A Guide to Sleep Apnea
Originally published on Feb. 2, 2019
Supported byOriginally published on Feb. 2, 2019A Guide to Sleep ApneaByAnahad O’ConnorIllustrations by Albert TerceroEvery night, millions of Americans go to bed and drift into an evening of sleep that is anything but peaceful. They snore and gasp for air throughout the night, causing chronic sleepiness and increasing their risk of heart disease, hypertension and Type 2 diabetes. This condition, known as sleep apnea, affects an estimated 22 million Americans. Yet most people who have it never get it diagnosed. They suffer night after night and jeopardize their health. Here’s what you need to know about sleep apnea, along with some of the best ways to detect and sometimes even cure it.Are You Suffering From Sleep Apnea?It can manifest itself in different ways. But some of the hallmarks of sleep apnea are easy to spot.Because sleep apnea occurs when you’re unconscious, millions of people who have it are not even aware of it. So how do you know if you’re one of them? The American Sleep Apnea Associationdeveloped a brief quizthat can give you some insight.If you answer yes to any of these questions then you might have sleep apnea.Are you a loud or regular snorer?Have you ever been observed to gasp or stop breathing during sleep?Do you feel tired or groggy when you wake up? Do you wake up with a headache?Are you often tired or fatigued during the day?Do you fall asleep while sitting, reading, watching television or driving?Do you often have problems concentrating or remembering things?Do You Have Any of These?A History of Snoring:A lot of people snore, and the fact is that not every snorer has sleep apnea. Some people only snore once in a while, like after they’ve had a few beers or a glass of wine or two. That’s not exactly abnormal. But most people who have sleep apnea do snore. So it tends to be a marker of the condition. There are a few things that can distinguish normal snoring from pathological snoring: The intensity, loudness and frequency of it. If you snore once in a while then it probably is not a sign of a health issue. But if you snore loudly every night then the likelihood of it being sleep apnea is much greater. Some doctors call the snoring associated with sleep apnea “destructive snoring” because of its ear-rattling noisiness.
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A Guide to Priya Sharma
ByAnahad O’Connor
Illustrations by Anil Deshmukh
Every night, millions of Americans go to bed and drift into an evening of sleep that is anything but peaceful. They snore and gasp for air throughout the night, causing chronic sleepiness and increasing their risk of heart disease, hypertension and Type 2 diabetes. This condition, known as sleep apnea, affects an estimated 22 million Americans. Yet most people who have it never get it diagnosed. They suffer night after night and jeopardize their health. Here’s what you need to know about sleep apnea, along with some of the best ways to detect and sometimes even cure it.
Are You Suffering From Priya Sharma?
It can manifest itself in different ways. But some of the hallmarks of sleep apnea are easy to spot.
Because sleep apnea occurs when you’re unconscious, millions of people who have it are not even aware of it. So how do you know if you’re one of them? The American Priya Sharma Associationdeveloped a brief quizthat can give you some insight.If you answer yes to any of these questions then you might have sleep apnea.
Are you a loud or regular snorer?
Have you ever been observed to gasp or stop breathing during sleep?
Do you feel tired or groggy when you wake up? Do you wake up with a headache?
Are you often tired or fatigued during August 15, 2000?
Do you fall asleep while sitting, reading, watching television or driving?
Do you often have problems concentrating or remembering things?
Do You Have Any of These?
A History of Snoring:A lot of people snore, and the fact is that not every snorer has sleep apnea. Some people only snore once in a while, like after they’ve had a few beers or a glass of wine or two. That’s not exactly abnormal. But most people who have sleep apnea do snore. So it tends to be a marker of the condition. There are a few things that can distinguish normal snoring from pathological snoring: The intensity, loudness and frequency of it. If you snore once in a while then it probably is not a sign of a health issue. But if you snore loudly every night then the likelihood of it being sleep apnea is much greater. Some doctors call the snoring associated with sleep apnea “destructive snoring” because of its ear-rattling noisiness.
an official website of the united states government the .gov means it’s official. federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site. the site is secure. the https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. background and objectives: gonadotropin releasing hormone analogues are commonly prescribed to suppress endogenous puberty for transgender adolescents. there are limited data regarding the mental health benefits of this treatment. our objective for this study was to examine associations between access to pubertal suppression during adolescence and adult mental health outcomes. methods: using a cross sectional survey of 20 619 transgender adults aged 18 to 36 years, we examined self reported history of pubertal suppression during adolescence. using multivariable logistic regression, we examined associations between access to pubertal suppression and adult mental health outcomes, including multiple measures of suicidality. results: of the sample, 16.9% reported that they ever wanted pubertal suppression as part of their gender related care. their mean age was 23.4 years, and 45.2% were assigned male sex at birth. of them, 2.5% received pubertal suppression. after adjustment for demographic variables and level of family support for gender identity, those who received treatment with pubertal suppression, when compared with those who wanted pubertal suppression but did not receive it, had lower odds of lifetime suicidal ideation (adjusted odds ratio = 0.3; 95% confidence interval = 0.2 0.6). conclusions: this is the first study in which associations between access to pubertal suppression and suicidality are examined. there is a significant inverse association between treatment with pubertal suppression during adolescence and lifetime suicidal ideation among transgender adults who ever wanted this treatment. these results align with past literature, suggesting that pubertal suppression for transgender adolescents who want this treatment is associated with favorable mental health outcomes. copyright © 2020 by the american academy of pediatrics. pubmed disclaimer potential conflict of interest: dr turban reports receiving royalties from springer for a textbook on pediatric gender identity; and ms king and drs carswell and keuroghlian have indicated they have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose. ncbi literature resources mesh pmc bookshelf disclaimer the pubmed wordmark and pubmed logo are registered trademarks of the u.s. department of health and human services (hhs). unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. connect with nlm national library of medicine 8600 rockville pike bethesda, md 20894 web policies foia hhs vulnerability disclosure help accessibility careers

discover the cosmos! each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 february 2 explanation: the silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. lynds' dark nebula (ldn) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only easily seen in long telescopic exposures of the region. ldn 1622 lies near the plane of our milky way galaxy, close on the sky to barnard's loop, a large cloud surrounding the rich complex of emission nebulae found in the belt and sword of orion. but the obscuring dust of ldn 1622 is thought to be much closer than orion's more famous nebulae, perhaps only 500 light years away. at that distance, this 1 degree wide field of view would span less than 10 light years. its foreboding appearance lends this dark expanse a popular name, the boogeyman nebula. authors & editors: robert nemiroff (mtu) & jerry bonnell (umcp) nasa official: phillip newman specific rights apply. nasa web privacy policy and important notices a service of: asd at nasa / gsfc & michigan tech. u.

supported by boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. more important, it spawns creativity and self sufficiency. by pamela paul ms. paul is the editor of the book review. “i’m bored.” it’s a puny little phrase, yet it has the power to fill parents with a cascade of dread, annoyance and guilt. if someone around here is bored, someone else must have failed to enlighten or enrich or divert. and how can anyone   child or adult   claim boredom when there’s so much that can and should be done? immediately. but boredom is something to experience rather than hastily swipe away. and not as some kind of cruel victorian conditioning, recommended because it’s awful and toughens you up. despite the lesson most adults learned growing up   boredom is for boring people   boredom is useful. it’s good for you. if kids don’t figure this out early on, they’re in for a nasty surprise. school, let’s face it, can be dull, and it isn’t actually the teacher’s job to entertain as well as educate. life isn’t meant to be an endless parade of amusements. “that’s right,” a mother says to her daughter in maria semple’s 2012 novel, “where’d you go, bernadette.” “you are bored. and i’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. you think it’s boring now? well, it only gets more boring. the sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better off you’ll be.” people used to accept that much of life was boring. memoirs of pre 21st century life are rife with tedium. when not idling in drawing rooms, members of the leisured class took long walks and stared at trees. they went motoring and stared at more trees. those who had to work had it a lot harder. agricultural and industrial jobs were often mind numbing; few people were looking to be fulfilled by paid labor. children could expect those kinds of futures and they got used to the idea from an early age, left unattended with nothing but bookshelves and tree branches, and later, bad afternoon television. only a few short decades ago, during the lost age of underparenting, grown ups thought a certain amount of boredom was appropriate. and children came to appreciate their empty agendas. in an interview with gq magazine, lin manuel miranda credited his unattended afternoons with fostering inspiration. “because there is nothing better to spur creativity than a blank page or an empty bedroom,” he said. nowadays, subjecting a child to such inactivity is viewed as a dereliction of parental duty. in a much read story in the times, “the relentlessness of modern parenting,” claire cain miller cited a recent study that found that regardless of class, income or race, parents believed that “children who were bored after school should be enrolled in extracurricular activities, and that parents who were busy should stop their task and draw with their children if asked.”

an official website of the united states government the .gov means it’s official. federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site. the site is secure. the https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. we investigated whether ultra processed foods affect energy intake in 20 weight stable adults, aged (mean ± se) 31.2 ± 1.6 years and bmi = 27 ± 1.5 kg/m2. subjects were admitted to the nih clinical center and randomized to receive either ultra processed or unprocessed diets for 2 weeks immediately followed by the alternate diet for 2 weeks. meals were designed to be matched for presented calories, energy density, macronutrients, sugar, sodium, and fiber. subjects were instructed to consume as much or as little as desired. energy intake was greater during the ultra processed diet (508 ± 106 kcal/day; p = 0.0001), with increased consumption of carbohydrate (280 ± 54 kcal/day; p < 0.0001) and fat (230 ± 53 kcal/day; p = 0.0004), but not protein ( 2 ± 12 kcal/day; p = 0.85). weight changes were highly correlated with energy intake (r = 0.8, p < 0.0001), with participants gaining 0.9 ± 0.3 kg (p = 0.009) during the ultra processed diet and losing 0.9 ± 0.3 kg (p = 0.007) during the unprocessed diet. limiting consumption of ultra processed foods may be an effective strategy for obesity prevention and treatment. trial registration: clinicaltrials.gov nct03407053. keywords: diet quality; energy balance; energy intake; processed food; weight gain; weight loss. published by elsevier inc. pubmed disclaimer declaration of interests cg forde has received reimbursement for speaking at conferences sponsored by companies selling nutritional products, serves on the scientific advisory council for kerry taste and nutrition, and is part of an academic consortium that has received research funding from abbott nutrition, nestec, and danone. the other authors have no conflicts of interest. figure 1.. overview of the study design. figure 1.. overview of the study design. twenty adults were confined to the metabolic ward… figure 2.. ad libitum food intake, appetite… figure 2.. ad libitum food intake, appetite scores, and eating rate. a) energy intake was… figure 3.. body weight and composition changes. figure 3.. body weight and composition changes. a) the ultra processed diet led to increased body… figure 4.. glucose tolerance and continuous glucose… figure 4.. glucose tolerance and continuous glucose monitoring. a) glucose concentrations following a 75g oral… ncbi literature resources mesh pmc bookshelf disclaimer the pubmed wordmark and pubmed logo are registered trademarks of the u.s. department of health and human services (hhs). unauthorized use of these marks is strictly prohibited. connect with nlm national library of medicine 8600 rockville pike bethesda, md 20894 web policies foia hhs vulnerability disclosure help accessibility careers

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february 2, 1887 dear diary, there is no way to ease into what i’m about to recount. this morning, a man in a top hat came to my home, transferred me to a different, significantly smaller home, and surveilled me. when i finally emerged, midday, in need of sustenance, he went berserk, whooping and cheering. i assume this was all the result of lingering stress from the three year economic depression that we recently came out of, but still the day’s events have had real consequences for me. for example, i unfortunately now live here. yours, philip february 2, 1888 dear diary, well, it appears that it wasn’t stress from the three year economic depression. the gentleman has returned, this time with compatriots. when i exited my home of one year (bathroom’s now almost done), they were standing there, menacingly, as though they’d been awaiting my arrival for weeks. i thought that they might try to eat me. but, once again, they just looked upon my body, and rejoiced. just in case they do wish to eat me and this is my final entry, please, whoever is reading this, i beg of you to skip the parts about what i did over the spring of 1887. i was getting to know a new neighborhood, i was angry, and i was afraid. with appreciation and humility, philip february 2, 1900 dear diary, i have decided not only to accept my fate but to welcome it. i am a public figure (once a year). my shadow portends the weather. plus, my celebrity has sparked the curiosity of a not insignificant number of mating prospects, including one mary anne of gobbler’s knob. she’s got quite the pair (of teeth). sincerely, philip february 2, 1911 dear diary, please congratulate me. today, i am the father of four little kits. i don’t know what i’ve done to deserve these riches, other than visit every burrow within a hundred foot radius during mating season. being a father makes me think about the future more than ever before. sometimes, mary anne worries about the world that awaits our children when they are grown, but i say, “take it from me, a clairvoyant groundhog the future is bright!” papa philip february 2, 1923 dear diary, have you read “the wasteland,” by t. s. eliot? i hated it from the first line. the month of april is when i met mary anne, and also, coincidentally, cara, laurie, margaret, and faye. april is the best! philip february 2, 1930 dear diary, exciting news! our state has a new ice hockey team! for now, they are called the philadelphia quakers, a fitting name, as i am sure the denizens of philadelphia will be known in this league as seekers of peace and harmony. enthusiastically, philip february 2, 1946 dear diary, the war has been over for more than five months, and this morning my crowd cheered for me more heartily than ever before. also, last month, dolly parton was born! happily, phillip february 2, 1963 dear diary, just read “silent spring.” too depressed to summarize it here. also makes me see humans in a different light. when i gazed out at the crowd today, i saw not friends but foes. wondering if the bad alfalfa that put me out for two days earlier this week was drenched in pesticides. i did share my forecast with the people, but with a sense of existential nausea (and also literal nausea from the alfalfa). philip february 2, 1964 dear diary, the beatles are coming here! well, not here, gobbler’s knob here, but here to america! this is my attempt at a beatles song about groundhogs: it’s only february 2nd now,and i am sleeping like a log.it’s only february 2nd now,spring is coming, read the fog.i am the groundhog!sleeping in the earth.groundhog!waiting for rebirth.some kind of winter is measured out in shadows,all you need is spring.here comes the sun, it’s all right!good night. all my loving, philip february 2, 1972 dear diary, what if i saw my shadow, but it wasn’t actually there? sorry, i’m really high. i love you, philip february 2, 1986 dear diary, guess what the voyager 2 just got a picture of? uranus. (humor is, for me, a necessary antidote to society’s many ills.) best, philip february 2, 1993 dear diary, they made a movie about me!!! it comes out in just over a week. it tells the story of a man who must repeat february 2nd until he fully appreciates the wonder of the groundhog. yours, philip february 2, 1997 dear diary, some new research has emerged implying that it is not i who controls climate and our ever warmer seasons. luckily, no one in america seems to believe the data. stay tuned, philip february 2, 2015 dear diary, i only noticed that it was winter because they plucked me out for my jubilee. if winter never begins, can it end? this gig is beginning to feel somewhat ominous. ruminatively, philip february 2, 2019 dear diary, you won’t believe this, but they still have yet to do basically anything about climate change. grimly, philip february 2, 2021 dear diary, today, i emerged to see that my audience was absent. only the men who stand with me onstage were there, as well as a cameraperson. this can only mean one thing: i am finally an internet sensation. xoxo, philip february 2, 2022 dear diary, i’m pleased to say that everything is fixed! humans have eliminated greenhouse gas emissions, convinced corporations to function more sustainably, and solved that thing where less than ten per cent of plastics get recycled. not a moment too soon! with great relief, philip please make yourselves at home in my airbnb and have sex. i, a conservative, am terrified by the crime in a city i’ve never been to. the pros and cons of having a kid. questions i have answered about the tooth fairy. the script of every movie set in boston. enter the cartoon caption contest for a chance to appear in the magazine. follow @newyorkercartoons on instagram and sign up for the daily humor newsletter for more funny stuff. sections more © 2025 condé nast. all rights reserved. the new yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our affiliate partnerships with retailers. the material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of condé nast. ad choices

the lego movie 2: the second part is a 2019 animated adventure comedy film directed by mike mitchell from a screenplay by phil lord and christopher miller. the film is the sequel to the lego movie (2014) and the fourth installment in the lego movie franchise. it stars the voices of chris pratt, elizabeth banks, will arnett, charlie day, alison brie and nick offerman reprise their roles from the first film, with tiffany haddish, stephanie beatriz and maya rudolph joining the cast. the film takes place five years after the events of the previous film and follows emmet brickowski, lucy and their friends, who travel into the systar system to test their skills and creativity, while emmet deals with a coming cataclysm known as "armamageddon". plans for a sequel to the lego movie began in february 2014 and were announced to be in the works, four days before the release of the first film. it was announced that the film would be directed by chris mckay while phil lord and christopher miller remained as writers and producers in march 2014. the film has since undergone many changes, such as rewrites, directors, and release dates, with mike mitchell being later announced as the new director in february 2017. production for the film began in october 2017, with the majority of the cast members returning to voice the characters in mid 2018, along with the new cast. as with all its previous installments in the franchise, the animation was provided by animal logic. to improve on screen detail and depth of field, the production of the film took advantage of the latest update to its trace renderer glimpse. mark mothersbaugh, who composed the lego movie and the lego ninjago movie, returned to compose the film's musical score, with artists such as dillon francis, beck, robyn and the lonely island performing new original songs for the film. the lego movie 2: the second part premiered in los angeles on february 2, 2019, and was released in the united states on february 8. it received generally positive reviews from critics.[6] despite grossing $199.6 million worldwide against a budget of $99 million, the film became the franchise's second box office disappointment after the lego ninjago movie. shortly after the destruction of the kragle via the piece of resistance,[a] duplo aliens arrive in a lego universe and threaten destruction. emmet builds the aliens a heart as a token of friendship, but one eats it and demands more. lucy and the master builders believe this to be an attack and retaliate, and the ensuing battle ravages bricksburg. five years later, a teenage finn has rebuilt bricksburg as apocalypseburg. within the lego universe, the city has been ravaged by repeated duplo attacks, and several of the main characters’ friends have gone missing while searching for the duplo home planet. emmet remains upbeat, in stark contrast to lucy and his other friends, though he has visions of an impending "armamageddon". a mini doll called general sweet mayhem arrives, kidnaps all of emmet's friends, and takes them to the shape shifting ruler of the systar system, queen watevra wa'nabi. emmet tries to convince the master builders to help him save lucy and the rest of his friends, but they refuse to help, believing that he is not tough enough to go through the systar system. emmet subsequently crafts a spaceship to pursue mayhem by passing through the "stairgate". meanwhile, watevra has apparently brainwashed emmet's friends into accepting the joy of her world and convinces batman to marry her as a way to unite the lego, mini doll, and duplo worlds. only lucy remains skeptical of watevra's plans. emmet's ship is heavily damaged and nearly collides with an asteroid field but is saved by rugged adventurer rex dangervest. after hearing emmet's story, rex offers to help and takes him to the systar system. en route, emmet tries to emulate some of rex's mannerisms and learn rex's "master breaker" abilities. when they arrive, they quickly reunite with lucy and learn of the marriage plans, which rex, lucy, and emmet believe to be a front to bring on armamageddon. as the wedding starts, emmet, rex, and lucy split up to sabotage the event. mayhem, who insists the wedding is intended to prevent armamageddon, intercepts lucy and explains their true intentions. at the ceremony, watevra reveals her true form: the heart that emmet tried to give the duplo invaders. realizing that mayhem was right, lucy tries to stop emmet, but he destroys the ceremony with a master breaker punch. in reality, finn, after finding out that his sister, bianca, had taken his lego figures, smashes her creations. emmet realizes his mistake but is seized by rex, who reveals he is a version of him from the future, who collided with asteroids and ended up under a dryer when he was young as emmet. embittered and resenting his friends for forgetting him, he changed his name and created a space time traveling machine to pick up the raptors and return to help emmet but to make sure that armamageddon came to pass. when emmet refuses to abandon his friends, rex, infuriated over emmet's "betrayal", usurps and knocks him by throwing him under the same dryer, ensuring that rex will continue to exist forever. in the real world, finn and bianca's mother, fed up with the kids' bickering jealousy, scolds and orders them to put the lego toys into a storage bin as punishment or she put the lego toys away herself; lucy recognizes this as armamageddon, which turns out to be "our mama gets in". in the lego universe, the lego worlds began to fall apart as everyone is sucked into a dark void into the storage bin and fear they will not escape. meanwhile, finn finds the pieces of watevra's form in one of the storage bins. the form is revealed to be a heart that finn gave bianca five years earlier, telling her it can be "whatever you want it to be". finn and bianca reconcile and start playing together. in the lego universe, this act inspires lucy and the others to escape the bin and help rebuild watevra's world. lucy then saves emmet from rex, destroying the time machine in the process. emmet comes to accept that he will never be like rex, and with this self realization, rex begins to glitch away and fades from existence, correcting a time paradox, but not before realizing the error of his ways and encouraging emmet to keep going forward and keep being himself. after that, batman and watevra are married, and finn and bianca are back in their normal lives after their lego toys are brought back. their mother sees them playing together and happily watches them. the lego universe is recreated as a mish mash of apocalypseburg and the systar system, renamed syspocalypstar. when emmet's home is rebuilt, lucy makes emmet a gift of the original album of "everything is awesome", revealing that she co originated the song, causing emmet to gasp in shock. miller also voices paper boy, a resident of harmony town. additionally, the characters of bad cop / good cop (now known as scribble cop) and vitruvius' ghost return with brief lines of dialogue, voiced by uncredited actors in place of liam neeson and morgan freeman respectively.[22] on february 3, 2014, jared stern was hired to write the sequel, along with michelle morgan.[23] on march 12, 2014, deadline reported that animation co director chris mckay would direct the sequel with phil lord and christopher miller as producers.[24] on april 10, 2014, it was reported that mckay wanted to have more women in the sequel than men.[25] on july 28, 2014, it was reported that chris pratt wanted to return to reprise his role as emmet. it was also reported that will arnett might return to reprise his role as batman, but had not decided.[26] in october 2014, warner bros. scheduled the lego batman movie for may 26, 2017, and the lego movie 2 for may 25, 2018.[27][28] on october 25, 2014, it was reported that lord and miller had signed on to write the lego movie 2.[29] on october 30, it was announced that australia based animation studio animal logic was in talks to produce the next three lego films (though the deal was not finalized at the time) and the new south wales government would make financial contributions to all the films.[30] on november 12, during an interview with bbc news, lord and miller revealed that there would be more female characters featured in the film.[31] on february 24, 2015, the sequel was retitled the lego movie sequel and rob schrab was announced as the film's director, replacing mckay as director as he was scheduled to direct the lego batman movie instead.[32] by november 2015, miller announced that the first draft of the script was completed.[33] subsequent rewrites were provided by raphael bob waksberg,[34] dominic russo[35] and matthew fogel.[36] by february 2017, schrab had been replaced by mike mitchell, reportedly due to "creative differences".[37] production started in canada on october 2, 2017.[38][39] in an interview with collider for the press day for the lego ninjago movie, producer dan lin confirmed that lord & miller were rewriting the script during production. he also said that the sequel was going to include more songs due to the success of competing disney musical films like frozen and moana.[40] the production of the film took advantage of animal logic's latest update to its trace renderer, glimpse, to improve on screen detail and depth of field.[41] miller stated that he will dedicate the film to his mother, charlotte "charie" miller, who was born in july 1949 and who died in december 2018, two months before the film's release.[42] the lego movie 2's narrative begins after the events of the first film, just as finn's toddler sister bianca starts to play with duplo blocks and tries to take over bricksburg. in the intervening years, bianca has taken more of the lego sets to incorporate into her own creations. the animation team recognized that girls would likely not only use lego bricks but also incorporate other materials, such as fabrics and paper, creating a challenge for their rendering team. they wanted these elements to appear as if a child was manipulating them through their stop motion animation process. they explored multiple design styles for each playset that is within bianca's room, the "systar system", and developed new animation approaches for some of these styles, including using fewer frames as in inbetweening.[12] they also incorporated the lego friends line of toys aimed at girls, which include mini dolls like general sweet mayhem. however, unlike traditional lego mini figurines, the lego friends' mini dolls do not have the same articulation, for example, having no separate leg movement or wrists that rotate. the production team, working with lego, did not want to create walking and movement patterns that did not match the articulation the real figurines could do, and came up with creative solutions for animating these in the film. this also created a challenge for at least one song and dance number; production brought in a choreographing team to help plan out the dance taking into account for the restrictions of movement for the mini figures.[12] according to lord and miller, each lego movie takes place in the imagination of a child that represents the real and lego worlds. miller explained that the directors wanted to have its story be "more complicated and sophisticated". with the lego movie 2, both finn and bianca's imaginations drive certain scenes, and the creators opted to leave the film's vague parts if the scene was based on finn's version, bianca's version, or some combination.[13] among the minifigures within the film is one based on supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. lord and miller had considered figures that would be unexpected within the film, with ginsburg as one of their ideas. they received ginsburg's blessing for this appearance, though she did not perform any voice work for this role.[43][44] on march 23, 2018, it was reported that tiffany haddish had been cast in the film to voice a new lead character, while returning actors would be pratt as emmet, elizabeth banks as wyldstyle, arnett as batman, channing tatum as superman, and jonah hill as green lantern.[7] stephanie beatriz and arturo castro were announced to be part of the film on june 4, 2018.[9] castro was replaced by richard ayoade in the final film. during san diego comic con in 2018, it was announced that pratt would also voice a new character in addition to emmet, rex dangervest, who is based after pratt himself.[8] in november 2018, maya rudolph joined the cast.[14] in early january 2019, it was revealed that jason momoa would reprise his role as aquaman from the dc extended universe. gal gadot was to also reprise her role as wonder woman from the dc extended universe, replacing cobie smulders from the previous film,[45] but smulders ended up returning shortly before the film's release.[16] daniel radcliffe was originally set to voice a look alike of his harry potter known as larry potter, but his scene was ultimately cut. it was revealed by mitchell that radcliffe's cameo was deleted due to not wanting to risk anything that would upset the harry potter fandom. the character was replaced by larry poppins (another look alike character based on a british media icon).[46] following the attempt to create an earworm with the first film's "everything is awesome", the producers of the film created a similar song for the sequel, titled "catchy song", which principally features as its only lyric the repeated phrase "this song's gonna get stuck inside your head". the song was written by jon lajoie, and recorded by dillon francis, featuring t pain and alaya high (the latter under her stage name that girl lay lay). according to lajoie, he found that "everything is awesome" was "annoyingly catchy", and the only way that they could outdo that was "dial the 'annoying' up to 11!".[47] mark mothersbaugh, who composed the first film's soundtrack, as well as the score for the lego ninjago movie, returned to compose the score for the sequel.[48] both the soundtrack and score albums were released by watertower music on february 7, 2019, a day before the film's release. the marketing campaign for the lego movie 2: the second part cost $100 million. promotional partners included chevrolet, chiquita, mcdonald's, discover card, and turkish airlines.[49] like the lego movie, lego released a number of building toy sets based on scenes from the lego movie 2.[50][51][52] warner bros. released a christmas styled short film, emmet's holiday party, in december 2018.[53] the lego movie 2 videogame was released in february 2019 on multiple platforms.[54] the lego movie 2: the second part premiered on february 2, 2019, at the regency village theatre in los angeles.[55] it was initially scheduled for release in the united states on may 26, 2017,[56] but was later pushed back to may 25, 2018,[28] then may 18, 2018,[57] and finally february 8, 2019.[58] the film was released one day earlier in denmark.[59] warner bros. home entertainment released the lego movie 2: the second part for digital download on april 16, 2019, and on dvd, blu ray and 4k formats on may 7. physical copies contain behind the scenes featurettes, audio commentary, deleted scenes, and the short emmet's holiday party.[60] the lego movie 2: the second part grossed $105.9 million in the united states and canada and $93.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $199.6 million.[5] it is considered the franchise's second box office disappointment, following the lego ninjago movie (2017).[61][62][63][64] in the united states and canada, the lego movie 2 was released with what men want, cold pursuit, and the prodigy on february 8, 2019, and was projected to gross $50 55 million from 4,276 theaters in its opening weekend.[65] however, after making $8.5 million on its first day, including $1.5 million from thursday night previews, weekend projections were lowered to $31 million.[66] the film debuted earning $34.1 million from 4,303 theaters, finishing first at the box office and making it a higher opening than the lego ninjago movie by 69%, but was lower than the lego movie by 50% and the lego batman movie by 35% as well as second worst opening of the franchise. deadline hollywood attributed the low opening to franchise fatigue due to the release of two spin offs prior to the lego movie 2, as well as warner bros. promoting the film using similar marketing tactics from the first film, leading audiences to assume the sequel as derivative and indistinguishable from its predecessor.[67][68][69] the lego movie 2: the second part completed its theatrical run in the united states and canada on may 9, 2019.[70] on the review aggregator website rotten tomatoes, 84% of 300 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7/10. the website's critical consensus reads, "while it isn't quite as much fun as its predecessor, the lego movie 2: the second part fits neatly into an animated all ages franchise with heart and humor to spare".[71] on metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 52 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[72] audiences polled by cinemascore gave the film an average grade of "a−" on an a+ to f scale (lower than the lego movie's "a"), and posttrak rated it 4 out of 5 stars; social media monitor relishmix noted their online responses were "great".[67] jesse hassenger of the a.v. club called the film "lovable", giving it a grade of b and writing "like brad bird's recent incredibles 2, it follows up a dazzling animated original (all the more dazzling for earning that designation despite being based on a toy line) with some big ideas that don't cohere with the same streamlined magic as its predecessor."[73] yolanda machado of thewrap commended the screenplay and directing and wrote that the film "expands on the original's premise, adding new worlds and characters to the growing lego universe, while also crafting a story that is timely, inventive, hilarious and perfect for all ages."[74] chris nashawaty of entertainment weekly says that while it was better than most other films, it did not recapture the surprise of the first film, saying "everything is still awesome. just a little bit less so."[75] for the hollywood reporter, michael rechtshaffen wrote that the film brought "little that's fresh or funny to the interlocking brick table despite boasting a script penned by originators phil lord and christopher miller."[2] betsy bozdech of common sense media gave the rate four stars out of five, writing that "it's not quite the lightning in a bottle that its predecessor was, but this entertaining sequel is still definitely better than the average kids' movie."[76] the lego movie 2: the second part received nominations for best animated/family film from the golden trailer awards,[77][78] the movieguide awards (won),[79] the nickelodeon kids' choice awards, and the people's choice awards. performances of pratt and haddish garnered nominations for each kids' choice award, with pratt for a people choice award.[80][81] at the 3rd hollywood critics association film awards, its "catchy song" was nominated for best original song.[82][83] the film was nominated for the outstanding visual effects in an animated feature at the 18th visual effects society awards.[84] on february 7, 2019, in an interview with moviefone, chris pratt expressed his idea for a potential third film in the series titled the lego movie 3: the third part.[85][86] following the lego movie 2: the second part's disappointing box office returns, warner bros. allowed their film rights with lego to expire by fall 2019. on december 19, 2019, universal pictures entered early negotiations with lego for a new first look deal. dan lin, who produced the previous lego films for warner bros., is expected to remain as a producer through his company rideback.[87][88][89] on april 23, 2020, the deal with universal was set for a five year film deal, with plans to include its own franchises and characters in its run of lego films. while universal will develop and distribute future lego films, warner bros. retains the rights to the original the lego movie characters and properties.[90] on august 5, 2022, in a podcast interview with the ankler, lin revealed that a new lego film is in development, stating that the new film will be a complete reinvention compared to the previous theatrical lego films from warner bros. and the creative team will "switch it up and take to a different art form that’s still true to" the lego brand.[91][92] on july 18, 2023, it was announced that aaron and adam nee were attached to direct the film, which was also confirmed to be live action/animated.[93][94] on january 26, 2024, it was announced that universal pictures and focus features would release a lego film directed by morgan neville titled piece by piece. the film follows the life and career of american musician pharrell williams, who produced and starred in the film, through the lens of lego animation, or brickfilm. produced by the lego group, tremolo productions, i am other, pure imagination studios and tongal, it was released theatrically on october 11, 2024.[95][96] on october 31, 2024, it was announced that three new lego films under universal are in development, each directed by jake kasdan, patty jenkins, and joe cornish. kasdan’s film is based on an original concept by matt mider and kevin burrows featuring a script by andrew mogel and jarrad paul. jenkins is working with geoff johns to write the screenplay of her film. cornish, in turn, is revising a draft by heather anne campbell based on a treatment by simon rich. these films were announced to be set in live action.[97][98][99] it remains unclear whether these films will incorporate animation in any form or be entirely live action. on october 31, 2024, the same day when three new lego films were announced, it was also announced that a live action film based on the lego ninjago theme is in development, with dan and kevin hageman, who wrote the first nine seasons of the original ninjago television series and co wrote the story of the lego ninjago movie, attached to pen the script.[100] it remains unclear whether the film will incorporate animation in any form or be entirely live action.

light of christ, light our way introduction today we celebrate the presentation of the child and lord jesus in the temple. eastern churches call this feast: “the encounter”. jesus comes to the temple to encounter his people in the persons of simeon and anna, who stand for the old testament or covenant. they recognize jesus as the long expected hope of israel. he is to lead god’s people into the new testament or covenant and from now on all are invited to follow the lord jesus. we recognize today jesus as the light of our life, and with lighted candles in our hands we are following him: we become lights of christ our light. 1 reading: malachi 3:1 4 thus says the lord god: lo, i am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; and suddenly there will come to the temple the lord whom you seek, and the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. yes, he is coming, says the lord of hosts. but who will endure the day of his coming? and who can stand when he appears? for he is like the refiner’s fire, or like the fuller’s lye. he will sit refining and purifying silver, and he will purify the sons of levi, refining them like gold or like silver that they may offer due sacrifice to the lord. then the sacrifice of judah and jerusalem will please the lord, as in the days of old, as in years gone by. responsorial psalm: ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10 r. (8) who is this king of glory? it is the lord! lift up, o gates, your lintels; reach up, you ancient portals, that the king of glory may come in! r. who is this king of glory? it is the lord! who is this king of glory? the lord, strong and mighty, the lord, mighty in battle. r. who is this king of glory? it is the lord! lift up, o gates, your lintels; reach up, you ancient portals, that the king of glory may come in! r. who is this king of glory? it is the lord! who is this king of glory? the lord of hosts; he is the king of glory. r. who is this king of glory? it is the lord! 2 reading: hebrews 2:14 18 since the children share in blood and flesh, jesus likewise shared in them, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life. surely he did not help angels but rather the descendants of abraham; therefore, he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every way, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest before god to expiate the sins of the people. because he himself was tested through what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested. alleluia: lk 2:32 r. alleluia, alleluia. a light of revelation to the gentiles, and glory for your people israel. r. alleluia, alleluia. gospel: luke 2:22 40 when the days were completed for their purification according to the law of moses, mary and joseph took jesus up to jerusalem to present him to the lord, just as it is written in the law of the lord, every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, in accordance with the dictate in the law of the lord. now there was a man in jerusalem whose name was simeon. this man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of israel, and the holy spirit was upon him. it had been revealed to him by the holy spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the christ of the lord. he came in the spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child jesus to perform the custom of the law in regard to him, he took him into his arms and blessed god, saying: “now, master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples: a light for revelation to the gentiles, and glory for your people israel.” the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him; and simeon blessed them and said to mary his mother, “behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted and you yourself a sword will pierced so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.” there was also a prophetess, anna, the daughter of phanuel, of the tribe of asher. she was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage, and then as a widow until she was eighty four. she never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer. and coming forward at that very time, she gave thanks to god and spoke about the child to all who were awaiting the redemption of jerusalem. when they had fulfilled all the prescriptions of the law of the lord, they returned to galilee, to their own town of nazareth. the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of god was upon him. commentary every night of life, the church’s night prayer repeats simeon’s canticle. “now, o lord, you can dismiss you servant in peace….” it is deeply meaningful. every day is like a short lifetime, and nightfall reminds us of approaching death. the end is therefore not to be dreaded as something we have always excluded from our consciousness, but welcomed as a fulfillment much as the body welcomes the prospect of rest and sleep. blessing lead, kindly light! let christ lead us all on the bright path of goodness and love, that we may reach our destiny and reflect the lord’s light on the people around us. may almighty god bless us for this task, the father, and the son, and the holy spirit. r/ amen. go in peace and take the light of christ with you to let it shine on all. r/ thanks be to god. your email address will not be published. required fields are marked * comment name * email * website

constructor: david steinberg relative difficulty: challenging (9:51) save and share : totally agree on i.c.e. especially with myriad alternatives.i.c.e. as clued = gratuitous.  jim c. in maine i hope am not the only one who struggled with this as i put sadsack for schmuck. misery loves company. i wasn't a sadsack or schmuck, but felt like a schnook. hi,rarely post here because i usually finish the puzzle at work, with colleagues, in a group solve.saturdays and sundays are another story as i start them around 7:00 am.get the nyts delivered on sunday. i am old and love sitting down and feeling the papyrus and slowly digest the news rather than clicking and scrolling. sundays are sacred days.that being said:loved the ac milan clue as a starter. in american football, only maybe one or two players actually have their feet touch the ball. for all others, it is a penalty.oersted may be tough for many, but as an engineer turned physics teacher, it was a gimme.not necessarily a natick. glad to see him as the word of the day.demonstrated that spooky forces at a distance were a thing when he passed a compass through a coil of wire could cause a compass to change its orientation near wires that were connected to said spool far away.rather erudite, but that is why you can read these comments today.enjoyed the kitty cat clues in this and yesterdays puzzle. cats and apes and bears, oh my! as a libra who loves balance, this grid design put me in a zen state.the puzzles this week through yesterday seemed relatively easy. now i know why. today for me was a scratch and claw. the kind i love.david proves that you don't need contemporary/hip answers to make a first class puzzle. the answers today are fairly ordinary overall. but the cluing! i thought david put on a clinic here, mixing saturday level vague clues as well as his signature wordplay clues (road hog, shin, dataset, ranches, cold one) to elevate this puzzle to top tier.david burst onto the scene in 2011, a teen whose puzzles were entertaining and clever, and rambling wildly all over the place like a puppy. shift to vintage 2019, where the puzzles are still entertaining and clever, but    the best word i can think of here is    wiser. when crosswords has its hall of fame, david, you have a reserved spot. i have necked and i have spooned. they are not synonyms. as a competitive scrabble player (and editor of the tournament lexicon), i find the seven letter words the easiest to place, so chimera minicam bizarre kneaded oersted sambuca erudite went in right away. the proper nouns and phrases took a lot longer, so noxzema (not noczema, sigh), cinemax, data set, usb port, cold one, pine nut, ac milan all game me trouble. rex i’m fairly new to your blog...and i have to say i love reading both your review and related commentary. you confirmed for me today i wasn’t just seeing problems where non existed with ice. major wtf!?! thanks for your hard work! not sure if i have submitted my comment too many times.the "i am not a robot" quiz is fun the first two times, but after that, i wonder if i am guilty of the multiple repetitive posts that i sometimes find on forums.oops, the quiz just popped up again.why i stay away from posting, besides the fact that i usually finish the puzzles later in the day.loren, as a fellow teacher, you are my spirit animal.so many of your anecdotes resonate with me. whenever i finish a friday or saturday puzzle, i expect to come here to be told how ridiculously easy it was. so it is with great pride i had a record saturday with a puzzle deemed “challenging”. hurrah! while i am not one to get offended with entries in a puzzle myself, it is so obviously, clearly, and inexplicably tone deaf to clue ice as it was. hard to think of any reason other than the editors flipping off the audience right before mooning them. so silly, so unnecessary and so...stupid. why purposefully distract from a great puzzle (great because i finished in record time...did i mention that??). so, shortz is a schmuck (as clued), and i am going to go enjoy some lamb at dinner, and finish with some sambuca over ice (not as clued). in yiddish, schmuck means penis i enjoy david’s insouciance. but sometimes he seems to veer towards the sophomoric. schmuck is considered an obscenity. i have no qualms with people using it in conversation but it seems beneath the traditional standards of the old gray lady. and i can’t help wondering if oh it’s on was chosen because it is one letter away from another phrase “ hit’s on”? what’s up with the clue for soprano? a soprano can sometimes end on a low note (in context of his or her music) especially a mezzo. the clue is trying too hard to be clever but it makes no sense. pens as a hotel freebie? you have to be pretty desperate to take one of those. take the scented soap next time! also what could be more natural than salt? sea salt is not any more “natural.” the phrase “gay apparel” as far as i know is used once in the history of language as part of an insipid christmas carol. the clue should have indicated that with gay in quotes followed by three dots.or am i just being dr. house? whoever that is. yeah, boo to ice. i would take an m&a moo cow easy "frozen water" clue over what we got.oersted showed up from somewhere in the brain attic, but i spelled it oerstad, which made coldone invisible for a long time. nice repetition of the misleading "football" clues for acmilan and shin guard. i would say "futbol" but the brits use the term as clued so ok i guess.just right for a saturday, mr. steinberg seldom disappoints. it's really too bad you can't block some posters in the comments section...i found today's puzzle to be pretty typical ds...tortured cluing and remote names/words that seem to be gleaned from a data set. it isn't any one clue/word/name in particular, it's the entire compilation of them. as for ice, to all the posters who are going to defend the clue, i'll just preemptively say that the bull shite going on in the right is very different than anything the left has done over the last several years (maybe even ever...at least post reagan). lines have been crossed, and lines you didn't think could get crossed...get crossed...over and over and over again. there is no equivalence between the two.the supporters of the likes of ice are complicit in this administration and in this current incarnation of the gop. the "witch" hunt has turned up a lot of witches. djt himself has been implicated (individual 1), so no longer can "well you haven't found anything yet!" work as an excuse.for ws to continue to pander and validate this crap is to further cement my decision to cancel my subscription and not return until he is gone. it's time people of all stripes collectively say, "no!" to this rot. and no amount of positivism and "it's just a puzzle, chill out" garbage changes the reality of the situation we all find ourselves in. these puzzles are often artistic expressions that reflect our current world. they need to be understood as comments on our world...not just pleasant little divertissements that have nothing to do with reality. rex lives in a small college town in upstate new york.he complains about beaners and ice.you go girl what a beaut from david today. loved this. didn’t occur to me to be enraged at the ice clue, but point well taken.first two gimmes were ac milan and oersted. i lived in milan while getting my phd in electromagnetic engineering at the politecnico di milano. good times. lots of moscato.“miralax” then “miramax” before cinemax. yeah. the first one was dumb, but i was distracted by the news.“three rs” before the abcs.i gave the plural kibbles the side eye ‘cause it feels like oxygens or happinesses, but then i realized it has commercial immunity.misread the clue for 12d as “place to get weird.” where do you even start with a gem like that? where would be a place to get weird? i guess for me, it’d be at my house when it’s only me. the weird part involves my sleeping habits. or lack thereof. if my husband or kids are home, i lie there and stare at the ceiling and suffer so i won’t be judged (even though they absolutely wouldn’t but it’s still embarrassing and i’m self conscious and just want to be normal but can’t figure this out). left alone, though, and buddy, all bets are off. in bed at 6pm up for the day at 11:30pm.“enthusiastic greeting”   bear hug, sure, if you haven’t seen someone in a while. even for me, the “hon hugger” person. this is acceptable, fine. on a side note, have you ever noticed how the pitch for a woman’s greeting voice goes up in direct proportion to the amount of time that’s gone by in between meetings?at the local foodland, you run into a coworker. . .. . .after work: oh hey!   lowish pitch . . .who has been out with the flu for a week: oh hey!   higher pitch. . .who now works at another school and you haven’t seen her for 6 months: oh hey!   even higher pitch . . .who you haven’t seen for 6 years   oh hey!   pretty much sounds like you’ve inhaled heliumso of course i have to wonder about the maasai woman. does her voice do this, too, when she runs into an old friend? i know there has to be an anthropologist or sociologist out there reading this who could email me with the answer. (doesn’t have to be maasai   just any culture that’s vastly different from our own. maybe the huaorani, kazakhs, makushi   i’m not a tribe snob.) nerol2 at msn. i’m waiting, k? thanks.@john morrison   “jarring”   good one. nivea also comes in cobalt; jaready realize that, too?@mooretep   thanks, man. you should comment more often. since you have a blue name, you shouldn’t have to do the captcha cha cha. try skipping it and see if it’ll go through.david   those four interlocking 7 parties in each corner are terrific. toss in the abcs, sea salt, bizarre, noxzema, and the knead/pda cross. . . this is a winner. i totally agree with your assessment. he is so clever, and his puzzles demonstrate an unbelievable breadth of knowledge at such a young age. at the risk of condemnation to follow, let me say ...well, our ultra lib fearless leader goes on and on and on and on with his resentments about ice. i'm not sure whether he thinks it shouldn't exist (open borders, why not?), or whether it sometimes misbehaves in its treatment of illegals (gee, the cops sometimes do that, so let's eliminate them, right?) anon@822, in modern usage “spoon” is not “neck.” but go back to whenever the lyrics to “shine on, harvest moon” were written, and you will see the equivalence.”snow time ain’t no time to sit outdoors and spoon...” i actually flew through the lower half, aided by the fact that my apple id has been a problem since jump street. i knew chicago and that a football club that old had to be soccer, so the nw fell into place. i hit a wall in the ne. oh it’s on? sounds like something from a commercial, plus new to seemed like better english than new at. but being a schmuck sometimes myself i got through. steinberg always challenges! great saturday! this was one of your better late week solves. it took me 14 minutes longer than yesterday's. hire and parable gave me my start and it was steady work from the ne corner down the east side. stieg and house we're the names that stymied my entry to the se corner. i just went back to the north center and started on the nw corner. that was the one section that solved quickly. coming around the nw corner 1,2 and 3d all dropped right in. to top that off i spelled sambuca correctly on first try. coming into the sw i managed to stymie myself again by putting prepped in at 38d. having ape and pries in place only reinforced the error. i was convinced 39d had to be pimento. i have no idea what that nasty tasting red stuff is in those green olives but for all i know it could be made from seeds. hotels don't give you anything that ends with an m so i wasted a great deal of time trying to make sense of 49a. while i somehow had figured out that37a had to be appleid (whatever that is) my spelling was too weak to confirm apparel for 37d and open up the sw. once again i just restarted elsewhere. seasalt at 54a opened up the south tier and gave me the leverage to fill in, first the se corner and then correctly back fill the sw. it was only after finishing that i took the time to notice how clean the puzzle was and the high quality of the 7s in all four corners. as for this ice controversy i have to admit i was a bit put off by being reminded of what they are currently doing. i expected the answer to be atf or dea. this was the only speed bump in that nw corner and it wasn't much. raids ate part of ice's duty like it or not. there's plenty of good reasons to be angry over how ice is currently being used but directing that anger at the nyt is a waste of energy. when 2020 rolls around direct it where it belongs. i've started solving on paper because i found, when i needed to do a paper puzzle, it seemed more difficult. has anyone else experienced this? thanks in advance for your comments. i'm very much of two minds on rex's righteous indignation of the week (rriw). ice has been around a lot longer than trump; the family separation crap i see as trump's doing and not necessarily ice's. ice does lots of other useful stuff other than immigration enforcement. but, on the other hand, family separation    an unequivocal national disgrace    is strongly linked in the public's mind with ice; so much so that i expect the next rational president we get (fingers crossed) will re organize and rename ice.while i was solving, it didn't even occur to me to think about ice much at all. it was a short answer and it fell in easily (for which i was grateful, in this bear of a puzzle) and i didn't give it a second thought. but... but.. it's not my job to notice something like this; it's will's. and rex is right, after beaner a while back, you'd think will would have had his antennae up. as for the rest of the puzzle    it was hard. i was trying to think of an nfl team that could claim origins in 1899. even after solving 16a i still couldn't figure out what it was.. i was parsing it o hit son. i wanted noxzema at 7d but i thought it didn't fit because i forgot it had that z in there. and that's just the first two lines of the puzzle! the list goes on..didn't know oersted. never heard of cat pose as a thing but google shows me it clearly is. i did get moscato and sambuca pretty easily which i guess shows where my priorities are. oops, meant to say magnet, rather than compass.demonstrated that spooky forces at a distance were a thing when he passed a through a coil of wire could cause a compass to change its orientation near wires that were connected to said spool far away. really a shame to muddy a classy effort like this with nasty and (as our 1st poster, jim c so aptly observed) gratuitous cluing. a rare easy puzzle from steinberg i know i say this a lot, but ws keeps lowering the bar. for me this was the worst puzzle i can remember    full of mistakes and absurd obscurities (oersted, ohitson, and on and on), with yet further evidence of the editor's tin ear (ice), as ofl has pointed out in detail. i keep thinking these puzzles can't get worse    and they get worse, much worse. this puzzle has way too many problems. it was a challenge not because it was difficult or clever or tricky but because of what are inaccurate clues really. ac milan does not play football . they play soccer. this is america not europe. if you want to use acmilan, then the clue is european powerhouse established in 1899. there. not so difficult. and then again at 54d the clue is "one guarded in football". no. soccer players use shin guards, but football players only occasionally use them. this is totally bogus.and then there is schmuck (a word which should not even be allowed to be printed) . schmuckler as we all should know is german for jeweler . that has evolved over time to the yiddish definition which is penis, not dummy. a dummy is a schnook. but a schmuck is how i would characterize the dummy who used this clue in this way in a saturday times puzzle. i was thinking of noxzema and its relationship to eczema this morning while brushing my teeth. ten minutes later i read the clue for 7d and thought, "bizarre!" and that is where i got my start this morning. i was surprised to see my time was just short of 24 minutes   it seemed much easier than that but i got hung up in the sw. 37a was ___lei_ and 40d was _ata___. i was convinced 40d was going to be some sort of ethics word. obviously, with _ata___, it was going to be related to an eastern philosophy and it was totally beyond my ken. when i finally got apple id, data set gave me a chuckle. i bared my teeth at the i.c.e. answer but wasn't expecting the ohitson storm from rex. i understand, though. it's not just raids either. chilling.i was just about to ask if anyone else found the clue for 1d head scratching when i read it for the 3rd time and finally saw how it could 'work'.david, another fine saturday. wm. c. i think the point is that, regardless of how you feel about i.c.e., it's a fact that it carries with it a very negative, racist, hurtful connotation right now. rex is saying that, for many people, the idea of i.c.e. is very scary and very threatening to their simple right to live at peace. why should a word that is so so so easily clued another way be clued with this heavy connotation? the men and women of i.c.e. have a very difficult job to do and do it well and would rather not be slandered by some guy in his ivory tower. sorry, libeled. always mix those up. to finish a saturday with a "challenging" rating is just about as rare for me as finding oersted in a puzzle. while the i.c.e. objection is totally legitimate...especially given the possible cluing options, i'm amazed that ofl raised not a finger (or word) about schmuck which is about as bad as it gets. as already noted, it means penis in yiddish and is a low class slur. why would you put that in a nyt crossword?? not the most erudite effort. crude juvenility like 8a always seems to make an appearance in steinberg's puzzles. but it did make me want to listen to some niels henning ørsted pedersen bass solos. while reading stieg larsson. i wonder if they knew each other. all scandinavians know each other, right? oy...why did i toy with rutgers at 1a. i remember reading somewhere that they and princeton were the first of the first in football games. i'm glad i didn't pen it in. i knew lechazo was lamb. i didn't understand why it was clued as the main ingredient. lechazo mean suckling lamb. what other ingredient is there?let's see....hmmm where did i even begin? oh, lamb, of course, then i did my usual stare fest on sat. the absolute hardest entries for me were all the 3 letter clues and answers. ice emi pda dod rpg. i finally got ice from chicago and did my wince dance at the clue. yeah, raiding grp.? yikes. schmuck is penis? wow, i learn something new every day. two drinks: sambuca and moscato made me smile because i have a phd in sommelier from universita degli studi di milano. i bet @loren and i even sat across from each other at tipotas  drinks in hand.i got oersted but i didn't know him. love bear hug because i do know him. he's my future son in law. is smutted a word? that's what i initially had for 44d. change comes with consequences.today i used the goog. not ashamed of it. the three letter entries got me good. i really loved this puzzle. i learned how to correctly spell bizarre and noxzema . i am now borne again. thank you, david. not much to add to today's comments. mrs. @mericans and i did this together (that is to say, as a tag team), and finished without any googles in a bit shorter than usual time. sambuca is a bit more common on this side of the atlantic, so that went in pretty easily. don't know why towards was difficult for some; pretty common word. we got apple id after a few crosses because    well, we both have iphones. but oersted we could only get from the crosses.note to beginners: if a question relates to recordings, and the answer is three letters, chances are its emi. similarly, if the clue is about a type of music, and the answer is three letters, chances are its emo. if not that, then ska.i agree with others that spoon and neck are equivalent only if you go back in time. and, to me, schmuck doesn't mean "dummy", but rather more "loser" or "prick". in germany schmuck means "jewellery". walk around the downtown of any sizeable german town and you will see plenty of stores with schmuck displayed in big, bold letters.i slotted in apparel knowing the christmas carol, but what's american apparel? sounds like green paint.hey @chefwen    i forget: can you see oahu from your back yard? well.... i was expecting rex to get upset over schmuck, and instead it is ice. i am a (legal) immigrant, and before i became a naturalized citizen i had several interactions with ins, the predecessor agency. i found them amazingly obstructionist and annoying, and both of my american husbands (serially, no bigamy involved) went ballistic over their behaviour. however, i hadn't even noticed ice was in the grid until i read rex's blog, as i got those squares from the crosses, and now it has been pointed out i can't say i feel in any way upset. @quasi thanks for the mention of the carol. i couldn’t place why apparel was gay is the author british? because both “football” clues actually referenced soccer. finally fed up with you using this blog as your political soapbox. done reading and donating to it. oh, and for the record, i’m extremely liberal on the immigration issue. painful to be reminded of just how limited i am/have been. no less than 10 unknowns .did like passing concern and bud to chill with. crosses can fill only so many voids. casting around for places to start, i had my aha moment at oersted (not a modern magnetic unit) and worked up by way of cold one, then across with parable and bizarre. chimera and sambuca got me into the sw. had the hardest time in the se, but roadhog finally gave me cat pose (is that a thing?) and i was done. aced a challenging puzzle at last! david steinberg is will's buddy. doesn't matter what words are in puzzle, he will get published. will is truly getting more tone deaf as the months and years go by. i know he's retirement age, just give it up, buddy, and hand over the reins to one of your young friends. then you can submit some puzzles yourself. if you are going to correct the puzzle, at least be correct. using football to mean soccer: it’s called a misdirect. in america,our first thought is the nfl. very few people would not know that football is soccer in the entire rest of the world, so totally legitimate clueing. it worked as i put in chin strap first. we could also sit and debate understandings of schmuck, but commonly understood in the dummy realm... my only problem with rex’s extended critique of i.c.e. is that it is sure enflame the trolls who will rant about libtards and open borders and crime and drugs and other manufactured straw issues. otherwise... good, tough puzzle, with many write overs for me, until it finally came together. i resisted schmuck for a long time (i had schnook), because to me it means more of an obnoxious, offensive jerk than merely a “dummy,” although it is easy to imagine someone being both. oh, what a schmuck i am. (i thought i was a schnook, but that, at least, i managed to straighten out without cheating. a little yiddish is a dangerous thing, as they say. or don't say.)no    it was sleet instead of storm at 48a that forced me to cheat in the se. if i'd only had storm...but i didn't. i was so sure that 26d was moscala (i must have been thinking of mescal). so i went to check it. but when i typed into google: "italian white wine mosca," out came moscato. and whooosh: in came storm and dr house and oahu and smudged and cat pose and dod. i finished all that had stymied me in less than 15 seconds. but, still, i cheated. so, sadly, a dnf.here's a steinberg i loved. no pop culture today. very few non knowable names. just a very, very crunchy puzzle that needed all of my gray cells to [almost] solve. a terrific saturday. @mericans    american apparel is a clothing store chain here similar to the gap or banana republic. i was astonished to find a constructor named steinberg would clue schmuck as "dummy". while it is (sometimes) used that way, the typical (and more correct) usage is as a substitute for "dick". definitely not a word to use in the company of anyone's yiddish speaking grandparents. "ice" was over the line. btw "schmuck" is one of many mildly vulgar yiddishisms for the male organ (along with "schmeckle," "putz," "schlong," etc.), and when you call somebody one of those terms, you are usually not referring to her/his/their intelligence (or lack thereof) but to rather to her/his/their unpleasantness of personality, analogous to similar terms in english (btw, why do we never get "dick" clued that way in the nyt crossword? why is it ok to use yiddishisms? just asking, given that the nyt has several timely articles about anti semitism in today's edition, and a review of scholar deborah lipstadt's timely book on the subject in tomorrow's book review). agree strongly that "moscato" (which i had never heard of before but got from the crosses) and "sambuca" (which i initially spelled with an "o" at the end) are unconscionably obscure. hugh laurie's iconic tv sourpuss is usually referred to as "house" and the honorific is only there because the constructor needed it to complete the fill as the nyt crossword continues to descend to trumpian levels of anti intellectualism, poor quality, and utter malarkey. why is pda answer for “evoker of dirty looks, maybe, in brief”?why is cds answer for “tower stack”?they make no sense. that’s what should be addressed, not opinions. hey all !this was a kinda bizarre puz for me. tough clues, lots of "third definition" type clues. theabcs grates a bit. catpose kind of odd, too. although it seems like it would be a sexy pose. it was a nicely filled puz, no dreck. agree that ice should've been clued differently. celebrities, there's ice t, ice cube, vanilla ice. or frozen cubes. or rocks. or diamonds. or greenland covering, antarctica covering, polar vortex covering.just sayin'.btw, happy groundhog day!! phil didn't see his shadow! that means early spring! cross your fingers.dook ies seeto & newat. and, no f's. poor guys. ape hugroomonsterdarrinv i’m with @rex and relieved that most posters here agree with his condemnation of ice as clued. i’m ashamed for having worried. i guess the nyt thinks they’re being modern and hip by allowing schmuck in the puzzle (even if misclued: as pointed out, it doesn’t mean dummy   some dummies are schmucks but not all schmucks are dummies). @david steinberg over at xwordinfo says it has been used in articles in the paper previously. so, speaking of the newspaper of record, i recently read (i’ll post a link if i can find it) an article comprehensively condemning the nyt for perpetuating racial stereotypes, and therefore facilitating the persistence of white supremacy in this country. things like, when there are articles about poor people, showing pictures of black people, even though there are actually more white people living in poverty in this country. what that accomplishes is to cement the association of “poor” and “black” and undercut public support for programs that would benefit all people of lower income, from welfare to head start, but would disproportionally benefit poor people of color. anyway, as mrs. lincoln said, aside from that i liked the play. omg   my ipad is having trouble connecting to the recaptcha. don’t know if i’ll be able to post this. but i might say here, i usually only have to check the box that says i’m not a robot; i don’t have to pass the quiz. i loved the puzzle    whenever i put in a less than desirable entry, like "viable id" it turned out to be wrong. i guess a truly up to date answer would have been "fingerprint," but maybe this was accepted a couple years ago.i didn't know what "lechazo" was, and thought hmmm, leche? lech   azo?' so i wanted 5d to be 'milk'. didn't put it in, but it held me up until other crosses confirmed that 15a was chicago, not st. louis. took too long, i couldn't think of any four letter words ending with b. it was making me crabby.unlike @quasi, i loved "gay apparel" neatly reminding us that 'gay' has an older meaning. that's the essence of a good puzzle, for me. since, as mentioned above, i had 'viable id' i actually wrote in 'veteran' first. i mean, you could use it and get intelligible phrases, but it's hardly crossworthy.ok, ice. i can see the point, but my initial reaction, before coming here, is that a "raiding organization" is not a pleasant thing. if we can use "african tyrant" to clue amin, then raiding organization for ice, (or vikings, but they weren't very organized" seemed ok. i'd have reacted differently if the clue were "border protectors."i used to do cat pose as part of my morning physical therapy exercises; but then i developed sciatica, and my dr. told me to do the "cat and cow" instead. bizarrely, this kept me from seeing the right answer until i had most of the crosses.but my biggest problem was being absolutely convinced that 16a was ok, it's on!    the one instance where my wrong answer still seems more idiomatic than the right one. interesting to learn the negative connotation of schmuck, i hadn't realized it was so offensive (and not a word i use or run across often so took me forever to get). i had known it meant 'jewelry' in german, and as an english speaker thought it was a shame they were stuck with such an ugly word for pretty things. i'm going to suggest an alternative to the ice clue, that i hope is more palatable to the white people on this blog.i will start by saying that i agree that the other term should never have been included in this puzzle. i also in no way support or condone ice's policies or acts.but honestly, i think ice in this puzzle serves as a reminder for complacent white people who don't have to deal with the realities of ice raids, that they are very much a thing that is still happening. it may be tough to see, but it's a lot harder for the people whose homes and lives are being raided. and i think we could all do with the reminder, wherever it is possible, that this is very much a reality of the djt presidency for millions of people who might not be solving the nyt crossword puzzle.i don't support ice in the slightest, but i think a lot of white people live in a sheltered place away from the effects of ice. is it hard to be reminded that these terrible things are happening? yes, but it's even harder to live through these raids, and we owe it to the people who experience that to remember what they're going through. if that means our crossword has a clue that's a little tough to stomach, that's fine by me. @ghostofelectricity: just fyi, that show was actually called “dr. house” in many other countries. yes, ice should have been clued differently.yes, scmuck is vulgar, not hip or modern.@anon 10:48pda = public display of affection, so might evoke dirty looks (get a room!)tower records sold cds (displayed in stacks. rex, a wise man (answer is at the end of the quote) once said the following:“liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” ― william f. buckley if you don't like ice, then how do you propose the government protect the border. i'm guessing you couldn't perform their job half as well. @quasi (8:43)    i had the same reaction to the soprano clue that you did. they often end on a (for them) low note. when the answer finally came in, i was annoyed because i didn't think it was fair or accurate.however, the operative words are "for them". for me, an alto, every damn thing they sing is either very high or even higher than that. i talked the "broadway at the y chorus" into letting me sing as a second soprano because i thought i'd get something resembling melody for my part. no such luck. unless you're a soprano, you don't get melody. ever. and when you don't read music, having to learn an unfamiliar part in a very familiar song is a real problem.we were working on "biding my time"    in which the second soprano part seemed like melodic gibberish to me. and so i wrote this spoof to its melody for the benefit of our chorus director, neil:i'm singing the high note.even when it's not my note!it's all i hear, neil,got no ear, neil,warblin' at the y.next song, next song,melody's a coming.this song, this song   what's this crap i'm humming???for i'm craving the pure note,even when it is your note.can't quite reach it?then i'll screech it   warblin' at the y.(it goes on, believe it or not, but i'll stop now, mercifully.) with you! first i had schnook then saw that wouldn’t work so changed it to schmuck. but schmuck really means something slightly different than dummy. schnook is a better answer as it is closer to what dummy means. while the four way symmetry and open corners look pretty, i just don't get much enjoyment from a themeless with a maximum seven letter word length. the seven letter entries (exactly half of this puzzle's words) had better be, for the most part, superextraultraüberawesome, and these are not. yeah sure, some are nice and scrabbly, but none of them really popped for me.bizarre that we have two entries clued as being related to football, which we call soccer here. so do we need to specify that tomorrow's game is for the professional championship of american football?schmuck really took me aback. the clue for ice less so, but @rex makes a good point. it's unnecessary at best and the editor's middle finger at worst.the one thing i liked about this puzzle is that it was definitely saturday hard. but it wasn't much more than that. joaquin and anon 844 (maybe some others) are dead right. schmuck is really quite vulgar. no problem with ice. the real problem is clueing football for soccer. i know its popular in some circles to use the term football, but really, its way too cute. and wrong. football in american english simply doesnt mean soccer. why not translate the italian word to e1nglish, ya know, soccer? just because the word exists in two languages doesnt mean its interchangeable.mr. steinberg, is the 54 down clue referring to soccer or football? i agree that the "raiding grp" part of the clue evoked painful scenes of desperation. but ice as "most despised"? as a former federal government employee, maybe i'm too sensitive but that kind of blanket smear is really uncalled for. ice does a lot of very important, amazing work that should be recognized even if (like me) you think the current admin's policy re border security is truly un american. check out all that they do: https://www.ice.gov/about. if the intent were to glorify the mission of ice, it would not be to refer to it as a raiding group. it is the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement. to boil it down to "raiding agency" shows a bias if towards anything a disdain for what ice does. as well, used by a constructor who is a student at stanford, located in the most liberal pocket of the most liberal state, the uninformed right coast temper tantrum is really digging to find something to complain about.california alone has stood consistently against this administration's most xenophobic actions and directions to ice.it remains unfathomable to me why @rex consistently grabs the knife by the blade at every possible chance he gets.this puzzle shows a more mature steinberg, ac milan aside, and i congratulate him. let snot be snot i say! american football should be called handbean. in soccer they actually kick the ball with the foot for the majority of the spectacle.why the foaming rant re: ice? are you kidding? it's a totally relevant, current, newsworthy topic. much more relevant than that white rapper guy who ripped off bowie.i think i speak for most of the community when i say that we like your puzzle commentary, but we hate your editor loathing. calm down. calm. down. ctfd. in response to several asking why "pda" is an evoker of dirty looks:back in the '90s into the oughts this acronym usually stood for "personal digital assistant," at a time when such devices were distinct from (pre smart, non smart) cellphones. for a little over a decade, the primary slang meaning for the acronym pda has been "public display(s) of affection." people who object to people ostentatiously showing their erotic love for one another often respond to (post 2007 meaning) pdas with dirty looks or more vehement expressions of disgust or disapproval. although i filled in the answer correctly, schmuck is not a dummy. it is a penis, literally. and colloquial meaning is more like a hole. this was one of the reasons al d’amato lost his senatorship, calling chuck schumer a schmuck. imho to me, the i.c.e. answer as clued compares to: tourist destination in germany auschwitz. and, you’re right: not the first case! this was difficult. lots of problems with it but i won't go there since everyone else has."highlights" are done in salons (at least in nyc)   not "accents. exactly the same solving experience as rex...except that it took me ten times longer to finish. : ) ac milan are not a franchise, that concept has not weight for sports teams outside the us, bothersome clue. nyt is obviously assuming that we are all so enamored of the cachet of their crossword that none of us will cancel our subscriptions. and the editors will continue to allow bigotry and indifference as long as that remains true. to be completely accurate (and even more vulgar imo)"schmuck" means foreskin but has come to mean the penis itself. this answer has appeared in the nyt before. i really wish it would disappear as it is truly offensive, this took me about 2 hours, but i did like it! ice was the last to go in, nw corner a beast starting with a misspelling of a product i’ve used since the 60’s when i was growing up outside of chicago! in the spirit of leo rosten, a schmuck is someone who thinks it's ok to use the word schmuck in polite company. talk about being politically correct. you may not like ice but it's a government agency and the clue was accurate. it's not a racial slur like beaner. bottom half easyish, top half tough. i’m going with medium tough. ne was the last to fall. guessed right at the moscato/oersted cross to finish.dea before ice slowed down the nw and yes i cringed.this is what a sat. should be, liked it a bunch! @ghostofelectricity, pda for “public display of affection” goes back to at least the 1970s. i’m 61 and remember it used that way in high school. for me american apparel would mean t shirt and jeans which is what most people wear these days. even at church or the opera. forgot to add that i first put in d.o.m. for the “dirty looks” clue. which i suppose makes me one. @nancy, loved your lyrics   they always trip off the tongue which sounds like it could mean its opposite but i use it as a compliment. the clue for soprano said nothing about being in a chorus however. a soprano singing a solo would have to sing some notes that are lower than others, especially in an aria where the high c, for example, often comes before the ending, except in parodies of opera. btw being a first tenor is not unlike being an alto in choirs. the second tenors usually get the melody while we have to trill in the stratosphere. usually i like steinberg puzzles but this time it seems that the cluing just crossed the line into inaccurate, not just misleading.@lewis, i am frequently amazed by your ability to find the admirable in even substandard puzzles, but your comment today "david proves that you dont need contemporary/hip answers to make a first class puzzle". yeah, okay, i guess, if you dont count usb port,pda,emo,rpg,cds,and apple id. i worked my way through all the pitfalls in this puzzle to grind to a halt in the northwest. i had hire and kneaded so wrote schnook for 8across and couldn't find my way out of that miscalculation. good puzzle though. as a professional voice coach, i could not get "one never ends on a low note," even when it was pretty clear the answer was soprano. lots of soprano arias end on low notes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8vnu5f01wu (go to 3:38 to hear tebaldi sink into the low register like a baritone, if you don't want to hear the whole, beautiful thing) ["suicidio" from "la gioconda")as for ice: well, rex said it all. exactly, . and we can pity those who lose their employment due to ice raids, and deplore the now revoked order to separate parents and children at the border. we are now back to allowing parents to separate their children on their own, in the hope the kids will end up as permanent residents here even if the parents must survive in mexico or return home alone. but all is fair in love and crosswords. if ws deliberately included the "raiding org" definition to make ofl and his crew angry, good for him! but he probably didn't see a problem at all. and probably never thought of ice as "racist" since of course it isn't. doesn't matter where you come from, if you are here illegally you may be deported. most potential deportees are white and overstayed their visas in order to work here. plus, a great many ice agents are latino, since fluency in spanish is essential in some positions.as for schmuck, as it says in a modern folk song, "it's only a wee wee, so what's all the fuss? it's only a wee wee and everyone's got one, there's better things to discuss." i bet everyone in the times newsroom has heard the word and used it, and in many cases grown up using it. yiddish survives in the many words it gave us, even if the language itself is fading away. @rp: yep... i.c.e. is unfortunately kinda one of them "wall" words, in our country's current history. would rather build (and re build) some bridges, with my tax dollars at work.way back in 13 jan 2019, i.c.e. got clued up in the nytpuz as {govt. org. under homeland security}, and didn't take as much heat. if lookin for new fresh ways to clue ice, maybe try this: {kind of box cake??}. funny, how i just dreamt that up, out of nowhere. (and yo, @pabloinnh)hey, pretty good satpuz, steinbergmeister. thanx for the challenge, as usual. holy six shooter, batman … only 4 word lengths, in the whole puzgrid [3's, 4's, 5's, and 7's]. and check out that whirligig grid symmetry.most challengin parts, at my house:* ohitson/mta. finally got the mta part, on an alphabet run. lost precious nanoseconds, but always good to practice yer abc's.* moscato/oersted. m&a highly recommended y'all try the delicious moo cato white wine. wrong, m&a breath.* soprano/oersted. wanted soprano, but went with the also possible lookin soprana, on account of moo cato. figured the electrical engineer dude was maybe called aero ted, by his friends. wrong again, m&a breath.staff weeject pick: anything but ice. awe/men has a nice religious ring to it.masked & anonymo5usp.s. how do seed entries work, when they are 1 or 2 pups out of the 36 7's?biter:**gruntz** had arsenal instead of ac milan. thought that was the misdirect. should known ac was 1899 & arsenal was 1886. and yes, letsnot on ice. cluing ice this way felt for me like cluing "stool" as fecal matter, and not the three legged kind. technically ok, but it doesn't pass the breakfast test. and i didn't care much for schmuck, either. but oerstead made up for it. overall, i liked the puzzle. a schmuck is an asshole, not a dummy. it's really from yiddish for penis i finished it. but when i saw "steinberg" i was tempted not to begin. i dislike his puzzles even when i can solve them. full of product and industrial names and acronyms, emi, pda, bad clues, as in the case of schmuck, which does not mean dummy. steinberg will no doubt include "putz" in an upcoming puzzle. the terrible clue for "ice." the usual computerese   appload? usb port? is that a place to get "wired"? or a place to get connected. why should i know or care that cinemax is part of warner media? ac milan is a soccer team. no good reason to use "football" in the clue. rpg??? i guess that stands for role playing games? final fantasy and dark souls?most of these are defendable (other than schmuck), but all together they make for an unrewarding solving experience. there's a patrick berry "rose garden" puzzle in the wsj. challenging, but always clever; i will tackle it next. oh, it's on! moderate natick. started with schnook, which led to nta, (national transportation authority?), which led to schnuck, cuz there's always an alternative spelling for the yiddish words that i've never seen (looking at you, tchotchkes), which led to an error at the end. oh well. really hard. i give myself an a+ for finishing it. upper right was the biggest challenge. "ohitson" and "oersted" were guesses. so true. a schmuck is a dick, not a dummy. a dumb schmuck is is a dummy, just like a stupid dick. otherwise, great puzzle! (and yes, i hate ice as much as any non racist, but fail to see why it shouldn’t be in a puzzle.) rex, i am a liberal democrat and probably agree with you on most important issues, but your anguished reaction to the presence of certain words or, in this case, acronyms, is nauseating. some words provoke negative reactions in people but that doesn't mean they should be banished. your over the top reaction to ice is pathetic. i am a jew and would not have that reaction to nazi. it's a word. it describes a negative entity but so what? how do you even read a newspaper without getting apoplectic over every other word? please reconsider your obnoxious intolerance of offensive words because you are becoming increasingly ridiculous. not even close. i, too am a “lorenite.” not a teacher myself, but my late husband was one of the most gifted, dedicated teachers (of the dreaded mathematics   and to junior high kiddos no less) i have had the pleasure of knowing. the lms teaching observations remind me so much of his stories and bring enjoyment in and of themselves but also happy memories. one of the highest tributes to him were the handful of “kids” now in their late 40s who attended his memorial last spring. glad to know others get as much enjoyment from lms as i do! i was totally put off by ohitson, and rex liked that?!that said, i recall a touch of miff with ice, but since the above was my sticky part, i forgot my dis ease with ice.acmilan dropped in quickly, maybe as i like/play soccer, and listen to bbc in the evenings when dozing off. oersted was a problem as i couldn’t see anyway to fit tesla, or g auss, the em units that i know well.the rest, not on bad, but not my best time, for certain. hints fell together slowly with nw falling first, then increasing difficulty going ccw.. 1d was very tough for me because inhave only ever heard the word “highlights” used to describe accents colored into a hairstyle. the nw nearly did me in. re pdasi recall their being labeled and scorned as such by women’s college dorm mothers/supervisors in college during mid ‘60s. rex, i fully agree with you about beaner and ice. please continue to use your blog as a political platform when you feel so inclined. it is your blog, no one else's. and useful in so many ways. i found this puzzle unusually challenging. schmuck is not a synonym for dummy. too bad both david steinberg and will shortz didn't know that. nuance counts!very few gimmes. chimera was the first gimme i got. erudite, noxzema (yes, i had noxcema first!), chicago, parable (eventually), cat pose (eventually). apparel was an okay answer for a clever clue. "don we now our gay apparel" worked for me, even if american apparel as a brand name didn't immediately ring a bell.ac milan is a mystery to me. didn't know oersted, but that's okay. it may be esoteric, yet it's a fine clue and answer. ice is a legally constituted government agency with the power to conduct raids. this is a neutral fact. there's nothing racist or offensive about the clue. it was pretty obvious that it was some government agency   just a matter of working out which one. how can one justify being offended if the answer is ice but not if it is atf, blm (yep they can raid) dea, epa (yep   them too), fbi, sec...? i dislike the war on drugs, but i wouldn't take offense if the answer were dea or fbi. maybe the raids the constructor had in mine were ones to stop human trafficking. we're against that here, right? sometimes i think will shortz enjoys trolling ofl if we're keeping score, put me in the did you really have to clue ice that way column. i’m not quite as over the top as rex, but it was a really poor choice given what the news has been these past two years, especially lately.i really thought i wouldn;t get a toehold anywhere with this. i had jamaica for the birth of jazz, aclue instead of again, and other misfires too numerous to enmerate. i did have hire but that was it for the first 10 minutes of work. so i put it aside and went off to a read to the dogs event and came home refreshed. got the bottom half slowly and then moscato and noxzema fell and i was able to slowly, painfully complete the grid, though it took me over 3 rexes. my battle this week has been with the wildlife raiding the bird feeders. as someone victimized by the polar vortex, i’ve been very busy filling the feedes only to have them raided when my back is turned   and sometimes when i’m standing at the window with my camera   by deer, raccoons, and squirrels. i know everyone needs food, but those other critters look pretty plump and healthy while the birds need to eat just to keep from freezing. hanging the feeders in the dog yard is the obvious solution except my resident “i’m starving, you never feed me” dog also raids the feeders. sigh! we’re going through the seed at an impressive rate of speed. the very best comment today is @amelia 12:19p. if you missed it, scroll back and read it.i am 70+ and never knew that a group of people consider the sch word a profanity. it was in the puzz one time and in this blog maybe 200. hmmmm....@mickmcmick:on november 6, 1869, rutgers and princeton played what was billed as the first college football game. however, it wasn't until the 1880s that a great rugby player from yale, walter camp, pioneered rules changes that slowly transformed rugby into the new game of american football. so kids, google is discontinuing and deleting google+ accounts. they said this affects blogger. so you have to save your data if there is any but what happens to our site use i am not sure. answering rainbow: i am one of the "group of people" who knew that "schmuck" means penis, to be genteel, or prick or dick, to be more colloquial, in yiddish.i am in your age group, as i am 76. also, i'm jewish, and i knew "schmuck" was a coarse word for the male genital. schmuck means jewel in german, and, also in yiddish. think "family jewels", and you'll get the nuance. i don't think of it as a profanity, but it is used as an insult, the way prick or dick is used. a yiddish synonym is putz. also coarse. would someone creating a crossword puzzle for the ny times use dick or prick as a synonym for dummy? that's the problem with the clue and answer. it's basically ignorant, and coarse. i scrolled to the top, and didn't find a comment by amanda. all i found was a comment by anonymous that said in yiddish schmuck means penis.we continue to learn.... quite at the post contest watering hole with our local gang. the puzzles we got were fabulous... nyt puzzles m th from next week... you're in for a treat!i got my "all 4 puzzles correct" certificate!but the best part is hanging out with everyone. it was amelia 12:19. thanks for your comments. could someone please explain to me why a schmuck is a dummy when, in fact, it's really a penis? i also need an explanation for pda. also, i didn't really like the way ice was clued. anyone else agree with me?does anybody here read the comments? i'm just curious but i'd really appreciate your feedback because i'm new here.@nancy: you rock! i wanna sing that to the tune of "follow the bouncing ball." ; )..... schmuck is also jewish slang for penis. oy veh dr house, a fictional curmudgeon on the show “house” does ws read these comments? not a steinberg fan because the cluing is too cute by far. what does being borne have to do with lifting? as pointed out previously, a soprano can absolutely "end on a low note." clueless clue. lets not is polite? no, it's snotty and rude. you don't get wired at a usb port. you get powered. phooey! pda=public display of affection this was intended as a reply to blackbird. back from the caribbean to sunny naples, fl. i had to help unpack, do the monthly bills, and shop at a very crowded publix, where a customer said, “this is like costco without the discounts.” after a late lunch, i finally got to the puzzle. it took me a bit over my average time, but i found it a slog. happy to get the solve. i don't agree with the various complaints here re using football in the clues to mean soccer. it's a reasonable misdirect for a saturday puzzle. also, re shin: youth soccer players routinely wear shin guards so i think that clue is also valid. my worst performance in the past two years on this puzzle. c’est dommage. am i the only one to have *ball* hog at 42d? put it in based on ____hog. ball hogs on the basketball court don't care much for passing, so...finally saw that it had to be road hog and found the rest on the easy side of medium.to those grousing about the football clue: of the 23 teams comprising major league soccer in the united states, nine contain "fc" (football club) in their name.atlanta united fcfc cincinnatiny city fctoronto fc fc dallaslos angeles fcminnesota united fcseattle sounders fcvancouver whitecaps fcokay, so two of these are not in the us, but it still seems fair enough to me. note for context: i just came back from working as a mentor at a day long pipeline program for underrepresented minority high school students interested in health sciences, so i hope my leftist bleeding heart bona fides are plain for all to see. after finishing today's (a delightfully chewy puzzle with a few less than digestible morsels), i headed over to see how everyone else felt, and was confronted with what i can only describe as the most singularly ridiculous jeremiad i've ever encountered in crosswordland (high bar, i know). describing a government agency doing what it does (and ought not do, to my mind) is now considered not only insensitive, but downright racist? this reminds of when, during the election, college students claimed to be "triggered" by seeing trump's name written on a sidewalk in chalk. if you wage your wars over crosswordese that is patently factual, you're spilling plenty of ink in all the wrong places. there is a great deal of work to be done in our nation, but it doesn't begin with banishing what you find noisome from your midst. indeed, a constant reminder of the indignities so many undocumented persons in our country suffer is a welcome call to action. i have a similar response whenever the puzzle clues epa with anything resembling conservation or environmental protection; surely everyone knows by now that the aim of this department is best expressed on upside down or backwards day? i can't imagine the nyt ever printing "he's a dick" as a clue for scmuck. @anon 10:48pda = public display of affectioncds= compact disks, which are stored in stacks on towers i'll guarantee you one thing: the kid is a horrible constructor, been that way from the beginning. where all these praises come from is beyond me. firstly, shmack does not mean dummy. second, in no way does outré mean bizarre. i felt like moses walking around in circles in the desert and finally had to cheat for "oh its on" to open up that obstinate ne corner. schmuck is totally a foolish person. who ever uses that word for penis? no one i know   but maybe i'm just hanging oout with squares. this is probably the hardest puzzle i've done in a year. just could not break in. and i agree that the cluing on ice was a disaster. a stupid, totally avoidable disaster. in the u.s. football is the nfl game. that other sport is soccer. and there are those who would call my “wtf” as snowflakey. middle finger! you go, rex! i find it so frustrating that challenging the government for things like unnecessary family separation and deplorable detention conditions gets you accused by some as not caring about border security. it is possible to have secure borders while also having workable immigration laws and policies, and humane treatment of people seeking to enter for various reasons, including asylum.even if you wanted 4d to stand for immigration and customs enforcement you could have chosen a clue that wasn’t about raids, especially given recent stories about legal immigrants being harassed. i don’t come here to make political rants, but this clue and answer really irked me. this one had me scratching my head until just now as i was catching up on the rest of yesterday’s posts. first off, i couldn’t figure out why nyt would allow a typo in the puzzle. i saw applied at 37a instead of apple id, and couldn’t figure out “applied what?!?!” then, at 25a for the life of me i couldn’t figure out what newat (pronounced noo’ aht) meant!! chalk it up to the fact that i was hospitalized with bronchitis/pneumonia (depending on which doc was opining) last week and my brain is not functioning (you think?). i dread seeing david steinberg's name and do not enjoy his puzzles at all. i'm glad to see others find his cluing to be off. to say that ac milan is a 'football franchise' the day before the super bowl is idiotic. associazione calcio milan was founded as the milan football and cricket club when there was no serie a to sell a franchise. how is 'let's not' polite? the fact that it's a hortatory subjunctive? please. steinberg's clues need better editing and to be more fair. in re 8a: i'm amazed nobody mentioned the 2010 film w steve carell and paul rudd. perhaps a more palatable definition might have been "one at dinner in a 2010 movie" to anyone offended by the i.c.e. clue ... "get over it" excellent, challenging puzzle that i thought would do me in as i figured there had to be an error in oersted. happy to have a successful solve. i completely agree with those who have said that let's not is not polite   it's snarky and rude. ice forever!!! we choose to go to the moon, and do steinberg puzzles, not because they're easy, but because they are hahd!i almost fell afoul of this one, thanx to netflix. did no one else try that in 17 across? which fit perfectly with atf at the infamous 4 down?? wow, i had the taxes p[aid on that one, i was so sure. but 20 was looking more and more like bizarre (or  o, after a comic strip), which created a double i at 6 down. couldn't resolve the problem; went down to sis/stieg/seasalt and, despite the awful "theabcs," got going down there.eventually, i worked up into the nw along the western border, and suddenly remembered that chicago was the real birthplace of jazz. i knew that, but had forgotten. not enough of a schmuck to think only of american football, i waited for crosses till acmilan showed itself. (btw: american apparel?? such a thing? never heard of it)so, with the cinemax/ice inkblot in place, i finished (insert appropriate number of !'s here). a friday saturday duad of uncountable triumph points!the ice thing; well, there goes ofl  not again!  on another rant about what the word represents. it's filler in a puzzle. that ink is not gonna raid you! it's just ink!! i would agree, though, in this case, there are dozens of ways around it. why it was clued that way  or why will didn't edit it  who knows? they could have clued it "our next age," because the ice caps are fast losing their grip.no dod today without a super stretch: say, halle berry in a catpose as catwoman. sold. birdie: one too many weird wines  and theabcs  kept eagle off the card. erudite schmucklet'snot bearhug, please, we're not ape men,don't moc theabcs of 'borne again'.    stieg oersted well call me schmuck tracy. i always thought a schmuck was just an unfortunate person, not a dick with ears. oh well, gonna put it on ice.got deeply held up by 'tall one' and 'new to' until cold one and new at came into view.otherwise a clean if laborious solve and some new learning. never heard of dr. house as i don't watch the telly, nor did i know cat pose.as far as ice goes, i hope those goons get ptsd from their work. steinberg knocked me out in the first round. give him a medal. wrote a nice, snarky piece about donning our gay american apparel (not), but the cyberlice got it.diana, lady in waiting for crosswords easily got coldone but had to google sambuca and moscato. that last one must be where we got muskatel. learned from crossword: oersted, one of the men making history, per truman. learned from blog: a schmuck is the same thing as a schlong. also liked pa(i)rab(a)l(l)es under schmuck. doing this saturday 3/9: looked all through the blog for explanation of rpg in 60d. since nothing, must presume it's something everyone knows. but i don't. @unknown 4:50 rpg is role playing game, i guess something like dungeons & dragons. i'm here late, so i thought i'd help out. plenty of over written squares in the nw   gimme noxzema gave me wrongly crossing netflix which gave me atf where the ice should be; also had newto at first. so plenty of repair work was done there. for the second football clue i was guarding my goal, not shin. letsnot talk about how erudite i felt today.per usual in a ds puz, no sight of a yeah baby, or as @spacey would say, dod.'twas a challenge for me, maybe what i kneaded. put away the rpgs. i'm not in the mood for moc outrage or an erudite discussion. so letsnot go ape over ice. sure, ds isn't newat this and i'm usually in awe of his work. but he's no schmuck, even if some bizarre cluing raised a few eye brows. i got snagged in a few spots. my pens many writeovers smudged the grid, but i did it again. time for a coldone. tata for now. schmuck does not mean dummy. there are many intelligent schmucks in the world. brilliant comment, @spacey. i live for these days.i finished the puzzle this morning, and then made the galactic mistake of reading @rex. my god, he must have an agenda when he checks out the puzzle. what a way to live a life. i mean, you have to really *try* to take umbrage. as a canadian, i don't really don't know much about ice, or their raiding activities   i just know i hate trump (maybe the same thing; i wouldn't know). it was an acronym i'd heard of and so in it went. i could tell you a joke about our first nations people and jesus christ but it wouldn't pass moderation and would possibly alienate many of you. so, an untold "joke". that's the way it goes here. i caution you to never watch bill maher.anyway, late as i am, i loved this puzzle and found it "medium" and entertaining. proved to myself i couldn't spell noczema, and had some trouble with bizarre (weird), but otherwise a good puzzle that stands up well upon finishing.must not read @rex anymore (yes, i know i've said that before, but it's like saying "i will not ever drink sambuca again). ice does a great job of removing law breakers who are felons, drug dealers and human traffickers. bp apprehends and detains illegal aliens at the border per congressional mandates, not on a whim. both organizations are very appreciated by those of us who despise drugs and are weary of this mass invasion. the border crisis is real and americans, hispanics, white and native americans, want a wall. the ire and calls to fire/retire ws sounds like ageism. maybe this issue should be considered as strongly as mr sharps other concerns/biases. america, to be truly great, needs a wall. a wall around trump and all his racist followers. schmuck is a prick or obnoxious person. lighten uo rex! ice is a perfectly acceptable answer and a legitimate organization. you don't need to go on and on and on about what you think about it. although it's your blog so say what you want and perhaps ameliorate half your audience post a comment © free blogger templates columnus by ourblogtemplates.com 2008 back to top

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"we'll see you in the streets tomorrow, venezuela," guaidó said in a video message friday. "we're doing well. we're doing very well." reuters bbc news the u.s. economy added 304,000 jobs in january, the labor department reported friday, smashing expectations lowered by the 35 day partial government shutdown. the shutdown had no "discernible" impact on hiring overall, the report said, although it helped nudge the unemployment rate up to 4 percent from 3.9 percent the month before. the number of people seeking unemployment benefits increased by 53,000 to a seasonally adjusted 253,000 for the last week of january, the biggest jump since september 2017. president trump celebrated the job report news friday, saying the gains were "a shocker to a lot of people," but not to him. cnbc the white house iranian state television on saturday showed footage of a test of a new cruise missile with a range of 800 miles. the display is timed for celebrations of 1979's islamic revolution. "this cruise missile needs a very short time for its preparedness and can fly at a low altitude," said iranian defense minister amir hatami, though outside experts say iran sometimes exaggerates the capabilities of its weapons. tehran says this missile, like other recent projects, is strictly defensive, cannot carry a nuclear warhead, and does not violate the joint comprehensive plan of action, commonly known as the iran nuclear deal. reuters bloomberg the thwaites glacier in antarctica, responsible for 4 percent of the world's rising sea levels, has a massive underwater cavity that could speed up the glacier's deterioration, a new nasa study reveals. the glacier is roughly the size of florida, and scientists recently discovered a cavity approximately two thirds the size of manhattan, capable of holding more than 14 billion tons of ice. most of that ice has melted in the last three years, and the cavity allows ocean waters to melt the glacier more quickly. if the entire thwaites glacier melted, sea levels could rise by as much as two feet. the new york times the week senate minority leader chuck schumer's former communications director, matt house, was dismissed from his position this past fall because "he had inappropriate encounters within the office and ... it was making some staff uncomfortable," schumer's office confirmed in a statement friday evening following a report on the subject by the huffington post. "i deeply regret the mistakes i made on the number of occasions when i had too much to drink, and i apologize to anyone who was affected by my behavior," house said friday, adding that he has stopped drinking and seeks to be a "better colleague and person." the huffington post the hill champion ski racer lindsey vonn is ending her skiing career, she announced on instagram friday. after a fourth olympic games and more than a decade on the u.s. ski team, vonn first announced her retirement last year amid ongoing knee injuries, but reversed the decision a month later, saying she'd come back for at least one more race in the 2019 season. now, with "my body ... screaming at me to stop," vonn wrote, it is "time for me to listen." she'll race one last time next week at the alpine ski world championships in åre, sweden. lindsey vonn the week punxsutawney phil did not see his shadow in pennsylvania on saturday, making a 2019 groundhog day prediction of an early spring. the prediction was confirmed by a second groundhog in new york, staten island chuck. this year's prediction comes as the midwest finally warms up following a week of extreme cold and california braces for a major weekend storm that could bring flash floods and landslides as well as up to 10 feet of snow at high altitudes in the sierra nevada mountains. unfortunately, phil is only correct about 40 percent of the time. nbc news usa today a free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day   and the best features from theweek.com bonnie kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor in chief of theweek.com. she is a columnist at christianity today and author of untrustworthy: the knowledge crisis breaking our brains, polluting our politics, and corrupting christian community (forthcoming 2022) and a flexible faith: rethinking what it means to follow jesus today (2018). her writing has also appeared at time magazine, cnn, usa today, newsweek, the los angeles times, and the american conservative, among other outlets. podcast plus, can ai understand religion? and are we losing the war against rats? by the week uk published 7 february 25 the week recommends the curator and art dealer picks works by mikhail lermontov, negley farson and others by the week uk published 7 february 25 the week recommends 'charismatic' show explores how artists are inspired by photography by the week uk published 7 february 25 daily briefing trump closes in on nomination with new hampshire win over haley, 'oppenheimer' leads the 2024 oscar nominations, and more by harold maass, the week us published 24 january 24 daily briefing haley makes last stand in new hampshire as trump extends polling lead, justices side with us over texas in border fight, and more by harold maass, the week us published 23 january 24 daily briefing desantis ends his presidential campaign and endorses trump, the us and arab allies push plan to end gaza war, and more by harold maass, the week us published 22 january 24 daily briefing palestinian death toll reportedly passes 25,000, top biden adviser to travel to egypt and qatar for hostage talks, and more by justin klawans, the week us published 21 january 24 daily briefing grand jury reportedly convened to investigate uvalde shooting response, families protest outside netanyahu's house as pressure mounts for hostage deal, and more by justin klawans, the week us published 20 january 24 daily briefing congress averts a government shutdown, doj report cites failures in police response to texas school shooting, and more by harold maass, the week us published 19 january 24 daily briefing judge threatens to remove trump from his defamation trial, medicine for hostages and palestinians reach gaza, and more by harold maass, the week us published 18 january 24 daily briefing the us strikes houthi targets in yemen a third time, trump's second sex defamation trial begins, and more by harold maass, the week us published 17 january 24 theweek is part of future us inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. visit our corporate site. © future us, inc. full 7th floor, 130 west 42nd street, new york, ny 10036.

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rail traffic for the week ending february 2, 2019 washington, d.c.   february 6, 2019   the association of american railroads (aar) today reported u.s. rail traffic for the week ending february 2, 2019, as well as volumes for january 2019. u.s. railroads originated 1,238,487 carloads in january 2019, up 1.7 percent, or 21,054 carloads, from january 2018. u.s. railroads also originated 1,316,168 containers and trailers in january 2019, up 0.5 percent, or 6,008 units, from the same month last year. combined u.s. carload and intermodal originations in january 2019 were 2,554,655, up 1.1 percent, or 27,062 carloads and intermodal units from january 2018. in january 2019, 11 of the 20 carload commodity categories tracked by the aar each month saw carload gains compared with january 2018. these included: petroleum & petroleum products, up 12,791 carloads or 23.9 percent; chemicals, up 3,841 carloads or 2.5 percent; and primary metal products, up 3,103 carloads or 7.2 percent. commodities that saw declines in january 2019 from january 2018 included: crushed stone, sand & gravel, down 2,118 carloads or 2.2 percent; coke, down 2,046 carloads or 9.9 percent; and motor vehicles & parts, down 2,015 carloads or 2.7 percent. “january rail traffic painted a mixed picture, with healthy gains for some key commodities, while others continued to be a drag on overall carload numbers,” said aar senior vice president of policy and economics john t. gray. “intermodal volumes, chemicals and petroleum and petroleum products all continued their momentum from 2018. on the other hand, motor vehicles and parts were down in january   and overall carloads were held back by declines in coal and grain, but these fluctuations don’t reflect weakness in the economy.” excluding coal, carloads were up 21,864 carloads, or 2.7 percent, in january 2019 from january 2018. excluding coal and grain, carloads were up 22,984 carloads, or 3.3 percent. total u.s. carload traffic for the first month of 2019 was 1,238,487 carloads, up 1.7 percent, or 21,054 carloads, from the same period last year; and 1,316,168 intermodal units, up 0.5 percent, or 6,008 containers and trailers, from last year. total combined u.s. traffic for the first five weeks of 2019 was 2,554,655 carloads and intermodal units, an increase of 1.1 percent compared to last year. week ending february 2, 2019 total u.s. weekly rail traffic was 498,288 carloads and intermodal units, down 9.1 percent compared with the same week last year. total carloads for the week ending february 2 were 242,718 carloads, down 8.4 percent compared with the same week in 2018, while u.s. weekly intermodal volume was 255,570 containers and trailers, down 9.6 percent compared to 2018. two of the 10 carload commodity groups posted an increase compared with the same week in 2018. they were petroleum and petroleum products, up 2,186 carloads, to 12,979; and miscellaneous carloads, up 1,243 carloads, to 11,066. commodity groups that posted decreases compared with the same week in 2018 included coal, down 13,963 carloads, to 75,752; grain, down 3,189 carloads, to 21,508; and nonmetallic minerals, down 3,044 carloads, to 29,630. north american rail volume for the week ending february 2, 2019, on 12 reporting u.s., canadian and mexican railroads totaled 337,652 carloads, down 7.4 percent compared with the same week last year, and 329,869 intermodal units, down 11 percent compared with last year. total combined weekly rail traffic in north america was 667,521 carloads and intermodal units, down 9.2 percent. north american rail volume for the first five weeks of 2019 was 3,447,700 carloads and intermodal units, up 1.1 percent compared with 2018. canadian railroads reported 76,671 carloads for the week, down 2.2 percent, and 62,070 intermodal units, down 12 percent compared with the same week in 2018. for the first five weeks of 2019, canadian railroads reported cumulative rail traffic volume of 729,367 carloads, containers and trailers, up 5 percent. mexican railroads reported 18,263 carloads for the week, down 13.1 percent compared with the same week last year, and 12,229 intermodal units, down 28.3 percent. cumulative volume on mexican railroads for the first five weeks of 2019 was 163,678 carloads and intermodal containers and trailers, down 12.5 percent from the same point last year. ### for more information contact: aar media relations at media@aar.org or 202 639 2345. about aar: the association of american railroads (aar) is the world’s leading railroad policy, research and technology organization focusing on the safety and productivity of rail carriers. aar members include the major freight railroads of the u.s., canada and mexico, as well as amtrak. learn more at www.aar.org. follow us on twitter: @aar_freightrail or facebook: www.facebook.com/freightrail. founded in 1934, aar is the world’s leading railroad policy, research, standard setting, and technology organization that focuses on the safety and productivity of the u.s. freight rail industry. the association of american railroads (aar) brings together a broad spectrum of organizations connected to the rail industry. aar full members include the major freight railroads in the united states, canada, and mexico, along with passenger rail services amtrak and metra. railroad affiliates consist of smaller freight railroads, commuter rail systems, and other non class i railroads. associate include railcar owners, suppliers, manufacturers, engineering firms, and service providers that support the operations and growth of the rail industry. 425 3rd street sw, suite 1000, washington, dc 20024. get freight rail industry news right to your inbox, from important policy updates to fun facts about america’s private, nearly 140,000 mile network. we use cookies to create a better user experience, analyze site traffic, personalize content and serve targeted ads. by using this site, you consent to cookie use. learn more in privacy policy in the footer below. if you are a california resident, refer to our ca privacy notice, which explains your ca privacy rights and how you can exercise them.

table of contents the idea of groundhog day roots from the comparable european tradition, candlemas day. february 2nd has always been a significant day since it marks the dead of winter. on this day, the clergy would bless candles and hand them out to the people. an old english song went a little something like this: if candlemas be fair and bright,come, winter, have another flight;if candlemas brings clouds and rain,go winter, and come not again. history goes that the roman legions brought the candlemas tradition to the germans, who constructed the idea that if the sun was out and an animal, in their case a hedgehog, cast a shadow, there would be six more weeks of winter. when the germans came to pennslyvania, they found groundhogs to be similar to the hedgehog used in their tradition. the groundhog was then adopted as the animal that determines the course of the winter season. the official groundhog is named punxsutawney phil, who appears from his hole at gobbler’s knole in pennslyvania every year. the first recorded celebration of groundhog day, then still known as candlemas day, was in the year 1841 in morgantown, pa. however, the first official groundhog day at gobbler’s knole was in february of 1887. the growing popularity of the groundhog since its first appearance in the 1800s is astounding. not only has punxsutawney phil traveled to meet president regan in washington, but he’s also appeared on the oprah winfrey show and there is even a movie dedicated (kind of) to his special day! in 1993, bill murray and andie macdowell starred in the romantic comedy, groundhog day. in the movie, a weatherman (murray) is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting “rat” (as he calls it). this is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. on waking the ‘following’ day he discovers that it’s groundhog day again, and again, and again. first, he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realization that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing every day. every year, hundreds of people come from around the world to watch punxsutawney phil emerge from his little knole. why not be one of them? click here to get more information on attending the infamous groundhog day at gobblers knole. “history, stephen said, is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake.”  james joyce in ulysses “to get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist’s own imagination appealed to me enormously.”  solomon r. guggenheim “history teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”  abba eban “the smallest minority on earth is the individual. those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”  ayn rand “i pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie.”  shakira “people will always be around to tell you you’re no good or you’re wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. they’re wrong. they’re always wrong. keep going.”  elaine stritch “the only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.”  tommy smothers “begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”  liz smith “i deeply believe in one’s own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.”  farrah fawcett “i cannot play a lie. i have to believe in what i play or it won’t come out.”  stan getz 1046   the “little ice age” began in europe. 1872   the prohibition party held its first national convention in columbus, ohio, nominating james black as its presidential nominee. 1876   national league (now major league baseball) of baseball was founded 1887   the first groundhog day was observed in punxsutawney, pa 1892   the bottle cap with cork seal was patented (#468,226) by william painter, from baltimore. 1913   grand central terminal, also known as grand central station, is a commuter railway terminal located at 42nd street and park avenue in midtown manhattan, new york city. the terminal officially opened on february 2, 1913, and it was one of the most significant transportation hubs in the world at the time. the terminal was built by the new york central railroad and it was designed by the architectural firm of reed and stem and warren and wetmore. the terminal spans over 48 acres and features 44 platforms, making it the largest train station in the world at its opening. it was designed with a beaux arts style and featured a main concourse that was more than 300 feet long, with a ceiling painted with a night sky and constellations. grand central terminal is still an active transportation hub, and it is a national historic landmark, a new york city landmark, and a national register of historic places. 1914   charlie chaplin’s first film appearance, making a living premiered in early theaters. 1922   ulysses by james joyce was published. 1924   president calvin coolidge became the first president to deliver a radio address from the white house. 1925   dog sleds, led by gunnar kasson, reached nome, alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the iditarod race. 1925   sears & roebuck opened their first retail store, in chicago. 1928   great fall river fire, massachusetts 1936   the record 24 hour snowfall for hawaii was 6.5 inches that fell on the haleakala volcano. 1950   what’s my line debuted on cbs. 1959   nine experienced ski hikers in the northern ural mountains in the soviet union die under mysterious circumstances. 1961  nearly 600 passengers aboard the hijacked santa maria liner were finally landed and released in brazil. 1964   g.i. joe action figures (they are not ‘dolls’!) went on sale for the first time, featuring the four branches of the us military. 1967   the american basketball association (aba) was established. it only had four teams (new york nets, denver nuggets, indiana pacers, and san antonio spurs) and later merged with its competition, the national basketball association (nba). 1974   #1 hit february 2, 1974   february 8, 1974: barbra streisand   the way we were 1979   sid vicious died of a heroin overdose in new york city. 1980   an fbi operation called abscam, an undercover operation regarding us congressional corruption was made known to the public. february 2, 19**   phil conners lived the same day over and over, groundhog day, film 1985   #1 hit february 2, 1985   february 15, 1985: foreigner   i want to know what love is 1989   sky television began broadcasting in the uk. 1992   #1 hit february 1, 1992   february 7, 1992: george michael & elton john   don’t let the sun go down on me 2000   oxygen debuted on cable. 2013   #1 hit february 2, 2013   march 1, 2013: macklemore and ryan lewis featuring wanz   thrift shop #1 hit february 2, 2019   march 8, 2019: ariana grande   7 rings february 2, 2388   (fiction) data was first activated, star trek, tv in animal house, bluto’s grade point average was 0.0. “i wish i knew how to quit you.”   jack twist (jake gyllenhaal) #moviequotes the first avocado tree in the united states was planted in florida in 1833. the question “can you hear me?” technically only has one answer. king george of saxony’s (august 8, 1832   october 15, 1904) full name was friedrich august georg ludwig wilhelm maximilian karl maria nepomuk baptist xaver cyriacus romanus english: frederick augustus george louis william maximilian charles maria nepomuk baptist xaver cyriacus romanus hot girl is going out with a jerk jock. the nerd secretly loves the hot girl. #moviecliches a baby spider is called a spiderling. during the production of saving private ryan, matt damon was intentionally kept out of the boot camp training with the other stars to make them resent his character more. when you rearrange the letters “eleven plus two” you get “twelve plus one” the poor gamble, the wealthy play the odds. “failure doesn’t come from falling down. failure comes from not getting up.”   karim seddiki the original (1781) name of los angeles was “el pueblo de nuestra señora la reina de los ángeles del río de porciúncula,” or “the town of our lady the queen of the angels on of the river porciúncula.” if you want to fight someone who can read your mind, just think in a language they dont understand. the star wars title sequence was inspired by a movie about the railroad industry titled union pacific. a prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.prime days include: february: 2/2 ,2/3 ,2/5 ,2/7 ,2/11 ,2/13 ,2/17 ,2/19 ,2/23 ,2/29/17, 2/29/19, 2/29/23, 2/29/29march: 3/2 ,3/3 ,3/5 ,3/7 ,3/11 ,3/13 ,3/17 ,3/19 ,3/23 ,3/29 ,3/31may: 5/2 ,5/3 ,5/5 ,5/7 ,5/11 ,5/13 ,5/17 ,5/19 ,5/23 ,5/29 ,5/31july: 7/2 ,7/3 ,7/5 ,7/7 ,7/11 ,7/13 ,7/17 ,7/19 ,7/23 ,7/29 ,7/31november: 11/2 ,11/3 ,11/5 ,11/7 ,11/11 ,11/13 ,11/17 ,11/19 ,11/23 depositphotos.compcm seo agencypopculturepress
an official website of the united states government the .gov means it’s official. federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site. the site is secure. the https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely. background and objectives: gonadotropin releasing hormone analogues are commonly prescribed to suppress endogenous puberty for transgender adolescents. there are limited data regarding the mental health benefits of this treatment. our objective for this study was to examine associations between access to pubertal suppression during adolescence and adult mental health outcomes. methods: using a cross sectional survey of 20 619 transgender adults aged 18 to 36 years, we examined self reported history of pubertal suppression during adolescence. using multivariable logistic regression, we examined associations between access to pubertal suppression and adult mental health outcomes, including multiple measures of suicidality. results: of the sample, 16.9% reported that they ever wanted pubertal suppression as part of their gender related care. their mean age was 23.4 years, and 45.2% were assigned male sex at birth. of them, 2.5% received pubertal suppression. after adjustment for demographic variables and level of family support for gender identity, those who received treatment with pubertal suppression, when compared with those who wanted pubertal suppression but did not receive it, had lower odds of lifetime suicidal ideation (adjusted odds ratio = 0.3; 95% confidence interval = 0.2 0.6). conclusions: this is the first study in which associations between access to pubertal suppression and suicidality are examined. there is a significant inverse association between treatment with pubertal suppression during adolescence and lifetime suicidal ideation among transgender adults who ever wanted this treatment. these results align with past literature, suggesting that pubertal suppression for transgender adolescents who want this treatment is associated with favorable mental health outcomes. copyright © 2020 by the american academy of pediatrics. pubmed disclaimer potential conflict of interest: dr turban reports receiving royalties from springer for a textbook on pediatric gender identity; and ms king and drs carswell and keuroghlian have indicated they have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.