… The coffee shop has a community room—a glass-enclosed one inside the store. It was apparently the site of regional Starbucks training. One of the topics was “The$ 10 cup of coffee—obtainable goal or urban myth?” Then there was the language training. "Repeat after me: 'Mac chi a to" …. Last month I spent time in the Venetian and Palazzo hotels in Vegas. Both have canals with Gondoliers, outside and, in the case of the Venetian, inside on the second floor. But they aren’t completely authentic as unlike the canals in Venice, Italy, the ones in Vegas aren’t filled with sewage. ... The big event at NetSuite’s Suiteworld was an evening at Wayne Newton’s Casa de Shenandoah. Wayne greeted each of more than 40 press and analysts and posed for pictures. We were told we couldn’t ask for autographs or ask if he had work done. You could hardly tell. He's just like any other guy with a 20-car garage and peacocks at the entrance to his house. We were very sternly advised not to ask about his brother Fig. ...  This week, Christopher Lischewkski, CEO of Bumble Bee Food was indicated for allegedly conspiring to fix prices for packaged seafood sold in the United States. It was even sadder when Starkist’s Charlie the Tuna was led away in handcuffs as a co-conspirator. Sorry Charlie.  … A recent story in New Jersey focused on a superintendent who was arrested after despoiling the football field of a rival on several consecutive mornings. He was doing, uh, what bears do in the woods. I finally figured out what his goal was. He was trying to slow down the opponent’s running game.