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Seib & Wessel: Aaron David Miller on Syria Crisis
In this full interview with WSJ's Jerry Seib, Aaron David Miller from the Woodrow Wilson Center discusses how a U.S. military strike might take shape in Syria, what kind of retaliation that could provoke from Damascus and what the crisis portends for America's allies.
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the ... on Jerry start with the Wall Street Journal ... With Washington consumed this week ... by Syria and the problems there ... happy be joined by Aaron David Miller a former negotiator on the Middle East for Democratic and Republican presidents ... and the vice president at the Wilson said today they are thanks for being with us ... due to your jury ... I'm you know obviously the big news of the weekend somewhat unexpected news was present Obama turning to Congress ... asking for authorization for a strike against Syria ... you know going to Congress can either type residents can ... worst rate in this hands by giving him more moral authority to act which you think it is in this case and did he do the right thing by turning to Congress ... you know I I think ... that it's it's actually been in both the new president already shoulder a little less we can realize that for a very tricky military operation there was nobody standby ... and the French are the only allies you know that something ... is not quite right ... with of mother nature so ... Cameron's face ... affected don't the majority of the American public according to most of the pole all seem to be against military intervention ... very uncertain dividing very partisan Congress ... and a very bad set of military options she was to me ... I think and its president that he knew he needed um he needed to support both to share and distribute ... the responsibility of the risk for what he's about undertaken in the same time I think he may well believe ... that job ... limitations that Congress will will set ... and their endorsement in a consensus stashing twenty oh two in chief ... of may also up prevent the United States from a ... game seven down the ... the rabbit hole that is clearly Syrian is likely to be Syria for ... quite some time ... so what do you think the allies may give this to the Saudis the Israelis others in the region do they see it is a sign of weakness and maybe a change in the American leadership reports that the president can do this or thing ... or is decided at least not to its extraordinary mean it to ... you know these two countries have serious and when you identify insider in serious and intense and volatile domestic politics even the authoritarian Kingdom to this ... and I'm ... thinking of fifteen dollars very sensitive to global constraints and so is the prime Minister Annette King Alan yet sure of their initial reaction ... what is I think is in front of the matters set and ... the EU NATO but appeared to be to them ... I've that the president somehow was ... trying to constrain his own hand ... or not to take military action in all but I think he can ... they refuse to accept the fact that this administration or any administration Democrat or Republican ... also have significant due to constraints ... so I think it's one of the anomalies you know it is strange that data ... to Republican President ... Bush's when I went to Congress for authorization ... for significant military action saying it to Democratic presidents ... Bill Clinton Barack Obama Clinton over Kosovo Obama over Libya ... I did not I think you have of ... an American president however is not to be aware yet NATO endorsement is not in the air where you have a country roughly the size as the state of Alaska ... with no WMD capacity though series air defense Noel ... this is a much more difficult proposition citing the president really get ... to persuade himself and every president needs an explanation for acting ... they needed a deeper bench on so I think that explains the initial low ... the initial per share and assume ... the authorization happens the strikers ... should the goal be to deter further chemical weapons use or to degrade ... the Syrian military ... I think it all end up doing both a lot in with their credit insurance let's be clear ... umm into a mandatory machine ... in about an existential struggle ... for self preservation mode hesitate for permitted ... to use chemical weapons again ... get ... in the US energy feels that it's a wrap ... and the opposition ... I'm making serious inroads ... project later domestic diva demands the series so I'm not sure ... over the long term ... as long as this story on savage war continues ... this will certainly as much to deter a retro when I think it will do and what I think of the administration plans ... his degree in capacity in India since then I've presumably going after chemical weapons stocks stores ... they will get ... delivery and projections ... which will will ... coincide with ... and ... seeing it as its military assets including troops in the ... mail last week started the fourth armored ... Division net debt down was responsible for deploying chemical weapons in his latest attack so ... I think under the guise of deterrence integrating on the chemical weapons ... target ... said ... target a managing its ... stride you additional damage will it be enough to fundamentally ... change the military equation ... will it be enough to chair the battlefield balanced and significant and serious way ... I'm not sure you know to quote Tony Zinni ... oh one and were done just right as the capacity to churn out to respond ... and the ministrations then have an opening to do more ... over time ... that that actually could ... be the result of of this military action but just to the Cleary if you ... move down the path of degrading the military assets he could use to deliver chemical weapons ... you can talk about ... taking and is therefore she can talk about taking on his missile capacity ... I even thought about getting airfields that's a pretty broad definition for action if you choose it to make that ... it is I think you're you're you're probably will see during his initial strike so what is limited to me ... the minute in comparison to what limited in comparison to well ... up close to the Iraq War shawl ... why ... and when they can be quite comforting and particularly in the grime that are set ... to include assets that could be legitimately considered either Delivery or protection systems ... for chemical weapons ... I think that's precisely what they're going to do well when ... we cannot afford an app easy and enjoy the impression ... after all it's can remember Jerry this is the most probably the most widely Telenet ever Chinese military mission in the history of modern warfare ... I mean the president over the last ten days ... since the twenty first of August ... both on and off the record ministrations vehicles to talk about the size the character ... and ... driven by a twenty four seven media with its graphics its May apps it's out ... accurate depictions of military deployments targeting the NASA been quite extraordinary ... I'm all concluded ... that a significant military strike ... he's going to occur ... if one does not carry ... this seems to me there will be a huge gap between ... the regimes intentions even even in these can find a chemical weapons deliveries protections ... protection systems ... and aam and their behavior and their interaction ... and I don't think this kind of want this kind of build up ... any congressional authorization ... painstakingly yet formulated ... I don't think the administration of four to it we can all ... you know their new refer to cycling obliquely to the potential for Syrian retaliation while ... the potential for retaliation worries you the most I don't see it I mean right said retaliation when I'm really talking about is is the willful use ... I hear of chemicals ... and get ... when AEO a brief interval ... just in order to show defiance ... or alternatively ... Amy ... injured in front of the conventional side ... opened up against civilian populations ... and frankly that seems to me ... unless the Iranians and Russians are counseling patients ... depending on how much damage this initial set of stripes dots ... in one night ... you know be breaking the silence of the cost ... to mention the series is ... opening a vicious offence ... and the conventional stuff ... not using them ... to demonstrate its defiance to demonstrate its capacity ... and to demonstrate that great powers ... medal in the affairs of small tribes at their own risk ... so ... I'm not talking about direct retaliation against American military assets ... not talking about Jay any started of ... last Update allies retaliating ... Isabel is deeply involved in overextended ... in whatever capacity to maintain a minute significant with respect to rockets and other high Jeffry weapons ... will be husband in reserve ... probably for America or anti Israeli military strike against Iran's nuclear facility ... I don't see the Syrians responded you're the United States Navy asymmetrically ... over time though to look for a way to respond to terror ... but no I do not see a direct retaliate when I see ... is the very real ... aspect of the major Syrian move ... against the opposition ... particularly targeting civilians ... you mention before I actually mentioned before that the views of our allies me ask you finely and the views on the other side the Iranians and the Russians the benefactors of the Syrian regime ... how do you think they're viewing what's going on in Washington right now and what conclusions you think they're gonna drawls Mobley ... from this exercise ... I think both are probably can find a better bet that outside were elements within the regime ... was so reckless and careless ... a new name will ... in the decline of chemical ... weapons ... that would cause this kind of casualty ... number one number two I think they wanna move away from its ... internationalize ... and certainly mill is rising ... the American role in these kinds of ... they were both more or less holding their own ... with respect to supporting outside and and finally Jerry I do not believe either ... intend to sacrifice their own security ... for much ... much currency frankly ... but to see this guy ... eighteen in the face of the determined under American military strike so ... I think of ... I'm sad is is vulnerable non ... it seems to ... me ... both ... morally and tactic ... as it as she's been probably didn't equally in the last two to use that as an argument that ... those who want a much more robust ... said military strikes ... will ... already taking advantage of this moment ... and really begin to check the data still balance the only problem that is what is the glass ceiling for military action is broken ... the pressure and expectations low rise ... and we can find ourselves ... from the air for sure ... involved in a prolonged campaign ... of military strikes and that it seems to me with no name with no jacket no clear set of objectives in mind ... and very few allies on the ground ... to support that certain action ... and that while not ... a dream estimates on the ground ... raises the very real ... analogy from Iraq and Afghanistan and that is what is the purpose ... of the use of American military or power how does it ... the city and state ... number one ... ending this war to hurt you and I ... I'm not ... leaving to go to the point where were the nineties get stuck with the check ... for Syria ... exactly ... well Aaron David Miller who was the center we've got a interesting days ahead aam thanks for joining us talk about today ... hope we can do it again ... when the smoke clears is a little that ... any stock during the well ...


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The public face of American monetary policy is a bearded, soft-spoken, baseball-loving academic who was given his job by a Republican president and reappointed by a Democrat.
As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke takes questions from Congress and at press conferences; markets move on his words. Increasingly, he's also the target of public anger, whether for meddling too much in the economy or for not doing enough.
The Fed chairman does not, however, act alone.
The system he oversees (essentially, the bank for banks) sets policy with the votes of seven presidentially appointed governors, the head of the New York Fed, and a rotating group of four chiefs of the other regional Fed banks.
At a time when the Fed has trekked far past its traditional frontiers — holding short-term rates near zero, buying up trillions of dollars in financial assets, and, in December, declaring it would keep all this up until unemployment comes down — market watchers are also paying close attention to those other voices.
And some of those voices disagree. A lot.
On one side are the so-called hawks, who worry that more easing won't work, or that it could set up a risk of higher inflation in the long run.
On the other are the doves, who have backed Bernanke and sometimes cajoled him toward more aggressive efforts.
The stakes of this insiders' debate are huge. What the Fed does next, and whether it's right, will dictate the security of your retirement, the performance of your investments, and the stability of the economy all around you.
THE FED'S GREAT EXPERIMENT: Uncle Sam wants you… to spend
"These are scary times if you are an investor," says Janet Yellen, the vice chair of the Fed's board of governors. "We've been through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."
Yellen, 66, is frequently spoken of as a candidate to succeed Bernanke in the top job when his term expires in 2014 and is seen by Fed watchers as a leading dove — a label she rejects, pointing out that she thinks the Fed must fight inflation too. The problem, from her vantage point, is that the past five years have been so wildly unusual that it has taken an equally unusual response for the Fed to have any hope of bringing things back to normal.
To understand the Fed's current high-wire act, start with what it does in normal times.
Congress has handed the Fed the twin responsibilities of keeping prices stable and holding down unemployment. The Fed's most visible tool for doing that is to adjust the short-term Fed funds rate, the interest banks charge one another for loans.
By making money easier to get, low rates can spur growth but pose an inflation risk if workers come to think they can bid up wages faster and businesses believe they can jack up prices. Higher rates can slow inflation, but they also stymie growth and employment. That much is business as usual.
When the bottom fell out of the U.S. economy in 2008, the Fed quickly cut rates down to near zero. Not business as usual. Also not enough. Unemployment touched 10% at its worst and remains frustratingly high. So the Fed has been experimenting. One name for its experiments is "quantitative easing," which has now been rolled out multiple times since the crash.
QE is partly an extension of a routine practice — to adjust rates, the Fed normally buys and sells very short-term bonds. But with QE, it has also bought a massive pile of longer-term Treasuries and bonds backed by home mortgages.
Because this is the Federal Reserve, it buys using money created by a keystroke that adds dollars to the reserve accounts of the banks it trades with. The effect is to reshape the market for basically all financial assets.
Buying up bonds pushes down longer-term interest rates, which ought to make it easier for businesses and homebuyers to get loans. It also makes low-risk assets like Treasuries less attractive to hold on to, hopefully getting money off the sidelines so companies invest and hire, home values rise, and consumers feel wealthier and spend. Bernanke has said that a rising stock market is an indicator that QE is working — that investors are embracing risk. Since 2009, the S&P 500 has more than doubled.
The Fed, says Yellen, is trying "to make the environment more predictable, more favorable, and less scary." The weird irony is that to push toward this safer-seeming world, the Fed has had to make things harder on people who want to park their money someplace safe. These days a five-year CD earns less than 1%.
Untested as they are, the policies may well be propping up the U.S. economy at a time when Europe is floundering, Chinese growth is slowing, and American fiscal policy is tangled in partisan fights over budgets, taxes, and debt. The added drama here is that no one knows exactly what will happen when the Fed tries to return to normal.
Sometime in the next few years the bank will need to stop stimulating growth and start selling the assets it has accumulated along the way. No central bank has ever before unwound such a massive amount of stimulus.
The Fed "is making up a lot of this as we go along," says Tim Duy, a University of Oregon economist who writes a blog called Fed Watch that is popular among monetary-policy junkies. "We're not entirely flying blind from a historical perspective, but we're certainly close to that."
WHAT THE HAWKS FEAR: Does this thing go in reverse?
The most recent round of QE had just one dissenting vote, Richmond Federal Reserve president Jeffrey Lacker. This near unanimity doesn't reflect how hot the political passions around monetary policy are or how careful Bernanke and the doves have had to be in selling their policies.
The Fed's monetary committee isn't like the Supreme Court; it rarely issues sharply split decisions. Instead, Bernanke quietly builds support for new policy moves before announcing them. "In the Bernanke Fed, the most important thing is the process — everyone gets to talk," says Michael S. Hanson, an economist and Fed watcher at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research.
Outside the Fed, Bernanke has to consider increasingly hostile Republicans in Congress; their party's 2012 platform called for a commission to study a (seriously unlikely) return to the gold standard, taking much of the monetary power out of the Fed's hands.
Within the Fed itself, the critics include high-profile presidents of regional Fed banks. Although two of the most outspoken hawks, Charles Plosser of the Philadelphia Fed and Richard Fisher of Dallas, aren't on the monetary policy voting rotation this year, their opinions make headlines.
Like Bernanke, Plosser, 64, is an academic economist. He sees little evidence that the Fed's moves boost growth.
Declining home values, he notes, have wiped out a huge amount of household wealth. Americans are trying to rebuild that wealth. So the Fed's efforts to spark more consumption, he says, are just cutting against consumers' natural inclinations — and may be hampering their efforts: "They don't want to spend," Plosser says. "They want to save."
Plosser also argues that there are risks to what the Fed has been doing. In buying all those long-term assets, the Fed has poured huge amounts of money into banks' reserves. Right now a lot of that money is just sitting there. Plosser's worry is that the money could eventually pour too fast into the real economy, fueling inflation if the Fed doesn't act.
In theory, the Fed merely has to reverse the QE process, selling assets to suck up all those dollars. Easier said than done, says Plosser. "If we are too late or must react aggressively, the consequences could get more ugly, more risky than in normal times," he says.
Fisher, 63, is a former investment banker with a Stanford MBA, and he doesn't talk much like a Fed technocrat. In a recent speech he called members of Congress "parasitic wastrels" and quoted the country singer George Strait to extol the benefits of Texas's low-tax, low-regulation business climate. He's careful to say he doesn't see inflation right around the corner, but echoes Plosser's concern that the Fed can't create more growth from here.
"My view is we've done enough," says Fisher. "The gas tank is overflowing."
His criticism also has a moralist's edge: The Federal Reserve, he says, has "penalized those who played by the rules, saved money, and particularly those who are aging — people like me, who are baby boomers, early baby boomers. Their returns have been driven down to nil." Fisher calls the recent stimulus efforts "monetary Ritalin."
WHY THE DOVES DON'T QUIT: If only inflation were the problem
Fisher's Ritalin remark might say more than he means. Many parents would point out that sometimes a struggling student needs exactly that sort of help to get through some tough years and go on to be productive. And is anyone going to argue that the U.S. isn't still wobbly? Fewer than half of the jobs lost since the recession have come back.
Chicago Fed president Charles Evans has long thought the Fed should be making it clear that unemployment should be lower. "I've been outspoken in saying that we should keep the federal funds rate at zero until we see an improvement in the unemployment rate, at least until we reach about 6.5%," he told MONEY in November. In mid-December, Bernanke announced that Fed policy would do just that.
Talking about 6.5% unemployment may not be as colorful as "parasitic wastrels," but in the world of Fed wonks, it's the kind of thing that makes people sit up and listen.
The Fed adopted Evans's ideas "lock, stock and barrel," says Princeton's Alan Blinder, a former Fed vice chairman. "Plainly, we're not at the limit of quantitative easing. There is no limit."
That's bold stuff because, as James Bullard of the St. Louis Fed noted in a recent speech, the central bank does not have a great history with targeting job growth; the belief that policymakers could engineer very low unemployment helped set the stage for the great 1970s inflation.
The Fed's current unemployment threshold is comparatively modest and is paired with what Evans, 54, calls a "safeguard" inflation threshold of 2.5%, but it's a loud signal that the Fed wants to keep a heavy foot on the gas until jobs come back.
The doves acknowledge that low rates are making life hard today on retirees who depend on the income from their savings. Evans insists that trying to raise the Fed funds rate today wouldn't help anyone. What will help is a roaring economy, which lower rates should stoke. There's no point trying to push rates up now to have them drop again if unemployment spikes.
As Evans puts it, "The longer we spend fortifying our policies to make sure we get the most vibrant, robust demand possible to generate growth, the sooner we'll get higher rates."
So what about inflation risk? Hawks, it should be noted, have been worrying over inflation for years now, with little of it materializing, except for some temporary surges in energy and food prices. Because incomes show little sign of rising broadly across the economy anytime soon, the Fed sees little risk of consumer prices taking off.
"There just isn't inflationary pressure in the economy right now," Yellen says. "We don't have enough spending. The economy is weak." Indeed, some market measures, including the amount of yield buyers are willing to forgo to grab the inflation-protected version of Treasuries, called TIPS, still showed expected inflation at 2.5% a year or lower for the next decade.
When the Fed needs to unwind what it's done, Yellen says, the tools exist to keep the process orderly.
In addition to selling back the securities on its balance sheet, it can reduce the amount of dollars sloshing around in the economy by paying banks higher rates on the money they hold in reserve.
Despite the wide gap between the two sides, some doves and hawks agree on this: Congress has some work to do.
Fisher's ire is focused on lawmakers' inability to set predictable policy on taxes, spending, and regulation and to chart a course toward a balanced budget. Evans — and quite loudly Bernanke himself — have pushed for accommodative fiscal policy to assist their monetary efforts.
As shown by the bickering over what to do about the "fiscal cliff," the powerful anti-stimulus of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts nobody claimed to want, quick action isn't something the political system seems able to deliver any longer. For better or for worse, the Federal Reserve is now the most powerful economic policymaker on the field.
WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU: Betting on a sure thing — until it isn't
Wary of how confusing these debates can be to investors — Who's really winning? What's happening next? — Bernanke has consistently pushed the Fed to do a much better job of beaming information about its policy path to the general public. None of that cryptic maestro act that America got from Alan Greenspan.
This isn't some reform-minded sunlight-in-government effort, however. "Communication is a policy tool in and of itself," says Yellen. "It's not only current purchases of assets or the current level of the Fed funds rate that matter, but also market expectations of the paths of those things over time."
Translation: By telling the world that it's set on 6.5% unemployment and that it will tolerate inflation of 2.5%, the Fed is all but screaming at the market that it won't pull the rug up — all to coax investors, lenders, and businesses back into confidence.
The Fed is also saying that safety will continue to cost. Today's yield on a 10-year Treasury bond is just 1.79%, which means in real terms that you are losing money holding on to it even if inflation is a bit less than 2.5%. Steeper rises would be even more painful.
For you, the Fed's stance has a few logical implications:
Don't run from stocks — but don't try to chase a rally either. The adage on Wall Street is "Don't fight the Fed." So far, the bank's commitment to monetary stimulus has buoyed equities, which suggests, barring even uglier economic surprises, a relatively bullish outlook.
The wrinkle here is that the Fed is just one partner in the market-expectations tango. On the other side, investors have now had time to digest the idea that Bernanke and company are determined to keep policy accommodating and to account for that in prices. It could be that many of the gains the Fed could conjure have already happened.
Don't stretch for big bond yields or returns. Given the lousy rates on safe funds, the yields on bonds and bond funds with a longer maturity or more credit risk can look appealing. They've also had unusually high recent returns, thanks to the historic rate drop. (Bonds' prices rise as rates fall.)
Rates are likely to stay low for some time, but when they do rise, aggressive bond investors could be in for a nasty surprise.
Spread out your risk: Hold longer-term bonds that will do well if the Fed holds the line, but also stash assets in short-term instruments. (CDs can earn more than short Treasuries.) Should rates spike, you'll take advantage when the short-term investments mature.
And don't go overboard on high-yield or more exotic kinds of debt. "There's so much pressure on people to add income at these low-yield levels," says Michael Cloherty, head of U.S. rates strategy for RBC Capital Markets. "The concern is that people stop hedging some of these risks, and then you get everybody scrambling for the door simultaneously."
Do be a long-term fixed-rate borrower. What's bad for bondholders is good for anyone who can handle some debt. Don't be in a hurry to pay off your mortgage.
Do have an inflation hedge. Although fast-rising prices do not look likely in the near future, moving some of your bond portfolio into inflation-protected TIPS will give you a buffer if a shock does come.
Is there a lot of uncertainty here? You bet. Even savvy investors struggle to predict when the Fed will act or what its effects will be. Four-plus years after the crisis, investors and savers remain in a tight spot. There's only so much even the Fed can fix.


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The City Council Economic Development Committee unanimously endorsed a proposal Tuesday night to eliminate the time-of-year restriction that has been in place for outdoor dining on private property.
By a unanimous vote, the committee recommended removing a provision from the city zoning ordinance that restricts restaurants from being able to offer outdoor seating and dining on their property Nov. 1 through March 1.
If the committee's recommendation is approved by the entire council, restaurants would be able to offer outdoor dining on their property year-round.
The change, which also received the backing of the Planning Board, will align city regulations for outdoor dining on private property with changes adopted by the License Commission last year regarding outdoor seating and dining on public sidewalks, according to Joel Fontane, city director of planning and regulatory services.
In June, the License Commission removed time-of-year restrictions for outdoor dining of public sidewalks and extended the time of day in which it can be offered.
"Worcester is now one of the friendliest outdoor dining communities in the commonwealth," Mr. Fontane said.
The changes in the outdoor dining regulations were fueled by last winter's unusually mild weather.
Restaurants that offer outdoor seating and dining were unable to take advantage of the nice weather because of the time-of-year restrictions that were in place.
District 3 Councilor George J. Russell led an effort to remove that restriction. He suggested the city eliminate the calendar that is part of the ordinance and allow restaurants and other establishments to have outdoor seating whenever the weather makes it possible.
Mr. Fontane said his staff followed up on Mr. Russell's order by working with restaurant owners and neighborhood groups so they could come up with a solution agreeable to all parties.
"When it comes to outdoor dining, it makes more sense to look at the weather and not the calendar," Mr. Russell said Tuesday night. "I thought the kind of restrictions that were in place did not make any sense, especially when you have nice weather in the late fall or winter. I think this will be a good move."


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Come celebrate 26 years of the Shannon Center Aloha Concert Series with Robert Cazimero and his award-winning Hālau Nā Kamalei.
In May of 1994, Hawaiian music legends the Brothers Cazimero performed for the first time at the Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts at Whittier College. The performances were a resounding success and began our now famous "Aloha Concert Series," which is currently the longest running Hawaiian music series on the globe. Since that time, the Brothers Cazimero, and now Robert Cazimero, has not missed a single year. We are very excited to celebrate 26 years of aloha with Robert Cazimero and his award-winning Hālau Nā Kamalei. We hope you will join us for this beautiful day of music, hula and aloha!
In 1975, one man brought about a permanent change in the practice of hula. His name is Robert Cazimero and his vision was Halau Na Kamalei, the only male halau hula in the Hawaiian Islands.
Through the years, Robert Cazimero and Halau Na Kamalei have blazed their journey with Hawaiian pride, dispelling deep-rooted stereotypes of grass skirt girls and coconut bras. The men of hula have swayed the heart of hula by reclaiming the masculine side of the ancient dance.
For Hawaiians, coming of age in the 1970's was a turbulent time, but for Robert Cazimero it was the time when he discovered himself and his life's purpose…Hawaiian music and the art of Hula. This discovery has taken him on an amazing journey. While the journey was not without turbulence, his path became clear and he followed it to where he is today; at the top of his game in his music and certainly in the art of Hula.
Robert's twin passions have always been inter-related. They are the threads that weave the intricate patterns that are Robert Cazimero. His musical talent was recognized at the age of three, followed quickly with piano lessons while still in elementary school where his quickness endeared him to his instructors while his ability to vary and improvise astounded them. Robert's secondary education required participation in the Kamehameha Schools' Concert Glee Club and Hawaiian Ensemble. His knowledge of music deepened but more importantly, he came in contact with the person who would serve as his Kumu Hula (hula teacher), Maiki Aiu Lake and just at the right time for the Hawaiian cultural renaissance was blooming.
And so it came to be that at the height of the Hawaiian cultural renaissance, Robert Cazimero was learning the art of hula from one of the most respected masters of the dance form. Already known for changing the familiar sound of Hawaiian music, Aunty Maiki infused Robert with her vision of him starting an all male halau (hula school). Men dancing hula as a halau was something that had not happened in decades. She envisioned men dancing hula with pride and masculine grace and Robert soon shared this passionate image.
Over the ensuing decades Robert has realized Maiki's dream again and again, dedicating his energy to the once vanishing tradition of male hula. With the knowledge passed on from Maiki coupled with his own talent and passion, Robert has inspired hundreds of men to carry on this magnificent art form.
In 1975 Robert Cazimero created Hālau Nā Kamalei O Lililehua, the only male halau in the Hawaiian Islands. Starting with six students from Kamehameha Schools, his hālau went on to compete at the Merrie Monarch Festival in 1976, the first year kane (men) were allowed to participate, and won the overall men's award. The hālau also swept the kane divisions and the overall title in 2005, as well as took 1st place in the 'auana, 2nd in the kahiko and 1st overall in the 2015 Festival. The hālau continues to live by Aunty Maiki's motto: "Hula is the art of Hawaiian dance expressing all that we see, hear, feel, taste, touch and smell; hula is life."
Today, Robert Cazimero is considered to be one of the most respected kumu hula of Hawaiian dance. The men of Nā Kamalei perform around the world, and for 40 years, they have carried on the tradition of male hula. Cazimero has taught about 200 students across two generations, with several who went on to start their own hālau.
Robert's elegant voice is so distinctive that whether he performs on piano or is heard on recordings with his brother Roland as the Brothers Cazimero, he is instantly recognized and people are compelled to listen. Recording music has also played a vital part of Robert's life journey. During that journey he has been a part of close to 40 full album projects; many considered classics in the history of Hawaiian music. The popular success of the music he has made and participated in is recognized through dozens of awards, performances on the world's most prestigious stages and the millions of albums that have been bought by people around the world.
Robert's passion and talent have played a huge role in taking Hawaiian music and dance to diverse stages from Carnegie Hall, Wolftrap, Tokyo, and the Hollywood Bowl; his voice has graced the orchestra's of the New York Pops, the LA Philharmonic, the Boston Pops and of course, the Honolulu Symphony. Hula is always an integral part of these shows as it is in all performances large and small of the Brothers Cazimero and whenever he performs a solo engagement.
While it's not too early to measure the impact of Robert Cazimero on the world of Hawaiian music and dance, it is way too early for Robert to stop creating for the passion continues as does his life's journey on the path of hula and Hawaiian music.


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WALTHAM, Mass. -- With their opponents playing shorthanded, the 26th-ranked Brandeis University women's tennis team had little trouble with 27th-ranked Wellesley College, winning by a 9-0 score.
Brandeis (7-5) needed to win just two matches, as Wellesley (8-8) had only four players able to make the trip to Waltham. The Judges put the match away after doubles competition, as senior Faith Broderick (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville) and sophomore Carley Cooke (San Diego, Calif./Point Loma) were 8-4 winners at No. 1, while junior Roberta Bergstein (Hingham, Mass./Hingham) and sophomore Simone Vandroff (Moss Beach, Calif./Half Moon Bay) took an 8-3 decision at No. 2. With the Blue having to default at No. 3 doubles and 5th and 6th singles, the match was effectively over at that point.
In singles action, Cooke made for Brandeis's only double winner, taking a 7-5, 6-1 decision at No. 1. Junior Allyson Bernstein (Northbrook, Ill./Glenbrook North) routed her opponent at No. 2, 6-1, 6-1. A pair of rookies rounded out the victors, with Maya Vasser (New Rochelle, N.Y./New Rochelle) surviving the only three-set match of the day, 4-6, 6-1 and 10-5 in a super tiebreaker in the third at No. 3 singles. Sarita Biswas (Bedford, Mass./Bedford) rolled at No. 4, 6-1, 6-2, to close out the victory for the Judges.
Brandeis returns to action Saturday at 11 a.m. against MIT, while Wellesley heads to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for the Seven Sisters tournament.
#26 Brandeis 9, #27 Wellesley College 0
Apr 10, 2013 at Waltham, Mass. (Rieger Tennis Courts)
|Singles competition
|1. Carley Cooke (BRWTEN) def. Sojung Lee (WELL) 7-5, 6-1
|2. Allyson Bernstein (BRWTEN) def. Suzanne Barth (WELL) 6-1, 6-1
|3. Maya Vasser (BRWTEN) def. Kendall Tada (WELL) 4-6, 6-1, 10-5
|4. Sarita Biswas (BRWTEN) def. Elena Bowen (WELL) 6-1, 6-2
|5. Brandeis def. Wellesley, by default
|6. Brandeis def. Wellesley, by default
|Doubles competition
|1. Faith Broderick/Carley Cooke (BRWTEN) def. Sojung Lee/Suzanne Barth (WELL) 8-4
|2. Roberta Bergstein/Simone Vandroff (BRWTEN) def. Kendall Tada/Elena Bowen (WELL) 8-3
|3. Brandeis def. Wellesley, by default
|Match Notes
|Wellesley College 8-8; National ranking #27; Regional ranking #11
|Brandeis 7-5; National ranking #26; Regional ranking #10


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The map designs seem to fall into one of two basic categories: huge open expanses or cramped hallways with zero line of sight and few angles in play. Neither of these make for good Halo maps. When I think of Halo design standouts, they're almost invariably multi-tiered and structured around the possibility for either up-close-and-personal or ranged play depending on where you position yourself. On larger maps, vehicles are given some open areas to make hay in, but they're also constrained by various choke points and structural impediments. Historically, in Halo, large map standouts are not fucking donuts where vehicles have free reign, and small map standouts are not claustrophobic hallway fests with lifts all over the place. Why, then, are those the only maps 343i seem to want to make?
Ivan, you defended the convoluted DLC map objective routes where a Waypoint is often pointing you in a direction you shouldn't actually be heading (because of the nonsensical central building structure on Shatter, for example). Fuck that. At no time during one's first objective run on Sanctuary, Midship, Zanzibar, etc. was there any doubt whether you were heading the right way, map control considerations aside. If I have to open a Custom Game to figure out how to get from one base to the other, you fail at design. End of story.
I can really only point to one map design that 343i absolutely nailed: Ragnarok. Oh wait.
Gunplay, on the whole, is vastly more enjoyable than in Halo 3 or Halo Reach. Netcode and framerate gripes aside, I love the way the DMR handles. Most of the power weapons that I highlighted in my campaign review (Railgun, Incinerator Cannon, Binary Rifle) are as fun to use as they were in Campaign. However, acquiring them through magical Halo conjuring or random drops is the absolute opposite of anything Halo has ever stood for. Forget map control, forget choke points. I used to lament the loss of drop timers. The Infinity Slayer system is so far away from everything drop timer Halo stood for that it doesn't even inspire Cuse rants anymore, it just makes me sad. A number of people on NeoGAF suggested a much better system - weapons drop in set spawns, on set timers, but now there's a countdown letting noobs everywhere know that a rocket launcher drop is imminent. This is vastly preferable to the current system. Do I trust 343i to implement an idea so sensible in a timely fashion? Not even a little bit.
Close Quarters Combat
The amount of feedback I feel like I'm getting when I'm in close is minimal. I feel like I'm flailing around blindly. People who use sprint + double melee are the bane of my existence.
I rarely use them apart from the occasional "Wheee, 15 kill spree guaranteed," jaunt in a Mantis or Banshee. I do, however, like hunting them down on foot. The game makes this a very feasible task, much more so than probably any other Halo game ever. I enjoy this greatly, but every time I own a vehicle singlehandedly, I wonder whether the people who are on the opposite side of the coin find the new mechanics less enjoyable.
Spartan Ranks
I don't give a shit. The game's not fun.
Objective Games
Instant respawn on King of the Hill and Oddball? Oddball passing could actually be an interesting mechanic if it were possible to set up any kind of map control or strategy. Nope. Just mash X and run headlong toward that Oddball waypoint my young friend, there's no need for strategy here.
No Assault? No One Flag? It's painfully apparent that most of the people who handled multiplayer had never played Halo before.
Guess what we got instead? Zombies, Swat, Grifball, WHEEEE! Pro tip: ignore what your mom says; DO NOT take your Vivance before you hop in those playlists.
Community Relations
Admit when you make mistakes, then fix them and learn from them. Or, as you clearly seem to have chosen, don't. Wave your hands and make a bunch of excuses. In the process, you're systematically alienating a lot of the old guard of Halo fans. Who cares? The gaming press seems to be eating your shit up. Never mind the fact that those guys have attention spans that are, at best, marginally longer than the COD kiddies you also seem to be wooing. And all the while, playlist counts dwindle...
No online file share support? Really? Never underestimate how hard the people who desperately want Halo to still be good will work to keep your community afloat - someone's already invented a way to create 1 flag maps in Forge. And you're hamstringing the fuck out of him because he can't share his files.
Spartan Ops
I'm trying to decide whether I like the campaign enough to keep the game around for an occasional trip through the jungle level or Cocop's level. Probably. But I'm pretty much done with multiplayer. I guess I'll watch the rest of the Spartan Ops cut scenes once the whole series has been released - as far as I'm concerned, that is not a game mode, it's episodic animated content with optional torture chambers for people who like depriving themselves of fun.
Halo 4 was also, without question, the last midnight Halo launch of my life (I'd done it for every game from Halo 2 onward, Anniversary included). I'll pick Halo 5 up when it's on sale. There is no reason for me to buy a game where I'm going to be playing only Campaign right on its release date.
The end of an era - this is sad stuff. Check out my games played with each major Halo release. Granted Halo 4 will probably see a few more games played before it fizzles out, but there's definitely some asymptotic action at work here, no?
EDIT: Added another relevant statistic to the "Games Played" graphic to ward off any cries of, "But Cuse, you're getting old!" or "You suck! Adapt!"
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About a week ago my system began to freeze (deadlock, only manual shutdown with laptop button helped) from time to time.
The frequency of deadlock is increasing. Today it was about 10 deadlocks with only browsing the internet and terminal emulator and vim. It usually happens when loading new url and then all the system is dead. It's very annoying for me as it happens more often.
My system is
Lubuntu 11.10 with
xmonad window manager.
Could you help me to find the cause of this problem? Are there some logs associated with deadlocks? Could it be hardware problem?
(the system was dead twice while writing this question too)
thank you