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4 The Baytown Sun
Viewpoints
ELESKA
AUBESPIN
For the love of
Med children
I know, I know.
To all of my devoted column readers, you are well
aware of what happened last week.
Apparently in my column about my love of - and bad
luck with - bingo, I mistakenly divulged that I enjoy
fried children along with my paper
bingo cards!
Well as you know, that’s simply not
true. The column was supposed to say
fried chicken.
As all writers and reporters must one
day discover, typing mistakes happen
and such was the case in this particular
instance.
1 must admit, though, that I found
the mishap pretty funny and so did
many others who took it in stride.
As soon as 1 walked into the office last Wednesday
morning, my editor showed me a printed copy of the
bingo column with the words “fried children” high-
lighted in bright yellow.
“So you like fried children, huh?” he quipped.
Good Lord, did 1 really do that? That was only the
beginning of the teasing I’ve endured since then.
“Have you eaten any fried children today?” our news-
paper’s publisher asked.
Natalie Whatley, my fellow columnist, even com-
mented on the mistake in her Sunday newspaper article
on the Lifestyle section.
She refers to fried ants and writes that it’s better than
the friend children 1 wrote about eating at church bingo.
Yeah, yeah.
To make the mistake even more hilarious, I wrote that
these were “freshly prepared, fried children” and they
were served with a slice of white bread.
Add to that image the bottles of hot sauce that sat
nearby.
It sounded good when I was writing it.
And just for the record, 1 was talking about fried
chicken at church bingo when I was growing up in
Louisville, Kentucky. Holy Family Catholic Church in
Baytown, where I recently played bingo, does not serve
kids.
There were, of course, those readers of the more se-
rious nature who questioned why spell check didn’t
catch it. That’s because the word “children” wasn’t
misspelled.
A few readers simply phoned into the office to ask
whether we have people who proof our copy before we
print. The answer to that is “yes.”
But once in a while, a mistake creeps into the mix and
is just overlooked. Mistakes do happen, people.
In this case, the word “children” can look pretty close
to the word “chicken,” especially as you are zipping
along lines and lines of words.
That’s also after writing lines and lines of words for
story after story each day.
In my case, I joked that I often write about my chil-
dren so much that my fingers were just on autopilot,
typing “children” instinctively.
My oldest daughter read the column after I told her to
see if anything jumped out. It did.
“Sounds like a scene out of a horror movie,” Benaya
said. “Also sounds like you are a cannibal.”
Geez, thanks honey.
Oh well. These things happen. It won’t be the first
time and I know for sure it won’t be the last.
As long as I’m writing stories and columns for read-
ers to read, there will always be the potential for mis-
takes and typing errors.
It just comes with the territory and I ask your forgive-
ness for future mishaps.
In the meantime, fried children anyone?
Oops, I mean chicken.
Eleska Aubespin is a reporter at The Sun and a moth-
er of three girls. She can be reached at viewpoints@
baytownsun.com, Attention: Eleska Aubespin.
Wednesday
June 5, 2013
Type-cast in concert
I’ve seen unusual videos on You-
Tube before but never thought I'd
watch a typew'riter being played in a
concert.
Now I’ve seen everything.
Lifelong friend Monte Zoe G’Sell,
who grew up with me in the Type-
writer Age in old Baytown, sent a
YouTube alert about a typing solo-
ist with the National Orchestra and
Chorus of Spain in Madrid. Our
first typing teacher, Lela Armstrong
at Baytown Junior High, never pre-
pared us for this!
Featured on the typewriter in the
concert - and it looks like a Corona
portable but can’t tell for sure - is
Alfredo Anaya. We could have sure-
ly used a typist with his talent and
enthusiasm in The Sun newsroom in
BC (before computers).
When hiring reporters, though,
newspaper management never gave
it a thought - a prospective employ-
ee’s about the ability to type musi-
cally.
Such talent was hidden in the
newsroom except on special occa-
sions, such as the day before Christ-
mas when some of us thwarted
musicians would start jingling the
little bells on our manual machines.
Although limited to one note, our
version of “Jingle Bells” at least had
rhythm,Besides, it
was the Christmas
spirit that counted.
And besides that,
we made sure our
boss was not w ith-
in hearing range
3N when we played
WANDA our Christmas
ORTON ‘on,cert °,n tlK;
Underwoods and
Royals.
Other than our lame attempt at
musical typing, our Bell Choir had
no inkling of the possibilities of or-
chestration. At the time we had no
knowledge of a composer named
Leroy Anderson, who was writing
short, light concert pieces for or-
chestras, many of which were in-
troduced by the Boston Pops under
the direction of Arthur Fielder. One
of Anderson's compositions in 1950
was “The Typewriter," and that’s the
very one presented by typing soloist
Anaya in the Spanish orchestra con-
cert in 2011.
Wouldn’t Anderson, who died in
1975. be amazed today to find that
typewriters are oddities in history.
Few people nowadays have ever
used a typewriter, and these anti-
quated machines are few and far be-
tween on the market.
Good riddance, as far as I’m con-
cerned. I hated changing typewriter
ribbon, and i hated to cut and paste
- actually using scissors and glue to
cut out a paragraph and paste onto a
different place. Overall, this system
of typing stories on copy paper (cut
from end rolls from the press room)
was messy and inefficient.
To discern the word count, we
would have to count the number
of lines in the copy. Depending on
whether the font size on the partic-
ular typewriters, either four or five
lines of type would equal an inch of
print.
Gradually we graduated from
manual to electric typewriters and
finally to computers. We entered
the computer age slightly earlier
than expected in 1979 because a fire
heavily damaged our building and
the equipment therein.
With computers, our typewriter
Bell Choir disbanded for good, but
that’s OK. “Jingle Belts" was the
only song we could play.
Meanwhile, YouTube, thanks for
real typewriter music.
Wanda Orton is a retired manag-
ing editor of The Sun. She can he
reached at viewpoints^ haytownsun
com. Attention: Wanda Orton
Be prepared
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 156th day of 2013 and the 78th day of
spring.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1947, Secretary of State
George Marshall proposed the Marshall Plan for econom-
ic aid to war-tom Europe.
In 1956, Elvis Presley gave his famous hip-shaking per-
formance of “Hound Dog” on “The Milton Berle Show.”
In 1968, U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan.
In 2004, former President Ronald Reagan died at age
93.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Adam Smith (1723-1790),
economist/philosopher; John Maynard Keynes (1883-
1946), economist; Bill Moyers (1934- ), TV journalist/
author; Spalding Gray (1941-2004), actor/writer; Kenny
G (1956-), musician; Jeff Garlin (1962-), actor/comedi-
an; Mark Wahlberg (1971-), actor.
TODAY’S FACT: In 2013, an estimated 5.2 million
Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease.
TODAY’S SPORTS: In 1993, Julie Krone rode Colo-
nial Affair to victory in the Belmont Stakes, becoming the
first female jockey ever to win a Triple Crown race.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “Democracy may not prove in
the long run to be as efficient as other forms of govern-
ment, but it has one saving grace: It allows us to know
and say it isn’t.” - Bill Moyers
TODAY’S NUMBER: 20 - approximate percentage
of the Israeli population that is Arab.
TODAY’S MOON: Between last quarter moon (May
31) and new moon (June 8).
When my father was alive, he left
New Orleans only two times in his
life. The first was to serve his coun-
try in Korea. The second was when
the federal government evacuated
him to San Antonio in 2005. Ev-
ery member of my family - father,
brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews,
uncles, aunts and cousins - was dis-
placed by Katrina, which flooded our
homes, schools, libraries, grocery
stores, places of worship, hospitals
and places of employment.
My sister was in an assisted-living
facility in New Orleans, stranded on
the building’s roof. FEMA officials
told me to go online to register her
information and they would get back
to me, but that I shouldn’t expect to
know anything for weeks. Thanks
to an on-air appeal by my CNN col-
league Wolf Blitzer asking for news
about the stranded residents, and lo-
cal inquiries from an official from the
Louisiana Department of Wildlife
and Fisheries and one of my cousins,
a policeman, we found her alive.
My 92-year-o!d uncle was on his
rooftop for days without food or wa-
ter. He was plucked from the familiar
and flown to Roswell, Ga., where he
had a heart attack. It took until late
2012 for my entire family to rebuild
or relocate. When there’s a story of
storms wreaking havoc on commu-
nities and the subsequent effort to
rebuild, I try to offer my help and
support -1 can relate.
The country is bracing for another
week of severe weather. While some
politicians continue to debate the re-
ality of global warming, we can all
learn from others’ experiences of
dealing with natural disasters and
embrace the Boy Scouts’ motto: “Be
Prepared.”
Perhaps we need to talk more about
science, learn more about the cli-
mate. But climate change or not, we
will always have natural disasters:
blizzards, floods, wildfires, earth-
DONNA
BRAZILE
quakes, hurricanes
and tornados. My
main lesson from
Katrina: We need
to be prepared in
our personal lives,
in our communi-
ties. and at the fed-
eral level.
1 cheered while
watching President
Obama and Gov.
Chris Christie of New Jersey appear
together to reopen the Jersey shore-
line for business after last October’s
Hurricane Sandy wiped out miles of
homes, beaches and boardwalks. The
recovery of the Jersey shore, though
incomplete, exceeded expectations
because of the transpartisan cooper-
ation of Obama and Christie.
A Washington Post-Pew Research
Center poll released in the last few
days finds that six out of 10 Amer-
icans want federal monies allocated
rapidly to disaster areas, and rebuke
dithering about finding matching
cuts first. In fact, 69 percent of Dem-
ocrats, 57 percent of independents,
and 52 percent of Republicans agree
that Congress need not fish around
for corresponding cuts before cut-
ting a check. We’re talking about
our fellow Americans - about restor-
ing lives and rebuilding economies.
The public expects a unified helping
hand and not, as in the movie “Dr.
Strangelove,” our ow n hand trying to
choke our own throat.
The National Weather Service
states, “Each year, more deaths oc-
cur due to flooding than from any
other severe weather related hazard.”
Thus, the first rule in hurricanes, se-
vere storms, tornados and floods is to
get from outdoors to safe shelter.
Have on hand a three-day supply
of food and water (a gallon per day
for each member of the family). And
don’t forget your family pets.
Have a first-aid kit, flashlight, bat-
teries arid a radio. See that at least one
member of your family is trained in
first aid and administering ( PR Al l)
; (defibrillator). Have personal, medi-
cations and a list of them. Make an
emergency plan that all family mem-
bers practice, and establish a way to
contact each other if separated.
Get a NOAA national weather ra-
dio made just for w eather alerts. You
can buy one where electronics prod-
ucts are sold, or over the Internet.
Be ready to evacuate your home
or workplace if necessary. With hur-
ricanes and floods, there is often a
warning of several hours or even a
day. With tornados, you may have
15 minutes of warning that a twist-
er is imminent. There is usually no
warning for earthquakes, so you’ll
need to learn ahead of time what
actions to take when the shaking
starts.
Learn the difference between a
weather "watch" and a “warning.”
A “watch” means to be alert that a
hurricane or tornado is possible. A
"warning” means time has run out -
a tornado or hurricane is present and
you should take immediate action,
seeking shelter in a storm cellar, or
if there’s no time, inside an inner
room such as a closet or bathroom
or in your bathtub.
The Red Cross has recommen-
dations on specific preparations for
floods, hurricanes, tornados, earth-
quakes, etc. On the Internet, visit
redcross.org/prepare/disaster, or
call your local Red Cross chapter
today. They'll see you get the help
and information that you need.
It might just save your life or help
your family in a time of crisis.
Donna Brazile is a senior Dem-
ocratic strategist, a political com-
mentator and contributor to CNN
and ABC News, and a contributing
columnist to Ms. Magazine and O,
the Oprah Magazine.
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