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To preface, Vision was the first RCCL ship I cruised on under 2 years ago August 2009.
* Staff rude and diffident without the glimmer of a smile on their faces
* Dining was a chore, taking 2 hours on 3 off the 4 nights to get our main course served (on one night, the "Headwaiter" came to us and told us there would be a delay because George was stuck in the kitchen whatever that meant
* Head waiter pranced about like a pompous idiot with an inane grin on his face but made no attempt whatsoever to rectify any of the problems.
* I went on this cruise with 3 friends none of which had ever been on an RCCL or Celeb cruise in their lives. Two of them had over 300 nights each cruising Saga, Cunard, Princess and NCL and the other spent over 40 nights crusing on Cunard. As a big big UK RCCL cheerleader I hoped that I might get a couple of converts to the cause.
I have to say that the dining experience was so poor, the staff were so uniniterested, the bar staff so apparently lazy both compared with my first Vision cruise and also with the other ships I have cruised with, that not only do I not have an arguement with my friends views on this, but I actually have to assess for myself where and how to have my own next cruise which is awful, as, thus far I have never cruised (as a paying customer) with anyone else other than RCCL (apart from a 2 nighter on MSC).
We very politely addressed these problems on a daily basis but eventually got so tired with it, that I decided that I would take issue when I get home, as I did not intend to let this incompetance spoil my holiday more than it already had.
Up until this cruise I had always pre-paid gratuities and always tipped on top of the pre-paid amount. For some reason I did not on this cruise, and I am pleased that I didn't. The only person who deserved any sort of gratuity whatosever on this cruise was my cabin attendant, to whom I amply rewarded him for a job superbly done.
I write these comments in sorrow far more than anger, since I am going to have to reassess my holiday options now, and I never felt this would ever happen, until I ran out of cruises or ships.


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It goes beyond nursing. Consider Alaska State Rep. Sharon Cissna, a breast cancer survivor who now wears a prosthesis. Agents aggressively tried to screen her artificial breast in 2010, in a "horrifying" physical check that she said was more invasive than a doctor's exam. And since she's an elected representative, Alaska is now considering a bill that would criminalize the TSA's controversial pat-downs.
TSA agents spend more time than the average American male asking, "Are they real." Problem is, they have the authority to make you prove it. They did to this former flight attendant and cancer survivor, who had to remove her prosthesis like Cissna.
The TSA's fascination with breasts goes to the highest level. Last year, authorities warned that "new" intelligence showed terrorists may try to sneak explosives onto airplanes by surgically stitching them inside suicide bombers. These dangerous bombs could come in the form of breast implants, they cautioned. While many female passengers were fondled as a result of this vague warning, no boob-bombers were apprehended.
The TSA hasn't showed the flying public any credible evidence that large-breasted women want to blow up our planes. Rather, their paranoid conjecture sounds like the creation of a Hollywood scriptwriter or the fantasy of a red-blooded American TSA agent (He: "Ma'am, what do you have under that sweater?" Her: "That's for me to know and you to find out.")
Is it any surprise that passengers have had enough of being fondled? That may explain why Yukari Mihamae, a writer and translator who lives outside Denver, struck back by allegedly groping and squeezing a TSA agent's breast in Phoenix a few years ago. She was arrested and reportedly is facing a felony count of sexual abuse, but has also become something of a folk hero.
Apart from the obvious question — how do you recruit, hire and train a workforce with such a single-minded fixation on one part of the female anatomy? — there's a more important pressing issue to the flying public.
What, exactly, is the TSA protecting us from?
Breast milk in tiny bottles? Let's think about that one for a minute. A new mom is about as likely to go all Jihadist on you as an incontinent grannie in a wheelchair. If the TSA took just a few minutes to consider it, then it would lay off the nursing mothers and let their breast pumps pass through their X-ray machines without flinching or blushing.
Is the TSA protecting us from cancer survivors? Why would a survivor of anything try to kill herself? Maybe they can explain that to folks like Cissna, the Alaska lawmaker. What makes her breast prosthesis — and specifically her — so dangerous to aviation security?
Are agents protecting us from large-breasted women? Ah, now we get the the heart of the matter: the TSA's apparent breast fixation. Well-endowed women make an easy and desirable target for the TSA's underpaid, mostly male workforce.
But there's no easy solution. Memos, rhetoric and expensive sensitivity training won't fix it. Because in order to treat passengers with respect and dignity, you must first respect yourself.
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I have FS9 and run some of the PMDG sims which I think are very good especially for flying it through the autopilot and MCP but the manual flying is the same for any plane in FS9, it is very very twitchy and very sensitive, is there anything at all that can be done to improve this?. Also anyone know of any good programme for smoothing out the wind effect in FS9?
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More Investigations on FSU and Winston
Thanks to a?report by?Deadspin, we learned that?Florida State conducted it's own investigation?on?quarterback?Jameis Winston?when he was accused of sexual abuse. Since the university did not find sufficient evidence to pursue punishment on him, It was clear that Winston was free. While that is true for now, the?Department of Education?s Office of Civil Rights?is planning to open up another investigation to look into how the University handled the entire case.
According to College Football Talk, the investigation will review how the university handled not only the Winston accusation, but all sexual abuse incidents and accusations over the past three years. It seems that the federal investigation will also look to compare how Winston?s incident was handled compared to a non-football player who has been accused of the same thing.
The Florida State investigation found no evidence to punish Winston, but it did find ways to charge for football players?Chris Casher?and?Ronald Darby. Both players?could be facing expulsion?for their actions related to the Winston case.
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The Yatman Cabinet
William Burges (1827-1881)
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Secretaire designed to resemble a house with four painted panels of classical scenes across the middle, three at the bottom, and ornate designs containing columns, porcupines, profile portraits etc.
Everything Burges did was painted, not carved, to more closely match the medieval spirit. Unlike Morris' painted furniture, which used furniture merely as a vehicle for the painted subject, Burges always applied the decoration so that it had an integrity with the structure of the piece.
The design of the desk is taken from a medieval cabinet then in Noyon Cathedral in France. Much of this piece is decorated with stencilling, a technique that Burges took directly from medieval sources, but these are not the only inspiration. The top cupboards illustrate the Greek legend of Cadmus and the Dragon's teeth. The lower doors have three very different paintings and it is these that give the most obvious clue to the cabinet's use. The Assyrian mason lettering his monument, Dante writing in the monastery and Caxton with his press, indicate that this object serves words and communication. Another clue is in the roof dormers, which act as a perpetual calendar.


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Saturday's Red Sox-Athletics matchups: Jon Lester vs. A.J. Griffin
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It's been a tumultuous first half for Jon Lester, the left-hander's first nine starts looking like the Lester of old, and everything since then ' everything since mid-May ' looking more and more like the 2012 version. He will have a chance to close out his first half on a high note when he takes to the mound against the AL West first-place Athletics and righty A.J. Griffin Saturday night at O.co Coliseum.
Lester looked like he may have turned a corner as June turned to July, but he took a big step backward his last time out. The Mariners ' who hit .242 as a team ' lit him up for five runs on nine hits and two walks in five innings Monday. He threw 112 pitches and struck out six batters by the time Mike Zunino's sixth-inning single ended his night.
Justin Smoak (2-for-3, double, RBI), Raul Ibanez (home run) and a 39-pitch fourth inning in particular presented problems for the 6-foot-4 southpaw.
'I felt like I threw a lot of good pitches tonight, but I threw balls that found the middle of the plate,' Lester told the media after the 11-4 Red Sox loss. 'They did a better job of fouling pitches off to get to those pitches. It goes back to, I feel like I threw the ball better than what the line score says.'
Jarrod Saltalamacchia was a bit more complimentary.
'I thought his curveball was the best I've seen as far as being sharp and having some good movement to it,' the catcher said before crediting M's hitters with fouling off and laying off good pitches.
On the season, Lester is 8-5 with a 4.60 ERA and 1.37 WHIP. His 7.5 K/9 mark is around what it was last season, but his 2.36 K/BB rate would be his worse since 2008.
Lester tossed 5 2/3 innings against the A's on April 24, and found moderate success. He allowed three runs on six hits, but also walked six batters before exiting with 115 pitches under his belt.
Griffin (7-6, 3.94 ERA), meanwhile, has had a solid sophomore season, even if he does average a long ball per outing.
His shortest start of the year came against the Red Sox on April 22 when he gave up nine runs (seven earned) on eight hits (two homers) and a walk in four innings. The biggest blow came in the fifth when Mike Napoli sent an 0-1 fastball over the fence in left-center for a grand slam.
Griffin pitched well, if inefficiently, his last time out. He worked his way up to 105 pitches in just five innings of work, yielding two runs on five hits (two homers) and a walk to the Royals in Oakland's 10-4 win.
Red Sox vs. Griffin (RHP)
Jarrod Saltalamacchia (8 plate appearances): .250 BA/.250 OBP/.250 SLG, 2 strikeouts
Mike Napoli (7): .333/.429/1.000, 1 double, 1 home run, 5 RBIs, 1 strikeout
Jacoby Ellsbury (6): .167/.167/.333, 1 double
Daniel Nava (6): .167/.167/.333, 1 double
David Ortiz (6): .500/.667/1.500, 1 double, 1 home run, 1 RBI, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts
Dustin Pedroia (6): .167/.167/.167, 1 RBI
Shane Victorino (3): .333/.333/.333
Ryan Lavarnway (2): .500/.500/.500
Jackie Bradley Jr., Mike Carp, Johhny Gomes, Brock Holt, Jose Iglesias and Brandon Snyder have never faced Griffin.
Athletics vs. Lester (LHP)
Coco Crisp (9 plate appearances): .286 BA/.333 OBP/.714 SLG, 1 home run, 2 RBIs, 1 walk, 1 strikeout
Chris Young (6): .500/.667/1.500, 1 double, 1 home run, 3 RBIs, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts
Yoenis Cespedes (3): .000/.000/.000, 2 strikeouts
Josh Donaldson (3): .333/.333/.667, 1 double
Nate Freiman (3): .000/.667/.000, 2 walks
Jed Lowrie (3): .667/.667/.667
Brandon Moss (3): .333/.333/.333, 2 strikeouts
Derek Norris (3): .000/.333/.000, walk
Josh Reddick (3): .000/.000/.000, 1 strikeout
Seth Smith (3): .000/.333/.000, 1 walk, 1 strikeout
Grant Green, John Jaso and Eric Sogard have never faced Lester.
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RUSH: Matt in Phoenix. I'm glad you called, sir, welcome to the program. Great to have you here.
CALLER: It is great to talk to you. I called you once 18 years ago. I was working as a paramedic. And right in the middle of our conversation I got a dispatch call and I had to hang up. And it's been 18 years trying to get through. But I'm glad I waited.
RUSH: Wow. You had a dispatch call and you had to hang up 18 years ago.
CALLER: The one time I got through to you I was working as a paramedic, and right in the middle of our conversation a tone went off and I got dispatched. And I had to hang up.
RUSH: Well, here you are, back at it, proving that you are not a winner of life's lottery but you are a stick-to-it-ive guy.
CALLER: I am, although I will say I did win life's lottery with my grandson. That's what I wanted to talk to you about. He is five years old. My wife and I are raising him with our daughter. He was born with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder. So he kind of hears but it doesn't translate into anything. They explained it as hearing white noise. We had a cochlear implant done three years ago. And one of the most exciting days of my life was the day six weeks after the surgery when they turned it on. I just happened to be talking and that little boy whipped his head around with an astonished look on his face and just smiled. It was absolutely incredible. Now we're thinking about a second cochlear. And, as you know, the nerve, when they put in the cochlear it does stuff to the nerve. And I'm kind of wondering what you would advise on a second cochlear versus one, waiting longer? Basically, if you had to do it over again, from what you knew 10 years ago, would you have gone and done it immediately, or would you still have waited?
RUSH: I can't change the circumstances I was given. Ten years ago I was told fairly confidently that in 10 years there was going to be a cure for what ailed me and so I should keep my second ear untouched so that the cure could be applied to it and natural hearing restored.
CALLER: That's kind of what they told us.
RUSH: Right. But 13 years ago, it's all changed. Thirteen years ago the best science of the day said that all any cochlear implant patient needed was one. Whether they were deaf in both ears or not, only needed one, because two would be cost prohibitive; the benefits were not measurable in terms of speech comprehension and a number of things. But 13 years is a long time ago. Now, the last two years the medical community has been imploring me to get the second ear done because they've had an entire change of heart on the nature of bilateral implants and patient's success measured in terms of speech comprehension, perception of environmental sounds, spatial awareness, where sound comes from, and general enjoyment of life.
I'll tell you, 13 years ago, I said, "Why are we only doing one?" I never believed there was going to be a cure for baldness. I thought that was smoke and mirrors, but I had to trust the doctors. I couldn't understand why I wasn't getting two at once anyway. God gave me two ears. Why are you guys only going to replace one of them? What do you know that he didn't? That was my thinking on it. But I trusted what they said. In your case, what is the nature of your son's deafness? Are there any real possibilities that his natural hearing could be restored in his lifetime? He's only five years old, you said.
CALLER: Right now we don't know what he is actually -- we know he can hear noise. He just can't process that noise. The best way to explain it is it's like that nerve is asleep and it's constantly tingling. He can hear a noise but cannot process that into sound.
RUSH: Let me step in here again and try to help the audience understand this, because, folks, I'm going to venture to say that most of you don't understand what this man is saying. "What do you mean his son can't hear?" Because you can't relate to not hearing. People that have not experienced deafness -- I can't emphasize this enough, you cannot replicate deafness. You can't put your hands over your ears or headphones on your ears and replicate deafness; you can't do it.
You can close your eyes and be blind. You can strap yourself into a seat and not be able to walk. You can replicate other disabilities, but you cannot replicate deafness. So when you hear a man like on this call talk about "we don't know what our son is hearing, grandson, we don't know what he's hearing." He can't tell them what he's hearing. He doesn't know enough. Everybody's flying blind here. He doesn't know if he's hearing words. The things coming out of his parents' mouths, he's never heard words. He doesn't know what he's dealing with. His grandparents have no clue and the grandchild cannot tell them. It's the biggest mystery in the world.
Now, imagine Helen Keller who was blind and deaf. She went nearly insane trying to communicate with people. It's really a tough thing for people who can hear to put themselves in a position of people who can't, because you can't relate. Hearing sounds is easy, it's nothing. When that's all somebody hears and they don't know how to convert them into words because they've never heard words before -- your grandson has a lot of time ahead of him with therapists. They're going to try to teach him letters and vowels and language and this kind of thing. And I would just see how it goes in that one ear.
One thing to take solace in, though, regardless of what happens with speech and your grandson, he is always going to be connected to his environment via sound, and that's irreplaceable. Even if he doesn't know what you're saying, the fact that you're making sounds, he's going to interpret them some way and in conjunction with your facial expression, he's going to know when you're happy. He's going to know when you're not. He's going to be able to make connections, and you are going to establish ways to communicate. It may not verbal right off the bat. But the fact that he can hear environmental sounds, it's a safety thing.
He's going to hear sounds like a car close by or whatever, it's all good no matter what the negatives are. There's good in all of it. From what I'm being told by the doctors now, the second implant is only anecdotal. There's no really scientific empirical data on it, but all the anecdotal data is that the second implant is an improvement, to give you a short answer to the question.
CALLER: We know he can hear because when he's doing something he's not supposed to, like using grandpa's iPad without permission, he will take his implant and pull it off the side of his head and let it hang down so that, well, if he can't hear us, we obviously can't hear him, either.
RUSH: Right. Clever. You clever little guy, you. (laughing) But he can use an iPad with no problem?
CALLER: He has learned to use the iPad. And for a kid who was born with a brain malformation and deaf -- and we were told all sorts of things that were going to be wrong with this kid -- he is just absolutely an incredible kid. We gave him an old iPhone that we no longer were using and have it connected to the Wi-Fi so he can use his sign language apps on it. We haven't been able to get him an iPad yet, but that's down the road. And we're looking at the technologies to be able to connect with Bluetooth to the iPad.
RUSH: I was just reading last night -- and, by the way, Matt, don't hang up here. Apple and their latest iOS 7 has some of the most amazing hearing aid software. It's astounding. For people who can hear naturally to be able to hear in crowds, to improve hearing in crowds. It doesn't do people like me any good. You've got to have residual hearing. But Apple has some of the most incredible, you named it, low power Bluetooth, third-party hardware that works in conjunction with their system software that is apparently miraculous, used in conjunction with an iPhone. I wish, when I was reading the story, I wish it would work for me. But it doesn't because I don't have any residual natural hearing.
Now, I've gotta go. I'm going to put you on hold. But I want Snerdley to get your address. I'm going to send you guys an iPad Air so he can have his own, the least I can do. Just play yourself out with this first implant, see how it goes. You've got all the time in the world to decide whether to do a second one. And the doctors will tell you the best thing to do on it. I have full faith that they know what they're doing there. I'm not going to play doctor with you. Gotta take a break. Thanks for the call. Sit tight, we'll be back and don't hang up now, Matt, so Snerdley can get the address and tell me what color you want. We'll just send you the Air. I'm not sure we have any minis left. The Air is better because it's lightweight, thin, big screen. We'll do that.
RUSH: The grandson's name is Eric. We're going to send him a couple of Rush Revere books along with his iPad.


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People often talk about leadership in the context of corporate or organizational life. They think of it in very business-like settings where strategic decisions are made after much planning and consideration. But sometimes, extraordinary leadership happens on the spur of the moment.
People, regardless of their title or position, are called into service. They step up. They put themselves in harm's way or the line of fire.
Often they are first responders — firefighters, police, EMTs, nurses, doctors and veterans who have returned from war.
But sometimes they are just civilians who amazingly, instead of running away from the danger, go directly toward it. It happened on 9/11. It happened with the teachers who protected their students in Newtown, Conn. And yes, it happened at the Boston Marathon.
This past week I conducted a leadership seminar at a regional hospital and asked the group of professionals if they could relate to the type of courageous leadership we all saw in Boston this week. One ER nurse leader shared an amazing story of a firefighter who was experiencing cardiac distress. Knowing he was in serious trouble, her heart was pounding and she was afraid she would lose him. But she remained calm, gently talking to the firefighter the entire time, listening to him and telling him that he was in good hands. But his condition worsened and despite their heroic and best efforts, the doctors and nurses were unable to save him.
The nurse leader then had to step up, as she had done so many times before, and console and share the tragic news with the firefighter's longtime girlfriend (they had a 2-year-old son together), as well as with the 15 firefighters who gathered in the ER and were there to show their support. She stayed as long as she could with the firefighter's loved ones and colleagues, until another trauma case required her attention.
When I asked her in the seminar how she dealt with her own fear and anxiety under these conditions, she responded, "I'm not sure what it is, but you realize that no matter what you are feeling in that situation, you have a responsibility to do something that is bigger than you — to help someone else."
So there it is. THAT'S extraordinary leadership. That's what great nurse leaders do. That's what extraordinary first responders do. That's what those courageous and brave heroes at the Boston Marathon did this past week.
For those who think heroes are those who are not afraid of danger, think again. People who do such heroic things are often afraid for their own safety. They obviously could run the other way and save themselves, but they choose to go into potential danger (where another bomb could go off) because there is a responsibility and a cause that is greater than self-preservation. That is the essence of extraordinary and courageous leadership. Not many people possess it, and when we see it, we must recognize and celebrate it.
The world of business is filled with people sitting in leadership positions who run and hide when faced with difficult choices.
They often do what is selfish and easy, putting others in the organization at risk while attempting to protect themselves by covering their own behind. Blaming others is a common tactic. This is the exact opposite of extraordinary and courageous leadership. We saw it with Enron, we see it too often on Wall Street, and frankly it happens every day in corporate America.
While we saw extraordinary leadership in Boston after those bombs went off, courage under fire also occurs under more ordinary conditions when leaders face tough choices and choose to do what is right and in the interest of others—in spite of their own fears.
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Egypt and Ethiopia have otherwise been locked in a low-intensity contest over which nation would dominate the region, undermining each other's interests in Eritrea, Somalia and South Sudan. A quiet but long-sustained rivalry, it is one of those rarely noticed but important fault lines in international relations that allow other conflicts to rumble on.
This week, however, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt is expected to fly to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to attend a summit of the African Union. He will also meet with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn of Ethiopia, a rare chance to shift the political landscape in northeastern Africa.Continue Reading →
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Sanctions against spoilers can work if there is an effective and legitimate peace process. There is no such process in South Sudan today. Threats of force and sanctions by IGAD leaders are mere gestures of frustration, not components of a workable peace. However, sanctions could serve another purpose: fighting corruption. This is a worthwhile goal […]Continue Reading →
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Hailing from Belarus, I spent most of my UN career working in Africa, or on issues related to the continent. From 1992-1994, for instance, I was part of the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA) that helped facilitate both a democratic dispensation and the presidential election of Nelson Mandela. My other positions—which included […]Continue Reading →
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In Total Destruction of the Tamil Tigers: The Rare Victory of Sri Lanka's Long War, Paul Moorcraft recalls a Buddhist saying: "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." In Sri Lanka, if history is to be written by the victors – President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his followers […]Continue Reading →
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Review of: John Young, The Fate of Sudan: The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process, London, Zed Books, 2012.
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In March 2001, United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan expressed serious concern over the growing digital divide between some developing countries, as well as the existing gap between the developed and developing countries in the area of Information Technology (IT). "We talk a lot about South-South cooperation, but practise it too little. We are particularly concerned about the growing gap between the information-haves and -have-nots,'' Annan stated at a session titled Closing the Digital Divide organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry in Hyderabad.
The so-called digital divide is exacerbated by the reality that some countries have underdeveloped IT legal and regulatory frameworks and that access to bandwidth, computer hardware and software is artificially expensive because of monopolised supply. Also, many developing countries face severe IT skills shortages, with technically skilled citizens drawn to more lucrative work in developed countries.
To counter this growing problem, the UN is implementing a number of recommendations made by the Information and Communications Technology Task Force established under the UN Economic and Social Council. Further, the United Nations has initiated a high-tech volunteer corps -- known as UNITeS -- to train people in developing countries in the uses and opportunities of IT.
Civil society organisations (CSOs) are involved too. As part of their Building Digital Opportunities (BDO) programme, OneWorld is conducting case studies to provide decision-makers with a clear understanding of how civil society actually uses information and communications technologies. Cases are drawn from around the world and include such activities as wireless communication equipment for tribal nomads, online broadcasting of radio programmes, teaching slum-dweller children how to use a computer, and training CSOs how to build websites.
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In only its second official meeting since being sworn in, the new Kenmore City Council began to wade into the myriad of documents and legal requirements necessary for the establishment of the new city. The new council consists of interim Mayor Jack Crawford and council members Deborah Chase, Steve Colwell, Chip Davidson, Tika Esler, Elodie Morse and Dick Taylor.
Mayor Crawford's first order of business for the council was an update by City Manager Steve Anderson on negotiations underway for an interim City Hall. Although he was not at liberty to give the specific location, he assured the council and community members present that the facility meets the criteria established both for interior space, parking and public access.
Two resolutions were passed. The first was a proclamation to the Kenmore Incorporation Committee expressing appreciation for the time and effort in the birth of the new city. The second resolution focused on the provision for legal representation for conduct, acts, and omissions on the part of council members serving on behalf of the city. Finance Director Robert Noack presented resolutions and ordinances necessary to take the new city through the initial stages leading to official incorporation. The documents which will be officially voted on at the June 1 meeting dealt with official date of incorporation (August 31), establishment of a bank account for council business, payment of mayor/council salaries, petty cash fund and a provision for the new city to be eligible to receive its share of current state and county taxes.
The last agenda item dealt with the important area of land use and management. Greg Dohrn, community development director, addressed a concern expressed by some residents at the first meeting regarding a proposed development on NE 171st Street. He assured everyone that it is being monitored and the council will be kept apprised. He reminded the council that the Lakepointe project will be given considerable time for discussion at the June 8 meeting with an update on the latest information in regard to the development.
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WAILUKU - More than eight months after state officials warned that he could face high fines for failing to file any campaign finance reports for the 2010 election cycle, former Maui County Council Member Bill Medeiros still has not filed the reports.
Medeiros, who now works as an executive assistant to Mayor Alan Arakawa, said Tuesday that he hadn't filed the reports because money had apparently been lost or stolen from his campaign account last year. He said Campaign Spending Commission officials were aware of the issue.
"I don't know if it was stolen or lost, but our campaign files - we couldn't find everything," he said. "We've been working with the bank to try and get back records on it."
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Medeiros is facing a complaint by the commission over his failure to file four required campaign finance reports in 2009 and 2010, as well as a supplemental report in 2011. His case is scheduled to be heard by the Campaign Spending Commission at a meeting today in Honolulu.
Gary Kam, general counsel for the Campaign Spending Commission, said he has had "some discussions" with Medeiros about the issue, and was aware of the situation.
It's not the first time Medeiros has been cited by the commission.
Three years ago, he agreed to pay a $2,000 fine for failing to file eight campaign spending reports for the 2008 election cycle, some of which were more than 600 days overdue.
In 2010, Medeiros narrowly lost his East Maui residency seat on the Maui County Council to Council Member Bob Carroll.
Maui police Lt. Wayne Ibarra said Medeiros filed a police report two months ago reporting a theft that occurred between April 2009 and March 2010.
Asked why he waited so long to file the police report, Medeiros said he had filed one earlier, but it had apparently been lost.
"The person that I filed it with didn't have a record of it, so I had to refile," he said.
Ibarra said he couldn't confirm whether an earlier report had been filed.
County spokesman Rod Antone said the Mayor's Office was aware of Medeiros' situation and has been in contact with the Campaign Spending Commission about it.
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The Malcolm Delaney Show was not enough to pull out a 76 Classic title and the Hokies lost to unlv 71-59 in the Championship Game in Anaheim, CA. Delaney had 30 points for Tech, more than half of VT's points. But almost no one else stepped up, causing the Hokies to lose another game against a quality opponent, and in both cases lost by double digits though both games were close. I hate to say it, but the purdue game Wednesday is almost a must win unless the Hokies want to live on the NCAA Tournament bubble again this year.
Malcolm had one of his best games as a Hokie, minus his continued turnover issues and 3 missed free throws. Delaney was automatic from deep, hitting 7/9. That marked his most made 3s in a game. He scored 13 of VT's first 17 points in the second half and was the only reason VT was in the game. His 6th three-pointer with 12 minutes to go cut the unlv lead to 4 at 51-47.
Then Allen went out with 4 fouls and the rebels keyed on Malcolm. VT didn't score for 4 minutes and fell down by 10 at 57-47. Tech made a run to cut the lead to 5 but that's when the game turned. The critical moment of the game came with 6 minutes left. With VT down 5, Jeff Allen drove to the basket, was fouled, and laid the ball in. Instead, the officials called Allen for his 5th foul. This was a terrible call — in the exact same scenario on the other end they called Jeff for the foul and one.
I hate to say it, but it appears the refs have blackballed Jeff. He has been called for at least 4 fouls in 5 of 6 games, and fouled out 3 times. Tonight he was rung up for 2 fouls in the backcourt and 2 offensive fouls that were both awful calls. That said, unlv won this game, but that call with 6 minutes left killed VT's rally.
Tech has not looked good to date this season and lost for many of those reasons tonight:
– Jeff Allen cannot stay out of foul trouble.
– VT turns the ball over way too much.
– Dorenzo Hudson looks like the Zo of his first 2 seasons. He looks lost right now. He is battling a finger issue on his shooting hand, but he produced nothing tonight. Zo was 0/7 from the field, didn't score, and had 5 turnovers.
– Tech seems to be shooting free throws with their eyes closed.
Tech has to clean up their turnovers and fast. Yes, unlv has an aggressive full court trap, but when you have a senior backcourt and 4 senior starters, you cannot give up close to 20 turnovers every night as VT is now (VT had 18 tonight – 9 combined by Hudson and Delaney, 4 by Allen). This backcourt has not progressed like Dowdell and Gordon did. unlv dominated Tech in points off turnovers, with a 24-10 margin. That used to be the Hokies calling card last year but has been missing from all but the unc-g and cal state northridge games this season. As a result, VT had 17 fewer shot attempts than unlv.
The Hokies finished the game 9/21 from the foul line. Davila was 1/6 in the first half. Even Malcolm missed 3 free throws, including 2 front ends on 1-and-1s.
Tech is getting almost no production from their bench. After scoring just 6 bench points against osu, VT got just 3 bench points tonight. Tyrone Garland had all 9 bench points in the last two games as Erick Green was again out with the calf injury. Jarell Eddie has to stop shooting threes. He is in a slump similar to Green's last year. Eddie has hit just 1/13 three-pointers on the season (but is 7/13 on two-point shots).
Terrell Bell had his best game of the season since the campbell game. He was the only other Hokie to reach double digits, tallying 12 points. He hit 2 threes and the Hokies hit 10/16 threes on the night, which was encouraging. It marked the most three-pointers Tech has made in a game since February of 2009 when they hit 11 against clemson. It almost doubled their most makes to date on the season (5).
Chace Stanback had an incredible tourney for unlv. He had 17 tonight and was the MVP of the 76 Classic. unlv shot over 50% against the Hokies, converting several layups and dunks after initially struggling against VT's 1-3-1 trap. And the rebels hit their open jumpers and out-hustled VT to grab their misses.
I'll try not to be too critical. It is not time to abandon the bandwagon. This is a good VT team. But they are not playing well right now and are not as good as they were late last year. The Hokies cannot waste anymore time and need to step up Wednesday against a good, but vulnerable purdue team at the Cassell.
First Half Notes:
The first half was a series of runs with unlv enjoying the most. Tech jumped out to a 10-2 run thanks to 5 quick points by Terrell Bell and a 3 by Delaney.
The rebels quickly got back even and the game was tied at 20. Then unlv went on an 11-1 streak to lead 31-21. At that point VT had 9 turnovers, including 3 by Delaney and 2 by Hudson, two senior guards. VT really struggled with unlv's full court trap. This is surprising considering you have so many seniors on the floor, and the Hokies used to shred clemson's press. unlv did not have a single turnover until 13 minutes in the game.
After Tech fell down 10, they went to the 1-3-1 half court trap that helped the Hokies beat okie state. VT finally started creating turnovers and jumped on a 9-0 run to cut the rebel lead to 1 at 31-30.
But 4 missed free throws in the closing minutes doomed the Hokies and they trailed 37-30 at the break. VT was a pathetic 4/13 from the foul line in the first half, including 1/6 by Davila.
Jeff Allen picked up his typical 2 fouls in less than 10 minutes, but did have 7 points. Both fouls were committed in the backcourt (read: dumb fouls).
Delaney had 12 at the break including 3 threes. Bell, who had struggled on offense since the opener, had 8 on 3 threes and a jumper. Tech hit 6 three-pointers in the first half, but poor foul shooting and unlv's 14 points off turnovers put VT in a hole.


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How can a city garden use asymmetry to create a sense of perfect balance? In transforming the backyard of a Minneapolis residence, architect and garden de-signer Sarah Nettleton posed this challenge to the owners 10 years after they had fully renovated their compact and elegant house. Like many early-twentieth-century houses in the neighborhood, the old residence is a "four-square" design with a central hall separating living and dining areas. Ten years ago, architect Martha Yunker's renovation created a rich level of detail in beams, flooring, and spatial articulation and balanced enclosure and openness to the outside. The renovation by Y+A Architecture opened the house with a highly functional kitchen, an informal eating area, and a sunroom looking through a panoramic wall of mullioned windows at the center of which is a set of French doors.
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We have a legacy MRP application that runs on Informix SE. Users log
in with SSH or telnet, and there may be as many as 100 terminal
sessions active at any time. We have been running this for many years
on Solaris with 2 x 400 MHz processors and 2 GBytes of RAM. We would
like to migrate to a modern SLES10 box with multiple 3 GHz processors
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When users run reports on this application, they get pretty CPU
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interactive performance gets really slow. Disk and memory usage are
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get back into a run state. We have never seen this problem with the
same application on the old Solaris box. I am not a Linux internals
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On Feb. 10, in a packed courtroom in Camden, N.J., Bruce Jackson stood as tall as he could and turned toward his former adoptive mother, Vanessa. "Ms. Jackson," he began, "you didn't treat me with the proper respect." Bruce, 21, gave voice to his anguish publicly for the first time since October 2003, when police found him foraging for food in a neighbor's trash in Collingswood, N.J. At the time, he was 19, but his sunken face and little-boy's body—just 4 ft. tall and 45 lbs.—led police to charge his adoptive parents, Vanessa and Ray Jackson, with 28 counts of child endangerment and aggravated assault on Bruce and his three adoptive brothers Keith, now 16, Tyrone, 12, and Michael, 11. Ray, 51, died of a stroke in November 2004; Vanessa, 50, cut a deal—pleading guilty to one count of child endangerment—and was sentenced to seven years. Bruce now weighs 132 lbs. and stands 5′3″—likely his full adult height after years of deprivation. Here is an excerpt of what he said:
Ms. Jackson ... you didn't feed me or my brothers well. You would make us eat pancake batter, uncooked cream of wheat, raw potatoes. You didn't take us to doctor's appointments. You wouldn't let us take a shower when we were dirty. You wouldn't let us go outside and play. Even though you wouldn't let us join your kids and play, you wouldn't let us go to bed when we wanted to.
You yelled at us, cursed at us, hit us with brooms, rulers, sticks, shoes and belt buckles. You took me out of school for no reason and wouldn't teach me at home. You would make me wear Pampers the entire 12 years I was there and I never had trouble wetting the bed. I felt embarrassment about everything.
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To see how life has changed for Keith, Tyrone and Michael, just look at their rooms. The decor has a sports motif. Videos, TVs, PlayStations abound. Above all, the boys who inhabit those rooms are well-fed and well-loved. "It's excellent," says Michael, 11, of his new life with adoptive parents Pastor James and Amber Parrish of New Jersey. "They love me, and I love them too."
In exclusive interviews with PEOPLE, Michael and brother Keith, 16, spoke about the dramatic changes they have undergone since being adopted by caring families. Now 5′2″ and 126 lbs., Keith has grown a foot and gained 86 lbs. since Fulvia Mitchell took him home from the hospital two years ago after a friend told her of his situation. (The brothers see each other Sundays at Parrish's church.) "My heart dropped," she says. "This was stuff you see in foreign countries."
Indeed, Michael says his former life is now a world away. "I don't think about it," he says. But the Parrishes, who also are adopting Tyrone, 12, say it has taken time—and counseling—to heal two wounded souls. "They had anger, they were hurting," James Parrish says. "They had a lot they needed to talk about."
Some of that rage bubbled up Feb. 10, when Keith—who has changed his name to Tre-Shawn, combining the names of his new adoptive brother and the brother's son—saw Vanessa Jackson in court. "I just wanted to go over and hit her in the face," he says, "but I know I would have been kicked out."
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Yesterday I wrote about executive compensation as a huge part of corporate governance that can sound a terrible tone at the top if handled poorly. Today I want to write about another, often-overlooked part of governance: CEO succession.
We should see some fresh action on CEO succession this proxy season. The Securities and Exchange Commission set the stage for that expanded discussion last fall, when it published a legal opinion paving the way for shareholders to put resolutions about CEO succession into the company proxy statement. Historically, companies had the discretion to omit such questions from the proxy; now they don't. The first large company to face one of these shareholder resolutions is Whole Foods Market. At its March 8 meeting, shareholders will vote on whether Whole Foods should report on CEO succession annually.
Why am I such a fan of planning for CEO succession? Because it shows that senior management believes survival of the business is more important than the CEO individually—and that demonstrates a strong, ethical tone at the top. It sends employees, customers and investors the message that the company's leadership (primarily the board) sees the value inherent in the company as something that exists apart from what the CEO wants to do with the company. It sends the message that the company exists beyond that person atop its organizational chart.
Let's not forget, after all, that employees generally fear that person at the top of the chart. He or she has huge power to influence the worker's life, because he has the power to eliminate that person's job, dole out pay raises, assign interesting work, and so forth. Once employees start perceiving the company as little more than apparatus to serve the CEO's interests, ego and compensation goals, the culture of ethics and compliance that you're supposed to have is gone. They need to see tangible proof that the leaders view the business as something separate from themselves.
I do wonder sometimes how a governance advocate within the company, regardless of his or her specific title, can prod a reluctant board to develop stronger succession plans. How do you "audit" tone at the top on practical level? How do you then tell senior management that its tone is poor? Is it really the place of the chief compliance officer or chief audit executive to tell the board what steps it should take to rectify the situation? By definition, a company with poor tone at the top won't take such news well. I wouldn't want to be the one delivering it.


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So, the market knows every truth and every falsehood. It cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is imaginary nor does it care to. Truth and reality mean nothing. Everyone left in the market is conditioned to ignore everything except the free money. Free money will trump all until the free money ends.
Look at the action from March 2009 to April 2010. Free money was the water for imaginary "green shoots" that promised a better economy, more jobs and a better housing market. We know that green shoots was simply as much a figment of Larry Kudlow's imagination as was the Goldilocks economy.
Look at the market action between April 15, 2010 and September 1st when the first whispers of QEII became a reality. As thin as the markets are, as flat to down as the economic backdrop is, as problematic as banks and housing are, it does not matter. Nobody want to be caught short like many were last year thanks to free money and when there wasn't even a 1% pullback in 8 months. Now, the need to inflate and the promise of more free money has many commodities up 50% in 2 months. It has many stocks up huge and has created monster momentum in the institutional favorites. Performance trumps price 9 out of 10 times.
Our strategy in the summer months was to accumulate during the weakness. I was called a perma-bull and told that I am ignorant to the ways of the market. We have had a monster rally and those hecklers have disappeared. Now, my strategy is to use the current market strength to lighten up, raise my stops or to take profits outright. The old hecklers are replaced by new ones. They tell me that I am a perma-bear, am "just noise" and that I am ignorant to the ways of the market. I expect as much. It's almost enough to make me stop blogging.
In the meantime, the market "should" pull back to test the primary breakout, first at SPX 1150 then 1130. It feels as if the market has settled in and is waiting for the official announcement from the FED. Then we will find out if "buy the rumor, sell the fact" is still a strategy that works. I believe it will be.
I will be posting the usual large number of charts over the weekend for our premium service as well as a full review of the market indices and commodities. Join now if you'd like a look. Have a safe and happy weekend…
10 Responses to "Everything is known, yet nothing matters…"
There were green shoots! They just didn't have much in the way of roots!
Please don't stop blogging.
is there a way to ban the trolls? I think some reasonable debate and opposition of ideas is great. However, some just come here without any sense of respect or real intention for debate. these should be banned. they annoy everybody and lower the level of intellect. a real shame.
Agreed with Indie.
Don't let these minor trolls discourage you from blogging. Your blogs are very insightful and i follow both your radio show, twitter and the blog here religiously. It helps me understand the market and has been tremendously helpful. Don't stop!
Same here Scott, don't let those clowns bother you, the morning show is great prep for the day and your posts are a huge help. I've watched slack-jawed on the sidelines for much of this September 1st launchpad move but if anything you tried several times to get people ready and paid.
Don't stop blogging just because of trolls and hecklers. Stop blogging for some other reason if you want to, but not because of negative or hurtful comments.
If you get on the stage, someone will throw a tomato. You have to accept that if you want to be a public figure. Goes with the territory. You can take amusement in the fact it might be a $100 tomato, though.
induedly so.fuck the haters,there all just jealous.
The show is maverick and much appreciated. Thanks from Nova Scotia.
A big boo-ya from Quebec-Canada to you Scott !! lol…C'mon, don't stop blogging ! Your posts are like the best black caviar of the web. You have all my respect !
Scott, your insight and understanding of market trends has been amazing. You have huge respect from viewers like myself. We can tell those who came here bashing you because they envy your talent! Please keep on blogging knowing that you have many times more fans here.
When wasn't there a 1% pullback for 8 months?


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6 Things That Are Far Sadder Than They Should Be
#3. Dave Mustaine
For those who don't know, Dave Mustaine was the original lead guitarist of Metallica and then the frontman of his own successful heavy metal band Megadeth. By all accounts, he is an incredibly lucky man. Why? Well, he's been affiliated with two of the most successful metal bands of all time despite being a lackluster talent. He should just be happy all the time. It would be like if U2 kicked out bassist Adam Clayton for sucking and Adam somehow went on to front a band that had some hits and successful tours.
But is Dave Mustaine happy? No. He's the whiniest of all little bitches. First, I was willing to give him some slack. Even if you think Metallica's a great band, it's pretty clear that James Hetfield and especially Lars Ulrich are absolutely insufferable douchebags, and it seems they fired Dave in a typically douchebaggy way (even if some believe that Kirk Hammett is a more technically proficient guitarist). But then I saw this:
Instead of saying "Hey, you said I was a no good drunk, and I made a successful career without you!" he's still crying. How can you live with yourself knowing you let a Danish fuckpuppet like Lars make you sad? Clearly, that's a man with a deep feeling of inadequacy. A giant hole to fill. First he filled it with booze, and now it seems he's filled it with Jesus. How much Jesus? He's officially endorsed Rick Santorum for president. Right now scientists and 14-year-old girls are working around the clock to invent a new emoticon for how sad that is.
#2. Ice Cream Cone Malfunction
Living in New York, you see sad stuff all the time. I've walked past homeless dudes who seem like they're legitimately starving. I've been confronted by distinct mental illness in the middle of Times Square. But these legit sufferings pale in comparison to a little kid losing his ice cream cone. It could be the top scoop that is licked off before it splats to the ground below. It can be the crushed cone that sends the ice cream goodness tumbling. It really doesn't matter how it happens. But a little kid losing his ice cream kills me more than a little kid not having ice cream.
I think most people must feel this way, because even at McDonald's, the epitome of edible capitalism, I've seen them replace ice cream cones for children. And that's really saying something. This makes me so sad that if you sent me back in time and showed me a little Lars Ulrich losing his ice cream, I would totally buy him a new one, right before I beat him severely and threatened to kill his puppy if he ever started a band.
To this very day, in time machine world, ice cream makes Lars very happy and then inexplicably afraid.
#1. The Old Guy in the Office Who Wants to Start a Band
I spent most of my teens and early 20s playing in bands. I've spent most of my adult life working in offices. You'll notice I put a period between those two sentences. That's because they have nothing to do with each other. Currently, I work with one of my best friends, and he is the greatest bass player with whom I've ever had the pleasure to jam. Know how many bands we've started? Zero. Zero bands. And that's because there is nothing sadder than being the old guy in the office who wants to start a band. The guy who daydreams about hitting it big and quitting could elicit tears from a newlywed on his wedding night who's just learned that his wife is loaded and into three-ways with her shapely Scandinavian friend.
"That's great news, honey, but still ... I'm cold. Soooo cold."
This guy's concept of a rock star doesn't even exist anymore. Rightly or wrongly, the Net has destroyed the business of selling records, and touring is more important than ever in becoming financially viable. Yet this guy thinks he can play his '80s Casio keyboard, grab the chick at reception as a singer, add the new guy on guitar, convince the black dude down the hall to play bass and boom, record an album that will make him an overnight millionaire. That's sadder than someone who wastes all his limited pay on lottery tickets ... probably because you can be a middle-aged, fat, bald guy and still win the lottery.
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Import and export prices increase in November 2010
December 15, 2010
U.S. import prices increased 1.3 percent in November, following a 1.0-percent advance the previous month. Rising prices for fuel and nonfuel imports contributed to both the November and October increases. Prices for U.S. exports also rose in November, increasing 1.5 percent after advancing 0.8 percent in October.
Import prices advanced 1.3 percent in November following a 1.0-percent increase in October. The November rise was the largest monthly advance since a 1.5-percent increase in November 2009 and marked the first time since May and June 2009 that import prices rose by at least 1.0 percent in consecutive months.
In November, fuel prices rose 3.7 percent after advancing 3.8 percent the previous month. The November increase was driven by a 4.1-percent rise in petroleum prices, which more than offset a 3.8-percent drop in natural gas prices.
Prices for nonfuel imports rose 0.8 percent following 0.3-percent advances in each of the three previous months. The November increase was the largest one-month advance for the index since a 1.1-percent rise in April 2008. Higher prices for nonfuel industrial supplies and materials were the largest factor for the overall increase in nonfuel prices. Increasing finished goods and food prices also contributed to the November advance.
Export prices increased 1.5 percent in November, the largest monthly advance for the index since a 1.5-percent rise in July 2008. Prices for both agricultural and nonagricultural exports continued to move higher.
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These data are from the BLS International Price program. Import and export price data are subject to revision. For more information, see "U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes — November 2010" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-10-1689.
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