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"Short break in paradise resort – Hilton Ras-al Khaimah"
RAS – AL- KHAIMAH BEAUTY We have decided to visit for a family Staycation to some distant spot this time, hence after careful scrutiny we chose an emirate which names after it's meanings "Top of the tent" or alternatively "headland of the small hut, RAS-AL-KHAIMAH, The city was historically known as Julfar, is in the northern part of the UAE, bordering Oman's exclave of Musandam.
We chose to be at some resort this time! "Any time spent at the beach is time well spent". Our search for the same indicated "Hilton Ras al Khaimah Resort & Spa. Being state-of-art property in the region huddled in a dazzling private bay on the northern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and overlooking the sea, Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Resort & spa offers an tranquil getaway for business or leisure. Combining tasteful Chalets with trendy modern rooms, having a balcony or private patio with open way in to the striking pallid sandy seashore.
City Walk We dint even feel the time while we were at the property, as it has literally a world of activities to keep yourself indulge in, however if you're a keen traveler and have a longer stay there are many activities to enjoy and places to discover around the resort like horse riding, golf or quad biking in nearby areas. Souks and RAK Museum and main tourist attractions. Fly the aviation Club or join a sky tour by seaplane. Trips are also available inland to see the desert, go on a mountain safari or sail in a traditional dhow in the beautiful Musandam.
On our previous trips to Ras-al-Khaimah we have been to Iceland Waterpark and Dreamland and it was indeed an unforgettable day out, they are not too far away, so if while staying at Hilton Resorts pools and beach is not enough give a try for that thrilling experience at these places.
Hilton RAK Arrival & Check-in:
If you are driving along your GPS, it will bring you to exact location without much confusion, do not go for alternate route options though L After reaching hotel our check-in was prompt and smooth, with ever –smiling faces at the front desk staff. We were been given the directions for elevator area to reach our floor. The property is immaculately kept and the eminence of service is incredible.
We stayed at one of their Hilton Family Suite without balcony, but it had pool & beach view from full glass wall in the living room; There is enough space for our family in this spacious 90 sq. m. /967 sq. ft. suite with separate living room and two king beds, that plush bed made my sleep truly peaceful. Some similar suites also have a balcony (subject to availability).
We experienced the oh-so-comfy room feeling, my kids just relaxed on the sofa, surf the web with WiFi and enjoyed kid's movie on the LCD TV. The suite also features a large bathroom with walk-in shower & the surprise treat built-in jacuzi, as I was so tired in travelling that same day we couldn't go down to the pool but kids had their due share of enjoyment in our mini in-house Jacuzi. We will definitely go back to this great resort and recommend it to everyone we know. Make sure to do a spa treatment while you are there! we missed it but it is a must as mentioned by a friend!
The resort's pools are indeed a great feature, you may dip into one of six different swimming pools and enjoy a great range of water sports, including snorkeling, waterskiing, sailing, jet skiing and diving. We loved the fact that beach location was the best in the area, had everything our party of 4 could want and best of all, the staff at this resort was so kind and went out of their way to anticipate our every need. We had fun doing several activities in the day ranging from Swimming fun to pool aerobics, Jumping castle to Park rides and Kid's Paradise activities.
At night we roll again as the sensational beach walk is 1 minute away and it was fun for all of us. On the next day we enjoyed benches yes you may lay on the beach or pool side and it was like a trance!
We love the Kids Club with indoor and outdoor playground, pools and slide, my kids have spent most time there. A world of fun awaits even when you go outside in the front area of Kids Paradise from water slides, kids pool and playground, to gardens and indoor playrooms with supervised activities with humbled, kind and moreover professional staff.
I love the level of cleanliness and well kept tools at kids paradise with special care to kids hygiene. There is something for Kids of all ages there, the upstairs section feature many educational toys and learning objects and the fun cradles for kids from 0-5 age, we love the "Groovy kids" statement. Professional babysitting services are also available and trust me the staff mingled and had their bonding with my kids in no time.
- A very family-friendly spot and an ultimate Spot for Staycation (Stay in Vacations) covering over all activities for all ages.
- If you love calm ocean water – this is the place! Because of the location/direction of the beach the resort has a rare stretch of very calm water. This made for excellent swimming, if also a less exciting time in the water 🙂
- The resort is just a 25-minute drive from
RAK International Airport.
- 14 restaurants including 4 specialty restaurants
Other Features:
Spa Facilities You may choose from different treatment rooms, two hammam Turkish baths, as well as a Jacuzzi, sauna and steam room. The professional spa team soothe your senses with pampering body treatments, rejuvenating facials and blissful massages.
Fitness Resort's fitness centre features the latest generation of cardio and strength training equipment, If you are health conscious you can simply stay fit with yoga and aerobics room.
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Highly recommended!! We rate it 4.5 out of 5 (as we couldn't review the Spa in this trip but will head their soon) ! Overall, we loved it and would definitely recommend it. Definitely going back to this resort again. It was much nicer than we expected, from the front of the hotel to the incredible ocean-front view directly in front of our room, which was located up on the high floor.
We stayed their with our kids who are aged 5, 6 and we all agreed this was the best resort in the area. The staff was incredible and every single person on staff acknowledged and greeted us with a friendly hello and a genuine smile.The rooms were amazing (clean, airy, beautiful views).
It has a wealth of fine dining and outstanding amenities and we will never forget the magical moment when we witnessed a magnificent sunset from the Garden area, infront of Shallots.
It's Grand, Services are very functional and pleasant. a tad expensive per head, but one could forgive it for the quality and variety they serve. Courteous and attentive staff are very alert and you will see them moving around you to assist all the t ime. Breakfast & dinner both were perfect and what I loved the most was lassi they serve on the buffet! I was so thrilled and impressed with their live counters especially at the breakfast, swift and very well organized, it won't make you stand in long queue as they mastered their trick and provide you with your order in no time. Suuny side up! Omellete with capsicum or mushroom anyone !
It offers diners not just the finest selection of authentic dishes from around the world, but an elegant, luxurious setting in which it's lovely to enjoy the pool outdoor views as well as peaceful in-house dining. I loved the fact how the table and seats setting is compatible suiting the needs of diners and their family mix, encounter this group of 6 young kids sitting in high chairs with table slab setting spot near fruit/salad/Yogurt area having their own fun chat and giggles while the elders of the family are enjoying their breakfast in cozy sofas nearby. Live cooking stations located at 2 places at the venue combined with a sumptuous buffet provide for a truly unique dining experience.
The beauty of Maarid is not only the huge array of buffet style cuisine, but also being able to watch the chefs cook up something special of your choice at one of the live cooking stations, in a open-theatre-style setting having buffet at both sides of it. We enjoyed the buffet inside once and were seated at a table outside the other, overlooking the pools.The buffet is well thought out and includes a wide range of options including seafood consisting of fresh lobster, prawns, crab and fresh fish, steak that is cooked to your liking, curries, an array of Arabic style meat and lots of fresh sides to choose from. Desserts have many choices too.
MAARID overall has stylish interior and as soon as you enter the place you feel the flavors and tempting aromas from live cooking areas. Their kid's menu area is separate incase they want to get busy with some arts and activities while eating their food from the counters nearby.
Pura Vida – A little bit of Brazil shine on Ras-al-Khaimah
It is a place where you can simply coddle your sanity with a taste of Brazilian Churrasco all-you-can-eat-meat, served rodizio style. Although Maarid Restaurant in same hotel truly is an all-day dining destination however this is a specialty restaurant.
We were humbly invited to have a special dine-out in a concealed and tranquil spot, I would say perfect spot for lovers! beach front restaurant, amazing atmosphere, delightful food, very romantic ambience, and yes definitely need to mention the Brazil strong impact of churascos.
We simply loved the place, you can find our detailed review of Pura Vida HERE !
Here is more to savor during Holy month of Ramada. Hilton Ras Al Khaimah Resort & Spa launches a huge feast to be held at its Ramadan Tent. It's something new for everyone who would like to experience Islamic traditions, local culture, atmosphere of spiritual wellness and happiness.
Marc Guenther, General Manager, explains: "This month marks the most important month in the Muslim world. We are excited to offer our guests and citizen the largest Ramadan Tent in Ras Al Khaimah this year, combining our experience in hospitality and great chef's talents".
Let the flavors of your Arabic favorites dazzle you, from luscious appetizers, main course to desserts at the wide Iftar buffet. The guests will be happy to enjoy special offers of Sohour tray, selection of shisha, coffee, tea and many more.
Experience the variety of Iftar buffet at AED 129*
Enjoy all the best of the Arabic selection from Sohur tray at AED 95*
Have an excellent after-dinner experience and enjoy your favorite flavours of shisha at AED 35*
*Prices are per person and subject to 10% service charge. Discounts are applicable for reservations made minimum of 10 persons. Offer is valid during the month of Ramadan 2015 (17 June until 18 July).
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Disclaimer & Notes: A huge Thank you to those who made this trip extra special: Hilton RAK & Staff , Our lovely host Alona, Management and F&B team at the property and of course Kaby Klick.
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Our Battle
By Simon Duke
I don't know why but my wife thinks she lives across the street.
She walks up to me, determination and purpose evident in her pace, and points at the house the other side of the street. 'I've got to go there,' she says.
'No you don't. That's Keith Robertson's house,' I reply as I hit the mute button on the TV remote control, putting a sudden halt to John Motson's commentary. Man U and Liverpool are level at 1-1.
Clearly having none of it, my wife continues, 'No, I live there.'
For drama's sake, she looks me down with fiery and unforgiving eyes. She's suspicious and somewhat austere. The football match goes on in silence.
'No, you don't live there,' I say, turning my gaze away from the screen for the first time.
'I want to go home!' she hollers.
'But you are home, Judy, darling.'
She turns on her heel and storms across the living-room, yanks nervously at the front door handle.
I don't have enough time to rise from the armchair and intervene; the door is wide open and she's already halfway across the dimly-lit street.
I stand up and gaze at her from the window as she continues her furious march toward our neighbour's house. I then watch her ring the bell. She waits for the door to open, somewhat awkward in her posture.
A minute or so later she walks back and I come to meet her on the porch. Her disappointment is almost tangible. She says to me, 'There's nobody home.'
I do my best to speak clearly and naturally in a warm and calm voice. 'Where did you go?'
'I went home,' she says earnestly, in her usual animated tone.
'But this is your home', I insist, hoping I don't hurt her feelings.
She walks inside briskly, brushes past me, nearly bumping into me in the process.
'I'll make supper,' I say while shutting the front door and turning the key in the lock.
She turns around and looks at me with inquisitive yet softer eyes. 'Don't leave me alone,' she pleads.
It's better not to argue with her and change the subject. I've come to the realisation that it's OK to let delusions and misstatements go.
'Perhaps you could lay the table, darling?'
A cue. A purpose. A new challenge.
Judy says nothing. She heads for the kitchen, full sail ahead.
I search for the remote control to turn the TV off but am momentarily distracted by the game. Man U are a goal ahead. 2-1. Rooney must've scored while I was watching Judy from the window. Liverpool have a corner kick and about another half-hour to draw.
I eventually switch off and join Judy in the kitchen. To my surprise, she is pacing around aimlessly, looking disoriented. She is opening cupboards and shutting them for no apparent reason.
'What are you doing, darling?' I say, warm and calm again.
'Nothing. I…' The rest of what she says is incomprehensible. Utter gibberish. None of the words make sense or are real words at all. She's talking to herself, feeling confused and panicked.
'Can you grab us two plates, darling?'
A cue. A purpose. A new challenge.
She reaches for not two but all six plates in the cupboard above the sink. She accidentally knocks over a glass into the sink with her elbow. I hear it shatter. Judy remains unfazed but holds all six plates in both hands. I tell myself that it's only a glass. No need to cause a fuss, or worse, spread panic to my wife.
Her grasp on the plates isn't firm. She turns around and looks at me. All of a sudden she can't remember why she is here, in the kitchen. I focus on the plates as she shakes them. Her hands are arthritic, clumsy, and hard to bend. She doesn't know where to go next, can't decide what to do.
Yet she staggers away, eventually finds the living-room and sets the plates on the coffee table.
She says, 'OK'. She pauses, obviously regrouping, trying to organize her mind, acknowledging each little step made.
She studies the plates on the table, maybe trying to figure out what's missing. But then she tells me that she's got nothing to do. So she gives up.
I sometimes think that's her biggest problem.
'It's getting a bit chilly,' I say. 'Why don't you put on your lovely white sweater, you know the one I got you for Christmas?'
A cue. A purpose. A new challenge.
She heads for the stairs, climbs them, finds our bedroom. I hear clanging and banging of drawers and cupboard doors opening and closing, the hustle and bustle, and endless racket of mayhem and despair as the search for the sweater begins.
Judy suddenly talks to herself again, surely responding to the constant jabbering going on in her head.
'I'm hearing all this stuff and I can't turn it off,' she used to tell me back when we didn't know she was living with dementia - dementia that was here to stay, cruel and unforgiving in its hold over Judy.
I listen to the ongoing noise of drawers slamming and the hurried footsteps on the floor above.
I sigh and take a deep breath before climbing upstairs myself. Witnessing my wife working herself into a frenzy is a painful and disheartening sight, perhaps the one facet of her manic behavior I have the most difficulty getting used to.
I press my back against the doorframe and look at the mess she has created.
'This is most annoying,' she says standing amidst clothes spread all over the carpet. Looking for a sweater and not finding it can do that to you if you are unfortunate to have her condition.
She opens another drawer and pulls out half its contents, dumps it all on the bed in a new heap. 'This is not a sweater,' she protests frantically, holding a skirt. 'This certainly isn't my white sweater!'
She flings the skirt on top of the pile of clothes and proceeds to open the last drawer, the right one. She seizes all her sweaters in a bundle.
'OK, sweaters found,' she mutters. One small step made.
'OK, I think I've found the white sweater.' Another step. The elimination process continues but she unloads the bundle on the bed. The desired clothing item is lost in the heap. Eventually she bends over, feeling confused, no longer knowing what she's supposed to do.
She starts folding all the clothes on the bed, forgets that she was looking for a white sweater. The white sweater is in her grasp but she folds it along with everything else.
Moments later Judy sits on the bed out of sheer frustration, visibly unhappy and lost. I push a few clothes aside and sit next to her, wrap a reassuring arm around her shoulders. 'You're doing OK', I lie. And we sit there in fidgety silence.
'I'll make your supper now,' I say to put an end to the lull. 'Don't worry about the white sweater. Just put something on that'll keep you warm and join me downstairs.'
A cue. A purpose. A new challenge.
Five minutes later I realise my wife has once again lost the notion of time. Her bowl of soup and her hot melted cheddar sandwich are ready and starting to cool down.
I call her name again. Judy soon staggers into the kitchen wearing her old fur coat, looking a bit eccentric. I'd like to voice an opinion and ask her to remove the coat she herself is supposed to find old-fashioned. But as I said, it's simply better not to argue with her. Now I can't help but smile as she sits down like a stubborn queen waiting to be served.
In spite of her condition and regal posture, Judy loves to eat. I make her supper every night. After the chaos of the day it's a comforting ritual for us both, a few shared moments when things rarely go wrong.
I set the bowl of soup and the plate with her sandwich in front of her on the table. She looks down at her food with delight and says, 'You made that?' Joy fuels her gaze but her manner is still suspicious.
I shrug, big smile smacked on my face, 'I'm a good cook.'
I don't tell her that some of stuff on her plate comes from the nutritionist's, some I got from the supermarket. It's only a hot cheese sandwich but she thinks it's great.
I watch her munch on the sarnie and slurp the soup with pride.
My cue. My purpose. A challenge I gladly take up.
I return moments later with pudding. I give her coffee and then I give her a slice of carrot cake.
She's happy. She never says I'm not hungry.
I kneel down and hold her hand. I gently massage her palm, softly reviving the intimate bond I crave for. My wife is peaceful.
I look up at her. We maintain eye contact and smile simultaneously. I see the beautiful woman I fell in love with all those years ago; the woman I married and with whom I had two wonderful children; with whom I will finish the final chapter of my life.
I say to myself that I'm lucky at this point. But what it's going to be like down the road, I don't know.


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December 26, 1997 ‒ Almost Midnight, the Mirage Poker Room, Las Vegas, Nevada
It really wasn't about winning money. Playing seven-card stud was what she wanted to do, or so Georgia Cates had been telling herself since the first time she had sat down at a casino poker table. Now, a little less than a quarter-million dollars in chips and paper money lay on the green felt in front of her. She casually riffled a stack of white five-thousand-dollar chips. Never mind that this money was all that was left of the $500,000 she had started with a few hours ago, and never mind that the entire half million was not hers in the first place and that she could go to prison for a very long time.
She had perfected her poker face, and the eight carats of diamond rings on her fingers sparkled, but not because her fingers were trembling. No one could guess that the elegant, perfectly composed woman in the Jil Sander suit was about to throw up. She tried to swallow, but her dry throat convulsed, and she coughed to cover up the gag impulse.
Who was she trying to fool? Herself? A little late for that. She had to win; her survival depended on it.
Chapter 1
June 26, 1998
It was like trying to hurry across a frozen lake in four-inch heels. She forced herself to slow down as she made her way along the marble thoroughfare that spanned the Bellagio Casino.
"I will not slip, I will not fall," she intoned, very aware of the several curious glances she got. But vocalizing her thoughts, transmitting them via her vocal cords so that the vibrations were sent to her eardrums and the neural message delivered to her brain, validated the reality of her existence. Talking to herself was the only way she knew to keep focused. So what if she was acting loonier than a bag lady?
"Think out loud," she commanded herself. "I am Georgia Kassov Cates, poised and elegant, strolling along in my perfect clothes, great haircut, makeup subtle but effective. But can they see my lips moving? Do I care?"
Trying to imagine what she must look like on a casino surveillance camera, she concentrated on a nonchalant but brisk stride, doing her best to edit out the throngs of tourists, many with necks craned and fingers pointing. At her? No, of course not. This was Bellagio, and there were thousands of reasons to crane necks and point.
About The Book
Author: Joan Destino
Genre: Psychological Thriller
"Who was she trying to fool? Herself? A little late for that. She had to win; her survival depended on it."
Do you have what it takes to lose it all? Find out in Joan Destino's stunning debut novel, "River Card."
Georgia Kassov Cates is a business woman, a wife, a mother…and a gambling addict. Desperate to recoup a devastating string of losses, she risks it all for one last game- a game that's abruptly halted when the Las Vegas casino succumbs to a freak blackout.
Georgia meets some fellow patrons of the Las Vegas casino, including the wealthy Melanie Nallis, a woman haunted by her horrific childhood; Zivah Koski, an enigmatic elderly holocaust survivor; Phillip Vance, a billionaire casino developer; and Milt Braverman, a professional poker player.
As they get to know each other, a connection is slowly revealed: postwar Germany, a time and place that is reflected in" River Card's novel-within-a-novel, "Alexandra."
Alternating between the opulence and depravity of 1940s Germany, and the glamor and baseness of 1990s Las Vegas, "River Card" reflects Georgia's mounting fears-both past and present-as she plays one last hand…
Author Bio
As the daughter of an Army Officer, Joan Destino traveled throughout her childhood, living in many parts of the U.S. as well as Germany. After high school and college in New England, she taught kindergarten in Boston while her husband attended law school. In the early seventies she moved to the Los Angeles area, raising her family in San Marino. She participated in the UCLA Writers' Program for several years, culminating with several semesters in their Master Novel Writing Class. After playingTournament Bridge for years, shebegan playing casino poker in the mid-eighties. She bought a second home in Las Vegas in the mid-nineties and moved there permanently when her husband retired in 2004. Joan plays both cash and tournament poker including the World Series of Poker at the Rio Casino.


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Oral Sex, PEP and testing
Oct 10, 2003
Dear Dr Frascino
I live in South Africa, where doctors have about 4 years of university training instead of 8. So my question to you:
I performed oral sex on a man of unknown HIV status, and swallwed some of his semen. I had to take an out-of-town business trip early the next morning, but when I got home my worries over what I had done prompted me to go to a clinic. The doctor there said he considered my behavior fairly low-risk, but offered PEP if I wanted it. I chose to take it and started Combivir immediately. This was about 65 hours after my possible exposure.
An initial baseline ELISA test was negative, and I had had no potential exposures for close to a year prior to that.
I completed the 28-day treatment (no nasty side effects at all) and went in for a 6-week follow-up test, also negative. They have told me to come in again in 6 months for another test.
I know that a majority of people who have contracted HIV will test positive at 6 weeks and that virtually all will do so by 3 months.
My questions are these:
1) Even the CDC still recommends 6 months for a "significant event" such as rape or intercourse with a known HIV+ partner. This clinic deals mainly with rape victims, so they are probably giving me the standard recommendation. In my case, is there any need to test after 3 months?
2)Is there any evidence that taking PEP might delay seroconversion, so that my 6-week negative test might be considered meaningless and even a 3-month test not definitive?
For what it may be worth, the lab used a 3rd-generation ELISA test.
I'd really be grateful for your answer.
Thanks for a great forum and for being one of the most understanding and humane people I've run across.
Joe in Joburg
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Joburg Joe,
In my opinion, your minimal risk did not warrant the risk of PEP. To answer your questions:
1. The 3-month test is conclusive for your situation. 2. No, the test would still be accurate.
Good luck on your 3-month test.
Dr. Bob
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Friday, 25 January 2013
God Bless America (2011)
Are you fed up with life? Fed up with the people around you? Fed up with the constant mindless dribble that is shown on TV 24/7? The celebrity/sport addicted media or the use of brain sapping technology like Twitter and text smartphonesnes etc...? Then why not break free and go on a killing rampage to release the world of these modern day problems.
Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait (yes that lunatic from a few 'Police Academy' movies) and with an unknown cast (to me) that really do shine. The plot is cute but totally unoriginal now I'm afraid, a depressed, ill, suicidal office worker gets fired and mentally snaps. He begins a killing spree with people that really annoy him or don't really deserve what they have, in short he's sick of modern day America. Along the way he picks up and befriends a young school girl who loves what he is doing so joins in and helps him.
So yeah...its basically an update of 'Natural Born Killers' with a hint of 'Bonnie and Clyde' perhaps, no bank robbing though. Its a dark comedy positively brewing over with sadism which is accompanied by a cheerful soundtrack as the happy couple go on the lam executing people they believe to be unworthy. If you think along the lines of 'Office Space' and that angle of comedy but much much darker.
What is truly excellent about this film is the pinpoint accuracy of the story and the way it shows us how utterly god awful modern day TV is. The immense popularity of reality shows like 'Pop Idol' and 'Big Brother' where morons are displayed for public humiliation or so called talent. This is the main focus of the plot, the spark that lights the main characters fuse for action. Other issues such as celebrity obsession, sport obsession, rudeness, lack of respect, general modern day pop culture and the whole self centered approach to today's society is targeted.
It really is a joy to watch as Frank and Roxy gun down a group of youths in the local cinema for talking on their mobile phones and not shutting up throughout the film (oh how many times have you thought about that...don't lie). Extremist religious protesters on a march, a bloke who takes up two car parking spaces, an abrasive politician off TV and of course a spoilt brat from one of those glorious reality TV shows.
The real mission for the pair is the judges on the popular reality show 'Superstarz' (a wonderful mockery of...well I'm sure you know). This is where they are headed, to end the lives of the pretentious, insensitive, rude, obnoxious panel of judges that make money from the 'know nothing, no talent' cultural obsession of our modern age.
Like I say I hadn't heard of either main stars for this film but boy was I impressed! Joel Murray as Frank is just your every man, a bog standard blue collar office boy, but you really find yourself wanting him to win, get his point across. This character is the champion for all the regular law abiding joe's out there in reality, people who don't try to play the system, people who pay their bills and keep to speed limits.
On the other hand the character of Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr) I think is just there so boys can see a female teen kick ass. Yeah I could be wrong but seeing her gunning down perps (well kinda perps) as she leans out of their yellow Camaro with a grin on her face is...well its kinda hot. I actually think Barr slightly overacts to be honest, she's very good but a bit too over excited to be in the film methinks.
Cutting right down to the bone this film is an unapologetic, blistering, scathing backlash at our society today, or should that be American society today. Its dark as hell as Goldthwait doesn't hide from the brutal truth, statements that will slap you across the face and make you pay attention.
Its not perfect, not suppose to be a serious thriller or anything of course but I was thinking that surely by the midway point there would be masses of police after them. And surely the Camaro they stole would give them away somewhat, it is big, loud, fast and banana yellow. It does make the act of multiple murders look easy as they never seem to have any trouble from any law officials anywhere!.
A fantastic film which I hadn't even heard of until I stumbled across the poster online. The beginning is by far the best and most amusing, the plot gets a touch off base as the couple start knocking people off and the film becomes more routine. But the trigger happy violence against folk you love to hate turns this into some kind of feel good road movie...worryingly.
I mean seriously, you haven't ever thought about waking on stage and blowing away certain well known reality TV judges? Then perhaps turning to the camera and telling everybody at home what a mindless moron they are...yeah if you watch these reality shows you'd best not watch this film, it might sting.
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BRISTOL — Dozens of Addison Northeast Supervisory Union (ANeSU) educators showed up at a joint meeting of the six district school boards Tuesday night to demand a new multi-year contract by the end of the school year.
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BRISTOL — After five years at Mount Abraham Union High School, Co-Principal Leon Wheeler will step down at the end of this school year to take up the head post at Winooski High School.
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Planned by a loose organization known as Cash Mob Vermont, a group of unknown size will descend upon the gateway to the Green Mountains this Saturday afternoon to patronize local businesses. Organizers from Cash Mob Vermont said that at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, anyone from anywhere can meet on the Bristol green to partake in the mobbing. The only thing you need to bring is cash, at least $20 to be precise.
MIDDLEBURY — Last month the Addison County Regional Planning Commission installed two charging stations for electric and plug-in vehicles on the east side of their Seminary Street building in Middlebury.
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BRISTOL — For the first time, more than half the students at Bristol Elementary School meet the low-income guidelines for free and reduce-priced meals. In an attempt to stave off child hunger and rein in school finances, Bristol is offering free breakfasts to all of its students.
Over the last eight years, the number of students participating in the Vermont free and reduced-price meal program has skyrocketed (click here for the full story).
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ADDISON COUNTY — The number of children across Vermont and Addison County who are enrolled in the free and reduced-price school meal program has exploded in recent years — more than doubling in some local schools.
ADDISON COUNTY — Once upon a time, March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb, but not this year. This past March came in like a lamb and went out like a hot tamale, throwing local residents, businesses and some wildlife for a loop. And the string of 70- and 80-degree days late in March followed an unusually warm and dry winter.
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MVP stands for Most Valuable Player. When discussing the MVP race, I think people forget what the 'MV' stands for because people tend to want to pick someone from the best team in the league to win rather than choosing someone who is the most valuable player for their team. The best team in the league might have numerous good players, but no one that clearly stands out about the rest.
Below are 5 people who are currently being most talked about in the news as being the main players considered to be the MVP for the 2016 season for the NFL. I will provide the reasons why I think they should or should not be the MVP.
1). Tom Brady
Tom Brady is a exceptional football player and will go down in history as one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) quarterback of all-time, but that does not mean he is the MVP of THIS season. The New England Patriots were able to win three out of their first four games with him being suspended and showed they are capable of winning without him in the lineup. While Brady definitely gives them a better chance of being more successful and winning a Super Bowl, he is not showing himself as the most valuable player this year.
2). and 3). Ezekiel Elliott and Dak Prescott
These two players kind of have to be mentioned together because both of them have had remarkable rookie seasons while leading the Dallas Cowboys to success, but it is hard to really call one of them more valuable than the other. Would Elliott have been this successful with someone else behind center? Would Prescott be as successful without a run game to open up the field for him? If I had to choose between the two, I would choose Elliott to the be the MVP because I think he is making a bigger impact on the Cowboys than Prescott.
4). Matt Ryan
Matt Ryan is being talked about because of the big numbers he has been putting up this year, but I do not agree that this automatically makes you a MVP. If this is one of the qualifications, then isn't Drew Brees being talked about more? While Ryan is doing a better job this season than he did last season, that does mean he is the most valuable player in the league this year.
5). Derek Carr
Derek Carr is the person I think is the most valuable player in the league this year. The Oakland Raiders would be nowhere without Carr. It starts and ends with him. Having one person so important to your team is the thing we should be looking for when doing MVP voting and Carr is the most important player in the Raiders' locker room.
Final Thoughts
Yes, things may change before the year ends because we still have a lot of weeks to go, but as long as Derek Carr keeps helping find ways to lead the Raiders to success, he needs to be the 2016 NFL MVP because he is truly the most valuable player to his team.


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[ Team LiB ] 4.2 Ports Ports provide the interface by which a module can communicate with its environment. For example, the input/output pins of an IC chip are its ports. The environment can interact with the module only through its ports.
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- [ Team LiB ] 4.2 Ports Ports provide the interface by which a module can communicate with its environment. For example, the input/output pins of an IC chip are its ports. The environment can interact with the module only through its ports. The internals of the module are not visible to the environment. This provides a very powerful flexibility to the designer. The internals of the module can be changed without affecting the environment as long as the interface is not modified. Ports are also referred to as terminals. 4.2.1 List of Ports A module definition contains an optional list of ports. If the module does not exchange any signals with the environment, there are no ports in the list. Consider a 4-bit full adder that is instantiated inside a top-level module Top. The diagram for the input/output ports is shown in Figure 4-3. Figure 4-3. I/O Ports for Top and Full Adder Notice that in the above figure, the module Top is a top-level module. The module fulladd4 is instantiated below Top. The module fulladd4 takes input on ports a, b, and c_in and produces an output on ports sum and c_out. Thus, module fulladd4 performs an addition for its environment. The module Top is a top-level module in the simulation and does not need to pass signals to or receive signals from the environment. Thus, it does not have a list of ports. The module names and port lists for both module declarations in Verilog are as shown in Example 4-2. Example 4-2 List of Ports
- module fulladd4(sum, c_out, a, b, c_in); //Module with a list of ports module Top; // No list of ports, top-level module in simulation 4.2.2 Port Declaration All ports in the list of ports must be declared in the module. Ports can be declared as follows: Verilog Keyword Type of Port input Input port output Output port inout Bidirectional port Each port in the port list is defined as input, output, or inout, based on the direction of the port signal. Thus, for the example of the fulladd4 in Example 4-2, the port declarations will be as shown in Example 4-3. Example 4-3 Port Declarations module fulladd4(sum, c_out, a, b, c_in); //Begin port declarations section output[3:0] sum; output c_cout; input [3:0] a, b; input c_in; //End port declarations section ... ... endmodule Note that all port declarations are implicitly declared as wire in Verilog. Thus, if a port is intended to be a wire, it is sufficient to declare it as output, input, or inout. Input or inout ports are normally declared as wires. However, if output ports hold their value, they must be declared as reg. For example, in the definition of DFF, in Example 2-5, we wanted the output q to retain its value until the next clock edge. The port declarations for DFF will look as shown in Example 4-4.
- Example 4-4 Port Declarations for DFF module DFF(q, d, clk, reset); output q; reg q; // Output port q holds value; therefore it is declared as reg. input d, clk, reset; ... ... endmodule Ports of the type input and inout cannot be declared as reg because reg variables store values and input ports should not store values but simply reflect the changes in the external signals they are connected to. Note that the module fulladd4 in Example 4-3 can be declared using an ANSI C style syntax to specify the ports of that module. Each declared port provides the complete information about the port. Example 4-5 shows this alternate syntax. This syntax avoids the duplication of naming the ports in both the module definition statement and the module port list definitions. If a port is declared but no data type is specified, then, under specific circumstances, the signal will default to a wire data type. Example 4-5 ANSI C Style Port Declaration Syntax module fulladd4(output reg [3:0] sum, output reg c_out, input [3:0] a, b, //wire by default input c_in); //wire by default ... ... endmodule 4.2.3 Port Connection Rules One can visualize a port as consisting of two units, one unit that is internal to the module and another that is external to the module. The internal and external units are connected. There are rules governing port connections when modules are instantiated within other modules. The Verilog simulator complains if any port connection rules are violated. These rules are summarized in Figure 4-4. Figure 4-4. Port Connection Rules
- Inputs Internally, input ports must always be of the type net. Externally, the inputs can be connected to a variable which is a reg or a net. Outputs Internally, outputs ports can be of the type reg or net. Externally, outputs must always be connected to a net. They cannot be connected to a reg. Inouts Internally, inout ports must always be of the type net. Externally, inout ports must always be connected to a net. Width matching It is legal to connect internal and external items of different sizes when making inter- module port connections. However, a warning is typically issued that the widths do not match. Unconnected ports Verilog allows ports to remain unconnected. For example, certain output ports might be simply for debugging, and you might not be interested in connecting them to the external signals. You can let a port remain unconnected by instantiating a module as shown below. fulladd4 fa0(SUM, , A, B, C_IN); // Output port c_out is unconnected
- Example of illegal port connection To illustrate port connection rules, assume that the module fulladd4 in Example 4-3 is instantiated in the stimulus block Top. Example 4-6 shows an illegal port connection. Example 4-6 Illegal Port Connection module Top; //Declare connection variables reg [3:0]A,B; reg C_IN; reg [3:0] SUM; wire C_OUT; //Instantiate fulladd4, call it fa0 fulladd4 fa0(SUM, C_OUT, A, B, C_IN); //Illegal connection because output port sum in module fulladd4 //is connected to a register variable SUM in module Top. . . . . endmodule This problem is rectified if the variable SUM is declared as a net (wire). 4.2.4 Connecting Ports to External Signals There are two methods of making connections between signals specified in the module instantiation and the ports in a module definition. These two methods cannot be mixed. These methods are discussed in the following sections. Connecting by ordered list Connecting by ordered list is the most intuitive method for most beginners. The signals to be connected must appear in the module instantiation in the same order as the ports in the port list in the module definition. Once again, consider the module fulladd4 defined in Example 4-3. To connect signals in module Top by ordered list, the Verilog code is shown in Example 4-7. Notice that the external signals SUM, C_OUT, A, B, and C_IN appear in exactly the same order as the ports sum, c_out, a, b, and c_in in module
- definition of fulladd4. Example 4-7 Connection by Ordered List module Top; //Declare connection variables reg [3:0]A,B; reg C_IN; wire [3:0] SUM; wire C_OUT; //Instantiate fulladd4, call it fa_ordered. //Signals are connected to ports in order (by position) fulladd4 fa_ordered(SUM, C_OUT, A, B, C_IN); ... ... endmodule module fulladd4(sum, c_out, a, b, c_in); output[3:0] sum; output c_cout; input [3:0] a, b; input c_in; ... ... endmodule Connecting ports by name For large designs where modules have, say, 50 ports, remembering the order of the ports in the module definition is impractical and error-prone. Verilog provides the capability to connect external signals to ports by the port names, rather than by position. We could connect the ports by name in Example 4-7 above by instantiating the module fulladd4, as follows. Note that you can specify the port connections in any order as long as the port name in the module definition correctly matches the external signal. // Instantiate module fa_byname and connect signals to ports by name fulladd4 fa_byname(.c_out(C_OUT), .sum(SUM), .b(B), .c_in(C_IN), .a(A),);
- Note that only those ports that are to be connected to external signals must be specified in port connection by name. Unconnected ports can be dropped. For example, if the port c_out were to be kept unconnected, the instantiation of fulladd4 would look as follows. The port c_out is simply dropped from the port list. // Instantiate module fa_byname and connect signals to ports by name fulladd4 fa_byname(.sum(SUM), .b(B), .c_in(C_IN), .a(A),); Another advantage of connecting ports by name is that as long as the port name is not changed, the order of ports in the port list of a module can be rearranged without changing the port connections in module instantiations. [ Team LiB ]
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Brotherly and Sisterly Love
There was a time a couple years back when we had an interesting circle of love among the children. Lucy, our youngest, was absolutely enthralled with Simon. Simon thought his older brother Oscar was the end all, be all. And Oscar was completely in love with little Lucy.
Granted, that time wasn't perfect. No one got their feelings completely reciprocated. But these days things have gotten a bit more challenging as their individual affections have shifted.
Now, Oscar and Simon have a veritable brotherly love fest 24-7. Simon likes all the same things his awesome big brother Oscar does. Oscar thinks Simon is the most cuddle-able little boy ever (which IS completely accurate).
But poor Lucy is more or less left on the outside.
Sometimes it is not that big of a deal. She has slightly different play interests and sometimes likes just doing her own thing. Other times she can be quite content just to sit on the sidelines and enjoy watching as Simon and Oscar play together. But once in a while, she is sad when they don't include her in their games or listen to her comments.
As a parent, I find this completely heartbreaking.
If Lucy were being left out by a group of friends at school, I would feel her pain. I would wish I could do something to make it better and to help her classmates see how amazing she is and want to include her. I would tell her that no matter what happened at school or in life, she is always loved and wanted and included at home.
Sadly, when she is being left out at home, it seems like the pain is magnified. Her pain might be the same, but mine is significantly sharper watching her suffer at hands of my own sons.
I once explained to some students how I understood parenthood as an amazing lesson in the expansive nature of divine love. When we only had one child, I couldn't conceive of how I could possibly love another child as much as I loved Oscar. I was even a little nervous about how I would "divide" my love between Oscar and another child. Then when Simon was born, I understood. As parents, we don't divide our love. I love Oscar fully, 100%, and without reservation. AND at the same time, I love Simon fully, 100%, and without reservation. Then when Lucy came along , the same became true for her as well.
The thing is, parental love is different from brotherly love. I love them all fully and completely. I see their beauty even when they behave in distinctly un-beautiful ways. I give them the benefit of the doubt.
And that is the crux of it, I think. They don't give one another the benefit of the doubt. If something one of them does or says to the other can be interpreted poorly, it will be. They cannot see beyond perceived slights and keep hold of the bigger family picture. I am left wondering if this is a natural function of their age, or if there is much more I need to be doing as a parent to show them how precious each of them is and how essential it is that they love each other well.
Likely, the answer is "both": this could be a function of their age and I could do more as a parent.
Their actions and depth of understanding reflect their very specific developmental stages. To acknowledge that in our day-to-day struggles, I need to be gentle with myself and with them—I need to recognize that in their youth they not only see in black and white, they also see narrowly and cannot conceive fully of the big picture.
I also need to take opportunities, not simply to correct or reprimand them, but to offer some sense of why they need to behave differently. I need to give witness to the type of generous love we hope our family embodies: both by loving them as God does and also by naming the expansive, self-sacrificing nature of God's love.


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A lot changed in 2015. I sold and wrote my first cookbook, Bowls of Plenty, a book on healthy, delicious grain bowls (not to be confused with health food) that will be published in in 2017. I paid off my debts. My step-dad, who raised me, left the world after a long and rich life, two friends died young of alcoholism, and a few more acquaintances' lives got cut short, which is at once sad and also a reminder of how seriously we have to take this business of enjoying life.
And then, of course, there are the things that remain the same: I wrote a cookbook for a celebrity I'd never heard of. I wrote a third cookbook for Nancy Silverton, out this fall, it's called Mozza at Home. And I woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to make my annual New Year's lentils, which, according to the Italian tradition, if eaten on New Years, will, because of the coin-like shape of the lentils, bring said eater prosperity in the year ahead. I've written about this before, as you can read here, but lentils, like life, change over time. The most significant change in this recipe is that I doubled it, so I can share the hope of good fortune with those around me.
Here's to your wealth! Until next year.
Prosperity Lentils
Makes 6 quarts, or enough for at least 12 lucky, prosperous family and friends.
Extra-virgin olive oil
2 or 3 Spanish onions, diced
Kosher salt
4 or 5 celery stalks, diced small
6 or more carrots, diced small
1 small can tomato paste
1/4 pound prosciutto, pancetta, or bacon (or more, I use whatever bacon I had in the bacon drawer; I've never heard anyone say, "There's too much bacon in the lentils.")
A handful of peeled garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2 pounds lentils (preferably Umbrian)
4 quarts chicken stock, plus more stock or water as needed
Pour enough olive oil into a soup pot to cover the bottom generously and begin to heat it over medium heat. Add the onions (I add as I chop) and sprinkle them with salt. Cook the onions, stirring often so they don't brown, for about 10 minutes. Add the celery and carrots (again, I add as I chop here) and sprinkle them with salt. At this point, if you happen to have an arbol chile pod, fresh thyme, fresh rosemary, or a bay leaf hanging around (which I do in my tiny patio garden), throw those in. These things will add what chefs call "layers of flavor" to the lentils. But they won't make or break the dish so I don't want you to go out and buy them just for this. Saute the veggies for about 10 minutes for about 10 minutes, stirring often: the point is to soften but not brown them. While the veggies are cooking, combine the bacon, garlic, and a big glug of olive oil in a food processor and pulse until what you're looking at is a lumpy, uneven paste. (If you use a mini, you may want to do it in two batches.) Dump the contents of the food processor into the pot with the veggies and saute for about 5 minutes, until the fat has been rendered (that's melted) from the bacon and you begin to get a whiff of sauteed garlic. Move all the stff in the pan to one side and add scoop the tomato paste out of the can and into the space you just made in the pan. Cook the tomato paste for a few minutes to cook off the raw tomato flavor. (I'm not sure if this makes any difference, really, but no harm in trying.) Add the lentils and stock, bring the liquid to a boil, reduce the heat, and simmer the lentils until they are tender. This takes about an hour.
Serve the lentils with good olive oil drizzled on top. According to Italian tradition, you're supposed to eat them with cotecchino, an Italian meat product that comes in a box, lasts, unrefrigerated, for generations, and that Italians seem to love almost as much as they love their mothers. To me, it tastes like Spam, so I skip it. My sister-in-law, who is Sicilian, likes to add pasta to her lentils. Since this year was all about grains, I added wild rice. Add what you want. The important thing is that you eat the lentils.
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Today I will talk about a hair serum that I have been using for about 6 months now and having used it in different weather conditions and in combination with different shampoos, I think I am now in a position to do a proper review.
Product name: Organix Renewing Moroccan Argan Penetrating Oil Review
Quantity: 100ml
Price: Rs. 625
Where I bought it from: Dorabjee's, Pune.
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My Take on the product: The product is a clear liquid, slippery and silicon-y to the touch. I love the smell of it, nice and fresh and light. It is more runny in consistency than your average hair serum, say the Livon silky potion.
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To be honest, I bought it because it supposedly has Argan oil in it and beauty gurus all over the world rave about how great Argan oil is for your hair. As a hair oil, for me, this product does not impress. It is essentially a glorified hair serum and on that point, it does deliver. It detangles my hair wonderfully but using a bit too much of the product weighs down my hair and makes it oily. In any case, in the ingredients list, Argan oil is quite a way down, indicating the product does not contain Argan oil as its principal ingredient as the name would suggest.
I prefer to use it on towel dried damp hair and apply it from mid-lengths to the tips, avoiding the scalp. I only need to use it sparingly for it to add a beautiful shine to my hair. It is also supposed to be protect your hair from damages while styling but since I don't use curling irons or straighteners, I really can't comment on it.
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Overall verdict: While I like this product as a serum, I think the name is misleading. For a product which is called 'Renewing Moroccan Argan Penetrating Oil', I think it falls short on the nourishing department. I have used elixirs and masks which have given my hair better love and care. I would use it as a hair serum till I finish it, since I like it better than the Livon or Loreal serums. However, I will keep searching for a better hair care supplement in the meanwhile. For the price it comes at, I probably won't repurchase this.


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Spiritual life is like living water
that springs up from the very depths
of our own spiritual experience.
In spiritual life everyone has to drink
from his or her own well.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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A campaign launched by major business interests in Atlanta, with the active assistance of elected officials, city administrators and other "civic" organizations, is attempting to evict the metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless from its home.
For 30 years, the Task Force has been a fierce advocate for the rights of poor people to decent shelter, life-sustaining employment, accessible health care and respect. Formed at the initiative of Atlanta's first African-American mayor, Andrew Young, for a number of years the Task Force functioned as a homeless services resource center and oversaw the disbursement of federal grants to service providers.
In the period leading up to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, the downtown business community stepped up its efforts to rid the hotel, convention and tourist areas of poor people, particularly Black men. Compliant elected officials enacted "quality of life" ordinances that criminalized the poor. Homeless people were given one-way bus tickets out of town, and the neighborhoods where low-income Black workers and seniors lived were bulldozed for Olympic stadiums and parks. All the while, Atlanta's reputation as the home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the mecca of Black America was ballyhooed internationally by the image-conscious, corporate public relations machine.
Two days before the Olympics opening ceremony, the Task Force filed and eventually won a lawsuit charging racial discrimination in the ordinances that targeted homeless African-American men. That courageous action earned them the enmity of the Chamber of Commerce, various other business interests and their political allies.
During the administration of Mayor Shirley Franklin in 2002-2010, all of Atlanta's large public housing was torn down. Some of these large tracts of land remain empty fields to this day, while on others developers built "mixed income" housing. Most poor families were channeled into the Section 8 voucher program, providing a boon to unscrupulous landlords and speculators. High utility bills, nonrenewal of vouchers and record-breaking unemployment have led many into eviction, homelessness or resettlement in suburbs that lack public transportation and other services.
The Task Force was again in the forefront of publicly condemning these projects, many of which favored the building of housing for the new surge of suburbanites moving into the city. The plan conformed to a long-sought-after goal by corporate interests to change the racial, political and economic demographics of Atlanta.
Building a central resource for the homeless
In 1997, a progressive philanthropist bought a large unused building at the corner of Peachtree Street and Pine, at that time a somewhat run-down area of Atlanta's well-known main street in midtown Atlanta. She immediately donated it to the Task Force, which envisioned the multifloored building as a central resource for all the services needed to aid homeless and poor people. Included in the plan was long- and short-term residential housing.
The building required extensive renovation to make it habitable. The Task Force, which had been disbursing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funds for years to others, now was obstructed from receiving federal grants. Undaunted, a mortgage was secured, the necessary repairs were made, and the Task Force began operating out of the facility.
For 14 years, the Peachtree-Pine facility has maintained a 24-hour hotline; placed people in emergency, temporary and permanent housing; helped secure identification, Veterans Affairs benefits and food stamps; done job counseling and résumé preparation; assisted placement in addiction treatment facilities; and provided a day shelter in a cavernous room, so homeless men could escape the elements of heat, rain and cold. Each night 500 to 1,000 men sleep within its walls. Peachtree-Pine also provides computer training, bicycle repair, a clothes closet, library, roof garden and art studio. Every year, thousands have been assisted out of homelessness or been given lifesaving shelter by the Task Force.
Despite these accomplishments, the big business and government campaign against the Task Force has managed to strip it of all of its public funding and most of its large private donations.
A federal judge recently revoked an injunction that had prevented the city of Atlanta from turning off the water at the facility. Lawyers for the Task Force had argued that it was the actions by the city to block funding that prevented the payment of the bill. Although the Task Force owes more than $147,000, there are developers and others, including the city itself, with even larger unpaid water bills that do not face a cutoff.
In an attempt to expose the machinations of the corporate class that more and more openly runs the city of Atlanta, the Task Force filed numerous lawsuits. The most earth-shattering suit names the city of Atlanta, the Chamber of Commerce, Central Atlanta Progress, Cousins Properties, Emory University and the United Way, among others, of engaging in a criminal conspiracy to obstruct funding, engineer a fraudulent foreclosure of the building and displace Black men from Peachtree Street. The depositions of well-known business leaders, city officials, members of the media and representatives of charities, churches and foundations reveal a shocking story of lies, financial intimidation, blatant collusion and the use of racist imagery to undermine the existence of the Task Force at its Peachtree location.
The concern is that the court proceedings, where all this information can come out, are being delayed while the threats to the shelter are escalating.
A Fulton County Superior Court judge issued a dispossessory judgment last week allowing the eviction of the Task Force from the building, but then reversed his order on Oct. 21. The building and its location on Peachtree Street are worth millions of dollars, but a phony "charity" instigated by the Chamber of Commerce bought the mortgage for a pittance and then immediately foreclosed on the Task Force. Declaring that "this deal smelled" to him, for more than a year and a half Judge Craig Schwall had prevented the new "owner" from taking possession of the building while the issue was being litigated. Within a week of the Task Force's lawsuit being filed against Emory, Schwall took it upon himself to abruptly allow the eviction. When Task Force lawyers filed an appeal, he just as quickly reversed himself.
On Oct. 14, participants of Occupy Atlanta, including numerous homeless men and women, marched from their encampment in Troy Davis Park (formerly known as Woodruff Park) in militant solidarity with the Task Force. Taking the northbound lanes of Peachtree Street during the evening rush hour, they focused their outrage at Emory University and Emory Healthcare, which operates a hospital across the street from the shelter. Chanting, "Emory hates the poor, kicks the homeless out the door!" they amassed at the front doors of the medical building, part of a very wealthy private institution funded with huge donations from Coca-Cola. The hospital administration has barred Black men they think are homeless or residents at Peachtree-Pine from entering the food court, which is frequented by many nonhospital users.
The men who shelter at the Task Force building have declared themselves as "Occupy Peachtree" and vow they will not be removed from their home. They have offered an open invitation to Occupy Atlanta to use the facility in any efforts to bring justice to those victimized by the profit-driven banks and corporations.
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Ellis was waived by the Pacers on Wednesday, Shams Charania of The Vertical reports. Ellis, who was slapped with a five-game suspension in mid-June for violation of the league's anti-drug policy, has been waived by the Pacers. The move isn't too surprising, as the subtraction of Paul George has all but drained Indiana of their playoff hopes and thrust them into a rebuilding effort. Ellis, a 31-year-old veteran, likely wouldn't have seen much playing time anyway, as the trade that sent George to Oklahoma City also brought in Victor Oladipo, a young shooting guard who could command upwards of 30 to 35 minutes a night.
Ellis has been suspended five games by the NBA for a violation of the league's anti-drug policy, Sam Amico of Fox Sports Ohio reports. The NBA announced the suspension in a press release Friday but did not provide any further details. Assuming Ellis isn't able to get the suspension reduced, he'll be required sit out the first five games of the 2017-18 season. Following the news, the Pacers issued the following statement: "Monta's suspension is a very serious matter to our franchise and it will be dealt with accordingly." At this point, it's unclear if Ellis will face any further discipline from the team.
Ellis will move to the bench for Thursday's Game 3 against Cleveland, Scott Agness of Vigilant Sports reports. Ellis has averaged just 6.5 points, 2.0 assists, and 3.0 rebounds while playing 26.5 minutes per game in two playoff starts thus far. His slow start has resulted in C.J. Miles getting the starting nod in Game 3. Look for Ellis to see a slightly reduced role while coming off the bench. It's unclear if Ellis will return to the starting lineup or come off the bench in Sunday's Game 4.
Ellis compiled eight points (3-6 FG, 1-4 3Pt, 1-4 FT), five steals, one block, one rebound and one assist across 24 minutes during Thursday's 104-89 victory over the Bucks. Though he's made an impressive defensive leap since joining the starting five March 26 -- averaging 2.0 steals and 1.0 blocks per game since then -- Ellis has been largely underwhelming on the offensive side of the ball, averaging 8.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists across 30.0 minutes per game while knocking down 42.4 percent of his shots. While the 31-year-old Ellis has demonstrated throughout his career that he's a capable scorer, he's taking a backseat to the likes of Paul George, Jeff Teague and Myles Turner this season, regardless of his spot in the rotation. While Ellis could be worth a pickup off the wire for those in quick need of defensive statistics, his offensive struggles may offset those benefits.
Ellis will start at shooting guard for Sunday's game against the 76ers. Coach Nate McMillan said he was hoping to play a little faster Sunday, which was his reasoning for inserting Ellis into the top unit. C.J. Miles will head to the bench in the corresponding move and could see a slight down tick in minutes. In 23 previous starts this season, Ellis has averaged 9.3 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists across 31.2 minutes.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's big banks are set to report possibly their last set of bumper profits in coming weeks as weak economic expansion, shrinking deposits and a more competitive interest rate market point to more modest earnings growth in the future.
The so-called "Big Four" — Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1398.HK), China Construction Bank (CCB) (0939.HK), Agricultural Bank of China Ltd (AgBank) (1288.HK) and Bank of China (3988.HK) — are due to report their first-half earnings between August 23 and August 30.
"The last solid results, with a bumpy road ahead," said Deutsche analyst Tracy Yu. "We remain cautious on the Chinese banks, although solid first-half results might be supporting of the share price in the short term."
Profit growth is already slowing down.
ICBC (601398.SS), the world's biggest bank by market capitalization, is expected to say first-half net profit rose 15 percent from a year earlier, a Reuters survey of nine analysts shows. But that would be almost half the pace it reported for the first half of 2011.
The slowdown became even more pronounced in the second-quarter, when analysts estimate net profit growth slowed down to 9.5 percent, or 60.98 billion yuan.
CCB (601939.SS) and AgBank (601288.SS) are expected to report second-quarter net profit growth of 11 percent and 19 percent, respectively. Fourth-ranked Bank of China (601988.SS) is likely to post a 4 percent rise in quarterly profit.
A seemingly endless flow of deposits insulated China's major banks from poor lending decisions in recent years. They could rely on government-set fixed net interest margins and a steady economic growth rate of at least 10 percent.
But the banking landscape is changing.
Deposit growth has slowed down, partly because of outflows to investment products that offer higher returns. Since the start of 2011, banks have suffered net monthly declines in yuan deposits five times, compared with just once between 2002 and 2010.
This year the central bank raised the competitive stakes by giving banks more leeway to set their own deposit and lending rates. Commercial banks can now set deposit rates at up to 1.2 times the benchmark central bank rate.
"Margins will likely fall more in the second half of this year, partly because of the interest rate liberalization we're seeing," said Tan Yuansheng, president of Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank (3618.HK), which reported a 25 percent jump in its first-half earnings on August 17.
The net interest spread has tightened to just 0.9 percent, based on the lowest permissible lending rates and highest permissible deposit rates, from more than 3 percent as recently as June.
Economic growth is seen sliding this year to around 8 percent, its worst showing since 1999, feeding expectations of a rise in bad loans, currently running at less than 1 percent. Some sectors are already feeling the pinch.
More than 20 steel traders have been taken to court by lenders such as China Minsheng Bank (1988.HK) over debt defaults in the past two months. Such court action has been rare in China.
The hangover from the lending spree sparked by China's 4 trillion stimulus package during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009 is also now weighing.
Bad loans are now likely to rise to about 3-5 percent as some of those loans come due, said Gigi Chan, who manages the China Opportunities Fund at Threadneedle.
"You just don't see so many roads to nowhere anymore," she said.
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Niraj Patel, chief information officer of GMAC Commercial Mortgage, is the first to admit that automating technology can be a little disconcerting, even to technologists.
After all, if GMAC's network and data centers really run with minimum supervision, Patel may not be needed. You could hire a manager who's good at toggling the controls and put the rest on autopilot.
Fewer servers mean fewer people to manage them. Is a CIO really necessary?
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His method: "firehosing." It works like this. Say a project manager is used to managing five projects at a time. You assign him 15. "You just open up the faucet and push more work," Patel explains. "With that much work, you have to think of a different way to get it done."
The overload forces project managers to delegate work, automate manual tasks and revamp processes. "The downside is people do drown," Patel says. "But most step up in our culture."
Will technologists automate themselves out of the picture? Probably not, according to Monsour.
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I'm Moving...My House is Possessed
27 comments:
- Parsley said...
Eek! Monkeys are scary!
Seriously though, I hope she doesn't get sick eating them. I have a dog that unstuffs them but doesn't eat them.
- July 23, 2013 at 7:17:00 PM CDT
- Anna van Schurman said...
When we first got Stella (four years ago now) we bought her a Nylabone--they come two to a pack. We got her beef and chicken. The beef one was buried somewhere and in four years we have NEVER found it. (I know right where the chicken one is.) I bet when they are packing us up to put us in the home, they'll find a random beef Nylabone in some totally unexpected place. But for now, I will just go along with you...the house is haunted! :)
- July 23, 2013 at 8:30:00 PM CDT
- Lillie said...
LOL! for a minute I thot it's for real :D:D
I hope Molly has a strong tummy.
Have a good day!
- July 23, 2013 at 8:53:00 PM CDT
That is creepy...my husband said the dog and monkey are conspiring against you?
Keep us posted...I would move right away!
- July 23, 2013 at 8:54:00 PM CDT
- Catherine said...
Lol!! At least it's not a flying monkey like the ones in Oz! Those creep me out!
- July 23, 2013 at 8:57:00 PM CDT
- Pam in IL said...
I'm speechless or scared or something... I had a monkey like that when I was a kid and it disappeared one day...
just sayin'
- July 23, 2013 at 9:01:00 PM CDT
- Magpie's Mumblings said...
So funny! Our Odin used to take all the stuffing out of every toy before he would condescend to actually play with it. Don't know what that dog had against stuffing!
- July 23, 2013 at 9:40:00 PM CDT
- Laura said...
If/when the monkey starts chattering at you, then you know you're in REAL trouble! Good luck! :)
- July 23, 2013 at 9:44:00 PM CDT
- Mouse said...
ohhhhh dear ... we have evil ted ... and Master Bentley unstuff's toys to get the stuffing out and spread it all over the house and the squeak too but so far not eaten them ... well at least we haven't noticed .... we found large plastic bottles are good as the can't chew those tooo much .. just watch the caps though .. good luck in finding pooch proof toys :) love mouse xxxxx
- July 24, 2013 at 1:25:00 AM CDT
- Deb~Paxton Valley Folk Art said...
LOL, glad to hear you don't have to move although that monkey is pretty creepy looking! We have a toy eater as well, she devours everything from the stuffing to the squeaky to the furry outside. As soon as we see the stuffing flying we have to take it away so she won't inhale it. The pet store loves us, new toy buying trips are at least a monthly affair around here! Happy squeaky shopping and keep an eye on that monkey!
- July 24, 2013 at 1:36:00 AM CDT
- Loubie69 said...
This brought a smile to my face this morning. Love your dog, such a cutie.
- July 24, 2013 at 1:43:00 AM CDT
- Tammy B said...
wow thats one scary monkey!!
- July 24, 2013 at 2:31:00 AM CDT
- Christine said...
LOL, that monkey does have a creepy vibe...
- July 24, 2013 at 3:21:00 AM CDT
- Melissa said...
Good Luck with the move ;) PS: I LOVE the Supernatural reference!!!! I'd would come up with any excuse to get those two boys in my house ahah!
- July 24, 2013 at 7:03:00 AM CDT
- Vickie said...
So glad to see Molly. =)
- July 24, 2013 at 7:32:00 AM CDT
- Irene said...
Make sure the Monkey doesn't follow you ... it might not be attached to the house!
Crazy chewy dog ... so cute though.
- July 24, 2013 at 7:34:00 AM CDT
- The Inspired Stitcher said...
Oh yes, Miss Shelby is a super chewing toy destroyer too. So far we've had good luck with the Kong products and a squirrel that came *without* stuffing. We call it the road kill squirrel! Good luck!
- July 24, 2013 at 9:09:00 AM CDT
- Bernadett Rauski said...
I wish all the best...:)
- July 24, 2013 at 12:28:00 PM CDT
- Brigitte said...
Oh my, that monkey situation is giving me the creeps, LOL.
- July 25, 2013 at 3:35:00 AM CDT
- Rachel S-H said...
Ugh, toy eaters. And when you find one they can't chew through, inevitably, the maker will stop making it. I used to sew them up. We had a couple walking wounded snowmen from the twins' puppyhood, I'd just sew their head arm or leg gashes back up, hopefully before the puppy grabbed at them, LOL.
- July 25, 2013 at 10:19:00 AM CDT
- maggiegracecreates said...
I have a large boxer mix dog. I woke up one morning to him throwing up. I get up and discover he has eaten an entire skein of yarn --- whole and intact.
add to that his main mission in life is to unstuff stuffed toys.
He doesn't eat the stuffing - just scatters it.
- July 25, 2013 at 12:49:00 PM CDT
- Sara said...
I've got an American Bulldog whose mission in life is to kill the squeaker in every toy he owns and then proceed to unstuff it all over the floor. He never eats it either which is funny because poor DH finds all sorts of other things while cleaning up the back yard. He has a strange love for dryer sheets and those plastic wrappers for the go-gurt our son likes.
- July 25, 2013 at 7:29:00 PM CDT
- Minnie said...
When ever the DH and I are in the pet store and see a cute toy, we make guesses as to how long it will last with Bud. He will find the weakest spot in the stitching and then chew and tear until he gets a hole big enough to pull the stuffing out. It usually only takes a couple of hours. Most of the time we only buy the rope toys there is no stuffing.
- July 25, 2013 at 10:55:00 PM CDT
- Lynn said...
I've never had a dog, only cats. Now they aren't quite that bad about eating their toys but Clarisse has been known to remove the rabbit fur from her fur mice and devour it. She must have devoured it because we've never seen it and all her fur mice are now bald! She also likes to drown them in her water dish.
- July 26, 2013 at 9:21:00 PM CDT
- Julie said...
Sorry, but this post made me giggle, thanks xxx
- July 29, 2013 at 12:56:00 PM CDT
- Sandra said...
Well, at least Molly is not eating your clothes... I sent a "Diablos de Yare" T-shirt to my brotherShe ATE the shirt lol My brother was so mad, but most of all because he could't scold her for something she did hours ago. I'm still looking for another one like it, for now I'm sending a "Metro de Caracas" T-shirt. Hope this time he take better care of it lol
- July 31, 2013 at 9:14:00 PM CDT
- geeky Heather said...
LOL!! Good thing you have Molly to protect you!!
- August 9, 2013 at 9:38:00 AM CDT


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The posts on the "What Cookies are you making this year?" thread have inspired me to perhaps try spritz cookies. I've got my mother's old Mirro press, still in the original box, which I have never used since she gave it to me (but remember making cookies with her when I was a girl). Fortunately, I have the instruction booklet, which includes a number of recipes. But does anyone have any recipes and/or tips for a novice Spritz cookie maker? Right now I am leaning towards a recipe called "Orange Crips," as I've already made cut-out sugar/butter cookies and am inclined towards a different flavor profile.
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