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Charges filed At circus, youth learn the ropes in Dinkytown shooting A Lauderdale man faces five counts of second-degree assault in the shooting of two Muslim men.

BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com

A 26-year-old man has been charged in the late-June shooting of two Somali men near the University of Minnesota.

Anthony Sawina, of Lauderdale, was charged in Hennepin County District Court Friday with five counts of seconddegree assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with the case.

Sawina allegedly shot at five Somali men, striking two, near the intersection of 14th Avenue Southeast and Sixth Street Southeast early June 29 after a member of Sawina’s group made derogator y comments directed toward Muslims.

After the shooting, the Minneapolis Police Department said the incident would be investigated as a possible hate crime. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., later called for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the incident.

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Abby Guggisberg practices aerial silks at Circus Juventas at their location in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul on Friday, July 22. Guggisberg is a junior at Simley High School in Inver Grove Heights, Minn. The circus is preparing for a performance that reinvents Alice and Wonderland that will run from July 28 to August 14.

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At Circus Juventas’ summer show, “Wonderland,” acrobatics students refine their craft and train for professional careers.

TECHNOLOGY

BY SOPHIA VILENSKY svilensky@mndaily.com

Scientist sends bone cell study into space

alking into Circus Juventas a week W before summer show time, the scene is reminiscent of any other heav-

ily youth-casted community play. Parents paint sets, the best brushes daub on stage makeup and Soffe-clad tweens practice the subtle art of flirting.

Then they start to bend.

Suddenly, you’re no longer in another local auditorium. The ceiling, you realize, is a big top. There’s a wall of unicycles behind the stadium seating, and that Cirque du Soleil performer contorting over yonder? They go to the high school down the street.

Welcome to Circus Juventas’ “Wonderland” rehearsals — where it’s down the

A U professor is working with the International Space Station to research bone loss in space.

BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota scientist has blasted his latest research project miles above the Earth’s surface, en route to the International Space Station.

Once in space, scientists at the ISS will test bone cell function to better understand why human bodies experience accelerated bone loss in space — one of the biggest health plights for astronauts, said Bruce Hammer, a University of Minnesota professor and the project’s principal investigator.

The experimental effort, referred to as OsteoOmics, may also contribute to osteoporosis research, he said.

Though Hammer won’t don a spacesuit himself, he crafted the experiment, secured NASA approval and received funding from the National Institutes of Health.

The project comes after three years of work, said Louis Kidder, a collaborator on u See ISS Page 3

rabbit hole, and up the Spanish web.

Co-owned and founded by husbandand-wife duo Dan and Betty Butler, Circus Juventas is a year-round circus school.

More than 2,500 children — age 21 and under — take classes at the school, working their way up the class list in hope of being cast in the company’s much-adored summer show. This year’s “Wonderland” runs from July 29 to August 14, drawing motifs from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” and its sequel, “Through the Looking Glass.”

Stone Langworthy — cast as the White King in the show — is a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, where he studies kinesiology. He’s been “in circus” for eight years, eventually deciding to enlist after seeing his older sister thrive under the big

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ELECTION 2016

Amid election discord, students show partisanship Despite unpopularity, U political groups continue to vow support for their party’s nominations.

BY AARON JOB ajob1@mndaily.com

Despite polls showing historic unpopularity among the two main presidential candidates, the University of Minnesota’s College Republicans and College Democrats plan to support their party’s candidate.

CITY COUNCIL

As both parties solidify their nominees, recent events — like the Democratic National Committee email leak and radical proposals from Donald Trump including vetting immigrants from France or other countries hit by terrorism — have left many Democrats and Republicans dismayed with their candidate options with just more than three months before election day.

Aditya Penugonda, vice president for Students for Bernie, said he wasn’t thrilled with the DNC — especially in light of recent emails suggesting it favored Hillar y

Clinton — but thought former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s resignation was appropriate.

While Penugonda said the group wasn’t thrilled about Sanders’ loss of the nomination, he said that turning from one’s political party or refraining from voting because one’s candidate of choice is no longer on the ballot is foolish.

“I would say that it’s a lot bigger than just the presidential race,” Penugonda said. u See ELECTION Page 8

City contemplates pay hike The Minneapolis City Council will decide whether to put a minimum wage charter on the ballot this fall.

BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com

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Luke Gitar and Nestor Garcia of Minneapolis talk during their work to raise awareness for the “15 Now” campaign while at Open Streets Minneapolis: East Lake on Sunday. Campaigning to increase minimum wage to $15 an hour, “15 Now” obtained nearly 20,000 signatures to make it onto the November ballot.

A proposal to raise the minimum wage in Minneapolis has drawn contention from some who think it will negatively af fect businesses.

The petition, with over 8,000 signatures, was received by the City Council Friday. The proposal would raise the city’s minimum wage incrementally over several years to $15 per hour.

If passed by the council, voters could expect to see the city charter amendment on the November ballot.

The proposal comes shortly after the approval of a paid sick and safe leave measure, which Ginger Jentzen, executive

director for 15Now Minnesota, said was a significant victory.

Jentzen — whose group helped draft the minimum wage proposal — said the success of paid sick leave pushed them to pursue the wage amendment.

“We wanted to put for ward a ver y strong proposal that we feel is also ver y winnable in the fall of 2016,” she said.

Jentzen said the proposal is important for many Minneapolis residents who struggle to make ends meet financially.

For much of her life, Jentzen said she was a server and home healthcare aid and found it hard to get by. She said she saw others struggle as well.

“The main thing was [that] it wasn’t even enough to get by on … in the early and mid-2000s,” Jentzen said.

But John Stanoch, president and CEO of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of u See PETITION Page 12

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Thefts hit ‘Pokemon Go’ players UMPD responded to two phone theft reports involving players of the game.

BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com

“Pokemon Go” players now have something other than rare Pokemon to watch out for.

The University of Minnesota Police Department responded to two phone thefts from “Pokemon Go” players last week, according to a

recent University public safety update.

One theft occurred at 222 Pleasant St. SE on Monday night. The second theft happened late Tuesday night at 207 Pleasant St. SE, According to police records.

Recent University of Minnesota graduate Huimin Gu was the victim of Monday night’s theft. She was talking with her friend near Coffman Memorial Union when a man came up and plucked her phone from her hand, she said.

Gu said they tried to chase him down, but there was a car waiting for the suspect.

“He just hopped into the passenger seat, and they took off,” she said.

Before the incident happened, Gu said she was playing “Pokemon Go” with her friend, which is why she had her phone in her hand.

She thinks the game may have contributed to the theft, since she normally wouldn’t have had her device exposed.

“If you want to play that game at all, I … think that it would [be] better to do that in a group,” she said.

The Minneapolis Police Department said last week in a Facebook post that it has

Charges filed in alleged Dinkytown hate crime Shooting u from Page 1

At about 2:30 a.m. June 29, the five victims were leaving the area after playing basketball when they encountered a group that allegedly included Sawina leaving a Dinkytown bar.

One of the people in the group asked one of the victims, “what’s that dress you’re wearing?”

When the group of victims — who were all wearing traditional Muslim clothing — disregarded the question, another member of Sawina’s group allegedly made a derogator y

comment about Muslims, according to the criminal complaint.

When one of the victims asked why someone would say that about Muslims, Sawina allegedly approached the victims’ vehicle and said, “What if someone said it? What if?” before he pulled out a pistol and shot through the car’s windshield and passenger side, the criminal complaint read.

Two of the victims fled as Sawina drew the weapon, according to cour t records. Two of the victims in the car were shot in the lower leg and suffered nonlife-threatening injuries.

Authorities inspected video sur veillance footage from the area to corroborate the victims’ stor y and used receipts from Dinkytown bars to locate witnesses.

Sawina was arrested on July 21. He has two previous convictions for carr ying a firearm without a permit. Discharged shell casings matched the caliber of two handguns recovered from Sawina, according to the complaint.

Sawina r emained in Hennepin County Jail as of Tuesday after noon in lieu of $750,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court again on August 26.

Police arrest more than two dozen near home of Minnesota governor Dayton

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S T. PA U L — P o l i c e have arrested more than two dozen protesters while tr ying to reopen the street in front of the Minnesota governor’s mansion.

St. Paul Police spokesman Steve Linders says 26 adults and one juvenile were

arrested Tuesday. Charges range from disorderly conduct to unlawful assembly to public nuisance.

Police have tried several times to reopen Summit Avenue.

Demonstrators have been camping outside the governor’s residence since July 7, a day after

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Philando Castile was shot and killed by a St. Anthony police officer during a traffic stop.

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received reports from a few players robbed while playing.

In the post, the department said the app’s geolocation feature allows “robbers to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims.”

In addition to the robberies, the University’s public safety update email highlighted several instances of distracted players getting into accidents or putting themselves in dangerous situations — cases like players crashing into parked police cars, jumping out of a moving vehicle to capture a Pokemon or

wandering off a cliff.

“I understand that campus is fertile ground for Pokemon hunting, and overall, that’s a good thing. … People are getting out and exploring campus, meeting new friends, and enjoying the summer weather,” said Vice President for University Services Pamela Wheelock in the campuswide safety notice. “The game apparently causes some people to completely lose their good judgment and common sense … so as you battle, train and capture your Pokemon, just remember you’re still in the real world.”

Teen in Waseca plot has ended probation, takes felony charge

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WASECA, Minn. — A Wa s e c a t e e n a g e r w h o planned an attack at his school in 2014 has been released from his probation, and in exchange, he has accepted a felony conviction on his record.

John LaDue made the request last week, and it was granted Tuesday by Judge Joseph Chase. LaDue was allowed to leave the cour thouse after the hearing, as he has already served his time.

“John’s fulfilled his obligation to society,” his attorney, Jeff Johnson, said after the hearing. “He’s actually sat one more day than what is required under the law.

Regardless of what he does, he understands that he’s going to have to live with this, even if he completed 10 years of probation.”

LaDue, now 19, pleaded guilty last fall to one count of possessing an explosive device and agreed to up to 10 years of probation to keep a felony off his record.

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mental health appointments, monthly appointments with a psychiatrist and other conditions.

He has said that making appointments has been difficult, and terms of his probation will make it hard for him to go to school to be a pipe fitter. He has said that he now realizes a felony conviction may not hurt his future prospects as much as he once feared and with the internet he wears a “Scarlet letter,” Johnson said.

“He’s made the decision after staying in the community that no matter how hard he works at this, no matter what he does, he will be viewed the same way,” Johnson said.

LaDue was 17 when he was arrested in April 2014 after he was found with bomb-making materials and detailed plans to kill his family then carry out an attack at his school.

Mental health exper ts had testified that LaDue was diagnosed with autism spectr um disorder and a fixation on violence. A separate evaluation before he was allowed to go to his parents’ found he suffered from depression, not autism, and was a low risk.

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Dept of Surgery sees 110th anniversary 110 YEARS OF SURGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS 1888 Department of Medicine founded.

1906 Department of Surgery founded.

1931 Department chair Owen Wangensteen invents gastric suction.

1952 F. John Lewis and his surgical team, including C. Walton Lillehei, perform the first successful openheart surgery.

1958 Lillehei and Earl Bakken developed the first wearable and independently powered pacemaker, which led to the founding of Medtronic.

1968 John Najarian performs the world’s first kidney transplant in a diabetes mellitus patient.

1970 ALG is submitted to the FDA as an investigational new drug.

1979 Najarian and Sutherland perform the first living donor pancreas after kidney transplant.

1994 Sutherland performs the first successful living donor simultaneous pancreas kidney transplant.

1997 Dr. Rainer Gruessner and Sutherland perform the first simultaneous kidney-bowel transplant.

2014 MHealth launches, a collaboration between University of Minnesota and Fairview Hospital System.

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A 1977 kidney transplant at the University of Minnesota. Throughout the ’70s, the Department of Surgery offered rare transplant operations for diabetes patients.

Founded in 1888, the department led innovative transplants and diabetes care.

DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

The home of several world-first operations, the University of Minnesota’s department of surgery is celebrating its 110th anniversary this year.

While the department has experienced some turmoil — ethics professors still look to the ’90s allegations and investigations into its selling of an unapproved drug — prominent surgeons reflect on what it was like to be a part of leading research efforts and groundbreaking procedures from open-heart surgeries to kidney transplants.

A pioneer of transplant surgery, Dr. David Sutherland helped perform many “world-firsts” in kidney transplants.

Now 75 years old and retired, Sutherland started as a resident in 1970 and worked in the department until the early 2000s.

Soon after his arrival, he said, Dr. John Najarian — the department head at the time — tasked him with simplifying pancreas transplants, a common procedure for those with diabetes complications.

Throughout the ’70s, Sutherland, Najarian and the transplant team led multiple world-first operations,

including an islet allotransplant to treat diabetes mellitus and a complete pancreatectomy in 1977.

After the pancreatectomy, Sutherland said, the patient never needed insulin injections again.

He said the attitude of many doctors around the country was that diabetes couldn’t be approached through transplants.

“So the attitude that was taken [at the University of Minnesota] was that, ‘Well, how do you know you can’t succeed? Let’s try it,’ ” he said.

The forward-thinking atmosphere was fostered by Dr. Owen Wangensteen, the department chair from the ’30s through ’60s, Sutherland said, and was continued by Najarian.

Afghan official confirms major offensive against IS underway

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL, Afghanistan — Following a massive attack in Kabul, the Afghan militar y has launched a major offensive against the Islamic State group in the country’s far eastern region near the border with Pakistan, Afghan and U.S. of ficials said on Tuesday.

The offensive began over the weekend in Nangarhar province, where IS has had a presence for the past year, said Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Defense Ministry.

The offensive, part of the gover nment’s Operation Shafaq — or Dawn in Pahsto— started hours after an IS suicide bomber killed at least 80 people who were taking part in a peaceful demonstration in Kabul on Saturday.

It was the deadliest attack to hit the Afghan capital since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.

President Ashraf Ghani gave the orders for the offensive, which Waziri said will consist of airstrikes and ground attacks, including those by special forces.

Clean-up operations aimed at ensuring that IS loyalists do not return to the area would follow, he added.

The of fensive marks a new chapter in Afghanistan’s war against insurgents. Until now they have been a largely defensive force, and have struggled to take the lead on the battlefield since the withdrawal in 2014 of most international combat forces.

The head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, has pledged to transform the Afghan military into an offensive force so they can take the fight to the insurgents, and reclaim battlefield initiative.

While the main fight is

against the Taliban — who have been battling to overthrow the Kabul government for 15 years — this counterterrorism operation against the Islamic State group will enable Nicholson to implement an aggressive new strategy, working closely with the Afghan military and using more airstrikes against the enemy, analysts say.

President Barack Obama recently expanded the conditions for U.S. troops in Afghanistan to support Afghan offensive operations. Nicholson can make the strategic shift from using airpower only to defend U.S. and NATO positions, to striking in support of Afghan offensives.

Obama’s directives, issued in June, enable the U.S. military to work alongside Afghan forces in the field on offensive missions against insurgents, though still in a non-combat role. Since 2014, their role was confined to battles in which the Taliban directly threatened U.S. and NATO forces. They also allow U.S. involvement when Afghan forces face “strategic defeat,” as they did in the northern provincial capital of Kunduz, which briefly fell to the Taliban last September and was threatened again in April.

The U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland, said American forces have been involved in the cur rent operation in the east and are conducting “multiple counter-terrorism strikes.”

He said that since January 1 this year, U.S. forces have conducted “more than 450 kinetic strikes” both under the new authorities and for force protection.

Haqiqullah Walizada, spokesman for the fourth regiment of the Afghan army’s 201 Corps, said 260

IS gunmen had been killed in the Kot and Achin districts since the of fensive began. Another 122 had been wounded, he said. The numbers could not be independently verified. No casualty figures for government troops were provided.

Walizada said that Kot, which shares a border with Pakistan, was the main IS stronghold in the region.

“During the operation a large number of IS fighters were killed, including the recentlyappointed group commander Saeed Emarati,” he told The Associated Press. Emarati was formerly a Taliban fighter but swapped allegiance after it was revealed last year that the founder and thenleader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar had been dead for more than two years, Walizada said.

The formal start of the U.S.-backed of fensive in Nangarhar appears to be an extension of months of attacks on IS positions in the region. Afghan authorities have claimed huge numbers of IS loyalists killed in these operations, though without details or verification.

Officials have said that IS loyalists in Afghanistan are mostly former fighters for the Taliban or other insurgent groups including the Pakistani Taliban known as Tehrik-i-Taliban or TTP. Elsewhere in the country, Taliban gunmen attacked police checkpoints in Uruzgan province, in the south, where they have been active for many months.

The director of the Uruzgan provincial council, Abdul Kareem Khadimzai said the militants launched their attack on checkpoints on the strategic Kandahar-to-Uruzgan highway, killing three policemen and taking five others hostage.

“So the attitude that was taken was that, ‘Well, how do you know you can’t succeed? Let’s try it.’”

DAVID SUTHERLAND Professor emeritus, Department of Surgery

In 1993, Najarian resigned as department head after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration alleged that the department had been making and selling an antilymphocyte globulin antirejection drug called ALG. The making and sale of the drug had not received federal approval for mass production.

In 1996, Najarian was tried and acquitted in federal cour t on numerous counts, including embezzlement and tax evasion related to his involvement with the making and selling of ALG. Other charges against him were dismissed.

Sutherland said that whatever ef fects the ALG investigation and aftermath had, it didn’t stop the department from pursuing innovative surgery.

“I don’t know if it did [damage the reputation]; we kept on going. Minnesota was still one of the major centers for transplantation,” he said.

Dr. Rainer Gr uessner worked with Sutherland to per for m the world’s first combined segmental pancreas and kidney

transplant and the first laparoscopic removal of a pancreas-kidney in 2000.

He said he was attracted to the department because of its leaders’ reputations.

“We go to museums not because of the outside structure, but because of the number of Picassos … and so forth. Those guys, Najarian and Sutherland, were Picassos in their own right,” he said.

The atmosphere of the department was stimulating, Gruessner said, and unlike anywhere else in the world.

“People just enjoyed working together, coming up with ideas that seemed far-fetched … and then in the end, clearly benefitting the patients,” he said. “It pushed the entire nation in a way that the gap between us and the rest of the world was huge,” he said.

U scientist launches bone cell project into space ISS u from Page 1

the project.

“It’s a dual purpose. It’s a scientific model … and a way to optimize space flight,” Kidder said.

Over the past 10 years, Hammer has used an Ear th-based simulation to research how the lack of gravity af fects bone cells, he said.

His experiment used a magnetic field to mimic microgravity — a state in which weightlessness occurs because the force of gravity is so weak.

The experiment is expected to begin in September, he said, and will last for about 30 days.

Kidder said they expect to be ready to publish results by next June.

If the results of Hammer’s Earth-based experiment are comparable with the ISS’s findings, then his magnetic-field testing could be proven useful for preemptive testing for future space-bound, cellbased projects. Hammer said he expects the data from both experiments will be similar.

“If we can actually vet a series of experiments on Ear th, you could pick the most promising one to go up to the space station,” he said.

Hammer said numerous factors come into play when tr ying to get an experiment co-opted by the ISS. Toxicity levels need to be monitored, crew time is sparse and finding funding can be difficult.

“It’s not like sending a package through FedEx — you really have to

understand what’s allowed on the space station,” Hammer said.

As par t of the process, Hammer worked with Stefanie Countr yman, associate director of the University of Colorado’s BioServe Space Technologies.

Countr yman said her center is called a “NASA implementation par tner,” which helps researchers and scientists get their projects off the ground and into space.

“Lou Kidder and Bruce Hammer are responsible for the science,” Countr yman said. “We’re responsible in translating that science into a spaceflight experiment that can be done safely on the [ISS].”

The center developed the hardware and will manage operations for the experiment, Countryman said — like ensuring the cells’ environment is 5 percent carbon dioxide and has a temperature of 37 degrees Celsius.

Countr yman and her center had to develop a special thawing mechanism for the bone cells, which Hammer chose to send frozen.

Typically, cells are sent to space alive; however, such a state has cer tain limitations, Hammer said.

Living cells need to stay alive long enough to reach the station for testing, and the journey there can be traumatic because of high levels of g-force and flight vibrations.

On Ear th, a thawing process would consist of submerging cells into a water bath, Countr yman said, but her center had to develop a system that would work in a zero gravity environment and allow

the cells to be submerged in war m water without liquid floating around the ISS. “This is an impor tant benefit of the work we’re doing,” Hammer said.

“From what I understand, future missions [are] … going to be using the system we developed.”

Kidder said securing NIH funding was one of the biggest challenges for the project. Only about 5 percent of NIH proposals are accepted, he said.

“It’s really difficult to get experiments on board,” he said. “You have to have good science and a little bit of luck to get the right reviewer.”

Hammer’s project will be aimed specifically at osteoblasts, cells that create new bone material. In the future, he hopes the project can expand to include other bone cell types like osteocytes and osteoclasts.

“Taking one cell by themselves isn’t reality. All these cells are communicating with each other all the time,” Hammer said.

“That’s really the model you want to have, but before you get to that model you [have to] understand how the basic cells independently work.”

While the scientific results of the experiment are likely to provide only a small sliver of understanding when it comes to osteoporosis, Hammer is still optimistic.

“If you’re asking if there’ll be a drug made that will prevent osteoporosis?

I would say no,” he said.

“But it will give clues of where we should be looking to create drugs that will help prevent osteoporosis.”

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CIRCUS

Young acrobats perform in community play Wonderland u from Page 1

top. When Langwor thy joined, he was already way behind those who star ted their circus education at the age of two.

“I was past the age and size where learning to flip was viable.”

Instead, Langwor thy found his niche in boy’s trapeze class. Today, the double trapeze act is his specialty.

Langwor thy practices nearly ever y day of the week for five to six hours at a time; a schedule that is commonplace among students involved in the program. While this year will likely be Langworthy’s last in the theater por tion of the program, in the next year he will begin training for a professional circus job with the hope of paying off his student loans.

Another character in “Wonderland,” Noah Posey — who plays the caterpillar — has been involved with the circus school for three years.

“Wonderland” Where Circus Juventas, 1270 Montreal Ave., St. Paul When Performances run July 29 - August 14 Cost $17.50 - $40

And, like any good caterpillar, he bought the show’s hookah himself.

“I decided to sign up just to learn a flip,” Posey said. “I’m a dancer and it’s a crowd pleaser.”

Flips are no big deal to the artists these days; like Langwor thy, Posey hopes to go professional, too.

Though they have their own specialties, together the boys perform a threeman hand-balancing act in the show. “Wonderland” has a r untime of three hours, with each performer taking part in many acts.

To the untrained-in-the-circus-arts eye, “Wonderland” seems far from an amateur production. The sets are lovely — vibrant, looming and brilliant. Even costumes seem to scintillate.

Whichever r oad the boys choose to take, bigger big tops surely await.

ZACH BIELINSKI, DAILY

Stone Langworthy, right, holds Noah Posey, left, as Anwar Hassouni performs a handstand at Circus Juventas in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul on Friday, July 22.

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Abby Guggisberg practices aerial silks at Circus Juventas at their location in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul on Friday, July 22.

FOOD

Local restaurants bridge farms, fields and forks A&E enjoys a day of farm-to-table fare.

BY SOPHIA VILENSKY svilensky@mndaily.com

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ummertime in the Midwest means thriving fields and colorful plates.

At a farm-to-table restaurant, it means fresh eggs and — since the season is now over — hopefully no asparagus in late July.

I took to the Twin Cities for a full day of farm-to-table dining at a few of the places that put (natural) stock into those three pretty words.

Late breakfast at Birchwood Cafe: Seward is no doubt the patron saint of neighborliness, and their love of community is fully demonstrated at Birchwood.

Instead of four seasons, the restaurant boasts eight: spring, summer, scorch, autumn, dusk, frost, winter and thaw.

A list of organic farms in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa — where ingredients are sourced — is listed on the cafe’s website.

I tried one of the location’s most famous offerings: the savory waffle. The waffle itself was made up of green beans, quinoa and feta. Each section was topped differently — blueberry chutney, lemon dill butter, bacon lardoons and a sunny-side-up egg. Maple syrup and powdered sugar were also provided.

For a dish comprised of green beans, it tasted more mainstream than one would think. All toppings were excellent, but I liked the mixture of chutney and waffle best.

Not knowing how filling the savory waffle would be, I decided to add a little sweetness to my breakfast. I ordered a fresh mint brownie from the ever-changing pastry case. The bar’s filling was suffused with the taste of fresh mint; flakes of herb added color and a touch of earthiness to the chocolate.

The brownie paired perfectly with a cup of Peace Coffee’s Birchwood blend — a decadent dessert.

Lunch at Wise Acre Eatery: With a kitschy-chic interior, vintage marquee-style

sign and plenty of flowers and animal statues, Wise Acre is a blogger’s paradise; it has captured the down-to-earth vibe so many nosheries covet.

One waitress wore a Kingfield Farmers Market shirt and Haflingers clogs — refilling glasses with triple-filtered water as patrons politely pretended their food photography had not been interrupted.

Wise Acre gets 75 to 95 percent of its ingredients sourced directly from its own 100-acre farm — Tangletown Gardens — in Plato, MN. I tried all three daily specials: a house-made blueberry, aronia, rhubarb and basil soda, a chilled spring pea soup and a “taste of Asia” salad.

The soda was lovely — the natural separation of homemade syrup and tonic water made it possible to choose the desired flavor-intensity level of each sip. The flavors were complimentary and refreshing — a little avant-garde, but nothing disgraceful when what you really want is a soda.

As for the salad, sesame tamarind vinaigrette was ladled carefully over a variety of farm greens, paired with braised green beans, a poached egg and bacon.

The salad wasn’t necessarily reminiscent of Asia; instead, it tasted like a nice evening on a hobby farm. A lesson in menu creation: missing the mark can be endearing.

The soup was light in flavor. The whole peas at the bottom were a tad mushy, but it was nice in consistency, overall. The pale green color —Pantone 2274 UP, to be exact — was fodder for roompainting inspiration alone.

Dinner at Heartland: Having opened in 2002 as a pioneer in the farm-to-table movement, Heartland is considered by many as the quintessential farm-to-table dining experience. The restaurant is never more than two steps away from actual connections with its farmers.

The menu at Heartland changes daily, with breads baked daily and meats cured in-house.

Ingredients come solely from small family farms and artisanal producers. According to the restaurant’s website, mainline purveyors are shunned.

The small menu is made up of two tasting options —

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Customers fill the interior of Wise Acre Eatery in Minneapolis on Friday, July 22. Seventy-five to 95 percent of the ingredients used in the dishes come from Wise Acre’s own Minnesota farm, Tangletown Gardens.

the flora and the fauna — and a number of a la carte selections.

I chose the vegetarian flora tasting menu. The first course was a Swiss chard tartlet with red currant jam and radicchio. Second, potato gnocchi with baby tomatoes, green onion and garlic consomme.

For dessert — a coffee pot de crème with Chantilly cream, rum raisins and granola.

Heartland’s fare is art — not in an “I have to take a picture” way, but in a “dive right in and savor every bite” manner, because this is a meal you’ll remember forever.

The gnocchi was the highlight. It melted in your mouth, bearing no relation to the microwaved Olive Garden variety.

Hear tland’s head chef and owner Lenny Russo is an expert in the culinary craft — adamant people appreciate, and pay attention, to what they’re putting in their bodies.

“If you’re a consumer, you need to inform yourself,” Russo said. “You don’t need a dossier or the name of the cow, but it’s helpful to ask ‘grain-fed or grass-fed?’ Do you know anything about its diet? Where it was raised or came from?”

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Wise Acre Eatery’s “Shades of Asia” salad sits paired with a house-made blueberry, aronia, rhubarb and basil soda.

Russo doesn’t necessarily like the “farm-to-table” label, though. He believes in the concept, of course, but the logic is confused — ultimately, everything starts on a farm and ends up on the table.

Farm-to-table dining is often pricey, but putting good things in your body pays off in

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the long run.

“You’re either paying for it at the cash register or at the pharmacy at age 70, wondering when you’re going to die already,” Russo said.

Patrons can do their part to support true farm-to-table restaurants — and the farms growing the produce — by

researching the restaurants they frequent, requesting information and paying attention to what’s in season.

If there’s an adage to express locally sourced eating in Minnesota, Russo has surely coined it: “If there are oranges on the table, that’s fucked up.”

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CULTURE TO CONSUME / by Joe Cristo

Watch this:

Listen to this:

Eat this:

“Secret Life of Pets”

New Simple Plan, Good Charlotte and Sum 41

Manny’s Tortas

Illumination Entertainment’s newest animated feature, “Secret Life of Pets,” stars Louie C.K. and Kevin Hart, both comic foils that help develop the film’s storyline — which revolves around the precarious relationship pets have with their owners and the lives those pets lead when their humans are away. The premise is funny, and the script is written for people of all ages — definitely one of the best animated movies of the year.

Let me be clear: These records are awful. All three of them are filled with rock that’s more generic than you can even possibly imagine — which is why you should listen to them. It’s like they’ve co-opted all the Top 40 acts of the last 10 years but have failed to come out with a single catchy tune. Question: Which band has Nelly featured on one of their songs? Answer: Simple Plan.

I’m someone who doesn’t believe that sandwiches are an acceptable dining-out experience. They’re easy to make, and they’re meant for home. So why would I pay top dollar for one? Manny’s is a bit different.

Everything is very hot, gooey and well structured. It sort of makes you wonder if your opinions on basic food groups are unfounded. Go and eat the chicken torta. It’s good. Trust me.

VIDEO GAMES

Grown-ups game at Up-Down Bar The new arcade offers more than 60 craft beers to pair with classic games.

BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com

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his summer, a new beer arcade — UpDown Arcade Bar — opened in southwest Minneapolis.

More than 60 craft beers are ser ved at UpDown, along with pizza by the slice. All of their fare is available smack-dab in the middle of dozens of arcade games — Skee-Ball, a Nintendo 64 on a big-screen, pinball and giant versions of Connect Four and Jenga.

It’s like an adult version of Chuck E. Cheese’s, except at Up-Down you won’t be subjected to disdainful glares.

The idea is undeniably cool. However, the issue with such an establishment is tr ying to discern what type of people it attracts.

In the case of Up-Down, there’s a blend of late-twenty-year-olds, post-work yuppies, squealing, tank-topped bros and punk-rock elders reliving their rebel youth.

The games at Up-Down are priced at 25 cents, pizza ranges from $4 to $5 depending on the kind, and the beer costs exactly what you’d expect from an entertainment complex that sells booze.

When I went, I ordered a slice of the veggie pizza and a slice of the supreme.

Both were flush with toppings, and the taste was fine. The slices are big and gooey — due to uncooked dough — but they were

so big that one would do just fine to satisfy your appetite. It’s clear that quantity trumps quality at UpDown.

In addition, I ordered a pineapple cider and Blue Moon Belgian-style wheat ale. Admittedly, I don’t see the point in over-priced alcohol, but both were tasty enough.

As for the games, they have just about ever ything — all the classics: Mor tal Kombat, Tempest, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac-Man. The procedure is pretty straightfor ward: Lines quickly reach maximum capacity, patrons use one token per play and no one stays on the games very long.

The giant-sized versions of Jenga and Connect Four breathe some respectable life back into games often viewed as overly tread and hackneyed. The inclusion of Skee-Ball is essential, as it’s a childhood favorite.

Overall, there’s a lack of places to sit, and operation is over-crowded with throngs of people, but the Up-Down management ensures order well enough.

Maybe this is what arcades and family entertainment centers were always like — filled to the brim with hapless folks who eat overpriced food and drink.

But something about this set-up — how cheap the games are and the selection of beers —scratches an itch that can’t be scratched anywhere else.

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Kjell Mickelson pauses to contemplate his next move as he plays a large-scale game of Connect Four at Up-Down bar in Uptown Minneapolis on Sunday evening, July 24. Up-Down features more than 50 arcade games from the ‘80s and ‘90s, as well as pinball machines and Skee-Ball.

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Jenn Truchon-Kelzenber of Blaine, Minn., plays a Family Guythemed pinball machine at Up-Down bar in Uptown Minneapolis on Sunday evening, July 24.

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Elaine Palmer, Allison Shilinski, James Villain and Caleb McCabe play a Nintendo 64 at Up-Down bar in Uptown Minneapolis on Sunday, July 24.

MUSIC

Rock group Ego Death prepares for new album, apocalypse The band is in the studio working on their second fulllength record.

BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com

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or nearly a decade, Jeremy Warden has used the moniker “Ego Death” — an homage to his “hippie-punk-kid days.”

“It came about when I was going to the woods and altering my head,” Warden said.

“My outlook, my perspectives.”

The final incarnation of Ego Death took off in the fall of 2014. Singer and guitarist Warden and bassist Bree Meyer met in college, where they lived in the same residence hall. At first, starting a band was not on their minds.

“I barely knew he was a musician then,” Meyer said.

“But I think the anonymity of college and being able to reinvent yourself propelled both of us.”

Warden and Meyer became long-term partners and moved from Wisconsin to

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Drummer Seth Tracy, bass player Bree Meyer and vocalist and guitarist Jeremy Warden of the band Ego Death pose for a portrait on Sunday, July 24. Ego Death has been playing together for two years and is working on a new album.

Minneapolis. Soon, the two were playing songs written by Warden and developing the direction of the group.

The two share a love for East-Coast groups like Swearin’ and Radiator Hospital, but darker artists like Joy

Division and Sonic Youth also inform their sound.

“I’ve always tried to keep a balance between those two things,” Warden said. “I think if you watch us you’ll see that we sort of switch back and forth between those two

sounds.”

Ego Death began in earnest when the duo recruited Warden’s childhood friend Seth Tracy to play drums.

“Our first show together was a tour kick-off for us,” Meyer said. “We had

probably gotten pizza, and I had a stomach ache and sweaty palms. It was awful.”

Now that the power-trio lineup was complete, the band settled on a typical rock songwriting process: Warden would write an entire song or a riff, and Meyer and Tracy would help cr ystallize his ideas.

“I’d say songs are usually 75 percent done when I record a demo for them,” Warden said. “The rest we work through together. Vocals are almost always last when the music is well-rehearsed.”

Ego Death began the process of recording their self-titled debut, which finally appeared in August of 2015, along with another limitedrun EP called “The Kiss” on tape.

Following the release, the band took a respite and laid low. After working on some material — new and old — the band decided to underline the more dirge-y sounding tracks.

“I’ve always loved albums and shows that emphasize variety,” Meyer said. “We don’t want to limit ourselves too strongly. We get bored quickly, so why

stay put?”

They put the new sound to tape on New Year’s weekend of 2016. Their newest release, “Daze,” melds spacy dissonant punk rock with their signature brand of pop.

“I feel like we’ve always been a band that’s trying to bridge those two things,” Warden said. “On ‘Daze,’ we just took it to a more extreme level.”

Now that they have garnered a following in Minneapolis, they have taken their live show on the road, playing in the Midwest and recently touring with local post-punk band Strange Relations.

After recording earlier this summer, Ego Death is currently mastering its second full-length record.

They tracked the album at Flowers Studio with Atticus Pomerantz and plan to play around the Midwest in August with an East Coast tour in the fall.

For the time being, Ego Death is still playing around town. Their next show is at the 331 Club with Whitetail and Dan Mariska and the Boys Choir on July 28 at 9:30 p.m.

CULTURE COMPASS / by Joe Cristo

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

2016 Northeast Dog Parade

The Grow Fangs featuring Fiji-13 and The Controversial New “Skinny Pill”

Fury Things, Ego Death, Yeah Wings, Blurring Agent at the Reverie

The Grow Fangs are a long-running, local rock band that has continuously flown under the radar. Their DIY, home-spun aesthetic is just what you need. Meanwhile, Fiji-13, made up of sisters Hilary and Heidi James, play skewering punk rock. And the Controversial New “Skinny Pill” is one of the best bands in the Twin Cities right now — their bouncy, avant-garde pop songs are boundlessly imaginative.

Fury Things have just returned from its tour, so come out and support their return. The power-pop trio’s music should remind you of Minneapolis groups like Husker Du or The Replacements.

Ego Death just finished a new record, and they’ll surely perform new material. The chill vibes of Yeah Wings will support this incredible bill.

Where Eagles Club 34, 2507 East 25th St., Minneapolis Hours 8 p.m.

Cost $5

Where The Reverie, 1931 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis Hours 9 p.m.

Cost $5

If you’re like me, then you probably don’t make enough contact with pets. Yeah, everyone loves dogs, cats and the like, but who gets to hang out with them on a consistent basis? On Friday, there will be a dog march along the riverfront. Costumes and accessories are suggested, so things may get out of hand. There is no way to know how amazing this event will be.

Where Northeast Minneapolis Riverfront District Hours 5 p.m.

Cost Free

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

University adjusts to retiring faculty More than 40 percent of the U’s faculty are categorized as near the age of retirement.

BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com

As the Baby Boomer generation reaches retirement age, colleges and universities — including the University of Minnesota — across the country are dealing with growing numbers of retiring faculty members.

While the University is no dif ferent, school officials said the increasing retirements won’t affect the University as a whole. Still, the Twin Cities campus has seen 280 faculty members retire in the last five years, with 73 retiring in 2015 alone. More than 40 percent of Twin Cities faculty members are 55 and older — an age that the University categorizes as near the traditional retirement age.

“It’s impor tant to remember that some people are winding down their productivity even in their early 60s, where the other people are going strong to 80,” said Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs Rebecca Ropers-Huilman. “So it’s really hard to

even guess who’s going to be retiring quickly unless they’ve made that known.”

To help aid in the transition for retiring faculty of various ages, the University offers two main options.

Faculty members who retire can keep working — paid with a grant — at the University, advising new faculty members and allowing their research to stay within the school.

The University’s phased retirement option, which allows faculty members to slowly disengage from the school, helps administrators predict when a professor may retire. The policy allows faculty to work less than full time for up to five years and still receive full benefits.

Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs Ole Gram said different colleges within the University have dif ferent means of handling coming retirements and that each depar tment is affected by depar tures differently, depending on its size.

“It’s ver y much a local phenomenon,” Gram said.

“So even if there are ver y few retirements in a particular year, if all those retirements happen to be in [one department], we may have a problem.”

The College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences — where the average age of faculty members is about 54 and the problem is more pronounced — plans for faculty members to retire by age 70 and bases its 10-year retirement projections on that number, said CFANS Communications Director Becky Beyers.

Most other colleges go off of the number of faculty members who have indicated that they will retire in the future, Gram said.

“At the Twin Cities campus, we have about 2,500 tenure-track faculty. Unless [the retirees] are all concentrated in a few specific areas, it’s not a Universitywide problem,” RopersHuilman said.

To adhere to discrimination laws, the University has no mandator y retirement age, Gram said.

Depar tments consider if there is an imbalance

between the amount of younger, part-time faculty members and older members that have indicated they plan to retire soon. If a large number of upcoming retires is expected, the department may hire younger faculty members, Gram said.

On a University-wide level, the school is competitive in attracting younger professionals to replace those who retire, Gram said.

“Are there enough Ph.Ds in the United States and in the world, young ones who are educated and who we can compete for?

And the answer is, overall, yes,” Gram said.

Ropers-Huilman said that along with teaching and research experience, retiring professors take with them a mastery of how the University operates.

“Of course we lose institutional knowledge,” Ropers-Huilman said. “I think some of the people who work in faculty governance … have become experts in finance in higher education.

And when we lose them, we do lose something substantial.”

Still, she said, the losses are also oppor tunities for

U welcomes new transfer students Undergraduate transfer students recently had their school orientation.

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As Elizabeth Momanyi left Cof fman Memorial Union last week, she realized she forgot to get the all-encompassing campus pass — her U Card.

“Are you from Minnesota?” a student worker at the U Card office asked.

“I mean, I was born in Kenya, but I’m a citizen,” Momanyi said.

Momanyi, whose family emigrated from Kenya when she was a baby, took PSEO classes in high school and got her associate’s degree at Centur y College in White Bear Lake, Minn.

Last week, she and transfer students fr om around the world attended their orientation sessions.

Each year, the University enrolls more than 2,000 transfer students, a diverse group that makes up nearly 30 percent of the total undergraduate enrollment.

While some students cast critiques on the orientation process, most said it was helpful and were looking for ward to star ting classes.

“I’m extremely excited,” Momanyi said. “I feel like my life will change by September. I’m living with my mom right now … and I just want to be on my own.”

The transfer orientation process involves an online segment and an inperson meeting. Transfer students also have their own welcome day during the University’s Welcome Week, said Orientation and First Year Programs Dir ector Beth Lingr en Clark.

Clark said the orientation is designed to address

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various transfer-specific needs, like credit loads and adjusting to a new campus.

“Some come because they planned to transfer; some come because maybe something didn’t turn out or their circumstances change. So it’s impor tant for us to acknowledge that in the process and address their needs in a different way,” she said.

Momanyi said she was disappointed with the availability of classes.

“When I set up my orientation last month … I asked them, ‘Since I’m signing up in July, doesn’t that mean I’m kind of late to register?’” she said.

“They were like, ‘No, we have seats reser ved for transfer students.’ But when I got there today, they’re saying I basically have to just show up to one of the classes and hope that someone else doesn’t show up.”

Class reser vations for transfer students var y based on college and course, said Chelsea

Garcia, assistant director for Transfer Orientation and Welcome Programs.

Sunny Jun, who transferred from the University of Minnesota-Duluth — one of the University’s top feeder schools for transfers — said transferring credits was fr ustrating.

“They are the same university system, but they don’t really communicate with each other,” Jun said.

“I was taking the chemical engineering classes, and I asked my professor if those classes would be transferred, and they were like, ‘I don’t know. You’d have to ask them.’”

Still, she said she found orie nta tion usef ul a nd looks for ward to meeting more people on a bigger campus — a sentiment Garcia said is common among transfer students.

“Last year one of the top five reasons students selected the U was because of student life programming and oppor tunities to engage,” she said.

“Another reason, I think,

with 60 percent of our students coming from Minnesota, [is] just because of the reputation the U has. … Students are attracted to that.”

Kyle and Sarah Jenson said their son Jacob is one of those students. The Albert Lea couple is looking for ward to Jacob’s transition to the University after his stints at Mankato State University and Riverland Community College. They said he already landed a job and is excited about study abroad oppor tunities.

Garcia said transfer students’ concerns change after they spend time at the University, shifting from academic woes to social ones.

Amelia Parker, a rising sophomore from Nor th Dakota State University, said she received a transfer student scholarship for the University. As she left to tour her new apartment, she said she was mostly excited for “meeting new people — I don’t know anyone.”

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dif ferent depar tments to rethink their focuses and hire people who can revitalize their specific academic areas.

“The University of Minnesota is a place

wher e a lot of people want to come and want to work,” she said. “When people retire, it’s both a loss and, if the person is able to be replaced, an opportunity.”

Rare mass killing raises security questions in Japan

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The killing of 19 people at a home for the mentally disabled raised questions about whether Japan’s reputation as one of the safest countries in the world is creating a false sense of security.

The deadliest mass killing in Japan in the postWorld War II era unfolded early Tuesday in Sagamihara, a city about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of central Tokyo, when authorities say a former employee broke into the facility and stabbed more than 40 people befor e calmly turning himself in to police.

The suspect, identified as 26-year-old Satoshi Uematsu, had worked at the facility from 2014 until Februar y, when he was let go. He wrote to Parliament outlining the bloody plan and saying all disabled should be put to death.

While not immune to violent crime, Japan has a relatively low homicide rate of well under one per 100,000 people. Mass killings usually are seen half a world away on the nightly news, although seven Japanese were among the dead in a recent hostagetaking in Bangladesh that targeted non-Muslims.

Because such massacres are rare, Japan has become overconfident about its safety, a Japanese criminologist said.

For crime prevention, the countr y relies on its social system in which a group mentality sacrifices individual freedom for collective safety, said Nobuo Komiya, a criminology professor at Rissho University in Tokyo.

As a result, it has neglected risk management, he said.

“Japan has put an emphasis on not creating criminals, but it is reaching a br eaking point,” Komiya said. “Like in foreign countries, I think institutions need to develop a plan in operational management and prepare for a worst-case scenario, given that criminals are inevitably born.”

Mass killings have happened in Japan from time to time. In 2001, a man with a histor y of mental illness killed eight children in a knife attack at an elementar y school in Osaka.

The attack prompted increased security measures for schools. In 2008, a man rammed a r ented twoton tr uck into a crowd of shoppers at a busy Tokyo intersection, then jumped out and began stabbing people, killing seven.

Japan has ver y strict gun laws that might lessen violent crime, but they can’t stamp it out. TV news regularly repor ts on murders — a jilted lover, an adult son angr y at his parents — and the most common weapon is a kitchen knife.

A Justice Ministr y study in 2013 found that knives were used in slightly more than half the murder cases in a given year, with kitchen knives accounting for more than a third of all cases.

National Police Agency statistics show there have been fewer than 10 shooting deaths annually in Japan in recent years, a number that dropped to just one case in 2015.

The comfor t level is high enough in Japan that it is common practice for firstgrade students to go to and from school on their own, after parents accompany them for the first month or so, even in a major city such

Hillary Clinton wins historic nomination with a boost from Bernie Sanders

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Breaking a historic barrier, Hillar y Clinton triumphantly captured the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday night, the first woman ever to lead a major political party into the general election.

Delegates er upted in cheers as Clinton’s primary rival, Bernie Sanders, helped make it official when the roll call got to his home state of Vermont — an impor tant show of unity for a party trying to heal deep divisions.

“I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States,” Sanders declared,

asking that it be by acclamation.

It was a striking parallel to the role Clinton played eight years ago when she stepped to the microphone on the convention floor in Denver in support of her former rival, Barack Obama.

In November, she will take on Donald Tr ump, nominated last week at the Republican convention in Cleveland.

Tuesday night wasn’t all sweetness and light. Moments after Clinton claimed the nomination, a group of suppor ters exited the convention and headed to a media tent for what they said was a peaceful demonstration protesting being shut

out of the Democratic Party.

In the main hall, the second night of the convention was featuring former President Bill Clinton, who was taking the stage to deliver a personal validation for his wife. Former presidents often vouch for their potential successors, but never before has that candidate also been a spouse.

Clinton’s landmark achievement saturated the roll call with emotion and symbols of women’s long struggle to break through political barriers. A 102-yearold woman, born before women had the right to vote, cast the ballots for Arizona.

Mar tha McKenna, a Clinton delegate from

Mar yland, said the night felt like a celebration for Sanders’ campaign as well as Clinton’s. But the mother of two young girls said she was most excited to see Clinton of ficially named.

“The idea that I’m going to be here when the first woman president is nominated is over whelming,” she said.

Clinton’s campaign hoped the night of achievement, personal stories and praise could chip away at the deep distr ust many voters, including some Democrats, have of the former secretar y of state, senator and first lady. Much of the

convention’s second night was being devoted to introducing voters to Clinton anew, including three hours of speakers highlighting issues she has championed for years, including health care and advocacy for children and families.

“Tonight we will make history, about 100 years in the making,” said Karen Finney, a senior adviser for Clinton’s campaign. “What we’re really going to focus on tonight is telling that story, and telling her story, talking about the fights of her life.”

The stories were being told by a long list of lawmakers, celebrities and

advocates. Among those pledging support for Clinton were the “mothers of the movement” — several black women whose children were victims of gun violence. Clinton has met privately with the mothers and held events with them, and they’ve become an emotional force for her campaign.

Clinton aides believe a focus on policy is another way to rally Sanders’ suppor ters, especially those who threatened to stay home or vote for Republican Trump.

While the opening night was interrupted by boos and chants of “Bernie,” there were fewer signs of discord Tuesday.

Editorials & Opinions FEMINISM

Gender norms get slimed in “Ghostbusters” Hopefully, today’s kids will grow up unsurprised to see women in leading film and TV roles.

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t’s no surprise that there’s a paucity of complex, dynamic roles for women in mainstream entertainment. However, after seeing “Ghostbusters” this past weekend, I’ve been flooded with pride and remain hopeful.

It wasn’t until recently that I began to recognize the lack of diversity in female Hollywood roles. I grew up in a progressive California home, raised by a strong, single mother who exposed me to retro women-centric fare like “The Mar y Tyler Moore Show.”

In the 1990s, research by Dr. Carol Gilligan — a professor of education at Har vard — confirmed age-old, anecdotal suspicions that adolescent girls have relatively poor self-image. Yet even still, when I emerged from adolescence, my confidence was largely unscathed. Perhaps, however, I never knew I was internalizing any real sexism or misogyny.

Sure, our generation grew up with a few heroines: Mulan, for example, and Hermione Granger — but even she was always flanked by those two dweebs who got most of the credit. In recent years,

KATE MCCARTHY columnist

there’s even been an uptick in womenrepping enter tainment, with movies like “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and TV shows like “Orange Is the New Black.”

But the release of “Ghostbusters” is a game-changer.

As the film’s familiar musical score began to blare, I glimpsed an old man beside me nod his head, and a little boy dance in his seat. When the camera panned down to reveal Kristen Wiig’s character, I felt an energy shift in the theater. There was no indication from the crowd that the choice to cast women had “desecrated” the classic franchise — there was just pure excitement.

To see four smar t and funny women on screen engrossed in activity not involving romance or catty drama made my heart soar.

As the movie ended, the theater broke into applause — and incredibly, no men exploded out of anger.

For little girls and boys alike, the new

“Ghostbusters” won’t register as the infamous lady-reboot of a beloved film. Instead, it will be their reality, one where the big screen is beginning to eschew passe, harmful gender stereotypes.

Just one week ago, I went to an improv show at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in Los Angeles. As one team ran onstage, I noticed the team was composed of four women and one man. I initially thought that gender ratio was amiss.

Then I realized how often I’ve seen men in the majority and thought nothing of it.

My generation is for tunate enough to benefit from the third-wave feminist movement. We’ve won basic battles: Women can vote, and dowries have grown into obsolescence. Yet, disparity still lurks.

There’s an oft-cited quote from minister and abolitionist Theodore Parker that resonates: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Seeing a mainstream movie like “Ghostbusters” challenge gender conventions is a refreshing and hopeful change.

Kate McCarthy welcomes comments at kmccarthy@mndaily.com.

2016 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 30,677 Total number of deaths: 7,874 Total number of mass shootings: 208 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org

Dangerous algae blooms indication of water health

This editorial was originally published in the Mankato Free Press. It was edited for length.

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L.C. Graber welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Militarizing police is inevitable Law enforcement tools, including officers’ equipment, must be able to match up to the threats.

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etween recent high-profile terrorist cases and unjustified murder at the hands of police, many are asking the question, “How should we arm law enforcement officers?”

The White House is currently revisiting its stance on police equipment, and if a previous ban is reversed, police forces would regain access to militar y-grade gear from the U.S. Armed Forces. I stand in defense of police having access to equipment that most would consider “militarized,” including body armor, armored vehicles and stun grenades.

Like it or not, times have changed, and law enforcement agencies are up against surprisingly well-equipped criminals. During the rise of organized crime in the early 20th century when gangsters had powerful weaponry, revolver-toting law enforcement acquired advanced weaponr y to confront the changing landscape of crime. The same thing happened following the infamous 1986 and 1997 shootouts in Miami and North Hollywood, respectively.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Don’t choose seniority over progress In this election cycle, we have discovered some ver y troubling things about our State Representative, Phyllis Kahn.

We have learned that she doesn’t think students care about issues. We’ve learned that she thinks we only vote for candidates that are “pretty” or “nice.” We’ve learned that she compares herself to Bernie Sanders to get votes while maxing out her support for Hillar y Clinton.

We’ve learned that Kahn was elected as a scientist on the pretense of diversity, but now she thinks that voting for an East African activist for the same reason is invalid.

Student concerns only seem to matter to Kahn when it’s time to vote for her. She hasn’t authored any substantial highereducation bills until this contentious

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EDITORIALS It’s high time to reform the DNC

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slew of damaging emails released by WikiLeaks on Friday has prompted an independent investigation into the Democratic National Committee, and their Chairwoman — Debbie Wasserman Shultz — who worked to discredit Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign, despite DNC rules mandating her neutrality during presidential primaries.

Immediately following the leak, Shultz resigned from the DNC, and was granted the role of honorar y co-chair of Clinton’s campaign — an empty title to signal something that everyone basically knew: Debbie Wasserman Shultz supports Hillar y Clinton.

Some may try to rationalize this move, saying, “That’s politics.” Make no mistake — this type of political sleight-of-hand directly underscores the lack of trust so many have of the DNC. Sen. Sanders’ earlier assertion that the commission’s practices were unfair was clearly founded — the DNC acted with heavy bias toward Clinton. Now that the truth is there, the problem is naked and bare — left to be criticized.

It’s clear that reform is necessary, and the committee must work to restore transparent operations and aim to reconnect with voters.

For the Democratic Par ty, creating transparency when it comes to lines of communication should be a priority. The DNC first chose to blame hackers and government officials from Russia for appropriating their communications. After the email leak, the DNC should’ve taken full responsibility for the content WikiLeaks revealed rather than fault the invasion of privacy.

“For a party that is literally called the “Democratic Party,” the superdelegate process ignores the voice of broad swaths of the voter population ...”

GUEST EDITORIAL Almost ever y year, reports come in of dogs dying after drinking from algae-infested waters, and people are cautioned not to swim in algae-filled lakes as it can sicken them.

While dangerous algae blooms are spurred by a complex array of ingredients — including wind speed, temperature and rainfall amounts — one thing that is well documented is that humans are allowing excess nutrients to flow into waterways.

Fertilizers spread on farm fields or lawns flow through farm drainage tiles or off the landscape. Grass mowed into streets or onto sidewalks can wash down storm drains and add more nutrients, and faulty septic systems can further fuel the problem.

Nutrients flowing into lakes and streams may be visually noticed because of the algae blooms, but the same process brings sediment, pesticides and other harmful chemicals into the water with no visual flags to warn us.

The algae blooms are a good reminder of the work that still needs to be done to protect the state’s valuable water resources.

Gov. Mark Dayton and state agencies have made water protection a high priority, and pressure from the federal EPA further pushes the state to monitor water problems and to come up with solutions to improve things.

Those solutions can be costly and bring complaints by those who need to change practices on their property. But the added regulation and cost are necessar y to address problems that have for too long been ignored.

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election. Luckily, we have an alternative.

Ilhan Omar takes students seriously.

She’s outspoken about finding solutions to lower college costs, as well as about holding administrations accountable to make the college experience inclusive and accessible for all.

She built her higher education platform by having actual conversations with students. When we talk, Ilhan listens. She will make student needs a priority at the State Capitol.

Students at private schools like Augsburg College will benefit from Ilhan’s leadership, too. Auggies have a mission statement that commits students to urban communities and diversity. Ilhan shares that mission.

She’s proven that by visiting campus, listening to us and showing that she thinks just like we do. She’s done the same at the University of Minnesota.

THE EDITORIALS AND OPINIONS DEPARTMENT IS INDEPENDENT OF THE NEWSROOM

JASPER JOHNSON columnist

Police of ficers need not make traf fic stops in tanks, nor do they need to ticket jaywalkers in riot gear. Simply put, officers need access to more robust, military-grade equipment in times of crises — like active shootings and acts of terrorism.

That being said, police need to undergo far more training to be proficient with the advanced gear.

The idea of having unarmed police is antiquated. And to those who point to European countries as an example of successes in unarmed policing, it’s worth noting that many countries in the wake of terroristic acts are reevaluating their gun rules for officers.

Dealing with modern threats requires the most apt — and that often means “militar y style” — gear.

Jasper Johnson welcomes comments at jjohnson1@mndaily.com.

Ever y student now will (hopefully) graduate in the next few years, but just because student populations are transient doesn’t mean student issues are.

We might not be going to college four years from now, but someone else will.

We’re voting for Ilhan because she has the energy and drive to make life better for students now and for the generations of students that will come after us.

Minnesota’s future isn’t about the past 43 years — it’s about the next two when we have an oppor tunity to introduce a new voice at the State Capitol. We need someone who will boldly advocate for students and other disenfranchised communities. Vote for Ilhan Omar in the August 9 primar y, and have your voice heard.

Charlie Parker and Jordan Parshall University of Minnesota and Augsburg College students

What’s more, voters should be granted more political agency in a major institution such as the DNC. Currently, there is an astounding level of opacity in the committee’s operations. The recently created Reform Commission was created for negotiators to debate the future platform of the party — including proposals from Sanders’ delegation to reform the party’s primar y and caucus processes. Yet this body met in secret, failing to leverage the demands and goals of the party’s general supporters. The committee must let average voters voice their opinions on the idiosyncrasies of the party’s platform.

Furthermore, the DNC ought to reform its superdelegate process. For a party that is literally called the “Democratic Party,” the superdelegate process ignores the voice of broad swaths of the voter population, giving appointed delegates the capacity to freely “choose” who they feel best represent the party. Luckily, the committee has begun to overhaul its superdelegate system, with a new amendment — aimed at reform — approved by the Democratic Rules Committee on Saturday.

The DNC has definite hurdles ahead of it. The committee must build trust and foster excitement among its suppor ters and voters — especially if it has any hope of high turnout rates come November. After ousting Debbie Wasserman Shultz, perhaps the DNC will finally be ready to become a party representative of the average Democrat or Progressive. At this point, we can only hope that the latest onslaught of controversy over the DNC’s emails will begin to correct the flaws of American-style democracy.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Afro Deli challenges ADC in lawsuit

KELSEY CHRISTENSEN, DAILY

Cooks work to prepare a food order placed at Afro Deli on the West Bank on July 20.

The restaurant has remained open past its alleged June 30 lease termination.

BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com

Despite claims and rumors of Afro Deli’s closing at the end of June, the West Bank eater y has remained open while a lawsuit makes its way through the courts.

Afro Deli owner Abdirahman Kahin filed a lawsuit against African Development Center Executive

Director Nasibu Sareva late last month in response to threats of terminating the deli’s lease.

The lawsuit rejects Sareva’s ownership claims over the restaurant and asserts that Kahin is the sole owner. “[Kahin] is simply asking the court to protect the restaurant he worked tirelessly to create and grow and to allow the Afro Deli to continue to serve the Cedar-Riverside community,” said Kahin’s lawyer, Tamara O’Neill Moreland, in an emailed statement.

The suit claims ADC breached their contract by asking Afro Deli to reimburse a $120,000 loan.

The contract stated “ADC Commercial was responsible for the costs of specified equipment and for improvements to the Premises,” according to the civil complaint.

Former ADC Executive Director Hussein Samatar asked Afro Deli for a loan of more than $85 ,000 cumulatively over a span of three years, the suit alleged, even though Sareva said the ADC never asked Afro Deli

for a loan.

A cour t document responding to the initial complaint outlines a void between Samatar’s and Sareva’s leadership, adding Kahin can’t take legal action against Sareva on claims made in Samatar’s name.

“To the extent Plaintiffs are claiming ADC is acting wrongfully under [Sareva’s] leadership, they may not sue ADC for intentional fraud for statements made

by Samatar,” the memo stated.

Both parties agreed Afro

Deli’s lease from 2011 has expired.

Despite differing claims, the two par ties will face each other in court August 17.

“It is Mr. Kahin’s sincere hope that this action ends quickly and amicably, for the good of the entire community,” O’Neill Moreland said in the statement.

Sareva and his lawyer have declined to comment at this time.

The dispute has caused confusion and concer n among the sur rounding community.

U political groups promise partisanship Election u from Page 1

“There’s a lot of other people on the ballot, so vote for who you want to vote for but make sure you’re aware of the consequences of what you’re doing.”

College Republicans representative Theo Menon said — while stressing economic development and fiscal responsibility — he accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nominee,

Donald Trump.

“I think we’ve seen a lot of policies that have not worked well over the past few years, bridging back over the last two presidencies,” Menon said. “I think students are looking for something different, something unique, and I think that’s why Donald Trump definitely has an opportunity to appeal to millennials and people who are dissatisfied with the political system.”

Menon also attributed the polling success of Trump to

his background in business and his status as a political outsider.

Braxton Haake, the incoming President of the University’s College Democrats, said he finds Trump fascinating as a political science student, but terrifying as a citizen. “[Trump] will flip flop not just day to day but conversation to conversation, and yet he has a reputation for being a straight shooter,” he said. “It seems that all of his strengths that his supporters list appear

backwards. He seems to be the embodiment of the opposite of what they want … a character that seems like a walking oxymoron.”

Haake said that though he was dissatisfied with his party in light of the DNC email leaks, he said his group supports Clinton.

“If you are a progressive — even if you have disagreements with Hillary Clinton — it’s still obviously in your best interest and the best interest of the country to vote Democrat,” he said.

Menon, however, said he thinks that Clinton’s past actions in government work have left her with a complicated and scandalous persona.

“I think Hillary Clinton is a very complicated candidate.

Never before in American history, at least in this living memory, have we had a candidate so thrilled with past government scandals and situations that raise a lot of questions,” he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

German officials vow tighter security, migrant controls

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BERLIN — German officials vowed tighter security and called for tougher controls of asylum-seekers Tuesday in the aftermath of four attacks in the country in the span of a week, two of which were claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.

The attacks left ten victims dead and dozens wounded and have rekindled concerns about Germany’s ability to cope with the estimated 1 million migrants registered entering the country last year.

“The Islamic State is waging a brutal war of aggression ... against our way of life,” said Joachim Herrmann, the top security official in Bavaria, where three of the attacks took place.

In the most recent attack claimed by IS, a Syrian man on Sunday blew himself up outside a crowded music festival in the Bavarian city of Ansbach, injuring 15 people. The man had unsuccessfully tried to find asylum in Germany and was awaiting deportation.

In the other attack, a 17-year-old Afghan asylumseeker wounded five people with an ax before being killed by police near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg.

In the deadliest attack in the past week, the 18-yearold son of Iranian immigrants went on a rampage at a Munich mall, killing nine people and wounding dozens. Authorities say he was undergoing psychiatric treatment and had no known links to terrorism.

And on Sunday hours before the Ansbach attack, a Syrian man killed a woman with a knife in the southwestern city of Reutlingen before being captured by police in an incident authorities say was not believed linked to terrorism.

Herrmann said changes need to be made to laws — possibly at the European level — to allow for quicker deportation of people like the Ansbach attacker, while authorities in Germany need to investigate how the man, known as Mohammad Daleel, was able to collect enough material to make at least two bombs in his room in an asylum-seeker home.

“The people of our countr y cannot be expected to finance the protection of people who violate the law with their tax money,” he said.

Most of the immigrants entering Germany last year came through Bavaria, and

Bavarian authorities have been particularly critical of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policies. Concerns had died down as the flood of newcomers has slowed dramatically, but the recent attacks have rekindled the debate over how Germany can best cope with the numbers.

Speaking alongside Herrmann at a press conference in the town of Gmund am Tegernsee before a state cabinet meeting, Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer and state Justice Minister Winfried Bausback rattled off a laundry-list of proposals, including adding more police, relaxing privacy laws to make it easier for authorities to observe online data like email and WhatsApp and Skype messages, better background checks on asylum seekers, and allowing the military to be called in to help during terrorist attacks.

“We need to do whatever is necessary to protect our citizens,” Seehofer said.

In Baden-Wuerttemberg, where a woman was killed by a Syrian attacker Sunday, Interior Minister Thomas Strobl also demanded a tougher stance toward asylum-seekers.

“Those who abuse the

right to hospitality must go back to their home countries — make no mistake about it,” Strobl told Funke media group.

On T uesday, IS published a video of what it said was the Ansbach bomber pledging allegiance to the extremist group and vowing Germany’s people “won’t be able to sleep peacefully anymore.” It appears to be the same as the one found by German investigators on the suicide bomber’s phone and an acquaintance of the attacker verified his voice.

In the video, the man, who appears with his face covered with a black scarf, threatens to make life intolerable and that “we will blow up your homes.”

On the video, the attacker said he acted in response to the extremist group’s call to target countries of the U.S.-led coalition fighting it in Iraq and Syria. Germany is not involved in combat operations but has contributed reconnaissance aircraft to the effort.

He threatened that the group would carry out more violence after the bombing in Ansbach, saying “this blessed operation will be

followed by others.”

After the IS connection surfaced, federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe, who investigate all suspected terrorism, took over the case saying they would seek to “determine if thus-far unknown accomplices or backers were involved in the crime.”

A spokeswoman for the federal prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press that “a main focus is on the question of whether the attacker in Ansbach was helped in the planning and preparation.” She spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.

Investigators also need to determine how the video from the attacker got to IS and where he learned to build a bomb.

The suspect, who is originally from the Syrian city of Aleppo, came to Germany two years ago and applied for asylum in August 2014, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said. It turned out that he had already registered in Bulgaria and later in Austria, so Germany rejected his request and ordered him depor ted to Bulgaria — most recently on July 13.

“I thought [the restaurant] was closing,” said customer Casey Rafn.

Rafn said he goes to the deli a few times a month because he enjoys the quality of the food and quick service it offers.

The restaurant neighbors the University of Minnesota’s West Bank campus, which makes Afro Deli convenient for Rafn, a University employee.

Afro Deli has a second location in downtown St. Paul, which opened in 2015.

The West Bank location opened in 2010.

Qualcomm gender bias suit settled for $19.5M

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm agreed Tuesday to pay $19.5 million to settle a gender discrimination class-action lawsuit alleging women were denied equal pay and job opportunities to their male counterparts at the tech giant.

The settlement also stipulates that the San Diego-based chip maker implement policy changes and programs to better promote female employees working in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, known as STEM. Qualcomm Technologies Inc. said in a statement that it “has strong defenses” to the claims but agreed to make improvements.

The women’s lawyers say the changes could greatly af fect the maled o m i n a t e d i n d u s t r y, where women face significant barriers. The lawsuit af fects a class of about 3,300 women in STEM at Qualcomm.

The company agreed to the settlement before the lawsuit was filed in federal cour t Tuesday. The settlement is still subject to court approval.

Wo m e n h o l d l e s s than 15 percent of senior leadership positions at Qualcomm, according to the complaint. Throughout Qualcomm’s U.S. operations, women in STEM and related positions earn less than their male counterparts. Managers, who are mostly male, also are in charge of deciding who gets promoted, leading to women being promoted less often than men, according to cour t documents.

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Sports

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BASEBALL

Gophers carry success into summer leagues

Twenty-two Gophers are headed to the Northwoods League after this season.

BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

Following a memorable season that ended in an NCAA Tournament appearance, many Gophers baseball players headed off to summer leagues to keep their games sharp.

Minnesota has 22 representatives playing on 11 different teams in the Northwoods League, with many of them having successful seasons so far.

Two Gophers players, Ben Mezzenga and Jordan Kozicky, earned a spot in the Northwoods League All-Star Game on July 20.

“It did surprise me a little bit just because I didn’t expect to have as much success this summer with the little success I had this past spring,” Mezzenga said. “It was definitely an honor to see the other guys that were selected. …

It really made me realize how much hard work goes into it.”

Mezzenga and Kozicky

were both freshmen players for the Gophers last season, and neither made much of an impact for the team. Mezzenga only had 23 at-bats with Minnesota, and Kozicky redshirted.

However, the two have broken out significantly in summer play.

Mezzenga leads the Eau Claire Express in batting average at .360 and is second on the team for total runs with 38.

Kozicky has a .299 batting average in 35 games played with the Mankato MoonDogs and has tallied 32 hits. The pair was voted to the All-Star Game by team field staff and

media members.

While Mezzenga and Kozicky went 0-5 in the AllStar Game in Kenosha, Wis., their North team came away with a 9-5 victory over the South team.

Mezzenga said his AllStar caliber performance in the Northwoods League has helped him catch up to collegiate pitchers at the plate.

“For me, it’s pretty much just the ability to know I can play with these guys,” he said.

“Last year I kind of got blown away coming from high school to playing with the Gophers and playing with guys throwing consistently 90s.”

Elsewhere in the Northwoods League, upcoming junior Alex Boxwell is on an eight-game hitting streak for the Waterloo Bucks, and rising sophomore Eddie Estrada has had a hit in the last seven games he’s batted in.

Gophers are also hitting a stride on the mound. Rising senior Brian Glowicki and upcoming sophomore Jake Stevenson have pitched a combined 23.2 innings for the St. Cloud Rox. Glowicki has registered a second-best four saves for the team.

“It’s dif ferent, that’s for sure,” Glowicki said. “I think the summer aspect of it makes everybody a little more laid back. Obviously we all want to go out there and compete at the highest level, but with it being summer,

everybody is a little more relaxed.”

Upcoming senior Tyler Hanson is pitching with the Willmar Stingers for the second consecutive summer.

Hanson is 4-1 with the team and comes in fifth for total strikeouts with 30.

Hanson set a personal summer record on July 17 when he struck out nine batters in six innings of work against the Waterloo Bucks.

“I’ve been working on new pitches and experimenting a little bit,” Hanson said. “Working with new catchers on a week-by-week basis, they don’t know your best pitch ,but they learn too, what your best pitches are and how to utilize my stuff. Just keep through the game and get guys out.”

GOPHERS IN THE NORTHWOODS LEAGUE

Duluth, MN Duluth Huskies 4 players St. Cloud, MN St. Cloud Rox 2 players

Wisconsin Rapids, WI Wisconsin Rapids Rafters 2 players

Eau Claire, WI Eau Claire Express 1 player

Wausau, WI Wisconsin Woodchucks 1 player

Willmar, MN Willmar Stingers 3 players Mankato, MN Mankato MoonDogs 1 player

Rochester, MN Rochester Honkers 2 players

Waterloo, IA Waterloo Bucks 2 players

Grafton, WI Lakeshore Chinooks 2 players Kenosha, WI Kenosha Kingfish 1 player

JULIET FARMER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Tyler Hanson pitches for the Willmar Stingers in a game against the Rochester Honkers at the Bill Taunton Stadium in Willmar, Minn., on July 9, 2015.

SOURCE: GOPHER SPORTS

MEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers brush up skills in Da Beauty League Seven Gophers hockey players move on to play for teams in the league.

BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

Team workouts have begun for collegiate hockey teams across the countr y, but many Gophers hockey players are finding offseason training from a different kind of practice.

Seven current Gophers players are lacing it up in Da Beauty League, which is composed of six teams with college, amateur and professional hockey players, this summer. The teams play two games a week, each on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, at Braemar Arena in Edina, Minn.

“You are playing against NHL guys who are obviously more talented than some NCAA guys,” said rising junior defenseman Steve Johnson. “You know the skill out there and the talent is definitely really good, so whenever you get to skate against these guys, it’s an opportunity you don’t really want to miss out on.”

Da Beauty League is a 4-on-4 hockey league with two 30-minute halves. The game is fast-paced and rarely features checking. Many players utilize the league to stay in shape during the offseason.

The league has six teams that feature seven current Gophers and 22 former Minnesota players, including Minnesota Wild players Mike Reilly and Jordan Schroeder and former Wild forward Thomas Vanek.

Coaches of the teams also include notable Minnesota alumni Erik Rasmussen, Keith Ballard, Ben Clymer and Scott Bell.

Minnesota senior Justin Kloos was recently added

ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Gophers forward Justin Kloos handles the puck at Mariucci Arena on Jan. 16, 2015.

to Team Aspire, where he plays alongside for mer teammates Reilly, Adam Wilcox and current Minnesota for ward Tommy Novak. Past Gophers Nick Bjugstad, Nick Leddy, Zach Budish and Seth Helgeson are also on the team.

“Obviously it’s a lot different,” Kloos said. “We’re still in our offseason, so no one wants to go too hard and get hurt and stuff. … A lot of the pro guys don’t start skating hard until a little bit into August, so I think it’s good for them to get on the ice.”

Despite the star power

Da Beauty League rosters boast, the system is relatively low-key. Florida Panthers center and Team Aspire captain Nick Bjugstad said he heard about the league’s formation toward the end of his professional season and decided to join.

It costs $5 to see three Beauty League games on T uesday and Thursday nights, with some of the proceeds going to charities such as the United Heroes League. The league has already developed a solid fan base in its two weeks of play.

“Ever yone from the metro, college, NHL guys, minor league guys are playing,” Bjugstad said. “It’s hard to pass up … and on Tuesday, Thursday nights you’re not doing much, so you might as well come and have a little fun. I couldn’t even believe how many fans that were there to begin with, and just to see how excited these fans are in the middle of summer for hockey is pretty cool.”

The season closes out with playoffs and an August 10 championship game for the “John Scott Cup,”

“You know the skill out there and the talent is definitely really good, so whenever you get to skate against these guys, it’s an opportunity you don’t really want to miss out on.”

STEVE JOHNSON Rising junior defenseman

dedicated to 2016 NHL AllStar Game MVP and fan favorite John Scott. Scott has also been dubbed the league’s “Ver y Par t-Time Honorary Commissioner.”

The teams are sometimes inconsistent, as players take games off “due to

summer vacationing and other beautiful activities,” according to the league’s website. Still, the experience has been memorable for all so far. “[It’s] fun for the fans [and] fun for us to get back in shape,” Bjugstad said.

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ZACH BIELINSKI, DAILY

Cars drive down I-94 under the 27th Avenue Southeast bridge early Tuesday morning. Proposed redesign plans include increased access to the interstate with an access point in Prospect Park.

Rondo, Prospect Park push I-94 changes The neighborhoods are giving input on how to better the interstate’s design.

BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com

For the first time since its inception, the functional and neighborhood impact of Interstate 94 will get another look.

At a two-day “Every Place Counts Design Challenge” workshop held last week, residents of the Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul and the University of Minnesota’s Prospect Park neighborhood worked with the U.S. Department of Transportation and urban designers to plan updates for the highway.

The workshop brought community members, design and policy experts to work with the Minnesota Department of Transportation on its “Rethinking I-94 project.

The initiative is part of a national U.S. DoT highway renovation project called Ladders of Opportunity.

Brian Isaacson, planning director for Rethinking I-94, said after nearly two years, the workshops have been the first steps taken to redesign the interstate.

Rethinking I-94 aims to change how the highway affects nearby communities and how to make it more easily accessible, Isaacson said.

The goal is to improve and install elements like bridges, off- and on-ramps, exits and overpasses to address community need, he said.

The scope of Rethinking I-94 stretches from east St. Paul to north Minneapolis, Isaacson said. The workshops focused on Rondo and Prospect Park neighborhoods because they were most adversely af fected when the highway was built.

The interstate was built without much community

“This is an opportunity to think more creatively and innovatively ... to format [the interstate] to the neighborhoods’ needs.”

MEREDITH HOWELL Program manager, Ladders of Opportunity

input, said Meredith Howell, Ladders of Opportunity program manager.

“This is an opportunity to think more creatively and innovatively to rethink infrastructure to format [the interstate] to the neighborhoods’ needs,” she said.

Ken Ray, an urban designer who is part of a team hired by the U.S. DoT, said three other cities nationwide face similar issues and are involved in the workshop.

The goal is to see how to reconnect these communities while also involving them in the blueprint of the projects, he said.

The designs created by the teams focused on renovating bridges and

Last charges dropped in Planned Parenthood case

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON — Texas prosecutors on Tuesday dropped the last remaining charges against two California anti-abor tion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood, agreeing with the defense’s argument that the grand jur y exceeded its authority by investigating the activists after clearing Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing.

District Judge Brock Thomas dismissed the tampering with government records charges against David Daleiden, 27, and Sandra Merritt, 63, at the request of the Harris County prosecutor’s office.

“The grand jury took the investigation where the facts led it, however Texas law limits what can be investigated after a grand jury extension order is issued,” District Attorney Devon Anderson said in a statement. “In light of this and after careful research and review, this office dismissed the indictments.”

Anderson, a Republican who ran as a “proud, pro-life Texan mother of two” during the 2014 election, supported the charges when they were handed down in Januar y, stressing at the time that at the outset of the investigation, she stated that “we must go where the evidence leads us.” That didn’t sit well with many members of her party.

Defense attorneys said the activists never should have been charged. And Merritt and Daleiden, who founded a group called the Center for Medical Progress, had rejected plea deals offering them probation.

“I’m glad the First Amendment rights of all citizen journalists have been vindicated today,” Daleiden said after the hearing. “And I would just note that Planned Parenthood is still under investigation by the United States Congress, as they should be, because they are the real criminals in this matter.”

Prosecutors alleged that Daleiden, from Davis, California, and Merritt, from San Jose, California, used fake driver’s licenses to conceal their identities from Planned Parenthood during the 30-month undercover video operation. They said the two posed as representatives of a fake biomedical company and sought to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sold parts of aborted fetuses to researchers.

Texas authorities initially began a grand jur y investigation of Planned Parenthood after the undercover videos were released last August. But the grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood of misusing fetal tissue and instead indicted Mer ritt and Daleiden, who said he was working undercover as a journalist to expose illegalities in the handling of

fetal tissue.

Terry Yates, one of Daleiden’s lawyers, said the prosecutor’s office agreed with their contention that the grand jury improperly used its extended term to further investigate the case, meaning it “didn’t have jurisdiction.”

“Regardless of however it came, we’re happy today this matter is over,” he said.

Merritt wasn’t at the hearing. Asked if the dismissal could be considered to be based on a technicality, her lawyer, Dan Cogdell, said it didn’t matter.

“As long as my client gets a dismissal, I don’t care what they call it,” he said. “But she really was not guilty.”

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, in a statement, said just because the charges were dropped, it doesn’t mean the defendants were innocent. President and CEO Melaney Linton said Planned Parenthood “has been cleared of any wrongdoing time and again,” and that activists like Daleidan “spent three years creating a fake company, creating fake identities, and lying.”

“When they couldn’t find any improper or illegal activity, they made it up ... in order to advance their anti-abortion agenda. The decision to drop the prosecution on a technicality does not negate the fact that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the extremists behind this fraud.”

exits with the community’s needs in mind.

One design included creating a roundabout at the Franklin Avenue and East River Parkway intersection to increase safety.

Dick Gilyard, a Prospect Park Association board member, said the idea for the roundabout had been brought up before.

Another idea Prospect Park pushed for was a lid to cover the interstate from 27th Avenue to Seymour Avenue, said John Kari, a Prospect Park representative to the workshop along with Gilyard.

Kari said Prospect Park is looking for designs that handle the noise and

environmental impacts the interstate has, which resulted in designs that called for increased green space near the highway.

Gilyard said moving forward, the project should also look at traffic increases in Prospect Park, alternative modes of transportation and how to balance car movement to and from the interstate.

Widening the scope Noel Nix, District 4 Ramsey County Commissioner Toni Carter’s aide, said Rethinking I-94 is the largest change to the interstate since it was built nearly 50 years ago.

Both Isaacson and Nix said the infrastructure for the highway is getting old and already due for renovations.

“The commissioner’s office is interested in how to restore pieces of what was lost when [the interstate] was first built and how to increase neighbor hood

aesthetic,” Nix said.

Ray said his team is writing a report based on the workshops, which will be given to the transportation depar tment in cities involved in the Every Place Counts initiative.

The designs aren’t final but give community and city leaders something to take and build on as the project moves for ward, he said.

Isaacson said the designs and community interaction will take at least another two years. After that, he said, the timeline for the renovations depends on what communities prioritize and whether they can secure enough funding.

Kari said he and Gilyard will stay involved in the project, giving Prospect Park’s aid.

“This project is not only a transpor tation oppor tunity [but also] a community development opportunity,” Kari said.

Historic solar flight marks first round-the-world journey

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The world’s first round-theworld flight to be powered solely by the sun’s energy made histor y on Tuesday as it landed in Abu Dhabi, where it first took off on an epic 25,000-mile (40,000-kilometer) journey that began more than a year ago.

Since its March 2015 take of f, the Swiss-engineered Solar Impulse 2 has made 16 stops around the world without using a drop of fuel to demonstrate that using the plane’s clean technologies on the ground can halve the world’s energy consumption, save natural resources and improve quality of life.

After landing the plane, pilot Bertrand Piccard was greeted outside the cockpit by his Solar Impulse partner and fellow pilot Andre Borschberg. They hugged and pumped their fists in the air.

“The future is clean. The future is you. The future is now. Let’s take it further,” Piccard said, speaking through a microphone to applause and cheers from a crowd that included Prince Albert of Monaco.

The aircraft is uniquely powered by 17,248 solar cells that transfer energy to four electrical motors that power the plane’s propellers.

It runs on four lithium polymer batteries at night. The plane’s wingspan stretches 236 feet (72 meters) to catch

the sun’s energy.

At around 5,070 pounds (2,300 kilograms), the plane weighs about as much as a minivan or mid-sized truck.

An empty Boeing 747, in comparison, weighs 400,000 pounds (180,000 kilograms).

To help steady it during takeoffs and landings, the plane was guided by runners and bicyclists.

Despite its historic mission, the Solar Impulse 2’s journey was far from quick or problem-free.

The pilots faced a ninemonth delay a year ago after the plane’s batteries were damaged during a flight from Japan to Hawaii. It was also delayed for more than a week in Cairo ahead of its final flight to Abu Dhabi when Piccard fell ill, and due to poor weather conditions.

Over its entire mission, Solar Impulse 2 completed more than 500 flight hours, cruising at an average speed of between 28 mph (45 kmh) and 56 mph (90 kmh).

It made stops in Oman, India, Myanmar, China, Japan, the United States, Spain, Italy, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Its Nor th American stops included California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York.

The carbon-fiber plane is a single-seater aircraft, meaning its two Swiss pilots — Piccard and Borschberg— had to take turns flying solo for long days and nights. To calm their minds and manage fatigue during the long solo flights,

Borschberg practiced yoga and Piccard self-hypnosis.

In a statement this week, Borschberg said it is no longer a question of whether it’s possible to fly without fuel or polluting emissions.

“By flying around the world thanks to renewable energy and clean technologies, we have demonstrated that we can now make our world more energy ef ficient,” he said.

The pilots would rest a maximum of 20 minutes at a time, repeating the naps 12 times over each 24-hour stretch.

It took 70 hours for Piccard to cross the Atlantic Ocean, which was the first by a solar-powered airplane.

Borschberg’s flight over the Pacific Ocean at 118 hours — about five days and five nights — shattered the record for the longest flight duration by an aircraft flying solo.

Neither pilot was able to stand in the cockpit while flying, but the seat reclined for stretching and its cushion could be removed for access to a toilet. Goggles worn over the pilot’s eyes flashed lights to wake him up while armbands placed under neath their suits buzzed when the plane was not at flying level.

The plane also did not have a pressurized cockpit so Borschberg and Piccard could feel changes in temperature. The pilot’s blood oxygen levels were monitored and sent back to ground control in Monaco.

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celebrity friend groups throwing champagne bottles at each other in clubs for this scenario to end well. Close groups usually enjoy staying in their own lane, so more likely than not there could be some friction.

Potential outcome two is you, alone, trying to hang with a group. This could be fun, and you could meet some very nice, accepting, potentially bang-able people. Or you could be, like, the only one who doesn’t know anyone, and you feel awkward AF. Just saying.

Or clique orgies. I guess that’s a possibility, if you’re into that. That’s what “Grease” is about, right?

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Dear Dr. Date,

One of my main bucket-list goals is to have sex on the beach, and I want to finally do the deed this summer.

Here’s my plan: My girlfriend and I pick a spot out of the way from everyone else on the beach, we cuddle up under some blankets and umbrellas, and we discreetly bang consequence-free.

Nobody would notice, right? We figure everyone else is going to be so distracted with their own stuff that we could get away with it easily.

And as long as we keep away from the sightlines

of the lifeguards, we should be good.

Seems like a pretty solid plan to me. What do you think? Doing it in a cool spot is worth a little risk, right?

—Sex On the Beach SOTB,

Wrong — that’s kind of an awful plan, you goofball. Lifeguards’ second-most occupational concern (secondary to looking really hot) is to keep a watchful eye out for people tryna bone in the sand.

This leads me to my second point about why this is a bad idea: You might feel safe in your towel, but I guarantee all it takes is for a little sand to get somewhere you don’t want it for things to get really awful really fast. You wanna know a nine-letter word for something nobody wants to get from a session of beach sex? Adventure. No, I lied: Infection.

Basically, doing it on the beach during the day is a risk you probably don’t wanna run. If you’re just dying to do it, though, either find a beach with no people around (good luck) or show up at night.

That could be kinda cool, in a “Spring Breakers” kind of way (aw).

—Dr. Date

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Mpls residents could vote on wage hike

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Commerce, said it wouldn’t be appropriate to put the amendment on the ballot.

“We believe that this is not an appropriate use of the city charter and should therefore not be placed on the ballot,” Stanoch said.

He said his group thinks the city should not be able to supersede state law.

“It’s our strong belief that this whole area, that action by either the city of Minneapolis or any other municipality in the state, has been preempted by the state establishing a statewide minimum wage,” Stanoch said.

In addition, he said he questioned the legality of putting the amendment on the ballot.

But Jentzen disagreed and said the proposal is legal, adding she has confirmed the legality with local and national lawyers.

When discussing citywide minimum wage raises, she said critics often voice economic “doomsday scenarios,” which she said never end up happening.

“They’ll say that jobs will leave the city; they’ll say that … this is going to cause … major job loss, that companies won’t want to do their business here,” she said.

Some of these concerns were voiced by Stanoch, who said the cumulative effect of the wage raise alongside paid sick leave would negatively affect businesses.

“The economics of this, especially coming on the heels of the sick and safe leave ordinance, will create, potentially, a ver y uncompetitive environment for Minneapolis,” he said.

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Top: Frederick Whittaker of North Minneapolis signs up for a mailing list with 15 Now worker Eva Matz during Open Streets Minneapolis: East Lake on Sunday, July 24. Campaigning to increase minimum wage to $15 per hour, 15 Now obtained nearly 20,000 signatures to make it onto the November ballet.

Bottom: Buttons from the 15 Now campaign sit at an information table during Open Streets Minneapolis: East Lake.

Pete Jacobson, co-owner of Land’s End Pasty, said he, too, thinks the proposal is “ill-advised.”

Cur rently, Jacobson’s business has no employees, but he plans to hire a staff this fall. And once he starts hiring, Jacobson said workers’ salaries will comprise a large portion of his business’s monthly costs.

“The wages would probably end up being close to 50 percent if not more of our monthly budget,” he said.

If the minimum wage was increased to $15, Jacobson said the only way his business could survive is if it drastically increased prices.

Still, Jentzen said she doesn’t think the increase would hur t businesses,

adding that there have been positive impacts for cities where increased minimum wage measures have gone into effect.

She said a $15 an hour minimum wage would also have a large effect on economic disparities in the city — especially for women and people of color who often hold low-wage jobs.

“Forty-eight percent of people of color in Minneapolis are stuck in low-wage jobs,” Jentzen said. “I think that [a wage increase] would have a dramatic impact on the … racial disparities that have been highlighted so clearly in Minnesota.”

She said passing the proposal could also inspire workers across the country

to organize and push for policy changes in their areas.

“This would be a tremendous victor y in that we would be the first Midwest city to achieve [an increase],” Jentzen said.

The city sent the proposal to the city attorney’s office for a legal opinion, and the City Council will vote on the measure by August 5.

IS group claims attack that killed French priest

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAINT-ETIENNE-DUROUVRAY, France — The Islamic State group crossed a new threshold Tuesday in its war against the West, as two of its followers targeted a church in Normandy, slitting the throat of an elderly priest celebrating Mass and using hostages as human shields before being shot by police.

It was the extremist group’s first attack against a church in the West, and fulfills longstanding threats against “crusaders” in what the militants paint as a centuries-old battle for power. One of the attackers had tried twice to leave for Syria; the second was not identified.

“To attack a church, to

kill a priest, is to profane the republic,” French President Francois Hollande told the nation after speaking with Pope Francis, who condemned the killing in the strongest terms.

The Rev. Jacques Hamel was celebrating Mass for three nuns and two parishioners on a quiet summer morning in Saint-Etiennedu-Rouvray when the attackers burst in and forced the 85-year-old priest to his knees before slicing his throat, according to authorities and a nun who escaped.

The nun described seeing the attackers film themselves and give a sermon in Arabic around the altar before she fled. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the

other hostages were used as human shields to block police from entering. One 86-year-old parishioner was wounded.

The two attackers were killed by police as they rushed from the building shouting “Allahu Akbar,” Molins said. One had three knives and a fake explosives belt; the other carried a kitchen timer wrapped in aluminum foil and had fake explosives in his backpack.

One of the assailants was identified as Adel Kermiche, a 19-year-old who grew up in the town and tried to travel to Syria twice last year using family members’ identity documents, but was ar rested outside France and handed preliminar y

terrorism charges.

Kermiche was put under house arrest with an electronic surveillance bracelet after a judge overruled prosecutors and agreed to free him, Molins said. However, the bracelet was deactivated for a few hours every morning as part of the surveillance agreement, Molins said — hours that corresponded to the time of Tuesday’s attack.

A statement published by the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency said Tuesday’s attack was carried out by “two soldiers of the Islamic State” who acted in response to calls to target nations in the U.S.-led coalition fighting the extremist group in Iraq and Syria.

Haras Rafiq, managing

director of the Quilliam Foundation, described the attack as a turning point.

“What these two people today have done is ... shifted the tactical attack to the attack on Rome ... an attack on Christianity,” he said.

He warned that it could “radicalize people from both sides of the communities.

Muslim and non-Muslim.”

As Eur ope becomes painfully inured to a summer of repeated bloodshed, the extremists are looking for greater ways to shock, Rafiq said. “This is going into a house of God. This is attacking and killing a priest.”

“We’ve been talking about the danger of the global jihadist insurgency. This

is what it looks like,” he said.

The increasing speed with which IS has claimed responsibility and the growing number of attacks this summer have left Europe alarmed and fearful.

Ta r g e t i n g a c h u r c h in the r ural Nor mandy hear tland resonated with France’s leadership and Christians across Europe.

While France is of ficially secular and church attendance is low, the countr y has deep Catholic roots. Islamic State extremists have urged followers to attack French churches and the group is believed to have planned at least one earlier church attack that was foiled when the assailant shot himself in the leg.