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Glimpses of the
Day to Day This artist captures everyday moments in watercolor sketches while riding the bus. Pages 4 and 5
Andra Kustin
Photo by Dave Morrison
CROSSWORD If Your Diet Starts Today, by Merl Reagle ACROSS 1 6 9 12 18 19 21 22 23 25 26 28 29 30 31 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 65 66 67 69 72 73 74
Green shots Perignon, e.g. My, in French TV horse Parts of hearts ... avoid this boxer! Send anew Shower place ... don’t read this book! Playboy No. 1 Not just any Exxon, before Who-kicks-off decider Ellington’s inits. Kennel sound Last place? Do per diem work ... turn off this old show! Leaning type: abbr. Less than medium Old college cheer Exceedingly Chew out Mexican bear Retina receptor Fight souvenir Lieutenant with a lollipop Piercing tools ... don’t ask someone to give you this! Finishing-school folks? Ending of many animal adjectives Family member Extinct bird Beer-bust buy “Will you ___ valentine?” Tests, as vests Actor James 24 Down et al. ... shun this actor! OK indication Love god Free-oxygen bacteria Hormel product
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French soul Ankh letter Big ___, Calif. Shortened, as a ref. work 82 Game, in Italian 83 ... don’t visit this place! 86 In an uncaring way 87 No turn ___ 88 Name of the garage in the comic strip Shoe 89 Is afflicted with 90 Signal, as an actor 91 Lingers in the tub 92 Chariot race venue 94 Certain computer memory 95 Second publication: abbr. 96 Go for ___ in the pool 97 ... forget this car! 99 Sub or trans, e.g.: abbr. 101 Carpet type 103 “Today ___ a man” 106 De plume intro 108 Pluck from peril 110 A woodwind 112 Hockey Hall of Famer 113 WWII theater 114 ... don’t visit these parks! 118 Sneeze sound 120 Nero’s tutor 121 ... and if someone does this, ignore him! 122 Item of food 123 CEO, Editor-in-Chief, etc. 124 Parallel bar perfection 125 Right angle from 116 Down 126 Eastwood’s Rawhide role, Rowdy ___
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... don’t get caught in this! Store hrs. word ... avoid these negotiations! “Silly me!” Ugly character Conductors Garr-Keaton film of 1983 Mer contents Part of PBS: abbr. Just picked Opens doors for “Colour” ending ... ignore these photos! Beamed-up captain Church section Plant part Consult again Three-term N.Y.C. mayor Phone limbo ... don’t think about these girls! Bosses of TAs Uptown Yes-man Like Dracula by day Nabokov novel Like William Burroughs’s Lunch Undesirables Angry ___ shine Nikita’s cops Ventilates Figurative language Some horses Yemen’s capital Able to drive, perhaps Sacred Jewish text Actor Cassidy et al. ... steer clear of these craftspeople! Fast flyers
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The crossword puzzle solution is on Page 7.
Fill, as a van Olympian Comaneci Sydney the astrologer ... don’t tour this building! Ten Commandments site, today ... don’t wear this! Blue Angels, e.g. Like some 1960s attire Everglade’s kin ... avoid this exclamation! “Life ___ picnic” Solver’s cry
86 Frozen-sculpture chippers 91 German industrial area 93 Oft-disputed French region 94 Invitation notation 95 Violin precursor (or, the start of a girl’s name) 98 “Tra” followers 100 Anti-slippage aid for a gymnast 102 Big Cartwright 104 Make amends
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105 Ambiences 106 Boss Tweed caricaturist 107 “You’re the ___ love” 109 Formerly, formerly 111 After sundown, in ads 115 Blanc who voiced Bugs 116 Compass pt. 117 Before, before 119 A Bush org., once
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STEP BY STEP Sally Anderson
Photos by Dan Canoro
THE WONDERS OF WATER Want to get a great workout and stay cool? Just find the nearest pool that offers water aerobics, also known as aqua aerobics, and you can have fun mixing up a traditional gym workout with the wonders of water. Of course, you can always create your own personal workout in the comfort of your own pool. Remember, in public pools it is important to distance yourself 6 feet away from other people.
Water Aerobics Facts
• The buoyancy of water reduces the weight of a person by about 90% at chest level and about 50% at waist level, reducing the stress placed on joints and muscles. Water takes the impact out of your workout.
• You can cover all components of fitness: cardio fitness, muscular strength, endurance and flexibility in the water. • Because the impact of gravity is less in the water, you have a greater range of motion which gives you a significant increase in flexibility. • Water exercise can meet the needs for all ages, sizes and for those with arthritis, bad knees and those recovering from injuries.
Your Move | Demonstrated by Charlene Rillings Jumping Jacks A cardio workout that targets shoulders, upper backs, thighs, abs and calves. Works best in chest-high water. Stand with feet flat on pool floor, legs together. Begin with arms under water by your side. Jump feet out to side, slightly wider than hip-width apart, as hands push water away near shoulder level. Do not take arms out of the water. Return arms and legs and repeat exercise, working toward 2 sets of 10 or more repetitions. Tip: to increase cardio, make arm moments shorter and faster with fingers spread wide.
Aqua Squat With Rotation Strengthens abs, buttocks, legs
• You can vary the intensity by increasing or decreasing speed of movements. Slower movements are generally larger and will offer more stretch, whereas faster movements tend to be smaller and will give you more resistance for strengthening muscles.
Standing in chest-deep water with feet hip-width apart, hold noodle on surface of water; hands shoulder-width apart, elbows slightly bent.
• Water offers support so there is less need to worry about slipping or falling.
Bend knees and hips as you squat, pushing noodle down through the water to knee level.
Water Exercise Suggestions
Optional equipment: pool noodles, aqua dumbbells, aquatic mitts, water jogging belts, kick boards. Aqua shoes help with traction. Warm-up for 5-10 minutes by bouncing in place, doing knee lifts and hamstring curls. Add arm movements to stretch out upper body. Performing opposite arm-ankle reaches will stretch out hips and core and improve balance.
Flutter Kicking
A great low-impact cardio exercise performed with or without a kick board. With a kick board, hold it out in front of you and flutter kick your legs back and forth across pool. Without a kick board, hold onto the side of the pool while you kick.
Water Walking
Walking forward and backward in waist-high water helps to improve balance. Avoid walking on toes. Keep back straight. Contracting abdominals will help you avoid leaning forward or falling to the side.
Standing up, rotate hips to the right side while pushing noodle through water to the right side. Return noodle to the center and repeat pattern to left side. Repeat 10-15 times, counting rotating right and left as one repetition.
Water Bicycling A cardio exercise that strengthens legs, hips, abdominals. Sitting on a noodle, maintain a straight back and begin pedaling like you would ride a bike. When comfortable, add arm movements such as swinging straight arms by your sides or swing arms out and in horizontally across surface of the water. Ride for 3-5 minutes.
Aqua Jogging A cardio workout to improve posture. One of the easiest and most effective movements in the water is to alternate jogging while performing boxing movements with aqua weights in waist-high water for 2-3 minutes with intervals of other water exercise movements.
Roman Twist
Hold one dumbbell vertical with both hands under water in front of chest with feet close together. Twist dumbbell side to side as your torso also twists side to side. Allow feet to move with body.
Check with your doctor before starting a new exercise program. Sally Anderson is happy to hear from readers but can’t respond to individual inquiries. Contact her at slafit@tampabay.rr.com SSP Tampa Bay Times
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Glimpses of the Day to Day Volunteer Andra Kustin’s bus rides express artistic awareness.
Never reticent to speak her mind, Kustin, 85, decries the negative stereotypes associated with bus riders she considers “hard working but invisible people.”
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Photo by Dave Morrison
“I hate snobs,” said the ever-blunt Kustin, 85. “I guess people don’t take advantage of the buses because they think these people are losers. In New York, you might sit between a millionaire and a homeless person. What you see here is the working class division between people who own a car and those who ride buses. Here, my grandchildren have never been on a city bus.” Between the jostling starts and stops, Kustin unobtrusively snapped photos on her cell phone. She kept a sketch pad out of view. Back at Westminster Palms, with the encouragement of an art instructor, Kustin used those character studies to create the series Bus People, including the portrait, Blind Lady with Seeing Eye Dog, which won first prize in the residents’ calendar contest. “Until I signed up for that art class, I hadn’t painted in 30 years,” said Kustin, who previously studied and taught art in New York.
BY AMY SCHERZER Times Correspondent ST. PETERSBURG - Not much escapes the watchful eye of Andra Kustin, a retired art and estate appraiser whose near-weekly twobus St. Petersburg-Tampa commute inspired a series of more than 30 watercolor and pencil drawings of her fellow passengers. Since moving to the Westminster Palms senior living residence on Beach Drive two years ago, Kustin has regularly boarded the PSTA100X Express for an hourlong ride to Britton Plaza on S Dale Mabry Highway. A quick transfer to a HART bus takes her the last 15 blocks north, to the hospice thrift shop where she has volunteered for three years.
“Now people tell me they think differently when they pass a bus shelter and see exhausted people waiting for the bus to come.” Kustin witnessed kindness along the route, such as passengers helping a driver secure a handicapped rider onto a lift, and more than a few harsh realities, like panhandling and drug deals.
Treasures, the bustling south Tampa thrift store benefiting LifePath Hospice. “It’s so well run, very professional and the people are so dedicated,” Kustin said, recalling a similar thrift store operation she managed for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in her hometown of Port Washington.
The loss of her husband of 60 years brought Kustin to Tampa in the summer of 2017, to be nearer to her son and grandchildren.
“I’m thrilled that Andra made the extra effort to remain on the team,” said Anne Ferrell, Chapters Health Foundation development coordinator and manager of Life’s Treasures’ volunteer program. “We love her energy and confidence,” said Ferrell. “She’s so productive… a total salesman always thinking of angles to attract more customers, always paying attention to details. Maybe that’s her artist’s mind.”
Docent training at the Tampa Museum of Art helped fulfill her cultural fix. She volunteered to digitize photographs for the Hillsborough County library system and thoroughly enjoyed sorting piles of donated goods at Life’s
The move to St. Petersburg in June 2018 didn’t lessen the volunteer’s commitment. The coronavirus did that. All five stores run by the Foundation closed from March through May and Kustin has not ventured back yet.
“I began to see this was a special community,” she said. “People talk to me because I’m genuinely interested. Everyone has a story and within 15 minutes, I usually learn it.”
“I always intended to keep coming back to Tampa,” Kustin said, “even if it would have cost me $50 to Uber there.” With visitors still prohibited at senior residences, Kustin kept busy during the long summer months doing water aerobics at the North Shore Aquatic Complex. She calls her newest project, a collection of photographs and accompanying comments about life during a pandemic, Behind the Mask. “I’ve started to play piano again, too,” she adds. “Which shows that you’re never too old to discover a new talent.”
Navigating public transportation was surprisingly easy, discovered the native New Yorker, who found the buses uncrowded and the $5 round trip over the Gandy Bridge quite relaxing. “I had never had time just to sit for an hour and look at the people opposite me,” said Kustin, identifying “health care workers, students, people who have lost their driver’s licenses, elderly who can no longer drive, and the homeless who ride back and forth all day” among the riders she observed.
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ASTRONOMY Daryl L. Schrader
The autumnal equinox occurs this year at 9:31 a.m. on Sept. 22. This marks the start of autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in the southern hemisphere. On this day there will be an equal (equinox) amount of daylight and darkness. It is also interesting that the sun rises exactly in the east and sets directly in the west on this day. Evening: Jupiter and Saturn form a nice duo in the south this month. Jupiter is to the right and the brighter of the two. Jupiter is our largest planet, while Saturn is best known for its rings. Mars rises in the east about 2 to 1 hours after sunset. The red planet will brighten during the month. Follow the Mars-moon duo throughout the night of Sept. 5-6. Dawn: Spectacular Venus rises a little over 3 hours before sunrise in the east. The bright star below it toward the end of the month is Regulus.
Sky Calendar September
Sept. 2: Full moon.
Sept. 5: Look to the east after dusk to find Mars very close to the moon. The duo will be close all night long. Sept 6: The moon is at apogee (farthest) of 252,032 miles from Earth. Sept. 10: Last quarter moon. Sept 11: Neptune is at opposition – directly on the other side of the sun. Sep. 13: Brilliant Venus is below the crescent moon, in the east, at dawn. The Beehive star cluster is just to the upper left of Venus. Sept. 14: Venus is now to the upper right of the crescent moon toward the east at dawn. The star cluster M44 is just to the upper
left of Venus. You will need binoculars to clearly see M44.
Sept. 17: New moon. Sept. 18: The moon is at perigee (closest) of 223,123 miles from Earth. Sept. 22: Autumnal equinox is at 9:31 a.m. Sept. 23: First quarter moon. Sept. 24: Look to the south, at dusk, where Jupiter is to the upper left of the moon. Saturn is directly to the left of Jupiter. The constellation Sagittarius (looks like a teapot) is to the lower right of the moon. Sept. 25: Now the moon is to the lower left of Saturn, again at dusk to the south.
Daryl L. Schrader is professor emeritus at St. Petersburg College and has taught astronomy at the University of South Florida.
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