The financial meltdown is the logical consequence of deregulation. Will we reverse field in time to prevent another 1929? Here is the best synopsis I've come across on the net regarding the The Bubble Economy, which has developed since our government sold out to the special interest of the banking lobby that ended the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, and it should be noted that both of my senators from Connecticut, had a part in this unraveling of sane banking.
Paul Volcker was the last Federal Reserve chairman to advocate continued regulation of the banking sector, since the reign of Greenspan there has been a unending sellout to the Wall Street big money interest, of our banking system. With the consequent bailouts due to greed and excess that abounds with the absence of oversight and regulation.
Sadly Bernanke, is evidently continuing the savoir-faire manner of crafty deceit in being the anti-Robin Hood; established so well by Greenspan/Bush INC., with the slashing of the federal funds rate, allowing the Federal Reserve in victimizing America's less affluent citizens which will suffer the effect of a devalued dollar as a gift to Wall Street.
Hank Medress, RIP
Hank Medress, whose vocals with the doo wop group the Tokens helped
propel their irrepressible single “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” to the top
of the charts and who produced hits with other groups, has died of lung
cancer. He was 68.
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WATCH MR. WIZARD
TV's 'Mr. Wizard' Don Herbert dies at 89
"Watch Mr. Wizard," which was produced from 1951 to 1964 and received a Peabody Award in 1954, Herbert turned TV into an entertaining classroom. On a simple, workshop-like set, he demonstrated experiments using household items.
U.S. Children's
Science Program
Watch Mr. Wizard, one of commercial television's early educational efforts was highly successful in making science exciting and understandable for children. Presenting scientific laboratory demonstrations and information in an interesting, uncomplicated and entertaining format, this long running series was a prime example of the Chicago School of Television and of quality education in a visual format. Created and hosted by Don Herbert, the show's low key approach, casual ad lib style and resourceful often magic-like demonstrations led to rapid success and brought Herbert instant recognition and critical acclaim as an innovative educational broadcaster and as a teacher of science.
Donald Jeffry Herbert, a general science and English major at LaCrosse State Teachers College in Wisconsin, had originally planned to teach dramatics. Following his graduation in 1940, he acted in summer and winter stock and then traveled to New York with an eye toward Broadway. World War II interrupted his career and the young actor entered the Army Air Forces as a private. As a B-24 bomber pilot, he flew 56 missions with the Fifteenth Air Force and subsequently participated in the invasion of Italy. Discharged as s Captain in 1945, Herbert had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.
After the war, Herbert accepted offers of radio work in Chicago. He acted in such children's programs as Captain Midnight, Jack Armstrong and Tom Mix and sold scripts to Dr. Christian, Curtain Time and First Nighter. In October 1949, as co-producer of the documentary health series It's Your Life, he was able to combine his interests in science and drama. Most importantly, his idea for Mr. Wizard began to take form. He became fascinated with general science experiments and studied television as a medium of presentation.
Herbert sold his idea for Mr. Wizard to WNBQ-TV, the Chicago outlet for NBC and the series premiered on 3 March 1951, with Herbert as the Wizard and Bruce Lindgren as the first of his young assistants. Produced in cooperation with the Cereal Institute, Incorporated, the 30-minute show was targeted at pre-teenagers and initially broadcast on Saturdays from 4:00-4:30 P.M.
Within four months the series had climbed to third place among children's programs in ARB ratings and its audience was growing. Chicago's Federated Advertising Club created an award especially for the show and the Voice of America entered a standing order for recorded transcripts of each program. Within two years, approximately 290 schools were using the series as required homework. In its quiet way, wrote Variety on 10 September 1952, "this cleverly contrived TV tour into the world of science probably adds as much to NBC's prestige as some of the network's more highly touted educational ventures."
By 1954. Watch Mr. Wizard was seen live on 14 stations and via kinescope on an additional 77. The National Science Foundation (NSF) cited Herbert and his show for promoting interest in the sciences and the American Chemical Society presented him their first citation ever awarded for "important contributions to science education." Three years into his network run, there were more than 5,000 Mr. Wizard Science Clubs across North America with a membership totaling in excess of 100,000.
Sensing the decline of Chicago as a production center. Herbert moved his show to New York in 1955. During this time, he would win a number Of national awards including the prestigious Peabody Award and three Thomas Alva Edison National Mass Media Awards. The total number of Mr. Wizard fan clubs would increase nearly tenfold to 50,000, Notwithstanding these accomplishments, NBC canceled the series on 5 September 1965.
Herbert's abilities as a teacher-producer of quality televised science education led him to the National Educational Television network where he produced a series of shows under the title Experiment (1966). He also produced films for junior and senior high schools, wrote a number of books on science and developed the Mr. Wizard Science Center outside of Boston. On 11 September 1971 NBC revived Watch Mr. Wizard but Herbert's old leisurely pace of the 1950s seemed outdated and the show left the air on 2 September 1972.
Undaunted by his second cancellation, and challenged by the NSF to create an awareness of science in children, in the early 1970s Herbert and his wife Norma developed Mr. Wizard Close-Ups for broadcast on NBC's daily morning schedule. At the end of the decade, the husband and wife team also developed traveling elementary school assembly programs featuring young performers and live science demonstrations. By 1991, these tours were annually presenting programs to approximately 3,000 schools and 1.2 million students.
With NSF and General Motors financial backing, in 1980 Herbert began production of How About--a long running series of 80-second reports on developments in science and technology to be used as inserts in local news programs across the country. In time, the series would earn special praise from the American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse Science Journalism awards committee. Not content to rest on his laurels, in 1984 Herbert developed an updated and faster-paced Mr. Wizard's World that was seen three times a week on Nickelodeon, the children's cable network.
In 1991, Herbert received the Robert A, Millikan award from the American Association or Physics Teachers for his "notable and creative contributions to the teaching of physics." Three years later, in his late 70s, he developed another new series, Teacher to Teacher with Mr. Wizard--a series of NSF sponsored 15 minute programs airing on Nickelodeon and highlighting exemplary elementary science teachers and projects. In addition, the seemingly indefatigable Herbert created. among others--Mr. Wizard Science Secrets kits with clips from Watch Mr. Wizard and a Mr. Wizard Science Video Library with 20 videos from the Mr. Wizard's World series.
In March, 1984, Herbert told Discovery magazine his purpose in life was not to teach but to have fun. "I just restrict myself to fun that has scientific content." Fortunately, for generations of children and adults attracted to his Mr. Wizard persona, this soft-spoken, Minnesota-born personality had the ability to communicate and inspire in others his passion for the "fun" to be had with science.
Don Herbert, "Mr. Wizard", is seen in
a June, 28, 1978 file photo in New York. Don Herbert, who as
television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to
the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89.
-Joel Sternberg
Lisa Gerrard Created this wonderfully
haunting adoration which is the closing theme to the movie
"GLADIATOR" I do love this it's
absolutely beautiful, if only someone would translate these lyrics for
me, you'd forever have my gratitude.
Lyrics to: Now We Are Free
Anol shalom
Anol sheh lay konnud de ne um {shaddai}
Flavum
Nom de leesh
Ham de nam um das
La um de
Flavne…
We de ze zu bu
We de sooo a ru
Un va-a pesh a lay
Un vi-I bee
Un da la pech ni sa
(Aaahh)
Un di-I lay na day
Un ma la pech a nay
Mee di nu ku
(Fast tempo, 4 times)
La la da pa da le na da na
Ve va da pa da le na la dumda
Anol shalom
Anol sheh ley kon-nud de ne um.
Flavum.
Flavum.
M-ai shondol-lee
Flavu… {Live on…}
Lof flesh lay
Nof ne
Nom de lis
Ham de num um dass
La um de
Flavne…
Flay
Shom de nomm
Ma-lun des
Dwondi.
Dwwoondi
Alas sharum du koos
Shaley koot-tum.
No Deal, not while Jodi is in charge, so the struggle will go on!
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June 20, 2007
Rell Vetoes Marijuana Bill
Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have
legalized the medical use of marijuana, saying that the bill was a
well-intended, but flawed attempt to alleviate suffering.
"I am not unfamiliar with the incredible pain and heartbreak associated with battling cancer," said Rell, who was treated for breast cancer 2½ years ago. "I have struggled with the decision about signing or vetoing this bill."
The legislation would have allowed patients with conditions such as cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis or AIDS to grow up to four marijuana plants in their homes with a doctor's prescription.
But in a three-page veto message, Rell said her sympathies for those with unmanageable pain did not overcome her concern that citizens still would have to break the law to obtain marijuana or marijuana seeds.
"There are no pharmacies, storefronts or mail order catalogs where patients or caregivers can legally purchase marijuana plants or seeds," Rell said. "I am troubled by the fact that in essence, this bill forces law-abiding citizens to seek out drug dealers to make their marijuana purchases."
Medical marijuana is supported by 83 percent of residents, according to a poll by the University of Connecticut Center for Survey Research and Analysis.
The bill passed easily, 89-58 in the House and 23-13 in the Senate. But supporters are short of the votes necessary for a veto override: 24 in the Senate and 101 in the House.
Sen. Andrew J. McDonald, D-Stamford, a proponent, said the veto is the result of Rell's failure to engage the legislature about her objections prior to passage.
"We've been trying to pass this for three years in a complicated legal and medical environment with little or no involvement from the governor or her staff," McDonald said.
McDonald said the bill decriminalized marijuana under narrow circumstances for patients unable to find relief from standard pharmacology.
Connecticut would have been the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana, though the federal government has not ruled out prosecution of anyone who provides marijuana under the terms of those state laws.
Rep. Toni Boucher, R-Wilton, who waged a one-person filibuster against the bill in the House, was overcome at the news of Rell's veto.
"This is an emotional day for me, very emotional," Boucher said.
Boucher said the legislation was unnecessary, medically risky and sent the public a mixed message about the use of marijuana.
"Medical science has caught up with the issue," Boucher said, referring to a pill with the active ingredients of marijuana, as well as an aerosol form awaiting FDA approval. "That can be dosed properly."
She said she objected to the concept of delivering medicine through smoking.
"We can't be promoting smoke as a delivery system for any kind of medicine," Boucher said.
During the House debate, Rep. Penny Bacchiochi, R-Somers, said she bought marijuana for her husband when he was dying of bone cancer.
Bacchiochi, who could not be reached for comment Tuesday, said then: "This bill is about our choice, our right and our responsibility to say we no longer choose to arrest sick people."
By MARK PAZNIOKAS
Connecticut would become the 14th state to enact legislation
protecting patients who use medical marijuana with a physician's
recommendation.
June 2 2007
Seriously Ill Would Be Allowed To Grow Pot
After five years of on-again, off-again debate, Connecticut lawmakers Friday passed landmark legislation allowing seriously ill people to grow marijuana at home to ease their pain or reduce unpleasant side effects of treatment.
The bill passed by a 23-13 bipartisan vote in the state Senate, where it appeared people's personal experience with pain and loss trumped politics on this occasion. The House of Representatives passed the bill last week, 89-58.
The bill now goes to Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who has already expressed concerns about its broad reach but is waiting to review the bill's final language before deciding whether to sign it into law. Rell has said she would feel better if the bill were limited to people diagnosed as terminally ill.
State Sen. Andrew J. McDonald, D-Stamford, introduced the bill on the Senate floor Friday.
"This legislation is tightly constrained to help a clearly defined group of people who are suffering," McDonald said. "These people who are suffering shouldn't have to suffer the threat of criminal prosecution in seeking treatment."
McDonald pointed out that a 2004 survey by the University of Connecticut Center for Survey Research and Analysis showed 83 percent of Connecticut residents support allowing adults to use marijuana for medical purposes if a doctor prescribes it.
Although he wasn't sure how Rell would act, McDonald said he didn't believe she was "in the 17 percent minority."
Republican opponents of the bill worried about the message the legislature was sending to children and whether a political body was the best place to decide appropriate medical remedies.
State Sen. Sam F.S. Caligiuri, D-Waterbury, said the bill may ultimately "do more harm than good."
"We'll be sending a mixed message to young people about whether marijuana is good or bad," Caligiuri said. "We're going to undercut our ability to keep children away from this gateway drug."
"This is definitely an emotional tug," said Sen. John McKinney, R-Southport, whose father, U.S. Rep. Stewart B. McKinney, died of AIDS. "To those who support this bill, I say your cause is noble, I just don't think this is the right way to get there."
Under the bill, patients with certain serious or chronic medical conditions such as cancer, AIDS, epilepsy, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis could grow as many as four 4-foot-tall marijuana plants in their homes, provided they obtain a doctor's prescription to do so. Those patients would have to register with the state Department of Consumer Protection, which would enforce the policy should it become law.
The bill does not limit legal use of marijuana to the terminally ill, nor does it address how sick individuals or their caregivers would obtain the marijuana seeds to grow the plants. Local pharmacies do not stock marijuana or its seeds because of current restrictions under federal law.
Connecticut already has a law legalizing marijuana, but it is virtually useless. Current law allows doctors to prescribe marijuana to ease the pain and discomfort of chemotherapy or for those suffering glaucoma. But no prescriptions have been written because doctors don't want to risk prosecution under federal law.
Twelve states currently allow the palliative use of marijuana. Rhode Island has one of the most liberal laws, allowing as many as 12 plants.
Sen. Mary Ann Handley, D-Manchester, said she has seen research that shows marijuana use among young people declined in states that allowed medical marijuana.
"When you start using it as medicine, it starts losing its tempting attraction," Handley said.
The Connecticut Nurses Association, the National Academy of Science, the Lymphoma Foundation, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health have all come out in favor of medical marijuana, according to Sen. Andrew J. McDonald, D-Stamford.
"People are suffering and medical professionals in the field tell us this drug, under controlled circumstances, can provide some relief," McDonald said.
But the American Cancer Society, the Connecticut State Medical Society and the national Multiple Sclerosis Society are silent on the issue, McKinneysaid.
"The very doctors charged with taking care of all of us have said `we can't support it,'" McKinney said. "That in itself is extremely persuasive."
Sen. Judith G. Freedman, R-Westport, led the Republican Party's opposition. Freedman said commercial drugs on the market can provide equal relief for pain.
"It hasn't been proven to me that this is the only route available to people who are suffering," Freedman said.
Freedman also expressed concern about the message the bill was sending children who have been taught that illegal drugs are wrong and bad.
"What are we telling our children when we stand here in this circle saying let's legalize in Connecticut what the federal government says is illegal?" Freedman asked.
Brownies are soon to become very popular here.
Round 8: Friday, March 2nd ... Games ... CB report
Peter Leko, Vs. Vassily Ivanchuk = ½-½
Vishy Anand, Vs. Veselin Topalov = ½-½
Levon Aronian, Vs. Peter Svidler = ½-½
Alex. Morozevich, Vs. Magnus Carlsen = ½-½
Round 9: Saturday, March 3rd ... Games
... CB
report
Alex. Morozevich, Vs. Peter Leko = 1-0
Magnus Carlsen, Vs. Levon Aronian = ½-½
Peter Svidler, Vs. Vishy Anand = ½-½
Veselin Topalov, Vs. Vassily Ivanchuk = ½-½
Round 10: Sunday, March 4th ... Games
... CB report
Peter Leko, Vs. Veselin Topalov = ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk, Vs. Peter Svidler = ½-½
Vishy Anand, Vs. Magnus Carlsen = 1-0
Levon Aronian, Vs. Alex. Morozevich = ½-½
Round 11: Tuesday, March 6th ... Games ... CB report
Levon Aronian, Vs. Peter Leko = ½-½
Alex. Morozevich, Vs. Vishy Anand = ½-½
Magnus Carlsen, Vs. Vassily Ivanchuk = 1-0
Peter Svidler, Vs. Veselin Topalov = ½-½
Round 12: Wednesday, March 7th ... Games ... CB report
Peter Leko, Vs. Peter Svidler = 0-1
Veselin Topalov, Vs. Magnus Carlsen = ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk, Vs. Alex. Morozevich = 0-1
Vishy Anand, Vs. Levon Aronian = ½-½
Round 13: Friday, March 9th 2007 ... Games ... CB report
Vishy Anand, Vs. Peter Leko = ½-½
Levon Aronian, Vs. Vassily Ivanchuk = ½-½
Alex. Morozevich, Vs. Veselin Topalov = 1-0
Magnus Carlsen, Vs. Peter Svidler = ½-½
Round 14: Saturday, March 10th 2007 ... Games
... CB
report
Peter Leko, Vs. Magnus Carlsen = 1-0
Peter Svidler, Vs. Alex. Morozevich = 0-1
Veselin Topalov, Vs. Levon Aronian = ½-½
Vassily Ivanchuk, Vs. Vishy Anand = ½-½
Final standings
Last update March 10th 2007
This is a really big event in international Chess the first
half in Morelia, Mexico and the second half in Linares,
Spain.
IT is generally considered that the winner of the Morelia-Linares tournament is the unofficial world champion of the year.
This year's tournament which started Feb. 17-25 in Morelia and the
concluding half in Linares on March 2-10. It is sometimes described as
the Wimbledon of chess and is one of the strongest tournaments of the
year, together with Wijk
Aan Zee, which was held last month, the M-Tel
Masters in Sofia, and the Dortmund Invitational in Germany.
The annual Morelia/Linares super-torneo has been
underway in Morelia, Mexico. The first cycle started 17-25 February
(rest days 20th and 23rd) and then the tournament crosses the Atlantic
to Linares, where play takes place from 2-10 March (rest days as yet
not confirmed). Line-up: Topalov (2783), Anand (2779), Ivanchuk (2750),
Leko (2749), Aronian (2744), Morozevich (2741), Svidler (2728), Carlsen
(2690).
"It was so disappointing for Teimour Radjabov to
withdraw
before the beginning, I had had such great expectations for him.
As it turns out Vasyl Ivanchuk being in the right place at the
right moment filled Radjabov's vacancy, perhaps he could be the dark
horse which wins the tournament, as Ivanchuk's rating is actually
higher than Radjabov's"
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In 1998, Linares was changed from a single round-robin tournament to a seven player double round robin event (meaning that each participant plays every other participant twice, once with each color).
Luis Rentero, the sponsor of the tournament, is notorious for being a strong opponent of short draws in chess, to the point that in 1991 he offered cash bonuses for playing longer games.
Previous winners of the tournament are 2000 Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov, 2001 Garry Kasparov, 2002 Garry Kasparov, 2003 Péter Lékó (joint winner with Vladimir Kramnik; but had a better tiebreak score), 2004 Vladimir Kramnik, 2005 Garry Kasparov (with the same score as Veselin Topalov; won on tiebreak because of more wins with black) and 2006 Levon Aronian .
The participants for this year's edition are Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler, Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov, Magnus Carlsen and Alexander Morozevich. No explanation is given why World Champion Vladimir Kramnik was not invited.
Veselin Topalov, 31, is a Bulgarian grandmaster and former World Champion and currently World no. 1. He won the 2005 Chess Oscar and had the second highest Elo rating of all time at 2813. He played Classical Champion Kramnik in a unification match just recently and the score was tied after 12 rounds. He lost in the tiebreak games. His current rating is 2783.
Viswanathan Anand, 37, is from India and also a former Fide champion. In the latest Fide Ratings, his Elo is 2779, just 4 points behind the no. 1 Topalov. Anand is one of only four players in history to break the 2800 mark on the Fide rating list and he has been among the top three ranked players in classical time control chess in the world continuously since 1997.
Peter Leko, 27, is a Yugoslav, although born in Hungary. His latest rating is 2749, making him no. 6 in the world. He is an extremely solid player and very difficult to defeat.
Peter Svidler is a Russian grandmaster with an Elo Rating of 2728, making him no. 12 in the world. He is a four-time Russian Champion—1994, 1995, 1997 and 2003.
Levon Aronian is from Armenia and is no. 7 in the world with a rating of 2744. An early sign of his playing ability is shown by winning the world under 12 championship in 1994 and the world Juniors in 2002. He won the Morelia/Linares chess tournament last year.
Magnus Carlsen is only 15 years old and considered by almost everybody to be a potential world champion. His major wins were at Wijk Aan Zee in 2004, C group, at the age of 13, and group B a year later at 14.
Alexander Morozevich is currently no.8 in the world with an Elo rating of 2741. In December 2006 he won the Ciudad de Pamplona with an amazing performance rating of 2951.
Here I will present the tournament which you can replay:
Round 1: Saturday, February 17th.... "Games
1"...... Chessbase
report
Vassily Ivanchuk -Vs.-
Peter Leko = ½-½ .
Veselin Topalov -Vs.- Vishy Anand = ½-½ .
Peter Svidler -Vs.- Levon
Aronian = ½-½ .
Magnus Carlsen -Vs.- Alex. Morozevich = 1-0 .
Round 1 "Alex.
Morozevich - Magnus Carlsen, the youngest and only sub-2700 competitor,
who went through 13 rounds at Corus Wijk
Aan Zee without winning a single game, won his very
first game in Morelia to lead the tournament. Carlsen sacrificed a
piece just out of the opening but Morozevich decided to give it back at
the cost of a pawn. It came down to an endgame where Morozevich seemed
to have a safe draw in hand. He blundered a second pawn but managed to
exchange down to what still appeared to be a drawn opposite bishop
endgame. But the Russian completely mishandled it and allowed the
16-year-old to win. The other games were drawn. Ivanchuk sacrificed a
piece for a very promising attack against Leko but was left with so
little time on his clock that he had to bale out with a perpetual
check."
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Round 2: Sunday, February 18th.... "Games 2"...... Chessbase report
Peter Leko -Vs.- Alex. Morozevich = ½-½ .
Levon Aronian -Vs.- Magnus Carlsen = ½-½ .
Vishy Anand -Vs.- Peter Svidler = ½-½ .
Vassily Ivanchuk -Vs.- Veselin Topalov = 1-0 .
Round 2 -" Just the one decisive result again in this round as Topalov blundered a piece in a poor position against Ivanchuk. However, the other three games were equally well contested and two of them (Leko-Morozevich and Aronian-Carlsen) very exciting. Aronian sacrificed a piece against Carlsen though it might have cost him dear had Carlsen found the right line. Scores: Carlsen, Ivanchuk 1½, Aronian, Svidler, Leko, Anand 1, Morozevich, Topalov 1."
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Round 3: Monday, February 19th.... "Games 3"...... Chessbase report
Veselin Topalov -Vs.- Peter Leko = ½-½ .
Peter Svidler -Vs.- Vassily Ivanchuk = ½-½ .
Magnus Carlsen -Vs.- Vishy Anand = 0-1 .
Alex. Morozevich -Vs.- Levon Aronian = ½-½ .
Round 3 - Magnus Carlsen went into his shell against Vishy Anand and was crushed. Morozevich missed a number of wins just before the time control against Aronian and had to be content with a draw. Topalov-Leko was rather theoretical and not very interesting. Svidler-Ivanchuk was the last to finish and ended in a draw after all the endgame tricks had been exhausted. Scores: Anand, Ivanchuk 2/3, Svidler, Aronian, Leko Carlsen 1½, Morozevich, Topalov 1.
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Round 4: Wednesday, February 21st...."Games
4"...... Chessbase
report
Peter Leko -Vs.- Levon Aronian = ½-½ .
Vishy Anand -Vs.- Alex. Morozevich = 1-0 .
Vassily Ivanchuk -Vs.- Magnus Carlsen = 0-1 .
Veselin Topalov -Vs.= Peter Svidler = ½-½ .
Round 4 - Vishy Anand is in the sole lead after beating Alexander Morozevich, who is now last. Morozevich seemed to be getting the edge in the late middlegame but once again messed things up in time trouble. Carlsen beat Ivanchuk and leapfrogged over him into second place. The Ukrainian seemed well placed around move 30 but then he too spoiled his game in time trouble. The mature way Carlsen cashed in the resultant positional advantage was very impressive. Leko sacrificed the exchange for two pawns against Aronian but then had to suffer for a while before securing the draw. Topalov looked to be a little better against Svidler but agreed a draw on move 29. The world number one seems curiously muted at Morelia. Scores: Anand 3/4, Carlsen 2½, Svidler, Aronian, Ivanchuk, Leko 2, Topalov 1½, Morozevich 1.
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Round 5: Thursday, February 22nd...."Games 5"...... Chessbase report
Peter Svidler -Vs.- Peter
Leko =
½-½ .
Magnus Carlsen -Vs.- Veselin Topalov = 1-0 .
Alex. Morozevich -Vs.- Vassily Ivanchuk = ½-½ .
Levon Aronian -Vs.- Vishy Anand =
1-0 .
Round 5 - ICC
commentators Larry Christiansen and Jennifer Shahade concentrated on
the game Svidler-Leko - a double-edged Marshall Attack - in lieu of
anything more substantial to talk about for the first few hours of
play. But then Svidler and Leko repeated the position and agreed a
draw. Morozevich failed to make a breach in Ivanchuk's stodgy Berlin
wall and they too agreed a draw. At that stage it wasn't expected that
a decisive result would emerge from the other two games but the
unexpected happened. Aronian secured the two bishops and a passed pawn
but it did not look too dangerous for Anand. However, Aronian produced
a speculative sacrifice of a piece which gave White two passed (a and
d) pawns. Aronian gave up another piece to drive the pawns forward and
Anand was forced to give back all the sacrificed material plus the
exchange just to stay alive. In an already poor position, Anand then
blundered and had to resign. It remains to be seen whether Aronian's
concept was sound but, on the face of it, his imaginative play in this
game (very little of which is found by computer software) looks
brilliant. The end of Carlsen-Topalov was equally unexpected but,
truly, we proceed from the sublime to the ridiculous. Nothing too
dramatic happened for the first 40 or so moves, though Carlsen played a
couple of risky moves while Topalov was uncharacteristically cagey. The
world number one persisted in not taking proffered pawn sacrifices
until Carlsen virtually forced him to on move 49. Carlsen's attack
gathered momentum but he missed a likely winner on move 55 (Nd2!). The
line chosen was insufficient and the game seemed to be petering out to
a draw when... Veselin
Topalov resigned, "(WTF)!" It
transpired that he had not seen a relatively simple defence which holds
in the final position. Topalov's form in this tournament had been
strange enough until this round, but now it must invite speculation
that he has been affected by the allegations made during the Wijk
tournament that his manager has been signalling moves to him. We also
have to bear in mind that he made a similarly awful start to
Morelia/Linares last year, but bounced back in Spain and very nearly
won the tournament.
As a result of this remarkable turnaround, Magnus
Carlsen has regained the lead. Scores: Carlsen 3½/5, Anand,
Aronian 3, Leko, Svidler, Ivanchuk 2½, Morozevich, Topalov 1½.
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Round 6: Saturday, February 24th...."Games
6......
Chessbase report
Magnus Carlsen -Vs.- Peter Leko = ½-½ .
Alex. Morozevich -Vs.- Peter Svidler = ½-½ .
Levon Aronian -Vs.- Veselin Topalov = ½-½ .
Vishy Anand =Vs.- Vassily Ivanchuk = ½-½ .
Round 6: All games drawn, Carlsen still leads
Vishy Anand
fought it out with Vassily Ivanchuk for 32 moves, with the Ukraine
using up almost all his time to abandon a promising position. The
others essentially took a break: Aronian Topalov drawn in 22 moves,
Carlson-Leko drawn in 20, Morozevich-Svidler drawn in 16.
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Round
7: Sunday, February 25th........Games......
Chessbase
report
Peter Leko -Vs.- Vishy Anand = 0-1
.
Vassily Ivanchuk -Vs.- Levon Aronian = 1-0
.
Veselin Topalov -Vs.- Alex. Morozevich = 1-0 .
Peter Svidler -Vs.- Magnus Carlsen = ½-½ .
Final standing during this half : Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand = 4.5 , Vassily Ivanchuk = 4.0, Peter Svidler , Levon Aronian = 3.5, Peter Leko, Veselin Topalov = 3.0, Alexander Morozevich = 2.0
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Topalov, Ivanchuk, Leko, Morozevich, Svidler, Carlsen, Anand and Aronian
Tournament transfers to Linares, Spain ~ and will resume on March 2nd 2007
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Last post update February 26th
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There is hope I've been fascinated by this technique for many years.
Kirlian-Fingerprints Kirlian photography is a technique to
image the "life force" of living things. It can produce stunningly
beautiful pictures, and for that alone, is worth taking a look
at.
Kirlian photograph of human fingers.
Kirlian photography can be used to diagnose disease, even
before it manifests itself in the physical body, and assess the quality
of food. Kirlian photographs of organic food show a quality of
'radiance' that is not present in conventionally grown foods.
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