Raise your hand if you just had a major aha moment!
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"The big 'Aha!' moment is that the trauma never goes away."
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And it was an aha moment that has guided him since.
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"It was kind of an 'aha moment' I had," she says.
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Fingers crossed that you have a rewarding "Aha!" moment while solving.
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This was a very clever theme with a terrific "Aha!" moment.
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Perhaps, a new finding, research data, trend or an "aha" moment.
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I didn't have an actual single aha moment, but there were several.
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It's how they arrived at their "aha" moment last year, says Amano.
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That's what I was trying for here — a legitimate, honest "Aha!" moment.
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Finally, toward the end of the book, Brooks's "aha!" moment is revealed.
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Fixes Harold Tu's "aha!" moment came in front of the Washington Monument.
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Once I got some space away from it, there was an aha moment.
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"The big 'Aha!' moment is that the trauma never goes away," she said.
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Details: "With Bulgaria, there was an 'aha' moment," said one European security official.
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It's an amazing construction and a pretty neat "aha!" moment, when it comes.
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Hope you experienced a nice "AHA!" moment when the Big I's came into focus.
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This was an important "aha" moment for many Periscope participants accessing these meditation communities.
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I love that, as well as the somewhat delayed "Aha!" moment that I experienced.
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Monday solvers deserve just as much of an "Aha!" moment as late week solvers.
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A theme with an unconventional revealer that leads to quite the "aha!" moment. 2.
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It's always so difficult to predict what will produce the best "Aha!" moment possible.
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What was the "aha moment" for you when you started to really see those parallels?
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Once I figured out what to do with that "Aha!" moment, the theme fell swiftly.
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"My 'aha' moment was when I was at the park with my son," she says.
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One more, just because these are so much fun when you get that "Aha!" moment.
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The upside of this is that early-week solvers get more of an "Aha!" moment.
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I can only hope you had as much of an "Aha!" moment as I did.
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Today is Thursday, so we know we will have to work for our "Aha!" moment.
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This is where most people's "Aha!" moment would happen, but I needed an extra push.
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"My 'Aha' moment came when I was in the Wegmans supermarket in Ithaca," he said.
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This one requires a bit of alchemy to solve, although the "Aha!" moment is worthwhile.
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That for us was the journalistic "aha" moment to say, these allegations never stopped coming.
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I hope it's also an "aha moment" for solvers when the theme answers are discovered.
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What was the "aha" moment for you that that you decided you had to do this?
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Multiplayer VR could use an "aha!" moment, and MetaWorld sounds like it could potentially provide that.
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This kind of aha moment might be followed by the need to regain a little independence.
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Click through to have that "aha!" moment over where you might know the Bandersnatch cast from.
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Thomas Eakins, The Agnew Clinic (1889)Gizmodo: When was Lister's aha moment involving Louis Pasteur's work?
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Somehow, that "Aha!" moment made the puzzle an extra fun one for me to have constructed.
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What matters is that you had the same amazing "Aha!" moment I did when you solved.
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Our original plan was to make the units of time narrow down to an AHA MOMENT.
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I just like my long entries and the "Aha!" moment of uncovering a really cool phrase.
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But since it's Thursday, there's nothing to do but plow ahead until, hopefully, the "aha!" moment.
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How about watching that "Aha!" moment hit multiple heads at once, like a word lovers' rave?
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"The 'aha' moment was when Miguel confirmed there was no corrosion control like I thought," says Walters.
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So it was then that I read the article on vertical farming and had that "Aha!" moment.
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I had an aha moment inside a VR app called Tilt Brush that was purchased by Google.
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"I had this 'Aha' moment where I realized, this is not happening in this field," Beim said.
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For Toby Cosgrove, the former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, the "aha" moment came five years ago.
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When there are moments to catch vegans in actual or perceived hypocrisy it's a great "aha" moment.
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Is it almost as if, for millennial men, a suit holds the fascination of an "aha" moment?
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"The 'aha moment' for him was when he realized what it all added up to," Clough said.
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Seeing IWORK or YMEN in one's puzzle would be mystifying, flipping into hopefully a solid "Aha!" moment.
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Your big "aha moment" came when your boyfriend broke up with you, what is your current relationship status?
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Looking back over his career, he believes that teaching and writing is all about creating the "Aha!" moment.
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The process was as follows: Read clue, think about answer, receive a whammy of an "Aha!" moment, smile.
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In these days of constant spoilers and Reddit threads, it's rare to get a true "aha" moment anymore.
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"Through them, I went to kayaking camps, ski trips, and then there was the 'aha' moment," she said.
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But when I got it, the "Aha!" moment was like a smack on the back of the head.
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"For me the aha moment came when I started understanding that Uber isn't just about cars," Khosrowshahi said.
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That unusual relationship is for you to deduce, and when you do, prepare for a fun "Aha!" moment.
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I liked this theme very much because it had that snappy "Aha!" moment in each of the answers.
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Her "aha" moment occurred in Paris, where she was living in the 1920s, an expatriate enamored of art.
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It takes wits and triangulation, and there's always that aha moment when you know you've gotten the joke.
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It isn't quite an "aha!" moment given the conspicuous hints dropped earlier in the book, but it satisfies.
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Picture Malcolm X But if you put aside the strange phonics pattern, there's a strange "aha" moment in B.o.
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" On her "Aha" moment to pursue the arts:"When I went [to South Africa], I had an experience there.
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I wound up having to guess the letter, which took away from my final "Aha!" moment for this puzzle.
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At some point, everyone has an 'Aha!' moment when it comes to the importance of high-quality bed linens.
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Perhaps the EAU clue elicits a memorable "aha" moment, or native New Yorkers enjoy the fresh take on METS.
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It's an "I can't wait to tell you, listen to this!" page turner, dropping one aha moment after another.
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"I had a kind of 'aha' moment where I said we're thinking too small," Mr. Lew said on Wednesday.
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Ten years ago, Kraigh and Anna Stewart were designing in the furniture industry when they had their "aha" moment.
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This one came together slowly for me, but I really enjoyed the "Aha!" moment when it finally hit me.
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I hope that it will give solvers the big "Aha moment" that the best trick puzzles always give me.
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I want you to enjoy your "Aha!" moment just as much as I did when I finally got it.
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Miles away, in an office at Vanderbilt University, a professor named Marc Hetherington was having his own aha moment.
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The aha moment I had over Christmas break was Wait a minute; we're all responsible for the culture at Goop.
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Finally, deleting SHAKESPEARE as an answer, which I did at the very end, makes for more of an "aha" moment.
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Mike and Ozzy's Beer Blizzard 'aha' moment came when they realized all beer cans have the same dome-shaped bottom.
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After hassling through some crosses, however, I finally knew 36A was CANDY CANE; filling that in was my "aha" moment.
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That was a lovely "Aha!" moment for me that may or may not have included slapping myself in the forehead.
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His "Aha!" moment came when a minister from the regime told him he had to paint a series of doves.
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That aha moment led to more research into the long-known phenomena of distraction and meditation as techniques to relieve pain.
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Remember that the core of the "aha" moment in the piece is that the poll has 48% Democrats and Democratic-leaners.
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This facilitates what we call an "Aha!" moment, when the solver finally sees the hidden thread that ties the theme together.
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I love when another board member comes up with an idea that's out of the blue and truly an aha moment.
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After buying about 30 pop-up cards that night from the street vendor in Vietnam there wasn't an immediate "aha" moment.
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Can you tell me about the "aha" moment when you realized this technology had many more applications than you originally anticipated?
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I liked the solver having to work more for the "aha!" moment, but that might have been a bit too cerebral.
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It took me a while to piece this theme together, but what an "Aha!" moment I received once I got it.
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Wordplay MONDAY PUZZLE — For a Monday puzzle, Paul Coulter's New York Times Crossword debut packed quite an "Aha!" moment for me.
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"My 'aha!' moment was living back home in the same bedroom that I grew up in with my parents," Nelson says.
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"That was a real aha moment for us," said Johanne Ellis-Iversen, a veterinary epidemiologist at the Danish National Food Institute.
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"There was a kind of an 'aha' moment, when we realized what might damage this part of the brain," Friedman said.
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They'll save you time, make you wonder why you didn't already know them, and even give you an "aha!" moment or too.
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I had a real "aha moment" in college when I was reading the Bible for the first time and I encountered Ecclesiastes.
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So A Call to Men has various exercises, handouts, videos, social media, any tools that can create an 'aha' moment for men.
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Parker plays Frances, who has an aha moment and decides she wants a divorce from her cartoonish husband, Robert (Thomas Haden Church).
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The "aha" moment when things fell into place was like both players becoming the other "with no separation," Ms. Koh said later.
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Aha Moment: Ricky Choi and Phil Moldavski were working at LivingSocial, an online marketplace in Washington, D.C., when they bonded over socks.
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There really was an impetus, there really was the aha moment I had, and it was a little over three years ago.
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It was created by Rowena Scherer, 50, who had an aha moment after taking a family cooking class while traveling in Thailand.
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It took me a while to figure out what was going on, but that just made the "Aha!" moment that much better.
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John Lieb returns with a puzzle that had a terrific "Aha!" moment for me, even if I did piece it together slowly.
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There was for him, he says, no youthful aha moment of watching Derek Jacobi onstage and divining that directing was his path.
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Making a vaccine does not come down to one big aha moment; rather, it is a sequence of encouraging developments, they said.
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"We here at Vizient had an 'aha' moment when we realized how much manufacturing actually takes place in Puerto Rico," she said.
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But it remains a fine balance, as people enjoy thinking they have found something new—the "aha" moment, as Mr Thompson calls it.
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Martin is probably taking his time to ensure that when a character's backstory is revealed, readers have an aha moment, instead of confusion.
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There is a lot going on here for a Tuesday puzzle, but it emerges slowly and offers solvers a very nice "Aha!" moment.
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The 'aha moment' of just how big and exciting the opportunity was came with solving the environmental and ethical challenges of mined diamonds.
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"With Bulgaria, there was an 'aha' moment," said one European security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified intelligence matters.
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After watching the re-enactment in January, many had an "Aha!" moment, Ms. Guadalupe said, and shared: "Now I understand how Trump won."
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"When all those models and pictures and colors started to come out on the runway, it was another 'aha moment,'" Fuentes-Medel told me.
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"Talking about my intimacy avoidance and love addiction was an "aha" moment for me," he says of traits he's learned about himself in therapy.
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Longtime allies to Obama say there was no shift in strategy or an 'aha' moment that made the former president deliver the stinging address.
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"I had an 'Aha!' moment, that just because she doesn't want to snowmobile or motorcycle doesn't mean that we're not compatible," Mr. Alexander said.
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"Our aha moment was going to stores and seeing that something as fun as puzzles were dull, boring, and had no pizzaz," Melissa says.
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I tumbled to the whole thing just before I got to the revealer, making for a very pleasant "Aha!" moment for this midweek puzzle.
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Aha Moment: Jonathan Shokrian, an entrepreneur from Los Angeles, got the idea for MeUndies while buying underwear for a European vacation at the mall.
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Once you get the gist of it, your nimble mind will have its "aha" moment, and you'll probably have learned something new as well.
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Hopefully the theme offers a fun aha moment, and hopefully you're as tickled by the descent of THE ROAD TO HELL as I am.
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One such "aha!" moment is writ large in Stephen Savage's Little Plane Learns to Write (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook, $16.99; ages 3 to 6).
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The naming of this product, besides Paltrow's aha moment, isn't completely out of line with the cutesy and provocative names brands give beauty products.
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Then an "Aha!" moment occurred and I realized that 1 + 2 + 3 = SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY would work and also act as a revealer.
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My goal was to provide that "Aha!" moment in a playful way, to create the type of Thursday puzzle I'd like to solve myself.
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On the other hand, perhaps that change enhances the "Aha!" moment by delaying the solver's realization of the connection shared between the theme entries.
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I looked for a revealer and received an "Aha!" moment from the universe that was like a smack to the back of the head.
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Experience a teaching "aha!" moment when students run to you first thing in the morning to discuss an event about which they are aware.
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Once you've had that confidence moment, that 'aha!' moment, runner's high or what you want to call it, it bonds the fabric of runners.
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When I finally got it, it was the kind of "Aha!" moment that reached around and slapped me in the back of the head.
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The embarrassing incident was an 'aha' moment for the mom-of-three, who decided she needed to lose weight, and successfully dropped to 143 lbs.
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This was one that required a bit of staring at the answers to decipher, but I had an enjoyable "Aha!" moment when I got it.
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While Photos is the aha moment that's nudging me to get an iPad Pro, iOS 11 also makes the tablet a better replacement for laptops.
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This was the aha moment: languidly floating in a pool being fed by a waterfall, blessedly alone, surrounded by a forest of emerald-green bamboo.
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"We wanted to make people feel an escape from reality, so we used the 'aha moment' ... to generate a feeling of discovering something," Soto says.
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"Most athletes who come to this realization have their 'aha' moment somewhere in private, but Davis' was happening right there on the sideline," Meyer wrote.
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This is the kind of early week theme I really enjoy, because even though the solve is relatively easy, that "Aha!" moment is still there.
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Thursday puzzles require you to be patient until the idea behind the theme comes rushing at you all at once, in that delicious "aha!" moment.
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I like that the edited version creates a more powerful aha moment, though I worry that it might be a bit tricky for a Tuesday.
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Das told Business Insider last year that was "the aha moment" when he said, "Oh shoot, we should have done that in the last round."
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With this revelation, the essence of a constructor's "'Aha!' moment" had taken place and the hunt for other words that could offer parallel transformations began.
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Put those all together and you've got yourself a definitely-more-than-a-Wednesday puzzle that will deliver a decent "Aha!" moment toward the end.
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There's an opportunity for men to ask questions and have that "aha!" moment that we wish they never even had to have in the first place.
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"The 'aha' moment was [when we realized] you can construct [random growth] using SLEs and that there is a connection between SLEs and LQG," said Miller.
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That eventually led us towards the "Aha moment," where we knew this camera could be the secret sauce for building something to help the visually impaired.
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"This one was the biggest 'aha' moment of the year for me," writes Matt, who estimates that they save $5,000 a year by going out less.
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I thought the revealer would make everything obvious enough without them, and that people would have a nicer "Aha!" moment by seeing it on their own.
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I had to think about the clue at 272A for a while before I knew what was happening, but it gave me a nice "Aha!" moment.
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Later, when Palmer spotted a video game where one of the levels took place inside the Red Room from Twin Peaks, he had an "aha" moment.
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"Our big 'aha' moment was when we realized a lot of our customers, for them, their clothing is actually not the most important thing," LaFleur said.
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But I was lacking an "Aha!" moment until it was delivered to me, and that's a shame, because otherwise, this is a perfectly nice, midweek puzzle.
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We deliberately chose phrases where that starting word had a different meaning than that hinted at by the revealer, to try for that nice "Aha!" moment.
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Although that reformulation significantly reduced my options for theme entries, it created a much tighter theme and (I hope) a stronger "Aha!" moment for the solver.
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The company got its start in 2010 as part out of an aha-moment from Santo Domingo, a socialite, former model and former editor at Vogue.
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He felt strongly that this would produce a better "Aha!" moment, whereas I worried that solvers would gloss over them, potentially finishing without understanding the concept.
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DS: It was a big "Aha!" moment where we realized all these shame things were wrapped up in the Sarah story, which makes Hank, unfortunately, pretty relatable.
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"When a man who is so openly misogynistic beats the first female candidate of a major party to become president, it's an aha moment," Ms. Newsom added.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — If you have a strong need for personal space, Ross Trudeau's puzzle may seem a bit invasive, but it provides a nice "aha!" moment nonetheless.
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And I didn't even mind, because it provided a nice "Aha!" moment, which is hard to come by in Wednesday puzzles, the proverbial middle child of crosswords.
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If it were not for that little revealer at the end, my "aha" moment would have never come, and consternation would have simply devolved into 29-Down.
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"My 'aha' moment came from a feeling of being underwhelmed by the lack of products on the market for people of color," Lundy writes on the brand's site.
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I wish I could tell you I had an "aha" moment when I realized there was more to life than eating cotton balls and worrying about my thighs.
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Three years before she opened her store in the small coastal town of Saugatuck, in Michigan, she had her Aha moment when she came up with the name.
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Some early emoji take cues from manga, the Japanese graphic novel genre — a comics-style light bulb signifying an "aha" moment and a bomb with a lit fuse.
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"I had this 'aha' moment where I said, 'Don't show the actors, just use the chorus of voices under the photos,' " Mr. Burns said in a telephone interview.
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The latter evokes that "aha" moment one feels when they no longer feel the emotional ties to a person or situation that once had a hold over them.
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Since the clue fed right into the shape it had to be describing I had my punnish "aha" moment at that point (why didn't I see that before?).
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The Founder Spotlight gives young but proven startups the chance to tell their origin story, from that original "Aha!" moment to the pivot, if there was one, to today.
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I have to say — as gratifying as the "aha moment" can be as a solver, it's nothing compared to the moment when a tricky construction crystallizes into a reality.
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The "aha!" moment came in the mid 90s when, at the insistence of two fellow digger friends, he set up a booth at a record convention in New York.
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The list of major updates since May include: Ask Systrom for the "aha" moment that prompted such a rampant product revival and he won't be able to name one.
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Responding to host Sebastian Ang's question about when Xu knew that "AR was going to take off," Xu reveals his aha-moment was during his time at Magic Leap.
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Aha Moment: Brian Berger, a former business executive for WebMD, saw how Lululemon had revolutionized athleisure wear and wondered why the same had not been done for men's underwear.
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Aha Moment: During a fishing trip in Alaska, Trent Kitsch, a former college baseball player living in Vancouver, British Columbia, spent four days getting chafed by his clammy underwear.
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On the other other hand, assuming you didn't spot what was happening when you solved, going back to discover the theme was good for one Grade-A "aha" moment.
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It centers on an "aha moment" when family and career collided (in Dufu's case, weeping in a bathroom stall at work, breast milk exploded all over her designer suit).
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's 2016 victory may have been Oprah Winfrey's aha moment, as the talk show icon is now signaling she may be open to a presidential bid.
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Daneshgar, the head of business development and sales, says the 'aha moment' that confirmed it was time to migrate to a real office came about due to concerns about collaboration.
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It wasn't until the entire Flanders family was sitting around a table, having one of our usual rants about all things money-related, that I finally had my aha moment.
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Huang, the CEO of Fairygodboss, says her "aha moment" for launching the startup came when she was two months pregnant with her daughter, now 2, and going on job interviews.
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With a swipe of the finger, users can breeze through the choices until they have "that aha moment, where they know they have just the right one," Mr. Wilner said.
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My hope was that, in doing this, you (the solver) might be misled enough on an initial pass through the puzzle so that the revealer could offer an "aha" moment.
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And I always remember how her face would light up with a big smile when one of us achieved an aha moment of understanding, piercing through a thick Kantian sentence.
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In several of my recent puzzles with circles, some solvers commented that the circles made the "Aha!" moment too easy, and I wanted this puzzle to be appropriately Wednesday-difficult.
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"Walking around and actually seeing this stuff — the geographic relationships, how close the clubs were to people's apartments or recording studios — was kind of a big 'aha' moment," Rifkin said.
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Today, Ms. Young makes a terrific solo debut with a midweek puzzle that provided a forehead-slapping "Aha!" moment for me, which got the attention of the entire floor here.
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In what he described as an "aha" moment, the governor was talking to someone and lamenting the fact that he had met someone four times and still couldn't remember them.
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This theme by the constructor Gary Larson is easily solved, but you might have to think about what the theme entries have in common before you get that "Aha!" moment.
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Then, one day during my walk to the gym, when I was mulling over OVER THE EDGE, I had an "Aha!" moment; actually more like a forehead slapping "Duh!" moment.
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To get this "Aha" moment, the researchers from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest trained 13 dogs, many of whom were golden retrievers and border collies, to sit still for 7 minutes.
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This unexpected entrepreneur says her "aha!" moment was when she realized she could afford to move the business out of her basement in Brooklyn, New York to a storefront in Manhattan.
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Block said the "aha moment" for him with respect to MuleSoft came when a Fortune 100 financial services firm brought its entire management team to San Francisco to meet with Salesforce.
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If the love of testing one's cognitive abilities with a crossword and seizing that gratifying "Aha!" moment is being passed on to younger generations, then perhaps we're not doing so badly.
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There was no one "Aha!" moment, but the things that were fun and took up my time in my early 20s stopped feeling so exciting after ten years of doing them.
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This is the movie's "aha" moment, the admission that is meant to explain exactly how and why the singer became the sort of person who would talk shit about Paula Abdul.
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In the late 1970s, it was pretty common for people in California and elsewhere to have an "aha" moment as they introduced a computer to their homes for the first time.
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But ahh, when you fill in a few letters from the crossings and the answer begins to emerge, you get that shot of dopamine that puzzle aficionados call the "Aha!" moment.
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Because the solving experience was similar to a themeless, with just one payoff "Aha!" moment at the end, I lowered the word count and tried to include some interesting long answers.
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I was able to get the intent of the theme fairly quickly, but it took me a few seconds of staring at the revealer before my brain had its "aha!" moment.
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"The 'aha' moment came when a Fortune 100 company approached me and offered me a position that was five levels above where I had been just a year prior," said Chen.
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It might take some staring at the grid to do that, but it's well worth it, because that "Aha!" moment will smack you in the head in the best possible way.
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She described an "aha moment" when she and other Democrats concluded that Mr. Trump's treatment of Ukraine was part of a larger pattern of deference toward Russia, a leading American adversary.
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And if you would like to see what a true "Aha!" moment looks like, I offer you this: Usually, filling a crossword puzzle is my favorite part of the constructing experience.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — Michael Blake and Jeff Chen, the constructors of this puzzle, were concerned about how to best present the theme for maximum "Aha!" moment effect, but they needn't have worried.
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" The "Aha!" moment: "Market activity is exploding, and with that comes a flow of information, whether as chitchat from traders who cross into China or as soap operas loaded on USB sticks.
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It is the perfect bedtime game for a player like me, who enjoys a good brain teaser based on careful placement and a pleasant little rush when you find your "aha!" moment.
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When that "aha!" moment hit me, it struck hard, and I found myself going over the completed puzzle again to admire the thought that went into constructing a theme like Mr. Chen's.
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Mr. Korins said his "aha moment" came last summer, when he was staying at Chatsworth, home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, for several days as he was conceiving the exhibition.
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Which, of course, means it's time to bring out Steve Martin's Ruprecht and his trident: So, not an "easy" puzzle, whatever that means, but a fun one with a great "Aha!" moment.
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But a confluence of upbeat utterances by Mr. Draghi and other top central bankers, along with growing optimism about the long-suffering eurozone, added up to an aha moment for financial markets.
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Since I've had my 'aha' moment about sustainability, I have pushed those dreams to the side and tried to figure out a way to incorporate conservation and activism into my future plans.
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About six years ago, not too long before I came across the concept of the Anthropocene, I stumbled upon Timothy Morton's book Ecology without Nature and had another "aha" moment of similar magnitude.
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The closest I came to having an "aha" moment was when I tried cowboy action, which calls for people to dress up like a character for a Western, complete with a fake name.
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Scott Gravelle, the chief executive of Attabotics, a Calgary-based 260-D robotics supply chain maker, had an aha moment while watching a documentary about the interior structure of a fire ant colony.
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I hoped there would be a fun "Aha!" moment discovering that in this case "say" means to actually say the clue out loud, and I was a little disappointed that Will et al.
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Seeing it in the puzzle always makes me smile, even though it's a very common entry, because I can still remember that very first "Aha!" moment and the impact it had on me.
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But the aha moment for the watch came to the inventor while he was sitting alone in a park, watching a little girl bounce a rubber ball up and down on the concrete.
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"Right now Wyoming has a kind of an exit sign hanging over the heads of its youth," said Pope, an accountant by training who had his aha moment about the blockchain back in 2014.
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Many of today's programmers have their efficiency "aha" moment in their teenage years, when they discover that life is full of blindingly dull repetitive tasks and that computers are really good at doing them.
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And, with all due respect to Dr. Fill, a computer will never derive the joy out of deciphering a tough clue, slapping themselves in the forehead and indulging in that elusive, addictive "Aha!" moment.
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It took many missed phone calls and traded emails before we connected six days later [because we didn't want to discuss anything sensitive online], and that was sort of the "aha" moment for Confide.
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This puzzle might be a bit crunchy for Monday solvers, both in terms of theme and vocabulary, but to shade or circle the ORs would totally kill the "aha!" moment for more experienced solvers.
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"I had this incredible 'aha' moment of how important this organization was," Ms. Arison, now 34, said, sitting in the Greenwich Village apartment she shares with her husband, Thomas Wilhelm, who works in finance.
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A few months after Mr. Krishna's aha moment, his team presented the idea at an annual gathering where IBM's top executives consider new technologies that could be major opportunities — or threats — to IBM's business.
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About the same time Mr. Roche was having his aha moment, Kathrin Hamm, a German economist, was working at the World Bank, covering the Middle East from Dubai and traveling across multiple time zones.
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Several times, the movie withholds key information in a totally unnecessary way that results not in an "aha!" moment, but in irritation: Well, if we'd known that, of course it would have made sense.
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" She added: "That was my aha moment of utter forgiveness, to be able to see him as human being … That's when I started, even in my own life, tearing down all these titles and labels.
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Anyway, Mr. House offers us a three-entry theme that is very simple in its execution, but made me smile because it was actually hidden behind some circled letters, which yielded a nice "Aha!" moment.
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I bounced around the grid today, starting in the northwest, filling in the grid down to the southwest, meandering up to the northeast and finally landing in the southeast, where I had my "Aha!" moment.
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"I looked up and I just so happened to see the 'aha' moment in his eyes when he goes like -- I can shoot this glass out," Dodds told CNN in her noticeably misplaced Southern accent.
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The pair said their real aha moment was when they learned even insurance companies are ready to be rid of the slow, futile billing and payment methods that accompany any and every doctor and hospital visit.
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There was no aha moment in choosing Mr. Lynch, according to Jonathan Newhouse, a cousin of the company's late patriarch who has directed its international operations since 1991 and was recently named the chairman of the board.
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Dr. Scott-Warren had his aha moment while reading a recent scholarly article about the anonymous annotations, which have long been known to scholars, by Claire M.L. Bourne, an assistant professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.
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Critic's Notebook When ship manifests and immigration rosters fail to produce an aha moment in the popular PBS genealogy whodunit, "Finding Your Roots," the show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., often has a sleuth card up his sleeve.
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A brilliant sunrise on a crisp morning atop a volcano with someone who, after half a century, was still in love with her home — the waterfall may have been my first aha moment, but this was the second.
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Aha Moment: CDLP was founded by two fashionable Swedes — Christian Larson, a filmmaker and music video director; and Andreas Palm, founder of a branding agency — who thought that the men's underwear market lacked something elegant and eco-friendly.
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"Liz's realization that talented homeless and disabled artists should have a market to sell their artwork — and that a purpose-driven business could fill this need — felt very much like the 'Aha' moment to start TOMS," Mr. Mycoskie said.
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But it was her time spent observing Asia's burgeoning tech scene — first as a management consultant at McKinsey, and later as an investment analyst at Sequoia Capital in Bangalore, India — that first gave her that "aha" moment, said Bose.
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Their 'aha moment' came when they noticed a small store selling Kiehl's and Nars products in their neighborhood in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. "It was then that we got the idea for a national beauty chain," CEO Marla Beck recalls.
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However, for Ray the "Aha!" moment came when the team held a signing at Forbidden Planet, a comic book shop in New York City, during New York City Comic Con less than a year after launching their first campaign.
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So it started out as a kind of mystery story to try to figure out what the heck was going on, and the "aha moment" was when we discovered that Fred Seitz had worked for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
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Johnson continues, "And the aha moment came when I had a shift in my career and I was comfortable in who I was, comfortable that there wasn't a blueprint and comfortable taking a swing and being cool with striking out."
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Going homemade was "the biggest 'aha' moment of the year for me," writes Matt of "Distilled Dollar, " a Chicago-based CPA who saves 93 percent of his income with his fiancee and plans to be financially independent by age 35.
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Jubilee and Jayhood discuss about his history in the local scene, an "aha" moment when his music was up on Limewire, and the experience releasing on a UK label like Local Action, who just put out his debut album, King.
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"It's a big aha moment for many people to recognize that this benefit that they've paid for for 35 years will not only pay them, but will pay their dependents and children specifically to help fund their expenses," Freitag said.
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He experienced an "aha" moment when a member of a community group suggested that free water-filling stations she'd seen near yoga studios should be brought into her neighborhood, where lower-income residents tended to quench their thirst with soda.
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Go homemade "This one was the biggest 'aha' moment of the year for me," writes Matt of "Distilled Dollar, " a Chicago-based CPA who saves 2700 percent of his income with his fiancee and plans to be financially independent by age 212.
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"As I was thinking about the way I echoed her needs and feelings, I had this 'aha' moment that very often people who maintain a relationship to someone who is extremely narcissistic do end up sort of losing their voice," he says.
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Without them, alas, I imagine the puzzle will play like a not-very-well-filled themeless puzzle for anyone who doesn't spend the time to seek out all of the states, but hopefully the revealer still serves as a nice "Aha!" moment.
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" No secrets and no forced hugs Starishevsky's "aha" moment as a prosecutor came when she talked to victims and learned there was one reason why children never told anyone about abuse that came up fairly consistently: "He said it was our secret.
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But one day, he was sketching at the breakfast table in his West Village sanctuary when he had an "aha!" moment for his design of the Public Square and gardens of Hudson Yards, the enormous new development on the West Side of Manhattan.
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That's a terrific use of crossword theme, in my opinion; you almost get an extra "Aha!" moment out of it, when you've solved the theme and then you sit back and realize that you had never looked at things that way before.
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Firtle: I had this aha moment where I'm like, I see American distilling, I see crafts beer, I see this industry growing and I think that there should be a place for rum in it and I think that rum is being neglected within it.
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"I had an 'aha' moment when I was a young girl and my troop leader saw me looking at the stars," Acevedo tells CNBC Make It. "Later on, when we were choosing our badges, she encouraged me to get my science badge," she recalls.
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And that core idea of just, let's take a conversation about rap lyrics and maybe put it online and see how it goes was like instantly the moment — the "aha" moment for me — the sort of "Whoa, now I can read" moment or something.
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Our current moment, from the courageous women speaking out in the press to the #MeToo movement online, has a tremendous amount of power and potential — an "aha moment" at a scale we have not seen since Betty Friedan used the term so memorably half a century ago.
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And then the Cambridge Analytica disclosures of the early part of last year, which I think, again, were the "aha" moment for the internet user as, as Snowden revealed the flow of data from the private sector to the government in ways unknown to most ordinary consumers.
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"We just had this 'aha!' moment when we saw the comments and DMs on our Instagram where so many people were asking for an ingredient, or any type of product, that would help reduce redness," Sarah Lee, co-founder and co-CEO of Glow Recipe tells Refinery29.
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They didn't exactly have an "aha" moment, but they did begin to build on the initial nugget of an idea that began at the retreat — and in the Summer of 2003, they started to think of this set of services as an operating system of sorts for the internet.
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" The mom of two (daughter Kensie, 3, and son Saint, almost 18 months) continues, "But the fact that this season [brings] to light exactly as I was saying was going on between the two of them, it's kind of an 'aha' moment to the rest of the cast.
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You will be happy to know that I stopped just short of writing an email to the crosswords editor, Will Shortz, but I did ask the associate puzzles editor Sam Ezersky about it and the "Aha!" moment struck at precisely the moment that I hit the "Send" button.
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In addition to having chicness in spades and a brand assortment that would impress even the savviest, hard-to-please shopper, The Helm is making it its mission to invest directly in female-founded brands – which goes back to the "aha moment" that was the genesis of her brand.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — It's always hard to predict what we are going to get on Thursdays, but this puzzle by Alex Eaton-Salners gave me such a great "Aha!" moment that when I finished, I wished I could go back in time and do it again for the first time.
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Before creating this puzzle, I noticed that the film BEETLEJUICE had been used as a clever clue for GAS in crosswords (I'll wait here while you read that again), and I thought of the name Vin Diesel as an appropriate pairing to this (I'll wait again for the "Aha!" moment).
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I still struggle over many of the clues, but that is part of the fun for me: the struggle where you can feel your brain holding back the needed information like a dam, then the satisfying burst as the information comes rushing forward so you can have your "Aha!" moment.
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And then there are the sort of cultural totems that I feel obliged to share with them, like that Picasso show, or Giacometti at the Guggenheim, where a part of me is hoping to implant a kind of "aha" moment that they might be able to recall years from now.
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"I think there is an 'Aha' moment they have in their minds, like, 'Geez if it's only one in five people you can carry, maybe it would be better to have two tracks,'" Mr. Prendergast said in reference to closing the tracks in both tubes, the more efficient of the two options.
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I don't think there will be one big 'aha' moment of VR. I think it will eventually come to us like many technologies in America (like the internet and mobile phone): injected rapidly and absorbed almost so naturally into a wider cultural use and imagination that it will become taken for granted and cease to be remarked on.
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As we wrapped up our most recent unit — "Hamlet" and its afterlives — our discussion about "Hamlet" alongside Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and Salman Rushdie's "Yorick" ended with a collective "aha" moment: We came to the realization that "Hamlet" purposefully leaves the audience with unanswered questions to acknowledge the constant search for objective truth in a subjective world.
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