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I left a short note thanking you all for an experience that I think could well be the gold-standard for the United States. Since leaving Omaha, I have had several more thoughts to add.The conference serves as a great boost to those of us who hold drama in high estimation. It was wonderfully fulfilling to see so many eager and talented writers, actors, and directors, working to make the conference such a success. By making us aware of the enthusiasm brought to and excited by the conference, I am sure the artistic morale of every participant is boosted. That is an important contribution to the country at this difficult time in our history.
Thanks again to you and the whole contingent of theatre enthusiasts who call Omaha home.
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I had a profoundly meaningful experience at the conference and will always return for as long as you'll have me, a westward migrating bird. I didn't really know what I was getting into but you all have really got something special going on out there. I've written and called Mac several times to thank him. For me I feel like it got me back on a track from which I had strayed. Or been pulled. I really appreciate it.
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Liberty Union's Chase Pettitt attempts to tackle Hartley quarterback Jared Brandewie during a Division V regional semifinal Saturday at Bloom-Carroll.
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Dell Rapids' Sarah Haak drives past Vermillion's Josie Huber Thursday night in Vermillion. / David Lias / Vermillion Plain Talk
The Lady Quarriers record dropped to 4-8 after two more road losses last week.
Dell Rapids fell to the Tanagers 57-45 Thursday in Vermillion.
Coach Jeff Dvoraks Lady Quarriers kept pace with Vermillion for the first three quarters before the Tanagers went on a 20-10 fourth-quarter scoring run to pull away late.
For Dell Rapids, Mikaela Stofferahn had 14 points and nine rebounds, and Brittney Siemonsma had 11 points and 16 rebounds.
Josie Huber scored 14 points to lead Vermillion.
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Several El Paso-area students have about a month to perfect their technical and career abilities for the SkillsUSA 50th National Leadership and Skills Conference.
More than 6,000 high school and college students from across the nation qualified for the national contest, which will be June 25-26 in Kansas City, Mo. ThirteenEl Paso-area students will compete.
The students will compete against one another in several different events such as 3-D Visualization and animation; firefighting, AutoCAD Civil Design, and internet-working, where students compete in job skills for electronics, technical drafting, precision machining, medical assisting and culinary arts. There are about 90 categories of competition.
Students who qualified for the national competition placed first in their individual contest at the state competition. The 13 El Paso-area students going to nationals placed first at the SkillsUSA Texas 2014 Leadership and Skills Championship. The state competition was held March 27-29 in Corpus Christi.
More than 170 students from Canutillo, El Paso, Ysleta, Socorro and San Elizario school districts competed at the state level, said SkillsUSA Texas District 1 Director, Lisa Alvarado.
Daniel Aguayo, student officer advisor at the Center for Career and Technology Education, said the competition allows students to polish their career skills. The center has several students going to nationals. "The benefits for the students is that they get to polish their skills and the second benefit is that they have networking opportunities because each one of the contests is sponsored by experts in each industry," Aguayo said. "So the students really get to network with the experts which is one of the added benefits."
Jeremy Meyer, a junior at Austin High School who placed first in the firefighting contest at the Texas state championship, had to prepare for several months for his competition.
The firefighter contest comprises of an interview, a written test and a physical challenge.
"I had to do a lot of running, lifting and climbing stairs," Meyer said. "The physical competition you have to climb stairs and get through a door while running a hose line and carrying a person out of a building in less than 10 minutes and 20 seconds."
Meyer can finish the physical challenge in about 9 minutes and 40 seconds. Now that he's heading to the national competition, with 12 other students, Meyer said he feels excited but nervous.
"It's a difficult test," said Joseph Savage, the fire science technology instructor for Austin High School. "And at the national level there are going to be 35 contestants at nationals — not just from high schools but from different colleges and universities."
Meyer said he chose to participate in the competition because he wants to be a firefighter.
"I was in a car accident a few years ago and after the crash I had a cracked skull and I had to get brain surgery," Meyers said. "While I was in the accident I got to see how the firefighters and EMTs helped people and I saw how they cared for everyone there. That gave me the inspiration to be a firefighter and take the class and the competition gave me a chance to try it out."


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7The quotation comes from Francis Meehan, U.S. ambassador to Poland from 1980
to 1982, in a conversation with the author in June 1990.
8Kuklinski revealed this date for the first time in an interview in October
1997, excerpts of which were broadcast on Polish radio in November 1997 on the
program "Trojka pod Ksiezycem," which I heard while riding to Warsaw's Okecie
airport after having attended a conference in Jachranka on "Poland 1980-1982:
Internal Crisis, International Dimensions," organized by the National Security
Archive, the Cold War International History Project, and the Institute of
Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
9These incidents, one in Washington and the other in Chicago, were described by
Andrzej Krajewski and Sylwia Wysocka in "Trojka pod Ksiezycem."
10His younger son, Boguslaw, an avid yachtsman, was lost at sea in early
January 1994 while sailing in the Gulf of Mexico. No trace of his body was
ever found. The elder son, Waldemar, was killed in an automobile accident
during the 4th of July weekend.
11"Wojna z narodem widziana od srodka," pp. 3-55.
12Weiser's first article was "Polish Officer Was U.S.'s Window on Soviet War
Plans," Washington Post 27 September 1992, pp. A1, A38, and the second was "A
Question of Loyalty," Washington Post Magazine, 13 December 1992, pp. 9-13, 24-
13Maciej Lukasiewicz, ed., Bohater czy zdrajca: Fakty i dokumenty sprawa
pulkownika Kuklinskiego (Warsaw: Most, 1992); Krzysztof Dubinski and Iwona
Jurczenko, Oko Pentagonu: Rzecz o pulkowniku Ryszardie Kuklinskim (Warsaw:
KMSO, 1995); and Bernard Nowak, ed., Pulkownik Kuklinski: Wywiady, Opinie,
Dokumenty (Lublin: Test, 1998). Although Kuklinski is still reluctant to be
interviewed, several lengthy interviews have appeared in recent years; see
especially the interview cited above, "Pulkownik Ryszard Kuklinski mowi," pp.
1, 12-14.
14The full text of the Court's verdict is reproduced in "Rewizje
nadzwyczajna," Rzeczpospolita (Warsaw), 7 April 1995, p. 17.
15"Komisja rozgrzesza autorow stanu wojennego: Wiekszosc rzadowa PSL-SLD
przeglosowala mniejszosc opozycyjna UW, KPN, UP," Rzeczpospolita (Warsaw), 14
February 1996, pp. 1-2. The measure was approved by the full Sejm several
months later. The parliament's action did not cover the separate charges
brought against Jaruzelski for his role in the bloody crackdown of December
1970. A trial resumed in mid-1998 of Jaruzelski and eleven other senior
officials charged with the massacres.
See "Proces-Grudzien '70, krotka: Rozpoczal sie proces oskarzonych ws.
Grudnia '70," Zycie Warszawy (Warsaw),
16 June 1998, p. 2.
16"Umorzono sledztwo przeciw plk. Kuklinskiemu," Rzeczpospolita (Warsaw), 23
September 1997, p. 1.
17Jerzy Sadecki, "Kuklinski na Wawelu: Honorowy
Obywatel Stolecznego Krolewskiego Miasta Krakowa," Rzeczpospolita (Warsaw), 29
April 1998, p. 2; and Jerzy
Sadecki, "Honorowe obywatelstwo dla Ryszarda Kuklinskiego: Zwykly zolnierz
Rzeczypospolitej," Rzeczpospolita (Warsaw), 30 April 1998, p. 2.
18"Juz nie chce stad wyjezdzac: Uratowal przed rozlewem krwi—oswiadczyl
premier," Rzeczpospolita (Warsaw), 28 April 1998, p. 2.
19Adam Michnik, "Pulapka politycznej beatyfikacji," Gazeta wyborcza (Warsaw),
10-11 May 1998, pp. 10-11.
20"Jaruzelski: Przyjazd Kuklinskiego nie budzi moich zastrzezen,"
Rzcezpospolita (Warsaw), 28 April 1998, p. 2.
21Centrum Badania Opinii Spolecznej, Opinie o pulkowniku Kuklinskim (Warsaw:
CBOS, May 1998), pp. 1-3.
22For the genesis and full text of Carter's message, see the reproduced entries
from the diary of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the
Carter administration, in "White House Diary, 1980," Orbis, Vol. 32, No. 1
(Winter 1988), pp. 33-38. See also Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, Power and
Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981, rev. ed. (New
York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1985), pp. 495-498; and Jimmy Carter,
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (New York: Viking, 1982), pp. 583-585.
23At the Warsaw Pact meeting on 5 December 1980, Brezhnev remarked that "the
situation with the lines of communication [in Poland], especially with the
railroads and harbors, deserves urgent attention. Poland would experience an
economic catastrophe if transportation facilities were paralyzed. This would
also be a great blow to the economic interests of other socialist states. Let
me reiterate: Under no circumstances can we tolerate it if the security
interests of the Warsaw Pact countries are endangered by difficulties with the
transportation system. An elaborate plan must be devised to use the [Polish]
army and security forces to assert control over the transportation facilities
and the main lines of communication [in Poland], and this plan must be
implemented. Even before martial law is declared, it would be worthwhile to
set up military command posts and to initiate military patrols along the
railroads." Quoted from "Stenografische Niederschrift des Treffens fuhrender
Reprasentanten der Teilnehmerstaaten des Warschauer Vertrages am 5. Dezember
1980 in Moskau," 5 December 1980 (Top Secret), in Stiftung Archiv der Parteien
und Massenorganisationen der DDR im Bundesarchiv (SAPMDB), Zentrales
Parteiarchiv (ZPA) der SED, (Berlin) J IV, 2/2 A-2368; reproduced in Michael
Kubina and Manfred Wilke, eds., "Hart und kompromisslos durchgreifen:" Die SED
contra Polen 1980/81 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994), p. 173.
24See, among many examples, "Unuberwindliche Barriere gegen imperialistischen
Feind," Neues Deutschland (East Berlin), 1 December 1980, p. 3; "Walesa uber
Zusammenarbeit mit KOR," Neues Deutschland (East Berlin), 27 November 1980, p.
5; Jan Lipavsky, "Konfrontace: Od naseho varsavskeho zpravodaje," Rude pravo
(Prague), 2 December 1980, p. 7; "V boji o socialisticky charakter obnovy
zeme," Rude pravo (Prague), 2 December 1980, p. 7; and "Strana se upevnuje v
akcji," Rude Pravo, 1 December 1980, p. 6.
25Ivanovskii was replaced as commander-in-chief of Soviet forces in East
Germany on 4 December 1980 by Army-Gen. Mikhail Zaitsev. Ivanovskii was then
appointed commander of the Belorussian Military District, the post that Zaitsev
had held. See "Verdienste um Bruderbund UdSSR-DDR gewurdigt: Herzliche
Begegnung mit Armeegeneral Iwanowski und Armeegeneral Saizew im Staatsrat,"
Neues Deutschland (East Berlin), 5 December 1980, pp. 1-2.
26The problems posed by cloud cover are noted in Robert M. Gates, From the
Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the
Cold War (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), pp. 163 and 168. A Special
Analysis issued by the CIA on 24 December 1980 marked the first solid
determination that only three Soviet tank and mechanized divisions in the
western USSR were on full alert. See U.S. Central Intelligence Agency,
National Foreign Assessment Center, "Approaching the Brink: Moscow and the
Polish Crisis, November–December 1980," Intelligence Memorandum (Top Secret),
January 1981, pp. 2–5.
27See Brzezinski, "White House Diary, 1980," p. 45.
28Ibid., pp. 37-39.
29Ibid., pp. 40-41.
30The emphasis here is on the word "preparing." It is unclear whether Soviet
leaders were actually intending to bring troops into Poland, or were perhaps
simply using the preparations as a means of spurring the Polish authorities to
accelerate their plans for martial law. I will return briefly to this point
31See, e.g., "Einweisung," early December 1980 (Strictly Secret), in
Militarisches Zwischenarchiv in Potsdam (MZA-P), VA-01/40593, Bl. 16; no date
is marked on this document, but the content indicates that it was prepared on 1
or 2 December. See also "Erlauterungen," Memorandum No. A:265991 (Strictly
Secret), early December 1980, in MZA-P, VA-01/
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Locker Combinations is a Book Case feature by BookPage contributor and young adult (YA) literature expert Jill Ratzan. Using a variety of literary, cultural and educational perspectives, Jill guest blogs about the latest in YA lit and the general direction, trends and changes of the field. This month, Jill pairs classic high school reads with great teen fiction.
For avid teen readers, the end of summer vacation can herald the end of reading what they want and a return to reading what they must. The teen who devoured The Fault in Our Stars may be less enthusiastic about the source of its title, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. But pitting YA books against the classics of Western literature doesn't have to be an either-or proposition: Some pairs can illuminate each other in new and interesting ways.
Direct retellings of well-known tales abound (see this chart from Epic Reads), but works that complement rather than duplicate the classics can be harder to find. Here are four suggestions of great YA books to read alongside some staples of high school English.
If you read The Crucible in American Lit class, you might remember your teacher saying that Arthur Miller's 1953 play was really about McCarthyism, using the Salem witch trials as a metaphor. Another interpretation is that The Crucible is about what happens when issues of gender, power, illness and social class combine in a high-pressure environment.
If so, Katherine Howe's new YA novel Conversion is the play's perfect readalike. Half of Conversion focuses on high school senior Colleen and her classmates at a highly competitive, all-female Massachusetts school where dozens of girls suddenly come down with unexplained, seemingly unconnected symptoms. (The story is based on a real incident that took place in LeRoy, New York, in 2012, a topic also explored in the recent adult novel The Fever by Megan Abbott.) The other half is narrated by Ann Putnam Jr., a teen at the center of the 1692 witch panic in Salem. The two halves, initially connected only by Colleen's extra credit project about The Crucible, soon converge. Like Arthur Miller, Howe leaves readers wondering exactly how much of a metaphor the Salem witch trials might be for contemporary goings-ons.
Dual, possibly intersecting narratives also characterize Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly, another contemporary YA novel that takes place partially in the present day and partially in the past—specifically, during the French revolution. This setting makes it the perfect choice to read alongside A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
Like Charles Darney, Sydney Carton and Dickens' other characters, the dual narrators of Revolution watch their personal dramas play out against the backdrop of a larger political and social upheaval.
The 150-year gap between these two works might be the most thought-provoking aspect of this pairing. Historical perspectives on the French revolution have changed over time, with Dickens' heroic Bastille-stormers giving way to more nuanced modern interpretations. And readers of both books might want to remember the multiple senses of the word "revolution": It can mean both a war for independence and the act of changing direction.
No one writes the macabre quite like Edgar Allan Poe. Teens who've read his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" and want more creepy old houses haunted by revenge-seeking, bloodsoaked-dress-wearing gals—but with less onerous vocabulary and more running jokes about Ghostbusters—can't do better than Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. Like Poe's classic short story, Blake's novel positively drips with Gothic horror—but it also features biology study sessions, talk of crushes (both ghostly and human) and pop culture references to everything from Harry Potter to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." And fans of both authors can follow up with further works: Poe wrote dozens of short stories and poems, and Blake's sequel, Girl of Nightmares, picks up where the first book ends.
After leaving a place of chaos and conflict, our hero wanders for many miles, meeting people and learning about the world as they travel. But when they finally reach home, they find that their journey is actually just beginning.
This is the plot of Homer's Odyssey and Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, both classics of their particular canons. While Odysseus navigates giants, sea monsters and other dangers of the ancient, mythological Mediterranean, teenage Dicey has a much more mundane but no less challenging task: bringing her younger siblings to safety after their mother abandons them in a Connecticut parking lot. First published in 1981, Voigt's novel is filled with pay phones, two-dollar bus fares and other relics of bygone decades, but that only adds to its charm. Besides, Homer's epic is almost 3,000 years old, making Homecoming (and its sequels) seem positively contemporary in comparison.
By pairing YA lit with classics, teen readers can apply what they learn from older works to newer and potentially more relevant contexts. Or they can use YA lit to rethink their interpretations of classic works. Either way, the start of school doesn't have to mean the end of reading YA.


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Texas Rangers Rest Up, Ready Themselves for More NL West Fodder
The Texas Rangers (35-26) have returned home, fresh off of a 10-game West Coast jaunt that seemed like two months.
Today's off day comes at a perfect time. The Rangers are banged-up, tired, and badly in need of a solid night's sleep in their own palatial estates.
Although they lost six of ten on the road, they've won two of their last three. They ended their road trip on a high note, as they took their first series since their sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays late last month.
Taking two of three from the accursed San Francisco Giantsis a great thing…there's nothing like a dose of 2010 World Series redemption! Suck on that, Mr. The Freak!
Here are some highlights from the Giants series—because it went well for our Rangers and the Oakland/Anaheim series occurred so long ago that it's like it never happened…
Gentry shines
• Center fielder Craig Gentry was 7-for-11 during the Giants series, and watched his batting average soar from .301 to .340.
• Gentry was 5-for-5 during the Rangers' series opening 5-0 victory last Friday.
The bullpen is outstanding?
Yep, it sure is. You know you have a great bullpen when they can start and finish games.
• Alexi Ogando pitched three perfect innings in a spot-start for lefty Derek Holland.
• Robbie Ross earned his 6th win of the year as he went four innings in relief of Ogando.
The bullpen was outstanding
Yep, it sure was. Sadly, the possibility of Ogando garnering DL time might force left-hander Robbie Ross into the rotation. Ultimately that's a good thing but his absence form the 'pen would surely be felt.
• I still don't trust Koji Uehara in high-leverage situations.
• I'll never trust Mark Lowe in any close-game scenarios.
Injury News:
Alexi Ogando had an MRI done today but team physician Dr. Keith Meister is out of town, so a full evaluation won't be completed until tomorrow morning at the earliest.
• Nelson Cruz was given the day off yesterday to rest a sore right Achilles tendon that he tweaked on Saturday in San Francisco.
• Derek Holland is scheduled to start throwing in the next few days but the lefty won't be available for at least two more weeks.
Next Up:
The Texas Rangers begin a six-game home stand tomorrow night as they host the NL West's Arizona Diamondbacks for a three game series. The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 (CST) with RH Colby Lewis (4-5, 3.38 ERA) on the hill for Texas and RH Ian Kennedy (5-5, 3.98 ERA) gets the start for Arizona.
Be sure to check back here tomorrow for the BaseballDo Series preview!


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November 25, 2015
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. health officials say doctors should consider giving a daily AIDS drug to another high risk group to prevent infection -- people who shoot heroin, methamphetamines or other injection drugs.
A similar recommendation is already in place for gay men and heterosexual couples.
The new advice was triggered by a study done in Thailand. Drug users who took the daily pill were about 50 percent less likely to become infected with HIV than those given a dummy pill.
Drug users represent about 1 in 13 new infections in the U.S. but they account for the majority of cases in Eastern Europe and central Asia.
The research was done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Thai government. The findings were released Wednesday by the journal Lancet.
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Mail Act-On 2 offers tag functions, faster interface
updated 08:35 pm EDT, Wed October 15, 2008
Mail Act On 2 update
Indev Software has released the latest version of its Apple Mail organization tool, Mail Act-On 2. The update offers a faster interface, with an option to lock the window open to allow multiple rules to be applied successively. Users can retrace their steps with a new undo function. Keystrokes can be used to perform actions on messages with the enhanced interface or by using control key combinations, which is claimed to allow the management functions without a mouse. The outbox now supports rules to organize sent messages.
The program allows keystrokes to move or copy messages between folders, even if a rule doesn't exist for a particular box. Recent destinations are stored to allow quicker access to the frequently visited boxes. The architecture supports third party "extras" to be added, such as the included "MailTags" function for tagging messages. Mail Act-On 2 is available now from the company for $20.


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Does the Educational Background of China's Leaders Matter?
One of the most curious facts about China's current leadership is is comprised almost entirely by engineers. This thought-provoking Facebook post by Kaiser Kuo reminds us that the academic disciplines of the nine members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo are: hydraulic engineering, electron tube engineering, geological engineering, electrical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, geophysical engineering, chemical engineering, and law.
By contrast, here is the distribution of the seven men Reuters reports will comprise China's next Standing Committee: chemical engineering, law, history, math, teaching, economics, and economics. As a caveat, Kaiser notes that Zhang Dejiang's economic degree came from a university in North Korea, so he probably isn't going to be quoting Milton Friedman anytime soon. But this change seems significant. Will it have any effect on policy?
Deng Xiaoping's accession to power in 1978 transformed China's government from being primarily ideological to being primarily technocratic, and engineering seemed to be an appropriate background for dealing with China's immense developmental challenges. Much of the work of the Chinese government was simply building the country up from its destitute, agricultural base. With China now the world's second-largest economy, though, a government run by social scientists may be better equipped to manage the country's increasingly complex relationship with the outside world. An engineer may know how to build a railroad, but can he also manage a central bank? Perhaps yielding to economists and lawyers is the change China needs.
However, while the changing academic backgrounds of China's incoming leaders presents an intriguing story line, there's less there than meets the eye. China's top political leaders are all "career politicians" rather than actual working professionals, and reaching the pinnacle of the Communist Party requires years in the trenches. President Hu Jintao, for instance, made his reputation as a no-nonsense Party chief in Tibet in the late 1980s and other leaders similarly got their start in minor outposts far from the center of power. The idea that an ordinary citizen can vault to high political office in a short period of time is totally alien to China, as I discovered when Chinese friends found the idea of a "Governor Schwarzenegger" totally incredulous.* Not having popular elections frees the Communist Party from worrying about disruptive upstart figures of the sort that routinely win elections in places like The Philippines, Haiti, or Argentina.
*To be fair, so did a lot of other people.
As a result I'm skeptical that China's new leaderswill govern any differently simply because of their social science backgrounds. Political constraints within the government prevent any one leader from exercising too much influence, and what one chose to study as a young man tends to matter very little in later life. When George W. Bush was running for president in 2000 for instance, much was made of the fact that he attended business school rather than law school and would thus govern in the style of the "first MBA president". When all was said and done, Bush's graduate school experience turned out to be one of the least meaningful aspects of his presidency. The same, I suspect, will be true of Xi Jinping and his Standing Committee colleagues.


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St. Louis, MO (KSDK) -- A St. Louis building could be the city's first African American small business to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
On Saturday supporters were pushing to make that happen so they could restore the area known as "Tillie's Corner."
Lillie v. Pearson, known as "Ms. Tillie, "a widowed mother of five, started "Tillie's Food Shop" in 1948 and owned it for 40 years. The business located at the corner of Garrison and Sheridan was more than just a grocery store, it became a staple in the community.
"Back in the day she was very helpful to everyone in the community, she was a big asset in the community, and this is something we want to continue her legacy," said Carla Pearson Alexander who is "Ms. Tillie's" Granddaughter.
She was at the Missouri History Museum raising awareness Saturday.
Carla and her family are trying to make "Ms. Tillie's" vision of reopening the store a reality but can't without the necessary funds. Carla says it will cost about 750 thousand dollars to fix this corner and time is not on their side.
"We were told that snow and ice if they settle on the building then the building will collapse even ore," said Pearson Alexander.
We won't know if "Tillie's Corner" made the "National Register of Historic Places" until the end of the month.
If you would like to help with the restoration project go to http://tilliescorner.com


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Replace a sandwich with green soup for a healthy mid-day meal. A bean salad makes for a protein-filled, meatless side.
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The decadence of holiday meals has some people hitting the gym. It has others looking at a complete meal-planning overhaul to cut down on holiday weight gain between the Thanksgiving and Christmas eat-a-thons.
Some habits - particularly bad ones - are hard to kick. The pantry is the perfect place to start if trying to fit in a healthy spell between holidays:
? Try donating unopened food such as boxed macaroni and cheese to local food banks and replacing those boxes with bags of whole grains as well as dried nuts and fruit for healthy snacks. ...


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Disney's Contemporary Resort Address:
4600 North World Drive
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
(407) 824-1000
Maximum persons per room: 5 (plus child in crib)
Total Number of rooms: 1041
Room size: 436 Sq Ft. (average)
Price per night: Resort Rates
Contemporary Resort Overview
This massive A-frame
tower with two Garden wings was one of the two original
Walt Disney World resorts.
The futuristic atmosphere of the Contemporary Resort is obvious when you see the Monorail glide through the main building. In addition to monorail transportation to the Magic Kingdom and from the main monorail hub into Epcot, buses are available to get you to Downtown Disney, the Animal Kingdom, and the Disney Waterparks. There's also a water ferry that transports guests to the neighboring Wilderness Lodge.
The 14 story Grand Canyon Concourse is where you will find the monorail station, shops, restaurants and a 90 foot high Mary Blair mural with a Southwestern theme.
The spectacular views are yet another advantage of staying at Disney's Contemporary Resort. Most guest rooms enjoy beautiful views of the Seven Seas Lagoon, Bay Lake or the Magic Kingdom.
If you want to see Wishes from your resort, you can schedule dinner at the award winning California Grill and watch the show from the 15th floor observation deck reserved for restaurant patrons or enjoy the show from the 4th floor observation deck that's open to the public. (Better yet, reserve a Magic Kingdom view room in the Contemporary tower.)
The Electrical Water Pageant that glides across Bay Lake nightly can be viewed from the beach area of this resort. In 1991, a meeting and convention center was added to the Contemporary Resort. It features 90,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 42,300 square foot ballroom.
An interesting fact about the Contemporary is that the rooms were prefabricated. They were built off-site and hoisted into place once the hotel was built. Here's another bit of trivia: the original name of the Comtemporary was the Tempo Bay Resort Hotel.
The salon at the Contemporary will be closed effective 12/25/2012. Guests can use the Ship Shape Massage Salon and Fitness at Disney's Yacht and Beach Club.


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Balducci's Ristorante is nestled in Cape Town's V & A Waterfront. Famous for its sublime food, attentive service, understated formality and fabulous view of Cape Town's working harbour and Table Mountain, Balducci's prides itself with its fine food and extensive international award winning wine list.
The ethos at Balducc's is to provide outstanding food that is simple, clean and delicious, using traditional Italian recipes that have been modernised. Dishes are prepared using only the best ingredients, with passion and contemporary creative flair. Heavily influenced by Italian cuisine, there is also an Africa twist with dishes such as ostrich lasagne and carpaccio of venison.
There is something for everyone, from gourmet pizzas to slow roasted lamb shank, from our delicious Balducci's House salad to freshly shucked oysters, as well as a Sushi Bar, where only the finest, freshest fish is served to a discerning clientele. Diners looking for something a little meatier flock to Balducci's for our 350g, 28 day matured prime rump and prego roll, served on a freshly toasted roll with Portuguese chili sauce.
Crisp linen, an award winning wine list and outstanding food with a sophisticated ambience makes Balducci's an absolute must for fabulous eating experience.
Opening hours:
Mon - Sat: 12:00 - 22:00
Sun: 11:00 - 22:00
With well-earned accolades such as 'Best Business Lunch Venue' for the past eight years and recognised by 'Eat Out' as one of the fifteen 'best of the best' restaurants, Browns of Rivonia is one of Joburg's most popular spots.
If you don't love wine quite so much, there is a beautiful patio that overlooks a stunning private garden and pretty koi pond, or dine on the deck, which is very well suited to lunchtime meals. For some sophistication there is an executive lounge where champagne, cognacs and cigars can be savoured.
A very unique feature of this intriguing restaurant is the cheese room, which proffers more than 30 delicious international cheeses. Visit the cheese room alone or pop in before your meal to select the cheese you'd like to finish your dining experience with.
A truly unique and elegant dining experience.
Caffe San Marco's relaxed atmosphere, great views and Italian influence, as well its sidewalk location in the V & A Waterfront means patrons can sit back, sip on a gourmet cup of coffee and people watch. A truly Italian experience, Caffe San Marco offers patrons an authentic slice of that la vita e bella, or the beautiful life. Nestled in the bustling Waterfront, looking out over the harbour where the seals frolic and water traffic goes to and fro, Caffe San Marco's menu is made up of a selection of delicious fare to satisfy and delight.
Whether its breakfast, lunch, dinner, a light snack or a cup of the best coffee, Caffe San Marco has something to offer. Real Italian food, made the traditional way, each meal is freshly prepared and made to order. The beef carpaccio is one of the house specialities cut from the finest fillet, garnished with the finest salina capers. There are a range of pastas and salads made with authentic Italian ingredients. There is an extensive breakfast menu, served until 12pm, as well as a selection of gourmet sandwiches.
Breakfast, lunch or dinner, Caffe San Marco offers an the best views, the finest coffees and fabulous food, while being the perfect place to watch the world go by.
Col'Cacchio is a vibrant, modern take on the traditional Italian kitchen and serves up arguably some of the best Italian food. Originality meets rustic and familiar in this beautifully decorated spot in Canal Walk Shopping Centre.
Start off with an Insalata (salad), and if you think this is a boring option, think again. Ingredients like rocket, roasted beetroot, roasted butternut, feta, crispy onions, pomegranate arils, green yogurt dressing, caramelized pear and loads more combine to form a wide variety of explosive flavours.
The pizzas are woodfired, as pizza should be, and toppings range from the traditional like bacon, onions and mushrooms to the more exotic seven-hour lamb stew. A bambini (kids) menu is also available with some traditional favourites.
The dessert menu does not dissappoint either and offers dishes like chocolate pizza with a choice of toppings, a Lindt chocolate trio, proudly South African malva pudding, white chocolate cheese cake and the old Italian favourite, tiramisu.
This well-priced restaurant will not dissappoint and is a definite recommendation for those who love comfort food with a modern twist.
The tantalizing menu and award winning wine list accompanies distinct palates with an unbeatable ambiance.
Here embassy and government officials find sanctuary in international cuisine and fine dining surrounds.
A myriad of dining options beacon intimate dinners, private conversations and languid lunches enjoyed alongside impeccable service.
Find out why Cynthia's Indigo Moon is the favoured meeting place for distinct palates in Gauteng.
IPerched along the beachfront, Nautilus captures a bygone setting rich in cultural traditions.
During balmy summer days, dine indoors cooled by the welcoming air conditioner or dine alfresco on the esplanade.
The restaurant prefers a more formal setting and a la carte menu with buffet choices.
The Esplanade offers snacks and light meals including exotic cocktails.
Tuck into some refreshing international cuisine at Nautilus Beach Resort.
Nowhere will you find more pizza with 26 different pizza options. Panarottis usually serve their delicious topping combinations on crispy, thin-crust bases, but diners can enjoy a thick base or the calzone at no extra charge.
Mouthwatering toppings include deboned pork rib, Italian sausage, tikka chicken, and even boerewors (beef sausage) marinated in a thick barbecue basting. Panarottis even caters for the health conscious with the San Marco and Chicken Fajita options, both approved by the Heart Foundation.
For the more adventurous there is the monsterrito. Choose your favourite pizza and supersize it to almost half a metre in diameter.
Panarottis serves up a wide variety of other meals including delicious steaks, baby chicken, tender lamb chops and pastas and salads.
This restaurant is situated in the food court of Canal Walk Shopping Centre, right by the cinemas. So watch out for their famous all-you-can-eat nights, combine it with a movie or some shopping, and you've got an outing for the whole family.


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Rangers confirm Michael Young has requested trade
Rangers GM Jon Daniels said on a conference call this afternoon that Michael Young has requested a trade and the Rangers will try to accommodate him – if a trade that can benefit the team can be arranged.
Young had agreed to DH in early January but recently called the Rangers and expressed his change in approach, according to Daniels.
"We think he can play a pivotal role on this, but we understand his feelings and that this is something he doesn't want to do at this point in his career," Daniels said.


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Welcome to Africa! Arrive this evening, check in to your hotel, and prepare for your safari adventure!
Depart Nairobi to begin your search for the "Big 5"—lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and Cape buffalo. First, stop at the famed Mount Kenya Safari Club for lunch as you take in stunning views of Mount Kenya. After lunch, continue on to SAMBURU NATIONAL RESERVE, known for its arid landscape and unique wildlife. Due to the dry climate, grasses are sparse, making animals easier to spot. Meanwhile, the Ewaso Ng'iro River, which borders the reserve, provides a year-round water supply. These conditions make for a great game-viewing experience. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon GAME DRIVE, where you have the chance to see rare animals you will not see in other parts of the country. Commonly referred to as the Samburu "Special 5," this includes Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe, Somali ostrich, Beisa oryx, and the gerenuk, a long-necked antelope that feeds while standing on its hind feet. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Today, enjoy MORNING & AFTERNOON GAME DRIVES. In addition to the Samburu "Special 5," the reserve is home to an abundance of other species. Large numbers of elephant and Nile crocodile can be seen, as well as waterbuck, Kirk's dik-dik, and Grant's gazelle. Where there is prey, predators can be found, so lion, cheetah, and leopard are often spotted. The reserve is also a great place for bird watching, with over 300 species. During your afternoon game drive you will visit a LOCAL SAMBURU VILLAGE, where you will learn about their culture and day-to-day life. Between game drives, there's time to relax at your camp. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
After breakfast, travel to OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY, the largest black rhino sanctuary in all of East Africa. After lunch, visit the MORANI INFORMATION CENTER to learn more about the wildlife here and how the conservancy works. You will also meet and interact with Baraka, a blind black rhino that serves as an ambassador for the species. Afterward, a GAME DRIVE takes you through the conservancy. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
This morning, visit the CHIMP SANCTUARY. In partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Jane Goodall Institute, the sanctuary was established to provide a long-term home for orphaned and abused chimpanzees. Here, see the chimps and learn more about their plight. Afterward, leave Ol Pejeta for the nearby village of Nanyuki, where you will visit a LOCAL MARKET to see craftswomen at work. Some are busy weaving wool rugs and shawls while others use traditional beading techniques to make beautiful jewelry. After lunch at Aberdare Country Club, continue to your camp on the shores of Lake Elmenteita. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
The Rift Valley lakes make up some of the oldest and deepest lakes in the world. This morning, travel to Lake Naivasha, the highest of all the lakes featuring pristine fresh water. Here you will take a CRUISE around the lake to view the resident hippos. If you are lucky, you might even spot a fish eagle. After lunch, travel to LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK, famous for its population of pink flamingos that feeds in the alkaline water of the lake. Other animals you may see on your GAME DRIVE include waterbuck, giraffe, impala, and striped hyena. This is also your best chance to see a white rhinoceros, commonly spotted here. Return to your camp for a SUNDOWNER DRINK in the bush. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
After breakfast, drive to MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE, Kenya's most famous game area. Enjoy lunch at your camp before an afternoon GAME DRIVE, including a visit to a LOCAL MAASAI VILLAGE, where you will learn more about this semi-nomadic tribe, famous for herding cattle and their distinctive red clothing. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Enjoy MORNING & AFTERNOON GAME DRIVES both days. The Maasai Mara is part of the Serengeti ecosystem, and boasts a strong permanent population of game. When the Great Migration of zebra, gazelle, and wildebeest arrives, typically in early August, the population enlarges by almost 2 million. This provides a great food source for predators such as lion, cheetah, leopard, and hyena. Be sure to watch for elephant, rhino, and Cape buffalo, too. On one of your morning game drives a special BUSH BREAKFAST awaits you. Sip on a mimosa as you savor every moment of this memorable experience! (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner daily)
Today, fly back to Nairobi. Upon arrival, visit the KAREN BLIXEN MUSEUM, dedicated to the author of Out of Africa. Next, stop at the GIRAFFE CENTER, a non-profit organization focused on saving the Rothschild's giraffe. Here you will learn a bit more about this sub-species and have the opportunity to feed them. After lunch, continue on to the Ole Sereni Hotel, where we have secured a day room for you to use before a transfer to the airport for your late-evening flight. Book homebound flights after 5 pm. (Breakfast, Lunch)
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So if we're willing to recognize that the boundless spring is on the hundred plants, then picking up what comes to hand, we can use it knowingly. Which simply means that we can use it in a way that is sufficient in and of itself and in harmony with what is actually going on. There is arranging found objects in a way that makes a sculpture, and then there is a way of taking these found objects—all of it—and creating the sixteen-foot-tall golden body: the Buddha, a being, a collection of virtuous qualities.
With that, we can, as the poem says, head into the red dust. We can recognize that we are already amidst the red dust of blood and tears and life and death and struggle and ease and joy and sorrow. When we use what is at hand, we are able to be masters of the red dust. I think of Peter Gabriel and the song "Red Rain." It ends with the refrain: "Red rain is coming down over me, in the red, red, red sea." Everywhere life is sufficient in its way. No matter if one is not as clever as others. No matter what.
The Book of Serenity or Shoyoroku is a collection of one hundred koans compiled during the 12th century and commented on by Master Wansong with poems by Master Hongzhi, both teachers in the Caodong (Soto) school of Zen.


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Flood damage to U.S. 7 south of Rutland. / CALEB KENNA for the Free Press
RUTLAND The biggest surprise was the dust.
The churning of automobile tires in the dried mud left by Sundays flash floods raised constant billows of silt particles above U.S. 7 where the highway entered Rutland, reducing visibility to near zero for a brief space.
All day, dust darkened the air as if warning of the disasters ahead and behind.
A drive Monday down U.S. 7 from Burlington to Rutland was a journey from normalcy to chaos.
In Chittenden County, the storm had peppered the ground with twigs and leaves shucked from trees. Twenty miles south, in New Haven, the storms only roadside signature was a double row of wind-bowed sunflowers, leaning southeast with the synchronized precision of the Rockettes.
On the northern borders of Rutland County came the first sign of the damage Tropical Storm Irene wreaked: A detour sign directing traffic off U.S. 7, the states major north-south artery along its western border.
The detour swooped drivers on a series of dirt roads around Brandon, where the raging waters of the Neshobe River Sunday shoved the Brandon House of Pizza off its foundations, subtracted half a riverside park, gouged craters in the road and left several historic buildings hanging over partially missing foundations.
The road appeared unusable, and town officials were waiting Monday afternoon for state inspectors to examine the U.S. 7 bridge near the pizza parlor to determine how badly it had been damaged.
A crowd of 20 stood on the lawn of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, looking downhill at the damage, snapping pictures and recounting flood stories.
The river was banging against buildings, trees were going across the road, Neil Bissette of Forestdale said of the Sunday afternoon torrent. He had come to town to pick up his wife, Connie, from her job at Sullys Place restaurant, and found water pouring out the doors of some businesses, he said.
The downtown buildings along U.S. 7 acted as a kind of dam when the river overflowed its banks he said.
The town is a breaker wall, and the river couldnt take no more, he said.
South of downtown, Selectman Kellie Martin was talking to emergency workers at the town fire station. No quick fix for U.S 7 seemed likely, she said, bad news for a town where economic vitality depends in part on the highway.
We are so tourist-oriented, our businesses really rely on traffic going through, she said.
Right now, you cant get there from here, she said of Brandon, adding a bitter twist to an old Vermont joke.
"Mendon is an island"
Twenty miles to the south and east, the mountain towns of Mendon and Killington were truly cut off.
Short stretches of U.S. 4, which connects U.S. 7 with ski areas in the mountains and Interstates 89 and 91 in far eastern Vermont, had been destroyed.
State police at a roadblock were turning back a steady stream of cars trying to head east. On the other side of the barricades, Mendon Creek had roared out of the mountains and ripped away the pavement of the highway.
Narrow bands of asphalt still clung to the ground, hanging over a 20-foot drop. The river had laid waste to the narrow valley, leaving it looking like a particularly messy rock quarry. Large trees, electrical poles, guard rails and green sections of sewer pipe littered the path the river had carved. The miles-long sewer pipe carried sewage from Killington to the Rutland sewage treatment plant.
Scott Bradley, director of public safety for the hill town of Mendon, dismounted from the ATV he had ridden down from the east and regarded the missing road.
Mendon is an island, he said, with no usable road in or out. U.S. 4 also was damaged on the eastern slopes of the Green Mountains. Vermont 100 was impassable north and south, he said. The town was providing drinking water to residents whose supply was disrupted and was preparing to distribute food on Tuesday if necessary, he said.
We do have a footpath out to that place out there, he said, gesturing down toward Rutland. The place Im calling America.
He said a number of people had taken the hour-long hike through the woods to reach a usable road where friends could pick them up. He said emergency workers had used ATVs to evacuate one Killington resident who had a medical emergency.
Down in Rutland, Lynda Hunt had the opposite access problem. She had come into the city from her home in Killington on Sunday to pick up her 8-year-old daughter from a friends house. By the time they headed home, the roads were closed.
Hunt had spent Monday looking for a way back, finding only sketchy information. Late in the day, she wandered into a deserted Rutland City Hall looking for help.
Weve got to get home. My boss went today and fed our cats, but they need their medicine and he cant do that, she said.
Meanwhile, up on U.S. 4, a highway construction crew hired by Central Vermont Public Service Corp. worked at building a temporary, makeshift road repair that would allow utility and emergency vehicles not the general public access to Mendon and Killington.
Nobody in Vermont has ever seen anything like this, unless they lived through the 1927 flood, said Joe Kraus, the utilitys senior vice president for operations and engineering, as he surveyed the damage.
Down on U.S. 7, the utility had turned its operations center into a makeshift headquarters for more than 500 utility workers from outside the state. A mobile kitchen was parked by the building, with tables set up on an inside loading dock for serving breakfast. In an adjoining room, Ann Rigg, Penny Jones and some co-workers were packing 700 lunches to send with linemen out making repairs in remote areas.
'Now I know a flash flood'
In the city of Rutland itself, East Creek raged out of its banks Sunday afternoon, sending four feet of water through the Cleveland Street neighborhood.
Now I know what a flash flood means, said Russell Jones, a retired welder who watched water climb up his front steps, flow under the porch, into the basement and through the backyard, where it picked up a big, half-filled inflatable swimming pool and move it 100 feet.
He had walked a few houses up the street when he heard the creek was breaching its banks. By the time he walked the two minutes home, the street was several inches deep, he said. Within 45 minutes, the water had risen to four feet.
Here, as out on U.S. 7, the creek had deposited a thick layer of mud which quickly turned to dust in Mondays sun. The air stank of atomized muck and stagnant water being pumped from nearby basements.
At City Hall, Mayor Chris Louras was coping with the loss of Michael Garofano, the city water supervisor, who with his son was swept away by the flood waters, and with the destruction of the intake for the citys water supply, which is fed from Mendon Brook.
He said the city reservoir holds a 30-day supply, but residents will be told to conserve water as a cautionary measure while repairs are undertaken.
In one way, this was a tragedy for the city, he said, but he noted that smaller southern Vermont towns suffered more: In other ways, we seem to have dodged the bullets.
The affected sections of the city were relatively small, and all were neatly outlined on the citys flood hazard maps. On the maps, the Cleveland Street neighborhood was outlined in green: Only in danger of flooding in a 500-year flood event.
And thats what we had. A 500-year flood, Louras said.
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(James City County) Let's be Water Smart is pleased to announce the winner of its Water Smart Landscape Challenge: Carter and Michele LeBlanc-Piche` of Neal's Grant. The LeBlanc-Piche`'s answered the following contest question of "How have you applied Water Smart principles in your home or garden?" by describing innovative water conservation techniques such as placing an herb garden at the downspout of a rain gutter, attaching a PVC pipe to the air conditioning unit as a means to water their gardens, using hardwood mulch around trees, and maintaining their grass at a height of two to three inches to eliminate the need for constant watering in order to conserve water while producing a beautiful home landscape. "We have always been environmentally conscious and have utilized Water Smart principles when making our landscaping decisions and in choosing our plants, trees and shrubs," described Michele LeBlanc-Piche`. Unfortunately, the damaging effects of Hurricane Isabel in September of 2003 completely destroyed their water smart landscaping efforts.
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Kemal Sokolovic
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I am now working on a simple
game. The problem is with searching letters on board to find as many words that are 3 or more letters long.
I have an English dictionary containing 60000+ words, so searching it brute force is not the best solution. Also, searching a 6x6 board the similar way, by checking all possibilities would make application slow as hell! So, any recommendations would be great!
I'm not looking for a code as a solution, just for some advices about algorithms and data structures I should use, to get the job done.
Thanks in advance!
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I'd love to hear more about your dictionary - is it open source, what form is it in, and so on...
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I have used this one before, works quite well, I think it is Open...
I haven't used the API on this for a while so I don't remember if it provides any search/indexing stuff.
If not, I think you will need to find a way of indexing all of the entries in the dictionary using some form of tree structure perhaps, so that for a given sequence of letters you can quickly drill down through the dictionary entries to focus on possible matches, rather than brute-force searching all dictionary entries until you find a match.
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Thanks for replies!
I think I could handle it with a proper data structure to store a dictionary. But I don't have any idea how to implement searching across board.
So, i have (for example, 4x4) matrix of letters. What kind of algorithm should I implement to find as many 3+ letters words there?
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Sep 09, 2010 15:56:11
I haven't implemented one so I don't know the pitfalls, but a
might be useful for this problem.
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Sep 18, 2010 04:01:28
Wow! Thanks for the dictionary link. I have a game I've been working on that I originally wrote in VBA (on top of MS Access) and used the microsoft dictionary tools. It was the only language I knew, but like, a pointless endeavor since there is no way to monetize something that requires a person own an expensive database application in order to play it. So now I'm learning
and will redo the project.
OK, back to the question about the searches.
The only thing I can think of is to do an exhaustive tree search through the grid. To do the search, each square should be an object that has a hardcoded list of neighbors that can be searched progressively. (The list of neighbors should have a FAST iterator or use a very efficient For:Each.) Each square will also have to have a boolean to "mark" it as part of the current word search so that you don't back track onto yourself. I'd make each list of "neighbors" as similar as possible, for example, starting at 12:00 and going clockwise. With each step into the tree you have to look up the word. As long as you are still forming a word, you continue with the tree. As soon as you hit a letter that makes your
something that is not either a word or not a part of a word, you backtrack and continue clockwise to the next neighbor. I suspect that you'll want to go depth-first in this situation.
STAR (is a word, continue) START (is a word, continue) STARTL (is part of a word, continue) STARTLP (not a word, backtrack)
Note: the search through the dictionary on this branch is forward only, and the words are close together. So there are undoubtably some efficiencies there! For example, after STARTLE I have STARVATION, with nothing inbetween, but LP is inbetween LE & V, so therefore STARTLP can NOT be a word or part of a longer word.
Anyway, the main point is that if you start with the grid and look up possible words, I think you'll have a lot less looking up to do than if you start with the dictionary and try to find each word of it in the grid.
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Sep 18, 2010 10:23:12
Can't you just generate a bunch of letter sequences from the board.
We'll call these potential words.
Remove any potential words that don't contain a vowel.
Remove potential words that have a Q not followed by a U.
You could then order these potential words so that 3 letter words with 2 constants and a vowel in the middle come first.
4 letter combinations come after 3 letter combinations.
Put words containing Z, X, Q, V etc at the very end.
Start a timer and just look for each potential word in the dictionary until the time runs out.
To make the game more difficult just increase the time.
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