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|[FRANCE24] French and Malian troops met no resistance as they seized the fabled northern Malian city of Timbuktu Monday just hours after taking the city's airport, FRANCE 24 has learned.
Reporting from Timbuktu, FRANCE 24 correspondent Matthieu Mabin said Malian soldiers, followed by French troops, entered the old centre of the city on Monday afternoon.
"We can now say that the city of Timbuktu is free from the Islamist groups who were controlling the city for the past 10 months," said Mabin, who has been embedded with the French military.
There were scenes of jubilation as the troops rolled into the city centre, according to Mabin. "Everybody is outside -- men, women and kiddies -- they're on the streets proclaiming their joy, shouting, 'God save Mali, God save La Belle France, God save [French President] François Hollande'. We can hear this even from the roof where I'm standing now," said Mabin.
The fall of Timbuktu came more than two weeks after Hollande responded to a call for urgent military assistance by the Malian government after bully boyz seized a strategic central Malian town earlier this month.
Speaking at a presser on Monday afternoon, Hollande said, "We are winning this battle" in Mali. But he warned that there was still a threat of terrorist attacks by Islamist bully boyz who have fled the major cities, and that the task of maintaining order rested with African troops. "It's up to the Africans to permit Mali to restore its territorial integrity," said Hollande.
Malian and French troops entered central Timbuktu Monday after taking the airport, situated on the northern outskirts of the city, where they encountered no resistance. "Not one shot had been fired," said Mabin. During the operation, five planes had also dropped 250 French parachutists into Timbuktu to secure the north of the city in La Belle France's first operational paratroop drop in 35 years.
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
Last weekend, the Nichols Berg Gallery of Chestnut Hill, 8611 Germantown Ave., kicked off a different kind of show. It is not the work of an artist, per se. Not that of a painter, illustrator or a sculptor, but something different.
The show features the collected work of Joel Levinson, an accomplished architect and modern Renaissance man who has spent the last 60 some years creating a vast body of artistic works – painting, sketching and taking several hundred thousand photographs. Samples of all that, in addition to a number of plans and architectural mock-ups, will constitute the show, which will run at the gallery through June 25.
Levinson, 73, has been a Chestnut Hill fixture since he opened his office in the neighborhood in 1969. He has had an accomplished career as an architect, with a number of notable private homes and institutional buildings to his credit. Last week, he led me around the new offices of Elfant Wissahickon, at 8039 Germantown Ave., which was redesigned with an exterior facelift and a roomy, contemporary and well-lit new interior by Levinson.
"It's been a rewarding career," Levinson said reflecting on his life's work.
The funny thing, though, is Levinson didn't always want to be an architect. Long before that, as a boy growing up in Strawberry Mansion and West Mt Airy (his parents moved their family to Glen Echo Road when Levinson was 8), Levinson was interested in a variety of different things. He aspired to be a writer, and, for a time, was convinced he should be a farmer.
"My father told me there was no such thing as a Jewish farmer," Levinson said.
Instead, his father insisted that he find a "reliable profession."
"My father went through a list of 13 or so things I could be," Levinson said. "As soon as he hit architecture, I knew that was the thing. I think it was a good choice – I like the diversity of the projects, I was eager to get out on my own and did as soon as I could."
After attending Perkiomen Preparatory School, where he says he first began to really flourish as a student, Levinson enrolled in the architecture program at University of Pennsylvania. It was a heady time for the school, then a five-year undergraduate program. It was the home of great contemporary architects of the time: Robert Venturi and Louis Kahn.
"Venturi was my best professor in the sense that he encouraged me to be myself," Levinson said. "He would make a little doodle about something, and it would just open up an avenue of thinking. He was non-formulaic. So much of his book, "Complexity and Contradiction" resonated with me."
Levinson said he was dedicated to his architecture courses. So much so that he was thrown out of Penn at one point for being "excessively personal." He had to write an essay on the term in order to be readmitted.
"I think it meant that I was only doing what I felt like doing," he said. "I flunked every math course I took. I pored myself into writing. "
The thing was, Levinson was really into following his own muse. By the time he had entered college, he was already "obsessed" (his word choice, not mine) with writing and photography. He also dabbled in painting and sketching, but spent a great deal of time with other artistic pursuits. Before he had gotten to college, Levinson became an avid photographer. And he was also a committed writer.
"When I was 14 or 15, my mother gave me an Argus C3 camera," Levinson said. " I took to it like, you know, it was so natural. I had a latent vision, composition sense about things. I read and mastered the technical things, read Ansel Adams books, worked my way into a single lens reflex camera and realized, 'Hey I'm not bad at this. My skill here is above average.'"
Levinson has taken pictures ever since. He doesn't go on vacation without a camera and has hundreds of thousands of images. He shoots digital now, and it's been a way for him to do even more with playing with the composition of his subjects.
In addition to all those photographs, Levinson has been a practicing writer. He recently finished a novel about a Bosnian man who is driven to kill his mother in order to prevent her rape at the hands of Serbian soldiers. Two agents have shown interest, he said, provided he make necessary "tweaks" to the protagonists. And he has been working on one architectural book on "Diagonality" that he began when he was still a student at Penn 40 years ago.
"[Diagonality] treats a subject that has not really been addressed in architectural history literature and art literature," he said. "The 20th century started and suddenly the right angle wasn't out the window, but it began to be supplanted. You look at buildings today – you can't even find a right angle. When I was at Penn, I'm looking at Kahn's work, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the different angles, and I was wondering,' where did all this stuff come from?'"
Levinson said he has done an enormous amount of research on the subject and hopes he can manage to get the book published.
"The question is, will I get it done before I kick the bucket?" Levinson said. " To me it would be a crying shame if it didn't see the light. In a certain sense, it's a revelatory work. It's a rich vein of philosophical thought and aesthetic motif that just cries out to be presented, so I have to grow up and get finished."
The remarkable thing is that Levinson has managed to follow these pursuits while maintaining a rich professional career. From the time he did his first job, a taproom redesign for a client of his father, Levinson has worked on a remarkable number of buildings, including the "Arbor House," a home in Elkins Park that was recently placed on a prominent architectural tour of contemporary, significant homes.
Levinson met the owners of the Nichols Berg Gallery through the Arbor House. The gallery owners Scott Nichols and Steve Berg wanted to buy the Arbor House, but it never worked out. Levinson learned that the interested buyers were opening a gallery in Chestnut Hill and went to introduce himself. They soon organized the gallery's current showing of Levinson's work.
On keeping all these things going, Levinson said there's no other way for him. He said he believes it was tough on his family obligations.
"I don't think I was a great father in some respects," he said. "I didn't nurture as much as I could have." (His son Aaron Levinson is a Grammy-winning music producer and his daughter Julie Levinson is an executive chef with Stephen Starr, so something worked right there.)
"But there's a lot of knowledge I've gained from my self-interest that I can now share with my kids," he said. " When you have an obsession, you just have to follow it."
Anyone who can find his or her way to the Nichols Berg gallery this month can see the fruits of those obsessions first hand.


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Prince Announces Two New Albums, Drops New Single 'Clouds'by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Here's some news that will make our Monday a little brighter, Prince fans: Prince is releasing not one, but two brand-new studio albums — and they are both dropping next month!
'Art Official Age' and 'Plectrumelectrum' are both scheduled to be released on the same day — mark your calendars for Sept. 30! — but are decidedly different records. While 'Art Official Age' is the 'Purple Rain' singer's solo effort, 'Plectrumelectrum' is the record by his band 3RDEYEGIRL.
The iconic singer also dropped his new single 'Clouds' with 3RDEYEGIRL, and the song is super smooth with a sexy yet funky vibe that showcases Prince's trademark falsetto vocals. Check it out here, and if you like what you hear you can download it for free by preorderding 'Art Official Age' here. You can also preorder 'Plectrumelectrum' here.
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Also, in a similar style to MT, I want something I can access quickly to let you guys know the status of the next strip so you can rest assured that we're still moving.
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Editor's note: In conjunction with the series we're doing on vocation and calling, we will be publishing excerpts from Self-Culture Through the Vocation by Edward Howard Griggs (1914).
Actions Versus Dreams
Since the vocation is a way of life, is it not a pity that it is currently regarded merely as an opportunity of making a living? It is that, and we have seen how imperative is the duty that each human being should give to the social whole at least as much as he receives from it. That, however, is merely paying running expenses in the vocation of life; and any business man will acknowledge that to carry on an undertaking for many years and succeed only in paying running expenses is failure. The test of the business is in what is earned beyond that, and so is it with life. Thus the true meaning of the vocation is as an open pathway to the great aims of life — culture and service; and only when it is so regarded does it take its rightful place in our lives.
Like all other phases of the art of life, the vocation can never be reduced to science. It is always a problem of the artistic adjustment of two factors, each of which is constantly changing. The whole sum of subjective capacities, differing every day, must somehow be adjusted to the whole sum of objective needs and demands of the world, also ever changing. Is it any wonder the problem is difficult? That is not the worst of it: action is inexorable limitation, compared to the ideal inspiring it. While we dream, we might do anything; when we act, out of the infinity of possibilities, we affirm one poor, insignificant fraction.
That explains many of the paradoxes of life, as, for instance, why our babies are so interesting to us. The parent looks into the eyes of his two-years-old child, and dreams of all the possibilities inherent in that little atom of humanity. That child might think Plato's thought, write Shakespeare's Hamlet, or live with the moral sublimity of St. Francis of Assisi. Why not?
"I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Caesar's hand and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart and Shakespeare's
Emerson is right: all these potentialities are in the humblest of us: give us time enough and opportunity enough, and we can develop limitlessly in any direction. Each is a unit part, not a mechanical part, of humanity — a sort of germ-cell containing the possibilities of the whole. We may not be able to think Plato's thought to-day, but we may take one step forward in the intellectual life: give us eternity, and the point will be reached when we may think Plato's thought. One may be far below the moral sublimity of St. Francis now; but one may climb a little with each step: if the number of possible steps is endless, no mountain summit of life is unattainable.
Infinite time and opportunity, however, are just what never are given in this world, whatever be the truth for worlds to come. We must live this chapter; we have to plan for time as well as eternity. If we spend all the seventy years, more or less — usually less — granted to us here, merely in laying a foundation, we have no temple of life. If we lay a narrow foundation, and build each story out, wider and wider, as the structure grows, it falls to the ground and we have no temple of life. We must somehow both lay the foundation and erect the superstructure — see to it that we get something done, before the curtain falls on the brief chapter we call life.
Thus what the parent forgets, as he looks into the eyes of his little child, is that out of the endless wealth of potentialities, gathered up in this fresh incarnation of humanity, at best only a poor little fragment will be realized in the brief span of life given us in this world. That is one reason genius seldom survives the cradle.
Emerson quotes from Thoreau's manuscripts: "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." That is just about the relation of the world of action to that of dreams; but this, after all, is the important point: it is better to build one honest woodshed that will keep the fuel for the fires of life dry, than it is to go on dreaming forever of impossible castles in Spain; and the wonder is that when you have built the woodshed you own the castle. The ideal is vain and illusory just so long as you dwell in the world of dreams; the whole ideal becomes real when, through your struggle, a mere fragment of it is realized…
Each of us is artist, the world is our mountain of marble, and we own it all. We may choose one block, cast it aside, choose another and another, each more wonderfully veined: the mountain is ours. This, however, is the significant point: unless we do decide upon a single block, and work at it so long and faithfully that in the end we have chipped off all the superfluous marble and released the statue (Michael Angelo believed God placed in every block) it means nothing that we own the mountain. Rather, we do own the mountain when we have achieved the single statue, and only then.
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Serious Question: Is It REALLY Ever Okay To Stop And Stand On A Moving Escalator Full Of People?
While going through through my usual routine to get to work today, I got off at my designated train station and mentally prepared myself for the day. To get said day started on the right foot, I always hope for three things: That the train won't be late, that if lucky, I'll get to sit down and rest my legs for a little bit on the train, and that when I get off and get on the escalator, the person behind me WON'T stand right up on me, disregarding my personal space. Today I had the luck of having all this occur, and as I rode the escalator up, once again, I took a deep breath and prepared myself for all that would come with my work day–the good, the bad, and the foolery. But while thinking, I noticed on the other side of the narrow escalator I was going up on, the escalator going down had some action going on. Presumably trying to make it to the train on time before it pulled off, a man moved down the stairs only to be stopped by two women who had decided that instead of walking down the escalator, they wanted to stop and enjoy the ride. On most large escalators, people who are feeling like the escalator is the place to chill move to one side while people trying to get to where they need to be move to the other side and proceed on their merry way. But in this particular station (and there are others like it), we were in a pretty confined space, and you can't move up or down at a faster pace unless those in front of you are willing to do so and lead the way.
Feeling extremely held back, this fella was one of the first I had ever seen open up his mouth and say something about the break these women were taking on the escalator, and I can't say that it ended well. Face turned up, the man said, "Uh, excuse me, could you move down the stairs?" Irritated by the question and probably the lack of a "please" in that request, the woman in front of him turned around and in a similar tone said "NO!" From there, they started to bicker, and as my upward bound escalator pulled me up and their downward one dragged them away from my view, yelling back and forth at one another, I was only left to ponder how their argument finally ended.
Walking to my job, I wondered how many people really think stopping on crowded escalators at most times of the day is a good idea. I've had friends who have done it and left me standing behind them trying to look sorry in front of the crowd of mean-mugging people behind me. And I don't know how many times I've tried to rush down an escalator myself to get to what sounds like a waiting train only to have the people in front of me stand back and kick it on a crowded escalator. "Really? REALLY?" I often think to myself, but I'm not as bold as homeboy was, so I often just suck it up and hope the next train won't take too long. However, it's annoying–to me at least. While I'm not down for forcing people to do what they don't want to, I'm definitely not a fan of folks blocking other people from getting and going where they want and need to be. If it's late and there are a sparse number of people moving along on the escalator, then I can understand stopping and standing, but when we're talking about the morning rush or the after-work chaos, nobody has time for that. It's the same thing as stopping on a flight of crowded stairs, or letting your child walk from step to step up stairs when they can barely keep up with you, all while others are trying to move around you. There's a time and place for everything, and slow playing during peak times and looking at other people crazy because they're trying to keep from wasting time isn't cool. They call it a rat race for a reason folks…
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Wonderful article from Colin McSwiggen [ht:eb] which I can totally justify posting on this blog too thanks to class politics:
If chairs are such a dumb idea, how did we get stuck with them? Why does our culture demand that we spend most of every day sitting on objects that hurt us? What the hell happened?
It should be no surprise to readers of Jacobin that the answer lies in class politics. Chairs are about status, power, and control. That's why we like them. Ask any furniture historian about the origins of the chair and they'll gleefully tell you that it all started with the throne.


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METASCALABLE HYBRID MESSAGE-PASSING AND MULTITHREADING ALGORITHMS FOR N-TUPLE COMPUTATION by Manaschai Kunaseth A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) August 13th, 2013 © 2013 Manaschai Kunaseth
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|The emergence of the multicore era has granted unprecedented computing capabilities. Extensively available multicore clusters have influenced hybrid message-passing and multithreading parallel algorithms to become a standard parallelization for modern clusters. However, hybrid parallel applications of portable scalability on emerging high-end multicore clusters consisting of multimillion cores are yet to be accomplished. Achieving scalability on emerging multicore platforms is an enormous challenge, since we do not even know the architecture of future platforms, with new hardware features such as hardware transactional memory (HTM) constantly being deployed. Scalable implementation of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on massively parallel computers has been one of the major driving forces of supercomputing technologies. Especially, recent advancements in reactive MD simulations based on many-body interatomic potentials have necessitated efficient dynamic n-tuple computation. Hence, it is of great significance now to develop scalable hybrid n-tuple computation algorithms to provide a viable foundation for high-performance parallel-computing software on forthcoming architectures. ❧ This dissertation research develops a scalable hybrid message-passing and multithreading algorithm for n-tuple MD simulation, which will continue to scale on future architectures (i.e. achieving metascalability). The two major goals of this dissertation research are: (1) design a scalable hybrid message-passing and multithreading parallel algorithmic framework on multicore architectures and evaluate it on most advanced parallel architectures; and (2) develop a computation-pattern algebraic framework to design scalable algorithms for general n-tuple computation and prove its optimality in a systematic and mathematically rigorous manner. ❧ To achieve the first goal, we have developed and thoroughly analyzed algorithms for hybrid message passing interface (MPI) + open multiprocessing (OpenMP) parallelization of n-tuple MD simulation, which are scalable on large multicore clusters. Two data-privatization thread scheduling algorithms via nucleation-growth allocation have been designed: (1) compact-volume allocation scheduling (CVAS); and (2) breadth-first allocation scheduling (BFAS). These two algorithms combine fine-grain dynamic load balancing and minimal memory-footprint threading. Theoretical study has revealed decent asymptotic memory efficiency for both algorithms, thereby reducing 75% memory consumption compared to a naïve-threading algorithm. Furthermore, performance benchmarks have confirmed higher performance of the hybrid MD algorithm over a traditional algorithm on large multicore clusters, where 2.58-fold speedup of the hybrid algorithm over the traditional algorithm was observed on 32,768 nodes of IBM BlueGene/P. ❧ We have also investigated the performance characteristics of HTM on the IBM BlueGene/Q computer in comparison with conventional concurrency control mechanisms, using an MD application as an example. Benchmark tests, along with overhead-cost and scalability analysis, have quantified relative performance advantages of HTM over other mechanisms. We found that the bookkeeping cost of HTM is high but that the rollback cost is low. We have proposed transaction fusion and spatially compact scheduling techniques to reduce the overhead of HTM with minimal programming. A strong scalability benchmark has shown that the fused HTM has the shortest runtime among various concurrency control mechanisms without extra memory. Based on the performance characterization, we have derived a decision tree in the concurrency-control design space for general multithreading applications. ❧ To achieve the second goal, we have developed a computation-pattern algebraic framework to mathematically formulate general n-tuple computation. Based on translation/reflection-invariant properties of computation patterns within this framework, we have designed a shift-collapse (SC) algorithm for cell-based parallel MD. Theoretical analysis has quantified the compact n-tuple search space and small communication cost of SC-MD for arbitrary n, which are reduced to those in best pair-computation approaches (e.g. eighth-shell method) for n = 2. Benchmark tests have shown that SC-MD outperforms our production MD code at the finest grain, with 9.7- and 5.1-fold speedups on Intel-Xeon and BlueGene/Q clusters. SC-MD has also exhibited excellent strong scalability. ❧ In addition, we have analyzed the computational and data-access patterns of MD, which led to the development of a performance prediction model for short-range pair-wise force computations in MD simulations. The analysis and performance model provide fundamental understanding of computation patterns and optimality of certain parameters in MD simulations, thus allowing scientists to determine the optimal cell dimension in a linked-list cell method. The model has accurately estimated the number of operations during the simulations with the maximum error of 10.6% compared to actual measurements. Analysis and benchmark of the model have revealed that the optimal cell dimension minimizing the computation time is determined by a trade-off between decreasing search space and increasing linked-list cell access for smaller cells. ❧ One difficulty about MD is that it is a dynamic irregular application, which often suffers considerable performance deterioration during execution. To address this problem, an optimal data-reordering schedule has been developed for runtime memory-access optimization of MD simulations on parallel computers. Analysis of the memory-access penalty during MD simulations has shown that the performance improvement from computation and data reordering degrades gradually as data translation lookaside buffer misses increase. We have also found correlations between the performance degradation with physical properties such as the simulated temperature, as well as with computational parameters such as the spatial-decomposition granularity. Based on a performance model and pre-profiling of data fragmentation behaviors, we have developed an optimal runtime data-reordering schedule, thereby archiving speedup of 1.35, 1.36 and 1.28, respectively, for MD simulations of silica at temperatures 300 K, 3,000 K and 6,000 K. ❧ The main contributions of this dissertation research are two-fold: Metascalable hybrid message-passing and multithreading parallel algorithmic framework on emerging multicore parallel clusters, and a novel computation-pattern algebraic framework to design scalable algorithm for general n-tuple computation and prove its optimality in a mathematically rigorous manner. We expect that the proposed hybrid algorithms and mathematical approaches will provide a generic framework to a broad range of applications on future extreme-scale computing platforms.
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|METASCALABLE HYBRID MESSAGE-PASSING AND MULTITHREADING ALGORITHMS FOR N-TUPLE COMPUTATION by Manaschai Kunaseth A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) August 13th, 2013 © 2013 Manaschai Kunaseth


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Home Page Chess Life Online Archives Aronian Charges Ahead in London
|Aronian Charges Ahead in London
|By GM Ian Rogers
|March 18, 2013
After only three days of the Candidates tournament in London, the possible identity of Viswanathan Anand's next title challenger has already been reduced from eight to six names.
Predicting the result of a marathon by looking at the leading runners after only 5 miles is hardly reliable, but in London the two oldest players in the field, 44-year-olds Vassily Ivanchuk and Boris Gelfand, may already be out of contention, having lost two consecutive games and trailing the rest of the field by a point. Even though Ivanchuk and Gelfand may recover ground, it is too much to ask of the veterans to then maintain the challenge for first place over a grueling 14 round tournament.
"It's a long tournament," offered both Kramnik and Carlsen as some sort of explanation for their insipid second round draw. When an impudent journalist suggested that the 28 round Candidates tournament of sixty years earlier in Zurich might have been tougher, Kramnik reacted sharply; "It is ten time harder now than it was in 1953 - computers have changed everything. In 1953 they prepared for just one or two hours before a game, we are preparing almost non-stop. Also in 1953 there were more or less only two openings played - the Nimzo-Indian and the King's Indian but now the players are much more flexible. We also have to play up to seven hours, whereas in 1953 I had the feeling that some of the draws were prearranged."
As the players went into the first rest day on Monday, world number three Levon Aronian led the field - "a pleasant surprise and more than I would have hoped for" said the Armenian.
Aronian is half a point clear of tournament favourite Magnus Carlsen and a fit and in-form Peter Svidler. Half a point further back lie the tournament's drawing masters Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk, plus the less stable Teimour Radjabov.
The raw scores, however, show little of the drama which has unfolded at IET, with the chess clock taking a starring role.
Despite slightly disappointing crowds – the $50 admission fee keeping attendances on the weekend days to fewer than 120 – the tournament has already seen extraordinary drama, most notably in the games of Ivanchuk.
In all three games Ivanchuk found himself with less than 10 seconds for his last half dozen moves, and in two of those games Ivanchuk lost on time.
Ivanchuk's third round game was simply disastrous...
London Candidates 2013
White: V.Ivanchuk
Black: L.Aronian
Position after White's 25th move
From a standard Torre Attack, Ivanchuk had launched an early kingside assault, but it took him an extraordinary amount of time and within 15 moves he was an hour behind Aronian on the clock.
By move 20 Ivanchuk was down to two and a half minutes to reach move 40 and five moves later his clock and position were not looking good. Aronian takes up the story...
"By now Vassily had about 20 seconds left and I knew that I was going to win on time. My next move was simply to confuse him and gain a few seconds.
"Normally time trouble for guys like Grischuk and Ivanchuk is nothing - usually Vassily plays very well in time trouble. But this is [a Candidates tournament] and the pressure can get to you."
A brilliantly irrelevant move. After the game Aronian was shown the sacrifice he had missed; 25...Bxd4!! 26.cxd4 Rxb4 when Black has, according to the computer oracles, a winning attack. Yet he was far from convinced that his confusion strategy was wrong - pointing out that a line like this could give Ivanchuk too many forced replies and therefore a chance to reach the time control.
26.Qe3 Qg4 27.g3 Rb5 28.Rxa6 Rxa6 29.Nxa6 e5!?
"I got too excited," admitted Aronian, "but he had only 5 seconds to go so I forgive myself!"30.dxe5 Bxe4
After he played this move, which left him with just four seconds on the clock, Ivanchuk sank back into his chair with a smile on his face. The Ukrainian explained "31.c4 was a beautiful move, but unfortunately I realised that even if he would start to give me material on every move I would still lose on time!"
31...Rb6 32.Qxb6 Qf3 33.Qf2 Qa3 0-1
Here Ivanchuk lost on time as he was playing 34.Nc5. At the press conference Aronian showed a line which seemed to be winning but Ivanchuk was not worried - "Sure, the position can be analysed, but my time was gone."
Curiously Ivanchuk seemed most upset by his time management in the game he drew in round one against Grischuk; "The last two games were complicated [so getting short of time is understandable] but in the first game, [having played] so many moves of theory, that is..." and a wave of the arm and a sigh indicated that Ivanchuk was giving himself a serious reprimand.
Aronian's playing the man as much as the board had success in the second round as well.
London Candidates
White: L.Aronian
Black: B.Gelfand
Position after Black's 24th move
Gelfand is a pawn down but his bishop pair gives him excellent drawing chances. Black has just played 24...Bf6-d8 and Aronian realised that Gelfand was probably preparing 25...Rc8 so...
"After he played this move I was thinking - which move can I play to provoke 25...Rc8? I looked at 25.Rc2 and 25.Rc3 but then realised that b4-b5 would be very important in some lines and played..."
25.b4! Rc8?
Obvious but fatal. On 25...Bb6 Gelfand had reason to fear 26.d5! so practically 25...Bd5 was best, though that would mean Gelfand abandoning his idea of exchanging rooks.
The proverbial bolt from the blue.
26...Kxh6 27.Rxc8 Bxc8 28.Nxf7+ is hopeless, while 26...Kf6 27.Bg5+! Kxg5 28.Nxf7+ Kf4 would be rather messy if White had to swap rooks, but instead he can play 29.g3+! Kf3 30.Re1! and mate next move. "I hadn't actually seen this!" Aronian confessed after the game.
The best defence was 26...Kf6 27.Bg5+ Kxg5 28.Nxf7+ Kf6 29.Rxc8 Bxc8 30.Nxd8 e5 but then 31.d5! a6 32.Nc6 Bb7 33.Kf1 seems to be winning for White in all lines.
27.Rxc8 Bxc8 28.Nc6 Bf6 29.b5! Bd7
The crusher that Aronian had seen on move 25.
After 30...a6 31.g5 axb5 32.Nb8 wins a piece.
31.h4! gxh4 32.g5 Bxc6 33.bxc6 Bd8 34.Kg2 Bc7 35.Kh3 1–0
So while Aronian began to break away from the field with his tactical tricks, his first round opponent and top seed Carlsen needed to grind hard to stay in touch.
London Candidates
White: B.Gelfand
Black: M.Carlsen
Position after Black's 46th move
In typical style, Carlsen had first neutralised Gelfand's attacking efforts, transposed to a slightly better endgame - "drawn, but with some practical possibilities for Black" said the Norwegian - and now has reached an unbalanced position where his queenside pawns are looking dangerous.]
"I miscalculated," admitted Gelfand who thought for 20 minutes over this exchange. "If I play 47.Qb7 then 47...Qd3 is annoying, while after; 47.Qc6 b3 I don't see what White can do."
Gelfand was correct that 47.Qb7 Qd3 is bad for White but he was unduly pessimistic in his second line; after 47.Qc6 b3 48.Bc1! White has slowed down the pawns and keeps drawing chances.
47...Nxd8 48.Kf3 a4 49.Ke4 Nc6 50.Bc1
"When I exchanged queens I thought I was drawing with 50.Kd5 but of course after 50...a3 51.Kxc6 b3 I cannot stop the pawns," said Gelfand.
50...Na5 51.Bd2 b3 52.Kd3 Nc4! 53.Bc3 a3 54.g4 Kh7! 55.g5
"Black is in zugzwang," declared ICC commentator Jon Speelman who a few moves earlier had wondered whether Carlsen had missed his way. "I should never have doubted Magnus!"
The only waiting move, but now Black has...
56...b2 57.Kc2 Nd2! 0–1
"In Wijk aan Zee I didn't win until the third round and then I finished on +7, so I expect that will happen here as well," said Carlsen tongue-in-cheek after the game.
Peter Svidler dragged himself away from the dramatic England v New Zealand cricket Test Match ・ a contest where the last 10 hours of play were aborted due to rain ・ to match Carlsen by also winning his third round game.
London Candidates
Position after Black's 40th move
Radjabov had beaten Ivanchuk (on time) in the second round but in this game found the shoe on the other foot, with a bad position and needing to make four moves in five seconds to avoid a time forfeit. Not only did the Azeri safely reach the time control, but his last move, 40...Rd1-d4! sets a vicious trap...
Avoiding 41.g3? Rxc4+ 42.Kxc4 d5+!, winning the rook on g6.
"I was very lucky that this was after move 40," admitted Svidler. "I had planned to play 41.g3, though I think that I would have spotted the problem even if I hadn't been given an additional hour [thinking time]."
41...Rxh4 42.Ne5+ Kc8 43.Rg8+ Kb7 44.Bxc5
The rest of the game needs some precision from Svidler but "If I cannot win this position then I should not be here!"
44...Re6 45.Rg7+ Kc8
On 45...Ka6 46.Bd4 Kb5 47.Rb7+ keeps the Black king in a net.
46.Nc4 Rg4
47.Nd6+! Kb8 48.Rb7+! Ka8 49.Rd7! Rg8 50.Nc4 Rxg2 51.Bd6!
51.Nb6+?! Rxb6 52.Bxb6 is still winning for White, but the endgame, even without the h5 pawn, is a tricky technical task.
51...Rxd6 52.Nxd6 h4 53.Rh7 Rh2 54.Kb4 h3 55.Ka5 1–0
So what conclusions can be drawn from the tournament to date?
Carlsen and Aronian are both capable of racking up big plus scores, so we could be in for an epic race.
The three Russians, having already played amongst themselves, are well set to challenge the leader, while Radjabov is playing sharply enough to win a lot of games.
A comparison could be made with the San Luis FIDE Tournament World Championship in 2005 played in a similar format. In that tournament Anand and Topalov raced to 2.5/3 but Topalov then won four straight games in rounds 4 to 7 and, with Anand unable to keep pace, was able to coast to the finish.
The world body FIDE's gamble in handing World Championship chess to the AGON company for a decade has seen its first big test in London, and AGON deserves at least a good pass mark.
The organizers have done the big things well but foundered on details. The Institute of Technology and Engineering building is an outstanding venue - easily accessible in the centre of London - and the 300 seat arena would be ideal were it not for a weird set of wooden barriers which prevents large areas of the hall from seeing all four games. Similarly, the Samsung tablets provided to the audience to watch the games and listen to the commentary, is a great innovation. Sadly there are only about 40 tablets provided, so many spectators miss out.
The special World Championship chess sets have caused only a few concerns - "I was worried that in time trouble, if my king and queen were next to each other, I would move the wrong piece!" said Ivanchuk.)
The white logo on the board, which had been a source of complaint at the technical meeting, was covered up before the first round started.
The change made to the board is just one indication that AGON chief Andrew Paulson, whose enthusiastic presence seems to be everywhere all the time; before, during and after the rounds is happy to make improvements as the event progresses.
The one necessary change it is probably too late to make is to the design of the electronic display boards, which are universally disliked. The AGON broadcast has some attractive new features, including instant assessments of various aspects of the game, but the colours used - white and red and grey - are a most unfortunate choice. (One unhappy colour-blind spectator complained that he could not see the red pieces on dark squares at all.) Add to that the difficulty in distinguishing between rooks and queens, and the result is a display that is both difficult to follow and hard to look at for any length of time.
London Candidates
Scores after 3 of 14 rounds
1.Aronian(ARM) 2.5;
=2.Carlsen(Nor),Svidler(Rus) 2;
=4.Kramnik(Rus), Grsichuk(Rus), Radjabov(Aze) 1.5;
=7.Ivanchuk(Ukr), Gelfand(Isr) .5.
All games begin at 10am AEST
Round 4 Tuesday 19/03/2013
Round 5 Wednesday 20/03/2013
Round 6 Thursday 21/03/2013
Round 7 Saturday 23/03/2013
Round 8 Sunday 24/03/2013
Round 9 Monday 25/03/2013
Round 10 Wednesday 27/03/2013
Round 11 Thursday 28/03/2013
Round 12 Friday 29/03/2013
Round 13 Sunday 31/03/2013
Round 14 Monday 01/04/2013
Where to Watch the Games, Video and Commentary
Games may be watched using multiple platforms via http://london2013.fide.com/
while live video streaming of the games and the commentary can be found on


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Remembering Pearl Harbor Day
Take some time to thank a veteran this week, as Dec. 7 will mark the observance of Pearl Harbor Day.
As many know from history books and from myriad Hollywood movies, the Japanese Empire attacked U.S. military and naval forces on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, an act of aggression that launched the United States into global conflict with the Axis powers.
The following day, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a memorable speech, asking the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war against the Japanese.
Seventy-one years have passed since Roosevelt uttered the phrase "a date which will live in infamy," and his words proved prophetic as we continue to observe the day and honor the more than 2,400 Americans who lost their lives as a result of the attack.
With each passing year and each passing observance of Pearl Harbor Day, there are fewer World War II veterans we can turn to and thank for their service. There are fewer Americans we can turn to with questions about the shocking events of that day and that war.
This holiday season, reach out to a grandparent, a parent, an aunt, an uncle, even a neighbor. Ask them about that day, ask them about the lives of ordinary Americans during those years of hardship and war.
It's worth remembering the sacrifices of those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor, but it's also worth knowing the smaller sacrifices that each American was asked to make in defense of our country.
It's easy to forget that our own hardships are neither the first nor the last we will face as a nation. Others who have come before us are a fount of inspiration. They're tough, and they have a thing or two they can teach us.
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We recently took one of our builds and ran it through its paces. This was no ordinary benchmark run, however. We used a thermal imaging camera to record the system - showing the critical areas that need heat dissipation. We captured the video output using a frame capture device and combined the resulting images with system data such as temperatures, utilization, and system power consumption. Here is the result:
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Cougars End Third Week With Scrimmage
Aug. 26, 2005
PULLMAN, Wash. -- - The Washington State football team ended three weeks of fall camp with a no-tackle swimmage Friday night and now begin preparation for the Idaho Vandals, WSU's opening-day opponent next Thursday.
'We just wanted to get substitutions done in a game like situation,' Cougar Head Coach Bill Doba explained. 'We have had enough hitting, the kids are tired of hitting each other.'
'Offensively we are ahead of where we were a year ago,' he said. 'Defensively we are trying some new things. We've had some assignment errors and we need to get that cleaned up.'
Jerome Harrison broke loose on a 39-yard run and freshman Brandon Gibson caught a 16-yard scoring pass from Gary Rogers during the drills that were controlled and designed to emphasize specific situations.
After the workout Doba talked about several players who have made strides during the first three weeks of fall camp.
'There were quite a few surprises, really,' he said. 'I think Lorenzo Bursey has improved as a corner and DeMaundray Woolridge picked it up quicker than I thought he would,' Doba said in discussing players who are expected to play. 'DeWayne Patterson is doing a good job and will play.'
As many as nine freshmen and three transfers could end up seeing playing time, some on special teams, according to Doba. 'This class has a lot of speed.'
He also singled out two returning players for their improvement this fall. 'Don Turner has had a good fall camp and Wally Dada is a smart player, probably playing above his ability because he is a good technician and studies football,' Doba commented.
'Ropati Pitoitua is a big loss,' Doba said of the sophomore defensive tackle who will miss six to eight weeks after having surgery Friday to repair a broken fibula in his right leg.
'We have lost a 6-7 tight end (Cody Boyd) and 6-9 defensive tackle (Pitoitua),' he said. 'Those guys don't grow on trees. They are tough to replace. It's kind of like losing a Will Derting at linebacker, losing Ropati at tackle. He is a premier player.'
'I challenged the other guys,' said Doba. 'Somebody is going to have to step up and get better in a hurry. If they don't it hurts all of us. We'll see if they can accept that challenge. Fevaea'i AhMu is a young kid (freshman) who has some skills. I said before Will has great instincts at linebacker and Ahmu has instincts at d-tackle. He is a little inexperienced. His last scrimmage was down in San Diego.'
Looking ahead to next week's practice, Doba said there would not be a lot of scrimmage-like hitting. 'We won't be doing much one versus one next week.'
The Cougars will pose for team and individual photos Saturday morning, then begin preparations for the opener with Idaho Sunday in a 2:30 p.m. practice.
Scoring - Harrison 39 run, Gibson 16 pass from Rogers;
Rushing - Harrison 5/52, Tardy 12/36, Moss 4/30, Woolridge 4/2, Brink 1/4, Asuega-Stark 2/2, Rogers 1/-9, Swogger 2/-12;
Passing - Brink 9/13/1/85/0/24, Rogers 12/24/2/80/1/16, Swogger 4/6/0/49/0/24, Morgan 1/3/0/7/0/7, Hall 0/1/0/0/0/0;
Receiving - Martin 8/41, Bumpus 4/51, Hill 3/16, Bienemann 2/29, Prator 2/6, Gibson 2/31, Taylor 1/9, Harvey 1/12, Harrison 1/5, Woodard 1/8, Tardy 1/8, Thompson 1/7;
Sacks - Bruce, Braidwood, Graise, Eichelberger;
Interceptions - Willis 2, Turner.
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