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inbox Kohls’ duty to misinform I was born in 1953 and grew up with measles (at 9 months of age), with another two bouts of it at 6 and 8 years of age, right along with my older brother. At 7 years I had pertussis. At 9 years we both had mumps. At 10 years we both had chicken pox, which my mother also got. (We were lucky – the scarring was minimal on our faces.) These diseases swept through schools on a regular basis./ All these diseases could have been avoided by vaccines which were just not available at that time. My mother had worked in a polio hospital (1948-49) as an LPN and saw with her own eyes adults and children in iron lung machines because they could not breathe without them. Having her children get polio was my mother’s greatest fear. Thank god for Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine. We did get some vaccinations through the local school system for dyptheria, smallpox and polio. Believe me, I will be first in line for a COVID vaccine when available. With the availability of vaccines in this day and age, I do not think that any responsible parent would allow or want their child to become ill with any of the above childhood diseases I have listed when they can be easily avoided with a vaccine. Many of these diseases can cause serious complications in children or adults unfortunate to become infected by them. Dr. Kohls does every patient a grave disservice with his anti-vax misinformation campaign, in addition to endangering pubic health. It is way past time to pull the plug and stop printing Kohls’ articles. Pam Koepsel Iron River, Wisconsin Don is going, going, gone! The election is over and a new president-elect and vice president has been chosen and announced on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and others, apparently all fake news. Now on 710 AM radio, local and national radio jocks, as well as FOX TV, fixated on exaggerations, cry foul and refuse to accept defeat only to relinquish all credulity as fair and balanced newsworthy networks. Time heals all wounds and the Republican’ts may now live through four years of what Democrats put up with for four years, and agree to disagree or let us unify as a country with a leader whom will unite us once again, rather than divide this great country.
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Most clergymen and women have convinced the tithing faithful to vote for the party for life, overlooking all other shortcomings voting with their hearts not using their heads. In this writer’s opinion Donald J. Trump, like the Pied Piper, has led the Republican Party over the cliff and decimated all credibility, as yet in lockstep most all Republican politicians march to their drummer’s beat. Adios to the entire Trump family. May you all enjoy your life in Russia as Trump claimed if losing to Biden he may have to leave the country. Tim Kaspori Wrenshall, Minnesota What Trump is, and has been doing for most of his life According to former Washington Post syndicated columnist Sydney Harris,Trump’s base “doesn’t want a leader; they want a Messiah. They want someone who will give them the ‘Word.’ And the Word will be one that is very agreeable to them, that appeals to their preferences and prejudices, so they can follow the ‘Word’ wholeheartedly.” What Trump’s base is looking for is neither a true leader, nor a true Messiah, but a false Messiah – a man who will give them oversimplified answers, who will justify their arrogant and dysfunctional ways, who will castigate their “enemies,” who will reinforce their selfishness as a way of life, and make them comfortable within their prejudices and preconceptions. Harris goes on to write, “Indeed, this is the difference between a false Messiah and a true one. A false Messiah – such as Hitler, in past times, (and Donald Trump currently) – caters to and inflames the fears, hates, angers and resentments of his people, and drives them to destruction rather than to salvation or self-realization.” A true leader tells people hard truths, gives them a difficult path to follow, calls upon their highest qualities, not their basest instincts. A true leader does not tell us what we want to hear, but what we ought to hear. A true Messiah, such as Jesus, rebukes his people, shows them their errors, makes them want to be better, (not stronger or richer,) and asks them to make sacrifices for the common good, and for the good of their own souls.” Has Trump EVER been a healthy or rational leader? Trump did his best to tap into his base’s fear. Hatred and anger are derivatives of that kind of fear. Most of
Trump’s base seem to have undiagnosed or buried fear issues, which they’re in denial of. Once in denial, fear-based personalities feel free to blame others for their emotional responses. Once they’ve blamed others, they feel like it’s then okay to demand that others change, because “They’re the problem; I’m not the problem.” As long as Trump and his base can blame others, they don’t have to face the fact that most of the problems they have are a result of choices they’ve made in life, and that they don’t really have anyone to blame for their problems, but themselves. That’s the dilemma they’re afraid to face. In seeking others to blame, Trump and his base avoid facing that internal conflict. Gary Burt Marble, Minnesota Waiting for the adults As the neo-fascists continue to insist that this election was “stolen” from their despotic “leader,” we left in the center and moderate left look forward to a future with a competent and sincere head-of-state. Trump’s erratic and bizarre behavior freaked out even the world’s other dictators. Unless this ruthless cut-throat is extracted from office in January of 2021, we could be facing revolutionary times in America. God spare us from that eventuality! I spent most of the ‘60s in the streets protesting the Vietnam war. I do not wish to be in the streets yet again in the ‘20s, yelling against that lunatic at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! Ken Bracken St. Paul, Minnesota Vietnam-era Navy veteran
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By Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky In Judaism, the most common blessing of thanksgiving is known as the Shehechiyanu. We recite this 2,000 year old blessing at the start of Holy Days, upon eating a new fruit or donning a new a garment, dwelling in a new home — all moments of pure gratitude. In shorthand we refer to this blessing as birkat hazman — the blessing of time. Shehechiyanu consists of three acknowledgements, praising God for: 1) giving us life; 2) sustaining us; 3) and for causing us to reach this moment. We can easily break these down into the way we navigate time. “Causing us
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to reach this moment” represents the here and now, the present. “Giving us life” leads us to reflect on yesterday and the past. And “sustaining us” is tomorrow and the future. We pause and offer gratitude for every chapter of our life, all at once — yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And that is really the message we need to assimilate right now. So many supporters of President-elect Joe Biden want to erase the memory of President Donald Trump. But we have to accept and acknowledge the path we took to get here, what now looks like and the mountain left to climb. And we give thanks to the Divine for granting us the clarity of understanding to discern this moment from the next and the
previous. We are not in a better place than we were four years ago — far from it. But we can recognize the potent seeds of progress. How many more people are now registered to vote? How many more people are engaged in advocacy, in the fight for social justice and civil rights? How many more people are awake and paying attention? How many are standing up against oppression and suppression? And how do we ensure progress? There is one nuance about the shehechiyanu blessing that is not commonly known. We only recite it to give thanks for moments that we hope (and pray) and believe will be repeated — like those beginnings of holy days,
like eating a new fruit, like giving birth to a child. Now is the time for us to recite Shehechiyanu, for the future we have struggled to manifest is upon us — but there is still much progress to make and work to repeat. Now is the time for us to offer thanks, and not just because Thanksgiving is around the corner. Now is the time to offer thanks because we have arrived, we are alive, and because we need every ounce of strength to keep on fighting. Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky is a senior rabbi at Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. This article originally appeared in the Minnesota Reformer.
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Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen By O. Henry There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Bless the day. President Roosevelt gives it to us. We hear some talk of the Puritans, but don’t just remember who they were. Bet we can lick ‘em, anyhow, if they try to land again. Plymouth Rocks? Well, that sounds more familiar. Lots of us have had to come down to hens since the Turkey Trust got its work in. But somebody in Washington is leaking out advance information to ‘em about these Thanksgiving proclamations. The big city east of the cranberry bogs has made Thanksgiving Day an institution. The last Thursday in November is the only day in the year on which it recognizes the part of America lying across the ferries. It is the one day that is purely American. Yes, a day of celebration, exclusively American. And now for the story which is to prove to you that we have traditions on this side of the ocean that are becoming older at a much rapider rate than those of England are – thanks to our git-up and enterprise. Stuffy Pete took his seat on the third bench to the right as you enter Union Square from the east, at the walk opposite the fountain. Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years he had taken his seat there promptly at 1 o’clock. For every time he had done so things had happened to him – Charles Dickensy things that swelled his waistcoat above his heart, and equally on the other side. But to-day Stuffy Pete’s appearance at the annual trysting place seemed to have been rather the result of habit than of the yearly hunger which, as the philanthropists seem to think, afflicts the poor at such extended intervals. Certainly Pete was not hungry. He had just come from a feast that had left him of his powers barely those of respiration and locomotion. His eyes were like two pale gooseberries firmly
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imbedded in a swollen and gravysmeared mask of putty. His breath came in short wheezes; a senatorial roll of adipose tissue denied a fashionable set to his upturned coat collar. Buttons that had been sewed upon his clothes by kind Salvation fingers a week before flew like popcorn, strewing the earth around him. Ragged he was, with a split shirt front open to the wishbone; but the November breeze, carrying fine snowflakes, brought him only a grateful coolness. For Stuffy Pete was overcharged with the caloric produced by a super-bountiful dinner, beginning with oysters and ending with plum pudding, and including (it seemed to him) all the roast turkey and baked potatoes and chicken salad and squash pie and ice cream in the world. Wherefore he sat, gorged, and gazed upon the world with after-dinner contempt. The meal had been an unexpected one. He was passing a red brick mansion near the beginning of Fifth avenue, in which lived two old ladies of ancient family and a reverence for traditions. They even denied the existence of New York, and believed that Thanksgiving Day was declared solely for Washington Square. One of their traditional habits was to station a servant at the postern gate with orders to admit the first hungry wayfarer that came along after the hour of noon had struck, and banquet him to a finish. Stuffy Pete happened to pass by on his way to the park, and the seneschals gathered him in and upheld the custom of the castle. After Stuffy Pete had gazed straight before him for ten minutes he was conscious of a desire for a more varied field of vision. With a tremendous effort he moved his head slowly to the left. And then his eyes bulged out fearfully, and his breath ceased, and the rough-shod ends of his short legs wriggled and rustled on the gravel. For the Old Gentleman was coming across Fourth avenue toward his bench. Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years the Old Gentleman had come there and found Stuffy Pete on his bench. That was a thing that the Old Gentleman was trying to make
a tradition of. Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years he had found Stuffy there, and had led him to a restaurant and watched him eat a big dinner. They do those things in England unconsciously. But this is a young country, and nine years is not so bad. The Old Gentleman was a staunch American patriot, and considered himself a pioneer in American tradition. In order to become picturesque we must keep on doing one thing for a long time without ever letting it get away from us. Something like collecting the weekly dimes in industrial insurance. Or cleaning the streets. The Old Gentleman moved, straight and stately, toward the Institution that he was rearing. Truly, the annual feeding of Stuffy Pete was nothing national in its character, such as the Magna Charta or jam for breakfast was in England. But it was a step. It was almost feudal. It showed, at least, that a Custom was not impossible to New Y – ahem! – America. The Old Gentleman was thin and tall and sixty. He was dressed all in black, and wore the old-fashioned kind of glasses that won’t stay on your nose. His hair was whiter and thinner than it had been last year, and he seemed to make more use of his big, knobby cane with the crooked handle. As his established benefactor came up Stuffy wheezed and shuddered like some woman’s over-fat pug when a street dog bristles up at him. He would have flown, but all the skill of SantosDumont could not have separated him from his bench. Well had the myrmidons of the two old ladies done their work. “Good morning,” said the Old
Gentleman. “I am glad to perceive that the vicissitudes of another year have spared you to move in health about the beautiful world. For that blessing alone this day of thanksgiving is well proclaimed to each of us. If you will come with me, my man, I will provide you with a dinner that should make your physical being accord with the mental.” That is what the Old Gentleman said every time. Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years. The words themselves almost formed an Institution. Nothing could be compared with them except the Declaration of Independence. Always before they had been music in Stuffy’s ears. But now he looked up at the Old Gentleman’s face with tearful agony in his own. The fine snow almost sizzled when it fell upon his perspiring brow. But the Old Gentleman shivered a little and turned his back to the wind. Stuffy had always wondered why the Old Gentleman spoke his speech rather sadly. He did not know that it was because he was wishing every time that he had a son to succeed him. A son who would come there after he was gone – a son who would stand proud and strong before some subsequent Stuffy, and say: “In memory of my father.” Then it would be an Institution. But the Old Gentleman had no relatives. He lived in rented rooms in one of the decayed old family brownstone mansions in one of the quiet streets east of the park. In the winter he raised fuchsias in a little conservatory the size of a steamer trunk. In the spring he walked in the Easter parade. In the summer he lived at a farmhouse in the New Jersey hills, and sat in a wicker armchair, speaking of a butterfly, the ornithoptera amphrisius, that he hoped to find some day. In the autumn he fed Stuffy a dinner. These were the Old Gentleman’s occupations. Stuffy Pete looked up at him for a half minute, stewing and helpless in his own self-pity. The Old Gentleman’s eyes were bright with the givingpleasure. His face was getting more lined each year, but his little black
necktie was in as jaunty a bow as ever, and the linen was beautiful and white, and his gray mustache was curled carefully at the ends. And then Stuffy made a noise that sounded like peas bubbling in a pot. Speech was intended; and as the Old Gentleman had heard the sounds nine times before, he rightly construed them into Stuffy’s old formula of acceptance. “Thankee, sir. I’ll go with ye, and much obliged. I’m very hungry, sir.” The coma of repletion had not prevented from entering Stuffy’s mind the conviction that he was the basis of an Institution. His Thanksgiving appetite was not his own; it belonged by all the sacred rights of established custom, if not, by the actual Statute of Limitations, to this kind old gentleman who had preempted it. True, America is free; but in order to establish tradition some one must be a repetend – a repeating decimal. The heroes are not all heroes of steel and gold. See one here that wielded only weapons of iron, badly silvered, and tin. The Old Gentleman led his annual
protege southward to the restaurant, and to the table where the feast had always occurred. They were recognized. “Here comes de old guy,” said a waiter, “dat blows dat same bum to a meal every Thanksgiving.” The Old Gentleman sat across the table glowing like a smoked pearl at his corner-stone of future ancient Tradition. The waiters heaped the table with holiday food – and Stuffy, with a sigh that was mistaken for hunger’s expression, raised knife and fork and carved for himself a crown of imperishable bay. No more valiant hero ever fought his way through the ranks of an enemy. Turkey, chops, soups, vegetables, pies, disappeared before him as fast as they could be served. Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight. He saw the look of beneficent happiness on the Old Gentleman’s face – a happier look than even the fuchsias and the ornithoptera amphrisius had
ever brought to it – and he had not the heart to see it wane. In an hour Stuffy leaned back with a battle won. “Thankee kindly, sir,” he puffed like a leaky steam pipe; “thankee kindly for a hearty meal.” Then he arose heavily with glazed eyes and started toward the kitchen. A waiter turned him about like a top, and pointed him toward the door. The Old Gentleman carefully counted out $1.30 in silver change, leaving three nickels for the waiter. They parted as they did each year at the door, the Old Gentleman going south, Stuffy north. Around the first corner Stuffy turned, and stood for one minute. Then he seemed to puff out his rags as an owl puffs out his feathers, and fell to the sidewalk like a sunstricken horse. When the ambulance came the young surgeon and the driver cursed softly at his weight. There was no smell of whiskey to justify a transfer to the patrol wagon, so Stuffy and his two dinners went to the hospital. There
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they stretched him on a bed and began to test him for strange diseases, with the hope of getting a chance at some problem with the bare steel. And lo! an hour later another ambulance brought the Old Gentleman. And they laid him on another bed and spoke of appendicitis, for he looked good for the bill. But pretty soon one of the young doctors met one of the young nurses whose eyes he liked, and stopped to chat with her about the cases. “That nice old gentleman over there, now,” he said, “you wouldn’t think that was a case of almost starvation. Proud old family, I guess. He told me he hadn’t eaten a thing for three days.” American short story writer William Sydney Porter – better known by his pen name O. Henry – was a master of witty narration and the surprise ending, which is in fine display here. This story appeared in the 1907 collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million.
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Only you can prevent COVID-19 deaths Last week on Tuesday, 92 people died from COVID-19 in Wisconsin. This is the highest single, daily death toll since the pandemic began. Obviously this pandemic is not a hoax, nor is it going away. We are learning that we cannot simply ignore, or wish away, this disease. Trying to live normal lives with family gatherings, parties, going out, going to work, or going to school is rapidly spreading the disease. People have to start taking this disease seriously and being more responsible about their behavior. “...only the people of Wisconsin can do what it takes to slow the spread of this disease and decrease the number of people suffering and dying every day. Every Wisconsinite must take individual responsibility to wear a face covering, stay home as much as possible, physically distance at least six feet from others, wash hands frequently, and keep your social circle to five people or less.” This plea for people to act responsibly is from Executive Order # 94 issued by Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Nov. 10, 2020. The executive order further documents the truth about the current disaster in Wisconsin: “Without a vaccine, the only tools to slow the spread of COVID19 is to physically distance and wear a mask. Without using these simple but vital life-saving tools, Wisconsin will continue to suffer from unnecessary illness and death.“ “It took seven months for Wisconsin
to reach its first 100,000 COVID-19 cases, but only five weeks to reach the second 100,000 cases. At the current rate of growth, we will reach the third 100,000 cases in only twenty days. Wisconsin consistently has more new cases of COVID-19 per day than the entire country of Canada has each day.” “As of November 9, 2020, 2,329 Wisconsinites lost their lives due to COVID-19. The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation projects that, based on current data, approximately 5,000 Wisconsinites could die from COVID-19 by January 1, 2021, if no further actions are taken to slow the spread of COVID-19. By contrast, universal mask wearing could save almost 800 lives by January 1” (emphasis added). “The consequences of failing to act will continue to be devastating and deadly. Hospital capacity shortages throughout the state are at record high levels.” Read the full “Executive Order” at https://evers.wi.gov/ Documents/COVID19/EO094COVIDRecommendations.pdf Evers first declared a public health emergency to combat the corona virus on March 12, 2020. He has issued 11 executive and emergency health orders attempting to contain the spread of the pandemic and keep the people of Wisconsin safe from the disease. The most recent excutive order, quoted above, is different because it
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The other reason the pandemic is rapidly spreading is that many people are ignoring medical advice to stay at home and wear masks. Half the population has bought into the false, dangerous, unscientific and misleading statements by Trump and other Republican leaders downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic.
does not “order” or require any specific public health actions. Nor does it contain any penalties for not following his recommendations. Prior executive orders (which have the force of law) did have enforcement provisions with penalties. But Executive Order #94 only RECOMMENDS sensible, but necessary, steps to control the pandemic. The Governor of Wisconsin has been reduced to begging people to behave responsibly. Why can’t the governor enforce sensible public health restrictions? There are two reasons. One is that the Republican legislative leadership is more interested in playing political power struggle games than protecting public health and safety. Through suing the Governor, legislative inaction, and promoting misinformation about the seriousness of the virus, they have successfully overturned most of Evers’ efforts to combat the pandemic. In May, the state Supreme Court knocked down Evers’ stay-at-home order in a lawsuit brought by the Republican controlled legislature. In October a state appeals court blocked the Evers’ order limiting public gatherings, including restrictions on bar and restaurant capacity. On November 16, the State Supreme Court began hearings on a suit to overturn Evers’ statewide mask mandate. The Republican legislative leadership joined the case in support of this law suit. The Republican rationale for opposing Evers’ executive orders is that he does not have authority to take these actions (a legal position disputed by many legal experts). They claim he should have involved the legislature. But the legislature has not been is session since April. Republicans have the power to convene at any time and overturn Ever’s actions or to enact their own plan to combat the pandemic. But
instead they have been paying private attorneys, at taxpayer expense, to block his public health measures. They would rather split legal hairs in a power struggle than protect the people from disease. The other reason the pandemic is rapidly spreading is that many people are ignoring medical advice to stay at home and wear masks. Half the population has bought into the false, dangerous, unscientific and misleading statements by Trump and other Republican leaders downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic. They believe it is a hoax, it is no more dangerous than the flu, opening the economy is more important, or their “freedom” is more important than any public health requirements. They are too selfish and uncaring to even wear a mask in public. Their convenience is is more important than your health. Tom Ivey, a writer for the Middle Wisconsin News, sums up this attitude well. “How many lives will our community lose because someone is temporarily inconvenienced?” It’s as simple as that! Some of us are endangering, and even killing, our family members, friends and neighbors because we don’t want to, temporarily, give up something we enjoy doing!” “How Many Lives Will We Lose in the War Against COVID-19”, Middle Wisconsin News, November 1, 2020 If we are to defeat the pandemic people have to come together and act responsibly for the good of the whole community. But too many people won’t do it. Sadly the chickens have come home to roost from 50 years of the right wing preaching division, selfishness and distrust of science, experts and government. Now we are paying the price.
Raising our voices in Duluth Last week, I received an email from Jothsna Harris, director of Community Engagement with Climate Generation. Founded by Will Steger out of Minneapolis, Climate Generation was established to help empower individuals and communities to engage in solutions to climate change. Jothsna wanted to talk to me about their “climate testimony letter” campaign that is taking place from now until Dec. 8. They’re hoping to hear from citizens from throughout the state of Minnesota who would like to share letters, poems or artwork that illustrates how climate change is impacting their communities and how they want to shape their future. In December, Climate Generation will compile everything that they receive into a book titled Eyewitness: MN Voices on Climate Change, and present that book to every state legislator on day 1 of the 2021 Minnesota Legislative Session. As Nicole Rom, executive director of Climate Generation, wrote in the fall/winter 2020 newsletter, “Our work is rooted in personal narrative, which means starting with who and where we are. To shift public norms towards climate action, we need to shift the narrative, and that starts with understanding our connection to climate change and listening to those who have not been heard from the mainstream.” There are probably hundreds of stories in Duluth about how climate change has impacted people’s lives – mentally, emotionally and even physically. There are moments when I think of all the activists who have dedicated their time and energy to various environmental and climate change initiatives, including Jenna Yeakle at the Sierra Club, Brett Cease with the Citizens Climate Lobby and Lora Wedge at Ecolibrium3. And through my work on the “Culture x Climate: Duluth” project, I have been reflecting upon all the poets, artists and writers who are using their artwork and craft to explore the environment and address climate change, like artist Kate Young,
poet Phil Fitzpatrick or writer Izzy Laderman. I have to believe that everyone whom I’ve spoken to, met or collaborated with has an engaging and powerful story to tell. And they all need to raise their voices to address climate change. My story, and finding my voice, began in November 2017, when I found myself standing in front of a roomful of UMD students speaking about my journey to Duluth and joining the Loaves and Fishes community. At the end of my talk, I decided to talk about the environment and the many things that I’ve lost over the years: the loss of birds, trees, butterflies and frogs. And it was in that moment that I realized that my life was changing. Realized that I needed to write about and organize projects that address the environment and climate change. In an essay that I drafted a week before speaking to the college students, I wrote the following: “I am not a lobbyist. Not a politician or government official. Not a scientist. Not a journalist or reporter. Not the director of an environmental organization. Not the president of an oil or coal company. I am just an ordinary man experiencing what may be the most extraordinary and challenging moment in all of our lives.” I talked about all the small and big changes that had taken place in the past 40 years. I wrote that “I can see it. I can hear it. I can feel it.”
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I talked about the spring and fall seasons getting shorter. That there were fewer butterflies in the garden and birds in the sky. And that the weather could go through extreme shifts in a matter of hours. It was two news stories in the New York Times in late October and early November that woke me up and prompted me to dedicate my life to climate change. On Oct. 31, the World Wildlife Fund reported that there had been a 60 percent decline in wildlife populations globally in the last 40 years. And on Nov. 1, a study by a group of scientists in the journal Nature reported that ocean temperatures have been warming 60 percent more than previously outlined in a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I will be writing a letter for the “climate testimony letter” campaign for Climate Generation. I hope that many of you out there will also write a letter, a poem or share some artwork. Go to climateeyewitness.org/takeaction to learn about how to submit
your letter, poem or artwork. Also, contact stories@climategen.org for any questions.
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Minnesota, USA Nice? The selling of souls and the crazy guy in the White House
What’s happening to Americans? South Dakota emergency room nurse Jodi Doering says working in a hospital with patients ravaged by COVID-19 is “like a horror movie that never ends.” She’s been with patients dying of the virus who proclaim with their last breath the virus is a “hoax.” She has had patients needing total oxygen assistance swear they don’t have the virus: “It must be something else!” She is frustrated and amazed at their dying words: “This can’t be happening. It’s not real. I must have pneumonia or something else.” They say this even after testing positive for the virus. She adds: “They’re filled with anger and hatred. They can’t believe it’s happening to them.” South Dakota at this writing is leading the country with the ratio of positive tests. Let’s remember that South Dakota has an “AlwaysTrumper” Kristi Noem as governor who endorsed the Sturgis biker rally that brought the virus to bikers and friends in many states. So far she has failed to recommend or mandate masks – but she endorses the freedom To Make America Sick Again. Governor, real freedom exists when you think of someone other than yourself. The governor has attracted Trumpers from Minnesota. Glenn and Cara Geist, formerly of Andover, have
moved to Sioux Falls because they wanted more “personal freedom!” Glenn on masks: “I won’t wear one, period. I won’t. Because they don’t work, and I’m not a sheep.” (Glenn learned all about viruses working for a collection agency!) I’m not here to make you feel better. OK? I’m here to take care of me.” I bet their Andover neighbors celebrated their exit. Glenn emphasized his medical opinion by refusing to wear a mask when he took Cara to a Sioux Falls emergency room for a troubling heart murmur. After being refused admittance, he waited for her in their car. Cara said: “I was scared to death because my heart was not being right.” Glenn said: “It wasn’t like there was anything I was going to do for her in there, other than hold her hand.” Glenn, maybe she would have appreciated that while her heart was “murmuring.” I see why you love Donald the Lyin’ King. Evidently Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka worships his Great Leader. Top Trumplican leaders told everybody in the Minnesota capitol except Democrats that some of them were virus positive. In four short years Donald the Lyin’ King has destroyed character, integrity, the common good, and USAMinnesota Nice. My favorite cynic, H.L Mencken, was probably right: “Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives
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under.”
When were these words
sewage in the backyard and black mold in their homes, while Navajos,
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” H. L. Mencken
spoken: 1900, 1960 or 2020?
“There are literally two Americas. One America is beautiful…and overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity. This America is the habitat of millions of people who have food and material necessities for their bodies; and culture and education for their minds; and freedom and human dignity for their spirits… But tragically and unfortunately, there is another America. This other America has a daily ugliness about it that constantly transforms the ebulliency of hope into the fatigue of despair. In this America millions of work-starved men walk the streets daily in search for jobs that do not exist. In this America millions of people find themselves living in rat-infested, vermin-filled slums. In this America people are poor by the millions. They find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” These descriptive words were spoken by Martin Luther King in 1967, but they could have been spoken in 1900 by Theodore Roosevelt or in 2020 by Senator Bernie Sanders. The times “they are a’changin’,” – but not very much. Our population in 1900 was 76 million; today it’s 335 million. But I bet the ratio of poor to middle class to rich has not changed much. Right in the middle of an unpredictable pandemic and in an economy equal to the Great Depression, we have 140 million poor or low-income Americans composed of 66 million whites, two million Indians in 600 tribes, eight million Asians, 38 million Latinos, and 24 million blacks scattered from coast-to-coast. What are our Congressional servants of the superrich doing about it? Nothing. While 600,000 Americans live on the filthy streets and in shelters each night, while poor blacks and whites in Alabama live with raw
Apaches, and Sioux live and die on reservations without running water, electricity or sanitation systems, while poor whites and minorities can only afford to live in areas that have been
named national toxic dumps, the $14 billion Sackler family, which is responsible for the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans from a tsunami of Oxycontin, continues to live in freedom in dozens of mansions around the world. If you kill one person you might go to prison for life. If you kill thousands – so what? It’s time politicians of both parties determine why the rich live to be 95 and the poor die at 60.
The 2020 election proved that times are changing
Many Democrats are complaining, even if we unceremoniously dumped Donald the Lyin’ King to “Mar-a-Loco,” that they didn’t accomplish enough with almost 80 million voters. We lost several House members and so far have
failed to take the Senate. But many little victories in many states indicated the country will now at least be going in the right direction for a majority of 335 million Americans. Here are just a few of those victories: • Oregon: 78% voted to limit corporate spending in elections. In other words, dump Citizens United in the trash. Voters also passed a tax hike on the rich to pay for universal pre-k education for all children. • Colorado: 57% voted to allow workers to earn paid time off; Boulder voters passed a No Eviction Without Representation measure. State voters defeated an anti-abortion bill and approved family and medical leave proposals. • California: San Francisco voters approved several tax measures,: a surtax on CEO earnings of up to 3% if they earn more than 300 times what the average worker makes, a higher tx rate for tech companies, and a higher transfer tax on property sales valued between $10 million and $25 million. These tax increases were proposed by The San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters. The SFLPO is an official organization! • Nevada: 60% voted to place gay marriage in the state constitution which guarantees all marriages to be treated equally. Nationally, 60% of Americans support gay marriage. • State legislatures: Delaware Oklahoma, Vermont, Georgia, Tennessee and Kansas elected transgenders to serve in state legislatures. • USA: 600 members of the LBGTQ+ community ran for office at the local, state and national levels. At least 160 won. • Ohio: voters in Hamilton County elected a lesbian as sheriff. • South Carolina: voters in Charleston County elected a lesbian as sheriff. She was also the first woman elected to that office. • Florida: although the state voted for Trump, it also voted to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. • Wisconsin: several counties voted to increase school taxes. • Arizona: voters increased state school taxes by almost $1 billion . • Maine: Portland passed a $15 an hour minimum wage and a new rent control law. Voters also passed a local Green Deal proposal and eliminated facial surveillance electronics. All four issues were supported by the local Democratic Socialists of America. • Mississippi: 73% voted to approve a new state flag without the Confederate battle flag. • LBGTQ+ community: eight transgenders were elected to state
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legislatures in the country. • Los Angeles: Los Angeles County passed Measure Three which sets aside 10% of the county budget to pay for social services and mental health treatment and housing in areas where racism persists. • 112 Democratic House and Senate members who co-sponsored Medicarefor-All won. Of 98 who co-sponsored Green New Deal, only one lost.
The most livable countries combine capitalism and democratic socialism
The Scandinavian countries have topped the world in livability for all citizens since world surveys have been conducted, but we seem to be too dumb to learn from those who utter “uffta” and “speaka-da-Norsk!” Guess which two countries have the lowest mortality rate from COVID-19 in the world: Norway and Finland. They did it by strict border controls, mask-wearing mandates, mandatory quarantines and detailed contacttracing. All vacationing was done in their own countries by law. Governments can work for the welfare of all citizens if capitalism can be used to fund democratic socialistic practices. Actually, the Democratic Party’s 2020 political platform is a merger of ideas among Chairman Tom Perez, the moderates of the DNC and the Bernie Sanders wing of a diversified party. A majority of young Democrats and Republicans less than 35 now support democratic socialism above capitalism. Thirty-five percent of all Americans now believe democratic socialism is a good thing. Democratic Socialists of America believe in private ownership of business, contrary to all those North Dakota Trumplicans who silently support a large socialist bank in Bismarck and that socialist mill and elevator complex in Grand Forks, which is now the biggest miller of grain in the United States. Why not put them on the open market and replenish state coffers – while yelling “SOCIALISM” at any attempt to provide universal health care, child care, criminal reform, voting rights, free college education, sick leave, maternity leave, and all those other benefits that “livable” countries provide? The Democratic Socialists of America endorsed 29 candidates in federal and state races and elected 20. They endorsed 11 ballot measures across the country and eight of them won. The federal House of Representative added eight DSA members. While millions of American families are living without paychecks during
the pandemic, 647 billionaires made almost $1 trillion in profits in the last nine months. More than 44 million Americans owe $1.6 trillion in student debt garnered in the last 25 years. On Jan. 21, 2021, President Biden should pay off $1 trillion of that student debt, and propose taxes of $600 billion on billionaire money stashed in tax havens around the globe to pay off the rest. What a boon for the economy! One of our best presidents in a time of trouble, good old Democrat Harry Truman from Kansas, had the rich and the Republicans cold about their attitude toward socialism in 1952: “Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called Social Security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit
insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is what they call anything that helps all the people.” Born in 1932, I was lucky to have two of our best presidents as leaders.in my first 20 years. I hope I survive the worst in my last 20.
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Stay calm and state the facts The election is over but we all knew that was just the beginning of the next Donald V. (for vindictive) Rumpt and Cronies Shenanigan Show. Yes, this real reality show is playing across the land with all the customary talk of rigged elections to stir up the cult-like followers of the best American autocrat ever. Yes, he’s a champ at being the fake king, dictator, ruler, despot, tyrant, oppressor and a guy that cheats on his wives, his taxes and golf. The show is far from over and will likely end only when he ends up in prison for all his chicanery over the past decades as a faux billionaire and con man. I don’t believe he can tweet from prison unless he’s going to sing like a canary and blame everyone but himself for all the trouble he’s caused. He’ll go to his grave claiming he didn’t do anything wrong, that he was framed.
He’s been holed up in the White House except for a sneak out the back door to his golf course in New Jersey where he could wave to his adoring fans from the window of the presidential limousine. Then it was back to the Oval Office to tweet more lies and to putt a golf ball across the carpet and into the “Make America A Laughing Stock” cup. He’s the victim, of course, always the victim. Forget the victimization of the American people who’ve felt the dismantling of health care law and environmental protection and watched the handouts to the rich and powerful, to the corporations. Forget the American people who’ve watched as social justice efforts get turned into “law and order.” Sorry folks, but that’s what the Nazis said on their way to power in 1933, that’s what Nixon said during a tumultuous 1968. Craft the narrative
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Yes, we’re just little bugs in this big, wide world, bugs with cars and power plants and an insatiable demand for more stuff, burning fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow. Yes, denial comes in all forms. about saving the country from radicals while ruining the democracy. I just read that Rumpt and his minions have rolled back nearly 100 Obama-era environmental protections as the planet warms. Given the fact that policy makers and takers in the Republican party deny that greenhouse gas emissions are causing the climate crisis, it’s no wonder that the issue isn’t on any party platform or in any talking point other than denial. Yes, the stick-in-the-muds and head-in-the-sands New Conservative Neanderthal Party (NCNP), formerly the Republicans, want people to think that nothing is wrong, that man has no power to alter God’s wishes and orders, that we’re just living here like everybody else so don’t worry about a thing. Climate change is a hoax. Just ask any angry white guy who’s lapped up the angry Kool-aid rhetoric from right wing talk radio during the past 30 years or more. Listen to what former Michigan state representative Gary Glenn had to say in a recent column in the Duluth News Tribune about climate change, blabbing that lefties were “…chasing the monumental conceit of believing human activity is capable of changing the Earth’s climate.” Yes, we’re just little bugs in this big, wide world, bugs with cars and power plants and an insatiable demand for more stuff, burning fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow. Yes, denial comes in all forms. But wait, this fellow Gary Glenn isn’t just debunking a scientific fact, he’s pinning the whole hoax on the left. Get a load of the following. He said just think if Al Gore or Hillary Clinton had been elected. “We’d all likely be giving more of our family budgets to the federal government via increased taxes. The federal government no doubt would have added billions or trillions more to our national debt with unfunded liabilities; by funding every left-wing, big government program imaginable; by paying reparations to every
aggrieved population in American history… and we’d likely be on a path of no return toward, to borrow President Barack Obama’s words, ‘fundamentally transforming’ the U.S. into the United Socialist States of America… as our streets fill with riots over never-satisfiable demands for more and more taxpayer-funded handouts.” Now that’s an angry white man who works for a right wing think tank called the Phyllis Schlafly Constitution Center. Did you hear all that was loaded in those words? That’s Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and every other right wing toxic talk radio program. Just listen. Angry, angry, angry. Lies, lies, lies. How do you have a discussion with people like that? Folks, the election is over. Biden will be sworn in. Now it’s our job to try to let people know that things will be OK, that the Marxists and communists aren’t ready to swarm Washington D.C. We’ve got to keep our cool and be able to communicate with some of those folks who’ve lapped up the Koolaid. We all know some of these people. Bob Trump, my dear friend of 63 years was one of the few people at deer camp this year. We were able to turn Bob a little bit when we reminded him of his union pension and Social Security and when he headed home he half-admitted that maybe he was a little bit of a left wing conservative. Can’t be angry like the other angry white men. This wacky social experiment called toxic talk radio, Fox TV, social media and local newspapers that allow angry white men to masquerade as conservative intellectuals has taken decades to get a foothold. It’ll take time to reverse that perverse momentum. Stay calm but still state the facts.
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Iola Jean Vanstrom Sept. 24, 1936 – Nov. 9, 2020 Iola Jean (Wahli) Vanstrom, 84, died peacefully in her Duluth home. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Neal; her children, Karen (Tokin), Peter, Laura (McCormick), and Janice; 11 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren; her sisters, Lorna and Lorraine; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by father, Joseph Aalbue (1939); her first husband, Paul Sarlund (1961); her son Steven (1972); and her mother Iola Peterson (1995). Wahli met and married Neal in 1963 and the family moved to California in 1964. After spending almost 20 years there, an opportunity arose for them to move back to Minnesota. They happily settled in Duluth with their two youngest children. Wahli led an active and fulfilling life. She was a loving full-time wife and mother, was involved in church activities throughout her life, pursued various real-estate ventures, served on the board of Finlandia University, in Hancock, Michigan, was active in Lutheran Social Services of NE Minnesota, and was a lay chaplain at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Duluth. Her hobbies included voracious reading, music, water-color painting, travel, and spending time with her many friends. She and her group of walking buddies, dubbed the “Walkie-Talkies,” could often be seen on the Duluth Lakewalk and at the local eateries. Wahli loved to attend concerts with Neal. We look forward to a ceremonial celebration of her life sometime in 2021.
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Bernard J. Gregoire Sept. 11, 1941 – Nov. 14, 2020 Bernard Joseph “B.J.” Gregoire, 79, of Superior, died at Superior Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Superior, with his wife by his side. He was born in Ashland, Wis. He attended and graduated from Superior Central High School and UWS. B.J. and Judy Rasmussen were married in Pine City, Minn., in 1973. For more than 40 years B.J. worked for Jeno’s, and retired as manager of warehousing and shipping. He was preceded in death by his mother, Margaret Sturgal and her husband, Frank. Survivors include his wife of more than 47 years, Judy; daughter, Terri (Peter) Nutz, of California; grandchildren, Alexis and Derek; sister, Sue Sandberg, Duluth; niece, Suann (Jim) Anderson; nephew, Roger (Roxann) Sandberg; and his special canine friend, Rusty. Private graveside services will be held at Greenwood Cemetery, Superior, at a later date.
Bradley J. Poverud March 13, 1987 – Nov. 14, 2020 Bradley I. Poverud, 33, of Superior, died unexpectedly. He was born in Duluth, the son of Irvin and Jody (Erickson) Poverud. Bradley was a goofball and prankster who wore his heart on his sleeve. He was a very caring person who loved doing things for others. He enjoyed spending time with his family. He was preceded in death by his mother, Jody; sister, Jamie Gerding; and maternal grandparents, Russell & Phyllis Erickson. Bradley is survived by his father, Irvin (Tia) Poverud of Superior; siblings, Joel (Brandi) Poverud, Courdin and Tylan Nelson-Scaggs, and T’maryn Poverud all of Superior; grandmother, Mary Morton of Duluth; his fiancé, Meaghan; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. Visitation was held Nov. 24 at Downs Funeral Home.
John McLaughlin July 26, 1941 ~ Nov. 15, 2020 John W. McLaughlin, 79, of Superior, at Villa-Marina Health and Rehabilitation Center, Superior. He was born in Ringsted, Iowa, son of James Richard McLaughlin and Bertha Nason McLaughlin. John proudly served his country with the Marines from 1960 to 1966, and with the Army National Guard from 1974 to 1992. On April 13, 1974, John W. McLaughlin and Judy L. Johnston were united in marriage. John retired as a detective in May, 1994 from the Superior Police Department, after 28 years of service. After his retirement, John especially enjoyed his afternoon naps and walks with his favorite buddy, Shadow. Some of his other interests were reading and watching military movies. John was a member of the Elks #403, T.R.E.A., W.P.P.A., Superior Municipal Employees Credit Union board of directors, and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwa. A private graveside service with military honors will be held next year at Calvary Cemetery, Superior. There will also be a celebration of John’s life for family and friends next year.
Dean Mitchell Pfeffer Dec. 14, 1955 – Nov. 13, 2020 Dean Mitchell Pfeffer of Duluth, died at Solvay Hospice House with family by his side. He was born in Duluth, to William and Carol Pfeffer. Dean was full of life and marched to his own tune. He loved gardening, carpentry, music and spending time with his family and friends, especially sitting around bonfires. Dean was preceded in death by his parents William and Carol Pfeffer; brother Darrel; nephew Aric, and long time girlfriend Amanda Dyszel. He is survived by children Dean (Betsy), Aaron, Ashley (Joe) McArthur; grandchildren Alexis and Alec McArthur, and the love of his life Laura McArthur; siblings Doug, Karyn (Timmy), Jerry, Rodney (Wendy), Cindy, Scott, Todd, Tammy, Denise (John), along with many nieces, nephews, and friends. Dean will be dearly missed by family and friends (Sheboogie). A celebration of life was held Nov. 18.
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Pardoning the turkey Remember George Washington who could tell no lies? Remember Honest Abe? Both of these truth-telling Presidents set aside days for Thanksgiving, the former as a day to give thanks for our new Constitution and the latter to celebrate a Union victory at Gettysburg. They set a standard for decency and integrity that has stood the nation in good stead ever after. To our nation’s great peril future generations will have the example of Donald Trump, who has set a standard for prevarication that would be the envy of Goebbels’ Ministry of Propaganda and Stalin’s NKVD. Trump’s legacy will be that of a cult of personality. What reward has Donald Trump
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earned for his retirement? Since my childhood American Presidents have been pardoning turkeys at Thanksgiving for the crime of being succulent with mashed potatoes, dressing and gravy. After the last four years our liar-in-chief, more corpulent than succulent, does not merit the same consideration. The defeated Donald Trump is like a husband who murders his wife because she will no longer put up with his cheating. But the unfortunate spouse in this case is the United States. An angry Trump is pouring sand into its gears for electing Joe Biden. What else could you expect from a President who separated brown children from their parents, quashes payments to stave off economic collapse and misinforms loyalists about face masks leading to a quarter million American deaths? Some of us remember the clemency of President Ford who pardoned Richard Nixon. At age 23 I was one of the few Americans who agreed with Ford’s compassion, which would cost him the election two years later. Nixon came closer than Trump to admitting his sins and I felt that jail time for the soiled ex-president would sow more discord than letting him sulk quietly at his home in San Clemente. I don’t feel that way about Trump. The violence to the law committed by Nixon pales compared to Trump’s. Republicans took the lead in shoving Nixon out of the Oval Office. Trump’s army, like Stalin’s NKVD,
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calls the shots and anyone who dares question their savior is quickly brought to heel. It is a very public Fifth Column. Trump should fare no better than Confederate traitor President Jefferson Davis, who was imprisoned in Ft. Monroe, Virginia, after he was caught as he tried to escape justice wearing wife’s shawl. The courts have yet to rule on Trump’s transgressions and I am content to grant him his freedom while he defends his Presidency. It will be like old times for Trump who, before he was President, had 3,500 lawsuits under his belt. His billions, his lawyers and his threats kept him reasonably insulated from his many victims. These were petty offenses like stealing the livelihoods of people building his properties, selling useless university degrees, robbing his brother’s children of their father’s inheritance and cheating on his taxes. As President the damages grew exponentially while he tweeted daily lies to his adoring followers. His asinine claim of having the election stolen from him ignores his desperate attempt to bankrupt the Post Office to prevent mail-in ballots or forcing voters to choose between the risk of being infected with Covid 19 and their civic duty to cast a ballot. As for the nation’s security only God and Vladimir Putin know what secrets he hid from America when he prevented American translators from being present during his
private conversations with Russia’s dictator. When Vlad is gone some Ruskie translator could make lots of money telling the world about those conversations. Donald Trump seems to have weaseled out from the evidence he withheld from the Congress during his impeachment. He’s denying Americans the orderly and tranquil change of administration they deserve. His lies and self promotion enjoy limited free speech rights that are not dampened in the least by the surge of corona-virus deaths. But Trump’s insidious election tampering can be measured by one earlier fiasco. His vote suppression rivals the Southern states of 1860. They wouldn’t let Abraham Lincoln’s name be placed on their election ballots. But when they lost the South didn’t protest that the election was unfair. The South knew that Lincoln had won. They simply seceded from the Union. So pixilated are Donald Trump’s purple Kool-aid drinkers that they can’t believe four years of tweeting middle fingers to America could possibly have caused Trump to lose by six million votes. His heavily armed supporters conspired to kidnap Michigan Governor Suburban Housewife while they mulled the Isis-like idea of decapitating her on television. Is it any wonder that mask-wearing “suburban housewives” everywhere abandoned Donald Trump in droves? A pardon for this turkey would be an outrage. His far more likely future is that of a cooked goose. Harry Welty barely hides how pissed off he is at incolndemocrat.com.
With two COVID-19 vaccines potentially near approval, what is plan for inoculations? With potential COVID-19 vaccines on the horizon in the coming months – or even weeks, for some – state officials and local public health departments are making plans to vaccinate Minnesotans as soon as the inoculations become available. In recent weeks, both Pfizer and Moderna have announced they have reason to believe they’ve developed highly effective COVID-19 vaccines. Both may seek emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to make them available soon. Data suggest both vaccines are roughly 95 percent effective, far more so than some in public health had dared hope. “From a scientific and potential public health standpoint, this is an extraordinarily important advance,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NPR last week. With this news, it’s possible some Minnesotans could be vaccinated as early as late December. But for the rest of us, it could be a bit. Here are some questions you might have about Minnesota’s vaccination plans, answered: So Pfizer and Moderna both sound like they have promising vaccine candidates. What do we know about them? Pfizer announced on Nov. 18 that its data find the company’s vaccine is 95 percent effective at preventing COVID-19. Moderna’s data suggest its vaccine is 94.5 percent effective. The FDA had initially said it would consider approving vaccines found to be at least 50 percent effective, and numbers at 90 percent and above would put these vaccines in line with most childhood vaccines. In a briefing with reporters, Minnesota Department of Health Infectious Disease Director Kris Ehresmann emphasized that the data are still not peer-reviewed but called the trial results very encouraging. Both vaccines would require two doses, weeks apart, which creates some logistical challenges for health officials who need to track who got which doses, and when: they aren’t interchangeable, so you couldn’t get your first round vaccine from Pfizer and the second from Moderna.
This all happened pretty quickly. How do we know the vaccines are safe? These vaccines have been developed remarkably quickly: It’s less than 11 months since the genome of the novel coronavirus was sequenced, and now we’re talking about a vaccine. Ehresmann said the public should be assured that just because the vaccine is being moved on a fast timeline, that doesn’t mean corners are being cut that could jeopardize its safety. While drug companies hurried to recruit participants for vaccine trials so they’d be lined up as soon as they were needed for each phase, the trials are happening as they would for other vaccines, Ehresmann said. “This vaccine has gone through the same safety evaluations that you would expect for any of the other regular vaccines,” she said. Another reason a COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be available so soon is that the federal government is footing the bill to manufacture promising vaccine candidates before they’re even approved. If a vaccine doesn’t pass muster, the manufactured units won’t be used. But for vaccines that do, doses will be ready. OK, so these vaccines sound like they might be approved. What has to happen for people in Minnesota to get them? Minnesota will begin using a vaccine only after the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) give the green light, Ehresmann said. Pfizer has said it plans to submit its application to the FDA within days, and Moderna could follow soon. Once applications are submitted, Ehresmann said she expects a two week timeframe for the agency’s review. If a vaccine gets the go-ahead from the FDA, it then goes to the ACIP, which is a committee that makes recommendations about vaccines’ use. The ACIP could make decisions within days, Ehresmann said. While some states are planning to do their own safety evaluations, Ehresmann said Minnesota officials trust the
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ACIP based on experience. Ehresmann has served on the committee previously, and another MDH staffer currently serves on it. Presuming the ACIP recommends a vaccine, it will also issue guidance on how to administer it. Ehresmann expects it would be a week before Minnesota would be able to get trained on the recommendations and start vaccinating. Who gets the vaccine, and when? Who gets vaccinated and when will come down to what the ACIP recommends. But right now, MDH is planning to roll out vaccines in three phases. First, people who ACIP deems first priority would get the vaccine. The expectation is that this would include people who work in health care. “When we talk about who needs to be vaccinated, it doesn’t mean that every single person who works in health care in an acute care setting would be a priority for vaccination before, say, long-term care,” Ehresmann said. An allocation work group will help tailor federal guidance to Minnesota. Phase 1 vaccination will likely happen through workplaces, such as hospitals and clinics. Once more vaccine is available, people with the second highest level of
priority would be vaccinated. These are likely to be people who are in vulnerable populations, those who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 or have more severe virus outcomes. In this phase, people may get vaccines through their health care providers. Officials expect more vaccines to make it through the FDA and ACIP approval process at some point in this timeframe, which will increase supply. Once the people in priority groups one and two are vaccinated, the shots should be available to the public. In addition to health care providers, counties and local jurisdictions are likely to help provide vaccination sites to make sure the vaccine is available to all. Counties are already being asked to work on plans for vaccinating their residents in this phase of the efforts. Katie Albert, of St. Louis County Public Health, said much is still in the works, but St. Louis County has been drawing up plans for drive-through vaccination clinics during phase 3 of vaccination. “We would likely do drive-through clinics simply because of the risk of being indoors and trying to vaccinate people presents its own problems, especially with the need for PPE,” she said.
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St. Louis County introduces ‘COVID Ref’ Throwing a yellow flag and calling penalties for face mask, illegal formation, false start and other football penalty metaphors; a new public education outreach campaign featuring the “COVID Ref” began running on local TV channels to raise awareness about COVID-19 safety tips. The COVID Ref campaign was produced by St. Louis County Public Health using CARES Act funds. The campaign uses humor and a light-hearted approach to teach important tips such as the proper way to wear a face mask, quarantine rules and tips for safe gatherings. The COVID Ref character also is a bit of a coach, offering guidance on safer options, while also offering encouragement such as “it’s only half time in this pandemic. Let’s win this.”
The commercials can be viewed online at covidref.com. “In this pandemic, we are all affected by the actions and decisions made by those around us, so it’s important we make sure everyone knows what to do to slow the spread and protect themselves and those around them,” said Dana Kazel, St. Louis County Communications Manager. “While COVID-19 is a very serious situation, we think taking a fun approach will be more effective at getting people’s attention and will make the messaging more memorable.” The commercials feature all local actors, including Solomon Witherspoon as the COVID Ref. Duluth
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agency Creative Arcade created and directed the campaign, which includes the public service announcements and website, as well as additional videos that will be shared on social media. Plans are to expand the campaign into print and other media as additional funding is available. Danger Bird Productions filmed and edited the videos. The website, covidref.com features not only the videos – and a fun backstory on the COVID Ref – but also links to the Minnesota Department of Health, Centers for Disease Control, and St. Louis County’s COVID information page where people can learn additional, credible information on how best to slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect themselves and those around them.
Homestead application deadline is December 15 The St. Louis County Assessor’s Office has an important reminder for anyone who’s moved in the last year: the deadline to apply for homestead classification is Dec. 15, 2020. A homestead classification may qualify the property for a reduced classification rate, reduced taxable market value, property tax refund, and/or special program eligibility. The property owner must apply for this classification. It does not happen automatically at closing. To be eligible, a property must be occupied as the primary residence on or before Dec. 1, 2020. It can be occupied either by the property owner or a qualifying relative. Full eligibility rules, including a homestead fact sheet from the Minnesota Department of Revenue,
can be found online at stlouiscountymn.gov/assessor. “Every year, it seems, we get one or two people contacting us after the deadline, and unfortunately by then it’s too late – there’s nothing we can do,” said Mary Garness, St. Louis County Director of Public Records and Property Valuation. “So we want to do what we can ahead of time to make sure people are aware, because getting the homestead classification will likely reduce the amount they pay in property taxes.” To apply for the homestead classification, people can contact any of the following St. Louis County Assessor’s Offices: Duluth, 218-7262304; Virginia, 218-749-7147; Hibbing, 218-262-6089; or Ely, 218-365-8236.
How’s the DECC doing?
The next four weeks would have been the busiest since the start of the pandemic. Bulldog Hockey, the DSSO, a 148th event, an Army National Guard event, a bingo hall, dueling pianos, and youth hockey in both the AMSOIL and DECC Arenas. With the latest restrictions announced Nov. 18, most of that is gone. The Bulldogs will play hockey, but with no fans. The DSSO will perform in Symphony Hall, but with no patrons. The COVID testing site will continue seven-day per week operations (relocated to South Pioneer Hall). “I get asked a lot, ‘How is the DECC doing?’,” said Interim Executive Director Roger Reinert. “The truth is – we’re holding our own. But just barely, and it’s not easy.” Eight months into the pandemic the DECC is down 53% in 2020 revenues, or roughly $6,300,000; 387 full and
part-time employees were permanently laid off in September, and another 26 continue to be furloughed. The only outside assistance the DECC has received is a $49,800 CARES grant from St. Louis County. “The DECC is a community gathering place. It survives on bringing people together – for conventions, movies, concerts, hockey, meetings. Feelings for the DECC run deep. Everyone has a favorite memory that involves something they did here. It is an essential community, regional, and state asset. It must survive the pandemic. Our DECC team is committed to ensuring that it does,” said Reinert.
Get involved in Climate Action Plan
The launch of the Duluth Citizens’ Climate Action Plan was fficially kicked off by Ecolibrium3 during a virtual event last week. The Duluth Citizens’ Climate Action Plan is a citizen-led effort to inspire community-wide action to reduce Duluth’s greenhouse gas emissions and build an equitable, just, and climate-resilient community through decarbonization of our agriculture, energy, transportation and building sectors. Developed by Ecolibrium3, the plan builds on initial efforts from Duluth’s Imagine 2035 omprehensive Plan, the City of Duluth’s goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050. “This is not intended to be a onetime, “we have all the answers” plan. Ecolibrium3 hopes that it will help serve as a tool for continued community education, engagement, and visioning around building a sustainable and equitable future for Duluth,” said Jodi Slick, CEO and founder of Ecolibrium3. “A goal of the plan is to inspire the community to join in on the great initiatives already taking place through the work of many dedicated members of the community, to work with neighbors and the community at large to take on new actions, and to share their own ideas in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” Community members are encouraged to share what they are learning and what actions they are taking across social media using the hashtag #DuluthClimateAction. You can learn more and get involved with the Duluth Citizens’ Climate Action Plan on the Ecolibrium3 website, ecolibrium3.org/ duluthclimateaction.
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Help is available for hungry Minnesotans
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the state and its community partners have issued food benefits to more than 400,000 Minnesotans per month, including children who missed out on school meals. In most cases, the aid has been funded through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. “Our responsibility is to help hungry Minnesotans,” said Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead. “Right now, the need is astronomical and we only expect it to increase as the pandemic continues. With the support of both state and federal funding, we are helping ease Minnesotans’ burdens during a difficult time.” SNAP ensures that people have resources to buy food, and that grocery stores and farmers markets have customers, even as the economy hurts during this pandemic. Food shelves, and food banks help fill in the gaps. Many Minnesotans may be applying for benefits for the first time during this pandemic. DHS’ SNAP Outreach providers can assist with SNAP applications by providing one-on-one assistance as well as helping individuals understand their SNAP benefits. Families and individuals in need of additional food support can find
links to resources on the department’s website at mn.gov/dhs/foodemergency/ or by calling the Food Helpline at 888-711-1151. Families with immediate needs replacing their child’s school meals should contact their child’s school to learn about available options. “Hunger is – and always has been – a health issue,” Harpstead said. “When people cannot get enough nutritious food, their health suffers. Low or no wages, difficulty travelling to get food, high housing costs and isolation for many seniors and people with disabilities puts an added strain on families’ food budgets and exacerbates health concerns. All of those problems are now amplified with COVID-19.” This month, the department issued $12 million in CARES Act funding through the Minnesota COVID Food Fund Grant to 240 tribal governments, nonprofit agencies or local units of government that provide food and other items for food shelves throughout the state. The USDA recently approved November Emergency SNAP benefits, which the department is issuing in December.
Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights, died at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. The man, whose identify is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, recently tested positive for COVID-19 while receiving medical care for terminal cancer. It is not known where he contracted COVID-19. This is the fourth COVID-related death of an incarcerated person in the Minnesota DOC system since the pandemic began. Two other incarcerated people are currently receiving ventilator treatment at outside hospitals. The DOC has taken measures across the system to manage the risk of COVID-19 entering correctional facilities and spreading. Each facility has also taken a number of steps specific to their unique environment. Those plans can be viewed at https:// mn.gov/doc/about/covid-19-updates/ facility-specific-covid-19-responses.
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Uniform complaints • The BBC reported that Police Constable Simon Read of the Cambridgeshire Police will be the subject of a misconduct hearing on Nov. 25 after being accused of switching prices on a box of doughnuts in February. Read, shopping at a Tesco Extra store while on duty and uniformed, allegedly selected a $13 box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and replaced its barcode with one from the produce section that lowered the price
to 9 cents, then went through the selfcheckout line. Read was said to bring “discredit upon the police service ... because a reasonable member of the public would be appalled that a police officer had acted dishonestly and without integrity.” [BBC, 11/17/2020] • San Juan, Puerto Rico, police officer Fernando Leon Berdecia, 46, is accused of stealing $1,300 worth of merchandise from a Home Depot on Nov. 16 while wearing his uniform. The Associated Press reported Puerto
Rico Police Chief Henry Escalera said Leon has been suspended from the department. [Associated Press, 11/17/2020] Fake news Readers of Radio France Internationale’s website were alarmed to learn on Nov. 16 of the passing of dozens of world leaders and celebrities, The New York Times reported. Obituaries for Queen Elizabeth II, Clint Eastwood, soccer legend Pele and about 100 others were posted on the broadcaster’s website, and it was several hours before the notices were removed. The station issued a statement apologizing to “those concerned” and noting that the prewritten obituaries were accidentally posted as the website was moved to a new content management system. [New York Times, 11/18/2020] Awesome! Twenty concerned citizens in Norman, Oklahoma, turned out on Nov. 17 to help George Simmons, an arborist from Idaho, continue the search for his missing pet raccoon, an effort that had stretched into its second week and included support from the Norman Fire Department, which deployed its thermal imaging technology. Coonsie had accompanied Simmons when he traveled to Oklahoma to help cut trees around power lines after a freak October ice storm, KFOR reported, but Coonsie got loose in Nov. 6, and Simmons says he won’t return to Idaho until he locates her. At presstime, Coonsie was still missing. [KFOR, 11/17/2020] Finders Keepers Douglas Allen Hatley, 71, of Lakeland, Florida, was arrested on Nov. 16 after the Florida Highway Patrol said he found a metal light pole by the side of the road in Tampa and tried to sell it to Eagle Metals Recycling. The Tampa Bay Times reported the recycling center turned him away because he didn’t have documentation for the pole, and officers responding to reports of a 1997 Camry with a pole twice its length strapped to the top pulled him over soon afterward. He was charged with third-degree grand theft. [Tampa Bay Times, 11/17/2020] Bad behavior Police in Middlesbrough, England, are asking for the public’s help in locating those involved in an apparent egg fight at a local Tesco supermarket during the two minutes of silence meant to honor fallen servicemembers on Nov. 8. Most shoppers at the store on Remembrance Sunday stood still and quiet, but one customer continued shopping and talking, reported Metro
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News, and objected when asked to be quiet. “We were all stood still, observing the two minutes’ silence when we heard lots of screaming and shouting,” one witness said. Police noted “a man allegedly assaulted two women ... following a verbal altercation.” [Metro News, 11/9/2020] Bright idea Two recent graduates of the Sydney Grammar School in Australia hatched a plan to skirt COVID-19 restrictions on large gatherings to host a graduation party while their parents were out of town. Outdoor gatherings are limited to 30 people, and indoor events are capped at 10, the Daily Mail reported, but up to 150 guests can attend weddings if they follow social distancing protocols. On Nov. 12, the unnamed best friends “married” in a backyard ceremony and planned a 150-person party to follow, until their parents caught wind of the event online and returned to put an end to it: “We shut down the planned private celebratory event as soon as we found out about it, and thankfully, nobody was put at risk,” one of the lads’ dad said. [Daily Mail, 11/18/2020] Unclear on the concept Charlene Stanton passes a book donation box in the Roxbury Park neighborhood of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on her daily walks, and told WTAJ on Nov. 18 that lately she’s become concerned about the bags of raw meat she regularly sees left hanging on the side of the box. She has seen both fresh and frozen meat left at the box, and someone keeps taking them, which alarms her “because so many ... illnesses could be caused by leaving meat out unrefrigerated.” Officials suggest donating food to a food bank, rather than leaving it at a book collection site. [WTAJ, 11/18/2020] Oops! The mayor of Oudenburg, Belgium, said it was not the city’s intention that new Christmas decorations it installed resemble an iconic part of the male anatomy. City officials had set out to create lighted columns that looked like candles, the Daily Mail reported, but decided to do something different and placed blue spheres on top instead of flames. “I only realized (they looked phallic) when they were illuminted,” Mayor Anthony Dumarey said. “I see the funny side of it myself (and) I see no reason to remove or replace them ... we will have the country’s most talkedabout Christmas lights this year.” [Daily Mail, 11/19/2020]
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The Thanksgiving opportunity The Thanksgiving table is often seen as a challenge by those who seek to serve the perfect wine with every meal. The combination of sweet and savory, and the sheer number of courses, present a bit of a gauntlet for the average wine enthusiast. I take a slightly different approach. I look at the Thanksgiving table as an opportunity. Start with the premise that there is no single wine that suits each course and pleases every palate. The obvious solution is to let it all hang out. I begin with the place setting. In my opportunistic scenario, I set out four wine glasses: a glass for bubbly; a glass for a rich, complex white wine; a third glass for a soft, juicy red packed with abundant fruit; and a fourth for a sweet – but not too sweet – dessert wine. The bubbly is my celebratory aperitif wine. It need not be expensive, though given the fact that this kicks off the holiday season, something a little bit special seems to be appropriate. Two of my favorites are the Domaine Carneros by Taittinger Cuvee de la Pompadour Brut Rose (about $40) and the J Vineyards Cuvee 20 Brut (about $30). These wines are among the finest of their kind produced in the United States and always crowd pleasers. We are blessed to have a number of outstanding domestic sparkling wine producers. You won’t go very wrong with anything from Iron Horse, Roederer Estate, Schramsberg, Mumm Napa Valley or Domaine Chandon.
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And if you’re watching A young, tannic the budget, Barefoot Bubbly red would dominate produces delicious bubblies everything at the in the $10 range. table and clash with “If you’re By the time you move the sweeter elements. watching on to the white wine Not good, but again, the budget, offering, you will notice that’s a matter of the Thanksgiving table is taste, and my palate Barefoot crowded with roast turkey, prefers easy-drinking Bubbly stuffing, mashed potatoes, reds. produces sometimes candied sweet Those would be delicious potatoes and typically pinot noir, Beaujolais, bubblies a green vegetable that red Rhone blends, etc. in the $10 has been enhanced with The U.S. has an range.” caramelized nuts of one embarrassment of type or another. The stuffing riches when it comes can be all over the map to pinot noir. The top with savory notes of sage, producers are many pepper, onion and sausage of the same that combined with sweet notes make outstanding of currant, golden raisins, chardonnay, which apples or even cranberries. stands to reason For me, a light, tart white simply because both are Burgundian grape doesn’t cut it. If ever there is a time for varieties. a layered, complex chardonnay with My personal who’s who includes hints of spice, this is it. Dutton-Goldfield, Tongue Dancer, Chardonnay from the likes of ROAR and Merry Edwards. They Dutton-Goldfield, Merry Edwards, primarily produce vineyard-designate Tongue Dancer or Gary Farrell (all in pinots that range up to $70 a bottle, so the $40 to $60 price range) will find they’re very expensive. room at my Thanksgiving table. Merry Edwards also produces an Slightly less expensive but also very appellation-specific pinot from the good are Morgan, Eberle, Rodney Russian River Valley that is more Strong, Chateau St. Jean and Souverain. modestly priced at less than $50. Alternatives abound. Dry riesling Slightly less expensive but also very from Smith Madrone, Trefethen, good are Siduri and Clarice, both Chateau Ste. Michelle or Stony Hill inspired by winemaker Adam Lee and are classic and have the depth and both providing excellent vineyardcomplexity to hold up against the designate pinots and appellation onslaught of Thanksgiving flavors. specific-pinots. Most of these wines can Pinot gris from Oregon’s King be found for less than $50 retail. Estate or Ponzi also are up to the Beaujolais has long been considered Thanksgiving challenge. All of these a perfect turkey wine for the reasons wines can be found for less than $40 a mentioned here. Made from the gamay bottle, and the Chateau Ste. Michelle grape, it is fruity, low in tannin and (slightly off-dry) is a steal at $10 or less. ready to drink young. It goes down Even Ste. Michelle’s higher-end Eroica easy and is far less expensive than riesling at less than $20 is a bargain. domestic pinot noir. In my humble opinion, the red wine The most accessible Beaujolais in in your glass on Thanksgiving should America is Georges Duboeuf. The most be supple, fruit-driven and juicy on expensive Duboeuf Beaujolais, the the palate, for all of the reasons stated wines from the crus villages such as above. Morgon or Fleurie, retail for less than
$30 a bottle. They are often sensational wines. The less expensive Beaujolais Villages or AOC Beaujolais generally retail for less than $20 a bottle. Same for the Cotes-du-Rhone reds from the top producer Guigal. The Guigal Cotesdu-Rhone often retails for less than $15. They are impeccably made and a steal at those prices. From the standpoint of price, the Duboeuf Beaujolais and Guigal Cotes-du-Rhone reds are among the greatest value wines coming out of France. Domestically, Eberle’s Cotesdu-Robles Rouge at $30 will give the Guigal wines a run for their money. Which brings me to the finale: the dessert glass. Personally, I prefer a dessert wine that is sweet but not sticky sweet. The Eberle Muscat Canelli (the 2019 vintage is now available) is exactly what I’m looking for. This wine has exquisite balance, a touch of sweetness and a spice note that is beautiful with – you guessed it – pumpkin pie! 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 creators.com. Email Robert at whitleyonwine@yahoo.com.
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Keep the whole grains coming. Not only do they help with diabetes, but new research finds they may improve heart health as well. Earlier research has found that higher consumption of whole grains may help reduce your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal in July 2020. The study looked at oatmeal, popcorn, whole-grain bread
and brown rice, as well as other whole-grain foods also rich in fiber, antioxidants and B vitamins. Using data from 158,259 women and 36,525 men who did not have Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer when the study began, researchers evaluated the relationship between whole grain intake and Type 2 diabetes over the course of four years. Researchers found that participants who consumed the most whole grains (one or more servings a day) had a 29% lower rate of Type 2 diabetes
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compared with those who had less than one serving per month. New research finds that consuming whole grains – such as whole-grain bread, brown rice and quinoa – rather than refined grains – such as white rice and white bread – may improve your heart health as well. The November study was published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Researchers found consuming whole grains improved total cholesterol and decreased triglycerides. For every 16gram serving of whole grains (which
is equal to one slice of whole grain bread or a half-cup of brown rice), cardiovascular-related deaths declined by 9%. When 48 grams (three servings) of whole grains were consumed every day, rates of cardiovascular death declined by 25%. So, what is a whole grain? It’s a grain that has the bran, endosperm and germ. In refined grains, the bran and germ – which contribute fiber, magnesium, selenium and other vitamins – have been removed. The bottom line? Choose brown rice over white; whole-wheat bread and pasta over white; quinoa, wheat germ, oats and stone-ground, whole-grain crackers. Those are choices that can make a huge difference. Q and A Q: Because grapes are so sweet, can they be good for you? A: Fresh grapes are prized for their taste, convenience, versatility and health benefits that come from polyphenols. Polyphenols protect the
cell function and health, promote antioxidant activity and influence cell communications. All three colors of grapes (red, green and black) contain polyphenols. Eating grapes my help counter the harmful inflammation and oxidative stress that can lead to many chronic diseases. While grapes taste sweet, they have a low glycemic index, which makes them a good choice even for diabetics. The key is portion control – a serving of grapes is 1 cup, or about 2 handfuls. RECIPE Looking for a healthy appetizer for the holidays? Try this Smoky Pumpkin Hummus, and serve it with whole grain pita bread and fresh vegetables. This recipe is from Today’s Dietitian magazine. SMOKY PUMPKIN HUMMUS 1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas, with liquid 2 garlic cloves 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons tahini (sesame seed paste) 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 3/4 cup pumpkin, canned or cooked, pureed 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika Optional garnish: additional extravirgin olive oil, additional smoked paprika, 1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds Drain the chickpeas, reserving the liquid. Put the chickpeas into a blender or food processor. Add the garlic, lemon juice, tahini, black pepper, olive oil, pumpkin, cumin seeds and smoked paprika. Blend, gradually adding enough of the reserved chickpea liquid to make a smooth, thick, creamy dip. Pour the dip into a serving dish, and garnish with a drizzle of olive oil and sprinkle of smoked paprika and pumpkin seeds, if desired. Serve with wholegrain pita bread, sliced into wedges and fresh vegetables. Serves 8. Per serving: 100 calories; 4 grams protein; 11 grams carbohydrate;5 grams fat; 0 grams cholesterol; 3 grams fiber; 150 milligrams sodium. Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian. For comments or questions, contact her at charfarg@aol.com or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRD.
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Why can’t a tree be called Pluplusch? OK, I know. I usually write about beer, so why am I now writing about wine? Whine not ye of little faith. While I am not an oenologist, I am not a complete wine novice. I’ve had many tastings – curated and free-form. I’ve done some reading, but I’ve not devoted myself to the nerdy study of wine, such as knowing the characteristics of individual grapes and the conditions in which they thrive, nor have I kept detailed notes of my tastings. If I find a wine I like, I write it down so I might get it again to share with someone else who might appreciate it. but more often than not, I do not return to wines I’ve tasted because there are so many and I feel I should give as many of them as possible a chance to impress me. Essentially, it comes down to that old saw about not knowing about art but knowing what I like. That’s sort of my wine criteria. I try not to go in with preconceived notions, and the first notion to go was that only expensive wines are worthy. Being a working stiff, I am morally opposed to paying a week’s wage for a bottle of wine. Consequently, I am always in the market for a good deal. What do I look for in a red? It depends on so many factors, both from the wine and where I am at the time. Can a perfect environment add to the pleasure of a good wine? Absolutely! Can a good wine overcome its being drunk in less-than-perfect conditions? Of course. Sometimes a good name will catch my eye. That was the case recently with Dada Art Wine 2, which I found at my local for about 13 bucks. I’ve always been a fan of the anarchy and irreverence of Dadaism. Perhaps my favorite Dadaist is Marcel Duchamp, who painted a moustache and Van Dyke beard on DaVinci’s Mona Lisa, and continues to shock to this day with his “readymade” sculpture Fountain – a urinal signed “R. Mutt.
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Marcel Duchamp’s Dadaist take on DaVinci’s Mona Lisa. 1917.” It’s a subversive questioning of what constitutes art that in 2004 was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century by 500 British art world professionals – second place was Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Warhol was third with Marilyn Diptych (1962). Dada is a fabulous concept, so why not apply it to wine? Works for me, which is why I could not resist picking up a bottle of Finca Las Moras Dada Art Wine. With a choice of Art Wine 1 or 2, I chose 2. More about that later. The label on this Argentinian red blend states that, like the Dada cultural movement of the early 20th century, this wine questions established conceptions. “DaDa was created with the purpose of challenging the established culture that surrounds wine. What is DaDa? Open your mind.” OK. I like that. The label also promises notes of black fruit, cassis and blackberries. Yes, check that box off. As to the Mocha aromas promised from its “contact with heavy toast American and French oak,” well, I’m not sure if my sniffer knows the aroma of mocha. Dada is a bright, jammy red. I chose
No. 2 because vanilla is supposed to be a dominant flavor in Dada 1, and I’m not a huge fan of vanilla. However, after enjoying Dada 2 so much, I look forward to trying Dada 1 and all the other Dada flavors, which includes a series of sparkling wines that sound interesting. As I was walking past the local the other day on my way to the post office, I decided to stop in for a bottle of Dada 1, the label of which I apparently did not read properly the first time around. The label does mention vanilla, but in the aroma not taste, as a result of being aged in oak barrels. I do not smell vanilla, but I do get a bright whiff of red currants, which is backed up with the first taste of this red-fruity wine. I assume a slight back-end bitterness is
tannins from the aforementioned oak barrels. Well, now I wish I would have compared 1 and 2 side by side, because while drinking 1, I’ve forgotten what 2 brought to the table. I try to recall and it seems it had more depth on the lower end notes, while No. 1 is brighter. Yes, I look forward to more Dadaist drinking, because as the winery says (yes, in caps!), “THE ONLY RULE IN DADÁ´S WORLD IS NOT HAVING ANY RULE AT ALL. ... DADÁ” (NOTE: The Dadaist headline for this story is taken from Hugo Ball’s 1916 Dada manifesto.)
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Substitutes for missing ingredients When cooking or baking at home, few things can prove as frustrating as preparing a dish only to realize you’re missing a key item from the ingredients list. Such realizations often force cooks to stop what they’re doing and make emergency trips to a nearby grocery store. That can delay dinner time or make cooks feel rushed when they ultimately return from the store. But what if there was a way to substitute ingredients without risking flavor? Thankfully, there is. According to AllRecipes.com, cooks can easily make their own ingredient substitutions if they suddenly realize they’re missing an item listed in a recipe and don’t want to run to the store. But many substitutions won’t be direct, meaning 1 tablespoon of a particular ingredient will not always translate to 1 tablespoon of a substitute ingredient. The following substitution guide, courtesy of AllRecipes.com, can help cooks overcome the lastminute surprises regarding missing
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pureed OR 3 tablespoons mayonnaise OR half a banana mashed with 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder OR 1 tablespoon powdered flax seed soaked in 3 tablespoons water
Butter (salted) Amount: 1 cup Substitute: I cup margarine OR 1 cup shortening plus 1⁄2 teaspoon salt OR 7⁄8 cup vegetable oil plus 1⁄2 teaspoon salt OR 7⁄8 cup lard plus 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
Garlic Amount: 1 clove Substitute: 1⁄8 teaspoon garlic powder OR 1⁄2 teaspoon granulated garlic OR 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic salt (reduce salt in recipe)
Butter (unsalted) Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 1 cup shortening OR 7⁄8 cup vegetable oil OR 7⁄8 cup lard
Honey Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 11⁄4 cup white sugar plus 1⁄3 cup water OR 1 cup corn syrup OR 1 cup light treacle syrup
Cocoa Amount: 1⁄4 cup Substitute: 1 1-ounce square unsweetened chocolate Corn syrup Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 11⁄4 cup white sugar plus 1⁄3 cup water OR 1 cup honey OR 1 cup light treacle syrup Egg Amount: 1 whole (3 tablespoons or 1.7 ounces) Substitute: 21⁄2 tablespoons of powdered egg substitute plus 21⁄2 tablespoons water OR 1⁄4 cup liquid egg substitute OR 1⁄4 cup silken tofu
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Ingredient: Lemon juice Amount: 1 teaspoon Substitute: 1⁄2 teaspoon vinegar OR 1 teaspoon white wine OR 1 teaspoon lime juice Lime juice Amount: 1 teaspoon Substitute: 1 teaspoon vinegar OR 1 teaspoon white wine OR 1 teaspoon lemon juice Mayonnaise Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 1 cup sour cream OR 1 cup plain yogurt
Onion Amount: 1 cup, chopped Substitute: 1 cup chopped green onions OR 1 cup chopped shallots OR 1 cup chopped leeks OR 1⁄4 cup dried minced onion OR 1⁄4 cup onion powder Semisweet chocolate chips Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 1 cup chocolate candies OR 1 cup peanut butter or other flavored chips OR 1 cup chopped nuts OR 1 cup chopped dried fruit Shortening Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 1 cup butter OR 1 cup margarine minus 1⁄2 teaspoon salt from recipe Stock: beef or chicken Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 1 cube beef or chicken bouillon dissolved in 1 cup water Vegetable oil (for baking) Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 1 cup applesauce OR 1 cup fruit puree Vegetable oil (for frying) Amount: 1 cup Substitute: 1 cup lard OR 1 cup vegetable shortening
Dive into decadent chocolate martini A martini is one of the most iconic and classic cocktails around, and is typically made with gin or vodka and dry vermouth. However, martini recipes have evolved, and many different combinations of spirits are now utilized and served in the recognizable long-stemmed martini glass. These martinis can be customized with just about any flavor profile that suits your entertaining preferences. A chocolate martini is one that will always be in favor. It is easily concocted using just a few basic ingredients. Enjoy this variation, courtesy of Godiva Liqueurs.
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Godiva Chocolate Martini Serves 1 11â „2 ounces your favorite Godiva liqueur, such as Godiva Milk Chocolate 3â „4 ounce vodka, like Ciroc In a cocktail shaker, shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with your favorite Godiva chocolate truffle and indulge. Tips and variations: Drizzle chocolate syrup to dress up the martini glass before serving. Or top the martini with fresh raspberries or strawberries and mint for extra garnish.
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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY grown apace with them, today would be a tribute beyond compare in the world. It is not that, but it is a great and true national holiday, a day of recreation and remembrance and thanksgiving. It is a day which more than any other calls the marvel and benevolence of our nation;s growth. It is a day which more than any other gathers up and binds the ties of family and friendship. It is a day which gladdens the poor and needy with unaccustomed plenty. It is a day which brings to every one in this republic of our some realization, at least, of what each and all have to be thankful for.
Duluth Herald November 26, 1888 BIDS GALORE. The Government Agent Opens Bids for A Site for the Public Building. HIGH FIGURES GENERALLY ASKED.
Irving B. Linton, chief clerk in the office of the Supervising Architect, arrived in Duluth yesterday and this noon opened a number of offers for property owners and agents for sites for the new government building. For this building a total appropriation of $150,000 has been made, $75,000 of which is now available under the sundry civil services bill for the purchase of a site and the beginning of work. The remainder of the appropriation will be put in to the civil service bill of the next congress and will then be available. Mr. Linton spent yesterday in looking about the city and is today testing the feelings of business men regarding a proper location. He will present at the session of the chamber of commerce tomorrow morning and will then listen to opinions on the subject. Twenty-eight bids lay before Postmaster Flynn as he handed them to Mr. Linton this noon. They comprised almost any price from
Duluth Herald November 28, 1900 St. Paul Curlers Anxious to Establish Better Relations With Duluth.
Samuel F. Fullerton is in the city today. Mr. Fullerton is president of the St. Paul Curling club, having been elected to that place at the meeting about a week ago. Mr. Fullerton says that curling has been given a great impetus in St. Paul by the coming to that city of R. H. Dunbar, the famous Winnipeg curler. A very strong rink has been organized with Mr. Dunbar as skip. L. Deper will play third for him and Frank McCarthy second. This rink expects to scoop in about everything there is to be had the coming year.
Ad appearing in the Dec. 3, 1922 edition of the Duluth Herald. nothing up to $104,000, which last was for the property on the lower side of First street directly in the rear of the Opera house. A couple of West end sites were offered free, as was one on Eighth avenue west and Superior street. West First street seemed the favorite location with bidders, as it has long been with citizens. Several sites on Second street were offered. Mr. Linon in conversation this morning stated that the government would not feel authorized to spend a large proportion of the entire appropriation for a bare site and that even a third of the money in a site was more than should be used. He was inclined to think that most of the prices made were high, but did not express himself decidedly on this point. He is engaged in looking over the property and will do so tomorrow. At the request of Mr. Linton, a public Ad appearing in the Dec. 2, 1920 edition meeting will be held tomorrow night at of the Duluth Herald.
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Ingalls hall, at which he hopes there will be a large attendance both of leading property owners and citizens generally. At this meeting a general expression of opinion will be made regarding location.
Duluth Herald November 27, 1890 THANKSGIVING DAY.
The lone Puritan holiday keeps a grip on the country still which no wrenches of time and change can shake. The pilgrim spirit has not fled, however diffused and vaporized it may be, with the changes of condition and circumstances since the day when the scanty kernels of corn were the tokens of the bounty now materialized in the myriad tables laden with the profusion of the richest nation of the world. The causes for thankfulness have marvelously multiplied, and if the spirit had
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Mr. Fullerton says that his election was due as much t a desire to establish more friendly relations to the Duluth club as for any other reason. He was recognized as a man of particularly friendly to the curlers here by reason of his former residence in this city and it was thought that would bring the two clubs closer together. The Duluth and St. Paul clubs have not been as friendly as they might hand Mr. Fullerton sauys there is no reason why they should not be. The men who caused the trouble before are out of the St. Paul club now and there is no reason why amicable relations should not be restored. It is particularly assured that within a very short time a cup will be offered for competition between the Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Paul curlers. This would be open to play at any time and clubs from one city could visit either of the other two and play for the cup. In this way Mr. Fullerton thinks there will be a much different feeling engendered among the Minnesota curlers.
Duluth Herald December 1, 1910 LAST BOAT Package Freighter Leaves Just Before Stroke of Midnight. Eight Cargoes of Grain Taken Out on Last Day of Season.
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the courthouse last night to take the verdict. “I sure am off circuses,” said Miller after the verdict. “Believe me, they’lll never catch me in company like that again; tis has taught me a lesson. I’m going back to Cincinnati, where my sister keeps house for me. I’ve got about $200 back pay coming from the circus.” Attorney Charles W. Scrutchins, colored, of Bemidji, was the main counsel for the defense in the Miller trial and made the closing arguments to the jury yesterday. The defense took the position at the trial that the girl’s story was an impossible one.
Duluth Herald December 3, 1922 RAID BLACKJACK GAME. Police Find Only Dollar on Table; Arrest Eight Men.
Ad appearing in the Dec. 1,1910 edition of the Duluth Herald. away before the stroke of twelve last night by the steamers that made their last trip out of this port. The Rochester was the last boat to get away,, leaving Superior just before the village clock struck the point between night and the coming day. The Rocherster was just behind the Superior, which heaved anchor at 11:15 and started on the last trip down the lakes for the season of 1910. The North Wave left here at 11 o’clock. Grain was the biggest product carried down on the last day of the season. Eight vessels left harbor last night loaded with grain, carrying in their holds approximately 2,000,000 bushels. The grain started down th lakes last night practically cleans out the spring wheat supply that was held at the elevators here. At no time the present season has there been a sharp demand for carriers for the grain trade, not even on the closing day of the season, as the boats had been contracted ahead for some
time. A number of boats will winter at the Head of the Lakes, though as yet the list has not been compiled.
“Hit me, and I’ll holler if it hurts,” the boys were shouting around a blackjack game at Sixth avenue west and First street yesterday afternoon when the cops broke in an spoiled the session. Eight men were arrested on charges of gambling and two with operating a gambling device. A dollar in change was found on the table, but the men were well burdened with nickels, quarters and other silver change. When they were arraigned in municipal court this morning all entered pleas of not guilty. The inmates were released on $15 bail until Thursday morning at 10 o’clock and the alleged proprietors freed on $100 bails. They will be tried Thursday morning also.
Duluth Herald December 2, 1920 MILLER’S ACQUITTAL MAY END TRIALS OF RAPE CASES Jury Finds Second Negro Tried for Crime Not Guilty.
Acquittal late yesterday in district court of William Miller, the second of seven negro circus hands to be tried for the rape of an 18-year-old white girl of West Duluth on June 14 last will probably end prosecution of these cases. Max Mason, who ws convicted by a jury last week, and Miller were claimed by the state to be the ringleaders of the crowd of circus employes who set upon the girl and her 18-year-old escort, James T. Sullivan, carrying them to a nearby ravine, where it is charged, one by one the negroes ravished the girl, keeping Sullivan covered with a gun. The Mason and Miller cass, it is understood, were regarded as the state’s best bets for a conviction, and the Miller case having resulted n an acquittal there is little likelihood of any of the other cases being brought on for trial. Miller was freed by a jury at 9:40 o’clock last night. The jury was out six hours and sixteen minutes. Judge A. E. Giddings of Anoka, who presided at the trial, waited at
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Frances Densmore: Recording tradition From the 1890s through the 1950s, Frances Densmore researched and recorded the music of Native Americans. Through more than 20 books, 200 articles, and some 2,500 Graphophone recordings, she preserved important cultural traditions that might otherwise have been lost. She received honors from Macalester College in St. Paul and the Minnesota Historical Society in the last years of her life. Densmore came from a successful middle-class family with New York roots that moved west with the growth of America. She was born in Red Wing on May 21, 1867, to Benjamin and Sarah Greenland Densmore. Her father, a civil engineer by training, and his brother Daniel had started Red Wing Iron Works the year before Frances’s birth.
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Frances as she furthered her musical education at the Oberlin (Ohio) Conservatory of Music. The Densmores also acted on their beliefs of tolerance towards others. Both Benjamin and Daniel volunteered during the Civil War to serve as officers with U.S. “Colored” (African American) troops. The Densmores’ Red Wing home faced the Mississippi River and Trenton Island, next to the Wisconsin shore. The family could see campfires of eastern Dakota hunting parties on the Island and hear their drums. That intrigued the young Densmore. She later heard American Indian and Filipino music when she visited the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. That same year, she read A Study of Omaha Indian Music by Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838–1923). Densmore contacted Fletcher, an ethnologist whose work had drawn praise. Encouraged by Fletcher, Densmore began her own studies. In December 1895, she spoke about American Indian music to the Schubert Club of St. Paul. As part of the presentation, she played Omaha music on the piano while a club member sang. Densmore would make similar presentations in the next decade. In 1905, Densmore decided to conduct her own field studies. She enlisted her younger sister, Margaret,
to assist her. They traveled to Grand Marais and Grand Portage on Lake Superior’s north shore. The Densmores made contact with some Ojibwe. Frances explained her interest in their music and, after a lengthy conversation, the men agreed to share their songs. Her work soon earned the respect of Frederick W. Hodge, editor of the Smithsonian-backed American anthropologist. Hodge published one of Densmore’s articles. He would help get funding for her American Indian music studies. In 1907, the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) paid Densmore $350 to record Ojibwe songs. The BAE later published more than a dozen of her studies on various American Indian tribes. Fieldwork, writing, and lecturing kept the Red Wing researcher busy, and her reputation as an ethnomusicologist grew. The BAE increased its support. Densmore earned as much as $3,000 per year, enough for a comfortable lifestyle. Margaret quit her job as a teacher and became Frances’ full-time assistant. The two lived together in Red Wing, where Margaret proved a valued aide and consultant. The sisters survived the loss of Frances’s BAE business arrangement in April 1933, when America’s Great Depression brought hard times. Densmore spent long hours organizing her considerable notes and records on American Indian music and customs. The sisters owned the family house and some securities upon which to live, while Frances earned a modest income from grants and lecturing. Margaret Densmore died in 1947. The steadfast Frances labored on in Red Wing. She had written and published more than 20 books and 200 articles based on her wide-ranging research. She also preserved some 2,500 Graphophone recordings of American Indian music. She donated her records to the National Archives and the Minnesota Historical Society. Densmore received accolades for her work late in her long life. St. Paul’s Macalester College awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1950. The Minnesota Historical Society presented her with its first “citation for distinguished service in the field of Minnesota History” in October 1954.
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Simple fixes for improving old, wooden windows Dear James: My existing old doublehung windows still look nice, but they leak outdoor air and are difficult to open and close. What can I do to improve them myself? – JAMES Kevin J. DULLEY Dear Kevin: If maintained regularly, old double-hung windows can last a lifetime and be energy efficient. When yours were originally designed and built, there was not much concern about energy efficiency. You can make improvements that make them more efficient than when they were brand new. Many people, even those who can
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afford new efficient replacement windows, like the appearance of their old windows and choose to repair and improve them instead of replacing them. Others keep the old windows as is and just install interior storm windows for better efficiency. Actually replacing the old windows is the highestefficiency option. The first step to improving the old wood windows is to carefully inspect them. Note where they have weatherstripping to seal between adjacent parts. Also note where outdoor air leaks in now and how tight the sashes are in the frames. More modern and efficient weatherstripping can be added without impacting the exterior appearance of the windows. The old window sashes are easy to
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remove. Pry the interior stop off of the window frame. This allows the lower sash to be removed from the window frame. Next, pry off the parting bead to free the upper sash. This narrow bead will likely break into several pieces, so plan to clean out its groove and to
replace it during reassembly. Since you mentioned the windows do not open easily, the ropes to the sash counterbalance weights inside the frame pockets are probably broken. There should be two weights on each side. If the ropes are broken, find the
access panel on the lower part of the casing. Remove it to find and remove the weights. Install new weatherstripping on the sashes so they seal well against each other and the frame. A vinyl tubetype seal works well at the bottom of the lower sash and top of the upper sash. You may have to rout a narrow groove in the wood to install them. A metal spring strip seals well between the sashes. Resource Conservation Technology (conservationtechnology. com) has an excellent selection of weatherstripping materials. Check the condition of the counterweight pulleys at the top of the frame. It might be wise to replace them with new ones that have nylon bushings. Lubricate them well with a spray lubricant. Attach new ropes to the weights, and tack the end of the rope in place before connecting them to the sashes. If the weights were missing or you
prefer to insulate the weight cavities for better wall insulation, installing a spring-loaded counterweight balance is an option. It is small and fits into the weight pocket. Insulation can be sprayed in around it. A thin tape is attached to sashes to support them. Before you install the sashes back into their channels and reattach the stops, sand any mating wood surfaces smooth to reduce sliding friction. Prime these wood surfaces, and finish coat them with high-gloss exterior enamel for a slick surface. Spraying on a light coating of carbon powder also reduces friction. Install the sashes and fix them in place with the stops. Send your questions to Here’s How, 6906 Royalgreen Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45244, or visit dulley.com. To find out more about James Dulley, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com.
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On the beach at ‘Beaches Cottage’ Crystal Cove is a very scary place. Just ask Shaggy Rogers and his friends Fred, Daphne and Velma. Even big dog Scooby-Doo will chip in with a bark. That’s because of the crystal sarcophagus containing the Evil Entity – oh wait, that’s the cartoon-land Crystal Cove. The one I visited was the one in Orange County, California. This one boasts a much longer history of fictional cinematic representation than even Scooby-Doo cartoons. Located within the municipality of Newport Beach, Crystal Cove is a state park encompassing 3.2 miles of Pacific coast. It’s a bit unusual in that it includes a beach and imposing coastal cliffs as well as a small community of beach homes. My wife and I ended up here because
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after six months of quarantine we decided to visit friends in Irvine, California. We located a hotel in Costa Mesa and called ahead to see what safety measures were being taken in regard to COVID-19. Satisfied that the hotel was doing all it could possibly do to keep guests safe, we booked three nights and drove west from Mesa, Arizona. We asked our friends to plan only outdoor activities that would include a beach walk because an ocean shoreline is something we don’t have in Arizona. They were happy to oblige since one of their favorite walks is in the Crystal Cove State Park. What makes this walk interesting is that it can be done as a relatively short loop – less than three miles – but it encompasses numerous geological and topographical surfaces. The parking lot sits atop the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. A trail and steps lead down to the beach. If you turn right to the north, you’ll head toward the community of Crystal Cove. The morning we did the walk the air was cool and the beach
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Some cottages still remain along the beach at Crystal Cove State Park in Orange County, California. Photo courtesy of Jim Farber. practically empty. The tide had ebbed, so it was possible to walk along the damp and more solid sands. Also, the low tide revealed numerous boulders and tide pools at water’s edge, which created picturesque scenic views along the shoreline. Otherwise the beach is deep sand until the cliffs that rise almost straight up like a wall. One can walk forever along the beach, but most people end at the Crystal Cove Historic District, which is just a little more than 12 acres (the entire park is 2,800 acres) at a crevice in the ridge. A popular respite is an old restaurant called The Beachcomber. Also inside the crevice is an enclave of 46 rustic cottages that are for rent. A long wooden stairwell climbs to the top of the cliffs, and a trail then leads back to the parking lot where the journey began. A handful of rental properties remain along the beach, and on my walk one caught my attention because of the couple sitting on two chairs, intermittently reading and gazing out to sea. I noticed other walkers would stop in front of this house, take a picture and move on. My friend elbowed me and with a nod toward the property and told me the beach house (formal name is Cottage 13) was featured in the movie Beaches, the 1988 tearjerker featuring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey. Midler’s hit record, “Wind Beneath My Wings,” was part of the soundtrack to this movie.
Then I noticed an informational board explaining that around 1917 silent-era Hollywood discovered this isolated cove. They planted palm trees and built a few thatched huts to create a movie set for tropical locations. The movie filmed at the cottage that interested me was the 1928 production of Sadie Thompson, which was based on the short story “Rain” by W. Somerset Maugham. The story is set on the Pacific Island of Pago Pago – today the U.S. territory of American Samoa. Then I read it was also used in the Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall classic, To Have and Have Not, which took place on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean. It was used in the movie Treasure Island, too, somewhere in the Caribbean or Atlantic, and Son of Tarzan, around the world to Africa. Cottage 13 never moved, but it has traveled the world. Despite all of those great classic movies, the beach house is referred to as the “Beaches Cottage” or the “Bette Midler Cottage.” Today anyone can still rent the cottage – and make believe they are somewhere else in the world. Crystal Cove State Park is located just off the Pacific Coast Highway between Corona Del Mar and Laguna Beach in Orange County, California. Sunrise and sunset are perfect times for a beach walk at Crystal Cove State Park in Orange County, California. Steve Bergsman is a freelance writer; creators.com.
Instagram and the environment and other direct-action events designed to lever those in power to make smart decisions with climate change, green jobs, sustainability and equity in mind. • Finally, @climemechange uses humor to lighten the mood within the climate movement. After all, laughter has been proven to boost antibodyproducing cells, reduce stress and increase blood flow, all important to make sure we keep ourselves healthy while fighting the good fight. Following this account is a good way to fight the eco-depression and climate anxiety we all suffer from, even if just a little. One way to be an eco-activist on Instagram is to share these accounts’ posts on your own stories, an easy way to spread awareness about the issues made possible by the social platforms we have today.
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CONTACTS: Indigenous Climate Action, instagram. com/indigenousclimateaction/; Intersectional Environmentalist, Dear EarthTalk: What are the best Instagram feeds to follow lately if I’m into environmental activism and fighting climate change? – Bill S., New Orleans, LA It’s amazing how dominant Instagram has become in the world of social media. Eco-advocates would be remiss to not make use of it to raise awareness and spur action on behalf of the planet. Given Instagram’s limited functionality, activists and groups have to be creative to make the most of the photo-dominant platform to stand out from the crowd. Here are a few of our favorite sustainabilityoriented accounts: • Indigenous Climate Action uses its @ indigenousclimateaction account to motivate and empower both youth and adults on climate activism by reminding them of the human connections to land, water, community, culture and the sense of responsibility towards future generations exemplified in Indigenous communities. Recent posts featured celebrations of indigenous knowledge, art and culture, and the group also hosts “virtual visits” and information-packed livestreams on Instagram. • Another enlightening account is @ intersectionalenvironmentalist, which
spreads awareness about how and why injustices happening to marginalized communities and planet health are connected. Posts focus on social justice, environmental justice, art, and community-building around inclusion and sustainability. The producers of the account also platform inspirational speakers on IGTV, Instagram’s video network. • If you’re looking for informative posts displayed in eye-catching styles, check out @futureearth, which cites all its sources and will keep you updated via a variety of different post styles. Their periodic Climate Talks feature informative videos with activists, educators, scientists and green business pioneers. • Meanwhile, activist Isaias Hernandez populates his @ queerbrownvegan account with aesthetically-pleasing posts on environmental justice, veganism and zero-waste. One recent post defined the term “conscious consumerism” while another addressed why climate activists tend to burn out so young. • Another timely account to follow is @sunrisemvmt, the Instagram outlet for the Sunrise Movement. Organizers have used Instagram to spread their message to millions of young people who have in turn showed up at rallies, marches, sit-ins, Congressional visits
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Asian influences bolster Mazda, Hyundai and Buick!
Hyundai Venue is new the Hyundai economy SUV, with wipers that stay up to beat snowstorms when you shut it off. Photos by John Gilbert. Consumers with large incomes have dozens of impressive high-end vehicles to choose from to satisfy their craving for SUVs. There are fewer choices for those with real-world incomes who also want SUVs, but would like to stay at or less than $30,000. Hyundai, the South Korean conglomerate that has steadily moved up in the auto world’s appreciation for quality and economy and always seems to “punch above its weight” with impressive deals in U.S. showrooms. It won the most recent accolades to be ranked the No. 1 manufacturer for the full range of SUVs, which shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, but also reflects a concern for entry-level buyers by adding a vehicle
such as the Venue. With a garage-full of impressive SUVs ranging from the Palisade down through the Santa Fe, Tucson, Kona and on down, the newly introduced Venue is a departure, but proves again that Hyundai wants to keep its loyal constituents in line. It starts down around $20,000 and can be loaded up with options to run up toward $30,000, but it departs from the Northern Minnesota demand for all-wheel drive by coming only with front-wheel drive. It handles well and is quick, despite offering a non-turbocharged version of Hyundai’s remarkably efficient 1.6-liter
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dual-overhead-cam, direct-injected 4-cylinder. The Venue is a tad smaller than the Kona, but has plenty of interior room to seat adults in the back seat and carry stuff under the hatch, and when I testdrove a new “Denim” model – how mainstream can you get? – we ranged from 26 miles per gallon in strictly hillclimbing city driving to 42 mpg with some combined city-highway driving. With such a versatile alignment of vehicles, Hyundai stands as the sixthranked overall automaker in the latest Consumer Reports research of more than 300,000 vehicles in the last decade to measure reliability. Mazda ranked No. 1 for the first time, and regular readers of the Reader and NewCarPicks.com know how I feel about all-things Mazda. The combined point structure shows
No. 1 Mazda with 83, No. 2. Toyota 74, followed by Lexus 71, Buick 70, Honda 63, Hyundai with 62, ahead of Ram trucks 58, and Subaru 57. The surprise among those Far Eastdominated listings is, without a doubt, Buick. There are car-fanciers in the United States who may be unaware that Buick is still producing cars, and, in fact, made the biggest jump up in the totally objective Consumers Report Reliability Survey this year, rising 14 positions to fourth to carry the banner for General Motors in an amazing week of big news for the corporation. For example, GM announced its commitment to electric-powered vehicles led to a proclamation that it would build 40-percent of its car fleet as electric vehicles by 2025 – a startling statement.
Buick Encore, left, shares engine, platform and South Korean build with Chevrolet TrailBlazer, right.
TrailBlazer offers wilder colors for 2021 updates.
It also said it would lead with a new small SUV EV that would lead the way to electric vehicles that would cost less than that magical $30,000 sticker, and would have a range of 450 miles, so confident is GM in its latest breakthrough of battery pack design with LG Chem, another South Korean company. That news was countered by the release that GM must recall 5.9 million trucks and SUVs built between 2007 and 2014 because they were equipped with Takata airbags – from the Japanese company that sold original equipment airbags with faulty igniters that could go off whether you had an accident or not. GM made a public relations blunder by trying the duck the responsibility for covering the expense of repairing or replacing 5.9 million of the nasty little devices, because, GM estimates, it would cost $1.2 billion to make the fixes. Finally, GM is conceding and realizing horrible prices are a bargain, compared to potential life-threatening equipment. While that news counters the dazzling news about the electric vehicles to come, Buick’s high rank is more good news. GM’s current move up in the ratings is further owed to their heritage to South Korea. The Buick Encore, which is an impressive wagon that meets all demands for an economical SUV and might be primarily responsible for Buick placing fourth in the Consumer Reports survey calculations, comes loaded at $34,115, and starts with a base price of $28,000.
The interesting relationship between the two is that both were built in Bupyeong Gu, in South Korea. That’s where GM bought out the former Daiwoo plant a couple decades ago, and has perfected making compact vehicles there for the U.S. market. The engines themselves are built in Mexico, as are the transmissions – a continuously variable unit in the Buick Encore GX and the 9-speed automatic in the TrailBlazer, which starts at $25,600 and lists for $28,180. In the past, I’ve found the sameplatform Buick and Chevy compact SUVs a long distance apart, with the Chevy seeming loaded with low-end plastics and interior stuff and the Buick being an upgrade that made the price increase a bargain. For 2021, however, I think the Chevy deserves another look, because improvements inside are considerable, so the variation between the two is greatly lessened. The Encore is still more sophisticated, even if it’s less equipped to take a friend mountain climbing or seriously off-road. Both can be obtained with all-wheel drive, as the test TrailBlazer was, which is a better choice for Upper Midwestern snowbelters than the front-wheel drive. Back to the Hyundai Venue, no AWD is offered, with Hyundai apparently figuring buyers could move up to the Kona or Tucson is they demanded it. The surprise of the Venue is the presence of features unexpected in such an inexpensive choices. A mode switch, for example, lets you select a sport setting for better handling and performance. One other touch is that if you’re
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The Venue interior is clean and impressive on the Denim trim model.. The other GM vehicle I’m referring to is the new Chevrolet TrailBlazer, a compact SUV that has assumed the name of the former base Chevy SUV. You’ll see the TrailBlazers advertised heavily, taking a modern young couple on mountain-climbing expeditions, etc., although there is much less promotion of the Buick Encores. Both vehicles come equipped with – get this – “Ecotec” 1.3-liter turbocharged threecylinder engines. Having recently test-driven a Suburban at the top end of the Chevrolet SUV food-chain with a 6.2-liter V8, it’s worth noting that the 1.3 turbos in the Encore and TrailBlazer is about one-fifth the displacement size of the Suburban. These vehicles are not only fun to drive, lively and quick, with good, more than-30-mpg efficiency, and if the two of them can help Chevrolet establish new routes to basic transportation buyers, they will be stalwart additions.
driving in rain or snow or sleet, and you have the wipers on, even only on intermittent, whenever you shift into reverse, the rear-window wiper automatically comes on – very impressive, and another one of those features every manufacturer should copy. Everybody in the auto media has their own opinions and most of them – some of them? – are worth examining or comparing. Consumer Reports used to be a stodgy publication that I accused of having no room for “fun to drive” assets, even though things like better handling, quicker steering and more stable cornering can greatly improve safety. But new writers and evaluators have helped CR improve its ability to assess new and used vehicles. And it’s always good to see totally objective views, especially when they match my findings for so many vehicles.
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COVID surges in Indian Country More than 250,000 people in the United States have died from COVID-19, by far the highest national death toll in the world. More than 1,500 people are dying here per day now – equivalent to five jumbo jets falling from the sky daily. At the pandemic’s outset, it took three months for the U.S. to hit 1 million cases. Now we’re seeing 1 million cases per week. These grim milestones mark the beginning of the Thanksgiving holiday week, which could further accelerate the spread of this devastating disease. Thanksgiving is taking center stage in the polarized battle over our collective COVID-19 pandemic response. Public health experts are pleading with people to forgo holiday gatherings with people who live outside one’s household, while supporters of President Donald Trump decry commonsense public health directives as “Orwellian” infringements on freedom. North Dakota currently has the worst coronavirus infection and death rate for any nation or state on the planet. One in every 1,000 North Dakotans has already died from COVID-19. South Dakota ranks third on the list of hardest hit states. Native American communities, as with other communities of color, have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation straddles the border between North Dakota and South Dakota, and thus is directly impacted by the pandemic-denying policies of both Republican state governments. The pandemic “is affecting us in ways not widely known by the rest of America. We’re having a lot of people perish, a lot of death, a lot of hospitalizations,” Jodi Archambault, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and former special assistant to President Barack Obama for Native American affairs, said on the Democracy Now! news hour. Archambault explained tribal responses to the refusal by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a staunch Trump ally, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, to issue statewide mask mandates: “Reservations or tribal nations, such as Eagle Butte, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the Oglala Sioux Tribe, the Sisseton, Wahpeton,
Rosebud, they’ve all implemented roadblocks to stop traffic and outsiders from coming on the reservation.” Burgum, under pressure from the explosion of infections in his state, finally implemented a limited mask mandate. Archambault explained that Noem, however, attempting to punish the tribes for the roadblocks, “has coordinated with the Trump administration to make it difficult to receive the federal resources allocated to the tribal governments.” Farther south, the Navajo Nation is experiencing a second deadly surge of COVID-19, after suffering the country’s highest per capita infection rate last spring. Allie Young, a 30-year-old Navajo activist, said on Democracy Now!: “Some of our border towns around here are Trump territory, so there were rallies. A lot of our people come into these border towns to do their shopping. We have to travel to these territories where they’re not wearing masks.” Allie Young organized a trail ride on horseback with the group she founded, Protect the Sacred, to get Navajo voters to the polls in Arizona. “Horse medicine is when you are in rhythm with the horse,” she explained. “You’re reconnected and refocused as you ride ...reminded of exactly what our ancestors have fought for, our lands and our cultures and also our right to vote.” The Native American population did turn out for this election, in record numbers. In the swing states of Arizona and Wisconsin, which voted for Trump in 2016 but flipped to support Joe Biden
Allie Young, a 30-yearold Navajo activist, said: “Some of our border towns around here are Trump territory, so there were rallies. A lot of our people come into these border towns to do their shopping. We have to travel to these territories where they’re not wearing masks.”
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in 2020, the Native vote may have been critical. In Wisconsin, for example, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016 by less than 23,000 votes. This year, in contrast, and while Wisconsin is being ravaged by COVID-19, Biden turned that around, beating Trump by more than 20,000 votes. Wisconsin-based attorney Burton Warrington, of the Menominee, Potawatomi and Ho-Chunk nations, said on Democracy Now!, “The Native vote really does have the ability, by sheer numbers and mathematics, to actually change the election here.” Thanksgiving is predicated on the lie that the white settler colonists known as “Pilgrims” had a friendly, respectful relationship with the original inhabitants of the land they stole. This fable of an abundant shared meal shrouds the misery that consumes so many in native communities, from poverty, substance abuse, and the lack of health care to the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women. It also ignores the proud, living tradi-
tion of indigenous resistance, from opposition to fossil fuel extraction and pipelines, to, most recently, its pivotal role in defeating Trump at the polls. After surviving genocide, violent relocation and attempts at forced assimilation over five centuries, indigenous nations on this continent are again proving themselves resilient and organized. This, even as we must avoid holiday gatherings in order to protect ourselves, our loved ones and the public at large, is something for which to be truly thankful. 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. © 2020 Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
Hills built from holes The flat-top hills on the Iron Range were built of overburden and waste from mining pits. Holes turned into Hills. Hills and Holes have much the same source, hey? Ever wonder what happened to honest criticism? How did it get lost and become replaced by fan critique? This type question crops up quite often when I read much-praised and highly successful works gloried among the well promoted best seller bunch. I jaw grind at the frequent appearance of what I see as considerably less than award-winning work. The other night while reading the effort of an author highly ranked by the NYC congratulators I came across an example of why trusting your own mind should not be waved aside in favor of glory-waving reviewers. The award winner (who is no Michael Campbell) described (loosely) two armed guards next to a door cut in solid rock. I hope I haven’t lost you on the guards’ number of arms (4) because it tickles me more to see a useless description of rock being solid. Is there any other kind? Rock solid is an acceptable description. Solid rock is not, at least to me. Was the rock metamorphic granite or a friable sandstone? Both, as rock will be, definitely solid and telling the reader something more than a dash of generic nothing. Publishers and reviewers do, I think, rely on us to be generous and not too critical of their anointed successes. In my view use of solid rock is not as telling as a reader’s forgiving nature to accept a vague nothing as if it were something. To me the above example suggests the human social need to get along and go along is stronger under normal
circumstances than a need for accuracy. Is it a tribal sort of thing? We go along with the conventions of the group we see as ours. If our group calls for competition most of us act that way same as groups who see people as slaves of their God act in that way. In past articles I pointed to some distinctions between East and West, but these are not strict differences and don’t seem to build as tall a hill as group affiliation. Hupersons (to bring Trudeau some joy) tend to club together around common likes in language, music, sport, and food, etc. Shared “likes” can be innocent fun or be taken very seriously as you’d find violating a norm in some clubby communities. Group or club approval is important to most of us. Whether we go with the flow because it’s easier or to avoid trouble is no matter. We go where we must. Because I’m a naturally annoying sort of individual I switch around (for the sake of diversity if that will please you) so here I am in paragraph next back at the question of Eastern and Western views. Again, not definitive or causal, but interesting to think about. Having much the same roots as the East, the West had the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Reformation, and Age of Reason as elements I find not near as culturally well set in the East. American democracy tried to put reason and equitable application of law in place of earlier forms of justice done according to tribal rules. Pejoratively we might know this as Southern Justice, the kind that knows how to deal with outsiders, and also practiced in Portland and Seattle.
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If the critter calls for special rules for certain people it is Southern (aka Eastern) in how it works. If you’ll follow my line a little longer (boredom isn’t actually harmful, it’s only dull) I have to suggest the Western way is at least more frustrating if not more difficult to follow. In the Eastern or tribal model you can fairly well figure who’s in or out and move accordingly with punishment or reward. It’s a damned challenge to follow the Western model trying to figure out what’s fair, just, or reasonable. The other way is simpler. You look at language or style or color and you see which way to go. Equally daunting is the way the two great models rub shoulders further adding to confusion. Why just recently the lightweight mayor of a major U.S. city declared democracy was back because her party (tribe or etc.) won. If a particular side winning is democracy then the planet has been forever democratic. (Hmmm, there’s a thought.) It’s especially interesting to me because the mayor is from a city well known for corruption at all levels. Patronage jobs were a fact of Chicago life. I know from having had relatives involved. Not politically important, they weren’t paid much for doing next to nothing, but being paid at all is enough to signal corruption. Being non-qualified along with not being paid much is rather democratic in a way that seems fair to all. When reason faces unreason who does the work? Who will be defeated by implacable unreason? Being
reasonable, one side has a hell of a challenge sorting out claims of bias and community norms and unfair treatment. The easier way hold fast to the certainty that democracy or justice wins when they do. Not so easy finding satisfaction in defeat. Not easy at all, but necessary unless defeat means subjugation. Like the old deity Janus, Justice has a second face known as revenge. The real and often personal cost of reason comes from angering the tribes. Unpopularity carries a steep price, one easily ignored unless you’re the one earning the wages of the maligned. Parting thoughts: Not keen on turkey (Polish ham is OK if you’re serving) I’m not an eager Thanksgiving Day celebrant. But, I like the idea of pausing to be thankful. Whether your thanks are real of fake is up to you, but even false gratitude beats a meal of resentment. This Halloween I couldn’t help connect superstition over carved orange pumpkins and dread of another orange-head boogey or the irony of a whitened replacement. In the cause of justice no injustice is too great, for others to bear.
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Teachers’ union calls for statewide shutdown criteria Evers says schools aren’t one-size-fits-all The state’s largest teacher’s union is asking the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to set specific COVID-19 benchmarks that would dictate when schools across the state should close their doors. At present, local school boards and administrators make the call on when to shut their schools’ doors, sometimes guided by their local health departments. “If we have black mold growing in our school and it’s pervasive – it’s all over – the Department of Health Services, both the county and the state, is going to close down the school because they can see that mold,” said Wisconsin Education Association Council President Ron Martin. “But because we can’t see COVID, we don’t do anything?” WEAC asked that DHS specifically set a “case incidence” point at which it would require schools to close. In a letter to DHS Secretary Andrea Palm, it cited the Harvard Global Health Institute’s guidance, which puts more than 25 new daily cases per 100,000 people in its highest COVID-19 risk category. Statewide, Wisconsin hasn’t been below that threshold since Sept. 21, and many counties have been surpassing that measure for close to two months. Gov. Tony Evers has repeatedly said he has no plans for a repeat of the spring, when all of Wisconsin’s schools were shut down and shifted to distance learning because of COVID-19 concerns. When asked about the WEAC letter at Wednesday’s DHS briefing, he again said those decisions should be made locally. “We’re seeing school closures, we’re seeing schools that are frankly working well, so it’s a difficult thing for us to sit here and talk about it being one answer to 420-something school districts,” Evers said. Teachers in several school districts have been asking decision-makers in
their districts to set closure criteria in the absence of a statewide standard. Lake Mills teachers filed more than 21 grievances that laid out safety concerns and asked for clear thresholds that would prompt the district to move to all-virtual learning, and Kenosha teachers filed a class-action grievance earlier this week asking for similar guidance. “I’m not sure what it’s gonna take. I’ve cried through speeches now at the (school) board, I have yelled, I have attempted to be kind and collaborative,” said Tanya KittsLewinski, president of the Kenosha Educators Association. “I know that I represent the majority of educators, saying we feel betrayed, we feel heartbroken, we’re angry, and I don’t know if the board is going to do the right thing.” She said she has one student who’s already lost two family members to COVID-19. With the rate at which teachers are being pulled out of school by quarantines due to possible exposure, she said it feels like just a matter of time before one of the teachers will get fatally ill. Seven Kenosha schools had to close in September after hundreds of teachers called in sick, many because they were told to isolate after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. “It’s frustrating because it doesn’t feel like elected officials or the people who have the power to change this situation, are willing to take the decisive action that’s necessary,” KittsLewinski said. She noted that Palm and the DHS, as well as the Department of Public Instruction, have said they’re relying on local health departments to make those decisions — while the Kenosha health department says they can only recommend schools close, not require closure, and the Kenosha Unified School District (KUSD) board is disregarding that recommendation.
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A very quiet Lake Mills High School campus on Friday, Nov. 13. Lake Mills teachers
filed more than 21 safety concern grievances and asked for clear thresholds that would prompt the move to all-virtual learning Photo by Angela Major/WPR. “No one ultimately seems to be taking responsibility here,” KittsLewinski said. “We’re seeing the cases rise exponentially, and then just waiting for a tragedy, is what it feels like.” The WEAC letter to Palm laid out inconsistencies across Wisconsin school districts in what level of community infection would prompt them to close. The majority of local health departments, WEAC found, do not have school-specific gating criteria that lay out when schools would need to shift to a fully remote model. Even if health departments do have school gating criteria, it isn’t consistent from one to the next. Those who try to enforce it by recommending school closures have had mixed success, with some districts staying open to in-person learners despite their local health departments recommending closure. That’s led to a patchwork within counties, where districts operating with the same information and similar levels of COVID-19 spread have made opposite decisions about whether students and staff should be in the building. “This virus knows no boundaries, this virus knows no geographic lines in the map where there is a county or a school district,” said Martin, WEAC president, in his plea for statewide standards. “We have to do everything we can in our power to get control of this virus, stop the spread, until a
vaccine is available to us.” Martin noted that setting one universal standard could also provide political insulation for school boards, many of which have faced community backlash for pursuing distance learning. In Kenosha, pushback from angry parents led the KUSD board to approve an in-person fall instruction plan, despite previously approving a virtual learning model. School board members in Middleton-Cross Plains and Oconomowoc are facing recall attempts from groups upset about their votes against in-person instruction. “It would be a cover for school boards because they’ll just simply point to the fact that scientists, health experts have told us this is the standard, we have not met that standard, we can’t open, or we’ve met that standard, and guess what, we can open,” said Martin. He noted that nine out of every 10 respondents to a survey sent to WEAC members have said they want the state to set clear guidelines about when schools should close to in-person learning. Wisconsin Public Radio, © Copyright 2020, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.
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Keep pets safe during winter Dear Readers: Temperatures are getting low in most parts of the country. Let’s make sure our pets are safe and warm: • Salt and de-icer can do a number on dogs’ paw pads. Wipe their feet whenever they come inside. • Frostbite is a real concern. Don’t let animals stay outside for long periods of time. And, if you can get your pet to wear them, booties can help keep feet warm. The dog may not go for them though. • Make sure there’s a path for the dog to get outside to go potty. If not, they won’t want to go. • Cats can seek out warmth anywhere. Bang on the hood of your car in the morning to get them to run off. • Bathing pets at this time is not a priority. The low humidity can dry out pets’ skin. • Small pets can benefit from a sweater, again, if they will wear it. • Don’t leave pets alone in the car. It’s too cold and there’s a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. • Doghouse rules: three closed sides, up off the ground and filled with straw or hay (blankets, carpets and towels retain moisture). No leaky roof, and foam padding around the inside will help keep your pet warm. This information comes from the Kosciusko County Rural Electric Membership Corporation. – Heloise
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PET PAL Dear Readers: Meet Lexi (on top), a 3-year-old Malshi (Maltese and Shih Tzu blend), and Dolli, a 2-year-old Bichon Frise, playfully squished under the pillow. Owner Sandee H. in Winchester, Virginia, says they are such good buddies! To see these two and our other Pet Pals, visit Heloise. com and click on “Pet of the Week.” Do you have a funny and furry friend or two? Send us a picture and description to Heloise@Heloise.com, or like Sandee, mail in a pic to P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. - Heloise NEATER WARM CANDLE Dear Heloise: Has everybody figured this out but me? I use an aluminum muffin cup in my candle warmer to keep things neat. – Carey in Virginia BOOMER Dear Heloise: The trick for using loud music to get rid of raccoons in the attic reminded me how my deceased wife got rid of squirrels in our attic some 20 years ago. She, likewise, used music. With her boom box at full volume, she played the 1812 Overture. More specifically, she blasted the squirrels away with the blasting cannons in the Overture. A classical solution. – David S. HINT FROM HIM: MASK UP Dear Heloise: I would like to share an idea I came up with today regarding my mask. None of these masks has a wire nose piece and therefore do not fit around my nose for the protection that I need. I had a roll of floral wire and I cut it the length of each mask and ran it above the seam at top. Being fine wire, it went in with no difficultly at all. They fit really great. Every little bit of protection helps. -– Jerry S. in Strasburg, Vir. BEND, STRETCH SHOWER Dear Heloise: Two for one: After each shower, I wipe it down with a sponge and, in the process, I will get my stretches and bends in without thinking about it, and always a clean shower. -- Dot from Michigan
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Dear Heloise: I decided to keep some cash currency at home in my floor safe. After a couple of months, I opened the safe to retrieve some cash and realized the currency appeared to be damp. Is there anything I can do to keep this cash currency safe? – Elisa Budman, Huntington Beach, Calif. Elisa, place an open box of baking soda in the safe. Baking soda naturally absorbs moisture and also will help get rid of odor from mold and mildew. You also can put silica gel packets on the bottom of your floor safe -- you know, those little packets we get in new purses, luggage, vitamin bottles, etc. Either of these suggestions should take care of the dampness. – Heloise RECYCLE THAT PAPER Dear Heloise: One year a paper shredder was a gift under the Christmas tree. We plugged it in and shredded all of our scraps and non-usable gift wrap, bagged it and used it to wrap gifts the following year, especially as cushioning in the boxes for gifts sent by mail. – Nancy, The Villages, Fla. BAKED ON GREASE Dear Heloise: I can’t remove the baked-on cooking spray on my non-stick pans. Any hints for me? – Jan, Kalama, Wash. Jan, first, mix equal parts baking soda and water to make a paste and apply it on the surface of your pan with a soft sponge or cloth. In a gentle circular motion, work the paste into the corners and over any area where there is cooking spray residue. Afterward, rinse the pan under warm water and, if necessary, follow up using a mild dishwashing soap. – Heloise NICOTINE-COVERED WALLS Dear Heloise: My husband smokes. I have air purifiers, but still have nicotine residue on the walls. What can I use to wash my walls? – Vicki, via email Vicki, fill a spray bottle with warmed vinegar mixed with warm water (using a one to one ratio), and spray it on the walls. Nicotine and tar leave a sticky residue that the warm mixture will help dissolve, making it easier to remove. For really stubborn stains, use warm vinegar full strength. Vinegar should be a must-have in every home! There are so many ways it can be used for cleaning, deodorizing and cooking, so I’ve put together a six-page pamphlet full of vinegar uses that you can have by visiting www.Heloise.com or by sending $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (70 cents) envelope to: Heloise/ Vinegar, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. FYI: To remove smoke odors, place a bowl of vinegar in the room. No more smoke smell! – Heloise PLASTIC SHOWER CURTAIN Dear Heloise: If a person has a gas dryer, I would not recommend drying the plastic liner for the shower curtain in the dryer. That first blast of hot air will cause the plastic to shrivel and could cause a fire. I hang mine up outside on the porch. – Rita in Connecticut 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. (c)2020 by King Features Syndicate Inc.
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Nature’s guide to getting out Steely cold seeped through my gloved fingers as they gripped the lock on my front door. The chill of winter had found an easy path through this dense metal, and gave me a frosty preview of what waited outside. Pulling my hand back, I zipped my jacket higher, pulled my hat CONNECTIONS lower, and looked at the thermometer: 14 degrees. With a burst of resolve, I flipped the lock and braced for impact. The frosty air I had so dreaded was bracing and fresh on my face, and pale, rising sunshine painted an everchanging water color behind the lace of trees. With a deep breath, I relaxed, and had myself a very enjoyable hike. I love winter, but it still takes some willpower to leave the warm cocoon of my house. Animals, including humans, have three basic options for dealing with winter: migrate, hibernate, or stay active. That third one can feel daunting, but getting outside and getting your heart rate up is also incredibly valuable for our mental and physical health. Maybe we can gain some inspiration with a little help from our wild friends. What do they have to teach us about staying active in winter? The key to my winter happiness – whether indoors or out – is having warm feet. I achieve this through wool-blend socks and insulated boots; but rough-legged hawks, who breed in the Arctic and who fly “south” to Wisconsin for the winter, simply grow feathers all the way down their legs and along their toes. In comparison to the bare, scaly talons of other hawks, their legs look “rough.” Golden eagles share this adaptation, as do snowy owls, great gray owls, and northern hawk owls. I’d be jealous, but then I also have down booties keeping my tootsies warm right now. Birds don’t have a monopoly on warm feet. Thick fur covers the foot pads of red foxes. This makes their tracks look fuzzy. Coyotes have less foot-hair, and so the tracks they make are more precise. That’s one characteristic I use to try to figure out who’s been walking up and down my driveway at night.
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For Northwoods winter residents, the most important factor in staying warm is eating enough food. (Remember that on Thanksgiving Day!) Of course, just having warm feet isn’t enough when the sidewalks and trails are covered in a perilous patina. Then we need traction, too. Earlier this fall, I watched a forlorn duck traversing thin ice in order to reach open water. Each foot slid as it landed on the water-glazed surface, and slipped again as it tried to push off. This continued until the ice broke and the duck plopped into a belly-sized hole. Webbed feet have their advantages, and disadvantages, too. Luckily, most ducks migrate to regions where the water stays in liquid form. On the other hand, ruffed grouse thrive in the land of ice and snow. The secret? They produce their own combo of snowshoes and Yaktrax traction cleats. Every fall, the scales on a grouse’s feet expand out to the sides, until they have a comb-like fringe decorating all their toes. These pectinations – from the Latin word for comb – distribute the grouse’s weight onto a bigger surface area to help them walk on top of the snow. The projections also help grouse get a good grip on the ice-encased twigs of aspen trees while they nibble on the tender flower buds – their most important winter food. As long as my feet are warm and I’m not falling over, my next goal in winter is to make sure that I don’t get too hot. Yep, you read that right. I find it pretty easy to stay warm in the winter – just layer up with all of those cozy, puffy layers, and get moving. But as soon as I’m moving, my metabolism kicks up and I become a furnace. If I’m not careful, my base layers become damp with sweat. The liquid interferes with the insulating properties of fabric, and also initiates evaporative cooling. This is an unfortunate part of being human. Hardly any other animals sweat. The purpose of sweat is to cool
Black-Capped chickadees stay warm and active in the winter through a combination of warm down and eating calorie-dense foods. Photos by Emily Stone.
Ruffed grouse grow their own combination snowshoes and grippers each winter, in the form of a comb-like fringe along the sides of their toes. us down, and it works – sometimes too well. So, I’ve learned to dress lightly, and in layers that I can take off to prevent overheating. Moose have a more troubling problem. Hollow, insulating hair in their winter coat and a huge body mass make sub-zero temperatures a nonissue. But moose can’t take off a layer like I can, and they also can’t sweat, so when the mercury rises to 23 degrees Fahrenheit, they start exhibiting heat stress. Their behavior mimics ours in the dog-days of summer: seek shade, find a cooling breeze, lie down, and eat
less. That last item is a problem because, for Northwoods winter residents, the most important factor in staying warm is eating enough food. (Remember that on Thanksgiving Day!) Animals who can’t find food migrate or hibernate. Up north, chickadees gorge on fatty seeds; golden-crowned kinglets spend every second of daylight searching for juicy caterpillars frozen to twigs; wolves stuff up to 20 pounds of venison into their bellies at a single meal; snowshoe hares nibble constantly on twigs and consume their food twice to extract all of the calories. For Northwoods humans, it’s a great idea to keep a candy bar in your jacket pocket and a thermos of hot chocolate in your backpack. What a treat! With those calories to ward off the cold, plus proper footwear to keep you upright, I think nature is telling us that it’s time to get outside!
Emily Stone is the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum. Her award-winning second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is now 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 closed, but our Mysteries of the Night exhibit is available online. Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and cablemuseum.org to keep track of our latest adventures in learning. 42 November 26, 2020 DuluthReader.com
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Cloquet’s comeback was sparked by Reese Sheldon, who caught this pass from Alec Turnbull (13) and went in for a 13-yard touchdown. Photos by John Gilbert. Thanksgiving week is here, and all of us who are hockey fans can indeed be thankful that hockey is here and now – with an enormous home-opening series at AMSOIL Arena for the UMD Bulldogs who take on perennial WCHA Women’s favorite Minnesota in a nofans series that could already have title overtones. The Bulldogs have a few key victories to go to prove they belong among WCHA contenders, but they opened last weekend with a 5-0, 7-3 sweep at Minnesota State Mankato while the powerful Gophers won 4-0 but were then beaten 2-1 at home by Ohio State to add some mystery to the usual question of whether the league has tightened up or will Minnesota and Wisconsin be the two co-favorites for the championship – as usual. Emma Soderberg, the junior from Sweden who is coach Maura Crowell’s choice to replace four-year stalwart
Maddie Rooney in goal, notched the opening game shutout and then held the fort as the UMD offense did its job, reflecting the sort of balance that the Bulldogs haven’t shown in a decade or so. But in Saturday’s second game, UMD scoring star Gabbie Hughes was tackled from behind and thrown down, with the back of her head hitting the ice. She was slow to get up, helped to the dressing room, and we can only hope any concussion protocols can be completed and she can return to her slot centering the first line. I’m eager to see Soderberg against the Gophers, especially after I mistakenly called her “Sorenson” in last week’s Reader. The UMD men are getting ready to head for Omaha and the pod-like start to the NCHC season, but for now, the
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women give us enough of an attraction to provide the proper diversion from college and NFL football, which prove to be a major downer last weekend, and give us the need for a diversion. With the Vikings and Packers both losing last Sunday, and the Gophers managing to pull out a strange victory against Purdue while Wisconsin proved upstart Northwestern may well be the best team in the Big Ten, we must pause to ask what is happening to officiating at the alleged highest levels of the sport. I mean, I walked the sidelines at Proctor and watched a fantastic shootout between North Branch and Cloquet for a Section 7AAAA semifinal, and then another impressive show when Greenway/NashwaukKeewatin crunched Two Harbors in the second semifinal – and the season finale for all concerned – there wasn’t a questionable call in either game, compared to the great job done on the high school games. To briefly recap, North Branch
defeated Cloquet 40-36 in an amazing offensive show. North Branch kept taking leads only to have Cloquet catch up. And neither side had a kicker that we know of, because both went for two-point conversions after all 11 touchdowns. That was the difference in the game, because North Branch’s Ashton Labelle scored two touchdowns on 16 carries for 178 yards, and, just as important, he barreled in for all seven conversions giving him 26 points for the afternoon. Cloquet matched up well until the sixth Lumberjacks touchdown, when Reese Sheldon scored with a 13-yard pass from Alec Turnbull, but a pass for the conversion missed, and the Jacks were left behind, 32-30. Having come back from 24-8 to tie the game on the first of two touchdowns by both Marshall Hayes and Sheldon, no lead looked safe. Andrew Theunwald, who scored the Vikings’ first touchdown, also scored the final one to make it 38-30, and when Labelle did his thing on the
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conversion, it was 40-36. But Cloquet came back again, with Alex Turnbull connecting with Hayes for the final touchdown, and while the conversion failed, the Lumberjacks got one more crack at it, but a final series went unfulfilled and North Branch escaped with the 40-36 triumph. It was a perfect finale, because both teams got caught up in a slugfest, matching touchdowns and conversions. Consider that Turnbull was 12-20 for 140 yards and the two touchdowns, while North Branch never attempted a pass. Someone on the sideline wondered if the Vikings had any kind of a passing game, and I ventured that they may well have, but they decide to wait until they needed it – and they never did. Greenway/Nashwauk-Keetwatin had revenge in mind when they took on a classy Two Harbors outfit that had beaten the Titans in Coleraine during the abbreviated regular season. They gained it, without question. They led 8-0 after a quarter on a pass from Aldan Rajala to Geige Waldvogel, and then they sent a 1-2 punch at the Agates with Ty Donahue carrying 24 times for 159 yards and Dacoda Thoennes following up the body blows with three haymakers – consecutive touchdown runs of 3 and 16 yards to make it 22-0 by halftime, and then a third straight touchdown run of 12 yards to make it 28-0 early in the third quarter. It grew to 34-0 by the end of three quarters. The Agates were clearly shocked out of their game plan and had their motivation scattered all over the chilled but snow-free turf at Proctor’s field. But to their credit, they battled back and never quit fighting, and it resulted in two hard-working touchdowns, on Sebastian Brak’s 13yard run, and Matson Grand’s 11-yard run. That didn’t change the outcome, but losing 34-13 was a lot easier to take than 34-0. When I got home Friday night, there was still time to catch up on the Gophers game against Purdue. Minnesota was leading 34-31 and had 6 minutes remaining with a third and 2 on their own 31. The Boilermakers stuffed them. Made it fourth down and 1, and PJ Fleck decided to go for it. Now, I tend to give accolades whenever a coach makes a bold move like that, but in this case, I couldn’t believe it. Any kind of a punt would at least put Purdue back in its own end and not hand them a juicy chance to win the game. Purdue’s defense stuffed the Gophers
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again, and the Boilermakers took over on downs. In a remarkable stroke of good luck, the Gophers stopped Purdue, and an attempt at a tying field goal sailed just wide right, There followed a questionable call on an interception that was changed to an incompletion, and as the final minute ticked away, backup quarterback Jack Plummer – who was 35-42 for 367 yards and three touchdowns for the day – sent tight end Payne Durham up the right side for the end zone. He had a step on the last defensive back, and as the two crossed the 5 yard line, the Gopher DB pawed at Durham’s right arm, and he swept the contact away for an instant, and continued running. By then he was two steps ahead, and easily caught Plummer’s perfect pass for what surely would be the winning touchdown for Purdue. That’s when the flag fluttered to the turf. My first thought was it was a weak call, but pass interference on the beaten Gopher defender would be meaningless. Instead, the ref called Payne Durham for offensive pass interference. Replays confirmed what I had seen live, but the ruling nullified the touchdown, and when Plummer’s final pass was intercepted, Minnesota had its 34-31 victory. There is no way that ruling can go unchallenged by the Big Ten, who could send the official, who was right on top of the play, back to call high school games, because high school games are better officiated than that. On Sunday, the Vikings and Dallas played one of the more entertaining contests of the season, and the Vikings showed up in new, all-purple uniforms with the dark purple jerseys accented by bright yellow numbers. Nice touch for the home fans, had there been any. Kirk Cousins had an amazingly good game, going 22-30 for 314 yards and three touchdowns without an interception. Mostly he threw to Aam Thielen, who caught eight passes for 123 yards and two touchdowns, including a going-away leaping onehanded grab as he fell to the turf at the end line. Cousins later threw a 39-yard missile caught by Justin Jefferson, the precocious rookie who made an equally superb catch to finally lift the Vikings to the lead, at 28-24. That meant the Cowboys, who were getting the maximum from backup quarterback Andy Dalton, in place of the injured Day Prescott, would have to have a touchdown in the final two minutes to reclaim the lead. Amazingly, Dalton pulled it
off, directing a 66-yard drive. Dalton connected with Amari Cooper on a fourth-and-8 to gain a first down at the 19, and when it got to be fourth and goal at the 2, the Cowboys ran a slick play, with Dalton Schultz lined up at right side tight end, and while everything indicated the play was going right, Schultz trotted to the left side and Dalton hit him with a pass with no Viking defender within 10 yards of him. The extra point made the final 31-28, snapped a Vikings winning streak, and raised Dallas to a contending spot in the mediocre Eastern Conference. Still, among the Cowboys highlights was a Dalton pass into the left edge of the end zone that Dallas rookie CeeDee Lamb, heavily covered by Viking cornerback Jeff Gladney, leaped high, then shifted to his right by doing an airborne barrel roll and catching the ball left-handed. I love the Thielen catch giving him the first two Vikings touchdowns, but CeeDee Lamb’s catch is my nomination for the catch of the year. The ultimate embarrassment came when Kris Boyd lined up wide right for the Vikings to run downfield on punt
coverage, but the play was a fake punt, and Boyd raced up the right sideline and caught a pass for a key first down. Then the flag came out: Illegal motion on the Vikings, and sure enough, the replay showed Boyd jumping around in excitement at seeing he was in the clear. You can’t do that when you’re supposed to be set. Green Bay, meanwhile, led Indianapolis 28-14 at halftime, but gave up 21 points in the third quarter, and it took a Mason Crosby field goal with 0:07 left to tie it and force overtime. The Packers received to start overtime, when both sides get a chance with the ball, unless the first team can march all the way down the field for a touchdown. But the Colts – who had been called for several holding penalties, some of them legit, late in the game – forced a Packer fumble and marched themselves within range for a 29-yard game-winning field goal. Can’t really blame that one on the refs. They were up to high school standards in that one.
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NHL targets Jan. 1 for season opener And it’s time to give thanks SAWBILL TRAIL – The NHL and the NHLPA have been working feverishly toward a New Years’ day regular season kickoff. At this point, the parameters of making this happen are well known. Since the league operates on both sides of the border, strict attention will have to be given to the logistics regarding that. Border crossing is currently shutdown. If you can get into Canada, there is a quarantine to be observed before engaging in any work or play. Due to the restrictions in place, an “All-Canadian” division is under consideration. That has fans on both sides of the border discussing the possibilities.
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Canadian fans are fired up at the notion of this becoming reality. And I must say that to this fan south of the border; it is intriguing. It would involve seven clubs with at least two very longtime hardcore rivalries. The Canadiens and Maple Leafs are one of those rivalries, along with Calgary versus Edmonton. These teams have intense games the way it stands now. And to roll with the whole spirit of the situation, I’d call it the “AllCanada” division. Just do it. There are other matters to work out, and the Canadian teams won’t be the only ones impacted by any temporary divisional realignment. I have heard that the Minnesota Wild would be placed under the Pacific Division banner for the next season and would revert once “pandemic rules” were over. Of course, I’m not too fond of the prospect of that from a scheduling standpoint. Most divisional road games would be played later in the evening. Since I’m retired, it hardly matters to me, but many fans might not be able to watch all of the later games. It also appears that this would be done to accommodate a temporary
move back into the Central by Detroit. This maneuver irks me to no end. After listening to them complain about being in the Central for years, they will get to move back while we attempt to ride out the pandemic. I heard that if they were going to make a short-term move, they wished to be placed with old rivals CHI and STL. I guess Original Six teams have more clout and influence than newer expansion clubs do. Stickier issues are being discussed, as well. One of those would be in the number of games to be played. A sidebar to that matter is whether the owners could prorate the salaries to the actual number of games played. Would this be a matter of significant contention? It was in MLB. In hockey, though, I believe both sides understand the changing dynamics of economic life in hockey without fans in the stands and so forth. It’s a different economy at this point. When it comes to the games themselves, the debate centers around clubs playing at their arenas or going back to the successful “hub” models from the recent Stanley Cup tourney. One model involves a hub setup for each division. The teams would play for a two-week timeframe, take a week off at home, and then go back to the bubble to resume play. If one could take away any positives thus far, both sides understand what each other is up against and are working in a spirit of cooperation to make the situation flow as well as possible. I am glad to know that we will have NHL hockey back soon. And that it will be conducted in as safe a manner as is possible. I cant wait! *** College hockey is back with the Big Ten season openers commencing tonight. The Minnesota Golden Gophers will meet Penn State in Minneapolis and begin their 100th season in the program’s history. The NCHC will begin competition on Dec. 1, and the UMD Bulldogs will open up for the season on the 2nd against the University of Denver. Due to ongoing pandemic concerns, this will likely be the strangest season in collegiate hockey history, but I say, at least we will have it. I’m hoping for the best and that everyone involved will be as safe as possible under some extenuating circumstances. Good luck to all involved!
*** It is American Thanksgiving week here, and perhaps this year, like no other in the recent past, we should all take the time to consider all that we have to be thankful for. My list is quite a lengthy one when I give it some thought. I’m not unlike anyone else in that I have had my share of bumps on the road of life. But then, I consider the essential things such as family, friends, and some of the truly remarkable things that I have got to do, as well as places I’ve been to, and I have been very fortunate. It reminds me to have gratitude. It reminds me to do what I can for those who haven’t been as fortunate as me. But for me, I have been to the mountaintop, literally and figuratively, and based on some health challenges I’ve had to go through – I’ve been to the depths of hell. Not everyone gets to go there and come back. So, I know that and have vowed to not ever forget it. I’ve seen how the upper crust lives, and sadly, I’ve seen how humans, locked in the misery of destitute poverty, try to make it through their daily existence. I have witnessed the mockery of people who dared to speak out about the inequality and injustices of the world around us. I’ve seen the ridicule of those who dared to try to pull the less fortunate amongst us up a level or two in this game of life. I’m left to wonder where those attitudes come from, especially when considering that one could go from prince to pauper in short order in these precarious times. Cockiness and irreverence seem so unbecoming at this point. At the end of this life, I think what we’ll remember the most are all of those small things that touched us in one way or another. Living a materialistic life cannot provide some of the good vibes and karma that so many other things in this world can. Holding my new granddaughter a month ago was a breathtaking event. Having conversations with her slightly older sister is another of those. I have many family members who are quite unique. My kids and the rest of my grandkids are a gift from the skies. An exceptional friend in St. Paul and her daughter leave me speechless when I wonder how I got so lucky to have them in my life. Then, those small touches, does
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Do touchless thermometers work? Q: Whenever I go to the doctor’s office, a nurse weighs me, takes my temperature and measures my blood pressure. These days, I really do not like them sticking a thermometer under my tongue, even in its little plastic sleeve. How reliable are the touchless devices I have seen on television news reports? Are they available to consumers? A: The devices you are referring to are called noncontact infrared thermometers (NCITs). They detect infrared radiation coming off the human body and turn it into a digital signal. A systematic review and metaanalysis of infrared thermal scanners was recently published in the Journal of Travel Medicine (Oct. 10, 2020). The authors reviewed 30 studies from 15 countries and concluded that handheld infrared thermometers were reasonably accurate and can safely be used for screening. They are not as good for babies and may not be as precise as oral thermometers. There are many brands of infrared thermometers available online or in pharmacies for around $30. Don’t rely on temperature alone, though, to detect COVID-19. People can spread the coronavirus before they have a fever or other symptoms. Q: I am a healthy “young senior” (66). When I get my flu shot this year, do I need to get the super double dose for seniors? A: A study that was recently presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions (Nov. 17, 2020) compared high-dose with standard-dose flu vaccine. The participants were at especially high risk for influenza complications because they had heart disease. The randomized controlled study involving 5,260 volunteers lasted three years. The authors reported that the “higher dose influenza vaccine was not more effective than the standard dose in lowering the risk of death or hospitalizations from heart or lung-related illnesses.” Q: After I read on your website that lisinopril could cause
hand tremors, I asked my doctor to change my blood pressure medication. I had been on HCTZ/ lisinopril for at least 10 years. She said she hadn’t heard of any connection between the two and suggested I see a neurologist. I said, let’s try changing my medication first. She increased my HCTZ to 25 mg. I took no other medication. Within three days, my hand tremors were essentially gone. I was able to polish my own fingernails. Thank you for
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Stopping bad YouTube influences In 1965, Soupy Sales was suspended for two weeks from his children’s TV show for telling kids to go to their parents’ wallets and take out funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. presidents and mail them to him. Thousands of dollars poured in! In contrast, today’s celebrities, who may negatively influence kids’ behaviors, are often kids themselves! And they get big bucks in return. The highest-paid YouTube influencer last year was an 8-year-old, who earned $26 million. According to a study in the journal Pediatrics, youngsters from 3 to 14 whose parents post entertaining videos of them, aren’t just delivering bad jokes with unexpected consequences; they’re part of a carefully crafted marketing push for junk food that targets young kids. The New York University researchers found that YouTube “shows” hosted by kids have garnered more than 1 billion views, and almost half promote food and drinks – more than 90% of which are fast foods, candies, soda or fastfood toys. The persuasive juxtaposition of adorable kids and lousy food promotes obesity: “Numerous studies have shown that children who see food ads consume more calories than children who see non-food ads,” explains the study’s senior author. So don’t plop your child down in front of YouTube kids’ shows without seeing what products they’re pushing, and talk to your youngster about what makes certain foods unhealthy. These days, to raise a smart consumer – and a healthy child – you have to start talking about nutrition and how to evaluate media early and often. *** Upping cancer-fighting powers Christina Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, at age 36. She had a double mastectomy and has been cancer-free since then. One reason, according to a Danish lab study published in eLife, may be her exercise routine. The vegetarian actress and breast cancer activist does a combination
of cardio, weight training and a core workout for at least two hours a day, five days a week. According to the researchers, consistent physical activity boosts the ability of the immune system’s cytotoxic T cells (specialized white blood cells) to KO cancer cells. It does that by increasing circulating levels of naturally occurring molecules and metabolites that are produced in muscle while you are working out. They help activate cancer-fighting immune cells. This appears to slow tumor growth and may prevent recurrence of cancer. If you are one of the estimated 1.8 million Americans diagnosed with cancer this year, you can do a great deal to make your fight against the disease more effective. Making sure you – with the advice of your doctors – begin a daily workout routine is one important way. Another self-help tool: adopting an anti-inflammatory diet, free of red and processed meats and added sugars and syrups, and loaded with seven to nine servings of fruits and veggies daily. It’s estimated that up to 33% of cancer cases could be prevented with adoption of such a healthful diet. And a meta-study in the journal Nutrients found that the Mediterranean diet appears to promote survival after cancer diagnosis. *** Two new ways aspirin may extend your life Since aspirin became widely available in the late 1800s, it’s been advocated for use in many odd ways, from birth control to prolonging the life of a Christmas tree. Fortunately, the modern science behind this common pain reliever’s powers is far more reliable – and ever-growing. Research suggests that this heartfriendly medication can also lower your risk of certain types of cancer, and the latest research published in Oncotarget on breast cancer is especially promising. In an analysis of 13 existing studies that involved more than 850,000 women, those who took aspirin for five years cut their risk of breast cancer 14%, for 10 years by
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27% and for 20 years by 46%. The optimal dose, suggest the researchers, may be 325 mg daily, two to seven times a week. Taking it five times weekly showed a 3% reduction and 20 times, a 10% cut. Another new insight into aspirin’s powers was published in Anesthesia & Analgesia. It reveals that patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who received aspirin (usually 81 mg) within 24 hours of admission or within seven days prior to admission are less likely to be admitted to the ICU, put on a ventilator or die (a 47% decrease in that risk) than hospitalized COVID patients who aren’t taking the anti-inflammatory
and blood-clot-preventing medication. One reminder: Take aspirin with a glass of warm water before and after to help minimize gastro problems or bleeding. Aspirin blocks hormones that protect your stomach lining, so you don’t want the pill to land on vulnerable tissue. Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, visit sharecare.com. (c)2020 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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Opening statements for Sagittarius Humans love familiarity, and it’s natural to seek out people who are like you. Novelty is usually a lesser need than security, but the Sagittarius sun makes a strong point: Without new input, we go stagnant. Stagnation breeds toxicity. It’s easy to ignore the warning signs that stagnation is setting in. Stir things up proactively. ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll be a genius at picking topics of discussion, even with people you don’t know well. You aim to uplift. You’ll shut down conversations aimed to tear others down. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s true that you sometimes have to talk yourself into doing the very things that were your idea from the start. To be effective in this, just remind yourself of the many reasons why you want what you want.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): People make time for people they want to make time for. “Too busy” is a way of saying “different priorities,” and that’s OK, too! Stay aware of the expectation others have of you and how you play into it. CANCER (June 22-July 22): You trust yourself, but that doesn’t mean you think everything you do is right. A healthy amount of the right kind of doubt shows more confidence than unchecked conviction. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You won’t have to seek helping opportunities, because they will be all around you. Some people are helped by little more than a warm smile. Moments of complete attention and kind words provide more uplift than you know. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The most attractive stance is one of calm collectedness. From that place, you can
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see and act on opportunities. Rushed people create problems. Believe in the timing of life instead of imposed and superficial urgency. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): The sensation that you’re lost can creep along the edges of your psyche, even when you think you know where you are. Breathe. Knowing exactly where to go and what to do next is unnecessary right now. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Watch your energy levels and performance while doing ordinary things. Keeping track of this in daily life (not just in demanding situations) is an act of noticing that supports your health and well-being. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today comes with a very convenient cosmic gift. People will make obvious efforts to let you know their intentions, wants, needs and feelings. If it’s not obvious, it may not be so. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What’s wrong will also be ugly. Gossip definitely fits the category. Many around you will trauma-band over shared disdain. It’s not a good look. You’ll stay out and stay attractive. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): People say “just kidding” when they’re maybe only mostly kidding. People say “I don’t know” when they actually totally do. You’re sensitive and aware. You’ll get more of the story because you’re willing to wait for it. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You don’t take the connections between people for granted, because you know
how much effort can be involved. You’ve built bridges, crossed them and burned them, too. Today, take a boat. It’s temporary but drama-free. FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: Neptune puts on the brakes to prepare for a turnaround at the end of this Thanksgiving week. The planet of dreams has been reversed for five months and enshrouded with a swirly, surreal sort of consciousness. Now it will be like we have a finger on the “sharpness” feature and can slide into clear sight some of the fuzziness we’ve dealt with in the past months. Decisions will be made without struggle or ambiguity. With Venus newly exploring the early degrees of Scorpio, we bring new honesty to relationships and our place in them. We thought we were doing our best before, but how is it really possible to know what our best is? What we really do is the most we can in relation to the moment of challenge. When the challenge is more intense, we match it until we can’t. It is great challenge – and, ultimately, defeat – that teach us what our best is in any given moment. Friday brings an annual VenusUranus opposition. To gamble or not – that will be the question. The gambler rolls the dice and then accepts that outcome even if it’s not ideal. That’s what you sign up for when you play the game. To agree to put your high hopes in the hands of fate is an agreement with loss as well.
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North Country Holidays: Market & Musical Revue Saturday, Nov. 28, 12-10 p.m. Earth Rider Brewery Festival Grounds Shopping 20-plus local makers booths 12-5 p.m., then enjoy an evening of music by Sonofmel, Ingeborg acoustic, Dance Attic, Woodblind, Cooper & Muska and more.
Cory Coffman facebook.com/CoryCoffmanMusic Monday, Nov. 30, 7-8 p.m. Livestream show celebrating the official release of debut album, “Canvas and Color,” by the singer-songwriter of The Cuckoo Bees.
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Day & night Wednesday 11.25 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Livestream: Tea With Teague, 99:30am facebook.com/teaguealexymusic Todd Michael Jameson, 4pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-9pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218722-5573 One Less Guest, 6-9pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-394-2500 Beers-Giving with Black River Revue, 6:15-9pm Earth Rider Brewery, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Zakk Grandahl, 7pm Log Cabin Tavern, 2821 S. Cty Rd. E., Superior Deuces Wild (canceled), 7:30pm The DECC, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth 218.727.4344 P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks
Thursday 11.26 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 15th Annual Gobble Gallop, 9am 350 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218728-1148 Veterans Thanksgiving Dinner, 10:30am-2pm Bong Heritage DuluthReader.com DuluthReader.com
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Friday 11.27 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426
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Livestream: Tea With Teague, 99:30am facebook.com/teaguealexymusic Santa & His Live Reindeer, noon3pm Fitger's Courtyard, 600 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-722-8826 Oh Ole Night: The Radio Special, 5-7pm WTIP Radio, WTIP.org, Grand Marais Stel, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-394-2500 Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-10pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-722-5573
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Ruby's Pantry, 11am-noon Mission Creek Church, 521 131st Ave W, Duluth, MN 55808, Duluth
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Artist Sunday, 10am-2pm Hibbing Chamber of Commerce, 214 E Howard St., Hibbing 218-262-3895
Livestream: Tiny Tent Show, 7pm Big Top Chatauqua, bigtop.org/tinytentshow, Bayfield 888-BIG-TENT
Santa & His Live Reindeer, 11am4pm Fitger's Courtyard, 600 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-722-8826
The Fractals, 5pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500
Santa & His Live Reindeer, noon3pm Fitger's Courtyard, 600 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-722-8826
Todd Eckart livefeed concert, 7pm facebook.com/toddeckartmusic
Holiday Artists Market, 11am-5pm Lyric Center for the Arts, 510 Chestnut St., Virginia 218-741-5577
A Very Diva Christmas (Virtual Event), 7pm Reif Performing Arts Center, reifcenter.org/events, Grand Rapids 218-327-5780
Small Brewery Sunday Big Tent Blowout, 1-5pm Earth Rider Brewery, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715394-7391
Michael Monroe Log Cabin Concert, 7:30pm Michael Monroe Log Cabin, Grand Marais 612-789-2255
Livestream: Duluth Poetry Chapter, 1pm facebook.com/duluthpoetrychapter
P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks
A Felgemaker Christmas Livestream, 2:30pm Sacred Heart Music Center, youtube.com/c/SacredHeartMusicCenterDuluth, Duluth 218-7231895
Saturday 11.28 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426
North Country Holidays: Market & Musical Revue, noon-10pm Earth Rider Brewery, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391
Coffee & Guitar with Darin Bergsven, 9-10am facebook.com/DarinBergsvenMusic/
Sonofmel, noon Anglers Bar & Grill, 10547 Main St., Hayward 715-6344700
Winter Wonderland Shopping Day, 10am-4pm Hibbing Tourist Center, 1202 E Howard St., Hibbing 218262-4166
Similar Dogs, 1-4pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500
Winter Virtual Downtown Duluth Arts Walk, 10am-5pm facebook. com/DowntownDuluthArtsWalk/, Duluth
SonofMel, 2-4pm Out of the Woods Winery, 10588 Main St., Hayward 715-699-1709 Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of
Sunday 11.29 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Open Skating, 8:30am-2pm Miners Memorial Building, 821 S 9th Ave. W., Virginia 218-748-7506
Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711 Joe & Friends, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500
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Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426
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Wednesday 12.2 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426
Greg Tiburzi, 6-8pm Valentini's, 4960 Miller Trunk Hwy., Duluth 218.206.7557
Thirsty Pagan Brewing Pint Fundraiser, 11am-9pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-394-2500
Livestream: Tea With Teague, 99:30am facebook.com/teaguealexymusic
The Global Pandemic, Refugees and Others Displaced by Conflict and Persecution, 6:30pm Royal Alworth Institute, UMD, z.umn.edu/SchwartzF20, Duluth 800-627-3529
Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-9pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-722-5573
Owen Polifka, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500
Northstar Joggers Weekly Run, 6pm Ursa Minor Brewing, strava.com, Duluth 218-481-7886
Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-10pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-7225573
Fairlawn Mansion Online Holiday Sampler, 8am www.biddingowl.com/ SuperiorPublicMuseums 715-3945712
P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks
Livestream: Tea With Teague, 99:30am facebook.com/teaguealexymusic
Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426
Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-9pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-722-5573
Fairlawn Mansion Online Holiday Sampler, 8am www.biddingowl.com/ SuperiorPublicMuseums 715-3945712
Christmas by The Lake, 5:30-9pm Bluebird Foundation, givergy.us/bluebirdfoundation
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Thirsty Pagan Brewing Pint Fundraiser, 11am-9pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-394-2500
Turns & Tunes, 6pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Holiday Sampler: Nick & Ren from One Less Guest Facebook Live Concert, 6:30-8:30pm Facebook Event 715-394-5712
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The Mackie Brothers, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-394-3616
Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Fairlawn Mansion Online Holiday Sampler, 8am www.biddingowl.com/ SuperiorPublicMuseums 715-3945712
The Global Pandemic, Refugees and Others Displaced by Conflict and Persecution: Protecting the Rights and Well-Being of the World’s Most Vulnerable Populations Presented by Eric Schwartz President, Refugees International Former Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs Wednesday December 2, 2020, 6:30 pm Free and open to the public. Register for this virtual lecture at z.umn.edu/SchwartzF20 Also on Dec. 2 from Noon to 2 pm, a special event, Literature, Rhetoric and Culture: Lessons from Iceland, Manitoba and Minnesota, will feature a series of presentations. Scholars from Iceland and Canada will discuss literature, sagas and artistic expressions that connect these areas and Minnesota in terms of shared values with roots in the medieval and Viking ages. Register for the webinar at z.umn.edu/IcelandF20.
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Saturday 12.5 Weihnachtsfest, 5:45am Biwabik Main Street & West Park, Biwabik, MN Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Fairlawn Mansion Online Holiday Sampler, 8am www.biddingowl.com/ SuperiorPublicMuseums 715-3945712 Coffee & Guitar with Darin Bergsven, 9-10am facebook.com/DarinBergsvenMusic/ Nice Girls of the North Marketplace, 10am-3pm Masonic Lodge, 4731 Gladstone St., Duluth
Similar Dogs, 1-4pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500 Theresa Williams & Ty Johnson, 4pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-10pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-7225573 Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra - Bentleyville Holiday Spectacular, 7pm The DECC, dsso.com, Duluth 218-623-DSSO P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks
Sunday 12.6 Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City), 8am-10pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth 218-390-8426 Fairlawn Mansion Online Holiday Sampler, 8am www.biddingowl.com/ SuperiorPublicMuseums 715-3945712 Open Skating, 8:30am-2pm Miners Memorial Building, 821 S 9th Ave. W., Virginia 218-748-7506 Lake Superior Freethinkers, 9am facebook.com/LSFreethinkers.org Livestream: Duluth Poetry Chapter, 1pm facebook.com/duluthpoetrychapter George Maurer Group Holiday Show (Virtual), 2pm Reif Performing Arts
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Center, reifcenter.org/events/, Grand Rapids 218-327-5780 Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711 Stas Venglevski Concert, 3-5pm Harrington ARTS Center and A World of Accordions Museum, 1401 Belknap St., Superior 218-393-0245 Joe & Friends, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500 Drive-Thru Bentleyville Tour of Lights, 5-9pm Bayfront Festival Park, 704 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-722-5573
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‘A raucous bunch of Marines’ Son uncovers story of his father’s World War II-era 40 Thieves You only have to look at Sturgeon Bay newspaper archives of the 1960s to learn that Frank Tachovsky was a mover and shaker in the city. He was on his second term as mayor when appointed to serve as the city’s postmaster in 1966, which forced him to give up his mayorship and his day job as a print salesman at the Door County Advocate newspaper. But he continued to be a participant in city affairs and a familiar face in the newspaper, whether it be as chair of the United Way Fund Drive or playing on a winning golf foursome. Tachovsky held such roles in the community because he knew how to get things done. It was his specialty at home in Sturgeon Bay, just as it was when he commanded a group of roughneck Marines in a scout and sniper platoon in the Pacific theater during World War II, a unit that was proudly known as the 40 Thieves. “Dad never talked about it so you never asked questions,” said Frank’s son, Joe, who was prompted to learn more about his father’s military service after his dad died on September 10, 2011, at the age of 96. “It actually started at his memorial service when a gentleman got up to speak,” Joe Tachovsky said. That gentleman was Sturgeon Bay native William Parsons, whose eulogy told of meeting Frank in 1955 while both were attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Despite Frank being an older, non-traditional student, 18-year-old Parsons and Tachovsky talked because both were from Sturgeon Bay. Parsons, who was in Naval ROTC at the time, didn’t know much about the older man, but became curious one day when he saw a normally stoic Marine sergeant brighten and become animated in Frank’s presence. So Parsons asked the sergeant how he knew Frank and got a lesson in showing respect to an American hero. The sergeant described Frank as the bravest man he knew and proceeded
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Lt. Frank Tachovsky to tell a story about Frank leading a platoon on Saipan when a Japanese tank broke through their lines and pinned down the platoon, until Frank stopped the tank with a bazooka, which the sergeant said saved his life and every other member of the platoon. Joe Tachovsky was surprised to learn that his late father was a World War II hero. He started poking around among his father’s belongings, places he never would have dared to look while his father was alive. He found a treasure trove of wartime memorabilia, including more than three years of correspondence between his dad and his mother, Roxie, as well as citations for a Bronze Medal and Silver Star and platoon rosters. “Then I started searching online and found an article from September 1944, from Leatherneck magazine, that talks about this platoon that dad led,” Joe said. The title of that article was “Tachovsky’s Terrors,” and tells the story of 29-year-old 1st Lt. Frank Tachovsky’s unorthodox group of battle-tested troops, who called their commander “Ski” (the author wrote it as “Skye.” He also referred to Frank’s wife as Mrs. Florence Tachovsky when
her name is Roxanne). “It piqued my interest,” Joe said. “I started to locate all the surviving members of the platoon and just wanted to talk to them. It ended up being a series of interviews because the more I learned about the platoon, the more the men wanted to talk to me and felt comfortable talking to me.” (This interview was conducted in 2017 when three members of the unit were still alive; today just one of them is still with us.) As he traveled the country to talk to the remaining members of his father’s platoon, and learned more about the men, his father and the hardships they endured, he saw a story coming together. “People don’t understand the horrors of it all that these men had to live through and what they had to sacrifice of their lives and their youth for our victory,” he said. During World War II, Japan considered the island of Saipan to be part of the last line of defense. Tachovsky’s 40 Thieves were instrumental in winning the Battle of Saipan (June 15-9, 1944), which is considered one of the bloodiest World War II battles, resulting in 2,949 U.S. Troops killed and 10,464 wounded. Today, there is only one surviving
member of the 40 Thieves, which makes this documentary-style book even more important. Readers can learn more about their war story challenges, the important women in their lives, and see historic black and white photographs. *** Joe Tachovsky is a successful Minneapolis-based restaurant consultant. “When you graduate with degrees in English literature, art history and theater arts, it pretty much qualifies you for a life in the hospitality trade,” he said. He could feel the story of his father’s 40 Thieves calling to his creativity. “It would have been so nice to have known some of this stuff when dad was alive so I could ask him pointed questions about different circumstances, but that wasn’t the case,” he said. “Thank god the seven guys that were alive were just treasure troves of information. I never really thought about it becoming a book until things started coming together. It has everything you look for.” His first draft, submitted to a well known publisher, was written exclusively in the words of his father’s platoon members. “Because that’s what made it riveting to me,” he said. “I’ve adapted their
memories into narrative and dialogue, trying not to make stuff up. A lot of the dialogue is verbatim from these guys. They remember scenarios and vignettes. It’s amazing how ingrained these episodes are for these men.” But the publisher told him oral histories don’t sell. “So they wanted it written more as a story and more of the narrative, which kind of flummoxed me for a while. I finally figured out how to go about writing it, making it into a narrative but staying true to the words of the men.” Ultimately, Joe teamed up with fiction writer Cynthia Kraack to complete the recently published (June 2020) 40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII’s Bloodiest Battles. During his interviews with them, the old men of his father’s platoon went being interview subjects to his friends. Back in 2017 he traveled to Missoula, Montana, the home of Marvin Strombo, who then at 93 was the oldest of the three surviving members of Frank Tachovsky’s platoon (Strombo died this past June at age 96). During the Battle of Saipan in 1944, Marvin took a saber and Japanese flag from a dead Japanese officer. In March of 2017, Tachovsky volunteered to help Strombo return the flag to the dead soldier’s family by delivering it to the Obon Society at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon. Marvin included a note for the soldier’s descendants that read, in part, “I have always believed that it did not belong to me, it belonged to you. I pray this flag finds its way home and, if you are reading this, it has.” As Joe grew closer to these survivors, he also felt himself coming to a better understanding of his father. “It makes you appreciate these men so much more and how difficult it was for them to come home and the nightmares that they struggled with,” he said. “Dad never slept at night, through his whole life. He told me that’s because the Japanese were active at night. I remember my mom saying, ‘Your dad’s asleep. Don’t touch him.’ Why? You just didn’t. You did what you were told to. “My 92-year-old Marine in Georgia [Bob Smotts] still has nightmares to this day. All of them have nightmares. They hear a sound that sends them back. They smell something that sends them back, and they have nightmares to this day. They are generally life and death situations where they wake up in a cold sweat and their heart’s
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Some of the 40 Thieves on Hawaii. Standing left to right: Knoll, Moynihan, Wheeless, Kenny, Causey, Malanga, Evans, Emerick and Jones. Seated: Hebel, Yunker, Zuziak, Jackson, Moore, Stevens, Clark and Knuppel. racing.” And the 40 Thieves part of the story? How did a group of Marines come to be known as 40 Thieves? “They were a raucous bunch of Marines,” Joe said. “Stealing was second nature to Marines of that era and these guys must have been the cream of the crop at what they did.” One incident recounted when the men are in training mode in Hawaii has them steal a pig from a Hawaiian farmer so they could have a pig roast. Joe mentions that before serving in the Pacific, his dad was stationed in Iceland with a fellow by the name of Leon Uris, who went on to become a best-selling novelist after the war. His first book, Battle Cry, recounted stories of the 6th Marine regiment in the Pacific. “He writes about the exploits of a group of thieves in the 6th Marine regiment and that they were legendary,” Joe said. “I wrote down some of the exploits that he was talking about, and I would go to my little old guys and say, ‘Do you remember anything about stealing an Army
major’s Jeep?’ And they said, ‘It was an Army captain’s Jeep and we beat the hell out of that thing.’” In addition to the book, Joe has been telling the Marines’ story online at 40thievessaipan.com. “I keep on updating things that occurred in their timeline,” he said. What began as a search for an untold part of his father’s life has become a much bigger project for Joe Tachovsky. “I’m not doing it for me,” he said. “My dad always maintained that we don’t do enough for our veterans. I’d certainly like a good chunk of the proceeds – praise be to Jesus that there are some! – go to a foundation like Wounded Warrior or some organization that really helps these men and women who put their lives and bodies on the line. Another guy said the disabilities that you come home with, the physical disabilities, the loss of an arm or leg, you can learn to live with, but the mental disabilities, the loss of your soul, can haunt you for the rest of your life.”
Much of this story originally appeared in Door County Living magazine, and is reprinted with permission from the owners of that publication.
World War II veteran Marvin Strombo, right, returns the flag he took as a young Marine during the battle of Saipan to Tatsuya Yasue, brother of the dead Japanese soldier that Stromba took the flag from. The ceremony was made possible by the Obon Society of Astoria, Oregon.
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Looking for Mark Looking for Mark Bo ... Thinking he lives in Morgan Park. We roomed together at Arrowhead West. Please contact John E. (58549:6/4)
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! Penpal wanted SWB: Gender-fluid student ISO a penpal. I love writing letters and want to do it more often. (58514:7/22)
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)
Women
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Good conversation a plus Attractive, petite, educated WF, 78, NS, seeks affectionate, intelligent, faithful man for LTR. I enjoy playing cards, dancing, road trips, open to new adventures. Liberal-minded, mostly. East Range area. Meet for coffee? (58558: 9/24) Let’s dance WF, 60ish, 5’4”, 140, brown hair, blue eyes, healthy, happy & independent. Seeking tall, dark,
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handsome Prince Charming. Send photo. (58557:9/3) Social distance for now Searching for interesting man to share letters or phone calls. Let’s get to know each other this way, for now. Preferably 60-plus, single, honest, caring and affectionate. Range area only. (58542:4/23) Maybe Mid 60s, active, liberal, looking for same! N.S., light drinking, non-motor sports. (58539:02/21) Searching Mate on the Range SWF; 5’ 5”; NS/ND Outdoors, walks, movies, cuddling, traveling etc. (ask) ISO compassionate, lovable guy w/humor. please be NS; interested in LTR; honest, will answer. (58463:01/28) A special friend for coffee, etc. WWWF, 65, 5’6”, chubby. Likes: Crafts, bowling, fishing & so much more. Limited due to knee braces, but willing to try new things. (58535:01/16) Looking for my one SWF, 51, heavyset, looking for someone to spend the rest of my life with. Hope you are the one for me. (58525:10/24) Grand Rapids area ISO my life partner that rides a Harley or Indian. I’m a DWF, 67, 5’6”, average weight, NS/ND, long black/chrome hair, brown eyes. Three things are important to me, God, family, riding motorcycles. Live on hobby farm. Like being outdoors. Let’s have coffee. I’ll buy! Exchange photos. (58519:10/10) Seeking Partner Looking for a life partner. I’m a WF, 64, divorced a long time. I’m ready to retire and go down a new road with a kind, adventurous soulmate. I love God, cuddling, fun, the outdoors, travel, sharing and caring. (58512:7/25) Looking for a nice guy Hey! Let’s have some fun things together-outdoors, or just watch TV/movies. Mid 60s height/weight average. OK if later LTR. (58508:7/16) Where are you now? Two Dobermans. The Ore House. Orange Crush. Pie and coffee. Rocky Raccoon. West Duluth apt. couch. (58494:5/2)
Looking for a best friend DWF, 49, brown hair, hazel eyes, ISO quality honest, loyal, financially stable WDSM for fun, summer events, concerts, fishing, camping, snuggling in the winter, watching movies, love motorcycle rides, great sense of humor, tattooed & pierces, may lead to LTR. (58490:4/11) Biker who enjoys life DWF, 52, ISO WM, someone who knows how to treat a lady. Love the outdoors. Honesty & loyalty a must. (58486:4/11) Looking for you WWF, 76, walking conversation, fishing, dancing, Facebook account. 5’6” brown hair & eyes. (58471:08/17) Spoil me and I will spoil you! Attractive blonde SWF - 71, 5’8” wanting travel. laughter, love & more. I love to fish both deep sea & lake. Looking for intelligent, kind loving man. (58432:05/31) Companionship LTR Uses walker 68 yrs young. Chubby & busty. Enjoys Christian activities NS ND Books, travel, movies, cards & games, dining out, RV camping. Kind & honest w/sense of humor (58430:05/31) Country Girl Looking 5’7” medium build 66 yr young country gal NS ND loves to travel & be appreciated (58429:05/31) 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) Lonesome in Ashland Looking for caring, honest man, understanding of physical imperfections to talk and go out with. F 60s, NS/ND. (58409:8/31) Try a Senior Moment Active, adventurous, affable, nice, nurturing, nimble. Petite, positive, playful. Smart, shapely, spunky. ISO fit young (67-77) codger for smiles and conversation, serendipity, exploring. (58403:6/8)
Personals Companionship 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”, 160 lbs, 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 Companionship 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 Christian male 45-58 years young with similar interests. (58370:10/13) Searching for Mate 72 yr old F ISO LTR with a passionate, sincere, kind gentleman in near age group. NS/ND. (58354:6/23) From the Range WWF, 62, NS, likes the outdoors, walks, animal lover, garage sales, dining out, movies. ISO honest, caring man to enjoy life with. Will answer all. (58352:6/23) Female Activist Seeks Companionship Seeking like minded Liberal gentleman for friendship and fun. (58340:4/14)
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) Soulmate Wanted Men 55-72 yrs old. 180-210 lbs. Kids okay. Write me. (58336:3/24) 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) 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) Looking 4 Romance SWF looking for a Jewish man. Brown hair/eyes, 5’8”, 170 lbs. Want a pal-lover-romance. (58304:10/8)
Men
One-woman man searching for you DWM, 67, looking for female 55plus. I’m 5’7”, 260 lbs. I’m honest, old school, holding hands, necking, etc. Let’s talk. (58564:10/29) ISO crazy old lady 6’2”, 240, old enough to know better. Excited about James Webb? Me too! Gourmet food? Me neither! Music & dog lover. Snuggling optional. No whiners. Cloquet or Duluth area. (58562:10/8)
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Looking to give pure pleasure Black man, 52, looking for a woman who loves to be pleased and to feel that kind of pleasure she been searching for. 5’11, 200 lbs. (58561:10/8) Just as handy as Red Green DWM, 63, 5’9”. 180 lbs., fit, retired. Likes quiet, outdoor activities and cabin time. ISO responsible, fit woman to share talks, walks, and the other good stuff. (58559:9/24) Something from the South Shore Retired academic, widower, tall healthy, attractive, 72 years, liberal, likes animals, books, travel, film, music, gardening, baseball, lake cottage. ISO similar 50s-70s female. Photo/short bio appreciated. (58560:9/24) 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) 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 60s70s. (58555:8/6) Blood in my veins Passionate, retired DWM, well educated, intelligent, ISO F, intellectual equal for companion, travel, lover in Duluth. (58554:8/6) Tall slim bearded sculptor in Superior Desires LTR with affectionate diversified tall busty lady with some extra poundage and at least shoulder length soft cuddly hair.
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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)
Relating to guys Retired mid-70s professional gentleman to provide ful body attention Turkish style. (58550:6/25)
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)
The smaller the better MWM 60-plus looking for a male friend. casual get-togethers. (58529:12/5)
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 gardening, dancing, outdoors. Active, LTR, looking to adventure, try fishing and other sports, anything new. (58493:4/25) 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) 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) Tall Horse Lover DWM 65 6’2” 180lbs ISO country
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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) Wake me up, stud Northern Wis. Looking for playmates, top or bottom, for right stud, nice package. (58503:6/13) ISO Top SWM WITI. 67. seeking christian SGWM for possible LTR, photo, phone please. (58453:5/31) Looking for a connection SWM 70, working artist w/strong interest in books & music. Physical fitness important. Someone simpatico with those values. Carpe diem. Send phone or email (58439: 11/8) Show me the way WGM 36, fully blind & new to scene. ISO M friend to have a good time with. (58438: 10/18) 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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Lay down the law WF, early 50s, seeks WM 50s to spank, punish and ground me. (58527:10/24)
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Daughter for dad SWF 50 ISO S/D WM 50-57 spank & punish me when I’m bad. Go do something fun when I’m good. (58438:08/16)
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Lady Boy where are you? Older male ISO a deep friendship, someone to appreciate your mind & your body. Someone appreciative of the arts. Height & weight proportionate. (58439:11/9)
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Straight couples wanted Single straight WM, 60s, seeking couples that like a nice gentleman to join them for fun and pleasurable times. (58563:10/15)
Seeking Trans Woman SM seeking sub. TW for live-in FWB/LTR. No DU! Reply w/photo and phone. Women welcome too! (58495:5/9)
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Pepperkakebyen (Gingerbread City) Nordic Center On view through Jan. 2 Virtual tour online at nordiccenterduluth.org/ pepperkakebyen-2020. Or stop outside to peer in the windows at the Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave. in Duluth, 8 a.m to 10 p.m. daily, to see all the gingerbread houses, including the Glensheen Mansion. Have you made your own gingerbread house? Let them know and they will post it on their website. Use #PepperkakebyenDuluth on social media.
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Artist Sunday Sunday, Nov. 29, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hibbing Chamber of Commerce Artist Sunday is a nationwide alliance of professional artists, nonprofit agencies, community organizations, and sponsors encouraging consumers to shop with artists, artisans and craftspeople. This artistfocused day takes place annually on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping weekend of the year. Shoppers support local professional artists, find unique, personal gifts for their loved ones, and purchase something handmade.
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Holiday Artists Market Saturday, Nov. 28, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lyric Center for the Arts, Virginia Fiber art, original artwork, photography, pottery, special event, the written/spoken word, visual arts, woodburning Joe Polecheck Photography Saturday, Nov. 28, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Empire Coffee, 1214 Tower Ave., Superior Pop-Up Shop for the winner of the “Best Local Photographer” category in the Reader’s annual Best of the Northland awards. Winter Wonderland Vendor Show Saturday, Nov. 28, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hibbing Tourist Center, 1202 E. Howard St., Hibbing Find hand made crafts and gift items, as well as browse the gift shop at the Tourist Center. North Country Holidays: Market & Musical Revue Saturday, Nov. 28, 12-10 p.m. Earth Rider Brewery Free Holiday Craft Market 12-5 p.m., live music 1-10 p.m.
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Foot in the Door 5: The Virtual Exhibition collections.artsmia.org/ exhibitions/2760/foot-in-the-door Since 1980, “Foot in the Door” has been an open exhibition for Minnesotan artists of all ages to present their work at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The exhibition occurs once every 10 years, and by now, generations of artists have participated in it. The sole curatorial criteria? All submissions must measure at or under 12 inches in height, width, and depth—literally inviting artists to place “a foot” in the museum’s galleries. Serving as a snapshot of Minnesota’s creative scene, “Foot in the Door 5” celebrates the talent, diversity, and enthusiasm of our state’s visual artists. To prioritize safety for artists, visitors, and staff alike, this celebration of our community’s creativity is entirely virtual this year. (Because this is an open-call exhibition, it might contain artworks some viewers consider inappropriate or objectionable. That’s democratic artistic expression in action.) Reader cartoonist Ray Allard (Bird Brains of North America) has a submission accepted into this exhibit. (See right)
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Shared wisdom There was an old geezer named Amos Whose children were brilliant and famous. They said with a frown You could write our names down If he’d only remembered to name us. To you prospective moms and dads out there, I have one piece of advice to share, being an old man with multiple kids. If you plan on having more than one child, it is best to forego naming them. In moments of stress, you are always going to be screaming out the names of all your other children before you get to the guilty one, so In my considered opinion, you would be money ahead to just number them from the start. As you age, the amount of information you have managed to acquire gets in the way of remembering more important stuff. I once spent 2 whole days trying to remember the name of a friend I have known since before we started kindergarten..
Worse, I was married to a woman who had no filter, and was totally oblivious to the frantic signals I would try to send her. She was forever asking embarrassing questions when we met people like “Aren’t you going to introduce us?” Well, I usually remembered HER name, so that was half the battle—and while we were sitting at a table with acquaintances, it was “Why are you kicking me?” Sorry. I thought you were wearing your combat boots. Now that I’ve reached my dodder hood, I feel it is extremely important that I share my vast reservoir of knowledge with the younger generations. There is one piece of information that I have held onto for my own personal use for over 40 years, which I feel must be spread more widely before it is lost to the mists of time. I have shared this knowledge with only my nearest and dearest Facebook friends so far, and now I
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will give it to you. It is an awesome responsibility, of course, but I’m sure I am leaving it in capable hands. I call it the most important useless piece of information in the universe, and it is this: NEAL ARMSTRONG WORE SIZE 9 SHOES. “What?” you say, “Why has this eminently useless piece of information escaped me?” The answer is simple: you neglected to play Trivial Pursuits with me 40 years ago. Not surprising that it escaped your attention. No
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point in worrying about it now, although it is small wonder if you are as astonished as I was when I first read it. “What lamebrain,” I thought, “would commit this useless piece of information to memory?”, and after 40 years, I have the definitive answer. You have the information now, and you will undoubtedly commit it to memory as I have, especially when you realize how important this piece of useless information is. This information helps to clog up your mental pathways, and so will go a long way toward helping you to forget your kid’s birthdays and your anniversary and your wife’s first cat’s name, which you would otherwise argue about (It was Binky). No need to thank me. I would have shared it with any ignorant bozo who came along. Once again, I have a poem at the ready: Passionly, fashionly Space haberdasheries Looking to fill in their Top footwear lines Wanted a 12 for their Broguerability Armstrong insisted on Size number 9s. And here is another important lesson for you students of poetry. There is no honor among double dactyl poets. Composing a poem that requires a double dactyl word is similar to a game of Liar’s Scrabble, where you make up your own word, and dare your opponent to challenge it. And here is the beauty part: even if he quotes from Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, your response should be to ask “What edition of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary are you using?” Then, no matter which edition he has, you say your word is from a previous edition (it should be at least two editions prior). On no account say a later edition, in case no later edition exists. Webster’s Unabridged is constantly removing or adding words, so you are relatively safe if you can lie with a straight face, or at least fake an attitude of sincere indignation. Another problem with these poems that I have to address is in the nonsense words in the first line. These are words that will send your auto correct into paroxysms. You must be firm. It may take several knock downs
to get it to quit obsessing about it and admit defeat. So, good luck, students! Here’s hoping you will never be at a loss for finding a defensible word. And if you have trouble recalling our little secret, just remember that the title of the film “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” was designed as a code. The original title was SIZE 9, but that made it too obvious.
this was the end of her movie career. Even so, she still has the costume, and when she is off her meds, she has difficulty separating her reel life from her real life. This book sold very well as far as I know, but from the description of the Warrior Babe costume, I suspect it might have sold even better if it had been illustrated. When she is wearing it, Molly can be a dangerous person, because she still owns a broadsword, and she knows how to use it. Little Josh Barker is sure he has seen Santa getting killed with a shovel to the head. He wasn’t supposed to be there, but he knows what that means in terms of Christmas presents, and he’s going frantic with worry. It was strictly accidental, but since the shovel was wielded by Santa’s ex wife, who
Twin Ports Review of Books My little sister brought me a book called “Anxious People” by Fredrik Backman. “This book,” she said, “is a very funny book.” And then, as an afterthought: “with some sad parts.” I should have known that she had a warped sense of humor when she giggled through “Les Miserables” and thought “Psycho” was a hoot, but I read it anyway. I will tell you that “Anxious People” is an extremely sad book with a couple of amusing passages. Come to think of it, I think she gave me the same story about “The Kite Runner” when she brought me that, and she has since told me that she especially liked the tour of the Paris sewer system in “Les Miserables.” I am just beginning to realize why my kids had nightmares after listening to auntie Florence’s “funny” bedtime stories. If your favorite comedy is “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” then “Anxious People” is the book for you. On the other hand, if you are already seriously contemplating suicide, I would hurry over to the next selection. The Stupidest Angel By Christopher Moore I have to start out by saying the author does a disservice to Archangel Raziel by calling him the stupidest angel. In the first place, we do not have any definitive evidence for the relative intelligence of the angels. Whenever we hear of them, they are just following orders, so no matter how stupid their actions may seem, they are covered by the “mysterious ways” clause. Besides, Raziel is God’s executioner, for Christ’s sake. (NOTE: this is in the literal sense of the phrase, not the taking in vain sense.) His job is
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to smite Philistines. It isn’t his fault the the Philistines have been pretty well smote for over 2,000 years, and are now in New Jersey, living quietly except for when they fight over the relative merits of Springsteen and Bon Jovi. He only gets the job of granting a wish to a small boy because he has nothing else to do, and the other angels are busy, it being the Holiday season. This story is set in the little village of Pine Cove, California, a favorite place of the author’s, as its citizens are found in other of his books. If reading books in chronological order is important to you, I can only tell you what I know so far. Events described in “The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove” precede this book, and the backstory for Roberto, the giant, sunglass wearing fruit bat with the Spanish accent can be found in “ Island of the Sequined Love Nun.” Beyond that, you’re on your own. One important character is Molly Michon, who is married to Theo, the town constable. Theo must be one of the world’s greatest lovers, because after they have sex in the graveyard, Molly enthusiastically promises to reward him by washing his car. Molly appeared in several “b” market films as Kendra, Warrior Babe of the Outland. She lost that job when a stunt gone wrong left her with a 5 inch scar on her breast. Since she basically got the job on the strength of her ample boobage,
was last seen fighting with him in a department store parking lot, things could get sticky. With the help of a passing ethically challenged pilot and a giant fruit bat, they give him a quick burial and fake the facts of his death. Raziel finds the boy to give him his Christmas wish, but there is a little mix-up in the execution of it, perhaps because of their age difference (infinity vs 7) and their not speaking quite the same language. Somehow, things go sideways, and all the dead people come back with Santa. Nothing spoils a good Christmas party like a horde of hungry zombies in various stages of decay, even if they were your former friends and neighbors.
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MacGuffin By Roy C. Booth and John F. Mollard Here’s a novel about Hollywood written by two northern Minnesotan writers, Booth from Bemidji and Mollard from Virginia. They met at Bemidji State University in the 1990s and since have collaborated on numerous film and literary projects. Booth, who runs a comic book story in Bemidji, has over 1,000 publication credits, including 57 plays, according to his Amazon page. This novel is one of their projects they have kicked around, buried, unearthed and reworked over the decades, first as a screenplay and then as a novel, finally seeing publication through a micropublisher. “MacGuffin,” a term popularized by Alfred Hitchcock, is basically an excuse to tell a story, something that sets the events into motion but otherwise is not that important. Think of the suitcases in any number of movies (“Psycho”, “Kiss Me Deadly” or “Pulp Fiction”), the droids in “Star Wars” or the Holy Grail in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” In this book, MacGuffin is the name of one of the characters, a wannabe actor. An arrogant A-list star, Christian Rivers, is kidnapped. (Most of the character’s names are showbiz references, likely in this case Christian Bale and River Phoenix.) Seeing an opportunity, MacGuffin convinces a special effects/make-up artist friend, Max Winston (read Stan Winston) to make him look like the missing star so he can step into his role in an unfinished movie. This irritates the kidnapper, who happens to be a serial murderer known as the Hollywood Walk of Fame Killer. The authors describe it as a “noir” novel, though noir refers to dark crime fiction that usually has a hardedged realism. Here any semblance of reality went out the window many drafts ago. (In this world, make-up and prosthetic masks are advanced to a “Mission Impossible” level and no one asks why the wearer’s skin looks like latex.) It’s also a horror novel, with
heaping helpings of gross-outs, but too far-fetched to be very horrifying. It’s a “meta” noir/horror novel, a selfreferential comment on the genres. The villain is an organ-playing Phantom of the Opera type and an unstoppable killer with ninja-level skills, though he’s a senior citizen covered with burn scars. He maintains an elaborate house of horrors in a huge abandoned hotel, aided by three deformed, none-toobright henchmen and a ditzy Bad Girl Friday. This team manages to pull off scientific and engineering feats as epic as anything accomplished by Batman. The story is also a police procedural and plays out like an episode of “CSI.” (If the producers of that show ever do “CSI: Hollywood,” Booth and Mollard might have a built-in case for a lawsuit claiming they did it first.) As in “CSI,” the cops are swaggering and glamorous. The lead, “Nuke” Bonaduce (you know, “The Partridge Family”) is a Steve-McQueen-like detective who also runs a custom car and motorcycle shop. His partner on the case is a tough-as-nails hottie named Haley. (After Haley Mills? But what are we to make of her last name, “Murch”?) It’s only a matter of time, or pages, before they get their obligatory sex scene. Most of the characters are clichés, purposely so since this is a meta novel, but unfortunately that doesn’t help make them compelling or likeable. MacGuffin draws our sympathy at first because he’s poor, chasing a dream, and has a dog. Then he blows it when he jeopardizes the kidnapped star’s life and the police investigation with his ruse. The cops are only briefly angry when they figure him out, so they recruit him, an untrained civilian, into the middle of the action. (“You know how to use a gun, right?” Murch says as she hands him a Beretta.) If make-up is so effective, why didn’t they just do a similar job on one of the officers? And why do they head into dangerous situations in small numbers when they could call in a SWAT team? But why apply logic to this novel anymore than you would any Hollywood movie? There’s an amusing twist when it
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turns out that MacGuffin is not the actual MacGuffin, and this is explained over two paragraphs by Nuke in the middle of a gunfight. The plot itself is a MacGuffin, an excuse to string together movie references, in-jokes, anecdotes and a travelogue about Hollywood. It’s not clear if the authors spent a lot of time in Tinseltown or did their research on the internet, but they pile on the details, sometimes grounding the pace to a halt. Also unfortunate is that none of this amounts to any insight, really just a checklist for movie geeks. Look, there’s a reference to “Scream” and another to Troma Studios, here called Trauma Studios. There’s also “The Birds”, “London After Midnight,” the Manson Family, the silent film “Sunrise,” “Rebel Without a Cause,” and so on. If this is a “meta” novel it could have been called Meta Without a Point. I wanted MacGuffin to quit trying to break into the movies and instead break the fourth wall, crying out to us readers, “Get me outta this cheesy story! I want to be a real boy!” By now you might have the impression I hated hated hated this book. (Quick, what movie reference is that? Yes! Roger Ebert!) In fact I kind of did, until I realized I wanted to keep reading anyway to find out what happens next. So I accepted it on its own terms and it became an effective page-turner. Whatever its shortcomings, the authors know how to build suspense and pull off action
John F. Mollard scenes. More than once these scenes occur simultaneously at two different locations and I enjoyed the narrative cutting back and forth. The climax was so engagingly nutty that I didn’t even mind when zombies showed up. So if you’re a movie trivia freak and like “CSI” and horror flicks, and don’t mind your horror served with a wink, you’ll dig this book. But why are these two Northern Minnesotans writing about an overexposed place like Hollywood? Wouldn’t the Iron Range make an equally alluring setting, with its bleakly beautiful minescapes, imposing sandstone buildings, churning windmills and stormy, sordid history? Perhaps, deep in their piles of unpublished or unproduced projects, they already have some stories set here. I’d like to see those unearthed. The book is available at amazon.com.
Back to the ‘80s with Amazon Women A hit-and-(mostly)-miss comedy anthology that works best when spoofing old movies, Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) somewhat emulates the less-slick but much funnier The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), made independently by producer Robert K. Weiss and director John Landis. Both have a hand in Amazon Women, but instead of Kentucky’s writers – David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker – the “ZAZ” team later responsible for Airplane! and Police Squad!/The Naked Gun – this film was written by the team of Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland. Primarily associated with Johnny Carson and, later, David Letterman, their vignettes are sometimes clever, sometimes excruciating. Five directors are credited for the 20 segments, strung together without much glue to hold it together. Besides Landis and Weiss, the others are Joe Dante, writer Carl Gottlieb, and actor Peter Horton. They seem less responsible for the schizophrenic quality of the film than the writers, as each director’s segments also vary greatly. For instance, Dante’s Reckless Youth, curiously positioned after the end titles (How many in the audience left before it even began?) is the best in the film but, conversely, his Roast Your Loved One segment is, arguably in a wide field, the worst. And even when it works Amazon Women on the Moon is more clever than laughout-loud funny. What the movie audience sees, more or less, is supposed to be the late-night programming of fiction TV station WIDB (channel 8), though the film doesn’t adhere to this premise as rigidly as the (also much funnier) SCTV did for many years previously. Amazon Women on the Moon is the late movie, a dead-on spoof of cheap ‘50s sci-fi films, mostly emulating CatWomen of the Moon (1953) and Queen of Outer Space (1958), though the genre’s clichés reference even good movies like Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). The costumes, characters, art direction, etc. of this and the film’s other spoofs are impressively accurate, but unlike the hilarious Bruce Lee parody in Kentucky Fried Movie the narrow focus of the humor is in merely
recreating everything, rather than affectionately playing with the genre’s tropes. Reckless Youth is funnier because, in addition to recreating the look of exploitation films of the ‘30s and ‘40s, with Carrie Fisher the innocent victim of a “social disease,” Dante and his game cast (which includes Paul Bartel, Herb Vigran and Mike Mazurki) subtly capture the slightly cockeyed filmmaking style of those ultracheap pictures: Dante’s camera angles and editing are just a wee bit off, and the acting is sincere but hilariously “unstudied.” A couple of the segments work not so much because the writing or direction are good, but rather because the featured performers approach the material with just the right degree of silliness. This is especially true of Blacks Without Soul, not a particularly funny concept made delightful by David Alan Grier’s committed portrait of a lily white-bread singer of easy listening standards; by William Marshall as the Captain of a band of Video Pirates who gleefully flaunt FBI warnings about copying video cassettes; and by Ed Begley Jr. in Son of the Invisible Man, a meticulous recreation of James Whale’s 1933 original Invisible Man, only Begley’s Griffin is anything but transparent. Running amok in a pub, naked but thinking he’s invisible, Begley captures Claude Rains’s original
giddiness but in a whole new light. Other segments might have seemed promising on paper but prove profoundly unfunny in their final form. Other bits, often parodies of television commercials like Silly Pâté, and Hairlooming, just kind of sit there, while others are sophomoric nods to ‘80s teen hot-bloodedness. Some, like Hospital and Two I.D.s, with Rosanna Arquette using credit check-like technology to screen her blind date (Steve Guttenberg), don’t seem aligned with the film’s central conceit. Of the original, non-spoof segments, I liked Titan Man best, with Matt Adler playing George, a teen ready to go “all the way” with girlfriend Kelly Preston, if only he can get his hands on some condoms. At the local drug store, he sheepishly tries to buy some from grandfatherly pharmacist Mr. Gower (Ralph Bellamy) but things go horribly wrong in a hilarious and unexpected way. Watching it again after many
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decades, I was struck by the fact that so much of the material would be lost on younger audiences in the same way early 1930s pop culture references in Marx Bros. movies went over the heads of 1970s teenagers. The Video Pirates is one obvious example, the treasure the pirates find being loaded to the gills with bulky VHS, Betamax and even Laserdiscs and players. Kino packed this title with supplements old and new. The new extras include a new featurette with oncamera interview with Landis, Dante, co-editor Marshall Harvey, casting director Julie Seltzer and others; and an audio commentary track by film historians Kat Ellinger and Mike McPadden. Additional supplements include outtakes and dallies from Dante’s personal archive, deleted scenes and outtakes (lots), and a trailer. For old movie buffs and ‘80s nostalgists, Amazon Women on the Moon definitely has its moments. The disc looks great, and the supplements are way above average. Recommended.
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Eastwood’s ‘gothic western’ High Plains Drifter gets a Blu-ray update from Kino Directed by Clint Eastwood in 1973 and written by Ernest Tidyman, High Plains Drifter begins with the ominous image of a lone stranger (Clint Eastwood) on horseback emerging out of a desert mirage of sorts. He arrives in the small town of Lago and heads into the saloon, followed by three men who obviously intend to do him harm. As they follow him around and utter threats, he draws first and puts them down. From here he strikes up a friendship with Mordecai (Billy Curtis), a dwarf who hangs around the barbershop where the shootout took place. When he accidently bumps into a prostitute named Calli Travers (Mariana Hill), she slaps him. He responds by taking her to a barn and raping her. This is not a kind man, and certainly not someone to be trifled with. As it turns out, Lago has a dark secret. Three outlaws, Stacey Bridges (Geoffrey Lewis), Dan Carlin (Dan Vadis), and Cole Carlin (Anthony James) killed Marshal Jim Duncan by whipping him to death as the townsfolk looked on and did nothing to stop it except for Sarah Belding (Vera Bloom), the wife of Lewis Belding (Ted Hartley), the town’s hotel operator. She tried to save him but was obviously out of her league despite her good intentions. The reason the townsfolk let this happen? Duncan knew that the mine, the town’s only real source of income, was on federal land and if this news got back to the government, it would be taken from them and effectively break the townsfolk. The stranger, holed up in a hotel, has dreams that tie him to this tragic event. Though the three outlaws who killed Duncan were sent to prison for what they did, shortly after the stranger’s arrival they’re set for release and they’re not happy with the way the townsfolk handled things after they took Duncan out. Fearing that outlaws will seek revenge, the town hires the stranger to take care of the three killers. He declines, until the town’s current
He’s still very much in “the man with no name” mode that he established with Leone, he doesn’t have a whole lot of dialogue and is more likely to act than to speak. He has his moral code, of course, but he’s out for himself but there’s enough mystery and allegory around his character to keep things interesting. There are consequences here, not just for the three outlaws but also for the townsfolk and for the stranger himself. The rape scene, the most questionable bit in the entire film, seems crude and it is, but at the same time, it establishes the character and, like so much in this story, it does come back to haunt him later on down the road. This is not an immoral film, but in many ways it is a very raw one. The supporting cast does fine work here. Eastwood is obviously the star
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sheriff, Sam Shaw (Walter Barnes), tells him he can do it on his own terms. At this point he agrees, paints the town red and changes the sign outside town that originally read “Lago” to “Hell.” He appoints Mordecai sheriff and mayor and sets in motion his plan to stop the outlaws before they can do further harm. It’s often been said that with this film Eastwood (the director) was aping the styles of two of the most prominent directors that Eastwood (the actor) had had the chance to work with at this point in his career, they being Sergio Leone and Don Siegel. And while their influence is obvious, it has to be noted that High Plains Drifter is more or less a remake of Django The Bastard, also known as The Stranger’s Gundown, directed by Sergio Garrone in 1969. In Garrone’s film, set after the Civil War, Anthony Steffen plays a stranger who returns to a town to get revenge against three officers who betrayed him during the war. The similarities are definitely there, but to his credit, Eastwood puts enough of his own spin on things and Tidyman’s script makes enough changes to the basic concept that High Plains Drifter definitely succeeds on its own terms. A gritty, tough and violent picture, Eastwood isn’t really treading a whole lot of new ground here as an actor.
but Geoffrey Lewis is great at playing creepy bad guys and he does that well here. Dan Vadis and Anthony James are also appreciably sinister in their respective roles. Billy Curtis is likeable as Mordecai and Vera Bloom is also very good in her supporting role. There’s a lot of style here, the location photography really impressing on the audience the air of guilt that hangs over the entire town. This is not a film that glorifies life on the frontier but paints it as hard, rough and is about as far from a romanticized look at the old west as you’re likely to find. The gothic atmosphere Eastwood has intentionally created here is emphasized even more by a genuinely eerie score by Dee Barton. This is pulpy and on the surface maybe a little rudimentary but once you start peeling back the layers of grit in which
Eastwood has soaked this picture, there is much to appreciate about the picture. Eastwood would make a better film decades later with Unforgiven, a picture that once again harkens back to the role he played for Leone, but with High Plains Drifter he paints in morally ambiguous tones as fascinating story of a man who may not be but whose presence casts such a huge shadow over the citizens of Lago that it almost doesn’t matter. This is a fantastic and dark western, atypical in many ways while familiar in many others, and it makes for great entertainment. Detail is vastly improved over the previous DVD release. You’ll notice this not only in close up shots but also medium and long distance shots as well. You can note the brush strokes on some of the wood once the town is painted red and you can easily make out individual pieces of stubble on the faces of almost ever male character in the movie. Texture is evident throughout the film, just take a look at the curtains that hang in front of a window where you can easily see some of the creases or pay attention to the costumes where the different materials used to create them are all easily noticed. Skin tones look very good and the grain structure doesn’t appear to have been scrubbed out at all. Black levels are good and shadow detail is quite strong, this makes the scenes that have been dark a little on previous releases easier on the
eyes, the bull whip sequence being the best example. The Extras: Extras start off with a new audio commentary by filmmaker Alex Cox, who has done some great work for Kino the last few years on some of their Spaghetti Western titles, making him a good fit for this movie as well. He speaks, in his typically relaxed tone, about the impressive opening scene of the film, describing the picture as a “gothic western” before then offering up details on The Malpaso Company, the focus on Eastwood’s character in the movie, the importance of the art director and cinematographer on this picture, background on Eastwood’s work up to this point in the film and the importance of his collaborations with Sergio Leone. Cox also talks about the film’s status as an homage to the Leone pictures, similarities between the rape scene in this picture and in The Outlaw, how he feels the film could have been trimmed a bit and been more effective for it, the quality of the “dark, edgy lighting” used in the picture, the portrayal of the corrupt townspeople in the film and how this makes the film differ from the Leone pictures, the quirky but effective qualities of the soundtrack, details on some of the supporting players that populate the picture and quite a bit more. There’s a bit more dead air here than they probably should have been but Cox is generally strong and quite interesting to listen to. Kino has also provided three new
featurettes, the first of which is an interview with actress Marianna Hill that runs for 14-minutes, titled Lady Vengeance. She talks about her character’s immorality and how it makes her more interesting. She also talks about her mother’s connections to Joan Crawford, which led to her getting put into one of her pictures, how she met Eastwood first when he was working on Joe Kidd but didn’t get the part, what he’s like to work with as both an actor and a director, her own thoughts on the film and westerns in general, the costuming in the film, how she felt the rest of the cast had really “done their homework” and a fair bit more. Up next is Actor Mitchell Ryan in an 8-minute interview titled Hell To Pay. He speaks about what sets the picture apart from typical westerns, comparing it to The Ox-Bow Incident, meeting Eastwood for the first time when auditioning for him 50 years ago, what it was like shooting on location and having to stay in costume for the duration, his thoughts on his character and other bits and pieces related to his work on the picture, including how he still gets paychecks from it due to its enduring popularity. The third interview is with Actor William O’Connell titled The Barber Of Lago and it clocks in at 16 minutes. O’Connell, who has a great sense of humor, talks about the importance of the score in the film, the sets that were built for the movie and the locations that were used, thoughts on his
character, getting along with the other cast members in the picture, seeing what his performance was like right away due to having someone shoot video while the movie was being made, the tight six-week shooting schedule and loads more. All three of these featurettes are nicely edited, well put together and genuinely interesting. Additionally, a vintage promotional featurette titled A Man Named Eastwood is included here. This piece talks about Eastwood’s rise to fame as well as his background and life before film, the importance of the Dollars Trilogy and how Eastwood functions as both leading man and director on High Plains Drifter. There’s some great footage here of Eastwood in action. Rounding out the extras on the disc are two Trailers From Hell entries, one with Josh Olsen and the other with Edgar Wright, both of which are worth watching. Also provided is a pretty extensive poster and image gallery, two different theatrical trailers (which Kino has seen fit to give new high definition transfers to, which is a nice touch), a TV spot, a radio spot, menus and chapter selection. High Plains Drifter may wear its influences plainly on its sleeve but that doesn’t take away from the fact that it is a very well made and ridiculously dramatic western with loads of style and atmosphere. Eastwood’s performance is strong, and the movie is nicely paced and beautifully shot.
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2003 Honda CVR
Sunroof, 230k miles. Best offer! 218-940-6237
2007 Toyota Avalon Touring
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2012 Toyota Prius, 103K miles, sea foam green, newer tires and brakes. Very good condition. $7,950. 715-791-9695. 2014 Nissan Versa Hatchback,70,480 miles, mechanically sound. $6,600. Call 218-391-3282. Wanted: old convertible cars. Any condition, old signs, gas pumps, mini bikes and old Impala cars 1958-1966. 218-372-8758. 1976 Alfa Romeo Spider Convertible. $3,800. 218-254-3289. 2007 Ford Focus Wagon. Looks and runs good, 120,000 miles. $3,500 ($300 below Blue Book). 715-364-2527. 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 Toy-
ota 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 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 $5,000 BO. 713-409-5431 or 218Trucks, Vans, 346-3622
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1994 Ford F150 4WD with Topper. V8 5 spd. stick. 167k. New brakes and starter. Needs tires, exhaust and TLC. $1000. 218-834-5613. 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 pow-
er!! $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 accidents. $34,750. 218-349-8334 2004 Ford F-150XLT 4WD CrewCab. V8 Auto, 168K 2nd owner. Remote Start, 2 sets wheels/tires. New Battery, spark plugs, coils. Susupension upgrade. Tonnau cover, side steps. Mechanically Excellent.. Well-maintained. Over $12,000 invested. $7,500. ot B/O 218-206-1045 1987 Dodge Ram 1/2 ton Pickup. 2WD 318 Auto, no rust. Nice upholstery. Runs good. 130k. Nice tires-orig paint. w/topper. Clean $2,650 218-269-0153
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For sale: David Bradley single bottom plow and four-foot disk, model no. 91757525. Original paint. $95. 715-364-2571. Wanted: Funk transmission in good working condition for a 1977 SIO International Harvester skidder. 218-353-7403, leave message. Knaack Jobsite Tool Box, 23” H x 48” W x 24” D. Powder paint finish in excellent shape. $100 OBO 715-209-1228 1964 John Deere 2010 C Series Diesel Crawler/Loader $5,000. 218-966-1748 New engine hoist chevy picker & engine stand $150. for both. Diamond plate truck tool box 70” outside 5ft inside 15” depth $100. 6 1/2 ft fiberglas topper off chev pu $50. 218-848-2007 12 Tine Spring Tooth Cultivator on steel wheels. $100. 5’ Tow-Behind Field Disc $50. 715-817-8327 Int. single axle clam truck. $2500. Semi hyd wrecker boom $1100. 1999 Chev ext-cab 4x4 119k. $4500. 218-258-3935 Boats/Bikes/ATV/Sno Brand-new Tao Tao 110cc Pit Bike, $500 OBO. Text 715-204-3435. 26 men’s mountain bike, $50, good condition. 218-591-7712. 16’ Microcraft camouflaged boat
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1988. It’s been hung from ceiling inside my house since then. Asking $1,500 or BO 218-940-4984 1981 Yamaha 100 XS full dressed motorcycle w/39k miles and a full dress parts bike with it. Asking $1000. 218-263-8292 1995/96 Ski-Do Free Style. Also trailer for 24ft pontoon boat. 715682-5305 1972 Classic S-S Swan 43 Custom. Freezer/fridge/watermaker. Hull #64 of 67. 715-747-2350 Auto Wanted Auto parts needed. Hood, grill & headlight units for 1997 Buick LeSabre. Hopefully not too expensive. 218-600-7105 Leave Message. Older snowmobiles, motor cycles, mini bikes and most small engines. 218-269-5455 Wanted: Junk Cars & Trucks. Junk cars and trucks for scrap. Partial proceeds benefit Douglas County Humane Society. Thanks. 218348-6942. Misc-Auto\Trailers Wanted: used boat trailer that exactly fits a 12 ft. boat, i.e. not a 14 ft. boat also. 218-213-4369. Lawn trailer, 2-wheel, new heavy hauler by Fimco. 43”x 33” $175 cash. 715-774-3279. Collector 1968 GM 3-speed column shift transmission #GM-17 part #3925647 and bell housing. 218-525-1477 Enclosed aluminum trailer, 6’x3’x41/2’, spare wheel, second tongue, $750 cash. 715-774-3279. 22-foot motor home. Clean & ready to go! Sleeps 6. A/C, TV antenna, microwave. 48,000 miles. $6,750. 218-749-3993 Wanted: 5-hole 13 inch trailer wheels with or w/o tires 218-2634676 1929 Inline Six Double D motor & transmission $1,000 or BO 218410-5011 New Kumho Solus KR21 Tire & rim P225/70/R16 $75 BO New Dayton tire P215/65/R16 $40 BO 218-3435114 2009 Montana 5th wheel, 4 slides, located in Cloquet, Spafford Park, many extras, $22,900 obo. 701 509 7757 Brand new Kumho-Solus Tire and wheel, 225-70-16 (KR21) $50/BO New Dayton tire 215-65-16 $25.
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and 14 ceramic bears. $25 Call 218-525-7702 Miscellaneous Gold-filled pin with 14 diamonds in 5 gold bars. Would make beautiful ring for Christmas, Buy 1 or all. 218-213-8556. Mickey Minnie, cookie jar excellent shape ( $15). Toro electric snow throw like new ($40). 1950
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Clean Shower seat. Good condition. $10. Call 218-525-7702. Wesco Cardio Glide exercise bike 950. USed twice. $95. 218-9691781. Legal-sized pool table, very good condition. You disassemble. $500. 218-428-9963. Old-fashion toddler winter wood sled. great condition. $25 o/b/o.
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Wanted_ Looking for a trustworthy, responsible person to be the caretaker of a small apartment complex in Duluth. The job will require mowing, snow removal, and a few other tasks and overseeing the property. Basic knowledge of plumbing and electricity a plus. At least a 2 year commitment. In exchange we offer a free one-bedroom apartment with all utilities included. Call Hubert at 218-409-0484. 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. 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 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, Wis. 920-344-8016 Mobile home $18,500 Vintage Acres/Gary 2br//1ba includes appliances. Quiet. Large yard/garden area. 218-464-5524 Lake of the Woods, MN 30 acres for sale with well, septic, power & sheds. Minutes from the lake! Asking $78,900. 218-242-7304 Rentals__ Proctor: 2-bedroom newly remodeled, no pets. Deposit, first and last month’s rent plus electric, all other utilities paid. 218-727-5793 or 218-848-2291. 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
Fisherman cabin 1 mile from boat landing on Lake Superior. For info or pictures call (715) 682- 2568 Vacation Rental. Causeway on Gull, Nissewa, MN. 2 Bdrm, 2 bath, sleeps 8 May 13-15th. Close to marina, free boat slip. 218-865-6591
Wilderness Hunting Cabin 16’ x 24’ cabin with steel-sided shed on county-leased land in Ault, Minnesota, 1000’ off forest management road.
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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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$48,000 Wooded Lot with Creek & Well 6632 Hwy 61, Little Marais
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Job Opportunites PART-TIME MUSICIAN Forbes United Methodist Church Proctor, MN. Assist in developing inspirational Sunday services thru music for virtual presentation. Adaptable. Able to accompany vocal & instrumental performances. Temporary position with growth potential. Competitive wage. Apply via email to forbesumc33@gmail.com. White Cedar Shingles, Inc., 2700 Winter St., Superior, is seeking people for temporary positions that could turn full time. The work involves staining, cutting and bundling. For a telephone interview, call Joe at 218-522-1189. 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 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 Duluth Research Study, 218-726-8623. President’s Liquor has full & part-time employment
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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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Employment 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. 218-3482903 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 employ-
ee bonuses! Call 218-727-8040, or apply online at ahprograms. com Work Wanted Life Enrichment Activities Professional. In home, residential facility, memory care, music, life enrichment, companion care, home care..Call, text, email: 612-4235083.richmondscharf@gmail.com 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 Educated hair stylist willing to come to your home and do your hair. Very fair rates. Wendy 715919-0979 Senior will do phone fundraising/ surveys. PT, afternoons, down-
town Duluth. 218-940-9005 Reliable man to care for elderly in home. Run errands, work in your home. Very diversified, excontractor. Call for details 218409-4725 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.. Part-time musician: Forbes United Methodist Church, Proctor. Assist in developing inspirational Sunday services through music
Employment for virtual presentation. Adaptable. Able to accompany vocal & instrumental performances. Temporary position with growth potential. Competitive wage. Apply at forbesumc33@gmail.com. Fellow musicians unite. Singer songwriter, guitarist, performing and recording, collaborative spirit, seeks like minded others for collaborations. Call, text, email. 612 423 5083, richmondscharf@gmail.com
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
ment. 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
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Friday 11-27 Extreme Couponing TLC 5 am
Don’t miss a morning marathon of this extreme reality series, just in time to pick up some tips for the holiday season. In this episode, 15-year-old Haley leads her household when it comes to grocery shopping thanks to her coupon savviness.
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town ABC 7 pm
Kris Kringle secretly delivers toys to boys and girls after Burgermeister Meisterburger bans them from Sombertown in this timeless animated tale. A winter warlock, magical elves and mystical reindeer help Kris.
Hugh Jackman stars as legendary circus showman P.T. Barnum in Greatest Show on Earth, airing Thursday on FX at 11 am.
Frosty the Snowman CBS 7 pm
A discarded magic top hat brings a snowman to life in this musical animated special based on the classic holiday song. Frosty the Snowman spreads Christmas joy to all the girls and boys in town, while a greedy magician schemes to get his hat back.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas NBC 7 pm
Tune in for this 1966 animated special narrated by Boris Karloff which has stood the test of time. Sick and tired of the overly-jolly Whos’ abundant love for Christmas, the holiday-hating Grinch decides to steal their cheer on Christmas Eve.
Robbie the Reindeer CBS 7 pm
Robbie the reindeer is eager to become part of Santa’s sleigh-pulling team, but he must compete with Blitzen, who feels threatened by Robbie’s fancy footwork. Unaware of Donner’s love for him, Robbie faces the race of his life.
The National Dog Show NBC 7 pm
Presented from the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Pennsylvania, this annual dog show is one of the most prestigious in the country. Presented on Thanksgiving, tune in for this rebroadcast of the entire show.
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Rescuers race against the clock to save a sea turtle from dehydration after it becomes trapped in a salt pond in this new episode. Lost in a murky canal, a sick dolphin must overcome numerous obstacles to make his way back to the ocean where he lives.
Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers head out on an oddcouple road trip in this new episode, featuring Hannibal Burress as a guest voice. The duo travels to Cincinnati for a convention - but will have to get there without killing each other.
Movie: The Call of the Wild HBO 7 pm
My Psychedelic Love Story Showtime 8 pm
Sea Rescue ABC 8 am
In the 1890s, a big, gentle dog is stolen from his home and sent to the Yukon, where he is treated poorly and forced into difficult situations. He befriends an elderly frontiersman (Harrison Ford) on his adventures.
The Simpsons Fox 7 pm
Turn on and tune in to this documentary on the “High Priest of LSD,” Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary. An advocate for psychedelic use in the 1960s, this film examines the man through the eyes of his lover and the conspiracies surrounding the pair.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond AMC 10:25 p.m.
Catch the final episodes of this series back-to-back. The divided group is left struggling to reunite, while others set their sights toward fighting for the greater good. Alexa Mansour, Annet Mahendru, Nico Tortorella and Hal Cumpston star.
Monday 11-30 Disney Holiday Singalong ABC 7 pm
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studded performances, new and classic songs and the all-important onscreen lyrics, this holiday event is sure to be a huge hit for families.
All Rise CBS 8 pm
Season 2 continues in this new episode. Simone Missick stars as Los Angeles’ Judge Lola Carmichael, a former deputy district attorney who challenges expectations and pushes boundaries in search of true justice in her new role. Jessica Camacho also stars.
Filthy Rich Fox 8 pm
Kim Cattrall, Corey Cott, Olivia Macklin and Aubrey Dollar star in this dramedy. When the patriarch of a super-wealthy televangelist family dies, his entitled wife and children desperately scramble for power and money in the vacuum he left behind. Industry
Weakest Link NBC 9 pm
A team of contestants answer questions in order to bank money. At the end of each round, the team votes off their underperforming “weak link” until only the top two players remain. This intense trivia game show series revival is hosted by Jane Lynch.
Tuesday 12-1
Movie: The American President AMC 10:30 a.m.
Michael Douglas and Annette Bening star in this romantic dramedy about a widowed president who is attracted to an environmental lobbyist. He decides to pursue her, naively ignoring the political impact this liaison may have during an election year.
Let’s Make a Deal CBS 8 pm
Emmy Award-winning actor and comedian Wayne Brady hosts this hit game show, in which contestants take risks on earning increasingly larger sums of money. This new primetime special is set to feature surprise celebrity guests and remote play.
Wednesday 12-2 Hoarding: Buried Alive TLC 2 pm
In this especially riveting episode of an already-shocking reality series, hoarders Janet and Herv have kept their problem a secret. As they begin confronting the clutter, they must also face secrets regarding their relationship - and sex lives.
Christmas in Rockefeller Center NBC 7 pm
Called the “World’s Most Famous Christmas Tree,” this yearly event at Rockefeller Center kicks off the beginning of the Christmas season with a large celebration featuring celebrity guests and performances. This year, the tree was found in Oneonta, N.Y.
Thursday 12-3
Movie: 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue AMC 10 am
Danielle Chuchran stars as a woman who wants nothing more than to save a beloved puppy orphanage in this family Christmas tale. She rallies friends both old and new to hold a musical holiday extravaganza in hopes
My Big Fat Fabulous Life TLC 8 pm
of earning money for the pups.
Extraordinary People TLC Noon
Like all teenagers, Carmen and Lupita are preparing for college life and seeking out their independence, but being conjoined twins with distinct personalities complicates things as they work to share the experiences of young adulthood and the same body.
B Positive CBS 7:30 pm
Thomas Middleditch stars as Drew in this new sitcom. A divorced father, Drew’s B-positive blood type complicated his search for a kidney donor until he reconnected with Gina (Annaleigh Ashford), a former friend who offers her kidney as transplant.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NBC 8 pm
Season 22 of this iconic legal drama starring Mariska Hargitay continues in this episode. Tamara Tunie and Christopher Meloni return as guest stars in their roles as medical examiner Melinda Warner and Detective Elliot Stabler in the new season.
Wayne Brady brings Let’s Make a Deal to primetime at 8 pm Tuesday on CBS.
Season 7 of this reality series starring activist and influencer Whitney Way Thore continues in this new episode. As the threat of COVID-19 ramps up, Whitney and Chase isolate together at home and are forced to deal with growing resentment along the way.
The Grinch and his dog Max make their annual visit to network television Friday at 7 pm on NBC. DuluthReader.com
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Wars 4:00 <++ Fred Claus Paul Giamatti. <+++ The Polar Express (‘04) Tom Hanks. :10 Dead World Beyond <+++ Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Dead World Beyond Moonshiners Moonshiners Moonshiners (N) Moonshiners: Outlaw Cuts (N) Moonshiners Moonshiners Moonshiners: Cuts SportsCenter (N) Playoff NCAA Basketball Champions Classic (L) NCAA Basketball Champions Classic (L) SportsCenter (N) SportsCenter (N) Boondock Polaris #Vikings Spotlight To Be Announced To Be Announced To Be Announced To Be Announced 4:30 <++ Now You See Me Jesse Eisenberg. <++ Skyscraper (‘18) Dwayne Johnson. <++ Skyscraper (‘18) Dwayne Johnson. <++ Buried (‘10) Ryan Reynolds. < Good Morning Christmas! Alison Sweeney. <+ Christmas at the Plaza (‘19) Ryan Paevey. < Heart of the Holidays (‘20) Vanessa Lengies. <++ The Most Wonderful Time of the Year 3:45 < The Normal H... 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CRYPTOQUOTE A X Y D L B A A X is LONGFELLOW One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints.
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