the Tennessee State Fair Assn. spoke at the March 19 Rotary Club meeting. Emery spoke on the huge growth the fair has experienced since it's inception, and how volunteers are the key to a smooth-running operation each year. This year's theme is "Let the Good Times Grow".
The Rotary club is a service organization devoted to various projects supporting the community-at-large, including Makin' Macon Fit, the Macon County 3rd Graders Dictionary Initiative, Boy Scouts, the Macon County High School Interact Club and the Junior High Interact Club, as well as scholarships. For more information on your local club you can call president Pete Williston at 615-688-9747. Like 'Rotary Club of Lafayette, TN' on Facebook.


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1747 Bowen Map of Italy
Description: This is a charming 1747 map of Italy, issued by the British cartographer Emanuel Bowen. It covers all of Italy from the Alps to Malta, including the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia. Several important towns, cities, roads, rivers, and other topographic features are noted, with mountains rendered in profile. A note along the top border explains the compilation of this map, with the coastlines based on the chart of C. de Maurepas and the interior based on the work of Riccioli and Delisle. Another note in the bottom right quadrant explains the eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius from 1631 to 1717. A beautifully illustrated title cartouche is included in the upper right quadrant.
The bottom of the map features two beautifully illustrated insets, the first being a draught of the eruptions of Mt. Etna in 1669 etc. along with a note on the effects of the eruptions. The second inset illustrates Mt. Vesuvius, two leagues from Naples. A note describing the eruption in detail is included in the second inset. This map was prepares by Emanuel Bowen as plate no. 22 for the 1747 issue of A Complete System of Geography.
Date: 1747 (undated)
Source: Bowen, E.,�A complete system of geography. Being a description of all the countries, islands, cities, chief towns, harbours, lakes, and rivers, mountains, mines, etc., of the known world �, (London) 1747.�
References: Rumsey 3733.021. Philips (atlases) 614 (1752 edition).
Cartographer: Emanuel Bowen (1714-1767) had the high distinction to be named Royal Mapmaker to both to King George II of England and Louis XV of France. Based in London from 1714 onwards, Bowen was highly regarded for producing some of the largest, most detailed, most accurate and most attractive maps of his era. He is known to have worked with some of the most prominent cartographic names of the period including Herman Moll, John Owen, and Thomas Kitchin. Despite his renown and success, Bowen, like many cartographers, died in poverty. Upon Emanuel Bowen's death, his cartographic work was taken over by his son, Thomas Bowen (?? - 1790) who also died in poverty. Click here for a list of rare maps from Emanuel Bowen.
Size: Printed area measures 9.5 x 13 inches (24.13 x 33.02 centimeters)
Scale: 1 : 6050000
Condition: Very good. Original platemark visible. Minor damp stain in top margin, not extending onto printed area. Blank on verso.
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Java IDE
We've had quite a bit of reshuffling in the Java IDE tools this time as compared to last year. The most preferred IDE for the Java platform this time is Eclipse, having a comfortable lead over the rest. Eclipse was released to the open source community early last year. It entered our Developers' Choice Club at the number four position last year, but it's quite surprising to see it rise on the popularity charts in such a short period of time. Sun's Java Studio has dropped to number two, from being the winner last year. Microsoft's J++/J# has swapped positions with Borland's JBuilder this time. Interestingly, the ranks were almost similar for the question where we asked the respondents about their primary Java IDE. The only difference was that
Borland swapped places with Microsoft and IBM VisualAge disappeard.
Surprisingly, once again we saw IBM's Visual Age get plenty of votes, despite the fact that IBM discontinued the product long time back and recommended a migration to the WebSphere Studio Application Developer. We had some votes for WSAD as well, but possibly the brand recall for VisualAge is very high due to which it's still coming up. We've got another open source tool enter the club this year, NetBeans. Going by how Eclipse became so popular in such a short period of time, are we going to see the same thing happen with NetBeans? We'll see that next year.
We also tried to figure out whether any particular platform is gaining more popularity as compared to others. For this, we asked whether the respondents were using any other platform two years ago. What we found was status quo for everybody except Eclipse, which has gained its market share. It's also visible in the results.
Development Platform
Like last year, only two platforms have emerged as the key ones across the developers we surveyed, and these are Java and .NET. Once again, Java continues to be the winner for the second year in running and has a comfortable lead over .NET. Like before, we first asked the respondents which all development platforms were they working on. In this question, they were allowed to give more than one option. So basically, a company could be using more than one platform for its development. The graph shows the results of this question. We also asked the respondents for their primary platform for development. Here again, Java emerged as the winner (see the table), and the gap with .NET in this was even greater compared to the first question.
It seems that across the people we surveyed, affinity towards Java as a platform seems to be higher as compared to .NET. Wherever Java was the primary platform, it got higher votes across companies of all sizes, whether they were having up to 50 developers or more than 500 developers. Of the responses where we asked for multiple options, the gap was a little lower. For companies with up to 50 developers, Java and .NET got equal preference. The gap was also quite narrow amongst respondents from companies with 51 to 100 developers. Amongst the respondents working for larger companies, the gap between the two was much wider. There were other platform choices also given by people, but their numbers were too insignificant to include in the survey. Nevertheless some of the other names we got from respondents were VB 6, PHP, and even C++. These were also considered as platforms by them, although their percentages were fairly low.
CASE Tools
IBM Rational Rose steals a march on the rest of the competition with a 74 UPI point lead over its nearest rival, Mercury Interactive's
WinRunner. Last year, WinRunner was not a candidate at all- this time it enters at the number two slot, pushing last year's runners up down by one step and 9 UPI points. CA Erwin thus, drops to third and Win Case to fourth. Borland Together Control Center remains at last place in the Developers' Choice Club. IBM is winning this for the second time in a row, since we instituted these awards last year. Borland is perhaps the only stagnant player here, since they retain the 10 index points they had in last year's survey.
CASE stands for Computer Aided Software Engineering and refers to all the tools used by a developer in developing and finalizing their application development. Lately, the term 'application development' has come to refer to a diverse area, from client/server, desktop, web, mobile and database applications. RDBMS systems are now including the ability to add scripts and program-lets within themselves and as a result, CASE tools include database tools as well.
A majority of those using Rational Rose as one of the CASE tools in their development effort included of course software houses. But there were also a good number of IT educators and business process consultants in this number. When asked which tool they used primarily in their company, 10% of the respondents picked IBM Rational Rose and Enterprise Architect and put them on top. 24% of the respondents said they did not use a CASE tool. Compared to last year's five candidates, this time we had 29 total entries in this category as an indicator that several companies have now started using some CASE tool or the other.
Primary .NET IDE
We have a unanimous winner here, just like last year. Visual Studio.NET continues to be the winner second year in running with no other competition in sight. This was the only category in the entire survey where we had only one winner. Whether we asked people about which all .NET IDEs they used or the primary .NET IDE, the choice was always one.
The only other responses we got were for Borland Delphi.NET, Visual Studio 6, and Visual Basic 6. However, the numbers for these responses were too insignificant.
This time, we also added another question to the survey. In this we asked the respondents whether they had shifted to their current IDE from some other one, two years ago. If they had, then we wanted to know which IDE were they using earlier. While a majority of the respondents had been using Visual Studio.NET in the past as well, we got a few responses for VB and Visual Studio v6, which are again from Microsoft.
Only about 6% of the respondents said that they were using Sun's Java Studio.
Bug tracking/Debugging
BugZilla, available under the Mozilla Public License remains the favorite bug-tracking tool for the second year in a row. But it had better watch out, since others are closing up, fast. We must point out here that the existence of separate bug tracking and debugging tools has made this a densely fought category with 32 candidates in total. Mercury's WinRunner and LoadRunner shoot to second place just 2 UPI points behind BugZilla and IBM's Rational Robot and PurifyPlus slot into third four points short of the winner. Compuware QA Center completes the Developers' Choice Club in a rather distant fourth. Last year, quite a number of developers were using custom tools, putting that set into second place with 28
This time however, we
see a different picture, with only 2% of the respondents selecting that option. Also, in 2004 we saw Visual Studio in the second spot, standing in for
IDEs. This time, IDEs seem to have fallen out of favor with standalone debuggers and bug trackers being the only entrants. We saw about 20% of our respondents select the 'None' option, indicating perhaps that they had no defined system in-place to handle these tasks.
Testing tools
The Developers' Club for this category remains exactly the same as last year, meaning that for the second time in a row, WinRunner and LoadRunner sweep victory, although by a smaller margin than last time. They are now just 17 UPI ahead of second placed Rational Robot and PurifyPlus (the gap was 54 points last year). Compuware QA Center manages to remain third, but loses four UPI points.
In 2004, manual methods of testing was the third most preferred, in a tie with QA Center. This year, those methods are losing favor-manual methods are now in the last place, with 12 UPI points. Telelogic's testing tools gain fourth place and five more points over its 2004 showing.
Yet another category where about half the respondents (46%) said they did not use a testing tool. A good percentage users of the software that made it to the Club agree that they use it as their primary tool as well. Again, standalone testing tools are in favor over integrated environments across the board. A lot of these tools are also cross-platform, indicating that cross-platform development is also on in a big way.
Versioning tools
The top three from last year remain at their spots, with changed scores. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe wins in the category. But IBM Rational ClearCase gains 53 UPI points from 2004 and CVS gains 57 UPI points. There is a new entrant into the Developers' Choice Club this time in the form of Linux Sub Version.
Linux Sub Version is an up and coming replacement versioning tool for CVS and seems to be rapidly finding fans across the board. For the second year in a row, VSS gained 40% of the votes.
Rational ClearCase and CVS both had comparable shares with 38% and 33% of the votes respectively. The only other significant vote-share was the number of companies with no versioning setup.
CVS has a higher number of companies using it as the primary versioning tool compared to ClearCase which sees it at the number two spot in that count. If we combine the votes for CVS and LSV, it actually becomes the winner in this category, beating VSS by three UPI points.
We suspect that given the rise in popularity of CVS and its replacement by LSV in the past year, we should expect to see this combo in a higher position next year.
There is a change in the guard at the top step. Oracle wins this year, pushing Microsoft SQL Server down to second spot. MySQL and DB2/Informix stay at their last year's third and fourth spots respectively. And there is a new entrant to the Developers' Choice Club 2005, in the form of
PostgreSQL. Both MySQL and DB2/Informix leap-frog ahead in terms of UPI-MySQL gains 30 points and IBM takes 13 points. PostgreSQL has four points more than the final Club member last year (IBM with 18).
The primary RDBMS in these companies remains more or less the same, with PostgreSQL dropping out of the 'club' in that case. RDBMS is a category where software development companies have a lot of influence in databases purchased by users. Of the people using these databases, Oracle and SQL Server votes mainly came from ERP solution users and software developers. Also interesting is that a big chunk of both users are in the sub Rs 50 Crore turn over segment. Government and Manufacturing are the two key verticals where they are strong. This is a healthy mix of platform specific and cross-platform databases.
Application Servers
This category sees IBM WebSphere capture top honors. Tomcat comes second with J2EE entering the Club in the third spot. Last year's winner-Windows Server 2003-is fourth. BEA
WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle 10g AS, Macromedia JRun/ColdFusion and Borland Enterprise Server complete the Club for this year. We see a lot of places changing hands from last year. WebSphere was in the second spot last year with Tomcat in third, WebLogic in fourth and Oracle in fifth.
The gaps have also closed up between the players. Last year, we saw Win 2003 winning by a 65 UPI point margin and this year's
winner is just 10 points ahead. Even among the rest of the pack, the gaps are within ten or twenty points each-an indication of more vigorous competition among them on the ground. Of course, the majority of those polled were software developers.
Also interesting is the picture that emerges from combining our Users' Choice and this survey's results. In this category, users have voted Oracle 10g as their preferred app server with a 27% inward brand-shift for next year. WebSphere that wins here came second there, with a 23% inward shift indication in the Users' Choice.
These are tools that let developers convert their code into installable applications. InstallShield remains the most popular of the packaging and deployment tools, with Microsoft Packager (Windows Installer) being the number two. Last year's number three, NullSoft's Installer remains at third but sees a tie with SoftwareShield System. Compared to last year, the gap between InstallShield and the second-placed tool is larger by 20 points more. Similarly, NullSoft sees a UPI drop of three index points from its tally of 11 last year. Commonly visible tools like ones from Wise, StuffIt and zipper application vendors don't make it to the club-Wise and StuffIt were candidates in this survey though.While a large majority of those polled indicated they used
InstallShield as one of their packaging tools, this number dropped significantly and the gap between InstallShield and the Microsoft tool drops to just 10 index points. In that club though there is a new face-Install Anywhere which isn't even in the first club and scores a lonely 16 index points to just about make it in there. And NullSoft isn't among the top three in those votes.23% of respondents said they did not prefer any one tool as their primary tool for packaging and preferred with what suited a particular need. This is also one of the rare categories where we did not see anyone pick the 'Custom' option.


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MSC Sinfonia
MSC Sinfonia at Pointe des Galets, Réunion on December 31, 2010
|2002–2004: European Stars
2004 onwards: MSC Sinfonia[1]
|2002–2004: Festival Cruises
2004 onwards: MSC Cruises[1]
|2002–2004: Festival Cruises
2004 onwards: MSC Cruises[1]
|Port of registry:
|2002–2008: Naples, Italy[1][2][3]
2008 onwards: Unknown, Panama[4]
|Chantiers de l'Atlantique, Saint-Nazaire, France
|$245 million[3]
|Yard number:
|In service:
|IMO number: 9210153[1]
|In Service
|General characteristics [4]
|Class and type:
|Lirica class cruise ship
|251.25 m (824 ft 4 in)
|28.80 m (94 ft 6 in)
|6.85 m (22 ft 6 in)[3]
|12[5] (9 passenger accessible)
|Installed power:
|4 × Wärtsilä 12V38 diesels
Combined 31680 kW[1]
|2 × Azimuth thrusters[3]
|21 knots (38.89 km/h; 24.17 mph)
|1,566 passengers (lower berths)
2,223 passengers (all berths)[3]
783 cabins
MS MSC Sinfonia is a cruise ship owned and operated by the Italy-based MSC Cruises. She was built in 2002 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France for the now-defunct Festival Cruises as MS European Stars.[1] She was the last new ship built for Festival Cruises.[6]
Concept and construction[edit]
European Stars was the second in a pair of two sister ships ordered by Festival Cruises from Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France (the first sister being MS European Vision). The contract price for the ship was $245 million, and her yard number was X31. Both new ships were built on the same platform as MS Mistral, built by the same shipyard for Festival Cruises in 1999, but with an added 35 metres (115 ft) midsection providing more passenger spaces,[3] and one additional deck of cabins with private balconies.[7]
Newbuilding X31 was launched in Saint-Nazaire on 4 March 2001. Following fitting out, she was delivered to Festival Cruises on 18 April 2002 and officially christened European Stars the following day in Saint-Nazaire.[1]
2015 refit[edit]
A 24 metres (79 ft) section is being added to the ship during a 10-week refit beginning on 20 January 2015.[8] The new section consists of 193 extra cabins and weighs 2400 tonnes.[8] The work will take place at the Fincantieri shipyard in Palermo, Sicily.[9] The midsection was prebuilt, before being floated to the shipyard.[10]
Service history[edit]
European Stars entered service for Festival Cruises on 25 April 2002 on a cruise from Barcelona. Her career with Festival proved short however, as the company went bankrupt in January 2004 and the European Stars was subsequently impounded and laid up in Barcelona on 19 January 2004. The ship remained laid up for several months,[1][11] until she was sold to MSC Cruises in July 2004 for €220 million and renamed MSC Sinfonia (her sister European Vision also joined the MSC fleet, as MSC Armonia).[1][12] The MSC Sinfonia entered service with her new owners in March 2005.[3]
Exterior design[edit]
The European Stars and her sister European Vision shared a similar box-like exterior appearance as the Mistral, but with a longer and higher hull, which has been said to have improved the ship's external appearance compared to the Mistral.[7] As European Vision the ship had an all-white hull and superstructure, with blue and yellow decorative stripes painted on the hull, and a blue funnel with the yellow F logo of Festival Cruises. As MSC Sinfonia she retained the blue funnel colour but now with the white compass logo of MSC Cruises. Initially her hull was all-white without decorations,[1] but on 2008-04-15 MSC made known their intention to paint their compass logo on the sides of all their ships during 2008.[13]
Interior design[edit]
The interior decorations of the MSC Sinfonia are described as European Moderne by cruise review author Douglas Ward, with minimalist furniture that is in places impractical. The public spaces include two main dining rooms, a self-serve buffet, cafeteria, two-deck high showlounge, a discothèque, several bars, a casino and a library. The lido deck includes two outdoors swimming pool and two thalassotherapy jacuzzis.[3][4]
Decks and facilities[edit]
Only including decks with passenger-accessible facilities.[4]
- Beethoven Deck - Showlounge (lower level), pub, cigar room, reception, cafeteria, shops, bar, dining room
- Mozart Deck - Showlounge (upper level), cafeteria, business center, casino, bar, shops, dining room
- Brahms Deck - Lounge, bar, library, medical center, crew accommodations, outside and inside cabins
- Bach Deck - Outside and inside cabins
- Tchaikovski Deck - Outside and inside cabins
- Sibelius Deck - Bridge, outside (Suite with personal balcony) and inside cabins
- Debussy Deck - Spa, gymnasium, sauna, bars, swimming pools, cafeteria, grill restaurant, buffet restaurant
- Bizet Deck - Games Arcade, teen's club, discothèque and Outside rooms (Suite with personal balcony)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Asklander, Micke. "M/S European Stars (2002)". Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-09-27.
- ^ Ward, Douglas (2006). Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships. Singapore: Berlitz. pp. 417–418. ISBN 981-246-739-4.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Ward, Douglas (2008). Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships. Singapore: Berlitz. pp. 456–457. ISBN 978-981-268-240-6.
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I've been a patient of Dr. Pham's for many years, even before he started his own practice. Unlike so many doctors nowadays, Dr. Pham always patiently answers my questions and never rushes me through the exam. He is genuinely caring. I asked him how he can make a good profit operating like this, and he told me that he has to work evenings at a retirement home to support his family. His staff can be sloppy, though, such as billing an insurance company that I hadn't been insured by for five years. Nevertheless, I would not consider leaving Dr. Pham.
I have been Dr. Phan's patient for over 10 years. He is a very caring doctor and takes his time with his patients. He is like an old time family doctor. Those are very rare these days. He does not refuse to see walk-ins; consequently, the wait to see him can be close to an hour. However, I find it is worth the wait to see him. A couple of his staff members have very heavy accents which makes it somewhat difficult to communicate with them, but they are attentive. Bring a book to read even if you have an appointment.
No matter where you got to the doctor's you can't escape a waiting time, but nerverthe less my experience overall with this doctor was a good one. I did have to wait a little, but the doctor was caring and kind. The staff is also very polite.
I took my mom (63 years old) to an appointment with Dr. Phan. We chose him because, of the doctors on the list given to us by the PPO, his office was relatively close and Vietnamese was listed as one of his spoken languages (my mother speaks Vietnamese). Also, the (very few) reviews of him online were good.When we got there, we had to sit in the waiting room for over an hour and a half even though we had an appointment. Then, when my mother got inside and the doctor finally got to her, the only thing he said to her (not in Vietnamese) was to ask her what language she spoke. He never communicated with her again after that. Instead, he spent the rest of the time speaking to his student doctor, who was wonderfully helpful and much more informative than the doctor. Dr. Phan apparently never felt the need to acknowledge my mother's existence after the initial question and didn't bother to tell her anything. AT ALL.He didn't bother to tell her what he thought could be wrong, what he was going to do next, what he wanted her to do, ANYTHING. He never spoke to her. It was the student doctor who was assisting who spoke to her.He didn't bother to tell her he wanted her to get a couple of ultrasounds and that he was referring her to a gynecologist. He didn't bother to ask about any prescriptions she'd need to continue with her medication. NOTHING. We had to ask at the front desk later for the prescriptions.It wasn't until about a week later when we get letters in the mail from the PPO approving the referrals that we realized we were expected to see this gynecologist and to get some ultrasounds. Of course, since he never spoke to her, we didn't know WHY we needed the specialist and the ultrasounds.So we go in to see Dr. Phan again. Again, he doesn't bother talking to my mother (except, again, for that first question of what language she speaks). Of course, this pisses my mom off. I mean, getting treated this way once, okay, maybe it was a bad day for him? But both times he's seen her, here's ignored her. Why bother figuring out she speaks Vietnamese if you're not even going to talk to her?Then, when I ask if it's alright for her to choose her own gynecologist from the PPO list since this would be really, really personal doctor-patient interaction (my mom wants a woman, first of all -- she's gone to a male one before and she was very uncomfortable with the experience), he gets kind of pissy about it and says, first of all, he chose this (male) doctor for us because he's familiar with this doctor's work, etc., and that it might take weeks, weeks!, for us to get approval from the PPO, and if my mom's situation is serious, the faster she sees a gynecologist the better, etc.,. Basically, it's a bunch of bullsh*t because, frankly, in our network, we don't need to get some special referral to see an ob-gyn as long as the ob-gyn is on the list, we can just call one up and make an appointment. Also, it took all of one week for the approval letters to get to us from the time of our first appointment with Dr. Phan. One week. Then he started bullsh*tting about how, if we chose our own gynecologist, it could take a long time to even get an appointment. Yeah, well, the same goes for the referred doctor, you know. We didn't get bumped when we called to make an appointment. They didn't even ask if it was a referall.Meanwhile, we were having problems with the prescriptions. Apparently, even though he'd written them for us, he hadn't bothered to send in a pre-authorization to the PPO so that the payment for the medication could actually be approved by the PPO so we could actually pick up the medicine. So we called his office and told the office assistant the problem. She said she'd get the doctor to sign the paper and fax it in. This actually takes place over 3 weeks. Three weeks and he couldn't fax in the form!Then, instead of doing that, he just changed the medication to one that didn't need authorization from him. Didn't bother informing us or asking us if that was okay. Just changed it so that when we went back to the pharmacy, we ended up with some other medicine that we hadn't heard of and knew nothing about. So we called again and asked what was up with the change (without any prior warning or even notification). After a couple of days of constantly calling almost every hour, on the hour, I guess they got tired of me bugging them because the office assistant finally told me that the doctor had agreed to sign the form and fax it off. Finally! Was that so hard for him to do?Not that I've confirmed that he's done it yet. I'll have to call the PPO tomorrow and check.So, overall, our experience with Dr. Phan has been just shy of horrible.


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PROLOGUE Part 1 Year 2166, Milky Way Galaxy, Zur-En-Arrh system
A human Alliance armada enters the system via the Mass Relays, the 36 ships approach the home world of the Vidothians, they are greeted by hundreds of destroyed ships blocking their way to the planet. On the leading spacecraft, the Arcturus, commander of the 5th fleet, admiral Steven Hackett stands at the command center of the ship, preparing himself and his men for the coming slaughter.
The old man standing tall in his blue Alliance uniform with a small blue cap on his head, despite him being nearly 90 years old, his physical appearance is that of a man in his early 40s, with a white haired goatee, a scar running below his left eye and another stretching through the entire left side of his face.
"How long before can get through all this debris? " Says Hackett while keeping his hands behind his back, his eyes closely examining all the ships, hoping to find survivors. The nearby deck officer pulls up his holoscreen, he looks at it for a moment and responds to the admiral once the calculation is completed.
"We should be able to reach Zur-En-Arrh within 15 to 20 minutes admiral, should I sound the alarm so the men can get ready for battle deployment? " Hackett slightly turned his head and nodded in the officers direction, within the next few moments all of the ships lit up with alarms ringing through their entire hulls.
Thousends of soldiers are seen running through their respective ships, gathering weapons, ammunition and meeting up with their commanding officers.
"Soldier, get me Liutenant David Anderson, Sargeant Kahlee Sanders and medical officer Thomas Wayne on the double! "
"Y-yes sir! " The deck officer is startled at how quickly Hacketts doom changed from emotionless to down right angry in an instant, he quickly picks himself up and sends the calls.
In the soldier quarters, a black communication ear piece begins glowing. A soldier stops cleaning his gun, gets up and picks up the ear piece. The man is in his early 30s, brown skinned with a neatly shaved head in black N7 armor.
"This is Liutenant Anderson speaking, what are your orders admiral? " He says it in a automative yet disciplined and respectful tone, his accent strongly hinting at a african american heritage.
"I need you to get you and your two fellow soldiers up here now, you will be deployed on a special mission, get here on the double for further details, Hackett out. "
"Hackett sounds like he's in a pretty bad mood, things must be bad down there. " Says a female voice, Anderson turns around to see his fellow soldier Kahlee Sanders sharpening her knife not even turning her gaze away from it while talking to Anderson.
"Well we are trying to stop the Batarians from whipping out an entire species, I still can't believe those sons of bitches would try to do something like this even after the Skyllian Blitz. " His anger clearly apparent as he clenches his fist.
"We wouldn't want things to be too easy, your words I believe? " The door opens, the two of them see Thomas Wayne keeping his back to the left side of the door with his arms crossed and a big smile on his face.
"Yeah I said that when I was just a punk kid who could shoot a target if it was two inches from my face. " Anderson quickly calmed down and even let out a small chuckle at his friend.
"If you two boys are done talking about the good old days, Hacketts gonna have our asses if we don't meet him soon. " Kahlee cuts in on the conversation as she places her knife in her belt and takes her sniper rifle and places it around her shoulder.
"Man, Kahlee, are you ever gonna lighten up? " Thomas says to her teasingly as she exits through the door, she ignores him for a minute then responds.
"Oh im sorry your majesty, Il make sure to be a good girl from now on. " She responds with heavy sarcasm in her voice. Thomas and Anderson just laughed silently as they followed her to the elevator and up to the command center.
Thomas wasnt really royalty, but his extremely wealthy family and social status almost made him as such in everything but name, that didn't stop the guys and girls from his training unit to make fun of him that way. Kahlee was the one who started it, Thomas didn't mind because she perfectly balanced out is laid back attitude with her all business one.
He looked at her as the big sister he never had, always bailing him out of trouble in the academy, giving him advice and saving his ass during many fights, heck without her Thomas would have never met Martha.
The three entered the command center of the Arcturus and slowly approached admiral Hackett.
" Reporting for duty admiral Hackttet sir! " They stopped in their tracks and saluted their commanding officer, he quickly turned around to face them.
"At ease soldiers. " He gave them a small hand gesture to lower their arms from their heads.
"You three are some of the best in your respective fields and all three of you have accomplished many incredible tasks in your years of service, but this is the most crucial mission of your careers, this will be your defining moment, weather or not you succeed it will not only affect you, but also the balance of power in the galaxies, speak up if you want to continue, there's no turning back though. " His voice both inspiring and nerve wracking, so much so that the three of them started to sweet. They don't say anything for a moment, a clear sign that none of them are backing down.
"Very well then. " He turns around and actives holo screens, all of them showing news footage from Zur-En-Arrh. It shows everything from an entire city being blown up to Batarians executing women and children.
"Some of this footage is whats going on the Vidothian home world, however after finally establishing communication with us, they have revealed that this battle has been going on for 5 years. " The three soldiers appear shocked from this discover. They don't say anything but Thomas is the first to speak up.
"How did the Batarians manage to wage a war of this scale without any of us knowing about it?! "
"We don't know, not yet at least, but this discovery along with the large scale destruction has given not only the Council pause but also the Republic, so much so that we are working together on this one. "
"Us and the Jedi? Working together?! " Kahlee commenting on the admirals claim in disbelief.
"Despite our past issues, we have both determined that the Batarians are a threat to us all, there is no peace this time, there is no negotiation, we will hit them hard and we will break them. " Hacketts voice rose with fierce anger and determination in it.
"This is why this mission is so important, you three are being sent down to the biggest hotspot, the capital city itself and make sure that this family makes it back safely to Earth. " He turns the dozen holoscreen into 3 large ones, one with male, one with a female and one with a small child on the screen.
"This is the most influential family of the Vidothian species, they have been stoping wars and keeping the peace for generations, not just for our galaxy, but for the Republic as well, theyre survival is imperative, if you fail... well lets just hope things don't ever get this bad. " Hacketts voice lowered and his head slowly fell, looking at the floor but it quickly rose up when the officer snapped him out of it.
"Admiral, weve cleared the debris field and the Republic fleet will be arriving shortly. " All of them started looking onto Zur-En-Arrh, the planet was completely on fire, the water seemingly evaporated and some parts of the planet completely consumed in lava.
Just ahead of them were hundreds upon hundreds of Batarian war ships all turning their attention to the newly arrived fleet. Just at that moment hundreds more Alliance, Council and Republic ships all exited hyper and slip space.
"You three better get down to the launch bay, this fight wont take long. " Hackett made a small smirk on that last part.
"Sir, yes, sir! " The three of them entered back into the lift and slowly made their way to the launch bay. Outside the newly formed Republic/Council alliance armada completely surrounded the vastly outgunned and outnumbered Batarian ships. Thats when Hackett gave the order.
"Fire! " The entire area lit up with hundreds of blue lights as the cannons fired everything from lasers to rockets, all of the crews patiently waited for their barrage to make impact with the enemy vessels, shortly after they hit the Batarian ships utterly decimating the enemy forces, but now the enemy ships lined themselves up for their barrage, the battle has only just begun......
To be continued.
Human Alliance – A future version of the UN, the join government that represents the entire species with all of the individual nations of Earth all having members in the Grand Human Council.
Batarians – A race of four-eyed bipeds native to the world of Khar'shan, the batarians are a disreputable species that chose to isolate itself from the rest of the galaxy. The Terminus Systems are infested with batarian pirate gangs and slaving rings, fueling the stereotype of the batarian thug, most batarians prefer profitable pursuits such as drug running and slave grabs to out-and-out warfare.
Terminus Systems – A independent part of space at the northern part of the Milky Way Galaxy, its independence is at a severe cost as the entire sector is a breeding ground for massive criminal, slave trading and mercenary activity.
Omega – A former mining station, turned gang hide out, Omega is the exact opposite of the Citadel, a completely lawless station where murder, rape and even genocide are done to the population that lives there.
Citadel – A large space station thought to be made from the extinct races of old, it is the seat of power in the Milky Way Galaxy and it is home to the Council, an organization of species all working for cooperation and military aid.
The Republic – The policial organization of the Force Galaxy, it has existed for over a 100 000 years and has faced many enemies in the form of Sith or alien invasions. Now at odds with the Milky Way Galaxy.
Vidothians – A advance race with a near identical resemblance to humanity, however with many attributes like super human strength, dexterity, mental capabilities, Force potential and even rumors of being able to bend the elements, spiritual world interaction and reincarnation.
Zur-En-Arrh – The Vidothian home world, it has been the primary negotiation ground for Republic/Council disputes and agreements, its in between position for both galaxies makes travel to it a long and tedious task but also allowed virtually no resistance to nearby colonization in the dark space reaches.
Dark Space – The area between galaxies, it is a cold and nearly inhabitable place, but species like the Vidothians have been able to survive here and have colonized dozens of planets without any resistance and have developed special abilities because of their millenia of living there.
N7 - A special program of the Alliance, only a few ever manage to complete the program, but those who do become the most feared and respected soldiers in both galaxies. Only 5 have completed it thus far. Anderson is one of them.
What do you guys think? Should I keep going with this, should I change the story or the tittle? Give me your thoughts down below.


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Is the economy affecting religious participation?
Via Shmuel Rosner, a new Newsweek article argues that the recession could be threatening Jewish participation in religious life, because—all inevitable kidding aside—being a religious Jew is expensive. Columnist Lisa Miller analogizes a Jack Wertheimer piece earlier this year in Commentary, which sounded the alarm on the rising costs and declining incomes of Orthodox Jews (who are more likely to be poor), to Peter Beinart's essay in terms of their respective shockwaves. (Last month, staff writer Marissa Brostoff reported on how tightened budgets had led to unprecedented sharing of funds among the Jewish denominations.)
Wertheimer's point is that poor Orthodox Jews are going to be increasingly reliant on outside philanthropy, which in turn may be increasingly scarce. But Miller proposes an alternative:
In 2008, 2.7 million Americans called themselves religiously Jewish, down from 3.1 million in 1990. Wouldn't the central challenge of American Jewry be to encourage the broadest range of people (including the intermarried, like me) to identify as Jewish and to raise Jewish kids? Costly barriers to entry need to be taken away, or, at least, reimagined. "We have this very bizarre pay-to-play philosophy," says Jay Sanderson, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. Christian churches, Sanderson points out, begin with an invitation to prayer; they ask for money later. "The Jewish community's first instinct is 'give us money,' instead of 'come in.'"
Those black-clad Chabad volunteers who have no doubt approached you—first asking, always, "Are you Jewish?" (since Jews don't proselytize outside the faith)—and then invited you to come to Shabbat dinner at the local house, without asking you for money? According to Miller, they represent the future of Jewish growth, if there is a future of Jewish growth.
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Sun catcher of our store attracts a present.
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Even Walhalla price does not cut corners in the repeat part either.
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