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ANNUAL 2/2 Courtyard Villa – Furnished! Golf Cart!
Availability: Rented
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Annual (12 Month) Lease -- Rented thru June 30, 2020
Annual (12 Month) Lease -- Rented thru June 30, 2020
Address: 1693 Mouttrie Ter, The Villages FL 32162-4038
Phone: 352-445-9996
Agent: Tom Jones
Company: JD and V Property Management
Location, Location, Location! A really nice two bedroom Courtyard Villa in The Village of Sabal Chase. It is a Marathon Model with 2 full baths and fully furnished. The Living Room has entertainment center, ceiling fan, and cozy couch (that is queen size sofa bed). The Kitchen is fully equipped and as breakfast bar. There is a queen size bed in the Master Bedroom plus his-and-her dressers, flat screen TV, ceiling fan, access to the Lanai and walk-in closet with extra shelving. The Guest Bedroom has a queen bed and dresser. The screened Lanai has wicker casual furniture for reading and relaxing as you enjoy the private courtyard. There is a gas golf cart for tenant to use. Very close to Mallory Hill and Cane Garden Country Clubs, executive golf, and Market Square at Sumter Landing.


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Monday, June 11, 2018
As We Await the Singapore Summit and Its Tangle of Complexities...Godspeed, President Trump
PRESIDENT TRUMP IS IN SINGAPORE. He arrived Sunday evening, local time. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was already in Singapore. • • • TRUMP AND KIM. Fox News offered a brief summary of recent events. Fox's Gregg Re reported on Sunday about the road leading to the Trump-Kim summit, in an interview with Drew Berquist, founder and editor-in-chief of Ops-Lens : "Embarking on what he has called a "mission of peace," President Trump landed Sunday evening at Singapore's Paya Lebar Airbase for a historic summit with North Korean autocrat Kim Jong-un. Asked by a reporter on the tarmac how he was feeling about the summit after landing in Air Force One, Trump replied :'"Very good.' Trump was met at the runway by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. His high-stakes meeting with Kim is scheduled for 9 a.m. local time Tuesday, or 9 p.m. ET. A private jet carrying Kim had landed just hours earlier amid huge security precautions on the city-state island. His motorcade was seen speeding through the streets of Singapore -- a rare sight for the reclusive leader who rarely travels abroad. Kim traveled in a massive limousine, two large North Korean flags fluttering on the hood, surrounded by other black vehicles with tinted windows and bound for the luxurious and closely guarded St. Regis Hotel. Trump was joined on Air Force One by a stable of key advisers, including National Security Advisor John Bolton, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Trump had tweeted : 'I am on my way to Singapore where we have a chance to achieve a truly wonderful result for North Korea and the World. It will certainly be an exciting day and I know that Kim Jong-un will work very hard to do something that has rarely been done before.'....Earlier, before leaving Canada, President Trump told reporters : 'It's unknown territory in the truest sense, but I really feel confident. I feel that Kim Jong-un wants to do something great for his people and he has that opportunity and he won't have that opportunity again.' " • Despite his positive apporach to the summit, President Trump has made it clear that the stakes are high, but he said he believes "North Korea will be a tremendous place" if it makes the right decisions. "It's a one-time shot and I think it's going to work out very well." Secretary of state Mike Pompeo told reporters last week that Kim has personally assured him that he wants to rid the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons -- which the White House has called an essential, take-it-or-leave it goal of the summit. But, in recent weeks there ahs been much specualtion about what, exactly, may come of the historic meeting. North Korea has said it's willing to deal away its entire nuclear arsenal if the United States provides it with a reliable security assurance and other benefits. But, says Fox News : "Many, if not all analysts, say that this is highly unlikely, given how hard it has been for Kim to build his program and that the weapons are seen as the only protection he has. Any nuclear deal will hinge on North Korea's willingness to allow unfettered outside inspections of the country's warheads and radioactive materials, much of which is likely kept in a vast complex of underground facilities. Another possibility from the summit is a possible deal to end the Korean War. North Korea has long demanded a treaty that may be aimed at getting US troops off the Korean Peninsula and, eventually, paving the way for a North Korean-led unified Korea." • • • IS IT JUST TRUMP AND KIM? Or is it Trump, Kim and China? On Sunday, Thomas Lifson pointed out in Ameriocna Thinker that : "In the world of diplomacy, symbolism is everything, and Kim Jong-un just sent quite a set of messages by his choice of airplane to fly to the most important meeting of his life. He seems to have just acknowledged his tributary state relationship with China, among other messages. His use of an American-made Boeing 747 in the livery of Air China for his trip to Singapore is remarkable. The choice of airplane was not a matter of Kim not having an aircraft capable of the trip. His own executive transport plane, a Soviet-era IL-62 built around 1985 in the livery of Air Koryo, took off from Pyongyang for the trip shortly before the Air China carrying him did. This is the same airplane he used for his visit to Dalien, China for consultations with Xi Jin-ping prior to meeting Trump. North Korea sent three planes to Singapore on Sunday with one likely carrying its leader....According to Flightradar24 and official sources here, the Chammae-1 -- an Ilyushin-62M passenger jet -- which is the North Korean leader's private jet, departed Pyongyang Sunan International Airport at 9:30 a.m. and is flying in a southeastward direction without revealing its flight number. The website earlier detected a separate takeoff by an Air China airplane heading for the same destination at 8:30 a.m., after it discreetly landed in North Korea for a brief stop that last about an hour. The departures of the two planes come shortly after Pyongyang sent an Ilyushin-76 cargo plane to Singapore, according to the sources." Lifson reported that the day before Kim's arrival, another Air China plane, an Airbus A-330, carried his advance party, presumably including many of the elite ruling circle of North Korea. That plane flew from Beijing to Pyongyang, picking up North Koreans, then on to Singapore, and back to China. • Lifson's question : "So, why would Kim fly Air China for the biggest trip of his life?" For Lifson the answer is "security was uppermost in his mind. The actual flight path used by A-330 advance party, which, while sticking to Chinese airspace as long as it could, was exposed to potential enemies over international waters. My guess is that he figured those who might be tempted to shoot down a North Korean airplane might be more circumspect attacking a Chinese airplane." But, says Lifson, there is anoterh possibility : "A second theoretical reason is a desire to fly on the same aircraft type that President Donald Trump is currently using, a Boeing 747-400. Arriving on an ancient and noisy IL-62 would denote inferiority. The particular plane that he used, with registration number B-2447…is quite special. B-2447 is used by the top rungs of the Chinese government, predominantly President Xi Jinping and his entourage, when traveling abroad. It is capable of being specially outfitted with a VIP interior and has special interfaces for secure satellite communications among other modifications. Of course, China's leadership would be able to listen to anything said on that airplane. In a sense, the use of Chinese aircraft for his trip shows Kim acknowledging the need to internationalize Pyongyang's economy, a goal that President Trump is holding out for him, citing the bright future ahead for North Korea if it gives up its nuclear arsenal." • There is a third possibility -- China insisted. China will be the elephant in the room tomorrow during the summit. We can be pretty sure that Kim's recent trips to Beijing were not for shopping and sightseeing. He met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. FXStreet notes that not only Kim visited China in the run-up to the summit, but "a high-level delegation from his ruling Workers' Party toured China's industrial hubs in an 11-day visit in May that focused on China's high-tech urban transport and latest scientific breakthroughs. That delegation went to China only weeks after Kim declared an end to nuclear and missile tests and vowed an all-out effort toward 'socialist economic construction.' Chinese media labeled Kim's announcement North Korea's 'opening and reform,' shorthand for Deng Xiaoping's policies, that replaced Mao's calamitous strict Communist state-controlled market economy first championed by Deng, who became China's leader in 1978 and unleashed wrenching reforms that are widely regarded as creating the foundations of China's economic miracle in the past 40 years. The changes were massive, the growth phenomenal, but most importantly the Chinese Communist Party has achieved all of this while not only retaining power but increasing its control over the country. FXStreet quotes Jeon Kyong-man, an economist at the Institute for Korean Integration of Society : "Kim is talking to Trump because he needs to get the United States to back off sanctions. After that, headlines will be all about Kim and Xi Jinping." • It is obvious that China has -- after the starving North Korean people -- the biggest stake in the summit. China wants to protect its buffer NK -- think Putin railing over the EU invasion of its close-in territorial area when the EU tried to get Ukraine to join the EU -- think the US drawing the line when Khruschev began installing mid-range ballistic missiles in Cuba in 1961. China needs NK as a client state buffer. But, China also needs NK as a negotiator. If the South China Sea military build-up by Xi means anything -- and it does -- it means is that the Chinese leader is determined to control East Asia with a display of unstoppable force. He can't do that while the US is sitting in South Korea with 38,000 troops and massive amounts of military weaponry. China would lose the fight if it confronted the US directly to demand the withdrawal of these troops and weapons. But, Kim might just get some relief in that regard if he is willing to give up his nuclear capability as the payment. And, it would not be a lose-lose for Kim. He would get not only US protection and assistance in economic development, but also China's. Win-win for the Dear Leader. • Reuters says : "US President Donald Trump may have promised that North Korea will become 'very rich' on the back of American investment if Pyongyang ditches nuclear weapons but economists and academics who have studied the isolated country say it is China not the US that will be the engine of any transformation....China is already North Korea's most important ally and biggest trade partner. And since Kim assumed power in 2011 the trade relationship has become even more important. China now represents more than 90% of Pyongyang's trade, making it just about North Korea's only economic lifeline, as the deep economic sanctions imposed by the US and UN bite....Xi, under intense pressure from Trump, started enforcing sanctions strictly in the second half of 2017. By March this year, China imported no iron ore, coal or lead from North Korea for a sixth month in a row, in line with UN Security Council sanctions. That has hurt North Korea's coal-intensive heavy industries and manufacturing sectors. But more importantly, plunging trade with Beijing has been 'killing the most thriving part of the economy' -- unofficial markets where individuals and wholesalers buy and sell mostly Chinese-made consumer goods and agricultural products, Jeon said. 'More than anything, it was China's decision to enforce sanctions that squeezed the economy and made removing of the sanctions an urgent task for Kim,' he said. • Kim Byung-yeon, an economics professor at Seoul National University, told Reuters : "It [a Deng-style economic reform] could leave Kim Jong-un with less than half the power he has now." As part of efforts to maintain control, any opening could initially be limited to "special economic zones," where Pyongyang has sought to combine its cheap labor with China's financial firepower and technological know-how, according to BMI Research, a unit of Fitch Group. • • • THE SUMMIT. President told reporters on Monday his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could "work out very nicely" as officials from both countries sought to narrow differences on how to end a nuclear stand-off on the Korean peninsula. But, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo injected a note of caution ahead of the first-ever meeting of US and North Korean leaders on Tuesday, saying that it remained to be seen whether Kim was sincere about his willingness to denuclearize. Reuters reported : "Offering a preview to reporters on the eve of the summit, Pompeo said it could provide 'an unprecedented opportunity to change the trajectory of our relationship and bring peace and prosperity' to North Korea. However, he played down the possibility of a quick breakthrough and said the summit should set the framework for 'the hard work that will follow,' insisting that North Korea had to move toward complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization." Pompeo said sanctions would remain in place until denuclearization occurs : "If diplomacy does not move in the right direction...those measures will increase. North Korea has previously confirmed to us its willingness to denuclearize and we are eager to see if those words prove sincere." • A denuclearized NK would fit in nicely with China's buffer-plus-US-withdrawal, giving Xi a much stronger argument that the US was no longer needed in South Korea. Although gaps remain over what denuclearization would entail, Trump sounded a positive note in a lunch meeting with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong : "We've got a very interesting meeting...tomorrow, and I just think it's going to work out very nicely," Trump said. Kim, who also arrived on Sunday, left the heavily guarded St Regis Hotel, where he is staying on Monday evening for a walkaround sightseeing tour. But, there was no sign of his sister, Kim Yo Jong, who accompanied him to Singapore. • Reuters says : "Many experts on North Korea, one of the most insular and unpredictable countries in the world, remain skeptical Kim will ever completely abandon nuclear weapons. They believe Kim's latest engagement is aimed at getting the United States to ease the crippling sanctions that have squeezed the impoverished country. A Trump administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. side was entering the talks with a sense of optimism and an equal dose of scepticism given North Korea's long history of developing nuclear weapons. 'We will not be surprised by any scenario,' said the official. The official said Trump and Kim would hold a one-on-one meeting on Tuesday that could last up to two hours. He described it as a 'get to know you plus' meeting. Later, they would be joined by their respective negotiating teams for discussions that could last another hour." • The summit was thrown into doubt late last month after North Korea took exception to comments from national security advisor John Bolton and made clear its definition of denuclearization includes concessions from the United States. Trump canceled the meeting, but decided to move ahead with it a week later after a visit to Washington by a top North Korean official. • South Korean President Moon Jae-in was instrumental in facilitating the summit and has staked much of his political capital on a rapprochement with Pyongyang. Japan has not been engaging with North Korea itself and is counting on the US to represent its interests -- including NK's missiles that can hit Japan and NK's abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the White House last week to press Trump once more before the summit on those issues. • Suzanne DiMaggio, director and senior fellow at New America, said a statement on denuclearization is the best that can be hoped for at this point. "The best possible outcome I see for this summit is a general outline of an agreement that identifies denuclearization as the end goal of a process to be determined," she said at a 38 North briefing. "And, for me, the best-case scenario would be, at this point, for President Trump to step back from the process and hand it over to the professional diplomats and negotiators to work out these details." • • • DEAR READERS, trying to sort through the rumors and statement being made and reported prior ot the summit is almost impossible because we are in a playback loop in which rumors become part of official statements that become part of the next rould of rumors that feed more statements. It is a true chichen-and-egg situation for outsiders. As close as we can get to understanding what is going on comes from Sevretary of State Pompeo, who in his Monday briefing expressed an optimistic tone about the summit : "So these discussions that'll take place tomorrow between chairman Kim and President Trump will set the framework for the hard work that will follow. And we'll see how far we get, but I'm very optimistic that we will have a successful outcome from tomorrow's meeting between these two leaders." • And, so we watch and wait. Tomorrow we will know at least something about what is happening in Singapore. • Godspeed, President Trump.
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Beef and Guinness stew
There's little that can get me more excited than a proper plate of beef and Guinness stew! There's just something about it- it's the perfect comfort food as far as I am concerned. Now for me, following Slimming World, it really is worth using those few syns up to cook this in the Guinness, as it makes such a gorgeous meal, but if you wanted to keep it syn free you could cook it just with beef stock, or with the fabulous red-wine stock pots that you can get from Tesco. Allowing ...
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12th September 2017
Tender beef and ale stew
When I was 21 I got a surprise package on my doorstep, and it was a slow cooker. There was no 'from' message, but I soon figured out that it was my lovely Grandma who had sent it to me. The very first thing that I cooked in it was beef and ale stew, and I would definitely say that over the years it is the thing that I have cooked in it the most frequently. It's just simple, tasty comfort food, and the slow cooker will turn the toughest of beef into melt-in-your mouth tenderness. My ...
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According to the organizers:
Please join Donna Lennard and the il Buco family to celebrate our annual "Sagra del Maiale"!
The event will take place on the cobblestone sidewalk outside il Buco, rain or shine. Join us and the community to celebrate the arrival of Fall!
Dinner plates include an assortment of the following:
Whole Slow Roasted Heritage Pig
Flying Pigs Porchetta Panini on Ciabatta with Blueberry Balsamic Mostarda
House-made Flying Pigs Farm Apple Sausage
Panzanela Salad
Wild Arugula Salad
Pasta alla Norma
Calçots with Romesco
Apple Ricotta Fritters with Saba
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Choice of wine or seasonal beer
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Iced Tea
All pigs are heritage breed and pasture raised by Flying Pig Farm of Battenkill River Valley, New York.


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5 October 2018
TSSA is calling on rail operating company Abellio to open up all its Scottish contact centres to union membership. "If not, the Scottish government should order them to do so," says TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes.
Cortes says Abellio is guilty of breaching workers' rights by failure to have standardised union recognition across its Scottish sites. And he is vexed by the company running a public service, taking huge public subsidy but not doing enough to comply with the SNP's own public edict that encourages employers to allow their workforce to join unions in the interests of best industrial relations practice.
This week Abellio and TSSA have signed a union recognition agreement at the company's contact centre in Fort William following a staff led initiative there in which 16 of the centre's 24 staff joined TSSA.
But staff at Abellio's contact centres in Robertson Street and Culzean House in Glasgow still have no access to union representatives at work. And local managers are yet to reply to TSSA's request to be able to publicise the benefits of membership of our union to them in their workplace.
Said Cortes, "I want to congratulate workers in Fort William for joining our TSSA family. It is only through their strength and determination to belong to a union that we have won this important breakthrough in industrial relations. When 16 out of 24 staff join our union in one month, you know staff are feeling vulnerable at work and in need of representation.
"Abellio know this too, which is why it's a disgrace they are still shutting us out of both their sites in Glasgow. I put management there on notice that they are morally obliged to grant us recognition rights. And if they can find their moral compass, we will use all means at our disposal to force them to do the right thing for its workers.
"But despite the worker led breakthrough in Fort William, it seems Scotland's biggest subsidy junkie, Abellio, doesn't get or is simply ignoring the First Minister's memo about the Scottish Government valuing the work which trade unions do and wanting employers to work with them.
"Abellio's ScotRail contract sees billions of Scottish taxpayers pounds going their way. Is it a lot to ask of Abellio to abide by the wishes of their Scottish paymaster in chief, Nicola Sturgeon by allowing their staff their right to be represented by a union at the Glasgow sites? Frankly, if they don't, the Scottish Government ought to order them to do so.
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Grace Carter's music is heavy. Not in a head-banging, mosh-pit inducing way, instead via her weighty, relatable and superb pop songs. In each line, the 20-year-old's soaring vocals offer both solace and strength, as the restrained production allows that important voice to have its space.
'Why Her Not Me', her latest single, takes things up a gear. Written about her absent father during her childhood, Carter's mature songwriting takes her to a place where many artists may never dare to tread. But then again, she's not quite like any other artist. She's honest, witty and writes songs not just for her own benefit but for those of others. Every song is both a blank canvas and a highly detailed product. By learning about Grace's life, we can all learn a little bit about our own.
No wonder she's made such an impression. She's toured with Dua Lipa, Haim and rising R&B star Mabel, but is now preparing to head out on her debut headline tour this week. She is, in her own words, about to come "the main course". On it, there'll be songs both old and new – examples of where she has been, currently is, and sketches of the future. It's looking pretty good from where we are.
You've spent a little while supporting people – you must be itching to do your own shows now?
We're used to supporting artists. We've toured with Dua Lipa, Rag'n'Bone Man, Haim and Mabel, so apart from the one headline show I've done, we've never been in the position where we're not actually the performer that people are coming to see. It's been rewarding, because we expect no-one to give a shit and luckily they do give a shit. On this tour, we'll be the main course and not the starter.
We were totally honoured to share those crowds and those artists were so welcoming, but it's so exciting that people are buying tickets with my name on it.
What was the most important thing you learnt?
I think to just enjoy myself, really. Obviously we're all human beings and you have good days and bad days, but the main thing I learnt was that even though you might have had the worst day, you should still get back on stage and enjoy it and make the most of it. Even if I had a crap day, by being on stage I could bond with people and have a good time and forget about everything. I'm extremely lucky to be in the position I'm in. Dua is a great example of this. She gives her all at every show that she does and remains so humble and nice, so I've learnt a lot from her.
When was the first time you performed?
I was 13, my step-dad got my first instrument. I'd known him for a few months and I'd grown up with a single mum, so hadn't had a male influence in my life and it'd always been me and my mum or her friends. As a peace offering, he gave me a guitar and encouraged me to write songs about my childhood because I'd grown up with a single parent. I didn't understand why I grew up without a Dad around, so he encouraged me to talk about that stuff. Even if I wasn't talking to either of them, I was still able to think about how I felt and get it out in some way. I'd sung before that, but when I finished my first song, that's when I realised there was nothing else I wanted to do.
It went from me being unsure and then a year later he was the reason why I was doing what I loved, so our relationship completely changed. He's now the first person I play songs to and who I ask for advice. He's the only father figure I've ever had.
Did the songs help?
I find it way easier to sing about things than talk about them. Try and sit me in a room and try talk to me, but the minute I'm sat at a piano and with chords and able to not worry and know I'm not going to be judged or whatever, I can talk about anything. That's what so powerful about being able to write about music.
Was your mother a big part of your musical upbringing, too?
She had a massive influence in the way that she supported me. She's guided me in the right direction and supported me to make these decisions, also the music she played when I was growing up heavily influenced me. We listened to soul and strong female voices, and those are the people that I look to for inspiration. She's not musical at all, but definitely influential. I bought her a ukulele one year and it stayed behind the sofa, so yeah, we tried!
When did write 'Why Her Not Me'?
I wrote that song about 3 years ago and it was the day that I found her hand picked some other life over raising me. I'd grown up with a single mum and never understood why until that day when it all came together. I was in a session that day and we were talking and I kept saying "why her not me" and that became the song very quickly. That song is probably the most me, in terms of what my music is about – I've tried to be as honest as I can in that song. For me, it means that, but I want my music to interpret in the ways and put their lives and story into it. I don't want to take the songs away from people.
When I grew up listening to Adele for the first time, she was singing about things I'd never experienced but I was relating it to my life, like when I was 11 and had never had a boyfriend.
I think a lot of people hear songs and just assume that they're about a loving relationship between a man and a woman – people assume that. As a kid I probably needed a grown-up person talking about their relationship with their father because I would have need that. I haven't seen my dad for years, so I'm glad I found music to help me understand the way that I did.
How's work going on the album?
Work is going amazing. Every minute I have I'm in the studio recording or writing things, but I've been writing this album since I was 16-years-old.
Is it hard writing such emotional music?
I never started writing music to chase after a fame. For me, the only reason I write music is to talk about how I'm feeling – it's only natural that my songs are emotional because those are the songs that I've only ever written about. I didn't realise how intense it was until 'Why Her Not Me' came out the other week. I'm an open book and I was releasing songs that I wanted to connect, but with 'Why Her Not Me' that song is so important to me and it shaped the person I am.
See Grace Carter live
22nd October – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
23rd October – Sugar Club, Dublin
25th October – Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow
27th October – Chapel, Leeds
29th October –Village Underground, London
2nd November – Les Etoiles theatre, Paris
3rd November – Melkweg, Amsterdam
5th November – Botanique, Brussels
6th November – Privat Club, Berlin
7th November – Studio 672, Cologne
28th March – Electric Brixton, London


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Paris Terror Attacks and the Danger of Complacency
Walking onto Trafalgar Square the Sunday of the week of the attacks I was met with the symbolic French flag which boldly and ironically interrupted the resolute and neutral-toned square which remembers British supremacy.
Trafalgar Square, a monument to Admiral Nelson for defeating the French Navy at the battle of Trafalgar, instead became a bastion of unity and solidarity among French and English. The colours of red, white and blue were projected opaquely onto the National Gallery and were symbolic of the values so centric to French society and heritage: 'liberté, egalité and fraternité. Around the square faces of people of all nationalities, religions, walks of life and ages could be seen scattered throughout the crowds, separate, yet coming together to make up one large body of people.
The rally was made up of a vast amount of French speakers, however a substantial amount were not and many different languages could be heard shouting out in the crowds. Most people, however, chose to stand calmly in a silent display of solidarity rather than speaking or chanting. The normally busy, tourist-trap location of Trafalgar Square was practically silent in a respectfully sombre display of grief. Signs were held up reading messages, varying from those of hope, such as 'Freedom', and those which focused on the sad truths of the events this week, such as 'No to Terrorism'. Those who stood were resolute. As the sun set and darkness grew in the square, the homage to the people of France in the form of the projection of its flag, which is very much iconic, only became brighter, and it lit up the sky in a way that overshadowed the architectural prowess of the square itself.
As I walked over to the memorial which remembered both victims of the attack on Chalie Hebdo and the Kosher Supermarket in Paris, the memorial lights dispersed a warm glow across gatherers. The memorial itself is incredibly captivating as the use of mixed media is so intriguing to the human eye. Pencils and pens heaped on top of each other lined in a circle around posters, candles and flowers all paying their respects in different ways to the atrocities which occurred this week. Stars of Davids, posters reading 'Je suis Charlie', 'Je suis Juif' and a giant cutout of a drawing pencil were among the items sellotaped to the floor, in defiance of the strong winds which threatened to blow the memorial apart.
I left the rally with a sense of unity with all decent human beings around the world. However, the evocative imagery and meaning of the memorial and the posters I had seen fiercely and sharply penetrated my mind as being representative of an issue far beyond requiring only the action of standing in a landmark in the center of London on a chilly Sunday afternoon. The pencils and pens placed on the memorial represent something incredibly important- the right of human beings to freedom of speech fully and absolutely, both in writing and in drawing, or however else they may wish. This right, which in France and broadly in the West is viewed as a fundamental component of society, was attacked by Islamist terrorists who wish to impose censorship across Europe. Debate after the attack revealed many clashing viewpoints, with some giving the opinion that freedom of speech should be limited when it comes to sensitive matters, such as religion. To me it is very worrying that, after an attack of such horrific proportions, so many media outlets and individuals have essentially immediately ceded to the aims of the terrorists making the attack, which was to place further limits on our freedom of speech. There has also been a great deal of talk about the importance of focusing on the 'threat to Muslims' and the issue of Islamaphobia in the aftermath of the attack. It is undeniable that any blaming of, or attack on moderate Muslims due to the events this week would be repugnant, however it is very unlikely to occur if we look at the usual repercussions of large-scale terrorist attacks.
The threat to Jews is an undeniably hugely more significant one, especially in France where anti-semitic attacks have been occurring at a shocking and extremely worrying rate in recent months. Unfortunately, it is all too easy to take the easy route out by either ceding to the wants of one particular religious group because we are intimidated, focusing on non-serious issues, or showing support lazily. The hashtag 'JeSuisCharlie' became the most used hashtag ever in Twitter history, and it is of course very heartening to see the world being more united than it ever has been so far in the history of the technological age in light of this brutal attack. However, virtual solidarity- no matter whether it may be significantly reported in the press or whether it may be a beautiful way of remembering the victims- will do nothing to actively defend the rights which are under threat from brutal terrorist assaults. Everyone who feels that freedom of speech is something that they value must take the steps to reevaluate exactly what it means to them and why they believe it is so essential, and must then act to ensure that not only do such atrocious acts of terror never occur again, but that the media worldwide stops allowing themselves to fall into a habit of passive cowardice. The right of Jews to live in peace, free from anti-semitism must post the Holocaust become absolute again and it is absurd that the seriousness of the threat of anti-semitism has been played down by Western media. Memorials to the victims of tragic attacks against the Jews and the journalists this week should continue to grow, but with that we must make sure that their legacy lives on by fighting for the rights they lost when they were brutally murdered.


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Your desk will be covered in so much debris: from photos of your family to novelty rubbers. If there is anything on your desk that you don't use every day, take it away.
Recommended reading: Why Employees Should Play an Active Part in Organisation Redesigns
3. Get E-Mail Savvy
Set up a separate e-mail account to receive e-newsletters and make sure you unsubscribe from any e-mails you don't want to receive in your inbox. This means that you can spend more time with the e-mails that are really important. Mass mail is horrendous. Set aside times during the day to go through your e-mail; otherwise, leave it well alone and get on with your work.
4. To-Do List
Sounds very old-school, but taking the time to write yourself a to-do list is a great way to organise your time. You also get the deep satisfaction of ticking each box, one task at a time. Your mammoth schedule will also start looking manageable for once.
Leave yourself enough leeway for unexpected tasks that your business will throw at you during the day.
5. Task Grading
Begin your day with the most gruelling, difficult tasks. You may be pretty useless before your morning coffee, but you'll be even worse towards the end of the day when your brain is completely frazzled. Know when you're at your most efficient.
6. Learn To Say No
You can't always be the yes person on the team. When you're swamped, it's time to politely decline. Explain why you can't possibly take on the project and describe how your time will be put to better use elsewhere.
7. Keep A Calendar
A calendar can be a complete lifesaver. Keep checking your appointments and deadlines, so you never accidentally forget an important meeting again! (And when it's time to go home, you can cross off another day before the weekend!)
8. Don't Multi-Task
Multi-tasking can turn into a real juggling act. Approach your projects one at a time and don't move on to the next task until you've completed your current one. People may say they need something 'ASAP,' but it can probably wait until you've finished what you're doing. False deadlines are common in businesses – these tasks aren't usually as urgent as people may be making out.
Over to you now. Any other tips for being organised in the workplace? Share them in the comments below.


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The sale of homes by private customers rose nearly 20 points in June
The real estate sector In Spain continues to improve its forecasts and now enjoys five consecutive months of increases compared to the same period of 2015
Private clients are in luck: home sales rose 19.4% last June compared to the same month in 2015 and 36,895 operations were performed, according to the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE).
These figures represent five consecutive months of increases and is due to increased sales in both the second hand housing market as well as of new housing.
Specifically, transactions of second hand homes have risen 24%, with 30,270 operations, while in the case of new housing the increase is not so intense: 2%, with a total of 6,586 operations.
The Spanish National Statistics Institute also reported the type of housing that is benefitting from this situation. Specifically, 90.6% of homes sold in this period were free-market houses while the remaining 9.4% appertain to State subsidized housing. Thus, the sale of free housing rose 20.6% year on year (33,950 operations), while in the case of social housing they were up 9.2% (3,466 operations).
Finally, good news continues for private customers, taking into account that the real estate market in the first six months of 2016 has improved its forecast because sales of homes accumulate an increase of 16.4% compared to the first half of 2015.
The main cause of this rise is the fact that there has been an increase in sale operations of existing homes which has reached 22.2%, although the number of transactions involving new housing has fallen by 2.5%.
This data helps clear up the uncertainty in the real estate sector, the most affected by the severe economic crisis of recent years in Spain. These figures relate to the mortgage market and show that private clients will now be able to access the property market in Spain with increased guarantees of profitability.
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Cynthia H. Roman is an executive coach and registered organization development professional who provides coaching, training and consulting services for a variety of organizations, including those in the federal, nonprofit, higher education and professional services sectors. She has assisted organizations with critical management and leadership issues, such as coaching, mentoring, executive presence, leadership development, communication, conflict management, team development, supervision and performance management.
Roman began her career in health-care management and life-care housing administration. She gained invaluable management experience supervising nursing, social services, engineering, food services and housekeeping personnel. She moved on to management and leadership development when she joined Dynamic Systems Inc., a professional services company supporting the U.S. Navy. While at DSI, she designed and facilitated multi-session supervisory development, management development and leadership development programs. This is where she began her coaching career, working with managers at all levels throughout the Navy.
Roman is experienced at designing needs assessment processes, including interviews, focus groups, competency modeling and survey development. She followed the needs-assessment process with multi-session supervisory skills training. Her clients in these areas include the Naval Surface Warfare Center, American Society of Clinical Oncologists, University of Maryland University College and Host Marriott. She and her business partners designed and delivered a national certificate course in coaching for the American Society of Training and Development. Roman also conducted an innovative, online performance management feedback course for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service.
As an executive coach, Roman helps organizational leaders to identify goals, develop action plans and carry out leadership strategies. She has coached teams at Host Marriott, Employee Relocation Council, USDA, and American Red Cross. Her individual coaching clients include managers from the American Society for Training and Development, American Society of Clinical Oncology, U.S. departments of Treasury, Labor and Agriculture, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, George Washington University, Volunteers of America, Honda North America, National Rural Telecommunications and American Registry of Internet Numbers.
In addition to her consulting and coaching work, Roman has taught graduate courses in various Washington, D.C., area universities for more than 12 years. She founded the graduate certificate program in leadership coaching at George Washington University. During 2006, she provided both individual coaching and coaching training to the participants in the National Institutes of Health Leadership Development Program, given by George Washington University. Roman is coauthor of the book Leading From the Inside Out: A Coaching Model (2002). She also is coauthor of "Professionalism: A Checklist," an article published in the Pfeiffer Annual Series (2007) and Organizational Coaching: Building Relationships and Programs That Drive Results (with Bianco-Mathis and Nabors, ASTD Press, 2008).
Roman earned a B.A. with distinction from the University of Virginia, a master's degree in counseling from the University of Georgia and a doctoral degree in adult education from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has served as an adjunct faculty member of George Washington University, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, University of Maryland University College, Marymount University and National-Louis University.


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It's Super Bowl season again, and that means that advertisers are out to get the biggest bang for their bucks. A lot of bucks are involved too! This year, each 30 second spot of Super Bowl commercial cost an average of $5.2 million. With an anticipated viewer count of 103,400 people, that means advertisers spent more than $173,333 for each second of commercial! You can bet that, with this kind of money involved, businesses will bring their A-game to convince you to see things their way. We need to be prepared to see through the pomp and circumstance and view these commercials with a critical eye. More importantly, we need to apply Christian critical thinking to prevent these monstrously overpriced advertisements from leading us to foolish decisions!
This year, Eve and I walking the red carpet as we sift through the dozens of entries and present to you The Commercial Awards! We fabricated a bunch of categories and each nominated commercials for them. This month's episode is the discussion and awarding of those . . . um . . . prizes! So without further ado . . .
Best Celebrity Cameo
Amazon Echo Fails, ADT "Property Brothers", Planters, and Bubly
If you'd like to read about the Buble's approach to dealing with their son's cancer treatment, check out this article.
Scripture Tie-In: As with any celebrity, we need to make sure that we do not elevate their status to something more important than our worship of God.:
Little children, keep yourselves from idols." (1 John 5:21)
Best Emotional Moment
SimpliSafe, Microsoft, and Kia
Scripture Tie-In: We are called to care for those less fortunate than us in a number of places in the Word of God. Such caring can very easily be a reflection of our love for God and a fruit of His spirit.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; I was naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you took care of me; I was in prison and you visited me.' 'Then the righteous will answer him, "Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or without clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick, or in prison, and visit you?" 'And the King will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.' (Matthew 25:35-40)
…but Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 19:14)
Best series/movie trailer
Avengers: Endgame movie, Captain Marvel movie, Handmaid's Tale series for Hulu, Hobbs and Shaw movie, Our Planet series for Netflix, and Hanna series for Amazon Prime (not to be confused with the 2011 film of the same name and source material.)
Scripture Tie-In: Even though the Handmaid's Tale commercial takes home the best commercial for a series, the concept behind it begs consideration. Like so much science fiction, distant (and not so distant) futures are often depicted with a ruling religious organization. Sadly, there is plenty of history to draw on regarding abuse within the church, as there is with any group that comes into power. There will always be those who teach that the power afforded believers in the church should be used for less than holy purposes. God warns against this in 1st John, though:
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming; even now it is already in the world." (1 John 4:1-3)
Sin Spotlight
Sketchers (sloth), Devour (gluttony & lust), Dietz Nuts (crude), Expensify (greed), SimpiSafe (fear)
Scripture Tie-In: Even the most faithful believers can't escape sin in this world, within themselves or without. Still as sin is of Satan, we are called to resist it. These commercials normalize it, and that is something we must always be on guard against. We cannot allow ourselves to be desensitized to sin.
Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy—dwell on these things." (Philippians 4:8)
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with my righteous right hand." (Isaiah 41:10)
Mercedes Benz, Michelob Ultra, TurboTax Robo Child, and Pringles
Scripture Tie-In: Human beings are created imago dei, the Image of God. Because of this, we are the golden standard for creation by man. Three of the nominees focus on robots or artificial intelligences falling short.
So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female." (Genesis 1:27)
Most Nostalgic
Walmart Pickup, Doritos, Audi, and NFL 100
Scripture Tie-In: We really covered a lot of the nostalgia commentary and scripture in Are You Just Watching, Episode 80: Ready Player One, and we encourage you to check that out!
Most Patriotic
Weathertech, Verizon, Google, and Kia
Scripture Tie-In: This category really speaks to those have worked hard and sacrificed to perform their jobs to the best of their abilities. God willing, many of these people will have been doing so specifically to bring glory to God.
Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you." (Exodus 20:13)
Whatever you do, do it from the heart, as something done for the Lord and not for people, 24 knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ." (Colossians 3:23-24)
Most SJW
Bumble, Washington Post, Google Translate, NFL, and Toyota
Scripture Tie-In: More than any other category, this one is filled with content meant to influence your opinion. This is all fine and well so long as they do not intentionally or unintentionally obfuscate the truth as they do so. Our only source for Truth is the Word of God.
You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:32)
Best Commercial
Olay, Audi, Bud Light/Game of Thrones
Scripture Tie-In: Really all of these commercials, and things we encounter in our everyday lives, should be focused on pleasing and glorifying God, and whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and commendable. It's not easy. Sometimes, it seems impossible. But when we fail, we have to get back on and try again. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we are able to overcome our obstacles. I mean, really, when God is for us, who can stand against us?
Don't participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them." (Ephesians 5:11)
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Morozevich vs Bologan, 2004 (B12) Caro-Kann Defense, 28 moves, 1-0
Hecht vs Keene, 1966 (B17) Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation, 30 moves, 1-0
Motylev vs Wang Hao, 2012 (B94) Sicilian, Najdorf, 19 moves, 1-0
Vaganian vs A Planinc, 1975 (A32) English, Symmetrical Variation, 22 moves, 0-1
E Tate vs Ashley, 1993 (B62) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 57 moves, 1/2-1/2
Fischer vs Benko, 1965 (C95) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer, 37 moves, 1-0
Alekhine vs Levenfish, 1912 (A43) Old Benoni, 19 moves, 1-0
Denker vs Botvinnik, 1945 (D44) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 25 moves, 0-1
...Kb4! and it's over!
Kamsky vs Wang Hao, 2012 (E04) Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3, 58 moves, 0-1
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935 (D81) Grunfeld, Russian Variation, 45 moves, 1-0
sick queen sac
D Norwood vs S Marsh, 1992 (A07) King's Indian Attack, 36 moves, 1-0
Triple back to back to back sacrifices!
M Paragua vs D Debashis, 2012 (D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 36 moves, 1-0
Gruenfeld vs Alekhine, 1923 (D64) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 34 moves, 0-1
Best Nakamura game! Queen sac!
Krasenkow vs Nakamura, 2007 (A14) English, 28 moves, 0-1
Sick queen sac!
Botvinnik vs Kotov, 1946 (E24) Nimzo-Indian, Samisch, 24 moves, 0-1
Li Chao vs Bu Xiangzhi, 2009 (C42) Petrov Defense, 20 moves, 0-1
Amazing checks & mating net set-up!
Aronian vs Kramnik, 2013 (D41) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 52 moves, 1-0
A Hoffmann vs Ashley, 1989 (A07) King's Indian Attack, 32 moves, 1-0
Young GM Wei Yi!!!
Wei Yi vs Zhou Jianchao, 2013 (B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 27 moves, 1-0
Excellent pawn endgame!
Rubinstein vs Alekhine, 1922 (D18) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch, 60 moves, 0-1
Mate by knight!
Morphy vs Schrufer, 1859 (C56) Two Knights, 24 moves, 1-0
Keres and Fischer draw.
Keres vs Fischer, 1962 (B20) Sicilian, 77 moves, 1/2-1/2
Magnus in his early days.
J L Hammer vs Carlsen, 2003 (A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 17 moves, 0-1
Lenderman vs Wang Yue, 2013 (A37) English, Symmetrical, 44 moves, 0-1
Anand beats Kramnik!
Kramnik vs Anand, 2008 (D49) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran, 35 moves, 0-1
Letelier vs Fischer, 1960 (E70) King's Indian, 23 moves, 0-1
A Medina Garcia vs S Lyman, 1962(C45) Scotch Game, 22 moves, 1-0
Karpov vs Kramnik, 1998 (D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 29 moves, 1-0
Karpov vs Kramnik, 1996 (D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 59 moves, 1-0
Crazy ass Najdorf game!
Karjakin vs Anand, 2006 (B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 37 moves, 0-1
Fantastic foresight!
Korchnoi vs Romanishin, 1992 (A20) English, 28 moves, 1-0
Amazing mating net set up by Fischer!
Korchnoi vs Fischer, 1962 (E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 44 moves, 0-1
32.Bf6!! absolutely beautiful. But so simple you'd miss it!
R Rapport vs K Volke, 2013 (E40) Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, 33 moves, 1-0
Alekhine kicking ass!
Alekhine vs Lasker, 1934 (D67) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line, 26 moves, 1-0
Alekhine vs Marshall, 1925 (D06) Queen's Gambit Declined, 30 moves, 1-0
Nimzowitch's mate by knight!
Nimzowitsch vs Hakansson, 1922 (C02) French, Advance, 28 moves, 1-0
Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 (D32) Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, 25 moves, 0-1
Excellent queen sac by Alekhine on Sammy!
Alekhine vs Reshevsky, 1937 (B04) Alekhine's Defense, Modern, 36 moves, 1-0
Sick mating web by Aronian!!!!
Li Chao vs Aronian, 2013 (D30) Queen's Gambit Declined, 35 moves, 0-1
Aronian's piece coordination!
Aronian vs A Ipatov, 2013 (A07) King's Indian Attack, 39 moves, 1-0
Aronian with the tricky Ne1 bait at the very end!
A Giri vs Aronian, 2012 (D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 43 moves, 0-1
Taimanov traps Karpov!
Karpov vs Taimanov, 1977 (B32) Sicilian, 38 moves, 0-1
Starts with a Queen sac...
Topalov vs G Minchev, 1988 (B57) Sicilian, 54 moves, 0-1
Winning with benko gambit! Pretty ending.
T Sanikidze vs I Ivanisevic, 2013(A57) Benko Gambit, 38 moves, 0-1
Capablanca vs D Marotti, 1922 (B32) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1-0
Queen sac with mate attack!!!
Keres vs Spassky, 1955 (E14) Queen's Indian, 30 moves, 1-0
Petrosian w/ tactical shot for the win!
Petrosian vs Spassky, 1966 (E63) King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation, 30 moves, 1-0
Korchnoi power positional play!
Spassky vs Korchnoi, 1962 (D41) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 44 moves, 0-1
Van Wely vs Morozevich, 2001 (D16) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 21 moves, 0-1
van Wely with a fantastic win!
Van Wely vs R van Kampen, 2014 (D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 26 moves, 1-0
Brilliant Shirov finish!
Shirov vs J Lapinski, 1990 (C37) King's Gambit Accepted, 17 moves, 1-0
Alekhine with a brilliant queen sac!
Alekhine vs Colle, 1925 (D07) Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense, 33 moves, 1-0
Alekhine vs B P Reilly, 1937 (D50) Queen's Gambit Declined, 23 moves, 1-0
Rapport with the queen sac for the win!
B Bok vs R Rapport, 2014 (C41) Philidor Defense, 26 moves, 0-1
Wins even though black has two queens!
A Lein vs J Barle, 1979 (C28) Vienna Game, 42 moves, 1-0
Best Spassky game ever!!!!
G Andruet vs Spassky, 1988 (E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 28 moves, 0-1
Ashley's best game!
Ashley vs Weeramantry, 1991 (B06) Robatsch, 30 moves, 1-0
Sozin wins!!!
I Schneider vs Yudasin, 2001 (B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 32 moves, 1-0
Amazing Capablanca finish!
Capablanca vs M Fonaroff, 1918 (C66) Ruy Lopez, 22 moves, 1-0
M Cebalo vs Vasiukov, 2014 (A80) Dutch, 13 moves, 1-0
What a finish.
Eljanov vs Kuzubov, 2014 (E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 36 moves, 0-1
One of the prettiest finish I have EVER seen!
I Madl vs D Summermatter, 1988 (B81) Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack, 21 moves, 1-0
Impressive Svidler game.
Svidler vs D Andreikin, 2014 (B32) Sicilian, 31 moves, 1-0
Best MVL game.
A David vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2014 (A15) English, 27 moves, 0-1
Scotch Game win!!! And with style!!!!!!
M Muzychuk vs Koneru, 2015 (C45) Scotch Game, 29 moves, 1-0
Karpov vs Topalov, 1994 (A43) Old Benoni, 36 moves, 1-0
Tal about to mate by knight!
Tal vs Portisch, 1976 (C91) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 37 moves, 1-0
One of Anand's best games.
Aronian vs Anand, 2013 (D47) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 23 moves, 0-1
Aronian quickly demolishes So.
W So vs Aronian, 2015 (E20) Nimzo-Indian, 28 moves, 0-1
Nice last move by Hou!!!!
B Firat vs Yifan Hou, 2015 (B28) Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation, 30 moves, 0-1
Maybe Christiansen's best game ever.
L Christiansen vs Spassky, 1981 (D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 31 moves, 1-0
Morphy the crazy gambler.
Morphy vs A D Ayers, 1855 (C52) Evans Gambit, 26 moves, 1-0
Fasinating game ending move by Robson!!!
Shabalov vs Robson, 2016 (D43) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 42 moves, 0-1
Karpov squeezes out this win!
Karpov vs Robert E Byrne, 1971 (B61) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, Larsen Variation, 7.Qd2, 40 moves, 1-0
Aronian crushes Giri (the drawmaster)!
Aronian vs A Giri, 2016 (A20) English, 34 moves, 1-0
Another great Evans Gambit romantic play!
V Knorre vs Anderssen, 1865 (C51) Evans Gambit, 33 moves, 1-0
Evans gambit.
Anderssen vs V Knorre, 1865 (C51) Evans Gambit, 34 moves, 1-0
Aronian still got it in 2017!
Aronian vs A Giri, 2017 (E10) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1-0
Yifan always makes it look so simple and easy!
Yifan Hou vs M Muzychuk, 2017 (A12) English with b3, 30 moves, 1-0
Geller avoided 32.Qh6 amazingly.
Geller vs D Losev, 1994 (B77) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 38 moves, 1-0
This game is deep!!!
A Giri vs Granda Zuniga, 2017 (A04) Reti Opening, 37 moves, 0-1
Super positional game!!!!
A Giri vs Granda Zuniga, 2013 (A55) Old Indian, Main line, 47 moves, 0-1
M Shereshevsky vs Kupreichik, 1976 (D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 19 moves, 0-1
Aronian w/ the creativity!!!!! The rook sac in middle game.
Aronian vs Navara, 2017 (E15) Queen's Indian, 31 moves, 1-0
Tarjan does it again!!!
Tarjan vs P Tregubov, 2017 (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 64 moves, 1-0
Aronian with another great win...over Giri!
Aronian vs A Giri, 2017 (A15) English, 27 moves, 1-0
One fine finish by Richard Rapport.
A Riazantsev vs R Rapport, 2017 (A91) Dutch Defense, 37 moves, 0-1
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Caritas Eparhial Oradea
Str. Mihai Pavel nr. 3
Lottery for IOANIS DAY CENTER
Official Rules
Art. 1 The lottery organizer
Caritas Eparhial Oradea Association established in 10th of December 2004, by Decision no 92/A/2004 issued by Oradea Courthouse, with tax code RO17085486, legally represented by priest
Todorean Olimpiu is the organizer of Lottery for Ioanis day Center, hereinafter Lottery.
The participants of the Lottery are required to respect the terms and conditions of the Official Rules. The Official Rules is freely available to any participant at the organizers headquarter and also on the website www.caritaseparhial.ro.
The organizer reserve the right to add and/or modify the Official Rules, the completion and/or modify will be announced through the ways mentioned upper.
Art. 2 Lottery place and duration
The lottery will be held between 20th March 2014 and 26th May 2014, being organized and held on Romanian territory. Tickets can be bought from Gutenberg Library, Ep Mihai Pavel Street no 4 Oradea, from Caritas Eparhial Oradea Association headquarters, Ep Mihai Pavel Street no 3 and also from Caritas volunteers.
Art. 3 Right of participation
At the Lottery may participate any person, with Romanian or foreign citizenship. The participation at the lottery means full and free consent acceptance of the provision of the Official rules.
By signing up for the Lottery, the winning participants, chosen from the drawn, agree that the name, surname, domicile and won prize to be made public.
Art. 4 Condition of participation
To be able to participate at the Lottery the people have to buy a ticket. The price for one ticket is 5 lei.
Art. 5 How to conduct
Individual who are informed by various means about the conduct of the Lottery have to buy at least one ticket in order to participate, this ticket has a number from 1 to 5000. The number on the ticket has a corresponding number on the spine.
The tickets must be kept in order to claim the prize. On 29th May will take place the selection in which the prizes will be awarded.
Art. 6 The prizes awarded in the Lottery
The prizes awarded in this Lottery will be:
1st Prize: A week in Rimini, Italy, for two persons.
Prize 2: School automotive class B.
Prize 3: A weekend in Baile 1 Mai for two.
Prize 4: A weekend in Coada Lacului for two.
5th Prize: dinner for two at Hanul cu Noroc Oradea.
Prize 6: a dinner for two at Hanul cu Noroc Oradea.
Prize 7: A blender.
Prize 8:A coffee machine Bosch Tassimo.
Prize 9: A cosmetic kit for two.
Prize 10: A vitamin pack for two.
Prize 11: a vitamin pack for two.
Prize 12: a board game (chess, backgammon, dominoes).
Prize 13: a travel bag.
Prize 14: A travel bag.
Prize 15: A wallet
The trip rules
The one week trip for two persons to Rimini rules, July 2014. Couples are accepted only if married.
Transportation: Roundtrip transportation is provided by plane Timisoara (Romania) - Forli (Italy) or equivalent fuel if you want to go by car. Warning: health insurance is not included.
Accommodation: the accommodation for the two persons will be in a guest room located in Diocesan Caritas Rimini's building. The room has two beds and own bathroom. On the hallway there is a TV, a refrigerator and a washing machine. (Will be shared with the occupants of the other rooms) The reception will be made of a Romanian volunteer who will be the contact person during the stay in Rimini.
Meal: The prize ensure tree meals daily for two persons: breakfast, lunch and dinner served in the canteen of Caritas. The meals are served as follow: breakfast 7:30-8:00, lunch 13:00-13:30 and dinner 19:15-20:00. The presence is no mandatory.
Art. 7 Prize drawn and validity conditions
The prize drawn will take place on 29th May 2014, 14.00 o'clock; at Caritas Eparhial Oradea Associations headquarter, with the press.
The prize drawn will start wit prize number 14 to number 1 from the prize list.
The winning ticket with the corresponding prizes will be displayed on the association's site, www.caritaseparhial.ro and published in the press the day after the drawn.
Persons holding a winning lottery ticket can come to claim their prize after the announcement of the winning numbers any time from Monday to Friday 9:00-15:00, but not later than 10th June 2014. The prizes will be given at Caritas Eparhial Oradea Association, Ep Mihai Pavel no 3.
To claim prizes, winners must come with their ticket with the winning number. Awards will be given personal to the person with the winning ticket. To be considered valid, the ticket must perfectly mach with the other part remained on the spine of the block.
In this Lottery the prizes offered can't be replaced with its value or other benefits.
Art. 8 Pre-scheduled termination of the Lottery
The pre-scheduled termination of the Lottery can happen only in case of an event constituting force majeure, including the impossibility, from reasons beyond him of the organizer to continue the Lottery.
Situations considered above are assimilated acts of public power of a court or other public authorities.
In the cases considered in this section, the organizer is not held to any obligation to participants.
Art. 9 Responsibilities
The organizer of the Lottery will award the prizes to the winners according to these Rules. Any decision taken by the Lottery organizer is final and not subject to any appeal. The organizer will not engage in any exchange of correspondence, nor engage in any communications about the Lottery winners, Lottery results procedural issues, except those specified in this Rules.
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Jason Day withdrew from the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play after just six holes on Wednesday and later revealed that his mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer. She is scheduled to undergo surgery on Friday.
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Pelotonia and Spielman Fund Dollars Contribute to 11 New Cancer Research Grants at Ohio State
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) has announced 11 new grants awarded through the 2013 Intramural Research Program (IRP).
These multiyear grants, which total $1.4 million and represent creative approaches to understanding and curing cancer, are a way to help teams of scientists at Ohio State start projects that can later attract larger grants from external sources, such as the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Nine of the 11 new grants are classed as Idea Grants and two are classed as Protocol Specific Research (PSR) Grants.
Funding comes primarily from dollars raised by Pelotonia, an annual grassroots bicycle tour established in 2009 to raise money for cancer research at Ohio State, but also from the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research at the OSUCCC – James, matching support from Ohio State's College of Engineering, and support from the local American Cancer Society, as well as from the OSUCCC's NCI support grant.
"Asking questions that lead to brilliant ideas is at the root of scientific discovery," says Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, director of the OSUCCC and CEO of The James. "Quantum leaps in science are made by this type of innovative thinking, but funding for the early pursuit of such initiatives is hard to obtain. With unwavering commitment, our community has rallied behind Pelotonia to raise money and provide Ohio State with resources to recruit the best and the brightest minds, to have the tools, technology and instrumentation needed to conduct the research, and to fund new, bold ideas – ideas that without the support of Pelotonia would likely remain unexplored."
Since Pelotonia began four years ago, 40 Idea Grants have been awarded to teams of OSUCCC – James researchers at an investment exceeding $4 million.
The Idea Grants cover an array of studies, such as using "liquid biopsy" for early detection of lung and liver cancers, and devising critically needed improved therapies for patients with triple- negative breast cancer.
In addition to IRP grants, the OSUCC – James also has awarded about $1 million a year through Pelotonia money to propel the careers of the University's youngest cancer researchers – from undergraduates to graduate students to postdoctoral fellows – as they conduct exciting projects in the labs of faculty mentors.
Drug Shows Potential as Safe and Effective for Chronic Leukemia, Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Two clinical studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine with an accompanying editorial suggest that the novel agent ibrutinib shows real potential as a safe, effective, targeted treatment for adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
Both studies, co-led by the OSUCCC – James and MD Anderson Cancer Center, were published in the Journal's June 19, 2013 online edition.
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Ibrutinib
Results from this phase Ib/II trial showed an overall response rate (complete and partial) of 71 percent. At 26 months the estimated progression-free survival rate was 75 percent and overall survival was 83 percent.
"Essentially all CLL patients respond well to ibrutinib, which lacks many of the side effects of chemotherapy and frequently produces long-lasting remissions even in patients with high-risk genetic lesions," says study co-leader John C. Byrd, MD, director of the Division of Hematology and a CLL specialist at the OSUCCC – James.
CLL is the most common form of adult leukemia with an estimated 15,000 Americans diagnosed annually. It is a cancer of B cells, which are a major component of the immune system along with T cells. Ibrutinib (PCI-32765) is the first drug designed to target Bruton's tyrosine kinase, a protein essential for CLL cell survival and proliferation. Ibrutinib kills malignant B cells but has little effect on healthy T cells – unlike other CLL therapies. This leaves an important arm of the immune system largely intact, enabling patients to remain healthier during treatment.
Mantle Cell Lymphoma and Ibrutinib
Results from this phase II trial showed an overall response rate of 68 percent, with 21 percent of patients achieving a complete response and 47 percent achieving a partial response. Estimated overall survival was 58 percent at 18 months.
"This is remarkable because the last agent approved by the Food and Drug Administration for MCL had a 30- percent response rate," says senior author Kristie Blum, MD, associate professor of medicine and head of the OSUCCC – James lymphoma program. "This trial suggests that ibrutinib could significantly improve the landscape of therapy options for MCL."
MCL is a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a malignancy that is expected to strike nearly 70,000 Americans in 2013. About 7 percent of those cases will be MCL, a cancer of white blood cells called B lymphocytes, or B cells.
Currently, oncologists treat MCL using combination chemotherapy or intensive chemotherapy plus immunotherapy, followed by stem-cell transplantation.
Raphael Pollock, MD, PhD, to Lead Ohio State's Division of Surgical Oncology
Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD, known and respected worldwide as a gifted cancer surgeon and researcher and a passionate educator of physicians-in-training, will become a professor and director of the Division of Surgical Oncology in The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center College of Medicine, Department of Surgery. Pollock will also serve as the chief of surgical services of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. Pollock's appointment is effective Sept. 1. He comes to Ohio State after 31 years at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he held several leadership roles, the most recent being chief of surgery.
Dr. Pollock's clinical practice and laboratory research focus on soft tissue sarcoma, a rare cancer in adults but rather prevalent in children. He has published widely on sarcoma surgery and treatment, and his funded research includes sarcoma molecular biology and the development of novel therapeutics for this group of diseases. His laboratory work involves the discovery of oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes in soft tissue sarcoma.
Dr. Pollock is principal investigator of an $11.5 million National Cancer Institute grant to support collaborative sarcoma translational research. The NCI Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant, awarded to the Sarcoma Alliance for Research Through Collaboration last fall, represents the largest award ever to study sarcoma. The sarcoma SPORE grant research will now be located at the OSUCCC – James, where Pollock aims to grow the sarcoma program and train residents and fellows in treatment of this cancer.
As director of the Division of Surgical Oncology, Pollock will expand on the tremendous foundation built by William Farrar, MD, over the last two decades. A professor and surgical oncologist at Ohio State for 25 years, Farrar will continue to direct The Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center and serve as medical director of credentialing at the OSUCCC – James.


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Loving your new look, Marcia. Hope you can find some time for blogging soon, though I know it's impossible! Many thanks for all your support. 🙂
Thanks Jo, I am trying to be consistent but my plate is full. I am enjoying your posts so keep them coming!
Thanks. This was like a mini-trip for me. What an experience.
It was for me too, that is why I re-blogged; Madhu always hits the right spots.
La Boca is probably worthy of all the adjectives you've added to your blog post but the barrio sure makes for beautiful, colorful, interesting and poetic pictures. Great post… makes me want to jump up grab my husband and do a tango impersonation (meaning we really can't tango). If you are still there, continue to have fun and if you have left, I hope you throughly enjoyed your trip.
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