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Hold On to Your Dicks: Every Ridiculous Thing I Saw at the Porn Awards
"Hold on to your DICKS!" yells Dana DeArmond, porn star and red carpet host for the 2015 AVN awards. She's practicing her inflection. "You're about to get blasted!"
She tries again. "You're about to get BLASTED!" And again. "Hold on TO YOUR dicks! YOU'RE about TO get BLASTED!" One more time, for emphasis: "HOLD ON TO YOUR DICKS!"
The AVN Awards are the Biggest Night in Porn (TM?), and I'm standing in front of DeArmond, who is rigorously figuring out exactly how she's going to make it clear that everyone's dicks will need holding this evening. In between practice runs, she does vocal exercises, alternating "hold onto your dicks" with an almost feral "AWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOO" that forces a couple of people setting up on the red carpet to turn around to establish that no one is hurt.
As of yet, no one is. But if DeArmond's predictions are correct, at least one person will end this awards show with one less dick than they arrived with.
In a fluke occurrence, I have convinced Beverly—the woman running the show—that I am very important and should be given a press pass that says "roaming." Only one other reporter has one, and the two of us can come and go as we please while everyone else has to stand at their pre-ordained spot behind the stanchions. This contributes to my feeling that this red carpet event is very, very exclusive, which is both heightened and undercut by the reminders to 1) act respectable and 2) not be drunk.
According to the email I received about the AVNs—which included a look book and a suggestion that I not ask what each performer is nominated for because "we don't have all night, people"—over 500 media outlets were denied the opportunity to cover it and those of us who made the cut—the cream of the crop, if you will—were to act accordingly.
In preparation, I got a $50 haircut, a $25 beard trim, and a $200 massage. None of this could be expensed, so you know I mean business. That's also why I chose to listen to my editors and forewent the bright blue tux I was planning to wear — my partner/official event photographer Allen would have worn orange — to the festivities.
"You don't want to scare people," Erin Gloria Ryan told me when I asked about this, so I'm wearing a button down, a jacket, and flop sweat. And I'm living a glorious nightmare in technicolor, because the porn awards are like nothing I've been to before.
Being allowed to roam means both that I am free to do whatever I want and also that I have no idea what I want to do, where to stand, who to talk to. While my other blogger friends (I have made many this week) chat with each other on the sidelines, I wander about and get in everyone's way until Beverly mistakes my utter incompetence for either boredom or malice and drags me to what appears to be a quieter, more VIP area. Here, I can not only see the stars as they walk towards the theater but join in their reindeer games. I'm allowed to lumber between red carpet and the pre-show cocktail party, bothering everyone with questions as they try to have a few drinks before the big event. The crying, I should note, has already started.
"Please, please," a woman whimpers behind me as she runs down the hall in a sparkly gown, "no pictures! I'm not ready!" I oblige her, partly because I'm following the rules and partly because I have no idea who she is and don't think it would be polite to chase after her and ask.
On the other side of me is an older woman in a beautiful evening gown. I try to introduce myself and she shakes my hand limply, not telling me who she is. Actually, she's clearly a little annoyed I don't know who she is. I take a bad photo of her and send it to a friend asking "Who's this?"
"That's Lisa Ann, you idiot!" my friend texts back almost immediately. "Queen MILF! I hope you're not just spending the entire evening fucking up like this."
The sneaky photo I took of Lisa Ann, whom I mistook for Kyle Richards. My bad, Lisa Ann! My bad!
But I am. I am spending my entire evening fucking up like this.
"Have you ever farted on set?" I ask Mia Malkova as she hurtles down the carpet at me.
"Yes, but I always blame my queefs on the other girls," she laughs.
"I meant like the butt kind of farting," I say. "Like when you're having sex but you have gas. Like if you ate a big lunch." I am genuinely interested in this, because it's a problem I've had in the past. If I'm going to leave the red carpet with anything, it's practical knowledge on how to avoid sexual faux pas.
Mia Malkova and husband Danny Mountain, whose name I sincerely hope was inspired by the outdoor activities superstore Any Mountain.
"Oh yeah," Malkova says. "All the time. Then I just say 'I farted!'"
"Is that what I should do?" I ask her. "Sometimes I have this problem, too. Should I just own it?" Maybe I shouldn't have taken the beta-blocker before I came here. Maybe a little anxiety would have prevented me from asking things like this.
"Just own it," she says and excuses herself to get a drink, like any sane person would. I walk over to the only other roaming blogger, Rachel Rabbit White, and suggest we go to the cocktail party together so we can tag team our interviews.
"You're from Jezebel, though," she says. "Like I'm going to ask weird questions and you're going to be asking like political questions and stuff." I don't correct her, even though the toughest question I've asked tonight is about farting. Another reporter has already asked Mia Malkova whether she'd kill Osama Bin Laden or Hitler if she had one bullet. I, unfortunately, did not hear what she said.
Rachel is here to find a sex party to crash, and while you'd think that this place would be full of them, the only person willing to take her to one is a dude with 90s hair who says that yes, there will be a sex party after the show, but that it will only consist of him and her. She passes. We meander through the hardcore carpet, looking for people to answer the important questions, like "Who are you wearing?" Over and over the answer is "I don't know." That's a popular designer—I'm wearing him, too.
(The environment is tame in terms of drug offerings. Rachel tells me that she joked that she'd love some cocaine to keep her up and a man in a gold jacket offered her some, immediately demanding she pay him up front.)
For me, the biggest delight of the evening is Evan Stone, who is three thousand years old in porn years (but only actually in his 50s) and has been in more adult films than anyone can count. I remember him from all the scrambled movies I watched on The Spice Channel as a kid and I tell him that. He claps me on the back and says he's been fucking since before my balls dropped and that he's probably had sex with every woman I've jacked it to. He laughs maniacally.
"Uh, I think I've jacked it to you, actually," I tell him nervously and he pulls me in for a hug. He's the nicest guy ever (everyone here is very nice, except Ron Jeremy) and when the guy next to me says "You're the best, man! I wish we could have a few beers together," Stone rattles off his phone number to him, which I get on tape.
"Evan Stone is the motherfucking MAN!" is a refrain I hear more than once this evening.
"How do you stay so up?" I ask Stone. "I've been here for two hours and I kind of want to die." This is an obviously shared sentiment. Around me, many female performers have taken off their heels and are sitting on the floor. Nina Hartley is crouched down next to a beautiful woman who is crawling along the adult industry's "walk of fame" and laughing like she's gone mad in The Hunger Games. It's a scene.
"Coffee," Stone says. "Coffee keeps me up!" He laughs maniacally again, and says he can get me some coffee too. I tell him I don't drink it before I realize the coffee he's joking about is probably cocaine. I don't do that either. I like to think of myself as a grumpy and restrained person, but the reality is that, if I snorted cocaine, I'd have to be pried off the ceiling. I'd be up all night and the rest of the week.
With only 45 minutes to go before the show starts, Rachel and I head to collect our tickets from Beverly, who is devastated to tell us that she has only one for each of us. I whine about my photographer. "Him or you," says Beverly. I want to argue further, but I am a little afraid she will actually murder me. I also want her to be my best friend. I also want the tickets. It's a conflicted time.
"It's gonna be me," I say. I laugh at my fun reference and then text Allen the news. He's been taking photos out on the red carpet and is not pleased that he's going to have to go back to the hotel after hours of work. It's not fair to him, and I promise to buy him some nachos later.
Then, Sunny Megatron and her husband Ken appear in the distance like a ray of hope. They have extra tickets, and they hand them to Rachel. Suddenly we have four tickets between us and after we thank Sunny, Ken and Paul Fishbein—the founder of The AVNs and the one handing out extra tickets—we conspire on how to get them out to our partners.
We choose to do it in the best way possible: by accidentally going down the red carpet, the wrong way.
As we rush out to the lobby we are suddenly overtaken by flashes and a crush of fans. Oh shit. We're getting photographed. "DUCK!" I yell at Rachel! "Run!"
And suddenly we're crouched over and running and trying to explain to everyone that we're not the ones who should be photographed.
"Please," I shout at the fans, "Please stop taking photos! I'm not in porn!" Then, feeling guilty that I'd thrown Rachel under the bus I shout, "We're not in porn! We're bloggers! You don't want to do this!"
There's nothing that I can do to accurately describe this moment of terror. My life flashes before my eyes and while I know I wasn't going to die, I also didn't know how I would explain to anyone, let alone Beverly, that we had hijacked the red carpet. We did not stick around to see if she found out.
The rest of the night is a blur. Allen and I get to our seats and watch half the show, which was a lot more than other people could say. (The official after-parties, which traditionally begin after an event is complete, start an hour into the AVNs, so people are constantly coming and going.) From our third-floor perch Allen and I watch performer after performer cry as they accept award for Best Anal and Best Girl-Girl Scene. While the people around us cheer and clap as their favorite performers come up on stage—if they're there; sometimes they aren't—Allen and I discuss how awesome it would be to have nachos right now.
And then it's time to go.
As Allen and I slide into a booth at Mr. Lucky's for those nachos I promised him, the woman next to us yelps in delight.
"What happened there?" I ask our waitress, whose name is Florida.
"She just won the award for Best Porn Makeup, I guess," Florida says
"But why isn't she up there accepting it?"
"I guess she never expected to win. Or no one ever goes to those shows. Or something," Florida says. "I told her congratulations! It's a big deal."
The Best Makeup woman rushes out of the restaurant. As she does so, a crowd of porn stars enters. There are porn stars everywhere and they're all eating nachos and diner sushi. And now that the awards are done, the entire porn convention is over and we have to leave the glitz and glamour of the AVNs and return to our hotel room, which is a ten minute walk away and in a building where an employee told me "no one can hear you scream" when I checked in.
"I guess the magic can't last forever," I tell Allen. He agrees and eats another helping of cheese.
The most magical photo of all: Ryan Driller and me about to fall in love. I told Allen this was an important photo and he absolutely treated it as such, producing the best-composed and most flattering shot of the entire week. Thanks, Allen!
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The challenge ahead: why we must involve patients in their care
By Steven Laitner2012-06-22T17:22:00+01:00
Tapping into that unused resource of patient information - the patients themselves - is too important to the NHS for it to be ignored any longer, says Dr Steven Laitner.
I have made a new diagnosis. It is not on a patient. It is a diagnosis for the NHS and it is this: the NHS suffers from Institutional Paternalism.
It is a chronic condition and very difficult to treat.
But we must treat it. It causes suffering for patients, their carers, health professionals and the tax payer.
Patients and their carers are sick of being patronised, fed up with not having enough information about their condition and its management, frustrated with not being involved and supported in their care.
Health professionals are missing out on the greatest untapped resource in health care – the patient!
Patients help their doctors, nurses and consultants come to the right diagnosis when they listen carefully to their symptoms, ideas and concerns. Patients can help clinicians find the right treatment for them, clinicians can help patients be more involved in their treatment through care planning and self care and help them make the treatment decision that is right for them at that time - through Shared Decision Making. When patients are involved in decisions about their treatment, evidence demonstrates improved outcomes, with more patient satisfaction, more safe and appropriate treatment; reduced complaints and litigation.
Part of the reason that tax payers are not getting the best value from their health care investment is because patients and their carers are not sufficiently involved in decisions. Patients want to be more involved in their treatment and, when they are, the outcome is better and it costs no more.
Shared Decision Making starts with the ethical imperative. At the heart of all good clinical practice is the principle of informed consent. This principle requires that clinicians give their patients information, the power of choice and the opportunity to express their preference. Albeit as the result of benign and well-meaning 'institutional paternalism', care regimes which are determined without the patient's fully informed and empowered consent hover dangerously near the margins of non-ethical practice.
There's an economic imperative too, one in which value is increased which helps concentrate the mind in the current economic climate.
The policy climate is right to really push home the message about Shared Decision Making, and Andrew Lansley reiterated his commitment to "No Decision About Me, Without Me" yesterday at NHS Confederation. But we are currently far from this being reality so the QIPP Right Care Shared Decision Making Programme is delivering a large programme of work with the challenging aim of embedding shared decision making in routine NHS care.
We are doing this by developing a suite of 36 Patient Decision Aids (web, paper and Apps), together with telephone health coaching support. While simultaneously providing the tools for Shared Decision Making, we are striving to embed the patient decision aids and Shared Decision Making into routine NHS provision and commissioning systems by liaising with the educators of GPs and commissioners and with the providers of GP information systems, among others.
Equally importantly, if not more so, the programme is unrolling a patient pull initiative to encourage patients to demand their right to have a say in decisions about their healthcare, only then will clinical teams really become receptive and translate the undeniable principle into every day reality.
We are at the beginning of a long and challenging journey. But we WILL get there. It is too important not to succeed - for all of us.
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Pizza, hot dogs and Italian beef: You haven't eaten in Chicago if you haven't tried them. Chicago-style pizzas include several indulgent varieties: deep-dish (meaning deep-molded crusts layered with cheese, toppings and sauce), stuffed (similar to deep-dish but covered with a second crust, then topped with sauce) and thin-crust (featuring a crunchy crust cut into squares). Try Lou Malnati's, where the buttery crust and meticulously crafted ingredients make it a Chicago institution.
When it comes to the classic Chicago dog, look for tomato slices, relish, onions, mustard, a pickle spear, sport peppers and celery salt on a poppy-seed bun – no ketchup! Get the real deal at Portillo's. The line is long but moves quickly. Finally, try an Italian beef sandwich at Al's Italian Beef, the go-to for thinly sliced beef on an Italian roll served with either sweet peppers or spicy giardiniera (pickled vegetables), then dipped in pan juices. Grab extra napkins for this one.
The Midwest is a hub for cattle ranching, influencing Chicago's long tradition of steakhouses. Dry-aged beef is the standard, with Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse at the forefront. Known for huge cuts of prime angus beef and classy cocktails, Gibsons is the only restaurant in the USA with its own USDA Certified Angus Beef program. Needless to say, it's a must-try. To sample more of the city's finest steaks, hop on the Chicago Steakhouse Tours bus to try three quintessential Chicago steakhouses. Part history lesson, part culinary tour, Chicago Steakhouse Tours is the tastiest way to learn about the city's affinity for beef.
Chicagoans love a good ribeye, but there's plenty of fresh and leafy cuisine to be found, too. Cindy's Rooftop at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel features ultra-fresh, seasonal ingredients along with an innovative menu of chic cocktails. It doesn't hurt that the open-air terrace boasts one of the most spectacular views in the city, overlooking Millennium Park, the Art Institute of Chicago and Lake Michigan.
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Vougy ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Loire in der Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Geographie
Vougy befindet sich etwa sechs Kilometer nördlich von Roanne auf halbem Weg nach Pouilly-sous-Charlieu. An der westlichen Gemeindegrenze verläuft die Loire, im Osten der Jarnossin, ein Zufluss der Loire.

Geschichte
Die örtliche Kirche stammt aus dem 19. Jahrhundert und wurde vom Architekten Édouard Corroyer errichtet, der auch für die Wiederherstellung der Abtei Mont-Saint-Michel verantwortlich war. 1334 wurde der Ort als Vougiacus erstmals schriftlich erwähnt.

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 Kirche Saint-Bonnet
 Schloss von Vougy

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Ort an der Loire

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Forest Access
Access to Lake Taupō Forest
Summer Hours (Access) up until 4th April 2021:
Between 4:00pm and 11:00 pm weekdays
Between 5:00am and 11:00 pm weekends and public holidays
Winter Hours (Access) as of Monday 5th April 2021:
Between 4.00pm and 8.00pm on weekdays
Between 7.00am and 8.00pm on weekends and public holidays
Owners' access is for recreational and cultural purposes only, such as pig hunting, deer hunting, fishing and food gathering. Download the Owner Access Policy September 2020.
To gain access to Lake Taupō Forest requires:
Registering on the LTFT permit database;
applying for an Access Permit
picking up a FOB key to open and close gates.
Lake Taupō Forest is a commercial forest operations and due to Health and Safety regulations, owners' access to the forest has to be restricted.
In mid-2019 the LTFT Trustees approved a pest control operation requested by OSPRI covering parts of LTFT land. This operation was undertaken on 25 November 2019. The operation covered the LTFT land located between the Waitetoko Stream and the Waimarino River (follow the link below to see a map), and used a combination of aerial 1080 application and ground-based control. This operation was discussed with owners at a hui in Turangi on 9 April this year. Please click on the following link for more info: Pest Control Operation.
The current hours (winter) for owners' access to Lake Taupō Forest is:
From Monday 28 September we move to summer access hours:
Access permits into Lake Taupō Forest are available for recreational and cultural purposes, such as pig hunting, deer hunting, fishing and food gathering.
Those eligible to be issued a permit are:
Current owners in Lake Taupō Forest Trust lands (Trust blocks)
The children and grandchildren of an owner
The spouse of a current owner
To obtain access to the forest is a 3-step process:
1. Register on the LTFT Permit Database
Eligible persons must first register with LTFT to be entered on the 'permit database'. This entails a visit to the Lake Taupō Trust office, 81 Town Centre, Tūrangi to provide ID and relevant information about yourself.
Download a copy of the Permit Application to see details required, or apply online here: online Permit Application
2. Obtain Access Permit
Once you have registered on to the 'permit database', you may obtain a permit from either one of the following sites:
Lake Taupō Forest Trust office, 81 Town Centre, Tūrangi (directions), Office Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm
NZ Forest Managers' office, Atirau Road, Tūrangi (directions), Office Hours: Monday to Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm
Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board, 81 Horomatangi Street, Taupō (directions), Office Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am – 4:00pm
Lake Taupō Forest Trust permits are allocated for a six month period.
3. Obtain FOB key
A key (FOB Key) is required to get into the forest. The first time you get a FOB you must do so from NZ Forest Managers' office, Atirau Road, Tūrangi. Thereafter you can update your FOB key from either NZ Forest Managers, Tūrangi or from the Tuwharetoa Māori Trust Board office, Taupō.
For Lake Taupō Forest owners, firewood is permitted to be gathered from the designated collection site off Kiko Road. Extraction of firewood from any other area is prohibited.


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West Virginia Treasurer's Office
Written Determination Regarding the Appointment of Outside Counsel on Behalf of the Treasurer's Office (September 20, 2019)
Written Determination Appointing Bowles Rice LLP as Outside Counsel for West Virginia Treasurer's Office
WD Regarding the Appointment of Outside Counsel for the West Virginia Treasurer's Office (RFP #77) (May 20, 2019)
Request for Proposal for Legal Services (RFP # 77) to Represent the West Virginia Treasurer's Office (May 20, 2019)
Written Determination Regarding the Appointment of Bowles Rice to Represent the West Virginia Treasurer's Office (RFP #23) (May 6, 2014)
Request for Proposal for Legal Services (RFP #23) to Represent the West Virginia Treasurer's Office - Deadline for Proposal: April 30, 2014
Written Determination Regarding the Appointment of Outside Counsel on Behalf of the West Virginia Treasurer's Office (April 11, 2014)
Written Determination Regarding the Appointment of Powell & Majestro to Represent the West Virginia Treasurer's Office (RFP #19) (February 20, 2014)
Request for Proposal for Legal Services (RFP #19) to Represent the West Virginia Treasurer's Office - Deadline for Proposal: February 14, 2014
Written Determination Regarding the Appointment of Outside Counsel on Behalf of the West Virginia Treasurer's Office (February 7, 2014)


After listening to their customers the Mint Balancer from Horslyx has been launched in larger sizes to help support all round health and vitality with a cool refreshing flavour.
Horslyx Mint Balancer is created with real peppermint oil which even the fussiest horse will have trouble resisting.
As part of the Horslyx Balancer family the lick contains a high specification vitamin, mineral and trace element package with high oil content including Omega-3 Oils from Linseed Oil. It also includes Horslyx's healthy hooves formula and powerful antioxidants, to help keep your horse happy and healthy.
Horslyx Balancers help you ensure your horse is getting all the vitamins and minerals he needs. Being low in starch they're suitable for horses which can react to cereal based diets and for many horses a Horslyx Balancer and forage is all they need.


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I continue to get this warning even after cleaning and rebuilding the project.
UPDATE: The Xcode static analyzer no longer flags this as an issue after upgrading to Xcode 4.2.

A: That's a bug in Xcode. The code is alright.

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Wal-Mart profit beats expectations; stock jumps
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) on Thursday reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit as increased drug prices and solid demand for basic apparel items boosted sales, and its shares jumped more than 7 percent.
The company's performance bucked a string of weak results from competitors. On Wednesday, rival Target Corp (TGT.N), which caters to a higher-income customer than Wal-Mart, gave a cautious outlook and reported a lower-than-expected rise in quarterly sales due to unseasonable weather and soft demand.
"It looks like the middle-to-higher-income customers have cut back, but the lower-income customer is spending," said Edward Jones analyst Brian Yarbrough.
The upbeat results also suggest Wal-Mart may be benefiting from its $2.7 billion investment to increase entry-level wages and in training of its workforce. Store visits rose 1.5 percent in the first quarter ended on April 29.
"Overall a pretty strong quarter," Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs said in an interview. "We are very pleased with the traffic increases, and I think that goes along with what we are seeing with customer experience scores that continue to improve."
Lower utility costs resulting from warmer-than-usual winter weather also supported profitability, Wal-Mart said.
Net income attributable to Wal-Mart fell to $3.08 billion from $3.34 billion a year earlier, reflecting the costs of boosting the company's minimum wage to $10 an hour and investing in automated warehouses dedicated to filling online orders.
Earnings per share of 98 cents beat the analysts' average estimate of 88 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Sales at U.S. stores open at least a year rose 1.0 percent, excluding fuel price fluctuations. That marked the seventh straight quarterly rise and was stronger than market expectations for an increase of 0.5 percent, according to research firm Consensus Metrix.
For the current quarter, Wal-Mart said it expected an increase of about 1.0 percent in U.S. same-store sales. It forecast earnings per share of 95 cents to $1.08, against market expectations of 98 cents.
First-quarter revenue rose 0.9 percent to $115.9 billion despite a $3.5 billion hit from a stronger dollar, which reduces the value of overseas sales.
Online sales growth again decelerated, to 7 percent in the first quarter from 8 percent, 10 percent, 16 percent and 17 percent in the previous periods.
Biggs said e-commerce sales grew faster in the U.S. market than overseas, but the overall performance fell short of its objectives.
Asked about slowing online growth, Biggs said Wal-Mart had yet to capitalize on big changes it made over the past few years, which included the rollout of a new technology platform and the ramping up of its e-commerce assortment to 10 million items.
"That's a lot of change over a two-, three-year period," Biggs said. "We are just really starting to come out of some of those big changes."
Shares of Wal-Mart were up 7.5 percent at $67.94 in early trading.
Related Topics:boosted salesquarterly profitshares jumpedWal-Mart Stores
Sensex open flat in morning trade
Indian equity markets close the day's trade in the red
The rise in net interest income was driven by advance growth of 15.6 per cent and a core net interest margin for the quarter of 4.2 per cent.
Mumbai, Jan 16 : Lending major HDFC Bank on Saturday reported an 18.1 per cent increase in standalone net profit for the quarter ended December 31 of FY21 on a year-on-year basis.
The bank's net profit for the third quarter of FY21 rose to Rs 8,758.3 crore on a YoY basis.
"After providing Rs 3,013.6 crore for taxation, the bank earned a net profit of Rs 8,758.3 crore, an increase of 18.1 per cent over the quarter ended December 31, 2019," the bank said in a statement.
The bank's net revenues (net interest income plus other income) grew to Rs 23,760.8 crore during the period under review from Rs 20,842.2 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2019.
Besides, net interest income (interest earned less interest expended) for the quarter ended December 31, 2020 grew by 15.1 per cent to Rs 16,317.6 crore from Rs 14,172.9 crore during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.
"The bank's persistent focus on deposits helped in the maintenance of a healthy liquidity coverage ratio at 146 per cent, well above the regulatory requirement."
Furthermore, the bank made provision and contingencies worth Rs 3,414.1 crore as against Rs 3,043.6 crore during the quarter ended December 31, 2019.
"Total provisions for the current quarter include contingent provisions of nearly Rs 2,400 crore for proforma NPA as described in the asset quality section."
The RBI Governor's statement gains significance as the Indian stock market has surged amid the pandemic and scaled new highs in the past one month, raising concerns of stretched valuations.
New Delhi, Jan 16 : Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday said that the central bank remains committed to take any further necessary measures to support the economy.
Delivering the Nani Palkhivala Memorial Lecture on Saturday, Das said that RBI's principal objective during the pandemic was to support economic activity and the policies have helped in easing the severity of the economic impact of the pandemic.
"I would like to unambiguously reiterate that the Reserve Bank remains steadfast to take any further measures, as may be necessary, while at the same time remaining fully committed to maintaining financial stability," he said.
RBI's approach to the Covid situation included measures such as loan moratoriums, easing of working capital financing and deferment of interest restructuring among others.
Speaking of the recent bull run in the financial markets, the RBI Governor said that domestic financial markets must remain prepared for sudden decline going ahead in case risk aversion takes hold among investors globally.
"While abundant capital inflows have been largely driven by accommodative global liquidity conditions and India's optimistic medium-term growth outlook, domestic financial markets must remain prepared for sudden stops and reversals, should the global risk aversion factors take hold," he said.
This is the second time in a week that Das has raised concerns regarding the bullish trend in stock market.
It added that India's medium-term growth to slow to around 6.5 per cent after the initial rebound.
Fitch Ratings says India's GDP to expand by 11% in 2021-22 after falling by 9.4% in current FY21 fiscal.
India's coronavirus-induced recession has been among the most severe in the world, amid a stringent lockdown and limited direct fiscal support. The economy is now in a recovery phase that will be further supported by the rollout of vaccines in the next months and we expect GDP to expand by 11.0% in FY22 after falling by 9.4% in FY21.
However, we expect the medium-term recovery to be slow. Supply-side potential growth will be reduced by a slowdown in the rate of capital accumulation – investment has recently fallen sharply and is likely to see only a subdued recovery. This will weigh on labour productivity and our projection of supply-side potential GDP growth for the six-year period FY21 to FY26 has been lowered to 5.1% p.a. compared to our pre-pandemic projection of 7% p.a.
Our historical analysis of India's growth performance highlights the key role played by a high investment rate in driving growth in labour productivity and GDP per capita over the last fifteen years.
But investment has fallen sharply over the last year and the need to repair corporate balance sheets and firm closures will weigh on the pace of recovery.
Constrained credit supply amid a fragile financial system is another headwind for investment. The banking sector entered the crisis with generally weak asset quality and limited capital buffers. Appetite for lending will be subdued, particularly as credit-guarantee and forbearance measures rolled out in the crisis start to be unwound.
The economy should be able to grow somewhat faster than estimated supply-side potential over the medium term following the unprecedented downturn in FY21. But our projection for the medium-term recovery path – at around 6.5% p.a. over FY23 to FY26 – would leave GDP well below its pre-pandemic trend.
The research report, "India Set for Slow Medium-Term Recovery" is available at the above link and at www.fitchratings.com.


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Neural Turing Machines: Perils and Promise: Daniel Shank is a Senior Data Scientist at Talla, a company developing a platform for intelligent information discovery and delivery. His focus is on developing machine learning techniques to handle various business automation tasks, such as scheduling, polls, expert identification, as well as doing work on NLP. Before joining Talla as the company's first employee in 2015, Daniel worked with TechStars Boston and did consulting work for ThriveHive, a small business focused marketing company in Boston. He studied economics at the University of Chicago.
A Neural Turing Machine is a kind of neural network with an architecture or underlying structure that is similar to that of a turing machine. Unlike the classical turing machine, a neural turing machine has access to external input as well as producing external output. There is an internal memory component or 'tape' that the turing machine can move up and down. The main achievement of the NTM is in representing the usual operations of a turing machine with differentiable functions, so that it can be trained like any other sequence to sequence RNN with backpropagation.
NTMs can learn discrete processes and (in theory) extrapolate them over variable inputs or data.
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These are the operations that take finite step procedures like accessing memory and make them understandable in terms of backpropagation. In other words, they let us understand choices such as "which location of memory should I access" in terms of relative 'loss' or cost of that decision.
19. 18 28 Graves' RMSprop A version of back propagation used to train the network Used in many of Graves' RNN papers: 𝑛𝑖 = 𝛼 + 1 − 𝛼 𝜖𝑖 2 𝑔𝑖 = 𝛼𝑔𝑖 + 1 − 𝛼 𝜖𝑖 Δ𝑖 = 𝛽Δ𝑖 − 𝛾 𝜖𝑖 𝑛𝑖 − 𝑔𝑖 2 + 𝛾 + 𝛿 𝑤𝑖 = 𝑤𝑖 + Δ𝑖 Similar to normalizing gradient updates by their variance, important for the NTM's high-variability changes in loss.
30. 29 28 NTM operations The Convolutional Shift parameter has proven to be one of if not the most problematic.


Seven men are to stand trial for the murder of man who died as a result of his injuries.
Alberts Volkausks, 44, was found with serious injuries at a property in Pen Street near the New Inn pub in Boston on Saturday, September 23 and he later died in hospital.
A trial date has been set for June 6 at Nottingham Crown Court.
The seven men are: Pavel Grunt-Meyer, 29, of Crocketts Drive, Wisbech; Denis Kijakovskij, 27, of London Road, Wyberton; Mindaugas Cerneckas, 29, of Pen Street, Boston; Andrius Barauskas, 39, of Smalley Road, Boston; Tautvydas Vainolavicius, 19, of Pen Street, Boston; and Marjus Tomasevic, 18, of Pen Street, Boston. They all pleaded not guilty to the murder charged.


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Hospitality ManagementAll www.kent.edu
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Mentor 2010
NAME: Amie Abouhassan
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Regional General Manager, CE Hospitality, LLC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 9783 State Route 14, Streetsboro, Ohio 44241
PHONE: 330.696.4002 (C) 330.548.1351 (O)
EMAIL: amie.abouhassan@marriott.com
_____ Restaurant & Night Club
_____ Foodservice Management (e.g. School, contract food, corporal dining, sport venue)
_____ Food Distribution and Sales
__X__ Hotel, Resort, & other related Accommodations
_____ Private Club
_____ Event and Convention
_____ Foodservice & Hospitality Media
_____ Other__________________________________________________
Amie Abouhassan: I graduated from Kent State University in May 2009 with a degree in Hospitality Management. I interned at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, in Hotel Operations. When I returned from my internship (August 2008), I applied for a Front Desk position at the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in Streetsboro, Ohio. After just a month as a Guest Services Representative, I was promoted to Sales, then worked my way up to head of Sales (all while still in college full time). N,ow I'm the Regional General Manager for the entire Franchise Company (CE Hospitality). Currently, I oversee three Limited Service Marriott Hotels and a Corporate Office, which is roughly 150 employees. In my Regional position, I'm able to travel extensively to sister hotels, and other Marriott's.
I also have excessive Restaurant/Food and Beverage experience as my parents have owned bars and "mom and pop diners" my entire life.
NAME: John Altomare
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: President, 3 Foodies LLC Restaurant Owner
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 80 N. Main St. Hudson, OH 44236
EMAIL: jaltomare@3foodies.com
__X__ Restaurant & Night Club
_____ Hotel, Resort, & other related Accommodations
_____ Other ______________________________________
John J. Altomare is a restaurant consultant and president of 3 Foodies, a company that includes a restaurant in Hudson, OH, which he runs with his two sons. Altomare is a restaurant industry veteran with a long career history of success. He was the senior vice president of concept development for Darden Restaurants, Inc. Within the Red Lobster brand he oversaw innovations in the menu, restaurant operations, design, service, and technology. Altomare started his restaurant career in 1979 and distinguished himself in leadership roles with Ground Round Restaurants, Chi Chi's Mexican Restaurants, and P&L Foodservices – a Boston Market franchisee. Altomare later became the executive vice president of concept development for Boston Market. Altomare is an ambassador of the Culinary Institute of America and serves on the Kent State University Hospitality Management Advisory Board.
NAME: John Bibbo
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: President, Event Source
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 6001 Towpath Drive Cleveland, OH 44125
EMAIL: johnbibbojr@eventsource.net
__X__ Event and Convention
John Bibbo, Jr. is president of Event Source. He has had successful and diversified experience in the rental products business. His efforts expanded and positioned Event Source into Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio's largest source for rental products. He has built the company's success on commitment to customer service for any size event in any location, superlative product quality and selection and state-of-the-art operations that are all backed by the expertise acquired during the firm's 30-year history.
His vision and realization for the 71,000 sq ft Cleveland facility housing an immense showroom and centralized internal operations were evidenced in the construction of the Event Source building in Valley View, just south of Cleveland.
He was one of the founding members of the Cleveland Chapter of International Special Events Society (ISES) in 2007 and currently serves as its president.
NAME: Michael Bosch
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Human Resource Director
BUSINESS ADDRESS: Marriott Cleveland East 26300 Harvard Rd, Warrensville Heights, OH 44122
EMAIL: Michael.bosch@marriott.com
Michael Bosch graduated in 1994 from Washington & Jefferson College in Washington PA with a BA in Psychology and in 2005 from Robert Morris University with an MBA. Currently, Director of Human Resources for the Marriott Cleveland East, Michael has worked in Hospitality Human Resources for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and at the Lancaster Host Resort and Golf Course. In addition to Hospitality, he has held Human Resource positions in Manufacturing and Retail Distribution. Along with his full time position, Michael volunteers with Towards Employment, a Cleveland non-profit where he serves on the board of directors. He has also taught classes as needed for the Kent State Hospitality Program.
NAME: Elissa Burnett
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Catering Event Manager, Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 24 Public Square Cleveland, OH, 44113
EMAIL: Elissa.burnett@renaissancehotels.com
I graduated from Kent State University in December, 2005 and then started working for the Wyndham Cleveland at Playhouse Square Hotel as Catering Sales Manager in January. I worked there concentrating on the wedding and social market for two and a half years. I began at the Renaissance in June, 2008 in the same market, expanding to larger events. In both positions I sell the space for the events and also work with the client one on one until the event is over. It is my job to be their "event manager" and coordinate their needs with the rest of the hotel staff from food and set up to décor and specialty items. I have worked with groups as small as 30 all the way up to 1300 guests.
NAME: Claudio Caviglia
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Club manager
Email: ccaviglia@theunionclub.org
__X__ Private Club
____ Other__________________________________________________
Claudio Caviglia emigrated from Turin, Italy to the United States in 1957 and grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Mr. Caviglia is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York, and also a graduate of Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
His career began in New York City managing an upper east side restaurant called Martell's for several years until an opportunity offered him to be part of the opening team at Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He also was as the executive sous chef during his tenure at Bally's. In the years following he worked as a chef for the Golden Nugget, Harrah's, and Trump Castle in Atlantic City. He continued in the hotel industry as food and beverage director for the Adam's Mark Hotels in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Kansas City, Missouri. He then chose to redirect his career path to the private club industry in 1988, as the general manager of the Top of the Tower, a city club in Topeka, Kansas, the Oakwood Club, in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Oakwood Country Club in Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently the general manager for the Union Club, a 5 star platinum city club in downtown Cleveland.
His challenges at all his clubs include savings in operating expenses and generating increased revenues that produced favorable results of $400- $600K in operating cost by using zero based budgeting, marketing, and team building.
NAME: John George
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Marketing/Communications Manager/ Project Manager Cleveland Clinic
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 3050 Science Park Dr. AC 313 Cleveland, Ohio 44122
EMAIL: Georgej2@ccf.org
___X_ Restaurant & Night Club
___X_ Hotel, Resort, & other related Accommodations
___X_Event and Convention
_____ Other ____________________________________
NAME: Heather Gortz
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Sales Manager
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 11080 Concord Hambden Rd Painesville, OH 44077
EMAIL: gortzh@quailhollowresort.com
__X___ Restaurant & Night Club
__X___ Hotel, Resort, & other related Accommodations
__X___ Event and Convention
NAME: Roger Greene
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: General Manager-Hilton Garden Inn
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 8971 Wilcox Drive Twinsburg, OH 44087
EMAIL: Roger.greene@hilton.com
I have 30 years of experience in hotel operations and sales. I am a 1978 graduate of Kent State University. I am the Regional Director of Operations for the Gateway Hospitality Group as well as the General Manager of the Hilton Garden Inn in Twinsburg, Oh. I received the General Manager of the year award in 2002 for the entire Hilton Garden Inn brand.
NAME: Darrell Guariniello
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: President, Wing Warehouse
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 2215 East Waterloo Road units 101-103, Akron, Ohio 44312
PHONE: Office- 330-733-4005, Cell- 330-472-2600
EMAIL: dguariniello@msn.com
__X___ Other : Retail- mass merchandising, and C-store
Darrell Guariniello graduated from Kent in 1992 with a Bachelor's degree. He went on in corporate America after graduating in the food service field. He worked 5 years with Friendly restaurants, from a manager in training to multi-unit management and a training manager for the corporation. He then went on to Aldi foods. He had territory with them from Western New York, NW PA, into NE Ohio. He was in charge of multiple units there as well for over 3 years. Finally, his last position, before quitting and working for himself was with Sunoco Oil. There he managed 11 units and priced gasoline. Oversaw the convenient store operations and trained new managers. He left Sunoco in 2004.
In 2001 he opened Wing Warehouse in the Gala commons condominium complex. In 2004, he purchased the name and another location in Stow. Two years after that, he build his first free standing store on Wyoga Lake road in Cuyahoga Falls. In 2007, they started franchising due to many inquiries. At the end on 2008, they had three franchisees, making the chain six strong. In 2009, he acquired the Scorchers brand of Sports bars expanding their footprint into Cuyahoga county and surrounding areas. Today, they have 17 total stores in their system with 3 other locations under approval.
NAME: Deborah Smythe Hermann
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Chairwoman and CEO GhostLight Productions, LLC
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 21050 Colby Rd. Cleveland, Oh 44122
PHONE: W 440-442-8300- C 216-544-9562
EMAIL: dhermann@ghostlightllc.com
__X___ Other ______________________________________
For over 25 years, Deborah Smythe Hermann has championed fundraising and "friend-raising" for Cleveland organizations. Her breadth of experience and depth of community involvement have taken her from hard-working committee member to Chairwoman and CEO of GhostLight Productions, LLC.
In 2002, after many years as a volunteer committee member for non-profit galas, Deb began her love affair with special events as managing partner of MasterMinds, LLC, a high energy special events company. Building on the knowledge she and her former partner amassed as event planners, Deb and her new partner, David Shimp, formed GhostLight Productions, LLC in 2006. This partnership solidified her desire to add design and production services to her already impressive track record of successful planning services. Deb is also active in the Northeast Ohio community and serves on the boards of The Cleveland Chapter of the International Special Events Society (ISES), The Sunbeam Board of Vocational Guidance Services, Neighborhood Centers Association, CBC Magazine and The Hangar Recreation Society. She is currently Director at Large of the International Special Events Society (ISES) and is a founding member of the Cleveland Chapter.
NAME: Jaclyn Herrera
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 24 Public Square Cleveland, Ohio 44113
EMAIL: Jaclyn.Herrera@renaissancehotels.com
Hello, I am a 2002 KSU Graduate from the Hospitality Management Program. Prior to attending KSU I graduated from Pennsylvania Culinary with a specialized degree in Culinary Arts. I have experience in several Food Service Industries. While attending KSU I worked at Olive Garden as a server and later in KSU Dining Services as a cook. I completed 2 culinary externships during my studies. One was at the Wyndham Resort and Spa in Lake Buena Vista, Florida and the other was at the Downtown Chicago Renaissance. After Graduating, I was hired at the Country Club of Hudson as their Event Coordinator and am now currently at the Cleveland Downtown Renaissance Hotel where I started as a Banquet Supervisor and worked my way up to my current position of Catering Event Manager. So I have a little bit of experience in several different Foodservice industries, but have my most experience in the hotel industry.
NAME: Robert Josey, CCM
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: General Manager, The Country Club
BUSINESS ADDRESS: The Country Club, 2825 Lander Rd, Pepper Pike, OH 44124
EMAIL: rjosey@thecountryclub.com
Rob Josey:
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, Ithaca, NY - Masters Degree, Major in Food and Beverage Administration, Graduated in 1989
Emory University School of Business Administration, Atlanta, GA - BBA, Major in Economics, Graduated in 1982
Employment History:
The Country Club, Pepper Pike, OH, General Manager, 2002 to Present
The Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo Park, NY, General Manager, 1992 to 2002
The Cornell Club, NYC, NY, Assistant Manager, 1989 to 1991
Regency Whist Club, NYC, NY, General Manager, 1987 to 1988
Piping Rock Club, Locust Valley, NY, Assistant Manager, 1985 to 1987
Club Managers Association of America Involvement:
Member of CMAA since 1987
Certified in 2000, recertified in 2005
Metropolitan Club Managers Association - Education, Charity & Certification Committees
Greater Cleveland Club Managers Association - Education Committee Chair, Secretary/Treasurer, Vice President, President
NAME: George Kimson
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: COO Heritage Development Co.- The Bertram Inn
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 600 North Aurora Road, Aurora, OH 44202
EMAIL: georgek@thebertraminn.com
NAME: Timothy J. LaFleur, CMP
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Meeting & Event Manager
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 2500 E. Enterprise PRT, Twinsburg, OH 44087
EMAIL: Tim.LaFleur@experient-inc.com
I have been with Experient since late summer of 2005. I started out building registration/housing web-sites in our registration and housing department. From there I moved into the meeting planning world and have been there ever since. I have worked on shows as large as 20,000 attendees and as small as 500. My job has taken me all over the country to work in a variety of cities and regions. My client base is equally as spread out through out the country. This past summer I sat for and received my Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation.
In short as a Meeting & Event Manager at Experient we are responsible for the overall success of any conference, tradeshow, sales kick off, user meeting etc. that we plan. We accomplish this by planning out all the logistical aspects of the meeting. This includes working with the hotel on sleeping rooms, meeting space, food and beverage. Working with an AV supplier to coordinate all the AV for the meeting, a decorator on the trade show floor as well as a destination management company for any offsite or special events. In addition we work with transportation companies, security, printers, photographers temp staff and translating companies just to name a few. We partner with the sponsoring organizations meeting planner to help them organize their program content and pull their event together. In short we are the "go to" individual for an organizations meeting planner, hotel, supplier as well as for any attendee need.
NAME: John Lawn
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Editor-in-Chief/ Associate Publisher
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 1300 East 9th St Cleveland OH
EMAIL: johnlawn@penton.com
___X__ Foodservice Management (e.g. School, contract food, corporal dining, sport venue)
___X__ Food Distribution and Sales
___X__ Foodservice & Hospitality Media
NAME: Matthew Mikola
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Area Director, Wholesome Burger (Five Guys)
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 653 E. Main St, Kent, OH 44240
EMAIL: mikola@wholesomeburger.com
___X__ Restaurant & Night Club
Matthew Mikola, since 2009 has been the Area Director at Wholesome Burger (Five Guys). Prior to his current position, Mr. Mikola served as a General Manager for Bob Evans from 2001-2006. From 2006-2009 Mr. Mikola held the position of Executive Chef at Champps Americana.
NAME: Tony Minelli
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Director of Food Service-IX Center
BUSINESS ADDRESS: One I-X Center Drive Cleveland, OH 44135
EMAIL: tminelli@ixcenter.com
__X__ Foodservice Management (e.g. School, contract food, corporal dining, sport venue)
As Foodservice Director of International Exposition Center, I have the opportunity to lead a team of culinary professionals responsible for providing all food, beverage and catering operations for a multi-faceted Convention, Meeting and Special Event center in Cleveland, Ohio.
My experience in the Hospitality Industry has provided me with a consistent track record of providing vision and leadership to achieve outstanding growth and customer satisfaction through expertise in the following areas: Concessions, Specialty Catering, Convention Centers, Higher Education, Sports and Entertainment, Zoos, Museums and Racetracks.
NAME: Nick Moeller
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: General Manager Akron/Fairlawn Hampton Inn
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 80 Springside Drive, Akron, OH 44333
EMAIL: Akronhi@tharaldson.com
Nick Moeller graduated from Western Illinois University with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management in December 2006. Began hospitality career as the Operations Manager for a Courtyard by Marriott in December 2006 working for Tharaldson Lodging. In September of 2007 took a position as a traveling Property Support Manager with Tharaldson Lodging for various brands including: Hampton Inn by Hilton, Fairfield Inn by Marriott, Courtyard by Marriott and Country Inn & Suites. In July of 2008 took a position as the Front Office Manager for Homewood Suites by Hilton with Buffalo Lodging. Returned to Tharaldson Lodging as the General Manager for the Hampton Inn in Akron, OH in July of 2009.
NAME: Stacey Owens
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Director of Food and Beverage Greystone Hall
John S. Knight Center
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 77 E. Mill Street Akron, Ohio 44308
EMAIL: sosotcc@yahoo.com
__X__ Other -Banquet Facility and Theater______________________________________
I have had the privilege of being a hospitality leader for 15 years. Within that timeframe I have been a General Manager for 5 private clubs and have earned the Certified Club Manager designation. I currently hold the position of Director of food and beverage service for The Greystone in downtown Akron, a theater and banquet facility, owned by the city of Akron and the John S. Knight Convention Center in Akron.
I have been a member of KSU Hospitality Board for 6 years and was the Manager Liaison for the CMAA student group at KSU for 4 years. I have served on the Greater Cleveland Chapter of Club Managers for 3 years. I have been a guest lecturer for KSU Hospitality program and have published articles for Ohio Turf Magazine. I was involved in the KSU mentorship program a year and a half ago.
NAME: Matt Radicelli
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Founder/Owner Rock The House Entertainment Group, Inc.
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 7809 First Place Oakwood Village, OH 44146
EMAIL: Matt.radicelli@rthgroup.com
Matt Radicelli is the founder and owner of Rock The House Entertainment Group, Inc, a full-service event production company located in Oakwood Village Ohio. Rock The House produces events of all types; from private birthday parties and weddings to corporate fundraisers. We stand out in our region due to our ability to work as a turn-key solution to anyone planning an event and also our professionalism and customer service. We pride ourselves in becoming know as one of the best event production companies in the area. In utilizing music, atmospheric lighting, interactive activities and other forms of extra entertainment, Rock The House produces fun and custom events for people of all ages.
NAME: Maggie Raffel
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION:
EMAIL: maggie@raffelscatering.com
___X__ Other ____Catering__________________________________
NAME: Gerry Ramella
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Owner Cleveland Menu Printing
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 1441 E. 17 th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44114
EMAIL: Gerryr@clevelandmenu.com
Cleveland Menu Printing is a full service graphic design and printing firm, established in 1930, providing menus for Restaurants, Hotels, Casinos and Clubs throughout the United States. We ship menus throughout the US as well as to the Caribbean and Mexico. This is a family run business that my father started in 1930 that currently my brother Tom and I are running. I have been actively involved with the business since 1978 and work in sales and the financial operation of the firm.
NAME: Raji Sankar
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Wholesome Burger (Five Guys)
EMAIL: raji.sankar@mac.com
NAME: Elena Roszkowski
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Front Office Manager
EMAIL: Elena.Roszkowski@hilton.com
I got my foot in the door through housekeeping. The summer after my first year in college I started cleaning rooms at the Fairfield Inn and TownePlace Suite by Marriott in Streetsboro. When the fall semester started I moved to the front desk at these hotels. I worked at these for a couple years. I met Roger Greene of the Hilton Garden Inn Twinsburg through one of the Hospitality class and shortly after that I started working as a Guest Service Agent at the HGI Twinsburg. I worked there for about a year and about a month before I graduated the front office manager left the company. After interviewing for the position I was promoted. I graduated with my Bachelor's Degree in Hospitality Management from Kent State in December of 2008. I've held the title of Front Office Manager for almost two years now.
NAME: Bill Shea
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: General Manager, Fairlawn Country Club
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 200 N. Wheaton Rd, Akron, OH 44313
EMAIL: wshea@fairlawncountryclub.com
Bill Shea has more than 20 years experience in the private club industry. He has spent the past 10 years as the General Manager of the Fairlawn Country Club. In the past he has served as the President of Private Club Managers, Cleveland chapter. He is currently the managing direct at the Fairlawn Country Club. In 2000, he became a certified Club Manager. Mr. Shea also has over 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry, in consumer sales and hotels.
NAME: Rajesh M Shendge
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Chief Operating Officer, SAP Hotels LLC.
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 1575 N Sandusky Avenue, Bucyrus, Ohio 44820
EMAIL: Rajesh.Shendge@SAPhotels.com
A Cofounder of SAP Hotels, Raj oversees the operational support and leadership for the companies' management portfolio.
Raj has an extensive background in all areas of hotel operations, franchise relations, deployment and a proven track record of delivering a positive ROI for the owners and investors of SAP managed properties. Raj has over 20 years experience of leading and managing operations for large and complex portfolios of nationally branded hotels and has held numerous key leadership positions in various aspects of hotel operations throughout his career.
Raj received his M.B.A. in Business Administration from Mumbai University, India and a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Delhi University of India and Atlanta, GA.
Raj serves on the board of directors for the Ohio Hotel & Lodging Association (OH&LA). In addition, Raj serves on the 2010 American Hotel & Lodging Associations national committee for Small and/or Independent Property Advisory Council (SIPAC) and the Council of Inns & Suites.
Raj's experience, passion and talent for the industry have made him a huge asset to the Ohio Lodging community. Raj has been invited to be a guest speaker at the 2010 OH&LA Annual Conference & Gala and has been requested by Kent State University to be a guest speaker to their hospitality graduate students. Raj has written articles on "Cost Control" and "Flow Through" that have been published nationally in AAHOA Lodging Business Magazine and Raj is a frequent article contributor to the OH&LA e-newsletters and OhioLodging magazine.
NAME: Daniel P. Smith
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: VP of Food & Beverage - Cleveland Indians
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 2401 Ontario Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
EMAIL: dsmith@indians.com
_X___ Restaurant & Night Club
_X___ Foodservice Management (e.g. School, contract food, corporal dining, sport venue)
_X___ Private Club
_X___ Event and Convention
_X___ Other-Culinary
NAME: Connie Steinwart
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Director of Sales, Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 3750 Orange Place, Beachwood, OH 44122
PHONE: Office: 216-450-3015 Cell: 330-819-7119
EMAIL: csteinwart@concordhotels.com
NAME: Robert Trammell
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: General Manager-Sheraton Akron
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 1989 Front Street Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221
EMAIL: rtrammell@sheratonakron.com
_____ Other __________________________________________________________________
Robert is currently the General Manager of the award winning Sheraton Suites Akron/Cuyahoga Falls. He began his career in the hospitality business as a server in a fine dining room of a hotel in Austin Texas while attending the University of Texas as a Business/Pre-law student. Robert then attended the University of Las Vegas in order to pursue a career in hospitality. His career progressed in the food and beverage discipline at several hotels before becoming the General Manager of a resort property in Texas. He has worked in Texas, Florida, Missouri and Ohio in the capacity of General Manager and Regional Director of Operations for several brands of hotels.
NAME: Ned Welc
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: General Manager/COO-The Mayfield Sandridge Club
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 1545 Sheridan Rd. South Euclid, OH 44121
PHONE: 440-796-7922 or 216-381- 0826
EMAIL: nwelc@mayfieldsandridge.com
I Graduated from the University of Akron with a Business Degree and The University of Cincinnati with a Master's Degree in Education.
I have been a private club manager in Ohio and Florida for 29 years. I am currently the President of the CMAA Cleveland Chapter, the Club Managment Instructor at Kent State University, the President of the Kent State University Hospitality School Business Advisory Board.
NAME: Monica Zelis
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Director of Membership, Cleveland Skating Club
BUSINESS ADDRESS: 2500 Kemper Rd, Shaker Hts., OH 44120
EMAIL: mzelis@clevelandskatingclub.org
As Director of Membership, Monica is responsible for working with the Club's Membership Committee in developing and implementing programs that will enhance the overall health of the Club with emphasis on membership attraction and retention. She has been Director of Membership at the Cleveland Skating Club for the past12 years, and previously served as executive director of a city club. Having been a member of several private clubs, she is able to see the club experience from both sides.
Monica is the Founding President of the Greater Cleveland PCMA Chapter and in 2008 received the MCMP and is recognized as the first person to attain the PCMA Master Club Marketing Professional. She received a Bachelors and MBA from Cleveland State University.
316K White Hall, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242
aisraeli@kent.edu


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Turns Out Jessica Chastain + Jennifer Lawrence Won't Catfight at the 2013 Oscars After All
Jessica Sager Published: February 10, 2013
Frederick M. Brown (2), Getty Images
Rumor has it that Jessica Chastain wants to have a weave pulling match at the 2013 Oscars with fellow Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence and throw so much shade that she won't need those trusty aviators anymore.
Except rumor has it wrong.
Reports circulated that Chastain was pretty pissed when Lawrence walked away with a SAG Award for her performance in 'Silver Linings Playbook' over Chastain's fierce CIA agent in 'Zero Dark Thirty.'
"Jessica can't stand the fact that Jennifer is stealing her thunder," a source griped. "What is more, the critics have been gushing over Jennifer's awards show speeches and it has been killing Jessica."
The overdramatic source added, "It was a real blow to Jessica when Jennifer took the SAG Award. Not only did Jessica think she deserved it, she thought she had it in the bag. She tried to put on a brave face for the cameras, but inside she was seething."
Supposedly J-Law's appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' made Chastain get her panties in a bunch as well.
If you recall, in a remarkably poorly written opening monologue, Lawrence spit, "Jessica Chastain -- more like Jessica Chast-ain't winning no Oscar on my watch. In 'Zero Dark Thirty' you caught Bin Laden. So what? In 'Winter's Bone' I caught a squirrel -- and then I ate it. Boom. Deal with that."
The tab source, apparently determined to make the classy and fabulous Chastain look like a humorless shrew, explained, "Jessica felt Jennifer trivialized her acting role and didn't see any humor in the bit. She can't stand Jennifer all the more for it."
Here's the thing, though: None of it is true.
Not only is Chastain smart enough to know that Lawrence likely didn't write her opening monologue in the first place, she also doesn't care if Lawrence wins, because, well, she knows they're both good at what they do.
Chastain took to Facebook to clear up any confusion for those dumb enough to believe any of what you just read.
I find it very sad that media makes up bogus stories about women fighting in this industry. Filming The Help was the most amazing experience and yet, that is the film Im most asked about in regards to "fighting on set". Why do we support the myth that women are competitive and cannot get along?
I think all of the actresses recognized this year have given incredible performances. But more important, they've all shown themselves to be filled with generosity and kindness. I've done two photo shoots with Jennifer Lawrence over the years and have found her to be utterly charming and a great talent. I've told her how beautiful her film work is.
Please don't allow the media to perpetuate the myth that women arent supportive of each other. Everytime an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women. With support and encouragement, we help to inspire this industry to create opportunities for women. And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film xxjes
And there you have it. Perfection loves perfection.
Haters to the left.
Filed Under: Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain


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