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B. Less challenging but safer would be 6. . . . B-N2, to hinder 7. P-K4. |
C. This natural developing move forces a weakness in Black's kingside. Now 9. . . . P-N3; 10. P-KR4 would be even more ominous for Black. |
D. Black plays consistently for pressure on the queen's wing. It is not obvious, at this point, that the precarious emplacement of this knight will shortly allow White an attractive combination. |
E. Removing the queen from the queen file to be able to threaten the QBP. But now the fireworks begin. |
F. Much sterner than 17. . . . PxB; 18. Q-Q2, NxNP (White threatened the knight on the rim as well as the KRP); 19 QxP, P-B4; 20. PxP e.p., RxP; 21. Q-R7 ch, K-B1; 22. Q-R8 ch, K-B2; 23. N-K5 mate. The next few moves center on White's attempt to transfer his queen to the attack via his K4 square. |
G. Still preventing 20. Q-K4. |
H. Black has to take measures against 23. Q-B4 and 24. Q-R4 ch. |
I. Now White must take care. 27. Q-R4 is adequately met by P-N3, and Black is threatening 27. . . . R-Q5, winning the QBP. |
J. Probably better than 29. . . . QxRP; 30. Q-N5 and 31. N-R5 and White's attack is very virulent despite the paucity of pieces. |
K. It is not easy for Black to formulate a successful defense. After the text, White could respond strongly with 36. R-Q1, intending 37. R-Q8, though the text move is also quite good. The players were short of time at this point. |
L. 40. Q-B8 mate is unavoidable. |
Aware many others believe the mountain is actually a foot taller, I raised my hand to get the scoop from Alex Van Steen, our lead guide from Rainier Mountaineering Inc. |
The elevation of Mount Rainier’s summit changes all the time. |
Because there is no exposed rock at Rainier’s highest point, the summit rises and falls depending on the temperature, snowfall and summit traffic. |
For those who make a living on the mountain, the summit seemed especially low this summer. |
Well, it’s not that simple. |
Standing on the summit last year, I got a reading that wasn’t even close. After adding my geoid height (the difference between mean sea level and the ellipsoid), my handset said 14,151 feet above sea level. |
Soon surveyors in Washington will be able to measure Rainier – and everything else in the state – even more accurately. |
The state is installing a web of continuously running GPS stations called the Washington State Reference Network. |
It wouldn’t be fair to point out the inconsistencies of others without taking a shot at ourselves. |
The News Tribune has bounced between both elevations since the 1999 GPS measurement. We used 14,411 feet in stories last summer, but we’ve used the shorter height in stories as recently as last month. We don’t have an official elevation in our local stylebook. |
Hardly the consistency you’d expect from an organization that not only prides itself on accuracy but also has the mountain in its logo. |
However, after researching this story, we’ve decided to settle on 14,411 feet as our official style. |
Moto can't make massive royalty demands over standards-based patents. |
Microsoft has won a breach-of-contract trial against rival Motorola, with the jury awarding the Redmond software giant just over $14.5 million in damages. About $11 million of that is for violating its contract obligations, and $3 million is to offset Microsoft's legal expenses. |
The jury found that by trying to license its standard-essential patents for astronomical sums, Motorola violated the promises it made to the groups that controlled those standards, such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). |
The result of Microsoft getting some payment in this case is not surprising, since it's a follow-up to a November trial in the same court that Microsoft essentially won. In November, US District Judge James Robart set what he saw as an appropriate rate for licensing Motorola's standards-based patents—about $1.8 million... |
Essentially, Motorola argued that because Microsoft started the fight by suing for patent infringement, Moto's obligations to license its patents on a "reasonable and non-discriminatory" basis ended, and it should be allowed to demand high payments as a negotiating tactic. Judge Robart disagreed, setting a far lower pa... |
Regarding the jury verdict, made public late yesterday, Microsoft stated: "The jury's verdict is the latest in a growing list of decisions by regulators and courts telling Google to stop abusing patents." |
A Motorola spokesman told Reuters: "We're disappointed in this outcome but look forward to an appeal of the new legal issues raised in this case." |
Microsoft has been insisting that any company using Android must pay for its patents. Most Android phones now have such licensing, and Google-owned Motorola is the last large holdout according to Microsoft. |
Ali Kordan, Iran’s interior minister, faces impeachment after admitting to padding his resume with a bogus degree from Oxford University, The Guardian reports. Kordan says he won’t resign, though he is willing to apologize. In the meantime, he has President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s support. Ahmadinejad has claimed that be... |
Oct 23, 2018 4:59 PM - Damage is already being done by climate change I am encouraged to see that the Daily Herald has taken a proactive position regarding the consequences of climate change to our health, safety and economy. The NHTSA report cited in your editorial along with the recent report by the UN Intergovernmen... |
Oct 23, 2018 4:21 PM - Daily Herald editors provided an inside look at how the newspaper and website come together Wednesday night during the fourth in a series of "Facts Matter" presentations at Northwest Suburban High School District 214's headquarters in Arlington Heights. |
Oct 19, 2018 3:59 PM - The Daily Herald Business Ledger and its sponsoring partners will honor 20 suburban women executives in the 21st Annual Influential Women in Business Awards recognition event on Nov. 2. |
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Oct 19, 2018 11:42 AM - On Wednesday, Oct. 24, Elgin Community College will host the second event of its new "Critical Engagement" series with "Globally Gay." |
Oct 19, 2018 10:35 AM - Forty years after John Carpenter's horror tale "Halloween" scared audiences in 1978, Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprise their iconic characters in a climactic showdown. |
Oct 18, 2018 6:44 PM - On Monday, Oct. 22, the Chamber Music on the Fox will present the music of Schumann, Bridge, and Faure in a program titled "The Romantics." |
Oct 18, 2018 5:05 PM - This week in music: The Ataris celebrates 15 years of "So Long, Astoria" at Bottom Lounge with Guardrail and Bury Me in Lights, Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox gets the joint jumpin' at the Genesee and Nightmare on Chicago Street scares up some musical guests for the zombie apocalypse. |
Oct 18, 2018 1:44 PM - While the Dodgers and Brewers played an excruciating 5-hour game Tuesday night, FS1 analysts Frank Thomas, David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez wondered what they were watching. |
Oct 18, 2018 12:56 PM - Authorities said an Alsip man has been charged with reckless homicide and aggravated DUI for a June 2018 crash into a tree on Elgin's near west side that killed his passenger, a 25-year-old Elgin woman. Dave E. Flynn, 24, was not legally drunk, but active THC is his body exceeded the legal thres... |
Reza Khabazian: "Here I was in America, with freedom of speech, and I was afraid to speak out against Ayatollah Khomeini." |
The first thing you notice about Iranians is their language. Farsi is filled with soft a's, like the a in father, and sh's, as in shore. "Sh" occurs often because it appears in shoma, meaning "you," and in suffixes indicating possession: -- esh, for his, hers, and its; -- eshan for their. (Nan, bread. Naneshan, their b... |
Ghazal Badiozamani: "I may be from Iran, but I'm not from the country that it's now become." |
Listen closely and you might hear a few words you recognize. Farsi is an Indo-European language: madar, mother; pedar, father; baradar, brother; dokhtar, daughter or girl. There aren't enough familiar words for an English speaker to understand Farsi conversation, but its sound is seductive. You can understand why Irani... |
Shahri Estakhry Aghassi: "What will people think? What are those crazy Iranians doing at La Jolla Shores jumping over fires?" |
"When I was in elementary school," remembers 22-year-old Ghazal Badiozamani, "I'd come home filled with news. Things I couldn't wait to tell my mother. I'd run through the front door, and I start talking to my mother in English and she'd say, in Farsi, 'Wait. Stop. I can't understand what you're saying. Tell me in Fars... |
Badiozamani just graduated from Stanford and will attend the London School of Economics this fall. When she was a little girl her parents sent her to study Farsi at the Iranian School of San Diego. Shahri Estakhry Aghassi established the school in 1987 after she'd moved to San Diego from North Carolina. |
Estakhry is a small woman who wiggles in her seat when she talks about Persian culture. Mention the 14th Century poet Hafez and Estakhry's delicate hands shoot into the air, "Oh, my! Hafez! Our greatest poet. Every Iranian knows his poems. They're so, so beautiful. If only you could understand them in the original! The... |
Estakhry comes from Shiraz, a city in southern Iran famous for poetry. Hafez lived and died there, as did Saadi, another great Persian poet. Estakhry thinks, but does not know, that many of San Diego's 40- to 50,000 Iranians come from Shiraz. "The two cities," she says, "share a wonderful climate." Estakhry speaks of S... |
"The whole idea of starting the Iranian School of San Diego came to me one day when my daughter called to speak to her grandmother, my mother, in Iran. My mother told her, 'Listen, phone calls are too expensive. Write me a letter.' My daughter couldn't read or write Farsi. The idea of giving her classes myself seemed t... |
"Very soon we had a board of directors -- wonderful people, professional people -- who wanted to donate their time to the project. We started our classes at All Hallows and have moved around from various locations ever since, renting classrooms from public schools on Saturdays. So far, more than 1000 children have atte... |
"I am, of course, most proud of our students, of the children. Of all that have graduated from our program, I can't think of a single one who hasn't gone on to obtain at least a bachelor's degree. Almost all of them are professionals -- doctors, dentists, engineers, computer scientists, lawyers, microbiologists." |
Estakhry has a point. Only one in ten Iranian immigrants holds a blue-collar job. In 1980, the last year for which statistics of this kind are available, 40 percent of Iranian immigrants held a bachelor's or advanced degree -- a percentage twice that among all other foreign-born immigrants, and two and a half times as ... |
"In that respect," says Badiozamani, Estakhry's former pupil, "I guess I'm pretty typical. We came here when I was two years old, and among the Iranian families I grew up with in San Diego, it wasn't a question of if you were going to college. It was which graduate degree you were going to take. There's considerable pr... |
It's hard now to imagine Badiozamani screaming and crying. She's a lithe, self-assured, pretty young woman with large dark eyes that shine when she talks about her move to London in October. The prospect of life in the big city excites her. Her Stanford boyfriend, the son of a UN diplomat and a judge on the Indian Supr... |
"Of course, my career choice," says Badiozamani, "is totally off the wall for an Iranian girl. I want to work in international development, to work with an international, nongovernmental agency involved in either medical or economic aid to countries in the Third World. My father, who held an undergraduate degree in Rom... |
"This idea comes from their experience of the revolution. Even though I'm American, I can understand it. I can understand many things like that. I'm basically a blend of two different cultures, a blend, I hope, of what's best in both. I can now understand my parents' position on dating, although when I was in high scho... |
While at the London School of Economics, Badiozamani hopes to travel in Europe. She'd also like to visit North Africa and perhaps Israel. She has no plans to visit Iran. |
"Why would I go there? To a place where women aren't respected, where women have no voice, where you can be arrested for wearing makeup? I may be from Iran, but I'm not from the country that it's now become. No. There's no place for me there. My father went back just recently, and I begged him not to go. I knew it woul... |
Forty-nine-year-old Reza Khabazian has no plans to visit Iran, either. Tall, lanky, with long graying hair, Khabazian, like many Iranians, is hard to place ethnically. He could be Hispanic or East Indian. His accent, too, which is very slight, is difficult to define. He left with his wife and one-year-old son just two ... |
"I'm one of six children from a very, very religious family. Of my entire extended family, I'm the only one who isn't religious. I'd estimate that in all of Iran, there were only about 500,000 people like me, people who'd made the transition of coming from an exclusively religious environment into a secular one. Becaus... |
"It was only after I left home when I was 18 that I could begin to study music. I had wanted to learn the violin, but to religious people, secular music is a sin. The violin was an instrument of the devil. My family would have never allowed me to play it. The funny thing is that when I first came to America, I went to ... |
"We didn't stay in south Texas for long. Shortly after I finished my degree, a friend from San Diego came to visit and he said, 'What are you guys doing here? Move to San Diego!' So we did, and it was here that I began to get involved in Iranian classical music. I began to study the setar, which is a four-stringed trad... |
"I have my own landscaping business, and that allows me to devote two days a week to my music. For me, traditional Iranian music, playing it, is a kind of prayer. I don't even associate it very much with Iran, with the place or the people. It's not painful for me to play it. The music is, I think, very universal. It's ... |
"For the past three years I've been working on a musical called Arash that's based on a book that was written in verse by an Iranian poet 30 years ago. The book was based on a very ancient Iranian story about a war between Iran and Turkey and a hero named Arash. At the end of the war, when it was time to reestablish th... |
"I've set the book's verses to music. The play uses 15 dancers and 6 actors. It will be performed on October 17 at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. From there, I hope, it will go on to other cities. It's being sponsored by the Persian Cultural Center, and I know Shahri Estakhry is excited about it." |
She is. She's also excited because in the fall, she hopes, construction will begin in Balboa Park, among the other Houses of Pacific Relations, on a House of Iran. The project has taken two years to realize, and although Estakhry sometimes wonders if the length of the process, the incessant bureaucratic wrangling didn'... |
"You must understand," she says, "the attitude toward Iranians when we first came here. The revolution. The hostage crisis. People thought we, who'd fled the revolution, were all terrorists. We were all suspect. Now, I think, finally, that's all behind us. We're Americans. We fit in. Like other nationalities, we'll hav... |
"I was on an Iranian television show recently, a cable-access show, and we were debating what to do about the holiday called Chahar Shanbeth Suri. It's a very old, pre-Islamic holiday, and one of the things we do on it is build a fire and jump over it. It's for good luck, for purification. People were debating whether ... |
Skin cancers linked to indoor tanning are estimated to have cost the U.S. health care system hundreds of millions of dollars in 2015, a new study says. |
“Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and its incidence is increasing, due in part to the increase in the use of tanning devices,” said study author Hugh Waters. He’s a health economist and associate professor at the University of North Carolina. |
“We know these devices have significant health and financial impacts, and with this study we wanted to establish these impacts clearly to support efforts to reduce their use, especially among younger people,” Waters added. |
Researchers estimate there were 263,000 U.S. cases of tanning device-related skin cancers in 2015. The total medical costs for those cases reached an estimated $343 million. |
Also, the researchers said those skin cancers will lead to a total economic loss of $127 billion over the lifetime of those patients. |
The researchers called for effective policies and strategies to reduce the use of tanning devices and their significant health and financial effects. |
The study findings were published Feb. 28 in the Journal of Cancer Policy. |
Despite the known dangers, Americans’ use of indoor tanning rose over the last 20 years. About 30 million people now use the devices at least once a year. There are approximately 25,000 tanning salons nationwide, the researchers said. |
“Tanning devices cause hundreds of thousands of people to suffer a number of different diseases, costing billions of dollars and, most importantly, people’s lives,” Waters said in a journal news release. |
“We hope that our results will help in the efforts toward reducing the use of tanning devices,” he added. |
Doctors Find Nearly 44 Socks Inside a Dog's Stomach -- CRAZY! |
Have you ever wondered where all your missing socks go? It never fails -- every time I do the laundry, a sock or two just plain disappears. Is there a sock-eating monster living in the dryer? I can't explain my situation, but apparently one household does have a sock-eating beast under their roof. After a family rushed... |
I'll let that sink in: THE DOG ATE NEARLY 44 SOCKS. |
Maybe "ate" isn't exactly the right word -- more like swallowed. |
So 43 socks. For a family of four, that's 10 socks per family member. Which means up to five pairs have been split up, though at this volume, the dog did probably end up swallowing a few full pairs. Regardless, that's a whole lotta socks. |
And that begs the question: How did the family not notice the disappearance of 43 socks? It would take some time for an animal to chow down that many pieces, I would think. But then I don't have a dog. Maybe rapid consumption of socks is one of the many talents of Great Danes. Maybe this is the canine Kobayashi of sock... |
While I'm asking questions, what is it about socks that makes them more delicious than, say, briefs? I get that their size makes them easy to swallow. But why ONLY socks? Is it the smell? Ew, I don't even want to contemplate that idea. |
Finally, the truly gross question: Will the family wash and continue using the socks retrieved from their pet's belly? Just kidding -- of course they won't. Although I would not be thrilled with the prospect of replacing so many socks. Cha-ching! Not a fun expense. |
No, actually, the real question should be: Is this poor pooch all right? Well, the 3-year-old dog endured over two hours of surgery and came out just fine. Back to its usual tricks, I'm sure! |
What's the craziest thing your pet has ever eaten? |
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow)-A 1940's big band Hawaii show called "Pacific Swing Hawaii" is saluting the military tomorrow night. Nathan Osmond is here with more and we can still see that Tannya has some great dance moves. Check out the video! |
Boise Music Week kicks off this month, so brace yourself for 10 days of concerts, dance performances and theater. |
Mother’s Day Brunch: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 12, Huston Vineyards, 16473 Chicken Dinner Road, Caldwell. Wine, brunch catered by Open Table Boise, music by Steve Eaton. $60 general, $55 wine club members, includes a commemorative wine glass. 208-455-7975, hustonvineyards.com. |
Mother’s Day Tea and Fashion Show: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 12, The Bishop’s House, 2420 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise. Traditional tea, followed by Gina White from House of Whyte “Dressing the Titanic Lady,” featuring historic costuming creations. $40. 208-342-3279, thebishopshouse.org/page/events. |
Mother’s Day Brunch: 9 to 10 a.m. Sunday, May 13, Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive. Buffet breakfast, animal presentation, zookeeper talk and a special gift for all mothers. Then have the rest of the day to explore the zoo. $34 general, $19 children 3-11, free for ages 2 and younger. Discounts for annual pass holders. ... |
Free round of mini golf for moms on Mother’s Day: 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday, May 13, Wahooz Family Fun Zone, 1385 S. Blue Marlin Lane, Meridian (next to Roaring Springs). 208-898-0900, wahoozfunzone.com. |
Mother’s Day Brunch: Seating times from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 13, Chateau des Fleurs, 175 S. Rosebud Lane, Eagle. $49 general, $29 children 10 and younger. 208-386-9196, chateaueagle.com. |
Mother’s Day Celebration: Noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 13, Hells Canyon Winery, 18835 Symms Road, Caldwell. Wine tasting, music from Gabe Hess Entertainment, lawn games, food for purchase from Kanak Attack and Il Segreto Pizza. $15 general, $12 wine club members, includes a souvenir glass and wine tasting, at eventbrite.... |
Mother’s Day Concert w/The Fabulous Chancellors: Gates at 11 a.m. and concert at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 13, Ste. Chapelle Winery. $12 general, $10 wine club members, at eventbrite. $15 and $12 at the door. |
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