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The story is loosely based on the real life events that led a UCSD grad student to become obsessed with the Greek myth of Orestes and kill his own mother with an antique saber. He also happened to be playing the lead role of Orestes at the time in a production at the university. It stars Michael Shannon as the lead, supported by Willem Dafoe, Brad Dourif, and Chloe Sevigny.
But the film has not made it to Boston, with no word coming on if it will. This morning Comingsoon broke the news that it will be getting a DVD (nothing said about Blu-Ray yet) release on September 14, 2010. There will be the usual extras on the disc, including commentary with Herzog and behind the scenes footage. Also included is a short existential film by Ramin Bahrani called Plastic Bag, which traces the epic journey of a bag, narrated by Herzog. You can actually check that short out here if you're interested.
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Wowza Media Server® Offers Companies a Powerful and Cost-Effective Vehicle for Streaming High-Quality Content
EVERGREEN, Colo., June 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Wowza Media Systems, LLC, provider of Simply Powerful Streaming(TM) media server software, announced today that for the sixth year in a row, the company's Wowza Media Server has received a prestigious Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Award in the Server Hardware/Software category. Wowza Media Server was also a winning finalist in the Best Streaming Innovation 2013 and TV Over IP Solution categories.
The awards were presented at the Streaming Forum 2013 held June 18-19 in London.
Wowza was nominated for four different award categories including Best Streaming Media Innovation, Server Hardware/Software, Transcoding Solution, and TV Over IP Solution.
Wowza Media Server is platform and format-agnostic software that accepts multiple video inputs. It offers live or on-demand streaming to mobile devices, computers and IPTV/OTT endpoints with the flexibility to scale across various architectures and operating systems.
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(6/30/12) 41 year-old Rodney L. Tollefson, the rural Jackson County man, convicted of raping and torturing a relative for years will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The sentence of 115 years was handed down yesterday in Jackson County Circuit Court.
Reports say this morning, he faced more than 30 counts of sexual assault, incest and abuse. "Vicious" and "Sadistic were words used to describe Tollefson by Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark L. Goodman.
Judge Goodman also sentenced 30-year-old Jarrod I. Peterson, of Blair, to 5 years in prison and 5 years on extended supervision for raping the girl after he told investigators he raped the girl with Tollefson's encouragement.
The abuse began in 1995 when the girl was 4 years old.
Two other men previously pleaded guilty to abusing the girl, including 22-year-old Phillip L. Ronning, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison on charges of aided first-degree sexual assault and false imprisonment.
Tollefson's brother, 54-year-old Gary W. Tollefson, pleaded guilty in April to two charges of first-degree sexual assault of a child. He will be sentenced in August.
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Etihad flies record monthly tonnage in Sept
Abu Dhabi, October 12, 2013
Etihad Cargo, a unit of the UAE flag carrier, has registered a 42 per cent growth in its monthly uplift figures for September which rose to 45,175 tonnes from 31,826 tonnes last year.
"This is the biggest monthly tonnage Etihad Cargo has ever carried across its network, and that's a reflection of improved capacity utilisation on our freighter fleet, more cargo in the bellyhold of our passenger aircraft, greater synergies with our global partners, and, importantly, a well-performing charter business," remarked Etihad Airways' chief strategy and planning officer Kevin Knight.
The carrier flew 77 charter missions in the month, up 185 per cent over 27 charters in September last year.
The notable operations included routing 200 tonnes of humanitarian and food aid from Abu Dhabi to Ouagadougou in West Africa, and transporting racing cars and spares from the UK and Italy to Singapore, then onwards to Seoul, South Korea.
The airline also performed a number of VIP cargo charters, said the top official.
Strong demand out of Hong Kong, China, India and Germany played a role in Etihad Cargo carrying the record loads to and from its Abu Dhabi hub, said Knight.
"A key driver in cargo continuing to perform well is down to us getting closer to our customers, understanding their challenges, and coming to them with competitive solutions, on routings they want, while adding value to their businesses," he stated.
On the 2013 outlook, Knight said the fourth quarter was positive, helped by the integration of subsidiary Etihad Airport Services – Cargo into the business, which would continue to deliver benefits for Etihad Cargo as well as other new freighter operators through Abu Dhabi.
"Looking ahead to the end of Q4, we expect to see higher than average seasonal load factors," he added.-TradeArabia News Service
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Thursday, the 27th of October, 1653. Trade. Chancery Court.
RESOLVED, That Mr. Warner do make his Report from the Committee of Trade on Saturday Morning next, the first Business.
Colonel Barton reports, from the Committee for the Law, Amendments to the Bill touching the Chancery: Which were twice read;
And the Question being put, for agreeing to these Amendments;
It passed in the Negative.
The Question being put, That this Bill be re-committed;
The House was divided.
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Resolved, That this Bill be rejected.
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This morning on Meet the Press, I heard Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader, report that he met an out-of-work home builder and learned where he was working. He recounted: "I just ran into a gentleman the other day in an airport. He is a home
The Corollary to "Priced-Out" is "Priced-In"
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One Thousand Memories
I am not really sure I can recall all 1,000 homes that I have built. And, to be fair, I really did not build them. I did have some significant role in all of them.
I started as an Assistant Superintendent. There is a history behind this designation that at the time I did not really understand when I took the job. I think I will save that story for another post. I moved through all the various titles and job designations. Superintendent, Lead Superintendent, Project Manager, Director of Construction, Contracts Manager, Director of Contracts and Purchasing, Consultant. I have worked for more than a dozen home builders along the way. There are a few interesting memories about them as well. The company owners, and all the people who worked with me on the homes.
When I drive through any of the communities that I have worked on, I recall details. Some of the details are of new things I tried to do better or differently. Perhaps it was a funny story of things gone wrong and some that went right. Some of the memories are of the home buyers who turned into a homeowners after I worked on their new home. And a few other memories are of homes that I did not actually work on, but homes that I returned to as one of my duties to the home builder I worked for. Those return trips are each as memorable as the stories of my own experiences of building homes.
Some of the homes I built were townhouse configurations and some condominiums. Many more were single family homes. I built a wide variety of starter homes, move-up homes, luxury homes, and a very few truly custom homes. These homes, of all shapes and sizes have consumed a big chunk of my life.
I won't start at the beginning. I won't even have a story about all of them. But I hope to fill this website with a lot of memories that I want to share. In many cases I learned from them, and I home to share those lessons with you.
My career in homebuilding is not over, but this just seems like a good time to write down a few of my memories. I still have a lot of good homes left in me.
Priced Out vs Built to Fit
The concept of "Priced Out" is a way to describe the effects of the rising price of goods or services. However, there seems to be another way to evaluate this effect. Rising prices of a product assumes that the product already exists in a given form, size or configuration. Within the context of the home building industry, there is a wide range of possible sizes and configuration for all but the highest volume builders. For the large builders who invest large amounts of capital in the design and standardization of their homes, this can reduce their ability to respond to the influences of rising costs. The result is that as prices go up, the size of the potential market shrinks.
The issue for many large builders is that they depend on serving a market of willing and able buyers who fit a given profile. Much effort is put into maximizing the product design for that specific market. There are long lead times to make significant changes in the designs and product specifications when costs go up too rapidly.
Smaller builders however have an easier time making adjustments in size and specification of their products, but the portion of their investment may be similar in size and scope as the larger homebuilders.
When the size of the homes and the size of the homesites they will be built on takes years to go through the process of being approved, it becomes difficult to be flexible. But, not entirely out of the realm of possibility. What is planned today may not be profitable by the time it is built and ready to market.
And still there is the very real possibility that the homebuyers are not priced out because of escalating costs, but by the lack of flexibility in what the homebuilder has designed a received approval on. We might call this being "Sized Out." or even being "Approved Out." Price is not the only criterion that closes the doors of opportunity for the buyer.
Now, consider if the homes were made smaller. That alone would reduce the cost of the homes without compromising quality of fit and finish. We see that in the automotive industry. When the economy turns downward, the size of cars that are purchased gets smaller. Would it be possible that smaller homes would gain a larger share of the market.
Profits on smaller homes would diminish. But, the reason to buy and own a home would change very little based on size. A roof over your head and a place to call home and raise a family has been done in smaller homes in the past. And, the ability to realize the value of a smaller home would become simpler when the size of a new home were comparable to the size of an older home. Utility costs would be lower as well.
It might be time to give this size of the homes that are built some thought. While the size of the market is reduced by being priced out, the market would move towards an alternate size product.
I Was Wrong About Those Numbers
In my last post, I published my own calculations and a mishmash of figures from other sources that were slightly wrong. And rather than retract or correct the last post, I want to share with you a bit of my journey as I found better data.
The unemployment among the residential builders and trades is not really 12% . In fact, I find myself unable to calculate that number from what is known. In the Sober Looks blog post the author mentioned 12% unemployment, but that figure was given as the total unemployment for all construction, not just residential builders, and residential specialty trades. The post that Sober Looks got their data from was one offered by the AGC that focused on all jobs in the construction industry.
So, how do we calculate the unemployment within the Homebuilding Industry? The complicating fact is that we do not know the participation rate of these people who have lost their jobs. Maybe they retired as suggested in a recent USA Today article that focused on a shortage of skilled workers:
During the downturn, hundreds of thousands of laid-off construction workers left the field, retired or moved to other states to find work, leaving some markets without an adequate supply for even the current moderate upswing in activity. After scrounging for odd jobs and hoping for an upturn, many workers retooled to become truck drivers, factory workers or roughnecks in the nation's booming oil and natural gas fields.
Meanwhile, Baby Boomers are retiring and fewer high school graduates are entering the field as parents and school officials promote a college education or training in high-tech fields such as computers.
Maybe they are employed now, but they are now in a different industry such as truck driving, or the oil and gas industry. Maybe they are underemployed and picking up small jobs for cash as best they can. Maybe they have just stopped looking, and moved back home with mom and dad.
41% of the jobs we once had are gone.
Here is what I have learned. According to a post in Eye on Housing, citing BLS statistics as their source:
"…total employment in home building stands at 2.033 million, broken down as 560,000 builders and 1.473 million residential specialty trade contractors.
"Net job losses at the low point of home building employment (December 2010) totaled 1.46 million. Current net job losses are 1.417 million. And according to the BLS data, over the last 12 months, the home building sector has added only 12,000 net positions."
From this I evaluate the percentage of lost jobs from the most recent available data is 1.417 million jobs divided by the peak employment from early 2006 of 3.45 million jobs in residential construction.
This comes to a loss of approximately 41% of the original jobs.
What I was not wrong about was that the DOL and President Obama do not seem to be able to address this nationwide problem, so they simply say nothing on the topic. I watch the DOL press releases and the statements by the President and we are seldom included in the text. Have we all become invisible? And the NAHB does not often talk about jobs. They are heavily invested in sales and revenue and housing. What is housing anyway? As I have said previously, "housing" is an agglomeration of different parts and pieces. Not all of housing is related to homebuilding. The NAHB knows this and so they typically misuse the word housing to represent the industry as a single unit with an implied cohesiveness that will appear much bigger than it really is. This is wrong. The name on the masthead is … National Association of Home Builders. Why do we allow the figures for rental housing to be included in the discussion of housing units built in a given year for our industry? Most rental units (apartments) are built by commercial contractors and their specialty trades. Construction of a high rise apartment building certainly is NOT homebuilding. And those jobs are not considered residential construction jobs.
Let's all focus on home building, and the clients we build those homes for, and the men and women who build and sell them.
12% Unemployment in the Residential Trades
In a recent post on the Sober Looks Blog entitled Residential Construction Jobs Hit New Low there are facts that point to more than 1.5 million workers who are unemployed from the pool of approximately 7 million workers accounted for in the referenced data. In my last post NEWS HEADLINE: Department of Labor Assists Workers Affected by Layoffs I mention 1 million lost jobs. I am not bothered by my apparent error in knowing if it is 1 million or 1.5 million lost jobs. What bothers me, and I think it was clear in my last post, is that the government (and the news media) do not seem to be responsive to (or report fairly on) the devastation that is being felt by those who are out of work and the industry they serve. I guess it is time for me to say that the mainstream news media should be taken to task for their lackluster attention to the Homebuilding Industry and their employees.
I will keep this short for now and move on, but I will return to this topic again I am sure.
Patterns of Homebuilding Success
What patterns do you see that tell the secrets for success in the home building industry? Are you inclined to see the really large builders that build hundreds or thousands of homes per year as the successful ones? Are you more inclined to see smaller or even mid-size companies as the winners in the race for success?
Do you think of success as a personal victory for the owner of a small family owned homebuilding company? Or does it require a corporation with revenue greater than 10 or 15 million per year to say they made a success out of being a homebuilder?
Where do you draw the line. Do you look from your personal vantage point up and down the scale of company size and think to yourself: "I am glad I am not like them." Or: "I wish I could be more like them." And when you say those two things, are you looking in the direction of the larger builders or the other way towards the smaller builders? Which of those two makes you jealous? Is you envy related more to size of the company, or the appearance of profitability, or are there other factors that encourage you to emulate the other builders? Or, better yet, are you really quite satisfied with where you are right now and feel like a success with no drive to change the nature of your homebuilding business?
Do you ever wish you were earning enough to go the annual International Builder's Show, or do you go to the convention somewhat regularly and consider it all part of being a builder? The NAHB knows a great deal about the demographics of their members, but I am asking these questions to hear you tell me: "Want sort of home builder do I WANT to be?" Let me hear your comments, or join me in a discussion in one of the linked-In Groups for Homebuilders.
Let's talk about your Choice of Architects and How You Measure the Qualities of His Blueprints?
Have you ever heard a tradesman refer to your architect as a cartoonist? Do you have any idea how weak or strong your architect's plans are? Do the dimensions even add up? What goes into the decision of which architect you will use for your next project?
Let's do some informal word association. Of the following words, which words do you more closely identify with your architect or their building plans?
- Designer or Artist
- Collaborator, Interdependent, or Independent
- Subcontractor or Professional
- Necessity or Luxury
- Accurate or Error Prone
- Critical or Afterthought
- Requirements or Guidelines
- Unique or Ordinary
- Functional or Cosmetic
- Definitive or Representative
- Understandable or Arcane
- Buildable or Conceptual
- Expensive or Valuable
Some of these thoughts might have crossed your mind over the years. Or maybe you have never thought about the Architect at all. If you define the scope of work for your subcontractors, do you put equal thought and preparation into the selection of your architect? Do you have written specifications for his work product?
There are sure to be a wide variety of answers to all of these questions, but it should not be left to chance. And an award winning architect does not necessarily deliver plans that are easy to work with. And the architect himself might be easy to work with or he could just as likely be arrogant and difficult.
In another post, I will look at builders from the architect's point of view. That might be a fair way to see the world of homebuilding from his perspective. I hope that you will see that I can be even-handed about this, as I have sat in the office and done some drafting for an award winning architect. That was truly an eye-opener for me to look into the industry we are all in from another vantage point.
Eric Cantor Knows Where One Homebuilder Found Work
This morning on Meet the Press, I heard Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader, report that he met an out-of-work home builder and learned where he was working. He recounted: "I just ran into a gentleman the other day in an airport. He is a home builder. He told me, Congressman, please do something about this economy. He said I had to take a position as a chef in an airport diner because I couldn't find a– a position that matched my skills."
Well this is the first time I have ever seen evidence that anyone in the Federal Government knows what has become of any of the home builders who have lost their career and the hope of meaningful employment. I have been on this quest for information for a very long time. I think I will just have to call every Carpenter, Roofer and Plumber to ask them what they are doing now. The Federal Government only gets interested in an industry when there are not enough workers. But the homebuilding industry sure has enough to chose from. They are simply unaware of the plight of the workforce that makes up the homebuilding industry.
Both the Federal Government and the National Association of Homebuilders need to start thinking of homebuilding as an employer and an industry just like any other industry. These jobs were not exported out of the country, but the workers were just told to stay home and wait for a call. Right now, the Department of Labor simply does not know where all the workers have gone. The NAHB doesn't either. If we were any other major manufacturing plant in the country that had laid off over a million workers, there would be federal funding available to help the employers with outplacement efforts. There would be grief counselors and crisis management teams sent in to the affected area to help with the efforts to re-employ these displaced workers. But as it is now, the homebuilding industry is so dispersed around the country that every state and every major city is home to their share of the lost jobs and lost wages. This dispersal of the workforce makes it hard to find and serve these uniquely qualified tradesmen. It makes it even harder to find a common voice that can get the attention it deserves.
My challenge to Eric Cantor and the rest of the House and the Senate: "Please do something about this economy. I am unqualified to be a chef. And after building more than 1,000 homes, home building is all I know."


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from time to time we hear complaints that chess is doomed because opening theory has been exhausted. These complaints have come from amateur players and professionals alike. In response, many people have proposed changing the rules of chess in some fashion. These changes have never proven popular and have never established an alternative to our classical game. The latest attempt is called Fischer random chess which involves players choosing their own initial setup of the pieces. For some reason it is claimed that this would avoid the supposedly problems of computer opening.analysis.
This of course is not the case. The alternative form of chess, as with all alternative forms, is something which is once again solvable mathematically, and therefore computers can work it out. At best it can buy a little time. However, it does not address the underlying concerns for the sport.
In fact it is not at all true that openings have been worked out and we see interesting innovations played at virtually every competition at every level of chess. Furthermore humans do not have the capacity to memorize all of the information that is available from computers without cheating, and therefore the sporting aspect of chess remains intact. I see absolutely no advantage in changing the initial placement of pieces. But I do see many disadvantages.
One of the great joys of chess is that virtually every game includes some new move a concept that is never been played before. It is true that these innovations take place later and later in the game thanks to the huge amount of information that has been amassed. To me the opening remains one of the great joys of chess and coming up with a new idea is one of its greatest pleasures. It is an inherent part of the game that we compare our play with what has come before and see where the paths diverge.
The so-called Fischer random chess simply abandons this glorious aspect of the game and offers nothing to affect the sporting aspect. If people are concerned with too many draws there are various small improvements that have been tested and some of them are proving quite popular, including the elimination of agreed draws early in the game and revised scoring systems and recent propsals for replays at faster time controls. However, the percentage of games drawn in top competition is not that much different now than it has been in the past. It is simply part of the game of chess that the game begins on a more or less level playing field and that the result of a draw is hardly surprising.
I think there is a much better way to increase the sporting aspect of chess and keep the game interesting at all levels. The problem to me, is not that it is possible to prepare openings well, but rather that it is possible to fairly easily predict what openings are going to be played in a game and prepare accordingly. This aspect of the game can be eliminated easily enough. If, instead of starting games at the initial position, all games were to begin at a position chosen randomly from a huge set of positions that are evaluated as more or less even, then the aspect of opening preparation is illuminated and sporting nature of chess is increased.
It is impossible for any human being to memorize all of the chess openings. There is simply too much data. So, if you sit down to play a game and do not know which opening is going to be used, then you must rely more on your own wits and experience. It is true that this introduces some aspect of luck into the game in that you might receive an opening position in opening that you happen to be well acquainted with. However, assuming that database of initial positions is large enough, this will not be a frequent occurrence.
It is also very important to consider that more openings are considered playable these days than ever in the past because computers have found ways of playing openings previously considered to be inferior. That expands the range of positions that might be used in my come proposed competitive tournaments.
To make things even more interesting, the database can be established so that the positions that are used involved unequal material but about related as reasonably equal objectively. This means, for example, a lot of gambits. If you are present presented with a position where you are upon or in exchange down but have full compensation then the game is inherently interesting.
This proposal is easy enough to implement, it just means creating a database of positions that are suitable for competitive play. There is plenty of room for disagreement about which positions should be included and it would take considerable time for that database to settle down and be established in the professional arena, but I think it is worth experimenting this with this quite soon so that we can get on the path to making professional chess more interesting for spectators and players alike. I think that at first, the quality of the position database will depend on the individual organizers.
I think that this sort of competition is far, far superior to simply shuffling around the pieces at the beginning of the game, until we reach a point where computers have worked out the ideal formations and responses.
I'd like to know what the community thinks of this proposal and would love to see someone step up to the plate and run competitions with serious prizes along the lines suggested here.
The question as to whether computers could "solve" random or prechess is not the point. Obviously computers can now beat humans at any variation of chess.
The point is whether increasing the number of starting positions would revive the game. The answer is that it would. For example, there are millions of possible starting positions in prechess (even more if you allow two bishops of same color). That means that studying opening theory and memorizing or preparing lines would no longer play any realistic part in the game.
In turn, that means that people who are highly skilled chess players but who don't want to spend hours every day simply memorizing variations would come back to chess.
All the computer stuff is a red herring as is the argument that new variations are turning up all the time in regular chess. But, most of these are prepared, so only new to one player. Tell me this: Could even Carlsen defend the Fried Liver Attack over the board in a tournament game against Tal if he'd never seen it before? Well, every one of those millions of opening positions has a Fried Liver Attack in it somewhere and all the budding Tals in the world can rejoice that if they find it, their opponent will have to solve the maze over the board.
That's real chess!
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I did see that the 15 puzzle is only trivial in certain configurations, however, Fischer apprently wasted the time to memorize all the solvable combinations for his TV appearance. http://voices.yahoo.com/bobby-fischers-non-chess-talent-solving-15-puzzle-830407.html
"But Fischer apparently memorized all the combination of moves so he didn't even have to think too hard." and
"Bobby Fischer couldn't solve it unless he was told that it was set up in a certain combination so it could be solved. "
More of a carnival stunt than a talent imo. How much of an expert can you be if someone has to tell you that you can solve it.
I didn't see a reference for the start of go clocks or Byoyomi but it was widely known at the time of Fischer's patent. Additionally Bronstein's wiki page said he came up with the increment idea in 1973. Fischer tried his patent in 1988.
Sorry, but to me, Fischer was an idiot savant as I claimed and he clearly stole the idea for an increment clock from Bronstein and probably the workings from the Go field. Memorizing a puzzle where he had to be given a hint does not qualify as a talent in my book. You are entitled to your opinion.
This is hardly your math, I was politely telling you to read the thread. These numbers have been here for almost a year, with the additional data about prechess.
It doesn't seem that you have done much research on any of this.
Fischer demonstrated his ability to solve the 15-puzzle on live television during which he was presented with puzzles and solved them almost immediately. That would be quite difficult to fake. I don't remember which television program it was but you should be able to find the name of the program without too much difficulty while googling.
Fischer did have a patent on his chess clocks with increments. Are you saying that is already existed in Go, but Fischer obtained a patent on it later? The patent expired due to Fischer not paying some maintenance fees.
Why are you citing the same math that I already mentioned in my post?
15 puzzle? Are you kidding me? First what is the proof of this? I have talked many many hours with Asa Hoffman, Pal Benko and Chernaz, Fischer's best friends, and none mentioned this child's game or any aptitude of Fischer's. That is one step up from claiming he was a tic-tac-toe whiz.
He did not invent any clock, he "borrowed" the idea from go, to be nice. He tried to patent the thing and was probably laughed at by the patent office. Benko also pointed out that Fischer random chess was one variant of his pre-chess. It is known he taught himself enough Russian to study their magazines, which means learning 8 letters and numbers. Getting by and aptitude are 2 different things.
You can read the math aspects of pre-chess and 960 chess below. Martin provided a good summary: According to the math I made Chess 960 would be solved 20 years after chess is solved. Prechess would be solved 24-26 years after Chess960 is solved.
This is not true. Fischer was also an expert at the 15-puzzle, demonstrated an ability to learn enough of other languages to get by without formal training, and invented the new chess clock.
It is not clear that computing power will ever be strong enough to solve chess. Current chess computers are relying on massive opening databases + calculating ability. With 960 positions, opening databases are gone. So the new computers will have a problem 960 times more difficult than regular chess without the benefits of openings. As someone else pointed out, if computers do solve chess, it will be another 20 years before Fischer Random chess is solved.
Schiller seems to be against Fischer Random because of his love of the openings, and states that this part of the game will disappear, but it's not actually the case. There will just be much more frequent novelties, which will be discovered after the game instead of before. It's difficult to know what the effect on the game will be without trying it out for some time. Grandmasters who have played Fischer Random overwhelmingly seem to like it.
Starting from a random non-begininng position selected from a database seems very strange because why would one need to remove the preceding moves? Fischer Random seems to accomplish the same thing.
Likely some amount of knowledge on the 960 possible starting positions would accrue so that there would still be some memorization involved.
It is clear that the chess grandmasters are playing today is very different to the chess that was being played in the 1960s and 1970s. Much more time must be spent on memorization compared to in the past. If a new chess variant replaces chess, it should be to restore the balance that was there in the past.
Bobby Fischer was a dropout from high school and an idiot savant. Without chess he was just an idiot. He did not work a day in his life outside chess nor did he ever provide one piece of evidence he had any aptitude outside of chess at ANYTHING. He tried to master karate and challenged Zuckerman, who reportedly knocked him down with the first punch. He got into it with Benko, who did not want to release the result of the noisy hotel altercation because he didn't want to embarass him. Benko told me in so many words the "fight" was a joke, he was pathetic. No intelligent man would give 100's of thousands of dollars to the worldwide church of God. It was fronted by Garner Ted Armstrong and his father Herbert. Ted went on the radio every week and said the world was going to end soon, so send him money to cleanse your soul. Only complete fools, like Bobby, fell for this nonsense. He was also wrong about circumcision having anything to do with being a Jew. There is a Jewish religion and a Jewish ethnicity. It does not take 100% blood to be part of an ethnicity. A person is English or German because their parents are English or German. A person does not get to choose this. Fischer's parents had Jewish blood, he is Jewish, maybe both father and mother. Bobby proved himself to be a patzer at religion. You repeating his hateful nonsense has no business on a site such as chess.com. I hope it is deleted rapidly.
Fischer wasn't too bored with classical chess to avoid a rematch with Spassky. He wanted his version of chess so he could be the best again. He knew his play against Spassy was not up to world class standards which is why he chickened out of his already planned match with Judith Polgar. Spassky had to be his whipping boy. Kasparov has already commented on the level of play in their rematch. I will avoid any comments except to point out that neither was able to win exchange and pawn up positions. See if you can find examples of this sloppy technique in his prime. Chess is a game you have to play to stay in shape.
He was the 1st American to stockpile russian magazines and memorize tons of theory then he begrudged others for doing the same exact thing. He started the database age and then whined about the consequences.
Bobby Fischer was one of the most intelligent men this planet has ever seen and he remained so till his death. Bobby got fed up with BS from the "classical chess" crowd, it bored the hell out of him. He has continually said he didn't want to change chess, so where do you come across as saying "the flavor of Classical chess is lost"? He hated the "memorization" the "one-track-minded-ness" that Classical Chess bestowed being that most of the games he played were "set-up".(Spassky, Gasparov, Karpov etc)
Think people think, not just regurgitate memorized "openings".
Eugene Torres Fischer's Filipino best friend said Classical Chess made Chess very robotic, and NON-Creative!!!
Fischer Random is brilliant. I was born and raised in India where Chess originated. In those days they didn't have The Ruy Lopez and the zillions of openings etc, they just played Chess as they just do Yoga. I'm a Yoga teacher of 27 plus years. Yoga is like Chess and vice-versa.
Again, I'd suggest you ALL visit the most honest Blog on this planet, http://robertjamesfischer.blogspot.com/ where the valiant Filipino's honored Bobby whereas Mainstream Jewry (Germany, Russia, Hungary, Japan, USA, Canada etc) where criminal Central Banker Jewry control them all masterminded his downfall. Fischer was outspoken as was John Lennon.
Rest In Peace, we and a zillion others love you for your creativity, your brilliance and your candor and speaking truth to power.
Eugene Torres himself a Chess Grandmaster understood Bobby and his travails.
Bobby riled against the filthy dirty habit of Male Genital Mutilation which the Jews foisted on this planet and still do, and look who's killing each other the most on this planet? The Jews, Muslims and Christians, all 3 mono-theistic Abrahamic Faiths encourage Circumcision started by the Jews.
Take heed: Lest you call me "Anti-Semite" In case you've haven't found out…95% of World Jewry are NOT Semites, (they're Japheths, not Shem's, or Semite) these Ashkenazim Jews(the so-called Eastern-European Jews) which the criminal and fake Rothschild's are; are really ancient Turkic-Mongol Khazars who converted to Judaism in 740AD, the other 5%;the Sephardim, are the original Talmudic Pharisees that converted King Bulan (King of Khazaria) and according to their dirty filthy BRIT MILAH covenant had 300,000 Khazars mass-circumcised.
Fischer was NOT Jewish, was not circumcised contrary to what Jew controlled Mainstream Media called him a "self-hating Jew". He made this crystal clear in a letter he wrote to Encyclopedia Judaica which you will hear Pablo Macado read in one of those first interviews.
Fischer was NEVER insane, always lucid, clear thinking and the reason he would fly into his tirades was because the Jews stole almost everything he had. He has all the right to claim them back. Hope these Jews that did that to him get arrested immediately!
Get the truth on the only website put out by brave Filipino's http://robertjamesfischer.blogspot.com/
Thanks Martin, again your posts are informative.
Glad to see Tuchi admits his last post was off topic. This is how he started when he posted his maths about prechess without knowing the rules of prechess.
Between rants Tuchi has finally made some progress. He is still making up things I said and defends his poor knowledge of the English language. If someone else thinks that a site selling chess equipment is a respected chess site to use as an authority, what else is there to say? The link he gives goes to a 1300 player from MD, who is the purported expert on the use of plies vs ply. Why should anyone listen to a life master when a couple of 1300s have had their say?
Pretending prechess is only twice as complex as chess960 avoids my point that the placing of the pieces move by move adds another layer of complexity. However there are concessions around the insistence he is an expert on children's maths.
Martin appears to acknowledge this added complexity of prechess by adding an extra 4-5 years between the solution of prechess versus chess960. At least he now agrees with Martin's math and stopped trying to claim, when you solve one you solve all.
We have a tacit admission that linking more and more processors is not the real argument, processor speed is, but no real discussion except to borrow Martin's math once again.
According to the math I made Chess 960 would be solved 20 years after chess is solved. Prechess would be solved 24-26 years after Chess960 is solved. Since this math is so rough it was made just to compare the time between chess and chess960 to be solved and the time between chess960 and Prechess to be solved. The conclusion was that the time was about the same and allowing the king to not necessary be between the rooks is what made it not completely equal.
1. Repeating the same thing over again does not make it more relevant. My last post addresses the size of these databases you claim will solve chess not how many variants are involved. You have attempted to sidestep the processor argument again and again. Simple logic refuted your claim that if one computer could solve chess, just string together a few hundred or thousand more. Martin understood the point, I am sure all the other readers, children or not, also understand. 20 years between solving chess and prechess is a very educated math guess. Your claim of one falls, they all fall has no math basis.
2. My last post has absolutely nothing to do with the total number of positions, but the added complexity of setting the initial poisition by player choice one by one, not all at once by a computer. Again you make a strawman argument from nothing I said.
3. There is a use for plies but it has nothing to do with chess. A plumber plies his trade. Even small children in this country know the difference in ply for a plumber and ply in chess. Pretend you are an authority all you want, Try to find a respected chess site that uses plies to mean the depth of analysis. That is ridiculous.
It seems you have no interest in this thread except to insult and borrow Martin's math as your own. You didn't even know the rules of prechess before lecturing us with 10,000 words. At least you did not write 10,000 words this time. Quit while you are behind.
Unless someone has a relevant comment on these last few details, i am done here. Thanks for the positive feedback. We have indeed shown why Fischer Random is not the future of chess. Good job Master Schiller!
@ Martin, Yes we can all agree that 32 piece table bases will solve chess but I have some questions for this math also. I think the math is clear, we are at least 20 years and probably more till that day.
@ Tuschi, It is also clear to any reader that you are the one who started the "tense atmosphere" with your derogatory comments. You claim you are going to tone down your comments and then insult me further by claiming I can't do maths. I have a Ph.D. in immunology and Pathology and many science papers published (check pubmed) with very complicated math. I have a national award from the national meeting of many science agencies involving a project which utlizies artificial intelligence to identify cancer genes. I doubt you could do this with a computer that could solve chess, so stop with the insulting nonsense. My weeks old comment that 960 was a laughable number to A SINGLE computer that could solve chess is 100 percent true and your claim that any child could do this math is laughable given that it has taken you 3 posts with help from Martin and about 30,000 words to try and explain it. You also admit you were inaccurate in explaining this simple math. You should look to yourself becoming a better person before giving that advice to anyone else. Another minor point is the use of plies, which is at least as silly as the use of maths. 100 ply or 1 ply, it is still ply. Nobody I know says 15 plies, colloqial or not. If you want to insult on blogs, you need your ducks in a row or you will reap what you sow. When questioning people's intellectual ability, literacy comes into play.
Finally you have admitted 960 is a small number for a computer, that we can agree upon. There are also some logical flaws that are obvious in your arguments. If chess is solved it will probably be by all the processors we can possibly string together (but still a single computer to most people), so your idea to just use 960/1440 more processors is not logical or practical. The effort to solve pre-chess would require a large increase in processor speed. When the debate is how much more time pre-chess will buy humanity from the solution of chess, this is an important point.
You attempt to dodge this processor speed angle by claiming it will be databases that solve chess all at once, no matter how many different setups are used. Where is the math analysis of this claim? We know that 4 man databases are a few megabyts, 5 man about 1 gigabyte and 6 men a terabyte. This appears much more than an exponential expansion. What size cloud are we talking about to get 32 man tablebases and how much will 7 more ply add to this equation? These are important questions before claiming a database will solve one and all. It seems just as logical that a computer will be able to draw all drawable positions and win all wins without needing this huge database. At this point classical chess will have been solved and the 20 year countdown predicted here will take over. When checker programs could not lose, we proclaimed checkers solved, nobody asked for a printout. What is the reason to assume databases will come first given the many years it has taken each time an extra piece is added to the tablebases we have now?
Pretending the order in which you place your pieces is irrelevant and does not affect the math much is also not logical when confronted by the reality of technology being streched by a machne that can not lose and draws every drawn position. The entire game could hinge on the order of moves being played but there has been no effort to quantify this.
When we go overboard on a blog an apology goes a long way to restore order. Go ahead, take your own advice and be a better person.
I don't think I have anything more to add on this subject and Tuchi81 explained it quite well. Weather specific rules like allowing the king to be placed between the rook should be applied isn't of big interest to me, but it does make a different in the result. Solving chess with a 32 pieces tablebase would make all variants with different starting positions worthless if preventing computers solving it is the problem, but if it's a question of remembering theory I think it is better to stick with chess960 which is quite popular and enaugh to make the fight of knowing theory a lot harder and therefor less important. Still, I still think chess is good enaugh and chess960 should merely be a chess variant that is not supposed to replace chess.
Thanks Martin, I am not sure why you think lower time than estimated since processors are not getting churned out as fast. I can't make out the rate from these article, many releases were due in 2012 but they seem stalled,
I am also curious in your opinion about the differnces caused because there is only 1 way to reach the classical chess or 960 positions, with no strategy involved to reach the full board and prechess, where most of the strategy might be piece placement. Benko did comment that it didn't seem to matter where the pieces went, the advantage for white was less. This was before any theory was developed. I am sure if prechess became popular there would be a ton of theory on piece placement and then more on what to do with a full board.
If we call the time to double processor speed equalt to t we get
f(t) = 2^t
f(10) = 2^10 ~1000 (~960)
f(22) = 2^22 ~4 million
f(23) = 2^23 ~8 million
So with this logic, after chess is solved it would take 10t (20 years if we assume processor speed doubles every 2 year) to solve chess960 and 22-23t (44-46 years if we assume processor speed doubles every 2 years) to solve prechess. In reality t becomes lower in time (probably), so this should effect the results, but with this logic it would require a bit more than twice the time to solve prechess as it takes to solve chess960.
Funny how the people who claim this is simple math still can't figure out why they don't agree with Dr. Euwe. I like Martin's logic more than someone who doesn't know the rules of prechess but claims to know the math(s).
Moore's law says processing speed doubles every 2 yrs, but this has slowed way down with demand for increassing speed. Intel has not released any major chip for about 2 yrs that I can recall. It is hard to argue math(s) with someone who can't see the difference between 1000s, a laughable number to any modern PC and 4-8 million. Of course no one can refute a prediction before it happens, but I predict a space of months between the solution of classic chess and 960 but 5 years or more for prechess.
A quantity much harder to calculate than pure positions (which is not trivial since no one has published the math online and we only have the word of a pro mathematician and one blogger for the best guesses) is the strategy of placing the pieces on the board. We can just use the classic position for example. There are 8 different ways to place your pieces and the opponent has 8 ways to place his. They all reach the same classical position, but, for instance, if your opponent places his king on e1 for his 1st move, the strategy would be completely different than if he placed his queen on d1 for the 1st move. Now calculate this math(s) times the 4-8 million different possible positions and tell me this is as trivial as 960 new positions spit out by computer all at once. Prechess is many times the complexity of 960. Hardly child's play math(s).
The attempt to use 480/960 computers once you have 1 that can solve chess seems to fall apart when you need 4-8 million machines to solve prechess after the positions have been reached and who knows how many more to determine the ideal move order. If the vast majority reach forced draws, the solution will be basically worthless for use by humans. Which speaking of predictions, someone once claimed if we could solve chess the printout would fill a barn. They didn't know about cloud storage, but the solution for prechess would seem to need vast space.
BTW, colloqial is another way of saying it is not a real word. In America we don't just use any online dictionary, but Websters is the choice of many years before the computer:
I guess the castling rule could make a difference with taking the mirror position with a-h (pieces on h- and a-file switch places, pieces on g- and b-file switch places etc), so that sounds unlikely I guess, but that would solve the mystery. I'm out of guesses, so unless someone comes up with something I guess he either miscounted or was satisfied to say more than 4 million when it was more than 8 million.
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Private sector investment in new non-residential construction is expected to keep construction workloads stable in Canada in 2013, which will offset a slowdown in residential activity.
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The largest single investment in B.C. is the federal government's $8 billion order for seven non-combat ships, which is an eight-year contract.
In the commercial and retail sector, five new office towers, with a total value of $1.6 billion, are underway in downtown Vancouver.
Discount retailer Target will revamp 26 Zellers stores across B.C. over the next two years at a cost of $10 million a store.
However, construction cost escalation is estimated to be between one to two per cent in 2013.
Record levels of oilsands investment in Alberta between 2010 and 2012 is fueling strong and sustained construction activity.
GDP growth in Alberta for 2013 is estimated to be between 2.6 per cent and 3.6 per cent.
Drawn by jobs in the oilsands, net migration has been projected to reach 57,800 in 2012 and remain elevated at 48,500 in 2013.
Growth will be driven by increased capital spending in both public and private sectors, including transportation, social infrastructure and commercial and retail projects.
Calgary alone has nearly three million square feet of new office space under construction for delivery by 2014.
Retailer Target's arrival in Alberta alone will see a $232 million investment in revamping Zellers stores and building a warehouse/distribution centre.
High levels of sustained investment in oilsands and energy, as well as high net migration will generate construction cost escalation between 3.0 and 5.0 per cent in 2013.
Saskatchewan is forecast to be Canada's growth leader in 2013, with GDP increasing between 2.7 per cent and 4.0 per cent.
Major drivers are continuing strength in the oil and gas sector and $12 billion in ongoing investment in potash mining, despite some scaling back in response to softening global demand.
Net migration in 2012 has been projected to surpass 2011's record of 11,742, and then slip back to 11,000 in 2013.
Strong investment in mining and resources, as well as high net migration will generate construction cost escalation between 5.0-6.0 per cent in 2013. According to Statistics Canada, investment in non-residential building construction amounted to $12 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, up 1.0 per cent compared to the previous quarter.
This was the third consecutive quarterly increase and was led by higher spending for commercial and industrial buildings.
Commercial building investment increased 1.7 per cent to $7.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, which is the fifth consecutive quarterly gain. Industrial investment was up for the fifth consecutive quarter, rising 3.3 per cent to $1.6 billion.
Spending in the institutional component totalled $3.1 billion in the fourth quarter, a 1.8 per cent decline from the previous quarter.
These projects have been selected from 527 projects with a total value of $1,552,331,732 that Reed Construction Data Building Reports reported on Friday.
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The second recommendation is "that Cabinet give approval in principle for the Council to seek powers of Compulsory Purchase in order to facilitate redevelopment of the site, in the event that all other reasonable means to acquire vacant possession have proved unsuccessful".
The council report says: "The development would have an important economic development impact with the creation of approximately 50 new jobs."
The report by Bill Norman, director of law, HR and asset management, said: "The whole development will be subject to various consultations [...] the outcomes of which cannot be guaranteed.
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Inland fans were disappointed when R&B superstar John Legend postponed his fall tour last year. Well now he's making it up to them with a stop at Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino Saturday, April 6.
Legend is one of music's most prolific singer/songwriters, having worked with Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Jay-Z and The Roots. His hits include "Ordinary People," "Save Room" and "Green Light."
Legend has won nine Grammys and was recently nominated for another for his most recent No. 1 "Tonight (Best You've Ever Had)."
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Jan Zabransky
Another concept with coconut in lead role.
Marvin Kennis
Wow, stunning concept Jan!
Filip Pietroń
Yes, imo here the coconut and coffee is noticable the best and it looks better than before, but I'm not sure about the handle of cup:)
Julian Hrankov
Nice one! Maybe the handle could use a bit more weight. Looks a tad fragile compared to the thickness of the bowl.
Jan Zabransky
@Filip Pietroń @Julian Hrankov thanks for suggestion buddies!!! I will take it on mind when this concept will be selected for further evolution by client.
Jan Zabransky
I see bigger problem how it will work on darker backgrounds in one color because that typical white coconut ring makes whole concept. But I will care about that after clients response. Will see.
@Jan Zabransky I like the concept! Great work
Just a test of Jan's Coco Cafe logo on dark background – it's basically a little play with half of concept reversed and half in original colors + slight gradient to differentiate what could be the bowl from background.
Trent McBride
Even better! I want to eat and drink it at the same time :)
Ondrej Lechan
Better! Maybe you could try to simplify cups ear a little bit :)
Melissa Brunet
I LOVE this! The cup is so clean & inviting. But speaking of simplifying, could it work without the handle? Could be a play on half a coconut or even just one of those lovely little demitasses without handles.
Cris Labno
Ran Shenberger
This is absolutely fresh and exciting. -
Hugo Tobio
really nice.
Yeah, i like that
Andres Sanchez
Ivan Bobrov
Cool work Jan!
Michael Spitz
Nice play Jan. Obviously we're talking about something conceptually different here...but just a heads up > the client I designed THIS for is planning on launching with a very similar finalized version later this year.
Again, totally different concept. Just a look out RE execution.
Matt Walker
I think the concept is great, I just wonder if there is a simple way to hint at the texture of a coconut. Maybe hair on the shell or texture in the white?
Gert van Duinen
Nice cupa coco Jan!
Jan Zabransky
@Melissa Brunet Hi Melissa, I like your point - from visual side of think clean half sliced coconut filled with brown coffee looks best, without anything - that solution is clean as zen - the shape is perfect. From marketing communication there is cup holder crucial because in everyday hurry it will helps people quickly recognize object (and idea behind logo) - unfortunately not all of us are running on meditative frequencies - allowing to see beauty of Simple :) ... and there is one another point of view, I cant touch @Michael Spitz genius COCO logo originality and uniqueness with any move that will make look of mine version visually closer to his - and losing the cup holder would be that move.
Jan Zabransky
@Michael Spitz ... first of all Happy Birthday my friend. Michael I don't need to hide that your COCO logo was inspiration in part of execution in this. I want to clear out that if this concept will be selected by client I will make steps to execute it different - modifying of coconut shape construction geometry, shading, maybe adding plate under the cup and there are some another visual ideas ...
I would fall through shame if I will bring final version with similarities related to work of other designer that could be interpreted as plagiarism.
I will keep in touch with you and I will inform you when client will decide to go with this concept. BTW cilent requested wordmark with attention to glamour style - something quite different - so we will see where it will goes :) Anyways, I have to say that there is gap between your concept in use of coconut as coffee cup. I think on conceptual level there is not conflict.
Thanks for leaving a word Michael - I always appreciate it and enjoy your B-Day today.
Jan Zabransky
@Matt Walker hmm that is great idea Matt, I will execute it that way if proposal will be accepted. Thanks
Jan Zabransky
thanks all for likes and support
Alen Type08 Pavlovic
Yummyyy! Side note buddy, did you try to position text in two rows maybe? Vertical lockup might put even more emphasis on the mark.
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Was Speed a Factor in Fatal Oxon Hill Crash?
One man died Sunday night when his car left the road and hit a tree.
The victim is identified as Jerry Garris Jr., 27, of the 600 block of Mace Drive in Fort Washington, police said on their blog.
On Sunday at about 3 a.m., patrol officers were called to the 8800 block of Oxon Hill Road for the report of a crash. They found that an SUV had hit a tree; Garris was the only occupant of the SUV. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
The preliminary investigation reveals Garris was heading northbound on Oxon Hill Road when, for reasons which remain unclear, his SUV veered to the left, crossed the southbound lane and left the road. The SUV then struck a large tree. Garris was not wearing a seat belt.
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Your Morning Sniffle: A Pregnancy Captured in a Second a Day
Developer Danny Pier filmed his wife's pregnancy and put it together into a heartwarming timelapse a la the baby's first year video
Developer Danny Pier filmed his wife's pregnancy and put it together into a heartwarming timelapse a la the baby's first year video
"Photographic Journey: A Life at Blair" is a stunning time-lapse video by student Tolu Omokehinde, documenting a day in the life at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Omokehinde, now a senior, created the video as a goodbye to his fellow classmates and has been working on the project since last… » 6/05/12 12:10pm 6/05/12 12:10pm
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Thanks for the reference, Eric. It only prompts a question in my mind: what is the authority/validation behind wikipedia entries? How are they vetted for accuracy? It seems claims like the one you quoted would need to be referenced; if it's the statement of a screenwriter, that's different than if it's the statement of one of us fans.
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