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Good morning everyone out there. The summer is nearly over and fall will be coming sooner than we think. The kids are back to school and college and we must always remember to drive carefully when it is time for school buses to be on the road. The kids can get excited and not remember to stop and look before crossing the road so we as adults must watch out for them. Be sure to watch the signals from the school buses so you can anticipate what is going to happen next.I hope you all have a great holiday weekend and the weather is forecasted to be warm and sunny. Enjoy your family and friends as this is usually one of the last times for people to get together before winter rolls around.TOPS .
Home Builder in Spain Crashes as Ex-Chairman Keeps New York Pad
Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- From the looks of things at the newly built Aparta Hotel Residencia, you'd never know that it's the high summer tourist season in Canet d'En Berenguer, a town of 5,000 just north of Valencia on Spain's Mediterranean coast. The compound's 308 apartments, completed this spring, are all unoccupied. Grass has started to sprout between the red terra-cotta tiles that lead to the empty, peanut-shaped swimming pool. The residence is just one of a trail of buildings dotting the sandy coastline constructed by Enrique Banuelos as he amassed a fortune of more than 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) over the past 15 years. Banuelos lost much of that money -- and shareholders' -- as the stock market punished the firm he founded, Astroc Mediterraneo SA, amid a rapid cooling of Spain's housing market.
Two Sweeping Novels of America
The heroine of Amy Bloom's new novel of historical fiction personifies some very contemporary desires: to be sexually frank, romantically unique, and maternally instinctual. As we learn in the flashback swirls that begin "Away" ( Random House, 240 pages, $23.95), Lillian Leyb is at once a refugee of Stalin's pogroms and a plucky immigrant on the Lower East Side �-- occupying a cultural moment that has not gone neglected, lately. Because she has suffered, Ms. Bloom suggests, Lillian knows the world. She has license to get what she wants. Bold and flirtatious at a job fair, she ignores the women she has superseded and smiles at her new bosses: Lillian has endured the murder of her family, the loss of her daughter, Sophie, an ocean crossing like a death march, intimate life with strangers in her cousin Frieda's two rooms, smelling of men and urine and fried food and uncertainty and need.
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