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38A. Jaunt that might get straw in your hair : HAY RIDE. I'll let Windhover riff on the differences between HAY and straw. (Sorry for the omission earlier.)
Answer grid.
Morning, all!
Very smooth solve and a tad on the easy side for a Wednesday. I blew through most of the puzzle and only got hung up a bit when I confidently put in OCEAN CRUISER instead of CABIN CRUISER at 46A and then nothing in that section worked. In this instance, getting the theme reveal did actually help me, since once I knew all the theme answers were supposed to start with a type of fever I was able to realize my mistake.
another speed run for me under 14 minutes. you forgot to merntion hay fever as the 4th answer that fits to the theme.
this puzzle was sort of boring no real eye openers the answers were strait forward and I was done before I knew it. well time for coffee. thank you for the hard work and Enjoy the last full day of fall (at least where I am) winter starts at 12:30 am tomorrow.
Hi, all!
Haven't had time to blog this week. But first three puzzles have been very easy. Great write-ups Argyle and Jazz! Swell puzzles, too!
EATME was a fun answer! Got PEDRO from perps. That was the only unknown.
Still no luck with the LA DWP. They still deny ever hearing from construction people, even though the latter made an appointment for them to inspect work, which they did!
What did any of you think of the season finale of Homeland? I was disappointed.
Happy hump day!
Hello Puzzlers -
A characteristically smooth Donna Levin today. Only got a bit confused in the south because BIAFRA doesn't ring a bell, but of course the perps took care of that.
Almost Solstice!
Good Morning, Jazzbumpa and friends. Oh, I do love the Donna Levin puzzles and today she and I were on the same wavelength. What Fun!
I associate TALC(um) Powder with babies, so being clued as Power for Junior worked just fine with me.
My favorite clue was Food in a Shell = EGG.
I also liked Article in Le Monde = UNE.
Remember when your mother told you to eat all your food because there were children starving in [name of a country]? You can tell a person's approximate age by knowing the name of that country. When I was growing up, the starving children were in BIAFRA.
On this date in 1913, the first modern crossword puzzle was first published. Arthur Wayne created the crossword puzzle that was published in the New York World newspaper. We have him (along with C.C.) to thank for being here on this blog.
QOD: A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~ David Brinkley
Donna almost did me in today. My BLAH was only SOSO and my SPRINGROLL started off as an ONIONGROLL (I failed to notice the G in there). Finished the rest of the puzzle quickly. When I got the fever theme, I came back to the NW and fixed everything.
Enjoyed your write-up JzB. Your SIN APSES were firing on all cylinders today. And, yes, Mont Blanc is literally White Mountain. I believe it's the tallest peak in the Alps.
Jello BIAFRA was the lead singer of the punk band Dead Kennedys, who often works his crowds to a FEVER PITCH. He also sang in LARD, an industrial-metal band. Politically-charged, he once ran for president, and has put out quite a few spoken word albums espousing his beliefs. A very interesting guy...
Here he is, singing California Über Alles (3:25). Corner warning: it's punk, but give it a go anyway.
...and ladies, if you're unsure if you want to watch the video, I should let you know he's shirtless...and looks like Dennis Quaid.
Good Morning Jazzbumpa, C.C. et al.
You are in fine fettle this morning, Jazzb. I got a kick out of "Nome Man's land" comment…although I had "Juno" at first for that one. (But Juno your geography!!) By the time I got to the comment about LEAR, there was coffee spit all over my desk.
Hahtool, you took the words right out of my mouth!!
"Eat your vegetables…there are children starving in India!!" ("…so, send the Brussels sprouts to India, then.")
"Eat your dinner…there are children starving in Biafra!!" ("…and I bet even they wouldn't want to eat this frozen dinner.")
"Eat your tofu…there are children starving in Bangladesh!!" ("…can't I just have a concert for them??")
Happy hump day, everyone!
Juneau the capital of Alaska?
Yes, Barry, a tad easy for a Wednesday. Jazzb really amped it up with a funny, interesting blog.
Talc was a gimme. I always associate it with babies. I use a more expensive brand name product to powder my buns.
The famine in Biafra was big news for a long time. As I remember many relief efforts. including concerts, were lauched from the US and other develped countries.
I loved Jazzb's take on Lear's daughters.
I can remember having to clean my plate for the starving children in Europe after WW I.
Ant: I interviewed Jello Biafra in 1985 for my HS radio station. Well, I tried to anyways. Jello ran on and on about anything and everything under the sun until about 3 am! He once ran for Mayor of San Francisco.
My thoughts on the clue for EATME was the cake float in Animal House during the parade finale.
aargh...I really need to bone up on my US geography!
Is there an Alaskan town called "Dunneau"??
JZB: Thanks for the very entertaining write up!
Today I learned that Nepal has a very odd looking five sided flag.
Favorite clue was 61D, just because it can be funny watching someone else bruise their shin bone. No fun when it's me, of course.
My favorite word was 8D: GULLET. Just because it's a funny word.
PS: I'll take any of those cabin cruiser's JZB. Just let me know where it's docked and I'll come pick it up.
I did all the puzzles and read the blog. but I wasn't up to blogging since Sat. Thank you all for keeping me amused. I feel guilty about not contributing.
Sat.I pulled the tendon in back of my knee and have been hobbling along. It is probably from overuse coupled with being a senior. I usually grin and bear it and keep on truckin'. The discomfort levels off to a bearable plateau. This time bulldozing through the pain only makes it worse, and I have to sit down.
This is not a good week for it with Christmas preparations needed.I am kicking myself for not trimming my indoor tree last week.I will try to get it in the stand today with the "help" of my disabled son. That will likely cause me to sit down the rest of the day and decorate in the coming days.
I sat through the delightful square dance party last night, visiting and collecting yellow rocks, no dancing for me.
Before one of you sharp eyed bloggers catch me:
I am not almost 100 years old. My parents were toddlers during WWI. My debt to the starving children in Europe was incurred during
See my post at 8:02 AM.
It seems the LA Times web site has changed and the puzzle can not be printed from the site. Any info on where the puzzle can be printed to solve? Last week I did Sunday's on another site and it was an old puzzle:(
-Fabulous write-up Jazz! Congrats on finding all the letters to spell Sarkozy's dad's name and linking to a great tube!
--Does pronouncing Sar koh' zee as Sar koh zee' seem pretentious to you?
-TALC makes baby smell great until baby does not smell so great
-Cable show about REPO men was fascinating
-Radar liked his NEHI straight up, "We don't use straws in combat buddy"
-MIL's apple pie made with Hormel lard is food for the gods
-Texas A & M's bonfire tradition turned to tragedy a few autumns ago
-I love Diners, Dives and Drive Ins
-The Oxbow Incident was a great Henry Fonda movie about mob psychology
-As Texas Western, UTEP won the NCAA National Basketball Championship and that season was celebrated in the movie Glory Road which we showed at school as an example of racism
Juneau, I`m really Hungry for Turkey fried in Greece! As my friend Carmen says, "Canada laughs! Itsa no funny!"
My team was the loser in that game, partly because a couple of guys had the flu, partly because UK took UTEP too lightly, and partly because the legendary but fading Adolph Rupp was outcoached by Don Haskins.
I haven't seen the film, but I can tell you the racism in sports and every other facet of life was very real at the time. In some prior seasons UK played in the NCAA tournament because the conference winner Miss. St. turned down the bid rather than play against blacks. In fairness to their coach and players (or some of them) I think that decision was made for them at a higher level.
That game did a great deal to change attitudes in sports and subsequently in the greater society. In some ways losing was a good thing, although Wildcat fans, including yours truly, were heartbroken at the time.
Can someone else take on the hay/straw question? Joe?
How about you PK?
Hi all -
Love Donna Levin and today was no exception. I did have some trouble with 10A.... as Jazz mentioned, BANG didn't seem to go with the clue.
Loved 5D answer, but I put NUT in at first. Also got a kick out of 9D.
62A was a 'gimme' as that is what I'll be sucking down this afternoon when we play shuffleboard.
I have never heard of ILLINI or UTEP...until now :)
Sort of funny how 38A and D cross with 42A EAT ME.... I'm sure Lois will also pick up on that ;0
Carol, I didn't get a chance to post this morning, but rest assured, that was the lead in my comments. Too perfect.
-Hawaii! What did Delaware?
-Idaho. Alaska. Ah, her New Jersey! Then tossed it in her New Hampshire. What did Tennessee? Same thing Arkansas.
-Utah too much...
Well I sure don't know my hay as well as you WH, but I'll have a go.
Hay is any one of numerous grasses or forage crops. Some options include native prairie, alfalfa and brome. Hay is nearly exclusively harvested for livestock feed, but it can be used as animal bedding in a pinch.
Straw is the leftovers from a small grain crop such as wheat, oats, and most likely barley. It's basically the stem portion that's left after harvest. It is ground and fed to livestock as roughage to some degree, but it's primary use is for winter bedding.
It's also pretty good to suck on if you want to pull off a convincing rube act.
WH, Rupp was not treated kindly in the film but a lot of other people of the time weren't either.
Hay to me is alfalfa or some other grass or legume that is grown as a crop mainly to feed to livestock and would be too itchy and scratchy for a comfortable ride. Straw is the stems left over after wheat, oats or barley (from yesterday) is harvested. Those bales are fairly smooth and not unpleasant to sit on or lean against.
A hayrack is what is used to stack the bales and convey them back to the farm when the alfalfa is cut but that same rack can haul straw bales and hence the straw is put on a hayrack and the name hayrack ride follows.
Here is a video of a hay baler and as you can imagine those bales are pretty scratchy.
Now here is a video of a straw baler that is simply bales of the stems on which the grain grew and make for much more comfortable lounging. The straw bales are being put on a hayrack.
How 'zat?
Hay is for horses
They're big and strong
You're not a horse
Your ears are too long
Good Morning Joe, I didn't mean to jump in but I enjoyed your information. I have never put a piece of straw in my mouth. I have chewed on (not eaten) a corn tassel or two though. Does that count?
I have some very unpleasant memories of my first date which was on a hayrack ride (with bales of straw) when I dropped our hot dogs into the bonfire and she refused to talk to me the rest of the night. Smooth!
Madame Donna Levin, I LOVED your puzzle - I did it , I thought I couldn't, but I did. It was punny, it was cute and it was just below my IQ level, so I even appreciated it. THANK YOU.
Jazz, always funny and very good humor. I think thou protested at the puzzle a bit too much - but thatsa just an opinion. Made me smile - so now you're Put -in -Bed ? BTW, the Lonz winery on the island folded up 5 years ago - after a wooden terrace collapsed, under the weight of the intoxicants .... ( I have to careful how I spell it - )
A bumper of good liquor
will end any dispute quicker
than justice, judge or vicar.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Cynthia, I just went to games.latimes.com and went to the crossword. To print you select the printer icon in the lower righthand corner.
Actually, there is no Viper being produced at the moment (last model year was 2010) and we won't know what motor the upcoming 2013 will have until April. May well be a turbo V8. Everyone else is dropping their V10s for the turbo-8s these days.
And grass is for asses.
Good morning to all and happy hump day. Great write-up JazzB,you have some clever comments. Started in nw corner for me worked down and over from there with ne corner last to fall. Never heard of airing out your spleen before, but fun theme and puzzle Miss Levin. To HeartRx Juno was the caseworker for the dead in Beetlejuice. Have a great day all RJW
3rd 2nd-
I think you're doing it wrong.
Biafra ( 1967- 70 ) is a story of a 'progressive' Christian ( and thus educated, advanced, forward-thinking, westernized - ) Nigerian, Igbo tribal community who felt they were languishing under an otherwise backward nation. But you still need an army, to guard your rights, which they didn't have.
MORAL- Military Might beats Righteous Right, every time in history - unless you get the USA on your side, to fight your battles.
2. In war, civilians always, always suffer the most. In this case over 2 mil. deaths.
BTW, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, the leader of the Biafra Govt. died in London, Nov. 26th 2011 - about a month ago. A playboy, educated in England, and a civil servant, turned into a hapless, clueless General.
Nice video(0:53) of a wagon with loose hay being loaded. Figure a wagon with about a quarter of that load would be used for an old-fashion hay ride. Loose hay smelled sweet and didn't scratch like square baled hay.
Oat straw is prized by cattle and horse producers as bedding, due to its soft, relatively dust-free, and absorbent nature due to hollow stems.
Good Morning All, I can't remember a Donna Levin puzzle I didn't like. There always seems to be a word, or a few, that don't show up very often and are clever and surprising.
One of the kind things my ex-husband did, many years ago, was to invite a young BIAFRAn man and his wife to our Thanksgiving dinner. They were both students and were delightful guests. (That may have been the last kind act of that marriage.)
I love seeing UTEP now. For a long time I thought it should be an Egyptian god, but I've got it down now.
I didn't go to the University (my father did, but didn't graduate). I'm a Chicago born ILLINI nevertheless.
fermatprime, GAH and I are hooked on "Homeland". We thought the season finale was terrific. Carrie is hospitalized with no chance of getting her CIA job back, the Vice President and his staff are evil and who knows what Brody has in mind. Saul is the only voice of reason (and he's pretty shaky too)...what's not to like?
Spoiler Alert, Clear Ayes! I hadn't watched the finale of Homeland yet!
JazzB, you had me laughing all the way through your write-up--a great way to start hump day! And thanks, Donna Levin, for a great puzzle--fun, doable, but with enough challenge to make it interesting.
Hello, Jazbumpa, C.C. et alii. Great, funny blogging, Jzb! Got a BANG out of it.
Usually I am on Donna Levin's wave length and today was a good ride.
TALC eased right in and just flew from there. Wasn't sure of PEDRO but wagged it, found DANCEPARTNER and sashayed away almost at FEVER PITCH. Can never recall APIA but it emerged.
Loved seeing 6D MARYMARY then ECHO at 60D.
Subordinate clauses = ELVES, LOL
That's rich!
Happy Hannukkah, all observers.
Enjoy your last autumnal day, everyone! It's a short one.
@JaB - tremendous write-up - thanks for the morning chortle.
Speaking of chortle, @Mari - I believe the Nepalese flag takes it's shape to represent the Buddhist prayer flags called CHORTENS which are widely flown. Each flap of the flag in the wind carries a prayer to the higher power. I love the quiet symbolism in that.
@Hahtool - I'm part of the Biafra eat-your-greens generation. If you'd have seen how my mom cooked brussels sprouts you'd understand!
LARD! Sadly underused cooking ingredient nowadays. If you're scared of using lard, use Mexican manteca instead - it's exactly the same thing but the name isn't saddled with the "oh, it's so bad for you" connotations :)
The ans to 59D depends on how far back one wants to go. Only V10 fit,
so that is want went in that space. Recent engines are Turbo V8s. Indy cars going for Twin Turbo
Hope my packages aren't delivered
like the monitor the Fed Ex guy
threw over the fence.
Big hockey night. Flyers at Dallas
and Tampa at SJ. Could be another divison lead change.
Time to make my Xmas pizzelles. Found some black walnuts.
Take care. eddy
Hi gang -
Blogging this puzzle was enormous fun. And - ECHOing yesterday, another lesson in humility, as I totally missed HAY FEVER in the theme - and that's nothing to sneeze at!
I think C.C. fixed it for me - thanx!
Gary -
--Does pronouncing Sar koh' zee as Sar koh zee' seem pretentious to you?
No, it just seems French. Sar KOH' zee is Americanized, anyway. As near as I can tell, Hungarian words are ALways accented on the first syllable, so back in Magyarország it would be SAR' koh ze.
Chicago AND ivy covered walls.....
Wrigley Field
by Blogger Blondeoverblue
Hidden behind foliage of tendrils
lie ancient bricks of red and history
etched in stone.
Boundless sways of red, white and blue;
the flag's colours unfurled
to mark out victories past.
There shall lay the fallen
from ancient battles won
whose cries echo still
over hallowed turf.
Hanging in the air
as a ghost's fleeting tribute
to cups raised high and to days
when defeat
tasted as bitter as hell itself.
Carried aloft
on our aching shoulders.
Let them rest now
and be remembered
amongst the vines
Sorry Hahtool, At least I wasn't too specific. I won't say anymore about "Homeland". I did leave the most suprising stuff out, so you do have a few gasps coming your way. :o)
Back to some more packing! I'm remembering how non-essentential most possessions are.
OT a bit (sorry) - is that the real Will Shortz who cuffed out Rex Parker on his blog today?
I bought TALC pronto. BANG felt awkward-ish. Needed a cross or two for GAS UP, so a slow start for me. Tried GHANA for NEPAL at first.
Went in starts & stops for me.
and as an F1 guy I really liked seeing VTEN. Most 'muricans don't know F1, just NASCAR.
and @Cynthia and others, printable across lite LAT is at
but you may need a free account, I forget. I just print LAT one side/NYT the other each day I solve on paper. 30 day LAT repository always in place at cruciverb even if true cruciverbalists are a bit overboard ....
anon@12:09, yep. And richly deserved.
Continuing@ Anon's and @Dennis's OT, I enjoyed Will's response to Rex Parker's comments. Blog posters anywhere might take a moment to consider the level of condescension and sanctimoniousness in their comments.
Is sanctimoniousness a real word? Wouldn't it just be sanctimony? I truly don't know.
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, Donna, for a great puzzle. Thank you, as well Jazzbumpa, for an equally great write-up.
Did this puzzle on the train heading to the Shriners Hospital this morning. Just got home.
Got through this pretty easily. A few headscratchers, but it worked. Made one error. Had UNO instead of UNE. My French is still no good. I did not know the DERN actors either.
I barely remembered BIAFRA. Perps helped.
Themes came easily.
Enjoyed the Hay and Straw Balers Husker Gary.
Cynthia. Try the Chicago Tribune puzzle on line. I use it most days. Easy to print. Same puzzle as the L A Times, and many other papers around the country. I know Dayton, OH and Cincinnati, OH use it.
My wife made Polish sweet bread and kolackis stuffed with walnuts yesterday Great stuff!
See you tomorrow.
Never had that happen before. Another board I monitor(Vintage Saab) had something that popped out at me.
Calendar of events for Put-In-Bay
Please, if you want to post about Homeland, mark it as a spoiler or you will spoil it for those that haven't seen it yet.
Thank goodness this blog isn't snarky like some other's.
Hay there!
On our farm, straw was the stems of wheat with no nutritional value and used for animal bedding or garden mulch. Hay was very nutritional alfalfa or brome grass cut for animal feed.
OMG Jazzbumpa! What a funny funny person you are. I could read your quips and comments all day. Ever considered writing? You and Dave Barry.
Didn't mean to be repetitious about hay--posted after reading WH, then saw better answers elsewhere.
Unless one is on a hayride, it's a BLAH subject. When I was in HS no one had heard of weight training. Boys who wanted muscles (and money) went out and pitched hay bales onto the trailers. Man, were they proud of those hard-earned biceps--hadn't heard of pecs or abs then, but they had those too. Farm-toned muscles with hairy chests beat gym rats IMHO.
Always enjoy a Donna Levin puzzle! Jzbmp, you were in great form today! Imbibing on a little Xmas cheer?
Yellowrocks, missed you! Hope the disablement soon heals.
ClearAyes, thinking of you as you pack. Such a relief to be going, I'm sure, but still sometimes heart-wrenching to deal with all the collected detritus. At least it was for me.
Yellowrocks, I hope your injury heals quickly. Due to sore knees, I hobble around all the time. I still manage to go on short bike rides though.
We used to struggle with putting a tree in a stand that held water. Now we buy a tree from a local nursery that already has a stand and is constantly kept in water. Then we have it delivered and keep the stand refilled with water. It's more expensive but with fewer dropped needles and less hassle. It's taken some effort to switch from penny-pinching when we had three kids in college to now feeling like we have enough money that it's OK to spend it.
Mari, how impressionable it must have been to meet Jello as a high school student! Other than him needing to join On & On Anon, what else did you come away with from the interview?
Yellowrocks (et alia), here's that translation of the haiku from yesterday:
nirui-da to
seri negi-batake ni
iritaru wa
a ground rule double
any ball that's hit into
the green onion field
-Imai Sei
And this one's for you:
A dance on the boards
a frenzied stroll!
A dance in the heart
still lifts the soul!
I send a yellow rock to your knee.
Get well soon!
Great puzzle and most excellent solve. Thanks Donna and JazzBumpa.
I liked 23A Founding Father?/ADAM. I was thinking of John Adams at first, but it didn't fit.
I also liked 31A Collegiate climber/IVY. Reminds me of the "Ivy covered professors, in ivy covered halls." from "Bright College Days" by Tom Lehrer.
Speaking of accents, anyone else remember the controversy when Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys insisted in being called dor-set'?
Yellowrocks--sounds like it's time to see your orthopod. I had a badly torn meniscus this summer. Scoped and trimmed. Better every day.
Good afternoon, all. Great commenting, today, JazzB. Thanks.
A little late to the party, today. Love Donna's puzzles and this was no exception. Clever FEVER theme, whose fills were easily gotten. No unknowns and no lookups needed. Donna's clues are always fun to work with. The clues for SPLEEN and UNE were quite clever. I got into her wavelength early and so it was a nice easy fun romp.
Grab some popcorn and spend a few minutes reading that other blog. Time well spent. Sounds like Will finally came down with a bad case of hearing aids. That's a disease contracted by listening to too many a@^$$les.
For a simple, elegant holiday dessert: In a trifle bowl,layer chewy brownie hunks( that you made) with Smuckers butterscotch/caramel sauce, cool whip and chopped pecans. Add a good cup of coffee and yum! yum!
Great write-ups by Argyle and Jazz! And as for EATME, I was thinking of Animal House's float in the parade!!
Hola Everyone, The NW corner was the last to fall. I incorrectly put in teas. instead of Tbsp. Because I didn't know who discovered Brazil, I looked up that name and after putting in Pedro things came together.
I was also unsure of Illini, as I had never heard that nickname for Illinois. Most of the college football teams are off my radar.
I'm usually in step with Donna Levin's puzzles, but this one was a tad harder than usual. I did enjoy the theme and thought it was very clever.
Thanks JzB for filling in the question marks for me.
We have good friends who both taught at UTEP in the Science Dept., UTEP is always a given when I see it in a CW.
Off to run errands. Have a great rest of the day, everyoane.
Argyle, Honorable Sir,
On - Homeland-dish Security.
Deleted post at 1:54.
I haven't watched Homeland, security or otherwise, and have no intentions of doing so. I have better things to do, like spilling my guts and mugging for applause, on this blog, for instance.
The aforementioned post, was meant to be a cavalier spoof, of something I have no idea about and could care even less on. It appears that my humor was entirely wasted and fell on deaf ears, er, eyes.
Unfortunately, all incredible things, even preposterously, ridiculously, grandiose, appear to be possible in cyberspace.
Maybe a smiley face would have helped ? You think ?
With kind regards.
Ant, I was clueless about the Imai Sei haiku. Thanks for the translation. I love the one about dancing and have copied it. A dance on the boards AND in the heart sure lifts the soul, especially with such great pals. Your yellowrock (hug, to the uninitiated) to my knee made me smile. It's like, "Mommy will kiss it and make it better."
Bill, the idea of getting a tree already in a stand is wonderful. As I get older, these conveniences are well worth the extra money. I hear you about the creaky knees, even on the best days. Many of us can sympathize.
Thank you all for your kind thoughts. We did get the tree in the stand. It is about half the usual size. Even struggling with the tree I am in somewhat less discomfort than last evening, as I sit here dosing myself with Merlot.
PK and others, as a rural girl,I enjoyed and agree with the hay/straw comments. Living in town, I didn't feel qualified to opine, but I remembered.
Good evening everyone.
Enjoyed this puzzle enormously, and Jazz' write up was superb. Lots of fun.
Clear Ayes, I feel we must be related somehow. I and DH are both Illini. Even though we met here in Naples 50 or so years afterwards. And how is Charlie doing about the move?
Spanish can also be a bit of a problem if you are just learning the language. Like the "hot" translation of German.
The word for hunger is just one letter off for the word for man.
My husband was very hungry and told our Colombian friends, "Tengo mucho hombre". They thought he was very funny as he had said, I have much man instead of "Tengo mucho hambre".
We all received a lesson then and there with hombre, hambre and a third close sounding word hombro (shoulder).
Thank goodness for understanding friends.
Jazz: I could tell you were having a great time doing the write-up.
Enjoyed the links, also.
Donna: Thank you for a FUN Wednesday.
dwinch: Amazing how EAT ME made you think of Animal House.
I wish Anon @8:15 AM had thought of that ...
Well that was a beautiful Sunset.
I really do enjoy my "toasts" to you all.
Cheers !!!
Chapstick -
You are most kind. I gave up long ago on getting any financial payoff for my writing. My fiction and poetry don't seem to fit anywhere except my own fevered brain. Also, I'm pretty undisciplined Now, to scratch my writing itch, I blog - here, at my own place, and soon at another location.
My New Year's resolution is to be more disciplined about writing music. Lots to do there.
Lois @ last night - the quartet performance was for a fund-raiser at a local B&N bookstore. In all honesty, it was on the rough side. None of us played the way we're able to. Christmas Song was at a holiday concert at a church in Detroit.
Some Aleatoric Haiku
Put-In Bay: Island
Town near Catawba Island,
Stuck on the mainland.
The tromonist is
Someone who shoves air through a
Tapered metal tube.
Alas, those poor Browns;
They won a few games against
Teams that could not score.
This year's {Lions, Broncos}* fan:
One who lives in agony
'Til the last quarter
(Okay, not ev'ry
Game, but I just had seven-
Teen small syllables.)
* Pick one
JzB happy to be here
It was a fine sunset here as well, Tinbeni. Now that we live with an unobstructed horizon, I have this penchant (my wife would say obsession) of making a note of the position of the sun at rise and set on the solstices and the equinoxes. Evidently my notes from last year were accurate. Both the rise and set today were in the same exact point on the horizon as last year and I got to see them both.
Thinking of you, and in your honor, I toasted the sunset with beer......neat.
Tinbeni: Regarding dwinch: we all know that Anons are ignored here. I personally think Anon @10:32 had the line of the day.
re: I toasted the sunset with beer......neat.
The next time I wander over to the Pub, just for the hell-of-it, that is exactly how I'm going to order my draft.
Can't wait to see the bartender's reaction.
You're entirely welcome. Let me know how it plays. :-)
LOL Homelandish Security, I know nothing about the show so I didn't know it was a send-up.
Hey, it could have been true.
AvgJoe, did your son get there or did he get stranded somewhere in the storms?
Homeland-dish Security said...
"I have better things to do, like spilling my guts and mugging for applause, on this blog, for instance." Please pursue those "better things." We are kindred spirits here in our little community. If you have better things to do and are out of sync with us, be my guest and pursue elsewhere.
Chapstick2, Thanks. Yes I need an
orthrodepedic doctor. The holidays are the worst time to come down with an ailment. I will pursue this first thing in January, I need physical therapy to overcome this.
Yellowrocks, Homeland posted what I thought was a spoiler but it turns out I was mistaken. If CA clears it I'll repost it.
to be con't.
Hi All ~~
Another fun Donna Levin puzzle. It was quick but enjoyable! I smiled at the comments about being told to 'finish all your food because the __ were starving.' In our house it was "starving Armenians." I'm not sure how my mother came up with that one ... this was in the 1950s. I also smiled at 'Not a _ out of you.' I'm sure Dad heard our soft "peeps" as he was walking out of the room. Ah, the memories ~~
Jazz ~~ I always look forward to your write-ups ~ you really outdid yourself today. Thanks so much for the info and the entertainment!
Good evening all,
Sure do love Donna"s puzzles, but I must say we saw a new side of her with the "eat me" fill. Loved the clue "collegiate climber"-fun.
Haven't had to G for awhile, but looked up Pedro (who knew?..OK, most of you) and apia. Had a tough time filling in illinI crossing In on. Hay wait...I left it empty.If Adam (another great clue Donna) hadn't finally come to me, I never would have filled chirAc.
Bumpa, you are a gem..loved your write up.
THANKS to Argyle and Bill last night for introducing me to Eva Cassidy. What a sad story, but she left us with some beautiful music.
All this talk about hay made me think of a scene from the old Spin and Marty series. I have never been on a real hayride, but remember this one with Annette? 40 years later
a few reruns....
JD, I'm glad you and others were as appreciative of Eva Cassidy as I was. I found a lot of her versions of standards in several albums on iTunes. If I get up the courage, I'm going to download 15 or so favorites and burn them onto a CD. I'm guessing Apple has made it easy enough that even an inept twit like me can figure it out.
Yeah Yellowrocks! Homeland-dish Security is just too clever for us. I'm sure he/she can find a blog where that level of snark is appreciated.
To me it was clear that Homeland-dish Security was apologizing to ME and did not intend to be snarky
He was indeed. Pretty obvious.
Baby steps. I lost my job in Septemher and to tell the truth, I felt embarrassed to post to you fine folks until now. Now, I don't know.
I have been diligently looking for work to no avail, but am told that more should open after the first of the year as that is when budgets are open. More later, I haven't counted my lines.
JD, enjoyed the Spin and Marty clip. However, I was deprived as a child--had no TV, so never saw Mickey Mouse Club. Had to make do with real hayrides. The boys were just as cute but not famous. LOL
Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie,
I've been missing my recipe fix.
Jeannie/lolita, hang in there, girl! Losing a job can really hurt your self-esteem, but in this economy is no measure of your real worth. Sometimes what seems to be a curse turns out to be a blessing if you are free to take something better suited to your talents and energies.
Argyle@10:11, you are too kind. Since we didn't see Homeland-dish etc.'s original comment, it's difficult to know whether or not we'd want to. Hahtool was the one who was concerned about spoilers and I think it is her opinion that would count. She is certainly a valuable member of our posting community and H.D.S. is (until now) an unknown.
We often comment on favorite movies and books and art. I don't know why Homeland-dish Security@4:38 would be condescending about a TV show he/she hadn't seen. I think Yellowrocks may have the right idea.
Sallie, Charley is doing fine, as long as he remembers to dodge the boxes that are stacking up. So far, so good.
PK, I''m trying not to think about things we have collected and may have to let go. It isn't always easy.
Jeannie, so good to hear from you. Don't be embarrassed. Nowadays anyone can be on the chopping block. We will all root for you!!
Spoiler Alert ... or not. You decide.
In our final episode,
1. Carrie is having an abortion - ( Sorry, right -to -lifers, but it was the Veep's baby.)
2. The CIA is outsourced to the Philippines. ( God help us).
3. The Veep forgets to cast the tie breaking vote to break the Congressional FICA tax dispute - by eloping with his page, or pager to Samoa.
4. Saul claims the 'insanity' defense.
5. ( The series itself is cancelled).
I just got a great big hug that was desperately needed. I can't go home for Christmas so will have other mis-fits for dinner Christmas Eve. I had a party last Saturday and it went well.
Argyle, recipe to come. In the last couple weekends I cooked/catered for a couple of friends parties. Everyone wanted the recipes.
The job market is tight right now, and am thinking of opening my own catering business. Problem is banks are really tight on lending money right now for folks that are unemployed. Go figure.
Hi to all my friends. I don't want to start naming them in case I forget someone. You know who you are.
WooHoo!Jeannie,so glad that you have returned to the flock. You've been missed. We'll keep our fingers and toes crossed for something to come along your way in Jan.This could happen to any of us. Remember Moon?
Bill, I have Pandora on my ipad ; I typed her in and voila..so many beautiful tunes. They mix it up with a few Norah Jones...not bad either.
Thanks again.
Hello Jeannie, I was so worried about you. Hoping that you were ok. Losing your job is not something anyone wants to happen, but just know that we are all rooting for you and hoping that you will keep all of us posted on how you are doing.
I've done a couple of your recipes lately and have wondered each time I pulled one up on the computer what you were up to.
Hang in there.
Jeannie/Lolita, it's great to hear from you again. I was laid off three times; twice as an engineer and once as a teacher. Collecting unemployment wasn't any fun but it sure helped. It was easy to get discouraged. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. I wish I could do more.
YAY! Jeannie! You've been missed!
Oh, Jeannie! I am so glad to hear from you. I have been worried that something had happened to you, an accident or you were incapacitated in some way.
What a relief! I am certain that you will find a job. You have so many contacts and a fine reputation. My prayers will be with you.
Jeannie, 'bout damn time! You've been missed here and you've got a lot of shoulders to lean on. Keep your chin up; it's always darkest before the light.
Jeez, think that's enough cliches? But it's all true.
The single best thing that ever happened to me (other than getting the Irish drunk that time in 1991) was getting fired from a job.
Everyone here is pulling for you, and we miss seeing you here. Take your time, find the right place for you, and enjoy this time.
Jeannie: So great to hear from you! I hope you find another job soon!!!
Boy, did I kick up a fuss with the Homeland remark! CA: we must discuss this further!
Jeannie: posting just for you; Good to hear from you...would have done it privately but you aren`t "blue." I have not nor will I forget to do what you asked me to! Here`s another cliche: The cream always rises to the top and you my friend are Grade A!
My best wishes to all the regulars (and "irregulars" of which I`m chief! :) during this most Holy season.
Jeannie, this was moved from Thursday back to Wed. I hope you see it...let me know if/when you do...


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Ten years ago, Postmedia News reporter Douglas Quan was living in New York City when two hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade enter towers. He spent the next several months filing reports on the city's recovery. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Quan revisited some of the New Yorkers he interviewed and found others who experienced the attack first-hand to talk about their recollections of that day and how it changed their lives.
NEW YORK — The way Brian Clark remembers it, the moment of impact from the second plane was like a double explosion — "a loud boom, boom."
In an instant, the building torqued, the floor buckled, and the walls ripped at jagged angles. Lights, speakers and air-conditioning ducts dropped from the ceiling. Chalky, throat-burning dust filled the air.
Then, for about five seconds, the building seemed to sway toward the Hudson River.
Clark, a Toronto native and then-executive vice-president of Euro Brokers on the 84th floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center, braced himself.
"The thought went through my mind. We're going to fall over."
For many New Yorkers who experienced first-hand the terror of two hijacked planes slamming into both towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, toppling both and killing nearly 3,000, the memories and emotions of that day have not faded.
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, several New Yorkers — Canadians and Americans — agreed to share with Postmedia News their recollections of that day and how it changed their lives.
Among them: a rookie firefighter who lost several of his colleagues, a city sanitation worker who spent months clearing debris out of "The Hole," a college student who lost his father — his "best friend,"— and Clark, a businessman whose instincts saved not only his life but that of a stranger.
They all remember the weather: blue-skied and sunny.
Kristen Frederickson, an Indiana native and art history instructor, had just dropped off her five-year-old daughter, Avery, at P.S. 234.
At 8:46 a.m., she was standing on the corner of Greenwich and Chambers talking to another mother, when an "incredible noise" drowned out their conversation.
It was American Airlines Flight 11 screaming overhead, heading straight for the World Trade Center's north tower a few blocks away.
"We both shouted that it would bank, that there was room," she said.
But it didn't.
Clark was sitting at his desk in the south tower when his peripheral vision glimpsed a swirl of flames just outside his window. Then he saw singed papers fluttering through the air.
In those initial moments, his reaction wasn't panic but more a sense of wonderment. Did a welder just hit a gas line up above?
Within minutes, television news reports suggested a small plane, possibly a Cessna, had crashed into the north tower.
But Clark and his colleagues looked out their windows and saw the "ring of fire" around the upper — roughly 93rd to 99th — floors of the other tower and knew something bigger than a Cessna had just sliced into that building.
His colleagues reported some people were jumping out of windows. Clark couldn't bear to look.
An announcement on the public-address system said people in the south tower were not in danger and could return to their desks. But most of the 250 people in Euro Brokers' offices that morning evacuated anyway.
Clark was among the 50 or so who stayed behind. After the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center, he had volunteered to be part of his
office's fire-safety team. He called his wife to tell her that he was OK.
At the University of Delaware, student Geoff Robson was awakened by his then-girlfriend. She was crying.
"Is your dad at the World Trade Center today?" she asked.
"Yeah, what's going on?"
She couldn't get any more words out. She turned on the TV.
Geoff saw the gaping hole in the side of the north tower and the huge plumes of smoke. He immediately called his mother.
Geoff's father, Donald Robson, a Toronto native and diehard Blue Jays fan, was a partner in the Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage firm on the 103rd floor of the north tower. The two had spoken just three days earlier when Donald called to wish his son a happy birthday.
"He and I used to speak on the phone a couple of times a week," the younger Robson said. "He was my best friend."
A couple of blocks south of the World Trade Center in Battery Park City, trial lawyer Ann Schofield Baker, also a Toronto native, was in her 26th-floor apartment waiting for a delivery of antique furniture when the first plane hit.
Because her apartment faces away from the World Trade Center, she couldn't see what happened, but she felt it.
"I felt the whole building shake and this incredible noise. It kind of sounded like — if you have ever heard a garbage truck bang into something in an alley. Really, really loud."
Initial TV news reports described it as a small plane, so Schofield Baker didn't think much of it. But she kept her TV tuned in to the Today Show.
Minutes later, at 9:03 a.m., she happened to be watching when United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the south tower around the 78th
floor, unleashing a massive fireball.
Her reaction was instant.
"We were under attack."
Inside the Euro Brokers office on the 84th floor, Clark, who had been talking to a colleague on the trading floor, braced himself in a football player's stance as he felt the building tilt to one side and then return to vertical.
"Whether it really happened or not, I don't know, but it felt like a six-to eight-foot swing. And for those 10 seconds I was terrified."
He quickly whipped out the flashlight he'd put in his pocket earlier and led a small group of co-workers through the gag-inducing dust and debris for one of the stairwells.
Frederickson, who had rushed back to her daughter's school after the first plane hit, was standing in the school's lobby with other parents when the second plane hit.
"We ran home holding our children so they could not see the flaming buildings."
Fire crews streamed into lower Manhattan from all over the city. Among them was rookie firefighter Jimmy Ahrens, a New York native who had just one month to go in his probationary period.
Ahrens was stationed at Ladder Co. 7, Engine Co. 16 on East 29th Street in the Kips Bay neighbourhood. But on this day, he was attending a training class in Queens.
The firefighters got wind of trouble at the World Trade Center, and turned on the television just as the second plane hit the south tower.
"We all just took off," he said.
When Clark and his small group of co-workers from Euro Brokers reached the 81st floor, they encountered a heavyset woman and man struggling to go up the stairwell.
No way you'll make it by going down, she told them. Too much fire and smoke. The only way to go is up.
While they debated what to do, Clark was distracted by a faint scream.
"Help, is anyone there?" the voice said. "I'm buried."
The voice belonged to Stanley Praimnath, an executive of Fuji Bank, who worked on the 81st floor.
Moments earlier, Praimnath had seen United 175 heading straight for the building and dove under his desk for cover just as the plane slammed into the building a few floors below him.
Praimnath, temporarily deafened from the explosive impact, crawled across four office departments looking for a way out.
He saw the flicker from Clark's flashlight through the haze.
Clark grabbed co-worker Ron DiFrancesco, a Hamilton, Ont., native, and they headed toward the voice, pushing sideways through cracked drywall and debris.
As they did, the other members of the group decided to follow the heavyset woman's advice and go up instead of down.
Clark would never see them again.
The smoke was so thick, DiFrancesco stopped to catch his breath. He tried using the gym bag he was carrying to filter the air, but it didn't help. He retreated back to the stairwell and escaped on his own.
Somehow, Clark found himself in a bubble of fresh air and pushed forward.
"Can you see my hand?" Praimnath yelled out. Clark shone his flashlight down and onto his face.
"Hallelujah, I've been saved!" Praimnath screamed.
Praimnath then asked a question that caught Clark off guard. "One thing, I've got to know. Do you believe in Jesus Christ?"
Stammering a bit, Clark said: "Uh, I go to church every Sunday." A pretty "pathetic" answer, Clark says now with a chuckle.
There was no time to waste. Clark bent down and heaved Praimnath up and over a collapsed wall.
Still in a state of delirious relief, Praimnath gave Clark a big kiss on the cheek. He told Clark he always wanted a brother and then declared:
"You'll be my brother."
Clark, who had a puncture wound on his right palm, noticed Praimnath had suffered a similar injury to his left palm. He grabbed that hand and smooshed their palms together.
"We'll be blood brothers," Clark said.
Back on the 81st-floor landing, Clark shone his flashlight down the staircase to see if it was safe to descend. There was smoke and lots of debris, but no flames. The pair decided to keep going down.
On the 68th floor, they encountered Jose Marrero, one of Clark's co-workers, and another volunteer on the office's fire safety team, coming up the stairs. Marrero was carrying a walkie-talkie.
"Jose, where are you going?" Clark asked him.
Marrero said he could hear another one of their co-workers, Dave Vera, on the walkie- talkie calling for help upstairs.
"Dave's a big boy. He can get out," Clark said. "No, I'll be OK," Marrero said, continuing up the stairs. It was the last time Clark would see Marrero alive.
When the pair reached ground level, a fireman told them if they went out the doors they'd have to "go for it" because debris was falling
from above.
They made a run for it.
One-and-a-half blocks later, they stopped at a deli where they were given food and water.
As they headed to nearby Trinity Church for shelter, Praimnath turned around and looked up at the burning tower from which they had just escaped.
That tower could come down, he said.
Clark dismissed the suggestion. It's a steel structure. It won't.
Just at that moment — 9:59 a.m. — the south tower began its thunderous collapse.
They ran into the lobby of a nearby building as a giant cloud of dust reached them.
The dust cloud enveloped trial lawyer Schofield Baker's Battery Park City apartment building two blocks away.
Everything went dark.
"I could feel the building shaking. The smell was very acrid. It smelled like wet cement. I truly had no idea what it was," she said.
"It just truly never entered my consciousness it could be one of the towers falling."
Several minutes passed before she snuck a peek outside. All of lower Manhattan was covered in grey dust.
Schofield Baker quickly packed a few things in a bag and left her apartment. But a neighbour convinced her it was unsafe to go out. So she followed him back into his apartment, which faces the World Trade Center.
Looking out his windows, it dawned on her. She was staring at one tower when she should be seeing two.
Then she noticed the antenna atop the north tower begin to shift.
At 10:28 a.m., the second tower collapsed.
The two rushed across the hallway back to her apartment. Everything went dark again.
At that moment, Ahrens, the rookie firefighter, and his colleagues arrived on the scene in a commandeered city bus.
They, too, were hit by the wall of dust, and ducked into a store.
"You thought it was the end of the world," Ahrens said. "It was utter chaos down there."
Crew members tried to put out fires that had engulfed some of the smaller buildings near the collapsed towers but everyone had to be pulled back because of concerns other buildings might fall.
"It was overwhelming. Who in their wildest dreams thought something like that would happen?" Ahrens said.
No question, he recalled, that day "made me grow up quicker than I wanted to."
Several hours later, a volunteer firefighter told Schofield Baker and her neighbours there was a gas leak and buildings in the area could blow up.
With wet rags covering their mouths, they were quickly escorted out of the building, past flaming debris and airplane parts, to waiting rescue boats.
Cellphone service was a mess, agonizing for family members trying to get in touch with loved ones.
Robson, the University of Delaware student, had still had no luck
getting through to his father.
But as he scrambled to make his way home to Manhasset, New York — first taking a train, then hitching rides — he remained "100 per cent"
confident his father was fine. After all, Donald Robson had managed to walk down 102 floors during the '93 bombing.
"He was going to come home somehow because he had done it before."
At Ground Zero, the monumental task of clearing the debris began.
Senior city sanitation worker John Signorello, a native New Yorker, hardly recognized lower Manhattan as he reported for duty from his home on Staten Island.
The only people on the dust-covered streets were soldiers, emergency workers and construction crews.
"It was complete silence. It was pitch black. And all they had up was lights run from generators. It was such an eerie feeling," he said.
Signorello was assigned to help clear debris along West Side Highway with his front-end loader.
But where to begin?
"We went down there with equipment that normally we consider big and it did nothing" against the huge piles of smoldering, twisted steel, he said.
"You were there to help and those first couple of days you felt helpless."
Rookie firefighter Ahrens felt pretty helpless too.
For several days, he and his colleagues worked "the pile" in a
frustrating search for survivors.
Families of missing firefighters came by the firehouse in search of
answers — but there was little Ahrens and his colleagues could offer
Eventually, hope dimmed of finding any survivors in the rubble, and families and employers began to take stock of their losses.
Ahrens lost nine co-workers from the East 29th Street firehouse.
Clark, one of only four people working above the south tower's 80th floor to survive, learned 61 Euro Brokers employees had died.
Robson, the college student, refused to give up hope about his dad. He scoured online listings of names of people who were in hospital.
He found a "Donald Robinson" in a hospital in New Jersey. That's got to be him, he told himself. They just have his name wrong.
But it wasn't.
Eventually, a family friend came over and said it was probably time to make plans for "the next step."
"That was a tough pill to swallow, I remember. Because you're holding on to hope and that was kind of taking the next step towards
acceptance and I don't think I was prepared for it. I don't think anyone is ever prepared for that."
Robson did take comfort in one fact.
During their last phone conversation a few days earlier, "my last words to him were, 'I love you, Dad.' And his were, 'I love you, Geoff.'
"I had 22 good years with the guy."
After the debris from the West Side Highway was cleared, Signorello was assigned to haul debris away from Ground Zero with a dump truck.
As he sat idling waiting for his next load, he often had a first-hand view — sometimes several times a day — of bodies being pulled from the rubble.
Each time, workers followed the same routine.
Everyone would stop what they were doing. It would go silent. The body would be placed on a stretcher and covered with an American flag. As it was being walked out, everyone would line up and salute.
"Everyone got the same respect."
The images weighed heavily on Signorello. So did the smell from the site, a "heavy, burnt" smell that even crept into Signorello's sleep, waking him.
"I couldn't get rid of that smellfor a long time."
Signorello's wife, Linda, saw something change in her husband.
"He doesn't discuss a lot of things and he doesn't show a lot of emotion. But you live with someone everyday you know it, you know the
look on their face, where their head is at. It's not there. It's thinking about something else."
Deserved or not, New York City sometimes has a reputation of being a little gruff.
But after 9/11, the city's residents came together like they had never done before.
All along West Side Highway, the route Signorello often drove in his dump truck, citizens waved "thank you" signs.
Companies flew in families of victims, putting them up in hotels as they waded through their affairs.
The Canadian Association of New York helped organize a huge event called "Canada Loves New York" attended by thousands, including former prime minister Jean Chretien, and held at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan.
As Afghanistan, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden dominated front pages of newspapers and the U.S. launched a military offensive in that country, residents in the West Village rallied behind Abdul Nusraty, the longtime owner of an Afghan import store.
Nusraty, who moved to the U.S. with his family just prior to the Soviet occupation in 1979, did not have an easy go of it in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
A man in his early 20s walked into his store, accusing him of being a terrorist.
"I tell him, 'How you know?' I say, 'Terrorists make you hush. I make you hush right now, get out!' "
He said the man ran out of the store.
Frederickson was among those who came in to Nusraty's store to show their support.
She bought a pink and lavender a hat — or colah — for her five-year-old daughter, Avery, who took the hat to class for show-and-tell.
Ten years later, any feelings of anger these people may once have held are not evident.
Now retired, Clark, the Euro Brokers executive, says 9/11 taught him to live for today.
"I've been blessed that the gift I've been given is that I don't dwell on the past, I don't worry about the future. It leaves me with the present. I live everyday in the present. I appreciate every moment."
Same holds true for Robson.
He works as an associate at CB Richard Ellis in Manhattan, but he also volunteers on the board of Tuesday's Children, a non-profit set up to provide mentoring, scholarships and other support for children of 9/11 victims.
"There are a lot of kids who were still in the womb when they lost their father or were babies," Robson said. "These children are still in need of guidance. It's not just money, even. It's volunteering time, taking them to a ball game, being a role model."
That doesn't mean some survivors don't still suffer a bit of anxiety.
When the presidential plane, Air Force One, did several low-flying manoeuvres over lower Manhattan a few years ago as part of a photo-op, it brought back all of the panic, lawyer Schofield Baker said.
It kept swooping and turning around, "like it was picking a target," she said. "So stupid."
Now living in London, England, Frederickson, says she still is anxious about leaving her daughter Avery, now 15, at school.
"Even now," she said via email, "I am much happier when she gets home each day."
Signorello, the sanitation worker, surprised his daughter recently when he became emotional recalling his 9/11 experience.
"I actually just fell apart. She went silent. I don't think she knew the way I felt until then," he said. "It was not something I would show. You try not to show that side, you try to keep the macho side up, but it just didn't work."
The images of bodies being pulled out of the rubble, body parts on the street, the fear and panic on people's faces, "it's something you never forget."
Everyone has different plans for how they will mark Sept. 11 this year.
Some will park themselves in front of TV and listen to the roll call of the names of each victim.
Frederickson, as she always does, will have a phone conversation with the other mother she was standing with when the first plane hit.
"We just speak to say we remember," she said.
Firefighter Ahrens, now a captain, will do what he's done every year. He'll go down and listen to the FDNY pipes and drums band play at Ground Zero and watch as the city lights up the night sky with two vertical beams of bluish-white light, a tribute to those whose lives were lost.
Following a tradition he started several years ago, Robson will start his day with a long jog through Central Park and have a conversation in his head with his dad.
"By the end of that run I'm at a place of peace with regard to everything that's happened," he said.
He'll then go to church. And then go to the Jets game — because that's what his dad would want him to do.
And Clark?
He has accepted an invitation to attend church services at Bethel Assembly of God in Queens with Stanley Praimnath, the man he helped escape from the south tower.
His blood brother.

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Apple may have introduced a new 'in-cell' display with its iPhone 5 as recently as September, but new reports suggests that problems with the technology have led Apple to consider using a new 'touch-on' display in the next generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5S or iPhone 6.
According to China Times (Google Translation), Apple is working with LCD maker Chimei Innolux in Taiwan on the panels for its next generation devices. The report claims that "interference problems" with the iPhone 5's touchscreen, which include sensitivity issues such as the touch-based 'glitch' spotted in the device in November, mean Apple is planning to switch to a different technology for the next iPhone's display.
The new touch-on display technology allegedly being considered by Apple is said to be thin and tough. Industry rumours suggest that touch-on displays have already been sent to Apple's Cupertino campus for testing.
The iPhone 5's in-cell touch panel helped Apple make the device thinner than its predecessor, because it integrates the touch sensors and the display pixels into one component. But in combining the two, interference appears to have increased, resulting in the scrolling glitch as mentioned above.
China Times also highlights the manufacturing issues Apple faced when it launched the iPhone 5 in September. Reports claimed that suppliers struggled to make the iPhone 5's display fast enough to meet demand, because of the more difficult process needed to produce the in-cell screens.
See also:
Apple iWatch is future of wearable computing, could kill iPhone
iPhone 6 to launch in May with 8 colour options, 3 screen sizes, says analyst
iPhone 6 and iOS 7 spotted in app usage logs as Apple begins testing


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1344.8.55.001 - ACT Stats, 2006
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 09/05/2006
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State of mental wellbeing in the ACT
The majority of Canberrans are in good mental health, according to further analysis of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2004-05 National Health Survey (NHS).
Most (88%) ACT residents suffer from low or moderate levels of psychological distress which is similar to the national average. Between the 2001 and 2004-05 NHS there was an increase in the proportion of ACT residents reporting high or very high levels of psychological distress (from 9% in 2001 to 12% in 2004-05).
ACT residents also reported higher levels of long-term mental and behavioural problems than the national average (14% compared with 11% nationally).
Mood problems and anxiety were the most commonly reported conditions by ACT residents (7% and 6% respectively). People aged 24 years and younger had the lowest (10%) occurrences of long-term mental and behavioural problems, while those aged 45 years and over reported the highest at 16%.
Other key findings included:
Further details are in ACT Stats, April 2006 (cat. no. 1344.8.55.001), available free of charge from the ABS web site <www.abs.gov.au>.
Media note:
Psychological distress was measured using the Kessler 10 Scale. This is a scale based on 10 questions about negative emotional states in the four weeks prior to interview.
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After researching some pay per clicks sites out there, Brokers and Agents are paying upwards of $3.00 per click to capture these leads from other sources like Google. AR campaigns start at .49 cents per click. I can't emphasize enough the value and gold mine you're sitting on here. Please take a few moments to look into this, the urgency here is that if our members aren't interested and don't take advantage of these "campaigns" fairly soon, they will end up being sold to the larger companies who are already willing, able and want to capitalize on these Clicks.
ActiveRain members need to be aware of this while you have the opportunity to jump on it. This is HUGE!! We want our members to get first shot at directing these home searches to your IDX sites, and will do everything we can to get this information out there to every REALTOR®. Bob Stewart is doing a price comparison of some other pay per click sites to show you the difference in value here, I'll add that link shortly. I would also assume that the home searches conducted here are of higher "quality" than they may be on some of the other generic pay-per-click sites.
This is one of the most important posts and announcements I've written on ActiveRain. Home searches are taking place on Activerain right now, these stats are proof. We want YOU to be able to help complete the process in finding these people homes. Please, contact Bob or myself if you have any questions or need more information regarding these stats, or if you just need help setting up your hit router campaigns.
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Tottenham move within three points of English Premier League leaders Manchester City with 2-0 win over Everton.
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Tottenham's surprise challenge for the English Premier League title gathered pace as a 2-0 win over Everton moved the north Londoners within three points of leaders Manchester City on Wednesday.
Harry Redknapp's side are now level on points with second placed Manchester United and hot on City's heels after goals from Aaron Lennon and Benoit Assou-Ekotto shattered Everton's resistance at White Hart Lane.
England winger Lennon opened the scoring in the first half and Cameroon left-back Assou-Ekotto sealed the points with a majestic strike after the break.
Spurs – now nine points ahead of fifth placed rivals Arsenal – have lost only one of their last 18 league games and must be regarded as genuine contenders for the English title for the first time in over 20 years.
'Nothing's impossible'
"We're up there," Redknapp told Sky Sports.
"Who knows? Nothing's impossible, you have to keep believing and apart from that I enjoy the way we play.
"If you don't enjoy the way we play, then you shouldn't be watching football," he added.
This fixture was originally scheduled for the opening day of the season in August, but was postponed as a result of the London riots, presenting Tottenham with a valuable game in hand on their title rivals.
After decades without even a sniff of a challenge at the top of the table, it was a real test of Tottenham's mettle and they passed with flying colours.
There was an early sign of nerves when Spurs defender Younes Kaboul made a hash of clearing Landon Donovan's cross and Louis Saha pounced on the loose ball to drag his shot just wide.
But that narrow escape seemed to focus Redknapp's players and they enjoyed almost total control of possession for the rest of the first half.
The hosts probed intelligently and should have been ahead after Rafael van der Vaart started a blistering counter-attack with an incisive pass to Gareth Bale.
Bale's clipped ball presented Emmanuel Adebayor with a clear sight of goal but he miscued his attempt to flick over Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard and the chance was gone.
Tottenham were pressing hard and Adebayor poked a half-chance wide from close-range before van der Vaart's superb first-time effort from 20 yards curled just over.
Everton were beginning to wobble and some sloppy defending from Leighton Baines unhinged the visitors as Spurs took the lead in the 35th minute.
When Assou-Ekotto swept a long pass towards Lennon on the right flank, Baines should have snuffed out the danger.
Instead, the left-back allowed Lennon to wriggle past him and the winger took full advantage as he cut into the area and evaded Sylvain Distin before clipping a cool finish past Howard for his fourth goal of the season.
Bale showed his lung-bursting speed five minutes into the second half when he surged towards the Everton penalty area from deep inside his own half and drilled a shot that Howard did well to save after a deflection off Johnny Heitinga.
Everton had a rare sight of goal when Marouane Fellaini headed over from Donovan's cross, but the visitors suffered a blow when French centre-back Distin limped off to be replaced by the inexperienced Shane Duffy.
There was no time for Duffy to settle before Spurs increased their lead in sublime style in the 63rd minute.
Assou-Ekotto appeared to pose little threat when he received van der Vaart's pass 30 yards from goal, but the left-back advanced unchecked before smashing a ferocious drive that glanced off Tim Cahill as it flashed past Howard.
It was a remarkable way for Assou-Ekotto to score his first goal since August 2009 and there was no way back for Everton, who appealed in vain for a late penalty when Kaboul clipped Royston Drenthe.


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'Dating Game' killer Alcala faces trial in slaying of N.Y. women
California serial killer Rodney Alcala arrived in New York on Wednesday to stand trial in the killings of two women in the 1970s.
Manhattan prosecutors announced that Alcala was being extradicted to face charges in the slayings of Cornelia Crilley and Ellen Hover, according to the Associated Press and WCBS.
Authorities have long suspected that Alcala, who is now in a California prison under a death sentence, had struck outside of California.
The photographer and onetime "Dating Game" contestant was convicted in 2010 of murdering four Los Angeles County women and a 12-year-old girl from Huntington Beach in the late 1970s. He was sentenced to death.
After his conviction, police detectives released a trove of photographs of women and children they seized more than 30 years ago from a storage locker Alcala rented just as police were closing in on him. Detectives said they wanted to know who these people were and whether they might have gone missing during Alcala's murder spree in the late 1970s.
Hundreds of people called police in response to the photos. But it's unclear if the photos played a role in the New York cases.
New York police have long considered Alcala a suspect in the slayings of three women there, apparently including Crilley and Hover. Alcala lived in New York during that period.
Seattle police have also investigated him in connection with some unsolved slayings.
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Photo: Alcala in Orange County court in 2010. Credit: L.A. Times
1972 — Alcala is convicted in the 1968 rape and beating of an 8-year-old girl.
Nov. 10, 1977 — The body of 18-year-old Jill Barcomb is found in the Hollywood Hills. She had been sexually assaulted, bludgeoned and strangled with a pair of blue pants.
Dec. 16, 1977 — Georgia Wixted, 27, is found beaten to death at her home in Malibu. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
1978 — Alcala appears in an episode of "The Dating Game" as Bachelor No. 1.
June 24, 1978 — Charlotte Lamb, a 32-year-old legal secretary from Santa Monica, is found in the laundry room of an El Segundo apartment complex. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a shoelace.
June 14, 1979 — Jill Parenteau, 21, of Burbank is found strangled on the floor of her Burbank apartment.
June 20, 1979 – Robin Samsoe, 12, disappears near the Huntington Beach Pier. Her body is found 12 days later in the Sierra Madre foothills.
July 24, 1979 — Rodney James Alcala, an unemployed photographer, is arrested at his parents' Monterey Park home.
September 1980 – Alcala is convicted of the 1978 rape of a 15-year-old Riverside girl and sentenced to nine years in state prison.
June 20, 1980 — Orange County Superior Court Judge Philip E. Schwab sentences Alcala to death after he is convicted of Samsoe's murder.
July 11, 1980 — The Los Angeles County district attorney's office files murder, burglary and sexual assault charges against Alcala in the slaying of Parenteau.
April 15, 1981 — The L.A. district attorney's office tells a judge that prosecution of Alcala in the Parenteau case could not proceed because a key witness admitted that he had committed perjury in another case.
Aug. 23, 1984 — The state Supreme Court reversed Alcala's murder conviction in connection with Samsoe, ruling that the jury was improperly told about Alcala's prior sex crimes.
June 20, 1986 — For the second time, Alcala is convicted for Samsoe's murder and sentenced to death in Orange County Superior Court.
Dec. 31, 1992 — The California Supreme Court unanimously upholds Alcala's death sentence.
April 2, 2001 — A federal appellate court overturns Alcala's death sentence in the Samsoe case, ruling that the Superior Court judge precluded the defense from presenting evidence "material to significant issues."
June 5, 2003 — The Los Angeles County district attorney's office files murder charges against Alcala alleging that he killed Wixted during a burglary and rape.
Sept. 19, 2005 — Additional murder charges are filed against Alcala in connection to the deaths of Barcomb, Wixted and Lamb.
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As a pet owner, you probably do your best to avoid your pet getting fleas or ticks. If you don't know the basics of flea prevention for dogs and cats, here are some tips on how to treat pets for fleas and ticks, as well as ridding your home of the pesky insects.
If you have a tick on your skin, or on your pet's skin, the first task is to remove the tick using tweezers. Use a steady outward motion with the tweezers, and make sure that you have completely removed the tick -- sometimes its mouthparts can remain in the skin. Wash the area with soapy water, and sterilize the tweezers.
Since the tick may or may not have carried a disease, the next step is to be watchful of symptoms. For people, symptoms of a tick bite that carried a disease include fevers, aches, and a rash developing in the area of the bite. For pets, the symptoms can include a loss of appetite, stiff legs, or fever-like symptoms. If your pet experiences any of these symptoms, visit the vet immediately.
Fleas, like ticks, can carry diseases and cause irritation to your pet. To get rid of fleas, you'll need to attack at two stages of the life cycle: the adult and the not-yet-born egg. Fleas lay an extraordinary amount of eggs, so it's possible that you could kill all the living fleas on your pet and in your home, only to have a few weeks pass and the eggs hatch, starting the cycle all over again. To attack the eggs, you'll want to use a treatment method that has an insect growth regulator, or IGR, which prevents the fleas from being able to reproduce. This will halt fleas from creating endless eggs. Then, you'll just need to eliminate the already existing adults. Treatment options include oral medications, shampoos for your pet, and topical ointments such as Vectra 3D spot-on treatment.
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Large Hoop Earrings - Sapphire Blue Faceted Glass - 40mm - Sliver Colour
These earrings are from a collection of hoop designs I have made this season, which are very on trend at the moment.
They have been made with faceted sapphire blue glass beads, graduating from 4mm through to 8mm in size. The hoop itself is 40mm x30mm, so quite sizeable and made with silver plated copper wire. The ear hook is also in silver plated copper.
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Jorge Azuero (background) and Shea Thomas (foreground) captured a doubles title this past weekend at the UVa Fall Classic.
UVa Fall Classic Final Results
Junior Jorge Azuero posted a perfect weekend for the Liberty men's tennis team at the UVa Fall Classic en route to a title in the Green Singles bracket and a doubles championship in the Blue bracket with teammate Shea Thomas. Azuero's two titles mark the second straight year a Flame has won a title in both singles and doubles flights, matching Shea Thomas' two championships from a year ago.
Competing against players from nationally ranked schools such as Virginia, Cornell, Wake Forest and Virginia Tech, Liberty tallied 16 singles victories and six doubles wins over the course of the three-day tournament. The Flames' 16 singles victories mark a six-win improvement from last season.
"Our play this weekend was impressive," commented Liberty head coach Chris Johnson. "We took on really good competition and brought home a couple of titles and a lot of wins. The guys have been working so hard this semester and it's clear that it is paying off."
Azuero opened singles play with wins against Rafael Ribas of Virginia Tech, 6-3, 6-4, and College of Charleston's Josh Record, 6-2, 6-2. The junior defeated Cornell's Dylan Brown in the semifinals 7-5, 6-4 to advance to the title match against Sebastian Yllera of ETSU. After pulling out a 7-6 win in the first set, Azuero finished off Yllera in the second set, 6-3, to claim the title.
Azuero and Thomas, competing in the top doubles flight, pulled off a first round upset, defeating second-seeded Diego Nunez and Yllera of ETSU, 8-5. The Liberty duo continued their strong play with an 8-6 ousting of Virginia Tech's Jai Corbett and Florian Nicoud. In the final match, Thomas and Azuero downed Rob Stirling and Miljna Ruzic of James Madison, 8-5. It was Thomas' second doubles title in as many years at the UVa Fall Invite.
Also in singles play, Thomas made an impressive run through the top singles bracket, posting a 3-1 record and finishing in third place. The senior opened with a 6-1, 6-2 victory against Cornell's No. 2 singles player from last season, Alex Sydney. Thomas followed up his victory against Sydney with a 6-3, 6-3 win versus Ben Hoogland of William & Mary. In the semifinals, Thomas faced top-seeded Harrison Richmond of defending national champion Virginia. Richmond outlasted Thomas, 6-2, 6-4, sending Thomas to the third place match. Thomas bounced back in the third-place match, rolling past Nicky Kunz of Wake Forest, 6-2, 6-1.
Egon Samaai and Stan Vaughan each collected consolation titles in their respective singles brackets. Samaai downed No. 3 seed Daniel Grauel of Norfolk State in the Black bracket consolation final, while Vaughan ousted Radford's Joe Mills in straight sets in the White flight.
Freshman Alejandro Llamas picked up two singles wins for the Flames, while Guillem Secanell and Sergio Mourelo each won one singles match. Vaughan and Llamas recorded impressive results in the Gold doubles bracket. The duo routed second-seeded Nika Dolidize and Rami Labna, 8-1, in the opening round. The Flames' tandem went on to stun Virginia's pair of Alex Scheinman and Jonny Cornish, 8-6. In the finals, Vaughan and Llamas fell to William & Mary's Hoogland and John Banks, 8-4.
In addition to the Flames' strong play on the court, Johnson also sees continued growth in other areas. "The thing I am most proud is how much our guys are growing spiritually as a team," stated Johnson. "We are making an effort to bring Liberty, and all that it entails, to each tournament. God calls us to be a light and they are really doing a great job."
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Veteran radio announcer Warner Wolf has been dropped from doing weekday updates by ESPN 1050 in New York. Wolf had been doing sports updates for both ESPN and Don Imus on WABC.
In his blog "Watchdog," Newsday's Neil Best says Wolf was given a choice by ESPN 1050 management. Pick one job. ESPN made their decision after Imus made critical "personal" comments about ESPN Radio national hosts "Mike and Mike." Wolf chose to remain loyal to his primary meal ticket – Imus.
It's hard to believe Wolf is still working. He's 71-years-old and has been doing local television in New York (WABC and WCBS) and Washington D.C. since the early '60s. Unfortunately he was NEVER any good. He is so old that his catchphrase is "Let's go to the videotape." That's right, they didn't HAVE videotape when Warner Wolf started his tv career.
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Agreed. Nowadays kids are corrupted so early. I thought I knew about stuff early.. I'm 19 and I knew about stuff in like 3rd or 4th grade. Now it's hitting kids younger. So even though she does have some younger readers, chances are, they'll know about it already.StickStones&&Techno wrote:it's not like she has seven-year-olds reading her books; most of us here already know about secks.
and it's not like they'd actually show them in the process.
and besides, there's gonna be a warning before in the rating; if you're a parent and you see that rating and don't approve, don't let your kids watch it; it's that simple.


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Firefighter: Several injured in scaffolding accident at high school
Several people were injured in a scaffolding accident at a high school, according to the Marion Fire Department in McDowell County.
Assistant Chief Ray McDaniel told WYFF that emergency workers were called to McDowell High School in Marion, N.C. just after 10 a.m. Monday.
"The call said there had been a scaffolding collapse," McDaniel said.
A total of eight people who were working on a school building project were treated for injuries, McDaniel said.
Authorities say more than a dozen workers were on the scaffolding when it fell. Some of them fell more than 30 feet.
At least two of the injured were flown to hospitals for treatment. Six others with less-serious injuries were taken to hospitals in Asheville and Marion.
Two others were rescued with a ladder truck and had non-critical injuries, McDaniel said.
"We had a large scaffolding that had collapsed. One section was still up in the air with one patient on it," McDaniel said. "Another patient was stuck on top of an eight-inch block wall with nothing to hang onto."
McDaniel said firefighters from area departments helped with the rescue, along with the McDowell County Rescue Squad and McDowell County EMS.
"We have been through tower operations and we know how to conduct an aerial rescue," McDaniel said. "The most challenging part was getting into the construction site."
McDaniel said it is not yet clear was caused the scaffolding to collapse.
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State Senator may have an R next to his name, but his victory was down to the growing influence of grass roots America, not Judas goat partisans like Glenn Beck
Paul Joseph Watson
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Scott Brown's stunning underdog victory over Democrat Martha Coakley to become Massachusetts' next U.S. Senator is a crushing blow for the Obama administration's big government agenda – not because Brown has an R next to his name, and not because of Judas goats like Glenn Beck who will attempt to hijack genuine populism once again – but because his victory was thanks to the 51% of Independents who are now the majority in the state.
"The victory caps a dramatic surge in recent days as Brown, a state lawmaker from Wrentham once thought to have little chance of beating a popular attorney general, roared ahead of Coakley to become the first Republican senator elected from Massachusetts since 1972," reports the Boston Globe.
"In a race that became the center of national attention, Brown's win is widely seen as a vote against the president's agenda from one of the most reliably Democratic states. And in a particularly ironic twist, Brown, in succeeding Edward M. Kennedy — the late liberal lion who deemed health care "the cause of my life'' — may well be the 41st vote to prevent the Democratic-led plan from moving forward."
However, most corporate media reports about Brown's victory are absent the fact that 51% of Massachusetts voters are registered Independents. Additionally, for every Republican in Mass., there are three Democrats, illustrating that the outcome represents a wholesale rebellion of the Obama health care agenda from liberals who are now understanding its true intent – nothing more than a bailout for the insurance companies.
The manner of Brown's victory proves that the result isn't just a product of the two party monopoly see-sawing back and forth. Voters who are sick to the back teeth of government taking their liberties whether a Democrat or a Republican is in office are now slowly becoming the majority. The partisan sideshow of Democrat versus Republican is gradually starting to implode as Democrats and liberal Independents quickly wake up to the fact that Obama's promises of hope and change were completely hollow and that the man is little more than another stooge for the military-industrial complex in the same vein as Bush.
Brown's victory cannot be spun as anything other than a victory for self-governance and a complete rejection of the Obama administration's nanny state agenda.
However, this bombshell sea change can only mean something in the long term if Judas goats like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and others are prevented from hijacking genuine populism and diluting it down to more meaningless political partisanship, as they did with the tea party movement.
Big government media pimps are devastated by Brown's victory because, as many observers are saying, it likely signals the death blow for Obama's socialist health care agenda.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who last month hailed Communist ideologue and Stalinist Saul Alinsky as one of his heroes, made no attempt to hide his fury at the idea of Brown beating Coakley during a Hardball intro earlier this week.
"It's that rare election where voters know exactly what they're voting on. If they're with Democrat Martha Coakley they get health care reform. If they go for Republican Scott Brown it's deliberate, premeditated murder for health care!" screeched Matthews.
Watch the clip below.
This article was posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 10:56 am