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Just before Lisa Stilkey jumped to her death from her home's second-floor window, she accused her husband of cheating on her — and of forcing her to have sex with other men while he watched — in an intense, alcohol-fueled argument that prosecutors say preceded her death.
Testimony followed opening arguments in Worcester Superior Court today.
Mrs. Stilkey's son, 23-year old Timothy MacIntyre, testified that he had talked to his mother on Feb. 10 as she was arguing with her husband, Allen M. Stilkey, 41, of 38 Gilboa St. in Douglas.
Mr. MacIntyre said his mother, who was crying as he talked to her, said Mr. Stilkey had called her a whore, and told him other disturbing things "about how he makes people come and have sex with her while he watches," Mr. MacIntyre said. He said he could clearly hear his mother and his stepfather, Mr. Stilkey, arguing.
Mr. MacIntyre said he could hear Mr. Stilkey, a former national arm-wrestling champion, threatening to kill her in the background as he spoke with her, Mr. MacIntyre told investigators.
Police and prosecutors say Mrs. Stilkey jumped out of a window in the couple's home on Gilboa Street, after her husband threatened to kill her.
Douglas Police Officer Anthony Yannino testified today that when he arrived at the couple's house, he found Mrs. Stilkey was lying on the grass outside, with her husband beside her.
"She was rolling around from side to side in obvious pain," Officer Yannino said. "Blood was coming out of her mouth."
Officer Yannino said he tried to stabilize her neck and spine.
"The first thing she said to me was, 'I need the police,'" Officer Yannino said. He said she was rapidly declining; he smelled alcohol on her breath. Officer Yannino testified that Mrs. Stilkey told him that she jumped, and then she angrily uttered a vulgarity.
Officer Yannino said he then spoke with Mr. Stilkey, and Mr. Stilkey told him that he and his wife had been arguing.
"He said they had been arguing about just about everything," Officer Yannino said. Mr. Stilkey told the officer that they have two businesses together, and it was supposed to be date night, and she accused him of cheating.
Paramedics arrived a short time later, and Mrs. Stilkey was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus in Worcester, where she was pronounced dead a short time later.
Dr. Katherine Lindstrom, the medical examiner who conducted an autopsy of Mrs. Stilkey, testified that Mrs. Stilkey had abrasions and contusions all over her body, and a number of broken ribs.
"The cause of death was blunt force injuries of the torso," Dr. Lindstrom said.
Pamela Baribeault testified that she was a good friend of Mrs. Stilkey's, as well as her work supervisor at Masterman's in Auburn.
She said she also knew Mr. Stilkey and they had socialized over the years. When asked to describe her friend, Ms. Baribeault said she was just a very nice, outgoing person. "She loved life," she said. "You always knew where you stood with Lisa."
Ms. Baribeault said her friend told her she had problems in her four-year marriage with Mr. Stilkey. Mrs. Stilkey had told Mr. Stilkey she wanted a divorce during a trip to North Carolina to visit his mother in January, Ms. Baribeault said.
But Mrs. Stilkey came back from the trip relaxed and recommitted to her marriage.
"She told me she was going to try to work things out," Ms. Baribeault said, and said her friend told her, "'I love him and I'm willing to give him one more hard try.'"
Ms. Baribeault broke down when she spoke of the last day she would see her friend, on Feb. 9. She said Mrs. Stilkey was "her normal self" that day.
Ms. Baribeault cried while she testified. Many of Mrs. Stilkey's friends and family also wiped tears from their eyes.
Mr. Stilkey has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, threatening and possession of steroids. He remains in custody in lieu of $75,000 cash bail.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — A Nicaraguan judge on Friday sentenced 18 Mexicans who posed as members of a television crew to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering stemming from $9.2 million found in their vans.
Judge Edgard Altamirano said the 17 men and one woman deserve the harshest penalty possible under the Central American nation's law. Altamirano said at the sentencing hearing that each of those convicted must also pay a $9.2 million fine.
The severity of the sentences was a message to organized crime and other nations that drug trafficking will be harshly punished in Nicaragua, an analyst said.
Raquel Alatorre Correa, the 30-year-old woman considered the group's leader, cried in the courtroom even before the judge read the statement. People sitting next to Alatorre tried to console her with hugs, and she responded with sad smiles.
Defense attorneys said they will appeal the sentence, arguing that there was no evidence that the money was linked to drug trafficking.
The 18 fake journalists were arrested in August near Nicaragua's northern border with Honduras in six vans bearing logos like those used by Mexican television giant Televisa. They gave inconsistent information to the officers about what they were there to cover in the country and were held while police investigated whether they were reporters.
Four days later, officers found gym bags stuffed with bundles of cash stashed in compartments inside the vehicles.
Televisa said it did not employ any of the 18 and the vans didn't belong to the company's fleet. But one witness during the nine-day trial in December said Alatorre showed documents supposedly signed by the company's vice president for newscasts, Amador Narcia. Authorities are still studying the documents and a signature by Narcia sent by the Mexican government to determine whether the signatures are authentic.
Prosecutors said the money was a payment for drug-trafficking activities and its destination was Costa Rica. The defense insisted members of the group were not laundering drug money and that there was no proof of ties to organized crime. Lawyers said the defendants were only guilty of failing to declare the cash to customs.
"We will appeal this sentence because it doesn't make sense. It is not well founded and it's out of proportion," said Ricardo Ramirez, attorney of three defendants. "We are sure that a second court will reverse this because there are no legal grounds."
Manuel Arauz, dean of the Central American University's law school, said the punishment was harsh but adheres to the law against organized crime. They were given 34 to 35-year sentences but the constitution limits prison time to 30 years. Also, the Nicaraguan government wants to tell drug gangs and other nations that drug trafficking is severely punished there.
"This is a clear message to drug cartels and organized crime about what they should expect, but it's not only to drug traffickers, but also to other governments that cooperate with Nicaragua in the drug fight," Arauz said.


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Renoir's personal items coming to NYC auction
08/22/2013 12:35amBilled as the single-largest archive of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's personal property, an upcoming auction of hundreds of personal letters, photos and other memorabilia offers a candid look inside the master painter's life as an artist, loving husband and devoted father.
China flight delays show military grip on airspace
08/22/2013 3:43amChina's fast growing air travel market is the world's second biggest. But when it comes to flight delays, it's No. 1.
Review: 'Splinter Cell' saves the world, sneakily
08/22/2013 5:49amWhat does America need to fight terrorists? Pervasive surveillance, missile-firing drones, even torture _ everything's open to debate.
Spain sees record tourist numbers in July
08/22/2013 7:14amA record number of foreign tourists have visited Spain this July, welcome news for a country mired in recession and suffering massive unemployment.
Review: Buffett returns with lackluster new album
08/22/2013 7:20amJimmy Buffett, "Songs From St. Somewhere" (Mailboat)
Turning classic French ratatouille into a salad
08/22/2013 7:58amReal ratatouille, the classic Nicoise dish, is neither grilled, nor a salad. It is a stewed vegetable dish consisting of eggplant, tomato, pepper, zucchini, onion and herbs.
Older brides with fancy gowns, garter belts, DJs
08/22/2013 8:04amSherryLynne Heller-Wells always wanted a fairytale wedding.
Metallica to headline at the Apollo
08/22/2013 8:18amThere will be a different type of Sandman featured at the Apollo next month.
Colorado town mulls drone hunts to decry spying
08/22/2013 11:17amThis tiny plains town an hour east of Denver doesn't have much to offer visitors _ a gas station, a bar and a small-time rodeo one weekend a year.
Tour Saint-Jacques gives new view of Paris skyline
08/22/2013 11:22amIt's a view of Paris that only a handful of people have seen in 500 years.
Ky. theater won't show 'Butler' because of Fonda
08/22/2013 11:30amA central Kentucky theater owner who trained pilots during the Vietnam War is refusing to show the nation's top movie, "The Butler" because one of the stars is Jane Fonda who was an outspoken opponent of the conflict.
Hedgehogs named for infant prince move to castle
08/22/2013 11:32amThree rare albino hedgehog babies, born on the same day as Britain's new prince, have moved into a miniature castle at a Moscow petting zoo.
Wentworth Miller comes out, rejects Russian invite
08/22/2013 12:55pmWentworth Miller is declining an invitation to be an honored guest at a film festival in Russia because he is gay.
Via surrogacy, some men opt to become single dads
08/22/2013 12:59pmTrey Powell's first name has an extra resonance these days. Though still a bachelor, he now presides over a family of three as the dad of twin daughters born six months ago via a surrogate mother.
Unrest delivers huge blow to Egypt tourism
08/22/2013 1:52pmHeshmat Youssef used to make a decent living sailing foreign tourists down Egypt's Nile River. Since political unrest flared, business has dried up faster than water in the desert.
What's the workout wardrobe for the Mudder?
08/22/2013 2:12pmParticipation in mud runs and obstacle courses such as the Warrior Dash or Tough Mudder is growing by leaps and bounds. With that come some carefully plotted training schedules, with extra sprints up neighborhood hills and well-balanced diets that revolve around trail mix and vitamin-infused water.
Ancient mound in Greece fuels heady speculation
08/22/2013 3:01pmGreece's Culture Ministry has warned against "overbold" speculation that an ancient artificial mound being excavated could contain a royal Macedonian grave or even Alexander the Great.
Hendricks talks "Mad Men" signature fashion
08/22/2013 3:37pmChristina Hendricks says it's going to be difficult when the seventh and final season of "Mad Men" starts filming this November.
Alaska cruise cancellations disrupt vacations
08/22/2013 4:03pmLike so many visitors to Alaska, Phyllis McNamara was eager for a seven-day cruise along a majestic stretch of coast that is teeming with whales, bears and glaciers.
Nevada court: gangsta rap lyrics admissible
08/22/2013 4:25pmRap lyrics written by a man convicted of killing a Reno drug dealer were allowable evidence at trial because they described details of the crime, a divided Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Tony Bennett to attend March on Washington
08/22/2013 4:41pmTony Bennett plans to travel to the nation's capital to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. as the March on Washington marks its 50th year.
Former 'Today' news anchor Lew Wood dies
08/22/2013 4:47pmLew Wood, who marched with Martin Luther King, covered John F. Kennedy's assassination and was a news anchor for NBC's "Today" show during a distinguished broadcast career that began with the dawn of television, has died at age 84.
`The World's End' a toast for 3 filmmaking friends
08/22/2013 5:18pmIt's not the end of the world, but "The World's End" marks a creative conclusion for Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright.
Aziz Ansari writing book on modern courtship
08/22/2013 5:31pmA publisher says it's acquired actor-comedian Aziz Ansari's first book.
Televised debate for NYC comptroller airs on CBS
08/22/2013 8:18pmCBS and Time Warner have temporarily lifted a New York City television blackout so viewers could watch the Democratic candidates running to become the city's next comptroller square off in a debate.
Conn. prison officials reverse ban of Lamb book
08/22/2013 8:54pmConnecticut's Department of Correction on Thursday reversed its decision to remove a 21-year-old novel written by internationally known author Wally Lamb, a volunteer at one of the state's prisons.
Stars of reality show `Pawn Stars' meet Asian fans
08/22/2013 9:57pmThe stars of the cable reality show "Pawn Stars" have left their Las Vegas pawn shop to meet fans in Southeast Asia. And one of them says he never thought they would be so popular.
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Ferrer crashes out
Fourth seed David Ferrer became the first top-10 man to go out of the US Open in a third-round loss to France's Gilles Simon.
Ferrer, whose relentlessness is legendary, really struggled in hot and humid conditions in New York and went down 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-3.
Having made 10 straight grand slam quarter-finals, the 32-year-old has now failed to get past the third round at the last two.
David Ferrer blamed his lack of fitness for his exit (AP)
It was an overdue big win at a slam for the talented Simon, whose only previous appearance in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows came in 2011, when he lost to John Isner.
Ferrer said: "It was a tough match today. There is a lot of humidity, very sunny, and it was not easy for me. I was not good with my fitness. He was better."
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VERDICT: Hubs and I both enjoyed these baked fries. What I liked about this recipe was tossing the baked fries in with a bit of oil and freshly minced garlic. I also didn't need to pre-cook the fries in the microwave , as with my earlier Garlic Oven Fries. I think it would be fun to use some seasoning salt and even more garlic. Super easy. Excellent recipe.
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Rev. William Lawrence Pershing, son of John and Virginia (Shepherd) Pershing, was born May 20, 1967 in Casa Grande, Arizona. He went home to be with his Lord Sunday, July 15, 2012 due to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident.
As a young boy, Will made a very important decision in his life and accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior and was baptized. He continued to follow the Lord throughout his life and his main passion in life was to share the gospel all over the world.
Will spent most of his growing up years in Arizona and New Mexico. He graduated from Silver City High School in Silver City, New Mexico. To further his education, Will obtained his Music Performance Degree from Western New Mexico University of Silver City (Class of 1990), with post graduate study in Biblical Studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of Louisville, Kentucky (Class of 1990), and Bible and Music at Arizona College of the Bible (Class of 1991) and Music Education and Education at Western New Mexico University of Silver City (Class of 1993).
Will taught music, band and choral classes in Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri. Will served as an Associate / Music Pastor for several churches.
He loved teaching and even after becoming disabled due to a longtime illness, he continued teaching private music lessons and composing music.
Will loved to help people and churches. He worked for a time as a counselor at the Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health Center in Salem, Missouri. Will also designed websites for churches and encouraged them to use the technology of social media for outreach purposes.
Will loved to read and study God's word and was always sharing the Gospel with anyone that he came in contact with in person and on-line, especially those who were overlooked by the churches. One of the ways he did that was through freelance writing and blogging at willpershing.net. Will had a passion for his family and enjoyed spending as much time as possible with his wife and kids. He had the ability to make people laugh even in the toughest of situations. In his spare time, he enjoyed fishing with family and friends. He was an active member of Promise Keepers and Navigators.
On April 10, 2010, Will was united in marriage to the love of his life, Mary Westgate-Schneider in Hannibal, Missouri. They shared over two years together and many wonderful memories.
Will leaves to cherish his memory and his legacy, his loving wife Mary of the home; two sons: Joshua and Michael of the home; one daughter Annelyse Pershing of Bunker, MO (from his previous marriage to Janis Pershing); his parents John and Virginia Pershing of Richland, MO; three siblings: Johanna Pershing of Lebanon, MO, David Pershing and Jennifer Pershing of Richland, MO; several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
To sum up Will's life, here is how he described himself on his blog: "I am a work in progress. I am a home-schooling dad of one girl (she visits as she is able) and two boys and husband to a very beautiful wife. I am committed to a new journey of learning, understanding and living out a peaceful spirit-filled missional/liturgical lifestyle in our home that we now call Refuge House. I am disabled due to a long term illness. I teach music privately and am writing to express the journey that I have embarked upon in my blog and as a freelance writer."
Celebration of Life services were held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 13, 2012 in the Memorial Chapel of Richland with Rev. Christopher Hendrix, and Dr. Tom Hover officiating. Bro. Don Bilbary and Bro. Alex Busenitz read Scripture and Dr. Keith Sherlin shared his wonderful memories of Will via video. Pianist Catherine Dent led the congregation in singing "In the Garden", "Amazing Grace, My Chains Are Gone" and "When We All Get to Heaven". A video prepared by Will's daughter, Annelyse Pershing, was played in memory of her dad. Services were under the direction of Memorial Chapel of Richland.
Obituary: Rev. William Lawrence Pershing
Rev. William Lawrence Pershing, son of John and Virginia (Shepherd) Pershing, was born May 20, 1967 in Casa Grande, Arizona. He went home to be with his Lord Sunday, July 15, 2012 due to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident.


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|METH AT SEA: The part-owner and skipper of Kimberley Quest II Jeff Ralston has been charged with intending to deal methylamphetamine on board the vessel, according to reports by ABC News.
Police raided the luxury ship in Wyndham on Monday, alleging that 23 grams of the drug and five smoking implements were found.
|Avalon Waterways is kicking off a new category of European river cruising next year with Active Discovery cruises to debut in company's 2017 brochure.
The active itineraries include biking, hiking and canoeing along the Danube, with eight departures set to operate between Jul and Oct 2017.
|Gold Coast-based Ignite Travel Group – well known for its My Holiday Centre portfolio with brands such as MyFiji, MyBali and My Queensland Holiday, has launched a new MyCruises brand with hand-picked ocean, river and specialty cruises.
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|Holland America Line celebrated the delivery of MS Koningsdam over the weekend with an official handover ceremony at Fincantieri's Shipyard in Marghera, Italy.
The ship sailed from the yard on Sunday to make its way to Civitavecchia in Rome for its premier voyage this week.
|Four extra departures have been added to Ovation of the seas' maiden Australian itinerary for its 2016/17 season.
Interest in the newbuild surpassed expectations with more than 90% of summer sailings booked out.
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|Viking River Cruises has altered two itineraries heading to Brussels in light of this week's terror attack.
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|Dream Cruises has unveiled the artwork set to debut on its new-build ship, Genting Dream.
|Crystal Cruises has announced the acquisition of a 200-passenger polar-class "megayacht".
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|Royal Caribbean International will expand its global fleet, overnight announcing the acquisition of Galapagos-based tour operator, Ocean Adventures.
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According to a trade update obtained by Cruise Weekly, Radiance of the Seas will now spend an extra day at sea instead of making its scheduled 17 March stop.
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|Vivid Sydney is coming to town!
Captain Cook Cruises is offering early bird savings of up to 35% off its cruises during the anticipated festival of lights.
Vivid runs 27 May – 18 Jun
|P&O Pacific Pearl Cruise Ship has launched an all-new party concept for kiwis on its five-month New Zealand deployment!
Cruisers have been advised to pack black for the Nero All Black Party, with All Blacks gear expected to be a popular outfit choice for the deck soiree.
|Did you know that provisions for a week long voyage on the MS Oasis of the Seas includes 10,272 new rolls of toilet paper, 3,355kg of cheese, 330 cases of pineapples, 861kg of coffee and 46,800 eggs! And to keep the party going there's 31,900 bottles and 900 cans of beer, 820 bottles of vodka, 765 bottles of rum and 3,360 bottles of white wine. Royal Caribbean International
|The team at Royal Caribbean International Australia welcomed Explorer of the Seas to the Aussie fleet and celebrated her maiden season by presenting the captain and crew with a
specially commissioned painting of the ship in Sydney Harbour.
|Something tells me this little guy would rather be on board…
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|Azamara Club Cruises vp of marketing and sales hinted that the cruise line is looking to bring a new learning and incentive
platform over from the US to Australia called The World Academy, which will allow agents to sail for free after they use the portal and sell three cruises.
|#VirtualReality has entered the retailing space with Cruiseabout Australia announcing a collaboration with Royal Caribbean International and Carnival Cruise Line Australia to showcase to customers in store what life is like on board a ship via Samsung virtual reality headsets.
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|Delish! Chicken Marsala
|All aboard!
|World surfing champ Layne Beachley challenged guests to "Beat the Beachley" at a FUNdraiser for The Layne Beachley Foundation on board Carnival Legend recently. Guests set out to beat Beachley's times for basketball, putt-putt golf and sliding down water slides. This was followed by a special Dr Seuss at Sea lunch where the competition winners were announced. Carnival Legend Carnival Cruise Line Australia
|CHEF CURTIS STONE has debuted his first restaurant, dubbed SHARE by Curtis Stone aboard Princess Cruises' Ruby Princess. #RubyPrincess
|Agents who join Carnival Cruise Line's new Facebook group, Carnival Fun Zone, and enter the online competition will be eligible to win a twin cabin on Carnival Vista's 10-night Mediterranean cruise departing 21 Jun.
|MSC Cruises has confirmed it will go ahead with construction of two additional Meraviglia class vessels at the STX shipyards in Saint-Nazaire, France.
|Aussie actress and comedian Jean Kittson will be godmother of Scenic Azure, which is being christened in Porto, Portugal in Apr this year.
|#BREAKING: Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises will join the Norwegian Cruise Line Holding office in Sydney by 31 Mar, transitioning from Wiltrans & The Cruise Office.
More in tomorrow's Cruise Weekly.
|A fire has broken out on Evergreen Tours' newest ship, Emerald Belle, significantly damaging the vessel. Although Emerald Belle was due to launch in April, the firefighting system on board was not yet operational. Agents with client bookings will be notified to discuss options over the next 48 hours.
|Coral Expeditions is going to Asia! The Aussie-founded expedition cruise line has launched seven expedition itineraries in South East Asia charting the coastlines of Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.
|Crystal Cruises' "Crystal Getaways" now include five shortened segments of Crystal Serenity's "Southern Celebración" World Cruise.
|MSC Cruises has suspended calls in Turkey until further notice "amid growing concerns by guests as a result of the recent tragic events in Istanbul".
|If the thought of going back to work tomorrow makes you want to book a holiday, MSC Cruises' annual 96-Hour sale is on until midnight 29th January with savings of up to 50%
|Crystal Serenity leave the Mediterranean in mid-2017 to sail throughout North America. She will be replaced by Crystal Yacht Cruises and Crystal River Cruises, which will bring Crystal Esprit and five luxury river yachts to the Mediterranean region nearly year-round.
|What is this? A cruise ship for ants?
A non-buoyant Pacific Aria was showcased at the Museum of Sydney on Wed in anticipation of the cruise line's Australia Day event – where LEGO certified professional Ryan McNaught, will build a model of Pacific Eden in the forecourt of the museum.
|Congrats to Roger Chen, who has taken up the role of chairman for Carnival Cruise Line in China.
|We're about to jump on board to tour Azamara Quest!
|A 300-litre barrel filled with a specially created cocktail will be brought on board the Queen Mary 2 Age of Discovery World Voyage.
The cocktail will be aged on board on open decks and unloaded at the end of the cruise and join The Savoy Collection.
Guests will be able to sample a non-aged version of the cocktail.
|A reader sent in this snap from Stockton as Azamara Quest cruised into Newcastle earlier this week.
|The staterooms and suites on Oceania Cruises' Sirena will feature custom-designed, mattresses – The Ultra Tranquility Bed – when the ship launches in Apr 2016.
|P&O Cruises Australia's newest ship Pacific Eden completed a trifecta of maiden visits this week.
Pacific Eden stopped in for the first time at Eden (Sun), Mornington Peninsula (Tue) and Portland (Wed).
|TravelManagers Australia is investing in the cruise market with the appointment of a cruise strategy executive, Lisa Humphries.
|Ponant – Yacht Cruises & Expeditions will venture to the Kimberley for the first time in 2017 with L'Austral.
|Kogan.com has announced an expansion into the cruise sector.
The company emailed its more than 2.3 million customers with a range of initial offers, with the portfolio comprising 4,000 cruises on "more than 20 of the world's best cruise lines".
|Wendy Wu Tours has introduced a dedicated Asia River Cruise brochure for 2016/17.
The program stretches across China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and India.
Luxury vessel Sanctuary Yangzi Explorer in China has been introduced for 2016, along with the Oberoi MV Vrinda in India.
|Check out the winning entry of Lindblad Expeditions' latest incentive!
United Travel at the Mount, from Mount Maunganui, New Zealand won AU$1,000 for their entry, captioned "On a stormy night deep in the heart of Mount Galapagos…A beautiful red/yellow breasted penguin Lindy I believe…was discovered by Julia and Amanda surrounded by some rather interesting wildlife."
|Active Travel is offering a buy-one-get-one-free deal on Indian River Cruises in Apr, for bookings by 26 Feb.
Alternatively, solo pax can cruise without paying a supplement.
|Would you like an upgrade with that?
P&O Cruises Australia's "Biggest Ever Offer" is back, with the cruise line offering up to five inclusions on cruises booked by 25 Feb.
Itineraries include a 10-night Papua New Guinea cruise roundtrip from Brisbane on 31 Oct, 2016 from $899 per person quad share
|P&O Pacific Eden visited Eden, her namesake port for the first time over the weekend.
The visit was the first cruise call of the year for the town, with Pacific Eden on an eight-night roundtrip Sydney itinerary which visits only regional towns.
|Carnival Cruise Line is ditching holiday weight-gain with the help of personal trainer Shannan Ponton.
Ponton who will be aboard two Carnival cruises departing Sydney in Apr and Nov and will run a new nutrition advice seminar, in addition to his Biggest Bootcamp at Sea classes and motivational seminar.
|Would a Flaming Vegas brighten up your Wednesday?
Master mixologist Dale DeGroff has created a new cocktail menu for Holland America Line to be served up on MS Eurodam this month and fleetwide by Spring.
Creations include the Gallery Gimlet, Hemingway Daiquiri, Yuzu Margarita and The Ritz Cocktail.
|P&O Pacific Aria's call into Mystery Island yesterday was called off as P&O opts to stay "well away from Cyclone Ula".
The vessel instead took a more northerly course on the way to Mare, where was scheduled to arrive at 0800 local time today.
|Cruise Holidays has reported a strong 2015, with double-digit sales growth and more than 60 members across the country.
Les Farrar, managing director of parent company Your Travel & Cruise Pty Ltd, has also announced a new partnership with Travel Training Australia which offers agents access to exclusive training modules.
|The two massive icebergs blocking ship access to Mawson's Huts in remote Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica have broken up allowing Chimu Adventures to run its first expedition to the destination in five years.
|Oceanwide Expeditions has added two new journeys to the Ross Sea in 2017.
Ortelius will sail from South America to the Antarctic Peninsula, crossing the Polar Circle before heading to Peter I Island and the Bellingshausen Sea into the Ross Sea.
|WAIT. That doesn't look right! Is it the cruise ship of the future you're laying your eyes on right now? Well, perhaps!
It's a conceptual project developed by architect Gianluca Santosuosso dubbed the MORPHHotel. Built around a flexible spine, the hotel changes shape based on the ocean currents. It would slowly travel around the world, docking wherever the tide is flowing to let passengers board or disembark.
|MSC Cruises rang in 2016 in style by docking four of its ships together at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, giving more than 12,000 guests aboard front row seats to a spectacular fireworks display!
|Fiji and Bali have been revealed as new destinations for Paul Gauguin Cruises in 2017. Luxury ship m/s Paul Gauguin will sail 16- and 17-night Fiji and Bali itineraries. Return trips between the two destinations will start on 29 Apr 2017.
|WIN: Travel agents will go in the draw to win a Samsung tablet for every Hurtigruten cruise or expedition booked through travel specialists, BENTOURS. Bentours will announce a winner per month from January until March.
|Lindblad Expeditions has confirmed it will be spending $28 million to purchase and revamp the Via Australis expedition ship.
The company plans to use the vessel for trips to the Galapagos Islands in place of National Geographic Endeavour.
|Azamara Quest arrived Down Under for the first time last week with more than 600 passengers on board.
Quest docked in Cairns last night and will depart this evening for Townsville.
|Did you celebrate aboard the Superstar Virgo as part of Ecruising.Travel's POSH Club special event?
|Australia is set to achieve a record cruise season over coming months with more newcomers and luxury vessels boosting the number of cruise ships visiting local waters.
Cruise Lines International Association Australasia chairman Gavin Smith said February and March will see a host of new boats Down Under.
|Crystal Esprit christening: Crystal Cruises officially welcomed Crystal Esprit to its fleet on Sunday with a christening ceremony held at Eden Island Marina in Mahé, Victoria, #Seychelles.
|MSC Cruises has revealed plans to create a new private island
experience in the #Bahamas for exclusive use by passengers.
The company is planning to spend $200m on the island and
will build a private pier for its ships to dock as well as a village with restaurants, bars and shops, an amphitheatre, zip line, bike pathsand a spa with massage huts.
|Newly launched US website cruise.me aims to streamline the
process of comparison shopping online for cruises.
Website co-founder Stephen Chip said the point of difference
with the website was being able to "see cruise itineraries on an
interactive map". What do you think of the new site?
|INCENTIVE: Every Princess Cruises trip sold by agents in Australia and New Zealand before March will put the consultant in the running to win a seven night Mediterranean cruise or an eight night Caribbean voyage.
|Would you be game enough to venture down a slide towering more than 45 metres above sea level? Those on board Royal Caribbean International's Harmony of the Seas will have the chance to do just that on tallest slide on the high seas known as The Ultimate Abyss when the ship debuts in May.
|Carnival Cruise Line Australia has named Richard Morse as senior vice president of hotel operations.
Morse joins Carnival early next month after 36 years with
Marriott International.
|These Aussie travel agents recently had the chance to experience Evergreen's Emerald 'Star Ship', Emerald Sun, on the eight day Delights of the Danube River Cruise.
|Tomorrow MSC Cruises will become the first global cruise line to home port in Havana, #Cuba.
"#Havana has never seen a ship this size," ceo Gianni Onorato, said.
|Darwin, Northern Territory will host its largest contingent of Chinese cruise ship passengers today with about 400 tourists from China among the 700 visitors arriving on board Superstar Virgo.
|BREAKING: "Massive growth in 2015" has prompted P&O Cruises Australia to appoint Sture Myrmell as full-time president, effective from the start of next year.
|Solo travellers cruising on board Carnival Cruise Line Australia's Carnival Spirit for the inaugural singlescruising.com.au trip have just returned from a very successful nine night South Pacific voyage.
|Construction has started on Silversea Cruises' Silver Muse with a milestone keel-laying ceremony in Genoa, Italy.
|MSC Cruises has become the first line to operate voyages from Abu Dhabi's brand new cruise terminal, which officially debuted on the weekend with a departure by MSC Musica.
|Customer demand for Antarctic cruises is stronger than ever, with passenger numbers for Chimu Adventures to the icy continent more than doubling since 2008.
|From 2017 Hurtigruten's expedition ships will operate new voyages to the Amazon rainforest, Canada and even the world's longest fjord.
|Celestyal Cruises has added 43 new balconies to
its Celestyal Crystal as part of an extensive refurbishment
|Premium French cuisine will be on offer on board Cunard's Queen Mary 2, with the launch of the new Verandah restaurant.
|P&O Cruises is taking Australia's greatest sporting rivalry to sea,
announcing the inaugural State of Origin Cruise.
|The imminent closure of Creative Holidays will not impact the travel corporation's cruise operations, with the company insisting that Creative Cruising is "fully operational and focused on future growth potential".
|Port Burnie in Tasmania is set to receive a $1.5 million upgrade
to make way for larger cruise ships coming into the region.
|Next year's Australian Cruise Association annual conference will take place September 7 to 9 at Sydney's Four Seasons Hotel. Who's coming?
|Eastern Europe Travel has released what it says is its best
offer in a long time, with a 15 day Danube Cruise and Hotel tour
starting at just $3,437 per person or $229 per day.
|A man was given "urgent medical attention" by British forces after he was bitten by a fur seal on an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The British patient was visiting South Georgia with a Russian cruise ship the MV Akademic Sergei Vavilov, when he sustained a major arm injury.
|Chinese conglomerate HNA has suspended its #cruise operations in #China, three years after launching HNA Tourism & Yacht Management Co Limited to "redefine its business areas."
|CroisiEurope River Cruises has ordered a third paddlewheeler river boat for 2018. Its innovative design will allow the vessels to cruise in low water, with the first of the paddlewheelers, the Loire
Princess now operating in France.
|Viking Ocean Cruises is expanding its ocean cruising offering, launching five new itineraries to North America and the Caribbean.
|Celebrity Cruises is scrapping its formal nights on board and replacing them with evening chic. The move is designed to bring about a feel of "sophistication and relaxation", rather than "stuffiness and structure". Do you think this is the right choice? Do you prefer traditional formal or evening chic?
|The high seas are about to get a little more rock 'n roll, with Def Leppard hosting a dedicated music cruise next month aboard the 3,502 passenger MSC Divina. The cruise will include calls to Grand Bahama Island and Half Moon Cay – a private island in the Bahamas. MSC Cruises
|Lindblad Expeditions sent in this photo of ACT travel agents who
are hoping to win $1,000 in the company's current consultant
To enter simply snap a creative photo of an individual or your entire agency with Lindblad Expeditions mascot Lindy the pelican.
The promotion closes at the end of the month, for all the details head to expeditions.com/lindy.
|A fire in the engine room disrupted cruising on the Grand
Princess 20 miles off the coast of Hilo, Hawaii last week.
The blaze was put out within an hour and no one was injured.
|.:: COMPETITION TIME ::. Want to win a whole year's subscription to Travel Bulletin? It's easy! Just find the hidden Travel Bulletin cover in today's Cruise Weekly edition.
|We're about to tour this beauty!
|Carnival Corporation's new Fathom "social impact" brand will
feature a range of rich on-board experiences when it debuts aboard P&O Cruises UK's 704-passenger MV Adonia next year.
Fathom will operate "impact travel" voyages to the Dominican
Republic and "cultural exchange" trips to Cuba, with the inaugural
cruises slated for Apr 2016.#Carnivalplc
|Diamonds are truly a cruiser's best friend – particularly on
board Royal Caribbean International's Oasis of the Seas where the world's first Tiffany & Co. store afloat opened last weekend.
|Nice, Rome, Florence, Sorrento, Sicily, Crete and Santorini are
must see destinations ticked off the bucket-list for a group of
#agents hosted on Azamara Quest recently as the boutique ship
sailed the Mediterranean. The agents had the chance to get to know Quest intimately ahead of her locally based deployment. Azamara Quest #FamTrip
|Luxury cruise line Seabourn is poised to return to Alaska in 2017, with Seabourn Sojourn to offer a series of 11-14 day itineraries from Vancouver,British Columbia and Anchorage. The voyages will be the first time Seabourn has cruised in the region since 2002, with senior vice president of marketing and sales, John Delaney saying the move has "been a long time coming and highly anticipated."
|Royal Caribbean International is today celebrating the arrival of its Explorer of the Seas in Melbourne for the very first time, with the 3,800 passenger ship claimed to be the largest cruise vessel to be based in Australian waters. Explorer has travelled down under from Southampton in the UK where she has been based since Apr this year after undergoing a US$80m refit. #ExploreroftheSeas
|Soon to debut, Scenic's own launch vessel for Southeast Asia continues to take shape ahead of its inaugural departure on the Mekong River. Onboard features of the 68 passenger #ScenicSpirit include a pool, steam room, bar and open-air cinema. Pictured on the Sun Deck of Scenic Spirit at shipyard 76
in Ho Chi Minh City from left are Scenic's Max Miller, Jane Moggridge, Charlie Done, Alison Rooke, Liz Glover and Mike Kaye. #Mekong #HoChiMinhCity #SiemReap
|Channel 9's Today Show Australia will host a "ground-breaking television event" on Wed 25 Nov, broadcasting live from Sydney Harbour during P&O Cruises Australia Five Ship Spectacular. #today9
|Viking Cruises Australia overnight confirmed orders for two more newbuild vessels from Italy's Fincantieri shipyard, with the expansion set to see the Viking Ocean Cruises fleet grow to six vessels.
|New ocean cruise brand enters the waters. #DreamCruises to debut first ship #GentingDream in November 2016.
|MSC Cruises new Meraviglia class ships will feature shows from Cirque du Soleil, with two performances nightly in a custom-built theatre under a new partnership with the global entertainment giant.
|Pitbull has officially taken up his duties as #godfather of Norwegian Cruise Line's new Norwegian Escape. Pitbull, who's pictured doing a celebratory fist-bump with Norwegian ceo Frank Del Rio during the ceremony in #Miami, Florida, performed a pier side concert with Escape's hull artwork forming a backdrop for
the "epic event".
|Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings ceo Australasia, Steve Odell,
was in Hong Kong last week and accepted an #award for Oceania Cruises in the #WorldTravelAwards. Oceania was named "Australia's Leading Cruise Line," with executive vice president of international business development, Harry Sommer
confirming that Australia is "one of our most important and fastest
growing markets".
|P&O'S #PacificDawn made history this morning when she became the largest ever cruise ship to sail under Melbourne's West Gate Bridge. The 2000-passenger vessel which berthed at Victoria Dock is one of a flotilla of four Carnival Cruise Line Australia vessels visiting #Melbourne during the Spring Racing Carnival.
|Fancy a #Titanic cracker? A 103-year-old biscuit which
survived the 1912 sinking of the famed transatlantic liner on its
first voyage has been sold at auction for more than A$30,000.
Bringing the phrase "a tough cookie" literally to life, the biscuit was part of a survival kit on one of the Titanic lifeboats. Manufactured by Spillers & Bakers, the biscuit was auctioned in London this week by Henry Aldridge & Sons, with a spokesman saying "I
couldn't imagine anything less appetising. "But if you're in a rowing boat in the middle of the ocean, you'd certainly eat it with the rest of them," he added.
|Carnival Cruise Line Australia sales staff have freaked out consultants at more than 100 travel agencies in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney this week, with a "spooktacular" sales blitz to make the most of #Halloween. Half price deposits and onboard
credit of up to $400 per cabin are on offer for bookings made up
to 09 Nov – while Carnival Spirit will also celebrate the creepy
American tradition tomorrow by entering Sydney Harbour with a
giant redback spider on her bow. #CarnivalHalloween
|Princess Cruises has announced a new "Style at Sea with TLC" guest experience as part of its partnership with the Discovery cable network. Created with the help of fashion expert Stacy London, the "branded content program" provides how-tos and style advice, to help answer many of the questions women ask when preparing for a cruise holiday. #StyleAtSeaWithTLC
|Cruise Lines Industry Association Australasia has opened nominations from agents for three categories in the 15th
annual Cruise Industry Awards. Tickets to the event will go on sale later this year, with the nomination forms now available at http://cruising.org.au/industry-awards.asp CLIA Australasia #CruiseAwards
|Parents, don't be surprised if onboard your next P&O Cruises Australia voyage you see a grown man in the Kids Club enjoying LEGO. That man is Ryan McNaught, one of only 13 LEGO Certified Professionals – that's right, it's his job to play with LEGO as well as share the joys of the little toy bricks with people of all ages, including how to make a round ball using straight-edge bricks (pictured).
McNaught has recently spent much of the recent school holidays onboard Pacific Pearl and Pacific Jewel enlightening families on new ways to enjoy LEGO and showing off some of his most prized masterpieces.
Keep an eye out for him on your next P&O Cruises voyage
|The first Royal Caribbean International ship for the 2015/16 season – #RadianceoftheSeas – was the company's first ship to arrive for the summer is now on its first departure. Ship number two – #CelebritySolstice – for brand number two Celebrity Cruises, arrives this coming Wednesday 21 Oct. The third brand to be represented – @AzamaraVoyages – and third ship #AzamaraQuest arrives in Sydney on 14 Jan next year.
|Royal Caribbean International has this week rolled out a refreshed website featuring a new-look homepage aimed at making the platform easier for users to navigate. Along with plenty of information on cruise fares, destinations and itineraries, the revamped site incorporates passenger feedback and a breakdown of deals valid for any particular passenger on any particular voyage.
|In a widely-speculated move, Norwegian Cruise Line has announced it will deploy the #NorwegianBliss, one of its forthcoming new ships, exclusively to the China market. The Breakaway Plus-class ship will be fine-tuned to suit the Chinese market, with dining options including Mandarin, Cantonese and Continental. Construction on the 4,200-passenger ship began last month, with Bliss due to enter service early in 2017.
|BREAKING: @PrincessCruises has named the third in its latest line of new ships Majestic Princess. See @cruiseweekly.
|BREAKING: Princess Cruises has chosen Majestic Princess as the name of the third in its latest line of new ships.
|Carnival Cruise Line Australia executives welcomed in #waveseason this week by hosting industry guests to a gathering at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Local boss Ann Sherry told attendees it was just the start of a massive cruise
season for Carnival and Australia. #cruising
|Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings today formally debuted its new Australian office, having assembled a crack team of sales, marketing and operations leaders headed up by Steve Odell, former Silversea vp Europe and Asia Pacific. Harry Sommer (pictured with Odell), who's NCL's executive vice president of international business development, is in Sydney to kick off the operation which will grow to about 40 people over the next few months. Norwegian Cruise Line
|Viking indulged guests to a private viewing of Masterpieces from
the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine The Great, held at the
National Gallery of Victoria. http://www.new.cruiseweekly.com.au/news/viking-rolls-out-master-artworks/27756 Viking Cruises Australia
|SHARE WITH US: APT has created a list of its top seven "Selfie Spots" around the world, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police coming in as its favourite. What are your favourite spots in the world to snap a world-beating selfie? Comment below.
|The button has been pushed by Norwegian Cruise Line to mark construction of the line's second Breakaway Plus class ship. Due for delivery in the northern spring 2017, #NorwegianBliss will offer capacity for 4,200 passengers.
|Just launched now and in celebration of its four-millionth passenger, P&O Cruises is giving away up to $8 million in cash and onboard credit to travellers booking a cruise before 25 November. Four travellers have the chance to win $1 million each, with another $4 million being distributed as onboard credit. P&O Cruises Australia
|During her whistle-stop tour of Sydney, Princess Cruises president Jan Swartz ducked in to the local office to greet the team and provide a briefing on the exciting times ahead as part of the line's 2017 Winter season.
|Guess who's coming on board Crystal Serenity…
|Who doesn't love a good deal?
Check out these #cruise deals from Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises here: http://bit.ly/1kvhEsM
|Australian-based Shoretours has launched #food and #wine #cruises for 2015, with a choice of two February itineraries aboard Rhapsody of the Seas. For details. see http://www.new.cruiseweekly.com.au/news/food-wine-cruise-to-visit-australias-foodie-hotspots/18864
|FlowRiders, new restaurants, virtual balconies and probably some fluoro blue cocktails coming to Voyager of the Seas this summer…
|What are you doing on 25 November 2015? Watching P&O's first-ever five-ship display in Sydney Harbour! Bring the family, but prepare for a BIG crowd…
|P&O launches its biggest ever Australasian season!
Check out the new program with new ships, new cruise options, and new ports.
See more here: http://bit.ly/1qOwLf3
|Princess Cruises has ordered another new ship – a sister to the new Royal Princess and Regal Princess. Wonder what they'll call this one?
|Who gets nervous in tight places?
Check out Silversea Cruises navigate the Corinth Canal.
Talk about a tight squeeze!
See more here: http://bit.ly/1s8UZ6K
|Happy 30th anniversary!
P&O Cruises Australia has cruised to the beautiful Isle of Pines for 30 years.
See how they celebrated here: http://bit.ly/1s8SzEZ
|Take the kids on a holiday where they'll learn something! The #Galapagos is perfect for animal lovers. More family cruise ideas here: http://www.new.cruiseweekly.com.au/blog/best-cruises-for-aussie-families/18711 #travel
|There's a #cruise to suit any #family – cheap, fun, educational, kids sail free. Find your ideal #ship here: http://www.new.cruiseweekly.com.au/blog/best-cruises-for-aussie-families/18711
|Who doesn't love a good selfie!
Check out this super selfie at sea by Carnival Cruise Lines' ambassador Shannan Ponton.
See more here: http://bit.ly/1rV0upl
|Costa Concordia after its arrival inside Genoa's Voltri Port, Italy, 27 July 2014. The Costa Concordia dismantling operations are predicted to last two years. Photo: EPA/PAOLO ZEGGIO
|APT christened the new 164-passenger river vessel, MS AmaSonata, in Germany. The celebration included a traditional Bavarian lunch, live Bavarian music and a traditional Bavarian shoot by professional riflemen off the ship's sundeck.
|After a Hurtigruten cruise, go on a thrilling snowmobile safari along a frozen fjord in Norway before watching the skies for the magical Northern Lights! Find out how to book this combo at http://bit.ly/1pOIwSi
|Take an overnight #husky tour to get to your Arctic wilderness lodge, before or after a Hurtigruten #cruise. Find out about this amazing adventure at http://bit.ly/1pOIwSi
|Costa Concordia has finally left its watery home of the last two-and-a-half-years and is on its way to a Genoa scrapyard. Salvage operators began towing the enormous vessel – twice the size of the Titanic – early yesterday after a mammoth operation stabilising and refloating the vessel. Concordia struck underwater rocks and capsized in January 2012, killing 32 passengers.
|Aww… Baby Victoria cuddles her new P&O bear – her mother Daisy will be an assistant nurse at the new Aneityum Dispensary, which is being built through P&O Pacific Partnership's biggest project in #Vanuatu, working with Save the Children. See details on www.new.cruiseweekly.com.au
|For all you foodies out there, check out Norwegian Cruise Line's revamp of their menus and culinary favourites.
See more here: http://bit.ly/1n6UQ1P
|Norwegian Cruise Line has announced the order of two new Breakaway-Plus class #cruise ships, with capacity for 4200 passengers each.
See more here: http://bit.ly/1qCaMrX
|Love #cruising and cooking? We have a perfect cruise for you!
MasterChef winner, Julie Goodwin will be hosting a Celebrity Cooking Cruise.
See here for more information: http://bit.ly/1qWX0lI
|MORE BREAKING NEWS: Pacific Aria revealed as the name of P&O's new #cruise ship, Earlier today, in the sands of Sydney's Bondi Beach, it announced its other new ship to be named Pacific Eden #pacificeden #pacificaria
|BREAKING NEWS: Pacific Eden revealed as the name of one of P&O's new #cruise ships #pacificeden
|LIVE from Bondi Beach: #P&O using a sand artist to reveal the names of its 2 new #cruise ships.
|Love a bit of adventure?
Check out Hurtigruten 's new polar bear watch excursion in the Arctic.
See more here: http://bit.ly/1qlWDiA
|UNICEF is thanking MSC Cruises for their €3 million donation.
See more here: http://www.new.cruiseweekly.com.au/news/msc-cruises-donates-e3-million-to-unicef/18428
|Need adventure in your life? Check out the five best places to explore on an #expedition #cruise, according to Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic.
See more at http://www.new.cruiseweekly.com.au/news/five-places-best-discovered-onboard-an-expedition-ship/18341 #cruiseweekly
|Don't like all those modern ships? Go retro on a #Mississippi River Paddlewheel #cruise. See http://buff.ly/1pBKvhq #cruiseweekly
|Explore underwater by watching LIVE images projected on a big screen on a NG Orion cruise. See http://buff.ly/1pLsTLI
|How gorgeous is this wintery Christmas with Tauck!
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|Pacific Pearl is making a record four calls in South Australia this week, including:
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– its maiden visit to Adelaide (on Tuesday)
– its first time berthed at Kangaroo Island (yesterday)
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to 115 this year – and projections this will climb to 145 in 2015, with a total of 500,000 cruise passengers.
The turning point, according to Bin Mejren, was in 2006 when Costa Cruises and German operator AIDA decided to homeport ships in Dubai during the northern winter.
Royal Caribbean soon followed and TUI Cruises will also join the Dubai trend this year, with DTCM saying "we are doing all we can to make our region attractive for cruising". The Dubai cruise terminal facilities offer a
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Goal is to establish a spending baseline to use for Measure L expenditure oversight
The Measure L Advisory Committee took up the task of reviewing a budget report prepared by one of its members during Monday night's meeting at City Hall.
Surrounded by a relatively large turnout from the public — 16 members — the committee poured over spreadsheets prepared by committee vice chair Phil Salvatore that detailed budgets for public safety and streets, dating back to Fiscal Year 2004.
Salvatore's goal was simple: Establish a baseline comparison of all public safety, roads and other expenditures over the last decade and inflate it to 2013 dollars for easier comparison.
"I'm a cost estimator for the Navy and you can't do a cost estimate without some kind of baseline comparison," Salvatore told the committee.
He said the only way that could be done was by seeing what was spent on street maintenance in prior years.
He said one of the biggest surprises was where the money came from — an education that he credited interim City Manager Dennis Speer and Assistance Finance Director Tess Sloan with helping him sort through.
"The other goal was putting something together that the general public could find without killing themselves by going back and reproducing everything I did," he said. He pointed out that he couldn't achieve this goal given that he said the city's annual comprehensive financial report was incomplete.
Some of the data he had to implement for his overview he had to pull from the city finance database with Sloan's help.
Salvatore said the first thing he started off with was year-by-year budget and saw that it was different from what he thought it was.
"Come to find out, there are six different sources feeding into street repair," he said.
One of the largest comes from gas tax revenue, though not always largest. Another is Transportation Development Act Article 8 money, which must first be applied to transportation projects.
Every year the city has to secure the grants, which go first to buses and bike lanes, with left overs earmarked for streets.
The other fund came from AB 2928, or the Traffic Congestion Relief fund. Salvatore pointed out that it was only applied in three years for streets, usually special projects. For major projects like major road repairs, city needs to go out and get grants, provided it has matching funds.
The TCRF money usually gets saved up off the books until a major project like Downs Street popped up, he said.
"The city has to cough up x amount, while the state coughs up the rest," he said.
Another one was the substandard street fund, which had only been applied once in the last nine years. According to Salvatore's budget overview, the city applied $142,278 to the Gas Tax fund in FY 2011.
Salvatore brought up the general fund transfer, consistent every year until 2011, when it stopped.
In his budget summary, Salvatore highlighted the sections that the gas tax was applied. The gas tax fund is typically divvied up between street lights (earmarked a public safety measures), and traffic signals, street maintenance, street construction and street sweeping — all earmarked under transportation. Additional expenses included transfers to internal service funds which paid for capital purchases and office overhead.
Salavtore pointed out there that street sweeping was very slim. Jerry Taylor, as a member of the public, commented it had become an emergency service, required only as needed.
Salvatore said his goal in marking up the expenses in both "then year dollars" and inflated them to current dollars would make it easier to adjust for all future inflation rates.
He said the biggest surprise was the Measure L revenue that was expected and allocated. It was estimated that $1.5 million would be budgeted from Measure L revenue, with $738,000 going toward streets, $397,000 to the Ridgecrest police department, and a reserve of $365,000.
"As soon as the ink was dry, there was a police union cost-of-living adjustment, 4 percent for sworn officers and 6 percent for unsworn officers, or $140,000," Salvatore commented.
He said the amount for RPD went up, and while street maintenance remained the same, the reserve dwindled to $235,000.
The most recent figures however, show an anticipated $1.13 million, with $896,000 reserved for RPD and $238,000 earmarked for street maintenance. The reason is the less-than-expected return on state sales tax revenue.
The reason for the large increase for RPD over streets relates directly to the city council's decision to cut RPD's general fund budget and backfill with Measure L money to avoid drastic cuts at the Dec. 19 council meeting.
Salvatore said he was only generally satisfied with all the data up to the current year, given that he was still waiting for the ink to dry on the current fiscal year's budget. The 2013-14 budget has yet to be determined.
Barbara Auld, commenting from the public, asked if there was any delineation between traditional funding source and Measure L funds.
Salvatore commented Measure L had its one separate line item in the city budget.
Taylor pointed out money coming in for 2012-13 only accounted for three-quarters of the year, as Measure L only kicked in Oct. 1, 2012.
Committee member Scott Garver asked it the committee risked drawing criticism from the public in comparing the "good years" to the "bad years."
Salvatore said he was surprised the city spent more on streets in the so-called bad years than in the good. Salvatore's report indicates the city spent $443,642 on street maintenance through the Gas Tax Fund in 2004 compared to investing $1.1 million in 2011.
"A lot more goes into street repairs than the Public Works budget," Salvatore said. "I think the more people know the more sensible the discussion becomes."
Quarterly Report
Discussion turned to how best to prepare the quarterly report on Measure L expenditures and revenue and what to include in it.
Under the ordinance establishing it, the Measure L committee is tasked with preparing and disseminating its own independent report every quarter.
Michael Petersen, who serves as the committee's secretary, said he had given a lot of thought to its content. He said at the very least it could be put on the city website like other documentation.
While too lengthy to publish in its entirety in the city newspapers, Petersen suggested an executive summary that might be disseminated to the press.
Petersen suggested including the committee's background, why it was chartered and what its goals entailed, along with background information on Salvatore's efforts to establish a comprehensive baseline overview.
Barbara Auld asked during public comment whether the report would be available completely online.
"There's a whole bunch of the public out there that doesn't use computers," Auld said.
Rebecca Neipp floated the idea of borrowing from the Kern County Grand Jury playbook by publishing an executive summary. Background, findings, concern and conclusion could be condensed into one or two pages.
Scott Leahy said something along the lines of the Measure L budget summary was something that would be easy to read.
"I honestly find large spreadsheets of that (budgetary) nature mind-numbingly torturous," he said. "But something like this (a summary) is easy to grasp."


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From Star Wars' R2-D2 to The Terminator to WALL-E, robots have pervaded popular culture and ignited our imaginations. But today, machines that can do our bidding have moved from science fiction to real life.
Think hands-free vacuum cleaners or iPhone's Siri or robotic arms performing surgery. At the Innorobo conference in Lyon, France, the latest in service robot technology was on display.
"These are robots that can help us with our everyday tasks, which I guess is always the endgame for robots, wasn't it? To do the jobs that we didn't want to do," says BBC technology reporter Jane Wakefield.
Wakefield covered Innorobo and tells weekends on All Things Considered host Don Gonyea that while many of the innovations at the conference are available now, they are largely used by industry or research institutes.
"A lot of the robots on show were so expensive, they'll be a few years away before we see them in our actual homes," she says.
Over time, robots have pervaded popular culture and ignited our imaginations.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as Character) I am C3P0, human-cyborg relations. And this is my counterpart, R2D2.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: (as Terminator) Hasta la vista, baby.
GONYEA: But today, machines that can do our bidding have made the move from science fiction to real life.
SIRI: My name is Siri.
GONYEA: And at this week's Innorobo conference in Lyon, France, the latest in service robot innovations were on display. Jane Wakefield, a technology reporter with the BBC, was there and filled me in. She began by explaining what exactly a service robot is.
JANE WAKEFIELD: These are robots that can help us with our everyday tasks, which, I guess, is always the endgame for robots, wasn't it, to sort of do the jobs that we didn't want to do. And, I mean, increasingly, in the factories around the world, robots are doing all kinds of jobs. I mean, they don't necessarily look like the robots of Sci-Fi. You know, they might literally just be an arm. But at Innorobo, there was much more of the kind of cutting-edge stuff that looks a lot more like us, and therefore is a lot more scary.
GONYEA: Looks a lot more like us. What do you mean?
WAKEFIELD: So robots that were wearing clothes and robots with sort of very human-looking faces, some very cute little robots. One of them called Sammy is a prototype that's been developed to help people around the home with tasks. So he's got a face, and he can move independently. And the aim is eventually for him to be able to kind of help people that are disabled and that can't do things around the house. Just do those basic functions that will allow them to still live independently.
GONYEA: So there's a robotic salamander with a tail that wiggles.
WAKEFIELD: Yes, yes. And the whole point of this project is to mimic the real movements of a salamander, so to copy exactly how its spinal column and neural systems work and recreate that. So we saw the salamander sort of slipping through the water in a very realistic way and then getting out onto land and being able to walk. This has implications not just for creating amphibious robots that will be able to both walk on land and then go into water, but also being able to mimic mathematically how a neural system works. Has huge implications for how we deal with people with paralysis and other spinal cord issues in the future.
GONYEA: The whole area of health and health aids and advancement of health has to be huge in this field.
WAKEFIELD: Yes. There was lots of things on show like a robotic feeding system for people that can't kind of feed themselves, which was actually developed by somebody who wasn't able to feed himself, and he was fed up with having to go to restaurants and be fed. So he came up with this portable system, which is literally just a spoon and it moves, and it picks up any food that's in a plate underlying it and puts it in people's mouths. So it has a great potential to change lives.
GONYEA: And a lot of these things are available now. This is not just about the future.
WAKEFIELD: No. A lot of these things are available now. A lot of it is stuff that's used by industry or being used by research institutes. There's very few robots for the home. The ones that are for the home tends to be the sort of cleaning devices. So the little sort of disc-like vacuum cleaner robots and similar ones that mow your lawn. So there's that those sort of devices that are starting to hit the home market, but a lot of the robots on show were so expensive, they'll be a few years away before we see them in our actual homes.
GONYEA: So we're talking about service robots. And even if these aren't widely available yet, it does seem hard to separate them from the connection that we all feel to robots just through pop culture, right? You've got "The Terminator." But way back when I was a little kid in the 1960s...
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing) Meet George Jetsons.
GONYEA: ...the Jetsons had their service robot, Rosie the maid.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (as Character) Rosie.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (as Rosie the Maid) Coming, sir.
GONYEA: It feels like it must be hard to separate these preconceptions that we all bring based on pop culture with what you're really looking at there at the trade show.
WAKEFIELD: Yes. It's interesting. There was a guy there from South Korea who collects robots. And he had a load of retro robots. And kids were coming up, and they'd just been to visit these incredibly sophisticated robots around the corner that could do all these amazing things like actually use a hand like a human would with really fine motor skills.
But these robotic toys, they got as much smiles out of the kids, which just proves that robots of our childhood and this sort of popular culture of how robots should look hasn't gone away. And we still sort of have that yearning for that kind of classic robot that is basically quite different from us. And the idea that perhaps robots are getting closer to being human is a bit that sort of really scares us.
GONYEA: That's Jane Wakefield, BBC technology reporter. Thanks for being with us.
WAKEFIELD: No worries. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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In 1960, William K. Hefner (1915-1993) became one of the first of new breed of radical pacifists to run for elective office, when he ran as a peace candidate for Congress in the 1st district of Massachusetts. An accountant from Greenfield, Hefner was involved at a national level with movements for peace and civil rights. An early member of SANE, a founder of Political Action for Peace in 1959 (now CPPAX) and the Greenfield Peace Center (1963), and an active member of the American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League, Turn Toward Peace, and the World Without War Conference, Hefner was an energetic force in the movements for peace and disarmament, civil rights, and a more just economic system. He ran unsuccessfully for office in three elections between 1960 and 1964, and supported peace candidate H. Stuart Hughes in his bid for election to the U.S. Senate in 1962.
The Hefner papers offer a remarkable record of politically-engaged activism for peace and social justice in the early 1960s. With an intensely local focus, Hefner was tied in to the larger movements at the state and national level, corresponding with major figures such as A.J. Muste, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Spock, and Arthur Springer. The collection includes particularly rich documentation of the early years of Political Action for Peace, which Hefner helped found, with correspondence, minutes of meetings, and publications, as well as equally rich materials on Hefner's bids for congress in 1960 and 1962.
- American Friends Service Committee Western Massachusetts
- Antinuclear movement--Massachusetts
- Civil Rights movements--Massachusetts
- Greenfield Community Peace Center
- Massachusetts Political Action for Peace
- Nonviolence
- Pacifists--Massachusetts
- Peace movements--Massachusetts
- Platform for Peace (Organization)
- Political Action for Peace
- SANE, Inc
- Turn Toward Peace (Organization)
- United States. Congress--Elections, 1960
- United States. Congress--Elections, 1962
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
- Boardman, Elizabeth F
- Hefner, William K.
- Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart), 1916-1999
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
- Springer, Arthur
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"Two Gentleman of Verona" may be one of Shakespeare's earliest plays but it also appears to be one of the most relatable, exploring the complex friendship of two men in love with the same woman. As if the story itself is not compelling enough, DSF has also teamed up with two animal shelters, spotlighting the acting chops of just one of Delaware's adoptable pets.
For their 11th season, the Delaware Shakespeare Festival travels back to the roaring twenties to tell the tale of two men who fall for the same woman in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.
The play could easily be seen as a Shakespearean "bro-mance," as the two men square off as romantic rivals, proving to be gentlemen in name only and embarking on a series of romantic misadventures that test their own friendships against their true hearts' desires.
Directed by Barrymore-nominated artist Samantha Bellomo-who also serves at the Resident Director at People's Light and Theatre Company-who found the 1920's to be the perfect setting to tell the tale of "Two Gents."
"It was that time of history when we just got out of the war and everybody was going crazy and doing whatever they wanted," said Bellomo. "That connects in such a parallel way back to these boys who want to go off and experience life, to live fully and not care what happens next because finally they are at a place where they can do that."
However, the play did present the sort of challenge that has sent some directors barking up the wrong tree. The play calls for a dog to play the role of Crab. To cast the part, DSF partnered with two Delaware animal shelters: Faithful Friends Animal Shelter and Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary. The result has been mutually beneficial, though. Audiences love furry faces and the shelters get to raise awareness about the adoptability of "shelter dogs" by spotlighting just how personable and adaptable these animals can be.
For his part, DSF Artistic Director David Stradley is thrilled with the partnership and excited to possibly assist in finding these canine actors their forever homes. However, he is also just excited for the audience to get to experience a Shakespeare play that he holds dear.
"'Two Gents' was the first Shakespeare play I saw where I understood every word and had a great time watching the story," said Stradley. "We're looking forward to sharing a similar experience with our audience."
The Delaware Shakespeare Festival performs on the grounds of Rockwood Park. It began its run on July 12 and will continue through Sunday, July 28. Wednesday through Saturday, performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Sunday performances and Family Nights begin at 6 p.m. On Sundays, children 12 years old and younger are admitted for free with one paid adult admission.