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very good!
Geller is awesome!!
people make too big thing about age and chess I think. perhaps there's something to it in regards to giving simuls or maintaining the top spot on an internet server. but in terms of playing standard time control tournament games I think it's very possible for someone remain incredibly strong until they actually hit senility. korchnoi being the prime example. gelfand, anand, kramnik, topalov, aronian and svidler are going to open people's eyes too in this regard. I don't think they are going to acquiesce to the younger generation and just go away because that's what they are supposed to do, what people expect them to do. (but it is true that in order to have a viable career as a chess player you kind of have to start playing when you are 10 or younger and be an IM GM by age 20-25 these days. starting in your twenties or thirties is just not economically feasible in most cases (unless you are independently wealthy or something)).
Two great games. Thanks for the games and fond reminiscences.
In the beginning of the game, when white played Bb2 after Nxe4..
Instead of Bb2, why not 1. a3 Nc6 2. Nd5, attacking the queen and attacking the knight?
Thanks for another entertaining and instructive video!
AND BTW I'd like to see you do some videos on great GMs of the past esp those not previously covered yet such as Reti, Marshall, Pillsbury and of course more on my hero Smyslov!
Pretty cool
pleasure to watch these great games! thank you.
Thank You Sir,
Your color commentary in your videos will be treasured for generations to come !!!!
nice to meet you, i am new here
I enjoyed the video series on Mr. Geller very much, thank you GM Roman. So much more fun to watch a skilled attacker than a pawn preservation game.
A masterpiece, in my opinion. GM Dzindzichashvili's recollections are a priceless element of chess history.
gm roman is the only staff member who is currently developing theory using chess engine rybka. basically whatever he says is the most updated and "best" way to play. i watched every single roman video and it improved my game 100 points, but i cannot crack 1600 = (
im danny rencsh says that a players need to memorize the board squares to have more board awareness. memorizing 64 squares does not seem fun!
Your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Thanks, Roman!
nice video
by GM Roman Dzindzichashvili
Roman's coverage of the late, great Efim Geller comes to an end today with the review of two amazing games. The first, a classic against GM Kotov, the second, a game from the 90's that you would have thought had been played by a young and vibrant Grandmaster. As Dzindzi explains, such was Geller's style, and he will forever be remember as young and heart and young at chess!
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http://i.imgur.com/Qfvzx.jpg (Nullarbor Cliffs, Australia)
Miles of nothing interspersed with exciting bits...
Damn, I should be looking for a sand totem around here... I need a golem to take over my day job.
Lol. Good catch.
Makes for a good wall anyway.
All the evidence the flat earthists need
I knew SD had a model to base WOM on....
I knew FE would have better lighting, but damn... Way to escalate.
Just cause of that there must be a huge orange rock for a quest or something
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India Journal: When Scientists Become Stars
By Ranjani Iyer Mohanty
When Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2009, he gave an interview to The Telegraph in Calcutta in which he seemed to suggest that he was disturbed by the pride that Indians felt in his achievement.
He said that science is done in the pursuit of knowledge, not in nationalistic terms where one country competes with another. He also mentioned that in the U.S., Nobel Prize winners were just one day's news in the press in comparison with India's "almost exaggerated reaction."
Something similar happened earlier this week in Chennai where he had come to attend the Indian Science Congress. When he came to the inauguration of the Children Science Congress, he was surrounded by – surprise! – children, who all wanted to meet him.
Here's what he later said: "I was mobbed and found it difficult to move around the hall. It was unfortunate. I could not explain to him [meaning Thomas Steitz, his co-Nobel prize winner] the advances made by Indian science because of the commotion. We are not cricket or movie stars".
–Ranjani Iyer Mohanty is a writer and business/academic editor.


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A jury in central Ohio has rejected a Democratic state lawmaker's defamation lawsuit against the state's Democratic Party.
The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2bGpIXJ ) that the Franklin County jury deliberated for about a day and a half before voting 6-2 Friday in favor of the defendant.
State Rep. John Barnes, of Cleveland, had claimed that the state party knowingly made false statements about him in campaign mailings to Democratic voters as part of an unsuccessful attempt to defeat him in the 2014 primary election.
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!!Mr. Charlie Chan
->''"Advice after a mistake is like medicine after the funeral."''
The one and only Detective Chan. Usually picks up on the clues his children miss.
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!!Henry Chan
->''"Well, gang, it's up to the Chan Clan now."''
Mr. Chan's oldest son and the natural leader of his siblings. A hard worker and a thoughtful brother and son, but somewhat uptight.
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!!Stanley Chan
->''"Wham bam, we're in a jam!"''
The second oldest and Henry's partner in solving capers. Though he takes his work seriously you'd never know it with all his silly jokes and disguises.
* AttractiveBentGender: And how!
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->''"We're gonna find it a good home. Where the people won't lock it in closets like Mr. Snively did!"''
The oldest of the girls. A sweet and even-tempered young lady with some bite to her.
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The technological genius of the Chan Clan, and the most laid back of the kids. Teases Anne constantly, but is shown to have affection for her.
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->''"'''And''' the women!"''
The tomboy daughter and feminist of the Chan Clan. Often clashes with Tom and Alan, but they're all quite close nonetheless.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Tom's Brains.
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->''"You just wait for your elders!"''
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The youngest of Detective Chan's children and Flip's devoted sidekick.
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A one-episode character and an apparent friend of Mr. Chan's.
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A one-episode character and Henry's friend.
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La Luna - Lucca
The hotel offers a warm and comfortable atmosphere in order to make the guests stay pleasant and relaxing. Guests may take advantage of the onsite bar and complimentary wireless Internet access in the public areas of the hotel.
Thanks to its excellent position, it is possible to easily reach the most beautiful historic monuments of the town.
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Students rally against proposed education budget cuts at the Pennsylvania State Capitol
Monday, March 28, 2011 4:17 PM
Millersville student Tiffany Wilson, 25, of Lancaster, left, joined hundreds of students from across Pennsylvania who rallied against Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed education budget cuts at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. PAUL CHAPLIN, The Patriot-Newss
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Spencer Cable Access (SCA) was established with one goal in mind; To give the community a voice and a resource for sharing ideas, creativity, and a way to get connected with our town. SCA operates with an all-volunteer staff - and we'd like you to join us.
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It's not just kids who write freakin' awesome notes (like this one). Moms weren't born yesterday. We know what we're doing when we put pen to paper (remember this little gem?)
That being said, some moms do need to put a little more thought into their note writing, lest they end up the butt of the joke on the Internet. Because once your bad note goes viral, it's all over and there's no way your kid will go back to doing chores again, at least not without looking at you and snickering. Over and over.
Check out these mom note fails, and try to learn from their mistakes:
Whoops 1 of 5Thanks for the condom, Mom. Maybe aim better with the tack next time though?
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Yikes 3 of 5Thanks, Mom. Excellent fodder and just the kind of thing my therapist was looking for.
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Welcome to Thornbury Bowls Club.
Thornbury Bowls Club has been operating for over 100 years. Our members offer a friendly welcome to both new and experienced bowlers. The clubhouse has catering facilities, dining area, lounge area and a well stocked bar for our bowling and social members, visiting bowlers, spectators and guests.
We have regular social bowl events, informal meals on the last Friday night of each month in addition to pennant competition between September and March. In the winter months interested members can enjoy our schedule of social indoor bowls.
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Pull Up A Stool With Johnathan WakefieldJune 30, 2014 - Brian Yaeger Johnathan Wakefield started as your average homebrewer, down to the homebrew kit present from his wife. But his homebrews became a Florida phenomenon, particularly his "Florida Weisses," tart wheat beers with tropical fruit twists (because what is woodruff anyway?). After collaboration brews, including with his mentors at Tampa's Cigar City Brewing, Wakefield launched the most... View Article
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Touring AmsterdamJune 20, 2014 - Brian Yaeger Drinking locally was great fun and great tasting when I lived in San Francisco. Same for Portland. After all, California and Oregon are synonymous with IPA, so much so they named a sub-category for them—West Coast IPA. The same goes for Cascadian dark ales around the Pacific Northwest. So imagine my surprise, and interminable delight,... View Article
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The Social Brew WorkMarch 18, 2014 - Brian Yaeger Johnathan Wakefield put his virtual pencil cup out not on some high trafficked thoroughfare—let's call it Kickstarter Blvd—but on the internet equivalent of a dark back alley—we'll call it Crowdbrewed Lane—with the mission of raising $55,000 to help finance J Wakefield Brewing in Miami where, let's be real, they really need some more breweries. Wakefield... View Article
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Regional Sandwiches (and the local beers they pair with)March 1, 2014 - Brian Yaeger There's a spot in Portland, OR, called Meat Cheese Bread that serves permutations of said foodstuffs in a delicious assemblage we now call a "sandwich." (Thank you, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, for the eponym if not the origin.) Tasty food matter with moist, flavorful adhesive betwixt bread slices has become a gustatory sensation... View Article
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Four killer regional sandwich and local beer combosFebruary 11, 2014 - Brian Yaeger Louisville, KY: Hot Brown and a BBC Nut Brown Ale. The Brown Hotel (335 W. Broadway) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, giving the notion of hunkering down in the Lobby Bar for a Hot Brown more import. This sandwich, created at the hotel, boasts turkey, bacon and tomato on an open-faced island... View Article
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Cask Ale DestinationsJanuary 11, 2014 - Brian Yaeger The whole purpose of the American craft brewing revolution was to authenticate once again a beverage that the industrial beer complex had turned into fizzy artifice. Craft beer is beer made real. But that pint of bottled, canned or draft carbonated IPA you're enjoying or that delectable nitro stout you recently had isn't Real Ale. ... View Article


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The right of all workers to form and join trade unions and bargain collectively shall be recognised. (ILO Conventions 87 and 98) The company shall, in those situations in which the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining are restricted under law, facilitate parallel means of independent and free association and bargaining for all workers. Workers' representatives shall not be the subject of discrimination and shall have access to all workplaces necessary to carry out their representation functions. (ILO Convention 135 and Recommendation 143)
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37: Do you feel you were born into the role of artist?
GOMAR2: Hmm, I'm not too sure what to think honestly, but yeah sure. I like that story. I like romanticism on that level, like where my life is this beautiful mystery and in the end it all makes sense. It all adds up. I've always been creative. Even when I didn't know I was an artist, I was an artist. Since I was small, I noticed I was more than everyone around me. When I say that I don't mean to sound like a total pompous ass...but to just say that I've always felt as if I had a funnel while the rest of the world around me had a skinny straw.
I'm that weirdo tugging on your moms furry orange and gold wallpaper, dragging my finger along the bumpy bubble gum under the kitchen table, observing and digesting. I know everything has the potential to change my perception, my ideas, my life. It's a lifestyle.
37: What's the most important lesson you've learned in the past year?
I need to calm down and accept the pace I'm at.
I'm a hyper individual who throttles everything to the maximum. I need to feel accomplished on a day to day level. I lay in bed every night and reflect on what I did that day; most of the time I feel I should of done more. How am I supposed to be happy when nothing is good enough? I feel guilty when I spend time with friends, watch a movie, or other activities which don't result in me having developing a product. I need that feeling of accomplishment more than I need love or friendship.
That sounds bad. I care a lot, I think. I get raged out that I even have to take time out to eat food. It's like why can't I just breathe air and survive? I live inside my head. I'm an idealist, I'm an idiot. I wish I had a couple robots that looked and acted like me. I'd have one hold down my relationships, one hold down my responsibilities in school and I would just sit home and bomb out work. At the end of the day all three of us would lay down in bed, side by side with linked USB cords into our heads. We would share our experiences through information transfers. I would then have the memories of what my friends and family have said and done; I would have new knowledge without the effort to learn. I'm infatuated with the idea of being able to acclimate a copious amount of knowledge without learning. I want phenomenal results instantly.
Haha...that's fucked up. I think I'm crazy half the time.. So, yeah I need to calm down and accept my life's pace, I'm only straining myself. I'm not a robot, I'm this human being.
37: Do you think you're tuned into a personal channel, or are you tapping into the same wellspring that other artists do?
No, I don't subscribe to the idea of me being tapped into a personal channel or a wellspring in which other artist are. Maybe I'm misinterpreting the question, but I see things as being more tangible than that. I feel as if we are operating as a unit in real time, here and now. You affect me and vise versa. I may hear a dope track you did, and blast that on repeat for a few days. That music may have me in that groove where and when I brick out a dope piece or idea. You see, I took your energy and plugged that into me. I feed off of you, and you don't even know it. It's that actual sharing of information, if I may call it that, which propels us through these waters. It's you and me creating our realities.
37: Is there a ritual to your creative process or do you like to play around with your approach?
I've read and heard a lot of designers talk about how they have this rigid method they use time and time again for developing solutions. I'm not so mechanical, I ride the lightning of the emotional excitement I have for that particular project. I honestly lock up and hyperventilate when I have to do projects I don't feel anything for.
So, yeah I do play around with my approach, that's the nature of the beast. I am and will always be a work in progress. Beyond the el and the pots of coffee, the creative process for me is non-linear a lot of times. I draw and write out ideas a lot at random through out the day. I have a 13 gallon Tupperware container to the brim with sketches and ideas I've never touched. I try to think on a basic level with what will connect with people. Asking questions about how people feel about things is a daily activity. There is so much information one can gather from an average Joe. I also try to think about high contrast, a lot against a little. I want to make shit pop. Visualizing ideas and things from different angles, in different context, and different environments are also key. I'm a huge fan of libraries. I try to think like a DJ. I'll camp out at a random library for hours and just flip through books looking for ideas, images to knock off, or what ever.
37: What gives you hope for the future?
Wow, that's a real deep question...what gives me hope for the future is myself in the present tense. Seeing how rapidly things have changed and are changing. Maybe I'm rather naive, but it seems as if things are moving in a good direction. I think digital technology has also contributed to this greatly. Take Hip Hop for example, .. it's amazing that now a kid, with limited resources can produce qualitative music on a very economical budget. 20 years ago this was not happening.
Just like graphic design, I would of never gotten beyond spray paint if it wasn't for bootlegged programs. Things are accessible now, where as before they weren't. Not like this. I'm lower middle class, the people around here don't give a fuck about shit like creativity. They're talking hotdogs and doughnuts, paying bills, and surviving. I would of never had access to things like this if it wasn't for digital technology and illegal downloads. There are so many dope kids who rip, but have never had the opportunity to take their skills to that legitimate level. So, yeah I see humanity winning this race as of now.
Maybe we see the negative things in our world at the current time and say, "wow this is bad.." But, I feel that's where the positive begins to grow. Haha...I just don't give a fuck anymore, I'm bout ta blow the fuck up, period.
Before I was really getting into art on an unadulterated level my life was straight up fucked. It's like, man I should be dead. I've seen that brink of death, literally. I've put myself in situations which I look back on like, man...that dude could blown my head off. Nowadays, I just keep my goals in perspective on a consistent basis. I really see creative things becoming more respected and prominent in the United States. I think creative work is truly the next. We aren't making products anymore, you know. It seems all we really have is our creativity, as well as the luxury to indulge in it.
37: I stole this from the folks at Edge, but I gotta ask: what do you believe even though you can't prove it?
I believe in a higher level. Once in a while, I'll just stop and look at my hands, I digest how crazy this is. Things just don't happen without reason. The paper doesn't end up on the floor without the wind pushing it off of the table. For something to become activated, something bigger had to push it. I don't know, I feel very blessed on so many levels to be human; It's been an honor to be one of the most advanced beings within a galaxy. Proving the feeling supporting my ideas is impossible. Yet I feel that.
It affects me. It breaks my heart when we marginalize feeling. That's what its all about, you know. The experience. Your experience.
37: Why is it so hard for us genius types to get a job?
A genius is a person of great intelligence, who shows an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work.
Honestly, I've had that pin pushed through my button up too many times. It's a flattering statement I, but I can't stand here, and take on that role.. yOu know, it's not my goal to purvey that persona. I'm just dedicated. Period. I care a lot, about myself, I'm just trying to come up. But yeah the question about my/our relations to work. Why I feel it's hard for us "genius types" to get a job is the fact that we don't give two fucks about someone else's agenda. I've got a head full of ideas and a bad habit with a bic. I need to expand on the daily, and 8 hours or whatever, doing whatever for chump change breaks my heart. I need to make paper from creative endeavors! I'm off the rocker. When I get to a new, shitty job it's like within the first week, "who's writing all over everything?"
By the first month it's basically game over, unless I can hide out, go home for 4 hours, then it's cool, I guess. We're just heathens. When I look into myself, I'm a self centered person. I care so much about where my time is going, I'm worth so much. That's how I see it, and that's why a normal job and us "genius types" don't mix like two dicks and no bitch.
37: Do artists have an obligation to break the law?
Being able to look into the mirror and call your self an artist is a pretty big statement, which probably includes reflecting on a large body of work and your personal dedication as confirmation of that statement. I don't feel there is anything about breaking the law which is inherent to being an artist. I feel an artist who is a rebel, by default cultivates a real romantic mystic about themselves, good or bad. Personally, it seems everything I like to do is illegal or has some bearing on illegal activity. I guess I love that funny feeling of freedom, maybe at it's core that's why I am an artist. Freedom is what I'm all about. I'm a human being first and foremost; laws to me are things like gravity, the speed of light.
37: Do you want to make movies at some point?
I'd love to get into some video based stuff. I'm all about expanding. I NEED to get into things of that sort. I'm not looking at art from one side, you know. I realize I have the potential to wreck the game in a multifaceted paradigm.
37: Any final words for the people?
Stay dedicated. Period. Don't marginalize your feelings. I spent years doing degenerate stuff, not caring about life, let alone myself. Where I'm from, the kids around here know more about a QP than a BA. It took a lot of negative stuff to push me to go back to school. It was hard for me to do that at first, I didn't feel I belonged in that higher education environment. I'm not saying higher education is all that, but it has contributed greatly to my life. The knowledge, the people and the experiences have been priceless. I have become obsequious on my own time as well, with my own endeavors. If you really want to move forward in life, you have to start looking at your life in a mirror.
Every night I lay in bed and reflect on that previous day's activities. Did I do what I could of? How many trains did I do? Could I of done that better?.. I beat myself up a lot, but that's me. I feel like no one is going to ever care about me more than I care about myself. I try to keep people in my life which have something to offer me. That may sound cold, but if you don't do anything for me, than you gotta go. I think the majority of people out there aren't prepared to go there. They care about a "good time", girls, and whatever. I'm just not there anymore, and to be honest it was all of that stuff which drove me to become who I've contemporarily become. Ha,ha...I don't know what to say.
37: Any futher final words?
I'd like to thank all of the people who've been supportive toward what I'm trying to accomplish, sincerely. My Mother, Kas Solo, Hugs, Meta...there are too many people to even start trying to thank. I'm just happy to be here, to be recognized. I appreciate this opportunity to express my irrational ideas. I want to contribute to the creative momentum of people. I want you to look at my art and feel inspired to do your own thing, what ever that is. I hope to affect you on a positive note. Art and Hip-Hop have given me so much, I can only hope to give back. Peace.
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Over the next four years, Carmichael regularly traveled to Mississippi to work on voter-registration campaigns, spent more than one birthday in a prison cell and became friendly with national civil rights leaders, including King and John Lewis. Carmichael practiced militant nonviolence, a strategy he embraced as an effective political tactic rather than a way of life.
His 1966 election as SNCC chairman helped radicalize the group. And his bold call for "black power!" during a freedom march in Mississippi galvanized a new generation of African Americans. It revealed the complexity of the black freedom struggle, since he and King would eventually part ways over the term's merits, while managing to maintain a close personal friendship.
Over the next three years, Carmichael became the black power movement's rock star. He debated critics on national television, outraged the FBI and White House officials with stinging indictments of American racism and led thousands of young people to resist the Vietnam War by popularizing the chant, "Hell no! We won't go!"
Carmichael's anti-war activism pushed his friendly rival King into his own, more celebrated resistance. Carmichael became an international phenomenon, traveling to Cuba, Vietnam, London and the African continent while counting Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro and former Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah as close friends.


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When a team comes so close to winning a championship, it's hard to know where to go next. Although its obvious that the Baltimore Ravens were close to getting to the Super Bowl, their AFC Championship loss to the New England Patriots was a huge blow to their confidence. Now the offseason is here and the Ravens have a lot of decisions to make in a short amount of time.
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As much as I have enjoyed the wine, I am still extremely upset with Wine Chateau for sending me the 2006 when I ordered the 2005. In my mind it was a bait and switch. I prefer the flavors in the 2005 more than the 2006. If you order a specific wine, be sure to add a comment in the notes section that you will not accept replacements. They changed how they do it so it is now up to us to include no replacements instead of having a box to check (per the customer service rep I spoke with).
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The Travaglini Gattinara offers a number of incomparable sensory characteristics which help to make this great wine unique: an intense dark red colour along with rose and violet bouquets, plus a few hints of anis, vanilla, spices and undergrowth. This is a wine to satisfy even the most sophisticated of palates, and its smoothness and roundness will endear it to those in search of elegant, intense sensations.
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This is a family-run company and the experience and passion for quality has been passed on from Arturo Travaglini, who was already producing Gattinara way back in 1958, to his son Giancarlo. Nowadays the company is run by Giancarlo's wife Liliana, his daughters Cristina and Cinzia and his son-in-law Massimo. At TRAVAGLINI, the passion for wine, the commitment to superior quality production and the desire to constantly achieve superb results have remained intact throughout the years.
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CNN's Kyra Phillips Mistakes GOP Contributor With C-Word
Jane Fonda shocked the world when she said "cunt" on the Today Show this year, but the actress finds herself topped today after CNN's Kyra Phillips twice let the dreaded c-word slip while introducing Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez.
Unlike Fonda, Phillips' was simply stumbling over the word "contributor," so it was a complete accident. We think. And don't worry about Sanchez – she has a good chuckle over the vulgarity. Those Republicans are just such sports!
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Jane Fonda didn't "shock the world", British tv viewers have been used to the word "cunt" on tv since it was first used on a primetime drama in the late 1970s (on a commercial network), there are no taboos on language on UK tv, still less in the UK press (and I mean the quality broadsheet press like the Independent and the Guardian); can't imagine the NY Times letting itself go like that, can you? I certainly cunt. I mean can't.
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Pars plana vitrectomy in patients with myopic macular retinoschisis
- Jonathan S Chang1,
- Harry W Flynn Jr1,
- Michael Engelbert2,
- Anita R Shane1,
- William E Smiddy1,
- Stanley Chang2
- 1Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
- 2Department of Ophthalmology, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
- Correspondence to Dr Jonathan S Chang, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, 900 NW 17th Street, Miami, FL 33136, USA; jchang7{at}med.miami.edu
- Received 3 November 2013
- Revised 4 December 2013
- Accepted 16 December 2013
- Published Online First 10 January 2014
Background/aims To report the outcomes of patients undergoing pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for myopic macular retinoschisis.
Methods Retrospective, non-randomised case series of patients who underwent PPV for myopic macular retinoschisis. Macular holes and foveal retinal detachments that occurred with myopic macular retinoschisis were also included in the series. Myopic macular retinoschisis was confirmed with optical coherence tomography. Visual acuity (VA) and central foveal thickness (CFT) were measured at baseline and 6 months following surgery.
Results A total of 41 eyes were identified that met the inclusion criteria. The mean follow-up time was 192 days (range 132–272). The mean preoperative VA was 20/130, and the mean VA at 6 months was 20/70 (p=0.02). Following surgery, 14 (34.1%) eyes had VA of 20/40 or better. In 15 (36.6%) eyes, VA was 20/50–20/100 and in 12 (29.2%) eyes, VA was 20/200 or worse. CFT improved from a mean of 558 microns at baseline to 265 microns at 6 months (p<0.001).
Conclusions PPV generally resulted in stable or improved VA for eyes with myopic macular retinoschisis. Eyes with concurrent macular hole or foveal retinal detachment often had improved VA, but to a lesser extent than eyes with myopic macular retinoschisis alone.


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Information is everything in Watch Dogs. The super-skilled, cardigan-loving hacker Aiden Pearce spends much of the game volleying between computer terminals, accessing mobile phones and spying on civilians via security cameras dotted across Chicago in the near-future. Bank details, personal information and the city's deepest secrets spill out of these interconnected devices as the city's inhabitants pass by on the street. This is Watch Dogs' USP: wealth, disorder and control can be seized by players across a sprawling digital frontier, all accessible (in Ubisoft's inimitable fashion) at the touch of a button.
But look between the digits raining down from the screen and what you'll see is a machine humming along by the power of familiar components: Assassin's Creed, the most obvious, for its approach to exploration and impressive parkour animations; Grand Theft Auto's for its car-jacking and vehicular mayhem; Far Cry 3's enemy outposts as means to unlock points of interest; its underlining subtext sharing InFamous: Second Son's rebellious outlook on oppressive government surveillance. It's ironic that a game pondering the meaning of identity in an increasingly connected world finds so little time to establish its own.
What Watch Dogs does bring to the table is hacking, but it fails to act as the empowering gameplay device that you might expect. Instead, much of what is required is just pushing a button to make something happen. Whether that's changing the traffic lights to cause a multi-car pile-up, or accessing someone's text messages, there's no real sense that you're actually achieving anything other than answering an on-screen prompt. That's not to say that the results aren't enjoyable – there's an undeniable thrill in reversing the camera to see several cop cars collide into traffic after you've switched the junction's lights, or triggering an enemy's grenade to detonate on his belt – it's just that after a couple of missions, none of these actions feel anything but routine.
Where hacking gets deeper is when you're tasked with infiltrating a system, but even here it opts for Pipemania-stye puzzles (again, traceable from another, albeit less memorable, Ubisoft title, Lost: Via Domus) where you have to guide the power through wires to unlock access points. It's no surprise then that hacking can feel like it's playing second fiddle to more familiar gameplay mechanics.
Most missions are broken down into surveillance, tracking and combat, and it's the last two areas that the game feels more comfortable. Of the five acts that the campaign is set across, many of missions feel especially short , meaning that a significant amount of time is spent driving across the city from point-to-point, either tailing or trying to reach the next mission marker. It wouldn't be such a chore if Chicago wasn't such a bland location. While it's admirable that we've seen developers recently cast the net wider when it comes to open world settings (there's only so many times you can run through Times Square and it still be exciting) there's nothing about the Windy City that particular stands out, apart from the weather (the rain really does look spectacular). The world possesses a huge amount of detail and spreads out from its metropolitan hub into more rural districts on the outskirts, but there are no standout landmarks to admire or architectural feats that just demand to be climbed. It just lacks a sense of fun that makes it an engaging setting, rather than just a series of roads.
In combat the game is more playful in nature. There's a balance here between stealth and straight-up gunplay that for the most part works exceptionally well. First off you can achieve an easy advantage just by moving between security cameras, scoping out the area and picking off guards using the environment before you've even had to draw you gun from the holster.
You also have various craftable gadgets at your disposal, including IEDs, communication jammers, lures and a blackout trigger that can bathe the entire area in complete darkness. The options available make it easy enough to manipulate a gunfight to your advantage without relying too heavily on the firepower that you're wielding.
It's for this reason that we found it slightly odd that you're given access to such a wide choice of firearms so early in the game's campaign. About an hour into the story you're handed a grenade launcher with a healthy supply of ammunition, which makes easy work of many of the bigger enemy skirmishes we came across. It's almost as if Ubisoft doesn't trust players to make intelligent use of its non-lethal tools and just pandered to a different type of gamer completely.
Watch Dogs works best when it brings together all of its separate parts, rather than relying on individual pieces. Play beyond the glacial opening hours full of po-faced drama, showy visual motifs of raw data streams and compressed video, and after a hard drive's worth of tutorials (all of which zips along the pace of a stalling 56k modem), the game finds a comfortable rhythm that it maintains for the rest of the game.
Getting to that point isn't easy, though. With a torrent of systems to get to grips with and an uninspiring story, the first few hours drag along. Aiden is a one-note gravel-voiced antihero on a revenge trip, out to uncover the truth behind the murder of his niece several months earlier. In the interim he has started taking the law into his own hands (earning him the inspired nickname The Vigilante) and has achieved enough to attract the unwanted attention of the criminal underworld. Other characters fail to leave a lasting impression on either the plot or the player. Also, given that Aiden is using the same shady invasive tactics as the same people he's hunting, there's some questionable moral ambiguity that is just outright ignored.
If you're expecting a world populated with similarly immoral hackers invading your story and fighting over the same scraps of digital information in a manner first teased in Ubisoft's E3 conference a few years back, then you'll also find yourself disappointed. Alongside other multiplayer modes, players can be invaded by others during the campaign, but this cat-and-mouse versus mode isn't anything we haven't seen before in Assassin's Creed and feels too disjointed from the single-player.
Using your mobile phone, you're able to access other multiplayer modes. These include free-roaming, companion app material and a couple of straightforward objective-based competitive scenarios, but there's nothing here that is particularly worthy of drawing you out of the campaign. Again, it's a case of hacking taking a backseat to more established gameplay mechanics, which is a missed opportunity to showcase the inherent potential of the concept.
Side-quests and other extras are more engaging. Once you're done with the main story there's plenty left to do. There are a few story-based missions that involve murders, arms dealers and other seedy wrongdoings, fetch-quests and other simple tasks. Elsewhere you'll find a delightful crop of AR games pop up on the map, involving jumping across giant flowers, collecting coins on the streets and evading maniacal robots – a rare display of humour in a game that takes itself much too seriously.
It's not that the game is particularly lacking when it come to content, but when it comes to heart there's plenty of room to fill. Watch Dogs is a game that fills the requirements of an open-world action game, without trying to add anything new to the mix, or excelling particularly when it comes to adapting existing ideas.
It's not helped that Grand Theft Auto V raised the bar so high in the genre – on an older generation of hardware, no less. We can't help but think that Watch Dogs should have lead the way in demonstrating what a next-gen open world can offer, but the result is a game that plays like a greatest hits compilation. Perhaps Watch Dogs should've kept a closer eye on itself rather than watching what everyone else was doing.


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