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Editor's Choice: Making the Rare Voice Heard
Ilana Bean
Happy Last Day of August! As we get ready for the autumn, we want to highlight four articles. We have an article about the Zebra Ball fundraising for EDS advocacy,…
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Why Some Myasthenia Gravis Patients Benefit More From Surgery Than Others
According to a story from journals.lww.com, a recent study investigates the beneficial impact of a thymectomy operation for patients with myasthenia gravis. This procedure has been a common approach for…
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Experimental Drug for Bietti's Crystalline Dystrophy Gets Orphan Drug Designation
Bietti's crystalline dystrophy / Rare Disease
According to a story from BioSpace, the gene therapy company Reflection Biotechnologies Ltd. recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Orphan Drug designation to its…
The First Patient Has Been Dosed on a Study of a Drug For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
The Australian biopharmaceutical company Antisense Therapeutics has announced that the first patient has been dosed on a Phase 2 clinical trial of the investigational drug ATL1102, which is being developed…
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Avapro Can Slow Aortic Dilation in Marfan Syndrome Patients, Study Says
According to a story from Medpage Today, a recent study found that the drug Avapro, which is commonly used to treat high blood pressure, could also slow down the dilation…
A Drug Being Developed to Treat Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Has Been Given a Generic Drug Name
The United States Adopted Name Council, which selects simple, new, and informative generic drug names, has approved 'Onvansertib' as the generic name for PCM-075. PCM-075 is an investigational drug that…
Q and A with Dr. Davids Regarding CLL Patient Care
Athena Lee
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia / Rare Disease
According to CureToday.com, those who have been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, CLL, are now living longer than ever before. This feat can be attributed to the influx of…
Do Your Part to Raise Awareness for World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Day!
Jean Martell
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy / Rare Disease
Friday September 7th is World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Day! Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is one of nine forms of muscular dystrophy. Patients with DMD cannot make dystrophin in their muscles causing…
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Researchers Have Discovered a New Sub-Category of Multiple Sclerosis
A research team, funded in part by grants from the NIH and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, say that they have discovered a new subtype of multiple sclerosis. The…
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Life With Dysautonomia: Miss Amy's Story, Part 1
Dysautonomia / POTS
Hello there! My name is Amy. My friends call me Miss Amy. I'm 42 years old and I have a 21-year-old son who also shares the same diagnosis as me.…
New Information Revealed About The Link Between Neurodegenerative Diseases and Aging
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis / Parkinson's Disease / Rare Disease
According to a story from hms.harvard.edu, a recent study is revealing new information about the connection between aging and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.…
Kymriah Gains Approval From The European Commission
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia / Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the pharmaceutical company Novartis recently announced that its CAR-T cell therapy drug Kymriah recently gained approval from the European Commission. The drug was approved…
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Researchers Find a New Way to Deliver Nusinersen to Patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy
A recent study suggests an alternative procedure for delivering the drug nusinersen to patients being treated for spinal muscular atrophy. Although more research needs to be done to estabilish its…
Two Clinical Studies of Enzalutamide in Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer Have Been Amended
Two clinical trials have had their study protocols amended, announces Pfizer and Astellas Pharma. The Phase 3 trials, called 'Arches' and 'Embark', will investigate the safety and effectiveness of the…
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Tetra Has Submitted Multiple Orphan Drug Applications For Cancers and Ocular Disease
Tetra Bio-Pharma has submitted several Orphan Drug Designation applications to the US Food and Drug Administration. The applications are on behalf of cannabinoids for the treatment of multiple rare forms…
FDA Rejects Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome Drug
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Ribitol Could Benefit Patients With Rare Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases
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First Chemotherapy-Free Combination Treatment Approved For Waldrenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
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Moses Allen (July 30, 1907 – February 2, 1983) was an American jazz bassist.

Career
Allen began professionally playing music in 1927 after he joined Jimmie Lunceford's band, where he played the tuba. He switched to bass in 1932, remaining with Lunceford's orchestra until 1942. Allen's bass playing was a key element in the highly-influential Lunceford ensemble. Allen was also an early experimenter with the electric bass. Among his best-known recordings with Lunceford is the tune "In Dat Mornin'".

After leaving Lunceford's orchestra, Allen opened a music store in New York City, playing occasional gigs until the 1960s. Allen died in New York City in 1983.

References

External links
 Moses Allen recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

1907 births
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What if you can't reach your goals on Inbound alone?
As a salesperson, I am a little bit of a control freak when it comes to lead generation. I just don't want to put all of my income in somebody else's hands, or wait for something to happen.
And isn't that what we all love about sales, the ability to take our outcomes into our own hands?
The concept of prospecting seems simple- find more people to talk to that have problems you can help with. Why then is it so hard? Not only to commit to doing it, but then once you have committed to doing it- actually getting people's attention is not easy.
Especially if we talk first about what we care about.
The hidden reason why prospecting is so hard is the fear of rejection and need for approval. Even though we know we shouldn't, we take it personally- it is how we are wired. No one likes to be told no, and most people don't like to give bad news.
On the weekly #livesaleslab, we often share and practice prospecting ideas. Recently we talked about how to use inbound to go outbound.
First we had to define what we mean when we are talking inbound and outbound.
I related it to dating.
What do you do when sales prospects disappear?
On a recent #livesaleslab, we talked about prospects who disappear, go dark, or stall. Show of hands, how many of us have had that happen?
Right. If you didn't raise your hand, then you're either new to sales- or can't remember that far back. It happens to everyone.
You may not be able to prevent it from happening 100% of the time, but there are things you can do to make it happen less.
Are you planning on breathing today?
When it comes to sales, there's no better feeling than getting that PO, email from Finance, or Purchase confirmation. We feel accomplished and proud of ourselves, and happy we have begun that relationship with the customer. However, we sometimes forget what it took to get us to that moment, and forget that it - most often than not - took several calls and much effort to get that customer started.
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Q: How to call JQuery Ajax Post with querystring URL I have a web page which is redirected from a another page and have a querystring in it. now this page is calling a Jquery AJAX call to do some other task.
Page URL is like : http://localhost:1041/Inventory/Inventorydetail.aspx?invoiceid=3
now this page is calling a AJAX post to delete a record from the grid.
           $(".DeleteInvoiceLine").click(function() {
             //Get the Id of the record
             var record_id = $(this).attr("id");
             var loc = window.location;
             // Ask user's confirmation
             if (confirm("Do you want to delete this record?")) {
                 $.ajax({
                     type: "POST",
                     url: loc + "/DeleteInvoiceLineEntry",
                     //Pass the selected record id
                     data: "{'args': '" + record_id + "'}",
                     contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                     dataType: "json",
                     success: function(msgstr) {
                      var msg = $("#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_success");
                      msg.html(msgstr.d);
                      msg.show();

                     }
                 });
             }
             return false;
         });

so when I call the AJAX call the page_Load event is called instead of the webmethod "DeleteInvoiceLineEntry".
if I have my page without the querystring passed it works fine.
could you please suggest me how I can call a AJAX call on the page which has a querystring data init.
I tried it both way passing the static URL
Not working
  url: "Inventorydetail.aspx?invoiceid=3/DeleteInvoiceLineEntry"
Working (if there is no querystring data in the page)
url: "Inventorydetail.aspx/DeleteInvoiceLineEntry"
Thanks for your quick help.

A: Don't attach query string when you call ajax. It will confuse the communication as ajax actually use query string to pass json data. If you want to pass invoiceid to the ajax, include it in json data.

A: Change
var loc = window.location;

To
var loc = window.location.href.replace(window.location.search, '');

as Taesung Shin mentioned. The query string in the URL is confusing your application.

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Divide Scramble set to return to Butte
The Divide Scramble is back in for a second year in Butte for locals and travelers to enjoy riding the trails on the seat of a bike.
By: Kaitlyn Aguiles
BUTTE - The Divide Scramble is back in for a second year in Butte for locals and travelers to enjoy riding the trails on the seat of a bike.
From the easy Golden Eagle route to the difficult Grizzly, the Divide Scramble can be enjoyed by beginner and expert cyclists of all ages.
Bikewalk Montana is hosting the event to raise awareness for safe biking, walking, and rolling throughout the state.
"Our view is we need to change the culture to make it safer for people using non-motorized transportation to get to and from work—biking and walking," said Bikewalk Montana executive director Bruce Anderson.
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"Our view is we need to change the culture to make it safer for people using non-motorized transportation to get to and from work—biking and walking," said Bruce Anderson, Bikewalk Montana's Executive director
Volunteers will oversee registration, rest stops, and the help desk to name a few jobs. No matter where you are on the course, you'll be able see cyclists, cheer them on and help them however you can.
Carmen Winslow says she had a wonderful time as a volunteer for the event last year.
"It was great. My job was to maintain the service area at the Lowland campground where people would ride up Lowland Road and then they would get lunch and drinks and visit," said Winslow.
The difference for this year's scramble is that it will be held on June 18.
"This year we've requested our permit from the Forests service in June hoping that it's a little cooler and a lot less smoke," said Anderson.
If you'd like to participate or sign up to volunteer, click here for more information.
There is a cap at 200 cyclists.


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MENA Country Report - Jordan
Jordan's economic growth is expected to accelerate from 3.1% in 2014 to 4.3% in 2015.
Middle East and North Africa economies
Atradius STAR Political Risk Rating*:
Algeria: 6 (Moderate-High Risk) - Positive
Egypt: 6 (Moderate-High Risk) - Negative
Jordan: 5 (Moderate Risk) - Negative
Kuwait: 3 (Moderate-Low Risk) - Stable
Morocco: 5 (Moderate Risk) - Positive
Saudi Arabia: 3 (Moderate-Low Risk) - Negative
Tunisia: 5 (Moderate Risk) - Negative
United Arab Emirates: 3 (Moderate-Low Risk) - Positive
* The STAR rating runs on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 represents the lowest risk and 10 the highest risk.
The 10 rating steps are aggregated into five broad categories to facilitate their interpretation in terms of credit quality. Starting from the most benign part of the quality spectrum, these categories range from 'Low Risk', 'Moderate-Low Risk', 'Moderate Risk', 'Moderate-High Risk' to 'High Risk', with a separate grade reserved for 'Very High Risk.'
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For further information about the Atradius STAR rating, please click here.
Head of state: King Abdullah bin Hussein al-Hashemi (since 1999).
Form of government: Jordan is a constitutional monarchy, but the parliamentary power is heavily circumscribed. Despite some recent reforms most executive and legislative powers still lie de facto with the King, who is empowered to dismiss the government and dissolve the parliament. While the Chamber of Deputies is elected by popular vote, the Senate members are appointed by the King.
Population: 6.7 million (est.)
Severely impacted by the conflicts in neighbouring states
King Abdullah II appears to be firmly in power again following the public protests in 2011 and 2012 (mainly led by the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan) ebbed . The position of the King is also considered to be secure as he is rather popular and has strong support from the effective security forces and the army.
That said, Jordan ́s security situation has worsened in recent years as the country is immediately affected by the on-going sectarian conflict in Iraq and the civil war in Syria, together with the rise of the Islamic State (IS) in both neighbouring countries. According to the United Nations, Jordan currently accommodates about 600,000 Syrian refugees, i.e. close to 10% of Jordan ́s total population, which has increased pressure on water and electricity resources. Tourism, services and cross border trade have also been negatively impacted by the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
Jordan is stuck between its interest in good relationships with Israel (Jordan and Israel concluded a peace agreement in 1994 and maintain diplomatic relations) and the need for official solidarity with the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel (about half of Jordan's population consists of Palestinian refugees). The country receives massive military and financial support from the US and benefits from a bilateral free trade agreement with Washington.
Stronger growth despite the on-going security issues
Jordan ́s economic growth is negatively affected by the on-going conflicts in the region. Trade flows with Iraq as a major export destination have decreased and tourism and investment are negatively impacted by security concerns. The Institute of International Finance (IIF) estimates that the economic costs of the regional unrest for Jordan amounted to USD 11.1 billion (7.9% of GDP) in the period 2011-2014.
However, economic growth is expected to accelerate from 3.1% in 2014 to 4.3% in 2015, due to increasing activity in construction (infrastructure and tourism expansion projects), economic reforms and financial aid from Gulf states and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Private consumption is also expected to sustain growth, despite high unemployment (about 14% in 2014). On the supply side, services (two thirds of GDP, particularly finance) and transport will continue to make a key contribution. Inflation is expected to decrease to 1.1% in 2015.
The budget deficit is high but expected to decrease to 6.4% of GDP in 2015. Fiscal consolidation is difficult due to the massive influx of refugees. Jordan is highly dependent on energy imports and benefits from the lower oil price: the current account deficit is forecast to decrease from 6.8% of GDP in 2014 to 0.8% in 2015.
Jordan has a high gross external financing requirement of 84% of reserves in 2015. Foreign debt is high at 66% of GDP and 150% of exports of goods and services. Additionally, and the debt structure is not favourable as the short-term share is high. Despite this, the liquidity situation is good, as foreign reserves have increased due to external financial aid. Import cover amounts to more than 11 months in 2015.
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Тремедзѝна (; , Тремедзена) е община в Северна Италия, провинция Комо, регион Ломбардия. Административен център на общината е градче Медзегра (Mezzegra), което е разположено е на 209 m надморска височина, на западния бряг на езеро Лаго ди Комо. Населението на общината е 5136 души (към 2017 г.).
Общината е създадена в 4 февруари 2014 г. Тя се състои от четирите предшествуващи общини Лено, Медзегра, Осучо и Тремедзо, които сега са най-важните центрове на общината.

В 28 април 1945 г. в село Джулино е убит италианският диктатор Бенито Мусолини.

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Външни препратки
 Уебсайт на общината

Комо (провинция)
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Icelandair is pleased to announce its move from London Heathrow Terminal 1 to Terminal 2, effective from 25th March 2015. The new terminal is named in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, who officially opened the terminal in July 2014 nearly 60 years after she opened the original building.
Faster check-in and security: The terminal's added facilities and newest technology reduce time at check-in and security.
Improved departures lounge: The new building offers plenty of space to relax in the light and airy departures lounge.
Enhanced retail facilities: Once through passport control and security, passengers are able to shop at 33 retail brands and choose from 17 restaurants including one created by Michelin chef Heston Blumenthal.
Complimentary Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi is available throughout the terminal. Just choose Heathrow Wi-Fi & follow the instructions.
Easier connections: Passengers will enjoy seamless connection opportunities with other T2 airlines combined with modern, light, spacious and innovative facilities.
Icelandair flights at London Heathrow will arrive and depart from Terminal 2 from 25th March 2015 onwards.
Until the move, flights will continue to depart and arrive at Terminal 1.
Check-in desks open 3.5 hours before and closes 45 minutes before scheduled departure time.
You must enter security 35 minutes before your flight departs.
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I have been weaving for most of my life. Even after forty years I find myself continually enthralled by the moment my shuttle crosses the warp and creates the woven piece. The patterns, colors, and textures of the yams I weave always change, yet the act of sitting at the loom-treadling the foot pedals, shuttling the bobbin back and forth, beating the yam into cloth- remains constant, inspiring and miraculous.
Before the weaving begins there is the warping process, the winding of yam on the loom, threading the heddles in the harnesses and reed, calibrating the warp tension, all tedious and exacting work. Mistakes will be made and corrected, colors, yam strength and patterns premeditated, yet when all is ready I approach the weaving as an artistic experiment.
What will happen to blue as it interacts with green and purple? Causality and its happy accidents keep me invested in the process, even if it is yet another scarf in a long line of scarves woven over time. I weave in a improvisational way; knowing the structure of the piece, yet free to move color and pattern through the object. I want my cloth to stand the test of time and exist as a beautiful creation.


Jasper Visits the Great Wall of China!
There are a number of things one has to do at least once in one's life. I consider hiking the great wall in China as one of those things. The wall is the largest man-made structure in the world, at an estimated 5,500 miles long, containing over 7000 towers.
During it's construction, the wall was called "the longest graveyard in the world." An incredible amount of labourers lost their lives while working on the wall. Not surprisingly, if you imagine how every single one of the heavy stones had to be carried up the hills from the villages where they were carved out.
The easiest way to visit the wall is during a stay in Beijing. There are dozens of tour companies offering guided tours. The wall is only a few hours away from the city by car.
There are many parts of the wall open to hikers. Most popular routes include the Jinshanling to Simatai route and the section around Badaling. These parts are restored and easy to hike, but also quite busy. I chose a less well-known section, the Gubeikou to Jinshanling route. A good choice as it turned out, as I didn't encounter any other hikers during my four hour hike!
Some of the sections are actually fairly challenging to cross and without the presence of fences and handle bars, so taking caution is recommended. The views of the surrounding hills from the wall were amazing.
Halfway through the hike, we came across a closed of section of the wall. According to my tour guide, the Chinese army had a training camp set up nearby and they value their privacy.
This turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as the detour that we had to take took us through a small village. This was the perfect opportunity to get a glimpse of what local country life in China looks like: women working quietly on the farmlands while men collected firewood to load onto the backs of donkeys that would haul it to their self-built houses.
The last part of the hike brought us to the Jinshanling segment and the wall becomes much more easy to hike here. It was also quite busy as the wall is accessible from the main road via cable car. There are a few good resteraunts in this area, which is a welcome sight after hiking up and down the Chinese hills for a good four hours!


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Caitlyn Moment #3
Two weeks ago I was in Florida at a writer's conference. My sister called me up from Seattle and said that her son, my fourteen-year-old nephew, needed help with his first English essay as a Freshman in highschool. I absolutely adore this kid. He is funny as hell, and he has a deep well of determination. Now he sent me the rough draft of his essay. I was a little dismayed. He's a jock who plays the cello. I asked him how many books he reads, and he asked me what a book was.
Again, did I mention he was a smart-ass?
I tried to explain that we needed to start out with a strong opening paragraph, and end with something equally strong. What I really said was, tell them what you're going to say, say it, then tell them what you said. Over the course of four hours, I repeated this many times in many variations. It wasn't getting through. I was proud of myself. I never used the F-Bomb, we actually spent most of the time giving one another shit and laughing. But his opening and closing still weren't strong enough.
Finally I told him that he needed to start by punching them in the throat and end by kicking them in the balls. After that, he nailed the beginning and end of the essay. He got an 'A'. Needless to say, I'm not the best teacher in the world. "Sigh". However, much to my delight, my sister is willing to let me help again in the future, despite my way of explaining things. Whoo Hoo!
Caitlyn Factor March 8, 2018
Caitlyn Moment #1 March 8, 2018


by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. October 27, 2016.
The Honda Accord got a major frontal facelift for 2016 in America, and it took a year to come here as a 2017 model. Now that they're here, we took a spin in both the V6 and I4 versions to see if the changes are more than skin-deep.
Swedish magazine Teknikens Värld, well-known for their "moose" tests that involve swerving a car to the next lane, then swerving back to the original lane, has performed these tests on a variety of pickup trucks, with interesting results.
by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. October 23, 2016.
Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles' truck brand, Ram, extended their Middle East line-up this week with the addition of the new Ram 1200, a metric-ton pickup truck, alongside new Rebel and Limited variants of the existing Ram 1500.
by Fazeen Abdeen. October 16, 2016.
The 5-series is one of BMW's most popular models. Hot on the heels of the redesigned Mercedes-Benz E-Class comes the all-new 2017-2018 5-Series with a refreshed look and mechanicals, with a new range of powerplants to boot.
by Marouf Hussain. October 10, 2016.
Indian motorcylcle company Hero MotoCorp Ltd (HMCL), the world's largest two-wheeler manufacturer, has appointed Al-Futtaim as its distributor for the GCC region.
by George Kuruvilla. October 10, 2016.
Audi was present and well at the Paris Motor Show 2016, and with them they brought the fastest and most powerful model in the A3 line-up, the Audi RS3 sedan. It also has the privilege of being the first compact sedan from Audi to adorn the RS nameplate.
by Marouf Hussain. October 9, 2016.
Al Masaood Automobiles, the exclusive distributor of Nissan vehicles in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain, announced the launch of the UAE-exclusive Nissan Patrol 'Gannas' edition.


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Belfast Giants ready for away trip to Dundee
Giants Head Coach Adam Keefe
Published: 20:07 Tuesday 04 December 2018
Tonight sees the Stena Line Belfast Giants return to the ice, aiming to get back to winning ways following a first defeat in 12 domestic games on Sunday away against the Sheffield Steelers.
The Giants face Dundee in a second of three mid-week games in-a-row against the Stars.
Last week, the Giants skated away with an emphatic 8-0 win against an injury ravaged Stars in the Challenge Cup Quarter Final 1st Leg.
Next Tuesday sees the Stars come to Belfast for the second Leg, face-off 7pm at The SSE Arena.
Head Coach Adam Keefe is prepping his players for a very different task tonightcompared to last week's Cup game in Scotland, with the Stars facing the Giants off the back of a shootout victory in Cardiff on Sunday,
"Dundee have four league wins in-a-row and they are coming off a weekend of defeating the Cardiff Devils, which is never easy," said Keefe.
"They are riding high at the moment and will be a different prospect than what we faced last Wednesday.
"They are at home and will be difficult to play against."
"We will be prepped and will go in there and try to find a way to get another win."
Currently the Giants lie in first place, one point clear of Nottingham with Cardiff three points back. Belfast are facing challenges to their lineup due to injuries, though Keefe is looking to the players available to contribute to the cause,
"Different guys have to step up on different nights. Everyone has to pull their weight and we have been doing a pretty good job of that lately."
"It is on me to get the most out fo each guy and use everyone that we have in order to sustain this tough schedule that we have."
Tonigh's Elite League clash in Dundee, face-off 7:30pm, will be broadcast live on FreeSports.
Next at home for the Giants is the Cardiff Devils on Sunday 9th December, face-off 5pm, before facing the Dundee Stars two days later on Tuesday 11th December in the Challenge Cup Quarter-Final 2nd Leg, face-off 7pm.
Tickets are available from the Arena Box Office, in person or by calling (028) 9073 9074 as well as online from www.ticketmaster.ie.
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After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe stress disorder. If you don't follow my instructions carefully, your husband will surely die.
"Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant at all times. For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him.
"Don't burden him with chores. Don't discuss your problems with him; it will only make his stress worse. Do not nag him."
"If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely."


Darlingside : Extralife album download | Has it Leaked?
Darlingside is a 4 piece Indie Folk band that formed in 2009 out of Boston Massachusetts. The quartet will be releasing their follow up to their breakthrough album "Birds Say" from 2015, this year on February 23rd. The album is titled "Extralife" and will be distributed through More Doug Records and Thirty Tigers.


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El-Qanah Football Club (), also known as Suez Canal, is an Egyptian football club based in Ismailia, Egypt. The club is currently playing in the Egyptian Second Division, the second-highest league in the Egyptian football league system.

History
The club was founded in 1935 as a group of Ismailia born contractors formed a football team calling it "Badran Club", that team included Ismail Abougrisha, Mohamed Abougrisha, Sayed Hamed, Darwish Othman and Ibrahim Al-Samalouty which took part in the Canal Region league with the likes of Ismaily, Masry Port Said, The Greek club, Port Fouad.

In 1948 the club members succeeded to convince the board of the Suez Canal company to merge the Badran club with the company to form "El Qanah" with the Frenchman Paul Blan as a president to take part in the league.

The team promoted to the Egyptian Premier League on the 1953–54 season, and played for 27 seasons on the top flight.

Former players

  Ally Badru - played for Zanzibar national team

Titles
Egypt Cup: (1)
1963–64

Egyptian League Cup: (1) (Record)
2000

Notes

References

Egyptian Second Division
Football clubs in Egypt


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Adventure Homes Expanding Facility, Adding Jobs
News Coverage:
Garrett council OKs tax abatement for expansion
Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2013 12:05 pm
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The Garrett Common Council on Tuesday approved a declaratory resolution to give a tax break for an expansion project of F&H Associates LLC, a holding company for a building occupied by Adventure Homes, KPC Media Group Inc. reported.
Co-owner Walt Fuller told the council he plans to add an 18,180-square-foot expansion valued at $375,000 at the plant's facility at 1119 Fuller Drive in Garrett's industrial park.
The proposed expansion is needed to lengthen the plant's assembly-line area in order to install and paint drywall in the manufactured homes. Fuller said he hopes to be able to add 25 jobs in the next three years, starting with 10 each in the first and second years and five in the third.
Fuller and his partners purchased the plant in 2009 when Fleetwood Homes announced it would close and its 65 workers would be out of work.
"I am asking for a little help. We don't make the money I'd like to make," Fuller told the council.
Ken McCrory of the DeKalb County Economic Partnership told the board the company pays good wages and plans to add employees.
City attorney Dan Brinkerhoff reminded the council the abatement would not apply to taxes paid on the current assessed value of the facility and would affect only the increased valuation of improvements. Under the city's tax abatement formula, the project qualifies for an eight-year abatement.
Brinkerhoff estimated the base taxes would be $50,000, saving the company about $40,000 over the eight-year period. A public hearing on the measure is planned at the Nov. 5 council meeting.
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For nearly sixty years, Tacoma Baptist Schools has provided solid academic training supplemented by extensive extra curricular programs in the arts, athletics and technology; however, the cost of providing these programs goes beyond what tuitions afford.
It is through the generosity of our families, friends, and the business community that we are able to bridge the gaps in costs. Your are invited to have a part in helping to provided needed funds for the athletic department by registering in the Crusader Classic on Friday, June 21, 2019 at High Cedars Golf Course in Orting, WA. Together we can provide TBS student athletics the opportunities for success.


Following a massive measles outbreak which left three children in critical condition, Germany still lags behind other nations in vaccination rates.
German health authorities, in the countdown to the World Cup soccer games, have been trying to contain an outbreak of measles in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where nearly 1,200 cases were reported.
"The peak has passed, but cases are still being reported daily," said Ulrich van Treeck, a regional public health official. "Compared to only 34 cases last year, this was an epidemic, with the vast bulk in and around Düsseldorf," he added.
Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, which is about 40 kilometers (25 miles) away, and nearby Cologne will host 16 World Cup soccer matches in the region starting next month. Travelers from abroad have been warned to get vaccinated if they are not already immune to measles.
The disease is so contagious that those who have not been vaccinated inevitably catch it in childhood. Though the majority recover with little more than flu-like symptoms and a rash, complications such as pneumonia can arise in up to 20 percent of all cases. For one out of 1,000 the virus infects the brain and can lead to acute encephalitis, which is often fatal.
So far, 160 children have been hospitalized and three have contracted encephalitis, according to Sean Monks, spokesman for the Berufsverband der Kinderärzte, a national pediatric association.
Unlike the Americas, Scandinavia and the UK, vaccinations are not compulsory in Germany.
"Since two shots of the measles vaccine are needed for full immunity, many children miss out on the second dose, because the parent simply forgot about it. The danger of measles is underestimated, but vaccination rates would shoot up if parents were aware of potential brain damage," said Monks. The first jab is administered at one year and the second one at least four weeks later.
In Germany, only 66 percent of schoolchildren get the vital double dose, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), a federal agency for disease control and prevention.
The March outbreak started with 13 pupils in a Duisburg school. Since then it has spread throughout the Ruhr region.
"Those not immune could have easily gotten an emergency vaccine that would have blocked further transmission of the virus," said Dr. Heinz-Josef Schmitt, head of the vaccination board at the RKI who favors a "no vaccination, no school" rule as in the United States.
In the 1960s, vaccinations against polio and smallpox were compulsory in Germany, but responsibility for immunizing children then shifted from public health physicians to pediatricians in private practice, according to Sean Monks.
"Most favor vaccinations, but about 3-5 percent are hardliners opposed to them, while another 15 percent could be swayed either way. The point is we have tremendously good vaccines today, which could easily eradicate measles. To vaccinate or not cannot be a matter left up to individual choice," added Monks.
"Germans just don't understand the concept of social responsibility as far as public health matters go -- that it is reckless for parents not to immunize their child who becomes infected, and then passes on a disease that could be deadly for someone else," said the RKI's Schmitt.
Those opposed to vaccines tend to subscribe to an alternative view of medicine. Their main argument is that its use to control disease upsets nature's ecological balance, and gives rise to new, more resistant microbes.
"Contracting measles is a normal part of growing up. The goal should be to eradicate complications from the disease not the disease itself," said Dr. Friedrich Graf, a homeopathic physician and outspoken critic of all vaccines.
"We can still reach the 95 percent threshold to eradicate measles without the hardliners, if we could convince skeptics of the benefits of vaccination. Then maybe Germany can meet the target set by the World Health Organization to eradicate measles by 2010," concluded Monks.
Keywords German, germany, vaccine, vaccinations, immune, immunizations, measles, epidemic, public health, robert koch institute, north rhine westphalia, A measles outbreak that infected over 1, 000 kids shows that Germany has a vaccination problem.
Measles vaccination rates are rising in Germany but so is the number of annual infections. Unvaccinated children can be kept out of school and day care to prevent an outbreak of the disease.
Donors pledged $7.5 billion to the global vaccine alliance GAVI in 2015 to immunize millions of people worldwide. Ahead of a review conference in December, GAVI says its on track. But challenges remain.


The Vitodens 242–F is a floor-standing gas-fired combination boiler from Viessmann. This particular range of boiler is designed to serve those mid-sized homes that desire to save on energy costs without compromising on their household's heating and hot water needs. Available in two different models of 19kW and 26kW, the Vitodens 242-F come fitted with state-of-the-art solar technology. It also has in-built water storage tank.
Apart from having the household's heating and water needs satisfied at reduced energy rates, the A-rated compact and lightweight boiler also reduces carbon emission since it makes use of solar technology. With a unique combination of the MatriX gas burner and Lambda Pro Control, the boiler offers clean and efficient combustion, always. With standard 5-year parts and labour warranty, homeowners are sure to have peace of mind knowing that Viessmann has got their backs.


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Tag Archives: Kathy Matheson
Night at the Museum (with giant crosswords!)
[All images courtesy of Robert Mordzon.]
The National Museum in Warsaw is taking an intriguing approach to introducing children to the value of museum-driven learning.
They've launched the "Anything Goes" museum, an educational experiment wherein children select, develop, and curate the museum's main exhibit for a period of time.
According to the announcement on the National Museum's website:
A group of 69 children aged 6–14 was divided into six curatorial teams. Over six months, the participants got to know the Museum and worked on the exhibition during weekly 4-hour meetings. The teams of junior-curators prepared the scripts and selected almost 300 works to be displayed….
The exhibition, which is divided into six individual segments, features works from all museum collections: ancient and Oriental artefacts, craft objects, old and contemporary sculptures, photographs, drawings and prints, coins and medals, clothes and paintings created in various periods. Many of these works have never been presented to the public. The children say that they "found and liberated them from the museum's storeroom".
And part of the "Anything Goes" museum is a dazzling audiovisual creation of technology pro Robert Mordzon: a giant interactive crossword puzzle.
Clues are placed in front of light-up blocks in the grid which indicate the number of letters in each answer.
When a letter is placed correctly, the space will turn green. If a letter is placed incorrectly, the space turns red. And when a word is completed, an animation related to the word is projected onto the wall.
If all 130 boxes are filled in and the grid is completed, sounds and a celebratory "disco light show" are played.
Not only is this an awesome way to bring puzzling to a newer audience, but it's an impressive meld of science, technology, and wordplay. The fact that industrious children were behind bringing it to life is just the icing on the cake.
This is accessible puzzling at its most vivid and inspiring. Clearly when "Anything Goes," anything is possible.
[A big thank you goes out to Kathy Matheson, aka Crossword Kathy, who brought this story to my attention.]
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ACPT 2016 Wrap-Up!
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The 39th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament was this weekend, and puzzlers descended on the Stamford Marriott Hotel to put their puzzly chops to the test in what is lovingly called "the Nerd Olympics."
The tournament takes place over two days, with six puzzles to solve on Saturday, followed by one on Sunday. Then the top three finishers solve the championship puzzle on white boards in front of the audience.
On Friday and Saturday night, there are often puzzle events, demonstrations, and panels by top puzzlers and figures in the puzzle world as well.
(This year, Friday night featured author and puzzler Eric Berlin hosting an Escape the Room-themed puzzle hunt that received rave reviews from participants, and Saturday night saw the first Merl Reagle Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award in crossword construction presented to constructor Maura Jacobson. Her husband accepted on her behalf from Merl's widow, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.)
I made the journey down to Stamford myself Saturday morning and sat in with my friend, proofreader and puzzler Debra Yurschak Rich, at the Penny Dell Puzzles booth.
Our pals at Penny Dell Puzzles had a terrific setup as always, with great books and tote bags for purchase and a metric buttload of magazines to give away, including copies of The Crosswords Club, Will Shortz's Sudoku, and several flavors of Tournament Variety, Master's Variety, and Dell Sunday Crosswords!
And they didn't mind at all when I conquered and annexed the middle of the table for PuzzleNation's in-person version of Friday's View a Clue crossword animals puzzle. Many competitors stopped by the table to try their luck, allowing some to thoroughly impress their fellow puzzlers with their knowledge of African antelopes, while others were flummoxed trying to match names they'd written into grids dozens of times with images of the actual animal!
(One woman told me she'd seen many of these animals during a trip to South Africa, and even EATEN some of them, but she couldn't identify them by name. I imagine it's quite rare to know what an animal tastes like but not what it LOOKS like.)
At 9 AM, the tournament was two hours away, but the marketplace was up and running. In addition to the usual ACPT swag, the marketplace included Hayley Gold and her Across & Down comics, the aforementioned Eric Berlin (repping his Winston Breen books and Puzzle Your Kids subscription puzzles), a collection of Merl Reagle's puzzle books, and an impressive selection of puzzly titles from the marvelous crew at The Village Bookstore in Pleasantville, New York!
Plus I got to see friends of the blog like Crosswords Club editor Patti Varol, constructor Ian Livengood, crossword gentleman Doug Peterson, and Penny Press variety editor Keith Yarbrough!
Another treat of the tournament is getting to chat with numerous puzzle luminaries I've gotten to know through PuzzleNation Blog, like New York Times Wordplay blogger Deb Amlen, constructor and Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project curator David Steinberg, constructor Joon Pahk, top solver and former champion Ellen Ripstein, constructor George Barany, Evan Birnholz of Devil Cross, top competitor Tyler Hinman, and, of course, New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz.
The two hours before showtime passed quickly, and soon, the marketplace emptied and the ballroom filled as competitors took their seats for Puzzle 1.
Puzzle 1 didn't stagger any of the participants, although there was no repeat of Dan Feyer's blisteringly fast under-two-minute solve like last year. Three minutes seemed to be the benchmark for the top performers this year.
But Puzzle 2 had a crossing that flummoxed several solvers: CORTANA crossing CONTE. Constructor Patrick Blindauer, not in attendance, was no doubt on the receiving end of some Puzzle 5-level heat for that one. But when Doug reached out to Blindauer, it turns out that THAT wasn't Blindauer's corner! It had been edited, with MONTANA becoming CORTANA.
I had no idea puzzles accepted for the tournament were edited that much!
Puzzles 3 and 4 passed without incident, and people seemed to enjoy both the camaraderie of the event and the opportunity to compete against their own best times from previous years.
[In our downtime, Debra and I indulged in a round or two of Bananagrams, because it was a day for wordplay of all sorts.]
Then Patrick Berry's Puzzle 5 arrived, complete with zigzagging entries and a thoroughly impressive fill. ("Wow" was uttered several times by competitors describing their impression of the always-dreaded fifth puzzle of the day.)
Between puzzles 5 and 6, I handed out prizes for our View a Clue crossword animals game: copies of Scrimish, donated by that game's terrific design team!
Two copies went to our top performers — one got ALL TEN and another got nine out of ten — and two copies went in a drawing from all of the players who gave it their best shot. So congratulations to Robert Moy (who pitched a shut-out), Robert Kern, Abbie Brown, and the man known only as Dan (who got all but one)!
After the diabolical inventiveness of Puzzle 5, Puzzle 6 was tackled by the solvers, who declared it a fun and fair end to the day's competition. The solvers dispersed to rest their brains; we packed up the table, and headed for home.
And although I wasn't present for Sunday's tournament finale, I continued to get updates from friends and fellow puzzlers.
The day started off with Lynn Lempel's Puzzle 7, which received strong reviews, but did little to alter the standings of the top competitors.
Soon, it was time for the finalists to be announced. When it came time for the top three to solve on their whiteboards in front of their fellow competitors, two of the names were quite familiar to attendees: Dan Feyer, defending six-time champion, and Howard Barkin, four-time champion and perennial participant in the finals.
Conspicuous by his absence was another familiar name and former champion, the performer who made last year's finals such a nail-biting showdown: Tyler Hinman. An unfortunate error in Puzzle 2 took him out of the running, so the final member of the live-solving trio would be David Plotkin. (Joon Pahk, Francis Heaney, Al Sanders, Jon Delfin and other regular key performers were also near the top.)
He and Howard prepared for a thoroughly wordy and daunting battle with Mr. Feyer, whose excellent performance in the seven previous puzzles had him leading his competitors by three minutes.
You can watch the final puzzle being solved below:
In a stunning upset, Howard Barkin did the seemingly impossible, besting Dan Feyer and claiming the top spot! The room erupted for him as others sat by, stunned that the expected seventh straight win for Dan was not to be.
[Howard poses with his well-earned trophy.]
But that's not all! Friend of the blog and crossword gentleman Doug Peterson placed 13th overall AND won the finals for Division B! Congratulations to Doug!
And it was a strong showing for many other familiar names! Patti Varol placed 97 (up from last year's 109 showing), David Steinberg 113th, Kathy Matheson 237th, and Keith Yarbrough 266th out of a field of nearly 600 participants.
It was certainly a day for surprises, strong emotions, and puzzly camaraderie. It's always great fun to spend time with fellow puzzlers and wordplay enthusiasts, immersing myself in the puzzle community and enjoying all the charm and weirdness that comes part and parcel with it.
That would've been my closing statement, but I think the final word belongs to competitor Ben Smith:
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Girls Make Games (and Puzzles, too!)
Posted on December 2, 2014 by gmdirect
[Alicia Crawford, winner of Sony Online Entertainment's 2011 Gamers in Real Life (G.I.R.L.) Scholarship, aimed at bringing more women into the field of video game production and design. Photo courtesy of Sony Online Entertainment, by way of Wired.com.]
I am a huge proponent of seeing creative people succeed. From Kickstarters and Indiegogo campaigns to intrepid puzzlesmiths and game designers striking out on their own for the first time, I am always seeking out new stories about puzzlers enriching the world with their own creations.
So when Fred, Director of Digital Games here at PuzzleNation, passed along this link about Girls Make Games, it was right up my alley.
Girls Make Games organizes summer camp-style workshops to introduce girls to video gaming, both playing them and designing their own. It's a very worthy cause that ties perfectly into ongoing efforts across the world to encourage more women to pursue STEM paths.
STEM education, for the uninitiated, is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, four key components to competing effectively in today's global marketplace. Girls Make Games is a wonderful way to introduce girls to STEM courses and to add important, fresh voices to the world of video games.
[The "Nothing to Prove" video by the band The Doubleclicks.
A musical reminder that nonsense like the "fake geek girl" myth is
just one of the reasons why we need programs like Girls Make Games.]
And while it's not reported as often as the gender gap in video-game design or considered as controversial a topic, there's a similar disparity in the presence of female constructors and editors of crosswords among the major outlets. Ben Tausig published an article last year on the subject, and raised some intriguing points.
I admit, I was surprised by ratio of male-to-female constructors in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other big outlets, but that's probably because I'm most familiar with the editors and puzzlers at Penny/Dell Puzzles, where the women easily outnumber the men.
Maybe this means the puzzle world could use a program along the same lines as Girls Make Games. With so many terrific puzzlers out there, from Kathy Matheson, Robin Stears, and Deb Amlen to Patti Varol, Leslie Billig, and Baffledazzle creator Rachel Happen, there are plenty of great role models out there for aspiring constructors.
I can't wait to see what these new voices come up with.
Posted in Games, PuzzleNation, Puzzles	| Tagged BaffleDazzle, Ben Tausig, Crossword Kathy, crosswords, Deb Amlen, DIY puzzling, Fake geek girl, games, Geeking Out, Girls Make Games, Kathy Matheson, Leslie Billig, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times crossword, New York Times, New York Times Crossword, Nothing to prove, Patti Varol, Penny/Dell Puzzles, Pop culture, PuzzleNation, Rachel Happen, Robin Stears, The Doubleclicks	| Leave a reply
Happy (Follow-Up) Fourth of July!
Posted on July 4, 2014 by gmdirect
It's Independence Day in the U.S., and what better way is there for PuzzleNation Blog to honor the holiday than to talk about a world-record puzzly event in one of the cities synonymous with the birth of America: Philadelphia.
A former nation's capital, home of the Liberty Bell, location of the First Continental Congress, and home of Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia is also the new home of a world record.
Yes, Philadelphia is the Guinness Book of World Records record-holder for Largest Architectural Video Game Display, after Drexel University professor Frank Lee orchestrated a 29-story-high game of Tetris on the side of a skyscraper.
From nearly a mile away, Lee and other Tetris enthusiasts played a monstrous game of Tetris with a specially rigged joystick and a custom-written computer program.
[Another pic of the puzzly feat, from a local news station's coverage.]
What's cooler, more ridiculous, and more bombastically American than that?
Happy Fourth of July, fellow puzzlers! Thank you for spending Independence Day with us, and thank you to the marvelous Kathy Matheson for sharing this story!
Posted in Games, PuzzleNation, Puzzles	| Tagged Crossword Kathy, Drexel University, Follow-Up Friday, Fourth of July, games, Geeking Out, Guinness, Guinness Book of World Records, Holidays, Independence Day, Kathy Matheson, MIT Hacks, Philadelphia, Pop culture, PuzzleNation, Puzzlin' fool, Tetris, world record	| 4 Replies
5 Questions: Alumni Edition
Posted on January 2, 2014 by gmdirect
Undoubtedly one of the most popular features on the blog in 2013 was 5 Questions, our interview series featuring puzzle constructors, authors, filmmakers, game designers, puzzle enthusiasts, and creative people in general whose work and play relates to puzzles.
As 2013 was winding down, I reached out to our 5 Questions alumni to catch up and ask them what they'd been up to since appearing here last. (Or when I'm not pestering them for crossword construction advice or New Year's Resolutions. *laughs*)
And so many of them were happy to share their latest projects with the PuzzleNation audience!
Author Robin Sloan's marvelous novel Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is out in paperback, and the prequel story Ajax Penumbra 1969 is available as an eBook. I asked him about what he's been doing, and his answer was brief and exciting:
Let's see… I'm hard at work on a new novel!
That's about it 😀
Can't wait to see what he's got in store for us next.
[Click here to check out Robin's session of 5 Questions, as well as our book review of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore here.]
Great Urban Race Senior Manager Jordan Diehl was also happy to bring us up to speed on what the GUR crew has been up to:
We just finished a successful Championship event in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was our first time outside of the continental US, and the race was really well-received. Like in years past, a total of $10,000 was given out, but this year it was divided among the top 8 teams as opposed to years past where only first place received cash prizes.
The division of prizes will remain as we enter our 2014 season:
First place: $6,000
Second place: $2,000
Third place: $1,000
Fourth – Eighth place: $200 each
And speaking of, we are excited that our 2014 season is just around the corner!
We've consolidated our schedule for 2014; our first event is in late January and the last regular-schedule event of the season will be June 7. This leaves us room for another new Championship location in a potentially colder climate that we could not typically do in November/December (the usual dates of our Championship) as we are looking at an August/September Championship date.
Here at Great Urban Race, we've decided that 2014 is the "Year of You," and we are focusing on listening to participant feedback more than ever. We put out a vote for Championship locations as well as several other campaigns like it through our social media pages.
[Be sure to check out the Great Urban Race website for more details, and click here to read Jordan's session of 5 Questions.]
Kathy Matheson (a.k.a. puzzle blogger Crossword Kathy) had some interesting news to share, not only regarding her puzzle-constructing aspirations, but interacting with the PuzzleNation readership as well!
After the 5 Questions interview appeared, I was pleasantly surprised to get feedback from a couple of your readers! One is a fellow journalist here in Philly — I recognized his byline but have never met him, and didn't know he was a puzzler, too. He told me about a local constructor he interviewed a few years ago, when she was 95! Now she's about to turn 100, and he said she's still making crosswords. Amazing. I hope to write a story about her myself, somehow tying it in to the just-passed centennial of the crossword.
The other person who contacted me is a constructor I admire who very kindly offered to help with my grid-building dreams. Part of me really wants to take him up on the offer, but part of me is very independent and wants to do it alone.
The truth is that I haven't spent as much time constructing as I should, so perhaps I should do more of that before asking for help. I did send the L.A. Times one of my puzzles, which was rejected by a very nice note saying that "there's some good work in your grid, but the theme puns are too stretchy" for their taste. Oh well.
[I have no doubt we'll be seeing Kathy's name in a puzzle byline in 2014. Click here to check out her session of 5 Questions!]
Puzzle poet Peter Valentine regularly posts his latest creations on Twitter and Tumblr — I've posted his poem "Birthday" for the 100th Anniversary of the crossword above — and has recently added another social media platform to his arsenal.
I've started an instagram feed, @peterboothby, which helps to reach many more folks and generate discussion.
[You can check out the full archive of his poems here, as well as his session of 5 Questions here.]
As you might've expected, constructor and puzzle historian David Steinberg has kept himself very busy between his own crossword construction and his work on the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, which recently passed the 14,000 puzzle mark!
On December 21, the crossword centennial, I gave a talk at the Palos Verdes Peninsula Center Library on crossword history, the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, and crossword editing, solving, and constructing. Also, I constructed a special centennial puzzle for the Focus page in The Orange County Register.
[Check out The Orange County Register, where David serves as crossword editor, as well as his session of 5 Questions here.]
Prolific constructor Robin Stears has been puzzling up a storm since last we spoke.
The dust has settled from the 100th anniversary celebrations, and of course, the other holidays took up some time, but I'm ready to get back to work. My daughter took pity on me and spent a day fixing my Tumblr blog so that it's easier to find, sent out messages to all my Tumblr followers, and helped me set up a Tumblr-exclusive giveaway (to make up for my ineptitude). She even tweaked it for the holidays!
I'm starting off the year with a 21×21 StearsWords puzzle entitled "Things to Look Forward to in 2014." There's so much to look forward to, it needed a giant-size puzzle.
The Trivia Challenge puzzles seemed to be popular, so there will be more of those. I'll continue to invite social media fans to send me their ideas and watch them come to life–a Reddit fan suggested "Doctor Who," a Tumblr fan is responsible for the "Game of Thrones" puzzle, and a Facebook fan challenged me to do a "420" puzzle; clearly, I'm open to just about anything. (Someone asked me to do a cryptogram/crossword, where solvers have to decipher the clues, and then solve the puzzle. It sounds like a lot of work, but also a lot of fun; it also sounds perfect for a contest.)
Naturally, I'll be keeping a close watch on what's hot, just in case there's another "Sharknado"-like event that begs to be immortalized in crossword. And solvers will still find the majority of my work in Penny/Dell puzzle books. They've been printing my puzzles for over twenty years, and I'm a huge fan of their puzzle books, as evidenced by the ginormous stack of Good Time Crosswords in my office.
[You can also join Team StearsWords by clicking here, and check out her session of 5 Questions here.]
As you might expect, David L. Hoyt has been busy. The most syndicated man in puzzles continues to produce his signature Jumble puzzles, but he also has a new puzzly product to share.
Just 2 Fun (pictured above) is David's latest creation and his first app for younger players (ages 9 and up). The app is available for iPad, iPad mini, iPhone 4 and 5 and iPod touch devices. Just 2 Fun is a kids' version of the enormously successful puzzle app Just 2 Words.
[You can explore all of David's puzzly creations on his website, and check out his session of 5 Questions here.]
Even our latest interviewee, New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, had something to share with us in the few weeks since appearing on the PuzzleNation Blog.
You may recall him mentioning his favorite pastime:
At the moment I'm close to finishing a personal goal — to play table tennis every day this year. As I write this (on Dec. 17), I've played every single day since Jan. 1 — 351 days in all.
I'm happy to report that Will did in fact complete his 365 days of table tennis for 2013, even throwing a party to celebrate. (I suspect New Year's Eve may have also contributed to the festivities.)
[Check out Will's contributions to NPR's Weekend Edition here, as well as his session of 5 Questions here. We hope to have more information on his new puzzle magazine Will Shortz's WordPlay very soon.]
Thank you to all of our 5 Questions alums! They helped make 2013 a banner year for PuzzleNation Blog, and as we head into 2014 with new interviews to come, I promise to keep you posted on everything these brilliant puzzly folks are up to.
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Putting the "social" in social media
Posted on October 17, 2013 by gmdirect
One cannot overstate how the advent of social media has changed the way we interact with each other on a daily basis.
Stories and reminiscences that had to wait for high school reunions and family get-togethers are now shared over Facebook every day. Fan clubs and monthly newsletters used to be the only source for new info on your favorite bands and celebrities, but these days, they can speak directly to their fans through Twitter.
We can take people on vacation with us on Instagram and share our deepest thoughts on Tumblr. We can document baby's first steps on YouTube and delve into virtually any subject on various blogs.
And social media has undoubtedly changed the landscape for puzzles and constructors alike.
There are entire blogs dedicated to dissecting the New York Times and Los Angeles Times crosswords each and every day. Amy Reynaldo (Diary of a Crossword Fiend) and our recent 5 Questions interviewee Kathy Matheson (Crossword Kathy) are both terrific examples of engaging crossword bloggers.
Through Twitter and other platforms, constructors are marketing their puzzles directly to solvers, bypassing publishers and sparking a new wave of entrepreneurial creativity in puzzles.
(For more on this, check out our 5 Questions interview with Robin Stears and our subsequent post on digital puzzle distribution.)
Heck, I've seen solvers and celebrities alike asking for help with challenging clues by reaching out to their followers on Twitter. Crowdsourcing at its best!
As PuzzleNation's resident social media helper monkey, I've seen firsthand the amazing changes wrought by social media. I play games and interact daily with PuzzleNationers on Facebook, meet fellow puzzlers and innovators through Twitter, and engage in all manner of puzzly topics on Pinterest.
At the end of every blog post, I offer up links to all of our social media platforms, and every time you tweet or comment or reply or re-pin or email, I'm left in awe by how involved and how passionate the PuzzleNation audience is. Interacting with you guys is by far the best part of this gig, and I can't wait to see what comes next from the marvelous melding of puzzles and social media.
Thanks for visiting the PuzzleNation blog today! You can like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, cruise our boards on Pinterest, check out our Classic Word Search iBook (recently featured by Apple in the Made for iBooks category!), play our games at PuzzleNation.com, or contact us here at the blog!
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Why choose snowshoeing over downhill skiing or snowboarding? The answer is: Do the numbers.
Wednesday is ladies night, so grab your hiking boots or snowshoes because ladies get friendships and exercise for free, the cover charge is a tank of gas.
How do you attract new generations to a sport that has been in existence for 6,000 years? The answer according to many in the snowshoeing industry is, leave it alone.


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Taking a stand against racism
WARREN — Local residents provided ideas and input of what can be done working together to combat racism in the community.
More than 40 people attended a recent program "Stand Against Racism" held at the YWCA of Warren and hosted by the YWCAs of Warren and Youngstown.
"Race: Let's Talk About It" was designed as a family-friendly event focused on encouraging dialogue and reconciliation and participating in guided, small-group conversations.
Molly Toth, advocacy and special projects coordinator for the YWCA, said when people are asked how racism hurts, they said it affects employment, has effects in laws and politics, and leads to violence and stereotyping.
At the event, groups were given questions of what people individually and together can do to change or stop racism.
Toth said bringing different people together, being an active bystander and standing up to racism, not judging omeone by their race, and communicating with people who are different or who have different views are some of the ways to combat racism.
She said often in society there is "implicit bias" with little triggers on how people view the world based on how they may have been informed by society or even family. Toth said an example is locking car doors when driving through a section of the city they may have been told or seen on the news as a bad area.
"People have little triggers that we often don't even think about. We need to actively work on uprooting them," she said.
Ideas presented to address racism include having tolerance programs to raise awareness and educating people of all ages.
Toni Blake of Warren and former YWCA employee, said there needs to be a "dismantling of the negative rumors in the community" and addressing the many positives the city has to offer such as summer programs and events.
An idea was proposed to hold a community-wide diversity festival to bring all cultures, nationalities and groups together to showcase and celebrate Warren's diversity in its customs, traditions and foods.
"We would like to see people get engaged civically and share commonalities. People from all different backgrounds can come together to get to know one another and find common ground and ways of being more alike," Toth said.
Denise Rising of Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership said holding more town hall-style meetings gets people together to share ideas and concerns. Those at the event had the opportunity to take a pledge to stand against racism by signing a large wall sign.
Those attending agreed educating and encouraging dialogue is the way to address racism issues.
"The YWCA has always had a bold mission to eliminate racism and empower women. Stand Against Racism is one of the ways we connect with our community to encourage others to join us on that mission," said YWCA Youngstown CEO and President Leah Merritt.
Also held recently in Youngstown was Youngstown City Schools' Visual and Performing Arts Program for "A Harlem Renaissance Experience." Students performed selections from writers and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.


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Cool Science: How Kurt Vonnegut's Brother Tried To Break Up Hurricanes
Tomas Kellner
Kurt Vonnegut's science-fiction novel "Cat's Cradle" revolves around a tricky compound called ice-nine that can turn water solid at room temperature. Vonnegut, who worked for GE in the 1950s as an in-house journalist, came up with many beautifully outlandish plots for his best-selling books. But ice research was hitting close to his beat as well as his home.
That's because at the time, another member of his family was employed by GE — his brother, the physicist Bernard Vonnegut. Bernard, together with Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir and atmospheric scientist Vincent Schaefer, formed a crack research team looking for ways to control the weather and even break up hurricanes. In 1946, Schaefer made history when he flew into a cloud in a small plane in upstate New York and set off the world's first artificial snowfall with a bag of dry ice. He became known as the Snow Man.
The research, which GE called "Project Cirrus," was serious business. It grew out of the company's study of thin ice layers that sometimes coated aircraft wings and crippled planes during World War II. The company is now using supercomputers to attack the problem. Many machines that operate in cold environments could benefit from resisting ice, including wind turbines
Top image: Bernard Vonnegut (left) and Vincent Schaefer (right) are seeding a snow cloud in Schaefer's ice box. Above: Nobel winner Irving Langmuir (standing with glasses) next to Bernard Vonnegut. Schaefer is leaning over the freezer. Kurt Vonnegut used Langmuir as a model for the scientist Felix Hoenikker in his book "Cat's Cradle." In the novel, Hoenikker invents a material called ice-nine that's stable at room temperature. Kurt Vonnegut got the idea for the fictional material from Langmuir when the two worked at GE. All images credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
Schaefer was testing different materials in his lab by dropping them into a repurposed home freezer. Working with dry ice, he discovered that tiny grains of the substance, which is carbon dioxide frozen to minus 109.3 Fahrenheit (minus 78.5 Celsius), transformed the air inside the freezer, created many millions of ice crystals and started a miniature snowstorm.
By fall 1946, Schaefer knew enough to take his research out of the lab. In November that year, he and GE test pilot Curtis Talbot climbed into a small Fairchild plane and tried to seed with dry ice a cloud floating above Schenectady (see video). "Curt flew into the cloud and I started the dispenser in operation," Schaefer wrote in his lab notebook. "I dropped about three pounds (of dry ice) and then swung around and headed south. About the time I looked toward the rear, I was thrilled to see long streamers of snow falling from the base of the cloud through which we had just passed."
The team kept working and Bernard Vonnegut improved on the method by using silver iodide, a substance whose crystals are similar to frozen water, to summon snow. The chemical compound was apparently so powerful at creating snow or rain that "all the air of the United States could be nucleated at one time with a few pounds of silver iodide," the researchers reported. (Kurt apparently passed on this book idea.)
But others noticed. The G-E Review wrote that "the results of Project Cirrus's five years of weather research will have a profound influence upon domestic and world economics … Making it rain, modifying thunderstorms and hurricanes, and clearing ground fogs near airports are some of the vital possibilities."
Project Cirrus really took off in 1947, when as many six U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force planes were seeding clouds in places as far apart as New Mexico and Hawaii. One of the aircraft was a modified B-17 bomber whose glass nose bristled with a battery of obscure instruments including the cloud meter, rain catcher, psychrometer for measuring humidity, and many others.
By then, the team had also figured out that many different substances could seed clouds, including common salt. Langmuir reported that observations in Puerto Rico and Hawaii "indicate[d] that it should be frequently possible to induce heavy rainfall by introducing salt into the trade wind at the rate of about one ton in the form of fine dust particles of about 25 microns in diameter."
Perhaps the most daring part of the project took place during the 1947 hurricane season in the skies off the coast of Florida and Alabama. On Oct. 13, the team spotted a storm that "consisted of an eye of approximately 30 miles in diameter, surrounded by a thick wall of clouds extending from about 800 feet up into the cirrus overcast at 20,000 feet, and some 30-50 miles thick," according to a witness account.
The team loaded the modified B-17 seeding plane with dry ice and sent up another B-17 to record the operation. There was also a larger B-29 bomber as the control aircraft with Schaefer on board. Although they steered clear of the eye of the storm, they dropped 80 pounds of dry ice along a 110-mile track while circling the hurricane at 19,200 feet. "No attempt was made to penetrate through the wall of the storm into the eye or to seed in or near the squall line, owing to the failure of the group's homing aids (radio, compass, and visual flares)," the observer reported. "It was thought that such an attempt, although desirable, would likely result in a separation of the aircraft, with subsequent abortion on the primary mission."
Still, Schaefer, who was ensconced in the relative safety of the B-29, saw "many suitable clouds for seeding operations to occur in this type of hurricane. … Owing to the complex structure of this 'old' storm, it is believed that a 'young' hurricane would provide much more satisfactory data for estimating the effect of seeding operations." Langmuir added: "The stakes are large … I think we should be able to abolish the evil effects of these hurricanes."
But despite the positive results, the size of the stakes and even Langmuir's appearance on the cover of Time magazine, Project Cirrus ran out of funding in 1952. And money was just one obstacle. The country also lacked (and still does) laws governing "artificial weather modification."
Still, as G-E Review pointed out, "so many other research projects had been stimulated that the continued progress in the search for new and basic knowledge of weather phenomena seems assured."
After Project Cirrus ended, Schaefer and Bernard Vonnegut moved on to new positions outside GE and continued to study weather. And although GE is no longer trying to subdue storms, company scientists are still studying icing on wind turbine blades, aircraft wings, and other surfaces. But instead of Vonnegut's ice box, they are using supercomputers. Says Rick Arthur, who leads the Advanced Computing Lab at GE Research . "We use simulations as a means to gain insight into the conditions under which ice can be suppressed. Many industrial systems that operate in cold environments stand to benefit from resisting ice including wind turbines and offshore oil and gas drilling and production rigs operating in extremely cold environments."
Bernard Vonnegut
GE Global Research


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How to solve the error code 69 on DOC-131 of SIGMA/LG-OTIS elevator?
Appeared on the DOC-131 main board. Our engineer gave the following solutions.
3. Check the 110v fuse on DOP-116. May be fuse is damage.
Attached tips for doc-130 board also, we hope it can help some sigma engineers.
Tips for SIGMA / LG-OTIS main control board DOC-130 - A. B. C ,Three types of applications A: machine room elevator, geared traction machine, encoder pulse 1024 B: machine roomless elevator, traction machine similar as OTIS Gen2, use encoder ERN1387 C. small machine room, permanent magnet synchronous traction machine, use encoder TS5246N574; Blue-ray or changshu traction machine, final change to use the Korea Sameee system; D: DOC-130 can be replaced by DOC-131 or DOC-132.
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Q. Who is P.J. Parrish?
A. P.J. Parrish is two sisters, Kristy and Kelly, who teamed up in 1996 to begin the Louis Kincaid mystery series. We live in separate states (Mississippi and Florida) and do most of our writing alone, then we trade chapters over the internet and talking on the phone.
Q. What made the two of you decide to write books together?
A. Kristy is a former romance writer, with four books published during the 1980's. When the demand for romance cycled to a low, her agent suggested she try a mystery. Kristy, who had barely read mysteries up to that point, called Kelly, who was an avid true crime and mystery fan, once married to a police officer and at the time, struggling to write her own first mystery. We feel were very fortunate to find our individual experiences and talents blended well.
Q. Have either or both of you written a book under your own name(s)?
A. Kristy's has her romances, but no, neither of us has published a mystery by ourselves. Kristy has a completed short story called "One Shot" that will appear in the Mystery Writers of America anthology "Relationships Can Be Murder (edited by Harlan Coben). It will be published late this year. We have also started two other short stories that are unfinished at this time. We have made attempts to complete something longer on our own, but find our efforts are strangely frustrating. We have come to rely on each other so much, working on a story alone is much like working with a half a brain. It's very hard for us to make the mental adjustment that is no one there to help straighten out a plot twist or add a new viewpoint to the story.
Q. What inspired you to write Island of Bones?
Kris had wanted to write the answer to this riddle for years and finally called Kelly and asked her "What the heck do you think happened on that island?" The story seems to flow out of us.
Q. How did you come about the idea of the del Bosque family?
A. After we decided on the island theme (see above) we had to figure out what exactly was going on there and why. We were talking about this one day at a book signing in Fort Myers when a woman came up to meet us. She told us she was writing a non-fiction book about multi-generational families living together. Kelly and I just looked at each other; we knew that was it. We knew our family had to be insular and inter-dependent, so we decided then to make them foreign-born, perhaps with an odd dialect. Since the Spanish were the prime early settlers of Florida, we centered on them. Kris did research on the internet and found out about Asturia, a region in northern Spain that still retains many of its ancient Celtic-inspired customs and traditions. In isolated villages, remnants of a type of Latin are still spoken today. Oddly, a year after "Bones" came out, Kris was able to visit Asturia and found it to be one of the most hauntingly beautiful places she has ever seen.
Q. How did you come about Louis' character?
A. Louis was born of Kelly's experiences in rural Mississippi during the early 1990's. It was the same time some of the civil right trials of the 60's were finally being prosecuted. Kelly's second grandchild, Charlotte (who is biracial), was also born during the same period (1996) and together with the forming of our partnership as writers, Louis emerged. At the time, we simply let him come alive, but as we have taken him on various journeys we have also found that the traits we gave him in Dark of the Moon (his young age, his race, and his childhood experiences) have allowed us to explore his complexity and give him room for growth. We frequently get letters from readers who recognize the fact that we are maturing and molding him, and that is satisfying for us as authors.
Q. How did you come about Landeta's character?
A. As a PI, Louis frequently needs a law enforcement contact in order to have access to the case file and initially, Mel Landeta was simply meant to be just that: a faceless side-kick that Louis needed in order to solve the crime in Island of Bones. So, Mel Landeta walked on the "page" as just another bitter detective. Even we didn't like him at first and considered getting rid of him early. But as he grew with the book, we realized he had far more potential and we knew by the time we finished, he would be a recurring character.
Q. How long have you two been writing?
A. Together, since late 1996 or 1997, but we didn't submit until 1998. Our first book was published in 1999.
Q. How many books have the two of you written?
A. Our seventh, An Unquiet Grave, will be out in February of 2006. In An Unquiet Grave, we take Louis back to his home state of Michigan where he comes to the aid of his foster father Phillip, who has found that the grave he has been tending for 16 years -- that of his childhood sweetheart who died in an insane asylum -- is empty.
Q. What type of message would you like readers to receive from reading ISLAND OF BONES?
A. That the line between good and evil is often razor-thin and that even the good-hearted can find themselves balanced on that edge. Mystery writer S.J. Rozan said it very eloquently when she wrote of "Island of Bones.: "The sins of generations past haunt Louis in this beautifully evoked, darkly moral tale set in the coastal territory where even the elemental distinction between land and sea can be as blurred as that between good and evil."


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How Mid-Century Airline Travel Came to Symbolize Glamour and Adventure
M.C. Hühne
The airline industry was highly regulated until the late 1970s, when deregulation in the United States started a trend to liberalize air traffic around the world. Until then, ticket prices and the destinations an airline was allowed to serve were the main subjects of regulation. Airlines were regarded as important agents for economic growth as well as ambassadors of their home countries abroad, and regulation was to provide stable economic conditions for this promising new industry.
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How to Rescue Your Vacation From the Coronavirus
Christopher Elliot
Jacqueline Lambert and her husband were just about to wrap up a vacation in Italy when the borders locked down. They decided to stay, renting an apartment in the Aosta Valley in Northern Italy. "We're going to enjoy the weather and beautiful scenery, which we have all to ourselves," says Lambert, a guide book author. Others are changing their itineraries before they leave. That's what happened to me last week. I had planned to spend a month in Italy, with stops in Bologna, Venice, Rome and Südtirol. Then the entire country turned into a red zone.
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The Era of the 'Ego Tourist'
Frequent travelers expect traffic jams and long lines. But holiday travel brings out the novices, says Jacqueline Whitmore, a former flight attendant and director of the Protocol School of Palm Beach. "They don't know what to expect. They get very frustrated, very quickly," she says. Whitmore has seen it herself. She worked on flights where inconsiderate newbies brought strollers the size of a Mercedes and then ordered a flight attendant to stow them.
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Flight MH370 and the Reality of Human Helplessness
Sandip Roy
We expect tragedy, whether its man-made or natural, to come fully illustrated - collapsed buildings, mangled limbs, charred bogies of trains, airplanes crashing into skyscrapers in front of our horrified eyes. Flight MH370 has none of that. Days after the tragedy we heard about a "yellow object" floating in the sea. Perhaps an oil slick. But all we have seen on 24-hour television is the footage of anxious families huddled in Beijing airport, glued to cellphones.
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Paladino Spent Just Shy Of $10M, Cuomo $28.3M
Victorious Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo outspent his self-funded Republican rival by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, an analysis by the good-government group NYPIRG shows.
Buffalo businessman and millionaire Carl Paladino, who pledged to spend up to $10 million of his own money in his bid to become governor, spent $9.6 million. Campaign finance records posted on Monday at the Board of Elections found Paladino's campaign is more than $6 million in debt
Cuomo, the outgoing attorney general, spent $28.6 million and has $4.9 million in the bank. He plans to use his remaining campaign funds to launch a counterattack on the expected opposition to his proposals for cutting state spending and a restructuring of the bureaucracy.
The analysis found Cuomo spent less than previously successful gubernatorial campaigns. For instance, Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, spent $44.7 million on his last campaign in 2002 against Democrat Carl McCall. Democrat Eliot Spitzer spent $35.9 million on his bid against Republican John Faso in 2006.
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