Play our crossword to see what you know about this topic, or find related resources. The life of my mother, Jean Das, who has died aged 86, was a testament to her independent mind, her capacity to overcome prejudice and her great enthusiasm for life. Born Jean Murphy above her father's shop, Navy Army Stores, in Braintree, Essex, she left school at 16 to work as a government clerk. Her desire for wider horizons led her aged 18 to apply to the London School of Economics. In Cambridge, to where the LSE had been evacuated during the second world war, she met Kamal Das, an Indian doctoral student and brother of the Maharaja of Nandgaon. Aged 19, she married him, despite family hostility on both sides. Notwithstanding the war and a baby, Jean completed her degree. Later, when she had four children, she was to complete a postgraduate degree and work as a librarian. After the war, she moved to New York, where Kamal had obtained work at the the United Nations and where they remained for many years. Jean was unprepared for the discrimination they were to experience in the US as a mixed-race couple. The preconceptions of the day even extended to the new UN school, which assumed Jean's ... 1 new shots posted. NEW YORK - A few Betty White turn-ons: She likes a cocktail before dinner and a weekly poker night. She has a taste for french fries and hot dogs, and a jones for crossword puzzles. And, in service to her passion as a writer, reams of lined notebook paper really get her going. By BRAD FLANSBAUM, DO Grandma is 93. The matriarch of my family is in worsening health, and her decline is difficult to observe. We all experience the travails of the US health care system at some point, and in my family's case, ours is no exception. The stress on my mom and aunt [...] NEW YORK - A few Betty White turn-ons: She likes a cocktail before dinner and a weekly poker night. She has a taste for french fries and hot dogs, and a jones for crossword puzzles. And, in service to her passion as a writer, reams of lined notebook paper really get her going. 5 new shots posted. Even the most optimistic people can use a mood boost every once in awhile. Taking an extra moment for yourself will make your day brighter and give you… ''Am I losing my mind?'' Marlowe Epstein wondered as she did her favourite crossword puzzle. share: digg facebook twitter The lure this time is "RewardVille," a show of appreciation aimed at getting players even more absorbed in their online farms, cities, crime rings and poker games. All games are free to play, but players can pay real money — a few coins or dollars at a time — to buy special items or reach a higher level of play more quickly. Since CEO Mark Pincus launched the San Francisco startup in 2007, Zynga has attracted about 250 million game players — most of whom connect on Facebook's even larger Web hangout. Marc Andreessen, who helped trigger an Internet boom in the mid-1990s after co-founding Web browser pioneer Netscape Communications, already bought a stake for his venture capital firm. Zynga makes most of its money through the sale of virtual items in its games, with the rest from advertising and partnerships with companies such as Netflix or Vistaprint on special offers. Ian Bogost, a game designer and Georgia Tech professor who studies video games, likened its games to fast food — mass-produced fare with little nutritional value. Facebook last year changed the way it notifies users about games so that people ... TV presenter, actor, vintage frock lover, crossword nut. We get to know RocKwiz host Julia Zemiro. When VentureBeat first reported on Silicon Valley investor Marc Bodnick's departure from Elevation Partners, the private-equity firm he cofounded, I noted his enthusiasm for Quora, the online question-and-answer community founded by Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo, two early Facebook employees. When rumors broke that he was actually taking a formal job at Quora, I asked him — on Quora — how the startup recruited him. This morning, he finally answered my question! Here's his response: Meeting the founders and using the product were the first steps in my growing interest in the company. I knew Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo through mutual friends. I've been an active Quora user since October 2009, a time when there were only a few hundred users. I got onto the site after running into Charlie and Rebekah Cox, Quora's lead product designer and first employee, at a birthday party in Palo Alto and bugging them for a beta invitation. In October, Charlie invited me into the beta and I became immediately addicted. I have an eclectic set of interests, and I spent a ton of time on non-technical topics -> U.S. Politics, Movies, Children's Books, Crossword Puzzles. In 2009-10, my ... A confused crossword puzzle. A psychedelic postage stamp. A bar code on drugs. Paper to charge £1.19 a day or £9.99 a month for upgraded tablet product, as Hearst also announces deal with tech giant The Daily Telegraph has become the latest news publisher to sign up to Apple's strict terms on digital subscriptions with its new iPad app. The app is free to download but charges readers £1.19 for a single edition, or £9.99 for a monthly subscription. Telegraph newspaper subscribers get full access to its iPad edition for free. The Telegraph's upgraded iPad app features letters, cartoons, galleries and puzzles – all of which were missing in the first version. The Telegraph Media Group title has adhered to Apple's contentious terms for digital subscriptions, which allow the technology company to keep 30% of all the fees from subscriptions as well as all of the lucrative customer details. The publishing industry balked at Apple's updated terms when they were announced in February, but individual companies are now beginning to sign up – likely seduced by the iPad's domination of the nascent tablet computer market. Hearst, the US publisher behind Esquire and O, the Oprah Magazine, on Wednesday became the first major publisher to announce it would sell subscriptions to ... On March 19th and 20th, 2011, the 34th Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament was held in New York City. Have you ever wondered why puzzles are so popular and where they came from? What started the craze of crossword puzzles? Who thought to put numbers in a box and create the Sudoku puzzle? Contributor: Jackie Turner Published: Apr 17, 2011 Tonight at Imperial College London, former Guardian science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford will talk about his career in journalism. In case you can't make it, here he condenses his experience into 25 commandments _I wrote these 25 commandments as a panic response 15 or more years ago to an invitation to do some media training for a group of Elsevier editors. I began compiling them because I had just asked myself what was the most important thing to remember about writing a story, and the answer came back loud and clear: "To make somebody read it." Ultimately, there's no other reason for writing. It is the case that journalists write to support democracy, sustain truth, salute justice, justify expenses, see the world and make a living, but to satisfactorily do any of these things you have to have readers. Fairness and accuracy are of course profoundly important. Without them, you aren't in journalism proper: you are playing some other game. But above all, you have to be read, or you aren't in journalism at all._ _I wrote down what was in my mind and once I'd started numbering things, ... Blake DeWitt reserves his mornings before workouts for crossword puzzles. It's been that way for a couple of years. If you like spy thrillers, Sudoku and the daily crossword puzzle, you might want to try this: help the FBI crack a secret code.
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