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Levon Aronian wins 18th Amber after dramatic last round
Levon Aronian won the 18th Amber tournament after a dramatic last round in Nice today. He had a narrow escape in his blindfold game against Topalov and drew his rapid game quickly to secure victory, since both Anand and Carlsen couldn't catch him anymore. Just like last year the Armenian grandmaster was the strongest player in the combined tournament of blindfold and rapid chess held in Nice, France.
The 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament, organized by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco, takes place from March 14 (first round) to March 26 (last round) at the five-star hotel Palais de la Mediterran?©e, splendidly located on the famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France. The total prize-fund is 'Ǩ 216,000 and this year'Äôs field is stronger than ever with all the world'Äôs best players taking part.
Round 11
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Kramnik beating Leko - the effort was Rybka's
Like in the penultimate round, Vladimir Kramnik was the first to emerge as a winner in the first blindfold session of today's last round. For his blitz victory against Leko he had used some deep preparation in the Anti-Moscow Gambit, something that he had looked at already before the World Championship Tournament in Mexico City in 2007.
With "this is not completely a holiday tournament," he answered the question whether he didn't want to use it in a FIDE rated event. "Besides, it's nice to go up at the end of the tournament." The preparation ended only with 28.Ng3 (!) and according to Kramnik the last chance for Black was 33...Rxd6 34.Qxd6 Bc8 but it should be winning for White there too.
The next winner was his compatriot Morozevich, who had played strongly in the middlegame and finally was a pawn up in a queen ending against Kamsky. The Russian then won the ending at move 85.
One could say that it was something to be proud of for most of us mortals in a normal game, but the way Karjakin punished Ivanchuk for a small mistake was even more impressive. It should have been a draw, but 68...f4 was pushing it too much, according to Karjakin, who used all the tricks that were available in the ending to reach a winning position. The participants of the second blindold sessions praised his play while watching the game in the VIP room (as the time was way beyond 14:00 at that point).
After yesterday's disaster Carlsen suffered another loss in his blindfold game against Radjabov. In an equal position he had to give a knight when suddenly his queen was threatened to get trapped, and then Radjabov couldn't remember the position of Black's rook on c7 anymore (otherwise he would have certainly played differently, e.g. 43.Ne6+). After the game the winner said he was lucky that the plan he went for also won.
Aronian, the leader of the tournament, then escaped against Topalov. Already under pressure, the Armenian GM allowed 25.Nxe6+! and then followed up with 26...a4? after which White was winning (the easiest with 33.Kd3). 38.fxg5? allowed counterplay and Topalov immediately started shaking his head after 38...Rf2. Then Aronian erred with 41...Rb1? when 42.Rb8+ and 43.Rxb6 seems to be winning again. Even at the very end White is winning of course, but there Topalov thought that Black's rook was on f2 instead of f1. What can we say...
Wang Yue & Anand - both escaped with a draw!?
More drama in the game Wang Yue-Anand. The Chinese reacted very interestingly to Anand's novelty 14...c5 by sacrificing a piece. After some amazing defence by the World Champion Black started to get better and better and at some point most certainly winning. Black could have won White's c-pawn while keeping his b- and g-pawns with 57...Nf4! 58.Kb4 Nd5+ but instead he allowed White to reach the famous two-knights-vs-pawn ending.
The days of grabbing the Ch?©ron books are over: it's all in the tablebase. The starting position is won for Black and theoretically speaking Anand gave away the win three times, while Wang Yue gave away the draw two times. We give the game again according to the "Nunn convention": question marks change the evaluation of the position, exclamation marks are only moves to keep the evaluation the same.
It's quite instructive. As GM Erwi l'Ami explained to me, the biggest mistake was not to go for 61...Ne4-c5, because the basic idea is to block the pawn with a knight as soon as possible, not with the king. After that a win in 62 moves isn't relevant of course, but 70...Nb8 was the last practical chance. In a way 70...Nb6 is the wrong idea because the White king should be driven to a1, not to a8, where the c-pawn only gets in the way of the mating constructions, as was shown in the game.
Aronian, the glorious winner - again
With the first rapid session, for half of the players the tournament came to an end. Kramnik slowly outplayed Leko in a Sicilian and after White missed 30.Bc4! Bc5 31.Re2 Rd4 32.Bb3 Rxf4 33.g3, it was lost.
After Kamsky and Morozevich finished their tournament with a draw, Karjakin was lucky for a second time against his compatriot Ivanchuk, who for a long time was two healthy pawns up. As happened to many players in this last round, Chuky just totally collapsed, missing several wins at move 37 and 38 and then blundering another half point away with 49.Be4+?? - poor man!
Aronian then drew quickly with Topalov to secure victory in the combined tournament, and accepted congratulations from many GMs and others. Anand and Carlsen, who had not chance to catch him anymore, did win their last games against Wang Yue and Radjabov respectively.
And so for the second year in a row Levon Aronian proved to be the strongest in the combination of blindfold and rapid chess. Both the blindfold and rapid tournaments ended in a three-way tie: Kramnik, Carlsen and Aronian ended on 7/11 in the blindfold while Anand, Kamsky and Aronian scored the same number of points in the rapid.
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5 years 3 weeks ago
Big mistake Bacchus. You could get shot for that!
Armenians and Azeris don't get along all that well.
Mauricio Valdes
5 years 3 weeks ago
Nice victory by aronian
Bacchus, i believe you are mistaken.....
aronian is from armenia
kasparov is from azerbajan.
i could be wrong anyway....
nice day everyone
Great performance for Levon Aronian. Kasparov must be proud of his compatriot's achievements :)))
Winning two years on end in Blindfold/Rapid/Combined - a record?
Congrats! Kramnik went really mad in the end but Aronian's lead was a little too much.
>> Even at the very end White is winning of course, but there Topalov thought that Black's rook was on f2 instead of f1. What can we say…
Peter, was this what Topalov said post game or just an assumption being made in this article? Of course blindness happens in blindfold, but *this* kind of blindness? doesn't make sense. the 3 fold repetition happened with the white rook moving between E1 and F1 3 TIMES... and Topalov assumed the rook was in f2 when f1was flashing (or however they represent the latest move) in front of his eyes? very strange!!
I am not supporting any conspiracy theories btw, simply, this explanation just sounds very weird.
they are all pointing out the same that then topalov rolled over in the next game in 17 moves.
5 years 3 weeks ago
Yes, this is what he said.
5 years 3 weeks ago
"For sure Topalov is planning W Ch. and so tactics does not allow him to win"
LOL! Topalov is tired, because he played so much during the last months. That's all. The rest of the field was also fairly tired, so that's no excuse. He just didn't do very well this time. Considering his lacklustre performance against Kamsky I wasn't very surprised by his result here, although 3 full points behind Anand (and Kramnik) is a bit surprising to me.
I believe Kasparov considers him Russian. The other russian to be exact. Especially since during his youth it was all USSR
I partly agree with Frank - though "freak show" is a bit of an exaggeration, many players seem to take the tournament rather seriously after all ... .
However, it is simple: rapid and especially blindfold chess have limited "predictive meaning" for performances at slower classical time controls.
Says one who also doesn't like Topalov as a person, but enjoys his performances ON the board.
BTW, I don't think he threw away half a point on purpose in the blind game against Aronian - but I think he would have been more motivated (choosing a different opening) in the rapid game if the opponent had been Kramnik rather than Aronian ... .
As for the blindfold blunders I can only marvel at players such as Alekhine who managed to play so many masterpieces in blindfold simuls up to 35 games. Why cant these super GM's play a Single game without forgetting where their pieces are? :-)
And let me ask you, who were the opponents of Alekhine in these blindfold simuls?
Frank Str?§ter
5 years 3 weeks ago
Kyoshi, don't bother making conclusions on this tournament (unrated, blindfold and rapid) on who stands where in classical chess. Although it's hard to ignore a tournament where all the top GM's are playing, it's still nothing more than an annual chess freak show.
Guys, let's listen to Kasparov (Kasparian) himself.
"There's No Way to Move Forward Unless They Use the Word 'Genocide.'"
New York, July 22, Armenpress: World chess champion Garry Kasparov spoke to an audience of 300 gathered at New York City's St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral on July 13, armenianchurch.org reported. Those in the audience included Armenia's ambassador to the United Nations Armen Martirosian, former Primate of England, Archbishop Yeghishe Gizerian and NY City Sports Commissioner Kenneth Podziba. The event was organized by a committee of young leaders of St. Vartan's Cathedral Projects Committee, headed by cathedral dean Fr. Mardiros Chevian. On behalf of the Eastern Diocese, the Primate presented Kasparov with the Renaissance Medal for his accomplishments and
contributions to international culture.
Hmmm... the continuation of this article is not being pasted.
Oh come on, Topalov is a great player. There are many great players below the top 10, but someone who stays in the top 5 for such a long time being so active like Topalov has got to be awesome. You might like his style or not, but Kyoshi´s comment sounds stupid to the logical mind. Nobody can be the best in every tournament, and by your logics someone could have said the same about Anand in Bilbao, for example, and it would have been just as stupid.
Hugo van Hengel
5 years 3 weeks ago
In the blindfold game Morozevich-Kamsky white could have won much faster by playing 72. Qg6 Kg8 73. Qe8 Qxe8 74. Kxe8 and the b-pawn decides the game. But white won anyway.
What is weird for those of you, who think that Topalov is a machine and can't even forget on which square his rook is?
Why don't you ask the same conspiratorial questions when Aronian in Round 2 played a good part of the blindfold game vs Leko under the impression that his black-squared bishop was on f8 instead of e7 and thus losing his queen in the early beginning?
Where were you, when in Round 3 the Chinese grandmaster forgot the placement of his opponent's rooks and gave away his queen?
What about the Round 9, when Topalov (again conspiracy) in the opening mixed up moves and played 9.Nc3 at a point where 9.Qa4 is the normal move?
What about the Round 10 when Anand himself dropped his queen due to a classical error?
To put it in a nutshell, this is blindfold.
During his speech, Kasparov reflected on his personal history. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan to a Jewish father and an Armenian mother. In 1985, at the age of 22, he became the youngest chess champion in history. "Of course, as someone who is half Jewish and half Armenian, I always try to carry both of those nationalities. It is simple because they're very similar," said Kasparov.
Are you okay? Being a rather passionate Topalov-hater myself, I think you are hallucinating.
5 years 3 weeks ago
Topalov is clearly overrated. His mediocre performance in this unrated tournament is no surprise to any informed chess player. He lacks the class and creativity of Anand, Kramnik, Aronian and Carlsen. Even though, he has a very strong opening preparation, his aggressive style play is computer-like. He is no match for Anand.
"Jewish", as "nacionality", has nothing to do with Armenia.
As religion, not specialy much...
Ah! Because there are jews in Armenia, or Armenians in Israel? Well... nothing so special either :-)
Anyway, if Kasparov was to be proud of Aronian because of an Armenian winning some tournament, maybe he would have choosen to be an Armenian...
Castro, a lack of sense of humor? or maybe a little bit armenophobic/antisemitic? Really, nothing so special either :)))))
Maybe I was the one lacking sense of humor there, yes. I didn't notice the :))) on your comment, but anyway, either I still don't understand the joke, or anyway I'm not finding it funny. I just treated it as the comment it was, and I can't see much more yet :-)
As for "armenophobic/antisemitic": It is posible too, those weird feelings are always out there, but surely not from my side (and here is about chess, I wish).
Topalov being overrated: LOL
@GG, relax. look (yes, actually look) at the last 5 moves of the game, then read his comment. I think that is "weird". You have the right to think whatever you want. peace.
5 years 3 weeks ago
Kasparov isn't playing in Amber, and never has. Take it to another forum; last I checked this was a chess website and an Amber post, not a place to bicker about semantics like a couple of man-children with giant egos and an overdeveloped sense of injustice.
Oh, Axl, say it to my Greek grandma, about semantics... blah blah blah
There's no need to listen to Garry unless he is talking about chess...
5 years 3 weeks ago
For sure Topalov is planning W Ch. and so tactics does not allow him to win @ Aronian while he has no chance to win Amber and Anand does have if Aronian loses! So simple.
It sucks.
5 years 3 weeks ago
Dear friends,
I do not intend to bring some mess to our environment but the draw between Veselin (a great chess player in my opinion) and Aronian in the blindfold is very strange to me, considering the will of Veselin to win every game. For one second, I thought maybe he offered the draw in order to spoil Kramnik chances for the top spot. I know it may sound crazy but maybe it is an explanation why he offered draw in a wining position
About the result of the blindfold game Topalov - Aronian, lets put a few facts:
1- Topalov hates Kramnik
2- Kramnik was the first one to finish is game beating Leko
3- With that result he gets chances, again, to win in Amber if Aronian was defeated
4- The final posicion in wich the draw was agree, by repeticion, was objectively winning by Topalov.
5- The justification given b?? Topalov of the wrong posicion of the R on f2 instead of f1 is far from convincing, as the last two moves where Re1, Rf1.
6- Even with Black its very unusual for a player like Topalov to agree in a draw in just 17 moves.
And so what this facts sugest? ..... :)
5 years 3 weeks ago
Why some of you say that grandmasters playing in Amber don't take this tournament seriously?
Especially those who defend Topalov.
First of all they are all prfessional chess players and they play for money.
Amber isn't some obscure rapid tournament.
In this tournament players get one of the best (if not the best) prizes of all the elite tournaments.
That's why there was so many novelties in this tournament.
It's absolutely cleat that most of the grandmasters playing in Amber would prefer wining this tournament that several other "rated tournamnets".
Will you be so kind to explain how Topalov could know the result of Kramnik-Leko game?
and one more thing... the only chance to win Amber for Kramnik was 2-0 in Topalov-Aronian match. (I doubt strongly that it could ever happen). Just check tie-breaks in overall standings.
and 'bout ur dubious question - your "facts" suggest that Topalov is a cheater? Or maybe you r just another adept at solving conspiracy theories? Based on your point 1?
Sorry, but your "speech" is just a load of crap.
I do think that Amber is a supertournament, the unique place where we can see Anand, Aronian, Kramnik, Topalov, Ivanchuk, Carlsen, Leko, Morozevich all together.
...and I don't defend Veselin, i just see that some people here try to cover his name in mud, making also Aronian's deserved win a result of some last-round backstreet intrigues.
"Will you be so kind to explain how Topalov could know the result of Kramnik-Leko game?"
Well that's easy to answer - the Kramnik-Leko games were finished before the Aronian-Topalov games even started. As a matter of fact, the organizers had changed the order of last-round pairings so that Aronian, Anand and Carlsen would all play at the same time (and "forgot about the fact that Kramnik also still had winning chances?!").
It wouldn't have changed the outcome, but it would have been even better to have all six games simultaneously for the last round - don't tell me they don't have enough space on the stage, or not enough laptops for the blindfold games available ,:) .
"the only chance to win Amber for Kramnik was 2-0 in Topalov-Aronian match"
1.5-0.5 would have been good enough to put Kramnik into shared first - in my book, tiebreak points are not that relevant. I don't know if they affect the prize money, but I rather hope they wouldn't.
@Jonas: I am not sure if all GM's took the Amber tournaments equally seriously. Some indeed gave away their novelties, for others it may have been "serious fun" (experimenting with uncommon openings).
As far as Topalov is concerned, some of his fans argued that his 'mediocre' performance is not that important because the tournament wasn't rated. Indirectly, Topalov said more or less the same (in an Europe Echecs interview published on Chessbase).
Now this could be considered a pragmatic (professional?) approach. But it could also be considered as sort of an insult against the organizers?
I agree with Thomas.
Moreover, poor Topalov: he tried hard to win the tournement and when he did not manage to do so, he claim that the tournement is not interesting (i.e. rated??)
The arguments of the bad losers are the same.
I don't know if Topalov even "tried hard to win the tournament". While others may have considered him one of the favorites (looking at ELO ratings of the participants), he may actually realize that he is not as strong in rapid and blindfold chess. And a simple statement acknowledging this fact would have been more polite towards the organizers.
Looking at the fourth column of the tournament tables, very few players performed "as expected" (within 20 points of their nominal rating):
- Leko and Karjakin in the blindfold (though I would consider Karjakin a bit underrated in classical chess)
- Carlsen in the rapid
- Morozevich and Kamsky in the combined standings (based on very "asymmetric" results in the two subsets).
This seems to confirm my earlier statement that ratings based on classical time controls have limited predictive meaning for rapid and blindfold. Rating performances are still an interesting aspect (and a default option of the software creating tournament tables?), but should be taken with a few grains of salt for the Amber tournament.
5 years 3 weeks ago
This does smell suspicious.
I despise Topalov, so my judgment may be biased. But I did not think there was anything weird going on at all, watching the game. OK, he was winning but agreed to a draw anyway. Maybe he was hallucinating something. It's blindfold, and the players are becoming tired. Such things happen.
I didn't think so when I first heard the explanation either. Ah, OK, so that's why. He just forgot where the rook was. That's the kind of thing that has happened many times in blindfold. Simply natural.
And the short draw in the final game was also nothing special at all. I still don't think so. It was not at all his only short draw in the tournament, and he has made quick last-round draws many times anyway, even when he has been otherwise fighting through the tournament.
But then it was pointed out to me that his explanation was actually very, very odd and the blunder very strange EVEN FOR BLINDFOLD. Then, and only then, did I start having suspicions! There is no proof, obviously. But, given everything I know about the situation at this point, do I think it is more likely than not that Topalov deliberately avoided winning? I truly don't know. Maybe I am leaning towards that position, yes.
GG: "And let me ask you, who were the opponents of Alekhine in these blindfold simuls?"
The opponents have nothing to do with not knowing where your pieces are in these blind games. lol! And I'm talking about 30 board simul vs just One. :-)
...Not to mention that these current players have the use of a computer screen to help guide them. It's obvious that the old timers like Alekhine and Najdorf were much superior in Blindfold play...
5 years 3 weeks ago
Performance calculations based on Amber 1992-2008 tournaments revealed clear answer: Topalov is fourth after Morozevich, Kramnik and Anand. Does mean one thing - Topalov 's aproach is very serious.
to brujito,
I do not remember well if Topalov lost to a 2400 player in a "worth" blindfold game,
i.e. where neither the board nor the pieces are available.
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Village Buzz - July 1st...
July 4th Festivities...
Taxpayer Tea Party
Cap & Tax & Tax & Tax
The cap and tax plan has passed the House of Representatives and will now find its way to the U.S. Senate. That will be the last place in which it can be either defeated or modified. It ought to be defeated, but it must be significantly modified if not defeated outright.
Our energy costs will skyrocket, but that isn't even the worst of it. Jobs will disappear but that isn't all that will happen. Do you now own a home or a rental property? Do you think you'll ever want to sell that house or property? Then you need to get in touch with the two senators from Wisconsin at the numbers you'll find below, and here is why.
The People Have Spoken, But...
The people of Wisconsin made clear by amending the state's Constitution that they did not want same-sex marriage or civil unions in Wisconsin. The language of the Amendment says, "Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized in this state."
But, the Democrats have decided that "we, the people" can't be trusted to do what is right, so they have now done a classic end-run around that Amendment, or so they think, by including "domestic partnerships" in the recently passed and signed budget. This originated with Governor Doyle who included it in his budget. It was then picked up by Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Madison), who is an openly gay man who married his male partner in Canada, and remained in the budget.
Happy 233rd Anniversary...
233 years ago a group of patriots gathered to affix their signatures to a Declaration.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Village Buzz - July 6th...
Week-End Thoughts
Doyle Is Tone Deaf...
Our governor is as tone deaf as any politician I can recall over the past decade or so.
The 'charge card receipt' thing is simply what we in business would probably call 'cheating' on the expense reports. If any of us persisted in this kind of behavior in our work day lives, we'd soon join the ranks of the unemployed or we wouldn't be reimbursed for the expenses we couldn't verify. Even corporate presidents aren't immune from properly reporting their expenses.
Badger Budget Re-Visited
The budget put to bed by the Democrats and Governor Doyle last week contains some bad news, actually quite a bit of bad news. That bad news will continue to seep out over the next weeks and months.
First, we are now being told that the new budget was put together with the knowledge that it contained a $2 billion structural deficit based upon a state review just released. Given the economic problems and the likely loss of tax revenue at the state level, we'll fall short $2 billion by the end of the current two-year budget period. Nothing like continuing to spend, spend, spend when there is a hole in your wallet.
Politics & Healthcare...
John Kenneth Galbraith once wrote, in a letter to President Kennedy, that "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
That quotation could have as easily been written to our President Obama by one of his advisors in the matter of health care reform. There is this huge politically-driven "need" to reform health care.
Village Buzz - July 10th...
Langer Files As Gubernatorial Candidate...
Jim Langer, former Trustee in Germantown has filed his paperwork to become a candidate for the Office of Governor of Wisconsin. He is running as an Independent and admits that his is a bootstrap campaign.
Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
We should immediately proceed to build more nuclear power plants in the United States and, if we did that, we'd be better able to wean ourselves from the fossil fuels that most everyone seems to abhor these days. Our nuclear power plants are safe and most efficient. We apparently decided, due to a lack of political will and to an over-reaction about Three Mile Island, to blaspheme nuclear energy...to our detriment.
- Wind isn't going to do it for a good long time to come.
- Solar isn't going to do it for a good ling time.
- Carbon-derived energy will be the mainstay for many more years and we're now threatening to bankrupt our own society by "leading: the world in setting huge tax penalties on the use of carbon.
We should immediately move past this foolishness about scrapping our nuclear weapons. President Obama extended his "olive branch" while in Russia and received their "assurances" that they, too, would enter into a good faith effort to eliminate their stockpiles if we'd do the same. There are several problems with that:
- we can't trust the Russians to abide by their commitments, especially when the prime minister is still a KGB man in his heart of hearts. Medvedev is a puppet president, and Putin remains the ruler behind the throne. Russia has maintained its nuclear tests all along while we've unilaterally decided we'll show them by no longer testing.
- if we permit further decay in our nuclear weapons capabilities, we'll be the possessor of a greater number of weapons that we'll not know are still in working order, and we'll end up on the short end of the nuclear weapons stick. Beyond this, we are already losing some of the great nuclear minds we have in our country and we're permitting that field to be dominated by other countries.
- the threat of the United States having nuclear weapons has served to keep us and the world safe to this point. We know that many other nations have developed, or are about to develop their own capabilities. Why in the world would we lead the way to our own ability to be held hostage by a third world nation or by the terrorists who almost certainly will obtain such weapons sooner or later?
Comics Or Agenda?
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published the comic strip named Baldo in its Sunday edition. I read it and had to sit back and reflect for a few minutes. You can see it here if you missed it on Sunday.
Is this an example of a political agenda masquerading as a comic strip? Some of the readers would say "absolutely not", this was simply a way to communicate the news to younger readers. Others would say "absolutely", this was a poorly disguised attempt to begin the political influencing at an early age.
People Making A Difference - July 14th...
Our first edition of People Making A Difference features a couple, Kevin and Donna Nash.
It is difficult to think of two people more dedicated to their community than these two. They are nearly omnipresent and yet they do not get a lot of "press". This recommendation was made by Chief Pete Hoell, without "mug shots" by the way.
Ban Smoking In The Military?
The nanny state is expanding by leaps and bounds. It is obvious that most of the real juicy issues must've already been resolved since banning smoking in the military has now taken center stage.
Our troops are threatened with death from training accidents, from friendly fire, from hostile fire and roadside bombs. The death rate from smoking in the military has to be close to zero given the age of our active duty military personnel. Some 20% smoke now and that is down significantly from my era where I suspect that 50% of us smoked.
G'town School Funding Dilemma
The Germantown School District is, as discussed last week, between that proverbial "rock and hard place" that confronts us all from time to time. Ric Ericksen, whose responsibility is the business side of school administration, was quoted in the article posted on July 14th on the Germantown Now website, indicating that the district is wrestling with the various options.
The options as he described them are tax increases, expense reductions or borrowing from a fund maintained by the district. Presumably a fourth option would be the use of each of the three mentioned in some kind of cumulative manner.
An Issue of Carelessness or Lack of Integrity?
Governor Doyle has been in the crosshairs of talk radio for some time now concerning the issue of his charge card receipts, or rather the lack of his charge card receipts. The mainstream media has been lacking in its coverage and in its ferocity at gaining information. The governor simply refuses to answer questions on this issue that are put to him, and that seems to end the "discussion".
Any of us who have been on, or are now on, expense accounts with our employers know how the rules work. You either can account for your expenses with properly-maintained receipts or you do not receive reimbursements for the expense. If you had use of a company issued charge card and did the same, you would lose the use of that card and you would be docked to recover the improper expense monies spent for which accounting wasn't made.
No More Cronkites
There are no more Cronkites. He was the epitome of the news person who reported evenly and without bombast. He was to be believed because he had never let us viewers down in any capacity. He was a fixture in many homes every weekday evening for decades. He was never involved in any journalistic chicanery. Simply stated, he was the news person's news person.
There are no more Cronkites. Journalism seems to have devolved rather than evolved over time. The people who would be a "Cronkite" do not hold the proverbial candle to that great news person. We didn't know at the time that Cronkite was a "liberal" as that term was then used. He was a political person but we never saw that; he never intimated his personal beliefs so far as we ever knew.
Brain Teaser...With Answers
A Monday morning brain teaser that a "former" friend sent to me over the week-end. Answers will be posted later today but yours can be posted as comments if you like:
- Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
- What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
- Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons; all others must be replanted every year. What are the two perennial vegetables?
- What fruit has the seeds on the outside?
- In many liquor stores you can buy pear brandy with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How does the pear get inside that bottle?
- Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
- There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
- Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked or in any other form except fresh.
- Name six or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 's'.
I wasn't nearly as sharp as I should've been with a week-end of rest behind me.
Mile Wide And An Inch Deep?
The rapidly changing political landscape seems to be telling us that President Obama's support is a mile wide and an inch deep. The issue of health care appears to be lagging even as Obama presses for passage with every tactic at his disposal.
A recent Rasmussen poll shows that 78% of voters believe that the Democrat health plan will mean higher taxes on the middle class as well as the rich.
Drip, Drip, Drip...Updated
The water torture that is health care reform continues to release its content a drip at a time.
The latest bit of information should be quite concerning if we are retirement age or if we know people who are retirement age or if we plan to be retirement age some day.
Village Buzz - July 23rd...
Germantown Police Department Serves Drug Search Warrant...
A search warrant was served yesterday at an Abbey Court address that resulted in an arrest and discovery of drugs, paraphernalia and evidence of other criminal activity, the nature of which couldn't be disclosed at this time. The District Attorney will make the charging decisions.
Yippee! Minimum Wage Up 11+%
The minimum wage goes up from $6.55 to $7.25 today, an increase of more than 11%. That should be cause for cheering. Right?
The minimum wage applies heavily to service businesses, and most of those positions are found in food service preparation and serving.
It's The Law. Really?
There is new federal give-away program called "Race to the Top" that involves stimulus funds for schools that have innovative proposals for improving teaching and learning. Wisconsin may be one of few states unable to qualify due to a law that sits on our books.
That law is found in Chapter 118.30(2)(c) of Wisconsin Statutes which states, "the results of examinations to pupils enrolled in public schools, including charter schools, may not be used to evaluate teacher performance, to discharge, suspend or formally discipline a teacher, or as the reason for the nonrenewal of a teacher's contract."
G'town School Funding Follow-Up
A Giant 1990s Style HMO
As I read the House of Representatives health care reform bill (HR3200 at 1,018 pages), I am reminded more and more of the old fashioned HMOs where the providers were all capitated (limited payments each month that caused providers to have to limit patient appointments when the money ran out before the month ended).
Those HMOs also told doctors what they could and couldn't do for their patients. Doctors just loved that as you can imagine. Hospitals were told how long the stay could be for patients. If a patient had to be re-admitted, the hospitals would be "dinged" for that having happened.
Obama Agenda Slowing While Stock Market Increasing?
There is a school of thought that believes the slowing of the Obama agenda can be directly tied to the stock market's increases. It could be argued that this is simply a Republican canard offered when the Democrat agenda is facing difficulties. The Hill.com people looked at this 'phenomenon' today.
It is interesting, however, that there would be such a rally now when the market went down the tubes as investors looked at the programs that were being proposed in the early months of 2009. There was real concern that we were in for a ton of new spending, there were threatening bills on many subjects that were being touted, etc.
A Little Of This & A Little Of That...
County Line Road Closed July 29th...
The money for County Line Road (Hwy Q) re-construction has obviously been pulled together and the construction begins on Monday, July 29th. The last time I looked, about a week ago, it sure didn't look as though the Pilgrim Road re-construction between Hwy 41 & County Line Road was anywhere near finished.
Imagine, if you will, that the auto sales stimulus program, popularly known as "Cash for Clunkers", represents the nationalized health care program.
You have been diagnosed as requiring heart surgery if you are to live. You worked your way through the process, waited for the several months necessary until you were a day away from the long ago scheduled date for your surgery.


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#1 Track and Field Fantasy
What would your number one track and field fantasy be. It could be anything. Mine would be if they changed the Men's 100m dash to a 110m dash. You would never have anyone break 10 seconds. Just have them start where the hurdlers start.
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Not my No. 1, but along that line I'd rather they cut the hurdles to 100m so there's a direct comparison between running on the flat and over barriers.
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sticking with the high hurdles theme, i think it would be great to have hurdles at random intervals. It isn't fair that the current set up favors a specific natural stride length.
This actually happened at one of my college meets and my roommate would have won the 60m race with the incorrect placements. When they re-ran, he didn't do as well. We were a DIII school agains some DI competition that day so he was a bit out matched as far as speed, but I still contend that he was truly the best hurdler there that day.
I have some other slightly track related fantasies, but I'll keep those to myself since I'm not sure if my wife would approve.
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Oh, so many!!
I can't limit it to just one!
So here's a list, with #1 in the #1 (sic!!) position:
1. Do away with the 1600 and 3200 in HS races, and return to the full 1 and 2 mile distances!
2. Extend all....or at least MOST.....of the 3000 races to two miles, but time all runners enroute at 3000.
3. Not allow ANY times run on oversize tracks to be considered as records, best-evers, or to be included on ANY lists.....unless clearly designated as NOT being a legitimate time!! To this end, do NOT allow ANY times run on OT's as qualifiers for championships meets, or trials.
4. Clearly differentiate between the indoor and outdoor seasons on EVERY list. Do NOT include ANY indoor times on any outdoor list. SEPARATE the seasons!!
5. Bring back monthly lists in T&FN print edition. Bring back the print edition of the Track Newsletter, even if it costs more than $100 per year!
6. Offer more event choices in the DL meets. Keep the same ones for point-getting purposes, but ADD additional events to offer more chances to compete to more athletes.
7. Offer more 5000 and 10000 chances for HS athletes, boys and girls, to compete in. Ditto with the 3000 steeplechase, and the international weight throws!!
Gee, I guess there's only seven!!
These may not be classified as fantasies, but more as wishes and hopes!!
Um, they're mostly unprintable in a family-oriented forum such as this!!
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I'd love a 3000 flat to be available as well as the Steeplechase at the OG and WCs.
I'd also love the pentathalon to come back as a one day event at OG and WC.
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aronnk, 1500 or 3000 in place of 1600 anf 3200
make all events in usa, global in common
i prefer the combined be a 10 eventer, would not mind the 5 eventer too
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More relays in Olympics like 4x800 and DMR so sprinters wouldn't always have a monopoly on multiple golds.
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Interestingly I prefer the 7 eventer to the 10. I don't know if that's because I'm more interesting in female athletics or the Dec is an event or two too far when you don't have a genuine medal interest. However I wouldn't take the Dec away from the men and I'd love to see us have two multi-events in the elite championships a 1 day one (Pent) and a two day one (Hep and Dec).
huntinWR, again I'd agree in wanting to see another longer relay. A 4x800m or4x1000m would be a monster and not be the usual dull automatic North American medal.
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I would like to see weekly national class indoor meets during the season with monthly national class heptathlon competitions.I would like to see Hardee and Eaton mix it up at least once a month in the winter and summer.
I would like to see a strong dis incentive for the best runners to duck each other. Make the big bucks dependent on people competing against and beating the the very best in their events often enough for people to care about these rivalries. (You did say fantasy didn't you?)
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1. As another said above--I'd love to see WC & Oly DMRs
2. I'd love to see the best marathoners in the world actually care to compete in the World Champs to un-dilute th quality of medaling there (and, of course, the sheer competition)
3. Echoing #2...see the best 7 U.S. xc runners biannually go to world cross in all the various divisions (by participating in nationals and taking the slots)
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Well let's see. There's me, a women's 4X100, soft music, dim lights....
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Merlene wins the 200m in 1996.
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A healthy Tommie SMITH runs the 400m and also the 4X100m and 4x400m in Mexico 1968...
Four Gold medals, four fabulous World records!!! He remains the 400m WRman in 42"94...
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i like the dmr and 4X8 idea
kenya in dmr kiprop kiplagat rudisha in 400 and 800 kitum
rudisha kitum rotich and konsencha
usa dmr has a chance
centrowizc rupp symmonds merrit
solomon symmonds robinson jock
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Track and Field to become as popular in the US as it is in Europe. All races streamed live for free and accessible on the internet!
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I thought you were strongly against athletes who had drug taints? Marie-José as far as I'm aware is as clean as the best of them and has given back to the sport since.
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Am sure there are all manner of technical reasons against it, but I'd love to see mixed gender 4x400m relays: 2 women, 2 men per team, no rules about who runs which leg.
On the mixed gender thing, I really liked what they did in the Archery at London2012: rather than having all the women's heats then all the men's heats (or semis or finals), they did them interchangeably. So the first round was three women's matches, then three men's then three women's etc. Would be great to see that in, say, the sprints: two men's heats, two women's heats etc.
I'd also like to see someone the IAAF magically turn into something like the ATP/WTA and contract the athletes to turn up to, like 80% of DL/GP meetings, rather than the occasional Usain Bolt v whichever b-list sprinters the organisers could afford with what they had left over after giving him a trillion dollars to turn up.
(I realise that of all of these the IAAF one is the most laughably farfetched)
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Now *that's* fantasy!
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No love for Sowinski?
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We're so not going there again.
I adore Mary -jo. She's my 3rd favourite athlete of all time but has enough Olympic golds.The Queen has 0
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I thought we were done discussing Favor-Hamilton...?
Oh, the question was what.
Well, in that case, NO RABBITS.
Preems instead, maybe, if there must be something to keep people honest.
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#1. US moves to the international age-group throwing implements.
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Every eligible T&F athlete in the history of the Olympics is able to compete to the best of their ability in the Games.
i.e. no world wars, no boycotts, no injuries, no falls, no cheating...
New records & Ten person Deca Re: #1 Track and Field Fanta
1. Remove all world words and start all over again. Never it is going to happen.
2. World indoor with strange distances and events: 300m, 500/600m, 1000m, 2000m, and 4000m. High jump and long jump combine, Shot and weight combine.
3. Ten man Deca team competition: I would like to see top eight teams enter in 10 person Deca. Each country has one athlete in each event. All events are done in one set. 100m first after a few minutes 8 long jumpers go at it and so on. Done by the end of the day with 8 person 1500m.
It is not going to save track and field though.
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Hi Everyone – Just a quick short note here. We're very excited to be a part of reshaping ALA, as you can probably tell from some of our recent posts. The first step is getting involved, which we will be kicking off this weekend at the annual conference. Annie, Lauren and Micah will be attending the conference (and wishing everyone else could make it too!), and feeling out the pulse of our profession – Annie as an MLIS student and Lauren and Micah as n00brarians. Aside from the great sessions and speakers, we are excited to get out and meet folks, friends, readers, peers and leaders in the field.
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Hey Micah, it was great meeting you yesterday at the ALASC Leadership meeting.
I found your chart above fascinating. Especially since I tried getting into the E-books session, and at the time it started, they were not letting any more people into the session because it was too full. It was very frustrating trying to hear from the hallway… Based on the chart above, ALA knew it was going to be extremely popular (#2), and thus, should have had a larger room to accomodate more people.
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