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inbox All for propaganda Have you noticed? Republicans who claim Democrats are excessively nasty toward them, have been ratcheting up their rhetoric to portray Democrats as the most evil group that ever lived. They call us Nazis, the original party of racism, baby killers, and worse. However, one of the most egregious is Trump’s claim that we Hate God, hate the bible, and want to end religions etc. Here’s what we all need to understand – The CDC the FDA and Dr. Fauci, etc. tell us that if we congregate in crowded places we should use face masks to keep Covid-19 at bay. One of those places, besides sporting events, rock concerts, and our favorite restaurants, are religious gatherings. And along with all the others, churches are members of a generic group known as “large gatherings.” No one wants to censor religion or deny the role of any church – churches are just examples of large places visited by large numbers of people that concern our health officials, and like football stadiums or large musical concerts, the experts are naturally concerned that they will inadvertently spread Covid-19! As with large restaurants, parishioners are experimenting with meeting outdoors and/or decreasing the numbers that attend each service. And, remember that many Liberal Democrats also belong to churches and believe in God. So why are we suddenly considered haters of God and religion, just because we honor the advice of medical experts? In accordance with the Constitution, we protect the rights of all religions, as well as the freedom of anyone (not) to be members of (any) religion! How low will Donald go? Will WW2, cancer, and heart disease, all be blamed on Democrats? Our king wants to keep his throne, and ironically, this is just the beginning of his war on personal liberties and reason itself! Peter W. Johnson Superior, Wisconsin Kohls: dangerously misinformed In your August 20th edition Gary Kohls purports to inform public school superintendents about the dangers of current laboratory testing guiding return to school. Unfortunately Kohls is dangerously misinformed. This is no surprise given the reference he relied on and suggested to readers: “PCR Testing Can’t Tell the Difference Between Common
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Cold Coronaviruses and the Covid-19 Coronavirus.” This is categorically false. Kohl’s link doesn’t work but the article by one Julian Rose is easy to find. The truth of the matter is that the test has very few false positives, the situation where the test indicates infection where there is none. In a viral research lab, the testing technique, RT-PCR, specificity can be as high as 99.9%. Real life clinical lab specificities are in the high 90s, with the most accurate tests above 98%. It is the sensitivity of the test that is troublesome because it misses true positives at a significant rate. This is no surprise because the posterior nasopharynx is sampled and the virus may not be there in detectable numbers, particularly in the later stages of infection. Incidentally the nasal swab is not the gold standard as Kohls claims. Bronchoalveolar lavage samples give the highest sensitivity. Julian Rose’s article is an un-holy mess. The actual title is “Manufactured Pandemic: Testing People for Any Strain of a Coronavirus, Not Specifically for COVID-19.” He cites an unnamed “professional scientist” and it’s unclear if he is quoting or paraphrasing this person. No data is cited to suggest cross-reactivity with the four common human coronaviruses causing flu-like illness. Actually, no data is cited at all for any assertion. The author believes we all have traces of coronavirus DNA in us, which is a neat trick considering the coronaviruses are RNA viruses and contain no DNA at all. He also claims PCR does not test viral load, which again is categorically false – the earlier the viral signal becomes positive in the polymerase chain reaction, the more virus there is. Julian Rose has written a number of articles for Global Research. In addition to thinking Covid-19 is a manufactured pandemic, he also thinks that satellites using 5G technology are “Weapons of Mass Radiation.” He’s also concerned about genetically modified bread being OK with the Vatican. Seriously. Question for Kohls: why do you constantly refer to sources like this? Care to source your ridiculous claim of false positives being in the 40-70% range? Anyone who follows Kohls should realize he cherry picks his information from dubious sources, mostly new age press, anti-vaccination quacks, and
pay-to-publish bottom-tier medical journals. You don’t often see him examining the mainline scientific literature unless it supports his contrarian ways. He doesn’t weigh evidence on both sides of any debate. If truth is important, readers should go elsewhere and the Reader should hire fact checkers. Greg Bernhardt Duluth, Minnesota Leave some woods for Sasquatch Now that we have the insane wolf hunting stopped, what about adopting a sane policy regarding the unnecessary bear hunting season? ...And while we’re at it we might take notice of the beauty of our woods and lakes and rivers while they’re still here, because don’t look now, but Mr. Peabody’s big trucks are hauling it away, every day. Speaking of the woods ... the woods are the home of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, all around us. I know it’s true and so do many of our friends and neighbors. They are not apes, animals. They are some sort of human, and their home is the woods, the woods we are destroying every day. Just a thought. Mike Palecek Saginaw, Minnesota Duty to warn about Duty to Warn I attempted to locate the article referenced in the “The True Story of the 1918 Pandemic” in Gary Kohls’ Duty to Warn column, without success. I did visit the First Freedoms website (referenced in the article), and this organization seems to be that of an anti-conspiracy, whack job organization. Not entirely a surprise, as “Dr.” Kohls seems bent on distributing false information on the origins of the Spanish Flu. He appears to be correct in the sense that the virus did not originate in Spain. As John Barry details in his New York Times bestseller titled The Great Influenza, the virus was thought to have originated by human/avian contact, in Haskell County Kansas, early in 1918, and then migrated to a large Army base called Camp Funston, which was part of the Fort Riley complex. From there it traversed to Europe with troops sent to fight in WWI, and then on, around the world. The only mention of the Rockefeller (medical) Institute I saw in Barry’s book, referred to the work of scientists funded by that institute, to prevent transmission of the virus and/or cure those suffering from it. My suggestion is that you request Kohls print a correction or retraction
and an apology – I suggest a title for the correction/retraction as “A Duty to Warn About A Duty to Warn” – and in the future, make a much stronger effort to employ writers who take much greater care with the truth. I write this, not out of any love for the Rockefellers, but rather because my father’s father died in Montana, in 1918, as a byproduct of helping neighbors stricken with the virus. As such I have a personal interest in seeing the truth, and only the fucking truth, presented. Mark Nichols Maplewood, Minnesota When clowns are empowered “Humpty Dumpty” is hanging on by a thread but he won’t go down easy. “Tooth and nail” are his forte. We’re familiar with this move. When clowns are empowered with grave responsibilities we shudder. The cycles of history are a great teacher of human folly and blind ambition. Our present situation can leave one dumbstruck. We have an invisible assassin that is indiscriminate and a military armed to the teeth, with a hairtrigger despot. Fortunately our blueprint of democracy has a strong foundation and holds up. Recently, though, it’s been kicked around and shrewdly manipulated behind closed doors. Willful ignorance or “I dunno” attitude can be fatal. An important American poet, Theodore Roethke, keenly observed: “This shaking keeps me steady.” Gerald Norrgard Duluth, Minnesota
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Hungry Minnesotans can get help Everyone needs help sometimes. That is especially true for Minnesotans who have lost their jobs or have been hit hard by COVID-19, especially those in Black, Asian, Latino, Native American and immigrant communities. As I have listened to community members across the state, one of the pressing concerns I’ve heard is that Minnesotans are struggling to put food on their tables The onset of COVID-19 has only heightened that need. In June, more than 426,000 Minnesotans accessed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – an increase of 11% over this same time last year – and more than 345,000 Minnesotans visited food shelves – an increase of 20% over last year at this time. With the end of the federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation funds to help pay for food, we expect hunger to surge. At the Minnesota Department of Human Services, we’re working alongside our partners in counties, tribes, community and nonprofit organizations to help meet the needs of people across the state who may be struggling to put food on the table for their families.
food and cash assistance benefits must reapply annually. For 20,000 Minnesotans who recently received a notice in the mail, that renewal is due by Aug. 31 for September benefits. Minnesota food shelves: Minnesotans with low incomes can access free food – including some items that meet specific cultural diets – and other household items at food shelves in their communities. The Department of Human Services supports Minnesota’s seven regional food banks and more than 300 food shelves, all of which serve people regardless of their immigration status. Accessing food shelves does not count as public assistance under the federal Public Charge Rule.
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: With SNAP, Minnesotans who meet income eligibility guidelines can get help to pay for groceries. Administered by counties and tribes, SNAP is an important supplement to families’ food budgets. They can apply online via applymn.dhs.mn.gov, and now use their benefits to purchase food online through Walmart and Amazon. Minnesota Family Investment Program: MFIP is a resource for families with children. Based on income eligibility guidelines, MFIP can include SNAP benefits in addition to cash benefits for living expenses and additional food. Minnesotans can apply for both SNAP and MFIP via applymn.dhs.mn.gov, and will need to complete an interview in person or over the phone with their county or tribe. Minnesotans who already receive
Several resources are available to help individuals and families. • For assistance with food resourcestact Hunger Solutions Minnesota at https://www. hungersolutions.org/ or 1-888-7111151. • For help with SNAP, MFIP, and other programs and services: Visit the department’s webpage, https://mn.gov/ dhs/, and contact counties or tribes via the County and Tribal Information Directory, https://edocs.dhs.state. mn.us/lfserver/Public/DHS-0005-ENG • For food resources and support: Visit the department’s “COVID-19 emergency food support” webpage, https://mn.gov/dhs/food-emergency/. • For the latest information on SNAP: Visit the “Changes and updates to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” page, https://mn.gov/dhs/ snap-changes/, on the Department of
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Human Services website. Our commitment to make sure no Minnesotans are hungry Since COVID-19 hit, the Department of Human Services has distributed more than $9 million in state and federal emergency food support to food shelves, food banks, tribal nations and others. We offered Emergency SNAP benefits to increase the amount of money many SNAP participants received, and we processed thousands of Pandemic-EBT applications for food benefits for children who would typically receive free or reduced-price school meals.
Nothing is more essential to overall health and well-being than access to healthy food, and, at the department, we’re committed to feeding communities and improving food access for all. However, we need your support in helping your neighbors’ access these programs. Tell a friend. Drive someone to a food shelf. Pick up groceries for your neighbor. Contact your federal representatives to tell them how we can improve SNAP. Volunteer or donate to a local food shelf. And keep sharing your ideas with us about how we can do better. Everyone needs a little help sometimes. That is why we are here.
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Gatherings held in support of postal service “Thanks for Delivering” This was the message of one of the signs at last Friday’s informational pickets supporting the U.S. Postal Service. The event was sponsored by local community groups, including the Northeast Area Labor Council, Grandmothers For Peace, and Veterans for Peace. There were two picket lines; one along Saint Marie Street near the Mount Royal Post Office, and one on West Michigan Street in front of the main Post Office. Both events were held from 3 to 4:30 pm on Friday, Aug. 21. This time was chosen so postal workers coming back from their “appointed rounds” would see the messages of appreciation. The returning route carriers smiled in appreciation of the support from residents who do not appreciate the attacks on the U.S. Postal Service by the current president. The main theme of the pickets was to thank the postal workers for their service. During the current pandemic, postal workers are risking their health and safety to serve our communities by doing their essential jobs delivering mail and packages. Mike Mayou, the son of a letter carrier and organizer of the pickets said, “Our independent public postal system is an essential public institution used by everyone. Mail delivery from the Postal Service is truly a universal service in the United States and is critical for businesses, individuals, and our economy.” Another goal was to raise awareness of recent changes in the postal service management and procedures under the new Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy. Many people are concerned that Mr. Dejoy’s “cost-cutting” changes are creating a serious slowdown in mail delivery. This may result in many mailed absentee ballots not being delivered by the legal deadlines. The result would be people not having their vote counted. People are concerned that this is not an “unintended” consequence. Mr. Dejoy has been on the job for only two months, is a major Trump campaign contributor, and has investments in USPS competitors.
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Photo of St. Marie Street postal supporter by Cathy Wright. The group at the West Michigan Street post office. Photo by Fletcher Hinds. Allen Richardson, who manned a bullhorn at the Mt. Royal gathering, wished aloud that Dejoy had a name more amenable to rhyming, such as Postmaster General #50 Hubert Work. Richardson worked hard to find postal rhymes to get the 50-some folks lining Saint Marie Street chanting things such as We don’t want a bailout. We just
want to get the mail out! and U.S. mail not for sale and Whose post office? The people’s post office. “How about, ‘No Mail Trump in Jail’?” said a guy standing near Richardson, who was ready to roll on it, but after two tries with no response, the guy said, “Nobody will touch that one.” “Radioactive,” Richardson said. Other consequences of the mail delivery slowdown are people not getting needed medications timely and facing late fee charges. Pardon the bad joke, but there is no Dejoy in Mudtown for the postal workers, the public postal system, or mail service recipients. An estimated 50-60 people came to the Mount Royal picket. Many attendees came to the event with personal stories of how the Postal Service has impacted their lives or how our local postal workers have gone
above and beyond to deliver the mail. There were plenty of homemade signs expressing support for postal workers, opposed privatization of Postal Service, and calling the removal of the current Postmaster General. I attended the West Duluth picket along with 17 other people. Traffic was brisk and it appeared most people were supportive. This fits with national polls that say 91% of the public like the Postal Service. This includes younger people whom one would assume are more computer- and social mediaoriented. The diversity of positive responses was remarkable. “Thumbs ups” and supportive honks came from a wide variety of vehicles, ages, ethnic groups and gender. Drivers of 18 wheelers to subcompacts showed support. There were many sizes of trucks and many commercial vehicles responded favorably, including UPS, Fed-Ex and other delivery services. I observed one particularly interesting interaction. A four-wheel drive, 3/4-ton pickup stopped at the light at 27th Ave W. and Michigan. In big bold letters across the top of the windshield was written, “TRUMP 2020.” I waved and the male driver waved back. As the truck pulled
away the female passenger gave us a “thumbs up.” What does this mean? Not all Trump supporters are assholes? Not all Trump supporters agree with com. his attacks on the Post Office? The lady of the house has a different opinion? Who knows, but it was interesting! Organizers are asking people to take action at home to support the Postal Service by contacting their legislators and the USPS Board of Directors to advocate for 1) halting Mr. DeJoy’s recent changes, 2) removing Mr. DeJoy as Postmaster General, and 3) supporting special coronavirus funding to help the service weather the current pandemic. The USPS, like many organizations, is seeing reduced revenues and increased costs because of the pandemic. You can get more information and take online action at heroesdelivering. com, and usmailnotforsale.org. Your Congressional representatives and senators can be quickly e-mailed through their office websites. The public can contact the Post Office Board of Directors by emailing them at the following addresses: Robert Duncan, mduncan@inezdepositbank. com; John Barger, barger.jm@gmail. com; Ron Bloom, ron.bloom@ brookfield.com; Roman Martinez, roman@rmiv.com; Donald Moak, lee.moak@moakgroup.com; Wiliam Zollers, directoraccessmailbox@cigna.
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Politics in higher education: The danger of using international students as bait NATIONAL NEWS YASIN ARAFAT
International students are the latest target of President Trump’s antiimmigration policies. The recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) order under which international students who do not register for on-campus classes cannot stay in the U.S. or have to transfer to another institution where in-person instruction is available was rescinded soon after following the backlash from several higher education institutions was only the most recent and most high-profile example. The Trump Administration has issued executive orders and proposed laws to block the international students through suspending work visas, increasing the visa application/ processing fees, shortening the work period, delaying the visa process, and narrowing the definition of qualifying specialty occupation. The latest restriction on the international students is ICE’s recent announcement that newly enrolled international students whose classes are fully online cannot enter the USA. The policy is bizarre, myopic, and lacks gravity. Given the current circumstances, it would not be an exaggeration to think of it as a political stunt by President trump to reduce
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“competition” for the American worker. Ironically, this order will hurt the U.S. economy, in general, and the American higher education sector, in particular, if international students are driven away. Significance of international students to the U.S. economy International students not only help universities generate revenue, they also help the U.S. economy in multiple ways. International students made up 5.5
percent (about 1.1 million students) of the total U.S. higher education population during the 2018-2019 academic year. The U.S. economy, in the same year, received $41 billion from these students. Education sector exports rank 4th among the service sector exports of the U.S. On top of that the international students created or supported nearly 460,000 jobs during the 2018-2019 academic year. The economic contribution of international students is expected to fall significantly in the upcoming academic year as borders remained closed. Many colleges, especially the smaller ones, are already struggling to balance their budgets as they see a reduced freshmen class (and other classes as well). According to a May report by NAFSA: Association of International Educators, U.S. colleges may lose at least $3 billion as the number of international students decreases. The recent orders from ICE only add to this struggle as many of the international students might need to leave the U.S. (and many others will be hindered to enter the U.S.) if their colleges do not provide any in-person instruction. There is a reason why the universities rely on the foreign students. The tuition received from the international students are largely spent on re-search and development as well as the
financial aid offerings. U.S. universities were hit hard by the 2007-08 recession as the state funding ebbed. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), state funding for higher education remained below the pre-recession level in all states except for Alaska, California, Illinois, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. One of the ways the universities tried to overcome this budget shortfall was by increasing the enrollment rate of those who require less aid and/or pay a premium price (foreign students). If the number of foreign students falls, U.S. universities will either need to restructure their system or need to find an alternative source of funding. Around 70% of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) graduate students in the U.S. are international students. This is of great significance as the U.S. is facing growing competition in leading the world in STEM-related research and development. A large portion (around 75 percent) of the U.S. workforce in these fields are foreign-born individuals who came to the U.S. for study purposes and decided to stay to serve the country. As a matter of fact, the international students have gone on to found or co-found 23% of the billion-dollar companies in the U.S. If we lose these individuals to foreign competition, we might lose the battle to keeping up with cutting-edge technologies. The implications of the recent ICE order One of the consequences of the recent ICE order is that colleges might indeed open at full capacity this fall. With the current order in place, if the schools do not offer on-campus classes, they will lose a large portion of their revenue as many international students would be unable (or unwilling) to continue education in the U.S. The international students pay the out-of-state tuition fees, which makes them more lucrative to the universities. Apart from the quality education, the U.S. universities attract many bright students from across the globe because of the job market opportunities the students get upon completion of their studies. Many international students are ready to pay a premium price (out-ofstate tuition) for the education they receive just to get this opportunity. With that option being gone, the U.S. will be at the brink of losing these bright minds to her competitors in
Europe, Asia or other English-speaking countries such as Canada or Australia. While not good for the U.S., this might bode well for the current President. Are international students a threat to domestic workers? A reason for reducing the number of international students in the U.S. is to keep the campaign promise of the President. In an election year, it is not surprising to see the candidates prioritizing their agenda to benefit themselves over the country. President Trump’s campaign rhetoric has reiterated the importance of prioritizing American workers. It is as if the competition facing the American workers will vanish if we keep the international students at bay. That is, in fact, not true. If we look at unemployment rates by educational attainment, we will see that the rate is the highest at the bottom of the educational attainment. It is the lack of educational opportunity that hurts the American workers, not the presence of the international students. A typical international student comes to the U.S. under an F-1 visa category (other categories include M-1 visa and J-1 Visa). Upon the completion of their degree, regardless of the type,a graduate gets a work period for 12 months under Optional Practical Training (OPT) visa and an additional 24 months if s/he completes a degree in the STEM related fields. A study by the National Foundation of the American Policy (NFAP) concludes that there is no evidence of the OPT workers reducing the probability of the domestic workers getting a job. In fact, the unemployment rate in the fields where OPT workers are prevalent is low. More than 50% of the international students get their degree in the STEM-related field. During the years 2008-2016, unemployment rates in the STEM fields
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range from 3.5-4.1%. Also, the number of students receiving OPT is pretty low – only 0.5% for the students with a bachelor’s degree and 13% for the students with a Ph.D. degree. Thus, the amount of competition the domestic workers face from the international students is meagre, if at all. The havoc this pandemic has created is yet to be over. In fact, with the recent upsurge it is difficult to predict the end to this. It will probably take years for the U.S. economy to recover. Education,however, is one of those sectors which has the potential to recover relatively rapidly. The U.S. has long been deemed the “Mecca” of higher education. Despite the pandemic, thousands of international students are waiting to start their education in the “land of opportunity.” Instead of alienating them, we should gleefully greet them. If they do not feel welcome in the U.S., they can go elsewhere for other alternatives. If that starts to happen, the cost would be very dear for the higher education sector. Yasin Arafat is visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Saint Benedict | Saint John’s University. Yasin’s broad area of research interest is applied economics. His current research agenda is at the intersection of labor economics and welfare economics. His work investigates the different factors of poverty and inequality, and the policies to fight them. Specifically, he is enthusiastic to work on inequality of opportunity and its effects on the labor market outcomes. Yasin is currently working on the role of quality education in reducing inequality. His area of interest also includes development economics and experimental economics. In his free time, Yasin loves to study history, watch and play sports. He is a big fan of Bangladesh Cricket and Manchester United. Yasin loves to explore new places with his wife Rabita Reshmeen Banee.
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With Fischbach on the ballot, can Republicans finally take Minnesota’s Seventh District? By Greta Kaul and Gabe Schneider One of the most closely-watched Congressional races in the U.S. this year is right here in Minnesota. Congressional District 7, represented by 15-term DFLer Collin Peterson, voted for President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by a margin of 31 points, making it the most Trumpvoting district held by a Democrat in Congress. Whether that will still be true next year is the big question, and one that’s gained renewed focus on now that former Minnesota Senate President and Lt. Gov. Michelle Fishbach has won the Republican primary: can a betterfunded, more experienced Republican finally beat Peterson in a reddening
CD7? CD7 is Minnesota’s largest congressional district by land area, covering 38 largely rural counties from the tip of the Northwest Angle down. For much of his tenure, political observers have assumed the district would be Peterson’s for as long he wanted it. That may not be the case anymore. Less than a decade ago, in 2012, Peterson won more votes than his Republican opponent in the vast majority of precincts. That year, he beat challenger Lee Byberg by 26 points. In recent election cycles, that’s changed, and Peterson’s Republican opponents have won a growing share
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Michellle Fishbach of the district’s votes. In a 2014 contest between Peterson and Republican State Sen. Tor-rey Westrom, Peterson won by 9 percentage points. In 2016, Peterson’s margin had shrunk to 5.1 points, this time against Dave Hughes, a retired Air Force major. In a rematch against Hughes in 2018, Peterson won by 4.3 percentage points. Cook Political Report says that Peterson’s race is the most competitive in Minnesota. CD7 is tied with CD6, represented by Republican Rep. Tom Emmer, for the most conservative Congressional District in Minnesota. Both are R+12 districts, meaning they average about 12 percentage points more Republican than the U.S. as a whole in the last two presidential elections, per Cook. “The district has shifted more towards Republicans and not even just to President Trump, just Republicans at large. In the Legislature, it’s gone to almost completely Republican representation,” said Fischbach campaign manager David FitzSimmons. “Not long ago, that wasn’t the case, there was a much closer to even split.” This year, Cook and Sabato’s Crystal Ball rate the CD7 race as a toss-up, and
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Inside Elections has it listed as “tilts Democratic.” Peterson owes his long CD7 tenure to a moderate voting record: he’s the last of the original Blue Dog Democrats, a group formed in 1995 to promote fiscal responsibility in Congress. But it also has to do with his advocacy for agriculture in the heavily rural district, and the fact that he’s the chairman of the House Agriculture committee, a powerful position that makes him a key policymaker. Peterson has been called “the godfather” of the sugar beet industry, which includes a number of prominent cooperatives and companies that make up a large part of the Seventh District’s economy. Peterson is so important to the industry that a Super PAC called the Committee for Stronger Rural Communities (CSRC) was created this cycle by sugar companies to keep Peterson in office. So far, they’ve raised $900,000. “We are 100 percent behind Rep. Peterson because of his effective record on farm policy and his independent leadership,” Kelly Erickson of Hallock, chairman of the CSRC and a board member for American Crystal Sugar, said in a statement. “He does what
is best for the families, the farms and the small businesses in the 7th Congressional District. We know his opponents will throw everything they can at him, but it is encouraging to see he won every county in the primary, and ended the night with a bigger raw vote total than the opponent he will face in the fall.” Peterson’s reach also extends beyond just sugar beets: he’s received donations from groups like The American Association of Crop Insurers, the American Pistachio Growers PAC and the Dairy Farmers of America. For a Democrat, Peterson’s contributions are unique. For example, long given an A rating by the National Rifle Association, Peterson received nearly $5,000 from the group this cycle. He’s also one of the few Democrats in the country to receive a donation from Koch Industries PAC, one political arm of the influential conservative Koch brothers massive political operation. So far, the group has given close to $1 million Republicans and only around $30,000 to Democrats, including $10,000 to Peterson. Peterson’s opponent, Fischbach, has not received much backing from the agricultural sector. Instead, her campaign has been supported substantially by state and congressional Republican groups as well as federal leadership PACs. Fischbach was recruited to run for the Congressional seat by Minnesota Sixth District Rep. Tom Emmer, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee. Overall, Fischbach has proven a much more effective fundraiser than her predecessor, Hughes. As of the July fundraising report Fischbach had raised $941,000, while Peterson had raised $1.26 million, some of it saved up from previous runs. Fischbach also has better name recognition in the district than Hughes did, said Tim Lindberg, an assistant professor of political science at University of Minnesota-Morris. She represented the Paynesville area in the Minnesota Senate for more than two decades and, as Senate president, succeeded to the role of Lt. Gov. after Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Tina Smith to the U.S. Senate. As for where Fischbach could succeed where Republicans have not in the past, FitzSimmons sees an opportunity for her to pick up more votes in the area surrounding Fargo – the northern part of the district around Moorhead and Detroit Lakes, where Hughes did not do as well as Trump. He also thinks there are more votes to be won in some of the areas that
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have seen growth, like Meeker, McLeod and Sibley counties. Lindberg says changes in the Seventh District over the past few years may improve Fischbach’s chances. “Collin Peterson himself was a good fit for the district, but in some ways I think you could think about it as the district left Collin Peterson behind,” Lindberg said. In an ever-reddening district, Lindberg said Peterson has relied on many voters splitting their tickets – voting for Republicans for races at other levels of government, but also voting for DFLer Peterson. “Voters in this district know Collin and they know that he votes for the district. I think they know that he understands the district and they’ve been willing to split their ticket before. I think they’ll be willing to do it again,” said Allison Stock, Peterson’s campaign manager. For agriculture-minded Republicans, there may be another incentive for ticket-splitting: If Peterson is defeated, but Democrats retain control of the House as is expected, the new chair of the House Agriculture Committee will be more liberal than Peterson, according to Lindberg. Trump won big in CD7, winning the
district by a margin of 31 percentage points in 2016. The president has had ups and downs with the Minnesota agricultural industry in his first term, with trade wars lowering ag prices. But it remains to be seen how much that affects the race. Fischbach was endorsed by Trump in the primary and she has voiced strong support for the president. Lindberg said he drove across the southern corridor of CD7 recently and saw a lot of Trump signs and a lot of Fischbach signs – always together. “When George W. Bush was up for elections, you would see Peterson signs in the same yards as George W. Bush signs,” he said. He doesn’t think as many voters think that way anymore. “This year we’ve got Trump back on the ballot, and with Trump back on the ballot, I think the split vote will be less than it was in 2018,” Lindberg said. In 2021, redistricting will seek to reapportion Congressional seats to adjust for population change that have happened over the last decade based on Census data. Minnesota is on the short list to lose a seat. The assumption is that the lines of Minnesota’s remaining districts would be drawn to eliminate CD7.
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Linda Louise Becker 3/16/1954 – 8/3/2020 Linda Louise Becker (Lou Lou) went home to be with the after a courageous battle with cancer. Born in Duluth to Neal and Louise Becker, Linda graduated from Central High School, furthering her education at DBU. She was a fantastic waitress & caregiver. Linda was not only beautiful; she was smart, kind, loving, caring, funny and a giving soul to all who knew her and was never afraid to speak her mind. Her love for horses and animals of all kinds was endless, having rescued many of God’s creatures along her way. Linda’s love for the Lord was infectious and easy for her to share. Linda was preceded in death by; her parents; brother Joseph; and ex-husband Jack Wolgast. She is survived by; her son Isadore Turner; significant other Steve Engen; brother Neal; sister/best friend Pamela (Richard) Pietrusa; grandchildren Courtney, Nicholas, Isaiah, Gracie Mae and Izzy; great-grandchildren Marlianna, Mila, Ezra and Bentley; and too many friends to name. Service and burial to be determined.
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Melvin D. DeBettignies 7/17/1935 – 8/16/2020 Melvin Duane DeBettignies, 85, of Duluth died peacefully at Diamond Willow, Proctor. Melvin was born in New Hampton, Iowa, to Sylvester and Evelyn (Hackman) DeBettignies. Shortly after high school graduation he joined the U.S. Air Force. After spending some time at Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wya., he transferred to Duluth in December 1956. While stationed there he met Josephine, the love of his life, who he then married one year later and made Duluth his home. Following his military career, he worked at Fitger’s Brewery, Shopper’s City Grocery Dept. and retired from Northwest Office Supply in 1991. Throughout his life, family and friends were always the most important. Mel enjoyed fishing, pheasant hunting, watching sports, wintering many years in Mesa, Ariz., with Jo, and playing cards. Melvin was preceded in death by his wife Josephine, his parents Sylvester and Evelyn. He will be sadly missed by his daughters Nancy (Dave) Murphy, Karen (Bob) Dolsen, his son Mark (Michelle) DeBettignies, grandchildren Aubrey, Brody, Cody, Matt, Josh, and Noah, and great granddaughter Savannah, sister-in-law Maggie (Dave) Wilson, and several nieces and nephews. Celebration of life will be live streamed on YouTube. You can use the link youtube.com/ channel/UC_F9YrGm02WDod8onfvcSmw.
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Richard J. Eide 6/30/1932 – 8/9/2020 Richard J. Eide, 88, longtime resident of Duluth, formerly of Babbitt, was born in Duluth to Frank and Ruby Eide. He attended Jefferson & Nettleton Grade Schools then the family moved to Two Harbors where he graduated from high school. Richard was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, CBs during the Korean War. After the service he worked for D.M. & I.R. for five years and then the Reserve Mining Company for 26 years. He retired from B.N.S.F. in 1998. A private family event will be held. Arrangements by Cremation Society of Minnesota. Martha Anna Harju 6/13/1926 – 8/11/2020 Martha Anna Harju, 94, of Duluth, died peacefully at Viewcrest Health Center. Martha was born in Stearns County, Minn., to Frank and Anna (Scepaniak) Winskowski. She grew up learning all of the skills of being a homemaker, the hard work of farming, and appreciating the importance of an education. Ben came into her life and they became a polka dancing duo. They were united in marriage on Jan. 7, 1948 and were blessed to have 62 years together until Ben’s death in 2010. We will all miss her. A private service will be held at First Memorial Chapel and internment will be in Oneota Cemetery. Evereth ‘Bruce’ Johnson 5/26/1946 – 8/16/2020 Evereth “Bruce” Johnson, 74, a lifelong Duluth resident, died at home. He was born in Duluth to Carl and Ester Johnson. Bruce graduated from Duluth East High School. He had been employed by JohnsonWilson Constructors for many years. Bruce was a member of Clear Creek Gun Club, the National Sporting Clays Federation,
Ducks Unlimited, and Pheasants Forever. Bruce loved to go target shooting. Per Bruce’s wishes no services will be held. Memorials in Bruce’s name are preferred to Pheasants Forever, 1783 Buerkle Circle, St. Paul, MN 55110. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home. Nathan Olson 1973 – 8/6/2020 Nathan Olson, 46, died at home in Duluth. Nathan was a passionate father and artist and a man of faith. He graduated from Hermantown High School in 1992. hroughout his life he loved exploring the great outdoors, painting, gardening, dancing like no one was watching, and the Minnesota Twins – even when they weren’t winning. A celebration of life for friends and family will be planned when safe to do so. Memorials for are being accepted for children Dominic and Faith’s education funds – email NKOmemorial@icloud. com for details. Steven G. Robarge 5/22/1948 – 8/15/2020 Steven G. Robarge, 72, of Duluth died after fighting a long battle with cancer. He was born to Harvey and Elizabeth Robarge. He graduated from Clovervalley High school and after was drafted to the Army where he fought in the Vietnam War and received a Purple Heart. He married his wife Nancy of 41 years in 1979. He went on to master many trades, including logging for many years. He ultimately worked at the BNSF railroad. His pride was his family, working and always wiling to help others. Jeanne Salgy 2/22/1946 – 8/9/2020 Jeanne Salgy was born in Duluth, to Edwin Supino and Ruth Sorgenfrei. She died peacefully at home surrounded by family after a courageous battle with cancer. She was known for her love of children and grandchildren, being an awesome cook,
crafting, and love of animals. She will live in our hearts forever! Arrangements by the Cremation Society of Minnesota Duluth. Robert ‘Bud’ S. Weiss 7/5/1926 – 8/19/2020 Robert ‘Bud’ S. Weiss, 94, of Superior, died at Twin Ports Health Services. Robert was born in Sunrise, Minn., the son of Anna ‘Annie’ (Pechacek) and John Weiss. He served his country during WWII, enlisting in the U.S. Navy. He married Lois Shears on April 19, 1952, and they celebrated 68 years of marriage. Bud had worked for the Soo Line Railroad for almost 40 years, retiring in 1986. He was a man of leisure who enjoyed watching old tv shows, watching nature, going for lazy car drives in the country, and listening to old country music. One of his favorite past times was going dancing with Lois. He also enjoyed watching and rooting for the Packers, playing card games, penny poker with the grandkids, and spending time with his family. A private family funeral service will be held at Downs Funeral Home, 1617 N 19th St., Superior. Cheryl G. Whereatt 4/12/1967 – 8/12/2020 Cheryl G. (Swelbar) Whereatt, 53, died unexpectedly in her sleep on at her residence. Cheryl was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the daughter of Gaylord Swelbar and Marlene Mallernee. She married Willi-am ‘Bill’ Whereatt on Aug. 27, 2011. She had previously worked for Days Inn in Duluth. Cheryl was an incredible, creative and passionate homemaker. She loved gardening, baking and interior design. A celebration of Cheryl’s life will be held at a later date.
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Dear Readers: Sept. 8 is National Dog Walker Appreciation Day! What are some rules dog walkers should stick to? Let’s take a look: Always have your dog on a leash unless you are in a dog park. You never know when your dog may take off and run. Cleaning up after the dog is a nobrainer. Nobody wants a surprise package in their front yard. It is not fertilizer. It’s unsightly and smelly. Meet and greets along the way are risky. One dog may or may not get along with another dog. Why chance it? Keep dogs apart. It may be hard to believe, but not everyone loves dogs. People you meet while walking your dog could have allergies; they could be afraid of dogs – there’s no telling. Dog walkers
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shouldn’t assume everyone is amiable to dogs. Man’s best friends have enriched our lives in so many ways. A long walk is a win-win for you both. – Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: Michelle and Dave T. in Omaha, Neb., sent a picture of their 6-month-old Morkie, Freddie, celebrating his first Fourth of July. He is friendly and playful, and he LOVES everyone! He even tolerates his rabbit “brother” Mopsy. To see Freddie and our other Pet Pals, visit Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.” Send your pics of furry and funny friends to Heloise@Heloise.com. – Heloise BURNT POPCORN SMELL Dear Readers: Burning microwave popcorn creates a foul odor that can linger. Let’s talk about how to get rid of it. In a microwave-safe bowl, combine 1 cup of water and 1/2 chopped lemon (rinds and all). Place in the microwave and heat until the water boils and creates steam (1-3 minutes).
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my girls set up an obstacle course in the backyard for the dogs. It was a fun exercise for the dogs, as they weaved around buckets, jumped through a hula hoop and cooled down chasing balls on a slippery slide made from wet trash bags. – Debra in Oklahoma
Meet Freddie, a 6-month-old Morkie. He is friendly and playful. Leave the bowl in the microwave for at least 15 minutes to cool – the water can get very hot. Afterward, remove the bowl and wipe the inside walls of the microwave, bottom and top. Leave the door of the microwave open for a while to allow air to circulate. – Heloise OBSTACLE COURSE FOR DOGS Dear Heloise: During quarantine,
RAD PADS Dear Heloise: For wet mopping the floor, I bought an inexpensive bundle of washcloths at a big box store. I wet and ring out the washcloths and then attach to the mop at the corner holes. I change wash cloths as needed until I finish all my mopping. This is a cheaper alternative to expensive pads. – Jill G. Jill, you’re right; commercial refills can get pricey, and how easy it is just to throw those cloths in the wash. – Heloise Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise@ Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints received in my col-
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Fire! Ready! Aim! Will thoughts and prayers save the NRA? The National Rifle Association was chartered in the state of New York in 1871 as a non-profit organization with a social welfare mission. In the good old days it taught hunters, marksmen, and young boys and girls the proper use of firearms with safety as one of its major “missions.” It has gradually turned itself into a juggernaut providing billions of profits to firearm manufacturers, million-dollar salaries to its lobbying executives, and the country with a tsunami of more than 400 million firearms. These firearms have been taken up by hunters, cops, malcontents, crazies, gangs, soldiers, and 3-year-olds who
kill their mothers. The firearms have killed and wounded 140,000 American per year in a country resembling the conflicts exhibited in the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It seems the NRA has forgotten about its original mission. Attorney General Letitia James of New York thinks so, too. She has some experience closing down “charitable” organizations that abuse charity. She closed down the Trump Foundation in a heartbeat because it was only charitable to the Trump family. I’m writing this column on Au. 10. On Sunday Aug. 9, 21 people were shot in Washington in one incident: one dead, seven in hospital critically
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wounded, and 13 required medical care. The one dead made it 115 for the year in Washington. Police Chief Peter Newsharm blames the availability of illegal firearms for the shootings. Three weeks before, nine people were shot outside a Washington restaurant with one killed and five critically wounded. On the same day, an 11-year-od boy was critically wounded at a stop-the-violence cookout! Corky and I lived in Washington for a year in 1954-55 while I was going through Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. Shootings were very rare. But about 20 years later, Wayne LaPierre went to work as a lobbyist for the NRA and started to develop the gun culture. By the way, most large cities have gun culture problems similar to D.C. On the July 4th weekend, Chicago, a city with strict gun laws, had 47 shootings: 17 killed and 70 wounded. Since June 20, nine Chicago children below the age of 18 have been killed by firearms. The youngest was 20-months old. Two three-year-old girls were critically wounded in one exchange. We are not running out of corrals.
Is there some relationship among these stats? In 2018 police in the Divided States killed 1,042 citizens with firearms. British police killed three and Japanese police didn’t kill anyone. Finnish police fired six shots – back in 2013! Let’s count the number of firearms per 100 persons in 10 developed countries: Divided States-120, Canada-35, Norway-28, France-19, Germany-19, Australia-14, Russia-12, Denmark-9, Spain-7 and Great Britain-4. Is there a possibility that those numbers are related to citizens killed by police? Every day 100 people are killed by firearms in the Divided States. Has the NRA failed in its “social welfare mission” to teach firearm safety? Has the New York attorney general have enough evidence to close down the NRA as a nonprofit charity? The NRA was founded by two Civil War vets (one a lawyer and the other a New York Times reporter!) shocked by the horrible marksmanship of the average soldier. The NRA charter promoted rifle shooting, safety and firearm maintenance for the New York National Guard. This is hard to believe today, but when Congress held hearings for
the 1934 Firearms Act that placed controls on machine guns because of John Dillinger and other criminals using them to slaughter enemies, bank tellers, and cops, NRA President Karl Frederick made this shocking statement: “I do not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.” His name is hard to find on the NRA’s website today. Known as the best shot in America (three Olympic sharpshooter gold medals), Frederick was also a conservationist and president of the Camp Fire Club of America. In 1934 he helped Congress pass laws to control machine guns and sawedoff shotguns, although he testified he was against registering and licensing of guns and owners. He testified further: “I have never believed in the general practice of carrying weapons. I seldom carry one.” He would not approve of Charlton (‘Moses’) Heston as five-time president of the NRA holding up an old rifle and declaring in the 2000 presidential campaign: “Al Gore will take away the Second Amendment from my dead, cold hands!” Heston was certainly the greatest creator and defender of NRA positions that were infused with white supremacy, pro-life, Christian Identity religion and anti-gay proclamations coming from NRA executives and the 76-member NRA Board of Directors. He loved to give speeches about political correctness, culture wars and white power. During his time as NRA president (1998-2003) he gave lots of right-wing speeches containing “white power” ideology: “The Constitution was handed down by a bunch of wise old dead white guys (all slave owners, Moses!) who invented our country! Now some flinch when I say that. Why! It’s true they were white guys! So were most of the guys that died in Lincoln’s name opposing slavery in the 1860’s. So why should I be ashamed of white guys? Why is ‘Hispanic Pride’ or ‘Black Pride’ a good thing, while ‘White Pride’ conjures shaven heads and white hoods? (Because it ‘conjures’ up skinheads and white power KKKs, Moses!) Why was the Million Man March on Washington celebrated by many as progress, while the Promise Keepers march on Washington was greeted with suspicion and ridicule? I’ll tell you why: Cultural warfare!” (Promise Keepers was an extreme right-
wing organization claiming Jesus as savior while it followed the ideology of the Christian Identity Church: antiblack, anti-gay, anti same-sex marriage, and placed the man at the head of household. (It was not very attractive to most American women!) Wayne LaPierre loved to have Moses around spouting white power speeches, Republican politics, political correctness, Christian Identity theology and the tyranny of Democratic administrations.
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Wayne has been a government activist and lobbyist practically all of his adult life, joining the National Rifle Association 43 years ago after serving as a legislative aide to Vic Thomas, a Democratic delegate in Virginia – and a gun rights advocate. Several Vietnam draft deferments are mixed in. Maybe he had bone spurs, too. He also worked for the American Conservative Union, a right-wing political organization still alive today, after earning a Master’s Degree in government and politics at Boston College. LaPierre is not a hunter, and expresses no particular interest in firearms. I have been keeping a file on the NRA for as long as Wayne has been CEO. If NRA members and opponents want a quick but substantial summary of the doo-doo the NRA is suffocating in, read Danny Hakim’s article in the New York Times Magazine of Dec. 18, 2018, and updated on Aug. 6, 2020, titled “Inside Wayne LaPierre’s Battle for the NRA.” You can come to only one conclusion: It’s a story of a bunch of guys who gradually turned into crooks and thieves over a hundred years and ended up double-dealing with another bunch of crooks and thieves. One fact blows up the idea the NRA was a nonprofit on a social welfare mission. In 2017 each of the eight
top executives of the NRA out-earned the president of the American Red Cross, one nonprofit with 10 times the revenue of the NRA. All eight executives, including the main milker Wayne LaPierre, were ferociously yanking on the teats of a cash cow supplied by unsuspecting hunters, collectors, militia members and gun nuts. Wayne’s compensation in 1995 was $200,000 a year. In 2017 his salary was $2.2 million. In a recent year he topped out at $5.1 million. He has lived well. The New York attorney general is investigating bills totaling about $500,000 for suits and clothing purchased in a Beverly Hills boutique. He put another $39,000 worth of clothing on an NRA credit card in one day. He is also charged with millions of dollars spent on limo and private jet travel over the years. Eight trips to the Bahamas in a span of eight years cost the NRA $500,000. He and his family had expensive vacation trips to Budapest, Hungary and Italy as well as vacation time spent at Palm Beach, Los Angeles and Reno, Nevada. Oh – and safaris in Africa with his wife. And a few other little expenses: several million spent on personal security, $1.2 million in gifts for friends at Nieman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman luxury stores, and a $17 million retirement fund. There was even a discussion about buying a $6 million home before the start of the New York investigation. The NY attorney general is probably not forgetting about the expensive meals in luxury hotels and the golf club memberships. Sounds like Wayne went on a social welfare mission for himself and his executives, not others.
deaths by firearms since Wayne LaPierre assumed leadership of the NRA in 1991. Statisticians have estimated that since 1968 we have killed more civilian Americans with firearms than the 1,396,733 American troops killed in all our wars since the Revolution. I’m going to use two recent mass shootings to show the absolute insanity of our lax gun laws. In 2017 Stephen Paddock from Las Vegas hotel windows fired 1,100 military rounds in 10 minutes into a crowd of approximately 20,000 attending a music concert in a large nearby parking lot. As a one-time commander of a Marine Corps heavy machine platoon, I immediately recognized the sound of automatic machine gun fire, not semi-automatic fire. He killed 58 (and himself later) and wounded an astounding 851 people. Police found 14 AR-15 rifles fitted with bumpstocks. This device turns semi-automatics rifles into automatic machine guns. One pull and hold on the trigger can fire 50 rounds. Twelve of the AR-15s had 100-round magazine drums attached. In addition, he had eight AR-10 rifles, a handgun, and thousands of rounds of ammo. Here was one man of dubious background possessing more firepower than a squad of 13 Marines in a machine gun platoon! To allow one
civilian to purchase dozens of rifles and guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition without controls is beyond insanity. In 2013 a mentally disturbed NRAmember Adam Lanza killed his NRAmember mother and then strolled over to Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut and fired 154 rounds from 30-round magazines in less than five minutes, killing 20 first graders and six adults. He used the 154th round to kill himself. His mother had purchased firearms so she and Adam could fire them for fun at a local range. He used an AR-15 style Bushmaster at Sandy Hook to put 11 military-style rounds into one first grader, turning the victim into burger. If you have some time, Google these mass shootings: Orlando Pulse gay club-49k,58w; Virginia Tech-32K,23w; El Paso Walmart-23k,23w. It’s time to close down this NRA criminal enterprise and go back to the NRA that had a sound social welfare mission about firearms. Remember when the Rent-All NRA politicians in Congress voted “”NO!” against any gun controls and sent their “Thoughts and Prayers” by the thousands to the victims and their families? They had to send so many the phrases finally got ironic derisive catcalls from the public. The phrase will never be used again for firearm deaths.
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Poor thinking a tough nut to crack in climate change discussions Author’s note: Thought this one might again be appropriate during a warm summer in what will likely be another warmest year on the planet. Once again the National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) has been called upon to assist reticent nations and citizens in coming to terms with climate change. So…NUFA social scientists and bartenders have taken it upon themselves to try and educate the populace that pollution continues to fill up our only breathing space, that tiny, miniscule eggshell thin atmospheric wrap of gases good and bad that keep this planet from becoming a lifeless piece of planetary rock with a molten core. It is filling faster than we ever imagined and there’s no end in sight as economies the world over have ramped up their economocracies and econocommies as fast as they can dam rivers and drill oil and dig coal from mountaintops that have been eviscerated. It certainly didn’t take long to convince the millions of NUFA members worldwide that we are living in a very tenuous space where breathable gases, both good and bad, exist. Obviously folks who ignore climate change must believe that gases both good and bad simply float upward from the planet and dissipate into the
endless void of space. If it were only so simple. Imagine the wrap of breathable space around us. The bulk of that breathable space exists from ground level to a mere four to five miles above our heads, that’s it. This great big blue planet and that’s all the breathable space we get. Filling that breathable space with all sorts of manmade pollution for the past couple of centuries hasn‘t improved our quality of life. The planet can’t digest it all as fast as we can pollute it. Here’s the one-time offer. You change your mind and lose the goofy notion that this is all a grand scientific hoax and you drink free at NUFA establishments across the globe. That’s where the bartenders come in. You give up on that silly notion that the planet’s environment is hunky dory, peachy keen and you drink free. Forever. Our bartenders mean business as the planet continues to warm minute by minute. NUFA negotiators will make the case that developed nations have done plenty of harm the past couple of centuries burning fossil fuels like there was no tomorrow and creating a life of convenience unparalleled in human history. Healthy doses of Scandinavian guilt will be meted out in portions large enough to change a few minds about who the culprits have been. Time worn facts about excessive consumption will be featured as the planet continues to warm minute by
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minute. Yes, we’ll need to drag out the numbing notion that it would take a couple of extra solar systems to provide enough resources for a planet full of people to live like we do in the USA. Since we consume in the neighborhood of 20-25 percent of the world’s resources to be able to host the Super Bowl and build magnificent cities in the desert we kind of forgot about the other 190 countries around the globe that are trying to own as many cars and TVs as we do. We at NUFA hope that American cultural and political will can confront the challenge of climate change and accept its role in the problem. We also don’t believe that will happen without a revolution of sorts. We’re not alone in the exorbitant consumption game. Western Civilization as we know it has now been able to convince much of the rest of the world that they, too, wish to live in opulence beyond what our planet can provide. Fast foods and name brands circle the globe. Who wouldn’t want a talking car and a high definition television nearly as wide as the screen in a movie theater. Give me two. We’re beyond the tipping point of reining in personal consumption caused by mindless economic growth.
Minds won’t be changed in the United States, China or Guatemala in time to save the planet. People want more and America has set a shining example of the consumer-gone-out-of-control standard for everyone. NUFA won’t sit idly by. Working with the leading vacuum cleaner researchers, NUFA engineers are developing the first industrial scale carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas vacuum that has the potential to skirt the political and economic stalemate and solve at least a portion of the problem. Poor thinking still exists but it may buy us the time to allow folks to take us up on our NUFA “Drink Forever Free” offer. Once completed the vast soon-to-be-patented portable unit should be able to recycle “just the right amount” of CO2 and methane out of the atmosphere in less time that it takes to run your car through the car wash. Calculations are also being worked out that would allow the vacuum to be converted in the field so it could also vacuum up the poor thinking that now seems to infest most modern cultures along with their political structures and feebleminded economies that have somehow blended into a single entity. According to a lead engineer assigned to the project, “That poor thinking part could be the toughest nut to crack.”
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Save our post office “The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people...It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities.” Title 39 of the U.S. Code. Our post offices are an essential public service that are vital to individuals, businesses and the overall economy. This is why a postal service was created by the Continental Congress in 1775 – even before the Declaration of Independence. Our country’s founders recognized that a postal service was needed for business, and to bind the diverse, highly divided colonies together as a nation. All over this country local post offices, like local schools, became the foundation of many towns and cities. Postal workers don’t just deliver the mail. They serve these communities. So why is this essential, all American public service under attack? Everyone uses the U.S. Postal Service. This is especially true during the pandemic with all of us hunkered down at home ordering stuff online. There are very few people who don’t get a bill, pay a bill, receive a check, a legal notice, tax assessment, a car registration notice, holiday cards or packages through USPS. Many of us get medications by mail. Many of us got our corona virus bailout money in the mail. Many us are planning to vote by mail this fall because of the pandemic. So it is disturbing that the current administration is working to weaken the postal system. It claims this is being done to “reform” operations and cut costs. But there is no doubt that this is only a cover story for using the post office for political advantage – specifically slowing down mail delivery which may disenfranchise many people voting by mail. This is totally unacceptable. Efforts by Republicans to weaken and
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ultimately privatize the Postal Service have been ongoing for decades. But by law (quoted above) the post office is a public service NOT a profit center for making money. In its public benefit mission the Postal Service is more like our military services than private delivery companies. No one suggests that the Pentagon should pay its own way or be “run like a business.” That said, the Postal Service is selfsupporting. It does not receive any tax dollars for normal operations. It operates entirely off of revenues from mail, package delivery and other services it offers the public. Here are some little known Post Office facts: • USPS, on a typical day, delivers 471 million pieces of mail to 160 million places – 145 billion pieces of mail every year, as compared to 5.5 billion for UPS and 4 billion for FedEx. • USPS by law must serve everyone equally. FedEx, UPS and other private couriers go only where it is profitable. • In fact Fed Ex and UPS frequently use the USPS to make final deliveries – more than 470 million of their packages a year get to you via the Post Office. • If it were a private company, the Postal Service would rank 43rd in the Fortune 500 list with revenues of $67.8 billion and a healthy profit margin (2014 data). • USPS is the largest civilian employer of military veterans (about 130,000 and one third of them are disabled veterans). • USPS workforce is 21.3% African American, 39% minorities, and 40% women. • Consumer Reports magazine, in a 2014 analysis, said the Postal Service outscored UPS and Fed-Ex in convenience and reliability, and it was the cheapest 92 percent of the time for next-day and second-day delivery. • USPS sends a first-class letter anywhere in the U.S., its territories, military and diplomatic installations worldwide for the same 55 cents. This is among the lowest postage price of any industrialized country. Stop and think about that for a minute. What can you buy for 55 cents? You won’t get a cup of coffee for that amount much less a letter sent from Nome, Alaska to Key West, Florida! It is not realistic to think any forprofit company would provide this service without significant price increases. Nor would they handle all the business advertising (“junk”) mail
as cheaply. The USPS is a huge bargain! But what about the postal budget problems we hear a lot about? The current problems were created by Congress in 2006 with the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. This required the USPS to prepay $72 billion in retirement health care costs for 75 years into the future. NO OTHER federal agency has this requirement and no private company handles future retirement obligations in this manner. The Post Office was deliberately shack-
led with a financial burden to make it fail. Without this extraordinary burden the Post Service would be doing just fine. The coronavirus pandemic is also creating financial problems for the USPS. Like many organizations, it is seeing reduced revenues and increased costs because of the pandemic. This is why Congress is back in session to vote some special bailout funds. After spending trillions to bail out many huge private sector corporations, I think we can find the resources our post offices need to weather this pandemic. During this pandemic our essential postal workers are risking their health to serve us. They deserve respect and support. We all need to contact our legislators and tell them to pass emergency legislation providing the Post Office the funding it needs during this crisis. To make sure your vote is counted, request an absentee ballot NOW for the November election. Then mail your ballot back early. Some places are creating special drop off boxes for ballots. In some districts you can also hand deliver your ballot to the municipal clerk’s office. Don’t let the #%!#* politicians play games with your right to vote.
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Miyazawa, the police chief, said he “didn’t even know the term ‘rojone’ before coming to Okinawa.” [The Guardian, 8/19/2020] Putting on the brakes Organizers of Philadelphia’s 12th Annual Naked Bike Ride have canceled the event, scheduled for Aug. 29, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported. Ride organizer Maria Serrahima said she hopes people will be able to return next year and that riders are “taking advantage of the emptier streets and riding – masks up.” The Philly Naked Bike Ride attracts thousands of riders and covers a 10-mile course taking in the city’s landmarks such as Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. [Associated Press, 8/15/2020] Awesome! •People living around Olten, Switzerland, got a surprise on Aug. 14 when it began snowing cocoa powder. Strong winds that morning distributed the cocoa dust from a malfunctioning ventilation system at the Lindt & Spruengli chocolate factory nearby, delivering enough to cover at least one car, the Associated Press reported. The company offered cleaning services, but no one took them up on the offer. The ventilation system has been repaired. [Associated Press, 8/18/2020] • The very last Blockbuster store, in Bend, Oregon, is offering Deschutes County residents three one-night sleepovers through Airbnb on Sept. 18, 19 and 20 for $4 – about the cost of a video rental, Oddee reported. Lucky movie lovers will have a pull-out couch, bean bags and pillows for their viewing comfort, plus 2-liter bottles of Pepsi and snacks to enjoy during a marathon of “new releases” from the ‘90s. “Nothing can replace going to the store with loved ones to browse the shelves and find a movie that suits
Irony A mystery unfolded in the Mys-tery section of the Walla Walla (Washington) Public Library in late July when workers performing renovations during the COVID-19 shutdown demolished a section of shelves and discovered a disintegrated paper bag with five full cans of Hamm’s beer and an opened bag of Godzilla Heads gum. Library staff determined the hidden snacks dated back to the 1980s, CNN reported. Library director Erin Wells posited that “somebody had stashed it there and maybe thought they could get it later ... but there was no way to get it out.” [CNN, 8/13/2020] Fine points of the law Utica (New York) City Court Judge Ralph Eannace was outraged, but did not set bail for defendant Anthony Walker on Aug. 13, which surprised even Walker, who had been arrested for the second time in two days for leading police on a high-speed chase. “Because, I guess, of the new bail reform law,” Walker said, Judge Eannace said he had no choice but to let Walker go. On Aug. 9, Walker had hit another car while driving a Maserati that had been reported stolen. “I plan to do the right thing this time, man. I’m tired of this,” he told WKTV, apologizing if anyone was hurt. Utica police noted that Walker made the same pledge after his first arrest. “Yeah,” said Walker, “I did take them on a high-speed chase ... nobody’s perfect.” [WKTV, 8/13/2020] Happy ending Residents of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have been cheered recently by the unexpected presence of a corn stalk growing up through a crack in the pavement at a busy intersection. Dubbed the 57th Street Corn, the stalk had its own Twitter account and was hailed as a symbol of resiliency and hope in hard times; Mayor Paul TenHaken called it “amaizing.” But on Aug. 19, the Argus Leader reported, neighbors found the plant had been ripped from the ground overnight, prompting sorrow on social media and a flower memorial. “I didn’t want to see her story end like that,” said resident Chad Theisen. Together with his children, Theisen rescued the corn stalk, renamed it Cornelia and is nursing it back to health in a 5-gallon bucket. He hopes to find a permanent home for Cornelia, now a local celebrity, with the city’s help. [Argus Leader, 8/20/2020]
Joyride Sheriff’s deputies in La Push, Washington, said they received a report of a suspicious person trying to rent an airplane without a pilot’s license or insurance at the Jefferson County International Airport on Aug. 18. The man, later identified as Richard Jordal, 59, then tried his luck at Tailspin Tommy’s, another plane rental business at the airport, KIRO reported, and was again refused, but surveillance video showed Jordal returning later to steal the keys to a Cessna airplane, which he fueled up before taking off and flying erratically, according to authorities. Business owner Nataliya Yeshyrina and her husband watched the plane on radar: “Altitude would change dramatically from 5,000 feet to 2,000. Up and down and then doing loops and doing twirls.” Authorities said a possible plane crash was reported around 10:30 p.m., but no wreckage could be found in the heavily forested area that evening. A U.S. Navy helicopter crew returned the next morning and found the plane, with Jordal unconscious inside. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. [KIRO, 8/19/2020] The entrepreneurial spirit • The Associated Press reports that a company in Toyko called Kowagarasetai (which roughly translates to Scare Squad) has launched a drive-thru haunted house that allows patrons to socially distance from its “zombies” while getting a good fright. With customers safely sealed inside their cars, the zombies do their best to scare the occupants, draping themselves over the cars and smearing them with fake blood. “The distance (between customers and cast) has actually gotten shorter since there is only a window between them,” said Daichi Ono, a cast member. The zombies then helpfully clean the cars when the 13-minute show is over. [Associated Press, 8/19/2020] • The Krone Circus in Munich, Germany, has come up with a stinky idea for making extra money during COVID-19 restrictions: selling jars of excrement from its 26 lions and tigers (price: $6 each). While some buyers opt in to support the circus or to offer the jars as a prank, Reuters reported, others are using them to repel pests: “I am told it keeps cats away from the garden, and ... it keeps the animals away from the car, where they eat all the electric cables,” lion tamer Martin Lacey said. Some of the funds go to a charity that improves living conditions for captive animals. [Reuters, 8/10/2020]
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The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative appears to be doing a dance around the issue of tariffs imposed on some European wines in October 2019. A 25% tariff was levied on some table wines from France, Germany, Spain and the U.K. It has been described as retaliation for illegal subsidies to Airbus about a decade ago. Since then, the trade office has dangled the threat of increasing the tariff to 100% if the European Union refused to come to the negotiating table. If you enjoy French or Spanish wines, the impact of a 100% tariff would be devastating, of course. There was good news last week when it was announced in a press release from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative that the 25% tariff would remain in place and not increase. Big sigh of relief. But that still leaves a sizable financial penalty on certain wines being imported from the EU. To be clear, the tariff is only on wines below 14% ABV (alcohol by volume), but that includes a vast swath of the European wines we like to drink because
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many never attain the blockbuster alcohol levels that we see in New World wines. How this impacts you is twofold. The price of some of your favorite wines is likely higher than it was a year ago, and that’s if you can find it at all. The reason you may not be seeing some of your favorite European wines is that small importers simply don’t have the cash flow, especially amid COVID-19 lockdowns, to bring in these wines at the higher cost. Small businesses in the wine industry are endangered and rightly angry. The flip side, however, is that EU tariffs on U.S. wines going the other way penalize U.S. wine producers who would like to sell their wines in Europe. If you’ve ever seen a California cabernet sauvignon on a French wine list, you understand the problem. The practical solution, it would seem, would be to remove tariffs on wine and spirits in both directions. But that would make too much sense, so it will probably never happen. Tasting Notes Wines are rated on a 100-point scale. Wines are chosen for review because they represent outstanding quality or value, and the scores are simply a measure of this reviewer’s enthusiasm for the recommended wine. Dutton-Goldfield 2019 Pinot Blanc, Dutton Ranch-Shop Block Vineyards, Green Valley of the Russian River Valley ($30) – Fresh and clean, with bright acidity and uncommon minerality, this is another stunning
pinot blanc from winemaker Dan Goldfield, who seems to have a Midas touch with the pinot blanc grape variety. In 2019, the long, cool growing season resulted in perfect ripeness and exquisite balance. Aromas of peach, pear and nectarine dominate this beautifully crafted vintage. Rating: 95. Tongue Dancer 2018 Chardonnay, Pratt Vineyard-Irwin Lane, Russian River Valley ($42) – Winemaker James MacPhail strikes again with a chardonnay that strikes the perfect balance between richness and minerality, a chardonnay that offers aromas of lemon creme, baked apple and pear along with a thread of bright minerality, toasty oak and a touch of wood spice. Rating: 95. Turnbull 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, Oakville ($85) – The Oakville district of the Napa Valley is undoubtedly one of the finest stretches of terroir in the world for cabernet sauvignon. The 2017 Turnbull Reserve is yet another example from this hallowed ground. This vintage is rich and powerful, and shows notes of ripe blackberry, boysenberry and cassis with a touch of pencil lead and wood spice. Rating: 95. Chappellet 2019 Chenin Blanc, Molly Chappellet Signature, Napa Valley ($38) – This is the king of California chenin blanc, a grape variety popular in France’s Loire Valley but not widely planted in Napa. Chappellet’s location on the sunny eastern slopes of the Napa Valley is ideal for chenin, and the result is a dry chenin with exquisite
balance and fresh, complex aromas of citrus, melon and stone fruits. This vintage is nothing short of sensational. Rating: 94. Pellegrini 2019 Rose, Russian River Valley ($30) – This limited production rose from the Russian River Valley could easily pass for one of the dry rose beauties from the south of France. Crisp and refreshing, with mouthwatering acidity and complex aromas of strawberry, pomegranate and stone fruits, it’s sunshine in a glass and lip-smacking good. It’s a blend of 90% pinot noir and 10% carignan. Rating: 92. Flora Springs 2018 Sauvignon Blanc, Family Estate ($30) – This historic Napa Valley winery has a long and solid track record with sauvignon blanc. The 2018 vintage is another success story. This vintage is beautifully balanced, fresh and lively. It has notes of citrus, peach and lemongrass and a long, impressive finish. Rating: 91. Follow Robert on Twitter at @wineguru. To find out more about Robert Whitley and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. Email Robert at whitleyonwine@yahoo. com.
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Like coffee, eggs and many other foods, nuts can be confusing. Are they good for you? But aren’t they high in calories? Don’t they cause weight gain? Should you snack on nuts? Nuts really do have a split personality; they are healthy, but they do pack a lot of calories in a small handful. The good news is that nuts are a
great choice to include in a diet that promotes lower cancer risk, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research. And you can eat a reasonable portion
every day without fearing adding on the pounds. The key — like every other food – is the right portion. Here’s why they’re good to include in your diet: Nuts have antioxidants
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Antioxidants are the Pac-Man in your body for getting rid of free radical cells. Anti-inflammatory compounds offer dual protection by reducing the formation of free radicals and by putting the brakes on cell signals that support and promote cancer development, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research. So, what about weight gain? Since nuts are a concentrated calorie source – 160 to 200 calories per ounce – it’s natural to think they would be associated with weight gain. However, the fiber, protein and fat content in nuts may help reduce hunger, slowing how quickly food leaves the stomach. To keep portions under control, it may be best to add nuts to foods rather than snacking on them mindlessly, which certainly can result in weight gain. To get their benefit without too many calories: • Sprinkle a handful of nuts on hot or cold cereal or yogurt. • Rather than croutons, add nuts to salads to give the same crunch. • Toss nuts with stir-fried vegetables, pasta, brown rice or quinoa. • Combine nuts with dried fruit for a trail mix.
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RECIPE I grew rosemary in my herb garden this year, so I was excited to find this recipe from Eating Well magazine that features rosemary and sirloin — a very lean cut of meat. ROSEMARY AND GARLIC BASTED SIRLOIN STEAK 1 pound boneless top sirloin steak, trimmed 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, divided 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper, divided 4 medium cloves garlic, minced 2 medium shallots, sliced lengthwise 1 1/2 tablespoons butter 1 sprig fresh rosemary, plus more for garnish Let steak stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Pat dry with paper towels. Brush with oil, and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Heat a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Add steak, and cook for 1 minute. Add garlic, shallots, butter and rosemary; cook, tilting the pan slightly to pool the butter and drippings on one side, for 1 minute. Use a spoon to baste the steak with the butter mixture. Flip the steak, and cook, basting
occasionally, until a thermometer reads 125 degrees for medium-rare, 2 minutes more. Transfer the steak to a cutting board, and top with the shallots, garlic and rosemary. Cover loosely with foil; let stand for 10 minutes. Discard the rosemary sprig. Thinly slice the steak against the grain, and transfer to a serving platter. Spoon drippings from the pan and cutting board over the steak. Season with the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper, and garnish with more rosemary, if desired. Serves 4 (3 ounces each). Per serving: 216 calories; 23 grams protein; 3 grams carbohydrates; 12 grams fat (5 grams saturated); 71 milligrams cholesterol; 0 grams fiber; 408 milligrams sodium. Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian with SIU Med School in Springfield, Illinois. For comments or questions, contact her at charfarg@aol.com or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRD. To find out more about Charlyn Fargo and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com
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A big, pink squishy sour and a double stout with smoked chiles Bubbles, pink bubbles, everywhere. This is one cheery-looking beer, with its big pink head and rosy hue. This can was sitting all by its lonesome at the liquor store. It looked so lonely, and who could walk away from a blackberry, raspberry and coconut sour called Super Squishy? Not me. It’s from what sounds like a pleasingly oddball brewery by the name of Oliphant in beautiful downtown Somerset, Wis., inner tubing capital of the world. Unfortunately, before cracking this unusual beer open, I did not read the label, which says, “for an optimal tasting experience, gently roll can for 30 seconds before pouring in a glass.” Geez, I hope I didn’t screw up my
experience by not gently rolling the can for 30 seconds before pouring, but it was in a backpack and I rode my bike to pick it up, so, maybe everything’s OK. This 5% sour ale is, as the title states, made with blackberries, raspberries and coconut, but what the title does not tell you is that there is also lactose (milk sugar) vanilla and sea salt. Hmmm. I got the berries, most definitely. And the coconut added a somewhat funky, but most welcome, note to the proceedings. I’m usually sensitive to vanilla flavoring (it’s not one of my favorite flavors, especially in beer), but I did not get any here, nor did I notice a hint of sea salt. However, this is a wonderful berriedup sour – refreshing and pink as Cold
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Duck (or am I remembering Cold Duck wrong – it’s been a while). And what a head! *** A pleasant burn on my lips and tongue, I take another sip of El Guerrero. Yowzer! That’s a big bruiser of a stout. El Guerrero – Spanish for Warrior – is a Chilean double stout brewed with honey, coffee and merken. Yeah, I know, what the hell is merken? I guess that’s why I picked up this four-pack of 16-ouncers – it’s not often I’m stumped on a beer ingredient. According to spicesinc.com, merken is a traditional spice blend of the Mapuche, the indigenous folk of Chile, that consists of goat’s horn chiles, smoked paprika, sea salt and coriander. Yeah, I know, what the hell’s a goat horn chile? Well, I’m not going there right now. Let me have another sip of this fascinating double stout from Bent Brewstillery of Roseville, Minn. In additoin to the pleasant burn of the merken, there is a hefty, delicious helping of chocolate and espresso. But, oh, that burn!
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How to set up and stock an outdoor bar Outdoor entertaining encourages homeowners and guests to mingle in the fresh air. Backyard spaces generally are larger and more accommodating to big crowds, which means the fun does not have to be stifled by available space inside. Outdoor parties also are usually more informal, which makes cleaning up a lot easier. While food is one of the main considerations for outdoor soirĂŠes, hosts and hostesses also must keep beverages in mind. A well-stocked outdoor bar can keep guests in good spirits. These tips can help ensure everyone stays hydrated and comfortable while having fun. Find your location The bar should be close enough to the action, but in a spot that is shaded and cool. This will work with the ice and coolers used to keep the beverages and garnishes chilled. Consider a shady spot or an area of the yard that can be covered by a canopy or umbrella. Make it accessible The bar should be easily accessed by guests. If beverages are self-service, ensure that the bottles
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venient, but not very green or decorative. High-quality, reusable plastic tumblers and goblets can look like glass, but are safer for use outdoors when there’s the risk of dropping items. Certain drinks are traditionally served in specific types of glasses, so it is a good to stock up on various sizes and shapes. Routinely scour the yard for empty cups so they can be washed and
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How about wine-drenched pears? With an abundance of opportunities to entertain, it’s essential that hosts have company-worthy recipes at the ready. While they might not be a food one traditionally associates with winter, pears are versatile and can be used in various recipes, particularly those that will be served when the dessert bell rings. Pears come in many different varieties. However, when preparing this recipe for “Venetian Pears” from Serena Food & Stories: Feeding Friends Every Hour of the Day (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) by Serena Bass, Bartlett pears are ideal. Look for pears with a stubby rather than pointy top and the stalks left on. Venetian Pears Serves 10 10 firm Bartlett pears, peeled, halved, and cored, keeping the stem intact on one half 6 cups full-bodied red wine 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns 2 2⁄3 cups sugar, divided 6 cups full-bodied white wine 1 vanilla bean 1⁄2 cup heavy cream, stiffly whipped Cut a level 1⁄2 inch slice off the base of each pear so it will stand up straight. Choose two saucepans – one for the red wine and one for the white – both big enough to hold 10 pear halves. Add the red wine, the peppercorns (see note), half the sugar, and 11⁄2 cups water to one pan; add the white wine, vanilla bean, the remaining sugar, and 11⁄2 cups water to the other pan. Bring each pan to a slow boil and reduce the liquid for 5 minutes. Add the pears, making sure you have five of the ones with stems in the red wine and five with stems in the white. Cover and simmer 30 to 40 minutes, depending on the ripeness of the pears. When a toothpick enters without too much resistance, remove from the heat and set aside to cool. Refrigerate overnight. When you come to arrange the
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carefully with a tablespoon of the whipped cream. Note: Don’t worry about the peppercorns. Just let them rattle
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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Duluth Herald August 27, 1888 FINE TRAIN SERVICE. THE SOUTH SHORE’S NEW SERVICE TO BE UNEXCELLED – TO BID FOR BUSINESS. Several officials of the South Shore road remained in Duluth over Saturday night. They were as much pleased with the outlook as could be desired. Said one before leaving the city: “President McMillan told your people that the road would have an excellent through train service to the Atlantic seaboard. It will be more than this, it will not be ex celled by any passenger train running east from any Minnesota city. It will be unexcelled and will be fast and fine. We intend to make a big for the through passenger service of the entire northwest from the east and will make such running arrangements that we can carry passengers not only to Duluth but to St. Paul and Minneapolis better than any of the Chicago lines. We will also make a special effort to induce large excursions to come out over our line from Boston and Montreal and other cities to Duluth and the northwest and your city will profit by all of them.” In order that there may be no danger of delay from the exceptionally heavy snows of the upper peninsula, the officers Thursday decided to purchase one of the great rotary snow plows as well as adding two or three other large plows to the blizzard equipment, placing the D.S.S.& A. on a better footing for snow fighting than any other road of its size in the country. These plows will be stationed at different points along the line where former experience has shown that they will be most needed and will be kept always ready for service during the winter season. Duluth Herald August 28, 1890 A Colored Wedding. Colored society attended in force the wedding of Miss Annie M. Ford to
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Ad appearing in the Aug 30,1910 edition of the Duluth Herald. Mr. Richard Stokes, which took place at the residence of Miss Nellie Wagner, 110 First avenue east. Rev. F. Lomack, pastor of Mount Olive Baptist church, performed the ceremony, which was very pleasantly carried out. All the participants are of this city. Duluth Herald August 29, 1900 HACK DRIVERS. Those Without Licenses and Who Overcharge May Be Dealt With. Hack drivers without licenses, charging exorbitant rates and driving with criminal carelessness, are likely to be severely dealt with by the police and by licensed hackmen. Hackmen are required to pay an annual $5 license, but during the days of heavy tourist travel drivers without license plunge into the business, and this has caused trouble between them and the men who pay the license and follow a straight hack driving business. Careless driving to and from the passenger boats, especially the North Land and the North West, has been tolerated in this city for several years, and more by miracle than skillful handling of the horses in tight places has prevented accidents of a very serious nature. As it is, there have been small accidents and hundreds of close escapes. Hackmen drive down over the Sixth avenue east viaduct and around the Spalding hotel and Union depot corners on a dead run. When the streets are crowded this is nothing but criminal recklessness, and the police have determined to suppress it.
As for charging exorbitant rates, these was an incident this morning when the North West came in that would put the most brazen work of a big mitt gang to shame. A minister was charged $2 for a brief, nerve-shattering dash from the dock to the Spalding hotel. The regular price is 50 cents, and the robbery seems to be particularly bad form when ministers are supposed to travel half fare. Duluth Herald August 30, 1910 IMMENSE COAL DOCK WILL BE ERECTED ON WEST DULUTH SITE Carnegie Dock & Fuel Company Purchases Eighty Acre Tract. Duplicate of Mammoth New Dock in Superior to Be Erected. Improvement Will Entail Expenditure of Nearly $750,000. The Carnegie dock & Fuel company has purchased from the Lowry Holding company, through the John A. Stephenson agency, eighty acres of land on the bay front just east of the Zenith Furnace company’s plant in West Duluth and will erected a coal dock to cost between $500,000 and $750,000, to be practically a duplication of the immense dock now nearing completion in St. Louis bay in Superior for the same company. J. H. Sanford of Pittsburg, vice president and general manager of the Carnegie Coal company and president of the Carnegie Dock & Fuel company,
which is a subsidiary of the former corporation, has been in Duluth for some time making arrangements for securing a distributing base on this side of the bay. He said this morning that the plans of the company are not definitely formed, by that a hard coal shed, costing about $100,000 and temporary unloading apparatus will probably be erected this fall and the construction of the main dock will begin as early as possible in the spring. Eighty Acres Bought. The site purchased by the company consists of eighty acres, with a frontage of a quarter of a mile on the bay. About forty acres are submerged, the part of the other forty that was submerged having been filled with slag from the Zenith furnace. The tract is the last of the holdings of the Lowry estate, or the Lowry Holding company, on the bay front in West Duluth. Although Mr. Stephenson would not divulge the consideration involved in the
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deal, it is understood to have been in the neighborhood of $1,000 an acre. Bay front property is being rapidly taken up in West Duluth and the site is considered a very desirable one. Connections with the Northern Pacific, Canadian Northern and range roads will be available. The mammoth dock now nearing completion in Superior is the largest and most modern at the Head of the Lakes and the New West Duluth dock will be a duplicate of that dock, with such improvements as may seem desirable. The dock will be built for the utilization of electric power to the best advantage, and the capacity will be great enough to insure handling with facility the immense amount of coal the company expects to distribute through the Northwest, with Duluth as the distributing center. The announcement of the plans of the Carnegie company is another step in the industrial regeneration of West Duluth. After West Duluth had been dormant for many years, the location of the steel plant at Spirit lake gave it a new lease of life and a number of large concerns have purchased sites for docks and factories in that part of the city, which has practically the only bayfront property available. Duluth Herald August 31, 1920 NATELSON TURNS STATE’S EVIDENCE IN LYNCHING CASE TESTIFIES STEPHENSON WAS RIOTER Refuses to Be Cross-Examined Regarding Own Participation Whether the state constitutional provision which specified that no person shall be compelled to testify against himself in any criminal procsecution may be construed to override a section of the Minnesota Statutes which provides that “no person shall be excused from giving evidence” in rioting cases on the ground that his testimony might “tend to convict him of a crime,” is a fine point of law which the district court will have to decide in the trials of the rioting cases growing out of the recent lynching of three negroes now in progress. The question cropped out this morning when Nate Natelson, aged 25, 1905 East Second street, under
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indictment for murder and riot in connection with the lynching of June 15, turned state’s evidence to identify and implicate Henry Stephenson, now on trial, as a partixipant in the riot, but refused to be cross-examined by Stephenson’s attorneys on the part that he, Natelson, had played in the affair. Stephenson a Leader. Natelson testified that Stepehnson was one of two men who had held a fire hose which played a stream of water upon the police the evening of the riot and that later he had witnessed Stephenson use a sledge hammer to break the lock on the door to a cell containinbg one of the negro victims. When Attorney A. E. McManus for the defense undertook to question him relative to his own connection with the rioting, Natelson refused point blank to answer on the grounds that the answer might incriminate him. B. M. Goldberg, attorney for the witness, Natelson, was present in court and stated that he had advised his client that he need not answer any question, of the answer might tend to incriminate himself. Mason M. Forbes, first assistant county attorney, then stated to the court that there was a Minnesota statute, No. 8812, laws of 1913, which provided that in cases against the public peace “no person shall be excused from giving evidence upon an investigation or prosecution for any offense committed under this subdivision upon the gorund that his testimony might tend to convict him in a crime.” Judge Fesler ordered a recess, announcing that he would give a decision on the oint of law involved when court reconvened. Judges Cant and Dancer attended a conference with Judge Fesler and it is believed that the question was taken up as it will undoubtedly arise in some of the other prosecutions in connection with the lynching cases. The complete jury is composed of the following citizens: Duluth Herald September 1, 1922 RECORD CROWD FOR HIBBING FAIR Duluth Day Saturday; Many Going by Rail And Motor. Duluth day at the St. Louis county fair tomorrow at Hibbing promises to attract a record crowd from Duluth. More than 300 men and women from Duluth will visit the fair tomorrow, according to S. V.
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Saxby, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, who has been busy the last two weeks arranging for a large local representation at the annual county show. Most of the Duluth delegation will motor to Hibbing tomorrow, while 100 are planning to take the 7:40 train in the morning, accompanied by an American Legion band. A special reduced road rate is being offered to
Duluthians over the week-end. Secretary Saxby will head the delegation, which will include representatives from every wholesale house in the city. A special booth will be conducted at the fair by the local chamber by Miss Sylvia Silverman, publicity secretary, who drove to Hibbing this afternoon with a large supply of buttons, badges and pamphlets.
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Guard was called in for 1967 riots On the night of July 19, 1967, racial tension in North Minneapolis erupted along Plymouth Avenue in a series of acts of arson, assaults, and vandalism. The violence, which lasted for three nights, is often linked with other racerelated demonstrations in cities across the nation during 1967’s “long hot summer.” In the early 20th century, North Minneapolis was known as a place where marginalized people came together. Restrictive housing covenants prevented both Jewish and African American citizens from buying homes elsewhere in Minneapolis, so the Northside became an area where residents from different backgrounds cooperated, built friendships, and even intermarried. After World War II, however, trust between the two groups began to erode. As overtly anti-Semitic practices declined, housing options and job opportunities opened up more readily for Jewish citizens than for African Americans, straining relationships between previously friendly neighbors. Civil rights leader W. Harry Davis described that unrest in his 2002 autobiography. North Minneapolis in the 1960s, he stated, was no longer the quiet, isolated small city of his youth. The anger over racial inequality that bubbled to the surface in places like Los Angeles and Detroit was also
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Civilians and National Guardsmen on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis, July 1967. present in Minneapolis. Though some scholars refer to the events as riots, others argue that they were a series of criminal activities. Many, however, use terms like “uprising” and “rebellion” that suggest a strategic response to social injustice. The city had two major incidents of
civil unrest on the Northside in the 1960s. The first, in 1966, involved looting and arson on Plymouth Avenue. Arthur Naftalin, the city’s first Jewish mayor, acknowledged the lack of opportunities for blacks in the neighborhood and promised change in response. By the summer of 1967,
conditions had not improved, and black residents’ frustration was stronger than ever. Accounts vary as to how the 1967 incidents started. Some witnesses recall the mistreatment of a black woman by police at the Aquatennial parade as the inciting event. Shortly before 11:30 p.m. on July 19, a crowd of African American citizens moved north from the parade site towards Plymouth Avenue. There, they violently protested discrimination and mistreatment by police and Jewish business owners. Some people in the crowd vandalized, looted, and burned stores on Plymouth Avenue. There were sporadic incidents of arson, rock and bottle throwing, and assault. Someone threw Molotov cocktails at the home of a Jewish city-councilman—Minneapolis Fifth Ward Alderman Joe Greenstein. The city dispatched police forces with riot helmets and shotguns to control the crowds and minimize the damage. While trying to put out fires, some firefighters worked under a hail of rocks and bricks thrown by gathering crowds. By the time the violence and looting subsided early in the morning of July 20, approximately ten Plymouth Avenue stores had been vandalized. Silver’s Food Market and Knox Food Market—both Jewish-owned businesses—were completely destroyed by fires. Approximately ten people were treated at local hospitals, and thirteen African American citizens— including children—were arrested. Another round of violence ignited later that day. In response, Mayor Naftalin asked Governor Harold LeVander for Minnesota National Guard troops to
CHRONOLOGY 1950s: Unequal housing and job opportunities strain previously friendly relationships between the Northside’s black and Jewish communities. Though many Jewish people move out of the neighborhood, several Jewish-owned businesses remain open on Plymouth Avenue. 1965: African Americans make up 4 percent of Minnesota’s population. A large number of newly arrived immigrants settle on the “Near North Side.” August 1966: After incidents of looting and arson in North Minneapolis, Mayor Arthur Naftalin meets with representatives of the black community and promises to help improve local conditions. 1966: The Way Opportunities Unlimited, Inc. 30 August 27, 2020 DuluthReader.com
(The Way) opens in North Minneapolis. It attempts to empower the black community and provide economic opportunities. Summer 1967: Opportunities for black citizens in North Minneapolis remain poor. July 19, 1967: Violence erupts on Plymouth Avenue just before 11:30 p.m. Knox Food Market, a Jewish-owned business, is set on fire. 11:30 p.m.: Molotov cocktails are thrown at the home of Minneapolis Fifth Ward Alderman Joe Greenstein. 11:48 p.m.: Riot police arrive in North Minneapolis to restore order. July 20, 1967: At 12:15 a.m., a crowd moves
toward the Homewood Theater, a Jewish-owned venue. Police make several arrests. 11:30 p.m.: Alderman Greenstein’s garage is set on fire, but saved. July 21, 1967: Samuel Simmons, an African American man, is shot at Wayne’s Bar at 12:30 AM. 12:30 a.m.: Silver’s Food Market and Country House Market—two Jewish-owned businesses— are set on fire. 1:05 a.m.: Police arrive and form a skirmish line. 9:15 a.m.: National Guardsmen arrive. July 22, 1967: The unrest ends. National Guardsmen continue to occupy North Minneapolis for one week.
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occupy the area until tensions died down. Six hundred guardsmen were called in to work in round-the-clock shifts. For over a week, 150–250 National Guard troops were stationed on Plymouth Avenue. Additional Guardsmen were stationed in other areas in both North and South Minneapolis and in predominantly African American areas of St. Paul. The peacekeeping efforts of many Northside citizens during the demonstrations were acknowledged in some media coverage. On July 20 and 21, violence continued sporadically on and near Plymouth Avenue before tapering off. In total, there were eighteen fires, thirty-six arrests, three shootings, twenty-four injuries, and damages totaling 4.2 million. Of the arrests that were made, at least four were of white citizens. There were no fatalities. Throughout the three-day period, demonstrators had showed their frustration with discrimination against African Americans on the Northside. They had focused most of their anger on white authority symbols, including businesses and property. Local police received few reports of assaults on white citizens themselves. The media generally cited newcomers and a militant minority in North Minneapolis as the cause of the violence. Some local press addressed systemic causes—including alienation and racism– and called on community leaders and policymakers to prevent future violent incidents.
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apart. This should provide enough support for the drywall. Another method is to cut a notch, slightly deeper than the thickness of a 2-by-4-inch stud, in the backside of the bowed stud. Cut a short piece of stud long enough to fit between two adjacent studs. Screw this piece horizontally in the notch. Nail each end into the adjacent studs such that the front surface of the bowed stud is pushed out level with the others. The reverse procedure can be used with a stud that is bowed out. A 2-by-4-inch studded wall on 16-inch centers can be quite heavy and difficult to raise into position without a large crew or a crane. If it is not raised in a reasonably uniform method, it can be twisted, and the lumber can actually be damaged and weakened. The most difficult part is when starting to tilt the wall up from the floor. Once it is above 45 degrees, it is easier to lift. Take several 2-by4-inch beams, and nail them to the subflooring. Nail small support plates to it every 18 inches or so. Starting at one end, lift the wall and let the header rest on a plate. Work your way along the wall for each step until it is
high enough to raise. Once the wall is up, you may want to adjust its position. One method is to build a couple of hinged support beams. These are simply made from 2-by-4-inch studs (scrap ones are too bowed to use). A V-notch is cut into the end of one, and it is attached near the end of another lever with a hinge. Support the bottom end of the lever piece with a block nailed to the subflooring. Place the V-notch against the wall header. By pushing on the lever, the wall will easily move to get it perfectly vertical. Send your questions to Here’s How, 6906 Royalgreen Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45244, or visit dulley.com. To find out more about James Dulley and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at reators.com.
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Let’s go underground Dear EarthTalk: If we lived in underground buildings (and cities), would it be better for the environment overall? -- Marty M., Hoboken, NJ It’s certainly true that moving more of our infrastructure, let alone work and live space, underground would relieve some of the pressure that our conventional above-ground development and habitation puts on the environment. While building below the surface presents its own set of challenges, underground spaces are less susceptible to external influences and their overall impact (including carbon emissions) tends to be less than the equivalent amount of space above ground. Indeed, given the environmental
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problems we’re experiencing, moving more below the surface does indeed have the potential to make things safer, healthier and more sustainable for all of us. In and of themselves, underground buildings have a built-in advantage in regard to energy usage for heating/ cooling, given their typically more constant temperature, humidity, heat insulation, shading and airtightness. Furthermore, underground buildings are much less affected by wind, rain, frost, snow, sun radiation or other external conditions. At the same time, the temperature fluctuation range of underground space is small, especially as compared to the “hot-and-cold load” in above-ground buildings. In short, underground buildings use only a fraction of the energy required by conventional buildings to keep the interior environment comfortable, with most of the energy consumption concentrated instead on less powerintensive lighting and ventilation systems. Beyond being better for the planet
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This view shows off Helsinki’s underground water works. The Finnish capital is a world leader in moving people and their infrastructure below the surface where they can live more energy-efficient lifestyles. Credit: Jordi Cueto-Felgueroso Arocha, FlickrCC. in some ways as compared to aboveground buildings, just having some underground buildings in the mix – even below regular cities – could yield vast benefits. “ Underground solutions can solve or help improve multiple of the problems that urban developments face: traffic congestion; environmental problems; lack of (green) space; need for protection against disasters; lack of infrastructure for food, energy, water and sanitation,” reports Dutch researcher Wout Broere. “Placement of infrastructure and other facilities underground presents an opportunity for realizing new functions in urban areas without destroying heritages or negatively impacting the surface environment, and at the same time brings opportunities for long-term improvements in the environmental impact of cities and more efficient use of space and resources,” adds Broere. Many cities around the world – from Helsinki to Moscow to Montreal to Beijing – are developing underground space to alleviate population and environmental pressures. Helsinki, for instance, has adopted a strategic ‘Underground City Plan’ which calls for the construction of some 200 more underground buildings there to accompany the city’s existing subterranean swimming complex, shopping area, and hockey rink. Meanwhile, Russian developers are converting a defunct 550-meter-deep
mine shaft in Eastern Siberia into an eco-friendly underground city under a huge glass dome. The ambitious project – replete with vertical farms, forests and recreation areas in addition to climate controlled underground offices and housing – promises to eventually accommodate 100,000 residents. While many of us shudder at the thought of living a subterranean lifestyle, at least making the option available to those who choose it willingly could be a big win for the environment. CONTACTS: “Urban Underground Space: Solving The Problems of Today’s Cities,” sciencedirect.com/science/ article/pii/S0886779815302923#!; “Future Cities Live Underground – And That’s Not a Pile of Schist,” thenatureofcities.com/2017/01/22/ future-cities-live-undergroundthats-not-pile-schist/; “Study on the Energy-Saving Design of Underground Building,” scientific.net/AMR.10651069.2205. EarthTalk® is produced by Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss for the 501(c)3 nonprofit EarthTalk. See more at https://emagazine. com. To donate, visit https://earthtalk.org. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.
Can hydrocychloroquine prevent COVID-19? Q: We’re still hearing about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus. Most medical authorities have concluded it is neither safe nor effective as a treatment for the virus. Observational studies from some practitioners report it can be effective when used early on for treating the coronavirus – together with zinc and azithromycin – but it has limited effectiveness when a COVID-19 patient is seriously ill. Have any researchers studied prescribing hydroxychloroquine prophylactically to at-risk people, such as frontline medical workers? I ask because I fall into that category. I’m healthy with no heart issues, but I am 75. I am involved with various volunteer activities working closely with others. (Yes, we wear masks, but strict social distancing is not always possible.) Is there any scientific research on the prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine? A: We could find only one randomized controlled trial of hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19 in exposed individuals (New England Journal of Medicine, Aug. 6, 2020). The investigators recruited over 800 people exposed for more than 10 minutes at a distance of less than 6 feet to infected coronavirus patients. Many were health care workers exposed on the job. The volunteers started taking HCQ or placebo within four days of their exposure. After two weeks there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of symptoms or COVID-19 test results. Q: What can you tell me about the safety and long-term use of Ozempic to treat Type 2 diabetes? My husband’s A1C is around 7.2. The endocrinologist wants to try Ozempic along with his metformin and glimepiride to see if he can do better. He is not overweight and is careful with his diet. I’m worried about injectables at his age of 64. What are the long-term effects? A: Ozempic (semaglutide) is prescribed to improve blood sugar con-
trol for people with Type 2 diabetes. It was approved in the U.S. in 2017, so we have only three years of experience on long-term effects. We worry that your husband’s glimepiride, a sulfonylurea medicine, could interact with the Ozempic injection. This combination could increase the risk of a serious episode of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Symptoms can include fatigue, confusion, blurred vision, seizures and coma. A common side effect is digestive distress. Other adverse reactions may include thyroid cancer and pancreatitis. If your husband has the eye disease diabetic retinopathy, using Ozempic might make it worse. Q: Six years ago, my doctor prescribed Voltaren Gel for arthritis in my knee. She assured me that the warnings only applied to the oral form of the drug. I got excellent relief. After three weeks, however, I suddenly developed swelling in that leg. My blood pressure went up to 220/110 and I ended up in the emergency room. They monitored me for six or seven hours until my blood pressure returned to normal. Voltaren, even topical, can cause some serious side effects. A: Voltaren Gel for arthritis pain is now available without a prescription. The Food and Drug Administration has warned that both oral and topical NSAIDs like diclofenac (Voltaren Gel) can lead to edema and high blood pressure. People who cannot tolerate NSAIDs like diclofenac, ibuprofen and naproxen may benefit from nondrug approaches to manage joint pain. You can learn about these in our eGuide to Alternatives for Arthritis. This online resource is available in the Health eGuides section of PeoplesPharmacy.com. Joe and Teresa Graedon answer letters from readers. Write to them in care of King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or email them via their website PeoplesPharmacy.com. (c) 2020 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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State appeals Enbridge certificate of need for Line 3 project MN350 applauds Gov. Tim Walz’s announcement that the state will refile its appeal of the Certificate of Need for the Line 3 pipeline. “We’re grateful to Wabigonikwe Raven from Giniw Collective, who suspended herself from READER a tripod in front of the STAFF governor’s residence for 11 hours,” said MN350 organizer Andy Pearson. “We’re grateful to the 200 community members who showed up on Saturday to call on Gov. Walz to do the right thing, to the thousands of supporters who made phone calls and wrote emails, and to the governor himself, for hearing the voices of Minnesotans and upholding his commitment to see the Line 3 appeal through. This is the right decision, the choice that steers toward climate justice, and the path that best supports the process, the law, and the science.” The appeal likely will play out over several months, further delaying Enbridge Energy’s construction plans even as the fossil fuel industry reels from a steep drop in demand. The appeal will involve the Department of Commerce, tribal nations and environmental advocates who have been fighting Line 3 for years. They will lay out the flaws in the Certificate of Need issued by the Public Utilities Commission and explain how it fails to meet the standards in Minnesota law. A three-judge panel from the Minnesota Court of Appeals will issue a decision. If the panel agrees the certificate was issued illegally, it may be overturned or sent back. “This is an important process and we’re glad to see it move forward,” Pearson said. “The new Line 3 would be massive, toxic infrastructure, with climate damages in the hundreds of billions of dollars. It would violate treaty protections and put Minnesota’s
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Protesters gathered outside the governor’s mansion to request that the state refile its appeal of the Certificate of Need for the Line 3 pipeline. Submitted photo. water at risk. With Greenland melting and our neighbors in Iowa suffering from floods and a devastating derecho, we shouldn’t be building this kind of pipeline at all anymore.”
New COVID-19 testing lab announced
On Aug. 25, Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan announced that Minnesota has partnered with the nation’s leading distributor of saliva testing to create plans for a new lab in Minnesota, expanding and diversifying testing capacity for Minnesotans, creating jobs, and slowing the spread of COVID-19. State officials are working to finalize the $14.66 million contract with Vault Health and RUCDR Infinite Biologics. Rutgers’ RUCDR Infinite Biologics holds the country’s first FDA Emergency Use Authorization PCR saliva test for COVID-19 while Vault Health provides logistics and telehealth services necessary to carry out the test. The planned lab will have
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the ability to more than double the state’s current test processing capacity. The contractors expect to have the lab up and running by early October. The funding is provided by the state’s federal CARES Act funding. This new saliva lab will be capable of processing as many as 30,000 samples a day, if running 3 shifts. At full capacity, it would also create up to 250 jobs at its planned location in Oakdale, Minnesota. Currently, Minnesota’s testing capacity hovers between 20,000 and 22,000 tests per day. The rolling average of PCR COVID-19 tests processed daily in Minnesota labs is just under 14,000 a day. Minnesotans will likely have three ways to access a saliva test. First, the state will set up 10 semi-permanent sites. Any Minnesotan will be able to come to these sites to perform the saliva test. Each semi-permanent location will create 15-20 temporary jobs for Minnesotans. Second, the state and other partners will be able to offer the test in mobile testing
events. The saliva test requires much less PPE than a traditional swab for COVID-19 because it is self-collected under the supervision of a health professional. Third, Vault Health also provides logistics and telehealth services to perform the saliva test at home. The state has not yet defined the parameters of a mail-order testing program. The three methods for test delivery are: 1) At-home testing supervised by a Vault Test Administrator Residents who are eligible (state program and eligibility still in development) will be able to log onto a state-specific Vault Health website. Once they answer two questions about exposure, one about potential symptoms, the test will be ordered to a home address by Vault MD. UPS delivers the test overnight. The individual will receive instructions in the test kit to join a Zoom waiting room to be identified and have their empty tube serial number verified. They will be guided to spit, seal & preserve the contents, then return the sample to the lab in a prepaid overnight return to the lab. Test results are emailed within 72 hours. View process here: youtu.be/tLo6KGqqiBk 2) On-site testing, supervised by trained medical personnel The testing entity orders test kits in bulk and leverages employees, contractors or volunteers with a medical background as “test administrators.” Vault will provide training to these administrators to conduct a “supervised spit” and to collect the samples and return to the laboratory. The main difference in the process flow is that the individual will use a mobile device to scan or manually enter on the website the serial number for the test kit handed to them on-site. Test results are emailed within 48 hours. (Alternatively, kits can be handed out onsite, with ability use the telehealth option and returned via individual overnight UPS shipping.) 3) Minnesota’s semi-permanent inperson testing locations Vault is available to manage on-
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site test events at any facility where additional support or a turnkey process is required. Vault will provide an appropriately sized team to administer testing on a specified date and time conducting a specific number of tests. Vault manages large on-site workforces in government, education, factories and fulfillment centers and sports teams in their practice facilities, and works to minimize disruption or long work stoppages. The higher test capacity, when combined with masking, social distancing, and isolation when appropriate, will help Minnesota get closer to suppressing COVID-19. According to the Harvard School of Public Health, for Minnesota to effectively mitigate the virus, the state will need to do just over 17,000 tests a day. Mitigation means keeping the size of the current outbreaks from growing and requires 10% or fewer positivity rate. To effectively suppress the virus, the state needs to do more than 63,500 tests a day. Suppression means greatly reducing new infections and keeping them low enough to safely reopen public life.
St. Louis River water trail maps available On August 19, the St. Louis River Alliance (SLRA) celebrated the completion and release of the St. Louis River Estuary (National) Water Trail Map. The St. Louis River Estuary (National) Water Trail is a multi-use waterway enabling the public to experience the St. Louis River Estuary amidst the urban landscape of the Twin Ports. The Water Trail map includes 11 loop trails for paddlers of all skill levels and abilities and is intended for various watercraft use. The 22x34 inch, full-color, highly detailed map will help guide your next adventure on the Lower St. Louis River. Maps are free to the public and available for pick-up. PDF versions are also available online at stlouisriver.org/ national-water-trail-map By providing access to wild space in an urban area, the water trail enables more people an opportunity to build their own memories and relationships to the St. Louis River. As proud managers of the St. Louis River Estuary Water Trail, the St. Louis River Alliance will lead the distribution of the Water Trail Maps.
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Community members can pick up their maps: Wednesdays on the Water: stop by between 3-6 p.m. on the following dates • Sept. 2: Munger Landing • Sept. 9: Chambers Grove • Sept. 16: Boy Scout Landing • Pick-up at the St. Louis River Alliance Office: maps will be available outside of the St. Louis River Alliance office, in the DeWitt Seitz Building (2nd floor). Stop in 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., 394 S. Lake Avenue | Suite 208, Duluth, 55802.
Many must reapply by Aug. 31 for food or cash benefits
More than 20,000 Minnesotans who receive food or cash assistance must renew their eligibility by the end of August to ensure they continue receiving benefits in September. Some Minnesotans who receive food or cash benefits received letters in the mail in late July and early August notifying them to renew (or “recertify”) their eligibility for assistance. This includes the following programs: • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) • Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) • General Assistance (GA) • Housing Support (which used to be called Group Residential Housing or GRH) • Minnesota Supplemental Aid. To renew, current SNAP and MFIP recipients must complete the Combined Application Form or 6-month Report, which they should have received in the mail, and provide proof of changes – such as a decrease in income, increase in housing costs, or change in number of members in their household – as they did prior to COVID-19. They must submit this information by Aug. 31 to maintain program eligibility. The USDA recently denied Minnesota’s request to extend the waivers, however, and directed the state to restart the SNAP recertification process, starting with September benefits. To keep recertification dates aligned across public assistance programs, Minnesota is beginning the process again for all the state’s cash assistance programs. To learn more, view this information sheet about the recertification process at mn.gov/dhs/assets 2020-08-14-helping-people-navigatepublic-assistance-recertifications_ tcm1053-443868.pdf.
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If Biden rejects progressive base, Trump wins During the official roll call at the virtual Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, representatives from 57 states and territories declared their delegate totals for Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, each from an iconic setting highlighting their region. Native American delegates from the Dakotas and New Mexico greeted viewers in their indigenous languages. African American delegates spoke from Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The sweeping celebration of the Democratic Party’s diversity, however, also highlighted the party’s fracture between its centrist, establishment and emerging progressive wings. Yes, all the delegations enthusiastically declared Joe Biden “the next president of the United States.” But, Bernie Sanders’ delegate total of 1,151, compared with Biden’s 3,558, indicates the persistence of a significant ideological
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divide. Two voices from the progressive wing were granted several minutes of airtime in Tuesday night’s program: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “Medicare for All” activist Ady Barkan. Ocasio-Cortez, widely known as AOC, transformed Democratic Party politics with her 2018 primary upset over 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, demonstrating the power of grassroots organizing coupled with progressive policy positions to energize a young, diverse electorate. “Good evening, bienvenidos and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring towards a better, more just future for our country and our world,” AOC said, opening her pre-recorded speaking slot, for which she was allotted 60 seconds (she used 95 seconds). She continued, thanking the “mass people’s movement working to establish 21st-century social, economic and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages and labor rights for all people in the United States ... striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny and homophobia, and to propose and build reimag946
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ined systems of immigration and foreign policy that turn away from the violence and xenophobia of our past; a movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards explosive inequalities of wealth for the few at the expense of long-term stability for the many, and who organized a historic grassroots campaign to reclaim our democracy, in a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep, systemic solutions to our crises of mass evictions, unemployment and lack of healthcare.” Ady Barkan’s statement was also pre-recorded, but for another reason: He is dying from ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A Yale-trained Israeli-American lawyer and activist, Barkan was diagnosed in 2016 at the age of 32, suffering from increasing nerve degeneration, muscle atrophy and paralysis. He can no longer speak, so composes his speeches in advance using a synthetic computer voice. “In the midst of a pandemic, nearly 100 million Americans do not have sufficient health insurance. And even good insurance does not cover essential needs like long-term care,” Barkan said. “Our loved ones are dying in unsafe nursing homes, our nurses are overwhelmed and unprotected, and our essential workers are treated as dispensable. In the richest country in history ... we do not guarantee this most basic human right. Everyone living in America should get the health care they need, regardless of employment status or ability to pay.” Ady Barkan advocated for Medicare for All without naming it, though he usually does, perhaps since Joe Biden has vowed to veto any Medicare for All bill that reaches his desk if he becomes president. Shortly after Barkan’s address aired, he tweeted: “We need to elect Joe Biden to take the next step towards Medicare For All. After November 4th? We’re going to put a bill on his desk.” Will the Democratic Party spurn the demands of its younger and increasingly diverse progressive wing?
It will try to. The Democratic National Committee quietly dropped its pledge to eliminate subsidies and tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry, saying it appeared in this year’s draft platform “in error” – despite appearing in the 2016 platform and being supported by both Biden and his running mate, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Then, the Biden campaign denounced respected PalestinianAmerican Muslim organizer Linda Sarsour after she appeared on a livestream of a Muslim Delegates and Allies Assembly side event to the DNC. Sarsour has publicly fought against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and antisemitism. She also supports the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement for Palestinian rights. A Biden spokesperson said Biden “obviously condemns her views and opposes BDS.” Ady Barkan fired back on Twitter in solidarity: “I say this as a Jew and an Israeli citizen ... the Biden campaign issued a vile and dishonest statement against my beloved sister Linda Sarsour, a fierce advocate for justice and freedom, and a leading antiracist and organizer against antisemitism. The Biden campaign must retract and apologize.” If Joe Biden ignores, demoralizes or actively alienates his progressive base, he could pave the way for another Donald Trump victory, in what public intellectual Noam Chomsky has called “the most crucial election in human history.” Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/ radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations. She is the co-author, with Denis Moynihan and David Goodman, of the New York Times best-seller Democracy Now!: 20 Years Covering the Movements Changing America. (c) 2020 Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Who was that masked man? Was a time The Lone Ranger was my favorite. Theme music and rearing horse helped but it was the central figure’s persona that maintained interest after the music died. In a more modern mode of critical response I’d be rewarded for asking “Why?” What could possibly be good about a supremacist figure with a lower caste sidekick going around taking the law in his domineering male hands? Picking the nits (of which there are a great many to choose from) of social justice there is fun and profit to be found reducing any icon to frags of no sense. Alexander Pope (long discarded as an irrelevant carcass of cursed Western culture) said “We murder to dissect.” What matters a cultural history or insight might have merit if it can be replaced by a bundle of mockery? What happens when models are cast down because they can be and none will raise another because the effort is toppled before you’re done? Without a standard of accomplishment what is there? Does building a house carry the same social value as watching the work be done? If so you and I can safely bet doers will dwindle while watchers increase. It’s the easier way we humans know so well. If classes in history, government and social science hadn’t become exercises in justice preaching and political theories our students, a few at least, might today be aware so, so, so very much of today has been seen-done a time or two. We don’t want to burden justice preachers with too much detail, but they might like to review how many times in the past few hundred years a revolting society stated a new dawn. The present offspring being another of those new days. Heaven only knows what date (if they’d bend to use old counting) a new historian would give for the French Revolution, but it wouldn’t be long after the American. At some time would be good “nuff for current standards. A new start meant a new calendar and so much more, a revolution in how things were to be properly done, including killing as many in the nobility (young, old, all genders) as could be caught. At a feverish pitch of new-day reform the new wave ran out of nobles soon
enough, and visionary justice needing to be served reformers turned cannibal and began lopping heads of those in factions thought not worthy of the new day. Those times (from which France struggled to recover) were not called The Terror without cause. The new dawn being a perfect conception by the minds of men could do little wrong so long as power and fear prevailed. How many other revolts have announced a new calendar? Any idea? When do you think the Thousand Year Reich began if not with a new dawn in the ‘30s as National Socialism gained power? The Chairman did it, Pol Pot did it. Most every revolution is going to kick out the evil past and start anew with its own version. They all do it! Who knew? We might say those not told might not be aware they are on an oldold path of revolution on its way to accomplish perfection. And, hey, the metric system rose as a new and perfect system to fit the glorious future and be suited for the entire planet to follow. Whether metric was the best or if the Chinese or Polynesians wanted it was never asked. The new order was set as any king or emperor might have acted. Kings and such were gone, but they had worthy replacements. Heard of Revolution’s ever present long Rs? Resentment, Revenge, Retaliation, and (of late) Reparation. These are the heartbeat hammers of the revolutionist’s new age. Not hard to grasp when we consider revolution means overthrowing. Up with this can’t happen until down with that is accomplished. Taking down is in many ways the easy part. Compare to your own home. Demolishing or burning down can be done in hours. A year later you remain homeless. Destroy easy; create difficult. An otherwise unskilled zealot is able to scatter and shatter many times more than what they’re able to gather and build. It’s somewhat the nature of revolution (I could snidely say and of revolutionaries) to excel at the easy stuff and get hardly anywhere with the producing perfected social order. We messy people don’t perfect easily driving the perfectionist to remove ever more of us for not fitting the dream. A basic of revolutionary leadership is plain old fashioned authority and
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power. The job of the revolutionary is telling others what they can and cannot do. It’s nice work if you can get it. I say-you do is a fantasy job for an unemployed crop of wizarding world trainees. Wishful thinking is pretty much all many of them are prepared to do. Imagine the revolutionary joy at an opportunity to do nothing on a grander scale than on the basement sofa. Do, however, take a moment to sympathize with the revolutionist. They start well but don’t necessarily end so. Take the Communist version from a century back. They started with Four Founding Fathers (sexism in revolutionary form) but quickly trimmed to two. Damn hard to find the perfect being as your model. One religious founder makes the claim, es-
sentially imputing that he is HE (gads more sexism, where will it end). Does throwing down models eventually reveal the one and true? Those who think this may be so are conducting an earnest search for James Hoffa. Good luck. Claimed ideals and inspiring goals are the cheap side of revolution. Accomplishment, now there’s the Shakespearean rub. Fact is, hard to build a working society based on accusation. Try regularly reminding a friend of any fault or failing. See how far that goes to build a better relationship. The term “mobocracy” was used to describe the French Revolution. Two hundred years later what’s changed? Has mobocracy become progressive or is it still a tear down process leaving others to rebuild?
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Evers calls for special session to focus on police accountability Republican speaker says let his task force handle it Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order Monday calling for the Legislature to take up bills on police accountability and transparency at a special session to begin Aug. 31. The governor had originally proposed the package of bills in June, following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Monday’s order comes after Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man, multiple times in the back on Sunday. On Monday afternoon, Evers said he’s received no information indicating Blake was armed. For months, protesters across the state have called for police to be defunded. On Sunday night, protests in Kenosha turned heated with police using tear gas to manage the crowds. On Monday, Evers said 125 members of the National Guard would be dispatched to Kenosha. “Frankly I should not need to call
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• A requirement for law enforcement agencies to publish their policies online, and for the Department of Justice to publish an annual report on incidents in which officers use force. Evers noted that Iowa and Minnesota passed police reform bills of their own this summer. On Monday, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, announced the creation of a speaker’s task force on racial disparities, educational opportunities, public safety and police policies. Vos said he spoke to Evers on the phone Monday morning, asking the governor to allow legislators to address the issue of police accountability through the task force. “We have an opportunity to bring people together to find solutions. Instead, the governor is choosing to turn to politics again by dictating liberal policies that will only deepen the divisions in our state,” he said in a statement. In response to the task force, Evers said he believes it’s time for action. Evers can call a special session, but can’t force the Assembly to convene. If the Legislature fails to move on these measures, Evers said he’ll do what
he can through executive actions. However, he said the Legislature and the executive branch must work together to achieve real change, noting that some of the bills already have Republican support. Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes echoed Evers belief that the task force doesn’t go far enough. “This is just another abdication of responsibility. Racial injustice in this state has existed long before Robin Vos was the Assembly Speaker, so for him to just decide now is the time for a task force shows that he is once again late to the party,” he said. Political and community leaders are calling for an investigation into Blake’s shooting by Kenosha police on Sunday afternoon. Blake was shot multiple times by police who were responding to a domestic violence call on the city’s north side. A video of the shooting taken by a witness shows police grabbing Blake’s shirt as he tries to open a vehicle, before at least one officer shoots Blake multiple times in the back. “These shots pierce the soul of our nation,” former Vice President Joe Biden, Democratic candidate for president, said in a statement. “Jill and I pray for Jacob’s recovery and for his children.” Biden called for “an immediate, full and transparent investigation” into the shooting, a sentiment echoed by other political leaders. During an interview with WPR’s The Morning Show, Democratic state Sen. Bob Wirch, who represents Kenosha, called the shooting “horrible.” “It seems to me that (police) could have used a taser. But let’s wait for all of the facts to come in,” Wirch said. “I believe in the rule of law, and we need a thorough investigation of what happened, the events leading up to this shooting and whatever. But it’s just terrible and I think we have to rededicate ourselves to peace and justice in our community.” Wirch said there needed to be a review of police training and policy in response to the incident. But he cautioned that “change is slow” and protests could spark backlash.
Skepticism urged as disinformation, voter suppression wash over Wisconsin By Max Witynski and Jessica Christoffer
Late in July, President Donald Trump used his Twitter-powered megaphone to muse about postponing the Nov. 3 election, citing alleged – and widely debunked – concerns about mail-in voter fraud. Despite widespread efforts to factcheck the president – and make clear he lacks the power to delay the election – Trump’s voter fraud myth was repeated in Wisconsin. In a July 30 Twitter post, NBC 15 in Madison ran the tweet verbatim, asking viewers’ opinions of the message but failing to provide context about the harmful falsehood. Several commenters expressed alarm at the post. “Not only WIS. CENTER FOR is it not a good idea, it INESTIGATIVE is an illegal JOURNALISM action, and your headline is exceedingly irresponsible journalism,” one user wrote. The station did not respond to requests for comment. The episode shows how disinformation – content that is intended to deceive – can spread on social media even after being widely exposed as false. It also demonstrates how national influencers with vast followings wield extraordinary power to distort reality. And it shows how everyone is responsible for spreading or containing false information that circulates online – and poses a threat to democracy. The president’s words come as multiple forces threaten to disrupt the 2020 presidential election. A top national security official on Aug. 7 reported that Russia, China and Iran were attempting to “sway U.S. voters’ preferences and perspectives, shift U.S. policies, increase discord in the United States and undermine the American people’s confidence in our democratic process.” Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters that Russian interference aimed at boosting Trump’s re-election far outweighs efforts by the other two countries.
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Despite widespread efforts to fact-check the president – and make clear he lacks the power to delay the election – Trump’s voter fraud myth was repeated in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin in the crosshairs Disinformation can be carefully targeted to locations and demographics where it is likely to have the biggest impact. Wisconsin received a disproportionate amount of targeted disinformation from Russian actors in 2016 because of its status as a swing state, according to research led by Young Mie Kim, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an affiliated scholar at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan law and public policy center. Wisconsin Watch and First Draft, a leading resource on the spread of disinformation, identified multiple instances in which disinformation with murky origins appeared to target Wisconsinites. The Facebook page Wisconsin Revolution, for example, uses stock images for both profile and cover photos and posts divisive, sometimes xenophobic content. This spring, posts suggested a connection between China, the U.S. media, the “establishment” and the spread of the novel coronavirus. The page was inactive for all of 2018 and most of 2019, but posted a large volume of anti-Hillary Clinton content in the run-up to the 2016 election and has stepped up pro-Trump and anti-Gov. Tony Evers content in mid-April. Fake accounts known as bots can also amplify divisive content. Some of that content is produced by people who traffic in inflammatory content, including extreme partisans. The effect is that these voices appear to be shouting louder and gaining more traction than they would with purely human audiences. One account identified by Wisconsin Watch appears to be a real person with bot-like tendencies. The account, @ Carol_Peaslee, tweets with remarkable frequency: nearly 60 times a day, on average, between mid-June and early August, with most activity occurring overnight and during early morning hours. The account posts a large volume of conservative propaganda and con-
spiracy theories about COVID-19 treatments and Evers’ response to the pandemic, among other subjects. Some of the account’s followers are likely bots, although most appear to be real people, a Wisconsin Watch analysis shows. The holder of the @Carol_Peaslee account could not be reached for comment. Biden meme launched, spreads On March 3, just before the nation’s attention zeroed in on battling COVID-19, Joe Biden swept 10 out of 14 Super Tuesday states and became the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. But the former vice president’s victory also made him a bigger target than he had been before: Even before he was declared the presumptive nominee, numerous pages and accounts on Facebook and Twitter were circulating a meme implying that Biden was senile. “I’m Joe Biden, and I forgot this message,” it read, under an image of Biden looking into the camera that had been captured from his campaign announcement video. The meme was shared widely on pro-Trump pages as well as in pro-Sen. Bernie Sanders and anti-Biden groups, where it was seen, liked and shared thousands of times. On Twitter, an account allegedly based in Wisconsin, @WiCheesehead1, shared the “I’m Joe Biden, and I forgot this message” meme. The same account has shared a variety of fabricated and hyper-partisan content, including a meme that used Biden campaign branding with a fake image of Hunter Biden, the candidate’s son, at a strip club. The account has also promoted an unsubstantiated theory linking the coronavirus outbreak to the buildout of 5G networks. The holder of that account also could not be located. Although they can be entertaining, political memes that take aim at candidates are often examples of disinformation – false information that is intentionally spread to cause harm. Biden, of course, never says “I
forgot this message” in his campaign announcement. And while many people who saw the meme probably interpreted the text as a humorous dig, rather than a literal quote, they nonetheless may have had second thoughts about Biden’s mental fitness for the presidency after seeing it, potentially tamping down turnout for Biden in later contests. The meme’s content also insidiously meshed with one of Russia’s goals in its ongoing information war against America – discouraging political participation. That is also one of the primary goals of Russian “sock puppets”: accounts that post under false identities and pretend to be Americans, according to Josephine Lukito, who studied disinformation as a doctoral candidate in the UW-Madison journalism school. Lukito’s work on the accidental amplification of Russian disinformation by the mainstream media leading up to the 2016 U.S. election was cited in the Mueller report on Russian election interference. When such content is accidentally amplified by real people who are unaware of its origins, it becomes misinformation. Misinformation is false information that it is not necessarily meant to deceive, but is spread across the internet by people who believe it to be real. The implications of dis- and misformation for democracy are farreaching. Lukito says disinformation is spread by a variety of foreign and domestic actors – not just Russians – with the goal of hurting adversaries, encouraging resentment and division and sowing distrust in the media, which play an important role in delivering factual information to the public. Because of their popularity and simplicity, memes are a great way to accomplish these goals. Creating a meme is often as simple as taking a widely available photo, pasting false or misleading text over it and posting it on social media. In the case of the Biden meme, an early version had a watermark from a Facebook community called Americans for Liberty, which published the meme a few hours before polls began closing on Super Tuesday. Americans for Liberty did not respond to a request for comment from Wisconsin Watch. August 27, 2020 41
Signs of fall
Autumn meadowhawk dragonflies are one of the latest to emerge. Photos by Emily Stone.
Red maples growing in swamps make sure to conserve nutrients by losing their leaves early.
At the end of one of those perfect summer days – sunny and 75, with low humidity – I hopped on my bike for scenic ride along the east side of Lake Namakagon. A light breeze tickled the water, and brought to my nose the sweet smell of algae being tossed and turned at the surface. I scanned for otters among the thick beds of water lilies and purpleblooming thickets of CONNECTIONS pickerel weed. And then a glimpse of color caught me by surprise. I don’t remember what came out of my mouth. It was some garbled shout of startled dismay. There, in the corner of the bay, where the forest and marsh grass intermingled, stood a maple tree with every single leaf changed to red. I love fall. This year, though, I’m not ready for summer to be over. The Museum only just opened to the public, after pandemic-related delays in the construction of our “Mysteries of the Night” exhibit. My usual milestones of Loon Pontoon Tours, Master Naturalist Programs, our Summer Benefit Party, and Junior Naturalists playing games in the Outdoor Classroom were nowhere to be found. And now, already, by the first of August, signs of a changing season have appeared out of nowhere. Honestly, red maples catch me off guard every year. These adaptable trees
feathers are visible under their wings and tails, and yellow feather shafts show through from above and below. Their white rump patches flash brightly and give another vibrant identification clue during short, undulating flights. Once flickers lead your eyes to the edge of the woods, mushrooms start to materialize in the shadows, too. Along my driveway, the pure white blobs of Peppery Milkcaps have emerged from the netherworlds, still wearing little caps of pine needles and oak leaf duff. I’m always amazed by the way that mushrooms seem to appear out of nowhere after late summer rains. The Anishinaabe noticed this, too, and use the word “puhpowee,” to describe “the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight.” Peppery milkcap mushrooms aren’t edible, but that’s ok because my gardens are thriving. As I poked around the hops vines and ferns—still in my bike shorts and vest—I found several small, orange dragonflies perched in the waning sunshine. Once I’d identified them as female autumn meadowhawks, using the SEEK app, it became easy to discover that these are the one of the latest dragonflies to emerge from their aquatic childhoods each summer. The adults are unusually tolerant of cold, and withstand temperatures of 50 degrees F or lower as they survive into October and November. Also in my garden, I spotted a very fat monarch butterfly caterpillar. Will this one become a butterfly that flies to Mexico, or a monarch that lays more eggs and sends its progeny south for the winter instead? It’s around this
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can survive in both wetter and drier soils than their sugar maple cousins, but not without sacrifices. The soil in swamps is often low in essential nutrients. Unlike trees in richer soils, “swamp maples” can’t risk losing any nutrients to an early frost. Each year around the beginning of August, they pull valuable nitrogen and phosphorus back out of the leaves and into the twigs, where they’ll remain on-deck to fuel next spring’s leaf growth. Next, sugars in the leaves break down and form anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are pigments that absorb UV light, especially at low temperatures. Like sunscreen, they protect the leaf cells. They provide cover while swamp maples withdraw every last nutrient drop from fragile leaves. To create anthocyanins they need lots of sugars, which requires dependable soil moisture and sunshine. Happily, that’s the definition of a swamp. That red maple opened my eyes to other signs of fall I’d been trying to ignore. The dappled yellows in the roadsides show that the oval leaves of spreading dogbane and the lacey fronds of bracken ferns are following red maple’s example. While their yellows will soon drift to the ground, another one flashes upward. Yellowshafted Northern Flickers are one of our only migratory woodpeckers, and right now they’re heading from Canada to the southern U.S. While on the ground, flickers’ smooth brown back with black bars and dots blends in well with soil and leaf litter. They catch ants and other insects with their long, sticky tongues. As they startle, handsome yellow
time of year when the day length, temperature fluctuations, and wornout milkweed plants trigger caterpillars to metamorphose into the “super generation” of butterflies. They will live eight times longer and travel ten times farther than their parents and grandparents. They’d better move fast. Already, our pollinator gardens have reached their peak, and some blossoms are beginning to fade. Out in the roadsides, the bright pink flowers of fireweed have bloomed their way up the stems with seed pods chasing close behind. A few have even burst open to reveal clouds of delicate fluff. “When fireweed turns to cotton, summer is soon forgotten,” they say in Alaska. It’s a nice rhyme, but it’s not quite true, is it? These perfect summer days – with their colorful hints that fall is coming—are when we kick our memory-making into high gear. Every swamp maple we see dressed in its autumn attire is a reminder to enjoy the end of summer to its fullest and store up memories of sunshine for the long winter ahead. Emily Stone is the naturalist/education director at Cable Natural History Museum. Her award-winning second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is available to purchase at cablemuseum.org/books. Or order it from our friends at redberybooks.com to receive free shipping. For more than 50 years, the Cable Natural History Museum has served to connect you to the Northwoods. The Museum is now open with the brand-new Mysteries of the Night exhibit.
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In crowded SUV market, Ford has an Edge GILBERT’S GARAGE JOHN GILBERT
Ford Edge ST has lots of room for hiking and walking gear. Photos by John Gilbert. Ford Motor Company is in an interesting position these days. Ford has found the truck and SUV market coming up fast to fall directly into Ford’s sightlines and challenge the company to improve on its array of trucks – even if it’s already the best at what it does. The same company that has given us the F-150 pickup truck, which has led the marketplace in sales every year for nearly four decades, Ford has had that basic template for forging ahead. The Escape is the largest selling SUV in total since it broke into the market as a useful and flexible midsize SUV, and Ford went both ways at once, to build the enormous Expedition and the compact Escape. The flow has never abated, and
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we’ve gotten the Edge, which fit in between the Escape and Explorer, plus interesting specialty SUVs like the Flex, and the subcompact Ecosport. It would be easy to get bored with the constant increase in there sheer number of vehicles, except that every time you get a chance to climb aboard any of them, you come away impressed. That brings us to the 2020 Edge, which is built on a platform that was new for 2019 and is firm and refined and stiff enough to provide excellent handling around corners without ever tending to be harsh. As a road-test, I cheated just a little, without even trying. The bright “Race Red” Edge that came to my driveway just up the North Shore from
Duluth was the ST version, which was introduced about a year ago and means this Edge had a distinct edge in sporty performance as well as appearance. The basic Edge starts with Ford’s peppy 2.0-liter EcoBoost 4-cylinder engine and it is more than adequate for performance of the well-sized Edge. But the ST version takes a major leap forward, with the 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6 that develops 335 horsepower at 5,550 RPMs, and 380 foot-pounds of torque at 3,250 RPMs. That’s 90 horsepower and 105 footpounds more than the EcoBoost 4. That is an impressive amount for towing a light to medium trailer for camping or a fishing boat, and the 8-speed automatic transmission
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seamlessly finds the right gear regardless of load. That makes the Edge ST about the most potent way to haul around a family of five as you can imagine, and once you climb into that attractively stitched leather bucket driver’s seat, your first objective is to start up from a stop without giving a dose of whiplash to the four other occupants. The Edge ST is sort of a race-car in compact SUV form, and while the base engine is adequate, the 2.7 twin-turbo is a rocket. The color is up to the task of announcing your arrival, and the 21inch black alloy wheels and performance tires set off the styling further. The blacked-in grille and the front styling with its faired-in headlights and foglights also are projected, to coin a phrase, at both usefulness and style. True, some families need more room, and for them there are those larger SUVs right across the showroom floor, but for a young family with one or two or even three youngsters, the Edge is just right. Same goes for older families, when the kids have grown up and fled to college, and you want to downsize back to more reasonable handling and parking and garaging. The features inside are considerable. Heated front and rear seats and cooled front buckets; adaptive cruise control with stop and go and lane centering; panoramic sunroof; voice-activated navigation touch-screen; hands-free, foot-activated tailgate for opening up when your arms are full; evasive steering assist; remote starting system; cold-weather package with heated steering wheel; windshield wiper deicer; ST performance brake system – all standard or on optional packages. While driving or riding, you have 1-touch up or down on the windows, a 60-40 rear seat for folding down, aluminum pedals, auto-dim mirror, 10way front bucket adjustments, smartcharging cell-phone set-up are also things you need to adjust to. You also get a pleasant surprise at the lighting, because the headlights are bi-LED, the foglight are LED and the taillights are LED. There is also something called “signature lighting” that are LEDs, and you are surrounded by ambient lighting that welcome you aboard. For driving, you have a clean, spacious console because Ford uses a rotating dial for a shifter instead of a lever. I didn’t think I would like that, but I adapted quickly and now I can appreciate the advantages of not blocking out a fourth of the console space for a shift lever.
With the auto-start-stop technology, and all the safety devices that can be reached by Ford’s sophisticated SYNC system, are included as standard equipment. That goes beyond the performance-tuned suspension, the pre-collision assist, rear-view camera with a washer built in, reverse sensing system are things that are not unique by themselves but are doubly impressive grouped with all the other complementary features. All the expected airbags are there for front, side and rollover protection are built in. The amount of options on top of the basic Edge sticker price results in a total of $52,935, which has another advantage in competition, because so many larger and more luxurious SUVs cost so much more that $52,935 seems more than reasonable. Along with the instrument panel that is like an advanced video game for providing useful information, you also get a high-tech Bang and Olufsen audio system with 12 speakers filling that interior space. Every company that makes SUVs is trying frantically to fill all the niches, but Ford’s dedication to the concept goes so far as eliminating most of the sedans and cars in their fleet, such as the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion and Taurus. They’ll keep making the Mustang, with several variations, and they’ll convert sedan assembly plants to pouring out more and more trucks. The EPA mileage estimates range from 19 city to 26 highway, and we proved you can reach that high, if you can resist the temptation to punch that gas pedal floorward. When you stop by a Ford dealership to check out an F-150, or an Explorer, don’t pass up the chance to take a roadtest in the Edge, which is a lot more than just another of a lot of trucks parked there. Especially if you spot that little “ST” badge on the grille.
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The probability of inevitability IRON JUNCTION – I am currently watching the Vegas Golden Knights dismantle the Vancouver Canucks. It’s late in the 3rd period of their opening 2nd Round tilt and the VGK are pasting them 5-0. Going into the tourney I thought Vegas had a good chance to reach the Cup Final and I thought the Canucks youth and the lack of playoff experience on behalf of their young emerging stars would be a detriment. I’m not the Great Kreskin here, but that’s pretty much what I am seeing on this eve. But allow me to backtrack a bit. The first round concluded and my picks were not too good. Gone from the tourney are the STL Blues, Calgary, Arizona, and Chicago in the West. In the East, Montreal, Columbus, Carolina, and Washington were dispatched. So too was the Caps Head Coach Todd Rierdan. He was fired earlier today by GM Brian MacLellan. More on this to follow. The first Round winners were Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Boston and the NY Islanders in the East. This sets up 2nd Round series of PHI vs. the NYI and TB vs. BOS. The West winners were the VGK, VAN, the Dallas Stars, and Colorado Avalanche. This round of course is the VGK vs. VAN and DAL vs. COL. My picks going into the 2nd Round were the Isles over Philly and I have TB over the Bruins. I have the VGK prevailing over VAN and COL advancing past the Stars. In my original brackets, I had a COL vs. TB Cup Final. That could still be a possibility, but there might be a fly in the soup here. Last night DAL and COL kicked off the 2nd Round and after DAL opened the scoring and were then tied at one each, pulled away for a 5-3 win in the opener. COL netminder Phillip Grubauer was injured in the tilt with no word on his status. The AVs have a strong backup in Pavel Francouz. The Stars were on a mission last night though, and if the AVs don’t adjust to the Stars relentless offensive pressure, COL will be in trouble. In Game one tonight of the BOS vs. TB series, the Bruins came out and
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established control of the game in the 1st and didn’t look like they were pushed hard throughout this contest. They went up 3-0 early in the 3rd before the Bolts got a couple later in the frame to make this game look closer than it was for a 3-2 final tonight. Monday night will see G1 of the Isles-Flyers matchup. The Flyers have had an impressive run so far here, but I’m not certain they can get past the Isles and Barry Trotz’s 200-foot system. Is this the series where the Flyers young goalie Carter Hart can’t come through? I’m not sure. He has answered the bell so far, but this tourney gets harder with each round. It has left many a young player in agony after losing a hard series. So, we shall see. This will be an interesting matchup. So, I’ve got the Isles and TB in the East and the VGK and COL winning in the West. Am I crazy here? Many who know me say that, yes, I am. We’ll see, if anything, this tourney has been hard to handicap. For instance, the Blues were one of the stronger teams by early March. I would’ve said they had a great chance to get to the Final again. They didn’t look good in losing to VAN. Last year’s hero and goaltender Jordan Binnington got lit up pretty good here. The Blues looked so-so in the round-robin, and never got going against VAN. What I believe is that the shooters in the league have a better read on him than last year when no one really knew him and that the layoff ruined his rhythm. He has been figured out much the same way the Penguins Matt Murray has in my opinion. Murray won two Cups in his first two seasons in the league. And back then the group he had in front of him was much better. The Pens window is closing and Murray isn’t good enough on his own play to win games for them now. I call it the probability of inevitability. There are a rare few goalies who come into the NHL and have great success right off the bat and then maintain that level of play throughout their career. I’ve seen it too many times in the many years I’ve been watching this league. Brodeur and Roy for instance are the Gold Standard here. They were able to achieve some strong numbers and win totals even in the face of changes in front of them personnel-
home to be near family, you would hear no negatives from me. He has game when he’s on it, time will tell on the rumor. Over & out! PEACE
wise. Binnington and Murray? We shall see. What I witnessed from them in this tournament left me with more questions than answers. As for the Caps dismissing Rierdan, I can only think back to their 2018 Cup win and their subsequent decision to not re-sign their Head Coach and victory architect Barry Trotz, the same Coach that packed their suitcase for them last week in a 4-1 series win for his new club, the Isles. Sure, the Caps playoff performances since the Cup win has left a lot to desire. But, most Cup winners don’t repeat anymore, and frankly, in observing the Caps in the round-robin and in Round one, they appeared to be a combo of not in top shape coupled with some disinterest or lethargy. Is that on Rierdan? To an extent, yes, but I think Barry would’ve coached his way around that. Moreover, I believe the players would have been ready to play for Barry if he was still in charge there. Now the Caps have wasted two seasons of whatever is left of the Alex Ovechkin “window”. Ovi is still a beast when he wants to be. Unfortunately, he didn’t look like he wanted to be until about G4 of the NYI series. And it was over by then. How does that money saved on the Trotz non-contract extension look now Caps? If you had your ear on a nearby railroad track today you may have heard the rumor that VAN is looking to move Minnesota native and sniper Brock Boeser. It’s also rumored that the WILD might be in on it. Is this for real? I can’t speak to that. He has 8 points in 10 games (3G, 5A) in the tourney if you count the Q Round games. In 3 of the games, he had multiple points. On the downside, he has been shutdown and pointless in 5 of the 10 tilts. He was a -3 against Vegas this eve and is a -1 for the 10 games. His father Duke is well known in Twin Cities hockey circles and has been battling significant health issues. So if Boeser is trying to get back
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If eliminating sports can assure us of health, OK If you think this Major League Baseball season is weird, shortened to 60 games and no fans allowed in any ballparks because of the Covid-19 pandemic, you’re right. Despite the presence of the incredibly annoying piped-in music and crowd chants to make these otherwise adult athletes pretend there are big crowds watching them, the competition has been very entertaining and mostly good. And the Minnesota Twins were among the leaders in all of baseball, [posting a 20-10 record at the halfway
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point. The Stanley Cup Playoffs are fullsteam ahead, with teams locked away in quarantine-like settings in either Edmonton or Toronto. Those games have featured wildly exciting and mostly close, nail-biting games, and they will continue on through this week’s resumption of the East and West semifinals, and then they will proceed to the division finals, and then, sometime around Halloween, the finals. No fans, but more of that annoying piped in rhythmic organ music and chanting. The marketing folks in the NHL don’t seem to realize that once the puck is dropped, the players go at each other without even realizing whether there are any fans or not. And maybe you ruined in to watch last Sunday’s 104th running of the
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Twenty players from Dick Swanson’s Denfeld softball team sat together for the emotional service for their beloved coach at Wade Municipal Stadium. Photo by John Gilbert. Indianapolis 500, and things got a lot weirder, because normally the first 25 years that I attended and wrote about the Indy 500, crowds of 300,000 made it the biggest sports event in the country, if not the world, and the 150,000 or more who attended the first qualifying days made one-at-a-=time Indy 500 qualifying the second-biggest sports event in the country. So to watch the 2020 cars speed around the 2.5-mile oval with no fans in the huge grandstands was beyond weird. It was positively eerie. In an ironic ending, Scott Dixon, who had the best cat all day, made a tactical move to allow – in fact force – Takumo Sato, a Japanese driver who had won the 2017 500 – take the lead. Dixon and his crew knew that the final portion of the race might come down to a sprint, and whoever had the most remaining fuel on board might win it. Since you can drive at speed with better fuel economy running behind another car, Dixon got behind Sato, and that turned out to be pivotal. Dixon closed in, right behind Sato in a fight to the finish, when a crash occurred on the main straightaway with four laps remaining. Although there were no injuries, the debris was scattered across much of the track. It was obvious there wasn’t time to clean up the debris, so track officials kept the pace car in front and the field ran a single-file final four laps with no passing. What might have been one of the most exciting finishes in Indy history, with four potential winners nose-to-tail, instead turned out to be a
forced single-file parade to the finish. Sato, who won in an Andretti-Honda in 2017, did it this year in a LettermanRahal Honda-powered car, co-owned by David Letterman and Bobby Rahal. But pay attention, because our addiction to sports is about to get a whole lot weirder. Especially in Minnesota. Like most fans, I’ve been primed to hang on and wait, because the pandemic is bound to ease off and if it doesn’t go away, at least it might fade to the point we can go back to filling arenas and filling college and NFL football stadiums every weekend. But not only has that not happened, the disease continues at a deadly pace, with the U.S. leading the world in cases of the virus as well as fatalities from it. Up here, around Duluth, we’re patiently trying to outwit the disease for the sake of starting football, but now, as August goes into its final week, we’re not sure when colleges will open for classes. As staunch hockey fans, we can hope that it all gets cleared up for our UMD Bulldogs to tackle another rousing season in the NCHC, and I’m still optimistic that will happen, even if we start a couple weeks late. Cut off a few non-league games and we can still get in a good season. Maybe there won’t be any fans allowed, but we need hockey, nonetheless. In the meantime, you realize how big a deal this is when the Power-5 major college football conferences scramble, weigh all options, and make independent decisions. The Big Ten was first to announce that it would be cancelling its entire football season,
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and volleyball, soccer and track and field as well. Fans whined, and so did some in the media, but you couldn’t fight the reasoning. Then the Pac-12 announced the same decision, at about the same time. No football for Washington, Oregon, Southern Cal, Utah, Stanford — none of them! It seemed to be underlined with some sarcastic form of superiority that officials of the Southeast Conference — Alabama, Auburn, LSU, etc. — and the Atlantic Coast Conference — Clemson, and those guys — announced that they, indeed, will be playing. The Big 12, with Texas, Oklahoma, etc., didn’t say anything, but their silence indicated they intended to play. We who live in the Big Ten or the Pac-12 areas believe we’ve done the wise thing, the safe thing for the athletes and fans. But it wasn’t unanimous. In fact, a couple different groups of apparently conservative bent have actually sued Gov. Tim Walz for instituting a mandatory mask rule, just to help control the spreading of the virus as much as possible. Nobody knows how effective that will be, but we’ve got to do whatever we can, it seems to me. Those dissidents apparently want to be like the SEC, the ACC, or the Big 12, and their love of football supercedes their understanding that health and avoiding the potentially fatal disease is more important than a game or two, or a full season. That doesn’t mean we don’t miss football season, and we felt the pangs a little more as those colleges opened their doors to invite students to come to college and get situated to start the long year. When summer started, we first heard that the University of Kansas was hit hard by the pandemic, and altered plans while mandating facemarks for everyone on campus, preceding a statewide law. That’s a blow for the Big 12. Next, Auburn University brought in its vaunted football team a couple of weeks ago, but when they first assembled and were tested, 33 members of the football team and one staff member were found to have Covid-19, sending shockwaves throughout the SEC. Ten days ago, the University of North Carolina opened its doors to 30,000 students and started preparing for fall semester and, of course, football. But their first testing revealed 137 new cases of Covid-19 to go with 349 more who were quarantined. UNC declared it was suspending its
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athletes, who may have engaged in a little pre-semester partying without masks or social distancing, and that it was switching all classes to online instead of in-person. A real jolt for the ACC. Next up came Alabama, the Crimson Tide, pride of the SEC. As the football players showed up, word was that the entire campus population had been tested and it was found only 1 percent of all students had tested positive. Everybody was happy, and a lot of “everybody” hit the campus bars and frat houses and parties. A second testing revealed the shocking fact that the number afflicted was 531 new cases, on top of the 210 previously found with the disease. That meant the percentage afflicted had gone from 1 percent to 29 percent of all students! It seems almost inevitable that the Southeast Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference will have to make a desperate move to halt the spread and try to contain it. The previous arrogance, or at least smugness, which implied they were the big boys and would play football was gone, and the football season down South appears in serious jeopardy. While all of that has been going on for the past 10 days, you would think that those of us in Minnesota might be nodding our heads knowingly, a bit smug ourselves that we were right all along. But no! Three different groups in Minnesota are still pursuing lawsuits to restrict Gov. Walz and his bold lawmaking to mandate masks, statewide. Was he over-stepping his guidelines as governor? Hardly. He was trying to save some lives, and in some cases, trying to save us from ourselves.
all fighting to avoid being overcome with the emotion of the moment. All of Swanny’s assistant coaches, past and current, were there, too. Several people spoke, briefly, from a microphone set up on the pitching mound. One of those was Tim Utt, Swanny;s assistant for 28 years and through 299 of his 350 or so victories in softball. Swanson, in fact, might be the only — or one of very few — high school coaches in Minnesota who won over 300 games in both basketball and softball. You didn’t have to know Swanny to appreciate all he has meant to every player he ever coached. But if you did observe him at work, you realize he was always putting on a clinic of how to coach, how to mold young athletes into a team-first team, and how to keep things light-hearted and fun, win or lose. They had a couple of appropriate hymns, and they also had a group rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” — completely appropriate, in this case. And when the funeral was over, the family invited the entire gathering to meet outside the thirdbase exit where they had a wonderful lunch of hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, and a couple types of brownies. Swanny would have loved it, and we enjoyed it on his behalf. The draining emotion of the Dick
Swanson ordeal, celebration, death and funeral was going to take some time to overcome. But there wasn’t any time. Another long-time sports icon left us last weekend. Mark Sertich, lifelong Duluthian who gained national fame as the oldest hockey player in the world when he was on national television talk shows as a 97-year-old who had played in the senior men’s tournament in California, died Monday at home at age 99. Always personable, Sertich never saw a hockey rink he didn’t want to go play on. He spent a couple mornings every week getting involved in regular games featuring area firemen and policemen in no-check leagues. His skating had slowed down, but not his determination, and his teammates were amazed how he’d go to the net and knock in any loose pucks he found. Last round of DECC Hall of Fame committee board members, we talked it over briefly and then inducted Mark Sertich into the hall. It was an honor he and his curly-tipped mustache enjoyed immensely. I’ve enjoyed my time on that Hall of Fame committee, and we night have waited until Sertich actually retired as an active player. But my theory is that was never going to happen, so we should act while we had the chance.
SAD WEEK FOR ALL Having attended and written about the very neat, warm ceremony to raise signs proclaiming the softball fields outside Wade Stadium are officially renamed “Dick (Swan) Swanson Fields” two weeks ago, it was with shock and sadness that I learned that the cancer Swanny had told us was under control had won its horrible battle and ended his life at age 71. He had said, three days earlier, how he couldn’t wait to get out on the field with Denfeld’s softball players next season on “his” fields. Last Thursday, Swanny’s family — including his mom, Audrey — and all his relatives and friends showed up for a visitation, followed by the funeral. They were held at Wade Stadium, and Swanny’s casket was positioned right on home plate, under a canopy. Twenty of his Denfeld players were there, and they all were seated in one section of the main grandstand, all wearing masks, and March 26, 2020 August 27, 2020 49
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Their goal is to put on fantastic, mindboggling shows and rock as hard as they can. They also do live Facebook shows Wednesdays and Saturdays 9 p.m.
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Coop & The Kooks Thursday, Aug. 27, 6 p.m. Thirsty Pagan
Three of the four members of The Fractals (Barry got a job that limits his availability). Jimi fronts this spin-off band focusing on surf instrumentals, Link Wray and old punk music. Definitely louder, too.
Rachel Kilgour Sat., Aug. 29, 7 p.m.
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North Star Saloon, Kerrick “The Voice” contestant from Louisiana, specializing in rock in seasons 12 & 13 (2017) is doing a solo acoustic tour of woodsy venues in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Also playing at Bear’s Den in Bruno Sept. 6.
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Northstar Joggers Weekly Run Thursdays, 6 p.m. ursaminorbrewing.com/events
Ursa Minor Brewing and DuluthRunner.com have created a virtual running group until they can safely resume from the taproom. Join them Thursdays for a casual run. All ages and skill levels welcome.
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Bill & Kate Isles Mondays, 7 p.m. facebook.com/billandkateisles Bill & Kate continue their Stay-AtHome concerts. Each week has a mix of old favorites and new requests as well as some show-and-tell segments.
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Kid Dakota Wednesday, Sept. 2, 9 & 16, 5-8 p.m. Cedar Lounge
AKA Darren Jackson, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, engineer, teacher and producer. Since 1999 he has released two albums on LOW’s Chairkicker’s Union and three on Graveface Records, the latest being Denervation (2018). Kid Dakota
Day & night Thursday 8.27 Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3-6pm Harrison Community Center, 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-726-1665 Bands, Brews and BBQ, 4-8pm Minnesota Discovery Center, 1005 Discovery Dr., Chisholm 218-254-7959 Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Kaylee Matuszak, 6pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886
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Coop & The Kooks, 6pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Duluth 715394-2500
Ian Alexy, 6pm Ripple Bar on Lake Superior, 325 S. Lake Ave Ste. 109, Duluth 218-606-1668
Kevin Buck, 6pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886
Severio Mancieri, 6pm Chickadee Coffeehouse, 3691 Alan Syverson Drive, Barnum
Gordon Thorne, 7pm North Shore Winery, 202 Ski Hill Rd., Lutsen 218387-2788
Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-7223
Eddie & Sarah, 7pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218624-0626
Boat-In Concert Series: Christopher David Hanson Band, 6:30pm Tioga Beach, 24308 Tioga Beach Rd., Grand Rapids 218-327-5780
Friday 8.28 Rally: Protect the U.S. Postal Service, noon-1pm Rices Point Landing, 1240 Garfield Ave., Duluth 218-7242054 Marc Gartman's Fever Dream, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391
Nathan Frazer, 6:30pm Vintage Pub, 6344 Merchants St., Askov 320-8383232 One Less Guest, 7pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886
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Russ Darwin & Friends, 7pm Bridge's Bar, 6891 S. Lake Ave., Lake Nebagamon 715-374-3111
South of Superior, 8pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-3921994
Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet
Crescent Moon, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-394-3616
P.B & J, 8pm Birds Bar, 5801 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-9995
Barker's Island Farmers Market, 9amnoon Barker's Island, Hwy2/53 and Marina Dr., Superior 715-372-8441
John Cron, 7pm Castle Danger Brewery, 17 7th St., Two Harbors 218834-5800 Teague Alexy, 7pm Rapids Brewing, 214 N Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids 218-999-9712
Stranded, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-624-0626
Saturday 8.29 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847
Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174
Mike Miller, 7pm Grand Rapids Eagles, 1776 S. Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids 218-326-4845
Ashland Area Farmers Market, 8amnoon 200 Block of Chapple Ave., Between Main St. & 3rd St. W., Ashland
Live music: Grand Rapids Eagles, 11am-10pm Grand Rapids Eagles, 1776 S. Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids 218-326-4845
Movies in the Park(ing) Lot: Abominable, 8pm The DECC, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth 218.727.4344
Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30amnoon First Street & Rittenhouse Avenue, Bayfield 715-257-0064
SonofMel, 2pm Out of the Woods Winery, 10588 Main St., Hayward 715-699-1709
Jacob's Light fundraiser featuring The Northwoods Band, 4:30-11:30pm Lake County Fairgrounds, 1381 FairGrounds Rd., Two Harbors 218269-4159 Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Aftershock, 6pm Cast Iron Bar & Grill, 5906 Old Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth 218-729-7514 Macho Man & The Randy's Imaginary Candies, 6pm Klockow Brewing, 36 SE 10th St., Grand Rapids 218999-7229 Race Night, 7pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715-6824990
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Sunday 8.30 Similar Dogs, 1-4pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Duluth 715-3942500 Big Time Jazz Orchestra Quartet, 1pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711
Tuesday 9.1 Downtown Farmers Market, 11am1pm Gitchi-ode’ Akiing (Lake Place Park), 214 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-727-8549 Central Hillside Farmers Market, 25pm Damiano Center, 206 W. 4th St., Duluth 218-726-1665
Hibbing Farmers Market, 2-5pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing Carlton County Farmers Market, 46pm Four Seasons Sports Complex & Event Center, 90 Chestnut Ave., Carlton The Night Nurses (Brad Nelson & Alan Sparhawk), 5-6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior
SonofMel, 3pm The Snug, 308 W. Bayfield St., Washburn 715-373-0338 Adam Pearce, 3pm North Pine Saloon, 8381 Hwy. 23, Kerrick 218-4960778 Kaylee Matuszak, 4:30pm The Breeze Inn, 5168 Jean Duluth Road, Duluth 218-525-2883
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Wednesday 9.2 Superior Downtown Farmers Market, 11am-2pm 1200 Block of Banks Avenue, Superior 715-394-3557 Duluth Farmers Market, 2-5pm Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Kid Dakota, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Bike Nite, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797
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Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3-6pm Harrison Community Center, 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-726-1665 Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Prelude to the Clay, 6:15pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715-682-4990
Friday 9.4 Lake Superior Ribfest, 4-8:30pm Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth 218722-5573 Charlie Parr, 6-9pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391
Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-7223 Russ Darwin & Friends, 7pm Bridge's Bar, 6891 S. Lake Ave., Lake Nebagamon 715-374-3111 Flip Side, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-394-3616
Saturday 9.5 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Ashland Area Farmers Market, 8amnoon 200 Block of Chapple Ave., Between Main St. & 3rd St. W., Ashland Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30amnoon First Street & Rittenhouse Avenue, Bayfield 715-257-0064 Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet Barker's Island Farmers Market, 9amnoon Barker's Island, Hwy2/53 and Marina Dr., Superior 715-372-8441
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Sunday 9.6 Emergency Pig Out, 11am-4pm White Winter Winery, 68323A Lea St, Iron River 715-372-5656 Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711 June Star, 8pm Wussow's Concert Cafe, 324 N. Central Ave., Duluth 218-624-5957 Adam Pearce, 8pm Bear's Den, 4582 Main St., Bruno 320-838-3822
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Christopher David Hanson – In the Distance If Northern Minnesota has a Springsteen, it’s Christopher David Hanson. Not that their music is similar, but they’re the same type of earnest working class alpha male rebel rocker poet. Probably too many words in there to form a “type,” but I think the Springsteen analogy works since it feels like music that should be played in an arena. Until then, you can see the band that carries his name at regional bars any given week, at least now that the lockdown has eased up. Hanson makes his home in Babbitt, deejaying for WELY radio and producing an album every year since 2014. This is his sixth (and a seventh is in the works) although due to the COVID lockdown, it’s a solo project. It sounds like a full band but he plays almost all the instruments. There’s one guest, Jill Burkes, who contributes violin and backing vocals. With the band his music has always been a mix of country, rock and blues. On this album there’s more of a shift to country, mostly of the tear-in-yerbeer variety. But it’s earthier than most Nashville music and closer to outlaw country, reminiscent of Jerry Jeff Walker. The first track, “Crazy is All We Got,” starts out like a generic country song, especially since it has the word “crazy” in the title. But it turns into a soaring rock song once the full instrumentation and shimmering organ kick in. The second track, “More Than Alive” has a slow, lumbering but satisfying pace.
“Things’ll” is a cross between blues and country. Hanson gets to show off his shredding skills on electric guitar, if all too briefly in one interlude. “Some things’ll give you grief, some things’ll pass you by, things’ll sparkle in your eye,” he half-sings, half raps, while Burkes provides multi-tracked backing vocals. “Calm Pond” is the cheeriest and second fastest song on the album, a country hoedown with the “boing” sound in the background. The lyrics are wry, with sage advice such as, “Someone clear my search history when I’m gone.” “Devil’s Lake” is a nearly six-minute story, but not about one of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes. It’s about pirates of the 17th century or somewhere thereabouts. It seems inspired by Ben Gunn from
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Christopher David Hanson and Minnow, a frequent guest at his shows. “Treasure Island,” though there are plot differences. Gunn was marooned by his crewmates while this character is the sole survivor of a sunken Spanish galleon. Inexplicably the ship’s treasure has washed up with him. (Maybe it exists only in his mind?) To protect it he vows to “dig a hole to hell and throw my treasure down to the devil’s lake.” The song has a fascinating rhythmic sound effect like spring peepers that moves from one speaker to the other, giving the sensation of being surrounded by frogs. You might end up listening less to the story and more to the frogs, trying to figure out how the effect was done. I was sure it was electronic, but I asked Hanson about it at a recent show and he had some complicated explanation involving wood and metal. Sonically every aspect of the song is great, and even if it doesn’t rock, you’ll want to crank up the volume. “Stubborn as Stars” is perhaps the perfect country song, in fact starting out as a meta-country song: “Ain’t enough songs about not breaking up / They left off the good ones to sing.” Maybe my interpretation is incorrect, but the subject seems to be about a guy killing time while he waits to reconcile with his love (not unlike another perfect country song, The Statler Brothers’ “Flowers on the Wall”) but he won’t give in because he’s stubborn as stars. It’s a waltz augmented by Burkes’ violin and it builds emotionally by layering Hanson’s voice on multitracks.
“Memories Escape Me” is a tear-jerker apparently about Alzheimer’s: “If I get lost ‘cuz my head won’t stop spinning, forget your name once again / Just know that I love you, remember me stronger.” “Dirty Rainbow” is the fastest and hardest rocker on the album, though it’s firmly a country song. He references the Judy Garland ballad, singing, “A different shade of ‘Over the Rainbow,’ a little dirty and a little bit obscene,” though I don’t think it’s intended to convey a porno version of “Wizard of Oz.” “Whisper” is a rock song, almost a companion piece to “Devil’s Lake,” since it has a similar pace, but crunchier and more electric. Thematically, it’s closer to “Calm Pond,” being about finding peace of mind. It actually is about a remote Minnesota lake (Whisper Lake near Babbitt) and there are teasing directions built into the words: “You can get there from an old logging trail, but that ain’t my favorite route.” The album closes with “We Don’t Play That,” a short (barely over a minute) and humorous explanation about why the band doesn’t do covers: “Always asked to play someone else’s songs / And I guess I’m just saying we ain’t that kind of thing, always trying to polish up something bright and new … pouring out my heart, I hope I write a song for you.” So that’s what to expect when you go hear the Christopher David Hanson Band, all originals. Whatever you do, don’t yell out, “Freebird!”
Virgo: Creatures of habit Virgo: August 23-September 21 Element: Earth Quality: Mutable. Moods go from cranky to critical to bitchy. Symbol: The Virgin (they wish) Ruler: Mercury – the planet of flatout bluntness, whether you want to hear it or not. Favorite Pastime: Worrying Role Model: Felix Unger Dream Job: Organizer of ANYTHING Key Phrase: “You’re doing it wrong.” Body Part: Nervous system, thus the stubby, bleeding fingernails
born and blesses with the “nothingever-good-enough” gene. It has made them unable to relax and enjoy life’s surprises. They will NEVER admit they’re wrong. A Virgo man is faithful, and thoughtful, and cool-headed should shit hit the fan – think Sean Connery. He is born with a superior attitude, and an eye for improving everything except his own behavior. He is relentless in his fault-finding, and can be the classic chauvinist. At this best, he is insufferably predictable. He has his own peculiar thought pattern. Many Virgo men are unable to utter a sensible statement. If you argue with him, he’ll stare at you as if you’ve lost your mind, for he can’t believe you even dared to disagree. He will then repeat, word for word, the conversation, question or disagreement that led you to explode. Soon, you will feel as if ants are crawling through your brain, and will apologize just to shut him the hell up. He may appear to be calm, col and collected on the outside, but on the inside he’s pure Felix Unger. The effeminate, priggish, germ-phobic half of the Odd Couple is a classic example of the Virgo male. In his unwielding efforts to save slob Oscar from his boorish ways, Felix totally lost sight of his own obnoxious behavior. His deodorant spraying, dust rag-flapping, nonstop derision of Oscar’s lifestyle, coupled with his melodramatic hypochondria, is totally Virgo. Don’t expect romance from your Virgo man. Dinner by candlelight will bring the complaint that he can’t see what he’s eating/. Emotional scenes baffle and alarm him because he fears losing control. Like Mr. Spock, too much unbridled passion makes his brain melt. The Virgo woman is kin, caring and very real. Her exterior may seem calm but her feelings are delicate, and she needs someone intelligent, considerate and warm-hearted. She believes in true love, and is discriminating enough to wait until she finds it. That’s why there are so many Virgo “old Maids.” Queen Elizabeth 1, the virgin Queen, reigned alone as England’s monarch for 44 years. Elizabeth nitpicked her way to spinsterhood as only a female Virgo can.
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Virgo, the sixth sign of the Zodiac, lives in the House of Service and Health. If I was to play nice, I Would tell you that Virgos are modest, kind, very logical, discriminating and fastidious. But that would be lying. The more accurate description of a Virgo might reveal an anal, selfabsorbed, fussy asshole who criticizes everyone, and comes across holier than thou, and cheap as hell! The Gemini has the same ruling planet as the Virgo, but WHOA! There’s a big difference between the two signs, as Mercury is trapped in Earth in the sign of Virgo, where its energy becomes critical and irritable. Oh, yeah, Virgos ISH they could be easy breezy like the Gemini, but they fret over EVERYTHING with their feet stuck firmly in the mud. What is it with these Virgo people? They are compelled to heal the sick, save the sinful and correct everyone’s spelling. You can’t run from them. They will give you torrents of unsolicited advice, acting like your 3rd grade teacher, and just about as bright. “Hey, let’s go to the beach!” you say. Forget it. The Virgo has to have plenty of advance warning to pack all of the sundries they would need for the day – bug spray, suntan lotion, umbrella (it could rain), shovel (you could get buried in a sandstorm on the beach), Bowie knife (they might have to cut themselves free of KILLER SEAWEED) – you get the idea. They are not spontaneous – at all! In fact, spontaneity pisses them off. What? On another note, of all the signs of the zodiac, Virgo is the least likely to admit they screwed up. They have been
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Felix Unger (portrayed her for The Odd Couple television series by Tony Randall) and Queen Elizabeth I perfectly represent the male and female Virgo characters. If you manage to survive the Virgo woman’s checklist of “Partnership Virtues” (it’s a long one), you will soon find yourself in a kind of unattainable perfection hell. She’s critical. She’ll analyze you. She’ll critique you. She’ll count the number of peas you eat. Tell this Virgo you’re picking her up at 8, and pray to your ever living God that you are there on time. Enough said. Although she considers herself well organized and tidy, your home with a Virgo woman will look as if pirates have just ransacked it. She’s far too busy making her “to do” list to do anything else. If she’s pissed, just apologize. Trust me, you can’t ever win anyway, so just do yourself a favor and get it over with or you will be gutted stern to spleen, and roasted over a bed of hot coals. I’m not really kidding here. A Virgo woman is fill of passion, so don’t give up if you have one in your sights. You just have to work your way through the terrycloth robe, nightgown, socks, Vicks and cold cream. The Virgo, then, is the sign of the Scribe, the Prosecuting Attorney, Mimic, Despot and anything with Critic in the title. They are very intelligent, but can’t make practical use of their knowledge. They’ll spend Saturday afternoon rearranging their medicine cabinet. When Leo wants a war, the Virgo verbally shuts them down. The Virgo won’t waste their time on the childish antics of Aries or Sagittarius. Virgos will freeze the water signs in their
emotional tracks, and Gemini and Aquarius can’t “out-sarcasm” the Virgo. Self-indulgent Libra can’t measure up to Virgo’s standards. The fellow Earth signs though, Taurus and Capricorn understand the Virgo and each other on a soul level and will do fine. Important to remember: Virgos are creatures of habit, so don’t try for a quickie on the kitchen table. Keep your body fit and your mind alert. Virgo appreciates intellect, and doesn’t like surprises. With a little kindness, an honest but gentle approach, and lots of TLC, you and your Virgo will keep the home fires burring! GOOD DAYS: August 25, 26, 27 DIFFICULT DAYS: September 7, 8, 9 ROMANCE: September 5
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Friendship in Duluth WWF, 60s, relocated to Duluth, seeks friendship/activity partner with older single newcomers to Minnesota. Enjoy coffee chats, hiking, xc skiing, canoeing, classical music, reading and listening to people’s stories. And you? (58487:4/11)
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Personals Seeks Christian Man DWF, NS/ND, 59. Enjoys bicycling, walks, music, dining out dancing, snowshoeing, camping. ISO christian man w/similar interests. (58419: 11/9) Hot with Cabin Fever Seeking happy, healthy, 60ish gentleman in Central Lakes/ Cotton area for some lake time. Northern, WI ok too! I’m fun, fit, easy on the eyes. Let’s toast the sunset. (58412:8/31) Try a Senior Moment Active, adverturous, affable, nice, nurtuting, nimble. Petite, positive, playful. Smart, shapely, spunky. ISO fit young (67-77) codger for smiles and converstion, serendipity, exploring. (58403:6/8) Compantionship WWF, 70, looking for companion to enjoy life with. Love football, picnics, and dining out. Must be honest. (58398:5/4) Looking for Soul Mate SWF ISO friend who likes camping, coffee, outdoors, travel, estate sales, and hanging out. Send photo. (58394:3/30) Looking for my Sweetheart DWF, 58, 5’5”, 160lbs, NS/ND, likes to cuddle, hold hands, camping, traveling, cooking, walks. ISO Christian guy 55-70 for friendship and possible LTR. (58374:12/15) Searching for Comanionship DWF, NS, retired veteran female. 63, honest, considerate, loves to laugh, visit and talk. (58373:12/15) Let’s Seek God’s Will Together
NS, 51, tall, exotic, attractive, Christian F. Fun, nature lover, educated, epicurean with diverse interests, healthy living. ISO Christain male 45-58 years young with similar interests. (58370:10/13) Searching for Mate 72yr old F ISO LTR with a passoinate, sincere, kind gentleman in near age group. NS/ ND. (58354:6/23)
Tall slim bearded sculptor in Superior Desires LTR with affectionate diversified tall busty lady with some extra poundage and at least shoulder length soft cuddy hair. I’m a mellow NS, 60?, open to age and race. (58553:7/23)
Female Activist Seeks Companionship Seeking like minded Liberal gentleman for friendship and fun. (58340:4/14)
Looking 4 Romance SWF looking for a Jewish man. Brown hair/eyes, 5’8”, 170 lbs. Want a pal-lover-romance. (58304:10/8)
Looking for Older Gentleman 77yr, DWF, blond, 5’5”, 140lbs. ISO older gentleman. I love reading, animals, movies, quiet times, fun. Let’s talk. (58342:4/14)
Men
Wondering? SWW, 5’11”, 185lbs, 61yrs. Is there a lonely guy out there with a colostomy pouch? I have one too. Let’s meet. (58343:4/14) Soulmate Wanted Men 55-72 yrs old. 180-210 lbs. Kids okay. Write me. (58336:3/24) Lake Superior Country Girl Pretty, 5’3”, mid-50s, healthy, fit, well read, ISO companion to dance with, garden, dine out, hike, explore life, earth,
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Seeking Companion How old is too old? WW. ND/ NS. Educated, traveled, experienced, bilingual. Don’t get any wild ideas now. Talking is a start. (58319:1/14)
From the Range WWF, 62, NS, likes the outdoors, walks, animal lover, garage sales, dining out, movies. ISO honest, caring man to enjoy lfe with. Will answer all. (58352:6/23)
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ion, travel, lover in Duluth. (58554:8/6)
Wants the Farm Life DWF, 51, 5’6”, auburn hair, blue eyes. Not afraid of hard work. ISO NS man 45-60 who loves family, nature, animals, fishing, farming, warm fires and romance. I would like to spend the rest of my days with the same. I have other interests too, could I be the one for you? (58311:11/19)
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Seeking kindness and love SWM, 6’1”, 220, brown hair, brown eyes,, NS, just retired, handsome, kind and honest, seeking a lady that enjoys life. Lake homeowner, boats, Harleys. Must love God. How about dinner? Exchange photos. (58556:8/13)
Vermilion Lake area DWM, 60, 6’1, 200, NS, seeks SF for travel, quiet nights around fire, must enjoy fresh fish dinners off grill. Let’s communicate. (58551:7/16) Time for a companion DWM, 70, 5’8”, 170 lbs., brown hair, blue eyes, looking for a lady to settle down with. I am loving, caring, helpful. Let’s talk and learn more. (58548:5/21) Exploring SWM, 5’10”, brown, blue, enjoy RV camping, boating, ATVing, travel, staying home. Seeking LTR with any race. Piercings, tattoos a plus. (58547:5/14) Living romance novel! Let me lead the way into our very own love story! SWM, tall, attractive, passionate, mysterious, James Bondish! Respond, I want to meet. (58545:4/23)
Active widower SWM 6’1”, 195, 82 years, good health, likes to travel, summer home in MN lake, winter home in south Texas. Looking for lady 60s-70s. (58555:8/6)
Looking for love WM, 58, seeking mature BBW for dating. I have many interests. Camping, travel, concerts. (58544: 4/23)
Blood in my veins Passionate, retired DWM, well educated, intelligent, ISO F, intellectual equal for compan-
Lonely Again I’m 6’ brown retired from the rock scene, but still roll. (58539:03/25)
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Won’t be sorry Am looking for partner 63 on disability, heart surgery. Ok now 5’10” 185lbs DWM ISO L&R Hope to find home to gether, Avarage looks (58538:02/24) Seeking a mature woman SWM, tall, dark, handsome, romantic, in search of a mature woman who enjoys living life with a fun down-to-earth man with many interests! (58537:01/23) Romantic looking for lady SWM, NS, 71 5’9” 160, trim, fit, seeks fun-loving girl 50’s or 60’s Duluth, NW WIsc. casual hiking, dinners, old movies, good music. Possible LTR, photos! (58536:01/10) Young 70 Looking for Female 55 & up Retired, divorced Iron Ranger in Bemidji would like lady who enjoys life and wants to enjoy with partner who treats lady as lady should be, respectfully. You may be her! (58531:12/12) Desiring an honest, intelligent significant other I’m likable, are you? I’m slim, attractive, humorous, middleaged, ISO possible LTR. I enjoy walking, movies, cooking, cuddling and music. I’m financially secure. Let’s bask in utopia. (55829:11/21) Mesabi Bike Trail DWM, 60s, 5’8”, 165 lbs., seeks Christian healthy in-shape gal 50s-60s. Love for outdoor music, biking, camping, lakes, sunsets. Humor a must. I’m honest, secure, please be the same. (58528:10/31) Looking for fun & partner
DWM 69, 5’10”, 215 lbs., NS, light drinker, muscular, well built, looking for fun honest woman. Like to cuddle amd love. Like camping, swimming, traveling, movies, TV, staying home or pen pal and romantic. (58526:10/24) Best friend and partner DWM, 60, 190 lbs., 5’10”, looking for LTR with woman that loves camping, hiking, canoeing, fishing, road trips and just quiet nights home. (58524:10/24) Hopeless romantic in Two Harbors 61, on pension, fairly attractive, spiritual, love gardening, cooking, watching movies and cuddling. If this appeals to you please respond. (58523:10/24) Not the age, it’s the mileage WM, 61, 6’, 250 lbs., NS, light drinker. Not handsome but handy, easy going, honest, homebody. Very affectionate, likes to cuddle, slow dance. Enjoys shore fishing, light gardening, easy walks. movies, music, cooking and more. ISO cuddly, warmhearted woman 55-65 for LTR. (58518:9/5) Respect joy & fun for you Tell me your story. I’m attractive, healthy, athletic, Amtrak retiree, 6’, slim, financially stable, liberal, NS. Enjoy hiking, swimming, cooking, movies, writing personal letters, conversation. ISO F LTR, any race or age. I like reciprocally gentle foreplay. Seesaw with me as friends. (58516:8/8) Tired of being alone WW, WM, 61, blonde, blue eyes, 5’11”, honest, caring,
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Partnership Have a nice country home, some pets, camping, fishing and learning. ISO a lady to share and communicate with. Will exchange photos. (58505:7/4)
Want to love again WM, 62, 5/3, 140, ND/NS, faithful, honest, passionate, seek LTR. Love camping, fishing, hiking, cuddling, holding hands, bonfires. Seeking younger to same age. Want to share love, life and hardships. So much to give. (58504:6/20) New to Grand Rapids DWM age 78, NS, looking for NS woman 60-80 who likes road trips outdoors, fishing, dining out & financially stable. (58502:6/13) Oral herpes for oral herpes 40s male looking for lady who has oral herpes. I do, too. 46-59. Slim or average build. Picture, please. I’m tall, ave. build. (58501:6/13) Loving, honest, passionate DWM, 74, 180, 5-8, looking for honest woman. Like gar-
Looking for a connection SWM 70, working artist w/ strong interest in books & music. Physical fitness impor-
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Looking for a wonderful best friend Single man 60 yrs, seeks lady that loves life, movies, fishing, sports, cards, board games, cooking & grilling together that wants a true, best friend. (58480, 4/6) Still looking in North Central WI SWM 63 NS/ND 5’8” 160lb. Still believe life is meant to be shared. Enjoy the outdoors,good conversation, self sufficiency & people w/the same values. No games, just the simple life values. (58479, 4/6)
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Pantie Play Looking for another 60 year old that enjoys wearing panties and stockings. Interested? 58546:4/23) The smaller the better MWM 60-plus looking for a male friend. casual get-togethers. (58529:12/5) Fishing friend with benefits MWM, 64, looking for a guy with similar intent. Love to fish, a little play time when the bite is slow. (58521:10/10)
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Relating to guys Retired mid-70s professional gentleman to provide ful body attention Turkish style. (58550:6/25)
Biverse Bear ISO friend, mid-40s Looking for hunt, fish & discreet Biverse friend 18-50 verse discreet friends with benis satisfaction. (58437: 9/30)
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Looking for love I’m 64 years old. Love movies and music. Candlelight dinners, walks on the Lakewalk. Looking for LTR. (58496:5/9)
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ISO Life Partner SWF ISO ages 50-62. Enjoys camping, hiking, kayaking, music & more. Honesty important. No drugs (58394: 4/13)
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I am a reminiscent sentimental romantic Professional writer, community education teacher, 6’1”, thin, NS, middle-aged, enjoys hiking, classical music, reading, humor, loves holding hands, cuddling, open-minded, conversationalist, adaptable to your desires. (58506:7/4)
Tall Horse Lover DWM 65 6’2” 180lbs ISO country woman. Where are you? Let’s meet so we can horse around. Honest, sincere & marriage minded. (58481: 4/6)
ISO Top SWM WITI. 67. seeking christian SGWM for possible LTR, photo, phone please. (58453:5/31)
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Senior fun time 70, 67”, NS, Bi, fun time, tall, up close-personal, enjoyment. (58436: 8/7)
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Attractive Discriminating Ninety Intellectual Stimulating NS 5”9” 170lb seeks slim-trim female biologically 65ish independent fox to persue happiness. Wine/ dine, dance, karaoke. Upper North Shore -Let’s explore!. (58507:7/4)
41 seeking 50-60 Seeking lady age 50-60 for dating that leads to LTR. I’m in Superior. 6’2”, 225 lbs., Caucasian, dark brown hair, brown eyes. (58485:4/11)
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Seeking Honesty SWM 57 looking for SWF, fit, educated,love to travel. Camping, adventures. Picture a plus but not required. Must be romantic. (58508:7/16)
Togetherness DWM, NS, 74, 180 lbs., 5’8”, likes cooking, gardening, woodwork, dancing, Hallmark Channel. Looking for LTR, life partner. Learn from each other. (58488:4/11)
tant. Someone simpatico with those values. Carpe diem. Send phone or email (58439: 11/8)
Wake me up, stud Northern Wis. Looking for playmates, top or bottom, for right stud, nice package. (58503:6/13)
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Lonesome old guy There has to be some lonesome lady in the Virginia area that would like to go for coffee & conversation, maybe play some cribbage. (58510:7/16)
dening, dancing, outdoors. Active, LTR, looking to adventure, try fishing and other sports, anything new. (58493:4/25)
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hard-working. Retiring in November. Will answer all/ (58513:8/1)
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Fabric artist is guest at DAI Virtual Gala The Duluth Art Institute presents a unique and special evening on Sept. 16, 6-7:30 pm, featuring special guest Chesley Antoinette. The DAI Virtual Gala kicks off with a poignant history of the Tignon Law presented by Antoinette, that tells of how the power of art celebrates creative rebellion. You’ll have an opportunity to support the DAI financially through our silent auction, fund a need campaign, and donations. The DAI will talk about its future and the power of art to connect, disrupt, heal and grow together as community Registrants at the producer and collector level will join our special guest Antoinette to learn the art of tying and accessorizing headwraps. She is the creator and designer of Cantoinette Studios. Antoinette is a fiber artist and photographer. She focuses on narrative and concept to create sculptural installations, wearable art, and curatorial projects like Tignon. Antoinette is passionate towards supporting, sharing, and building an appreciation for the arts with both North Texas and all of humankind.
in the larger social fabric, and enable reweaving a more honest and equitable future. Inspired by the science of epigenetics and cultural understanding of ancestral memory, Keo brings to light a suppressed story within her own bloodline. The four structures stand in a partial circle on a pad of grass at the heart of Sister Cities Park, each honoring a family member who was tied to the Karelian Red Exodus of the 1930s – a little-known period that saw nearly 6,000 Finnish North Americans leave communities in the Upper Midwest and Lake Superior region to go to Karelia, Russia, to help build a utopian Finnish-speaking society that never came to fruition. Petrozavodsk, the capital city of Karelia, became one of Duluth’s Sister Cities in 1987. The yellow structures exist as armatures for the woven rag-rug tapestries that are visibly frayed and disconnected from the full family fabric. The hanging strips of weft dangle down to define the space within the structure as both an emotionally sheltered and exposed place for contemplation on one’s own history and lineage within the context of their present existence. Epigenetics suggests that lived experiences can alter the expression of genes in future generations. How has the suppression of ancestral stories impacted our understanding of ourselves, of the places we live, and the communities of which we are a part? How has assimilation and the construct of whiteness severed us from each other and the longer and wider tapestry of our heritage? What does it take to face the hard things that our ancestors experienced and never spoke of? How does that threaten our understanding of current reality? How can facing that discomfort open up a new world of possibility?
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Outdoor art project coming to Sister Cities Park
Artist Tia Keobounpheng (aka Tia Keo) invites the Duluth community to engage and experience a new temporary outdoor public art project to be installed in Sister Cities Park during the months of September and October. UNWEAVING explores the ways tradition, culture, communities, and individuals are unwoven when we are disconnected from our foundation of ancestral history (ie. when we don’t know our stories or when truths are suppressed or not acknowledged.) A different unweaving can loosen us from perpetuating unconscious pattern behaviors, make sense of our position
Ultimately UNWEAVING is about creating space to question our histories and our very selves. What am I willing to hold and process in order to heal the burdens of our past? What are you willing to give-up in order to create a more just and equitable future? What are we willing to experience in order to learn how to see differently? The color yellow maintains hope amidst the slow and difficult process of unweaving. The physical project will be constructed in Sister Cities Park August 2931 and will remain installed through the month of October.
Fabric artist and photographer Chesley Antoinette is the special guest of the Duluth Art Institute’s Virtual Gala on Sept. 16.
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Keeping a bookstore alive during pandemic By Angel and Bob Dobrow, owners of Zenith Bookstore Saturday, August 29, is Independent Bookstore Day, traditionally a oneday “national party” held at the end of April in indie bookstores across the country. This year the event was rescheduled because of Covid-19. While we have a lot to be grateful for, we don’t quite feel like partying. Nonetheless, The Reader asked us to write about the role and importance of independent bookstores, and we thought it would be a great idea to reflect on what it’s been like these past five months. Everyone is struggling these days to push through isolation, navigating the grocery store, trying to stay off the continual, and often depressing, news cycles, worrying about loved ones near and far, searching for sanitizing wipes on sparse grocery store shelves. And then there’s the additional, and very specific, stresses for us and our staff of running a small business in West Duluth during a national health crisis. We sell books, and before the pandemic enjoyed a steady and refreshing stream of tasks and customer contacts that warmed our hearts, and affirmed our decision to relocate to Duluth, to this wonderful community. After all, in what other trade does one constantly and consistently meet customers with big smiles on their faces, words of love and encouragement, and who have a reverence for one’s product – books – almost akin to a religious fervor! When the pandemic seemed to crash down on our heads at the beginning of March, our daily routine shifted and our workload has been reimagined and
reinvented several times since. Big believers in science, data, and the importance of community and social responsibility, we closed our doors to the public on March 16, even before we were told to do so. Thankfully, our software featured integrated online sales. Who knew how important that would be! Our initial anxiety of not knowing whether we would be able to survive, gave way to a flood of gratitude as we watched in amazement as our online orders grew by orders of magnitude. Our community and our customers had our back, and it was amazing. With our manager Nikki and bookseller Melisa we reconfigured the store interior and became shipping experts. We debated about what size corrugated boxes to buy and the best packing tape to use. As serendipity would have it, right before the pandemic we were planning to revamp the mystery section with bookcases on casters that would give us flexibility for opening up the store for large events. Alas, we had to cancel those events. But we were now able to clear out the middle of the store and set up long tables that were used for processing orders. We always sold books, and now we were selling books and making twice-daily trips to the post office with large bins full of packages. Shelter-in-Place meant that we could only have one bookseller in the store
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at a time. But that person became a machine of efficiency and hard work, as we memorized postal rates, continued to answer calls and make recommendations over the phone, and clocked lots of miles walking back and forth through the store like the old days. The Zenith Reads monthly book club moved to Zoom, and our Events calendar shrunk. The next big change happened when we were allowed curbside service. We offered very safe, very distant curbside delivery, which meant that you would drive into our parking lot by our side door, a bookseller would bring your bagged book outside and place it in a bin, and then you could get out of your car – after we returned to the building – to pick up your books. By now an additional bookseller returned to work, and so we revamped the staffing schedule to keep only the minimum in the store to allow for working and social distancing – always masked, of course. The tightrope was stretched a third time when we opened back to the public for reduced in-store browsing. Sneeze guards had to be set up, traffic flow planned along with ways to encourage social distancing and not squeeze people into small spaces – no small task for a relatively small “nookish” store. We had to figure out how to take those huge shipping tables that had taken over the middle of the store and shrink them down so that we could open up to customers while at the same time maintain online sales and special orders. And we had to become vigilant behind the counter – keeping track of how many bodies were in the store at all times, whether masks were being worn, and worn properly, and when bags of books had to be brought outside for curbside pickup. Phone calls into the store have multiplied, as have the UPS deliveries and the email inquiries. And we’re doing it all with essentially the same staff. We yearn nostalgic for the “good old days” of book-selling. You know: customer comes in, looks around, may or may not ask a question, may or may not make a purchase. Maybe they just sit down with a coffee from next door in a big comfy chair to read a chapter of their favorite book. Maybe they want to hang out at the register and schmooze about their latest read. People’s schedules now are more
strained, leisure and relaxation best experienced only at home. So we are all teaching ourselves to feel the smiles behind the masks that we cannot see directly. And then there are the “little things” that get us through the day, like having great neighbors next door at Wussow’s Concert Cafe, who’ll bring us lunch or share in common, or the emails and phone messages of warmth and support that pop up randomly throughout the week; or that our staff is incredibly devoted and hard-working and that none of them, nor their families, have gotten sick; or the fact that our customers are so patient and understanding through postal delays and the inevitable occasional lost order or damaged package. Our current holding pattern looks like this: reduced public hours, greater online sales and special orders, moving toward more virtual events. Throughout it all always remember how lucky we are to be able to maintain a viable business in an industry where books are plentiful and in high demand and well as supply (try buying a bike right now, or those sanitizing wipes!) and to live in a community that values books, reading, and supporting local businesses. It’s hard to know what the future will look like. Perhaps the most difficult part of all this is just the uncertainty of not knowing day to day. Perhaps we’ll return eventually to the “old way” of bookselling, although we suspect that the new “normal” may look very different from what has been. We have gained experience and
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resilience in our ability to shift quickly between the three ways of operating that we crafted over the spring and summer. We appreciate that the varying levels of lock-down allowed, for some, simply the gift of more time to read, not to mention the increased attention to issues of inequality and social justice which has driven so many recent book purchases and that help to deepen our understanding and empathy. We cherish the vital role a locallybased bookseller can play when physical contact is strained and maybe even scary. Our masks are on because we want you to stay healthy and we want to stay healthy so we can continue to be your bookseller. Our day has changed, for sure. But not our mission, nor our passion.
Midwest Indie Bestsellers
Indie Bestsellers
Hardcover
for the week ending 8/16/2020
FICTION
NONFICTION 1. Caste Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32
1. The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett, Riverhead Books, $27
2. Too Much and Never Enough Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., S&S, $28
2. Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27
3. How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27
3. Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell, Knopf, $26.95
4. Big Friendship Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman, S&S, $26
4. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Putnam, $26
5. Me and White Supremacy Layla Saad, Sourcebooks, $25.99
5. The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich, Harper, $28.99 6. The Pull of the Stars Emma Donoghue, Little, Brown, $28 7. The Dutch House Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99
6. Untamed Glennon Doyle, The Dial Press, $28 7. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99 8. The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson, Crown, $32
8. Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid, Putnam, $26
9. Evil Geniuses Kurt Andersen, Random House, $30
9. Axiom’s End Lindsay Ellis, St. Martin’s, $27.99
10. Begin Again Eddie S. Glaude, Crown, $27
10. The Order Daniel Silva, Harper, $28.99 11. American Dirt Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99 12. The Boy in the Field Margot Livesey, Harper, $26.99
11. New World Sourdough Bryan Ford, Quarry Books, $27.99 12. Countdown 1945 Chris Wallace, Avid Reader Press/S&S, $30 13. Owls of the Eastern Ice Jonathan C. Slaght, FSG, $28
13. A Private Cathedral James Lee Burke, S&S, $28 14. The Giver of Stars Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books, $28 15. The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner, St. Martin’s, $26.99
14. It Was All a Lie Stuart Stevens, Knopf, $26.95 15. Finding Freedom Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand, Dey Street Books, $27.99
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Minnesota novelist spins November challenge into her first book Even though I am a baby boomer who recalls the old duck & cover exercises in which we hopelessly clambered under our school desks to protect ourselves from nuclear attack, I’ve not given much thought to where I might end up in the event of a nuclear attack. Afton, Minn., author Sharon Grosh has, and she has chosen to set her first novel, Lazarus Rising, in what might be a dream postapocalyptic location for some – a giant underground marijuana growing and seed bank operation where a group of dedicated marijuana testers have been identifying specific medical benefits from different hybrids of indica and sativa strains of the sacred weed, largely unbeknownst to the surface world. In an interview with The Reader, Grosh said the novel was launched during the National Novel Writing Month in November, an annual event that attracts a lot of would-be novelists, few of whom see their work grow from idea to finished book, as Grosh has just done. The idea behind the novel had been percolating in her perhaps as early as 6th grade, when she first read Hiroshima, John Hersey’s slim 1946 masterpiece of reporting (it began life as the entire Aug. 31, 1946, edition of The New Yorker magazine, and was published in book form two months later by Alfred A. Knopf; it has never been out of print). If the imprint of that catastrophic tale was not cast when Grosh was a child, then certainly it happened upon her second reading as an adult during a train trip from Kyoto to Hiroshima. Hersey’s novelistic technique of telling the story of five people in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 stuck with her. “The other part of the inspiration was just how to write,” Grosh said. “He really focused on people before, during and after and that’s what I did in my book. I followed five characters before, during and after. That kept me on track, but it also complicated the book
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Sharon Grosh was inspired by John Hersey’s Hiroshima in writing her novel Lazarus Rising. because then you have to figure out each individual character. Eventually they come together, but it’s getting them to that point.” From the start, Grosh said the driving force behind the concept was about leadership in a time of catastrophe. “That’s kind of a common thread for any book, but because the context was so catastrophic, their changes might have been faster and more dramatic, living in the moment. It’s not as science fictiony as some people might expect, or even apocalyptic. I did try to stay away from the post-apocalyptic thing, even though I’m a big fan of post-apocalyptic books and movies.” Asked to name her favorite postapocalyptic vision, she did not hesitate. “Road Warrior was first and best of all. I’m also a fan of Larry Niven.” Grosh said she really found her voice when she sat down for that November novel challenge. She had read all the standard stuff about how you have to start with an outline and timeline and character back stories. “For me, that would not have inspired me,” she said, admitting that
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she is an adherent of a priori writing. “You just write,” she said. “It got enough legs for me that I said, I can do this. Get it out there and see what you’ve got. You don’t have to keep it all. Write it, then edit. I know there are two points of view. That’s my point of view. I did project planning and all that kind of stuff in my career. I’m just so done with that.” She added that you must be disciplined to bring your brilliant idea for a novel to life. She set aside 8 to 10 am each day. “I just found two hours a day,” she said. “Writing or not writing, you’re there and doing something with your book. It is the hardest thing, interruptions. If you start something else in the morning, you’re going to find yourself unloading the dishwasher instead of writing.” She also worked with a writing group in Waukesha, Wis., and a writing coach. “I started with the writing group,” she said. “I found it helpful working with people who read it as a book and give you feedback. What I couldn’t do is join a group where everybody reads everybody else’s stuff. I just didn’t have time for that.” Then she met virtually once a week
with the writing coach. “It’s kind of like a personal trainer for writing. It was great. I learned a lot,” Grosh said. “It’s just input, you can choose to use it or not. I felt it was good to get a feel for how it’s received. Things you wouldn’t normally think of are brought up. A friend has five reviewers that give her feedback on a book. I just need one point of view that I can choose to accept or not.” Grosh said the writing coach also served as real-time editor. “So there was a final draft that didn’t require a lot of editing,” she said. There was one other significant contribution from the writing coach. “There are different stages of writing,” Grosh said. “There are times when you really love it, and then there are times when you can’t stand it, when you want to drop it, so having a cheerleader is important.” While everyone has their own approaches, Grosh said from her experience, she would advise first-time novelists to write the story and worry about editing later. “Keep it simple. Don’t go over and over,” she said. “I think I wrote I don’t know how many drafts. I never wanted to write the ending. I wanted to go back and start it over again. I highly encourage, finish the book before you go back and edit.” She pauses and laughs, “Especially if you don’t have an outline.” Lazarus Rising was published by Black Rose Writing in April, and, so, Grosh has yet to do a live bookstore event, though she is hoping something might happen in the near future at her favorite bookstore in Cambridge Grosh is already at work on her second book, something completely different. She points out that she wrote an epilogue to Lazarus Rising so she would not have to write a sequel. She is also a fabric artist and is busy at the moment eco-dying with plants from her own garden. You can see some of her work at sharongrosh.com.
A trio of art books
William Blake: Visionary Edina Adam, author Julian Brooks, author Matthew Hargraves, contributor Getty Publications William Blake (28 Nov. 1757 – 12 Aug. 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Celebrated for his boundless imagination and unique vision, Blake created some of the most striking and distinctive imagery in art, often combining his poetry and visual images on the page through innovative graphic techniques. He has proven an enduring inspiration to artists, musicians, poets and performers worldwide and a fascinating enigma to generations of admirers. Featuring more than 130 color images, William Blake: Visionary is new catalogue that brings together many of Blake’s most iconic works. Organized by theme, the book explores Blake’s work as a professional printmaker, his roles as both painter-illustrator and poet-painter, his relationship to the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque artists that preceded him, and his legacy in the United States. William Blake: Visionary also examines his visionary prophetic books, including all 18 plates of America a Prophecy. The collaborative work of Edina Adams (a specialist in works on paper and an assistant curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum), Julian
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Brooks (who is senior curator and head of the Department of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the author of The Lure of Italy: Artists’ Views from Getty Publications, 2017, and Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (Getty Publications, 2015), and featuring contributions by Matthew Hargraves (who is the chief curator of art collections and head of collection information and access at the Yale Center for British Art), William Blake: Visionary is an incredibly impressive and beautifully illustrated volume that is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center July 21 to Oct. 11, 2020. Browsing through the pages is the next best thing to an on-site tour of the exhibition and an armchair traveler’s delight from cover to cover. The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum Daniel Velasco, et al. Fundacion Juan March c/o Distributed Art Publishers (DAP) In 1950, 18 American abstract painters signed an open letter addressed to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to express their intense disapproval of the museum’s contemporaneous exhibit American Painting Today: 1950. The artists were William Baziotes, James Brooks, Fritz Bultman, Jimmy Ernst, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Weldon Kees, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Theodoros Stamos, Hedda Sterne, Clyfford Still and Bradley Walker Tomlin. This artistic coalition, which included many members of the New York School and is now considered a watershed movement in mid20th-century American art history, challenged the museum’s policies for their narrow understanding of what made certain art worth exhibiting. Though they resisted being labeled as a collective, media coverage of the museum boycott, which included a now-famous group portrait in Life magazine taken by photographer Nina Leen, ultimately contributed to the success of the 18 “irascibles” in what became known as the abstract expressionist movement. The Irascibles includes 18 paintings by the artists, images from Leen’s photoshoot and extensive documentation of the letter-writing
process with relevant catalogs and magazines. Featuring more than 230 illustrations alongside original essays by several art historians and curators that examine the complex history of the New York School, The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum serves as a time capsule of the exciting period of early abstract expressionism in the United States. An elegant coffee-table style volume (9 x 1.2 x 11.2 inches), The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum is an impressively informative, exceptionally well organized and fascinating work of meticulous and collaborative scholarship.
subjects such as race; pointers to ways of connecting historical American art and the modern world; a look at why galleries matter; and discussing shifting tastes in American art. American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship is an exceptionally informative and impressively illustrated coffee-table style volume (8.6 x 1.3 x 10.3 inches).
American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship Stephen M. Sessler, general editor Merrell Publishers In the beautifully illustrated pages of American Art: Collecting and Connoisseurship 28 writers, each of them highly experienced and an acknowledged expert in their field, examine every aspect of the subject and contribute illuminating and often thought-provoking examinations of a wide variety of topics. The book is is divided into three sections: Part I, The Historical Overview, contains 14 essays. Their subjects range from the Hudson River School to the art of the American West, American artists in Europe, American Impressionism, Modernism, examinations of major artists, African American Art, figurative sculpture, and period frame connoisseurship. Part II deals with Connoisseurship and the Collector, and covers such topics as developing an instinct for quality; dealing in fine art; conservation; choosing wisely in making a collection; the pleasures and perils of collecting art works on paper; researching paintings you may be considering acquiring; the role of qualified art advisers; the anatomy of an auction; knowing the law when buying art; and legal issues for the collector selling art. There are glimpses of the prominent collectors who have contributed so greatly to the American art scene over many years. Part III covers Current Themes in the Art Market, and what to look out for, examining how to make historical American art relevant to the modern age and avoiding misinterpretation of what could be seen as sensitive August 27, 2020 67
LOOK A documentary of dreams lost The Beaver Trilogy: Part IV 2015 Yes, the title is oxymoronic. How can there be a part four to a trilogy? Self-titled “unknown director” (Brad Besser) brilliantly wraps up The Secret Tapes of Trent Harris – aka The Beaver Trilogy – with a documentary that threads the whole story together into a rough and brilliant tapestry of human beingness. Ultimately, it’s an uplifting documentary just because you get to
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Richard Griffiths (aka The Beaver Kid and Groovin’ Gary) in his first encounter with documentarian Trent Harris in 1979. The chance meeting led Harris to create The Beaver Trilogy, while fellow Utahan Brad Besser made the movie that wrapped it all up, The Beaver Trilogy: Part IV. meet Richard Griffiths (aka Groovin’ Gary), an extraordinary character who makes what may have been a bad decision to perform in drag as Olivia Newton-Dawn at a talent show in the small conservative town of Beaver, Utah. This all begins with a chance encounter between a Salt Lake City news show documentarian by the name of Trevor Harris, who one day in 1979 is testing out the station’s first VHS camera when he runs into a well bell-bottomed young man who is thrilled to be on camera and launches into a few passable impressions of folk such as John Wayne and Sylvester Stallone in Rocky mode. Then the kid, with Harris and his camera trailing, walk to his trickedout brilliant white Chevy, with shag carpeting on the dashboard and “Olivia” etched into the side window glass. Harris and his camera are captivated by the kid’s natural charisma and naïve charm. So when Harris is contacted by who he refers to as “the Beaver Kid” to attend a talent show in his town, Harris goes to cover the talent show, or at least the kid’s participation in it. We see Beaver Kid being made up at the local mortuary for his gig later in the day as Olivia Newton-Dawn, where he will sing in falsetto Olivia Newton-John’s hit “Please don’t Keep Me Waiting.” There is a close-up scene when Richard, on stage in his makeup and Olivia wig, is feeling the vibe of the audience, which is not a good vibe, it’s a “what the hell is wrong with this
weird dude in drag” kind of vibe, and you can see in his eyes the tormented look of one who has just seen the awful, bitter truth of his situation. The station Harris works for decides not to air the piece, and that might have been the end of it. But the idea of the Beaver Kid hung with Harris, to the point where he made a short fictional film based on his encounter with the kid and the subsequent talent show, starring a notyet well-known young actor named Sean Penn playing the role of the Beaver Kid. But Harris still is not satisfied, or, to put it another way, the Beaver Kid is not yet through with Harris. He decides to remake the fictional film into a slightly longer short feature for his AFI thesis. He auditions many actors who went on to big careers (Nicolas Cage, Eric Stolz), but, happily for fans of the truly weird, he chose Crispin Glover for the role of Beaver Kid. The two became friends, and when Glover came up with a character named Rubin Farr, he suggested Harris do a movie featuring the character. The result was the 1991 feature Rubin & Ed. (Anyone recall the Late Night with David Letterman show in 1987 when Glover, in character as Rubin, nearly kicked Letterman in the face with a platform shoe, causing Letterman to leave the set?} Although a must-see film for some cultists, Rubin & Ed was a commercial flop. Harris went on to other things, such as Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995). But, apparently much to his dismay, he seems best known for The Beaver
Above, Richard Griffiths doing his Olivia Newton-Dawn routine at the Beaver, Utah, talent show. Right, Crispin Glover portraying Richard Griffiths at the talent show. Trilogy, which he released in 2001. The Beaver Trilogy became something Harris wished to forget. He said he was sick to death of answering the same questions about the work. But the trilogy was inspiring a fellow Utah native to tell the rest of the story with Part IV. We learn that when The Beaver Trilogy premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (in 2001), Harris reserved a ticket for Richard, but he never picked it up. But after the showing, a guy walked up to Harris and said, “You probably don’t remember me…” It was Richard “the Beaver Kid” Griffiths. Besser tracks down family and friends of the Beaver Kid, and we learn that his dreams of being an impressionist were dashed with that fateful talent show, and some of what had made Richard Griffiths such a popular and fun guy
was submerged in his personality until, his sisters say, he returned from the premiere of The Beaver Trilogy like his old self. We also learn that like the Beaver Kids in Harris’ fictional accounts, Richard attempted suicide after his appearance as Olivia Newton-Dawn in the talent show. In the Crispin Glover version, after a scene with a gun in his mouth, the bewigged Beaver Kid leaves his uptight hometown in his white Chevrolet named Olivia for a bright future in Tinseltown. The truth, of course, is different. And it turns out to be a beautiful, though sad, story of dreams unfulfilled, or the melancholy of even having dreams. I won’t say more than that. Either way, it’s highly recommended viewing and available for streaming through Amazon Prime.
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4 dr collector car. 17,700 original mil. Museum quality. $15,000. 218-778-688 6 after 6pm
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2000 Pontiac Grand Am 4 Dr., Gold, 3.4 V6 Auto, runs good, newer battery, brakes, other parts, good tires. $1,300. 218-213-1176. 2013 Grey HONDA FIT hatchback, excellent condition, 87,033 miles. $6,995 cash only. Car starter, AT, FWD, A/C. Call or text 218-3484760 for more information. 1995 Subaru Impreza, 4 dr., AWD Sportswagon, 2.2 liter, 4-cylinder, automatic.200k. Runs great. $1,800 OBO. 218-428-5416. 2001 Volkswagen Beetle. Front wheel drive, manual tranny, new tires, new battery, blue, air, sunroof, $3,000. 150,000 miles. Very clean car, Port Wing, Wis. 715813-9054. 1981 Buick LeSabre. 4-Dr., dark blue, 19,000 miles, flawless. $9,500. 1998 BMW Z-3. Headturning black beauty. Spoked wheels, 5-speed, extra rims and tires, $9,750. 715-682-6116. 1973 Blue Lincoln Continental, 27K Mint Condition. $15,000. 218966-1748 1999 Toyota SR5 4x4 Classic extended cab. Excellent to mint condition. Cap, steps, frontguard, rear air shocks, sun visor & chrome package. $12,500. or BO 715-2783055 2003 Ford Taurus. New tires, good runner. Good for parts car. Has rusted frame. $750. or BO 218-348-2434 95 Cad. 6 door-9 pass Limo. Very clean. 52K New vinyl roof. $3,500. OBO 218-628-2606 1997 Lincoln Luxury Town Car. Arizona vehicle, never seen snow. Lo-miles. $5,900. kept in Minong 715-466-4607 or 715-520-0345 1974 VW Super Beetle. Fair condition. 138,000 mi. ‘98 paintgreen. Bayfield area. $2,750 7157793203 2008 Ford Focus 4cyl sedan 4D SES 144k miles. $4500. 2000 Toyota Corolla 4cyl sedan 4D LE 90k miles $2900. 218-727-6724 Sold AS-IS for restoration or parts. Collector 91 Buick Riviera, 68 Chevrolet 3/4 ton pickup. 88 Mercury Topaz, 74 Mercury Montery 218-525-1477 2000 Dodge Intrepid, still runs good, (been babied), FW drive, tires fairly new, 178,000+ miles, $2,000 or BO 218-786-0339 2003 Saturn LW200 Wagon. Great shape, great runner, low
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miles. Economical family vehicle. $4,200 obo. 218-940-3659 2000 Dodge Neon. Good shape w/139k miles. PS/PB/AC. 4 cyl. Two new tires. $1,800 or BO 218263-8292 1979 Pontiac Sunbird coupe, all original 44,000 actual miles, never been in the snow. 4 cylinder ,4 speed, custom wheels, must see ,picture available,$4,500 OBO 218-475 -2767 Single Owner, 2010 Steel Gray, Level 5, Toyota Prius, 42,000 miles, maintenance up to date, new tires, GPS navigation system, JBL Speaker system and Bluetooth for hands free cellphone connection. Excellent condition. In garage in winter. $19,500 call 218235-1698 1989 Cadillac Fleetwood. 75k Immaculate. Collector plates. A/C, cruise, power seats & windows. $5,000 or BO. 715-409-5431. 2010 Chev Impala. Great shape! $4,395 OBO. 218-409-5496 $5,000 BO. 713-409-5431 or 218Trucks, Vans, 346-3622
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1999 Toyota SR5 Ex-Cab 4x4 ExCond-mint, Caps, Steps,Frontguard, Rear Air Shocks, Sun visor, Chrome pkg. $12,500 715-278-3055 94 Ford Bronco-One owner (not OJ) 133k New alternator, tires, brakes etc. $1,500. ask for Rene’ 218-464-0757 88 Ford Econoline E-250 Camper Van. Flacon 190,351 Windsor motor, 144,000 mi, runs drives great. New tires 7,000 mi ago. Many new parts. $6,900. 218-780-6436 2012 Chevy Captiva Sport V6, 67k excellent cond. $10,000. 715-3632646 or 715-292-1043 Vans-SUVs-Non Business 6 door 9 pass Limo. Nice Arizona car. No rust, new vinyl roof. $4500. OBO 218-628-2606 or 218-391-2535 1947 Willy Jeep attachment to make manual lifting Plow into power!! $75.00 218-6242143 96 Dodge Dakota ExCab, V-6, 137xxx mi. $1850.00 218-7493993 1997 Red Chev 1/2 ton, Z71, leather, 3rd door, push button 4x4++! 157000 mi. $3850. 218749-3993 2015 Yukon SLT. Fully loaded. 50% wear on tires. 103KMi Free of
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Two Lawrence green box flashers. Mac 1 Eagle graph--Lawrence. $75. 218-984-2669 Jay Turser Sanatoga Electric Guitar w/all the bells & whistles. Gotta see to appreciate w/hardshell case $100. 218-393-1375 Hammond organ J-122 model w/ bench. Great condition. $100 or best offer. 218-244-1629 SWR studio 220 bass head and 2 AMPEG 4x10 cabs $600. 5905664 Old Tunes for new Harpists. Spiral bound books 3 hymns; 3 Christmas/holiday, and 2 folk tunes/ classics) with 15 original arrangements, suitable for all harps. $20 612/308-1792. Rocktron Amp. 120wt 2x12. On board reverb, distortion, chorus, tuner. Loud and gig worthy. $175. 218-269-7042 Wanted Wicker porch furniture. Text or call 612-599-6983. Two- or four-wheel folding grocery cart, less than $15. Call evenings, 218-940-9005. Small cast iron wood or pellet stove. 218-834-3709 lv messg Honda Trail 70, Z50, XL70, SL70, XR75 motorcycles. 218-428-3474 Cheap-used recesed ceiling fan. 218-310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Cheap used/refurbished room, window or portable air conditioner in good shape. 218-310-1781 Wanted - snowblower with electric start, 8 HP more or less. Reasonable - Leave or Text message to 715-610-1710. 2 into 1 stock muffler from early ‘80s Harley FX 218-341-2841 Sets of Dresser scarves. 218-9409005 evenings Reasonably priced 20’ Pontoon boat w/ 4-stroke engine and power lift. 928-234-3325 Seeking private woodlands to sustainably harvest balsam boughs in Sept & Oct. Cash paid. Senior couple. 218-428-5220 Super 8 Viewer. 715-919-1028 Plastic model cars and car kits, parts & pieces. 1/24 & 25th scale. 218-393-1375 Your old resonator or Dobro guitars/parts. Desired by man of limited resources for a project. 715817-1813 Wanted to buy. Forging tools.
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218-590-6507 Computer/Elec Ham Radios-Best Offer. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981 Old “Air Master” radio. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981 Dell Inspiron desktop $100..218341-2607 White Baby Monitors $10. or BO 218-310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Bluetooth Music Light up bulb. $25. or BO Mini electric cigarette roller. Blue&Black comes with pushstick & brush $30. or BO218310-1781 PS2 Console w/3 controllers. Slim PS2 $40. or BO Will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218276-4985 RCA digital converter box wth remote, gently used-still in box. $35 or BO-will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218-2764985 Appliances Free 1956 Singer sewing machine in wooden cabinet. 920-727-3550. ATTENTION LANDLORDS: Frigidare washer, Maytag dryer, XLarge Kenmore Refridgerator w/ ice maker, Maytag Dishwasher. Downsizing. Excellent running cond. Some scratches from moving. $1,000. for all. 218-241-1842 Cube-style dorm fridge in good cond. $40. 218-638-2399 Jen-aire Glass Top Stove. Works great. Best offer 218-724-5358 Wood space heater $50. 218-7214481 Stove for home, cabin or garage. Burns wood or coal. $95. 715-3998569 White Kenmore microwave. $10. 218-206-1278 Two 250 gal fuel oil tanks. Paint red for gasoline. $50/ea. 218-8482007 Furniture Blue office chair. Good condition. $10. Gold floor lamp with shade. Good condition. $15. Shelving unit and 14 ceramic bears. $25 Call 218-525-7702 Full size box spring and mattress, very good shape. $30 cash only takes both. 218-834-3709 48” round oak pedestal table, small oak library table, ornate oak buffet, multi-drawer draftsman cabinet. Make offer 218-830-1255
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16mm sound movie projector. Runs very well. $100. 320-2602464. Chest High Waders. Size 11 $35 cash only. 218-834-3709 Baseball basketball cards. great
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Wanted_ Managing editor of The Reader is seeking a home or apartment to rent. 920-421-3441. Wanted: Furnished bedroom, apartment, or cabin in Duluth area for senior couple for month of August. JANEorTOM@gmail.com Disabled P/T employed male in need of stable housing, room or basement with available kitchen. Far East End. Please call James 218-461-0703. Will provide all inside/outside upkeep, maintenance, etc. for your property/home. Swap for free but private living quarters on site. Multi-skilled 70 yr old man. Excl. Character. 218-213-43-69 MINNESOTA HUNTING LAND Wanted. Earn thousands on your land by leasing the hunting rights. Free evaluation & info packet. Liability coverage included. The experts at Base Camp Leasing have been bringing landowners & hunters together since 1999. Email: info@basecampleasing.com Call: 866/309-1507 BaseCampLeasing.com I buy homes, multi-units and land. Cash $. 218-5562542 webuytwinports.com_ Real Estate Hunting Land 40 acres Ajoins 2000 A County Land. NW Douglas County. Buildable, heavily wooded. Wood value $26k - Taxes $670. Price reduced to $60,000 218-428-5844 WILDERNESS HUNTING CABIN with storage shed 1000 ft. off forest management road on leased land in St. Louis County Brimson area. Call 218-391-4131 or 218-879-6585 For Sale: 2.35 acre lot w/100’ shoreline on Lake LaVerne, WI. Motivated to sell: $27,000 Call Lori 612803-6607 for details. For Sale: 1978 2 bedroom, 2 bath mobile home in Sunnyside Estates, Cloquet. Needs repairs. $1,500. or B.O. 218-481-5881 Responsible nonprofit animal rescue looking for pet friendly rental housing, fenced yard, spacious. Rent to own pref. ASAP. 218-576-8534 50 acres hunting land. 2 enclosed deer stands, building site, power & phone access. Westerlund Loop, Solon Springs, Wisc. 920-344-8016 Mobile home $18,500 Vintage Acres/Gary 2br//1ba includes appliances. Quiet. Lg yard/garden area. 218-464-5524 2-Bedroom Cabin on Siskwit Lake, 500’ frontage, Cornicopia, Wisconsin 847-710-2967 Rentals__ Room for rent in Superior. Large unit, shared kitchen, private bath. $700. Text or call Sara, 763-760-5937. Large 2 bedroom apartment in West Duluth. Available Sept. 1st Call 218-940-6237 Condo in Aspenwood 3 bed - 1.5 bath, garage,fully firnished. All utilities inc. Available October 1st. 6-8 month lease. $1,595. 218-390-7291 Newer 2 story side by side duplex in Superior w/att. 2 stall garage. 2bdr w/full & half ba gas heat & water. $1025/ mo + util. & dep. No pets. Avail. May 1 Call 715-394-2028
Seeking Rental - Whole house or private entrance w/o shared ventilation. Chemically sensitive tenants - Can Afford $800-1000 per month depending on utilities. Asthma triggered by poor indoor air quality. Call or text (218) 260-5091
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Wilderness Hunting Cabin 16’ x 24’ cabin with steel-sided shed on county-leased land in Ault, Minnesota, 1000’ off forest management road.
$40,000 Call 218-491-0972 or 218-355-1668
Iconic Northwoods Restaurant for Lease The Chocolate Moose is available for lease to a qualified operator for the 2020 season and beyond. Ely’s most popular restaurant since 1985 needs new energy and creativity. Sixmonth lease with very liberal terms to get started. Operationally ready to move in. Profitable for more than 30 years. Call Piragis Northwood Co., 218-365-6745 or steve@piragis.com
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14th Avenue West & 3rd Street Wood setting near Enger Tower in the middle of Duluth. 2 bedroom apartment, everything included 950.00 a month Newer secure building, views of bay, OSP, laundry, non-smoking, no pets. 100 yards from hiking and biking trails. Students and young professionals welcome. Call Dan. 218-348-8008
$48,000 Wooded Lot with Creek & Well 6632 Hwy 61, Little Marais
Ready to build on level site. Year round access. Well, electricity, and identified septic 1-3/4 acres includes: 25’ travel trailer, 18’ X 18’ Shed, mature trees, winding creek
Contact: Mike 651-406-8221
Build your Vacation Home or Cabin Very nice, remote 10 acres. Fully surveyed, driveway in, building site fully ready. Walk down to lake and fish for Walley, Northern and perch. Ducks, Geese, Deer, Moose and Bear roam the property. Build your dream home, or hunting cabin. Located in central Lake County. Forrest service road accress, not plowed in winter. 18 miles from Finland, MN. $35,000
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Job Opportunites Graphic Artist needed. Adobe Creative Suite, pagination skills a plus. Send resume to: info@readerduluth.com Needed Immediately Some one ASAP to work with elderly, nice lady to do some errands, shopping, Doctors appts. etc. No housework. Must be kind and honest. Have to have car, insurance. Must like pets and be kind to animals. Good pay. Variable hours. 3419027 LvMessg. Business Opportunity. Photo/picture framing equipment, Fletcher 2100 & 3000 mat/glass cutters, Vacu-Seal programmable press. Extra supplies incl. $7,500. value selling for $2,500. Can purchase items separately. 218-830-1255 Living Well workshop series is for people with conditions such as chronic pain, diabetes, arthritis or mental health conditions. We are looking for volunteers and professionals to become class leaders to motivate and inspire. Leaders co-lead a 6-week workshop with another certified instructor in a community setting of their choice. Must lead one workshop per year. yourjuniper.org. Wanted: In search of Talent Manager & mentor to help me reach my potential. I am a comedian & speaker with electric personality. I have potential to impact the world but I need a believer to believe in me. I want to make the dream attainable.Write me: Benjamin Jorgenson, 2 East 2nd st. Duluth, MN 55802 Adults 18 or older and generally healthy wanted for research on the physiological and subjective stress responses of individuals who use marijuana regularly. Compensation provided. U of MN Medical School Du-
luth Research Study, 218-726-8623. President’s Liquor has full & part-time employment openings for stock clerk, cashier, maintenance & office assistant. Apply in-person at the Liquor store. 3824 E. 2nd St. Superior, WI. Ask for Jim
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All Super Ones Cub Foods Mount Royal Fine Foods Mount Royal Bottle Shop Mount Royal Library Whole Foods Co-op Cashwise Liquor Lake Aire Bottle Shoppe Holiday - 27th Ave W. Holiday- 40th Ave W. Holiday - London Road Holiday – Rice Lake Road Minit Mart - 19th Ave. W. & Superior St. CHUM drop-in center Marshall Hardware Reader box - Dewitt Seitz Reader box - Main Post Office Reader box - Downtown Sammy’s – West Duluth University Liquor Vintage Italian Pizza Woodland Market Place Wussow’s – West Duluth
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All Super Ones Belknap Liquor Hammond Liquor Keyport Liquor Holiday - 21st & Tower Holiday - Belknap Holiday - E. Second St. Vintage Italian Pizza Superior Meats
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Kendall’s - Knife River Holiday - Beaver Bay Answers on page Bri’ Essa’s - Silver Bay 55 Co-op - Finland Holiday - Tofte Lockport - Lutsen Holiday - Grand Marais
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All Super Ones Harvest Co-op – Virginia IGA – Eveleth Northwoods - Ely Zup’s - Babbit Zup’s - Ely Zup’s - Tower Y Store - Hwy 100 Holiday - Gilbert Short Stop –Eveleth Short Stop - Buhl Clark – Virginia 169 Freedom – Chisholm Bloomberg’s – Babbit Lucky Seven -_Biwabik Iron Junction - C-store
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Employment Have lots of nest stuff 4 sale. Have Amazon acct. Need someone w/internet sales ability. For info 218-348-2903 “Ever wonder what the world looks like at 5 am? Always dreamed of having afternoons off? Amazing Grace is looking for a full time breakfast line cook. The right candidate will be: Reliable and skilled in the arts of time management; Ready to become an indispensable piece of our ever-growing team; Able to work fast-paced professional kitchen; Excited about working in a fromscratch kitchen in a family owned restaurant; Stop by & pickup an application, we look forward to meeting you.” ARE YOUR KIDS IN SCHOOL? V.I.P. is in need of a few good kitchen workers. Day hours available. If you are interested call your nearest V.I.P. or stop in. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY DRIVERS WANTED Looking for self-motivated people that would like part time work transporting people to appointments in your area. Great benefits. Please leave message 612/978-2115 Paperboy looking for help with marketing on internet. 218-348-
2903 Housekeepers Wanted Must be available mornings and weekends. Apply in person at the front desk/ Allyndale Motel, 510 North 66 Ave. West and Cody St.
Looking for an amazing career and a great place to work? Aerostich is hiring! View our video and all available positions at www.SewAero.com. Arrowhead House Foster Care has part time employment opportunities working with adults with mental illness. Day/evening & awake overnight positions available. Competitive wages, paid training, paid time off and employee bonuses! Call 218-727-8040, or apply online at ahprograms. com Work Wanted Sharpening Service 29 years exp. Circle saws, planer knives, Zamboni knives, tec. John 218879-6143 Experienced pet sitter would love to watch them in your home & house sit. References. Call 218380-3340 Trudy. $0. one dog, $5 each additional
Licensed Nurse-Duluth/Superior area. Good driving record. Will assist clients: DRs appts, meds, shopping, lunch, some light housekeeping duties. Avail. 2-3 hrs on weekdays. Reasonable rates Call Lynn 218-348-7393 Experienced personal care assistant/home health aide looking for jobs. 29 yr old female with reliable vehicle and valid insurance. can run errands, clean, do small projects, drive u places, assist u with things inside and outside of the house, shovel, as well as assist with activities of daily living. 218-481-3388
Employment Educated hair stylist willing to come to your home and do your hair. Very fair rates. Wendy 715-919-0979 Senior will do phone fundraising/surveys. PT, afternoons, downtown Duluth. 218-940-9005 Reliable man to care for elderly in home. Run errands, work in your home. Very diversified, ex-contractor. Call for details 218-409-4725 Feet on the Go! Yes! I will come into your home to give you a pedicure. 218-208-7950 Handyman. $13/hr - Call Ryan @ 218-428-1626 Musicians.. Anyone looking for a drumset or Bass player? I play both. 612-396-8307 GUITAR LESSONS from Austin, Tx professional new to the Twin Ports! (Also Bass & Vocal) go to new levels! Call 512565-5000 Guitar lessons available. 16 years experience. All styles, reasonable rates. Contact Aaron at 218-760-1599. Professional violin/fiddle lessons. Credentials: Performance degree U of M Twin Cities, toured nationally as American/ Celtic/Nordic/Rock fiddler. Duluth. References. 218-2353235 Eli Bissonett Free Piano Lessons for Beginners in your home. If you have the desire to learn the basics this is a good start. I will not give lessons to under 18 without others present. Jay 218213-4687
Superior, WI 715-501-4046 Lost/Found Lost - Black I-Phone on Dec. 16. Within 4 blocks of East High School in the snow. $50 reward Text/Call 218-2136213
Meetings NARVRE Unit 92 - Protecting Railroad Retirement - we meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at the West Duluth American Legion at 1 PM Scandinavian Crime Writers Book Club meeting in Duluth Call Kirk 612-558-1318
HELP WANTED Keyport Lounge
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Alernative Therapies Mind Body Spirit Harmonization with Tachyon Energy. One only a few Tachyon Chambers in U.S.
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tv Arielle Vandenberg hosts Love Island, airing at 8 pm Tuesdays on CBS.
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My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding TLC 11 am
Follow the exploits of various young people who identify as American Gypsies in a mini-marathon of this reality series. At just 14 years old, Priscilla is now fully trained to become a Gypsy wife and is actively searching for her future husband.
Room 104 HBO 10 pm
In this new episode before heading out on a three-month long hiking trip, two graduate students, Megan (Shannon Purser) and Casey (Kendra Carelli) make a stop at the iconic hotel. During their stay, they confront the harsh realities of their friendship.
Andrew Lincoln stars in The Walking Dead, airing Sunday at 5 pm on AMC.
Jurassic Park III AMC 10 pm
Dinos go berserk in the conclusion of this action-packed trilogy. Desperate for research funding, Dr. Grant (Sam Neill) takes a wealthy couple on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna only to discover they intend to land on the island populated by dinosaurs.
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Saturday, 8-29 Extreme Couponing TLC 5 am
Sunday, 8-30 Movie: Get on Up HBO 8:50 am
Savvy shoppers use coupons to snag amazing deals in this reality series. In this episode, extreme couponers Kelly and Rebecca attempt to impress the people in their lives and bring them over to the world of stockpiling and bargains.
Chadwick Boseman stars as legendary founding father of funk, James Brown, in this biographical drama. Despite a life of poverty, Brown became one of the world’s most influential musicians through his career. Octavia Spencer and Keith Robinson also star.
Lucky Dog CBS 7 am
American Pharoah: Born to Run NBC 11 am
Animal trainer Brandon McMillan takes on seemingly “unadoptable” dogs in this heart-warming family series. He brings them to Lucky Dog Ranch, where he retrains the pups to be suitable pets before lucky families bring the pooches home.
Labor of Love Fox 11 pm
Through a series of challenges and dates, would-be mother Kristy Katzmann gets to know a group of eligible men, seeking to decide which is right for her and the family she is eager to start in a rebroadcast of this reality series hosted by Kristin Davis.
Corinne and Jamie Foxx host Beat Shazam, airing 7 pm Thursdays on Fox.
Sean Giambrone stars in The
This new special chronicles the success of American Pharaoh, the first horse to complete a grand slam in thoroughbred horse racing, winning the Triple Crown races – Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes – and finally the Breeder’s Cup in 2015.
The Walking Dead AMC 5 pm
An incident places Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), a small town deputy, in a coma in this rebroadcast pilot episode. When he wakes alone in a deserted hospital, Rick finds the world overrun by corpses, some of which are still walking and hungry.
Renovation Island HGTV 6 pm
Movie: Love the Coopers Fox 7 pm
Bryan and Sarah Baeumler’s work towards renovating an entire abandoned resort begins in this rebroadcast. They pack up their family and move to the tropical island, with plans to transform 18 hotel rooms, 22 ocean villas and the gorgeous 10-acre property.
Four generations of a dysfunctional family of oddballs come together to try and celebrate the holidays in this ensemble comedy starring Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Alan Arkin and Marisa Tomei.
Tails of Joy 2 Hallmark 10 am
Comedian Brad Sherwood joins Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie on stage in this new episode. Aisha Tyler hosts this long-running improv comedy show, offering hilarious situations and prompts for the guys to act out, often tossing in curveballs.
Monday, 8-31
Larissa Wohl hosts this new special, along with the help of some adorable furry friends. Stories of shelter animals given a new lease on life are shared, inspiring and encouraging viewers to look to rescue for their own next family pet.
Lisa Rinna from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, airing Wednesdays at 8 pm on Bravo.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? CW 7 pm
Planet Earth: A Celebration AMC 7 pm
Don’t miss the global premiere of this incredible new special from the Planet Earth team. This time, the breathtaking footage will be set to music from some of the greatest composers and orchestras in the world.
Intervention A&E 9 pm
This new episode features Shandon, who, after the divorce of her parents and struggles with bullying, turned to drugs. Now, she must work the streets to pay for her $200 a day drug habit.
Tuesday, 9-1
Movie: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel HBO 11:30 am
A group of British pensioners with various reasons to upend their lives make an eventful journey to India, where they plan to live at a beautiful retirement hotel run by a young man. The group finds new lease on life in the city of Jaipur.
Love Island CBS 8 pm
A group of gorgeous singles come together at a beautiful villa, looking for love and new relationships. They will need to find the right one, since being dumped means getting dumped from the island as well. Arielle Vandenberg hosts this new season.
Transplant NBC 9 pm
Tune in for the American premiere of this Canadian medical drama starring Hamza Haz as Bashir Hamed, a doctor from Syria who flees from his country to Toronto, continuing his mission to save and help people at the city’s busiest hospital.
Chopped: Sweets FOOD 9 pm
Tropical drinks and deliciously chewy treats keep the competitors on their toes during round one in this new episode, followed by an alluring, alliterative pairing of punch and Pavlova in round two. Scott Conant hosts this cooking competition series.
Wednesday, 9-2 Movie: The Karate Kid Showtime 7 pm
AMC presents back-to-back ‘80s classics with a special broadcast of this film and its sequels. Ralph Macchio stars as Daniel, a teenager who is tormented by bullies that learns karate from a martial arts master, Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita).
MasterChef Fox 7 pm
rebroadcast. Judges Gordon Ramsey, Joe Bastianich and Aarón Sánchez look for a dish that is delicious and highlights the efficiency of the pan.
Growing Belushi Discovery 9 pm
Jim Belushi and his cousin Chris have lost the seeds for their prized Columbian marijuana strains, but decide to explore old haunts of the infamous Pablo Escobar in an attempt to salvage something from their trip. When they return, they celebrate harvest.
Thursday, 9-3 Movie: Bleed for This AMC 11 am
Miles Teller stars as Vinny “The Pazmanian Devil” Pazienza, a former world champion boxer who struggled with weight and injuries through his career. Aaron Eckhart, Ted Levine and Katey Sagal also star in this biographical drama from director Ben Younger.
Movie: A Hidden Life HBO 3 pm
August Diehl stars as Franz Jagerstatter in this biographical drama. Jagerstatter was an Austrian farmer whose conscientious objection to fighting for the Nazis during WWII led to his execution and martyrdom by the Catholic Church for his devout faith.
Beat Shazam Fox 7 pm
Three teams compete to identify hit songs in back-to-back episodes of this game show. Jamie Foxx hosts with his daughter Corinne, presenting the world’s biggest hits for contestants to name, vying for a shot at the final round and million dollar prize.
House Hunters International HGTV 9:30 pm
A couple of bar-owning entrepreneurs sell their beloved business and head to Guanacaste, Costa Rica, in this new episode. They want something with an artsy vibe that has the potential to generate a bit of rental income for the pair on the side.
Contestants have 60 minutes to create an elevated one-pan-wonder dish using a cast-iron pan in this DuluthReader.com
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A X Y D L B A A X is LONGFELLOW One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for
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S WTPQ FEM‘Q QLSMV ZEPQ NUENRU NTQ ZCPURY X MF DEAUDQ YDEPQ SM QLU PXZU GXQUJEDC. — AEA MUHLXDQ
ACROSS 1 – Musical phrases 6 – Complete 11 – Knucklehead 12 – Depart 13 – Power provider 14 – Saudi Arabia neighbor 15 – Harbor boats 17 – Stop 18 – Hodgepodge 22 – Opposed to 23 – Wild ones 27 – Racing boat 29 – Slow mover 30 – Postponed 32 – Thin coin 33 – Tripped 35 – Energy 38 – Bangkok native 39 – Rust, for one 41 – Not match, color-wise 45 – Harpoon 46 – Seascape playwright 47 – Brass section members 48 – Film prize DuluthReader.com
DOWN 1 – Crater part 2 – Wedding words 3 – In shape 4 – Mountain range’s edge 5 – Play, as a banjo 6 – Homer hero 7 – Player’s peg 8 – Not wild 9 – Flat 10 – Tear 16 – Yak it up 18 – Schooner pole 19 – Machu Picchu native 20 – Ticket souvenir 21 – Fliers 24 – Go to sea 25 – Clock reading 26 – Winter glider 28 – Word components 31– “Well, that’s obvious!”
34 – Hong Kong neighbor 35 – Swanky 36 – Trade fair 37 – Docking spot 40 – Dapper fellow 42 – Jackson 5 hit 43 – Cruise setting 44 –That woman
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FINITO Photo of the week Lily in the city! Photo by Raymond Payne.
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Quote of the week On Aug. 27, 1922, Paavo “The Flying Finn” Nurmi, set one of his 22 official world records by running the 3,000-meter in 8:28.6. He dominated long distance running of the early 20th century, including nine gold and three silver medals in 12 Olmpic events.
“Mind is everything. Muscle – pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.” Paavo Nurmi, 1987 – 1973
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