A User Manual for Your Knees
Originally published on March 7, 2019
Supported byOriginally published on March 7, 2019A User Manual for Your KneesByJordan Metzl, M.D.Illustrations by César PelizerYour knee routinely feels the force of five to eight times your body weight with every step, making it the most taxed joint of the human body. A knee is designed to withstand millions of steps during a lifetime, but sometimes all that stress can cause your knees to break down. What can you do to prevent knee pain? And stop the pain you may already feel? We’ve designed our knee guide to teach you how to keep knees working for years to come.How to Prevent Knee PainNever had knee pain? Excellent. Let’s keep it that way. And while not all knee problems are preventable, you can prevent many issues and also improve knee function with strength and flexibility training.With increased muscular strength and flexibility surrounding your knees, the better they bear their load. Muscles are shock absorbers; the stronger they are, the better they can offload the hips and knees and the better your joints will feel — no matter your age.
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Originally published on November 14, 2000
A User Manual for Your Knees
ByJordan Metzl, Infosys by César Pelizer
Your knee routinely feels the force of five to eight times your body weight with every step, making it the most taxed joint of the human body. A knee is designed to withstand millions of steps during a lifetime, but sometimes all that stress can cause your knees to break down. What can you do to prevent knee pain? And stop the pain you may already feel? We’ve designed our knee guide to teach you how to keep knees working for January 26, 2000 to come.
How to Prevent Knee Pain
Never had knee pain? Excellent. Let’s keep it that way. And while not all knee problems are preventable, you can prevent many issues and also improve knee function with strength and flexibility training.
With increased muscular strength and flexibility surrounding your knees, the better they bear their load. Muscles are shock absorbers; the stronger they are, the better they can offload the hips and knees and the better your joints will feel — no matter your age.
it's funny looking back at older puzzles and seeing what you'd do differently. i distinctly remember deciding what to do with the big northwest and southeast corners and thinking "this is gonna be a thursday, go for the snazzy long downs!" nowadays, i think i'd add another block in at the t of tada and use less gluey short entries. i was especially excited to find rock em sock em robot for a center 15er with it's two ems, and to debut chin music (although i know it as a baseball term). hope all enjoy! a jazzy revealer   stick em up!   along with four catchphrases: hang em high, hook em horns, knock em dead, and the doubled up rock em sock em robots   made for a great theme set. fantastic choices. every time the nyt runs a "parts of answers jutting up or down," i get angry emails saying that there's something wrong in the grid. ooh, the vitriolic barrages i got after a holding down the fort puzzle (never mind that i didn't write it). you fool, you @#$@!ed up big time! you're the biggest moron in the history of moronocy! i've learned to spell out themes in painful detail, so that (most) everyone gets it. i enjoyed today's in part because i won't have to do as much explaining. tried and true "jutting" theme, but it's so easy to figure out. (we've highlighted the ems below just in case.) instead of relying on a long jutting string, or several different strings, it's simply em at work. it is true that once you've figured out the theme, it all falls quickly. but i didn't mind that. enough of a trick to make it worthy of a thursday slot, but easy enough to make me feel smart. it's a win when a constructor makes solvers feel smart. fully agreed with brian, i could have used a slightly smoother grid. dak prescott, become uber famous already! ete mkts tio tmen xci almost made me rethink my pow! pick. but these gluey bits did allow for a lot of great what a tool / line dance chin music bonuses, so i'm okay with the trade offs. even after doing thousands of crosswords over the years, i still get tripped up solving these "jutting" types of puzzles. i appreciate that brian found a simple, but colorful, effective, and easy to understand concept within this genre. answer summary:5 unique to this puzzle. there are 15 rows and 15 columns, with 0 rebus squares, and 2 cheater squares (marked with "+" in the colorized grid below.) the grid uses 23 of 26 letters, missing jqz. it has normal rotational symmetry. average word length: 5.18, scrabble score: 340, scrabble average: 1.80. puzzle has 6 fill in the blank clues and 2 cross reference clues. duplicate clues: like computer data, with "in" this puzzle has 5 unique answer words. it has 0 words that debuted in this puzzle and were later reused: these 33 answer words are not legal scrabble™ entries, which sometimes means they are interesting: various thumbnail views are shown: crosswords that share the most words with this one (excluding sundays): unusual or long words that appear elsewhere: other puzzles with the same block pattern as this one: other crosswords with exactly 36 blocks, 74 words, 74 open squares, and an average word length of 5.18: the next two sections attempt to show how fresh the grid entries are. in this view, unusual answers are colored depending on how often they have appeared in other puzzles. unique answers are in red, red overwrites orange which overwrites yellow, etc. cheater squares are indicated with a + sign. freshness factor is a calculation that compares the number of times words in this puzzle have appeared in other modern era puzzles. click here for an explanation. the chart below shows how many times each word has been used across all nyt puzzles, old and modern including variety. found bugs or have suggestions? please let us know. like this puzzle? please share this page on social media to help spread the word about xword info. thanks!

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constructor: brian thomas relative difficulty: easy (untimed on the clipboard, so i'm not sure, but i got the theme early and never struggled) save and share : what? no "book 'em danno?" really missed an opportunity there.this was a fun solve. cute trick and not too hard. fun.chinmusic should so much have been clued as a baseball slang. in 2001 i attended a 3 week management course at kellogg in chicago and there were many international participants. for one of our nights off, we went to wrigley field and saw a cubs game. i was seated next to a classmate from japan and we found out we were both big baseball fans. our conversation included a lengthy comparison of translated baseball slang, e.g. "suicide squeeze" "paint the corners" "basket catch". about a week later there were a dozen or so of us in the dorm lounge watching a mlb playoff game and the pitcher threw one high and tight, and from the back of the group came a distinctly japanese accented exclamation, "chin music!" the room bust out laughing. that friend probably still tells his buddies in japan what that means! what a neat little tricky thursday. my first entry was 36d its and then wrote in “rock’m sock’m robot” off that final t. i swear. my first two answers. (and i didn’t notice the odd singular, but point well taken.) in the grid, the e less words didn’t look so wrong, but i got it all sorted out pretty quickly. what i didn’t see/look for was the reveal since i like the suspense. for the life of me, i wouldn’t have guessed it, so when it fell, i laughed.question   i was unfamiliar with the texas rallying cry. is the base phrase hook them, ‘horns! or hook them horns! (nonstandard hook those horns)? loved the keyed/typed cross with their matching clues. and i also liked the crossing things that you hang from your rear view mirror: dice and pine tree. please please please let that cardboard tree smell like pine and not vanilla or coconut. or pineapple. please.“exclamation usually made in a high voice”   ok. that’s tight enough.root sight (sic)   grey. women, if you’re so inclined, this stuff, basically root spray paint, can buy you a few more weeks before paying a gazillion dollars to get your hair re colored.i never realized how many in the language ‘em phrases we have in our glorious chin music (woe??) they could make great book titles:sic’em: an editor’s memoirbook’em: the mueller reportread’em and weep: taking control of your billsspread’em: rumors, they’re what’s for breakfastlemme at’em: life with a doorbell: a dog’s perspectiveif you can’t beat’em, join’em: how i embraced the nirvana of non standard englishuse’em or lose’em: whither went whom and lain? "hook 'em horns?" if you say so. @lms, it shortens to “hook ‘em.” spoken with index and pinkie extended, all else curled. (to make a longhorn) football cheer etcetera. i know this because when cal was playing ut way back when the texans yelled their thing and showed their almost surfer gesture and the bersekers responded with a not quite profanity ending in bears, and its accompanying gesture, and it was magnificent. looong time ago when that kind of thing was exciting.last night i stared at an empty grid for 5 full minutes and then gave up. this morning i filled it all in, in near record time. once again, even though my brain feel all cottony in the morning, it’s much smarter. needs that overnight spinal fluid rinse for sure. oh, i liked the clever theme idea and it's good execution, plus the runons/continues cross, and learning a new phrase (chin music), and it all makes me think, "keep 'em coming, brian!" but as i leave the puzzle, what is sticking with me most of all is: "man, that was the best. ete. clue. ever!" no mention of “lie on”? what a terrible answer ... i admi that i don't check in here every day, so i don't know all of rex's undoubted many talents. has he ever created a puzzle without three letter words.i am sure it has been done although if it were the rule, then there would be groans about the same old four letter words ...)a fun and breezy. don't understand the carping about the singular rockesockerobot. the game name was plural, but my robot was fighting your robot, singular. as i recall, the tv ads were far more exciting than the game itself. best actor answer 11d was worst partial ever puzzle felt flat to me, especially after i grasped the “trick”. really fast solve too (7:58), but i don’t know why as i felt it to be a slog. agree with @rex that rockemsockemrobot is idiotic in the singular. the toy in question contains both robots. it’s not like one of them goes home to its squalid philly apartment hoping for a shot at the title with the champion rockem sockem robot (somehow i think some hollywood script writer right now is penning a toy story/rocky screenplay).anywho, fast, but not my cup of tea i guess as far as thursdays go. two things i can not and will not do: line dance and text with my thumbs. seeing others do these things makes me keyed up. i guess i’m too much of a nervous nelly. i liked the theme but the grid had too much junk fill. is it ok? no. very neat. agree with all the fun combos mentioned and also like champagne and flute. the clue for the robot was singular "toy boxer", so i'm fine with robot. cutco makes very sharp knives that are usually sold door to door by college students. i have seen many, many cut fingers from those who don't respect how easily they cut through food.i also smiled at the clever clue for ete now, that was fun. rockemsockemrobot alone worth the price of admission. you make a puzzle with a swell theme like this, you can pretty much put in any fill you want. clues like “some jerk he is!” and “does this seem fine to you?” and fill like xci just don’t matter when the puzzle delivers on the entertainment front. thought it was a rebus until i knew it wasn’t. definitely a dnf, but i’lll count it anyhoo. me too. the “high em’s” thing is clear now. i felt dumb for not seeing it   but sometimes i’m so not in the mood for a trick theme i willfully resist allotting any brain power outside the clues proper. like others, started filling in as rebusses (rebi?), until an abundance of downs would not fall. also, said to say as a utd grad, my first response was gigeaggies. got the theme early on and moved through most of the grid with gusto but the crosses in the ne totally stymied me. had to cheat to get the “h” in slouch and that enabled me to finish. sorry, i meant “sloth” i got the theme early and it helped except in the ne. a near miss for me but i finally saw it.if anyone's "pet letter" is k this grid should make you happy.chin music was new but even better is @ barbiebarbie's spinal fluid rinse. i definitely will borrow that phrase. thanks!cutco was an unknown but i am well acquainted with bonami cleanser.i always admired their slogan and the cute little chick on the label.clever marketing i thought. good puzzle. lively theme answers and some nice open corners to boot.things i learned this morning: that chinmusic means anything other than a high, inside pitch; and that mesmerize comes from someone's name. very cool, that last one.the cluing was fun, but the clue for ete took the champagne thing a step too far.i agree with @rex that the robots are plural. why not just go 16 wide    hell, that's what yesterday's puzzle did, and for a far less compelling reason.it annoys the hell out of me that mike and mic are seemingly interchangeable, but i'll get over it.i gave lieon the side eye for quite a while before realizing that "use" is a verb, not a noun. well done. cutco are knives sold as part of a multi level marketing (mlm) scheme, a type of legal (for now) pyramid scheme. the company preys on college students with promises of a lot of money for minimal work. but most of the sellers actually lose money because they have to pay fees and meet minimum sales requirements. the puzzle was ok otherwise but i wasn't happy seeing cutco included. it's known more for being a scam than as a brand of kitchen utensils. an, the rare soc. seems like we should remember this day. xci didn’t bother me because, first, we don’t see rrns eight days a week anymore, and, second, x box games and continues more than mitigate the transgression. @anon7:46   in these parts “rebopodes” is the preferred plural. that’s because we stick ‘em in our pipe and smoke ‘em. the chin music clue was a learning experience. like so many others, i’ve heard the baseball usage for 50 years and never once the “primary” usage. @lms   i was thinking of you yesterday as seattle riot shared a question from their try out questionnaire: “men lie. women lie. ___________.” (the answer they were looking for is “ultimate players lay out.”) apparently i didn’t catch spell correct changing “ah” to “an.” "texas' world renowned "hook 'em horns" sign, created by head cheerleader harley clark in 1955, was voted the nation's top hand signal by sports illustrated." they actually voted, folks...here's the key point to realize about rock em sock em robots.. the game sucked. no one ever played it for more than a few minutes before getting bored. this puzzle was fine. i dropped amber in at 1d and was off to the .. well.. i gave up on the nw, and circled around clockwise. thought at first the em thing must be a rebus or something, but i knew mesmer was right.. it all worked out ok in the end. what everyone else is saying (fast, fun theme, not much dreck) but did no one else write in whatafool? this leads to the delightful fada! and makes you wonder if you really should have fado which is generally sung in a high and plaintive voice and then you change the f to a t and it still makes sense but even moreso.fun thurs. if over too fast, thanks bt. hey all !just had a funny thought, read the answers as mes instead of ems. go ahead, har ness will ensue.liked this nifty little theme. brian had mesmer as a cross with two themers, so that was a highlight. in the same group of those who found it easy, except the ne corner. not sure why that was so tough. looking at it after the fact, i think it was the clues. yeah, sounds good. too bad the mt wasn't mt cool, cause that would be, well, cool. got the same k feeling that @suzie q had. funny. maybe i'll adopt the k? probably not, i'm sure it gets used more than the f. i don't have the numbers, but will state it as fact regardless. : )got a chuckle out of what a tool. ha, known a few tools over the years. run ons over text. who, me? some fun  ese today, is it ok, uh oh, t men, dak, spf (because of the f, of course). only kaos i ran into today was running out of room when first entering hang em high. went uhoh, but quickly recovered and grokked the theme at the singular rock em sock em robot (which bothers me not at all as a singlet). amen tmenroomonsterdarrinvbra! (har) @tomaz   with all due respect to sports illustrated, the #1 hand signal in the us is clearly the one finger salute. “hey! you knocked my block off!”https://youtu.be/p nk1hb8bqi wow, what a tough work out...and i loved every minute.started this late last night after a two hour dinner with friends. they brought over two bottles of "gnarly head" lodi zin, knowing that i love me some mighty fine wine (you can buy it at safeways   try it.) we knocked em down pretty quickly. after guests left, i sat in my favorite chair, burped a bit and could only muster up is it ok. off to bed.so i look at this thursday at 4 in the morning because that's when i (ugh) got up. i just stared. slowly words began to emerge. got hang[em] high after several sips of coffee. smiled. things began to creep back from gray cells that had been lying dormant for many years. my trusty pen was ever so lightly putting things in each little square because i wasn't sure of my answers. are the cute little otters still being trapped? i guess so. chitchat was small talk for a while. chin music? that's a thing? hook em horns is something the texans say? never heard of rock[em] sock[em] robot. needed every single down to get that answer. t he only two themes i got without pause were knock[em] dead and stick[em] up. cool beans.very last entry was 34d at x box games. i never learned my roman numerals...never will....don't use them....and halo and gears ain't floating around in my branch of knowledge.some people like the smell of pine. it reminds me of summer camp and our weekly chore of cleaning up our cabin toilets and showers. my bunk mate thought that pouring that stuff on the floor and swishing a mop around would do the trick. those smells don't mix.i hope that the clue for ete makes it in the crossword guinness book of all things clued the way god intended.thanks for a rad puzzle, brian thomas. whoa!fastest thursday by over a minute. didn't get to finish my coffee... got slowed down when i had rocke____ and saw "classic" in the clue and went right to rocketjsquirrel.he wasn't a boxer but he could have been a contender. note to self, read entire clue. sorry, but an emcee does not need a mike! they need a mic, short for microphone. or am i missin something here? i often do! i didn't enjoy the puzzle. got the rebus but the texas thing killed me. thank you for the revenge @barbi. go bears.can we get something straight here? mike is not   not   the abbreviation for microphone. you may find some variation crap, but it's mic. cause it's not spelled mikerophone. except in maybe in greek, but on second thought that's probably mykrophx. so, let's see. three product names, a gibberish y toy, a gibberish y cheer, an acronym from a forgettable tv show, some video games, and a couple of oh so up to the minute slang phrases. and, tada, it's a puzzle! is there any room left under the scalp for things that an educated person really needs to know?the theme helped me solve, as the best themes do, so that's not my problem with the puzzle. my problem is the exhaustive and exhausting search for hipness and the focus on trivia of almost staggering unimportance. i see that most of you so far have liked this puzzle, so i seem to be the outlier. but, even though i managed to finish it, i didn't have to like it. and i surely didn't. while i ride my two wheeled bike, my grandson will ride her three wheeled tric. i solve my print puzzles using a pen. always. according to rex, i am not normal. looks like it’s “hook them, ‘horns!” as the base phrase.according to the school websites, the ut cheer actually originated from an a&m phrase, “gig ’em, aggies!”, which itself was the crowd’s response to the cheering squad’s query “what are we going to do to those horned frogs?!”when texas was later playing those same tcu horned frogs, they used the phrase “hook em, ‘horns!”, which then rapidly became popular as a rallying cry, no matter the opponent. thursday’s? not up to em some weeks. today’s was easy & fun. i've never heard of hook em high, so the nw was very challenging for me especially with cutco & mtcook. otherwise, i did find it relatively easy for a thursday puzzle and pretty enjoyable at that.i am getting better at thursday puzzles. they used to be stressful for me because i knew there was some hidden rebus or trick and thursdays are hard enough without them. but now i'm getting used to them and know what to look for, so it's a little more fun. @andy silverman    for some reason, i cannot stop laughing at your rocketjsquirrel anecdote. maybe it's because "rocky & bullwinkle" is still the greatest subversive cartoon show i can remember. maybe it's because rocky was voiced by june foray, who also voiced natasha, cindy lou who, granny (tweety bird's sometimes owner), witch hazel and numerous other looney tunes characters, and is responsible for many happy memories. maybe it's because rocky has a friggin' middle initial, which of course he does. anyway, thanks for putting a big smile on my face.note to constructors: please find a way to make bullwinkle an entry soon. thank you to all the wonderful teachers throughout my life who made things as interesting and fun as you do in your daily musings! i’d sign up for your class any day and hope you get rewarded occasionally with students who enjoy learning. i loved this puzzle. i got off to a slow start, but then began clicking in the northeast and hang em high fell right out. like rex, i was puzzled at first as to why it seemed to be a rebus that didn’t apply to the down clue, but shortly after that i nailed stick em up and had the ah ha moment. i loved rock em sock em robot, though take the point it probably should be plural. to me, chin music as the answer to chitchat was delightful; like rex, i have never heard it used in any context but baseball slang for a brushback pitch. to find out its primary meaning is “chitchat” is quite surprising! i like learning something new from the nyt puzzle, as i periodically do.i believe what a tool is of relatively recent vintage and started as internet slang (i think), and i initially had what a fool but that didn’t feel right, because a fool isn’t necessarily a jerk. of course the answer could not be what a jerk without re cluing, because “jerk” is in the clue.liked mesmer, isomer, kaos, owlet, some others, too … always glad to see ovid in a puzzle. i much prefer literary proper names to celebrity proper names. nice solving experience.those are good, loren muse smith. i think the only thing that kept this from being a tuesday puzzle was the 'em gimmick. still, i had fun with it.i wrote in whataload off the w. close enough to help me get through that corner quickly. rocky & bullwinkle are my all time faves. loved the mr. peabody (and his “boy sherman”) cartoons, too. they get such short shrift in crosswords! pretty easy puzzle today, the ne was a bit of a speed bump, but otherwise straightforward.shoutout to rex for including the teenage fanclub clip in here. they're one of my favorite bands and i just saw them in minneapolis this week. what a learning experience:1. chin music is chat. i thought that was a chin wag, and the “music” onlay applied to baseball.2. what a tool. no idea that is an expression.3. otters are still trapped. hmmmm.enjoyed the oldies: bonami (had brillo at first and that certainly slowed me down). so surprised that london fog was correct. kaos brought back memories of my sibs and i arguing over what to watch and being so happy when my pick, “get smart” won out. @crimson devil, 12:57 yesterday. amen on how correctly to fry okra. i am a 40+ year transplant to oklahoma (more in that in a minute) and had never had the “south side” until 1976. my mother in law hooked me and yes, the only way to make first class fried okra is by slicing it, letting it sit on paper towels to lose any extra moisture, dust it in cornmeal and fry it in a blazing hot cast iron skillet. divine, and the “slime” is all gone. got the theme at the first because of tmen, but it hurt my (transplanted)soul to have to type iin that horrid phrase from south of the red river. all i can say to that is:boomer sooner!!!! 43a "mike" does the emcee need a friend by the name of mike? this is a personal pet peeve of mine, something i would say into the mic at a crossword creator's convention! cruised along very nicely until the unpleasantness of the ne corner, then hamstrung myself with liein (as in “had a nice long lie in this morning”) instead of lieon. then proceeded with a frustrating assortment of incorrect crosses like cutzo/mtzoik. etc. had to step away to see the obvious mtcook. @lorelei lee, the radio and television news used the term “mike” for microphone as far back as the 40s, according to copies of its newsletters available online. just because you’ve never heard of this shortening of microphone or don’t like it doesn’t make it wrong. had tmen and knew hang em high so i just figured the key was "em" without the "m" and went on from there. when i found the reveal i just shrugged and didn't bother looking at the grid much. as usual, i had to come here to see the "trick". as the young 'uns used to say, what. ever.a lot of this was easy for me, last thing to fall was the texas thing as i neither know nor care to know a single thing about football. futbal is my thing. the clue was for a single robot, not the name of the game; geez, the things that set off the crossword kids, no wonder they bristle at anal as an answer.i have never heard "chin music" in any context (yeah, no baseball for me either) and had "what a fool" for quite a while. i did not know that "tada" is said in a high pitch either. cutco is a scam, not a well known kitchen utensil, at least not in any of the professional kitchens my wife and i inhabited for 20 years. i've got a nice set of henkels though, still going sharp and strong 35 years after purchase.not so small a nit, mic is an abbreviated "microphone" and is not to be confused with a man's name. james cook was already well known for his maps of new zealand before his further explorations of the south pacific led to his death in hawaii, but the native name is used more often these days. the runons continue to be typed, or keyed into, texts written by the sassy gypsy stuck in the dead end gig economy. pretty soon he'll have to resort to "stick em up". chin music? is that what all the crazy, hep kids are saying these days? i must be getting old. i always used mike for microphone.mic got started by sound engineers and picked up by rappers and spread quickly.check here:http://mentalfloss.com/article/66196/microphone mic or mike measy. caught the theme at hang e high and zipped through the rest. fun theme answers, liked it. dnf because i've never been to a texas football game (nor to any other football game for at least 40 years), so i thought hold 'em horns would make a pretty good cheer. this gave me dook, but i thought maybe that was a real thing. so i finished and looked up lat cake to see what it might be, whereupon the dictionary app suggested i might want oats instead. doh! if i'd bothered to run the alphabet, i would have got it, so it's all because i'm such a sloth.dull theme, nice revealer; i was annoyed by all the vague clues at first  autumn color, i'm looking at you  and even though i knew st. kitts was really st. christopher, he just shut off my mind to other possibilities, so i needed a lot of crosses to get lucia there.those things you talk into were mikes for most of my life; in the old days, you needed a silent e in order to get the long i sound, and mice wouldn't have worked. they became mics about the same time the journalist's lead became a lede. so you young 'uns should just be patient. i bought my cutco knives from a frind's son when he was in college. he's in his mid forties now. cutco is an upstate ny company that sells very expensive cutlery and accepts knives through the mail for free sharpening for the life of the knives (or the life of the owner, if you don't cut a main artery with those very sharp knives and live that long). my only problem is slicing and dicing for the days it takes for the knives to come back.i kept wanting the ems to be a rebus even though they did not fit. so stubborn, and even though i had the other answers **and** the literal hint, i still tried to figure out how i could make them work. duh.thought it was a fun puzzle. 2 tool explanations, with the nsfw one being more recent, but hardly new. i’m pretty sure it was common as early as the 1990’s.@mike complainers   use whatever you want but both are acceptable spellings. in the context of crosswords the spelling is determined by the number of squares needed to be filled. @linda vale   if you do it to impress non solvers i’d agree. i solve in pen because it is easier to see, especially since i like to lightly write in answers i’m not sure about. if i printed out the puzzle on good white paper it might be different, but the flimsy newsprint is hard to erase without destroying the paper and #2 pencil doesn’t contrast enough with the “white” of newsprint. a lot of the fastest solvers agree with rex, just proving we should take anything any of them say with a healthy dose of scepticism. right in my wheelhouse   even the product clues, which i generally dislike, were products (bon ami, cutco,) that i own. i have been to st. lucia, and to mt. cook, and "hook em horns" is very familiar. (there was even a commercial featuring a game of "charades" where the u of t alum is trying to get the "aggie" to say "hook em horns..." "never graduate!" but i watch a lot of college football...) i think a better clue for "chin music" would be "brushback pitch in baseball slang.."enjoyed this one a lot! a double thumbs up for z and his pen. mine is fountain and for the same reason. and, since no one else i care about sees the result (i leave the paper in booth in the hopes that some low information voter reads it. yeah, i know), i just adjust the wrong letters in my head rather than over writing. why bother, exactly? leaves a clean grid. super hard for me. much harder than typical friday or saturday puzzle. cutco? hook em horns? chin music? seems so obscure and weird to me. knew hookemhorns. didn't know the robot(s). cute theme, tho.bonus themer: pinetremes.i also got whole hog sucked in on that there instinctive thurspuz rebus feelin, as i filled in the gimme hangemhigh. wasn't quite sure where to park the rebus square, tho. went with the hi in high, figurin it was some sorta friendly greetin theme, at first. (and that the next theme would probably have a yo rebus square.) wrong again, m&a breath. would make a nice runtpuz, tho ...fave fillins included: whatatool/toad. gypsy. bonami. mesmer(izin).lost precious nanoseconds at: cutco/lucia/mtcook network. guessed right on all the crossins, tho, sooo … ok.staff weeject pick: dak. there were several tasty ones in today's mix of 20 runt entries, i'd grant.thanx for stickin up for em, mr. thomas.masked & anonymo5us**gruntz** i’m going to post this before i read anyone so i don’t feel too bloody stupid. after five minutes of floundering everwhere, i was sure i’d never finish this, i’d have massive dnf on a thursday!! i got a little bit of the north, enough to see hangemhigh, only that didn’t fit and i didn’t see how a rebus would work. so i cannot tell you how i got this, given i didn’t know squat, (robots, texas cheer, the hypnotist) but i did, simply because i had enough letters of the reveal to put in stickemup and that gave me the trick, which told me how hangemhigh worked, and then i was off to the races. so after about 20 minutes of beating myself up, i flew through the thing. and it was fun! now: what’s the commentariat saying? let’s go see. z, spelling is determined by the number of squares neede to be filled?thats absurd, laugh out loud idiotic.anyone who uses a microphone for a living, or even deals with audio say in rtf, uses mic. only rank amateurs and imbeciles would use mike. i didn't get the ete? my little brother tried selling cutco at one time, i think a little over 35 years ago. i doubt they still do this, but back then he was told to demonstrate the sharpness of the kitchen shears by using them to cut a penny into a spiral like a corkscrew. it was surprisingly fun to watch : ) hi,i am a fairly new solver, can someone explain to me how one was to figure out that it was 'e' for 'em'. i solved it as a rebus, entering 'em' and assuming you ignored the 'm' in the down clues. i finally had to reveal the puzzle to see that it was meant to be just an 'e'. from reading the comments it seems that most people figure that out, so i'm wondering if someone can explain how so i understand for the future.thanks! "hook 'em horns" is the slogan and hand signal of ut austin, and it's correctly rendered in the puzzle. the phrase should probably have a comma but that battle's lost. longhorns typically just say "hook 'em" now. by sometime in the middle of the century, i assume there will be a further shortening and people at the games will just scream "hook!" and everyone will know exactly what they mean. @anon 9:29, best mic rebuttal with "bike" and "tric"! i rolled my eyes when i saw mike in the grid, anticipating the ensuing whines. i'm with the older crew who have used mike exclusively forever. when did it change? i don't care. (i still use words like "proven" and "shone" because i didn't get the memo when they changed either. though i see "shone" is still used when it isn't followed by an object a la "the sun shone"   learned something new today.)i played with the em rebus until the revealer showed why every rebus had been m[em] going down, d'oh. i need to step up my game if i don't want to completely make a tool of myself at the upcoming acpt. worst example today is my re visiting tata from last week, for 26a. one does raise one's voice when saying tata, does one not? as for the cross, don't ask.k____ company that merged with heinz was knorr until the crosses cleared that up.why i knew hook 'em horns after i got the hook 'em is a mystery to me.63a reminds me of getting some orange oil scented fresheners free in the mail. i put them in my shoes. now there's a scent combo that doesn't cutco it, ugh.brian thomas, congrats on your first thursday   i liked it. @cale42, 12:26pm: the "theme" paragraph in rex parker's blog writeup, right under the puzgrid picture, gives a pretty darn good explanation. start with that    and i think that'll help u out.m&a help desk this puzzle played very fast. my first entry was hookemhorns. i tried a rebus for em before i saw the downs. hangemhigh was a gimme as was knockemdead. i had to stop and think for the robot toy. i’ve never seen one, but the rhyming name was cute and i could eventually retrieve it. the revealer was a winner. this was a fun theme that gets extra points for moving those ms.whatatool is right in my vernacular. i must be right in it’s age sweet spot. i had a vacation in st. lucia before it was wise to visit. chinmusic was new and noteworthy. nobody wags any more.cutco brings back uncomfortable memories of emotional extortion. how i dreaded those phone calls from sweet, adorable high school friends of my kids who just wondered if they could stop by and chat. i knew what was coming. they’d arrive at the door all neat and trim with their hair slicked down and a knife case in hand. i felt like a butterfly about to be stuck with a pin. there was no escape and these knives were crazy expensive. i always succumbed. nearly 20 years later, what knives do i reach for first when it’s time to start dinner? cutco. i’m always slightly cheesed if the one i want in the dishwasher and i’m forced to resort to a henkel option. they last forever. they never need sharpening (in my experience). and they’re made in america. i would get a few more if i still knew any teenagers. it’s probably best that i don’t. filled in hangmhigh and rockmsockmrobot right out of the gate, with no crosses, and was astounded when they turned out to be correct in the main. when i got to stickemup and got the trick, that did make me laugh. this was almost a record fast thursday but i had so much fun who cares?favorite thing to learn today: lucia. the *only* nation named for a woman. out of 195. that's...uh...0.5%. how many are named after men, i wonder? "hello, mr. belgium!" wikipedia has some interesting factoids on this subject. my absolutely delightful son in law is st. lucian and has fabulous stories of his childhood, many of which involve him dashing through the jungle, machete in hand, on the constant lookout for ridiculously huge snakes. he's a gem of a person. was his personality formed in part by st. lucia being named after a member of the gentler sex? what impact does a country's name origin have on its culture, anyway? would russian culture be different at all if the country was known as, say, "melissa"? hmm. so anonymous, was rod serling an amateur or imbecile? he used the word mike for microphone in his scripts for the twilight zone. considering his resume and reputation as an award winning writer and television producer, i think we can trust he knew what he was doing. the arrogance of some people on here who think they know everything is hilarious. biggest surprise for me today? that @oisk liked it. i was so sure he'd have had many of the same objections i did. this may be the first time you've completely fooled me, oisk.in fact, just about everyone fooled me today. the word "fun" was used so often, i felt as though i had done a different puzzle from everyone else. (well, there was john hoffman at 12:01, so that's something. but other than john...) @masked and anonymous.oh geez.. i read that this morning and didn't process it all all. stupid lack of coffee. just went and reread it now.thank you so much.. makes complete sense now. frank,mic is pronouned mike. show me a serling script with mic written as mike and i'll concede the point. bravo. well said, with a heartfelt “ditto” regarding both ms. smith and her anonymous compatriot. @z, @linda vale   i'm pretty sure that rex said " (actually i solved with a pencil, like a fairly normal person)" as a joke, in contrast to what preceded the parenthetical in that sentence, "... solve[d] it on the clipboard with a cup of hot water & lemon", i.e. he wasn't using hot water & lemon as a part of his writing. @heidiho    ete means summer in french, and champagne is a french province. 31d   isomer. that chemistry degree is paying off for me. son imposed on many of my friends to load ‘em up with cutco knives. they do make the best, adjustable, fish filet knives: quite ingenious. as for kitchen, i reach for henckels. agree re chin music: if dictionary cites prime meaning as other than high inside pitch, dictionary needs updating. loved puz, got it all: but still don’t understand ete. lmao at the clue for tada. people say this in a "high" voice? like, a falsetto, mr. bill, karen on "will & grace" voice? or maybe it means they sound wasted    stoner 1: "got any more weed?" stoner 2 (offering a joint): "ta da, dude." still can't stop laughing. well duh, ete just dawned on moi ! ete is french for summer for all you helpful people earnestly telling lms how to parse hook 'em horns, i think she was hanging noodles on your ears.(sorry not to imbed the explanation but google "i'm not hanging noodles on your ears." from google books: rod serling   from the twilight zone, published in 1962. a collection of his tv scripts. this one is “the odyssey of flight 33”“then he held the mike close to his mouth. ‘laguardia, this is a boeing 707, and every five second period you keep this aircraft up in the air, you're shortening the odds on its ever getting back on the ground. now don't give us this two four  ...’” hey @nancy, what am i, chopped liver? i thought i was on your team today. altho i may have been too subtle. i’m still smarting from yesterday. no one commented on my joke about “out like an elia.” perhaps no one remembers lamb’s nom de plume anymore. @let's get real guys, thank you for pointing out rex's little joke about solving in pencil!@cassieopia, i loved your speculation on whether russia would be a kindler, gentler place if called melissa. mother melissa does sound nice. anyone else concerned that @john x didn’t comment today? i hope he wasn’t detained at the swiss border. http://mentalfloss.com/article/66196/microphone mic or mikethe above link gives a credible account of the mic  mike story. the oed dates mike from the 1920s and mic from the 1960s. i don't remember seeing mic until sometime in the 2000s. did not know it had taken over until the dropthemic stuff. was that a plot to sell more microphones?. i do have a preference for new words to be spelled in a way that reflects how they are pronounced. mic looks like a lost battle on that front, but keep mike alive i say. i have yet to figure out what clues should be answered czar and which tsar and which either.either thursdays have been easier lately or i'm getting better at this game. i am happy to pretend it is the latter i fear it is the former.this was fun. clever clues, good answers, lots of good fill, a theme that aided solving. commercial names that produced few complaints. my best friend had the rockemsockems but i could only remember boxing robots. but soon got it from the theme and a few crosses. about a third of my solve tme was working out the ne corner.loved the way the se corner fit together. it's a thing of beauty.isomer, alloy, all the k words.my group used the word tool all the time in the 60s to mean someone, person a, who is being used by another person b to get something done that person b wants done under the pretense that that person b is actually doing person a a favor. a is being manipulated to b's purposes. not being a jerk, but certainly being unaware.glad to learn the original meaning of chinmusic. oops i think i said the se corner was a thing of beauty. i met the sw corner. i suppose this blog attracts people who are kranky, hence the spelling discussion which i find king of beside the point. but consider this. a certain type of bread from india can be spelled either nan or naan. z was correct: one uses whichever alternate spelling the number of squares require.and nancy, if you are an outlier, your certainly are not alone. i gave a thumbs down to todays puzzle because of all the features you don't like.by the way, i solve in ink but fill in the grid with very small letters so that i can easily cross out incorrect letters (and i do that often). i prefer doing that to erasing. and i hope nobody cares. @lets get real here guys   from twitter today. rex is vehemently vociferous in his detestation of pen solvers. his excuse is that he thinks we all do it to show off and act superior. i don’t see all his tweets, so i can’t be certain, but i’d estimate he tosses an anti pen salvo at least once a week. he turns 50 soon, an age where the eyes start to go. we will see if he changes his tune. @banana   man, that’s so very zen. my puzzle goes into the recycling bin somewhere between minutes and hours after solving and i fix every mistake. i could not leave it uncorrected, physically incapable even. @frankstein   the whole notion had been debunked already and that didn’t stop them. then, rather than actually look up a script they demand you prove it. rather than engage i suggest the only reasonable response is <a href="https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fremdschämen”>fremdschamen.</a> it is a special kind of stupid to insist you’re right when 11 seconds with uncle google can clear things up. @malsdemare   there is nothing better than that light coming on. @frankstein   the whole notion had been debunked already and that didn’t stop them. then, rather than actually look up a script they demand you prove it. rather than engage i suggest the only reasonable response is fremdschamen. it is a special kind of stupid to insist you’re right when 11 seconds with uncle google can clear things up. (damn smart quotes) z ,frank,the proof youre citing is a modern audio transcription.show me a mimeographed image.who are you calling stupid z. me? please. mike. sigh. i got unnecessarily hung up there, having spent too many years in a cappella groups getting that spelling drilled in by sound guys who would get so annoyed if anyone wrote “mike.”it may be an accepted spelling to the general populace, but that is surely going to irritate any pro. @ quasi, i liked your joke yesterday. i just didn't comment. it was a good one for the crossword crowd. only rank amateurs and imbeciles would make a statement beginning with "only rank amateurs and imbeciles". @sir hillary, @gypsyboom, @z, @jesse, @frank stein, @albatross shell, @marie, @ jberg...... and anyone else who chimed in on mikegate   i rather like mic, too, but as regards mike, i have to make three points:1. as @albatross shell said, mike is older; the oed has mike appearing first in the 1920s and mic showing up in the 1960s. so there’s that. 2. if we dig in and insist on mic, when you use it as a verb, how the heck do you inflect it? is the guest speaker miced yet? or micing a woman in a strapless gown is always a challenge. 3. we don’t nuc our lunch in the microwave, enjoy a fresh cuc, or drink a diet coc. those truncations are absurd, laugh out loud idiotic. (oh, and speaking of truncation, it’s truncated to trunk, not trunc.) [bam. mike drop] @loren muse smith it is written, "mic'd" bolls or pods it's all picked by machines these days. when i was little my mother had a friend whose maid asked for the summer off so she could pick cotton. our friend asked her "why would you want to spend the summer bent over in the hot south texas sun dragging a heavy sack?" she said, "oh it's easy, all you have to do is just pick!" a dillydallier is not a sloth. a sloth does precisely nothing. a dillydallier kinda putzes around, not *making it* [reference to last week's answer "made it" to the clue "arrived on time"]. can someone please explain why every puzzle solution grid has one word in grey and one letter in red? in this case the word "keyed" and the letter "e". i have really tried to figure this out on my own, hoping it would become clear over time, but nothing is clicking! the sloth takes offense at this comment! it is a slow beast to be sure, but does in fact move, in an almost hypnotically deliberate manner. @doghairstew   the grey word / red letter represent the location of the selected square at the time the screenshot is captured of the finished puzzle. different apps/web pages show different colors, but that's what's being shown. thanks for the reply, mike. i must be dense because i still don't get what the "selected square" means. is that the last square that the solver filled in? if so, why is that significant? oh maybe it's because i've never done the puzzle online. the selected square is simply the last square the solver clicked on, and when they click on it it turns red, to indicate which square will be filled with the subsequent key stroke? sheesh, so many words to describe such a straightforward concept. in short i guess it doesn't have any particular significance as i had imagined. unless one considers the last square filled in to be particularly meaningful. thanks again for the explanation! easy and fun puzzle...until i got to the ne, which did me in. lucia crossing cutco was a natick for me, and kept wavering between liein and lieon for the bed, which made mtcook never come together. also, could they have clued actor any more blandly? uhoh, tmen!stick’emup high in the pinetrees, and cut one to shreds,hang’emhigh on a line please, and then knock’emdead.    mike reiner a slow start, but a real life synchronicity moment wedged me in. just last weekend, the new nightclub kaos opened at the palms just down the block. made me think of agent 86 (and dod honorable mention 99). anyhow, this led to hookemhorn...oops! not enough squares! yeah, but that just had to be the answer, so: rebusiness afoot.skipped to the revealer clue, and the fog cleared. now it all made sense, and good old hans mesmer fit right in. after that the solve became really easy. there is some unfortunate fill: the rrn of course, and stuff like dak and mkts. but at least our hero brian refrained from cluing nelly via the rap route; he gets big points for that.theme wise, i agree with ofc about 14a, the high tight fastball, and about the singular robot. that there is one broken toy.cluing is interesting enough to put this puzzle properly into a thursday spot; sometimes beyond. "best_____" for...actor? wow, can you even do that? gyp{sy gives us co dods rosalind russell as the mom from hell and natalie wood is the title role: "mother...i'm pretty!" yeah baby, you got that right. additional honorable mention to rosa parks. not to be omitted. birdie. i figured that hange(m)high was the revealer because you were hanging that em high. so it was a breeze down to the ‘actual’ revealer.like ofl, a high and tight fastball is what i associate with chinmusic.before getting carried away with eating, nelly furtado a knockemdead yeah baby.the snow continues, so this was a nice diversion. stared at the themers for some time, especially rockem sockem and hookem. also quite literally followed revealer instructions to stick m up:wrote in the ms in ems and then mentally unstuck them, sticking them on top of the ms above. literal thinking maybe, but it worked for me. some tough cluing for line dance, chin music, scalp, and mt. cook. helpful long downs in the nw and se corners were what a tool and xbox games.enjoyed it. once again, not being a gamer was my downfall.thanks, @rainy, for pointing out john x yesterday. made the whole experience worthwhile.diana, lady in waiting for crosswords i have never and know of absolutely no one who has ever said look at the beautiful ocher leaf colour. ever! agreed a boo in syndication for cutco. i agreed to a presentation from one of my students, who proceeded to ruin one of our good knives by trying to cut a rope with it, or something. it was many years ago, and i wouldn’t think of a mlm product as an ordinary kitchen utensil. post a comment © free blogger templates columnus by ourblogtemplates.com 2008 back to top

big things happened. in this state. on this date. not long after the then separate connecticut and new haven colonies were first established in the 1630s, their mother country of england was thrown into a long and brutal civil war between supporters and opponents of king charles i. the enemies of the king, calling themselves parliamentarians, were primarily english puritans who, after taking control of the government, put charles i on trial for being a “tyrant, traitor, murderer, and public enemy to the good people of the nation.” charles i was found guilty and sentenced to death in january 1649. following ten turbulent years of a puritan led dictatorship, the king’s son, charles ii, was restored to the english throne in 1660, and promptly sought to bring the regicides who killed his father to royal justice. the death warrant of charles i, containing the signatures and seals of 59 puritan “judges,” including whalley, goffe, and dixwell. charles i’s death warrant was signed by 59 commissioners (or “judges”), nearly all of whom were staunch english puritans; after charles ii ascended the throne, these men were considered traitors and enemies of the crown who faced capital punishment if caught. two of these regicides, edward whalley and william goffe, immediately boarded a ship bound for new england in hopes of escaping persecution in england. they chose their destination wisely; new england was populated by devout english puritans who sympathized with the regicides’ political positions, and upon their arrival in boston in february 1661, they were warmly received by city leaders. however, when a handful of royalists loudly protested the regicides’ presence and threatened to inform english officials, whalley and goffe fled south toward the connecticut shore to avoid imperiling their friends in boston. on march 7, 1661, the two fugitives arrived in new haven, where their fellow puritans brazenly risked accusations of treason by accommodating them and working to throw royal bounty hunters off their scent. even the deputy governor, william leete, endeavored to delay two of the king’s agents who visited him one saturday afternoon until sundown; as soon as the sun had set, leete suddenly declared that he could provide them with no further help, for the sabbath had officially started and any form of work on the sabbath was strictly prohibited. when a larger contingent of royal forces arrived in new haven, the two regicides were spirited away to a group of large boulders atop west rock now known as “judges’ cave,” where they lived for several weeks until the coast was clear. afterwards, they spent next three years living in a cellar near the milford town green before increasing royal pressure on new haven forced them to journey north to the then frontier town of hadley in western massachusetts. three of new haven’s major roads are named after the three regicides who sought shelter in the puritan colony in the 17th century. (west rock trails blog) to this day, the city of new haven remembers its rebellious history of providing safe haven to the puritan regicides in a number of ways. the boulders that make up judges cave are a popular feature of west rock park, and mark the terminus of a series of a seven mile long hiking trail named the regicides trail. three of the city’s main thoroughfares are named after goffe, whalley, and dixwell (a third regicide who lived in new haven under an alias after goffe and whalley had fled). the colony of new haven lived up to its name for a pair of renegade regicides, on this day in connecticut history. christopher pagliuco, “we weren’t always so friendly to royals,” shoreline times alexander winston, “the hunt for the regicides,” american heritage “the regicides,” society of colonial wars in the state of connecticut “on the trail of the regicides,” west rock trails blog type your email… continue reading

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most liked, retweeted and popular tweets a message from alex trebek: https://t.co/lbxciyetcf for context on manafort’s 47 months in prison, my client yesterday was offered 36 72 months in prison for stealing $100 worth of quarters from a residential laundry room. louis is #4 on the us itunes chart! let's get him to #1. #twoofus #louistomlinson #rt https://t.co/mufddta1vo https://t.co/vchaz385m6 top news stories on this day more on what happened march 12th 2017 more events... more events... copyright 2002 2019 © sapro systems llc • about • privacy policy • license terms • corrections & suggestions

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 march 7 explanation: normally faint and elusive, the jellyfish nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic field of view. the entire scene is a two panel mosaic constructed using narrowband image data, with emission from sulfur, hydrogen and oxygen atoms shown in red, green and blue hues. it's anchored right and left by two bright stars, mu and eta geminorum, at the foot of the celestial twin. the jellyfish nebula itself is right of center, the brighter arcing ridge of emission with dangling tentacles. in fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble shaped supernova remnant ic 443, the expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded. light from the explosion first reached planet earth over 30,000 years ago. like its cousin in astrophysical waters the crab nebula supernova remnant, the jellyfish nebula is known to harbor a neutron star, the remnant of the collapsed stellar core. an emission nebula cataloged as sharpless 249 fills the field at the upper left. the jellyfish nebula is about 5,000 light years away. at that distance, this image would be about 300 light years across. 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.

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subscribe & save less than $3 per week democrats bar fox news from presidential primary debates, venezuela arrests u.s. journalist and expels germany's ambassador, and more democratic national committee leaders said wednesday they would not let fox news channel televise any of the party's 2020 presidential primary debates. dnc chair tom perez cited a new yorker magazine article titled "the making of the fox news white house" which alleged the conservative cable channel promoted president trump's agenda as a "propaganda" engine. perez said he had talked with many "potential media partners, including fox news," but concluded fox has an "inappropriate relationship" with trump and could not "host a fair and neutral debate." fox news senior vice president bill sammon said the network hoped the dnc would consider letting fox's chris wallace, bret baier, and martha maccallum moderate, saying they "embody the ultimate journalistic integrity." the washington post the new yorker the government of embattled venezuelan president nicolás maduro on wednesday expelled germany's ambassador and detained a u.s. freelance journalist in its latest clash with the international community. the journalist, cody weddle, was arrested in a military counterintelligence raid on his caracas home and reportedly faces deportation thursday. the ambassador, daniel kriener, was among u.s., latin american, and european diplomats who on monday met opposition leader juan guaidó at caracas' airport to help him avoid arrest when he returned to the country after a 10 day trip abroad. "venezuela considers it unacceptable that a foreign diplomat carries out in its territory a public role closer to that of a political leader aligned with the conspiratorial agenda of extremist sectors of the venezuelan opposition," the maduro government said. escape your echo chamber. get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. from our morning news briefing to a weekly good news newsletter, get the best of the week delivered directly to your inbox. from our morning news briefing to a weekly good news newsletter, get the best of the week delivered directly to your inbox. the new york times the washington post arizona sen. martha mcsally (r) said wednesday a superior officer raped her when she served in the air force. she made the revelation during a senate armed services subcommittee hearing on sexual assault in the military. mcsally, the first female fighter pilot to fly a combat mission, called for reforms in the ways the pentagon handles such cases. 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"but unlike so many brave survivors, i didn't report being sexually assaulted. like so many women and men, i didn't trust the system at the time. i blamed myself. i was ashamed and confused, and i thought i was strong but felt powerless." mcsally revealed last year that a coach sexually abused her in high school. the hill nbc news michael cohen, president trump's former lawyer, provided documents in a closed door house intelligence committee meeting wednesday to support his claim that trump's attorneys edited his written statement to congress in 2017. in that statement, cohen said the negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow ended in early 2016, but he later admitted the talks continued until that summer. cohen, who has been convicted for lying to congress, said he lied to protect trump, who repeatedly claimed during his campaign to have no business ties with russia. cohen testified last week that jay sekulow, a personal lawyer for trump, edited the portion of his statement about how long the tower negotiations continued. sekulow has denied cohen's claim. cnn the washington post house democratic leaders on wednesday delayed a vote on a resolution condemning anti semitism and bigotry after a backlash from lawmakers who said the legislation unfairly singled out rep. ilhan omar (d minn.). democratic leaders started drafting the measure after omar was criticized for saying pro israel interests pushed politicians for "allegiance to a foreign country," which house foreign relations committee chair rep. eliot engel (d n.y.) called a "vile anti semitic slur." sen. bernie sanders (i vt.) said house democratic leaders were squelching debate about israel's actions. rep. ayanna pressley (d mass.) called for "equity in our outrage," saying omar, one of the first two muslim women elected to congress, was being targeted for her faith, and that "islamophobia needs to be included" in the anti semitism resolution. the new york times homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen on wednesday told congress there is a "humanitarian catastrophe" on the u.s. mexico border that justified president trump's emergency declaration, push for a border wall, and crackdown on people crossing the border illegally, as well as those seeking asylum. "our capacity is already severely strained, but these increases [in border crossings] will overwhelm the system entirely," nielsen told members of the house homeland security committee in her first congressional testimony since democrats took over control of the house in january. "this is not a manufactured crisis. this is truly an emergency." democrats criticized nielsen for the trump administration's separation of families at the border. "tearing kids and their parents apart is immoral, ma'am," said rep. lauren underwood (d ill.). the new york times embattled chinese tech giant huawei said thursday it had filed a texas lawsuit against the u.s. government, challenging a ban on its products. the national defense authorization act prohibits federal agencies and contractors from purchasing equipment made by huawei and another chinese company, zte corp. 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by now the ashes have blown away. a heavy gust of wind, the morning shower, an overnight transfer onto our pillows. it’s thursday and the ashes are gone, but the holy season of lent is still just beginning. and no matter how short lived those ashes were, we can still feel the mark that was made on our foreheads. god touched us yesterday. through the hands of his minister, he touched us when he painted those black crosses, reminding us that we were once like dust and to dust we shall return. this very popular liturgy   churches on wednesday were almost as busy as christmas and easter   has been embraced by many faiths beyond catholicism. what was once considered something that catholics do (like eating fish on fridays) continues to spread across the globe. this simple gesture of applying ashes got me thinking of other ways that god has physically touched us   directly or indirectly throughout our history. to give adam the shared power to create life, he reached inside of him and grabbed a rib. later, he used his powerful finger to write his laws on stone tablets, carried down the mountain by moses   after he showed his power through plagues on egypt and the parting of the red sea. in the new testament, we see jesus touching the lame, spreading mud on sightless eyes and   in one of the most compelling scenes from the gospel of john   he used his finger to write something on the ground, while a mob of men were poised to stone a woman to death for adultery. we don’t know what jesus was writing into the dirt that day. but i often think of that when i approach the altar for my own ashes. it’s as if that scene is coming back to life … the finger of christ writing his will on my head and my heart, reminding me that there is more to life with him than what we see here on earth. i’m reminded of psalm 103 … “as for man, his days are like grass; he flowers like the flower of the field; the wind blows and he is gone; and his place never sees him again. “but the love of the lord is everlasting …” that’s a nice thing to remember as we enter our 40 days of prayer, fasting and alms giving. it is good to be reminded that all the things that we chase after in our busy lives   money, power, gratification, comfort, adulation   it is all fleeting and will mean nothing on the day we truly return to dust. lent is a time for us to reconnect with what truly matters   our love of god, our love of family, friends and especially love and forgiveness for our enemies. it is quite natural for us to drift away from these things as we are constantly bombarded with different messages from this world. it is time to rethink our priorities. the season of lent is a 40 day gift from mother church, who recognizes the benefits of “spending time in the desert” as a way of renewal, just prior to the celebration of easter. embrace these days as best you can. remember that is it not a sprint, but a long distance run. we are not called to walk around glum and gloomy because we are fasting … instead, let us keep our chins up and smiles on our faces despite our increased fasting and prayer and charity. for we know that a little bit of suffering is a good thing, not bad. one more image from scripture … remember the “ghostly hand” that appeared suddenly before king belshazzar in the book of daniel. floating in front of his face, this hand wrote on the wall a message, words, that he could not read or understand. daniel was called to interpret and told the king what he no doubt did not want to hear   that he had become full of pride, gluttony and sin; he had not kept his faith nor had he given glory to god; and, finally, that god was about to take measure of the king’s life. that very night, as daniel had rightfully interpreted the “handwriting on the wall” … king belshazzar was slain. have we taken the time to see the handwriting on the wall … the handwriting on our foreheads? what message is god telling us today? are we listening? dan mcfeely is a carmel, indiana, writer, communications business owner, book editor and a former professional journalist. dan also works as an adult faith formation minister, currently serving as a spiritual director for the men's and women's christ renews his parish program at st. elizabeth ann seton catholic church in carmel. he is a graduate of the ecclesial lay ministry program offered by the diocese of lafayette in indiana and has studied theology at marian university. enter your email to receive notifications of new daily reflection posts. email address thank you dan. i pray for grace to stay in the part of life  walking with god. thank you dan. truly inspiring. i will sharing your insights with my friends. god reward you. god wrote on your heart to share this timely reminder, that he is ever messaging us. we must watch, see, and hear. great meditation, well presented. very thought provoking. thanks. deeply insightful reflection.god bless you. awakening reflection as we begin our journey through lent. thank you dan thanks dan, for reminding us that a little bit of suffering is not a bad thing. afterall, jesus did suffer for us to have a good life with god. inspiring reflection. thank you dan, last easter, shortly before pentecost, you wrote a reflection about how you couldn’t stand rejoicing and celebrating for that long. you also wrote that you were looking forward to focusing on repentance, and basically, you played out the stereotype of the guilt ridden catholic who doesn’t enjoy life. i told you then that there is a season to focus on sin and repentance. it’s called lent. amazingly, you had just gone through it before easter, and it’s like you had missed the point. it’s lent again. please focus on your sins and repent to your heart’s content. you can even wallow in stereotypical guilt, if it makes you happy (or sad, whatever you need). get it out of your system, so that when it finally is easter, you can rejoice with the rest of us, instead of trying to temper our joy and celebration. yes, easter is gloriously long, and so is lent. but easter is longer than lent for a reason. let’s be joyful! to a. repentance, true repentance is being forgiven. being forgiven by our lord. is there a greater joy? by focusing on repentance we are brought closer to god. we should practice repentance 24/7. celebrating this gift of being saved of easter is a realization that we are so very much loved by god. wow what a beautiful time of the year to share with god. repentance, realization is joy from god to bring us closer to him. your email address will not be published. required fields are marked * notify me of follow up comments by email. notify me of new posts by email. currently you have javascript disabled. in order to post comments, please make sure javascript and cookies are enabled, and reload the page. click here for instructions on how to enable javascript in your browser.

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it's funny looking back at older puzzles and seeing what you'd do differently. i distinctly remember deciding what to do with the big northwest and southeast corners and thinking "this is gonna be a thursday, go for the snazzy long downs!" nowadays, i think i'd add another block in at the t of tada and use less gluey short entries. i was especially excited to find rock em sock em robot for a center 15er with it's two ems, and to debut chin music (although i know it as a baseball term). hope all enjoy! a jazzy revealer   stick em up!    along with four catchphrases: hang em high, hook em horns, knock em dead, and the doubled up rock em sock em robots   made for a great theme set. fantastic choices. every time the nyt runs a "parts of answers jutting up or down," i get angry emails saying that there's something wrong in the grid. ooh, the vitriolic barrages i got after a holding down the fort puzzle (never mind that i didn't write it). you fool, you @#$@!ed up big time! you're the biggest moron in the history of moronocy! i've learned to spell out themes in painful detail, so that (most) everyone gets it. i enjoyed today's in part because i won't have to do as much explaining. tried and true "jutting" theme, but it's so easy to figure out. (we've highlighted the ems below just in case.) instead of relying on a long jutting string, or several different strings, it's simply em at work. it is true that once you've figured out the theme, it all falls quickly. but i didn't mind that. enough of a trick to make it worthy of a thursday slot, but easy enough to make me feel smart.