ACROSS
1 The one here
5 Group of cronies
9 Natural wound
protection
13 Discard
14 Prohibited activity
15 “What a shame!”
16 Player getting
paid
18 Sound from a
snout
19 Counsel
20 “Am I the only
one?”
22 Move stealthily
23 “Wait just a
minute!”
26 “Told you”
27 Rogers Centre
city
29 Oil field sight
30 Cartographer’s
dot, maybe
31 Food truck snack
32 Unfulfilled
campaign pledge
... and a hint to
what 16-, 23-, 46-
and 53-Across all
contain
37 James of “The
Godfather”
38 Herbert Hoover,
by birth
39 O’Hare’s airport
code
40 Great pains
43 Bobs and waves
46 Docking aids
48 “Rashomon”
director
Kurosawa
50 Christmas door
decoration
51 Health facility
52 Tech sch. grad
53 Closet accessory
56 “Start __”: Rolling
Stones hit
57 Mandel of
“America’s Got
Talent”
58 Melody
59 Coffee servers
60 “If I may
intrude ... ”
61 Founded, as a co.
DOWN
1 QB-to-receiver
six-pointer
2 Running track
obstacle
3 Apple video-
editing app
4 Madrid’s country
5 128 fl. oz.
6 Grandpa
Simpson
7 Vague idea
8 Charges toward
9 Apt
Shakespearean
rhyme for “truth”
10 Fire-breathing
monsters
11 “Interview With
the Vampire”
novelist
12 __ choy: stir-fry
veggie
14 With 37-Down,
what corn is on
17 “For shame!”
21 Skater Midori
23 Little songbird
24 Color of some
Hello Kitty
products
25 Self-esteem
28 Fútbol cheer
30 Charged
particle
31 Altoids
container
32 Saloonkeeper
33 Trooper’s speed-
checking device
34 Versailles rulers,
once
35 Have bills to pay
36 Indian spice
blend
37 See 14-Down
40 Finder’s cry
41 “Fooled you!”
42 Overeager
student’s cry
43 Thingamajig
44 Set in the right
direction
45 Like some cows
and vows
47 Maryland team,
briefly
49 “Roots” role
Kunta __
51 Rebel Guevara
52 Big bird from
Down Under
54 Stunned state
55 Comical Conway
By C.C. Burnikel
©2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
09/25/18
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
09/25/18
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Release Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
6 — Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
I
didn’t
believe
in
superheroes
until
LeBron
James came along, because —
aside from recently bolstering
his bid for induction into the
All-Time Human Hall of Fame
— LeBron James is really
good at basketball. He gains a
cult-like following because he
does things like effortlessly
dunking on Kevin Garnett to
remind us that he is, indeed, a
superior being. With mouths
agape and one Kevin Harlan
assisting our comprehension
of the insanity with his “with
no regard for human life” call,
we feel empowered, because it
happened. A human did that.
So, surely, there’s an alternate
universe where we can do it,
too.
Caught on the other end
of that display was Kevin
Garnett. Future Hall of Famer
Kevin Garnett. Which is funny,
because we’ve all been Kevin
Garnett.
I’ve been Kevin Garnett. A
lot. Just this past month I’ve
been yammed on, over and
over, by strangers and familiar
faces with a tenacity unseen
since
2008
bedroom
Nerf
Hoop showdowns. It stinks.
It also makes the response
(the counter-attack) all that
much sweeter. Because, to live
a high-flying existence, you
should — you need — to dunk
on folks.
Hold your own dunk contest,
participated in by you, judged
by you, and announced by
you.
Visualize
your
own
posterization. Think it into
existence.
Win
emotionally
over your arena. Where to
start? Some inspiration:
DUNK: Zach LaVine, New
York City, 2015
Metaphorically
suitable
for:
rewarding
job
offer,
growth period, impending
come-up
We
begin
not
with
an
in-your-face jam but with a
smooth
maneuver.
LaVine’s
dunk is marked by grace, his
6’5” figure unforcefully gliding
its way through the air. Worth
noting is the innovation in
spite of his late entry into dunk
lineage; yearly complaints of a
stale, worn-out dunking canon
have forced each year’s crop of
dunkers to get more creative
with their performances. This,
however, remains fresh. We see
this then as mental motivation
for life adaptation and positive
self-evolution. When you want
to
remain
graceful
amidst
any sort of adversity, be Zach
LaVine. Go behind the back
and look beautiful doing so.
Now you see me, now you don’t.
Look what I can do with me.
DUNK:
Julius
Erving,
Philadelphia, 1983
Metaphorically
suitable
for:
reunions,
tough
conversations,
wholesome
closure
This “rock-the-baby” dunk
is just ridiculous. It took place
in a real-live game with other
people who are also 6’7,” and
also have biceps the size of
my head, and oh my shit, the
disrespect. It’s legendary. Dr.
J’s blunt force is complemented
by a baby, his baby, and you,
too, can carry your baby so
triumphantly. Whether that
baby is a relationship you’d like
to maintain, or a connection
you want to reestablish (or
bring to a peaceful end), dunk
with it, or all over it. The slam
speaks for itself; it’s the most
effective way to show that you
know your worth.
DUNK:
Vince
Carter,
Oakland, 2000
Metaphorically
suitable
for: getting in their business,
staying in their business, a
proverbial middle finger
The best part about this jam
is that, as Vince Carter was
preparing for the contest, he
thought, at some point, “What
if I just jump so damn high
I can hang my damn elbow
in the basket for a while?”
He then he did exactly that,
and, save for the reactionary
gasps
of
astonishment,
we
instantly felt like an inferior
breed upon watching it. This
is disrespect of the highest
order, and we should take
notes. Go higher, high enough
even so you can laugh down on
those still abiding by the laws
of gravity. Be petty enough to
hang on the basket for a while
and make jaws drop in awe of
unfuckwithability.
DUNK: Michael Jordan,
Chicago, 1988
Metaphorically
suitable
for:
unequivocal
personal
triumph
When
MJ
flew
through
another galaxy (a full 15.09
feet in the air, to be precise) en
route to NBA legend, it wasn’t
his
seemingly
impossible
airtime
that
was
most
important, nor was it the fact
that he did so in front of 18,000
adoring
hometown
Chicago
fans. Rather, it was Jordan’s
tongue wag that made the real
statement.
The
wag
teases
silent defiance, as if he was
internally laughing about his
upcoming stunt on the world.
So take a full-court running
start like Mike, especially if
it means you’re flying 15 feet
over fools. Wag some tongue
and warn them that you now
run the league — er, their world
— and will control everything
they love for the next 10 years.
Heartless is good and heartless
is healthy.
That being said, you won’t
automatically
be
Michael,
because no one wins life upon
first launch from the free throw
line. You’ll likely be LeBron’s
Kevin Garnett first, and that’s
OK. Just remember: When you
finally get your Vince-hey-just-
hold-my-balls-for-a-quick-sec
Carter moment and dunk the
entire country of France all the
way back to 1789, Garnett will
be there to cheer you on.
JOEY SCHUMAN
Daily Health & Wellness Columnist
HEALTH AND WELLNESS COLUMN
Navigating life through
NBA’s best dunks
An artist, an author, a NASA
advisor and a creative founder,
Ariel Waldman is a prime
example of the unexpected.
Although she has no formal
science background, she chased
her admiration and curiosity for
space exploration, which soon
lead her to send a spontaneous
email to NASA. Now, Waldman
— with a degree in graphic
design — has launched her
creative mind into the world of
NASA, where she advises the
NASA
Innovative
Advanced
Concepts
(NIAC)
program
and founded a plethora of
interactive science platforms.
Being the fulcrum between
science
and
art,
Waldman
will be speaking about her
ingenious work this Thursday
at the Michigan Theater.
According
to
Spacehack.
org, Waldman’s work involves
space
hacking,
where
her
mission is “to make science and
space exploration disruptively
accessible.” While many non-
scientific users used to dream
of having access to space data,
information and explorations,
Waldman
now
makes
that
dream a reality.
“I remember early on having
a desire to apply design, and
the creativity that comes with
design, towards a much broader
range of things,” Waldman
said in an interview with The
Daily. Some of her most popular
multiuser
science
platforms
include
Spacehack,
Seahack
and Space Hack Day, where
she is the global director. Space
Hack Day, she explained, “is a
two-day-all-night event where
anyone excited about making
weird, silly or serious things
with science comes together
in the same physical space to
see what they can prototype
within 24 consecutive hours.”
With her background in design
and her passion for science,
Waldman is the glue between
these two important societal
mediums.
“Design has a huge amount
of power in the world that is
often underestimated for how
much it affects how people do
things and why they do things,”
she said. “Being trained as a
designer is really being trained
in communication and how to
be an effective translator.”
Due to her education in
artistic design, Waldman has
a “voracious appetite to apply
design and creative thinking”
to the world of science and
other mediums. As a means of
understanding and engaging,
she
brings
community
together to not only explore
for themselves, but also to
help benefit professional space
research and exploration. Many
of these projects stem from
Space Hack Day that eventually
lead
to
“real,
tangible
breakthroughs.”
In her Ted Talk, Waldman
describes one of these beneficial
projects where a participant of
Space Hack Day designed “The
Beard Detector,” a device that
would detect when he would
need to shave by using a USB
microscope, a few codes and an
open computer vision library.
Later,
a
particle
physicist
saw this design and created a
research program that would
be used to detect cosmic rays in
a cloud chamber. It is powerful
projects like these that allow
Waldman’s work to inspire an
everyday, non-scientific user,
and gives them the opportunity
to
make
a
difference
in
progressing science research
and space exploration.
“It’s both breaking down
their
personal
goals
that
they’ve built up and working on
breaking down the walls that
society puts up for them,” she
said. “It’s trying to break those
down from both sides.”
Society tends to keep art
and science on either side of
a spectrum, creating a facade
that they are opposite and
impermeable crafts. By letting
people access scientific data
and
use
their
imagination,
however, Waldman brings a
community of innovative and
progressive people together,
synthesizing the powers of our
left and right brains.
“I like infusing serendipity
into
science
and
space
exploration, and for me, getting
that chance to work at NASA
was never something I knew
I could do. I think it’s still
something that I need to pay off
to other people,” she said.
Waldman said she never
expected her degree to lead
her into a place like NASA.
Nonetheless, she lives her life on
the line of what is possible and
what is deemed impossible. By
creating a world of “what ifs,”
neither she nor her participants
need to know where their
imaginations are going to lead.
The lack of expectation seems
to be a highlight of Waldman’s
work and a key aspect to her life
as well.
“I think the greatest aspect
of my work is knowing that the
door is open for them (users) to
play around in other disciplines.
And for that, it can be either life
changing or not life changing at
all. But knowing they can walk
through that door whenever
they want is the most important
thing for me.”
Ariel Waldman explores
space hacking at Theater
COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW
ERIKA SHEVCHEK
Daily Arts Writer
FLICKR
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Penny Stamps
Speaker Series
presents Ariel
Waldman’s
‘Unexpected Space
Exploration’
Sept. 27, 2018 @ 5:10
p.m.
Michigan Theater
Free
By creating a
world of “what
ifs,” neither
she nor her
participants
need to know
where their
imaginations are
going to lead