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Bridge: Nov. 17, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

“You know what Plato said about wisdom?” a club player asked me. “He knew he was wise because he knew that he knew nothing.”“A cogent observation.”“And you know how he knew that? Because his wife told him.”My friend had played at today’s four spades. He took the king of diamonds, led a trump to his hand and returned a club toward dummy.“West played low. I thought he might have grabbed the ace if he had it, so I played the jack. East took the queen, and I lost to the A-K of hearts and ace of clubs. Down one.”PASSED HAND“My wife said I should have guessed right in clubs. She said East was a passed hand and was marked with the jack of diamonds. Part of the time he would hold the A-K of hearts, and then he couldn’t have the ace of clubs. That wisdom was too subtle for me. Maybe Plato would have understood it.”I suppose North had a point. (South could have led hearts to find out.) As long as we’re s...

Word Game: Nov. 17, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

TODAY’S WORD — MENACING (MENACING: MEN-uh-sing: Threatening.)Average mark 30 wordsTime limit 45 minutesCan you find 39 or more words in MENACING? The list will be published tomorrow.YESTERDAY’S WORD — DISMAYED dais daisy dame dead deism diadem died dime dyad dyed idea idem ides said same seam seamy semi side made maid mead media mesa midday middy aide aided aimed amid aside easy eddyTo purchase the Word Game book, visit WordGameBooks.com. Order it now for just $5 while supplies last!RULES OF THE GAME:1. Words must be of four or more letters.2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed.3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible.4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.Contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe at [email protected].

Horoscopes Nov. 17, 2023: Rachel McAdams, get the ball rolling

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Rachel McAdams, 45; Dylan Walsh, 60; Danny DeVito, 79; Martin Scorsese, 81.Happy Birthday: It’s up to you to make your dreams come true. Take the initiative and get the ball rolling. Making excuses will lead to regret, but taking hold of your life and what you want will lift your spirits and make you believe in yourself. Change is overdue, and with it will come opportunity and life experience. Build your life according to your plans. Your numbers are 8, 13, 24, 28, 35, 39, 42.ARIES (March 21-April 19): Think matters through and act. Changing how you handle or earn cash will buy you the freedom to do something you enjoy. Personal gain and spending time with someone who brings out the best in you will lead to new beginnings. 2 starsTAURUS (April 20-May 20): Observe and proceed with optimism. Change begins with you, so take a step in a direction that offers an opportunity to be who you want and use your skills as you intend. Don’t let uncertain...

Ask Amy: We rushed home from our trip, and then we learned what our friend’s ’emergency’ was

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

Dear Amy: My wife was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer that has metastasized.Related ArticlesAdvice | Ask Amy: Am I wrong to think my son should put aside his trauma for our family’s sake? Advice | Ask Amy: I found out why I was behaving badly, but my wife won’t come back Advice | Ask Amy: The bride and I aren’t speaking because of her non-negotiable demand Advice | Ask Amy: I misled my host about why I wanted to stay in a hotel Advice | Ask Amy: Is this a creepy idea for a high school reunion? Our friends (a couple) volunteered to stay at our house and watch our elderly dog so that I could take my wife out of town for a nice weekend before she started a 12-week course of chemotherapy. We thought this was incredibly kind and beautiful.Only the wife showed up (the husband did not come).On the last morning the wife texted me at 7 a.m. to call her. I feared our dog had died. I called, and ou...

Md. woman who survived pancreatic cancer raises awareness about the potentially deadly illness

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

Eighteen years ago, Anne Shimabukuro of Potomac, Maryland, realized something was off with her body when she began having stomach pains when she ate.“I realized that something was wrong when I was feeling nauseous after eating, and then the pain would last all day,” she said.The pain in her stomach would last for three days and be followed by a limp when she walked. The limp caught the eye of her relatives who then urged Shimabukuro to go see a doctor. She went to her OB-GYN who, during a sonogram, found something small on her pancreas.Further testing revealed a frightening diagnosis: stage one pancreatic cancer.“When I heard that it was pancreatic cancer, it was just a shock,” Shimabukuro recalled.According to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, or PANCAN, for which Shimabukuro volunteers, the illness is caused by abnormal cells in the pancreas that grow and divide out of control.While the tumors that it creates can be benign, others can be malignant.In the United States, the dis...

Así son las propuestas económicas de Massa y Milei: ¿cómo se comparan?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

(CNN Español) — La segunda vuelta del 19 de noviembre en Argentina no sólo define quién será el próximo presidente, sino también qué rumbo tomará el país. Si bien es cierto que las propuestas pueden alterarse en cualquier caso cuando se trata de gobernar, Massa y Milei evalúan diferentes caminos para lograr el desarrollo económico del país, en un contexto de alta inflación, aumento de la pobreza y contracción de los salarios.Ejes centrales y comparaciónMassa propone un programa basado en el equilibrio fiscal, el superávit comercial, un tipo de cambio competitivo y un desarrollo con inclusión. Esos son sus principales postulados. Milei no discrepa en el orden de las cuentas públicas, pero impulsa concretamente para lograrlo un fuerte recorte del gasto público en una primera etapa.Massa entiende que el superávit comercial se logra a partir de venderle al mundo todo lo que Argentina puede producir. En este punto, Milei apuesta por una apertura unilateral del comercio internaciona...

Jay Leno reflects on favorite ‘Tonight Show’ memories, Letterman rivalry en route to MGM National Harbor

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

He became a household name by hilariously hosting “The Tonight Show” for decades every night on NBC.On Saturday, comedian Jay Leno brings his standup tour to MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland.“I’m having a good time,” Leno told WTOP. “I just took politics out of my act. I’m just so sick of it. You get to the point where you mention one candidate’s name and [the audience goes] ‘booo, yay.’ You start, ‘Today, Biden or Trump said,’ they want to know the punchline before they laugh at it, ‘is it pro-my guy or against?’ I just took it out and boy, it makes a big difference, ticket sales are up like 30%. I think people just want to hear comedy, have fun and have a good time.”Born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1950, Leno grew up loving cars and comedy from a young age.“Anything that rolled, exploded and made noise I enjoyed,” Leno said. “I got into [comedy] when I was about ...

King Kohli lives up to the hype as cricket-loving India prepares for the World Cup final

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — Virat Kohli is the highest-profile athlete in the world’s most populous nation, and he’s been living up to the hype by helping India reach the Cricket World Cup final on home soil.His 263 million followers on Instragram and almost 60 million on X, formerly Twitter, are in no doubt he’s the greatest player of his generation. With a win over five-time champion Australia on Sunday in Ahmedabad, at the sport’s biggest stadium, Kohli can replicate what the great Sachin Tendulkar did in 2011 by being the star attraction when India claims a World Cup title on home soil.King Kohli, as he’s sometimes known, was a young member of that winning India squad 12 years ago. Now he has surpassed Tendulkar’s record for most centuries (100 or more runs in an innings) in one-day international cricket. He achieved it with a defiant 117 in the semifinal win over New Zealand on Wednesday that moved him out of the shadows of the so-called “Little Master.”It’s been a long ...

At talks on cutting plastics pollution, plastic credits are on the table. What are they?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Two groups that want reduced plastics production published a report Friday highly critical of plastic credits, calling them a flawed tool that won’t help with worldwide pollution from the material.The groups — Break Free From Plastic and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives — said the credits often amount to corporate greenwashing. They issued their report in Nairobi on the sidelines of United Nations-led negotiations for a treaty aimed at cutting plastics pollution.They analyzed publicly available databases of two prominent proponents of plastic offsetting, the accreditor Verra and the Plastic Credit Exchange marketplace. Their report cited “serious flaws” in financing, transparency and basic auditing, and said credits being issued for plastic incinerated in cement kilns were substituting one form of pollution for another. Verra, the world’s leading certifier of carbon offsets, said at an event alongside the talks alongside the talks th...

Suspect with 'edged weapon' shot, killed by Fort Collins officer

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:52 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — An officer with the Fort Collins Police Services shot and killed a suspect after the department said the officer ordered the suspect to drop an edged weapon.On Thursday at 9:34 p.m. Fort Collins Police said they received a call about a male in an alleyway in the 100 block of West Laurel Street. The area is northeast of Colorado State University. The caller told police that the suspect was allegedly yelling racial slurs and had possibly attacked someone with a weapon. A second caller told police that the suspect had a weapon in his hand and may have attacked someone with pepper spray.When an officer arrived at the scene, he located the suspect in the alleyway holding pepper spray and an edged weapon, according to Fort Collins Police. Pedestrian killed in crash with RTD light rail train The department said the officer ordered the suspect to drop his weapons multiple times, but the suspect did not comply.The suspect approached the officer, and according to police, the...