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Neil Poulter, the president of the International Society of Hypertension encourages members to support May Measurement Month.
Globally, over 10 million people die each year due to raised blood pressure (BP). It is the number 1 contributing risk factor for global death, but because it is usually symptomless, the challenge is to ensure it is detected. According to the PURE* study only 46.5% of people who have levels of BP which we believe need treatment (hypertension), are actually aware of the fact - despite detection being very simple. It costs very little and takes only a few minutes to measure someone's BP, which if raised, can often be easily treated. Unless the public has access to screening which makes them aware of their BP, then the impact of effective treatments for controlling hypertension are limited.
When I became President of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) 2 years ago, my main goal was to increase global awareness of hypertension through more screenings – and so May Measurement Month (MMM) was born. Launched last year, MMM is a month-long mass synchronised global BP screening campaign led by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) and endorsed by the World Hypertension League. It builds on World Hypertension Day, but has been increased to a full month to reflect the scale and importance of the problem. Its aims are two-fold, (1) to increase awareness of the issues surrounding raised BP during the month of May, and (2) to create scientific evidence to inform and influence health policy to provide better access to screening.
Galvanising a global campaign is difficult to achieve with the largest of budgets, yet the BP's of over 1.2 million people were measured across 100 countries during MMM's launch year – despite limited resources, thanks largely to the goodwill of many volunteers. In May 2018, we're going to do it again. We want to continue to do more, so fewer lives are damaged or ended due to raised BP.
We've begun promoting this year's MMM and we're delighted to have the NPA on board endorsing this important health initiative. They have even offered to support their member pharmacies who offer BP screenings in their pharmacies with promotional t-shirts. We have a range of digital promotional resources available (flyers, posters, fact sheets etc) and we will list any participating pharmacy so they benefit from our publicity campaign designed to drive people to have their BP screened.
We want May Measurement Month to help turn 46.5% awareness to 96%. When we reach that level, we can stop. If you can help us reach our ambitions by offering BP screenings to the general public in your pharmacy, please visit please visit www.maymeasure.com/downloads where you will find a full MMM toolkit, including:
digital artwork for publicising your pharmacy involvement
the MMM protocol describing what measurements are required
details of our MMM app for recording anonymous readings which we will use for scientific analysis
If you have any further questions, please get in touch with Professor Cappuccio, the President of the British and Irish Hypertension Society and Natioanl lead for MMM (F.P.Cappuccio@warwick.ac.uk, cc jh245@leicester.ac.uk)
Professor Neil Poulter
President of the International Society of Hypertension
* Hypertension: Awareness, Treatment & Control by National Income: 2003 – 2009. PURE Study. Chow et al. JAMA 2013; 310(9):959-68.

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Diritti d'autore (Author! Author!) è un racconto di fantascienza di Isaac Asimov pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1964 nell'antologia The Unknown Five.

Successivamente è stato incluso nell'antologia Asimov Story (The Early Asimov) del 1972.

È stato pubblicato varie volte in italiano a partire dal 1973.

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Graham Dorn, uno scrittore di gialli di successo, scopre con disappunto che la sua creatura letteraria più famosa, un cortese detective di nome Reginald De Meister, è diventato una persona reale, deciso a usurpare la vita di Dorn fino a tentare di rubargli la fidanzata. Quando però appare anche l'amica letteraria di De Meister, la slanciata Sancha Rodriquez dagli occhi scintillanti, che lo accusa di averla tradita, De Meister sparisce e Graham si può riappropriare della sua vita.

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Collegamenti esterni

Racconti di Isaac Asimov
Racconti di fantascienza

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We participated in a procession through the streets of the old town Santiago. While we walked other processions in small Spanish cities, this procession gathered force and became a river of folks within several blocks.
We traveled straight down several blocks as the street narrowed. I held a position shoulder to shoulder, feet to feet with other walkers.
i felt a oneness in the crowd like we had indeed become a river. As this feeling grabbed a strong hold on me, we took a dogleg to the left. As we began the turn we slowed. Throughout the turn my cadence slowed significantly.
As we left the turn and returned to straight the pace of the crowd, the river, picked up again.
While roses fluttered from overhead windows and the marching band played exceptionally well, I thought about trout resting in a turn of the river. I felt the change in the current during that procession and took a lesson on the preferred habitat of a trout.
I'm looking forward to fly fishing in Montana on my way home in late July!


It was truly frustrating that I need to have a website. But I also thought, hey, why not? So somehow, I was doing what a web designer would do. And it's thanks to my school that I have Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 for free (at least for now....) so I followed the instructions at thesitewizard.com.
I must say, it's literally the best website to go to if you've NEVER touched dreamweaver *points at self*.
Some people go for courses for this but I just have to follow the instructions there and learn on the way and he made it REALLY easy. He also assumed that whoever is reading it is doing it for the first time and he did it so well, explaining EVERYTHING (not joking) and also pointing out the exact button I have to press etc and why. I was almost going crazy, since you have to WAIT and WAIT for things to get processed (when you purchase your domain name, and then the webhost, and then linking them together etc), but his really good and accurate instructions made the process much easier.
I also managed to create a feedback form on my website thanks to thesitewizard.com too this guy is really amazing. It's not as easy as you would have thought, since you have to kind of link to another source (your email) but he created a wizard that does it for us. SO NICE.
Anyway, after making my website and finally it being on the internet, I then go ahead and create my email which, surprise surprise, needed money too. I'm okay with investing in it, but I guess with all things, really quite scared of failure. I also thought that maybe I'm taking it too far and shouldn't have even invested it so early.. Sometimes I find myself saying "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE NOT VERY RICH YOU KNOW" to myself hahaha. But what's done is done and I've put in so much effort in it. Okay I digress.
Head on to my website at http://handxmade.com and say hi via the feedback form if you want hehe, and also my instagram, @handxmade. I have something in store and I will be having another giveaway as soon as I can.


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Le Golem est un film français en noir et blanc de Julien Duvivier sorti en 1936 inspiré de la pièce de Jiri Voskovec et Jan Werich Golem.

Synopsis
Les Juifs de Prague sont écrasés sous le joug du chancelier Lang, un juif qui a renié sa foi, et qui exerce le pouvoir pendant que l'empereur Rodolphe II s'adonne à la débauche. Le rabbin Loew a autrefois créé le Golem, créature d'argile à la force surnaturelle, qui dort au fond d'un grenier. Un jeune rabbin, qui connait le secret, va lui redonner vie pour sauver son peuple.

Fiche technique
 Réalisateur : Julien Duvivier, assisté de Walter Schorsch
 Adaptation : Julien Duvivier, André-Paul Antoine et Jiri Voskovec et Jan Werich  (non crédités) d'après leur pièce Golem créée en 1931.
 Dialogues : André-Paul Antoine
 Décors : André Andrejew et Stepán Kopecky
 Photographie : Jan Stallich et Václav Vich
 Son : Bedrich Polednik
 Montage : Jiri Slavicek
 Musique : Josef Kumok
 Tournage : Tchécoslovaquie, Studios Barrandov (Prague)
 Production : Charles Philipp
 Directeur de production : Josef Stein
 Société de production : AB Film S.A. (Studios Barrandov)
 Distributeur d'origine : Les Artistes Associés
 Pays d'origine : ,
 Format : Son mono  (Tobis-Klangfilm) - Noir et blanc - 1,37:1
 Durée : 100 minutes
 Date de sortie :
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Distribution
 Harry Baur : Rodolphe II
 Germaine Aussey : la comtesse Strada
 Jany Holt : Rachel
 Roger Karl : le chancelier Lang
 Charles Dorat : le rabbin Jacob
 Roger Duchesne : Trignac
 Gaston Jacquet : Bedrich
 Raymond Aimos : Toussaint
 Ferdinand Hart : le Golem
 Tania Doll : Madame Benoit
 Jan Cerny : Keppler
 Stanislas Neumann : Daniel
 Alfred Basyr : le cardinal
 Karel Schleichert : l'alchimiste
 Marcel Dalio : un rabbin
 Robert Ozanne

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Film français sorti en 1936
Film réalisé par Julien Duvivier
Film fantastique français
Film se déroulant à Prague
Film mettant en scène un golem
Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre au cinéma
Film se déroulant dans le Saint-Empire romain germanique


Why is this important to New South Wales motorists?
Any initiative that offers better protection to road users, whether they be driving a car or truck, rising a bicycle or simply negotiating the streets as a pedestrian, is worth considering. One immediately considers the benefits to the community at large of one less road death and we should also consider the flow on affects as it relates to the costs of operating a car or truck in this state.
On 2 May 2012, a pedestrian was unfortunately run over and killed by a bus navigating a left hand turn in Beecroft. The pedestrian commenced crossing at the intersection at the exact same time as the bus negotiated the left hand turn. The driver being obstructed by his blind spot proceeded with his left turn unaware of the pedestrian's presence.
The coroner suggests that a slight delay in vehicular traffic and providing any waiting pedestrian the first opportunity to negotiate a crossing and improve their visibility to other drivers is important.
The state will presumably bulk at the costs of implementing such a suggestion which is estimated at $5m and take three years to implement, but we need to consider the potential benefits as well, and an important one is the cost savings flowing to New South Wales motorists as a result of fewer injuries or death on our roads. The state's Compulsory Third Party scheme and Lifetime Care scheme offers benefits to injured pedestrians for incidents such as the one mentioned above and these benefits in terms of costs, far outweigh any investment associated with implementing the coroner's suggestions. Greenslip insurance premiums are used to cover such injured parties and these costs, on an annual basis, would far exceed any costs associated with implementing a suggested improvement to roads in this state. Safer roads leading to a reduction in injured party pay outs, leads to a cheap greenslip purchase for NSW motorists.
It is worth noting that due to differences in portfolio structures among the licenced greenslip insurers in New South Wales, their exposures are commensurately different. For these reasons NSW motorists should compare greenslip prices and ensure they are getting an immediate saving where available.


Please note that the THK CO., LTD. headquarters, Technology Center, Tokyo Branch, Ueno Branch, and the headquarters of our affiliates will be relocated to the addresses below, and will be open for business from the dates below.
In addition, the Tokyo branch and Ueno branch are being renamed the Tokyo Sales Department No. 1 and No. 2 respectively, and their business operations will be brought together within the newly-established Tokyo Order Fulfillment Center (Tokyo OFC).


The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has signed a one-year extension to the fourth contract in a series—RFID-1, -II, -III and -IV—to improve wireless monitoring capabilities of assets in transit, storage and use around the world. The latest contract, with a $102 million ceiling during a five-year period, is intended to increase the flexibility and capabilities of its wireless technology systems to track assets in transit and in the field.
The system's sole provider is supply chain solutions firm Savi Technology. The extension contract (#W52P1J-14-D-0014) extends through April 2019 and dictates that Savi provide its RFID-based hardware and middleware to the DoD and other agencies.
With the contract extension, says Rosemary Johnston, Savi's senior VP of government operations, the technology company will provide hybrid cellular and RFID transponders, two-way transponders to both send and receive data, and lighter portable kits, all with the intention of enabling easier access to data in the remote locations where assets might go. The original RFID-IV contract, awarded in 2013, added satellite functionality, as well as GPS devices built into all interrogators, and increased memory size for the Savi transponders. The contract includes active RFID and satellite end-to-end solutions for the DoD, federal civilian agencies and NATO.
Since 2013, Savi has provided approximately 95 percent of the DoD's RFID-related contracts, totaling $800 million (see U.S. DoD Reaffirms Commitment to Savi as Sole RFID-IV Provider). The contract extension, Johnston says, is designed to take advantage of improvements in technology, as well as enable better tracking in remote locations where it's impractical to install permanent RFID technology infrastructure. As part of the contract, Savi will also provide training and professional services.
"The DoD uses Savi's technology to power the world's largest and most complex supply chain," Johnston states. "Our transponders are placed on every container and pallet that is shipped into and out of the international area of responsibility," while the company's readers capture the tag data and transmits it to the DoD's dedicated network, known as the RF-ITV system, which feeds into multiple other logistics command and control systems.
At many locations, military personnel currently set up a temporary reader portal where tagged items flow through a specific area, so that goods in transit—or that are being received or shipped—can be captured. The portals come in kits, with the intention of being set up at sites anywhere around the world, to capture data and then forward it to the RF-ITV network. Savi's kits consist of a ruggedized laptop, a handheld RFID reader, a fixed reader (using active 433 MHz transmissions compliant with the ISO 18000-7 standard) and antennas, as well as an iridium modem with a satellite and cellular connection.
The DoD or some other agency then attaches Savi active RFID transponders to assets. As each tagged item approaches or passes through a specific gateway, within a distance of about 300 feet, the gateway reader wakes it up, after which is transmits its unique ID number, which is linked in the agency's software to a particular asset. "Our portable deployment kits allow for rapid deployment of logistics in transit visibility capability," Johnston explains, "by providing a complete system where infrastructure doesn't exist."
One shortcoming of this solution is that tags can only be captured when they come within range of a reader. However, the new version of Savi's tags can provide cellular transmissions as well. Savi also makes low-cost cellular transmitters without RFID functionality, for scenarios when only cell-based data is required.


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The latest in NK, Iran, Israel: Hats off to President Trump and Mike Pompeo
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Glenn Beck was back at the chalkboard today to spotlight the historic events happening in North Korea and give us the latest on what's going on in the growing conflict between Israel and Iran.
"Whatever the president and Pompeo are doing, it's working. Hats off to President Trump and Mike Pompeo," said Glenn. "This cannot be downplayed … You're now really seeing that much [coverage] on television because it makes him [Trump] look good."
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North Korea releases three American detainees
In an extraordinary foreign-policy victory for the Trump administration, North Korea released American detainees Kim Dong Chul, Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song on Wednesday, turning them over to the care of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Pompeo was on his second trip to North Korea in order to discuss President Donald Trump's upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. To read the full story, click here.
President Trump shared the good news in the following tweet:
I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health. Also, good meeting with Kim Jong Un. Date & Place set.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018
President Trump personally welcomed home three Americans early Thursday morning at Joint Base Andrews Air Force Base. Later the same day, President Trump tweeted that his meeting with Kim Jong Un will take place in Singapore on June 12th.
The highly anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th. We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2018
Conflict in the Middle East heats up
For the first time, Iranian forces fired 20 missiles from Syria toward Israeli positions in the disputed Golan Heights region on Thursday.
Israel responded with airstrikes of its own, wiping out several Iranian posts in Syria. It was the most direct confrontation yet between the two longtime enemies. To read the full story, click here.
Watch Glenn give the run down of these historic events in the video clip above.
This article provided courtesy of TheBlaze.
'Shut the hell up': Glenn Beck rips CNN's Don Lemon for depicting Trump supporters as ignorant 'boomer rube demo'
'Do NOT go outside': Nurse in China issues warning, claims up to 90,000 already infected with coronavirus
Glenn Beck: 'The president's defense is VERY compelling' as they dismantle Democrats' impeachment arguments
On the radio program Monday, Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Pat Gray discussed the Trump defense team's arguments in the Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.
"This is different than what the Democrats were doing," Glenn said of the Trump team's impeachment defense. "We know the case of the Democrats, they just kept going over and over and over, for three days, the same stuff. The Republicans, at least on Saturday, did not ... and I thought it was really, really good."
Glenn added, "The president's defense was very compelling."
Watch the videos below to hear Glenn's top takeaways from the president's defense team:
Part 1: Why the president's defense is 'very compelling'
Part 2: Top takeaways from president's impeachment defense
Health care doesn't have to break the bank
James Czerniawski
Young Voices Contributor
Americans are getting crushed by healthcare costs. In 2018 alone, we spent $3.6 trillion on healthcare — that's more than $11,000 per American and nearly a fifth of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It's on everyone's minds, which is why it has taken center stage in the Democratic party's primary. Of course, the solutions offered by the current crop of presidential candidates would do nothing to help alleviate that enormous spending. In fact, it would only add to it — what with Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All and Joe Biden's proposed ObamaCare expansion.
However, what also deserves attention in discussions about plans that increase the government's role in health care is how religious organizations would be affected. Faith-based hospitals and health care sharing ministries (HCSMs) play an important role in America, often serving as a critical provider and/or facilitator of payments for medical services in many states. If plans like Medicare for All were implemented, these groups would be at risk of going bankrupt or being severely curtailed due to the elimination of choice that comes with these proposals.
Instead of imposing a top-down and expensive health care system overhaul, faith-based providers and groups should be allowed to continue offering a variety of plans that work as high-quality, often cheaper alternatives. And more Americans should consider them.
Instead of imposing a top-down and expensive health care system overhaul, faith-based providers and groups should be allowed to continue offering a variety of plans that work as high-quality, often cheaper alternatives.
As mentioned, one such option is a health care sharing ministry. In this model, individuals contribute money into a pool managed by a religiously or ethically-affiliated organization, and costs for medical treatment are shared by people who adhere to that organization's belief system. Typically, applicants are required to sign a statement of faith in order to be accepted. It's basically like a subscription service: consumers pay a set amount of money into the ministry every month. Then, when they have a medical need or incident, they submit a claim to the ministry. Members whose claims are approved are reimbursed by the ministry from that pool of funds. Note, these ministries don't cover procedures they deem immoral.
Because providers are often getting paid in cash under this model — and typically within 90 days — patients are able to negotiate significant discounts, in some cases slicing procedures' costs to a fraction of the initial price. Insurance companies, by comparison, tend to not pay dollar for dollar on claims, and certainly not in cash. Additionally, insurance companies usually have onerous paperwork requirements, forcing doctors to spend half of their time on electronic health records and desk work. This increase in demand for administrative work is partly responsible for the United States leading the world in administrative costs in healthcare.
There are various types of HCSMs, each offering different benefits depending on what the individual needs — and a lot of savings on monthly plans. Take Christian Healthcare Ministries, for example. It's resulted in enormous savings for its members. Whereas the average healthcare plan can cost about $400 a month on the low end (with high deductibles), CHM plans can run between $78-172 a month for a single person. These kinds of plans are particularly great options for people who are relatively healthy and young, where the need for doctors and prescription drugs is less likely.
HCSMs have seen explosive growth in popularity recently. In 2014, there were only approximately 160,000 members. By 2018, membership ballooned to about 1 million HCSM members around the United States who have shared over $1 billion in medical expenses. But unfortunately, many people still feel locked into the traditional — and expensive — health care insurance model. HCSMs provide a way out, and, depending on their belief system, people should research them and see if there's one that best suit their needs. If more people deviate away from the traditional health care insurance market, insurance companies would be incentivized to adjust their pricing. That won't be possible, of course, if plans like Medicare for All are implemented.
Health care is one of life's biggest expenses, and voters are understandably desperate for a plan that cuts costs without compromising quality of care or access to it. Alternative options to health care insurance such as HCSMs are practical, free-market solutions that saves money. Americans should sift through these options before subscribing to plans that will only break the bank.
James Czerniawski is a Young Voices contributor. Follow him on Twitter @JamesCz19.
Bill O'Reilly: Adam Schiff is in 'wonderland' during the Senate impeachment trial
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On the "Glenn Beck Radio Program" Friday, Bill O'Reilly gave his latest take on the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and explained why he thinks House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is like "Alice in Wonderland."
Watch the video below to catch more of the conversation:
Ted Cruz on impeachment trial: Dems just threw Joe Biden under the bus, and blasted holes in their own argument
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Friday to discuss the latest developments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
According to Cruz, Thursday was a "very consequential day" in the otherwise tedious and redundant impeachment proceedings.
"Yesterday, the House managers effectively threw Joe Biden under the bus," Cruz said. "They doubled down on what they started doing on the first day of arguments, which was making their entire case ... based on the proposition that there was zero evidence to justify investigating Burisma [the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid then-Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, $50,000 a month to sit on the board]."
Cruz went on to explain that every time the Democrats, namely House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), rehash the "zero-evidence" argument, they open the door for Republicans to present the overwhelming evidence that contradicts those claims.
"That proposition, that there's zero evidence to investigate Burisma, is utterly and completely absurd. So, I'm looking forward to Saturday when the president's lawyers will begin presenting his case. Because what the Democrats have done, is they have opened the door to this. And I hope the president's lawyers will stand up and systematically lay out the case," Cruz said.
"They've been arguing that Hunter Biden is completely irrelevant to this case. Well, the House managers have now, through their arguments, made Hunter Biden not only relevant — he was always relevant — but critical now," he continued. "They built the entire case, like a house of cards, on the proposition that there was no reasonable basis to investigate Burisma. And that's just absurd."
The two also discussed Cruz's new podcast, "Verdict with Ted Cruz," which he records with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles each night following the Senate trial.
"Last night's podcast went through systematically ... all of the overwhelming evidence of corruption from Burisma that any president, not only had the authority to investigate, but the responsibility to investigate," Cruz said. "And that, ultimately, is why President Trump is going to be acquitted at the end of this process."
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So if wot has esports , why there is no esports for wows?
Probably because of two reasons. One is that we have far fewer players worldwide play WoWS compared to WoT. It is a pretty small group of us that play. The second reason is that watching a WoWS match is pretty boring, kind of like watching paint dry. One only has to look at the interest in the King of the Sea tournaments from a non participant standpoint. Heck even Jingles couldn't make it interesting.
It is a numbers game, we need a bigger playing base before there will be enough interest to get some competitive gaming going.
ah would be nice to see some more esports for wows beyond KoTS, maybe make wows more popular 1st.
Yeah, there's still a bit of work to do yet to make competitive WoWS into "good TV". Efforts are being made, just not there yet.
because esports are for weaklings. I could walk into an esports arena, sweep the leg and take out like 500 people.
I remember when Jingles mentioned the idea had been floated and he just burst into laughter for a few minutes.
I'd also think a certain team configuration would be needed to keep things moving and exciting. Haven't tried this Arms Race thing yet, but something along those lines to keep people moving forward, etc.
Successful eSports have decisive clashes that have clearly defined winners (think MOBA team fights, and shooters). They also typically have comeback mechanics. WoWs is basically a war of attrition for 20 minutes and becomes exponentially more difficult with each ship lost. Its not enjoyable to watch for the first 10 minutes 9 times out of 10 and sometimes for the entire 20 minutes. Its often times completely uncertain who is winning until the final push comes with the time pressure of the game ending or the score reaching 1000 for one team. There is no incentive to be aggressive and take fights to the enemy and in fact often a disincentive to do so. There is also a completely garbage spectator view, which if WG had any interest in turning it into an eSport would have been fixed long ago.


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Episodes, Season 2, Directed by Tommy Blacha,
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Dethgov
Nathan decides on how to name the hurricane: Scrambles the Death Dealer
Tommy Blacha & Chris Prynoski
Richard Christy as Lunatic Redneck-Driver, 57WHYK TV News Anchor & Floridian Meteorologist
Kip Slaughter
Impeach God
"Dethcarraldo" "Dethrace"
"Dethgov" is the tenth episode of the second season of Metalocalypse, thirtieth overall. It aired on June 8, 2008 on Adult Swim.
Nathan gets elected governor of Florida against his wishes, but he embraces the idea when he learns he can be a corrupt politician, giving advantages to his friends and lining his own pockets.
The episode begins with a childhood flashback where a young Nathan Explosion is elected class president in the second grade by his teacher, who requests that he make some comments about getting the position. However Nathan remains completely silent, even as a police chase gone awry kills the teacher and many of Nathan's classmates, coincidentally leaving him the only survivor.
The democratic process Edit
In the present, an adult Nathan watches the news channel with Skwisgaar, Toki, Murderface, and Pickles in Mordhaus as he eats a bag of potato chips. On the news the Governor of Florida Kip Slaughter gives out a public speech about refusing to hold a holiday in honor of Nathan and calls him a "disgrace" to the state of Florida, which immediately earns the ire of the audience, whom many attendees are Dethklok fans, and one of them throws a bottle at the Governor's head. Pickles tells Nathan that the audience is going to murder the Governor for his comments about him, and Skwisgaar answers for him, coldly saying that it's good. The only thing that Nathan says is that he loves potato chips (and eats a bagful of it), when Ofdensen comes in and tells Nathan that he is needed to say a response to the Governor having his head chopped off and his body paraded through the streets. Nathan angrily points out that he is busy eating potato chips, but Ofdensen insists that the response will "take a second" and he reluctantly agrees to it. On the news, admist crowds of paparazzi, Nathan is at first clueless on what to say and turns to Ofdensen for help, but then remembers that the Governor made bad comments about him and says "F**k him". Meanwhile, the reporter broadcasts the information on the news that the number of riots in Florida have increased and that many people are demanding that Nathan be made the new Governor of Florida.
Meanwhile, on the Dethbus, Nathan, who is still eating potato chips, is told that the Governor is brutally murdered for making rude remarks about him. He tells Ofdensen that he didn't order Dethklok's fans to kill the Governor and comments that the fans are "crazy". Pickles adds "and loyal" and Murderface and Toki ask about when the last time the fans have taken them into consideration. Ofdensen asks if everyone feels bad about seeing the Governor being ripped apart. Skwisgaar replies no; however he and Toki say that it is bad to play in Florida because it is harder to perform in humid weather and their hands get sweaty. Ofdensen asks if they have any concerns about Florida being thrown into a state of anarchy now that they have no governor, and the members respond with cold indifference. Just then the news announce that Nathan is voted the new Governor of Florida in a lanslide election, which he is indifferent to. Elsewhere the members of the Tribunal find out about Nathan being elected Governor and are alarmed by this. Senator Stampingston declares Purple Alert, but the others don't seem to be moved by this at all.
Governor Nathan Edit
As the Dethbus arrives in Florida between a cheering crowd and the Governor's house, Nathan is repulsed by the concept of being Governor over a population that contains rabid Dethklok fans, but Ofdensen warns him that if he refuses the position something far worse might happen. Toki sees this as a very good accomplishment and congratulates Nathan on being made governor, but ends up being chastised on the fact that being a governor is lame because he has to spend time filing paperwork and wear suits and ties every day. Skwisgaar calls Toki stupid, but Toki defends his position and says that being Governor is "cool" because he gets to help people and make things better for them instead of complaining about the problems. Murderface and Pickles both protest that complaining is cool, but Ofdensen says that being a governor has advantages. Nathan asks if it is possible that he could put all his friends in charge while he'll go raping, pillaging stuff, destroying the economy, filling his pockets with money, and go mad with power, and Ofdensen says that it is possible causing Nathan's bandmates to volunteer: Murderface wants to be in charge of the National Guard and wants a secretary; Toki wants to help people solve their problems; while Pickles wants to be the ambassador of China. Skwisgaar decides not to be involved with politics, but is persuaded in being so by Pickles when told that Florida has the highest population of old ladies. At a public speech convention, Nathan swears the oath of being made Governor, much to the intense delight of thousands of fans. With that, the official seal on the flag of Florida has changed into an image of Florida looking like a fire arm (which pretty much gives the whole population the right to own a firearm and shoot with it); the road signs and even the police cars are given Dethklok-inspired makeovers, making them look very brutal; Toki vowing to help Florida's population, after he gets his office in order (which is the arrangement of a simple desk ornament); news of Murderface calling the National Guard of Florida just to "blow crap up"; Pickles being made the new ambassador for China (showing visiting Chinese diplomats how things work in America "his" way); and Skwisgaar being given his old ladies.
Scrambles the Death Dealer Edit
At another public speech, Nathan promises that every person in Florida is going to be made wealthy, so the Klokateers throw money at an adoring crowd from a passing limousine (but the money turns out to be worthless). Then Nathan declares that "working sucks", causing millions to lose their jobs, and the crime rate to go extremely high - up to 20,000 percent, which is outrageous. Meanwhile, Toki is having problems getting his desk ornament in the right place and orders his assistant to jump out the office window and get him a paperclip, when Nathan comes in and reminds Toki about his boner showing. Elsewhere the state of Florida is thrown into a far worse state than before, with alligator attacks rising, police leaving because of the high crime rates, and the increasing numbers of dead people in the morgue. Even the mansion that belonged to the former governor is in a state of disarray. Later during a Florida storm, Nathan is told by his bandmates, minus Murderface, that Florida is in anarchy because all the police officers have left the state (admist a shower of bullets that kills a Chinese diplomat). Even Nathan is aware that Florida is in very bad shape, but he has difficulties saying this and resorts to eating potato chips again once he notices a bag on his desk. The band members of Dethklok later get together to perform for a benefit concert for the people of Florida and despite the disasters, thousands attend the concert and all goes well until a storm causes a blackout with lightning. The band members find out from the Weather Bureau that a large hurricane is headed for Florida, and orders the people working there to destroy it only to be told that hurricanes cannot be destroyed, nor knocked off course when Nathan tells them to. Nathan gets frustrated and says they've tried everything but Murderface tells him that they haven't tried everything, causing dead silence, so he says "not literally everything".
Ofdensen suggests using the emergency broadcasting system, but everyone says they hate using it because of the long beeping sound it makes. The weather reporters then reveal that all other emergency systems have been looted and destroyed. An angry Nathan asks what their job is, and is told that they name hurricanes and is asked what the name of the upcoming hurricane should be. After much thought, Nathan names the hurricane "Scrambles the Death Dealer". Later news of the newly named hurricane is spread, and the impact causes even more wreckage and billions of casualties along with an enormous tsunami (strangely, only Dethklok and Ofdensen survive this). When the sun comes the state of Florida is completely reduced to mere ruins, with only one person left to attend another public speech. Meanwhile, the same police chase that has killed Nathan's second grade teacher and many of his classmates years ago goes on in the background, killing the one person left by running him/her over, while a survivor regards Nathan to be the best governor Florida had before being shot in the head.
"Impeach God"
One of the other candidates for class president was Johnny Bonneville.
The new Florida state flag and seal under Governor Explosion
The newly designed Florida police cars under Governor Explosion.
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The Power Report (2/2): Kisei Leagues; Tournament to decide the Kisei challenger; 74th Honinbo League seats; Yamashita-Iyama pairing in Tengen sets new record
Monday September 24, 2018
Kisei Leagues
S League: Below are the results of the games played in the final round of the 43rdKisei S League. On September 13, Takao Shinji 9P (B) beat Yamashita Keigo 9P by half a point. On September 17, Ichiriki Ryo 8P beat Kyo Kagen Gosei by resig. and Kono Rin 9P (B) beat Cho U 9P by 1.5 points. Yamashita had already clinched victory in the league in the fourth round, so this loss did not hurt him. However, Kyo Kagen's loss was painful, as it meant ceding second place to Kono. There are no play-offs in the Kisei leagues: ranking takes precedence, so Kono qualifies for the final stage (see below). The bottom two players will drop to the A League.
A League: Murakawa Daisuke 8P took first place in the A League, which has eight members. Actually, he "tied" with three other players on 5-2—they were So Yokoku 9P, Yo Seiki 7P, and Shida Tatsuya 7P—but his number one ranking gave him precedence. Murakawa and Yo will be promoted to the S League in the next term (assuming the former does not become Kisei).
B Leagues: There are two B Leagues, each with eight members. A play-off was held on September 17, and Shibano Toramaru 7P (B2 winner on 7-0) (W) beat Akiyama Jiro 9P (B1 winner on 5-2) by resig.
C League: The C League is like a tournament in its own right: it has 32 players and is run by the Swiss System. Onishi Ryohei 3P won it 5-0.
Tournament to decide the Kisei challenger: The league winners above will participate in an irregular knock-out tournament to decide the challenger to Iyama Yuta. It works as follows: Onishi plays Shibano, the winner plays Murakawa, the winner plays Kono, and the winner plays Yamashita. The final with Yamashita is a "best-of-three" in which three games will never be played. The reason is that Yamashita will start off with a one-win advantage, so his opponent has to win two in a row. Otherwise, what would be the point of winning the top League? In theory, though, any of the 62 players in any of the five leagues could become Kisei, so it's thought that professionals feel more incentive than with the former system.
74th Honinbo League seats: Three of the four vacant seats in the 74th Honinbo League were decided on September 6. Anzai Nobuaki 7P (W) beat O Rissei 9P by half a point; Anzai will make his debut in a league. Hane Naoki 9P (B) beat Takao Shinji 9P by 3.5 points; he makes an immediate comeback after dropping out of the previous league. Ichiriki Ryo 8P (W) beat Sakai Hideyuki 8P by resig.; he also played in the 71stLeague. The final play-off was held on September 10. Kono Rin (B) beat Mutsuura Yuta 7P by resig.; like Ichiriki, Kono last played in the 71stLeague. These players will join Yamashita Keigo 9P
Yamashita-Iyama pairing in Tengen sets new record: In my previous report, I noted that Yamashita Keigo had become the challenger to Iyama Yuta for the Tengen title. Subsequently, Go Weekly pointed out that this will be the 11th title match between these two, which sets a new record. So far, Iyama has lost only once. The previous record was ten, shared among three players in two pairings: Cho Chikun (eight wins) v. Kobayashi Koichi and Kobayashi Koichi (six) v. Kato Masao. Next is the current Meijin title match, which is the ninth match between Iyama (six) and Cho U. Equal fourth is Cho Chikun (seven) v. Otake Hideo.
The Power Report (1 of 2): Iyama makes best 16 in Samsung Cup; Iyama takes two-game lead in Meijin; Ichiriki to challenge for Oza title
Iyama makes best 16 in Samsung Cup: The opening round in the 2018 Samsung Cup was held at the Samsung Insurance Campus in Korea on September 4 to 6. (It's the 23rd cup, but apparently the sponsor is not numbering them that way any more; the full title of the tournament goes Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk 2018.) The first round is like a tournament in its own right: the 32 players are split up into eight groups of four, who then play each other. Two wins take you to the next round (whether your score is 2-0 or 2-1) and two losses (0-2 or 1-2) eliminate you.
Japan was represented by Iyama Yuta 9P (right), Shibano Toramaru 7P (left), and Ryu Shikun 9P (right, below). The first two were Japan's seeded players; Ryu won a seat in the Seniors division of the international qualifying tournament and was playing in the main tournament for the first time since 2001.
In the first game (September 4), Shibano was the only one to pick up a win. He defeated Chen Yaoye 9P of China, who eliminated him from the Bailing Cup (see my previous report). Shibano had white and won by 4.5 points. Iyama Yuta (W) lost to Tang Weixing 9P (China) by resig. and Ryu (W) lost to Li Xiangu 5P (China) by 1.5 points. In the second game, played the next day, Iyama (W) beat Yun Seongshik (left, below), an amateur player from Korea, by resig.; Ryu (B) beat Wu Guangya 6P (China) by resig.; Park Junghwan 9P (Korea) (B) beat Shibano by resig. In the third game (the 6th), Iyama (B) beat Tan Shui 9P (China) by resig.; Gu Zihao 9P (China) (W) beat Shibano by resig.; Li Xiangu (B) beat Ryu by 1.5 points.
Iyama was the only one to make it to the second round, but Shibano and Ryu were by no means disgraced, as scoring even one win at this level is impressive. Actually, Shibano was in what was dubbed the "group of death," as the other three players (Park, Gu, and Chen) are all past or present world titleholders. Ryu, who at the "advanced" age of 46 qualifies as a senior, was ahead in his third game, but slipped up in the endgame. He was chagrinned to lose twice to the same opponent by the same small margin.
The second round will be played on October 1.
Iyama takes two-game lead in Meijin: The second game of the 43rd Meijin title match was held at the Kakujoro a traditional inn, in Tahara City, Aichi Prefecture, on September 12 and 13. Cho U, the challenger, is know for his skill at fighting kos and he seemed to take the initiative when he connected a ko in the first fight on move 55. However, there was a lot of action still to come: the game extended to 336 moves, making it the second-longest game in a Meijin title match. Both sides made mistakes or errors in judgment, so the lead shifted back and forth. The game was decided when Cho suffered a hallucination on move 253. This was decisive. Iyama (right) won the game by 2.5 points. Iyama: "The result of the ko fight at the beginning was not favorable for me. I thought it would be a drawn-out game, but I was not confident. I didn't have a clue about some of the things going on and thought I had messed up the game, but I took profit with border moves in the middle game." Cho: "There were many positions in which I thought the game was easier for me. I got my last chance in the endgame, but I hallucinated and lost about three points. The content was not bad for me, so I will make a fresh start and do my best." The third game will be played on September 25 and 26.
Ichiriki to challenge for Oza title: The play-off to decide the challenger for the 66thOza title was held at the Nihon Ki-in in Tokyo on September 13. It was fought between two players younger than the title-holder Iyama Yuta: Ichiriki Ryo 7P (aged 20) and Motoki Katsuya 8P (aged 23). Taking black, Ichiriki won by resignation after 239 moves. He will make his second successive challenge for this title and his fifth challenge overall to Iyama. The first game will be played on October 26.
Tomorrow: Kisei Leagues; Tournament to decide the Kisei challenger; 74th Honinbo League seats; Yamashita-Iyama pairing in Tengen sets new record
Categories: Japan,John Power Report,Main Page
The Power Report (3 of 3): Yamashita wins Kisei S League; New Pair Go World Champion Pair; Iyama starts Meijin defense with a win; Yamashita to challenge for Tengen title; Fujisawa to challenge for Women's Honinbo; Promotions; Nakayama the most prolific go writer?
Yamashita wins Kisei S League: Two games in the 43rdKisei S League were played on July 9. Yamashita Keigo 9P (B) beat Ichiriki Ryo 8P by resig. and Takao Shinji 9P (W) beat Cho U 9P by half a point. On 4-0, Yamashita was the only unbeaten player; there is no play-off in ties in this league, so Yamashita won the league regardless of his result in the fifth and final round. In the running for second place—and a place in the knockout tournament to decide the challenger–were Kono Rin 9P and Kyo Kagen Gosei, who were both on 2-1. They played each other on August 30. Taking white, Kyo won by resignation. This gives him provisional second place. If he loses his final game, the winner of a game between Kono and Takao Shinji will edge him out, as both are ranked higher in the league. In contrast to the Meijin League, in which he won all his games, Cho U has lost all his games; on 0-4, he can't hope to avoid demotion.
New Pair Go World Champion Pair: In 2016, a Pair Go World Cup was held and was won by the Chinese team of Yu Zhiying 5P and Ke Jie 9P. Last year, a World Championship was held in two stages. The first part was a tournament to decide the pair to challenge the reigning world champion pair of Yu and Ke. The Chinese pair defended their title. This year another world championship was held, but with a different result. The first stage, held on August 20 and 21, was won by the Korean team of Choi Jeong 9P and Park Junghwan 9-dan. They won their challenge to the Yu/Ke pair and so now reign as the Pair Go World Champion Pair. Taking black, Choi and Park won by resignation after 183 moves.
Iyama starts Meijin defense with a win: The first game of the 43rd Meijin title match was held at the Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo on August 28 and 29. Taking black, Iyama Yuta made a good start to his defence, forcing the challenger Cho U 9P to resign after 239 moves. In a variation of a recently popular "joseki," a massive ko fight (worth 45 points) started. With move 81, Iyama ignored his opponent's ko threat and finished off the ko, but ceding the ko was also feasible, as in exchange Black would have got a large-scale attack on White. Next, an enormous fight started on the other side of the board, featuring two more large ko fights. White suffered further damage in one of these fights and, although he managed to wall off a large territory, he was unable to match Black on territory. The second game will be played on September 12 and 13.
Yamashita to challenge for Tengen title: Not everything is going smoothly for Kyo Kagen, the new holder of the Gosei title. The play-off to decide the challenger for the 44thTengen title was held at the Nihon Ki-in on September 3. Playing white, Yamashita Keigo 9P beat Kyo by resignation after 226 moves. Yamashita turned 40 three days later, so he is nearly twice Kyo's age. This will be Yamashita's first appearance in the Tengen title match since the 36thTengen in 2009. He won the 30thand 35thtitles. The match with Iyama Yuta will start on October 19.
Fujisawa to challenge for Women's Honinbo: Fujisawa Rina has a chance to take back the title she lost to Xie Yimin last year. In the play-off to decide the challenger for the 37th Women's Honinbo Title, held at the Nihon Ki-in on September 6, she beat Ueno Asami (B) by resignation. The title match will start on October 16.
To 8-dan: Kyo Kagen for winning the Gosei title (as of August 4)
To 4-dan: Kumamoto Shusei (50 wins, as of August 3)
To 3-dan: Otani Naoki (40 wins, as of July 27)
Nakayama the most prolific go writer?
In the August 21 issue of this journal, Kent Olsen expressed interest in the number of books Nakayama Noriyuki had written. I have no way of doing a count, but I do recall a conversation decades ago in which Nakayama mentioned that he had already written over 200 go books. He added that publishers liked him because, if required, he could write a book over a weekend. Some of his books would have been published under the names of top professionals, with the actual writer getting a credit as "writer" or "editor" or sometimes not being mentioned at all.
The Power Report (2 of 3): Park wins Kuksu Mountain; New star wins 1st Go Seigen Cup; Cho U to challenge for Meijin title; Kyo wins Gosei title
Park wins Kuksu Mountain: The Bailing Cup was immediately followed by the 5th Kuksu Mountains International Tournament, held in Jeollanam-do in Korea. Three Japanese players took part but were all eliminated in the first round. Kang Dongyun 9P (Korea) (B) beat Iyama Yuta by resig.; Shin Jinseo 9P (Korea) (W) beat Yuki Satoshi by resig.; and Park Junghwan 9P (Korea) (B) beat Ichiriki Ryo 8P by resig. These games were played on July 28. Park went on to win the tournament, beating Wang Yuan-jun 8P of Chinese Taipei in the final on July 30. A Pair Go tournament was also held with mixed teams made up by drawing lots. Lu Minquan 4P (China) and Lee Chang-ho 9P (Korea) beat Hei Jia-jia (Joanne Missingham) (Chinese Taipei) and Wang Lei 8P (China) in the final.
New star wins 1st Go Seigen Cup: The Wu Qingyuan (Go Seigen) Cup World Women's Championship is a new international tournament organized by Fuzhou City, the birthplace of Go Seigen, in Fujian Province. The early rounds were held from April 26 to May 1, as described in my June report. The best-of-three final between Kim Chaeyoung 4P and Choi Jeong 9P, both of Korea, was held recently. The latter was the overwhelming favorite: she had already won two world titles and hadn't lost even one of her 11 games with Kim. However, Kim surprised her by taking the title with straight wins. The games were played on July 23 and 25; Kim won the first with white, then with black won the second by 5.5 points. Choi had a negative record against China's number one woman player Yu Zhiying of 9-15. During the break in the tournament before the final, Kim studied Yu's games intensively to work out how to beat Choi. That worked. In recognition of her victory, she was promoted to 5-dan. One of the parallel events was a Pair Go tournament for family pairs. It was won by Rui Naiwei 9P and her husband Jiang Zhujiu 9P; second was Kim Songle 5P and his daughter Kim Dayoung 3P; third was Nyu Lili 5P and her daughter Nyu Eiko 2P; and fourth was Nyu Xianxian 3P and her husband Michael Redmond 9P.
Cho U to challenge for Meijin title: After holding the lead all the way in the 43rd Meijin League, Cho U 9P did not falter in the final two rounds and so earned the right to play in his first top-seven title match since the Kisei in 2013. Cho actually secured victory when he beat Ko Iso in the July round, as his 7-0 score put him two wins clear of the field, but he put the icing on the cake with another win in the final round. Cho commented that he felt it was important to maintain his momentum by winning all eight games in the league, all the more so to match Iyama Yuta's record in the previous league. CLICK HERE for the Asahi newspaper's special English coverage, including reports, videos and commentary by Michael Redmond 9P.
Putting aside the ultimate success of his challenge, Cho seems to have come out of his slump of recent years. In 2009, he became the first player to hold five of the top seven titles simultaneously and in 2010 the second player to score a cumulative grand slam. However, he was the main victim of the rise of Iyama Yuta. He lost the Meijin title to him in 2009, the Judan in 2011, the Oza in 2012 and the Kisei in 2013. This is his chance to take revenge and make a comeback.
Shibano Toramaru's performance is also worth of note: a score of 6-2 in a top league is impressive. He won his first three games, seemed to be going downhill when he lost the middle two, but rallied to win the last three and take second place. He will surely emerge as the challenger before long.
Results of games played since my previous report follow.
(July 19) Cho U (W) beat Ko Iso 8P by resig.; Shibano Toramaru 7P (B) beat Kono Rin 9P by 3.5 points.
(August 2) Cho U (W) beat Takao Shinji 9P by resig.; Kono 9P (W) beat Yamashita Keigo 9P by resig.; Shibano (W) beat Ko Iso 8P by resig.; Murakawa Daisuke 8P (W) beat Hane Naoki 9P by resig.
Kyo wins Gosei title: The third game of the 43rd Gosei title match was held at the Kansai Headquarters of the Nihon Ki-in in Osaka on August 3. Taking white, Kyo forced a resignation after 224 moves. The 20-year-old Kyo is the first player of the younger generation to beat Iyama in a title match. As in the first two games, he was able to match Iyama in the precision of his reading and his fighting skill. It's safe to say that not many people expected him to take the series 3-0.
This brought an end to Iyama's second septuple crown. He extended his reign to 290 days compared to 197 days for his first grand slam. After his first grand slam was ended by the loss of the Meijin title, Iyama was able to hold on to his other titles, then to resurrect the septuple crown by regaining the Meijin title the following year. Of course, he will attempt to repeat this feat, but he has now turned 30, so maintaining peak form may prove tougher.
Kyo won the Gosei title just five years and four months after becoming a professional, which is a new speed record for a top-seven title. At 20 years seven months, he is the youngest Gosei ever and the third-youngest player to win a top-seven title (the record is held by Iyama, who won the Meijin title at 20 years four months.) Iyama's reign as Gosei lasted for six years. More stats: Iyama has played in 49 title matches and lost eight of them; this is the first time he has suffered straight losses.
Kyo: "When I became the challenger, I felt happy just to be able to play a match with Iyama Sensei. For much of the time, the first and third games were bad for me, so I guess I was lucky."
Iyama: "I don't think that holding seven titles is a normal state, so I wasn't strongly focused on defending. Though I would have liked to make the match more exciting—lasting just three games was a pity. I felt from early on that the third game was bad for me. I did have chances, but I couldn't make the most of them. I hope I can learn from this defeat and come back stronger."
Tomorrow: Yamashita wins Kisei S League; New Pair Go World Champion Pair; Iyama starts Meijin defense with a win; Yamashita to challenge for Tengen title; Fujisawa to challenge for Women's Honinbo; Promotions; Nakayama the most prolific go writer?
The Power Report (1 of 3): Mizokami scores 700th win; Yoda wins Masters Cup; 4th Bailing Cup Report
This was a harsh summer over most of the Japanese archipelago, with record heat alternating with record rainfalls. For the first time ever, the thermometer topped 40 degrees Celsius within the Tokyo metropolis, and many other areas also set new records. Both extremes are dangerous. There were many fatalities from heat strokes, especially among older people. Some died overnight in their homes because they hesitated to turn on air conditioners (most pensions are not very generous). Heavy rain can be even more dangerous, as it causes floods and landslides that wash away homes or bury them in mud. To cap it off, there was a major earthquake in Hokkaido at the beginning of September. Summer, especially August, has always seemed like a bit of an off season for go, but there has been a lot of activity, as my reports over the next few days will show.
Mizokami scores 700th win: A win scored by Mizokami Tomochika 9P on July 12 against Onishi Ryuhei 3P in Preliminary A of the 44th Meijin Tournament (taking white, he won by 2.5 points) was his 700th win as a professional. He is the 48th player at the Nihon Ki-in to reach this landmark. Mizokami is 41, and it took him 25 years three months to make it to 700.
Yoda wins Masters Cup: The final of the 8th Fumakilla Igo Masters Cup, a tournament for seniors open to former winners of top-seven titles aged 50 or over, was held in the Ryusei Studio in the basement of the Nihon Ki-in in Tokyo on July 21. Sixteen players competed in the main tournament, but there is also a preliminary for senior players who have done well in the prize money list. The players in the final were Yoda Norimoto 9P (right) and Kataoka Satoshi 9P, neither of whom had won this title before. Two and a half decades ago, they had met in the finals of two minor titles, with victory going to Kataoka on both occasions. Playing white, Yoda forced a resignation after 218 moves and secured the first prize of 5 million yen (about $45,000). The sponsor of the tournament is an insecticide manufacturer, so I had facilely assumed that the company name meant "fume killer," but not so. The company's HP indicates that "fuma" comes from "fu" in the Japanicized pronunciation of "fly" and "ma" likewise from "mosquito" but changed from "mo" to "ma" to make the new word easier to pronounce.
4th Bailing Cup Report: The first two rounds of the 4th Bailing Cup World Weiqi Championship were held at the Zhongguo Qiyuan (Chinese Ki-in) from July 24 to 26. Four players from Japan took part; two of them won in the first round (round of 16) but were eliminated in the second. Three Chinese players and one Korean made the semifinals. A senior tournament and an amateur tournament were held at the same time. Yoda Norimoto made the final in the former.
This year major changes were made in the tournament format. Formerly, 64 players competed in the first round, making this a mammoth tournament to rival the Samsung Cup, but that number was reduced to 16. The open preliminary was abolished, with representatives being chosen by their countries.
Selected results (full details not available for some games):
(Round 1) Iyama Yuta (W) (Japan) beat Lian Xiao (China) by resig.; Chen Yaoye (China) beat Park Junghwan (Korea); Gu Jihao (China) beat Yamashita Keigo (Japan); Dang Yifei (China) beat Kyo Kagen (Japan); Shibano Toramaru (Japan) (W) beat Tan Xiao (China) by half a point.
(Round 2) Chen Yaoye (B) beat Shibano by resig.; Gu Jihao (B) beat Iyama by resig.
(Semifinals) Chen v. Ke Jie (China); Gu v. Shin Jinseo (Korea).
Previously, a disproportionate burden of expectation seemed to be placed on Iyama's shoulders, but recently the most popular Japanese player overseas has been the 18-year-old Shibano. This year he has beaten three top Chinese players in Ke Jie in the Japan-China Ryusei Play-off, Tang Weixing in the LG Cup and now Tan. As a result, he is acquiring fans in China and Korea.
Results in the seniors tournament (there are no Koreans, because the sponsors chose players who starred in the Japan-China go exchange in the 80s):
Round of 8) Nie Weiping 9P (China) beat Takemiya Masaki 9P (Japan); Ma Xiaochun 9P (China) beat Kobayashi Koichi 9P (Japan); Yoda Norimoto 9P (Japan) beat Liu Xiaoguang 9P (China); Chang Hao 9P (China) beat Otake Hideo 9P (Japan).
(Semifinals) Ma beat Nie; Yoda (W) beat Chang by resig.
(Final) Ma v. Yoda
Tomorrow: Park wins Kuksu Mountain; New star wins 1st Go Seigen Cup; Cho U to challenge for Meijin title; Kyo wins Gosei title
Redmond to provide live English commentary on 1st Meijin match
For the first ti me, Michael Redmond 9P will be providing an English live commentary on the first game of the Meijin title match between Cho U and Iyama Yuta. The match will be held on August 28-29 in Tokyo, starting at 9am local time each day, making it about 8pm EDT in the US. "I will be providing an English live commentary for the first time," Redmond tells the E-Journal, "and it will be mostly text comments, with a few videos at chosen times during the game." Check it out on the Asahi newspaper digital site, "which will be mostly Japanese, but there will be an English link to my commentary."
Michael Redmond will visit the National Go Center the second week in September, with a full schedule of commentaries, simuls and other appearances; stay tuned for further details soon.
Categories: Japan,Main Page
The Power Report (Part 3 of 3): Kyo makes good start in Gosei; Kobayashi Koichi wins tournament for senior players; Ryu wins seat in 2018 Samsung Cup; Yamashita leads S League; Cho U keeps lead in Meijin League; Promotions; Obituary: Nishigami Yoshihiko 9P
by John Power, special Japan correspondent for the E-Journal
Kyo makes good start in Gosei : The 43rd Gosei best-of-five title match got off to a start on June 23. The venue was the Hokkoku (North Country) Newspaper Hall in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The Hokkoku Newspaper is a member of the Newspaper Igo Federation, a group of 13 regional newspapers that sponsor the Gosei tournament.
This year the challenger is Kyo Kagen 7-dan, who is making his title-match debut. He was born in Taiwan, where he is known as Hsu Chiayuan (Xu Jiayuan in Pinyin). Kyo has already made a name for himself as one of the most promising younger players in Japan; he was promoted to 7-dan in 2017, when he won a seat in the Kisei S League. He will turn 21 onDecember 24. In the first Gosei game, he drew white and forced Iyama to resign after 226 moves. Kyo made a very severe attack that brought Iyama to his knees. Of the time allowance of four hours each, Kyo had three minutes left; Iyama was down to his last minute.
The second game was played at the Nihon Ki-in headquarters in Tokyo on July 6. The game concluded after 271 moves with Kyo (black) winning by 1.5 points. Once again Kyo slugged it out toe to toe and took the lead. Iyama's septuple crown seems to be in serious danger. The third game will be played on July 3.
Kobayashi Koichi wins tournament for senior players: According to Go Weekly, tournaments for around eight players are popular in various places in China and "legendary" Japanese and Korean players are sometimes invited to take part. On July 1 and 2, the city of Shaoxing in Zhejiang Province held the 1st International Weiqi Great Players Tournament to commemorate the building of a weiqi hall. (Shaoxing is a city of five million and is well known for the rice wine of the same name.) The participants were all top players in the last century, so I will give all the results (all players are 9-dan; I don't have full details of the games).
(Round 1, July 1) Ma Xiaochun (China) beat Yang Jaeho (Korea), Kobayashi (Japan) beat Rin Kaiho (representing Chinese Taipei), Cao Dayuan (China) beat Seo Bong-soo (Korea), Nie Weiping (China) beat Takemiya Masaki.
(Round 2, July 1) Kobayashi beat Ma, Nie beat Cao.
(Final, July 2) Kobayashi (W) beat Nie by 4.5 points.
First prize was 200,000 yuan ($30,000)
Ryu wins seat in 2018 Samsung Cup: The international preliminaries for the current Samsung Cup were held in Seoul from July 2 to 7 with about 380 players taking part in the various sections. They included 35 players from Japan, of whom just one was successful: Ryu Shikun 9P in the Senior division. He will be competing in the main tournament for the third time and the first time since 2001.
Yamashita leads S League: After three rounds, Yamashita Keigo has the sole lead in the 43rdKisei S League with a score of 3-0. He is followed by Kono Rin 9P and Kyo Kagen 7P, both on 2-1. In the A League, three players on 3-1 share the lead: Murakawa Daisuke 8P, So Yokoku 9P, and Yo Seiki 7P. In the B1 league, Tsuruyama Atsushi 7P has the provisional lead with 5-1, but Akiyama Jiro 9P, on 4-1, also has only one loss. In the B2 League, Shibano Toramaru, on 6-0, has the sole lead.
Recent results in the S League:
(June 14) Ichiriki Ryo 8P (B) beat Cho U 9P by resig.
(June 21) Kono Rin 9P (W) beat Takao Shinji 9P by resig.
(July 13) Yamashita (W) beat Kyo Kagen by resig.
Cho U keeps lead in Meijin League: Cho U 9P not only has the sole lead in the 43rd Meijin League on 6-0, he is now two points clear of the field. The only other player with a chance of becoming the challenger is Shibano Toramaru 7P, who is on 4-2. If Cho wins his seventh-round game, against Ko Iso 8P, or if Shibano loses his, with Kono Rin 9P, Cho will win the league. If Cho loses, his final game against Takao Shinji 9P will assume greater importance. Recent results:
(June 7) Yamashita Keigo 9P (B) beat Murakawa Daisuke 8P by resig.; Shibano Toramaru 7P (B) beat Hane Naoki 9P by 3.5 points.
(June 14) Ko Iso 8P (W) beat Kono Rin 9P by 1.5 points.
(June 28) Cho (W) beat Yo Seiki 7P by 4.5 points.
(July 5) Yamashita Keigo 9P (W) beat Takao Shinji 9P by resig.; Yo Seiki 7P (W) beat Hane Naoki 9P by resig.
To 8-dan: Rin Kanketsu (Lin Hanjie) (150 wins; as of July 6)
To 3-dan: Cho Zuiketsu (Zhang Ruijie) (40 wins; as of June 19)
To 2-dan: Utani Shunta (as of June 8), Seki Kotaro (as of June 26) (both 30 wins)
Obituary: Nishigami Yoshihiko 9P
Nishigami Yoshihiko died of colon cancer on June 30. Born in Osaka on March 16, 1941, Nishigami became a disciple of Hosokawa Chihiro 9P. He became 1-dan at the Osaka branch of the Nihon Ki-in 2in 1960, reached 8-dan in 1989, retired in 2006 and was promoted to 9-dan.
The Power Report (Part 2 of 3): Iyama defends Honinbo title; Fujisawa defends 5thHollyhock Cup
Iyama defends Honinbo title: The fourth game of the 73rdHoninbo best-of-seven title match was held at the Hotel Hankyu Expo Park in Suita City, Osaka Prefecture, on June 12 and 13. Yamashita Keigo 9P, the challenger, who had white, took the initiative in the fighting on the first day and went into the second day with a slight advantage. But on the evening of the second day he flinched in the face of an all-out do-or-die challenge by Iyama Yuta (or Honinbo Monyu) and in a flash his lead was upset. He resigned after 189 moves. Iyama had now won three games in a row, so Yamashita faced a kadoban. Incidentally, this is the third year in a row that this hotel was scheduled to host a Honinbo game, but on the previous occasions the match ended before it reached the hotel.
The fifth game was played at the Konjakutei inn in Aizu Wakamatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 30 and July 1. Playing white, Iyama secured a resignation after 228 moves and won the match 4-1. As in the previous game, Yamashita played well and seemed to have the initiative in the middle-game fighting on the second day, but when he launched an attack there was a chink in his armor; Iyama seized the opportunity to unleash a fierce counterpunch that Yamashita was unable to handle. He fought on until he ran out of options.
The prize money is 30,000,000 yen (about $278,000). Iyama has now held the Honinbo title for seven years in a row, so he has matched the record of Sakata Eio (16th to 26th terms); his next goals will be the nine-in-a-row posted by Takagawa Shukaku (7th to 15th terms), then Cho Chikun's record of ten in a row (44th to 53rd). This is Iyama's 52nd title. He is in fourth place after Cho Chikun (74), Sakata Eio (64), and Kobayashi Koichi (60), but in his tally of big-three titles (19) he is second only to Cho (29). Also, he has won 41 top-seven titles, just behind Cho's record of 42.
Like the venues for the first and second games, the venue for the fifth game has a connection with the Meiji Restoration 150 years ago. The restoration of imperial rules was made possible by the victory of the clans supporting the restoration over those supporting the Tokugawa shogunate. After an attack by Imperial forces on Edo, the last shogun, Yoshinobu, surrendered in May 1868, but the Aizu clan, which supported the Tokugawas, continued fighting. The imperial army attacked Aizu Wakamatsu in October and the city surrendered in early November. The most famous incident in this part of the war was a mass suicide of 19 teenaged Aizu samurai in the White Tiger Corps when they concluded (prematurely) that their side had lost. This episode has been very popular in literature and film. For details of the war, check out "the Boshin war" in Wikipedia and for the suicide "the Byakkotai." The players visited the White Tiger graves to make offerings the day before the game.
Fujisawa defends 5th Hollyhock Cup: The games in the 5th Aizu Central Hospital Women's Hollyhock Cup best-of-three were held in the space of eight days. The first two games were held in the Konjakutei, a traditional Japanese inn, in Aizu Wakamatsu City in Fukushima Prefecture with just one rest day between them; the score was a tie, so the deciding game was played at the Nihon Ki-in in Tokyo after a break of four days. Xie made a good start in her bid to seek revenge for her loss to Fujisawa last year when she pulled off an upset win in the first game, but Fujisawa fought hard to take the next two games, thus defending her title.
Game 1 (June 15). Xie (W) by resig.
Game 2 (June 17). Fujisawa (W) by resig.
Game 3 (June 22). Fujisawa (B) by resig.
Fujisawa won the inaugural term, so she has now won this title three times. By my count, this is her eighth title. First prize is 7,000,000 yen (close to $65,000).
(Note: Until the third term, this tournament was a knock-out, with the previous winner starting out in the final stage and the final being just one game. Last year the final became a best-of-three, with the winner to defend the title this year. It has taken two years to transform the title to the usual challenger format.)
Tomorrow: Kyo makes good start in Gosei; Kobayashi Koichi wins tournament for senior players; Ryu wins seat in 2018 Samsung Cup; Yamashita leads S League; Cho U keeps lead in Meijin League; Promotions; Obituary: Nishigami Yoshihiko 9P
The Power Report (Part 1 of 3): Japan eliminated in LG Cup; China wins 8th Huanglongshi Cup; Japanese team comes 6th in Chinese B League; Nannami Nao wins Senko Cup
Japan eliminated in LG Cup: The first two rounds of the 23rd LG Cup were held at the Konjiam resort in Gwangju City in Korea on May 28 and 30. This is a large-scale tournament, with 32 players in the first round, so I'm going to give mainly just the results of Japanese players here (I plan to give full details from the quarterfinals on when they are played). Despite making the final in the previous term, Iyama Yuta was eliminated by a player who's a new name to me. However, Shibano Toramaru (left) made up for it by beating a previous winner of the Samsung Cup. Apparently this success attracted a lot of attention among Korean fans discussing the tournament on a chat site. However, he ran into the world's number one player in the second round. Shibano lamented that his score against Park Jeonghwan is now 0-4, but he was happy about his first-round win.
The makeup of the participants in this tournament reflects the status quo in international go: 16 Chinese players, 11 Korean, and just four Japanese, with the last player being from Chinese Taipei. The fierceness of the competition is frightening. Besides Iyama, two other semifinalists from the 22ndCup, Xie Erhao and Ke Jie, were also eliminated in the first round, as was all-time great Lee Sedol and the winner of the recent TV Asia tournament, Kim Jiseok.
In this tournament, the winner of the nigiri chooses the color, and the influence of AI was seen in the fact that most players chose white, as the AI programs "think" the komi gives white the advantage. Actually, white won just over half the games: 13 out of 24.
Round 1. Zhao Chen'u 6P (China) beat Iyama Yuta 9P (Japan) by resig.; Yang Tianxin 6P (China) beat Ida Atsushi 8P (Japan) on time; Ichiriki Ryo 8P (Japan) (B) beat Zhong Wenjing 6P (China) by resig.; Shibano Toramaru 7P (B) beat Tang Weixing 9P (China) by resig.; Jiang Weijie 9P (China) (W) beat Yi Sedol 9P (Korea) by resig.; Weon Seongjin 9P (Korea) (W) beat Ke Jie 9P (China) by resig.
Round 2. Kang Tongyun 9P (Korea) (B) beat Ichiriki by resig.; Park Jeonghwan 9P (Korea) (B) beat Shibano by resig.
China wins 8th Huanglongshi Cup: The second round of this women's team tournament for five-player teams from China, Korea, and Japan was held in Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province in China from June 5 to 8. The star of the first round was Li He 5P of China, who won five in a row before losing to O Yujin 5P of Korea (Nyu Eiko of Japan won the first game – see my report published on April 17 for more details). The result of the first round was that China had four players left, and Korea and Japan two each. In the second and concluding round, the stars were the world's number two woman player, Choi Jeong, who won three in a row, and Yu Zhiying of China, the world's number one, who beat Choi in the final game.
Game 8 (June 5). O Yujin (Korea) (W) beat Ueno Asami 2P (Japan) by resig.
Game 9 (June 5). Zhou Hungyu 4P (China) (W) beat O Yujin by resig.
Game 10 (June 6). Fujisawa Rina 4P (Japan) (B) beat Zhou by resig.
Game 11 (June 6). Choi Jeong 9P (Korea) (B) beat Fujisawa by resig.
Game 12 (June 7). Choi (W) beat Rui Naiwei 9P (China) by resig.
Game 13 (June 8). Choi beat Wang Chenxing 5P (China) by resig.
Game 14 (June 8). Yu Zhiying 6P (China) (W) beat Choi by 4.5 points.
Japanese team comes 6th in Chinese B League: In China, much of the action in go is to be found in the A, B, and C Leagues, in which teams are sponsored by cities or regions or by corporations. This year, too, a four-player Japanese team, officially called the China-Japan Friendship Team, took part in the 16-team B League and performed creditably by taking 6th place, an improvement on its 11th place last year (the top three teams are promoted into the A League). The league was held from June 11 to 20 in Wuxi City in Jiangsu Province, with each team playing eight matches (presumably it was a Swiss System tournament). The Japanese team won two matches 3-1, lost one 1-3, and drew the other five. Individual results were: Shibano Toramaru 5-3, Ida Atsushi 3-5, Yo Seiki 4-4, and Kyo Kagen 5-3.
Nannami Nao wins Senko Cup: Occasionally there's a title match for women players that doesn't feature Fujisawa Rina and Xie Yimin. That was the case for the 3rd Senko Cup, in which the finalists were Mannami Nao 3P (left) and Nyu Eiko 2p. The game was played at the Guesthouse Akekure in Higashi Omi City, Shiga Prefecture, on July 15. Taking white, Mannami forced a resignation after 180 moves. This is the 32-year-old Manami's first title — the Senko Cup is a good one to start with, as it has the top prize money for a women's title of 8,000,000 yen (about $74,000). I hope it's not sexist to say that her results have been good since her marriage to Ida Atsushi 8P earlier this year. Nyu missed out again in her second title match, but one consolation is that the second prize of 4,000,000 yen is almost as much as first prize in some other women's titles. (Just for the record, Mananmi beat Fujisawa in the second round of the main tournament, which starts out with 16 players, and Xie was beaten by Yashiro Kumiko in the first round.
Tomorrow: Iyama defends Honinbo title; Fujisawa defends 5th Hollyhock Cup
Go Spotting: Kanda House in Shirakawa-go
After participating in the 6th annual Osaka Go Camp, Vermont go player Peter Schumer headed to the remote mountain village of Shirakawa-go. "Due to the recent rains and landslides it was difficult to get there since no trains are operating in the area at this point," reports Schumer (below, left, in blue shirt). "The village is known for its old A-framed thatch-roofed homes that are well suited for their snowy winters. One that I entered was a four-story structure known as the Kanda House. Inside along with other special household items on display was the family's go board and stones. Suddenly I felt very much at home!"
Schumer says the Osaka Go Camp, run by Ryo Maeda 6P, who will be attending this year's U.S. Go Congress, "was a great success as always," with about 30 participants from Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, France, Germany, Canada and the United States. "This was my fourth time attending and it's always fun and very worthwhile."
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