Anand crea su ‘Gioconda’

El maestro indio del ajedrez produjo ayer la obra de arte más bella de su carrera

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Blancas: L. Aronián (Armenia, 2.802). Negras: V. Anand (India, 2.772).Defensa Semieslava (D46). LXXV Festival Tata. Wijk aan Zee (Holanda), 15-1-2013.

Anand produjo ayer la obra de arte más bella de su carrera, a partir de un análisis de laboratorio que preparó hace casi un año, para el Mundial contra Guélfand; pero pensó mucho desde la 15. Esta joya se parece un poco a otra inmortal, Rotlewi-Rubinstein, publicada aquí el 9 de diciembre: 1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Cf3 Cf6 4 Cc3 e6 5 e3 Cbd7 6 Ad3 dxc4 7 Axc4 b5 8 Ad3 Ad6 9 0–0 0–0 10 Dc2 Ab7 11 a3 Tc8 12 Cg5?! c5!(novedad; mucho mejor que 12 ..Axh2+ 13 Rxh2 Cg4+ 14 Rg1 Dxg5 15 f3! Cgf6 16 b4!, y las blancas tienen gran compensación) 13 Cxh7 Cg4!(la torre de f8 es intocable, por Axh2+ y Dh4) 14 f4? (la continuación más crítica es 14 h3! Ah2+ 15 Rh1 Dh4 -amenaza Dxh3– 16 Ae4 Axe4 17 Dxe4 f5 18 Dxe6+ Rxh7 19 Dxd7 cxd4 20 exd4 Ab8 21 Rg1, pero no es fácil saber si las negras tienen algo más que tablas por repetición) 14 ..cxd4 15 exd4 (si 15 Cxf8 Axf8 16 exd4 Cdf6 17 Rh1 Dxd4 18 h3 Ch5 19 hxg4 Cg3+ 20 Rh2 Cxf1+ 21 Axf1 Ac5 22 De2 Dg1+ 23 Rg3 Td8, con la amenaza Td3+, y el ataque es ganador) 15 ..Ac5!! 16 Ae2 Cde5!!(aún más fuerte que tomar en d4 o Dh4) 17 Axg4 (si 17 fxe5 Dxd4+ 18 Rh1 Dg1+ 19 Txg1 Cf2 mate); si 17 h3 Axd4+ 18 Rh1 Dh4 19 Cg5 f5 -amenaza Dg3– 20 fxe5 Cf2+ 21 Rh2 Axe5+ 22 Rg1 Dg3 23 Af3 Ce4 24 Td1 Dh2+ 25 Rf1 Axc3, y todo cae) 17 ..Axd4+ 18 Rh1 Cxg4 19 Cxf8(diagrama)(tras 19 Cg5 f5!, para Tf6–Th6, las blancas estarían perdidas) 19 ..f5!! (evita Dh7, y amenaza Dh4 y mate imparable) 20 Cg6 Df6 (ahora se amenaza Dxg6 y Dh5) 21 h3 Dxg6 22 De2 Dh5 (amenaza Dxh3) 23 Dd3 Ae3!, y Aronián se rindió. Correspondencia:ajedrez@elpais.es

Mystery of structure at bottom of Sea of Galilee

Sonar of the mysterious object. Picture: comp

Published on 24/05/2013 08:28

A CIRCULAR structure lying at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee could contain the secrets of ­ancient life in the Middle East, researchers believe.

But the Israeli researchers have no way of finding out what lies beneath because they lack the funding to carry out a full-scale under-water ­excavation.

The archaeologists, who have seen grainy images of the conical structure, are trying to raise money to enable them to access the submerged stones that were first seen in a routine scan in 2003.

“It’s very enigmatic, it’s very interesting, but the bottom line is we don’t know when it’s from, we don’t know what it’s connected to, we don’t know its function,” said Dani Nadel, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa, who is one of several researchers studying the discovery. “We only know it is there, it is huge and it is unusual.” Archaeologists said the only way they can properly assess the structure is through an ­underwater excavation, a painstakingly slow process that can cost several hundred thousand pounds. If such an excavation is to take place, archaeologists said they believed it would be the first in the Sea of Galilee, an ancient lake which is home to historical remnants dating back thousands of years and the setting of many Bible scenes.

In contrast, Israeli researchers have carried out many excavations in the Mediterranean and Red Seas.

Much of the researchers’ limited knowledge about this structure was from the sonar scan a decade ago. Initial dives shortly afterwards revealed more information. In an article in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology published earlier this year, researchers disclosed it was asymmetrical, made of basalt boulders and that “fish teem around the structure and between its blocks”.

The cone-shaped structure is found at a depth of between 9 to 40ft, about half a kilometre from the sea’s south-western shore. Its base is buried under sediment.

The authors conclude the structure is man-made of stones from nearby, and it weighs about 60,000 tons. The authors wrote it “is indicative of a complex, well-organised society, with planning skills and economicability”.

The rest is a mystery. Yitzhak Paz, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority who is involved in the project, said that based on the build-up of sediment, it is between 2,000 and 12,000 years old. Based on other sites and artefacts found in the region, the research places the site’s origin some time during the third millennium BC.

“The period is hard for us to determine. No scientific work was carried out there, no excavations, no surveys. We have no artefacts from the structure,” the researcher added.

Archaeologists were also cautious about guessing the structure’s purpose.

They said possibilities included a burial site, a place of worship or even a fish nursery, which were common in the area. But they said they wanted to avoid speculation because they have so little information.

It was not even clear if the structure was built on shore when the sea stood at a low level, or if it was constructed underwater.

Researchers believe it was built on land, an indication of the sea’s low level at the time.

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/mystery-of-structure-at-bottom-of-sea-of-galilee-1-2943302

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Why Microsoft Named Its Search Engine Bing (冰):DISEASE

Microsoft's new search engine, reportedly code-named Kumo, will actually be called Bing! Here's the real meaning behind those four characters.

• By John C. Dvorak
• May 26, 2009
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Microsoft tells us that its new search engine, reportedly code-named Kumo, will actually be called Bing! I've asked the users of Twitter to reverse-engineer an acronym based on those four letters. The people's choice:

But It's Not Google 
Indeed. We're hoping Bing is anything but Google—in fact, we're hoping it's better than Google. But it won't be, and nothing will be until the Google paradigm is destroyed and replaced with something hot.

Big Investment, No Goals
All modern search engines are modeled after some of the very first, such as Web Crawler, and evolving right to AltaVista. Google is actually a copy of AltaVista in many ways, including the idea that you can cache the entire Internet on massive server farms. Microsoft cannot seem to break this paradigm either, and Bing can't possibly be anything other than old wine in new bottles.

Bing Is Not Groovy
Microsoft has supposedly reinvented its search two or three times from its early MSN search to its current Live Search. (What is "live search" anyway? As opposed to dead search, or what?) Anyway, lately the company has changed its faceplate so the search box appears on a pretty picture that has nothing to do with anything. It's kind of dorky.

Brought in New Garbage
Nowadays when you search for images with the Microsoft engine, the site returns JavaScript that make the photos grow and shrink and presents them in unique ways. I've been waiting for an AJAX layout for the search results whereby you could dynamically change layouts or get some visuals for the search. Cuil tries to give us this new look, and it would work well if the results were actually good. Therein lies the rub.

Big Incompetent Net Grub
The problem with Microsoft search has always been its failure to go the extra mile; where are the massive fleets of crawlers and huge mountain-sized server farms? Microsoft, while probably spending more money than Yahoo on these things, still exhibits a penny-pinching approach, hoping things work out anyway. You have to recall the early MS folklore: When someone wanted to work for the company Gates insisted that they take a cut in pay from their previous job to prove that they really wanted to work at Microsoft. This is a tightwad's cover story. The only time I have seen the company go the extra mile is with the Xbox 360, which for some unknown reason managed to stay under the cheapskate radar as it trolls for spendthrifts. The rest of the time there is always some "on the cheap" initiative.

Bill, It's No Good!
There's a rumor going around that Microsoft will buy up any search company it can and incorporate every known idea into Bing (or whatever comes next). Unfortunately Microsoft has a not-invented-here corporate culture, despite the fact that most of what it does is technology bought from someone else. The company's tendency is to absorb a basic product, then reinvent it. Perhaps the moniker should be not reinvented here. In the process of reinvention the company either lets the product languish (like PowerPoint) or ruins it to the point where it is unusable (ever tried Front Page?). So if there is a good search engine being developed, please, don't sell it to Microsoft.

But It's Nearly Google
Microsoft's unfortunate copycat strategies will not result in anything other than a weak copy of Google, with some visual tweaks to make the presentation look better. Redmond will never take a chance on something radical. My advice to the company is to try to understand what's going on at Collarity, where it's easy to see what a new idea for search is all about. I'm actually kind of surprised that one of the big three hasn't already made Collarity's developers an offer they could not refuse. Maybe none of these guys are paying attention.

Be Innovative, Not Geeky!
The point is, Google owns search. And renaming and starting a rebranding campaign for a dumb-sounding search engine like Bing is a serious waste of resources. New thinking and a new direction are needed, but Microsoft doesn't seem cut out for the job. If Bing is a success, I'll be the one who will be the most surprised
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MY OWN RESEARCH,OUT OF THE AUTHOR POINT OF VIEW

-BING--

Mind control is obvius:  ( 冰 )Pronunciation BING .Its translation from chinese is DISEASE
This is a type of message subliminal that our eyes is capching everyday.When we see this word , our braing behing does the conversion for its proper translation.Then our   subconscious will do the rest,just bringing us what what we request trought mental pictures (DISEASE)

First Trailer for Sci-Fi Thriller 'Europa Report' Unveiled (Video)

The first trailer for the new science fiction film "Europa Report" has launched onto the Internet and just might be the most realistic — and harrowing — depiction of space travel on the big screen in years.

In "Europa Report," an intrepid crew of astronauts leaves Earth behind for Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, on a private space mission to seek out alien life. As the first two-minute trailer shows, the mission does not go anywhere near as planned.  Not by a long shot. You can watch the "Europa Report" trailer here.

"This is really a new first step for mankind," one mission official says in the trailer.

In the trailer, we see the Europa-bound crew launch into space, then watch astronauts on spacewalks, and finally see a series of flashes showing what appears to be a space mission going from bad to worse. The anguished scream of a spacesuit-clad astronaut caps the trailer. [See photos from "Europa Report"]

"Europa Report" launches in theaters on Aug. 2 but will be available on iTunes and video on demand on June 27. Filmmaker Sebastián Cordero directed the movie, which stars an ensemble crew that includes Sharlto Copley ("District 9") and Michael Nyqvist ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"). It was produced by Wayfare Entertainment.

"I thought I was trying to do something great for mankind," Copley's character says in the trailer. "I always said it was worth the risk."

To call "Europa Report" just another science fiction thriller does not do the movie justice. (Full Disclosure: SPACE.com has seen the full movie and it is indeed awesome).

The film is by turns moody, suspenseful and stunningly realistic in its portrayal of the extreme isolation astronauts would face on a years-long trip to Jupiter. More than that, though, I'd rather not reveal to avoid spoiling the film.

The views of Europa in the film are amazingly detailed, and the methods used by the crew to probe the moon and its icy crust appear to be pulled straight out of concepts by NASA and other space agencies for exploring the icy Jovian satellite.  

Europa has long been a tantalizing target for scientists because its thick icy crust appears to hide a vast ocean of liquid water. Interactions between that ocean and Europa's tidally heated interior could potentially serve as an energy source for primitive life, if it exists at all on the Jupiter moon.

The European Space Agency plans to launch a real-life mission to Europa in 2022 to explore it and several other Jupiter moons as part of the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (nicknamed JUICE) expedition. NASA will provide a radar instrument for the JUICE spacecraft to peer beneath Europa's surface, but the mission will be completely robotic — no astronauts aboard.

So it looks like Wayfare's "Europa Report" will be the closest humanity comes to a manned mission to Jupiter for the foreseeable future. Let's hope the next try goes a bit better.

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