CBC News - British Columbia - B.C. gay basher gets 17-month sentence

CBC News - British Columbia - B.C. gay basher gets 17-month sentence


What is this judge thinking? He gave 17 months to the offender for a hate crime which resulted
in the fracturing of the victim's jaw?? Come on judge, there should be no leniency for a crime like this!

This judge needs to get out into  the real world. He has no idea what it is like to be hated by even
one other person in this world! I know what it is like!
Being hated changes your entire personality and even causes the
person being hated to incur severe health issues due to this disgusting behavior! If you are hated once,
it affects you for the rest of your life on this planetIt affects your self-esteem, it affects
your drive and motivation in life, and it can even lead to the victim trying suicide! Why should someone have to endure this kind of criminal behavior??

Analysis of Game 5 of the 2010 World Chess Championship

 Analysis of the Game 5 of the 2010 World Chess Championship:
(a)done by GM Christian Bauer and IM Alexander Ipatov can be viewed at this website:
http://live.chessdom.com/anand-topalov-2010-g5.html


(b)Comments by GM Susan Polgar regarding game 5,  for some reason are found at this link:
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2010/04/topalov-anand-g4-live-commentary.html

Frogs and humans are kissing cousins

"What's the difference between a frog, a chicken, a mouse and a human? Not as much as you'd think, according to an analysis of the first sequenced amphibian genome."

To find out more please visit the following website:http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100429/full/news.2010.211.html

Diminishing sea ice found to have key role in recent rise in Arctic temperatures

The central role of diminishing sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification

• James A. Screen

• & Ian Simmonds

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Journal name:Nature Volume:464,Pages:1334–1337Date published:(29 April 2010)  DOI: oi:10.1038/nature09051

Received

10 November 2009

Accepted

12 March 2010

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"The rise in Arctic near-surface air temperatures has been almost twice as large as the global average in recent decades^{1, 2, 3}—a feature known as ‘Arctic amplification’. Increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases have driven Arctic and global average warming^{1, 4}; however, the underlying causes of Arctic amplification remain uncertain. The roles of reductions in snow and sea ice cover^{5, 6, 7} and changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation^{8, 9, 10}, cloud cover and water vapour^{11, 12} are still matters of debate. A better understanding of the processes responsible for the recent amplified warming is essential for assessing the likelihood, and impacts, of future rapid Arctic warming and sea ice loss^{13, 14}. Here we show that the Arctic warming is strongest at the surface during most of the year and is primarily consistent with reductions in sea ice cover. Changes in cloud cover, in contrast, have not contributed strongly to recent warming. Increases in atmospheric water vapour content, partly in response to reduced sea ice cover, may have enhanced warming in the lower part of the atmosphere during summer and early autumn. We conclude that diminishing sea ice has had a leading role in recent Arctic temperature amplification. The findings reinforce suggestions that strong positive ice–temperature feedbacks have emerged in the Arctic¹⁵, increasing the chances of further rapid warming and sea ice loss, and will probably affect polar ecosystems, ice-sheet mass balance and human activities in the Arctic²."

Source: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/abs/nature09051.html#/

Game 5 of 2010 World Chess Championship drawn

Game 5 of the World Chess Championship between  GM's Anand and Topalov was played today
in Sofia, Bulgaria. The result of the game was a draw in 44 moves. You can play through the moves
of this game by going to this website:http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/sofia/games/sofia05.htm
This draw result means the match score is

The next game in the match will be on Saturday,with Anand having the advantage of the
white pieces.

Analysis of Zhu Chen-Hou Yifan Chess game from round 4 of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix

I have just completed the analysis of another chess game. This game comes from round 4
of the current Women's Grand Prix Chess tournament, and is between
former World Chess Champion Zhu Chen of Qatar  and GM Hou Yifan of China.
This game is game number 51, in the Chessviewer Deluxe game index, and involves
the Nimzo-Indian Defense. In this game GM  Hou Yifan pounces on an error by
her opponent with a beautiful tactic to win the game!

Here is some information concerning the two players in this game I have analyzed for you:

Zhu Chen – The (Qatari) Chinese Chess Player

September 26, 2008 by Wang Daiyu

"Zhu Chen is a Chinese born convert and chess grandmaster who is married to a Qatari Chessmaster Mohamad Al-Modiahki. She is now a Qatari citizen and represents Qatar at the international level."

(source of text and image: http://islaminchina.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/zhu-chen-the-qatari-chinese-chess-player/ " In 2001,she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and in that same year

she became China's 13th Grandmaster.At the age of 25 she defeated Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia in a tournament for the 2001/2002 Women's World Chess Championship, by 5-3, becoming the eleventh champion. She won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship in 1994 and 1996.

Zhu gave up the chance to defend her world title in Georgia in May 2004 due to a jammed schedule and her pregnancy.Zhu is married to Qatari Grandmaster Mohamad Al-Modiahki, and now represents Qatar. 

(source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Chen )

16- year old Hou Yifan (source of image: http://perachess.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/චෙස්-ලොවේ-ලාබාලතම-මහදුරු/hou-yifan-china/ was born on February 27,1994. and  is a "chess prodigy, who in 2008, became the youngest ever female in history (at the age of 14 years 6 months) to qualify for the title of Grandmaster.In June 2007, she became China's youngest ever National Women's Champion, and in September 2008 she became the youngest ever finalist for the Women's World Championship title.Hou started playing chess regularly at the age of 6, but became fascinated with the game when she was 3 years old. "I took up chess because I was fascinated by the pieces - I just liked it. In the future, I want to be a professional chess player or maybe study to be a doctor", she said in 2007." (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Yifan)

I hope you enjoy playing through this game!

3rd Women's Chess Grand Prix:Round 4 results and standings

All but one of the games at today's fourth round of the FIDE Woman's Grand  Prix Chess tournament
had a decisive result today in Nalchik: (it is very interesting that in four of these decisive games
the player of the black pieces won the game!). Here are the results from round 4 (the player
on the left had the white pieces in the game): source of information: http://nalchik2010.fide.com/

Round 4 on 2010/04/29 at 15:00
SNo.		Name	Rtg	Res.		Name	Rtg	SNo.
12	GM	Zhu Chen	2476	0 - 1	GM	Hou Yifan	2570	8
9	GM	Zhao Xue	2490	0 - 1	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2503	7
10	IM	Danielian Elina	2491	0 - 1	GM	Cramling Pia	2523	6
11	WGM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2428	0 - 1	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2524	5
1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2479	1 - 0	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2244	4
2	WGM	Kovanova Baira	2385	½ - ½	GM	Koneru Humpy	2622	3

These results mean the following standings exist after 4 rounds of play:

ank	SNo.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pts.
1	5	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2524	RUS	*							1		1	½	1	3½
2	1	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2479	GEO		*		1	½	1			½				3
3	6	GM	Cramling Pia	2523	SWE			*				½	½			½	1	2½
4	2	WGM	Kovanova Baira	2385	RUS		0		*	½				½	1			2
	3	GM	Koneru Humpy	2622	IND		½		½	*					0		1	2
	4	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2244	TUR		0				*				½	1	½	2
	7	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2503	ARM			½				*	½	0		1		2
	8	GM	Hou Yifan	2570	CHN	0		½				½	*	1				2
	12	GM	Zhu Chen	2476	QAT		½		½			1	0	*				2
10	11	WGM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2428	MGL	0			0	1	½				*			1½
11	9	GM	Zhao Xue	2490	CHN	½		½			0	0				*		1
12	10	IM	Danielian Elina	2491	ARM	0		0		0	½						*	½

Here are the pairings for round 5
(the player on the left has the white pieces in the game):

Round 5 on 2010/04/30 at 15:00
SNo.		Name	Rtg	Res.		Name	Rtg	SNo.
3	GM	Koneru Humpy	2622	-	GM	Zhu Chen	2476	12
4	WIM	Yildiz Betul Cemre	2244	-	WGM	Kovanova Baira	2385	2
5	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2524	-	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2479	1
6	GM	Cramling Pia	2523	-	WGM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2428	11
7	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2503	-	IM	Danielian Elina	2491	10
8	GM	Hou Yifan	2570	-	GM	Zhao Xue	2490	9

Best wishes to all of the players for round 5!