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Enterprise will drive the change we need
Written by Eric Schmidt, Former Executive Chairman of Google
Google's former chief executive and chair Eric Schmidt has launched a new foundation – Schmidt Futures – to support social advances through technology in both the US and UK. He says that, to deliver the changes we need, we must take a more positive and entrepreneurial outlook.
At a moment when Britain faces big changes and challenges, remember that you've made it before.
The fundamental strengths that made Britain great haven't vanished – but neither are they guaranteed. With each new generation of technology, we must reinvest in those strengths, and reinvent them. One of the keys to this must be entrepreneurship.
The industrial revolution didn't happen inevitably or by accident. It was driven by people with transformative ideas, skills, organisations and networks for change were empowered to create the change they wanted to create in the world.
Britain can do it again, this time in an age of far greater complexity and interconnectedness, with far more powerful technology. How can Britain raise a new generation of entrepreneurs who can lead the world again through the next great economic and technological revolution?
Imagine if a job seeker in this country had access to a Google Maps for jobs – a tool for finding every job and educational opportunity available to them, while getting personalised recommendations on the cost and availability of new training that could specifically help them achieve higher wages.
If every student, regardless of income, could have their own personal tutor. If we could use techniques from astronomy to detect cancer in the human body, saving more lives and reducing the need for invasive and unnecessary surgery.
If we could model the future of natural ecosystems and environments with enough precision that we could respond in time to preserve them – saving our most precious resources from the advance of climate change.
Imagine if we could harness the power of science and technology to take on issues such as refugees, homelessness and the battle for open democracies.
In the next couple of decades, science and technology will make help us make big advancements in each of these areas:
the fusion of Ai and advanced computing
immersive new technologies like VR and AR
advances in biotechnology and personalised medicine
robotics and new transportation technologies.
If we can harness the positive power of each of these technologies – while understanding and mitigating the side effects and challenges that will naturally accompany them – then we can take on the hardest challenges facing Britain and the world in entirely new ways.
But for that to happen, we also need to rethink our definition of entrepreneurship. When you think of an entrepreneur, who do you picture? A lot of people immediately think of a trendy hipster in a glamorous co-working space in Shoreditch. The modern assumption of entrepreneurship gravitates towards this idea of a singular iconic founder – leaders like Steve Jobs or Richard Branson.
These assumptions might apply to some entrepreneurs. But the truth is, they leave out so many more. Entrepreneurs can be found anywhere and everywhere.
They are change-makers, risk-takers, long-term thinkers and doers who exist in many different roles, organisations and communities, in the private and public sectors. A business leader can be an entrepreneur, but so can a scientist, an artist, an educator or a civil servant.
And even in a future that will be shaped by powerful emerging technologies – especially in that future – we need leaders in every field and industry to step up and embrace the spirit of entrepreneurship.
Instead of fixating on who we think entrepreneurs should be, we should focus on what they do.
Real entrepreneurs set an audacious vision that is ambitious and personal. Something that solves an important problem in the world, and that working towards drives them every day – and motivates other great people to come and join them on that journey.
Entrepreneurs don't just have incredible commitment, they also have the technical, people and business skills to turn an idea into a reality – to pursue their vision every day, one step at a time. Even if it takes years to achieve.
And entrepreneurs are foolish enough to think they can achieve their vision, but smart enough to know how hard it will be. And yet they try.
That's what makes entrepreneurs so powerful and essential for our society. They are the people who take what we can only imagine today, and turn it into a reality.
Supporting these entrepreneurs, and their ambitious visions, is something that my wife Wendy and I are working to do through our new philanthropic effort. This something that we started last year called Schmidt Futures, which we think of as a venture facility for public benefit.
Our vision is to support breakthrough discoveries in science and technology, which can help us to go on and solve the biggest challenges facing our society. We've been working on this for about a year now, and we're discovering some interesting things about what it takes for breakthrough ideas to achieve both success and scale.
Today, I believe there has been a market failure in the way we support entrepreneurship as a society – a set of major obstacles that have emerged, and are preventing the best ideas for human progress from coming to scale. There are three big failures that I see around the world – including here in Britain.
The first is people. Far too often, we invest mostly in people we already know, who are working in very narrow disciplines. London is a big city, but a small community. People get known here, and once they're known, they tend to enjoy all the benefits that come from being part of a tight and intricate network. Money, attention and promotions tend to flow mostly to the known quantities who are doing great work in a very specific field.
But for every great scientist, artist, educator you think you know, there's probably a dozen more doing equally valuable work. Until they get recognition and funding you probably won't help them. But they won't get recognition and funding without your help.
The second is platforms. We frequently don't build the best technology platforms to tackle big social challenges, because often there is no immediate promise of commercial return. For example, there are a million e-commerce apps but not enough specialty platforms for safely sharing and analysing data on homelessness, climate change or refugees.
The third is partnerships, and the way different players work together in the same ecosystem and industry. Today we live in an interconnected world, with globalisation and technology driving greater complexity across our society. That means it's impossible to think about any major challenge for society in a silo.
This means the most valuable way of thinking about problems as entrepreneurs is to adopt systems thinking – thinking about how we can connect contributors within a system so they can work together on a common and interconnected set of solutions, in an organised and data-driven manner. But how often does that happen? Clearly we need new models for working together and new incentives.
Based on the work we've been doing with Schmidt Futures, I believe there is a way for industry, government, academia, and organisations exactly like the Centre for Entrepreneurs to work together and find new solutions.
Correcting the failures of the market has many dimensions. But perhaps the most urgent task is to support the next generation of entrepreneurs – and changing the way we think about talent.
The most valuable thing that all of us can do to support entrepreneurs, in our organisations and in our society, is to rethink the way we approach people – hiring, developing, supporting a new and more diverse community of entrepreneurial talent.
We need to support and invest in world-class talent with the imagination and creativity to apply their work in interesting ways across disciplines.
Think about the human genome project. Major contributions were needed from biology and genetics. But for the effort to succeed, expertise was needed from across engineering, mathematics and computer science as well. The difficulty of the problem made everyone involved push the limits of their own fields and pioneer new ones.
There are many other types of challenges today, that need talented people doing great work across disciplines. But the very nature of the work makes it harder for people to get funding. They don't fit in the standard silos.
My ask for all of you is to take an open mind to the people you're reaching out to. So as you're looking for your next hire, or your next potential investment, ask yourself this. How could you look to tap entrepreneurial talent and ideas in fields and industries outside of your own? How could you work with scientists as well as tech startups? How could you work with innovators in non-technical roles, and people who are doing valuable work on solving the social challenges of technology?
Does this person really need to have a degree from Oxford or Cambridge? Does it matter if they've had two years of experience or 10 years, if they have the attitude, imagination and ideas to make a difference?
These are all the questions we must ask ourselves as a society if we want to get the right people to fuel a new Renaissance moment for Britain – because it always starts with getting great people.
This is exactly what we're working to achieve through Schmidt Futures – finding and betting on talented people from diverse backgrounds who are working across disciplines, but have yet to be recognised.
I'm excited that we've engaged the presidents, heads of research, and science departments at 60 leading universities – on every continent worldwide except Antarctica – to help find this talent as part of our Schmidt Science Fellows.
But we're just getting started, and there's a lot more that all of us can be doing here to promote truly interdisciplinary talent.
We need to do a much better job with harnessing technology platforms to solve the biggest challenges facing society. Talent and money tend to flow to areas where there are obvious financial returns, but not to other societal challenges where advanced computing could make a difference.
Part of my objective at Schmidt Futures is to invest the risk capital – in the form of people, expertise, and money – to develop these platforms for use by scientists and others. We'll evaluate success of these platforms over time, and publish the results.
We also need an agenda for promoting systems level thinking across industries and sectors, not just an endless march toward piece-part specialisation.
The problems of an age of complexity cannot be solved by any one industry or set of people alone, so the future we want to achieve will be built by encouraging more partnerships. You cannot invent an algorithm that will solve the global refugee crisis, and there's no magic bullet policy that will solve the challenge of job creation in a post-automation society.
When you combine social, political and technological solutions together, and when developers work together with scientists, policymakers and the public sector, researchers and philanthropists, that's when our society will make the greatest progress.
But it all begins and ends with people. If we can encourage interdisciplinary thinking, and get away from the tunnel vision academic and professional specialisations that waste so much of people's creativity and imagination.
If we can overcome our conscious, unconscious and institutional biases towards a narrow archetype of what an entrepreneur should be – a person of the right age, or with the right connections or academic background – we will unleash a new generation of talent with fresh ideas, insights and inventions that will lead Britain and the world into the future.
Entrepreneurs can change the world and transform Britain for the better if we let them. And there's no shortage of challenges awaiting them.
What if we can develop educational software that is as effective as a personal tutor and engaging as the best video games – and that proves the biggest boost for students from low-income backgrounds who are often left behind?
What if we can double our capacity to use intermittent, renewable energy without compromising the reliability of the grid? What if we can shorten the time to develop new drugs for treating emerging infectious diseases from years to weeks – mitigating one of the biggest existential risks to the future of humanity?
What if we can use advanced computing to improve health care diagnostics and decision making, to lower costs and improve outcomes?
All these things are possible. But not all are achievable, unless we help entrepreneurs in all these fields confront and correct the market failures standing in the way of the best minds and the best ideas that are key to inventing our future.
We can't wait. The work we all do together is important for peace and prosperity; it is important for justice; and it is also important for the long-term future of liberal democracy. But none of these efforts are taking place in a vacuum.
If we fail to encourage more diverse and interdisciplinary thinking, and partnerships between science and technology, industry, policymakers and the rest of society, then we are sleepwalking into the future.
But if we choose to work together, we can do incredible things.
This is an edited version of Eric Schmidt's inaugural Centre for Entrepreneurs annual lecture, delivered this week at London's Royal Institution.
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Kendrick Lamar Previews Vince Staples Collaboration in 'Black Panther' Trailer
Shortly after announcing that he would be curating and producing the Black Panther soundtrack, Kendrick Lamar previews a collaboration with Vince Staples in a new trailer for the Marvel film.
The action-packed teaser, which debuted following Kendrick's performance at the 2018 NCAA Football Playf National Championship, features the new banger intermixed with high-powered special effects. "Y'all all want money, all y'all want from me," raps K-Dot. "Y'all wanna die in the shade things / We all gon' die, embrace the thing / Watch me do my shit."
Long Beach's Staples accompanies Compton's K-Dot on the track's "cops on the radar" hook and then provides his own verse. "They don't wanna see me getting to some check," he raps. "They just wanna see me swimming…Don't drown home bound, ones to ya head / 911, freeze 'fore you forget."
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Big time: Red Sox, Crawford reach seven-year $142M deal
By Drew SilvaDec 8, 2010, 11:44 PM EDT
Incredible. Absolutely incredible.
According to Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe, the Red Sox have reached agreement on a seven-year, $142 million contract with outfielder Carl Crawford, making him the richest outfielder in Major League Baseball history.
The Angels were called the front-runners for Crawford all day long at the Winter Meetings and reports just hours ago had them moving aggressively toward the finalization of a contract.
All that talk must have woken up the Boston front office, because they barged in with a massive deal and secured a signature this evening.
It's a bold but brilliant move by a club that missed the playoffs this year for the first time since 2006. Lest we forget, they added Adrian Gonzalez from the Padres just a few days ago. Gonzalez is a solid defender at first base and Crawford covers all sorts of ground in the outfield.
The defense is good. The offense is even better.
Crawford hit .307 with 19 homers, 90 RBI and 110 runs scored in 2010 for the Rays. He was worth 6.9 WAR (Wins Against Replacement), more than Robinson Cano and Miguel Cabrera. Gonzalez slugged 31 home runs this year while playing half of his games in baseball's biggest park. He's going to punish Fenway Park's Green Monster with doubles and a whole lot of homers.
Seriously, check out this spray chart of Gonzalez's hits from this season. Those are all of the spots that the first baseman sent baseballs in 2010 at PETCO Park, overlapped as to where they'd land if he were batting in Fenway.
To improve so vastly on both offense and defense in one winter is remarkable and possibly unprecedented.
The Red Sox are alive and well. The American League East is out of control.
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· Don't start a new load of washing if the laundry space is already bursting with clothes. Get the current clothes dry, folded and put into the right room first.
· Wash children's bedding on one day and adult bedding on another. Doing it all on the same day will be overwhelming.
· Odd socks can be a challenge! Use a wash bag to keep socks together and help avoid a pile up of odd socks. Alternatively, keep a small box to hand for the odd ones and pair them up when you are sorting dry clothes. After 6 months, let go of any that haven't found their partner!
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Even though training camp for the Los Angeles Lakers starts in only a week, the Russell Westbrook trade saga appears to be far from over. There have been rumblings for the past two weeks that Westbrook will be a member of the Los Angeles Lakers opening night squad for the 2022–23 NBA season. Los Angeles was also rumored to have kept in communication with the Utah Jazz, maybe about a trade.
It appears like Bojan Bogdanovic is a major target for the Los Angeles Lakers. The sticking point, however, appears to be Utah's demand on including the Jazz's 2027 and 2029 first-round picks in any deal for Westbrook. The Athletic's Jovan Buha and Sam Amick claim that Los Angeles has lately inquired about Bogdanovic, Jordan Clarkson, and Malik Beasley, so talks are continuing on that front as well.
According to sources in the NBA, the Lakers have recently discussed acquiring Bogdanovi, Jordan Clarkson, and Malik Beasley from the Jazz. Buddy Hield's desire to be traded to the Lakers from the Pacers has also been widely documented, as has the near-trading of the former Kings guard to the Lakers last summer. Along with Myles Turner, the 29-year-old 3-point specialist has been a focal point in the Lakers' offseason talks with Indiana, but a trade is not anticipated to materialize at this time.
If the Lakers continue to be short on shooters, it makes sense for them to add Bogdanovic, Clarkson, and Beasley. To make room for the three players, the Purple and Gold would have to waive someone, despite the fact that they just signed Dennis Schroder to a one-year, minimum contract.
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The Lakers' pursuit of a trade partner for Russell Westbrook looks to hinge on the availability of Bojan Bogdanovic, a sharpshooter for the Utah Jazz who will be 33 this season.
It appears as though the Los Angeles Lakers are only interested in the trade package that the Utah Jazz have proposed to acquire Westbrook. But a number of other NBA teams are also allegedly interested in the 33-year-old shooter.
In their trade talks with the Jazz, the Lakers are reportedly targeting Bojan Bogdanović, Jordan Clarkson and Malik Beasley as they try to move Russell Westbrook. https://t.co/ue84bKREMU
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Even if Westbrook remains with the Lakers, his prospective position is in question due to the depth of the competition in the backcourt. If the 2017 NBA MVP doesn't "outplay" Dennis Schroder and Patrick Beverley, head coach Darvin Ham may decide to use him off the bench.
The Lakers' upper management is said to fully support Ham and trust him to make tough choices in the team's best interest.
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Beasley joined the Minnesota Timberwolves after being part of a 12-player, four-team deal. Upon arriving in Minnesota, Beasley was thrust into the starting lineup and promptly saw a significant uptick in his scoring output. In 14 games with the Timberwolves, he started every game and averaged 20.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 1.9 assists.
Beasley reportedly signed a four-year, $60 million contract with the Timberwolves on November 27, 2020. As a result of his guilty plea in a criminal matter on February 25, 2021, Beasley was suspended for 12 games. The suspension came at a time when he was scoring a career-high 20.5 points per game and making 40% of his 3-point attempts. At 7–26, the Timberwolves ranked last in the NBA.
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Beasley surpassed Kevin Love's franchise record of 190 three-pointers made in a season for the Timberwolves on March 5, 2022. Four days later, in a 132-102 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder, he set a franchise record with 11 three-pointers made and 33 points scored. Beasley scored 23 points in a 130-117 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 1 of the first round of the 2022 playoffs on April 16.
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Washington, DC - - (July 13, 2018) - - To help end youth homelessness, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding $43 million to 11 local communities, including five rural areas, through its Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP). This program supports a wide range of housing interventions including rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, and host homes.
"Young people who are victims of abuse, family conflict, or aging out of foster care are especially vulnerable to homelessness," said HUD Secretary Ben Carson. "We're working with our local partners to support innovative new approaches to help young people find stable housing, break the cycle of homelessness and lead them on a path to self-sufficiency."
To ensure the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program meets the needs of young people, HUD relied upon the recommendations of young people who experienced homelessness themselves. Many of the same youth participated in reviewing the applications of communities seeking YHDP funds. Their input helped ensure that the communities selected for funding understand the needs and preferences of the young people they will serve. HUD also worked closely with its federal partners at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Education (DOE), and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) to help develop the program and review applications.
The 11 communities selected will collaborate with a broad array of partners including a youth action board and the local or state public child welfare agency. These communities now have four months to develop and submit to HUD a coordinated community plan to prevent and end youth homelessness. They will also participate in a program evaluation to inform the federal effort to prevent and end youth homelessness going forward and will serve as leaders in the nation on the work to end homelessness among young people.
The Regional Task Force on the Homeless and their members have demonstrated success addressing homelessness through specific initiatives targeting specific homeless subpopulations. For example, San Diego and San Diego County are implementing a Youth Coordinated Entry System (CES) to match housing and services to the needs of young people, specifically those experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
This Continuum of Care (CoC) has a strong history of coordinating stakeholders to create systemic change in the homeless service system resulting in cutting the chronically homeless population in half. It has worked to effectively end veteran homelessness and has been working to make systemic change in addressing homelessness among youth since 2016 through the Homeless Youth Committee of the Louisville CoC.
Boston seeks to transition from a city where multiple programs individually serve Youth and Young Adults (YYA) at-risk of and experiencing homelessness, to a city with a coordinated, resourced, and data-informed system with common vision and goals. HUD is supporting this transition.
Given the significant system changes involved and the specific challenges associated with the rural nature of its region and desire to assure the participation and respect the sovereignty of three Tribes, this Continuum of Care employs a single prioritization list and participation of nearly all homeless-dedicated beds.
The mission of the Connected Youth Initiative (CYI) is to bring young people together with service providers, funders and decision-makers to create supportive communities committed to improving outcomes for youth ages 14-24 with foster care, juvenile justice or homelessness experiences. It is designed to build strong collaborations and infrastructure necessary for community ownership of youth well-being and the realization of improved youth outcomes.
Many local communities and pueblos in New Mexico have demonstrated a philosophical, political, and financial commitment to confronting social inequities, particularly as they affect underserved populations and children. Youth Services and Family Services, along with its partners, are proposing to extend this commitment through tested methodologies and novel approaches to a web of communities in a 14-county region. This rural outreach aims to join a national effort of like-minded individuals, groups, and municipalities to end youth homelessness.
The Youth Action Board (YAB) and Youth Committee vision is for all youth to have a safe place to call home. Successful achievement of this vision in this community means all youth will have immediate and easy access to the support they need to prevent homelessness or, if needed, will have immediate and easy access to crisis housing and services to ensure that homeless episodes are rare, brief, and one-time.
The creation of the Key Action Plan represents a clear shift in Nashville and Davidson County, where the problem of youth homelessness is more broadly recognized and embraced beyond a small number of Youth and Young Adult (YYA) providers. With the direct support of more than 20 diverse stakeholders - including a wide range of community-based organizations, systems, and Young Adult (YA) - Nashville's Continuum of Care has increasingly tested new strategies and methodologies as it works to expand housing options for at-risk young people and to build momentum toward ending youth homelessness.
The Youth Homelessness Prevention Plan Committee (YHPPC) has engaged youth and youth providers in planning; conducted a youth baseline needs assessment; and incorporated youth perspectives into the Continuum of Care's Coordinated Entry policies and procedures.
Washington State has one of the strongest commitments to addressing youth homelessness in the nation. Ongoing strategic efforts include: preventing youth from exiting public systems of care (such as child welfare and juvenile justice) into homelessness; developing a crisis response system for families and youth in conflict; and closing educational equity gaps for homeless students.
The Snohomish County Human Services Department (HSD) will build on successful innovative practices that have transformed the Everett/Snohomish County Continuum of Care homeless response system, to further transform the homeless youth response under the Youth Homeless Demonstration Program.


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Founding Energy Center director chosen for prestigious national service; Energy Center director search under way
Jay Gore, Reilly Professor of Combustion Engineering at Purdue University and Energy Center director, has been selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow. The University has formed a search committee to solicit and recommend internal candidates to serve as the next director of the Energy Center.
Gore is one of 12 faculty members nationwide to be selected for a prestigious Jefferson Science Fellowship with the U.S. Department of State. The fellowship begins Aug. 15, 2010. Gore will pass the leadership of the Energy Center to a new director when his Fellowship responsibilities begin in Washington, D.C.
As the founding director of the Energy Center, Gore has contributed to numerous energy research initiatives at Purdue. Since its inception, the center has helped seed and facilitate projects resulting in millions of dollars in new research awards. Hundreds of faculty, staff, and students from nine colleges and schools, along with staff from Purdue Physical Facilities, are affiliated with the Energy Center. With Gore's leadership an external advisory board of nationally recognized leaders in energy research and policy was established. Multidisciplinary research areas supported by the center include advanced vehicle ground power; batteries and advanced electrochemical systems; bioenergy; clean coal technologies; global partnerships; green buildings; hydrogen systems; materials for extreme environments; nuclear energy; social, economic, and political aspects of energy use; and new technologies in solar, wind, and water. In addition to a vision that Purdue become a global leader in energy, Gore has been a dedicated advocate for education. Each year, the Energy Center hosts or sponsors workshops, conferences, and lectures to further the education mission of the center and the University. Gore also founded the highly successful Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program at Purdue.
The Pioneers in Energy lecture series is one of the Energy Center's notable events. In 2005, the late Nobel Prize winner Richard Smalley launched the lecture series by focusing on grand challenge areas in energy and its impact on societal issues. Since then, world-class leaders in energy have delivered lectures to the Lafayette-area community highlighting issues in energy research and policy.
Richard Buckius, vice president for research at Purdue University, said, "Jay Gore's dedication to ushering in a robust energy research and education program and his vision to build a community focused on sustainable activities has provided an essential conduit for new initiatives in research at Purdue. The U.S. Department of State will be well served by his leadership."
Gore, a professor of mechanical engineering with courtesy appointments in aeronautics and astronautics and chemical engineering, was associate dean of engineering for research and entrepreneurship from 2002 to 2007. His research interests are in combustion and radiation heat transfer with applications in pollutant reduction, efficiency enhancement, and fire safety. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 archival journal and conference papers and book chapters. He is a fellow of the ASME and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and served as an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and of the AIAA Journal. He also served as the Central States Section chair and U.S. technical editor of the 26th International Symposium for the Combustion Institute.
All Jefferson Fellowships are contingent upon awardees obtaining an official U.S. government security clearance.
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I do loooove the vintage look of it, because usually rugs that are naturally vintaged and threadbare are so much more expensive because they're all authentic Turkish or Oriental rugs. Waaay out of my price range.
Either way, Paris looks awesome in both – profitez-en!
Feeling punk today, so I've been laying low. Right now Lucy is sitting as close to "on" my lap as she can and she's looking at me balefully. Up to no good. When we moved here from California I coveted a sofa that color that was in a store in Del Mar. It was more sofa than settee, but. That color! It never would have worked here, sadly, but I still dream about that color.
That rug. Incredible. And I love that settee with it. Gorgeous!
I don't know what amortize means but at the weekend we bought a hard back copy of the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid for Arthur for £12.99 and he'd finished it by bedtime. That was not good value for money.
Plus, we have a new rug too!
Dear Jamal, fearful of peacocks and shag pile.


Henk : Cult Of Scarecrow is a Belgian band that debuts with an EP that takes more than thirty minutes. Others would no longer call that an EP, but a long player. Four numbers on this disc that warn us about the end of humanity and the destruction of our planet. The music is very well suited for that. Dark and gloomy with ominous keyboards here and there. All this at a slow pace, which makes the music even more threatening. Singer Filip uses a normal narrative singing voice. Every now and then he is a bit like Ozzy but a little lower. The long songs are never boring and are the perfect soundtrack for the period of the year and this period especially in view of the daily news. Recommended.


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ChessBase Magazine 143
Back to No. 1. Magnus Carlsen won the "Kings Tournament" ahead of Sergey Karjakin thanks to the superior tiebreak score and in doing so moved back into pole position in the world ranking list. The tournament from Mediasch in Romania with its two young victors constitutes one of the main focal points of this issue. In the candidates matches in Kazan it was anything but a breakthrough for youth. The winner was the oldest participant Boris Gelfand and he is the one who has the right to challenge World Champion Anand next year. On the DVD Gelfand annotates two of the key games on the way to the greatest triumph of his career so far. Other highlights: the tournaments in Lublin (Shirov was victorious and demonstrates his wins in video format), Havana (Le Quang Liem annotates) and the Ukrainian individual championship (won by Ponomariov, annotations by Eljanov). At the same time the DVD offers with its 13 openings articles all sorts of suggestions for your opening repertoire as well as training databases for the sharpening up of your strategic an tactical instincts.
Published: Jul 2011
Level: Tournament player , Professional
In his introductory video of over a quarter of an hour grandmaster Karsten Müller gives you a survey of the various contents of the DVD and gives you a quick introduction to some of its highlights. For example, the decisive moments from Gelfand's winning game against Grischuk in the candidates final or Carlsen's excellent endgame technique in his game against Ivanchuk. In his intro Müller goes into some depth on two openings articles which are on the DVD: on one hand, Breutigam's investigation of 10.e5 in the Botvinnik Variation and on the other Kuzmin's theoretically less extensive article on the Queen's Gambit Declined with 6.Bxf6.
Romanian GM Dorian Rogozenco casts an eye in his 20 minutes videoback over the four tournament highlights of recent months. For example, he introduces in depth Gelfand's impressive win with Black over Mamedyarov in the first round of their candidates match, at the end of which game Black had on the board six pawns in return for a rook. From the top tournament in Medias Rogozenco presents a fragment from the game of local hero Nisipeanu against Ivanchuk, in which the Romanian managed to break through his opponent's Berlin Defence.
Once again No. 1 in the World
"Kings Tournament" in Medias
Romanian chess organisers are well on their way to establishing this as one of the strongest chess tournaments in the world. The fifth "Kings Tournament" was held for the second time in the small town of Mediasch in the Siebenbürgen area, and the presence of Carlsen, Karjakin, Ivanchuk, Nakamura, Radjabov and Nisipeanu meant there was nothing more one could wish for. Another highlight consisted of the video analyses in which the players participated at the end of their games with head commentator Dorian Rogozenco and which are for the most part accessible on playchess.com. Magnus Carlsen secured victory in the tournament with three wins and seven draws. In the final round a draw with White with Sergey Karjakin, who would also finish on 6.5 points but with an inferior tiebreak score, was sufficient for the Norwegian.
Carlsen,M - Ivanchuk,V
Position before 65.Nbxd5
In his game against Vassily Ivanchuk Magnus Carlsen went back to an idea (7.Qc2 in the Queen's Gambit Declined), which Vladimir Kramnik had made popular in 1993. As Carlsen points out in his analysis, in this variation White cannot hope for a great advantage but does get a slight and persistent one. The game proves how correct his evaluation is. On account of the isolated pawn on the black side, Carlsen kept the upper hand, because Ivanchuk could not find any way to simplify the position by exchanging pieces. After the exchange of queens Carlsen managed to gradually increase the activity of his pieces and in the endgame made copy-book use of the principle of the two weaknesses. In the position on the board on the left the Norwegian brought about the decision by means of 65.Nbxd5. Click on the link under the diagram and play through the game with Carlsen's own comments.
Sergey Karjakin
2:0 against Ivanchuk
A few weeks after his tournament victory on Cuba (see below) Vassily Ivanchuk fared really badly in Mediasch. He became an involuntary supplier of points to the leading players especially and conceded both points to his previous compatriot Sergey Karjakin. Sergey Karjakin has annotated both these wins over Ivanchuk for you on the DVD. InKarjakin,S - Ivanchuk,V we saw a rare guest at the very top level, the Pirc Defence. As Karjakin points out at the start of his analysis, this surprise was not a totally unwelcome one for him. And in fact it was Ivanchuk who left the strait and narrow with 10...e6 and who was already losing after Karjakin's 12.e5. Click on the link above and see how players at the top level meet the Pirc.
Ivanchuk,V - Karjakin,S
Position after 16.Rad1
In Ivanchuk,V - Karjakin,S the 21 year old Russian found himself having to fend off the Italian Opening. However it did not prove too difficult a task; he avoided the frequently employed manoeuvre ...a6 and ...Ba7 and achieved full equality after only 13 moves thanks to the early advance 10...d5. The tactical potential of the position obviously escaped Ivanchuk, when in the position on the left he played 16.Rad1. Because it was followed by the surprising strike 16...Bxh3 (the bishop had just moved from c8 to e6); 17.gxh3 is out on account of 17...Qf6 18.Kg2 Nh4+ 19.Nxh4 Qxf2+. As Karjakin shows in his analysis 17.d4 Bg4 18.c4 Rc8! Would have been the lesser evil from White's point of view, but what happened was 17.c4 Nf4 18.c5 Nxg2 with a clear advantage for Black.
Nisipeanu,L - Ivanchuk,V
Position before 21.Nf6+
And Ivanchuk suffered another defeat in Mediasch. In round 3 the Berlin Defence set up by the Ukrainian against Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu did not hold up. In 11.b3 the Romanian came out with the latest fashionable move in this variation and met Ivanchuk's over the board innovation 13...c5 with a beautiful and good reply in the form of the knight manoeuvre Nf3-d2-c4-e3-d5. To be sure, the (strong) knight was then immediately exchanged, but then the black position was robbed of the strong trump it had in the bishop pair. In the position on the board, after 20...Rad8 Nisipeanu followed up with a combination (21.Nf6+ Ke7 22.e6 Rxd5 23.Nxd5+ Kd6 24.exf7 Kxd5 25.Re5+), which brought him in an extra pawn. But the game was not yet decided. As Nisipeanu demonstrates in his analysis, both sides missed chances in the time trouble phase, but at the end Ivanchuk resigned in a lost position.
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Putting things straight
All in all, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu ought to have been satisfied with his result this year. 4 out of 10 in such a high class field is a strong result. And it could have been more as can be seen from his analysis of the game Radjabov,T - Nisipeanu,L. The Romanian had studied in depth Radjabov's favourite weapon against the Caro-Kann and courageously played for the initiative. His courage was almost rewarded, but with his thinking time fast running out he chose in a winning final position to go for a draw with perpetual check. Click on the link above and let Nisipeanu show you the game and the tricky win at the end.
Boris Gelfand
On the road to the title?
WCh Candidates Matches Kazan
It was not white smoke which rose into the sky above Kazan, but somehow everything seemed to have been resolved when the decision was taken. In a war of draws and tiebreaks Boris Gelfand brought all his experience to bear and won the right to appear next year in the WCh title match against Anand. Those who had been considered top favourites, Aronian and Kramnik, looked pretty pale in Kazan and in view of the high number of draws most matches were not decided till the rapid or blitz chess phases. Even the WCh challenger only managed two victories in games with normal tournament thinking time – but that was enough. And these are the two games Gelfand annotates for you on this DVD.
Mamedyarov,S - Gelfand,B
Position after 19...Rfc8
In the first round Gelfand came up against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. After two full-length draws at the start, the match was decided this time in game 3, in which the Azerbaijani tried out 6.Bc4 against the Najdorf Variation. At first both sides followed the game Morozevich-Kasparov (2001), but with 15...Kh8 Gelfand avoided the complications from the previous game. The critical position can be found in the diagram on the left after Gelfand's 19...Rfc8. Here Mamedyarov played 20.Kh1, which Gelfand considers the game-deciding error in view of the subsequent exchange sacrifice 20...Rxc3 21.bxc3 Qxc3 and the clear advantage for Black. In fact, White's kingside atttack immediately petered out. Play through the game Mamedyarov,S - Gelfand,B with the comments of the Israeli GM and enjoy how with another piece sacrifice Black brought his opponent to his knees with six pawns for a rook.
Gelfand,B - Grischuk,A
Position before 18.Nh4
The final game Gelfand,B - Grischuk,A in the final of the candidates matches was, to everyone's surprise decisive – all previous games in the final had been drawn. Gelfand had changed to 1.d4 and was "100 % sure", that Grischuk would also return to the Grünfeld defence he had employed against Kramnik and Aronian. He was correct and after the innovation 13.b3 Grischuk found himself facing his opponent's home preparation. The idea behind the move is positional: the black bishop on e6 is hemmed in on both sides by white pawns and thus blocks permanently the advance of Black's e-pawn. After the opening of the a-file Grischuk transferred his rook via a5 to the h-file, but Gelfand had previously discovered the defensive resource 18.Nh4 (see diagram). After 18...Bf6 19.f4 Black can never get in e7-e5, and after 19...Rd8 20.Qf2 Bxh4 21.gxh4 Gelfand set his powerful centre in motion and won the game in stylish fashion. So, next up is Anand. A lot of people think that he is probably happy with the result of Kazan. "Probably true", said Gelfand in an interview. But before Kazan the Israeli was also an outsider.
In his endgame column Karsten Müller presents to you on video a series of tricky endgames from Kazan, including the two Kramnik-Grischuk games in which Black in both cases managed to salvage the draw in an unbelievable way. In addition there is Aronian-Grischuk, in which the co-favourite for the tournament missed victory in the knight ending, and the endgame with rook+bishop against rook+bishop from the game Kramnik-Radjabov, in which there was the now legendary clock defect and interruption to the game.
Interview with Kramnik
in audio format
This is an interview with Vladimir Kramnik, conducted by Rainer Knaak and Karsten Müller with the ex world champion only a few days after his elimination. You will find extracts from this interview in audio format on the DVD. In the first part of the interview Kramnik talks, for example, of his endings against Grischuk (games 2 and 4) and of that ending in the blitz game against Radjabov. Kramnik's explanations on the course of his match with Grischuk and the causes of his failure are especially gripping and enlightening.
In the second part Kramnik goes into the general trend in opening theory. Because of the ever-improving programs the drawing nature of the game of chess is becoming more and more prominent, and it is becoming simpler and simpler to draw with Black. With this in the foreground, Kramnik explains the number of draws in the tournament in Kazan and describes the problems which this had caused him in his preparation for the tournament.
Start to finish win for
Ruslan Ponomariov
Ukrainian Championship
Even without Karjakin who had emigrated and the unavailability of Ivanchuk (who was playing at the same time in Mediasch) it was the strongest national championship so far which took place in Kiev in June. Its average Elo rating of 2650 (so category 16) can make many another chess-playing nation jealous. In Ruslan Ponomariov it was the Elo favourite who got to the head of the field right from the start and finished by winning the championship very clearly with 8.5 out of 11. However, his victory as Black against pursuer Moiseenko in the final round was neither without danger nor unnecessary. Because in the endgame he was at some points under extreme pressure and it was not until his opponent under-estimated the potential of Black's passed pawn that Ponomariov was able to turn the tables. At the same time Pavel Eljanov had once more accelerated at the end of the tournament and was on the new champion's heels. So, silver was all there was for Eljanov, and the bronze medal went to Efimenko.
Eljanov,P - Volokitin,A
Position after 22.c4
Pavel Eljanov has annotated his game against Andrei Volokitin who was not very successful in Kiev. After 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 Ejlanov played 3.Bg5 and obliged his opponent to invest three quarters of an hour in the first five moves. That had its effect. In position in the diagram Eljanov put Black's position under pressure, first with 22.c4 and after 22.dxc4 with 23.g4!. As Eljanov explains in his analysis, his opponent now made the decisive mistake with 23...Nxc5, because White is clearly winning after 24.gxf5 Qd8 25.Bxc4 Nd7 26.Qa2 Qe8 27.Bd5, and the knight which was transferred to the queenside finally decided the day.
Victory with new weapons
With 5 out of 7 Alexei Shirov won the third GM tournament in Lublin. The Spaniard from Latvia won three games and drew the remainder. The opening weapons with which Shirov confronted his opponents are remarkable (King's Gambit with White, French with Black. On the DVD he presents and explains them in five videos with a total playing time of more than two hours! The places behind Shirov were occupied by Boris Grachev and Sergej Zhigalko. On the DVD you will also find game analysis by Krishnan Sasikiran and Michael Roiz.
Wojtaszek - Shirov
Position after 30...Rg8
After his disastrous result in Wijk aan Zee Alexei Shirov had prescribed for himself several months of rest from tournament play. As he points out at the start of his video, it was with mixed feelings that he travelled to the strong category 18 tournament in Lublin. As well, he had to meet in the very first round (with Black) the Elo favourite Radoslaw Wojtaszek. Despite the recent negative experiences which Shirov had been having with "his" Semi-Slav, he kept faith in his opening against the Polish player. In a video analysis of this game lasting almost three quarters of an hour, Shirov explains, for example, why after the rare move 9.a3 he did not go in for the drawish variation with 9...a6. Shirov is happiest of all with his 22...g5, which finally directed the game into highly tactical lines. In the position in the diagram after 30...Rg8 the logical looking 31.Rd6 would have failed after 31...Rxg2+ 32.Kf1 b2!. In the game things went 31.g3 b2 32.Rb1 Qb3 33.Nd6 Ba6. and not much later the white position collapsed.
Zhigalko - Shirov
After a second round draw with White against Roiz, Shirov followed up with his second surprise as Black against Zhigalko. After recently always meeting 1.e4 with 1...e5, he once again tried out the French against the Belorussian. In his video analysis Shirov starts by discussing at length his preparation and the historical development of the variation with 11.Qf2 which had been introduced by Kramnik in 2003 and even introduces what he considers to be the present critical variation for Black. In the game Shirov got a crushing attack on the king, but then in a won position he played a dubious rook sacrifice and finally won the game nevertheless because his opponent could not find the correct defence. An absolute must-see for French fans!
Shirov - Alekseev
Position before 8.Rg1
The King's Gambit! In the following round too Shirov surprised (or shocked?) his opponent. How did he come to test out what he had referred to in his own words an "incorrect opening"? In the third video analysishe tells us the whole story which had its origins in a training seminar for up-and-coming DSB players back in April. In the game Alekseev chose the 3...h6 variation. A dubious move, in Shirov's opinion, and he was able to refute it in the game. After 8.Rg1 (diagram) White already has a clear advantage and after 8...Kf8 9.Be3 Nc6 10.d5 Nb4 Shirov could have won the game in quite unspectacular fashion with 11.Nd4 Qh4+ 12.Bf2 Qxh2 13.Nce2 followed by the advance of the e-pawn. The decision came in time trouble, when Shirov first lost the thread and overlooked tactical options for his opponent, but in the long run Alekseev resigned, because he - like Shirov – wrongly thought that the black king was in a mating net.
Sasikiran - Shirov
The final two games were less successful for Shirov, and above all in Sasikiran-Shirov the Spaniard was on the brink of defeat. In his analysis of this game he is particularly hard in his judgement about his own preparation – once again we had a Semi-Slav. His plan of sacrificing a pawn for the initiative and quickly recovering the pawn with equality did not work. Instead, Shirov even lost a second pawn and had to struggle for a draw right into the bishop ending.
Shirov-Grachev
Position before 18.Bxf5
Before the final round Shirov was leading the table by half a point, and although a draw would have sufficed, he of course played for a win with White against Boris Grachev. In the French Defence Shirov would have liked to have repeated the variation with which he had been successful against Zhigalko (with Black!), but his opponent deviated earlier with 10...Bxd4 and put Shirov's theoretical knowledge to the test. After the dubious 12.h4 and the reply 12...Rb8 he was obliged to realise, that the white position was rather disadvantageous from a strategic point of view and decided to guide the game into tactical channels with 13.Rh3. After Grachev's 15...b4 the board was on fire, and after 16.Qg5 Nf5 17.Bd3 h6 Shirov sacrificed his queen with 18.Bxf5 (diagram). Next came 18...hxg5 19.hxg5 bxc3 and after 20.Bh7+ White had no more but no less than a perpetual check. That was how Alexei Shirov secured tournament victory, with an entertaining game although it ended in a draw.
Krishnan Sasikiran
Indian GM Krishnan Sasikiran annotates on the DVD both of his wins from Lublin. In Wojtaszek,R - Sasikiran,K he set about things enthusiastically in a Nimzo-Indian and profited from the fact that his opponent was too ambitious with his continuation 23.g4, thus exposing his king to a decisive counter by the Indian. In the game Sasikiran,K - Alekseev,E the protagonists followed the paths of Catalan theory for a long time, till the Indian played the innovation 20.Qh5, of which both sides were obviously well aware. Sasikiran has provided the game with very detailed analysis and shows you the move with which his opponent gave the game away just before the time control.
Ivanchuk - Le Quang
Finished equal on points
Capablanca Memorial Havana
It was thanks to a brilliant final spurt and at the very last second that Vassily Ivanchuk once again defended his title in the Capablanca Memorial on Cuba. Le Quang Liem had taken the lead in the second flight of games and it was not till their duel in the final round that the experienced player managed to catch up the Vietnamese GM and win the tournament thanks to a better tiebreak score. You will find all the games from Havana on the DVD, Le Quang has annotated for you not only his win over Bruzon, but also the decisive game against Ivanchuk.
Ivanchuk,V - Le Quang,L
Position after 22.Qg5
Le Quang wanted to surprise his experienced opponent with his choice of the French Defence. Simply, Ivanchuk was not in the least put out. The game followed well-known paths in the Tarrasch Defence, though the Vietnamese player came out of the opening with a slight disadvantage thanks to an inaccuracy (12...Bd7, see the analyses by Le Quang). But after a general exchange of rooks Black's problems seemed to have been put behind him. In the position on the board there followed 22...Ne4 23.Qxg7 Qd1+ 24.Kh2 and now 24...Nxf2 e.g. would have led to an exchange of queens and a drawish endgame after 25.Qe5 Bd6 26.Qxd6 Qxd6 27.Bg3. It was Le Quang's misfortune to twice scorn the saving knight strike on f2 and he was finally defeated in ice-cool fashion by the Ukrainian.
Le Quang,L - Bruzon Batista,L
Position after 22.Qh3
In Le Quang,L - Bruzon Batista,L the young Vietnamese player showed his positional ability and far-sightedness. In the Slav he choose a quiet setup (e.g. with 10.g3) and managed to come out of the opening slightly ahead. In the position on the board on the left his opponent allowed himself to be tempted into 22.Qc8-h3. It was a mistake, as Le Quang points out in his analysis. Because after 23.Qf2 Ne6 White can force with 24.Qg2 the exchange of queens and with that the transition to an advantageous endgame. In the game Le Quang demonstrated the weakness of Black's queenside and his own superior piece play. Play through the game with his comments and on no account miss the concluding mating attack.
Negi,P - Caruana,F
Position before 16...Rxd5
Fabiano Caruana annotates
At India's strongest chess tournament of all time, the "Airports Authority of India International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2011" in New Delhi it was Fabiano Caruana who won with one point of a lead. An impressive victory in a category 17 tournament, to which only young and ambitious players were invited. Things were hard for Yifan Hou. The women's world champion had to submit to five defeats and ended up in last place. On the DVD Caruana annotates his impressive victory with Black over Parimarjan Negi. In the opening he deliberately steered towards a positional exchange sacrifice (see diagram before 16...Rxd5 17.exd5 Bxd5 18.Ne3 Be6), from which he was hoping to get sufficient initiative. In fact in the middlegame he kept on developing more active piece play and finally demolished the white position in remarkable style.
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With which move does White extend his advantage? You will find the answer in the Strategy column by Peter Wells.
From the opening trap to the endgame study
Training in ChessBase Magazine begins with the very first moves and deals with every phase of a game of chess. You will find the very latest Openings articles with their many ideas and suggestions for your repertoire alsoabove among the links. Rainer Knaak's opening trap (including a Fritztrainer video) deals this time with a trap from the Dutch (A83). Also to be found in video format are opening contributions from Leonid Kritz (French Winawer Variation), Martin Breutigam (Slav Exchange Variation), Valeri Lilov (Sicilian Grand Prix Attack) and Adrian Mikhalchishin (King's Indian). You will find these videos in the Fritztrainer column. Peter Wells' subject in his Strategy Column is: "The essential art of exchanging queens", see the diagram on the left. In Daniel King's long running Move by Move it is a game in the French which is being used this time. And in the Tactics (subject: mate, mate, mate!) and Endgame columns (subject: bishops of opposite colours) Oliver Reeh and Karsten Müller have once more brought together for you the best from recent tournament practice.
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Schipkov: Dutch Defence A89
1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 d6 7.Nc3 Nc6 8.d5 Na5
This line from the Leningrad System still remains playable for Black. The most frequent replies 9.Nd2 and 9.Qd3 are hardly a challenge to it; the most interesting is the exchange sacrifice 9.b3, but there is no need to accept it.
Kritz: Sicilian Defence B30
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 g6
After 3.Nc3 the option of d2-d4 remains open and if Black wants a Sveshnikov, he must reply 3...Nf6; after 4.Bb5 White then plays a sort of Rossolimo plus Nc3/Nf6. According to Leonid Kritz he achieves a paper-thin advantage in the variation with 4...g6.
Grivas: Sicilian Defence B33
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6 5.Nb3 Nf6 6.Nc3 e6 7.Bd3 d6 8.0-0 a6 9.Kh1 Be7 10.f4 Qc7 11.Bd2 b5
In the Apollo Variation which is dealt with, the similarity to the Scheveningen System cannot be overlooked. But the slight differences tend to favour Black and so what we have here is not a critical variation.
Karoly: Sicilian Defence B90
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nde2
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu has had a few nice successes with 7.Nde2. In his article the author presents a detailed analysis of all the lines. Usually the structures which occur are less typical than those in other lines of the Najdorf.
Stohl: Queen's Gambit Accepted D27
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.0-0 a6 7.Bb3
In the second and final part of his repertoire for White based on 7.Bb3 Igor Stohl investigates above all the moves 7...Nc6 and 7...Be7 as well as 7...cxd4, with their many transpositions.
Breutigam: Semi-Slav D43/D44
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Bg3
The same position is also reached after 5...h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.e5. So if one can make the variation playable, it will form a weapon against two different systems at the same time. Martin Breutigam shows that promising positions can be reached.
Schandorff: Queen's Gambit D52
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 Qa5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.Qd2
In his second contribution on the Cambridge Springs Variation Lars Schandorff points out that Black does not have an easy life in the side lines 8...N7b6 and 8...Bb4 9.Rc1 e5 or 9...0-0.
Kuzmin: Queen's Gambit D53
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.Qb3
This side variation has above all been played successfully by top Chinese player Bu Xiangzhi. There may be no way to prove conclusively an opening advantage for White, but most players are content enough with a little pressure.
Avrukh: Grünfeld Defence D90
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qa4+
In the main variation 5...Bd7 6.Qb3 dxc4 7.Qxc4 0-0 8.Bf4 White tries to prove that compared with the 5.Qb3 variation the Bd7 is not so well placed. Perhaps it is then possible to get a mini-advantage.
Postny: Slav/Grünfeld Defence D94
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 5.e3 Bg7 6.Be2 0-0 7.0-0 e6
In the side variation 7...e6 too, you get what is mostly there for Black in the Schlechter Variation: a playable position which is almost level.
Marin: Bogo-Indian Defence E11
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Nbd2 d5 5.Qa4+ Nc6 6.a3
In the position in the diagram our author examines the moves 6...Bxd2+ and 6...Be7. Although something can be said in favour of the exchange, Mihail Marin does prefer the retreat. It is not easy for White to obtain an advantage.
Anic: King's Indian E67
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 0-0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0-0 Nbd7 7.Nc3 e5 8.h3 exd4 9.Nxd4 Nb6 10.b3 d5
White plays 8.h3, because it is always a useful move and then unlike with 8.e4 the line 8...a6 would be favourable (9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Be3!). But the sequence of moves which leads to the diagram seems to give Black sufficient play.
Kuzmin: King's Indian E73
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0-0 6.Be3 e5 7.d5
With this setup, which is related to the Averbakh System, White is planning an immediate kingside advance by means of g2-g4; the development of the Ng1 is temporarily delayed.


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The video gaming industry continue to come under fire for including "loot boxes" and other randomized content for purchase in recent titles.
The Gambling Regulators European Forum released a joint statement signed by regulators from 15 European countries and the Washington State Gambling Commission on September 17, expressing concern that the prize systems in some high-profile games are tantamount to gambling.
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Q: Select first row in each partition of Hive table I'd like to get the first N records from each partition in a hive partitioned table without having to deserialize every record in the table. I've seen a number of solutions for other databases, but not one that works in Hive without running over every single record.
A minimal example:
create table demo ( val int )
    partitioned by (partid int);
insert into demo partition (partid=1)
    select stack(5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
insert into demo partition (partid=2)
    select stack(5, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500)
insert into demo partition (partid=3)
    select stack(5, -1, -2, -3, -4, -5)
insert into demo ...
    ...

I'd like to get the result of
select * from partition_demo where partid = 1 limit 1
union all
select * from partition_demo where partid = 2 limit 1
union all
select * from partition_demo where partid = 3 limit 1
union all
...

without writing every single clause, and without deserializing all of the data in each partition (which seems to happen using RANK OVER).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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San Diego Zoo Safari Park gorillas test positive for COVID-19
Gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for COVID-19.
(Ken Bohn / San Diego Zoo Global)
It's the first known case of non-human apes becoming infected with the novel coronavirus
By Jonathan WosenBiotech reporter
Gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park tested positive for the novel coronavirus Monday, marking the first known case of the virus infecting any of the great apes — a group that includes gorillas, bonobos, chimps and orangutans.
Lisa Peterson, executive director of the Safari Park, said that more than one gorilla has tested positive but would not provide an exact number. During a Monday COVID-19 press briefing, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that two gorillas have tested positive for the virus and that a third is showing COVID-19 symptoms.
Safari Park staff are now carefully monitoring the entire troop with the assumption that all eight gorillas are or could soon be infected.
"They are doing well. They've got some minor symptoms, but they're drinking and eating," Peterson said. "We can tell the difference because our team works so closely with them."
The park first suspected the gorillas could have been exposed to the virus when a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus more than a week ago. While the employee did not have COVID-19 symptoms, nearly half of the pandemic's spread has come from asymptomatic infections, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That meant there was a chance the keeper could have infected the troop. Humans share about 98 percent of our DNA with gorillas.
"You could almost set your watch to it," said Pascal Gagneux, a UC San Diego zoologist who studies primate evolution. "The closer you are on the evolutionary tree, the more likely you are to be susceptible to the same disease."
According to the CDC, dogs, cats and minks, among other species, can also be infected by the novel coronavirus, often after close contact with people. But the agency notes that there's no evidence that animals play a major role in transmitting the virus to humans.
Safari Park staff noticed that some of the gorillas seemed a bit slower-moving than usual and were sneezing and huffing a bit as they breathed. Last Wednesday, two of the gorillas began coughing. On Friday, gorilla fecal samples tested positive for the coronavirus, a result confirmed Monday with the help of a veterinary lab run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The park's veterinary team is talking with physicians across the county about potential treatment options. But for the moment, the plan is to closely monitor the gorillas and make sure they are eating and drinking enough to recover on their own.
"They're quite resilient because they have to be," Peterson said. "In their natural setting, they need to keep moving and be very alert."
It's that natural environment that most concerns Bill Toone, a conservation scientist and former San Diego Zoo Global employee who has studied and cared for gorillas and other threatened species for decades. He's concerned people may infect wild gorilla populations that are already dwindling.
"We still have very, very few animals and going through and losing any percentage of that population comes with enormous risk to the future of an entire species," Toone said. "The responsibility really rests with human beings, because we know this virus is around, we know that we can carry it, we know the basics of how it's transmitted."
Both the zoo and Safari Park have been closed to the public since Dec. 6, but staff still come in to care for the 6,500 animal species at both facilities. The two parks routinely check employee temperatures and have staff fill out questionnaires about possible COVID-19 exposure each day.
Peterson says the Safari Park plans to get even stricter with its protocols. Staff who enter the gorilla enclosure will now wear a pair of disposable overalls over their work clothes. Keepers who already had to wear masks now must also don eye protection.
The Safari Park's gorillas routinely get flu vaccines, and it's possible that they will one day be vaccinated against COVID-19. But there's no plan for that to happen any time soon.
"I would never want to speculate on when that might be possible," Peterson said. "We need to focus on the human side of this first and really get it under control in our communities."
6:03 PM, Jan. 11, 2021: This story was updated with additional information, including comments from wildlife and conservation experts.
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