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Williams, 83, the pop singer known for his Christmas specials in the 1960s and ’70s, was born in Wall Lake, Iowa. He has three children, Noelle, Christian and Robert. His annual Christmas shows at his Moon River Theatre are a hallmark of the holiday season in Branson and usually begin in November and run through mid-December.

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Top 10 Board Games

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BattleshipThe naval warfare-type guessing game was devised in the early 1900s by Clifford Von Wickler. Called Salvo in 1931, the game originally was played with paper and pencils. Milton Bradley Co. released the game as Broadsides: The Game of Naval Strategy in 1943 and as Battleship in 1967, when plastic grid boards, ships and pegs were introduced so players could easily record hits and misses. During the game, two players secretly arrange a fleet of 10 ships—aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, submarines and destroyers—on the lettered and numbered grids. Players take turns targeting their opponent’s fleet by guessing coordinates where the hidden ships are positioned. The battle ends when one player’s entire fleet is sunk.

Candy LandEleanor Abbott created the “sweet, little game” in the 1940s while recovering from polio in a San Diego hospital. The color-matching game, she surmised, would allow young children with the disease to entertain themselves. More than 40 million Candy Lands have

LONG BEFORE PlayStation, Wii and interactive computer games, families gathered around the kitchen table and entertained themselves with games such as Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit. Here’s a look at the origins of and interesting facts about 10 of the most popular board games of all time.

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CheckersThe oldest board games in the world, checkers and its more sophisticated cousin, chess, originated in the Middle East during ancient times. Checkers, called draughts in England, involves two players, each with 12 pieces or checkers, who jump over their opponent’s pieces and remove them from a square “checked” board. Alex Moiseyev, 50, of Dublin, Ohio, has reigned as world checker champion since 2002 and is among the all-time greatest players of the game, according to the American Checker Federation.

ClueOriginally called Cleudo, the murder-mystery board game was created by Englishman Anthony E. Pratt in the 1940s. The object is for players to collect clues and to deduce which of six characters—Col. Mustard, Miss Scarlett, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, Professor Plum or the Rev. Green—murdered Dr. Black with what weapon—candlestick, lead pipe, knife, revolver, rope or wrench—and in what room of his country mansion—ballroom, billiard room, conservatory, dining room, hall, kitchen, library, lounge or study. The first player to correctly identify the murderer, type of weapon and site of the crime wins the game.

MonopolyThe best-selling board game in history began in 1904 as The Landlord’s Game. Elizabeth Magie, of Brentwood, Md., created the real estate game to illustrate the social injustices of slumlords and corporate monopolies. However, the game that allows players to get “rich” by buying properties with phony money didn’t gain widespread popularity until the Great Depression. In the 1930s, Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman in Germantown, Pa., modified Magie’s game, renamed it Monopoly and sold 5,000 copies to

a Philadelphia department store. Since Parker Brothers bought the rights in 1935, more than 200 million sets have been sold in 103 countries and 37 languages.

OperationIn 1962, John Spinello, an industrial design student at the University of Illinois, built an electric toy that allowed players to probe holes in a metal box with a metal rod. If a player touched the side of a hole, a loud bell sounded. The toy evolved into the 1965 game of Operation, in which surgeon wannabes test their steadiness by plucking 12 body parts and ailments—Adam’s Apple, Broken Heart, Charley Horse, Funny Bone, Spare Ribs, Writer’s Cramp, etc.—from a prone patient, Cavity Sam, with a set of tweezers. Players without a steady hand trigger a buzzer and light a bulb beneath Sam’s red nose.

RiskCreated by French filmmaker Albert Lamorissee in 1957, the war strategy game originally was released as La Conquete du Monde, or Conquest of the World. In 1959, Parker Brothers published Risk, an English language version. During the game, up to six players amass armies on a political map of the world and attempt to capture territories and continents from other players by rolling dice. The game ends when one player eliminates his adversaries and rules the world.

ScrabbleAlfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed architect from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., invented the word game during the Great Depression when he combined the element of chance with the vocabulary skills required for crossword puzzles. During the game, each player draws seven lettered tiles from a pool of 100 and scores points by forming words on a puzzle grid. More than 100 million sets have been sold since Scrabble was introduced in 1949, and more than 200 tournaments are sanctioned each year by the North American Scrabble Players Association.

The Game of LifeThe Game of Life began in 1860 as The Checkered Game of Life. Developed by board game pioneer Milton Bradley, the game originally was played on a modified checkerboard and conveyed a moral message as players advanced through virtues and vices—ambition, crime, bravery, gambling, honor, idleness, matrimony, prison, poverty and wealth—encountered from infancy to “happy old age.” In 1959, game inventor Reuben Klamer redesigned The Checkered Game of Life for the 100th anniversary of the Milton Bradley Co. The result was The Game of Life, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year.

Trivial PursuitCanadian journalists Scott Abbott and Chris Haney conceived the popular board game in 1979 after discovering pieces missing from the Scrabble game they were playing. In the original “Genius” edition of Trivial Pursuit, players advance on a wheel-shaped course by correctly answering randomly selected questions in six categories: arts and literature, entertainment, history, geography, science and nature, and sports and leisure. Trivial Pursuit spawned numerous other trivia games and dozens of editions, including the 25th anniversary edition in 2008. More than 90 million copies have been sold in 17 languages and in 26 countries. ★

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Quit smoking. “Smoking is a primary risk factor for macular degeneration,” Resnick says. Clogged blood vessels become more likely too, possibly blocking blood to the eye—a kind of stroke that can lead to blindness. Smoking also damages blood vessels, including those that nourish eye tissues and nerves, and is associated with dry eye, a condition that decreases the tear fluid protecting your eyes.

Take a computer break. “People staring at a computer don’t blink as much as usual, and that can lead to dry eye, blurry vision and fatigue,” Trattler says. The solution: Slip away from your computer every hour or two for a few minutes so your blink rate goes back to normal.

Don’t rub. It hurts to get debris in your eyes. But rubbing can damage the eye’s surface, says Trattler. “Instead, flush your eye with water and see your eye doctor.” ★

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Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, and Impairment of Fertility Systemic carcinogenicity studies were carried out in male and female mice and rats. In the 78-week oral (diet) mouse study, at doses of 1, 4, and 16 mg/kg/day, evidence of a statistically significant trend was found for lymphocytic lymphomas in females, and the incidence of hepatocellular carcinomas in mid-dose males significantly exceeded the control value.

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Teratogenic Effects: No evidence of teratogenicity was observed in rats or rabbits receiving oral doses of cyclosporine up to 300 mg/kg/day during organogenesis. These doses in rats and rabbits are approximately 300,000 times greater than the daily human dose of one drop (28 μL) 0.05% RESTASIS® BID into each eye of a 60 kg person (0.001 mg/kg/day), assuming that the entire dose is absorbed.

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1. Preheat oven to 350F. Coat an 11-by-7-inch baking dish with cooking spray.2. Combine butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl; beat with a mixer until fluffy. Beat in eggs, vanilla, ground and fresh ginger, and cardamom.3. Sift together flour and baking powder. Add to butter mixture and beat well. Scrape into prepared pan. Sprinkle crystallized ginger pieces over batter.4. Combine raw sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over batter. Bake 25 to 35 minutes. The cake will be chewy, golden and fragrant, and an inserted toothpick will test clean.

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JOHN MCGUIRK, 67, yanks the starter rope on a shiny, gold-colored 1962 Polaris Autoboggan, and the snowmobile’s 10-horsepower, gasoline-powered engine sputters to life. Smiling broadly, McGuirk hops aboard the motorized sled, pushes the throttle stick forward and points the machine’s two front skis toward the snow-covered field behind his house in Sidney, Ohio (pop. 20,211).

“He cracks me up,” says Jan McGuirk, 67, as she watches her husband gradually accelerate to the snowmobile’s top speed of 7 mph. “He’s just like a little kid.”

The Autoboggan is one of more than 140 antique and vintage snowmobiles that McGuirk has collected—and among 65 that he’s lovingly repaired or restored—since 1972. The retired General Motors manager has devoted thousands of hours rebuilding blown engines,

sandblasting rusted chassis, and replacing torn vinyl seats, broken rubber tracks and cracked windshields on snowmobile models from the past, such as Big Boss, Double Eagle, Snow Go, Ski-Bird and SnoWolf.

“I get a lot of satisfaction taking something that looks like a piece of junk and bringing it back to its original condition,” says McGuirk, president of the Antique Snowmobile Club of America. “That’s the fun for me.”

Most of McGuirk’s snowmobiles, which date from 1960 to 1971, are housed in a 30-by-110-foot metal shed behind his house, and 20 are displayed at the Top of the Lake Snowmobile Museum in Naubinway, Mich. McGuirk and a group of fellow snowmobile enthusiasts founded the museum in 2007 to showcase their vintage and antique machines, and to preserve the history of snowmobiling.

“John does a great job of restoring the old sleds,” says Charlie Vallier, 60, the museum’s chairman. “He’s got one of the largest collections of antique snowmobiles” built in 1968 or earlier.

The McGuirks’ love affair with snowmobiles began a few years after they married in 1966. John, who grew up in Paducah, Ky., and moved to Michigan as a teenager to work at General Motors, wasn’t particularly fond of the cold, snowy winters of the upper Midwest. That is, until he and Jan discovered the joy of snowmobiling.

“It was something that got us outside in the winter,” McGuirk recalls. “And we’ve been out there ever since.”

The McGuirks bought a new Chaparral snowmobile in 1972, and they soon bought a second one so they could snowmobile together. McGuirk fell in love with the machines, and when a neighbor offered to sell him a 1962 Polaris SnoTraveler that same year, he gladly paid $150 for the rundown sled.

“I had to get the motor running, to put in a windshield and seat,” he recalls of his first snowmobile restoration. “Fixing it up was fun.”

Nowadays, in addition to performing snow machine makeovers, McGuirk enjoys hauling his vintage sleds to winter festivals and snowmobile shows in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and riding them with other snowmobile enthusiasts.

While McGuirk would love to find and restore a 1950s Bosak Power Toboggan, or own a rare Eliason Motor Toboggan—the first commercial snowmobile designed and built by Carl Eliason, of Sayner, Wis., in 1924—he’s content restoring, riding and showing the many classic and uncommon machines already in his collection.

“I’m happy to restore the ones I’ve got,” he says. “I’ve got enough to keep me busy the rest of my life.” ★

Visit www.snowmobilemuseum.com or www.ascoa.org for more information.

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MY COLLECTION

By Vivian Wagner • PHOTOS BY TODD YARRINGTON

John McGuirk, of Sidney, Ohio, plans to donate some of his restored machines to museums across the Snow Belt.

Snowmobile enthusiast loves restoring, riding antique machines

McGuirk starts one ofhis vintage motorized sleds.

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