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Editor's note: Attorneys at Goede, Adamczyk & DeBoest, PLLC respond to questions about Florida community association law. With offices in Naples, Fort Myers and Miami, the firm represents community associations throughout Florida and focuses on condominium and homeowner association law, real estate law, litigation, estate planning and business law.
Q. Several members of our homeowners association (HOA) board have heard that the HOA can now file in court for an order requiring a lender to complete a stalled foreclosure. We are happy about this because we have several stalled foreclosures in our community and we are owed a lot of money on these properties. Is this, in fact, a new law and will it achieve positive results?
A. You heard correctly about this new law, which was part of House Bill 87 recently passed in the Florida Legislature. As you already know, many communities have suffered from properties being in foreclosure since 2009 or sooner. Banks flooded the courts with foreclosures between 2008 and 2010, but a significant number of the cases were neglected and still remain idle to this day. In almost every one of these cases, the delinquent homeowner was also not paying the condominium or homeowners association. Associations, as a whole, have gotten aggressive in recent years by filing liens and pursuing judgments against homeowners, but the decision to foreclose on an association lien is case by case and is not proper in every delinquency case. In some cases, it makes more legal and financial sense for the association to ask the court to order the lender to complete its own foreclosure. When the lender completes its foreclosure, the new owner will be responsible for all or a significant portion of the delinquent fees and will also pay maintenance fees going forward. To assist community associations in this endeavor, the Florida Legislature amended Florida Statutes section 702.10 which now allows the association to make a direct request to the court for relief. If the court finds that the foreclosure was properly filed by the lender, it will ask the lender to appear in court and provide a valid reason why the foreclosure should not proceed to a conclusion. In many cases, the lender will not be able to provide a reason other than it is not ready to take responsibility for the property, which will not fly with most judges. Thus, while we expect this to be a positive new law for community associations, only time will tell whether it will actually result in a significant number of foreclosures being pushed to conclusion.
Q. Our association has security cameras at the community pool and spa, but we recently learned that the association president has the ability to view the feeds from these cameras from his home. This makes many members uncomfortable. Is this legal?
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A. There are a few issues to consider here, and we really cannot give you a clear answer without reviewing your association documents and seeing the cameras themselves. First, security cameras should not be installed in areas where homeowners and their tenants and guests have a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as locker rooms, bathrooms, or areas where the camera may record the interior portions of a homeowner's unit. The most popular locations to install surveillance cameras are at entry gates, recreational facilities and other common areas as a means to deter trespassing, vandalism, property damage and rules violations. Second, did your association even have the legal right to install the cameras to begin with? If you are living in a condominium, the association may have been required to obtain approval from 75 percent of the unit owners before installing the cameras. In a homeowners association, the board should confirm proper authority in the community documents before spending association funds to install security cameras. Third, who should have access to the video feed? If the association employed a security company and those working for that company have the ability to monitor the video feed for security purposes, one could argue that the president of the association should also have access to the video feed. After all, the president and the other board members are charged with the duty of operating and maintaining the common areas. Thus, if the cameras are installed in a conspicuous place at the pool and spa area such that there is no expectation of privacy for those using the facilities, I do not believe that the association is violating Florida law simply by allowing the president to monitor the video feed for proper purposes. You should still check with legal counsel to ensure that the association took the appropriate legal steps to purchase and install the cameras.
Q. Our HOA is considering whether it should organize a neighborhood watch committee to monitor potential illegal activity in our private community. Is this a good idea, and do you have any suggestions from a legal standpoint?
Fort Myers
A. The Trayvon Martin incident in Central Florida has led to increased scrutiny of neighborhood watch programs in private communities. George Zimmerman, the shooter, was a member of the neighborhood watch group affiliated with the homeowners association, which has subjected the association to over $1 million of liability. It is important to remember that the purpose of a homeowners association is to preserve and enhance property values by maintaining the common areas. The association is not organized to prevent crime. The safety of the membership should always be a concern, but the association must be careful in how it approaches this issue. First, we recommend to our community association clients that they utilize the aid of law enforcement or other professional organizations when creating neighborhood watch groups. Better and more organized training generally equals fewer incidents that would give rise to liability. Further, we would not advise the association to set up the neighborhood watch as an official committee. The neighborhood watch group should not be granted the association's authority for any reason. The neighborhood watch should not be allowed to function as an extension of the association's board or management. Any neighborhood watch group should be composed of independent volunteers. Further, the association should communicate the separation of the association from the neighborhood watch group. If the neighborhood watch wants to advertise in a bulletin, newsletter, or other association publication, the notice or advertisement should contain a disclaimer regarding association involvement. Finally, the neighborhood watch group should not have "Official Identification." The volunteer members should not wear uniforms, particularly with any lettering or design that would link them to the association. The association should also be careful not to mix neighborhood watch and association functions. The board and its management should avoid discussing business that solely applies to neighborhood watch organizations at annual meetings or board meetings. The association's board should certainly consult with its legal counsel before proceeding further to organize any neighborhood watch group.
Attorney John C. Goede is a principal in the law firm of Goede, Adamczyk & DeBoest, PLLC. Visit the website at www.GAD-law.com or ask questions about your issues for future columns by sending an inquiry to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Goede, Adamczyk & DeBoest, PLLC is a full-service law firm with a focus on condominium and homeowner association law, real estate law, litigation, estate planning and business law. With offices in Naples, Fort Myers and Miami, the firm represents community associations throughout Florida. The information provided herein is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice. The publication of this article does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and Goede, Adamczyk & DeBoest, PLLC or any of our attorneys. Readers should not act or refrain from acting based upon the information contained in this article without first contacting an attorney, if you have questions about any of the issues raised herein. The hiring of an attorney is a decision that should not be based solely on advertisements or this column.
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John Preston didn't know it at the time, but when his mother, Robbie, gathered his Cub Scout den together in the basement of their Ridgewood Avenue home in Gainesville, it was the start of a lifetime in Scouting for him.
When the influenza pandemic roared into North Georgia in the fall of 1918, schools closed and some activities shut down for a few weeks.
As the automobile began to show up more around the turn of the 20th century, the demand for more roads and bridges increased. They sometimes became embroiled in controversy.
Federal "bailouts" of financial institutions, carmakers or others generate considerable heat across the country, but especially in the South.
Tom Bell was a man of action who served as 9th District U.S. Representative from 1905 to 1931.
We think partisan politics is worse than ever, but it's pretty tame compared to some periods of the country's history.
One incident involving a Hall Countian not long after the Civil War is an example of how things sometimes could get out of hand between political party supporters.
Green Russell, who with his brothers caused a gold rush in what is now Colorado and who shares credit for the founding of Denver, was a colorful, adventurous character out of the hills of Lumpkin and Dawson counties.
Buford has a long history of sports excellence; witness the recent girls high school state basketball championship or the almost routine state championship football teams.
The Bona Allen leather enterprises have been long gone from Buford, but the Bona Allen name lives and forever will be identified with the Gwinnett and Hall counties town of Buford.
When President Woodrow Wilson's first wife, Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, died in June 1914, the train carrying her body stopped in Gainesville. Mrs. Wilson had spent considerable time in Gainesville, along with her husband. Two of her children were born in Gainesville.
Congressional races in the 9th District aren't what they used to be. They traditionally were quite contested, and some could get nasty.
With so many duplicate or similar street and road names in Hall County, it's a wonder emergency responders ever get to the right location.
During World War II, early in his flying career, Ed Jared worked for a private company teaching potential Army Air Corps pilots to fly.
Growing up in southwest Gainesville in the 1940s and '50s, getting up early and milking the family cow before school, Jack Richards never imagined he'd be deeply involved in the nation's space program.
One hundred years ago, Soong Mei-ling, who became Madame Chiang Kai-shek, enrolled in Piedmont College in Demorest.
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Though the Memorial Day holiday is to remember those who died serving their country, it is spent by many as a day off work, festivals, parades or other fun activities. Some businesses, rather than close, use the weekend for special sales of merchandise or services.
The picture is of Gainesville's downtown square probably in the early 1900s before motorized vehicles were common and before "Old Joe," the Confederate statue was erected. The view is toward the west side of the square where Saul's, Frames You Nique and other stores stand today.
In the fall of 1920, Hall County students were studying in 21 schools.
In the early 1900s, Gainesville already was becoming known as a poultry center, but it would be another half century before it could boast about being the "World's Broiler Capital."
Because April is high tornado season, and storms are top of mind especially in Northeast Georgia, here's a family's remarkable story about how they survived Gainesville's 1936 tornado despite being in or near the middle of it. They were indeed fortunate they were not among the more than 200 people killed.
"Old Joe," the Confederate statue on Gainesville's downtown square, almost wasn't to be for a couple of reasons.
Today is the 79th anniversary of the fourth deadliest tornado in United States history.
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Johnson back on top with 2nd Daytona 500 victory
And Johnson considered himself lucky to be the one holding the trophy at the end.
"Man, it's like playing the lottery; everybody's got a ticket," he said. "I've struck out a lot at these tracks, left with torn-up race cars. Today we had a clean day."
Mark Martin was third in a Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota. Keselowski, who overcame two accidents earlier in the race, wound up fourth in Penske Racing's new Ford. Ryan Newman was fifth in a Chevy for Stewart-Haas Racing and was followed by Roush-Fenway Racing's Greg Biffle, who was second on the last lap but was shuffled back with Patrick to finish sixth.
Regan Smith was seventh for Phoenix Racing, while Patrick, Michael McDowell and JJ Yeley rounded out the top 10.
Patrick was clearly disappointed with her finish. When the race was on the line, she was schooled by Earnhardt, who made his last move and blocked any chance she had.
Still, Patrick became the first woman in history to lead laps in the 500 when she passed Michael Waltrip on a restart on Lap 90. She stayed on the point for two laps, then was shuffled back to third. She ended up leading five laps, another groundbreaking moment for Patrick, who as a rookie in 2005 became the first woman to lead the Indianapolis 500 and now is the 13th driver to lead laps in both the Daytona 500 and the Indy 500.
"Dale did a nice job and showed what happens when you plan it out, you drop back and get that momentum. You are able to go to the front," Patrick said. "I think he taught me something. I'm sure I'll watch the race and there will be other scenarios I see that can teach me, too."
Earnhardt was impressed, nonetheless.
"She's going to make a lot of history all year long. It's going to be a lot of fun to watch her progress," he said. "Every time I've seen her in a pretty hectic situation, she always really remained calm. She's got a great level head. She's a racer. She knows what's coming. She's smart about her decisions. She knew what to do today as far as track position and not taking risks. I enjoy racing with her."
Johnson, one of three heavyweight drivers who took their young daughters to meet Patrick — "the girl in the bright green car" — after she won the pole in qualifications, tipped his cap, too.
"I didn't think about it being Danica in the car," Johnson said. "It was just another car on the track that was fast. That's a credit to her and the job she's doing."
The field was weakened by an early nine-car accident that knocked out race favorite Kevin Harvick and sentimental favorite Tony Stewart.
Harvick had won two support races coming into the 500 to cement himself as the driver to beat, but the accident sent him home with a 42nd place finish.
Stewart, meanwhile, dropped to 0-for-15 in one of the few races the three-time NASCAR champion has never won.
"If I didn't tell you I was heartbroken and disappointed, I'd be lying to you," Stewart said.
That accident also took former winner Jamie McMurray, his Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, and Kasey Kahne out of contention.
The next accident — involving nine cars — came 105 laps later and brought a thankful end to Speedweeks for Carl Edwards. He was caught in his fifth accident since testing last month, and this wreck collected six other Ford drivers.
The field suddenly had six Toyota drivers at the front as Joe Gibbs Racing and Michael Waltrip Racing drivers took control of the race. But JGR's day blew up — literally — when the team was running 1-2-3 with Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch setting the pace.
Kenseth, who led a race-high 86 laps, went to pit road first with an engine problem, and Busch was right behind him with a blown engine. Busch was already in street clothes watching as Hamlin led the field.
"It's a little devastating when you are running 1-2-3 like that," Busch said.
Hamlin's shot disappeared when he found himself in the wrong lane on the final restart. He tried to hook up with Keselowski to get them back to Johnson, but blamed former teammate Joey Logano for ruining the momentum of the bottom lane.
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Historian Tony Judt provoked not a little controversy several years ago for proposing a single bi-national state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, effectively repudiating Zionism. Judt's views, agree with them or not, are in part informed by his experiences living on kibbutzim in the 1960s. He recounts this time in a brief, lovely memoir in the latest New York Review of Books. Judt remembers:
For the neophyte fifteen-year-old Londoner encountering the kibbutz for the first time, the effect was exhilarating. Here was "Muscular Judaism" in its most seductive guise: health, exercise, productivity, collective purpose, self-sufficiency, and proud separatism—not to mention the charms of kibbutz children of one's own generation, apparently free of all the complexes and inhibitions of their European peers.
Judt's attraction to the world of the kibbutzim and to Labour Zionism failed to win out against his desire to attend university in Europe and the revulsion he felt while serving in the Israeli military. Judt concludes:
Labour Zionism made me, perhaps a trifle prematurely, a universalist social democrat—an unintended consequence which would have horrified my Israeli teachers had they followed my career. But of course they didn't. I was lost to the cause and thus effectively "dead."
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Frequency-hopped communication equipment require synthesizers capable of providing a large number (N) of discrete frequencies over a wide band. In typical systems N lies in the range of 50 to 10000 and the required bandwidth ranges from 10 to 500 MHz. One technique for implementing a synthesizer is based on mixing chirp signals generated by impulsing SAW filters. Potentially, this method allows fast frequency hop generation over wide bandwidth (<500 MHz) with large numbers of selectable hop frequencies (N< 4000). Furthermore, the hardware can occupy a small volume and dissipate low power compared with conventional synthesizers. This paper examines the techniques and establishes likely parameter and performance bounds. Deleterious mechanisms are identified and their effects on CW spectral purity and fast frequency-hopped link error rate performance is discussed. Experimental results are presented for both a high performance modem, with N equal to 480 across a 96-MHz band and a recent development comprising the basic chirp synthesizer plus phased locked loop (PLL) to provide enhanced slow frequency hop and continuous-wave (CW) spectral purity.
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Modern applications often need to work with varied sources of data, be it Web APIs, SQL databases, cloud storage, or even a local csv file. But, it's not always easy to integrate these schemas with types in statically-typed languages, so you can end up in a situation where you're no better off than if you were to use a dynamically-typed language.
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Book Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done.
It was during these years that all Johnson's experience—from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine—came to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself: how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term—the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history; how he manipulated the Senate's hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the "unchangeable" Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted control.
Caro demonstrates how Johnson's political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable: to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trust—or at least the cooperation—of the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnson's ambition: how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible: convincing southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson's amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875.
Master of the Senate is told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caro's peerless research—years immersed in the worlds of Johnson and the United States Senate, examining thousands of documents and talking to hundreds of people, from pages and cloakroom clerks to senators and administrative aides. The result is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himself—the titan of Capitol Hill, volcanic, mesmerizing—and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of personal and legislative power. It is a work that displays all the acuteness of understanding and narrative brilliance that led the New York Times to call Caro's The Path to Power "a monumental political saga . . . powerful and stirring."
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The Desks of the Senate The Chamber of the United States Senate was a long, cavernous space-over a hundred feet long. From its upper portion, from the galleries for citizens and journalists which rimmed it, it seemed even longer than it was, in part because it was so gloomy and dim-so dim in 1949, when lights had not yet been added for television and the only illumination came from the ceiling almost forty feet above the floor, that its far end faded away in shadows-and in part because it was so pallid and bare. Its drab tan damask walls, divided into panels by tall columns and pilasters and by seven sets of double doors, were unrelieved by even a single touch of color-no painting, no mural—or, seemingly, by any other ornament. Above those walls, in the galleries, were rows of seats as utilitarian as those of a theater and covered in a dingy gray, and the features of the twenty white marble busts of the country's first twenty vice presidents, set into niches above the galleries, were shadowy and blurred. The marble of the pilasters and columns was a dull reddish gray in the gloom. The only spots of brightness in the Chamber were the few tangled red and white stripes on the flag that hung limply from a pole on the presiding officer's dais, and the reflection of the ceiling lights on the tops of the ninety-six mahogany desks arranged in four long half circles around the well below the dais. From the galleries the low red-gray marble dais was plain and unimposing, apparently without decoration. The desks themselves, small and spindly, seemed more like schoolchildren's desks than the desks of senators of the United States, mightiest of republics.
When a person stood on the floor of the Senate Chamber, however-in the well below the dais—the dais was, suddenly, not plain at all. Up close, its marble was a deep, dark red lushly veined with grays and greens, and set into it, almost invisible from the galleries, but, up close, richly glinting, were two bronze laurel wreaths, like the wreaths that the Senate of Rome bestowed on generals with whom it was pleased, when Rome ruled the known world-and the Senate ruled Rome. From the well, the columns and pilasters behind the dais were, suddenly, tall and stately and topped with scrolls, like the columns of the Roman Senate's chamber, the columns before which Cato spoke and Caesar fell, and above the columns, carved in cream-colored marble, were eagles, for Rome's legions marched behind eagles. From the well, there was, embroidered onto each pale damask panel, an ornament in the same pale color and all but invisible from above-a shield—and there were cream-colored marble shields, and swords and arrows, above the doors. And the doors-those seven pairs of double doors, each flanked by its tall columns and pilasters—were tall, too, and their grillwork, hardly noticeable from above, was intricate and made of beaten bronze, and it was framed by heavy, squared bronze coils. The vice presidential busts were, all at once, very high above you; set into deep, arched niches, flanked by massive bronze sconces, their marble faces, thoughtful, stern, encircled the Chamber like a somber evocation of the Republic's glorious past. And, rising from the well, there were the desks.
The desks of the Senate rise in four shallow tiers, one above the other, in a deep half circle. Small and spindly individually, from the well they blend together so
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics, by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody of itself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperately needed liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson's brilliance, charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and most powerful Majority Leader in history and how he used his incomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberals and Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detail into a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizing portrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory study of the workings of legislative power.
About the Author
Robert A. Caro was graduated from Princeton University, was for six years an award-winning investigative reporter for Newsday, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
To create The Power Broker, Caro spent seven years tracing and talking with hundreds of men and women who worked with, for, or against Robert Moses, and examining mountains of files never before opened to the public. The Power Broker won both the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians for the book that "exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist." It was chosen by Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century.
To research The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Caro and his wife, Ina, moved from his native New York City to the Texas Hill Country and then to Washington, D.C., to live in the locales in which Johnson grew up and in which he built, while still young, his first political machines. He has spent years examining documents at the Johnson Library in Austin and interviewing men and women connected with Johnson's life, many of whom had never before been interviewed. The first volume of the Johnson work, The Path to Power, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best nonfiction work of 1982. The second volume, Means of Ascent, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1990. In preparation for writing Master of the Senate, the third volume, Caro immersed himself in the world of the United States Senate, spending week after week in the gallery, in committee rooms, in the Senate Office Building, and interviewing hundreds of people, from pages and cloakroom clerks to senators and administrative aides. Master of the Senate won the 2002 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Among the numerous other awards Caros has won are the H.L. Mencken Award, the Carr P. Collins, Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
His website is www.robertcaro.com.
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You can do well in low pace play with sloppy footwork and sloppy strokes because the margin of error is higher and you have plenty of time. You can therefore be sloppy mentally too.
Fast paced play starts with mental focus which drives intelligent footwork and controls clean strokes.
To develop that mental focus you need to see more fast balls which means you need to play up more than down or at your own level. As you see more fast balls you build an internal reference and can focus better. Your brain sees things more clearly even at a fast pace and you can then react in a controlled manner. You can also anticipate better with a larger internal reference.
In fact recent brain research supports this idea of internal reference development whether tennis, baseball, or even chess. You need to see lots of examples of something to build that internal reference.
None of this matters unless unless you DO focus and focus intensely. In really low paced noob play you often have enough time to flick an errant ball out of the way while hitting! In fast paced play it's the opposite: you need to be 100% focused on the ball snd thinking fast. Your internal reference DB needs to guide every step and stroke BEFORE they take place. The only way to develop that ability is to hit with higher level players.
I know this because I'm a fellow 3.0/low 3.5 and play with lower level players (my wife and kids), peers, and higher level players at our club.
When I go from hitting with the wife and kids to higher level players the transition is jarring due to my inexperience. This week I went from helping my wife warm up for practice on Tuesday night to hitting against two of my team's best players on Thursday night. At first on Thursday night I was a mess. It took me a good 20 minutes to get my focus and timing back to hit well.
Better players don't need to make that transition...they already have. We lower level live in a weird border region of mostly low to medium paced play with flashes of hard hitting which throws us off, especially if we don't focus and play up as much as we can.
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Emotional intelligence, also known as emotional quotient or EQ, is sometimes called 'Charismatic leadership' because it has a motivational and transformational effect on the team. The term means evaluating the way we understand and manage ourselves and other people and the way we interact with them - particularly the members of the teams. In the author's opinion, EQ values the human side of human resources. It proposes that success in life and career is not necessarily about IQ, academic or technical brilliance or levels of competence in information technology; it is about understanding people and your own unique emotions.


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FCE is Fundamental Chess Endings by Muller and Lamprecht. Very good, almost readable encyclopedia for endgames.
But I much prefer Jesus De La Villa's 100 Endgames You must know. He explains them well in words as well as variations and makes the whole subject rather less dry.
There is a big gap between 2400-2500s and 2200s also. These players score
There is a big gap between 2400-2500 players and 2200s also. These players score very heavily against 2200s and the games they do lose are usually to the rapid improvers shooting through the ranks. But the 2700s would beat even these players 90% plus of the time. They really are playing the game on a much higher level. I think the average 2200 probably has about 80% of their knowledge of the game. The other 20% is obviously very important but they far outshine 2200s in all the skills such as calculating and practical decision making. And very importantly they do blunder a lot lot less. I throw away so many points from good positions against 2400s its embarassing. But I hardly ever do against 2000s and 2100s. What is it about their play that can induce mistakes?- it must be something because I'm convinced this is a real phenomenon experienced by a lot of other players too.
I once went through Fisher's 60 memorable games really slowly trying to predict the movs and calculate the variations for myself. I was surprised that I nearly always understood his move and chose the same one maybe 30 out of 35 times (an average length game). The trouble is the moves that weren't his could be good, bad, indifferent, positionaly unsound, tactically wrong etc. It is those few moves in a game that make the difference and it only takes 1 slip to throw away the whole game.
I've been thinking. At the lower levels 500 points is a huge difference. An 1800 can win virtually every game against a 1300 without breaking a sweat.
But is that also true at the higher levels? Can your average 2700 really sweep aside a 2200 like it's nothing? To be 2200 I guess you'd have to have a really profound knowledge of the game, perhaps that gives you decent drawing chances if you play safe?
If any 2200 (or close) is reading this, how would you fancy your chances? If you're that good, do you still feel like there's a whole higher echelon of players you have virtually no chance against?
Edit: I mean FIDE ratings, not online ratings.
a 2700 would beat a 2200 in the same manner as a 2200 would beat 1700.
also don't really think 2200s have a "profound" understanding of chess...... 2700? yes.
Having digested all of these books may be of less use than simply being a strategically limited, but very tough player.
true, also I was 2200 at one point and I have no idea what BCE and FCE are.
BCE is Reuben Fine's Basic Chess Endings. Most people wouldn't know that unless they're old I suspect that FCE is a typo and should be FCO, Fundamental Chess Openings, similar to NCO (Nunn's Chess Openings), MCO (Modern Chess Openings) and ECO (Encyclopedia of Chess Openings).
I had the version revised by Benko ever since i was a kid.
A 1300 player is more likely to get "lucky" against an 1800 compared to a 2200 rated player's chances against a 2700. At the lower levels players will make more frequent blunders and miscalculate things
Yes. But the 2200 rated player is far more likely to be able to capitalize on far smaller mistakes. An extra pawn can be enough to beat the 2700 guy.
As someone said earlier in this thread, 500 points is 500 points it doesnt matter where it is. Its just math.There is nothing more or less likely about 2700 vs 2200, or 2200 vs 1700, or 1700 vs 1200.
The win percentage is what the ratings tell you, because thats how the rating is determined in the first place. Its really quite simple.
If the 2200 player was winning more often against the 2700 player, the rating would change to reflect that, and he would become a 2300 player.
It seems like 500 points is 500 points but you have to understand that the higher you go the higher the diminishing returns. A 50 point gap at the 2700+ level is huge whereas it's almost insignificant at club level.
a 2200 is a very good player, but could hardly have hope of beating a 2700. take the world team cup, 2500 players get crushed by 2700's no sweat at all. There is some though that could win, but i really doubt it
Here Kasparov outplays an almost FIDE Master in a simul:
Annotations mine though I didn't look at this game for nearly as long as I should have.
The time pressure blunder was obviously 31...a4
I've been surprised that even "regular" GMs seem to be awed by the ones at the top. I remember Joel Benjamin talking this way, perhaps about Kasparov (in Benamin's book "American Grandmaster"), and some other examples by GMs I can't recall at the moment. One would think a GM would be in awe of no one. OTOH there have been those proposals to create a Super GM title or similar.
Regarding the strength of top players, I find it remarkable that they are able to play credible games against computers.
Also, I believe someone in this thread mentioned that above a certain level the K factor decreases, so that a 500 point gap at the high levels is more significant than at lower. Many posters seem to overlook this -- or is it not true for FIDE ratings?
If Carlsen breaks the 2900 rating, there will be 200 point gap to a weak 2700 player
In terms of winning odds... maybe.
But in terms of work, study, talent, understanding, and experience... there is a much bigger difference between 2200-2700, than 1200-1700.
@DrNyet is correct in that when you reach 2400 your K factor drops to 10 from 15 in FIDE. This means that the gap is wider. If a 2500 beats another 2500 they get 5 points added to their grade. If a 2200 beats another 2200 they get 7.5 points to their grade. So the 500 point gap is not quite the same as it means you would have to win a lot more games to close it at the higher level.
I am unclear as to whether the knowledge gap is the same. I doubt it because all a 1200 needs to do to increase his rating substantially is to stop blundering away pieces. This would probably close at least half the gap at that level. The 2200 has to do a lot more to reach 2700 than cure just a few simple things in their game. In fact in that case the number of things to learn would be huge but also the ability to calculate would have to increase hugely. So I think the difference between a 2700 and 2200 is larger than the gap between a 1700 and 1200.
I would think natural ability and a passion for the game would take a person from 1200 to 1700 with very little book reading and memorization required. @2200 you probably know all the fundamentals, theory behind the openings as well as several main and side line varients. Basicaly strong in from opening to endgame with a style of your own developed. I was surprised to find out Dan Heisman lives close to me and with all his accomplishment and opportunity had reached 2200. I wonder what it is that seperates the 2200 rated player from the 2499 rated player.
Fewer holes in their understanding, better at preparing against specific opponents (a big deal at master level and above), and more chunks committed to memory (a GM has 200,000 on average whereas a FIDE master has 25,000 or so) so less of a need to analyse variations as the source of their "intuition" is better developed. Also better at time management.
The 3200 player doesn't think the 2700 player has a "profound knowledge" of chess. Really, asking a question with an empty word like "profound" in it is kind of pointless.
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At first blush, an idea being floated by some members of the New London Lodge of Elks would seem a bit far-fetched.
Elks members have been speculating that the city might be well served to swap the Lighthouse Inn, which it took title to this year after no one bid on it at a tax auction, for the downtown building the Elks own on Washington Street.
The numbers alone might suggest this would be a bad deal for the city.
The Elks lodge, a big rambling brick building, is assessed at $488,000. The Lighthouse Inn, with its gracious view of Long Island Sound, is assessed by the city at $3.2 million.
And yet no one came forward to buy the inn at auction. City officials, to lure a buyer, are mulling a long-term tax abatement and an asking price considerably lower than the assessment.
Meanwhile, it sits empty, deteriorating, to the chagrin of neighbors.
The Elks, which dutifully pay the city some $13,000 in property taxes on their Washington Street building, seem prepared to move right into the Lighthouse Inn, stabilize it and start paying taxes.
The inn neighbors, too, might prefer a club over a commercial business, especially one that is dedicated by its charter to good works and serving the community.
Part of what is stirring inn envy among Elks is that the organization, like its sister lodges around the country, is suffering from declining membership. The average age of members is rising.
The organization has begun to tap into its reserves to keep the Washington Street building, spending $30,000 a year to heat it.
And why would the city want to trade its gracious inn by the water for a downtown white elephant?
That's a good question, for sure.
One answer, on the plus side for the Elks swap advocates, is that their building might have more long-term potential to help the city than a refurbished inn.
To prove their point, they need to point no further than the former telephone company building next door, another old brick ark that was successfully transformed into modern apartments.
The city might be better served by having more apartments downtown that appeal to young people than refurbished hotel rooms that draw tourists to the beach.
I got a tour of the Elks building last week from Henry Nichols, the current exalted ruler who is retired from The Day.
Not only did I see some of the features of the building, from the elaborate wood paneling to stained glass windows, but I got an explanation of the good work the organization does.
The New London Elks not only contributes to many of the national organization's causes, like running one of the biggest scholarship funds in the country, but also raise many thousands of dollars for local community causes, coats and food for the poor, grants to the homeless shelter and funds for drug-free parties for kids.
On the tour, I also lost my old notion of the Elks as a clubhouse for white guys. Indeed, there have been women exalted rulers here, and one of the officers now in line to lead the local organization is black. There are also other minorities and gay members, including Mayor Finizio, who was recently sworn in.
If the lodge were able to pull off a swap for the Lighthouse Inn, I will bet a lot of the neighbors there would join, too.
What better way to permanently have a voice in the future of the property.
This is the opinion of David Collins.
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