Gelfandmania in Israel and the online Israel-Spain match

Gelfandmania in Israel and the online Israel-Spain match
27.06.2012 ? Gelfandmania has officially taken over Israel after Boris Gelfand's title run. He has appeared on TV, met the prime minister, given countless interviews and even been parodied by a famous comedy show. More importantly, he has sparked a huge interest in chess, leading to the match between Israeli and Spanish schools made possible through Playchess. GM Boris Alterman shares all.

The Show Goes On

By Boris Alterman

After his impressive attempt to wrest the world title from Vishy Anand, resulting in a draw in their classical match, Boris Gelfand has become a national hero in Israel. In fact, he is now a super star in Israel with numerous TV appearances, newspaper interviews, and meeting with the Prime Minister etc.

Recently Boris became even a more popular as a parody star in one of the most popular comic show on Israeli TV,"Eretz Nehederet".

This is how a satirized Gelfand looks - Click here for the actual episode

In fact, on the recent TV show "Dancing in with the Stars (Israel)", chess was one of the main items.

Israeli TV Channel 10 has also made a nice report about "chess in school program" in its Prime Time News:

Gelfandomania in Israel - "More and more schools and kindergartens in Israel include chess into their curriculum".

In this video you may see one of the most famous Savyon "Chess in school program"

Adi Tzimmerman, the Israeli Under 12 Girls Champion and product of the Savyon "chess in school program"?plays a?journalist, while beating him in just 3 min. We also see a heavily equipped computer room where kids study chess, solve puzzles, play and work with text books, and Grandmaster Boris Alterman explains the important role of chess in the education system.

There are many Russian emigrants who are still looking for a partner in the park and watching closely after Gelfand.

At the end of the video we see a school from Tel-Aviv Jaffa, where most of the kids are Israeli Arabs studying chess. One of the kids made a great impression on journalists when was asked about a game of chess.

"Is chess a quiet game?" - "It seems quiet but my mind is athletic!"

Israel beats Spain ? not in soccer but in chess!?

This year Savyon "Chess in school program" made its next move - On June 18 the first Internet match between two elementary schools took place, one from Savyon (Israel) and one from Salou (Spain).?Savyon's municipality is the small town near Tel-Aviv area with 3500 people. SHowing progressive thinking, it decided to include chess lessons into its education system as early as 2007. Savyon's Mayor Moshik Lipetz believes that chess improves dramatically the scoring level of the students, their mind skills.

Savyon's Mayor Moshik Lipetz

Kids study chess from the Kindergarten up to 3rd?grade, when many also participate in after school chess activities once a week, participating in the regional and national school championships.

The two teams met on the Playchess server with five players playing a double round match at 20min +10 sec increment.

The children from the Salou school in Spain smile for a picture of their online match

"All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up"

Grandmaster Arthur Kogan, captain of Salou team, with his class

GM Arthur Kogan reported:

We?lost the first round by 4.5-0.5, but in the second round?our youth nearly caused a sensation?(versus?experienced Israel's school!).

We began with two big wins and 2-0 scoring for Salou and ... a good advantage in the other games ... only at the last moment the advantage of experience helped?and Savyon?turned the tables and won all three games, so we lost by the minimal score 3-2?and an overall 7.5-2.5.

Players from both teams were?happy?and excited.?Bravo to all children of the Savyon School and School of Salou and thanks to the council and club members for helping make this wonderful initiative! Until next time!

The computer room of the Sayvon school

GM Boris Alterman

The match was projected onto a screen so the children could follow

Of course, some preferred to just walk around

The children loved the idea and had a great time

Playchess sysop, Holger Lieske, was a key figure in ensuring a fluid event

Savyon Players: Adi Tzimmerman, Or Ben Shahar, Nitzan Roi, Tom Broyda, Daniel
Moldavsky and the Reserve were Simovich Ariel and Daniel Tzimerman together with
their teachers.

Deepest thanks Holger Lieske and the Playchess/ChessBase team for the great help in organizing the event.

Copyright ChessBase

Source: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8282

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This Hour: Latest North Carolina news, sports, business and entertainment

HEAT WAVE

Days of triple-digit heat heading to parts of NC

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Triple-digit heat is heading to North Carolina, and parts of the state may experience 100-degree temperatures for five days.

The National Weather Service says the high temperatures will move in Friday and could stay through Tuesday. The heat is the result of high pressure moving in from the Central Plains.

Most people can retreat to the air-conditioned indoors, but not everyone has that option. The Durham Rescue Mission is opening its doors not only to the homeless but also to people who don't have air-conditioning.

The N.C. Medical Society is watching the heat because part of its air-conditioning system is being replaced this weekend. Their workers will go home, but the contractor could still pull the plug on the project if it's unsafe for employees to be outside.

HEALTH CARE RULING-NC

NC lawmakers won't act on part of US health reform

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina lawmakers have no plans to meet a deadline to create a new one-stop shop to help individuals and small businesses find affordable health insurance despite a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

State Senate leader Phil Berger said Thursday that senators do not intend to take up legislation this year to create a health benefit exchange. The 2010 federal health care overhaul requires all states to have an exchange. Legislation passed the state House last year.

State plans for the markets are due to the federal government by this fall. The federal government will create exchanges for states that don't have them by 2014. Only 14 states and Washington D.C. have adopted a plan for carrying out the law creating exchanges that steer middle-class households to private plans.

PERDUE-BUDGET

NC gov tries to get lawmakers moving on budget

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue is trying again to persuade Republican legislative leaders to negotiate with her so that changes for next year's North Carolina state budget will take effect on time.

Perdue said Thursday in a statement there is an additional $117 million in revenue this year available to use for public schools, to hire probation and parole officers and meet other needs.

The General Assembly sent last week sent Perdue budget adjustments for the year starting July 1. She has until Sunday to veto the bill or let it become law. She said the bill falls short in education spending.

Budget-writer and GOP Sen. Pete Brunstetter downplayed Perdue's statement as misleading. He says the extra revenue is largely a timing issue and North Carolina's financial picture is no better.

BUS HIJACKED-SENTENCE

Virginia man sentenced for NC bus hijacking

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A Virginia man who pleaded guilty to hijacking a bus that was later stopped in North Carolina has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.

Thirty-3-year-old Jose Darwin Flores of Arlington, Va., pleaded guilty earlier this year to violence against a mass transportation provider.

Flores was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Raleigh to 235 months in prison.

Prosecutors say Flores was arrested near Henderson in April 2011 after he allowed the bus Greyhound driver to stop at a gas station. Prosecutors say Flores had taken over the bus with a pellet gun shortly after it crossed into North Carolina on a Washington, D.C.-to-Miami route.

Flores tried to drive away from the gas station but was unable to disengage the emergency brake and was stopped by police.

JUVENILE SENTENCES-NC

NC legislators seek to comply with federal ruling

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina House members are trying to use the last days of the legislative session to comply with The U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down automatic life sentences without parole for youths convicted of murder.

A bill in the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday seeks to get North Carolina into compliance with the federal ruling. It would require minors convicted of murder to serve a 25-year minimum sentence before parole. North Carolina is 1 of the nearly 30 states that make life without parole the mandatory sentence for youths who commit certain types of murder.

Legislators say they want to tweak the law because of the 88 people in state prisons that the federal law would retroactively affect.

House members created a subcommittee to work on the idea this weekend.

SENATE-TOLL PROJECTS

NC DOT letters inquiry heading to ethics panel

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The flap over letters sent to legislators that appeared to reverse a high-ranking North Carolina Department of Transportation official's previous statements on two toll projects is heading to the State Ethics Commission.

The Senate Rules Committee voted along party lines Thursday to send the case to the ethics panel for further review.

Aides of Gov. Beverly Perdue edited letters sent under a transportation department executive's electronic signature to legislators before a key budget vote. The executive was out of pocket at the time of the edits and later disavowed the letters.

Rules Chairman Sen. Tom Apodaca of Hendersonville said it's time for the commission to evaluate whether the changes were designed to mislead the Senate.

Democrats on the committee said there's nothing to show anyone tried to deceive legislators.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14880113

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Syria's Assad faces growing rebel, foreign threat

LONDON, June x (Reuters) - With a high profile attack on a government TV station, escalating fighting around Damascus and talk of increasing covert foreign support, Syria's rebels are bringing the fight ever closer to Bashar Al Assad.

In a speech on Tuesday night, Assad said the country was now "at war" and that all sectors of the government and country must devote their energies to the war effort. A string of recent military defections suggest even some of his supporters may have had enough, but most analysts and foreign officials believe his government could cling on well into 2013.

With the shooting down of a Turkish reconnaissance jet on Friday the latest sign of the creeping internationalization of the conflict, there are growing signs outside powers may be dragged in ever deeper whether they want to or not.

For now, few believe there is any imminent prospect of the kind of foreign military intervention seen last year to oust Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi. But one lesson from last year almost certainly does carry across, analysts say: that the true endgame, if it comes, will be in the capital.

In Libya, opposition fighters with smuggled and parachuted weapons and supported by Arab and Western special forces advisers swept into Tripoli often unchallenged. Such scenes in Syria, however, could still be a relatively long way away.

"Damascus is key - it's the place where you can cut the head off the snake," says David Hartwell, Middle East analyst at IHS Jane's. "The attack on the television station is obviously a new departure... but there have been attacks and uprisings in Damascus before that haven't led to anything. The question is whether they can continue it."

According to Syrian state media, opposition fighters stormed the compound of pro-government broadcaster Ikhbariya, located 20 km (15 miles) south of the capital, destroying a building and shooting dead three employees.

Tuesday also saw unprecedented levels of fighting elsewhere in Damascus suburbs including around the headquarters of the Republican Guard, although it appeared to ease again on Wednesday.

In principle, world powers remain committed to the diplomacy of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. But some diplomats believe international talks on Syria scheduled for this weekend in Geneva may not even take place, so great are the divisions.

Despite western hopes that Russia might be persuaded to abandon long-time ally Assad, Moscow appears determined to back him - making it clear it intended to ensure delivery of several attack helicopters despite widespread condemnation.

At the same time, having initially held back, Western states and particularly Arab nations appear to be stepping up support for the rebels.

Turkey is allowing the Free Syrian Army safe haven within its territory. Following the jet incident it may well be willing to increase its own support and allow nations to do the same.

"My sense is that the (Turkish jet) shootdown certainly escalates regional tensions and increases the possibility over the horizon for (longer term) military intervention," said Mona Yacoubian, a former US State Department official and now Middle East adviser at Washington DC think tank the Stimson Centre.

INTERVENTION HUGELY DIFFICULT

Earlier this month, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said rather than looking for a Libya-style campaign, foreign powers should see Syria as more akin to 1990s Bosnia.

That, some including foreign office officials believe, was aimed at suggesting that regardless of intent, other states including Britain might ultimately be forced to become militarily engaged.

But a serious intervention could require tens of thousands of troops, comparable to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. With Western states in particular exhausted by recent wars and economic woes, enthusiasm is limited.

The fact that a Turkish jet was blown from the sky with such apparent ease, experts warn, is a potent reminder of the risks.

Only the United States could inflict the kind of overwhelming assault on Syria's air defenses necessary to open the door for broader action. That could require two aircraft carriers and likely dozens or more other aircraft from Turkish, Cypriot and other bases, military sources say.

Syria's air defenses are far more powerful than the those of Gaddafi's Libya last year or Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2003. U.S. air forces have not taken on such a task at least since Kosovo in 1999.

"It would be exceptionally difficult to establish a no-fly zone," said one Western military source on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak on the topic to the press.

"Any form of 'safe haven' would demand high end war fighting capabilities and a very large ground force - almost certainly beyond the capabilities of any potential interveners given recent cuts in defense spending."

The bulk of any ground force entering Syria would almost certainly have to come from Turkey - and that is a prospect that officials in Ankara are seen very keen to avoid.

While much of Gaddafi's military in Libya melted away in the early stages of the revolution, Syria's military is much more dominated by the Alawite minority and is seen likely to fight much harder including against any foreign forces.

If Assad were to fall or flee abroad, some analysts believe the country would simply collapse further into chaos. Foreign states could then be confronted not just by the danger of Al Qaeda-linked militants moving in but also the prospect of even more ethnic violence.

Without Assad, the Alawite minority in particular could find itself victim of revenge attacks following reported massacres in Sunni areas in recent weeks.

"The challenges surrounding Syria go well beyond Assad," says Aram Nerguizian, a visiting fellow and the Syria expert at Washington DC think tank the Centre For Strategic and International Studies.

"The post-colonial Syrian experiment is still coming undone... The long term socio-economic, political and sectarian challenges... could take years if not decades to play out."

GROWING COVERT SUPPORT?

Despite such longer-term worries, however, there are growing signs that the West and Arab states have decided that helping push the FSA towards victory may be the only option.

"I still don't think that Western powers will intervene," says Christopher Steinitz, Middle East analyst at the Centre for Naval Analysis outside Washington, part of the U.S. government-funded think tank CNA.

"No one will go it alone. Frankly, I think all parties at this point continue to see vague, covert support for the opposition as a winning strategy. There is no need for direct intervention."

Although official confirmation is inevitably absent, there has been growing talk of foreign special forces - particularly British, but perhaps also US, Qatari, French and others - operating in Turkey's border Hatay province.

On Tuesday, Israeli-based website Debkha suggested British special forces had actually entered Syrian territory proper, presumably alongside rebel forces. For now, most experts remain skeptical - but the prospect may well be growing.

Weapons deliveries to the rebels are also believed to be growing. Most needed, analysts say, would be anti-tank weaponry and perhaps also anti-aircraft missiles - despite worries that they could ultimately fall into the wrong hands.

"It's never going to be officially acknowledged, but I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA and special forces types haven't been operating in Hatay for some time," said Hartwell at IHS Jane's. "I wouldn't have thought they will be operating across the border. But they will be training, coordinating and poring over satellite photos. And after last week, I think the Turks will be a lot less bothered about keeping that secret."

"Mission creep" could prove almost inevitable. If Syria's rebels can emulate their Libyan counterparts and actually seize large areas of territory, they may similarly call for direct air support to hold back Assad's forces.

Accidental or deliberate cross-border firing and growing talk of potential Syrian support for Kurdish PKK guerrillas could drive the Turks to launch at least occasional military strikes, regardless of the actions of Western and Gulf states.

By early next year, whoever occupies the White House - either a re-elected Barack Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney - could find himself pushed ever closer to a larger military mission. But that, some warned, could bring with it much larger geopolitical risks.

At worst, as it backs governments in Bahrain and Yemen while opposing them in Syria and Iran, some believe Washington could find itself trapped on one side in a regional confrontation between Sunni and Shi' ite.

"Looking head to a 2013, when Assad is still very likely in power, the prospects of a broader, international military conflict over Syria are looming larger," wrote Ian Bremmer, president of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group.

(Reporting By Peter Apps; Editing by Peter Graff)

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RIM announces Q1 earnings: $518 million net loss, 5,000 job cuts, BB10 not due until Q1 2013

The last quarter has been about as rough as they come for RIM, and it's now detailed just how things stacked up in terms of hard numbers. For the first quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, the company brought in $2.8 billion in revenue, down a full 33 percent from the prior quarter, while it reported a net loss of $518 million -- much worse than analysts were expecting. What's more, it's also announced that it's cutting an additional 5,000 jobs as part of its ongoing restructuring efforts, and that the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones now won't launch until sometime in the first quarter of the 2013 calendar year (that includes a QWERTY model launched in "close proximity" to the touchscreen-only device). As for why, RIM only went as far as to say that the integration of some key BlackBerry 10 features and the "associated large volume of code" has "proven to be more time consuming than anticipated." For his part, though, CEO Thorsten Heins says he remains "confident that the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones will provide a ground-breaking next generation smartphone user experience," and that he's "encouraged by the traction that the BlackBerry 10 platform is gaining with application developers and content partners." He further notes that the response to BB10 from key carrier partners has "been very positive."

In terms of its existing devices, RIM reports that BlackBerry smartphone shipments (not sales) for the quarter totaled 7.8 million, while there were about 260,000 PlayBooks shipped -- on the company's earnings call, Heins noted that the total BlackBerry subscriber base now stands at 78 million. Not surprisingly, the company is warning of more bad news to come. It says it expects the "next several quarters to continue to be very challenging," with everything from the "increasing competitive environment," lower handset volumes, impact from the BlackBerry 10 delay, and the company's plans to "continue to aggressively drive sales of BlackBerry 7 handheld devices" expected to cut into its bottom line. In another bit of news, the company also announced that it has appointed Steve Zipperstein, Verizon's former General Counsel, as its new Chief Legal Officer. You can find the full earnings report at the source link below.

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My Story: Using Soccer to Teach Life Skills in Developing Countries ...

Brian travels the world and works with local NGOs to teach their coaches and players how to better use football for social development.

In the United States, sports are mostly for recreation and entertainment. They keep us healthy and also teach us basic lessons on teamwork, leadership, and fair play. But in many developing countries sport has a much greater value: education. More specifically, sports are being used to teach important life skills such as female empowerment, health & wellness (including HIV/AIDS behavioral change), conflict resolution, social inclusion, and financial literacy. NGOs (non-government organizations) exist worldwide and many of them use sports as a vehicle for social change.

I have the luxury of working with one such group, Coaches Across Continents. My full-time job is to travel the world (9+ months a year) working with local NGOs to teach their coaches and players how to better use football (soccer) for social development. In short, I get paid to travel the world and play football.

Former child soldiers in Pader, Uganda.

When I first volunteered in 2010 I?ll admit that I was a bit of a skeptic. How can playing football change behaviors and enact meaningful change in communities? The answer is quite simple. Sports are fun. People flock to play sports and are thoroughly engaged, sometimes not even realizing the lessons they are learning. At Coaches Across Continents, our award-winning curriculum focuses on always using a football. Our exercises must also involve laughter, even with our more serious topics of HIV/AIDS and conflict resolution. It is this element of fun that exists in sport which enables learning to happen.

Our football-based games create a specific environment where learning can occur. In our conflict resolution games, we create games that are designed to cause conflict and monitor the problem solving solutions that come out of them. In our female empowerment lessons we use games that highlight why it is essential that women play sports and foster respect between the genders. And in our HIV/AIDS games, we teach very serious behavioral lessons with footballs, laughter, and smiles to a populace who is still being ravaged by the disease. When our local partner coaches and players are exposed to this curriculum which all occurs on the field with a football, they cannot help but to learn and have fun which is essential for behavioral change.

Liberian amputees playing football.

Evidence of the success and power of sports are easy to find. In Kigoma, Tanzania there is a girl?s soccer league where just four years ago it was a struggle to get any girls to participate because of cultural traditions. In Monrovia, Liberia the African Champion National Amputee team is heading to this summer?s World Cup in Russia ? restoring a sense of belonging to a group of young men who lost limbs to landmines and civil war. And in Northern Uganda former child soldiers from Joseph Kony?s LRA are becoming life skills teachers using football to reintegrate into a society that is still healing from the atrocities that they themselves were forced to commit.

I have been lucky enough to work with our partner programs at all of these locations and see first-hand the power of football. My job is not a great job because of the travel or that I get to wear shorts and a t-shirt to my outside office every day. My job is terrific because I see the change occurring through sports. ?Brian Suskiewicz

The power of football in Tanzania.

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