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April 7, 2019 by xpertchesslessons
Richard Francisco at the Spring 2019 IM Norm Invitational
Life Master Richard Francisco
carried the Georgia colors to Charlotte, NC, for the Spring 2019 GM/IM Norm Invitational contested
March 20-24, 2019 at the Charlotte Chess Center and Scholastic Academy. Richard played in the IM section scoring 3 1/2 points while winning two, drawing two, and losing too many.
Richard earned his NM certificate in 2003 and LM title in 2009. (http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12631588) He is ranked in the top three hundred active players in the USCF and is the fourth highest rated player in the Great State of Georgia. According the FIDE Mr. Francisco is number 8064 in the world among active players. (https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2021188)
Richard will be playing again in the Summer 2019 CCCSA IM Norm Invitational beginning June 5.
NM RICHARD FRANCISCO (2231) – FM ROBBY ADAMSON (2216)
Spring 2019 IM Norm Invitational
Round 4 | 2019.03.22
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. e5 (Although the move played in the game has been by far the most frequently played move SF 10 at depth 52 and Houdini at depth 50 "think" the game should go 6 Nc3 Bb4 7 Bd3. With this move the game now becomes the C45 Scotch, Mieses variation) 6…Qe7 7. Qe2 Nd5 8. c4 Nb6 (SF and Komodo show 8…Ba6 as the move) 9. Nc3 Qe6 10. Bd2 (SF plays 10 Qe4 expecting d5 11 exd6; Houdini plays 10 f4 Bc5 11 Be3) Ba6 11. b3 O-O-O 12. f4 f6 13. Qf2 (See Abdulov vs Lenic below for 13 Qe4)
Bb7 14. a4 Kb8 15. a5 Nc8 16. a6 Ba8 17. c5 fxe5 18. f5 Qe7 19. Ne4 d5 20. Bg5 Qd7 21. Bxd8 Qxd8 22. Ng3 Qe7 23. b4 Qh4 24. Rb1
24…Nd6
25. Be2 Nb5 26. O-O Be7 27. Nh5 Nc3 28. Rb2 Qxf2+ 29. Rxf2 Bg5 30. Rf1 e4 31. Nxg7 Bf6 32. Nh5 Bd4+ 33. Kh1 Nd1 34. Bxd1 Bxb2 35. f6 Rf8 36. Bg4 Bb7 37. axb7 Kxb7 38. Be2 Bc3 39. g4 Bxb4 40. Ng7 Bxc5 41. Ne6 Bd6 42. Nxf8 Bxf8 43. Rb1+ Kc8 44. g5 1-0
Orkhan Abdulov (2388) vs Luka Lenic (2641)
Event: 18th ch-EUR Indiv 2017
Site: Minsk BLR	Date: 05/30/2017
ECO: C45 Scotch, Mieses variation
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8.c4 Nb6 9.Nc3 Qe6 10.Bd2 Ba6 11.b3 O-O-O 12.f4 f6 13.Qe4 Bb7 14.O-O-O Re8 15.Re1 fxe5 16.fxe5 g6 17.a4 a5 18.Bd3 Bg7 19.Bf4 d6 20.Bg3 dxe5 21.Qe3 h5 22.Kc2 h4 23.Bf2 e4 24.Qxe4 Qf6 25.Qg4+ Kb8 26.Nd1 Qa1 27.Qxg6 Reg8 28.Bxb6 Qa2+ 29.Kc1 Bh6+ 30.Qxh6 Rxh6 31.Be3 Rxg2 0-1
FM EZRA PAUL CHAMBERS (2334) – NM RICHARD FRANCISCO (2231)
Round 5 | 2019.03.23 | 0-1
B38 Sicilian, accelerated fianchetto, Maroczy bind, 6.Be3
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 (SF 9 shows 4…Nf6 best) 5. c4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 (SF 10 plays 6…Qb6, followed by 7 Nb3 Qd8)
7. Nc3 O-O 8. Be2 b6 (Komodo plays d6) 9. O-O (SF plays 9 Qd2 Bb7 10 f3 while Komodo plays 9 f4 Nxd4 10 Bxd4) Bb7 (SF prefers 9…Nxd4 10 Bxd4 Bb7. Only one game has been played by transposition. See Horvath vs McCambridge below) 10. f3 Qb8 (SF prefers 10…Nxd4 11 Bxd4 Bh6) 11. Qd2 Rd8 (SF plays 11…Nxd4 12 Bxd4 d6) 12. Rad1 (SF 9 plays 12 Nc2 while SF 10 and Komodo play Ndb5)
12…d6 (SF plays 12…Nxd4 13 Bxd4 d6) 13. Rfe1 (SF plays 13 Nc2 Rd7 14 f4; Komodo plays either 13 b3 Qc8 14 a3 or 13 Nbd5) 13…Rd7 (Houdini plays 13…Nxd4 14 Bxd4 Qc7) 14. Bf1 (SF plays 14 b3 e6 15 Nxc6 while Houdini plays 14 Ndb5 Nd8 15 Rc1) 14…Qf8 (SF plays the game move giving 15 g3 e6; Komodo plays 14…Ne5 15 b3 Nf8; Houdini plays 14…Nxf4 15 Bxd4 Qc8)
15. b3 Rad8 16. g3 e6 17. Qf2 Ne5 18. Bh3 Re7 19. Na4 d5 20. exd5 exd5 21. c5 Ba6 22. cxb6 axb6 23. Bf1 Bxf1 24. Kxf1 b5 25. Nc3 b4 26. Na4 Rde8 27. Qd2 Rc7 28. Rc1 Rxc1 29. Rxc1 Qe7 30. Bf2 Qd7 31. Kg2 Bf8 32. Nc5 Qa7 33. Na4 Qa8 34. Rc7 Bd6 35. Rc1 h5 36. h3 Bf8 37. g4 hxg4 38. hxg4 Qb7 39. Bh4 Bg7 40. Re1 Ned7 41. Rxe8+ Nxe8 42. Nc2 Bf8 43. Be1 Ne5 44. Qe2 f6 45. Nd4 Nc7 46. f4 Nc6 47. Ne6 d4 48. Nxf8 Kxf8 49. Nc5 Qa8 50. Kg3 Qe8 51. Qd2 Qe7 52. Nd3 Nd5 53. Bf2 Nc3 54. Kh2 Qe4
55. Bh4 Kf7 56. Bf2 Qf3 57. g5 Ne4 58. Qc2 Nxf2 59. Nxf2 Qxf4+ 60. Kh3 Qf3+ 61. Kh2 Qf4+ 62. Kh3 Qf5+ 63. Qxf5 gxf5 64. gxf6 Ne5 65. Kg3 Kxf6 66. Kf4 Ke6 67. Kg5 Nf3+ 68. Kf4 Ne1 69. Nd1 Nd3+ 70. Kf3 Ke5 71. Ke2 Ke4 0-1
Tamas Horvath (2390) vs Vincent McCambridge (2350)
A04 Reti opening
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 g6 3.e4 Bg7 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nf6 6.Nc3 O-O 7.Be2 Nc6 8.Be3 b6 9.O-O Nxd4 10.Bxd4 Bb7 11.f3 Rc8 12.Rc1 d6 13.Re1 e6 14.Bf1 Qc7 15.Nb5 Qd8 16.Nxa7 Ra8 17.Nb5 Rxa2 18.Na3 e5 19.Bc3 Bh6 20.Rb1 Nh5 21.Qb3 Qh4 22.g3 Nxg3 23.hxg3 Qxg3+ 24.Bg2 f5 25.c5+ Rf7 26.cxd6 fxe4 27.d7 exf3 28.d8=Q+ Bf8 29.Qxf7+ Kxf7 30.Qd7+ Be7 31.Re2 fxe2 32.Qxb7 Qe3+ 33.Kh1 Qh6+ 34.Kg1 Qe3+ ½-½
Socko, M 2473 vs Lind, J 2206
Warsaw AIG Life Rapid 7th 2007
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Be2 b6 9. O-O Bb7 10. f3 Qb8 11. Qd2 Rd8 12. Rad1 d6 13.Rfe1 Rd7 14. Bf1 Qf8 15. b3 Rad8 16. Nc2 e6 17. Bg5 h6 18. Bh4 g5 19. Bf2 Nh5 20. g3 Ne5 21. Bg2 Qe7 22. Ne3 Qf6 23. Qe2 Qg6 24. Nb5 Ba8 25. Nd4 Kh8 26. Rf1 Bf6 27. Kh1 Rg8 28. Bh3 Be7 29. Bg2 Nf4 30. gxf4 gxf4 31. Rg1 fxe3 32. Bxe3 Qh5 33. Rdf1 Rdd8 34. f4 Qxe2 35. Nxe2 Ng4 36. Bd2 d5 37. cxd5 Bc5 38. Bc3+ Kh7 39. Nd4 Ne3 40. Rf3 Nxg2 41. Rxg2 Rxg2 42. Kxg2 exd5 43. e5 Rc8 44. f5 b5 45. Rg3 Re8 46. Kh3 b4 47. Bb2 Rxe5 48. Ne6 d4 49. Rg7+ Kh8 50. Rxf7 Re3+ 51. Kh4 Re2 52. Nxc5 Rxh2+ 53. Kg4 Rxb2 54. Rf8+ Kg7 55. Ne6+ Kh7 56. Rxa8 Rxa2 57. Nxd4 Rg2+ 58. Kf4 Rd2 59. Rxa7+ Kg8 60. Ke5 h5 61. Ne6 h4 62. f6 Rf2 63. Nf4 Rf1 64. f7+ Kg7 65. Ne6+ Kg6 66. f8=Q 1-0
Tagged B38 Sicilian Maroczy bind, C45 Scotch, Charlotte, EZRA PAUL CHAMBERS, FIDE, Georgia, Houdini, Komodo, Mieses variation, North Carolina, Stockfish, Summer 2019 CCCSA IM Norm Invitational, Tamas Horvath, Vincent McCambridge
November 19, 2018 by xpertchesslessons
Dazed and Confused at the 28th World Senior Chess Championships
The 28th World Senior Chess Championships (http://www.wscc2018.european-chessacademy.com/index.php/en/) began today in Maribor, Slovenia. The USA contingent is being led by FM Nathan Resika (2124), number 49 on the list of entrants in the 50+ tournament. Michael A. Gilbert (1921) and unrated David Jones are also playing in the section. Leonid Bondar (1931) and Mariano Acosta (1721) are playing in the 65+ section. There are no USA women participating in the two sections only for women.
In the first round GM Henrik "Polar Bear" Danielsen (2504) of Iceland
was paired with Antonio Lopez Pereyra (2066), from Spain. GM Danielsen left the Polar Bear in Iceland so his opponent moved his f-pawn on move one! The opening turned into a Leningrad Dutch.
1. g3 f5 2. d4 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. O-O d6 6. c4 O-O 7. Nc3 Nc6 8. d5 Na5 9. Qa4 c5 10. dxc6 bxc6 11. Rd1 Bd7 12. c5 Nb7 13. Qb3+ 1-0
Lopez Pereyra was no doubt left dazed and confused.
Todaze lesson is to DEFEND YOUR PIECES! Everyone who knows me is more than a little aware that the first thing I teach is: 1) Why did my opponent make that move? 2) What move do I want, or need, to make? 3) AM I LEAVING ANYTHING EN PRISE?
GM Karen Movsziszian (2513) of Armenia faced Andres Belmont Hernandez (2080), of Mexico, with the game transposing after the third move into a Bird!
1. g3 Nf6 2. Bg2 d5 3. f4 Nc6 (See 3…g6 below) 4. Nf3 e6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 O-O 7. e3 b6 8. Kh1 Bb7 9. Qe2 a5 10. a4 Qb8 11. Nc3 Rd8 12. Nd1 Ra7 13. Nf2 Ba6 14. c4 dxc4 15. dxc4 Bb7 16. b3 Nb4 17. e4 Nd7 18. Bb2 Nc5 19. Nd4 Ra8 20. Rad1 Nc6 21. Qe3 Nxd4 22. Bxd4 Bc6 23. g4 Qb7 24. g5 Rd7 25. Bb2 Rad8 26. Rxd7 Rxd7 27. h4 f5 28. gxf6 Bxf6 29. Bxf6 gxf6 30. Rg1 Rg7 31. Qd4 Kf7 32. Bf3 Rxg1+ 33. Kxg1 Qc8 34. Ng4 e5 35. fxe5 Bxe4 36. Nh6+ Kg6 37. Bxe4+ Kxh6 38. Qe3+ Kh5 39. Bf3+ Kg6 40. Qf4 Qe6 41. h5+ Kg7 42. h6+ Kg6 43. exf6 Qf5 44. Qxf5+ Kxf5 45. f7 Ne6 46. Kf2 Kg6 47. Ke3 Kxh6 48. Bd5 Nf8 49. c5 bxc5 50. Kd3 Kg7 51. Kc4 Nd7 52. Kb5 h5 53. Kxa5 Nb8 54. Bf3 Kxf7 55. Bxh5+ Ke7 56. Kb5 Kd6 57. Be8 Ke7 58. Bg6 Kd6 59. Be4 Ke5 60. Bf3 Kd6 61. a5 Nd7 62. a6 Nb6 63. a7 c4 64. bxc4 c6+ 65. Kxb6 1-0
Gata Kamsky (2638) vs Samuel Sevian, (2600)
US Chess Masters 2016
Greensboro, North Carolina USA	08/27/2016
1. g3 Nf6 2. Bg2 d5 3. f4 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. d3 O-O 6. O-O Re8 7. Qe1 Nc6 8. e4 dxe4 9. dxe4 e5 10. f5 gxf5 11. Nh4 Nxe4 12. Nxf5 Bxf5 13. Rxf5 Nd6 14. Rf1 e4 15. c3 Ne5 16. Qe2 Nd3 17. Bf4 f5 18. Na3 Be5 19. Be3 Qd7 20. Rad1 Qg7 21. Nc2 Rf8 22. Nb4 f4 23. gxf4 Nxf4 24. Bxf4 Bxf4 25. Nd5 Be5 26. Qh5 Rfe8 27. Qh3 Kh8 28. Kh1 Rf8 29. Qh5 Rxf1+ 30. Rxf1 Rg8 31. Bh3 Nc4 32. Ne7 Qxe7 33. Rf7 Qxf7 34. Qxf7 Nd6 35. Qxc7 a6 36. Bf5 Rg7 37. Qd8+ Rg8 38. Qe7 Nxf5 39. Qxe5+ Ng7 40. Qxe4 Rb8 41. Qe7 h5 42. Qc7 Re8 43. Qxb7 Re2 44. Kg1 Kh7 45. c4 h4 46. c5 h3 47. c6 Rg2+ 48. Kf1 Kg6 49. c7 Nf5 50. Qb6+ 1-0
Annotations to the Senior game can be found at http://live.chessbase.com/watch/28th-WSCC-Open-50-2018.
Tagged 28th World Senior Chess Championships, Andres Belmont Hernandez, Antonio Lopez Pereyra, Armenia, David Jones, Gata Kamsky, Greensboro, Henrik "Polar Bear" Danielsen, Iceland, Karen Movsziszian, Led Zeppelin, Leonid Bondar, Mariano Acosta, Maribor, Mexico, Michael A. Gilbert, Nathan Resika, North Carolina, Samuel Sevian, Slovenia, Spain, USA
September 18, 2018 by xpertchesslessons
Reading the New South
The following article appeared in the venerable New York Times after the last post was composed, and posted, as if by synchronicity…
After getting to know a little about me a fellow in Louisville, Kentucky, Rick Rothenberg, from Indiana, said I reminded him of another Southerner he had known earlier. Rick said, "The man was so Southern he would not even go out of the house if the wind was blowing from the north!"
A group of forward-thinking, upstart journals and websites are exploding the stereotypes so many attach to this place and its people.
By Margaret Renkl
Contributing opinion writer
Some of Lyndsey Gilpin's collection of books on the South.CreditCreditAndrew Spear for The New York Times
NASHVILLE — I was a graduate student in Philadelphia when James Watt, the former Secretary of the Interior of the United States, came to campus in 1984. Mr. Watt's brief tenure in federal office was characterized by an almost cartoonish villainy. Rolling Stone magazine called his attitude toward the environment a "rip-and-ruin view of our natural resources, land, water, parks and wilderness." That night Watt argued for letting each state set its own air- and water-safety standards, a position that makes no sense if you're aware that rivers and winds don't respect state borders.
During the Q. and A., I took my turn at the microphone to make this point. "Sir," I said, "I'm from Alabama." Instantly that giant audience of Pennsylvanians broke into laughter. Who was this cracker daring to voice an opinion about federal environmental policy?
Well, that was 1984, you're probably thinking. Today we don't judge people by their accents any more than we judge them by their skin color. People know better now.
Except they don't. The political polarization of our own day means that a region like the South, a red voting bloc in national elections, is a source of continual liberal ridicule, no matter the subject. In June I wrote about the transcendently beautiful Mobile-Tensaw Delta, one of the most ecologically diverse places in the country. When I posted the link on Facebook with a note about its magic, someone commented, "Except that it's in Alabama." As though nothing in the whole state could possibly have any value at all.
As stereotypes go, this one surely doesn't rank among the top 10 most objectionable human prejudices, but it stings even so. Fortunately there is plenty of on-the-ground proof to counter it. Among the most important is a raft of publications, many so new they're still on shaky financial footing, that aim to convey the genuine complexities of the modern American South. They are planted in the South and created by Southerners, people who love this place but who nevertheless see it all too truly.
Unlike lifestyle glossies like Southern Living and Garden & Gun (which is assiduously apolitical, despite what its name might suggest), these publications blast past sweet-tea-and-moonshine preconceptions to convey the nuances of a region where people are rarely as ornery and dumb as they're held to be in the national imagination.
The oldest of them is the Oxford American, founded in Oxford, Miss., but now based in Conway, Ark., which was first launched in 1992. (A print quarterly, it has foundered a number of times over the years, ceasing publication until new funding arrived, which somehow always has.) In many ways, it set the tone for all the publications that followed, celebrating the artistic innovations of the region but refusing to gloss over its manifold shortcomings.
The latest issue includes a nonfiction report by Kelsey Norris on a Nashville oral-history project focusing on the descendants of slaves; Beth Macy's profile of the Appalachian playwright and novelist Robert Gipe; "Bikers," a poem by the Virginia native Kate Daniels about her brothers ("What foreign lives they lived / With their deer hunts, and their / Love of speed, and their boring jobs / In factories") and a short story by David Wesley Williams about a hitchhiker stuck in West Memphis, Ark. The story is called "Stay Away From Places With Directions in Their Names."
The tagline for Facing South, an online publication of the progressive Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, N.C., is "A Voice for a Changing South." The site focuses on politics, history and human rights, with recent articles on voting rights during Reconstruction, South Carolina's present refusal to evacuate convicts in advance of Hurricane Florence and delays in compensation for people sickened by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Scalawag, another nonprofit publication out of Durham, also reports regional politics with a progressive eye, though it covers regional art and literature, too, and includes a section titled, simply, "Witness." The magazine, which is published online and in print, fosters "critical conversations about the many Souths where we live, love and struggle" and aims to empower "activists, artists and writers to reckon with Southern realities as they are, rather than as they seem to be." Recent stories confront toxic masculinity, explain how to fight racism through the auspices of craft beer, collect a range of Latinx poetry from around the American South, and report on Syrian cuisine in small-town Georgia.
The Southern Foodways Alliance, based in Oxford, Miss., publishes a print quarterly called Gravy. Despite its name, the journal does more than report on cuisine, continuing the work of the alliance itself by showcasing, through food, "a South that is constantly evolving, accommodating new immigrants, adopting new traditions and lovingly maintaining old ones." The latest issue includes an article on "The Queer Pleasures of Tammy Wynette's Cooking" by Mayukh Sen and a profile by Osayi Endolyn of Joe Stinchcomb, an African-American bartender who invented five new cocktails, to celebrate Black History Month. The drinks had names like "Blood on the Leaves" and "(I'm Not Your) Negroni," and they definitely raised some hackles down there in Mississippi.
For anyone still hoping to define Southern literature, storySouth is an online literary journal based in Greensboro, N.C. It publishes "the best fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry that writers from the New South have to offer," according to its website. Subjects that seem to play into regional stereotypes can be found there at times. The current issue features a poem called "Roadkill" by Megan Blankenship and one by William Woolfitt called "Grassy Branch Pentecostal Church, Face of Christ on Tin," for example. But read the poems: This is not your unlamented Agrarian's Southern literature.
Perhaps the liveliest of the whole bunch is an absolutely wonderful online publication called The Bitter Southerner, an irreverent Atlanta-based site that truly covers the cultural waterfront, celebrating the lunacy of genuine homegrown geniuses, lifting up the unsung heroes of the region, and peeking behind the veil of great cultural institutions, and all while holding power to account in a part of the world where power has too often lost its uneducated mind.
But it's the newest of these publications that most often captures my own attention these days. Southerly began in late 2016 as a weekly newsletter of investigative journalism, plus curated links to "News Flying Under the Radar" by other journalists around the region. Until this summer, when it received a grant from Solutions Journalism Network, it was funded entirely by Patreon subscribers, who monthly contribute an average of five dollars each through an online portal. Those supporters are still crucial to its survival. Lyndsey Gilpin — the magazine's founder, editor and publisher — is a Northwestern University-trained journalist based in her hometown, Louisville, Ky., and her weekly reports from impoverished and often oppressed corners of the South have given a microphone to people whose voices are rarely heard in conversations about climate change, environmental exploitation or economic disparity.
Lyndsey Gilpin, founder of Southerly, an online magazine, near her home in Louisville, Ky.CreditAndrew Spear for The New York Times
In July, Southerly grew into a full-fledged "independent media organization" that "covers the intersection of ecology, justice and culture in the American South," according to its new website, and already it is taking no prisoners. The site — in partnership with The Montgomery Advertiser and Scalawag — launched with a four-part series on the breakout of tropical diseases in the rural South owing to failing sewage infrastructure. On Sept. 22, Southerly will convene a public discussion in Hayneville, Ala., about poverty-related illnesses and how communities can address the governmental crisis that spawned them.
Southerly's mission statement sets out some uncompromising goals: "This region stands to bear the brunt and lose the most from the effects of climate change. It is experiencing massive economic shifts from a changing energy industry. The South is the fastest urbanizing area of the United States, but it is also the most economically distressed. Southerners deserve a publication that covers the nuances of their environment, history and communities without being condescending or stereotypical, without parachuting in from large metropolitan areas. The rest of the world deserves to know about the creative ways communities here are adapting to these changes, and the challenges that come with that."
You could almost call it a mission statement for celebrating — and transforming — the South itself.
Tagged Arkansas, Atlanta, Black History Month, Conway, David Wesley Williams, Durham, Facing South, Garden & Gun, Gravy, Greensboro, Gulf of Mexico, Indiana, Institute for Southern Studies, Joe Stinchcomb, Kentucky, Louisville, Lyndsey Gilpin, Margaret Renkl, Mayukh Sen, Megan Blankenship, Mississippi, Nashville, North Carolina, Osayi Endolyn, Oxford, Oxford American, Rick Rothenberg, Robert Gipe, Scalawag, Solutions Journalism Network, South Carolina, Southerly, Southern Foodways Alliance, Southern Living, storySouth, Tammy Wynette, The Bitter Southerner, The Montgomery Advertiser, The South, West Memphis, William Woolfitt, Willie Nelson
September 9, 2018 by xpertchesslessons
THE SURROUNDING GAME on Netflix
While putting together the post of February 14, 2018, THE SURROUNDING GAME
(https://xpertchesslessons.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/the-surrounding-game/), I was thrilled to see the movie was available on YouTube. After finishing the post I had something to eat and then rested. After a cuppa joe I settled in to watch the movie…Unfortunately it was no longer available due to a copyright infringement.
It has been many years since watching any movie in a theater. Since it would have cost five dollars to watch the movie online I decided to wait until it could be watched free of charge. The movie debuted on Netflix August 30 and I watched it the next day. The focus of the movie was on the young players. This caused me to reflect upon what I consider the best post ever made on this blog, or the earlier BaconLOG, for that matter (https://xpertchesslessons.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/these-are-my-people/). It matters not what game is being played, or even if a game is being played. It is the same feeling one has when attending a convention of model train enthusiasts, or sports memorabilia fanatics.
When the movie ended I headed to the Internet Movie Data Base (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3973724/?ref_=nv_sr_1) to find it rated 8.1. A few minutes ago I returned to find it now rated 6.8. I liked the movie but am no impartial observer as I was there during the US Go Congress when it was filmed. I was living in Hendersonville, North Carolina at the time and traveled to Black Mountain four times during that week. I did not participate in the tournament because there was a "Meal Plan," priced at $195, required for all attendees. I kid you not…The organizers did not expect participation by a local and they would not relent.
From the movie one learns there were only two hundred players who were members of the US Go Association a couple of decades ago. The exponential increase in the number of Go players has been phenomenal, and this was before the movie!
The 2006 Go Congress did attract 334 players. It was held at the Blue Ridge Assembly (https://blueridgeassembly.org/), a magnificent venue. I was reminded of the first Land of the Sky Chess tournament held at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina (https://www.biltmore.com/). The majority of my time was spent in the room where books and equipment was sold. Most of the games I played were in that room and were played with those doing the selling. I did, though, play a few games with lower ranking players who were participating in the tournament. Since I was unable to win a game maybe the organizers, without knowing, did me a favor.
I purchased many books about the game of Go, including one, Reflections on the Game of Go : The Empty Board 1994-2004,
by William S. Cobb, that is priced at $125 at Amazon. It appears the price of Go books has increased dramatically since many, if not most, books come in digit form these days.
I had a wonderful time during that week and met many people who were extremely nice to me, even if I was considered to be some kind of curiosity since I was considered a Chess and Backgammon board game player. When it came time to eat I went to a Mexican restaurant in the city of Black Mountain where someone who lives in the area, and whom, per his request, I can never mention again, (this came after my post of July 18, 2018, https://xpertchesslessons.wordpress.com/?s=fuck+you+mr+president) had previously taken me for lunch.
Tagged 1976 Atlanta Chess Championship, 2006 Go Congress, Asheville, Backgammon, BaconLOG, Biltmore Estate, Black Mountain, Go, Hendersonville, Internet Movie Data Base, North Carolina, Reflections on the Game of Go : The Empty Board 1994-2004, THE SURROUNDING GAME, William S. Cobb, YouTube
Winning: It's D Only Thang
In an earlier post (https://xpertchesslessons.wordpress.com/2018/08/03/winning/) I posited improving Chess by devaluing the draw to 1/4 point for each player. Lowering the value of a draw would obviously increase the value of a win. Winning is the point of any game, is it not?
The recently completed US Masters in Greensboro, North Carolina, using the traditional one point for a win and one half point for a draw, ended with four main score groups:
GM JOHN MICHAEL BURKE
GM JEFFERY XIONG
GM EVGENY POSTNY
IM DJURABEK KHAMRAKULOV
GM YURI GONZALEZ VIDAL
GM SERGEY ERENBURG
GM TIMUR GAREYEV
GM HOVHANNES GABUZYAN
GM ALONSO ZAPATA
GM SERGEI AZAROV
GM SAMUEL SEVIAN
GM NICLAS HUSCHENBETH
GM VLADIMIR BELOUS
GM ALEKSANDR LENDERMAN
IM MICHAEL W BROWN
GM MAGESH CHANDRAN PANCHANATHAN
IM JUSTIN J SARKAR
GM KAMIL DRAGUN
IM GUILLERMO VAZQUEZ
GM JULIO C SADORRA
GM CARLOS ANTONIO HEVIA ALEJANO
FM JUSTIN WANG
GM ALEXANDER SHABALOV
FM ANDREW ZHANG HONG
IM KEVIN WANG
IM ERIK SANTARIUS
FM HANS NIEMANN
IM ADVAIT PATEL
GM DMITRY GUREVICH
GM ELSHAN MORADIABADI
GM JULIO J BECERRA
FM BRANDON JACOBSON
IM FARAI MANDIZHA
IM MICHAEL LEE
GM ISAN ORTIZ SUAREZ
GM ANDREY STUKOPIN
GM MICHAEL A ROHDE
GM BRYAN G SMITH
If the tournament had ended with exactly the same individual game results the outcome would have been entirely different. Before you leave comments and/or send emails, please consider I am aware altering the distribution of points would, most probably, have ensured many of the results would have been much different because players would be FORCED to alter the way they play. There would have been more fighting Chess since a win would be worth much more than the method currently in use. How many players would opt for any bye in any round? How many would take a 1/4 point bye in the final round?
This is how the tournament would have ended using the new method of 1/4 point for a draw:
GM TIMUR GAREYEV 6 1/4
IM MICHAEL W BROWN 6
GM JOHN MICHAEL BURKE 5 3/4
GM ALONSO ZAPATA 5 1/2
GM EVGENY POSTNY 5 1/4
IM JUSTIN J SARKAR (Includes last round 1/4 bye)
GM SAMUEL SEVIAN 5
IM GUILLERMO VAZQUEZ 4 3/4
GM ALEKSANDR LENDERMAN 4 1/2
IM ATULYA ARYA SHETTY 4 1/4
IM SHIYAM THAVANDIRAN
IM ERIK SANTARIUS 4
You can find the final standings, along with the prize money won, at (http://chessstream.com/US-Masters-and-North-Carolina-Open/table.aspx#198/USMASTERS/result-round9.html)
It is more than a little obvious devaluing the draw would put a premium on WINNING! Players would no longer be willing to "settle" for a draw. Players would be forced to stop playing for a draw and stop considering splitting the point, which is the point. Who knows, maybe players would become more like Victor Korchnoi and play slightly "dubious" opening moves intentionally in hopes of creating problems for the opponent right from the beginning of the game. Maybe an opening like the King's Gambit would make a return.
This departure from what has become 'normal' would infuse the staid game of Chess with new enthusiasm. Gone would be the short draws that have become all too common. "Buddy-buddy" draws and group hugs would become a thing of the past, which is where they belong.
Here are a few selected games "played" at the 2018 US Masters, which can be found at (http://chessstream.com/US-Masters-and-North-Carolina-Open/Games.aspx).
FM LEVY ROZMAN (2421) vs AUSTEN J GREEN (2066)
1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. c3 Bg7 5. h4 d6 6. Nh3 Nc6 7. Qb3 e5 8. dxe5 dxe5 9. Ng5 Qe7 10. Be3 Nd8 11. Na3 h6 12. Nf3 Ng4 13. Nc2 Be6 14. Qa4 Bd7 15. Qc4 Be6 16. Qa4 Bd7 17. Qc4 1/2-1/2
IM VISHNUVARDHAN ARJUN (2224) vs GM ELSHAN MORADIABADI (2540)
1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Ne5 Nc6 5. d4 e6 6. Bb5 Qc7 7. Bf4 Bd6 8. Qg4 g6 9. Qg3 Qa5 10. Nc3 Bxe5 11. Bxe5 f6 12. Bc7 Qb4 13. O-O-O Bd7 14. Rhe1 Kf7 15. Bd6 Qa5 16. Bc7 Qb4 17. Bd6 Qa5 18. Bc7 1/2-1/2
IM ADVAIT PATEL (2475) vs GM ALEKSANDR LENDERMAN (2625)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. c4 Nc6 6. Nc3 Nxc3 7. dxc3 g6 8. Bg5 Be7 9. Bh6 Bf8 10. Bg5 Be7 11. Bh6 Bf8 12. Bg5 1/2-1/2
GM SERGEY ERENBURG (2564) vs IM DJURABEK KHAMRAKULOV (2489)
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Ne7 6. O-O Ng6 7. Ne1 h5 8. Bd3 Bxd3 9. Nxd3 Nd7 10. Nd2 1/2-1/2
GM YURI GONZALEZ VIDAL (2559) vs IM KEVIN WANG (2414)
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Ne7 6. O-O Ng6 7. Be3 Nd7 8. Nbd2 f6 9. c4 fxe5 10. dxe5 Ndxe5 11. Nd4 Bb4 12. g4 c5 13. Qa4 Qd7 14. Qxd7 Kxd7 15. Nxf5 exf5 16. gxf5 Bxd2 17. Bxd2 Nh4 18. Bf4 Rae8 1/2-1/2
GM SERGEY ERENBURG (2564) vs GM JEFFERY XIONG (2650)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nf3 Qc7 8. a4 Be6 9. Be2 h6 10. O-O Qc6 11. Ne1 Nbd7 12. Nd3 a5 13. f4 Nxe4 14. Nxe4 Qxe4 15. Qd2 Qh7 16. Qc3 Qe4 17. Qd2 Qh7 18. Qc3 Qe4 1/2-1/2
WE HAVE A LOSER!!!
GM HOVHANNES GABUZYAN (2556) vs GM EVGENY POSTNY (2586)
1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 c6 3. Bg2 Bg4 4. O-O e6 5. d4 Nf6 6. Nbd2 1/2-1/2
A total of ELEVEN moves were "played" in this game by both players. Under the format used in this tournament it is a pity these "players" were unable to "call it in." The time used to "play" this "game" could have been spent much more productively in the bar. THIS IS NOT CHESS! This so-called "game" is one of the main reasons Chess has never become popular in America. Most of the world wants a winner, not a drawer!
Tagged Greensboro, North Carolina, Snoop Dog, US Masters, Victor Korchnoi
July 24, 2018 by xpertchesslessons
GOP Lawmaker Jason Spencer Shows His Ass
Mike Luckovich Atlanta Journal & Constitution
I was born and raised in the Great State of Georgia. I recall reading about a study some time ago in which Americans were asked how strongly they identified with their region. Unsurprisingly, Southern people identified most strongly with their region. As the saying goes, "You can take the boy out of the South, but you cannot take the South out of the boy." We Southern folk know it goes even further than just region. During a conversation while living in the beautiful North Carolina mountain area of what is called the "WNC," I mentioned something about "we," as in "We are from the South." One fellow shot a question, "Where are you from?" After answering, "The Atlanta area," he fired back, "You ain't one of us!" Obviously, some of the folks in the WNC region identify strongly with that area…
Georgia is a large state, geographically speaking. Most of the population is concentrated in the larger metropolitan areas. Politically speaking, the forward looking and thinking people live in the cities. The more conservative thinking people, who oppose change of any kind, live in the rural areas, which was known during the last election cycle as "Trump country." Georgia is, therefore, a greatly diverse, and divided, state.
If you live in the US you are probably aware of the Republican State Congressman, Jason Spencer,
who greatly embarrassed our state on TV recently. If you live in other parts of the world, as do many of my readers, you may not have heard of the debacle. In case you missed it, here is Jason, the Republican, in all his glory:
Here are a few articles written after Jason made a fool of himself on national TV:
GOP Lawmaker Jason Spencer Strips Down, Screams 'N-Word' on Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Who Is America?'
The second episode of Baron Cohen's Showtime series upped the ante with Dick Cheney and a seriously unhinged state representative from Georgia.
Matt Wilstein
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-lawmaker-jason-spencer-strips-screams-n-word-on-sacha-baron-cohens-who-is-america
Georgia lawmaker refuses to resign after using racial slur on Sacha Baron Cohen show
Jason Spencer also dropped his pants in Who Is America? series after being told it would scare off Muslim terrorists
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/23/jason-spencer-who-is-america-sacha-baron-cohen-n-word-video
Watch Sacha Baron Cohen Get Georgia State Rep to Shout Racial Slur, Drop Pants
Other Georgia lawmakers called for Spencer to resign, issue apology after Republican shouted "n-word" on 'Who Is America?'
By Ryan Reed
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/watch-sacha-baron-cohen-get-georgia-state-rep-to-shout-racial-slur-drop-pants-702442/
Brother Ray Charles was born in Albany, Georgia, September 23, 1930. Listening to this song always gives me chills.
Tagged Atlanta, Georgia, Jason Spencer, Matt Wilstein, North Carolina, Ray Charles, Republican, Rollingstone, Ryan Reed, The Daily Beast, The Guardian
February 14, 2018 by xpertchesslessons
THE SURROUNDING GAME
The much anticipated world wide release of THE SURROUNDING GAME is tomorrow, Febuary 15, 2018.
"The rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go."
– Edward Lasker, Chess Grandmaster
(This is from the website [https://www.surroundinggamemovie.com/] and as most Chess players know, is a mistake. Edward Lasker was awarded the title of International Master, which is below that of Grandmaster, by FIDE, the governing body of world Chess. "Chessmetrics.com estimates his peak strength as 2583, a good Grandmaster by modern standards. The site also estimates his ranking as ranging between 18th in the world and 28th in the world for the nine-year period 1917–26." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lasker] In addition, there is a dispute about the quote, with some attributing it to former World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker, a distant relative.)
The ancient game of Go is the most complex and elegant game ever discovered. Though the rules are simple enough to teach a child, the complexity that emerges has inspired millennia of study. For three thousand years, master players in East Asia have handed down the game as an art form to foster patience, creativity, and self-reflection. Today in the elite world of the pros, international tournaments offer hundred-thousand dollar prize purses, and top matches are broadcast on 24-hour "Go TV" to millions of fans in China, Korea, and Japan. But in the West, most people have never even heard of the game… until now.
THE SURROUNDING GAME follows the lives of three young Americans vying to become the first-ever Western professional players. Quirky, cerebral, and disillusioned with conventional views of success, they represent a new generation of players, on the doorstep of adulthood. As the competition intensifies and intricate patterns spill out across the board, the line between reality and imagination starts to blur. Their thoughts turn to anxieties about the future, and lead them on a journey through the game's ancient past to ask what it means to live a meaningful life. Through an intimate portrait of these young players and interviews with the greatest Go masters of all time, the film explores the search for meaning that Go represents to its players, for whom the game is a distillation of consciousness itself.
Director's Statement
THE SURROUNDING GAME (2017) is the first feature documentary about
the game of Go. Shot over 4 years in China, Korea, Japan, and the United States, the
film reveals the magical world of Go through the coming-of-age story of America's
top Go prodigies.
Our protagonists Andy, Ben, and Curtis are gifted teenagers who have devoted
thousands of hours to the game. For them, Go is an escape to a world of pure logic
and mathematical beauty, a reminder of the ephemeral place human beings hold in
the universe. As they strive to become the first Western professional players, we
explore the search for meaning that Go represents to its players, for whom the game
is a distillation of conscious thought itself.
In East Asia, the game of Go is hailed as one of mankind's great cultural
treasures. For thousands of years, masters and disciples have passed the game down
as a window to the human mind.
Now, for the first time, a group of Americans enter the ring, in search of a
prodigy who will change the game forever.
Go is the oldest board game still played in its original form.
Though its rules
are simple enough to teach a child,
the emergent complexity has inspired millennia of study.
In East Asia, Go is lauded as both art and national sport. Today, Chinese and
Korean students as young as five begin training in special Go academies; those with
promise sacrifice their high-school education, training for years to have a shot at
becoming professional players. In the elite world of the pros, international
tournaments offer hundred-thousand dollar prize purses and top matches are
broadcast on 24-hour "Go TV" to millions of fans in China, Korea, and Japan. But in
the West, most people have never even heard of the game.
Enter the American Go community: a ragtag group of gamers, Asiaphiles, and
aging hippies, captivated by the game. For decades, they have struggled to transplant
Go into American society with little success despite their burning enthusiasm. So in
early 2012 they take a gamble, striking a deal to launch the first Western professional
Go system. For the first time, America has a chance to compete on the world stage
against the Asian titans of Go… and everything rests on America's top young Go
prodigies.
THE SURROUNDING GAME follows the lives of several top American
players, leading up to the competition to become the first Western professional.
Brooklyn-raised Ben Lockhart, America's top white player, foregoes college to join
an elite Korean Go school. His close friend, Chinese-American Andy Liu, is the
strongest player in North America, despite little formal training. Introverted, quirky,
and deeply cerebral, Andy probes the limitations of his own mind in his quest to
transcend the tedium of normal society.
In the shadow of the game's three-thousand-year legacy,
the American Go community descends into a small North Carolina town to crown the first American
pros. As they battle over the Go board, the players must confront deeper questions:
Can an intellectual art survive in the modern world? What drives their fanatical love
for Go, and why do they find greater meaning in the game than in real life?
Uncertain about their futures, they make a pilgrimage to meet the world's greatest
living player, 99-year-old Japanese master Go Seigen.
Despite their diverging paths,
Ben and Andy face the same question: is a lifetime dedicated to Go truly worth
living?
To escape the intensity of the American Professional Certification Tournament, Andy Liu (left) and
Evan Cho (right) play a game atop Chimney Rock in North Carolina.
Tagged Andy Liu, Ben Lockhart, Chessmetrics.com, Chimney Rock, China, Edward Lasker, Emanuel Lasker, Evan Cho, Go, Go Seigen, Japan, Korea, North Carolina, THE SURROUNDING GAME, United States


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ERIC COBBINAH
JIANGSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT ZHENJIANG PR CHINA
ALBERT HENRY NTARMAH
JIANGSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS ZHENJIANG PR CHINA
ANTHONY FRANK OBENG
PRINCE EWUDZIE QUANSAH
Home > Vol 10, No 4 (2020) > COBBINAH
Organizational Commitment and Job Performance: Examining the Mediating and Moderating Roles of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour and Leadership Styles
ERIC COBBINAH, ALBERT HENRY NTARMAH, ANTHONY FRANK OBENG, PRINCE EWUDZIE QUANSAH
Though a significant number of studies in organizational behaviour literature have shown a positive relationship between affective organizational commitment and job performance, the findings of some studies indicate that the relationship varies. This highlights the presence of mediator and moderator variables. Our study seeks to clarify when and why affective organizational commitment is more or less related to job performance by investigating the mediating role of organizational citizenship behaviour and the moderating effect of leadership styles (transactional and transformational) on this relationship. Using a quantitative survey we sampled 556 workers from the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana. The empirical results from hierarchical multiple linear regressions showed a positive relationship between affective commitment and job performance whilst OCB also mediated this relationship. The moderation analysis revealed that leadership styles (transformational and transactional) strengthened the positive relationship between affective commitment and job performance with transactional leadership the most effective leadership style. The outcome of our study suggest that, though affective commitment positively relates with job performance the relationship varies with the leader's leadership style. We realized that within the local government context in Ghana, organizational commitment is more closely or strongly related to job performance when leaders (MMDCEs/mayors) transactional rather than transformational leadership is high. The practical contributions of this study are thoroughly discussed.
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Q: trigger to avoid child record deletion based on conditions on parent record child=past_information__c ,
parent=consultant__c
prevent deletion of child records were parent has type__c='employee' and status__c='approved'
my code :
trigger avoidDeletionPastInfo on past_information__c (before delete) {
 for (past_information__c  a : [ SELECT id FROM consultant__c where type__c='employee'
                               and status__c='approved' and Id IN:Trigger.old]) {

       a.addError(
            'Cannot delete account with related opportunities.');
   }

}

error iam getting :Invalid bind expression type of past_information__c for Id field of SObject consultant__c

A: You are iterating Child record  i.e is past_information__c but making query on Parent consultant__c
for (past_information__c  a : [ SELECT id FROM consultant__c where type__c='employee'
                               and status__c='approved' and Id IN:Trigger.old]){}

for(Child__c ch: ListofChild){}
You can have your trigger similar to below
trigger avoidDeletionPastInfo on past_information__c  (before delete) {

    List < ID > parentIds = new List < ID > ();
    for (past_information__c ch: trigger.old) {
        parentIds.add(ch.consultant__c);
    }

    Map<Id, consultant__c > m = new Map<Id, consultant__c >([Select Id From consultant__c Where where type__c='employee' and status__c='approved' and Id IN:parentIds]);
    For(past_information__c ch: trigger.old) {
        If(m.keySet().contains(ch.consultant__c))
        ch.addError('You cannot delete ');
    }

}

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Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
DaWaK 2001: Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery pp 21-30 | Cite as
A Theoretical Framework for Association Mining based on the Boolean Retrieval Model
Peter Bollmann-Sdorra
Alaaeldin M. Hafez
Vijay V. Raghavan
First Online: 28 August 2001
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 2114)
Data mining has been defined as the non- trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful information from data. Association mining is one of the important sub-fields in data mining, where rules that imply certain association relationships among a set of items in a transaction database are discovered.
The efforts of most researchers focus on discovering rules in the form of implications between itemsets, which are subsets of items that have adequate supports. Having itemsets as both antecedent and precedent parts was motivated by the original application pertaining to market baskets and they represent only the simplest form of predicates. This simplicity is also due in part to the lack of a theoretical framework that includes more expressive predicates.
The framework we develop derives from the observation that information retrieval and association mining are two complementary processes on the same data records or transactions. In information retrieval, given a query, we need to find the subset of records that matches the query. In contrast, in data mining, we need to find the queries (rules) having adequate number of records that support them.
In this paper we introduce the theory of association mining that is based on a model of retrieval known as the Boolean Retrieval Model. The potential implications of the proposed theory are presented.
Data Mining Association Mining Theory of Association Mining Boolean Retrieval Model
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First Online 28 August 2001
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44801-2_3


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This is part four of a debate between myself and a colleague who believes I have been too critical of charter schools. In Part One, he shared his perspective on the value of charter schools. I responded with my own views on the limitations of charters as a force for reform, and this week he offered his rebuttal to that. Here is my response to that one, Part Four of the great charter debate.
I appreciate you beginning with where we can agree. So I will start by stating that I agree that there are indeed charter schools doing good work. I have visited charter schools, and know that some of them are working well to engage their students in learning, and using innovative strategies like Project-Based Learning.
I am also glad you agree that it is a problem when authorizers of charters allow anyone to apply, tack up their shingle and declare themselves a school. If we can agree on this, I actually think most of our argument vanishes. Because the main reason I am raising concerns about charters is the apparent determination of the Duncan administration to remove all barriers to the expansion of charter schools. This was one of the primary determinants of who would receive Race to the Top grants, and states which have what seem to be entirely reasonable restrictions on the expansion of charter schools lost out when finalists were named in this competition. So I am glad you agree that we should be cautious in expanding charter schools.
Researchers at CREDO have suggested that it may be that charters in New York are better than elsewhere - perhaps because of the more stringent requirements imposed on them there.
The real problem with our debate is that it has been poisoned by the starvation of public schools, and the idea that public schools in general are failing and must make room for the superior charter schools. That forces those of us who work in public schools into a place of being a bit defensive when we are criticized and compared negatively to charter schools that are supposedly proving us to be ineffective. We have to scrutinize these comparisons closely, because they are not always fair. And the stakes are very high, because our entire public education system is in jeopardy.
So let's look at the evidence. You claim that Hoxby's work asserting the success of New York charters is solid. I am not so sure. The most significant argument against Hoxby's research that I have seen is that she has not controlled for classroom peer effects.
...it's not clear that Hoxby's methodology takes into account peer effects -- the straightforward concept that students not only learn from their teachers but are also influenced by their peers. Charter schools benefit from the fact that 100 percent of their students hail from motivated families; as a result, a charter student is surrounded by peers who are there by choice -- rather than by attendance zone. In contrast, the "lotteried-out" students may not benefit from such an intensive peer effect.
This adds up to a real advantage over traditional schools. It is absolutely an advantage to be able to require parents to sign a pledge stating they will do specific things to partner with the school, and to require that they show up for detention on a Saturday if their child is persistently tardy. Regular public schools cannot set such requirements and must take all comers. Some schools in Oakland have large numbers of students who are living in foster homes or group homes. These students will not be likely to apply for a charter, or to have parents available to sign such pledges. And I can tell you that these students offer significant academic and behavior challenges.
This is not just a "belief." I have 18 years of experience in an Oakland middle school where I witnessed the problems we had with such students firsthand. And I have seen students arrive to register at my regular public school after they were unable to handle the rules and rigor of a KIPP-style charter, and were asked to leave. The public schools cannot turn away anyone, unless that student is a violent threat to others - and even then there must be hearings, and students are often transferred from one school to another within the District.
That doesn't mean the charters do not take on some challenging students. And I am sure some charters are much more open to all comers than are others. But nonetheless, this difference makes it difficult to make straight comparisons across the board.
Lower proportions of ELLs and special education students raise similar concerns about the fairness of comparing results given that these groups are likely to have lower test scores.
I agree with your philosophical statement that traditional schools and charters should learn from one another. As I said at the outset, I did not come to teaching thinking the public schools were great. I think there is a lot of room for improvement, and we need creative enterprises that push us to try new approaches. But it is tough to foster cooperation in an environment of competition, and that is what has been created. And if that competition is not judged fairly, and our schools continue to be starved for funding, we have some real concerns about the survival of public schools.
Comparisons between schools are very tricky, and in spite of what I have seen of Hoxby's research, I am not convinced that the populations of students are entirely comparable. Even granting that some charters are highly effective (as are some traditional schools) the national data do not suggest that charters, on the whole are superior, and thus I do not believe they warrant the kind of large-scale expansion apparently envisioned by the Secretary Duncan.
What do you think? Are comparisons between charters and regular public schools fair? Do charters warrant the strong support they are getting from Race to the Top?


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Q: jQuery Mobile load new data only I'm working on this project for learning purposes. The tasks for now are very simple:

*

*Populate data from DB using $.getJSON.

*Check every 'n' seconds for new data and append it to the list.

*Notify user about new data changes.

Here is the example of where I got so far: ( JSBin /Don't forget to run js)
All the issues will be visible when running the example.
Here is the JS code that i have:
$(document).bind('pageinit', function(){

    var $myList = $( "#myList" );
    var newItems = [];

  function loadList(){
  $.getJSON("http://jsbin.com/vayeni/2.js",function(data){

   $.each(data, function( index, value ) {

     newItems.push( "
" + value.airline + "
" );
           if(data>newItems){
            alert('New Entry');
            data=newItems;
      }
   });
        $myList.append( newItems.join( "" ) );
        $myList.listview( "refresh" );
        setTimeout(loadList,1000);
  });
  }
    loadList();
});

Thanks for your help !

A: Your data comparison is not correct.
You are comapring this:

JetBlue

Continental

...

to this:
  {
    "id": "1",
    "airline": "JetBlue",
    "number": "222",
    "people": "3",
    "time": "12:20"
  },
  {
    "id": "2",
    "airline": "Continental",
    "number": "222",
    "people": "5",
    "time": "23:21"
  },

There will be always inequality.
You should use another approach. For example, if the id field from your JSON array is an unique one you can attach it to each item from the unordered list as an id attribute. For example:
newItems.push( "
" + value.airline + "
" );

This way, at each iteration you can check if the incomming JSON item already exists into your list and add it when there is no match. Eg:
if (!$myList.find('#' + value.id).length) {
  newItems.push( "
" + value.airline + "
" );
}

Finally, you can append the newItems contents directly if there are items inside:
if (newItems.length > 0) {
  $myList.append( newItems.join( "" ) );
}

Here is the edited snippet: JSBin


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The issue of online service provider liability comes up often in today's high-tech world. In order to promote free discussion and private investment in the Internet, the United States Congress immunized providers of "interactive computer service[s]" against liability arising out of content provided for publication by any other "information content provider." See Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. § 230. This section does not limit the application of intellectual property laws or criminal laws, but it protects Internet service providers and website operators against a broad range of tort, contract, and other claims arising out of content created by third parties.
Section 230(c)(2)(B), provides immunity for "any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to [such material]." The immunity offered under Section 230(c)(2) is also referred to as the "Good Samaritan" protection.
Generally, most courts have applied the protection of Section 230 broadly, ruling that ISPs (e.g., AT&T, TimeWarner, AOL) and those operating websites enjoy immunity from liability. Stated otherwise, as long as the material complained of was written by a third party, rather than an agent or employee of the ISP or website, the ISP or website is immune from liability. In addition, the operator of a website may choose to exercise control over the content of its site by removing or editing content provided by third parties without becoming liable as the "publisher" of the third-party statements.
In 1998, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that even if a publisher or website is put on notice that it is distributing a libelous statement posted by a third party, it cannot be held liable for failure to remove the statement. The court also held that the scope of Section 230 extends to "any cause of action that would make service providers liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service." See Zeran v. America Online, Inc., 129 F.3d 327, 330 (4th Cir. 1997), cert. denied, 524 U.S. 937 (1998).


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Thomas' skills honed on the hardwood
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Broncos third-year tight end Julius Thomas began the season with more NCAA tournament trips (two) on his resume than catches in the NFL (one).
Now, the former power forward at Portland State is the key to Denver's record-shattering offense, freeing up Demaryius Thomas, Eric Decker and Wes Welker, especially in the red zone.
The 6-foot-5, 255-pound late-bloomer is also a bulls-eye for some of Manning's biggest moments, like when he caught his 51st TD throw that broke Tom Brady's single-season record, one of a dozen touchdown passes he caught this year, breaking Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe's team record for tight ends.
He was Manning's main target in the AFC Championship, too, with eight receptions for 85 yards a week after his two clutch third-down catches helped ice Denver's win over San Diego.
"Sometimes I have to remind myself," Manning said, "that he hasn't played a ton of football."
A giant 100-foot banner of Thomas hangs outside the media hotel in Times Square, an indication of just how far this relative football toddler has come.
"Is my helmet on?" Thomas asked sheepishly Monday while aboard the Cornucopia Majesty ship, docked outside the team hotel across the Hudson River.
"OK, that's good. So, I won't get recognized too much," Thomas said. "That's a lot of people walking by seeing that thing."
He might want to get used to the spotlight.
With the wintry weather and Seattle's stingy secondary sure to stifle some of Manning's other options, Thomas could be Denver's X-factor in the Super Bowl.
"No, this isn't something that I imagined doing when I was 20 years old getting ready to play in the NCAA tournament," Thomas said. "I wasn't thinking, 'Man, if you just fast-forward that clock a little bit, you'll be competing in the biggest game in America.' It's just a blessing to be here. I've been very blessed in my athletic career, so I'm going to enjoy it."
Thomas played just one year of football in college after exhausting his eligibility on the hardwood. He tried to line up with the receivers on his first day of practice but was ushered over to the tight ends group.
"I was like, 'What? Hold on, I don't know about all that,"' Thomas recounted. "But Coach (Nigel) Burton, he sat me down and we talked about it and he told me that he felt if I played tight end I'd be able to create matchup problems."
Sure enough, he caught 29 passes for 453 yards and earned All-Big Sky Conference first-team honors in 2010, and he caught a touchdown pass and the attention of scouts at the East-West Shrine Game.
"I really thank him for helping me decide to play tight end," Thomas said. "It was a great move on his part to not let me play receiver. I've loved playing tight end ever since."


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Multi Alarm House Fire with Explosions
At 11:54 am on Wednesday, July 21st East Brandywine volunteers were dispatched to assist Wagontown Fire Company along with multiple other local units for a house fire with explosions and entrapment in the 400blk of Hibernia Rd in West Brandywine Twp.
Immediately after dispatch, West Brandywine Police confirmed they heard and felt the explosion across the street at their station and they were now reporting the house fully involved with several injuries and one subject trapped on the roof.
Engine 49-2, Engine 49-5, Ladder 49, Rescue 49, and Deputy 49 all made the response. Engine 49-2 arrived and were directed into the main driveway off of Hibernia Rd. The crew laid a supply line at the end of the driveway and then deployed the 400' 1 3/4 line to the main farmhouse and started an exterior attack. Additional crews also stretched a 300' 1 3/4 and 2 1/2 line off of 49-2 as well.
Engine 49-5 arrived on the scene and took a position on Hibernia Rd directly behind Engine 33-1 and hand jacked a 5-inch line to supply them with water. As more tankers began to arrive a dump site was set up at the intersection of Lafayette and Hibernia behind Engine 49-5. This dumpsite eventually supplied Ladder 49 after they were placed in service with master streams.
Rescue 49 went to the Beaver Creek Development and set up a fill site for the tankers to get water.
Unfortunately, multiple civilians were injured in this fire. 3 were transported by Ambulance to the hospital while 3 were flown by air medical. Our thoughts and prayers are with those injured and the entire family.
Crews from 49 cleared the scene at 1800hrs