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Home Page Chess Life Online 2014 October Gareev & Molner Top American Open
|Gareev & Molner Top American Open
|By Randy Hough
|December 10, 2013
49th Annual American Open (the first tournament to become both an
American Classic and Heritage event) drew an improved turnout of 263 players to
the Doubletree in Orange, California over Thanksgiving weekend. With five GMs
(another two canceled shortly prior), five IMs, and a WGM, the tournament lived
up to its reputation as a strong one...and proved, as it has for many years, that
a schedule that allows the option of playing on Thanksgiving day works.
Two of the GMs, both 25 (a relative victory for youth), Timur Gareev and Mackenzie Molner, topped the 44-player Open section with 6½ points of 8.
Blindfold wizard Gareev, who won the trophy on tiebreaks, now lives in San Diego. He started out 4-0 in the three-day schedule (Game/1), and it was there that he played his favorite games. In the second round, he took down fellow GM Enrico Sevillano.
In Round 3, his victim was the strong IM Andranik Matikozyan, in which he gave high marks to the move ...18.b4.
Another win against GM Jaan Ehlvest (making his first American Open appearance), and Timur led the field by a half point over Molner, WGM Tatev Abrahamyan, and IM Larry Remlinger. A draw with Molner and a win over Abrahamyan brought him to the point where quick draws against GM Melik Khachiyan and IM John Bryant assured a first place tie.
Molner, just recently awarded his GM title, lives in Arizona. He played the traditional four-day schedule, with moral support from his wife Amanda Mateer, who didn't play (though she helped out with the Scholastic). His best game came in Round 3, when he tied up IM Philip Wang's French Defense (the unusual 7.Bb5 is best answered by 7...Be7 followed up by castling).
Mac's other key wins included a six-hour marathon against Remlinger in Round 6 and a shorter one against Daniel Mousseri in the finale. (The 14-year-old Mousseri, though rated only 2230, upset three FMs and drew with Remlinger to reach Board Two in Round 8. He gained 52 rating points.)
Ehlvest and Bryant tied for third, 6-2. Jaan had a key win over IM Philip Wang in the sixth round and moved into his position by outplaying Remlinger in the finale. He equalizes as Black in a Leningrad Dutch and slowly outplayed Larry. Houdini suggests 18.f3 and 20.Nf2 as improvements, and the pawn sac 26.g4 is simply too ambitious. Black defends his king and then consolidates with the extra pawn. White's last move appears to be a hallucination, but the position is lost anyway.
Remlinger did show that a 72-year-old can still play the game, though, tying for Under 2450 honors at 5-3. (Akopyan, San Diego junior Varun Krishnan, and Northern Californian Hayk Manvelyan joined in the tie.) Larry set up a nice mating net against the 16-year-old Arizona master Bryan Hu in the third round:
Larry also showed fortitude in Round 5, surviving a worse position against Abrahamyan to reach a drawn ending. (Despite the natural inclination to reinforce a pinned piece, 27...Rxc5 seems to be a substantial improvement for Black.)
Abrahamyan had her big moment in the third round, downing perennial (four clear wins and three ties) American Open champ Khachiyan.
He had an edge out of the Giuoco Pianissimo (a favorite of many of Southern California's top players), and 24...Nxf3+ 25.Qxf3 Nb4 would have kept Black well on top. Then it's equal. Melik rejected the tempting 26...exd3 27.Nxf7 Kxf7 28. Bxd3 Rxd3 29.Qg6+ Kf8 30.f6 Qe5+ 31.Kg1 Rd7 when Black defends.
Later, 39.Bxb7 would have retained a small edge for White, the natural 39.Bxe4 allowed a knight fork trick that appeared to put Black back on top...except for the amusingly trapped rook on g6. A few moves later, the "horizon effect" finally wears off and the computer acknowledges White's superiority. Returning the Exchange simply left White with a won pawn ending.
Tatev was ultimately clear fifth at 5½ after drawing with IM Philip Wang in the last round. And Philip had his best game in the fifth round; he annotates:
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Bb5 Nd4 5.0-0 a6 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Be2 Qc7 8.d4
Through a bizarre move order, we've reached a Taimanov Sicilian.
8...cxd4 9.Nxd4 Nf6 10.Kh1 b5 11.a3 Bb7 12.Nb3 Rd8?
Too optimistic 12...Be7 was more solid.
13.f4 d5 14.e5 Ne4 15.Nxe4 dxe4 16.Qe1 Be7 17.Be3 0-0 18.Qf2!
I missed this move and White's next. Now I'm clearly worse.
18...Rd5 19.Rac1! Rc8 20.c4 bxc4 21.Bxc4 Rd7 22.Rc3
22.f5! is winning but the lines after 22...Qxe5 are very complicated
22...g6 23.Rfc1 Qd8 24.Qe2
Black has survived and now begins to equalize.
24...Na5 25.Nxa5 Qxa5 26.b4 Qd8 27.f5?
Starting complications unfavorable for White.
27...exf5 28.e6 Rd6 29.Bc5 Rxc5!
A strong sacrifice giving Black a powerful attack. White faces a difficult defense in time pressure.
30.exf7+ Kg7 31.bxc5 Rd2 32.Qf1 Bxc5 33.Be2 Bd6 34.Qe1?
34.Bxa6 was the last chance.
Now Black is winning. The game ends attractively.
35.Rb1 Bd5 36.f8Q+ Kxf8 37.Bf1 e3! 38.Qxe3 Bxg2+ 39.Kg1 Bxh2+
Followed by Bxf1+I regretted missing 39...Bf3+ 40.Qxg5 Bxh2 mate, but my move was good enough.
Many-time champ Khachiyan withdrew after drawing with Gareev in Round 7. This was simply not his year, and he didn't feel well. He did give a well-received lecture, as did Gareev and the always popular IM Jeremy Silman.
Though not finishing at the top, some teenaged masters besides Mousseri made their presence felt. In the first round WFM Simone Liao upset IM Jack Peters, who also yielded a draw to Arizonan Tony Yim in Round 5. Yusheng Xia almost had a drawn opposite bishops against Gareev in the first round of the G/1. In the nature of such a time control, the critical moves that brought the GM the win are lost to posterity.
As usual, the section winners were a varied bunch. Nicky Korba, 16, of nearby Manhattan Beach took the Under 2200 section by a full point, earning his first Master rating. Nicky, who has been playing in tournaments for only three years, won the Junior Grand Prix in 2011. Under 2000 saw a three-way tie: Dmitry Cherkasky,38,of Venice, California; Hans Niemann, 10, from the Bay Area; and Hao Lu, a middle-aged recent Chinese immigrant. The latter two earned their first Expert rating.
Ruben Burciaga of nearby Whittier took Under 1800 honors (by a full point) for the third time in four years (one was a tie). This is his last tournament as a Class B rating, as his prize earned him an 1800 floor. Three players tied in Under 1600: Martin Leung, 27, a video game pianist and student of USC coach Jack Peters; Shashetha "Bobby" Ruwanpura, 19, from the San Fernando Valley; and nine-year old Gabriel Eidelman of Santa Monica. In Under 1400, Vincent Maggio, 38, a personal trainer and performance nutrition specialist who has been playing for only a year, tied with Brian Morris, a Northern California tournament organizer.
The mixed doubles concept was used for the first time in a Southern California-organized tournament, paying out $700. Korba and Agata Bykovtsev, both playing in Under 2200, took top honors with a combined 11½ points. Close behind were WGM Tatev Abrahamyan and young Kirk Ghazarian (Under 1600) with 11, and Maggio and Serafina Show (Under 1600), at 10½. Of the 22 females in the tournament, three somehow didn't make it onto a team - better publicity needed! (And players who want to withdraw might consider the effect on their partner!) Medals in addition to prize money for the top three in each section was another innovation.
Some interesting games in the class sections never see the light of day, so we offer an imperfect but fascinating contest between two youngsters in Under 2200. White stands better through most of the game in a typical King's Indian, but Daniel Lin's attacking persistence finally prevails. Among the possible improvements for White were 28.Ke1 (time to get out of Dodge!), 31.Nc3 (equal), and after a minor error by Black (33...Nxg2 improves), 35.Rxg2 hxg2 36.gxh5 would have restored a small edge for White. 36.Nac2 and 37.Bg3 were the last chances; after the queen trade White's king dies in a crossfire.
Side events included the 46 player Blitz, with Gareev's 10-0 score lapping the field by two points. Twelve-year old Aaron Chang, an A player, tied for third, ahead of seven masters. The Blitz always brings out some veterans who no longer have the time (or stamina?) for the main event. The Action event, with a somewhat disappointing 15 participants, was won by FM Mark Duckworth.
The Scholastic championship drew a total of 309. Winners included Joaquin Perkins (Varsity K-12), Bowen Liu (Varsity K-6), Rianne Ke (Varsity K-3), Harry Song (K-12 Under 1200), Tejas Ramunjam (K-9 Under 1000), Alton Qian (K-6 Under 800), Aaron Chizhik (K-6 Under 600), Alex Frank Wang (K-3 Under 600), and Ming Lu (K-1). Whew, no ties! And a plethora of trophies were awarded.
We commented last year on the physical setup, with the Scholastic taking up the ballroom for the last two days. Alas, the situation didn't improve this year; the main tournament players spent those critical rounds even further away from "control central" and the pairing computer, in several rooms on the second floor of the hotel, with insufficient supervision. Several embarrassing pairing errors occurred because of poor communication.
As for the good news, most players were satisfied and grateful to Chess Palace and the Ong family for organizing the event and creating a festive atmosphere with the lectures and raffles. The main event paid out $26,700 in place and class prizes. And, the realization that the tournament has outgrown the Doubletree has sunk in, and a search is already underway for a hotel that can comfortably accommodate both the American Open and its scholastic offshoot. We hope to see an even bigger turnout at the gala 50th anniversary in 2014!
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- 12 How do I install an update?
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Unit Six: Treebeard's Lament
Content Focus: The Lord of the Rings, Book Three
Thematic Focus: The Price of Progress
Few novelists have been as moved as J.R.R. Tolkien by the fact that human beings share their planet with multitudes of plants and animals. The handouts, discussion topics, and suggested activities for Unit Six are designed to help the class appreciate Tolkien's love of nature and his dismay over industrialization, themes that permeate his fiction.
Learning Goals
By the end of Unit Six, the student should be able to:
Give several examples of personification in The Lord of the Rings.
Paraphrase Tolkiens critique of modernism.
Say what Tolkien regarded as "the most widespread assumption of our time."
Give evidence that Tolkien revered the inanimate as well as the animate world.
Indicate what Tolkien meant by "sub-creation."
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Preliminary Quiz
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1994: M.S.S. Sports Management
Mike Wells, assistant coach to The University of South Florida Men's Basketball program, has coached in the NBA, college and Olympics. He helped win two NBA championships and an Olympic gold medal. One day, Wells hopes to add "head coach" to his achievements.
During his 20-year career, Wells has spent 17 seasons coaching in the NBA. He played a role in the winning of two championships—1995 Houston Rockets and 2007 San Antonio Spurs. He also helped with scouting for the USA men's national basketball team that won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
In 1993, Wells received his bachelor's from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Ohio, a place he returned to later that year to complete his United States Sports Academy mentorship for the master's degree program in Sports Management. The mentorship turned into an assistant coaching position for the MVNU men's basketball team.
He graduated in 1994 from the Academy and an internship followed with the Rockets. Within five years, Wells worked his way from intern to assistant coach with Houston under the supervision of head coach Rudy Tomjanovich and Jeff Van Gundy. Wells served as assistant coach until 2003.
During his NBA career, Wells also served as assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers for one year; advance scout for the San Antonio Spurs for four years; and assistant coach/advance scout for the Washington Wizards for two years.
He has also worked with the USA national basketball team. Wells served four years (1998-2003) as the head scout for the USA under head coaches Tomjanovich and Larry Brown. Wells worked with the 1998 bronze medal winning team at the FIBA World Championships in Athens; the 1999 Pre-Olympic qualifying tournament of the Americas in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the 2000 gold medal winning team at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He also helped Brown, the head coach, and Greg Popovich, the assistant coach, with the 2003 Pre-Olympic qualifying tournament in San Juan.
He talked with the Alumni Network about his excitement about his new assistant coaching position at the University of South Florida (He was also an assistant coach for George Mason University in 2011.) and his hope to one day become the head basketball coach and lead his own team.
Alumni Network: What was it like working as a scout for USA Basketball's senior national team?
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AN: Do you prefer coaching at the college-level or in the NBA?
MW: Overall, I have enjoyed working in the NBA and at the college level. However, it is a transition. In the NBA, I coached players from age 19 to 40. In college, the age of players range from 18 to 22—a smaller window that's easier to dial in to what players need and do.
Coaching at the college level involves being up to date with NCAA rules and, in most circumstances, requires an advanced degree. For this, I am thankful for my master's from the Academy. My hopes are to one day become a head coach, and that will most likely start at the college level. I'm very excited to get more experience coaching in the sport, while working at South Florida.
AN: Why are you thankful for your education from the Academy?
MW: By taking classes at a college dedicated to just sports, I was provided with great networking opportunities. Without the Academy, I would not be where I am today. I was able to meet Dennis Lindsey, the Utah Jazz general manager, who I hired while working for the Houston Rockets in 1997. I also met Sebrina Beyer, the director of public and media relations at the Chicago Bulls. Beyer was working for the Bulls when we were in school together, and she gave me connections with the NBA. I've stayed in touch with these people and others graduates of the Academy over the years, and I'm very thankful for those connections.
AN: What was it like working at Mount Vernon Nazarene University as an assistant coach while studying for your master's at the United States Sports Academy?
MW: Scott Flemming, who is an Academy Alumnus and India's national basketball coach, actually coached me when I played basketball at MVNU during my undergraduate years. He encouraged me to attend the Academy in order to push my education to the next level. Because of the Academy's flexibility in class structure, I was able to work at MVNU and get my degree at the same time.


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For his lights-out play with the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians this season, Doug Slaten was rewarded by the Pittsburgh Pirates with a call-up back to Major League Baseball on Monday.
On Tuesday, the former Glendale Community College player appeared to justify the move with a spotless inning of relief against the Cincinnati Reds in his season debut. The Pirates would lose the game, 8-1, but perhaps saw a glimpse of the steady veteran play they were looking for when they promoted Slaten to join Tony Watson as the team's only left-handers out of the bullpen. Slaten retired the Reds' Nos. 2-4 hitters, Drew Stubbs, lefty slugger Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips in order to keep the Pirates within four runs in the fourth.
Prior to his call up, Slaten was 2-0 with eight saves and a 0.36 earned-run average in 20 games with Indianapolis (25 1/3 innings) this season.
"He's earned this opportunity. He finally got in shape in early April," Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle told mlb.com of Slaten, who had a 9.00 ERA in six spring training appearances with the club. "The last month, his bundle of work has been very clean. We felt he deserved this opportunity in [Juan] Cruz's absence."
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
E-books are not the problem
As many of us head off to Malice Domestic, where the traditional printed book is the focus, news from the publishing industry is grimmer than ever. In the first quarter of this year, while e-book sales jumped by 169.4%, sales of print books in all categories fell a total of 25%.
According to the American Association of Publishers, e-books and trade paperbacks were tied in the early part of the year as the leaders in all book sales.
Nielsen BookScan, which covers approximately 75% of retail book sales, reported that in the first quarter mass market paperback sales dropped by 26.6%. (The AAP statistics show an even steeper fall of 36%.) Hardcover fell 7.2%, and trade paperback dropped 6.4%.
Adult fiction lost the most ground among the various categories, falling 18.3%. (By contrast, adult fiction is the strongest segment among e-books, accounting for 61% of sales.) Juvenile nonfiction fell 11.7% and juvenile fiction dropped 8.1%. Only adult nonfiction, with a 1.1% drop, avoided a precipitous fall in print sales.
The soaring sales of e-books takes some of the sting out of the decline in print sales, but the sad truth is that books in all forms are losing their attraction as a source of entertainment and information. Vast numbers of people simply do not read books. Ever. In any format. However, the average Facebook member spends more than seven hours on the site every month. The average American watches more than 84 hours of television each month. Video games also claim a huge share of our attention span, and a single video game will sell more units in a month than all the top 20 New York Times bestselling books combined.
In a recent issue of Publishers Weekly, independent publisher Rudy Shur of Square One Publishers noted that our concern over the rise of e-books and the decline of print books is misplaced. The real competition isn't between different forms of books but between books and other forms of entertainment. Putting a book on the Kindle won't suddenly turn non-readers into readers.
All the evidence is that reading as a pastime began to fall out of favor when computers and then the internet became ubiquitous. That decline continues. But as fewer and fewer people bother to read books, those of us with an emotional, intellectual, or financial investment in all forms of publishing spend our energy arguing about whether e-books are good or bad. We should be talking about how to turn more people on to reading. We should be trying to figure out what it takes to lure kids away from video games. We should be trying to reawaken the love of reading in people who may have given it up because they were too busy raising kids and working. We should be persuading parents that reading to and with their kids is good for all of them. While we're at it, we should support our local libraries in any way we can.
E-books, print books – what good will any of them be when no one is left to read them?
23 comments:
- Warren Bull said...
Excellent post. I wish I had an answer. Can I put in a plug for independent bookstores? Anything you can order online can be ordered through the people who help us keep on writing.
- April 27, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
You can always plug independent bookstores here, Warren. I hope everybody who attends Malice Domestic this weekend will buy something from the booksellers in the book room.
- April 27, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
Question for all of you: When you're on public transit, or waiting in a doctor's office, etc., do you see many people reading?
- April 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Vicki Lane said...
Good and timely words, Sandy. I'm a lover and supporter of libraries and indie bookstores as well as a paperback writer and I'm beginning to feel a bit like a dinosaur, watching that meteorite approaching...
- April 27, 2011 at 8:37 AM
- Barbara said...
I was just traveling and noticed on the plane that just about everyone who wasn't sleeping was reading something. From my vantage point I could see one Kindle and a lot of books and magazines, but printed books were number one - after sleeping!
New book sales may be down, but library circulations are higher than ever per capita and used book sales and swaps are lively. As for evidence, it doesn't all point away from reading. Much of what we do on computers involves reading (and writing); more people are involved in writing than ever in history, and more people enjoy reading books than is generally believed. See Catherine Sheldrick Ross's book Reading Matters which is chock full of evidence that reading is not dead.
This may not be a great time to make a living as a writer (has it ever been?) or as a publisher, partly because far more is being published than ever in history, but it's a great time to be a reader, and people are reading. Even young people.
- April 27, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Sheila Connolly said...
This is such a transitional time, and the publishing markets are in flux. Maybe there is a "classist" element too--those who read are those who have both the time and the disposable income to do it, which doesn't describe a lot of people these days. Will the phenomenal surge of ereaders and ebooks make a difference? The jury's still out.
I can remember when there were those who thought that watching television would rot our developing minds, as well as take time away from reading. I managed to both watch and read, while obtaining a Ph.D., holding down jobs, and raising a family. It's hard to stop true readers--there just aren't enough of us, and it's getting harder and harder to recruit new ones.
- April 27, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Beth Anderson said...
My daughter tells me her commuter train is always full of people reading from e-readers, which, now that I have one, I'm finding to be extremely versatile. I love it.
However, I think we have two other major problems here that need to be addressed. 1. The economy, which is definitely keeping people from buying as many books, and 2, the fact that too many short-sighted politicians are cutting back so drastically on education.
Vast amounts of money that should be spent educating our children AND adults are going for such idiotic, politically-inspired costs that I don't even want to start listing them. We all know what they are.
Fix the economy so that so many of us can relax enough to buy books, and we will buy books.
Fix the education budget so more of our children and adults will learn not only to read, but also comprehend what they're reading.
Reading will never die, IMHO. I'm not too sure of our political system which continues to allow so many of our children to go virtually uneducated when the ability to read and comprehend is one of our nation's most pressing problems today.
- April 27, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
Here's an interesting study of reading habits in Shanghai, conducted for the Shanghai Commission of Economics and Information.
34% of those surveyed said they read fewer than 5 books a year. The number of frequent readers (5 to 30 books a year)dropped. Similar results have been reported in Beijing. In Guangzhou, however, people still read a lot.
- April 27, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- E. B. Davis said...
I tried really hard to instill a love of reading in my kids. It didn't work. My daughter spends too much time on facebook and watching TV and movies. My son is into music (so am I but not at the expense of reading).
I wish reading didn't remind kids of school work. Perhaps if video games, TV and movies were required in school...fat chance!
- April 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- Liz Lipperman said...
Great post, Sandra. A little scary...but good.
I was on a Caribbean cruise a few weeks ago, and I noticed how many readers were soaking up the sun with their favorite past time. I would say 85% of the readers had paperbacks, 5% hard covers and only about 10% held Kindles or some other e-readers.
I'm guessing the increase there was because of the lack of other forms of high-tech entertainment available.
Somehow, we have to make it so reading is again the relaxing reward we give ourselves at the end of a hard day's work. Sorry, I have no good solutions short of pulling the plugs on TVs and computers, which we both know isn't going to happen.
Wait. I do have one great solution --everyone needs to take more vacations!!
- April 27, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Kathleen Delaney said...
So right on. I don't know the answer, either. Even when you read to childen, TV, video games and Nintendo steal them away. And their parents. Curling up with a good book seems to be yesterday's pastime. Supporting our local libraries, and our local indies are about all we can do, and I agree that we should do it whole heartedly.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
Liz -- LOL! Most of us would go along with your more-vacations strategy to get people reading. For many, reading has become a luxury, something they indulge in when they have a big block of free time. Book addicts will continue to read all the time, everywhere, but for a lot of people reading is something they can easily shove into the background and turn to only occasionally.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Julie Godfrey Miller said...
Thanks for the great post. I can't even imagine one day without reading a book. (I'm even getting used to reading some e-books.) What wonderful worlds people are missing if they get all their "stories" from TV or movies. The pictures we create in our heads are soooooo much better than anything on the screen.
- April 27, 2011 at 11:53 AM
- Linda Leszczuk said...
I read to and provided books for my kids when they were young and I'm doing the same for my grandkids. Both my kids still enjoy reading but have trouble finding the time to do it. The grandkids enjoy reading but they're also too busy and more inclined to grab a video game or watch TV in their limited free time. Somewhere along the way we've lost the concept of spending an afternoon curled up with a good book. We're all just too darn busy.
- April 27, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- Linda O. Johnston said...
Scary, Sandy, but I'm afraid you're right. We need to find more ways to encourage people to read.
- April 27, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Good article, Sandy.
I hardly ever see anyone reading in doctors' offices, unless paging through a magazine counts.
- April 27, 2011 at 3:33 PM
- Morgan Mandel said...
I believe the new e-readers, such as Kindles, Nooks, etc., actually are encouraging more people to read. I don't see reading going out of style anytime soon.
Morgan Mandel
- April 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- Lynn said...
I recently went to a librarians' conference about eBooks and libraries. One speaker, Eli Neiburger, said that our population is literate -- they are more literate today than ever before; however, they just don't read long form fiction. So we need to go back to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thing and publish our long form fiction in newspapers (or blogs) and get people to read a snip-it every day.
- April 27, 2011 at 4:41 PM
- carl brookins said...
Yes, we do need to encourage and support reading development, but I'm not ready to throw in the towel. Not so long ago I was in a library to do an event. Fifteen youngsters not interested in our event were seated at the computer terminals. What were they doing? I looked. My goodness, they were reading screens filled with.....
words, sentences, paragraphs. Days later, in another library in another town, nine teenagers were concentrating on the computer screens in front of them. Again I looked and was shocked to discover they were all reading words.
Words on a page, words on a screen, reading is endemic and isn't going away any time soon.
- April 27, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Sandra Parshall said...
Everybody who uses a computer is reading words, but are they reading BOOKS? Are they interested in fiction at all? To survive in the modern world, you have to be able to read, but that doesn't always mean reading books.
- April 27, 2011 at 8:11 PM
- Sandra Parshall said...
I think fiction serves a great purpose in the world. It takes us to different places, inside the heads of different people, makes us see society in new ways -- and it exercises our imaginations in a way that no TV program or movie ever can. Reading fiction is a participatory activity, not simply sitting back passively while entertainment is delivered. You have to use your mind to read a novel. Fewer people seem to want to do that these days.
- April 27, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- Mizmak said...
Re: reading on the bus commute - this does concern me, because I've been commuting for 20 years to a university, and nearly all my fellow passengers are either staff or students there. I used to see lots of these folks reading books or journals or newspapers. Over the past few years, I've noted a definite decline in books and newspapers (still see a few journals) and a big increase in handheld electronic devices. Only a few seem to be ebook readers; the bulk are phones or ipads etc., and when I sneak peaks at them, they are checking email and playing video games.
The younger the commuter, the more likely they are to be texting or playing games. I'm one of the very few people left who is holding an actual book on the bus.
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The Swootchover
The Nike Football League is official and I feel the need to make a few comments.
In general, I don't care about what happened in Brooklyn yesterday but I do care greatly about football, my Bears and uniform design. Since the only real redesign to speak of from yesterday was the Seahawks, that's what I'll be covering.
First, let's talk about the Nike aspects that affect football:
Flywire Collar: Call it whatever you want - Flywire, Nikelace, Colombian Necktie, etc. - but I'm torn on this uni element. I feel like collars creeping up on people is an issue that bugs football players, it bugged me as a kid and I see a lot of players holding the collar back. Hell, Jay Cutler violently pulls on his collar, but perhaps that's to adjust his pads.
Listen, if it makes jerseys more comfortable, I think it might be worth it. But on some of the jerseys, it ruins the flow of the collar design. If you can't make the collar uniform all the way around, don't bother with this 'technology'.
New Jerseys: The main issue here is that the jerseys have different materials and when players begin to sweat, these different materials react differently and begin to appear as though they're two different colors, AKA the Sweatbox.
Basically, I don't really care. Listen, it's hard playing at your maximum output when you're starting to overheat. If this helps, I'm okay with it. What's the difference between this and pit stains on Gayle Sayers back in the '60s?
New Pants: This is a bit of a twofer.
First, the new pants feature a belt loop that includes padding at the hip that players might otherwise not wear. Now, this design infringes a bit on the pants stripes on many teams but if this prevents one player from missing one half of football on your team, the pads are well worth the small infringement on the pants' design.
There's a lot of reasons to hate Nike, but I don't think this is one of those reasons. This sort-of mandatory hip padding could be a great thing since most players would rather go without any hip padding due to a comfort issue.
Next is the same issue with the Jerseys: Different materials in different places. Pretty much the same as above, the issues seem negligible and the benefits are noticeable.
Now lets get to The Bears:
When I first saw the new Bears unis, I was mad. I was mad because the numbers on the new Nike jerseys are now on the shoulders rather than the sleeves. But now that I've had some time to mull it over I now think that it was a bit of an inevitability. Otherwise the sleeve stripes would've really suffered. It's not perfect, but it's understandable.
But I have a dream that one day sons of stripes and sons of TV numbers will be able to fit together at the table of uni-hood (specifically on the sleeve). All sleeve elements are created equal. I have a dream.
Other than that, the uniforms are pretty innocuous. They'll look primarily the same from a distance and that makes me happy. The 'GSH' is slightly bigger, but as long as it's there but not overwhelming, I could care less.
Finally, let's get to the Seahawks new designs:
I'm more surprised than any of you might be when I say this: I kinda like them.
Now, there's a bit too much going on on the jerseys (I don't need the triangle surrounding the swoosh, the asymmetrical 'Seahawks' and these green things around the collar need to go away) but there's some good stuff to work with.
And while I think the number font is stupid, that pants design is brilliant. I mean genius. It's a classic stripe with a unique take and local flavor (Haida art inspiration).
I think my biggest qualm with the helmet is that the helmet isn't gray. And if the helmet is gray I think they should only use the gray pants.
With some minor modifications, these uniforms might be some of my favorite modern uniforms in any sport.
A lot of the reaction is quite negative but I think these unis have potential. They're not great as of yet, but perhaps they will be, just like the great Titans' unis.
Well, those are my thoughts and I'm glad the NFL still looks like the NFL and I'm glad there's still room for me and my concepts to improve the NFL's image.


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Most of Henry County and Downstate Illinois collected less sales tax late in 2012 than in 2011.
But Kewanee saw an increase in sales tax collections in the last three months of 2012.
The Illinois Department of Revenue reported that, according to sales taxes collected in Kewanee in the fourth quarter of 2012, retail sales were about $48.62 million for the quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2011, sales totaled $480,227.
That 1.3 percent increase compares with a decrease of 3.4 percent for the quarter for Henry County as a whole, and a 2 percent decrease for all of Downstate Illinois.
"Great news; we saw an increase of 1.3 percent over the previous year," said Mark Mikenas, executive director of the Kewanee Chamber of Commerce.
"Doesn't sound like much," Mikenas said, "but compared to the county and Downstate communities as a whole we did outstanding."
The city's furniture and household goods category showed an 11.1 percent sales increase for the quarter. Also up were drinking and eating places (3.1 percent) and food sales (2.2 percent).
There were declines of 1.7 percent in drugs and other retail, and of 1 percent each in general merchandise and apparel.
"Kind of an up and down in the categories but no major deficits," Mikenas said. "For the year we had in excess of $190 million in sales in Kewanee," he said. "More than 2004, the year before we broke through the $200 million mark."
Kewanee retailers outperform rest of county, Downstate
Most of Henry County and Downstate Illinois collected less sales tax late in 2012 than in 2011.


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March 16, 2007
"The public will always believe a simple lie rather than a complex truth."
Dr. Gary Bannon '76 says that paraphrase of French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's aphorism sums up public fears concerning Monsanto Corporation's genetically modified (GM) crops.
"Of course, I'm from Monsanto." The company's lead researcher in global regulatory science smiled as he welcomed the audience on hand to hear him deliver this year's Haines Biochemistry Lecture. "But my aim here is to offer you a scientific view."
That science-based approach is often lost in the debate over GM crops.
"The scientific argument has mutated into a political argument," Bannon said, citing the battle in the European Union over the use of GM crops.
Bannon insists that fears regarding the company's GM crops—plants altered at the genome level to resist disease, pests, weeds or to improve nutrition or quality of the food—are unfounded.
"We've not had a clinically documented negative affect [caused by GM crops] in the 10 years since we started doing this," explained Bannon, who researched food allergies and taught for 17 years at the University of Arkansas Medical School before joining Monsanto in 2001. "The safety checks we use keep them safe. I don't believe every GM crop is necessarily safe, but those that go through the process we put them through are safe."
Bannon offered numerous explanations for the disconnect between scientific fact and public perception.
Quoting cosmologist Carl Sagan, Bannon said that "we've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster.
"We're not equipping society to use this technology," Bannon said. "People are unable to critically evaluate innovation based on the available information.
"And sometimes there is too much information."
Bannon pointed to Internet sites attacking the safety of GM crops.
"Anyone can put anything up on a web site," he said, adding that he'd received numerous email message earlier that morning concerning accusations made by such a site. "It's the same old argument repackaged by a different group, and it's not peer-reviewed or credible science."
Bannon admitted that Monsanto was partly to blame for not educating the public when GM crops were introduced in the early 1990s.
"We were naive, even arrogant at first. We assumed that science would tell the story," Bannon said. But with groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, Consumer Union, and Greenpeace questioning the safety of the crops on either health or environmental grounds, Monsanto has pumped up it's counterattack.
Bannon cited studies by the World Health Organization, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, and the International Life Sciences Institute supporting the use of GM crops.
"We publish our research in peer-review journals, and we work within academe," Bannon said, noting the contrast to many GM crop detractors.
And Bannon's job includes rebutting arguments by these groups, point by point, with peer-reviewed science.
Monsanto is also expanding its focus from farmers to consumers.
"Our first generation of crops focused on being farmer friendly—how these crops could benefit farmers," he said, referring particularly to the insect-resistant and herbicide resistant soybeans and corn that allowed growers to use broad-spectrum herbicides, reduce costs, and increase yields.
But the second generation of GM crops, Bannon said, includes clear benefits for consumers: corn with higher concentrations of the essential amino acid lysine; and soybeans carrying fewer trans-fats and more Omega-3 fatty acids.
Considering their benefits and safety in a world increasing in population, Bannon claimed "an ethical imperative" to expand the use of GM crops. But when Wabash senior Ben Tritle asked if a world food shortage or similar crisis might lead to acceptance by countries currently opposed to them, Bannon was doubtful.
"I'd like to think that crisis might change people's minds, but about two years ago, the U.S. shipped food from GM crops to an African country in the midst of a famine, and that donation was rejected," Bannon said. "They rejected it because it was genetically modified, and people died."
"The tide is turning, but it's going to be a long battle."
Photo above: Gary Bannon talks with Wabash chemistry professor Ann Taylor.


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UC Irvine's dance production based on "The Rite of Spring" may jolt the audience in places, but it won't have nearly the impact that the original did in 1913. And there are several people to blame for that.
Lenny Bruce. Hugh Hefner. The Sex Pistols. Quentin Tarantino. The creators of "South Park." And anyone else, frankly, who shocked the status quo over the last 100 years.
When "The Rite of Spring," the brainchild of composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, premiered in Paris, it drew one of the most infamous opening-night receptions in history. Some patrons booed, some rioted. Critics savaged the work for its dissonant melodies and provocative dancing, while respected composer Giacomo Puccini called it "the work of a madman."
Next week, UCI's Claire Trevor School of the Arts will present "Visions of The Rite of Spring," which takes Stravinsky and Nijinsky's original concept and twists it into a show even more outlandish. But in tackling such a project, director John Crawford faced a tough question: Can anything be truly outrageous in an age where anything goes?
"It's been in the forefront of my mind ever since we decided to do this," Crawford said. "It's pretty hard to shock people now the way 'The Rite of Spring' shocked people 100 years ago."
So even when UCI's production gets genuinely bizarre — say, when three women squeeze into a slender glass case and do a dance that seems to vacillate in and out of slow motion — it's unlikely that anyone in the crowd will throw punches or fire off an outraged letter to the editor. What they may do, if they're historically savvy, is ponder how jaded Western eyes and ears have grown since that day in Paris a century ago.
Still, "Visions of The Rite of Spring" may offer a few surprises for those who consider the original old hat. Only a small portion of the music adheres to Stravinsky's score, with other portions deconstructed or reimagined by faculty composers. The choreography, likewise, plays fast and loose with the source material.
And the dancers plan to do something that might not have been wise in 1913: letting the audience get right next to them. Before and after the main performances in the Claire Trevor Theatre, students and faculty will hold a separate show, titled "The Sacre Project," in the nearby Contemporary Arts Center. During that half-hour performance, visitors can roam freely and mill around the dancers in a setting that Crawford likens to an art gallery.
The program features dancers performing routines in five stations, or "pods," around the room before climaxing in the famous final scene of "The Rite of Spring." That would be the Sacrificial Dance, in which a young girl is selected as the Chosen One and forced to dance herself to death.
Professor Jodie Gates, who choreographed the segment, opted for a dose of art-imitates-life: Each of the 10 dancers who gather on the stage has practiced the Chosen One dance, but only one will be tapped to perform it at each show. Midway through the performance, Gates will order a spotlight shone on that dancer — who, like the character, will be surprised by the selection.
Undergraduate Karen Wing, one of the Chosen Ones, said the anticipation may feed into her performance when the time comes.
"Part of the emotions involved — being chosen and knowing you're dancing yourself to death, and having that sprung on you — I think you can use that," she said.
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What: "Visions of The Rite of Spring"
Where: Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UC Irvine
When: The main performance, "Dance Visions," starts at 8 p.m. Feb. 20 through 22, 2 and 8 p.m. Feb. 23, and 2 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Claire Trevor Theatre. "The Sacre Project," a separate dance performance, begins in the Contemporary Arts Center one hour before and one hour after each performance of "Dance Visions."
Cost: $11 to $20
Information: (949) 824-2787, http://www.arts.uci.edu/tickets or embodied.net/sacre


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