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inbox Trump violated laws I believe in law and order. After hearing the January 6, 2021, words of Donald J. Trump and resulting actions, an important Law to read is “Title 18 USC 351, Public Law 107-56” passed October 26, 2001. This Law is titled “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001.’’ I call to attention Section 802 which states: “(a) Domestic Terrorism Defined --Section 2331 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (5) the term `domestic terrorism’ means activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.” I believe the Laws of the USA have been violated by Donald J. Trump. It is time for law and order, and removal of this inciter, agitator, and instigator of domestic terrorism. Joan Cervenka Hayward, Wisconsin

Open letter denouncing violence in Washington In response to the Jan. 6 violence in the nation’s capital, Senator Omar Fateh (DFL-Minneapolis) and Senator McEwen (DFL-Duluth) released the following open letter: Friends, What we are seeing today is the hypocrisy of the right-wing manifest. Since Donald J. Trump lost his reelection as President, GOP leaders, charlatans and alt-right grifters have pushed a false narrative that the presidential election was rigged against them. Whether they truly believe this narrative or not, actions have

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consequences. The events taking place on Capitol Hill today are the consequence of those actions. We have seen armed standoffs, at least one of which resulted in a woman being shot. There are lives at risk, including the lives of civilians as well as lawmakers and staff – workers. This summer, the Twin Cities experienced an uprising in response to the murder of George Floyd. The people of Minnesota took to the streets to stand against police brutality. They stood up for our basic rights and for the American idea that we are all endowed the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They recognized that these ideas are not fully realized while people like George Floyd are being murdered by the state. When unrest was taking place in our state – when the demonstrators included black and brown Minnesotans standing against an unjust system – they were met with the full force of the state to restore law and order. Leaders on our side of the aisle implored people to stay safe and stay peaceful while leaders on the other side of the aisle called them gangsters and thugs, vilified and blamed them for the problems facing America. When protestors took to the streets this summer, they were standing up for human rights, for democracy, against fascism. The insurrectionists who have stormed Washington stand against our values. They seek to overturn the will of the people, end American democracy, and replace it with a fascist dictatorship. We are senators for the State of Minnesota, and as such we do not engage in politics at the national level very often, but in moments such as this one we feel we have no choice but to address the issue at hand and take a firm public stand in favor of democracy against fascism. Today, we are calling on our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus, to firmly condemn the affront to our democracy taking place, to condemn the words of Donald Trump and other Republican leaders which encouraged these bad actors, and to reaffirm their commitment to democracy, the peaceful transition of power after elections and condemn

fascism as it rears its ugly head before us. Senator Omar Fateh Senator Jen McEwen

Stauber’s ‘moral ground’

In his January 6th video, Trump said to the rioters “We love you.” Of course he’d say that. Trump “loves” everyone he controls, and threatened by anyone he can’t control. All the people he’s thrown under the bus were those he lost control of. He doesn’t “love” anyone, not even himself. If Trump loved himself, he wouldn’t act like this. Bottom line, Trump still wants to think he’s above the law, which feeds his delusion that he’s in control. In reality, Trump isn’t in control of himself or this country; Trump’s ego, (which he can’t control,) is controlling him, and trying to control the country. And you Mr. Stauber, have been enabling Trump since you first met him, because you desired the “power” over people you thought he had. If you didn’t see this coming, you’re either dumber than you look and act, (which I doubt,) or you’re a hypocrite, who’s still kissing Trump’s butt, and supporting Trump’s lies, as a way of trying to tap into Trump’s base. I believe you’ve known for some time Trump is lying about the election being a fraud, and you’re too gutless to tell the public the whole truth. In either case, you should resign immediately, though I doubt your ego and fear will let you do that. Your cowardice and desire to keep your seat in Congress, is what underlies your fear of challenging Trump’s sociopathic need to lie. We don’t need ANY cowards in Congress. One is only allowed the moral ground one occupies, not the moral ground one claims. As a liar and a hypocrite, you have no right to claim any moral ground whatsoever. Gary Burt Marble, Minnesota

Alternate reality Unfortunately, there’s a weapon which is more powerful than a Nuclear bomb. It has been historically used by despots and Kings quite successfully. It’s called propaganda, and it’s being used to destroy the influence of objective reality (by claiming that objective reality is false). Thankfully, Trump never actually imprisoned liberals in concentration

camps, but he has done much worse – he’s convinced his minions that liberal pedophiles are trying to sexually traffic children, and that, the pundits on CNN etc. are scheming to destroy their fearless leader. To that end, they’ve introduced many false memes, “alternative” facts, and specious claims that are validated only via absurd conspiracy theories. i.e. Are conservatives being denied their religious freedoms?-Perhaps when they insist on changing civil laws to conform with their own beliefs? Or when defending Trump’s claims that Federal judges have been threatened by devious Qannon schemers? But these “ facts,” are essentially impossible to expose while rebutting conservative ideological claims that the authorities deem are lies--which the Deep state knows are lies? To this end every competing rational argument can be rebutted by claiming that all contrary arguments have been created by Clinton and Obama supporters, and are therefore untrue? Why? Because Trump says so? This game has no ending because of the infinite regression involved which can’t provide objective conclusions, and which assumes that only Trump’s “True Believers” are right? Eventually we have to accept objective authorities and facts, not inflammatory rhetoric that parallels fascist’s playbooks. And we must consult dictionaries, encyclopedias, fact checkers again. i.e. real scientific findings that enable the truth to win over ill willed propagandists. We should also honor mainstream media and its journalists again. And then, we can examine all the facts before deciding who to align our opinions with! Peter W. Johnson Superior, Wisconsin

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Good riddance, President Humungus My first experience with Trump and his supporters was when I covered a grim and ugly campaign rally in Green Bay in August 2016. After the 45th President of the United States incited the chaos that took place in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, I had to go back and look at what I said about this character before he became president. While I never believed he had a chance of winning – despite the weak Democratic candidate he was up against – I’m surprised by the prescience of my tone in that 2016 piece about the Trump rally. I noted that the nicest people encountered at the rally were the Secret Service and local security cops who frisked the photographer and I when we entered the convention hall where the rally was being held. We were then escorted to a big pen at the back of the hall, the place where Team Trump decided the media should be herded. Throughout the rally – at least the part I stayed for because I could not stomach staying for the whole thing – Trump supporters would turn around to give us the finger or shout something at us, sometimes at Trump’s prompting but not always. “Welcome to Thunderdome” was the headline of the piece I wrote about that rally, because I had made several references in the story to the Australian Mad Max movie series – movies 2 (Mad Max 2, aka Road Warrior, which featured the evil brute Lord Humungus, and, of course, No. 3, Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome). I started the piece with a quote from Hunter Thompson’s 1972 classic campaign reportage, Fear and Loathing on

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the Campaign Trail: “Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.” I justified its use by saying “Fear and loathing seems to be the modus operandi in this campaign.” Of course, at the time, I did not foresee him being taken seriously by any real Americans, other than the angry, lunatic fringe mobs showing up at his rallies. I hadn’t a clue this country was weak-minded enough to elect a loser as large as Donald Trump, and that we were in for four years of fear and loath-

ing. My thought about the Trump campaign was that real Americans will see through his posturing and recognize that he has nothing to offer. Even his campaign slogan – Make America Great Again – was stolen from the new face of the Ku Klux Klan when it rose to prominence in the north and south in the 1920s by, along with its racist leanings, promoting hatred of Papists (Catholics) and immigrants. All of this was amusing to me at first. And then the goof was actually elected. Yikes! Then I knew we were in for a tu-

multuous four years. But back to the rally. I noted that at this rally, “There was no policy insight or inspiring thoughts about leadership under Trump-Pence. Instead, it’s just constant negativity about Hillary, Obama, the media, the economy and world affairs in general. The TrumpPence mantra is that we’ve been chumps led by weaklings. The world is a scary place and we need tough leaders. We need Lord Humungus.” A few paragraphs later, “Any pretense of congeniality was gone once we stepped inside the big cement garage the Trump campaign had rented for the rally. The room seemed to reek of fear and loathing, and the rally hadn’t even begun. I felt I had left Wisconsin and entered the Thunderdome of a dystopian future.” And so on it went until I finished with the line “Trump would be a terrible president, but he would make a great Lord Humungus.” A newspaperman I know in Illinois contacted me after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots to remind me that three-anda-half years earlier I had said to him that Donald Trump as president would leave a giant shit stain on America. “You were right,” he said. Yes, but I thought it was so obvious to anyone paying attention that this is a man with no moral compass and no mooring to real life in these United States that this could never happen. So sad that so many were so fooled by such a reprehensible snake oil salesman who doesn’t have a lick of respect for or understanding of this country he was elected to run. However, there is one bright spot that was brought to my attention by a former Trumplican who finally admitted Trump should resign after inciting the Jan. 6 chaos. Her comment was, “too bad he also wiped out the political futures of his children,” to which I replied, “Yay! America wins!” Good riddance, President Humungus!

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GOP legislative leaders refuse to denounce lies of ‘stolen’ election days after U.S. Capitol attack Republican legislative leaders on Monday turned down multiple opportunities to denounce views that the 2020 election was stolen, refusing multiple times to contradict the claims of pro-Trump extremists, who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week. Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake, and House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, faced questions from reporters related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as questions about the attendance by some GOP lawmakers at a St. Paul rally called “Storm the Capitol” on the same day. They participated in a virtual event hosted by Forum News Service that featured all four legislative caucus leaders, as well as DFL Gov. Tim Walz. The leaders in recent days have condemned the violent acts in Washington, D.C. that led to the deaths of several people, including one U.S. Capitol police officer who died from injuries sustained in the attack. On Monday, however, Gazelka refused to denounce claims that the election was fraudulent, illegal or unfair. “A lot of people feel like it was not a fair election,” Gazelka said, before criticizing Twitter for preventing the circulation of a discredited New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden. “Almost 40% of those that voted for President-elect Biden didn’t even know about it, and so that’s the kind of thing that they feel like is not fair.” In December, 15 Republican lawmakers, including seven state senators, signed onto a letter addressed to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, asking him to sue Minnesota. “We believe that Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon knowingly and deliberately conducted an illegal election by virtue of his manipulation of the law,” the letter said, referring to a consent decree approved by a Minnesota judge to extend mailin ballot deadlines because of the pandemic. Gazelka also erroneously claimed the election was close; Biden won 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232, about the same margin as Trump’s 2016

victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Biden also received more than 7 million more votes than Trump. “Anytime you have a very, very, very close election, you’re going to have a lot of frustration,” Gazelka said. “And I think it’s important that we listen, and that is what I’m doing.” Daudt, for his part, said he did not agree with claims that the election was unfair, but said nonetheless it was important that elected officials pay attention to voters’ concerns. “What we need to do as leaders is recognize that there is a swath of our population that believes that the election maybe wasn’t fair,” he said. “What we need to do is instill confidence back into them that our system is fair and that and that doesn’t mean ignoring their concerns. It means listening to them and finding out why.” One reason Republican voters may erroneously think the election was stolen: President Donald Trump has spent weeks telling them so. Walz on Friday told the Reformer that he hoped Republican leaders would step up to forcefully defend the country’s election and grew visibly angry on Monday that Gazelka and Daudt were equivocating. Walz said that when the rally migrated to the governor’s residence, the Minnesota State Patrol for the first time had to relocate his son from the house “as he’s crying looking for his dog, wondering what’s going on.” Both men falsely said that Democratic leaders had not similarly condemned the riots and looting that racked Minneapolis and St. Paul last summer after the police killing of George Floyd. They also repeatedly criticized the threatening rhetoric of state Rep. John Thompson, who protested at the home of Minneapolis police union president Bob Kroll, beating a piñata effigy of Kroll and his wife, WCCO journalist Liz Collin. Thompson, who was sworn in for his first term last week, said during the August rally in suburban Hugo, “Come on over here with your ‘Blue Lives Matter’ sign. Blue live ain’t s—, and if people in Hugo don’t support black

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Stauber, fellow Republicans also to blame for D.C. violence Minnesota DFL Party Chair Ken Martin condemned Minnesota’s Republican congressional delegation for fueling the baseless conspiracy theories around the 2020 election that are at the heart of the numerous violent protesters taking place on the steps of the United States Capitol. “For months, Congressmen Stauber, Emmer, Hagedorn, and Fischbach have been fueling the fires of conspiracy and paranoia that now threaten to engulf our nation’s Capitol,” Martin said. “Each of Minnesota Republican members of Congress has worked to sow distrust in the American electoral process and each of Minnesota’s Republican members of Congress bears responsibility for the violence their actions have helped unleash.” A month after the presidential election results, none of Minnesota’s Republican members of Congress were willing to declare President-elect Biden the winner of that election, a sentiment shared by Congresswoman-elect Fischbach. people, f— Hugo.” He said he’d be content to “let Hugo burn.” DFL legislative leaders later condemned his remarks and canceled a planned fundraiser with Thompson. Walz threatened to exit the Monday event early, but relented: “I’m incredibly disappointed in this conversation,” he said, saying Republicans are trying to falsely equivocate the summer’s racial injustice protests with the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol. “All of a sudden we’re going to say both sides do this, but you know, these people are angry because this election was rigged,” Walz said. “The election was not rigged. The election was car-ried out. I’ve lived through elections where my side lost, and I did not do this.” Later in the forum, Pioneer Press reporter David Orrick asked Gazelka flatly if he would denounce the lie that the election was stolen. Gazelka again demurred. “I’m (going to) let you do your job, David. I have

In December, Congressmen Stauber, Emmer, and Hagedorn signed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to overturn the results of the 2020 elections. Stauber claimed, without offering any evidence, that he did so because there were “questions on the integrity of this presidential election” that needed to be addressed. “The sustained attack on the integrity of our democracy by Representatives Fischbach, Stauber, Emmer and Hagedorn has done serious harm to our ability to function as a nation and resolve our differences peacefully via the ballot box,” added Martin. “Today is one of the darkest days I have witnessed. Donald Trump poured the gasoline and Republican leaders lit the match that ignited this dark time in our history. I pray our nation can recover from the wounds inflicted on us by cowardly politicians who would sooner incite violence and sedition than stand up for American democracy and the rule of law.” made the public statements I’ve put it on my Facebook right after Dec. 6, about what I think happened, and that the process is in place to make sure there’s a peaceful transition of power,” he said. “You’re going to have to do the digging.” House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, called on her GOP counterparts to take a stand against the violent rhetoric and false claims of a fraudulent election. “They have this moment where they can decide whether they are the party of QAnon, or they’re the party of Lincoln and Reagan,” she said. “They have the opportunity to take the leadership stance and totally reject and repudiate people who are calling for casualties, people who are calling for civil war, and people who are falsely claiming that we did not have a free and fair and lawful election in the state of Minnesota.”

Georgia Senate wins have big ramifications for Minnesota Democrats in D.C. Democrats won control of the U.S. Senate last week by winning two races in Georgia, a development that will boost President-elect Joe Biden’s chances of confirming cabinet picks and enacting some of his agenda. The flip in Senate control also has ramifications for Democrats in Minnesota’s congressional delegation. The state’s lawmakers will now have far more power, particularly Sen. Amy Klobuchar. While Klobuchar was not tapped to join Biden’s cabinet as some had speculated, she’s in line to chair the Senate’s Rules and Administration Committee. It’s a panel that oversees how the chamber is run – but also federal elections and campaign finance issues. Kathryn Pearson, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota, said leading the Senate’s rules committee is not typically considered to be one of the most powerful posts in Congress. But Senate operations and elections are two topics that are “critically important right now” in the wake of a Capitol breach over baseless allegations of election fraud. “I think this may be a historically busy and significant time for the Rules Committee,” Pearson said. Pearson said Klobuchar’s job leading election oversight comes at a time when Democrats and Republicans diverge sharply over federal elections issues. Faith in the presidential election declined amid unfounded attacks from President Trump this year, leading some in the Senate to object to the results and push for audits or investigations into claims of fraud. “Some of my key priorities as the Chair of the Rules Committee – which has jurisdiction over federal elections – will be to make voting easier and more secure and to halt the flood of special interest and dark money that is drowning out the voices of the American people,” Klobuchar said in a written statement Sunday. A top focus, according to her Senate office, is a massive package of legislation known as H.R. 1. The bill, which Democrats deem the For the

People Act, touches on ballot access, campaign finance transparency, and anti-corruption measures. For instance, it would ban purges of voter registration rolls, automatically register voters and make election day a federal holiday. It would also require presidential candidates to release 10 years of their federal tax returns. Republicans have criticized H.R. 1 for many reasons, arguing, for instance, against a provision to restore voting rights to people who served sentences for felonies and saying restrictions on purging voter rolls would make it harder to ensure voters are legally allowed to vote. Klobuchar also intends to push her Honest Ads Act, which aims to increase transparency in who pays for online political advertisements by subjecting them to the same disclosure rules that have long governed TV and radio ads. The measure was a response to Russia buying political ads in the 2016 presidential election and is intended in part to prevent people and governments outside the U.S. from buying ads to influence American elections. The bill is also sponsored by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, and Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-South Carolina. Klobuchar’s office said the Democrat hopes to modernize election infrastructure and cybersecurity, in part by giving more federal money to help states administer elections, and setting minimum standards for elections, including by requiring paper ballots and audits. Even with a Senate majority, Democrats still face hurdles to passing legislation, namely the filibuster rule requiring 60 votes in the Senate to pass many types of bills. Democrats will control the chamber by using Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to break the 50-50 tie, and are expected to use budget rules to pass some measures with a simple majority. Pearson said leading the Rules committee is a notable job “especially in the current moment where we need everyone to have faith in our electoral system.” The administration of the Senate, including security, falls under the

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Klobuchar Senate’s jurisdiction, so Klobuchar will have a powerful role in light of the events of last week, when a mob of extremists breached security and overtook the U.S. Capitol. “That gives her really the top perch in pursuing those things and working to make the Senate secure,” said Jessica Taylor, the Senate and governors editor at the Cook Political Report. “Certainly the first thing will be looking at what happened on Wednesday and making sure that the Capitol is safe again.” In her statement, Klobuchar said she planned to hold hearings with Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, the top Republican on the Rules Committee, and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “I have announced our intention to hold hearings and conduct joint oversight of the breach of the Capitol on January 6 and work to make the necessary reforms to ensure this never happens again.” Klobuchar is also on the Senate Judiciary Committee where, during the Trump Administration, she earned a reputation for tough questioning of the president’s Supreme Court nominees. While Democrats on the judiciary committee are unlikely to oppose Biden’s nominees, Democrats, now in the majority, will play a big role in getting judicial nominees through the Senate confirmation process, Taylor said. If attorney general-appointee Merrick Garland is confirmed, the Judiciary Committee will be involved in confirming his successor to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

Circuit, a high-profile opening, Taylor said, among other federal judicial posts. Democratic control of the Senate also has implications for some Minnesota members of the U.S. House, who will have a better shot of getting legislation to the president’s desk. Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum, from Minnesota’s 4th Congressional District, will be the delegation’s most powerful House member, Pearson said. McCollum chairs the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, where she has oversight of budget issues at several federal agencies. McCollum has been involved in battles over extraction on public lands and is pushing legislation to ban copper-nickel mining from the Rainy River watershed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Pearson said McCollum is also close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and is “quite well-positioned” to hold sway in the new Congress. Still, Pearson said the biggest shift in power in the House happened when Democrat Collin Peterson lost to new GOP Rep. Michelle Fischbach in the 7th Congressional District. Peterson chaired the influential House Agriculture Committee, and would have had even greater power in the new Congress had he kept his seat. “No members of the current delegation have come anywhere near that level of influence when it comes to agriculture policy,” Pearson said. It’s possible committee assignments will change, but both Klobuchar and Sen. Tina Smith, who was appointed in 2017 and won re-election to her first full term in November, have sat on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, a committee that’s important to Minnesota, given the size of its agricultural economy. (Smith hasn’t been in the Senate long enough to chair a committee, Pearson said, since those posts are awarded largely through seniority.) “Especially given [former Minnesota Seventh District Rep.] Collin Peterson’s defeat in the House, I think having two Minnesotans, if they both remain on the committee, or at least one of them on there is important to the state,” Taylor said. “Certainly because you’re losing that top influence in the House.”

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On being sane in insane places ‘If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them?’ In 1973, Dr. D. L. Rosenhan, a in remission,” despite the fact that professor of psychology and law absolutely no psychotic or manic at Stanford University, published a behaviors had been observed during groundbreaking psychiatric study in their stays. the Jan. 19 issue of Science magazine. After admission, the pseudo-patients The article exposed a serious shortall acted totally sane, each emphasizing coming in the psychiatric hospital to the hospital staff member that the system at the time, and therefore voices had disappeared. When given it became very controversial. Dr. the chance, each also asked about Rosenhan designed the study to try when they could be discharged. Those to answer the question in questions were largely the title of this article: “If ignored by staff. sanity and insanity exist, Despite the fact that each how shall we know them?” one acted totally normally The now famous throughout, hospital stays (some of the offended or averaged 19 days, ranging embarrassed psychiatrists from 7 to 52 days. preferred to call it The patients engaged in all “infamous”) experiment the normal ward activities DR. GARY that was carried out except for the fact that they KOHLS involved 12 different never swallowed the variety psychiatric hospitals and of antipsychotic pills that 8 different people, mostly had been prescribed for professionals (including the author). them. The only obvious difference Each of the eight were totally and between the behaviors of the certifiably sane “pseudo-patients”. experimental group and the regular Each one secretly gained admission patients was that each of them took to one or two different mental notes during their hospitalizations. On hospitals by falsely complaining to a several occasions, a staff member wrote psychiatrist that they had been hearing in the patient’s chart: “the patient voices over the past few weeks. The engages in note-taking behavior.” “voices” in each case were saying only Otherwise none of the staff seemed the three words “empty,” “hollow,” interested in any of the patient’s and “thud.” No visual hallucinations or behaviors. other psychological abnormalities were Although the pseudo-patients relayed to the examining psychiatrist. planned to secretly smuggle out their Except for the fake “chief complaint”, daily notes, they eventually stopped the intake histories relayed by the trying to hide the fact that they patients were entirely truthful. Each were recording their impressions of individual was immediately admitted their stays, and they soon stopped to the target psychiatric hospital, much the smuggling operations – with no to the surprise of most of the pseudoconsequences. patients. The average daily contact with the All but one of the admitted therapeutic staff averaged only 6.8 “patients” were given a diagnosis of minutes per day (mean 3.9 – 25.1 “schizophrenia.” The other one was minutes) and that included the labeled “manic-depressive.” When admission interviews, ward meetings, they were discharged, the 11 had group and individual psychotherapy discharge diagnoses of “schizophrenia, contacts, case conferences and

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discharge meetings. The group observed that attendants only came outside the locked “cage” 11.5 times per 8-hour shift but usually the staff only interacted minimally with the patients when doing so. The staff psychiatrists rarely interacted meaningfully with any patient. If any interaction occurred, it was usually rather patronizing. None of the professional therapeutic staff ever suspected that any of the 12 were pseudo-patients, whereas many of the actual patients knew for certain that they were faking. These patients (who were probably actually swallowing their medications) often said things like: “You’re not crazy. You’re a journalist or a professor. You’re checking up on the hospital.” The therapeutic staff never tumbled to the subterfuge. The only people who recognized normality were those who themselves had been labeled “insane”. Upon the publication of the Rosenhan paper, there arose an enormous uproar from the psychiatric community about the “ethics” of performing such a study. Rosenhan was attacked viciously by those who had been fooled or had themselves jumped to erroneous psychiatric diagnoses in the past. Because of the controversy, Rosenhan announced that a follow-up study would be done in a certain research and teaching hospital whose staff had heard about the first study but doubted that such errors could occur in their own hospital. The staff was led to believe that sometime in the next 3 months there would be one or more pseudo-patients attempting to be admitted. However, by design, no pseudo-patients actually attempted admission. Among the total of 193 patients that were admitted for psychiatric treatment during the 3-month period, 41 genuine patients (20 % of the total) were suspected, with high confidence, of being pseudo-patients by at least one member of the staff. 23 of the 41 were suspected of being fake patients by a psychiatrist, and 19 were suspected by both a psychiatrist and one other staff member. On the bright side, their heightened vigilance saved 41 normal people from receiving a diagnosis of permanent mental illness and the prescribing of brain-altering drugs.

Among the conclusions the reader can draw from these two experiments are these important and quite logical ones: 1] The sane are not “sane” all of the time, nor are those labeled “insane” actually insane all of the time. Therefore, definitions of sanity or insanity may often be erroneous. 2] Sanity and insanity have cultural variations. What is viewed as normal in one culture may be seen as quite aberrant in another. As just one example, there was a famous experiment contrasting American and British psychiatrists and each country’s diagnostic differences. The two groups studied identical video-taped interviews of a group of psychiatric patients. In that series of cases, American psychiatrists diagnosed “schizophrenia” far more often than did British psychiatrists. 3] Bizarre behaviors in people constitute only a small fraction of total behavior. For example, violent, even homicidal people are nonviolent most of the time. 4] Psychiatric diagnoses, even those made in error, carry with them personal, legal and social stigmas that can be impossible to shake and which often last a lifetime. It is a fact that hallucinations can occur in up to 10% of normal people. Vivid flashbacks in patients with PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) have, in the past, been commonly and tragically misdiagnosed as “hallucinations.” Therefore, those unfortunate patients can be permanently labeled (and then permanently over-drugged) as a chronic “schizophrenic of undetermined etiology rather than as an otherwise normal patient with a history of psychological trauma that was having temporary “flashbacks”. (Note that combat-traumatized war veterans prior to the 1990s were often misdiagnosed – and therefore mistreated – as schizophrenics.). Hallucinations can normally occur during certain phases of sleep, halfwaking states, sleep deprivation, or from drug effects – either because of neurotoxic or psychotoxic effects from brain-altering, psychostimulating prescription (or illicit) drugs or from withdrawal from sedating antipsychotic drugs. It is not uncommon for Novartis’s Ritalin;

cocaine; Shire’s Adderall; speed; or Eli Lilly’s Prozac; Pfizer’s Zoloft; Sandoz/ Novartis’s Paxil; Forest Lab’s Lexapro; Solvay/Abbott’s Luvox; to cause (druginduced) psychotic episodes. It is also well known that druginduced mania (and thus a false diagnosis of bipolar disorder “of unknown etiology”) can occur from even standard doses of most psychostimulating antidepressant drugs, especially the SSRIs (“selective” serotonin reuptake inhibitors). But mania can also occur during withdrawal from “minor” tranquilizer drugs (such as the Valium-type benzodiazepines) or “major” tranquilizers (such as antipsychotics like Pfizer’s Geodon; Smith Kline & French’s (GSK) Thorazine; Janssen’s (& Johnson) Haldol; Janssen/J & J) Risperdal; Eli Lilly’s Zyprexa; Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (GSK) Abilify; AstraZeneca’s Seroquel; Sandoz’s ((Novartis) Clozaril; etc.) One well-done study showed that a significant percentage of patients admitted from one psychiatric hospital emergency room was ultimately discharged with a diagnosis SSRIinduced mania and not “bipolar disorder of unknown etiology.” The cause of those ER visits was not a mental disorder but rather a druginduced neurological disorder that was self-limited and best treated by stopping or tapering-down the offending drug. Rosenhan rightly points out, reminding readers of Jack Nicholson’s and the Chief’s characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: “How many people…are sane but not recognized as such in our psychiatric institutions? How many have been needlessly stripped of their privileges of citizenship, from the right to vote and drive or of handling their own accounts? How many have feigned insanity in order to avoid the consequences of their behavior and, conversely, how many would rather stand trial for a crime than live interminable in a psychiatric hospital because they were wrongly thought to be mentally ill? How many have been stigmatized by well-intentioned, but nevertheless erroneous, diagnoses?” To those concerns, I would add, how many patients have suffered the brain-disabling and neurotoxic and neurodegenerative consequences of dangerous, dependency-inducing, and very powerful psychiatric drugs that, if used long enough can easily produce dementia as well as deadly withdrawal effects when the dosages are cut down or stopped?

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Rosenhan’s study has far more implications for our society today than in 1973. Back then there was only small numbers of relatively untested psychiatric drugs to be concerned about compared to the hundreds of even more toxic drugs that are being given to more and more people. Both the old “obsolete” drugs and the “modern”, over-hyped drugs in the current psychiatrist’s armamentaria have been discovered to be braindamaging and often addictive. However, today there are scores and scores of what the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries euphemistically call “second and third generation”, “novel” or “atypical” psychostimulants, anti-depressants or anti-psychotics (see lists above) that were never tested for long-term safety or efficacy before they were granted marketing approval by the FDA. Many of them are commonly used in hugely expensive cocktail combinations which likewise have never been tested for long-term OR short-term safety in the animal labs, much less thoroughly tested in human long-term clinical trials. All of these psychiatric drugs

enter the blood stream and then go everywhere the blood goes, including liver, kidneys, heart, brain, etc. Psych drugs are bio-accumulative substances that are considered hazardous materials by professional waste management crews at manufacturing sites. Such chemicals need to be handled with extreme care – unless, of course, they are prescribed by unaware physicians or nurse practitioners for lifetime use by poorly-informed, obedient patients who may not have adequate liver detoxification capabilities and who might also be taking other prescription drugs with unknown drug-drug interactions. The irony of that reality should give us all pause. Below are some choice quotes from Rosenhan’s original article which was titled “On Being Sane in Insane Places”. (Science magazine 1973, Vol. 179 p. 250 – 258) “It is commonplace, for example, to read about murder trials wherein eminent psychiatrists for the defense are contradicted by equally eminent psychiatrists for the prosecution on the matter of the defendant’s sanity.” “Psychological suffering exists… but do the salient characteristics that

lead to diagnoses reside in the patients themselves or in the environments and contexts in which observers find them?… Psychiatric diagnosis betrays little about the patient but much about the environment in which an observer finds him.” “The view has grown that psychological categorization of mental illness is useless at best and downright harmful, misleading, and pejorative at worst.” “Despite their public ‘show’ of sanity, the pseudo-patients were never detected, and each was discharged with a diagnosis of schizophrenia ‘in remission.’” “Once labeled schizophrenic, the pseudo-patients (in the study group) were stuck with that label. If the pseudo-patient was to be discharged, he must naturally be ‘in remission’; but he was not sane, nor, in the institution’s view, had he ever been sane.” “It was quite common for fellow patients to ‘detect’ the pseudo-patient’s sanity. The fact that fellow patients could recognize normality when staff did not raises important questions.”

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Purging the RINOs I watched my television slack-jawed all day at an attempted overthrow of American government. I hadn’t spent a day like that since 9/11. One Trump supporter echoed Timothy McVeigh’s bible The Turner Diaries. He told an NPR reporter he wanted to set up gallows and hang our congressman four by four HARRY at a time WELTY for their treachery. Donald Trump had exhorted them to get Pence, too. He would be with them on their rampage – in spirit evidently. Trump stayed back at the White House almost giddy, like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, but surprised that others there didn’t seem to share his delight. When they broke into the Capitol the Trumplicans carried the Confederate Stars and Bars. That’s the flag of Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. After five years of describing Donald Trump as a demagogue, the cornered President fully vindicated my fears. His storm troopers put Black Lives Matter protesters to shame in the Capitol that was built with slave labor before the Civil War. I saw baby strollers being pushed at the edge of the crowd. It was like a Southern necktie party, with families bringing picnic baskets to show their children a lynching. Forty percent of Republicans still support Trump unequivocally. That’s enough to scare the bejesus out of the elected Republicans who will face primaries in two more years. Up to now these pols have given Trump cover for all of his lies, including the outrageous claim that he won the election. But those who joined Democrats to validate an honest election were simply the latest crop of the Republican Party’s most detested traitors – RINOs. (Republicans in Name Only) Its not Lincoln’s Party. Its not Reagan’s Party. Its Trump’s party now. That became obvious at the 2016 Republican National convention when Trump threatened to leave and take his delegates with him like the Dixiecrats

white? I understand why the Republican congressmen who had to take shelter during the attack are reluctant to declare support for Trump’s impeachment. It used to be their offices they were afraid of losing. Now it’s their lives. Of all the images I saw, the one that reminded me how far the Republican party has fallen was the pot-bellied protester who climbed up on President Gerald Ford’s pedestal in Statuary Hall. He had stuck one of Trump’s billowing blue snot rags in the crook of Ford’s bronzed elbow. Jerry would have looked happier with pigeon droppings. The natural world is down to two white rhinoceroses today. When they die it will be the last we see of one of nature’s marvels. But the ever selfpurging Republican party has grown a new crop of RINOs. Those are the Republicans who won’t lick Donald Trump’s boots. In my childhood Democrats didn’t worry about Marrying republicans. No more. Nowadays they’d have to kiss them.

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A logo Harry drew a quarter century ago to advertise his unwillingness to march lock step with the the brain dead. did at the Democratic Convention in 1948 because Truman integrated the Armed Forces. And that’s why seeing the Confederate Stars and Bars was so appropriate. It’s a party John Wilkes Booth would join. Trump’s people don’t consider themselves Republicans. It is odd to hear the sometimes Democrat, sometimes pro-choice opportunist Trump call Pence and his ilk RINO’s. One good turncoat deserves another. Republicans have been doing this since “Big Tent” Ronald Reagan got Alzheimer’s. Now it’s Trump’s loyal Vice President Pence’s turn with a bonus – death threats. On the eve of the vote to accept the electoral college Trump reportedly told Pence “I don’t want to be your friend anymore.” Poor Mike reminds me of the dogs under the feet of marble kings sculpted on Gothic sarcophagi where they were

laid to rest. By the 1980s the South’s Dixiecrats were fully integrated into the once hated “Party of Lincoln.” Reagan announced his candidacy in Mississippi, just miles from the infamous site where three young civil rights workers were murdered for registering black voters. Back then, every week some Democratic politician would publicly switch parties to become a Republican. Then Republicans began calling the Democratic party the “Democrat” Party. God forbid anyone call them democratic! Evidently only Republicans were democratic. To prove it they incorporated the old southern strategy of making it hard for black citizens to vote. They had a new Republican Supreme Court to help them and they wanted even more Republicans on the Court. Is it any surprise that the people who stormed the Capitol were almost all

Well-known hate groups ID’d at Capitol riot Members of the ultranationalist encountered members of the Proud street gang known as the Proud Boys Boys in dark clothes walking through were easy to spot at the protests Washington on the night before the that flared across the United States attack. The four men posed for a photo throughout 2020, often in the middle and confirmed their membership in of a brawl, typically clad in black and the group. Few participants involved in yellow outfits. the Capitol siege were seen But in December, as the wearing Proud Boys colors group’s leaders planned or logos. to flood Washington to Since the incident, Proud oppose the certification of Boys social media channels the Electoral College vote have flaunted their direct last week for Presidentrole in the attack and A.C. THOMPSON looting of the Capitol. elect Joe Biden, they decided to do something One prominent Proud & FORD different. Boys account encouraged FISCHER “The ProudBoys will turn rioters as the chaos was out in record numbers on unfolding: “Hold your Jan 6th but this time with ground!!!... DO NOT GO a twist...,” Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, HOME. WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF the group’s president, wrote in a lateSAVING THE CONSTITUTION.” December post on Parler, a social media So far, police have arrested more platform that has become popular with than 80 people in connection with the right-wing activists and conservatives. attack, including at least one Proud “We will not be wearing our traditional Boy, Nick Ochs. They have seized Black and Yellow. We will be incognito pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails and we will spread across downtown and arrested at least six people on DC in smaller teams. And who illegal firearms charges, including one knows....we might dress in all BLACK Maryland man who was captured in for the occasion.” the visitors’ center of the Capitol. More The precise composition of the mob arrests are expected. that forced its way into the Capitol As the crowds ringing the Capitol on Jan. 6, disrupting sessions of both swelled, a small group of men clad in houses of Congress and leaving a police body armor shuffled toward the doors officer and four others dead, remains at the center of the building’s eastunknown. facing facade. But a review by a ProPublicaThe eight men, whose movements FRONTLINE team that has been were captured on video, were identified tracking far-right movements for by ProPublica and FRONTLINE as the past three years shows that the members of the Oath Keepers, a longcrowd included members of the Proud standing militia group that has pledged Boys and other groups with violent to ignite a civil war on behalf of ideologies. Trump. Members of the group joined Videos reveal the presence of the protesters and insurrectionists several noted hardcore nativists and flooding into the Capitol. Footage from white nationalists who participated later in the day shows Oath Keepers in the 2017 white power rally in dragging a wounded comrade out of Charlottesville, Virginia, that President the building. Donald Trump infamously refused to Stewart Rhodes, a former soldier condemn. and Yale law school graduate, who Tarrio does not appear to have been founded the Oath Keepers in 2009 and present during the insurrection. Two built it into a nationwide network, was days before members of the House seen on video standing outside the and Senate gathered to certify the Capitol building. While he was not Electoral College results, Washington’s seen entering the Capitol, he could be Metropolitan Police Department seen talking with his militia followers arrested Tarrio and charged him with throughout the day. possessing high-capacity firearm magaSeveral other of the participants zines and destruction of property over ProPublica and FRONTLINE identified the burning of a Black Lives Matter from video have direct links to the banner last month. A judge barred him white nationalist movement, which from entering the city while he awaits has seen a resurgence of activity during trial. the Trump era. But it appears that Tarrio’s followers One was Nick Fuentes, an internet heeded his advice. A journalist working personality who streams a daily with ProPublica and FRONTLINE talk show on DLive, an alternative

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Ford Fischer’s photo of Proud Boys dressed in black last week the night before the Capitol riots. social media platform. Fuentes, who marched in Charlottesville during the 2017 white power rally there, speaks frequently in anti-Semitic terms and pontificates on the need to protect America’s white heritage from the ongoing shift in the nation’s demographics. He has publicly denied believing in white nationalism but has said that he considers himself a “white majoritarian.” Fuentes, who spoke at pro-Trump rallies late last year in Michigan and Washington, D.C., said he was at the rally but didn’t follow the mob into the Capitol. One group of Fuentes’ supporters, who call themselves the Groyper Army, was filmed running through the Capitol carrying a large blue flag with the America First logo. Days before the Capitol was stormed, Fuentes seemed to encourage his followers to kill state legislators in a bid

to overturn Biden’s electoral victory, as Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University who follows online extremist communities, noted on Twitter.: “This Political Climate Got My Brother Killed”: Officer Brian Sicknick Died Defending the Capitol. His Family Waits for Answers. Brian David Sicknick, 42, died of injuries sustained while trying to protect the Capitol. Family members say they don’t want his death politicized. But they do want to understand what happened. Squire fears that Fuentes’ incendiary rhetoric will inspire his followers to engage in more drastic – even lethal – acts of political violence. “Instead of trying to appear democratic he’s making an argument for fascism, for monarchism,” she said.

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How to deal with domestic terrorism In the days leading up to the atthrough informants or using local law tack on the U.S. Capitol, the FBI reenforcement to pursue suspects for ceived intelligence that extremists lower-level offenses. were planning violence as lawmakers The FBI shared intelligence about gathered in Washington to certify the potential threats with the Capitol electoral victory of President-elect Joe Police, which has been part of the Biden. FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in FBI officials managed to dissuade Washington since 1995. But for reasons people in several places that remain unclear, a from their suspected plans, much-criticized security a senior FBI official said – deployment by the police but there was not enough was unable to prevent the evidence to issue arrest storming of the Capitol on warrants. Jan. 6. “Prior to this event, the In recent years, federal SEBASTIAN FBI obtained information authorities have described ROTELLA about individuals who were American extremists as planning on potentially the most urgent terror traveling to the protests, threat to the country and individuals who were beefed up resources against planning to engage in them, carrying out a wave violence,” said the senior FBI official. of prosecutions this year to head off “The FBI was able to discourage those potential violence as the presidential individuals from traveling to D.C.” election approached. Although the official did not But federal authorities have had describe the tactics used, it is not more success combating international uncommon for the FBI to disrupt terrorists than those with a domestic potential threats by warning suspected focus, reflecting legal limits on extremists, passing the word indirectly investigations of American political

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groups, the opaque and elusive nature of the threat, and President Donald Trump’s embrace of far-right groups, experts say. One fundamental problem is that while federal statutes provide a definition of domestic terrorism, there is not a specific law outlawing it. The reasons date to 1975, when an inquiry by the Church Committee of the U.S. Senate documented that the FBI had abused its powers by engaging in a pattern of spying on American citizens in groups ranging from the Black Panthers to the Ku Klux Klan. The government placed strict limits on the ability of the FBI and other agencies to infiltrate and track such organizations, with new laws and rules establishing more rigorous requirements for surveillance on Americans than foreigners. Today, FBI counterterrorism officials make a point of saying they target individuals rather than groups, and violent acts rather than ideologies. Although federal law punishes terror attacks in certain circumstances such as the use of explosives, it does not attach penalties to the crime of domestic terrorism. Authorities rarely file charges of domestic terrorism against suspected American extremists, resorting instead to prosecutions for hate crimes, illegal gun possession and other federal or state violations. Federal agents often cannot use laws that are applicable to international cases, in which charges of material support of terrorism can bring a sentence of 15 years in prison for the simple act of providing a phone card to a suspect linked to a foreign group. Civil liberties protections for Americans make it harder for investigators to persuade judges to authorize wiretaps and other forms of surveillance. Unlike officially designated foreign terror organizations, U.S. groups such as the KKK are legal, and extremists cannot be prosecuted simply for belonging to or assisting them. The scenes of congressional representatives cowering on the House floor on Jan. 6 are likely to revive calls for new domestic terrorism legislation. A tougher law, experts say, could have helped authorities prevent the assault on the Capitol – to a point. Although the attack on Congress may fit the textbook definition of domestic terrorism, the perpetrators do not appear to have been the kind of wellorganized, heavily armed extremists the FBI has become adept at tracking. In a separate case suggesting that

authorities were watching known groups, Washington city police officers arrested Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the leader of the right-wing Proud Boys group, soon after he landed in the capital Monday. He was charged with misdemeanor destruction of property and possession of high-capacity firearm magazines in relation to the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner at a local church in December. Authorities have not said that Tarrio was planning any criminal activity this week, however. As ProPublica reported, supporters of Trump spent weeks railing on social media about their plans to go to Washington and protest violently when Congress met to certify an election that they regard as stolen. Federal agencies closely monitor discussions on extremist platforms. A crucial challenge to passing a new law would be the politically sensitive topic of designating domestic political movements as terrorist organizations. Proposals for legislation have sought to safeguard legitimate political activity while reducing the legal ambiguities of the offense and other obstacles to enforcement and prosecution. “Cases that meet the existing statutory definition of domestic terrorism are often deprived of crucial federal investigative and prosecutorial resources,” wrote Amy Collins, a former Justice Department official, in a study for the George Washington University’s Program on Extremism last June. Trump’s repeated description of federal agencies as part of a socalled deep state has also hampered enforcement of domestic terror crimes, O’Connor and other former agents said. Some local law enforcement agencies have held back in assisting FBI-led counterterrorism task forces, the former senior FBI national security official said. In addition, the mutual affinity of the president and far-right groups has discouraged some federal officials from pursuing the threat as actively as they should, he said. “To be frank, if you have a president with no message to be proactive against these groups, in fact just the opposite, you will have a lack of enthusiasm if the commander in chief doesn’t support it,” the former senior FBI official said. The Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol may have also benefited from hiding in plain sight. “Sometimes you miss things because they aren’t there to catch,” O’Connor said.

A farewell letter from outgoing NAACP/Duluth president I would like take a moment of silence for all the senseless deaths that have occurred over the last year ... in the name of hate. As we welcome new leadership please take some time to reach out, congratulate, and support our new President Classie Dudley. Classie brings new energy that is highly needed in these tumultuous times. Her new creative ideas will pave the path for an even stronger NAACP Duluth Branch. The most important action membership could do right away is keep the active committees working and activate the ones that need to be started up. These past four years of my Presidency has been amazing, very challenging, and eye opening seeing very clearly how oppression is in the very fabric of our society, like a woven basket, on the highest level. Job qualifications, loan applications, rules & regulation in almost all of our laws have obviously been disproportionate in BIPOC communities since the beginning. Right now is the time to use everyone in our 1,000+ strong membership. Join the revolution! Make no mistake about it, we just witnessed the capital being seized with

lawmakers in it last Wednesday. Please think about that for a moment. NAACP nationwide will always protest in numbers peacefully. All members must get involved! The insurrection that happened at the capital should be a major wake up call and a call to action to get activated and fight for our democracy in all level in our society. While vaccines are still sitting on the shelf we have folks dying from the pandemic. Again, BIPOC communities have been hit the hardest. Until the CDC says it’s OK to not wear masks, please stay masked up and keep a fair six foot distance. At least keep folks around you safe by being masked up. I want to share my highest respect and gratitude to our elders who keep me grounded and heard. I also want to thank the exec committee through these past 4 years. There have been challenges, changes and growing pains but I am very proud and honored with all exec members current and past who have gotten a lot of work done and especially providing the new leadership with a hefty budget. We have not won the war yet but have won many battles.

Our young leadership on the exec board introduced creative new ways to engage community by providing education and boots to the ground initiatives to rectify the many facets of prejudice and discrimination in our society. I want to thank my Vice President Janet Kennedy. She is also the first African heritage woman/person to be elected on the Duluth City Council. Thank you for your steady support, honesty, and very hard work you have accomplished through the years. I also want to thank Christina Trok and Stephanie Williams for stepping up as interim secretary & administrative assistant. You both are amazing human beings and I honor you both for your commitment and hard work to see us through the rest of 2020. I honor and thank entire exec members who have committed their time and skills to support NAACP core values and practices. As MLK, Juneteenth, Black History month, and CJM 2021 Day of Remembrance come up, take some time to re-evaluate why you wanted to be a member of the NAACP. The NAACP Duluth Branch are a collective of folks who fight against oppression, prejudice

and discrimination. We fight for Justice, democracy and fair balance of power that represents all people in our nation. So, let’s support and go to work for the Duluth Branch NAACP new President Classie Dudley, Vice president Abbey DeLisle, and the new exec board. While it’s been a tough past couple years for me. Personally I have received many death threats in the past four years for speaking up & speaking out over 150 to be exact. I had to sacrifice many personal aspects of my life so I could keep people safe whom I love dearly. Losing my partner Racheal Pelfrey and one of my mentors Xavier Bell to untimely deaths has taken its toll on me especially within the past year. I had to take some time out for selfcare. Always take care of yourselves and take the time you need to heal when going through tragic situations in your lives. I pray those of you who have lost loved ones may find some solace as well! I will still be here fighting for what is right and will support the new leadership of the NAACP to the best of my ability. Many Blessings To All, Stephan Witherspoon

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Miracles, infamy and double standards The first week in 2021 has been an extraordinary week. Events have run the gamut of emotions – surprise, joy, shock, anger, outrage, despair and hope. It is a week of miracles, infamy, and double standards. It will be remembered as an historical low point for our deeply divided nation and our democracy. “Miracle: a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.” Webster dictionary One might say a miracle happened in Georgia where on Tuesday, Jan. 5, voters elected two liberal Democrats to the U.S. Senate. This “surprising and welcome event” at least SEEMED miraculous for the conservative Republican stronghold of Georgia. But in the real world things don’t happen inexplicably or because of a “divine agency.” As my high school marching band teacher said, “talent is 90 percent sweat.” The people of Georgia – especially the African Americans – worked extraordinarily hard to organize and get out the vote for Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Speaking of making history, Raphael Warnock will be the FIRST Black U.S. Senator from Georgia and only the second elected from any Southern state since Reconstruction. This surprising fact demonstrates the paucity of racial equality in America. Jon Ossoff, at 33

years old, will be the youngest Senator – a welcome and hopeful portent for the future. Healing the nation after four years of the Trump disaster will require the political equivalent of miracles. At least now Biden will not be ham-strung by a Republican-controlled Senate. But, because of the filibuster in the Senate, he will not be able to enact legislation without some bipartisan cooperation. Plus it will still be an struggle to overcome the ignorance, hate, racism, militarism and partisan division endemic of our society. For example, on Jan. 5, the Kenosha County District Attorney announced there will be no criminal charges brought against the police officers involved in the Aug. 23, 2020, shooting of Jacob Blake. Again, justice has been denied in a clear and undeniable case of excessive use of lethal force by police. Black lives still don’t matter in Wisconsin. Shockingly on Wednesday, Jan. 6, right wing domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol building. Supporters of President Trump came to Washington, D.C. from all over the country to protest Congress officially counting the electoral votes. They believed Trump’s false claims that the election had been stolen and Congress could change the election results. A minority of them overcame police barriers, rampaged through the

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Capitol, and temporarily stopped the joint session, forcing the evacuation of the building. Later in the day Congress re-assembl-ed and officially recognized Biden’s victory. As of this writing, five people are dead and only 82 have been arrested. “Infamy: an extreme and publicly known criminal or evil act.” “Infamous: having a reputation of the worst kind; notoriously evil” Webster dictionary Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday “will live, forever, in infamy...This will be a stain on our country not so easily washed away – the final, terrible, indelible legacy of the 45th president of the United States, undoubtedly our worst.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the rioting a “failed insurrection.” Even Vice President Pence condemned “the violence that took place here in the strongest possible terms.” Like most protests that turn violent, most of the demonstrators were angry, aggressive and vocal, but peaceful. News coverage showed them milling around on the Capitol lawn and occupying the steps, waving flags and signs. News video inside the Capitol showed many of them walking around like tourists taking pictures of the building (apparently ignored by Capitol police). The rioting was done by white supremacists and right wing militias which were known to be extreme, terrorist groups. The double standards of American justice were glaringly on display this week. The police handling of white protesters on Wednesday contrasts sharply with recent actions toward Black Lives Matter protesters. The news video of police blocking access to the capital showed none of the militarized, excessive use of force typical of recent BLM protests. The beating, tear gassing, and mass arrests were absent. Despite weeks of warning, a history of violence for the groups attending, and large crowds, the Capitol Police apparently were not prepared (or chose not to be prepared) for the serious civil disobedience that occurred. There is also no doubt that President Trump incited this riot. His refusal to accept the election results and his repeated false statements that

the election was fraudulent poured gasoline on the rage of his supporters. Despite ALL THE STATES having certified the election results – some after recounts and numerous failed court challenges – he continued to falsely assert the election had been “stolen.” At a rally at the White house, shortly before the rioting began, Trump reinforced these false claims, excoriated Pence for not illegally rejecting electoral votes, and urged the crowd to march on the capital and “take back” their country. Infamously, even after the riot,147 House members and 8 Senators continued to support Trump’s false claims by challenging the certified election results from several states. Wisconsin representatives Tom Tiffany, Scott Fitzgerald, Senator Ron Johnson, and Minnesota representatives Jim Hagedorn and Rep. Michelle Fischbach joined this outrageous, futile effort to subvert the will of the people and overturn legitimate election results. These elected representatives were complicit in an attempted coup and are guilty of sedition. They should be sanctioned for this infamous behavior. There should be consequences for public officials openly lying to the public. There should be costs for enabling and promoting known falsehood. There should be sanctions for promoting illegal and unconstitutional actions. Trump should immediately be held accountable. He cannot be trusted not to incite more violence, declare martial law, pardon himself and other criminals, or vindictively engage in some additional infamous act. We can expect him to continue with his dangerous demagoguery during the rest of his term in office and into the future. He should be immediately removed from power by the 25th amendment or by impeachment. Bringing all the law breakers to justice – including the vandals who ransacked the Capitol, the president who incited them to violence, and all the corrupt officials from his administration – is compatible with Biden’s desire to “heal” the nation. And it is absolutely necessary to that effort. Anything less will only encourage more outrageous, destructive, criminal behavior in the future.

Election for Exalted Shack Master always the same With all the intended and scripted chaos surrounding the 2020 presidential election I figured it would make sense to see how we handle our own sacred vote during the annual election for the post of Exalted Shack Master, a significant position in the realm of Camp Shack life. There are lessons to be learned. We would only hope that the Trump Cult and the politicians of the New Conservative Neanderthal Party (NCNP), formerly the Republicans, would pay attention. The Exalted Shack Master is somewhat like a spiritual leader, dishwasher, disciplinarian and camp cook all rolled into one. The range of duties runs the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. For instance, it is the Exalted Shack Master, and only the Exalted Shack Master, who determines when we head out to visit the other shacks when our camp runs out of essential items such as booze. One camp far to the south keeps their booze in a little shoebox, dozens of those tiny airline bottles. Whenever we visit and they haul them out from under a shelf it sounds like a box of icicles. Other camps simply refuse to come to the door when we arrive, hiding in the darkness of their shack until they believe we’ve left. We are very patient visitors, however, and as soon as a lamp is lit and we see them stir

we’re back to pound on the door and demand entrance and a drink. They just don’t understand patience is a virtue and will simply tolerate us until we’ve finished the last sip. After the votes were breezily counted the reigning incumbent Exalted Shack Master was voted in for the 82nd consecutive year. He did the standard lobbying of the delegates, trying to prove he was most worthy, but in the end it wasn’t that he split the kindling better than anyone else or that he always kept the outhouse stocked with the finest Canadian toilet paper. It was the simple fact that with all of his idiosyncrasies, his foibles and shortcomings, his high-and-mighty attitude, it’s just easier for everyone that he’s Exalted Shack Master. Believe me, it’s just easier that way. He kind of looked like Napoleon standing there, head tipped back and hand on his chest when he said, as he does every year, “I like the sound of Exalted Shack Master. There’s some meat to that title.” During his victory parade around the shack, what with all the royal waving of the hands and looking down his nose at the little people, he spilled wine on his shirt. When alerted, he gave an exasperated sigh, as if we were the ones that did it, not he. We told him to relax, he had at least five clean shirts still left, all hung carefully on hangers near his bunk. He smiled, started the parade again and

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continued to goose-step in a hale-andhearty dictatorial fashion. He was right back to his old self again. After reading the label of the offending bottle of wine, he proclaimed that our shack would start an importing company called the Intergalactic Wine Co., and we would all travel to France on business. The shack has begun to lean again. There appears to be a little more gravity on the east side of the building than on the west, so one of the Exalted Shack Master’s first decrees was, “The shack shall be leveled before next deer season.” A second decree came easily. “The Camp Shack Drum and Bugle Corps shall once again visit our other shack friends in their deer stands next November, just to see how the hunting’s going. Everyone loves our drum and bugle corps.” There was a bit of sarcasm in that last statement. Over the years we have come to be known as the “Noisiest shack west of the Dago,” and we all enjoy the notoriety that brings. Hunters have stopped by to tell us to quiet down, that we’re always banging, pounding, marching that stupid band around, shooting, burning,

trail building and creating all sorts of mayhem for the local deer. Well, when we hear that, we just get noisier. The deer are used to it. The deer expect that. The other hunters who only show up to their camps for a few days during deer season just don’t understand that. “Blow the horn and strike up the band. We shall play ‘Amazing Grace’ and the ‘Deer Kill Polka’ until the hunters weep openly in their stands,” the Exalted Shack Master proclaimed. We all know that you pretty much toe the line when dealing with the Exalted Shack Master. Provide him grief or dismay and you could be banished to the coldest, windiest, loneliest stand “where never a deer shall roam.” Nobody wants that headache. Toe the line. Play the game and bow before the Exalted Shack Master before you are told to. It’s just easier that way. To the Trump Cult and the NCNP politicians, go sit on your hands until you learn to behave during an election.

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The chain of being Where do we belong in god’s universe?

In the 16th Century the dominant religious “theory” was that everything on the planet from God down to minerals and rocks were links in the Elizabethan Chain of Being. The earth that came from the disintegration of rocks was at the bottom of the chain. At the top of the chain was God. It progressed downward to angels, demons (fallen angels), stars, moon, kings and queens, princes, nobles, men, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, precious metals, other mineralsand, finally, rocks. Each category had its own “chain” from top to bottom. As an example, an oak was at the top of the tree chain, the yew was at the bottom. (The yew tree had toxic, death-dealing leaves representing death.) Kings were at the top in the human chain, peasants at the bottom. If a human tried to rise above his anointed place in the chain, he brought disaster to himself and family. Think Macbeth. Shakespeare lived during the reign of Elizabeth I {1558-1603), the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Ann Boleyn whom he had beheaded on a trumped-up charge of adultery with half of his court. He fully understood the Elizabethan Chain of Being and used it in the plots of his historical plays, particularly Macbeth, his play about a nobleman killing King Duncan of Scotland so he could assume the powers of the throne. In the play, Macbeth’s wife actually kills King Duncan {“Who would have thought the old man would have so much blood in him?”) because Macbeth wavers. After his ascension to the throne, Macbeth and his Lady are in constant trouble. In the last act, King Macbeth realizes he has broken the links in the chain: “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools The ways to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Lifes’s but a walking shadow, A poor player that struts and frets his

hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Macbeth has been in the English literature curriculum for hundreds of years because it teaches that to gain power too fast in society can lead to disaster. And to gain too many riches too fast can also be disastrous.

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The battle of the bathrooms

A waiter at an up-scale restaurant in New York recently reported on conversations he overheard while serving lunch to the wives of four billionaires. The four argued about who owned the most bathrooms in their various

mansions. After some tabulation, it was announced the winner had 39 bathrooms. I wonder how many bathrooms Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns in all his properties scattered around the world. His recent divorce made his exwife the 15th richest person on the planet. Maybe he lost some bathrooms in the divorce settlement. His Washington, D.C. mansion has 27 bathrooms and he owns several others in the world. Bezos, the richest private person on the planet, most likely also owns the most private bathrooms, but he will have to go some to beat out the public property with the most bathrooms. Perhaps the next competition will settle around garage spaces. A Hollywood mansion just went on sale for $28 million. It has a 28-car garage next to the tennis court. Buckingham Palace, where Queen Elizabeth II lives with Prince Phillip in six rooms, has 78 bathrooms to serve 775 rooms. The palace, sitting on 39 acres, contains 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices, 52 royal and guest bedrooms, and 19 state rooms. There is one swimming pool in the palace but it is reserved for the royal family.

Teton County, Wyoming vs. Lowndes County, Alabama In a recent column I described Teton County, Wyoming as the richest county in the Divided States of America. Now I’m going to describe one of the poorest counties, Lowndes County, Alabama, as covered in the

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Nov. 30 New Yorker. There are so many poor counties in the DSA, no one seems to know the absolute poorest. First, let’s remember that the poorest counties provide the most “volunteers” for the military because young people can’t get good-paying jobs and want to escape Dogpatch. Second, let’s admit that the poorest counties have many blacks, Indians, Latinx, and poor whites who live in squalor and poor sanitary conditions. Currently, of the 10,000 people living in Lowndes County, 7,000 are black. Most of the present residents are descendants of enslaved cotton pickers. It used to have more slaves than most counties because the soil used to be

good for cotton. The base of the soil is almost impermeable clay, which makes it very difficult for operating septic systems. Alabama law requires that any residence not on a municipal sewer line must have a private sanitation system. That means a septic tank and sanitary system. At least 40% of the homes in Lowndes have inadequate septic systems-or none at all. Many homes have “straight pipes” that empty waste to the grass outside. Because of the clay soil, the waste does not filter down. It sits on the surface, smelly, infectious, and causing occasional backups. Many of the homes contain dangerous black mold.

In heavy rains the water stays in the ditches for days, creating big storms of mosquitoes that pass on many diseases. In Alabama, not having a septic system is a criminal misdemeanor with a fine of $500. Because of the clay soils, a good septic system often runs $20,000, way beyond the means of many residents. More than 80% of Alabama homes are not hooked to municipal sewer systems. (One in five American homes are not on city sewer lines.) The Southern Black Belt has wells, rivers, and lakes polluted by E.coli and fecal coliform. All of this degradation exists in the richest country in the world in Southern states governed by the richest political party in the DSA, the White Republican Party.

What is the 21st century chain of being during the Trump years?

The top of the 21st century Chain of Being, if there is one chain left, still has a god, but his name is King Donald Trump who claims he has never needed forgiveness of that other God. He is the top link in the chain, followed by his five children by three wives: Princes Eric, Donald Jr, and Barron, Princesses Ivanka and Tiffany, and god’s third queen, Melania-and his nine grandchildren. After all, he is worshipped by evangelical Christians as “The Chosen One.” The next link down is Lord Jerrod Kushner, the king’s son-in-law and adviser-in-everything. In descending links we have billionaires who contribute to King Donald’s position as god of the chain, including hedge fund managers, CEOs, Wall Street investment bankers, Silicon Valley impresarios, and corporate tax avoiders and tax haven hunters. Next in the chain, we have those who can work at home during a pandemic. Next link down the chain we have all those “essential” workers making a country work: cashiers, sanitation crews, nurses, doctors, custodians, maids, cooks, teachers, nursing home attendants, grocery store workers, maintenance workers, etc. The next link is filled with Blacks, Indians, Latinx, and those of other colors as prescribed by King Donald. The bottom link is composed of our 600,000 homeless. As for the inanimate links, the sturdy oak tree has been replaced by the waving palm trees of Mar-a-Lago.

Winners and losers of the pandemic battle

Some historians say the rich always win the pandemic wars because they

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are the best protected during worldwide pandemics. But a few have said the poor laborer actually became the winner of the Black Plague in the Middle Ages because so many died the richwere forced to increase the wages of their laborers because they were so scarce. The trouble is almost a quarter of the population of Europe had to die to create the scarcity. The current COVID-19 epidemic has taken the lives, health and livelihoods from millions of “essentials” and others while the world’s billionaires have experienced great surges in their wealth because of changes in the marketplace. Since March of 2020, 651 DSA billionaires have seen their wealth increase by a cool $1 trillion-while 55 more billionaires have been created in the ten months. And who is generating all of this wealth? Why, it’s the “essential” worker, the retail, health care, food, maintenance, and sanitation people who are dying at a rate three times that of a stayat-home “worker.” If that $1 trillion had been distributed equally to every American, each person in the DSA would have received more than $3,000! In November, 2020 we still had 29 million workers out of work. Ever since Ronald Reagan in 1980 said the most terrifying words in the English language were: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”, we have seen a rise of a small class of super-wealthy top-of-chain individuals. Reagan’s California Mafia gave them many trillions when they created the fantasy-and theory -- that big tax cuts would “trickle-down” and create tremendous economic growth. The only result has been a “pissed-on” theory that destroyed the low and middle class. Now, the richest onetenth of one percent has wealth equal to what is held by the bottom 90 percent.

providing us with electrical power, irri-gation, roads and bridges, airports, buildings, parks and recreation facilities, and work experiences for the young. In 2020 the Institute for Policy Studies has assembled a list of a dozen superrich have had a tsunami of wealth but have failed to protect their employees from the virus and have refused to pay them a living wage. They are called the “Delinquent Dozen.” The top character in this greedy chain of being is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. His wealth has increased by $70 billion in the last 10 months, but he still refuses to provide adequate protection and working conditions for his workers and fails to pay at least a half million of his employees a living wage. Bezos accepts unions in Europe but not in the DSA. Taxpayers provide food stamps and other benefits for his employees. The second link in the Trump chain of being is the richest family in the world, the Waltons of Walmart, who made an additional $48.2 billion during the pandemic. They are well-known for union-busting, supporting right-wing causes, and failing to pay living wages to their “essential” workers.

Will the rich ever step up to save themselves?

When people don’t have enough to eat, find a shelter, or work for a living wage, they usually get angry. Witness the French Revolution, the French Razor, and the absence of cake. What would have happened in this country if FDR had not put The New Deal together with all of the organizations with most of the alphabet providing work with dignity and purpose for millions of hungry people? After almost a 100 years, we are still depending on construction projects

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Stock your closet Dear Heloise: If this year has taught me anything, toilet paper, wipes, bathroom cleaner and facial tissue are all important to keep on hand. – Brian B., via email Brian, it’s so important to keep a well-stocked pantry and linen closet. Some stores may be limiting quantities of these items – mind their limits. – Heloise ORGANIZATION NATION Dear Heloise: A standard pillowcase makes a good cover for a large standing mixer. I got one to match my kitchen decor. – Mrs. G., via email BEST BRA Dear Heloise: Laundry experts agree that ladies should wear a bra two to three times before laundering it, but not on consecutive days. Since I don’t like putting unwashed clothing back into my dresser drawers, I devised a way to keep track of how often a bra has been worn so I know when to launder it. I have two S-hooks hanging from the rod in my closet. After a bra is worn

once, it goes on the first hook. After the second time, it goes on the second hook. One more wearing, and washed it gets! At times, I have three or four bras hanging on the S-hooks ready to be worn. – P. A., via email

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A PLACE FOR PASTE Dear Heloise: This isn’t my original idea, and I’m not sure where I heard it, but I have re-purposed a hand soap dispenser to use it as a toothpaste dispenser. I find it to be very convenient and better than a tube. I used a little water to begin with for the right consistency to be able to dispense. It’s a winner. – A Reader, via email BREAD SPREAD Dear Heloise: My family and I like to share and experiment with different jams, jellies, flavored cream cheeses and other bread spreads. We slice bagels into 1/2-inch slices VERTICALLY instead of slicing the bagel once horizontally. This gives us a small section of bread to use to sample our different toppings. -– Caroline H. in

Pennsylvania GIVE IT YOUR ALL Dear Heloise: I’ve always heard the old adage: Marriage is 50 - 50. It’s not. Marriage is 100 - 100. Each person has to give their all to the marriage every day. – J.W. in California DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? Dear Heloise: I’d advise folks to make sure their house numbers are visible from the street. The numbers, whether attached to the house or painted on the curb, can fade, chip, fall off, be covered in snow or dirt – not good. They must be legible. There are companies out there that will paint numbers on your curb, or check with a neighborhood kid. Make sure all paint jobs correspond with your homeowner’s association’s rules and regulations. – James W. in Massachusetts CHOP, DICE OR MINCE? Dear Readers: When a recipe calls for veggies to be chopped, diced or minced, do you know the difference? Let’s take a look: Chop: Large, rough, uneven pieces Dice: More uniform, “prettier” pieces, to sprinkle on top of dish, perhaps Mince: Small, fine pieces – flavors are more easily released from minced foods, like garlic! – Heloise A REMINDER TO MY READERS Dear Heloise: A reminder to your readers: Wash cloth masks frequently. And be sure to cover both nose and mouth. – Maria B., via email ORGANIC POTATOES Dear Heloise: I like to buy organic potatoes that come in a bag but always heard not to store potatoes in the refrigerator. How can I keep them from growing sprouts if they can’t be refrigerated? – Vivien W., Sherman Oaks, Calif. Vivien, organic potatoes will start to sprout anywhere from 30 to 140 days after being harvested. They need to be stored in a cool area with a temperature of 40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit and about 85% humidity. Examine them once a month to remove any sprouts. Be sure to discard any soft or mushy potatoes or those with black or green spots. Have you given any thought to growing your own organic potatoes? – Heloise

PUMPKIN BREAD Dear Heloise: My husband loves to cook and especially to bake. He love, love, loved your pumpkin bread recipe! We don’t have a copy, so would you reprint it in your column? He says he wants to make several loaves and freeze them. – Cindy C., Howell, Mich. Cindy, I love this recipe. It’s so easy to make and tastes great. You’ll need: 1 2/3 cups flour 1 1/4 cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1/2 cup salad oil 1 cup canned pumpkin Sift together all dry ingredients. Add nuts and mix well. Set aside. Combine remaining ingredients and add to dry ingredients. Mix just enough to blend. Pour into 9-inch-by-5-inch-by-3-inch greased and floured loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 60 to 75 minutes. You’ll find this recipe in my pamphlet “Heloise’s Baking Soda Hints and Recipes. To order a copy, visit Heloise. com, or send $5 along with a stamped (70 cents), self-addressed long envelope to Heloise/Baking Soda, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX, 78279-5001. CANNED TOMATO PASTE Dear Heloise: I bought a tube of tomato paste thinking it would be so much more convenient than the can when you only need a little. It was great until I saw that the tube had exploded after several weeks in my refrigerator, making a mess. Now I’m reluctant to buy a tube again. What could have caused this to happen? – Diane, via email Diane, if the canner hasn’t sufficiently sterilized the tomatoes, cans and equipment, or if you forgot to wash your hands and thoroughly clean your prep area, two things can happen: 1. Fermenting causes CO2, which can build up pressure in the tube or can, causing it to explode. 2. Botulinum bacteria can also cause CO2 to build up, but this is very serious. An exploding tube would be the least of your problems. If you do not use up all of your tomato paste within a week, I suggest throwing it out to avoid any complication that might arise. -- Heloise Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001.

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TASTE! Big winners of 2020

The many setbacks of 2020 notwithstanding, there were numerous bright spots for the wine industry over the course of the year. As regular readers of this column know, I oversee four major international wine competitions. The insights I gain as I digest the competition results – from new trends and developments to the confirmation of long-held truths – give me a unique window into the year-to-year evolution of the wine world. I’ve assembled highlights from the four competitions that provide a peek into the not-too-distant past, a 2020 that was better than you might have imagined given the circumstances of COVID-19 lockdowns and rampant disruption of our dining and consumption habits. We kicked off the year with the Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition in January. The domestic wine of the year was the Ledson 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Reserve, Alexander Valley ($120). Winemaker Steve Ledson emerged from the construction business a couple of decades ago with a passion for grape growing and winemaking. He had help from brilliant winemaking consultants along the way, but these days, he’s pretty much a solo act with a commitment to sourcing from exceptional vineyards and the finest techniques in the cellar. It shows. The imported wine of the year was a tie between the exceptional 2018 Doble de Diez Mencia, Spain ($22) and the 2018 Martin Codax Albarino, Rias Baixas, Spain ($15). A relatively obscure grape variety,

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Domestic wine of the year at the Winemaker Challenge International Wine Competition. it is one of the most charming wines from Spain and typically modestly priced. Albarino is probably Spain’s most exciting white wine, and remarkably, the Martin Codax is the product of a cooperative – a very demanding, exceptionally well-run coop, I would add. The most impressive performance, however, was turned in by Runquist Wines from California’s Sierra Foothills. Winemaker Jeff Runquist is the resident genius, making wines that are both profound and accessible, powerful yet elegant, always well balanced. Runquist rang up 29 medals at the 2020 Winemaker Challenge, where the judges are prominent winemakers. The 38th annual San Diego International Wine & Spirits Challenge, typically judged by a mix of wine journalists, sommeliers, winemakers and other wine professionals, was up next. V. Sattui, one of the Napa Valley’s greatest success stories, simply stole the show. Sattui, situated along Highway 29 in the heart of the Napa Valley, sells most of its wines at the winery, so don’t look for it at your favorite wine shop (you

can purchase the wines online). Sattui specializes in vineyard-designate cabernet sauvignon and zinfandel, though it does dip into other grape varieties with equal enthusiasm. The big hits for Sattui at the 2020 San Diego competition were its 2016 Vangone Vineyard, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($140) and its 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Mt. Veeder ($92). The two cabernets tied for wine of the year honors as V. Sattui went on to wrap up the winery of the year title with a total of 26 medals, including 10 platinum and 12 gold. If you ever visit Napa Valley, V. Sattui, with some of the finest picnic grounds in the valley, is a must-stop. The 17th annual Critics Challenge International Wine Competition followed. Judged by prominent wine writers, it surprised with a tie for domestic wine of the year between two California chardonnays. Over the years, many wine journalists haven’t been kind to California chardonnay, put off by sometimesexcessive use of oak and uber-ripe flavors. There is a new trend afoot, however, toward more-balanced chardonnay that combines richness, structure and more subtle influence from oak aging. Two superb California chardonnays emerged from the crowd: 2018 Palazzo Chardonnay, Napa Valley ($45) and 2018 The Barn Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast ($65). Palazzo is a relatively new brand conceived by entertainment industry executive Scott Palazzo in 2003. Sourcing primarily cool-climate grapes, the Palazzo chardonnay are popular at many high-end restaurants because they are multidimensional and they show freshness and structure yet the richness and complexity many chardonnay enthusiasts crave. The Barn is a relatively new brand from Kenwood Vineyards, an icon of the Sonoma Valley. Like the Palazzo, it is multidimensional, beautifully

structured and well balanced. Imported wine of the year also went to a white wine, which is somewhat unusual. The 2019 Starborough Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough, New Zealand, took the honors and is well priced ($15) for the quality in the bottle. Navarro’s selection as winery of the year was further confirmation that the small Mendocino County winery is a gem among family-run wineries. Situated in the cool Anderson Valley, Navarro specializes in aromatic white wines, pinot noir and some of California’s finest late-harvest dessert wines. Navarro racked up 13 medals, with a stunning haul of seven platinum awards and three gold. The challenge series ended with the 13th annual Sommelier Challenge, where, of course, the judges are certified sommeliers. The somms ended the year on a surprise note, awarding nine medals to Akash, which is less than 10 years old and situated in a region, Temecula Valley, that sometimes fails to get the respect it deserves. An hour from San Diego, just across the Riverside County line, the Temecula Valley is home to a growing number of wineries. It has a Mediterranean climate with cool evening temps that help maintain freshness and acidity in the grapes. Akash amassed four platinum awards and a gold among its nine medals, including a stunning rose wine it calls Parlez-Vous Rose ($35). 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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NUTRITION

BY CHARLYN FARGO Creators Syndicate

The new 2020 to 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans are out, updated every five years. The new edition urges us to make every bite count – to think about how everything we eat and drink makes a difference. There are five important recommendations, which probably sound familiar: • Follow a healthy eating pattern. A healthy eating pattern and an

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Making every bite count

appropriate calorie level will help you get the nutrition you need, achieve and maintain a healthy weight, and reduce your risk of chronic diseases. • Focus on variety, nutrient density and amount. To meet your nutrient needs and stay within your calorie limit, choose a variety of nutrientdense foods across all food groups. Nutrient-dense foods include vegetables, fruits, whole grains and fatfree or low-fat dairy products.

• Limit calories from added sugars and saturated fats, and cut back on sodium. • Shift to healthier food and beverage choices. Choose nutrient-dense foods and beverages across all food groups in place of less healthy choices. • Support healthy eating patterns for all. Everyone has a responsibility for supporting healthy eating in all settings, such as at home, work, school or wherever food is available.

So, what’s different about the new guidelines? • Emphasis on adopting a plantforward diet. • Encouragement to consume less red and processed meat. • Acknowledgement that an egg a day is OK. • Clear-cut advice that less sugar consumption is recommended for you and your baby. For adults, added sugars should make up no more than 10%

of daily calories (about 200 calories a day for a 2,000-calorie diet, or about 12 teaspoons of sugar for the day). And for the first time, the guidelines recommend no added sugar for children younger than age 2. • Advice on what babies from birth to age 2 should be eating for the first time since 1985 — what to eat by life stages. • Encouragement of physical activity, plus healthy eating, for adults ages 19-59. (Aim for 150-300 minutes of moderate physical activity weekly, plus activity that builds muscle.) • Acknowledgment that adults 60 and older have lower caloric needs but similar or higher nutrient needs, hence the emphasis on “every bite counts.” Q and A Q: Is corn a healthy choice, or should it be avoided because it’s a starchy vegetable? A: Starchy vegetables, such as corn, peas, potatoes and winter squash, are packed with health-promoting fiber, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals.

They have taken a bad rap because they are carbohydrates that many think spike blood glucose levels. However, corn, like other whole grains, is rich in fiber, and fiber slows digestion, improves regularity and actually decreases the risk of blood sugar spikes. Whole-grain corn provides a good source of fiber, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese, selenium and thiamine. Yellow corn contains more than 10 times the amount of vitamin A of other grains, along with antioxidants and carotenoids, which are associated with eye health. The bottom line is that corn can fit into a healthy diet in the right amounts. It’s the processed corn products (like corn chips and corn syrup) that are not such good choices. RECIPE Here’s a light, wonderful lunch recipe to help you in the journey to healthy eating. It abides by the newly released dietary guidelines, and best of all, it tastes great. If you haven’t tried farro,

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Use fresh herbs to reduce sodium Salt has long been used to add flavor to people’s favorite foods. In fact, the use of salt as a means to preserving foods and adding flavor to recipes dates back to ancient times and has led to countless conflicts ever since. According to History.com, wars over access to salt reserves in China are believed to have been fought as early as 6,000 B.C. Though that shows just how valuable salt has been throughout much of human history, it doesn’t indicate the negative effects that can result from diets that feature excessive amounts of sodium. The American Heart Association notes that sodium plays an essential role in the human body by regulating the kidneys and helping

to control the body’s fluid balance. Sodium also helps send nerve impulses and affects muscle function. However, excessive amounts of sodium can compromise heart health. The AHA notes that excessive amounts of sodium in the bloodstream pulls water into the blood vessels, increasing the total volume of blood within them. As more blood flows through blood vessels, blood pressure increases. Over time, that can adversely affect blood vessels and speed up the build-up of plaque that can block blood flow. Higher blood pressure forces the heart to work harder and increases a person’s risk for heart disease. So what about sodium, a mineral so valued, and indeed vital to hu-

man existence, that it’s led to wars and created countless devotees in kitchens over the centuries? If it’s flavor cooks are aiming for, it’s possible to reduce reliance on sodium and increase the use of fresh herbs without sacrificing flavor. Such a transition can improve heart health and introduce a host of new flavors at meal time.

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Cilantro are the delicate leaves and stems of the coriander plant. Like basil, cilantro should be added to a dish right before serving and should not be cooked. Cilantro can be paired with beans, tomatoes, corn, and avocados among other foods, and is widely used when pre-

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Parsley Parsley isn’t just a garnish used to add aesthetic appeal to plates. Flatleaf parsley provides a light and fresh flavor, while the AHA notes that curly parsley offers a slightly peppery profile. Parsley is typically added to a dish during the final minutes of cooking or right before serving, and can be paired with chicken, fish, potatoes, and pasta among countless other foods. These are just a handful of herbs that can give meals a flavorful punch and help chefs avoid an overreliance sodium in their recipes.

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An elegant armageddon That is a deceptive headline. I chose it on purpose because this week’s beer is called La Fin du Monde (translation: The End of the World). However, in this instance, the brewery, Unibroue of Chambly, Ontario, Canada, chose to pay tribute to the French explorers of the “New World” who, upon declared that they had, in fact, reached the end of the world. The name is easy to understand while drinking this delicious Belgian-style trippel ale because you feel you have achieved something. You may not have discovered the end of the world, but you have discovered this amazing beer, and that’s something. It’s a Belgian trippel that’s refermented in the bottle. When Unibroue introduced this beer back in 1994, it was the first bottleconditioned ale in North America.

This is a warm and inviting beer. It pours a hazy gold with an active white head. The mouthfeel is warm and fizzy – like tiny dancers are tap dancing on your tongue. Yes, the carbonation leaves your palate feeling prickly, in a very pleasing way. There is a vast carmelly and at the same time unidentifiable fruit flavor vying for position in the layers of flavor that wash across the palate. I decided to crack my bomber bottle La Fin du Monde while feeling hungry. I reasoned that the origin story of strong Belgian ales is that they were brewed at monasteries by monks for use during times of fasting, to serve as sort of a liquid bread to sustain the monks in their duties and devotions. I had a Greek-herb marinated pork loin in the crock pot, sliced Yukon golds sliced in a high heat oven for

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I filled a wine glass with the hazy golden ale (I lost my favorite tulip glass in the divorce settlement – the ex broke it over my nose). I sniffed at the liquid, and then I was momentarily distracted, wondering if I had COVID because I wasn’t getting a whiff from this beer. But the taste – ooh-la-la, this is one elegant ale. It’s soft and spicy warm. There’s really nothing to lead you to suspect that this bruiser weighs in at 9 percent. It just seems too refined to pack that kind of punch. Back in the first decade of this century I met up with the Milwaukee-

based regional rep for Unibroue. He was a cool guy with a great palate and a talent for educating others about what makes beer great. So I invited him to conduct a beer tasting in the city where I was living at the time. The tasting event was to be held at a friend’s tavern. I chose to hold it there because his place was known for an amazing tap lineup, and I knew his customers would not mind parting with a few bucks to take part in an exclusive beer tasting. However, I did not know that the beer rep had never held an event in a tavern. I’d done many tavern tastings, so I didn’t think anything of it, but when the beer rep arrived from Milwaukee, he was ready to turn around and call it a day. He was concerned about holding people’s attention in a tavern. I told him not to worry. We’d have our own space at one end of the bar. This was back before the smoking ban had gone into effect, so he was

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY Duluth Herald January 14, 1888 STRONG COMPANY FORMED. And Steel Ships of the “101” Type Will Be Turned Out by the Mile. Capt. McDougall Interests Leading New York Capitalists in His Patented Vessel. For some months Capt. McDougall has been busily at work interesting capital in his steel barge patents. He has finally succeeded, and the American Steel Barge company has been formed in New York with a capital stock of $500,000, and with the following monied men among its incorporators: Alexander McDougall, Colgate Hoyt, a leading capitalist of New York; J. L. Colby, president of ther Wisconsin Central; Chas. C. Colby, his brother, and agent of leading trust companies in New York; Pinckney F. Green, Charles W. Weiffenback, and Robert L. Murray, all prominent moneyed men of the easy. The stock is divided into 5,000 shares at $100 per share. Capt. McDougall has always believed in the ultimate success of his style of steel patented vessel and the experience of the 101, built last year, appears to have fully boom out his expectations and predictions. Now he has enlisted a large amount of capital and the building of the cigar shaped vessels will be carried on rapidly and in a manner economical and thorough. A large ship yard fitted with all the appliances for construction of iron and steel ship will be the first work of the company, and of this Capt. McDougall‘s present yard here will form a nucleus. It is most earnestly

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This 1888 photo shows, we are guessing, Capt. Alexander McDougall Ad appearing in the Jan. 16, 1900 edition of the Duluth Herald. aboard the “101” steel whaleback vessel he devised. hoped that the new company have decided and will make Duluth the point of construction and port of hail for all its fleet. Duluth Herald January 15, 1890 LOOKING UP SHIPBUILDING. The Special Agent of the Census Visits Duluth Shipyards. Charles E. Taft, to whom has been entrusted the gathering of information relative to the shipbuilding industry of the United States for the next census report, arrived in the city this morning. Mr. Taft’s visit here is to learn something regarding Capt. McDougall’s wonderful boats, their method of construct, etc. “I started out last October on Lake Ontario,” said Mr. Taft to a Herald reporter who called on him, “to gather particular information about this branch of manufactory, to be used in the United States census report. I have visited most of the lake cities in which there are ship yards, and I find them to be in the midst of a wonderful building activity. All the companies have all they can do, and many have orders that they will not be able to fill in a long time. “I am only making inquiries as to the general business, the methods of construction, materials used, plans

changed or improved, etc. I had understood that wood material was decreasing in quantity but, while greater distance is traveled in getting oak, etc., yet there seems to be wood enough to last many years yet, though ultimately steel will take te place of wood in shipbuilding. Oak is a costly material, and is little used in Atlantic seaboard shipbuilding. “Steel seems to be the coming material, and many steel boats are being built, most of them for the coast and lake trade. The McDougall boats have created a great sensation among boat builders, many of whom seem to think that they will not prove successful. The methods of building have not changed much, that is, on he lines of the vessel. Boats are built now for speed or for bulk, but in this the question of ability to get through the water has to be considered. As long as material exists wooden vessels will be built, but only for coast and lake trade, for steel is needed to plough the ocean. While here I will look over the McDougall yards, and I think I will find there the most interesting part of my experiences with shipbuilding. From Duluth I will visit Lake Michigan, then go East. I will afterwards make a tour of the navigable rivers and the Pacific coast. After I finish my labors with this phase of shipbuilding, blanks will be sent to the different

companies, asking them for statistics as to tonnage, etc.” Duluth Herald January 16, 1900 A ROMANTIC EPISODE. How Two Young People CircumVented a Stern Parent’s Opposition. A very romantic episode took place at the courthouse yesterday afternoon. A day or two ago Fred Strandmark and Hilda Johnson, both of whom live in the West end, applied at the clerk’s office for a marriage license. The clerk was about to issue it when it appeared that the proposed bride was only 17 years of age, instead of 18, as the law requires, so that they would have to get the consent of her parents before the license could be issued. It was suggested, after the applicant went into a little family history, that a guardian might be appointed and serve in place of the girl’s parents, so yesterday afternoon they went before the judge of probate, where David Standmark, Fred’s brother, was appointed guardian. The romance appears on the showing made by Miss Johnson as to why she should have a guardian appointed when she has parents living. She said that her parents live in Isanti county, in

men’s strike. The situation at International Falls is unchanged, Maj. W. C. Garis reported today on his return to St. Paul. Sixty-five guardsmen from Worthington, who reached International Falls in command of Capt. S. S. Smith, are comfortably quartred at Camp Garis. Whether this will be the last deteahcment of troops sent there may be determinded by Adjt.-Gen. W. F. Rhinow in conference with Maj. Garis.

this state. They have no objection to Standmark as a son-in-law, she said, but they insisted on her giving him up and letting him marry her older sister. Neither the petitioner or her intended would consent to this, so her parents cast her out and disowned her. On showing that she was homeless and that her parents had disowned her the guardian was appointed. The guardian signed the consent required by law, he marriage license was issued, and by this time the couple are happily married. Duluth Herald January 17, 1910 THE POLICE COURT GRIST. Cruiser Arrested for Cashing A Number of Bad Checks. “William Jennings Bryan” Pleads Guilty to Being Drunk. John C. O’Hara, a cruiser, was arrested this morning on thre different warrants charging hom with obtaining money under false pretenses by means of checks in a manner similar to that of which W. H. Reynolds was convicted. E. J. Kenny, assistant city attorney, stated to the court that he also had other compalints pending gainst him in his office, and that he understands the bank has received more checks since the first complaints were filed. It appears that O’Hara has been doing a wholesale business drawing checks on the City National bank without funds in the instititution. O’Hara claims that he gave the checks in good faith, believing he had money to his crdit in the bank. He says he recently closed a deal with a prominent Dulth man, who prmised to deposit $500 to his credit in the bank. He pleaded not guilty to the three charges. His tiral was set for Friday. Bail was fixed at $100 in each case. *** William Jennings Bryan – not the thre times candidate for president – pleaded guilty to being drunk DuluthReader.com

and disorderly. The police say he came over here from Superior and offered to show how strong he was in a Bowery saloon. They say he claimed that he could topple over the Alworth building by standing on his head and blowing real hard. The court blew a fine of $10 and costs or ten days at him, which he was unable to pay. The man with him who was fighting, Charles Hanson, got off with the minimum, $3 o three days on pleading guilty to being drunk. *** Theodore Frederick frightened some children on Lake avenue Satuerday afternoon, when drunk, and he got $20 or twenty days when he admitted that he had been toying with the flowing bowl. Duluth Herald

January 19, 1920 ASK REMOVAL OF SHERIFF Citizens of International Falls to Present Petition To Governor. St. Paul, Minn. – The removal of Sheriff H. T. McIntosh of Koochiching county on charges of nonfeasance following a period of alleged lawlessness in Internaitonal Falls will be demanded by citizens there in a petition which is to be presentedto Govenor Burnquist tomorrow, according to reports at the capitol today. The most to oust heriff McIntosh is based on charges that blind pigs are permitted to operate in Internaitonal Falls and that other laws are laxly enforced, it was said today, and has nothing to do with his request for troops to reserve order during the railroad

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Duluth Herald January 20, 1922 HELP MAKE JOBS, IS PLEA TO ALL ‘Hire One Man One Day a Month’ Slogan of Committee. Do you know of a job or can you make a job? Then telephone Melrose 285, the headquarters of the central employment committee, headed by Rodney Paine. Offices were opened today in the Michigan street entrance to the Welfare building. H. A. Whittaker will be executive secretary. Getting jobs listed is to be the big work of the committee. When it comes to placing men, existing agencies, sch as the Associated Charities or the county poor commissioner, will be utilized. “Hire One Man One Day a Month” is to be the slogan of the committee to householders of Duluth. “Windows must be cleaned, wood must be split, rugs must be beaten, and such jobs can be handled by men now out of work, the committee suggests. If more petitions for sewers come in the city can put a considerable number of men to work, Commissioner J. A. Farrell said today. This year there are only half as many sewer jobs in progress as there were last year, and the reason is only because the city has not received the necessary petitions. The work can be done just as cheaply now as it can be done in the summer. Married men will be given the first jobs. Conditions are especially bad in Gary, West Duluth and the East Ninth street districts.

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USA vs. Reserve Mining Company In the mid-20th century, scientists struggled to find ways to extract iron ore from the sedimentary rock called taconite, which contains 25 to 30 percent iron. The process that was eventually developed involves crushing the hard rock into a powder-like consistency. The iron ore is then removed with magnets and turned into pellets. By 1955, the Reserve Mining Company complex was built to extract iron from taconite. A new town, Silver Bay, was constructed to support it. For every ton of iron ore produced, however, two tons of waste material was left over. The Reserve Mining Company dumped the waste material, called tailings, into Lake Superior. Permits to do this were approved by the state. The waste material was initially considered no more harmful than sand. But by the late 1960s, local environmental groups, commercial fishermen and sport-fishing groups began to complain about the taconite sediment. They argued that the tailings were killing fish, permanently clouding the pristine waters, and spoiling Lake Superior as a fresh water source for Duluth and the surrounding communities. Environmental organizations, scientists and lawyers made the case that the tailings not only polluted Lake Superior, but that they contained cummingtonite-grunerite. This substance is found in asbestos, a known cancer-causing agent. On Feb. 17, 1972, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Reserve Mining Company in U. S. District Court in Minneapolis. This led to a trial that would last more than a year. Appeals dragged the case on until 1980. Judge Miles Lord presided over the court. Pretrial arguments took a turn in June 1973. The federal government called a specialist in asbestos exposure, Dr. Irving Selikoff, from the Mount

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Judge Miles Lord in 1968. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Selikoff argued that the lake contained asbestos-like fibers. He also said he thought a thorough study should be done on the effects of the lake water on the human body. Judge Lord put Dr. Selikoff’s testimony under an order of secrecy, but the information wasn’t contained. Eventually Lord allowed the EPA to issue an asbestos warning to the public. The asbestos issue defined the trial when it officially began in August of 1973. The public, already alarmed by reports of asbestos deaths around the country, was fixated on the trial. It was also covered in the national press. The Reserve Mining Company claimed that it was impossible to dump the tailings on land. During the trial, however, subpoenaed documents showed that Reserve had already examined dumping the sediment on land as an alternative method of disposal. Both the federal government and Reserve relied on a prestigious lineup of scientists to buttress their case. After months of testimony, Judge Lord decided that dumping the tailings into Lake Superior posed serious health and environmental threats. In April 1974 he ordered the plant shut down. The plant was closed temporarily. But a federal appeals court allowed Reserve to reopen the mine and to continue dumping in the lake until the company could find a new disposal method. In 1980, Reserve began to deposit waste in an inland pond. This practice continues with the companies that mine taconite today. The ruling in The United States of America v. Reserve Mining Company

Aerial view of Reserve Mining Company’s taconite processing plant, Silver Bay, 1956. was considered a landmark decision. It gave the EPA broader powers to regulate corporate pollution, a practice unheard of before the lawsuit. Chronology 1940: UM Prof. E.W. Davis meets with executives of Republic Steel to discuss his revolutionary method of extracting iron ore from taconite. 1947: Reserve Mining Co. applies to the state to become a full-scale producer of iron from taconite. The state approves dumping taconite tailings into Lake Superior. 1956: Reserve Mining Company begins production at the E.W. Davis Works in Silver Bay, Minnesota. 1956: State health officials begin investigation into Lake Superior water near Silver Bay. The in-formation is not made public for 10 years. 1966: The federal government dispatches scientists from the National Water Quality Laboratory to study Lake Superior in the Duluth area. 1967: Reserve Mining produces 12 percent of all iron in the United States. 1968: A taconite study group, developed by several agencies within the Department of the Interior, issues a report recommending that Reserve Mining ceases its dumping of tailings in Lake Superior within three years. 1969: The Lake Superior Enforcement

Conference, organized to stop Reserve Mining from dumping tailings in the lake, holds its first meeting. 1969: The Sierra Club sues to revoke Reserve Mining’s dumping permits. 1970: State district Judge C. Luther Eckman allows Reserve Mining to continue dumping in Lake Superior. 1970: The EPA is formed. 1972: The EPA asks the Department of Justice to sue Reserve Mining Company, and in February, the complaint is filed. In April the trial begins in Minneapolis, with Judge Miles Lord presiding. 1972: On June 15, Judge Lord allows the EPA to publicly release its findings on Reserve Mining’s discharges into Lake Superior. 1974: Judge Lord rules against Reserve Mining and orders the plant closed as of midnight April 21. Posttrial hearings begin the next day. Appeals and stays keep the plant open. 1975: The Eighth Circuit court finds that the tailings dumped in Lake Superior pose a health threat, but the court refuses to reinstate Judge Lord’s order, so the plant remains open. 1980: After years of appeals, Reserve Mining completes construction of its Lax Lake tailings impoundment, an inland dumping ground, and the release of tailings into Lake Superior ends.

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NBC makes big donation to Entrepreneur Fund National Bank of Commerce (NBC), is the area’s largest, locally owned, full-service community bank. Giving back to the community in which they serve is at the heart of what NBC does. It’s extremely important to the bank to support organizations that provide their time and resources for the betterment of the Twin Ports business community. National Bank of Commerce was one of the first organizations to demonstrate support of the Entrepreneur Fund’s Envest Capital Campaign and recently made their second donation installment of $125,000. NBC’s donation demonstrated a strong commitment to the program which directly contributed to the Entrepreneur Fund successfully securing additional major gifts. The goal of this campaign is to enable capitalization of the Entrepreneur Fund to complete $20 million in annual lending to small businesses in our communities. They have met this loan production level in 2020 and are gearing up to access additional financing in early 2021 as they anticipate added demands due to COVID-19. To learn more about the Entrepreneur Fund, visit entrepreneurfund.org/.

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Cash or Cans: Drivethrough food drive A Cash or Cans: “Drive-through” Food Drive for the Cable and Hayward communities is set for National Service Day, Monday, Jan. 18, from Noon to 3p.m. This drive-through event provides for safe and accessible participation to make donations of cash or cans of food to be distributed in the community. Up North Engaged, a local citizens group, will staff these drive-through locations. In Hayward, volunteers will be at Intersection of Hwys 63 and 27 South Public Parking Lot next to the Chamber of Commerce. The Cable location is the UCC Church,13445 County Highway M, Parking Lot. Volunteers will follow all COVID-19 protocols. A volunteer, wearing a mask, will collect your donations, touch-free. All cash and canned good contribu-

Brad Roden, center, of Matopam; Bank of Commerce, presents the ceremonial check for a quarter of a million dollars for the Entrepreneur Fund Envest Capital Campaign, to Shawn Wellnitz, CEO of the Entrepreneur Fund (right) and John Foucault, Entrepreneur Fund Envest Campaign Chair. tions will be donated to the Cable Food Shelf and the Hayward Community Food Shelf. Participation in the National Day of Service honors Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Jan. 18, 2021, is the 26th anniversary of the day of service that celebrates the Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy. Observed each year on the third Monday in January as “a day on, not a day off,” MLK Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. For more information on the “Cash or Cans: Drive-through Food Drive,” send an e-mail to Up North Engaged at: upnorthengaged@gmail.com with “Cash OR Cans” in the subject line.

Proposals sought to protect the environment

The Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR) issued its 2022 Request for Proposal (RFP) for funding from Minnesota’s Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (ENRTF) on Jan. 11. Approximately $70 million from the lottery-generated fund is available for projects that aim to protect, conserve, preserve and enhance Minnesota’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife and other

natural resources. The LCCMR is requesting proposals in the following categories: A. Foundational Natural Resource Data and Information B. Water Resources C. Environmental Education D. Aquatic and Terrestrial Invasive Species E. Air Quality, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy F. Methods to Protect or Restore Land, Water, and Habitat G. Land Acquisition, Habitat, and Recreation H. Small Projects (less than $200,000) Applicants must submit proposals through the LCCMR’s online proposal and grant management system. Early submissions are encouraged. The 2022 RFP contains an explanation of the LCCMR’s proposal and funding process and instructions for submitting a proposal online. Anyone with a project idea consistent with the RFP may submit a proposal for review by the LCCMR. Lobbying or professional grant-writing experience is not necessary for success. Proposals responding to the 2022 RFP are due Friday, April 2, 2021. From June through August 2021, the LCCMR will consider all proposals received and make a final selection of projects to include in its recommendations to

the Legislature for the 2022 session. Funded projects can begin July 1, 2022. For more information on the 2022 RFP and the LCCMR funding process, visit lccmr.leg.mn/funding_process/ process_2022. The Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund is a permanent dedicated fund in the Minnesota state treasury that was established by 77% voter approval of a constitutional amendment in 1988. The amendment directs forty percent of the net proceeds of the Minnesota State Lottery into the ENRTF until the year 2025. Since 1991, approximately $697 million from the ENRTF has been spent on over 1,700 projects that protect and enhance Minnesota’s environment and natural resources in every county of the state.

Northforce launches Student Connect service

NORTHFORCE (NF) has launched added programming to help connect area students with local professionals and organizations that are invested in our community: Student Connect. In partnership with higher education and K-12 institutions, Student Connect serves students from all 12 colleges, universities and technical schools across the NORTHFORCE region of Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin. The purpose of the added programming is to retain talent locally by creating an environment where students feel welcomed into our community and develop genuine professional connections. Student Connect centers around eight professional development programming opportunities in 2021. Four will host business meet-and-greets featuring major local employers. The other four will explore professional development topics tailored for Northland students. “We designed Student Connect to meet the needs that have been clearly and repeatedly expressed by regional employers and our partners in workforce development and the education sector,” said Elissa Hansen, President & CEO of Northspan, which powers NF. “COVID-19 adds a whole new layer of complexity, but these conversations have been evolving in the same direction for years, along with our plans for Student Connect.” Going virtual gives students the chance to connect directly with other students across the region and employers that interest them in virtual breakout sessions. This setup taps the unexpected benefits that have emerged from virtual job fairs that NF has hosted recently in partnership with

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Photo: Ely Winter Festival CareerForce. our artists’ and community’s safety. This sky, and numerous art classes will be “Virtual career fairs excite me, HR will allow our in-town and out-of-town offered by the Ely Folk School, either by professionals should do this more!” friends an opportunity to enjoy the Zoom or outdoors. These will be listed at shared Shayla Drake, HR/Payroll festival from home. elywinterfestival.com with more detailed Coordinator at Aftenro. “I have more Chris Kloppenberg, chair of the EWF descriptions at elyfolkschool.org. engagement with job seekers in the board, said, “This was a very tough Some traditional events will also virtual space, this is a whole new world.” decision, but we know it’s important be offered, including the Vermilion Organizations and businesses to keep Ely safe. We’ll be back with a Community College’s Law Enforcement interested in partnering with Student traditional festival in 2022.” program’s ice fishing contest and a Connect can learn more by emailing NF The virtual experiences will include virtual fundraiser for the Dorothy Molter Greater Northeast Minnesota Strategy daily Snow Sculpting Symposium prog- Museum. Check out the calendar of & Development Consultant Desiree ress videos and a virtual walk through events at elywinterfestival.com. Yourczek at desiree@northforce.org. Whiteside Park after the sculptures are Videos will be posted daily Students interested in participating completed. People will also be able to on Facebook at facebook.com/ in Student Connect can learn more and watch daily Ely ArtWalk videos featuring elywinterfestival and on the Ely Winter sign up here: northforce.org/studentdifferent artists each day. Festival’s website. connect. The festival sincerely regrets that there will be no skating rink, Kubb North Shore Bank hires new Ely Winter Fest modifies its tournament, Beard Fest, literary hikes to Sigurd Olson’s cabin Mortgage Loan Originator annual winter celebration gatherings, North Shore Bank is pleased to anand Hegman Lake, or sled dog meet and The Ely Winter Festival will be held nounce Janice Merrill joined the North greets, to name just a few. Feb. 4-14, but it will have a very different The 2021 Ely Winter Festival pin Shore Mortgage Team as Mortgage Loan look and feel. Originator. Janice brings more than 25 is available at Northern Grounds, Due to the pandemic, the Snow years in the mortgage and real estate the festival headquarters; Zup’s; Ely Sculpting Symposium will be scaled Northland Market; the Front Porch; and industry to the team and is looking forback, although the Ely ArtWalk will Piragis Northwoods Company for $6. As ward to serving the region with North look the same as in past years. To Shore Mortgage. “Janice is a perfect in the past, one dollar of that amount enhance everyone’s ability to experience will go to an arts program at the Ely fit for North Shore Mortgage,” said Joe and enjoy the festival, we are adding Johnson, Senior Vice President of North public schools. You can also purchase an exciting virtual experience to the Shore Bank. “Her extensive them online at our website. Symposium and the Ely ArtWalk over Snowshoeing and cross-country skiing, the 10 days of the festival to provide for nature photography, observing the night Continued on page 34

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industry experience and longstanding relationships will support our division’s work to provide an exemplary level of customer service to everyone who walks through our doors. Janice has focused her career on providing the best customer experience possible. Her clients appreciate her high-touch approach to the entire home buying process. She is committed to working alongside her clients to find the best mortgage options possible, and she forges long-term relationships through loyalty and trust. Janice is highly professional, extremely knowledgeable and very well respected by her peers in the local real estate community. Janice serves on the Realtors as Neighbors Foundation and is a welcome addition to the North Shore Mortgage team.

Danny Buttacavoli to lead Family Pathways

The Board of Directors of Family Path-

ways has announced that Tony Buttacavoli as Family Pathways’ new Executive Director, effective Jan. 4. Tony succeeds interim Executive Director Rich Smith. Tony comes to Family Pathways from the health and safety field where he has worked for the past 20 years, most recently as director for Isanti County Public Health. Prior to that, Tony served the county as Emergency Preparedness and Special Projects Coordinator where he led various health and safety initiatives at the local and regional level. He is an active community leader, serving on many boards and committees committed to improving people’s health and safety. He has a long record of public service, including work for Ramsey, Morrison, and Mille Lacs counties. “I have had a great relationship with Family Pathways as a professional partner and personally as a community member,” says Buttacavoli, “and cannot wait to directly contribute, collaborate, and lead the vision of ‘Every Voice, Every Possibility, Every Day.’”

Qunicy Media promotes two, retiring one Quincy Media Inc. has announced the promotion of two company managers and the retirement of another at KBJR 6 & CBS 3 in Dulutha. Todd Wentworth has been promoted to the position of Vice President/General Manager, Joe Biondi has been promoted to the position of General Sales Manager and David Jensch has taken the position of Senior Management Adviser in anticipation of his retirement later this year. Wentworth joined KBJR in 1983 as an account executive and has served in various sales management roles including local sales manager beginning in 1990 and general sales manager since 2007. Todd currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Broadcasters Association. He is a Rochester, Minn., native and graduate of the College of St. Scholastica, as well as a former college hockey player and longtime youth hockey coach. Joe Biondi joined KBJR in 1994 as an account executive and was promoted to KBJR local sales manager in 2007. Joe is one of the key architects of the My 9 Sports project, which is celebrating its tenth-year broadcasting

local college and high school games on KBJR-TV, channel 6.3, also known as My 9. Joe is a Warroad, Minn., native and former college hockey player for the UMD Bulldogs. He is active in youth sports and many community organizations. David Jensch has worked for KBJR since 1978, starting as a reporter, anchor and later serving as News Director. David was promoted to VP/General Manager in 2004. Under his leadership KBJR has established a reputation for award-winning journalism and public service, including numerous regional Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Awards. David is the recipient of the 2011 Silver Circle Award for Extraordinary Service to the Television Industry from the Upper Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has served in many community volunteer roles throughout his career. Jensch will officially retire from KBJR on June 30, 2021. “As our leadership transitions at KBJR 6 & CBS 3 these promotions recognize Todd and Joe for their skill and hard work” said Tom Allen, Regional VP for Quincy Media. “It is wonderful for us to have two highly qualified, community centered leaders already in place.”

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Patricia ‘Pat’ Scheer 5/6/1934 – 12/31/2020

Patricia “Pat” Scheer, 80, beloved mother, grandmother and friend died peacefully at Franciscan Health Center in Duluth. Pat, a lifelong Duluth resident, was born to Louis and Dorothy (Krause) Lan-cour. She married Donald Scheer on March 17, 1956, and they raised a loving family and celebrated many happy years of marriage before his passing. Pat worked as a waitress, a switchboard operator, and as a teacher’s aide for Head Start. She also spent many years in catalog sales for Sears & Roebuck. While Pat was very active with her community and friends, her true pride and joy was her family. Pat was loved by many and will be missed for her quick wit and kind heart. Pat is survived by three daughters: Donna (Bill Andersen) Scheer, Duluth, MN; Julie (Scheer) Meyer, Sauk Rapids, MN; and Penny (John Dandrea) Scheer, Superior; two sons: Dale (Vicki) Scheer, Iron River, and Gary (Traci Bergquist) Scheer, Superior; daughter-in-law, Debbie (Tim) Scheer, Cloquet; 19 grandchildren and 26 greatgrandchildren; one brother, George (Kathy) Lancour, Duluth, MN; longtime loving companion, Duane Johnson, Esko, MN; and many beloved nieces, nephews, friends, and extended family. Services were held Jan. 13. A celebration of Pat’s Life will be held at a later date.

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Raymond J. Franckowiak

1/27/1948–1/6/2021

Raymond J. “Ray” Franckowiak, 72, of Gnesen Township died at Chris Jensen Health & Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Duluth to Joseph and Helen (Wengrin) Franckowiak. Ray graduated from Duluth Central High School, Class of 66. He married Marie Leyes on October 22, 1977. Ray started his career as a welder and a glass cutter working at various shops in Duluth. He eventually found his home at MN/DOT as a plow driver and highway construction and maintenance worker. He retired from MN/DOT after 22 years of dedicated service from a job he loved. He often said that his only regret from his time at MN/DOT was that he would have liked to be able to have another 10 years there. Upon retirement, Ray decided he wanted to spend his time at home in the garage while Marie decided she wanted to spend the time they had to do some traveling. So, travel they did. Western Canada, Utah & New Mexico, Washington DC, and Cape Cod were some of their favorites. He was a lifelong parishioner of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Gnesen. Ray was very adept at all things mechanical. He is survived by his wife Marie, sons Michael, Mark (Laura), and Matthew (Christie), and many cousins. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home. 600 E. 2nd St. Duluth, MN 55805. 218-727-3555.

Gilbert W. Harries 1/15/1932 – 1/1/2021

Gilbert Woodward Harries (Gil), 88s, of Duluth, died peacefully at St. Luke’s Hospital, Duluth, as a result of complications from surgery. Gil was born on to Donald Dunbar Harries and Charlotte Michaud Harries in Duluth, where he grew up with his brothers, Donald and David. He attended Stanford University and also the University of Minnesota where he received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and his Juris Doctorate (J.D.). In 1954, Gil married Beverly Ann Juten with whom he had four children. In 1993, Gil married Jean Baldwin Livingston whom he had first met in orchestra at East Junior High School. Gil spent most of his 65year legal career working in Duluth at Hanft Fride, PA where he was a shareholder and past president. He was also a past president of the 11th District Bar Association, he served on the Board of Governors of the Minnesota Bar Association, and he was a member of the American Bar Association. A memorial service will be planned for later in the year, circumstances permitting. Remembrances and requests for information should be directed to Dougherty Funeral Home, Duluth.

Mildred “Millie” Score 9/22/1924 – 1/5/2021

Mildred “Millie” Score, 96, of Superior, died peacefully at Essentia Health-Superior, surrounded by her family. She was born in Superior, daughter of Carl and Anna (Traen) Danielsen. Millie was a member of Concordia Lutheran Church and its altar guild, Sons of Norway, Elks Lodge # 403, Chapter AD-BG P.E.O., and volunteered many years at Essentia HealthSuperior and back when it was St. Mary’s Hospital, Superior. One of her favorite activities was helping with the weekly football picks. Yes, for years and years Millie and Wally would spend hours every week, during the football season, working on the picks. After Wally’s death, Millie became the executive secretary of the football cartel. Millie was the Douglas County Register in Probate for judges Cirilli and Lucci. Visitation was held January 12, 2021 at Concordia Lutheran Church, Superior. The funeral service will begin at 11 a.m., for family and those with close relationship, with Reverend Michelle Rowell, pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Superior. Pallbearers will be Matt and Rena Verdoljak, Corey and Brianna Verdoljak, and Rachel and Mike Burkholder. Should friends desire, memorials may be made to Concordia Cares Endowment Fund of Concordia Lutheran Church.

Jean B. Johnson 1/18/1923 – 1/4/2021

Jean B. Johnson, 97, Superior, died at the Villa Marina Health Facility. Jean was born in Iron River, Wis. She graduated from the present-day University of Wisconsin-Superior and taught English at Superior East High School. Jean married Oscar S. Johnson, Jr. in December 1944, and they moved together to Oscar’s different postings during World War II. After the war, Jean and Oscar returned to Superior where they raised their family. An outstanding and noted vocalist in the Twin Ports, Jean served as the director of music at Hammond Avenue Presbyterian Church for more than 30 years. Jean also worked for many years as an adjunct professor in the music department at UW-Superior and as a music teacher in the Superior Public Schools. Jean was a member of United Presbyterian Church and a 71-year member of PEO in Superior. For many years, she was involved in Superior’s Schubert Club and Community Concert Series. In 1993, the University of Wisconsin-Superior named Jean as one of its 100 Outstanding Alumni for her leadership as a musician in the community. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Burial will be in Lake Nebagamon Cemetery. Should friends desire, memorials may be made to the United Presbyterian Church, 229 N 28th St., Superior, WI 54880 or by following the link: upc-superior.com/donate.

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Highlander brings hybrid to large SUV fleet The Toyota Highlander is one of those standard-issue Toyota SUVs that has been around for so long we treat it as a familiar uncle. Same with the 4Runner, actually, but the topic here is the new Highlander, for two reasons: First, it has an all-new body that is sleeker and less-boxy than the old boxy Highlander; second, this one is a Hybrid — an example of your old familiar uncle rejuvenated and ready to start running marathons, at his advanced age. For much of the past decade, cars, trucks and SUVs have almost become after-thoughts, things we need, or want, to get to work or take the family somewhere, but we sort of became numbed to all the technology. Up here in the Great White North, we tend to downplay the really advanced stuff, such as self-driving cars, because we still tend to scoff at hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and for certain pure electric cars. The most modern and high-tech vehicles out this year, or arriving soon, are now vaulting back into our full consciousness, or at least they should be, because they are becoming relevant again in our lifestyle and our futures. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the astonishing leap into the future being done by General Motors, and particularly with its Cadillac brand, which has snazzy new looks and new engines, which are stop-gaps on the company’s way to intending to revise its major models into pure-electric vehicles. The tie-in is pertinent right now, when we are inundated every day by alternating stories and features, one saying Enbridge’s Line 3 is a normal and required upgrade for delivering crude oil to the Husky Refinery in Superior, and the next explaining why the indigenous people we’ve trampled all through history are so set against replacing Line 3 for environmental and ecological reasons, and how allowing a new pipeline is enabling Enbridge to step up the delivery of crude oil that may inhibit us

Toyota Highlander revised on new platform and with hybrid model. from heading on into our own future of no-emission fuels. The reason cars fit into the picture is because Donald Trump (remember him?) overturned the tighter emission standards Barack Obama passed with an eye to a cleaner future. That led to a battle between California and Trump’s regime, with California on the side of a clearer environment and Trump’s regime on the side of making bigger profits for financial boosters of his in the big-oil boardrooms. In case you haven’t noticed, Minnesota is one of a dozen other states that went along with California in quest of cleaner energy and the stricter emission rules. That, in turn, has led to some very solid-sounding and articulate rebuttals saying that Minnesota has no need to

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go along with California and push for cleaner vehicles because we want big trucks and don’t car about alternative energy vehicles. To finish the controversy, auto dealers around the state are worried that they might have more trouble selling big cars and big SUVs if the emission standards tighten and they are jumping in with both feet to criticize Gov. Walz and other environmentally sensitive politicians, and in the process they are overlooking the obvious facts of our future. First, we will need oil for fuel and heat, but we get very little from Enbridge, a Canadian company, or from the Husky Refinery, which is also based in Calgary and just happens to have a refinery sitting on the pure water-filled Duluth-

Superior harbor, and second, the tar-sands oil Enbridge wants to frack and then send through its enlarged pipeline is among the crudest and most foul crude oil on the planet, so it takes more refining to make it useful. With GM leading the way to try to overtake Toyota and companies like Tesla by converting dozens of models to pure electric by 2025 — mark that down, 2025 — our need for less oil and our demand for electrified cars is about to increase by a huge chunk. When the people who scoff at EV (electric vehicle) models, wait until they drive one. They are amazingly quick, with full torque at zero RPMs, and will scorch a gas-powered car in any drag race. A couple of major breakthroughs in battery technology are making new

EVs coming out in the next year free of “range anxiety” — that fear you will be off on a trip and run short of enough electric charge to get home — with the ability to go over 250 miles on a single charge and to recharge quickly. So when you read these convincing reports written by and/or for Enbridge, see if there is any mention of how low-grade the fracked oil is they want to send to Superior, and where and to whom they intend to send the refined oil still owned by their Canadian selves. Along those lines, getting back to the Highlander Hybrid, which is a clearcut step toward the road to EVs, you first notice the cherry-red paint job on a much sleeker and more angular body. Open the door and you are impressed by the luxury look and feel of the interior, Push the button to start it and you are greeted with silence, so you want to check the instrument panel to see the little word “Ready” illuminated. Which means, no sound or not, it’s ready to roll. So you step on the gas and — Zap! — you are flung ahead, down the road with surprising swiftness. We had the courtesy of a 6-inch snowstorm while we had the Highlander Hybrid, and its all-wheel drive handled it all without flinching — once I got the abundant snow off

the Highlander, and uses its 2.5-liter naturally-aspirated — non-turbo — 4-cylinder which, combined with the electric motors of the hybrid, develop a peak of 243 horsepower. That’s more than enough to operate the all-wheeldrive Highlander with its three rows of seats filled and all sorts of luggage stored behind the third row. Toyota uses higher-tech Lithium-ion battery technology in some of its Lexus and plug-in hybrid models, but the Highlander sticks with the old, familiar nickel-metal-hydride battery pack. Doesn’t matter. It works. And why should your familiar old uncle get a heart transplant until he needs one?

the hood, where it provided a mystical shroud for the headlights. The Highlander Hybrid should reach the EPA mid-30 miles per gallon and it will tow 3,500 pounds, and the precision with which the electric motors supplement the gas engine is so smooth you will have no indication it is a hybrid. The test Highlander was “Ruby Flare Pearl,” which is a vibrant

and deep red. The price of the hybrid is steep, but in base form it comes pretty loaded with all the safety and connectivity features for around $35,000. It’s easy to be enticed to get up over $40,000 with the list of options available, but in most cases, you’ll appreciate the nearly 600-mile range on a tank of gas. Toyota has altered its engines for

Heartwarming adventures. We didn’t shovel the driveway before dawn. Or rearrange the car about 12 times to make sure everything fit. But with the crude oil we transport, we did help create the winter items that make the season exhilarating. When the energy you invest in life meets the energy we fuel it with, winter fun happens.

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Trump must be removed from office Congress convened Jan. 6 to perform the largely ceremonial counting of Electoral College votes and to declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump countered with a rally that he had been planning for weeks. “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” “Let’s have trial by combat,” Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disgraced personal lawyer, crowed from the rally podium. “Stand up and fight!” Trump’s son Don Jr. shouted, as he threatened Congressional Republicans unwilling to support overturning Biden’s election, “We’re coming for you and we’re going to have a good time doing it.” After President Trump’s speech, he directed the raging crowd to march on the Capitol, where the counting of votes was underway. Trump’s mob swarmed the Capitol, overwhelmed police, then smashed windows and breached heavy, locked doors. With Trump and Confederate flags

waving, the violent insurrectionists rampaged through the halls. Both the House and the Senate, debating the challenge to Arizona’s certified Electors, abruptly recessed as chaos descended on the heart of American democracy. Congressmembers grabbed gas masks from under their seats as teargas was deployed (it’s unclear if any of the staunch Trump supporters in the House refused to don the masks). Soon after Senators fled, marauders flooded their chamber. Guards barricaded the doors to the House in an armed standoff with Trump’s insurrectionists. Capitol Police shot and killed one of the intruders, 35-year-old Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt of San Diego. Her social media posts suggest a strong belief in the fringe QAnon conspiracy theory. Three others reportedly died in D.C. of unspecified “medical emergencies” and several dozen were arrested. The Capitol’s minimal security, with the entire Congress and the Vice President present, was shocking. Videos circulated showing a handful of Capi-

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Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin invoked the memory of a devastating presidential compromise of 1877 that led to Jim Crow laws when he warned against Sen. Ted Cruz’s idea to create an election commission. tol Police briefly resisting the marchers, then opening the security perimeter, admitting the angry crowd. Inside, several police officers posed for selfies with the domestic terrorists who were taking control of the building. The violence was predicted. It had already erupted at an earlier Trump protest, on Dec. 12, where several people were stabbed. When the head of the violent group The Proud Boys was arrested in D.C. Monday, he was carrying high-capacity ammunition clips for semi-automatic rifles. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser made an unheeded request to the Pentagon to deploy the National Guard this week. Compare that lax police presence to the major, militarized mobilization in response to this summer’s protests against systemic racism, police brutality and in defense of Black lives. Then, no expense was spared to garrison the Capitol with fully armed police, SWAT teams and National Guard troops. Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr ordered a Pentagon-coordinated assault on peaceful protestors to clear the streets, so Donald Trump could pose with a Bible before a church. One can only imagine what would have happened if thousands of people of color and BLM supporters rampaged through the Capitol during a joint session of Congress. The law specifying Congress’ count-

ing of the Electoral College votes passed in 1887, following the controversial 1876 election that pitted Republican Rutherford Hayes against Democrat Samuel Tilden. Tilden won the popular vote, but Hayes engineered an Electoral College win by agreeing to withdraw federal troops from Southern states. On the floor of the Senate, after Trump’s violent mob had been removed and proceedings recommenced, Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin invoked the memory of that devastating Compromise of 1877: “The senator from Texas [Ted Cruz] says we just want to create a little commission. Ten days, we’re going to audit all the states ... and find out what actually occurred. It’s parallel to 1876, Hayes and Tilden. Don’t forget what that commission achieved: It was a commission that killed Reconstruction, that established Jim Crow, that even after a Civil War which tore this nation apart, it re-enslaved African Americans, and it invited the voter suppression we are still fighting today.” Throughout his life, Trump has fanned the flames of white supremacy. He owes his one-term presidency in large part to his cynical exploitation of racism and fear. Yet, as Trump’s followers attacked the Capitol, the final U.S. Senate race was called for Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff. The other Georgia Democrat, Rev. Raphael Warnock, won his Senate race hours earlier, becoming the first African American Democrat elected to the Senate from the South. These victories return the Senate to Democratic control. They were the result of years of grassroots organizing, painstakingly registering Georgia voters and overcoming generations of violence, Jim Crow voter suppression and massive voter purges. Trump will soon be gone, but will the cancer of Trumpism remain? Look to the lessons of Georgia for a glimmer of hope, that the power of grassroots organizing can overcome racism and hate. Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations. She is the co-author, with Denis Moynihan and David Goodman, of the New York Times best-seller Democracy Now!: 20 Years Covering the Movements Changing America. (c) 2020 Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan. Distributed by King Features Syndicate

A voice from the pit Turns out I’m part of an underreported minority; adoptees. You don’t hear much about those of us with multiple meanings for basic family terms. And would you expect patriarchal male dominance to mean a girl stands an almost two times greater chance being taking into a home than a boy? Adoptees are so thoroughly ignored that overall statistics are unavailable. Personally, in middle age learning I was illegitimate and adopted opened my awareness. The process was mentally and emotionally upsetting, but I found constructive advantages being a bastard. It suits me. No longer bound by birth ties I felt what I’ll describe as liberation. Generally comfortable in an observer role, outside looking in, was my territory by birth. Observe. At an early age I remember mother nightly putting on beauty cream and dad quietly commenting “It’s not working.” Then there’d be yelling. By the time I reached age 20 I was in dad’s “It’s not working” camp. None of that stopped mother’s habit or (such as it was) our acceptance of it. Bluntly honest, I confess dad and I kept our teasing leashed for one reason; food. Dad’s wife – my mother – was a cook. Growing up I experienced the main forms of wife-mother food handling. (Yeah, yeah, I know, sexist.) Well, dad knew his way around a Betts lathe. Mom knew her fried chicken. If they wanted the other’s skills neither showed it.) There were mothers’ who cooked, those who prepared a meal, and those who made food available. My friends, like me, were essentially useless; not

even decorative unless dressed up to wear pained expressions. Numbskull Joey whose realm was throwing and blowing things up (ideal traits for boyhood pals) became Saint Joseph the Divine at my house. On his knees barefoot in a brown robe he did novenas around our kitchen floor praying for a breaded pork chop to fall from above. Aside from food competition I didn’t much appreciate that version of Joey, but I understood it. At home his food came direct from box or can. Boy-Ar-De was a chef after all. In his house that was more than enough. Joey’s house offered a different living style where a boy in underwear could stand at the kitchen sink and shovel-pour milk and cereal in the general direction of his face (milk on bare feet was easily rinsed, so the best breakfast attire was casual – I once suggested he eat in the shower, but the idea may have been too progressive for him). In my house the same behavior was a hanging offense to be repeated along with drawing and quartering until I was convinced of my crime. But, with a cook like my mother delinquency was not a sane option. I wasn’t good due to any virtue. Being good was best practice. Common sense said stay on the good side of the gravy boat. Everyone in my house knew and accepted this. If dad got a three-day series of his favorite meals he’d look at mother and ask “What did you buy?” Mother, as if on my channel, would say “Nothing. It’s on Lay-Away.” The basics thus established we went on with thick homemade (or kitchen) fries and whatever else was wrangled from raw ingredients.

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Seems to me, too, that in those days aside from stems, cherry stones and string bean strings we ate damn near everything as being healthy, good-foryou and not wasteful. Waste of food would cast a boy in a special kind of Hell where he stood in a shower of cold water while food he couldn’t get in his mouth bounced off his tearful face. If I was good it was because I liked the benefit package. But, really now, how bad could I be? I never went anywhere or did anything. How could I be bad? Asked where I’d been the answer had to be “Nowhere.” And what did I do, “Nothing.” These were the safest answers. Who could deny when flopped on the TV room couch (nylon frizz that made your flesh look like a battlefield) I was not the personification of nothing going nowhere. Our couch and my room were easily the geographical center of world nothingness, a celestial void where nothing happened. To a son who never went anyplace to do anything my mother would shake her head and intone “You stand there lying to your own mother.” I did not have another mother to lie to or I’d have lied to her as well, but the sad truth was I went nowhere and pretty much did as little as possible while there; essentially nothing: a hard truth to bear. People tell me I’m cruel making fun of family and mother. (You should see my impersonation, its good.) But there was no cruelty telling mom her beauty cream needed help. Those words were merely dialog for my bit part in the Mother Rules show. Those (you may be one) with moral

objection to “unfeeling” words miss the extra-moral view of family as theater. Every day my family added another version of Kabuki. (Imagine orange-mane Trump as the Kabuki Lion, but before going Yay or Nay find out what role the Lion had before it becomes Lion.) In traditional theater conflicts, loyalties, rivalries and aspirations are played out before an audience. In my house actors and audience were the same. Kabuki, see it. With a piercing flute note Long-suffering Mother appears abruptly center stage in The Kitchen where she recites her ritual part. Then in a clatter of wooden blocks Unappreciative Son steps exaggeratedly onto stage left where he scorns Longsuffering before asking boldly “What’s t’ eat?” Suddenly, a drum and light comes on stage right where Penurious Father is seen glowering enthroned, resentful that Long-suffering and Unappreciative ignore him who brings home the monetary gift of the gods that makes all possible. Long-suffering (a much larger role than Penurious) has the most ways to dramatically portray her many sufferings. Penurious is essentially stuck to complaint figuring out how to save money he doesn’t have. Except to seek food or money Unappreciative ignores center and right stages before going off to the sound of samisen playing to do nothing off stage in his room.

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Bright Idea Acting on an anonymous tip, authorities in DeKalb County, Alabama, raided the Rainsville Wastewater Treatment Plant on Dec. 17 and discovered a large illegal winemaking operation that appeared to have been in operation for a long time, reported WHNT. The next day, plant supervisor Allen Maurice Stiefel, 62, of Fyffe, was charged with unlawful possession of illegally manufactured alcohol and suspended without pay, according to Rainsville Mayor Rodger Lingerfelt. The operation was found in a little-used building at the plant, where, Lingerfelt said, “Things happen like that.” The sale of alcohol had been illegal in Rainsville until the city council passed an ordinance approving it in September. [WHNT, 12/18/2020] High Anxiety As Delta Flight 462, en route to Atlanta, began to taxi away from the gate at La Guardia Airport on Dec. 21, passenger Brian Plummer noticed a man and woman with a service dog changing seats several times on the less-than-full plane, he told The New York Times, and heard the man say, “If I sit down, I’ll freak out.” Plummer soon felt the plane come to a stop, and flight attendants revealed why: The man, Antonio Murdock, 31, of Florida, had forced open an emergency exit door, causing a slide to activate, and picking up the dog, slid down to the ground with the woman, Brianna Greco, 23, according to a complaint filed in Queens Criminal Court, where the two were arraigned on a number of mischief and endangerment charges. “This doesn’t happen every day at the airport,” said Lenis Valens, a

spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. No one was injured in the incident, but the flight was delayed for hours. [New York Times, 12/22/2020] Awesome! Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas? The North Carolina Department of Transportation put nine vintage train cars up for auction on Dec. 15 that it purchased from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus after it ceased operation in 2017, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. NCDOT bought the cars for $383,000 to refurbish for use between Raleigh and Charlotte, but federal grants have enabled the department to buy new cars instead. “These cars have a great and amazing history,” said Jason Orthner, director of the NCDOT rail division. Bidding continues until Jan. 4, but at press time, there were no bids on the cars. [Raleigh News & Observer, 12/21/2020] Surprise! Andrea Ellis of East Moline, Illinois, was wrapping presents on Dec. 19 when she opened a package of garden flags she intended to give her grandmother and noticed something extra in the bottom of the padded envelope. It turned out to be a biohazard bag containing a Virginia woman’s COVID-19 test. Ellis told the Quad City Times that when she failed to reach the woman, she called police, who sent an officer to retrieve it, but 15 minutes later, he returned with the bag, saying, “I was told to bring it back to you.” A representative of the Rock Island County Health Department picked up the sample the

next day and will try to return it to the Virginia patient. Ellis has also heard from a vice president at Kohl’s, where she bought the flags, who said the company is working hard to find out what happened and prevent it from happening again. [Quad City Times, 12/20/2020] Perspective Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, is asking luxury goods company Louis Vuitton to stop selling a yoga mat made partially of leather, calling the product “hugely insensitive” because Hindus regard cows as sacred. In a Dec. 22 statement, Zed said the idea “of yoga ... being performed on a mat made from a killed cow is painful,” The Associated Press reported. The mat retails for $2,390 online; Paris-based Louis Vuitton has not responded. [Associated Press via WJLA, 12/22/2020] Great Art • French artist Gaetan Marron presented a new performance piece in December titled “Non-Essential,” in which he locked himself for 10 days inside a clear Plexiglas cube at a shopping mall in Marseille. Euronews reported the artist described his work as an attempt to “bring culture, which clearly saved us during this lockdown, back to the center of the subject.” The cube, large enough for Marron to stand up in, also contained a few nonessential items, including a TV and coffee machine; Marron left the cube to use the restroom. “I have the feeling that ... we miss what is really the real human contact ... we have really lost social links in this period,” Marron said. [Euronews, 12/12/2020] • Police in Perth, Western Australia, are asking for the public’s help in locating a thin, well-dressed man with olive skin and short black hair who was captured on surveillance cameras using an electric bicycle to draw lewd pictures of a penis on a city sidewalk on Nov. 30. “The man has appeared to spin the wheels ... in order to draw explicit images with the rubber from the tires,” Crimestoppers WA announced. A police Facebook post about the incident drew scorn, news.com.au reported: “Whatever his punishment,” one user wrote, “I’m sure he will have to write it out on the board 100 times at recess.” [news.com. au, 12/22/2020]

Oops! The 69 passengers who boarded Buddha Air Flight U4505 in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Dec. 18, expecting to fly to Janakpur, about 140 miles southeast, were surprised when they arrived instead in Pokhara, about 125 miles in the opposite direction. Weather and flight delays may have been factors, an airline spokesperson told The Kathmandu Post, resulting in “a miscommunication between the ground staff and the pilots.” The passengers were promptly flown to their preferred destination a few hours behind schedule, and Buddha Air Managing Director Birendra Bahadur Basnet announced that a committee has been formed to investigate the incident. [The Kathmandu Post, 12/20/2020] The Passing Parade Police were called to a home in Tijuana, Mexico, to break up the fight that broke out after a man identified only as Jorge discovered a tunnel leading from his home to that of a neighbor, Alberto, who had been having an affair with Jorge’s wife. Trouble began, reported the Daily Mail, when Jorge arrived home early from work and surprised his wife and Alberto, a bricklayer who was also married. Alberto hid behind a couch before disappearing down the tunnel, which appeared in photos to be professionally constructed. Jorge followed Alberto down the tunnel, eventually confronting him in Alberto’s house. [Daily Mail, 12/29/2020] News That Sounds Like a Joke Micheline Frederick of Queens, New York, is still recovering from the wounds she suffered in what she described as a brawl with a squirrel on the front stoop of her home just before Christmas. “This was an MMA cage match!” she told WLNY. “And I lost!” Several neighborhood residents have reported run-ins with aggressive squirrels, including Vinati Singh, whose husband has been attacked twice, and Licia Wang, who was bitten on the arm while walking home. A trapper has been hired to capture the rodents, and while squirrels are rarely found to have rabies, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Health is advising victims to contact their doctor if they’ve been bitten. [CBS2 New York, 12/31/2020]

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A toothpaste to prevent canker sores can become dangerous, prescribers should monitor sodium as well as potassium levels with regular blood tests. To learn more about hydrochlorothiazide and other medications for high blood pressure, you may want to consult our eGuide to Blood Pressure Solutions. This online resource can be found in the Health eGuides section of PeoplesPharmacy.com.

Q: When I was a kid, I used to get horrible canker sores. My mother treated them with silver nitrate, which hurt like heck. After my braces came off, I took better care of my teeth and brushed more frequently. I didn’t have as many canker sores and thought it was because of the brushing. When I hit menopause though, the canker sores were back with a vengeance. Doctors didn’t have any suggestions, but I read in your column that toothpaste without sodium lauryl sulfate might help. I tried it, and it did reduce the canker sores, but I never liked the toothpaste I was using. It had no fluoride, and it didn’t foam. My daughter and I went to Europe a few years ago. We traveled lightly, and I figured I would use her toothpaste. I got a canker sore right away, but when we were in Paris our hotel was down the street from a pharmacy. There I found a toothpaste with fluoride but no SLS. It worked perfectly to clean my teeth without causing canker sores. When we got home, I checked online and found it. It’s called Elmex Sensitive Toothpaste.

gers their canker sores. A systematic review of the medical literature concludes that people with frequent mouth sores “may benefit from using SLS-free dentifrices for their daily oral care” (Journal of Oral Pathology & Medicine, May 2019). Q: I would strongly suggest that anyone taking the diuretic hydrochlorothiazide for high blood pressure have the doctor monitor sodium and potassium levels regularly. My sister suffered from extreme nausea for months before it was discovered that her sodium level was extremely low. Her hydrochlorothiazide was discontinued, and the nausea abated. A: Most people with high blood pressure have been told to avoid excess sodium. To do so, they may follow a strict low salt diet. While too much sodium can drive blood pressure up, diuretics such as hydrochlorothiazide can lower it, sometimes too much. Beyond nausea, symptoms can include headaches, cramping, weakness and even confusion or seizures in extreme cases. Other medications may also contribute to low sodium levels (hyponatremia). They include some antidepressants, antipsychotics and PPI-type heartburn medicines (Journal of Medical Case Reports, June 29, 2020). Because low sodium levels

Q: I am a pharmacist and I recommend OTC cold and allergy products every day. I had a stuffy nose recently, and I took everything I recommend to my patients (e.g. NyQuil, Sudafed, antihistamines etc.). NOTHING worked. An old friend told me I should put Vicks VapoRub on the soles of my feet. I was desperate, so tonight

I did. Within five minutes my nose UNCLOGGED! It’s amazing. A: We’ve heard about using Vicks VapoRub on the soles of the feet to stop a persistent nighttime cough. Using it for nasal congestion is new to us, but it may work in the same way. We suspect that the menthol, camphor, eucalyptus oil, thymol and other essential oils in Vicks trigger special receptors in the skin. These TRP channels may activate nerves that affect congestion and cough. Write to the Graedons in care of King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or email them via their website, PeoplesPharmacy.com. Their newest book is “Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them.” (c) 2021 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Rime ice & hoarfrost make the hidden visible Winter is a season of magic. Hidden beauty becomes visible. Much remains a mystery. It begins with our breath. Chilly mornings are one of the first signs that winter is on her way. We step outside, fill our lungs with a deep drink of invisible air, and send forth a translucent, swirling cloud. Sunlight – because the coldest mornings follow cloudless nights – makes it glow. Every day of our lives, air goes in and out of our lungs at least a dozen times per minute. Air also cycles in and out of plants, animals, CONNECTIONS fungi, soil, and more. I love to think about what this means for our connection to the biosphere. The air we sip into the cradles of our lungs was – just a moment ago – part of someone else’s life. The air we return to the world may enter a tree and become maple sugar, or enter a bird’s lungs and become song. During the pandemic this has become a terrifying problem. But in the past, in the future, and always when we’re in the woods, this reciprocity is a gift. Nonetheless, it’s easy to forget the physical properties of our breath until cold air forces the gaseous water vapor we exhale to condense into visible droplets. They are now liquid, and while big enough to see, are still small enough to float. This is the same alchemy that fills summer skies with cottony puffs of while clouds. As winter deepens, a lack of humidity makes our breath invisible again. Clouds, however, remain. Lately, an unusual combination of winter weather conditions have made visible the exhalations of the Earth herself. Fog that is dense and persistent enough to trigger weather advisories has brought its own unusual magic to the winter landscape. Snow on the ground releases moisture into relatively warm air. That humidity condenses as night falls. Calm winds fail to sweep the resulting fog aside. Fog is simply a cloud that hugs the ground. It, too, is water in the air made visible as cold causes droplets to grow. Magically – tenuously – that

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Hoarfrost crystals grow directly from water vapor in calm and humid conditions. Their structures reflect the inner workings of water molecules. Hoarfrost crystals grow directly from water vapor in calm and humid conditions. Their structures reflect the inner workings of water molecules. Photos by Emily Stone. water remains liquid even though its temperature drops below freezing. When these supercooled droplets collide with the solid world, they freeze instantly. The ice they form becomes another solid surface, and more droplets accumulate. As light winds push the fog along, elaborate, bizarre, thick-but-fragile rime ice builds up on the windward side of pine needles, twigs, and more. For the past few weeks, this freezing fog has accentuated the grace of our forests. Water in our breath, along with fog and rime, goes through the liquid state as it becomes visible. In contrast, hoarfrost and snowflakes materialize into solid form directly from invisible water vapor when the dew point is below freezing. When that water vapor crystallizes

around dust particles in the air, we get snow. When crystals grow on twigs, pine needles, even on other bits of ice, we awaken to a lace-encrusted fairyland of hoarfrost.

Down by my lakeshore, a spring bubbles up and feeds a bit of open water under the low-hanging branches of hemlock trees. In this protected haven, on cold

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Rime ice formed on the upwind side of these red pine needles when supercooled droplets of fog froze upon contact. nights, invisible water vapor in the air feeds the growth of elaborate crystals patterned like feathers, ferns, needles, and trees. These physical structures – formed of crystal facets and six-fold symmetry – give us a peek into the inner workings of water molecules. It’s a world filled with electricity, with forces of attraction and repulsion, with crystal lattices; a world usually observable only to chemists and physicists. Yesterday, when I headed down to the lake, I found it ringed by trees painted white with rime ice and shining in the sunlight. Impossibly complex crystals of hoarfrost bordered the spring. And a maze of otter, fox, and coyote tracks recorded stories of my unseen neighbors in the snow. I filled my lungs with a deep drink of

air – now with some of its secrets made visible by the magic of winter. Emily Stone is 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.

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Bulldogs run into mirror-image Huskies There may be no teams in the country any quicker than St. Cloud State or UMD, so when the two of them squared off at AMSOIL Arena last weekend in the Bulldogs first home games in almost a full year, we should have expected a tight-checking chessmatch. It was, but the upstart Huskies made the right moves and won both games, 4-3 on Friday and 1-0 in an overtime battle that saw all the big-time scorers on both sides reduced to skating drills. When UMD won the opener at St. Cloud the previous weekend in an overtime thriller, and St. Cloud won the second game, it seemed to make that theory more rational. But now that the second weekend in a row is over, and St. Cloud State swept the Bulldogs 4-3 on Friday and 1-0 in an overtime virtual standoff Saturday, suddenly the Bulldogs are back in the pack and needing a spark. For most of the weekend, the two teams sped back and forth with one side’s big guns virtually nullifying the other’s big guns. In the first game, The Huskies jumped ahead 2-0 in the first period, on goals by third-line center Jami Krannila and fourth-line wing Chase Brand, then UMD countered for goals by fourth-line wings Luke Mylymok and Blake Biondi 44 seconds apart to start the second period. Two minutes after tying the score, however, Mylymok was called for checking from behind, and the officials gave him a 5-minute and a game disqualification. Biondi was sent to serve the 5 minutes, which, in retrospect, meant UMD’s entire offense for the first half of the game was out of action. Nick Swaney put UMD ahead 3-2, but a bad giveaway at center ice allowed Nolan Walker to bang in a rebound after Micah Miller stole the puck and broke in alone, with 1:01 left in the second period, and the game entered the third period 3-3. UMD could exercise its traditional home-ice magic, but instead Kevin

Fitzgerald deflected one in at 2:29 of the third for a 4-3 St. Cloud lead, and UMD never threatened to score the rest of the way. The teams looked like mirror images of each other for much of the game, and the Huskies seemed to adjust to bottle up UMD’s predictable puck-clearing ploys. Maybe that’s because Huskies coach Brett Larson spent so much time assisting UMD coach Scott Sandelin. Even when Sam Hentges, St. Cloud’s first-line center, went off for the only two penalties of the third period, UMD’s power play fizzled, stringing together 1-man rushes that led to the Huskies simply retrieving it and firing it the length of the ice. Regardless, a Saturday victory by UMD would leave the teams splitting two weekends. But on Saturday night, the silence in the stands was noticeable as neither team could generate any offense. If the ice crew had forgotten to put the nets in place for the third period, neither side would have noticed, as the game stayed scoreless all the way through three periods. Sandelin chose to give Ryan Fanti a night off and started former Grand Rapids star Zach Stejskal in the net, and Stejskal stopped a couple breakaways, including one by his former Grand Rapids teammate, Micah Miller. It remained 0-0 until the teams went to the 5-minute 3-on-3 session. At 3:58, Nick Perbix broke up the right side, 1-on-2, made a world-class deke to walk through Kobe Roth at the right circle, then veered to the slot, and beat Stejskal with a backhander to win the game 1-0. The entire arena was stunned into silence. Or wait. There were no fans allowed inside; no wonder it was silent! For all those fans waiting for their Bulldogs to enliven Duluth’s winter nights, being swept, and shut out 1-0 in overtime, was not the way to do it. Now the Bulldogs have to get it going on the road at Miami of Ohio, where an entirely different style of play awaits them.

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UMD women may play It’s been a frustrating year for the UMD women, who have had just about as many games cancelled for pandemic reasons as they’ve played. But this weekend, at AMSOIL Arena, the Bulldogs face Ohio State, which split with Wisconsin last weekend to knock the Badgers out of the nation’s No. 1 spot. Minnesota replaced Wisconsin, which slipped to second, and Ohio State earned third. The usual test of what teams can move up to challenge the Gophers and Badgers to contend for the title could come down to UMD challenging Ohio State for third place and that role as chief spoiler. High schools start After worrying about having no season at all, high school hockey teams swing into action this week, and Duluth East faces Denfeld Thursday night at Heritage Center for a grand opener. This is the year, by the way,

East will play Hermantown in a long awaited pair of games between the two different class powers. The Hawks may have the horsepower to surprise the Greyhounds this year, although it won’t be a surprise to East coach Mike Randolph. At this point, both teams are simply thrilled to be able to play. NCAA football flop OK, OK, Alabama was the best football team in the country. The perennial powerhouse took apart Ohio State 52-24 in the NCAA championship game in Miami. Ohio State kept battling, and the Buckeyes had a chance, but when star running back Trey Sermon was cracked and injured his shoulder on the first drive of the game, it eliminated the guy who gained 195 yards against Clemson’s nation-leading defense in the semifinals. That left it all up to quarterback Justin Fields, who was also playing with injured ribs from the Clemson game. Fields had thrown six touchdown

passes against Clemson, but he only had one against Alabama. Mac Jones was 36-45 for 464 yards and five touchdowns for the Crimson Tide, and receiver DeVonta Smith caught 12 passes for 25 yards and three of the TDs. All things needed to be working for Ohio State, and they weren’t, and Alabama just had too many weapons to allow the game to stay interesting. I feel the same way about the NFL playoffs now that Seattle played its way out of the first round. The Los Angeles Rams beat the Seahawks 3020, and will now go to Green Bay to take on the Green Bay Packers, whose way to the Super Bowl may have just gotten easier. Beware Buffalo, however, from the AFC side. NHL starts up The National Hockey League, which ended late and is starting late, opens this week, and the Minnesota Wild, with all sorts of revisions to their lineup, open play with games at the Los Angeles Kings Thursday

and Saturday nights. The NHL teams are going to play two games in most cities this season, which should reduce travel costs and inspire some rivalries. Wild fans can watch the opener, starting at 9 p.m. for the games at West Coast cities. I’m not sure I feel much confidence for the Wild, but if they can get big Scott Bjugstad to score while centering the first line, it could help a lot. I like the Wild’s defense, especially now that Carson Soucy is back from injuries that knocked him out last year. I’d like to see him paired up again with Jared Spurgeon, the new captain, and provide three balanced units on D, but I doubt that will happen right away. The spotlight will be on Russian rookie Kirill Kaprizov, whose speed and skill could get the Wild offense off to a high-caliber roll, flanking Bjugstad with Zach Parise on the other side. And can Cam Talbot do the job in goal? We’ll see. That makes it about four major question marks that all have to come up on the right side for the Wild to be a contender.

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Team USA is golden; WILD camp PARK POINT – Last Tuesday wasn’t too much different from most weekdays. There was one heck of a big game coming up that night, though, and as a result, I was probably doing more clock-watching than on most days. But even though I was waiting for yet another World Junior Tournament Gold Medal game between Team Canada and Team USA, I was mostly pretty calm. I was calm to the point where a few days afterward, I couldn’t believe that I wasn’t a bit more revved up. I look back now and think that perhaps it was a quiet confidence that had overtaken me. After all, every day since the tourney previews began, I had to bear witness to the Canadian squad’s great superiority. According to some hockey media, it was a team so good that it would be futile to play the games against them. The outcomes were so written in stone that it couldn’t be questioned or changed. This was a team that had no less than 20 first-round NHL draft choices. What were the Americans to do?

I had the good fortune to be able to watch most of this event in its entirety. And this year, like quite a few, the top 5 teams were very evident. Canada, the USA, Russia, the Swedes and Finns were the best. The Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Austrians and Swiss represented the rest of the field. I got to watch a lot of games and do a lot of analyzing. The U.S. entry had a slow start, as evidenced by their 5-3 loss to the Russians in G1. They made some quick adjustments and improved each game on up to the Gold Medal tilt. There were times when they were a bit frustrating to watch because I knew this team had a lot more to give than they were at times. But they played this event as smartly as a team could. The Canadians stormed in and buried the hapless German team 16-2 in their opener. The Germans were outgunned and unprepared as they were not at full roster due to COVID isolations and other issues. As I watched, I kept asking myself when the Canadians would pull back a bit

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and just run the clock out. The game was decided a long time ago. But that’s not always how it’s done in hockey, I guess. I didn’t like what I saw, though. I thought they were humiliating their opposition. The event moved forward, and each day, whether on the TV broadcast or satellite radio, I had to listen to stories regarding the Canadians’ greatness. And don’t get me wrong, they are pretty good. On paper, they may have been one of the greatest rosters ever assembled for this event. I’ll admit that in a heartbeat. At the same time, I know that every team in this sport’s history is beatable. I learned that in my observations of Mr. Herb Brooks when he coached at the U of M, and I was a young man who fancied himself to be a “student of the game.” “Herbie” liked confident teams. He didn’t like cocky teams who were unprepared to back that up. But as the medal round got closer and closer, and the whole glorious event funneled down to that inevitable meeting between cross border neighbors and rivals, I could see growing, quiet confidence in the Yanks. It’s not that the Canadians were a bunch of boastful miscreants either. Most of the effusive praise for them came from media north of the forty-ninth parallel, not from within the team. So, the consensus of my listening leading up to Tuesday eve was that it was Canada’s Gold Medal to lose, and, well, good luck to the Yanks. The Canadians blasted their way through the Czechs and the Russians to make the title match. (3-0, 5-0) while the Americans had a bit more of a battle on their hands, ousting the Slovaks 5-2 in a game that was harder than the score would indicate. And then they prevailed over a tough Finn squad 4-3 in a game that had a lot of big exhaling at the end of it. Still, I just had this feeling underneath all of the noise that the USA squad could beat the Canadians. The USA came right out and played the Canadians straight up from the start. They didn’t pull back and stand there in awe. They went right at them with a solid blend of offense and defense, not taking careless chances, and with Spencer Knight in goal to backstop the team when needed, the Canadians were stymied from the get-go. The result was a 2-0 victory for the ages for USA Hockey and another Gold to take back home. In talking about the tourney with my nephew Paul Jr. down in the greater

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Phoenix area, we had to invoke a couple of thoughts of our late hockey hero, Herbie. Regarding the twenty-first round, draft picks on the Canada team; All-star teams usually fail. And then this; I’m not lookin’ for the best players Craig, I’m lookin’ for the right ones. And so, Herb’s philosophies about the game endure. When the Yanks didn’t fold the tent right off the opening faceoff, I’m not sure the Canadians knew how to take that. The Americans did, though, and rode it to a Gold Medal. THE MINNESOTA WILD training camp has continued forward in St. Paul, and by the time this edition of the World Wide Duluth Reader hits the newsstands, the Wild will have already played G1 out in LA versus the Kings. I’m not sure about you, but without the benefit of any preseason games and so on, I’m not expecting a work of hockey art for the first couple of weeks. The Kings are in a rebuild of sorts, and the Wild are as well. The speculated opening night roster I put forth a couple of weeks back is no longer valid either. Injuries and so on have forced some changes to that. Mats Zuccarello is out indefinitely with repairs to an arm situation that has dogged him for a couple of seasons. Backup tender Al Stalock is also out with a UBI. The team has brought back Andrew “the Hamburglar” Hammond to take his spot, but he will be battling Kaapo Kahkonen for the two spot. Marco Rossi has been categorized as being out for the foreseeable future as well, coming back from the WJC with a UBI. So, this looks like the opening night roster for now; Goal; Talbot, Kahkonen Defense; Suter, Dumba, Spurgeon, Brodin, Soucy, Pateryn, Hunt Right Wing; Kaprizov, Fiala, Foligno, Hartman Left-Wing; Parise, Johansson, Greenway, Sturm Center; Bjugstad, Bonino, Eriksson Ek, Rask On IR; Zuccarello, Rossi. Each team is allowed a six-man taxi squad this season, and several players were waived on Sunday to prepare for the finalized opening night roster. Of those waived, I guess I’d be surprised if any were picked up. As I stated previously, I think the club has a shot at the fourth position in the West and a playoff spot. It’s all in their hands! PEACE

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The dangers of ultraprocessed foods In the 2008 movie Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen plays a process server on the run when, during an attempt to notify a drug kingpin of a court appearance, he accidentally witnesses a murder. Seems in that movie, nothing much good comes from serving up a process notice. Just like nothing much good comes from serving up ultraprocessed foods. We’ve often warned that ultraprocessed foods filled with man-made chemicals, unhealthy fats, added sugars and stripped of healthful nutrients are a ticket to an older RealAge and a roster of chronic diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and obesity. But that doesn’t keep a lot of you from gobbling down mass-produced cookies, lunchmeats or sodas. More than half of American’s calories come from ultraprocessed foods. So here’s even more evidence that you need to walk away – quickly – from packaged, processed foods and opt for fresh, whole, natural foods as often as possible. Italian researchers published a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that followed more than 22,000 people 35 and older for around eight years. They found folks who ate a high amount of ultraprocessed foods had a 25% increased risk of death from any cause and a 58% increased risk of dying from cardiovascular diseases. In just eight years! So, for the New Year – and a new

you – start the process of serving yourself seven to nine servings a day of fruits and veggies, lean proteins from fish and poultry; water, tea and coffee for beverages; and only 100% whole grains. *** Many folks report hearing Jimi Hendrix’s lyric “excuse me while I kiss the sky” as “excuse me while I kiss this guy”! It is funny to get lyrics wrong, but it’s no laughing matter if your cholesterol and blood pressure readings are inaccurate. So, for an accurate cholesterol blood test: • A 2019 study in JAMA Internal Medicine found it isn’t necessary to fast before your blood test to determine if you’re at risk for cardiovascular problems -- but it can’t hurt. Ask your doc. • Eating, drinking, exercising and med-taking should be the same the day before the test each time you have it, so you’re comparing apples to apples. • Tell your doc if you’ve had a fever or felt ill recently and what meds you’re taking. Birth control pills, hormone-replacement therapy, steroids and some anti-hypertensives can raise cholesterol levels and affect cholesterol test results. For an accurate blood pressure reading: • Go to the bathroom first. A full bladder can boot systolic readings by 10-plus points! • Uncross your legs and sit up

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happier and healthier, no HuggieBot needed. *** More than 2,500 years ago, refined sugar was developed in India. But it wasn’t until 700 years ago that the exotic flavoring made its way into the Mediterranean area with Cyprus and Sicily becoming centers of production for the rare and expensive spice. That first taste evolved over the centuries into a global obsession. Today every American eats more than 152 pounds of added sugars a year – six full cups a week! Want to know what that does to your ability to protect and preserve your health? It keeps your body from taking out the trash! And as a result, you get stuck with garbage that accumulates in and around your cells, contributing to a host of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, macular degeneration, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. That’s what researchers from Tufts University’s USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging discovered. In a lab study published in Aging Cell, they found that the protein that is supposed to be able to clear out cells damaged by eating added sugars are themselves injured so they can’t do their job. Sugar delivers a double whammy that adds up to a buildup of molecules that speed cellular aging and cause you to have an older RealAge. You become prematurely vulnerable to chronic disease, develop more wrinkles earlier and damage your gut biome. So if you’re craving a sweet treat, opt for fresh fruit and 70% cacao dark chocolate (an ounce a day). That will make life much sweeter (and healthier) too. *** If you have a tickly nose and frequent sneezes when you’re indoors, don’t stifle it. One man in England did just that, and according to the report in the journal BMJ Cases, he tore a hole in his windpipe. A better move: Get rid of the offending allergens. They commonly include dust mites, cockroaches, mold and pets, and can lurk in bedding; carpets and rugs; humidifiers and dehumidifiers; cupboards and corners; even kids’ stuffed animals. To reduce a winter indoor allergy, using an air filter and a vacuum

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The corrective Aquarian Aquarius: January 20-February 21 “Yay! Happy New Year everyone,” you enthusiastically state – as the Aquarian rolls their eyes and sniffs. The Aquarian’s idea of a New Year’s resolution is to correct YOU on all of YOUR shortcomings. Heaven forbid there’s anything in need of improvement in their lives. When the Aquarian finally does crack, and admits they MAYBE are a bit hostile and cruel, the floodgates open, and you are forced to listen to a nonstop tirade of their cathartic rebirth. They will post it on all the social media sites, send letters out to their immediate family, and basically irritate the hell out of everyone else who’s just trying to follow their resolutions of limiting their alcohol intake to 6 drinks a day, or not go to fast food places twice daily. You get the drift. The Aquarian is selfish without knowing it, pompous without admitting it, and basically an asshole. They would say otherwise, of course, citing their many attributes and ac-complishments, as if telling you how they dissed a family member, or stole extra food from their friend’s plate is somehow a feather in their cap. Don’t get me wrong. I have Aquarian friends. I kinda dig em. They are fearless, opinionated and forthright. To a point. They also are secretive and shallow. They will lie without any sense of remorse. You can bet they will “tweak” an experience they had just to make the retelling of the story spicier and more interesting. Even then (loving the sound of their own voice) they will ramble on and manage to bore you into the depths of despair. They will come across spontaneous and bright, all the while being calculating and decisive. Make no mistake. Your Aquarian isn’t a big fluffy fuzz ball. They are a Brillo pad, waiting to scratch the shit out of you at a moment’s notice. When everything in your life is going along nicely, your Aquarian will suddenly and unrepentantly slice you to pieces with a stinging “observation”

on your behavior or appearance. Telling you openly that they have “tolerated” you long enough. You stand there stunned, racking your memory for any sign or signal or clue that ever came from them about your so called “offense.” It’s OK. They will praise you later on in the day for listening to their advice. After all, they know everything, right? Basically, they don’t play well with others. They will openly admit that. Go ahead, ask them. Even so, they struggle to make a difference in the world, to SAVE humanity. They just would like to take all the credit for it. They are the ones who donate to charities and playhouses and theaters and hospitals. They also are the ones that insist on a bronze plaque with their name on it publicly displayed for all to see their amazing generosity. The sign of Aquarius is a fixed AIR sign. There is a rigidity to their mindset. They are very self-controlled, and are often embarrassed by displays of emotion. This is a characteristic of AIR signs, creative thinkers with rods up their asses. If you love an Aquarian, be prepared for hot and cold responses. Some days (when they need you for their fan club) they will be amazingly tender and funny and almost (dare I say it) sweet! But wait a few hours, and you will get the cryptic, caustic, bitter side of them. Try to hold on. They don’t even know they are doing it (yeah, right!). It should be noted that most astronauts are Aquarian. SPACE suits them. Here are some noteworthy specimens: • Charles Darwin – chronicled a remote and unknown island, The Galapagos. • Jules Verne – wrote about a remote and unknown island, Mysterious Island. • Charles Lindbergh – flew over many remote and unknown islands.

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feel superior to them. You signal your contrariness by dressing in eccentric clothes to ensure that we all recognize your fascinating “otherness.” These types of Aquarians usually “HIVE” together in places like Portland or Seattle or Duluth, thus creating a gigantic flux in the time-space continuum; while in social settings these Aquarians seem to always be in the center commanding attention by talking about cool stuff they want everyone to think they know about. It’s not Bull with an Aquarian, though – highly intellectual and logical, at work you can figure out the operating system of any job in about ten seconds. Bosses hate you, because they know you could do their job in your sleep. Colleagues are awed by your insolent independence, but get upset when they come across the notebook listing all their quirks, catchphrases, and secrets they told you in confidence, because you seemed so nice and friendly. Aliens kidnap Aquarians more than any other sign, since the Aquarian acts like the authority “go to” on subjects they know little or nothing about – confusing snatches of conversations they heard a year ago on the History channel’s Ancient Aliens with interactions they had with a famous scientist or expert on extra-terrestrial teleportation. The sad part is, they believe their own fantasy. So, not only a phony, but also a fruitcake. Your never-ending quirkiness and incessant questioning are the reasons why you have no close friends, and your family members all live in other states. This is fine with you, because

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News we could use I have a motley collection of old newspapers, some I saved myself, and others I found somewhere around the house. Most are of historical events, such as ITALY SURRENDERS from Sept 8, 1943, and the death of FDR on April 14, 1945. I’m not sure of the significance of the Minneapolis Star-Journal from Dec. 7, 1939. The headline on that paper describes Finnish and Russian soldiers fighting with long knives in the dark of Finnish winter, amid Finnish charges of Russia using poison gas. Nazi bombers tried to bomb the British naval base at the Firth of Forth in Scotland, but were turned back by British fighter planes. The Germans and French were fighting along a 100-mile front. The German consul secretary, Dr. Walter Engelberg, was practically decapitated at his home in, interestingly enough, the Jewish section of Brooklyn. A search of his home found large quantities of liquor, weapons and pictures of nude men. A Swedish Canadian boxer later confessed to the crime, suggesting that it was prompted by “improper advances” by Engelberg, although police reports indicated that he was asleep when the attack occurred. The first I remember saving was from March 6, 1953. It was an issue of the Duluth News-Tribune, in their largest print all across the page: STALIN IS DEAD. I followed that paper up with July 10, 1953 with BERIA PURGED in slightly smaller letters. This was when Soviet leaders knew they had to act fast to eliminate Secret Police leaders, unlike the later ones who let Putin slip by. I know a lot of people now get their news from TV or (worse yet) from social media. But when your banner headline is shouting that Howie is running for mayor, that should embarrass an editor who knows what news is. It certainly must have embarrassed Howie, because he decided against running. (Later he changed his mind again and got back in the race, only to lose in the primary.) My favorite old paper is the magazine section of the DNT from Dec 23, 1934. I obviously didn’t save this one. I think it was saved because there was an article about Marion Nixon, a Superior native who was a Hollywood actress. She says they live very simply for a Hollywood couple, and only spend weekends on her husband’s yacht.

Her husband directed her and Billie Burke in “We’re Rich Again” and was the director of the musical “Roberta” with Irene Dunne. She talked about spending summers in Duluth. There was also a short piece about two men who appeared in Duluth stock productions and were now in a Charlie Chan movie. The man playing Charlie Chan was a Swede named Warner Oland. The most amazing part of this section was the front page completely taken up by a watercolor painting of a stylish (for 1934) young lady. About two-thirds of the back page contained Tillie the Toiler comic strip, and the rest by a strip called The Van Swaggers. I recall the Tillie the Toiler strip, although it was a strip I thought was for girls, so I didn’t follow it. The other strip probably disappeared at the start of WWII. During the war, my parents subscribed to the Minneapolis Star, which was the afternoon paper. I delivered it for a while, but subscribers were few and far between. In 1951, I took over a very large DNT route, and my parents subscribed to that. I have been a subscriber since long before it became an essentially newsless paper. When I was first married, they had two editions, the morning Tribune and the afternoon Herald. My wife and I had our first argument over which edition to get. My preference was the Tribune, hers was the Herald, so we made the usual compromise and got the Herald. (She was Irish, so there were only two possible outcomes in an argument with her, and the other would end with one of us in jail.) They later dropped that edition, so I won that argument posthumously, as it were. Now they have gone to two papers a week, delivered by mail, so essentially she is getting her way again, also posthumously. This does not present the problem it once did, because by now, the only things I value are the sudoku, the cryptogram and the comics page. My morning tradition was to get the paper, look at the sports section, read the funny comic strips plus Garfield, and then go to the recliner, wait for the cat to leave, then do the puzzles while I drank my coffee. It was pointless to try to do anything before the cat left, because she would release her inner goat and head butt anything I was holding if I didn’t

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pay enough attention. When they went to two papers a week, I almost dropped them, until I found that the full complement of important stuff was still printed. I just had to spread them out so I still have one page a day. I can do that. Back in the good old days, a woman wrote to them, complaining that she didn’t like that they printed clues to the Cryptogram, which made solving them too easy. Shortly after that, they solved that problem for her by printing the wrong clue. The clue said x=g. After a lot of head scratching and furniture banging, I deduced that x actually equalled r. I wrote them a polite letter which said, “I had a hoggible time

solving youg cgytoggam.” In return, I got ... nothing. No correction, no apology, no explanation. Apparently, the problem was solved by ignoring it. At Bayfront, you can hear the Blues. To feel them, just pick up the News. I’m still a little miffed that the people in Fargo felt it necessary to buy out our local paper, The Pine Journal. Now the Cloquet Pine Journal contains articles on the Twins and Vikings which would normally be in the DNT, so they’re all mixed up. Thankfully, we have an independent paper again, The Pine Knot, which is covering the real local scene.

Shane Nelson gets it down on record Shane Nelson is the lead singer-songwriter of Crescent Moon, a hardworking (until the ‘rona) band from Superior. They’ve been together since 2009, when the members were still in high school, though originally their name was Cold Fire. They entered a Battle of the Bands at the DECC, but were disqualified for reasons still unknown. “I think my guitar solo was too long,” Nelson said. While they were still performing, one of the adults walked up and made the throat-cutting signal. The next year, though, they returned and won first place. They went on to win two more battles of the bands, perform at the Big Top Chautauqua and open for Toad the Wet Sprocket, Confederate Railroad and Survivor. This past summer was supposed to be “one of our best,” but it was largely canceled by the epidemic. Still they managed some outdoor shows such as Bayside Sounds at Barkers’ Island. The band is still together, with the current line-up being Shane on lead, Zack Ross on drums, Mike Myer on bass and Nathan Olson (also of The Salty Dogs) on keyboard. Since the band, like so many others, is in forced downtime, Shane produced this solo album in his garage home studio, which is equipped with an outlet, a heater and a drum set. It sounds like a full-band album but it’s mostly just him playing all the parts. He mixed the tracks with Reaper and the result sounds quite professional, even though he says he was just beginning to learn the program. He calls it “a Frankenstein album, a conglomeration of things I’ve done in the past couple of years.” In one of the songs he’s backed by another local band, The Hounds. “I Do What I Do,” a solo acoustic song, was recorded before a live audience at a Bob Dylan Songwriter’s Contest at Sacred Heart. The first track, “Born Too Late,” is not a remake of the 1958 hit by the Poni-Tails, but it is a tip of the hat to another local band that goes by that name, which presumably did get it from the Poni-Tails song. That band is actually staffed by his niece and nephew, whose father is a former member of Crescent Moon. Shane actually wrote the song for their use, but they declined and so he

In any case, at age 28, he’s got plenty more. He has a ton of unrecorded songs and is already working on another album. “If they’re not recorded, it’s dust in the wind,” he said. shanenelsonmusic.com

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recorded it himself … shades of Stevie Nicks writing “Leather and Lace” for her neighbors Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, but they didn’t use the song even though it was the title of their album. Nicks recorded it with Don Henley and it became a hit in 1981. Nelson was surprised when I said I thought his “Born Too Late” is a country song; he considers it a ‘90srock thing. In any case it’s a fast, lively opener. “Best of Me” is an R & B song, a complex and prickly minor-key diss track, though probably not targeted at anyone real. “Beautiful Love Goddess” is all over the map, a bit of a Frankenstein song itself, with elements of jazz and disco, and in the chorus it turns into ‘50s doo-wop song. Mainly it was inspired by the rhythm of a machine Nelson used while working as a cleaner at the YMCA. “Nothing on Me” is straight-up country, proving his versatility in many genres. “Scar on Me” and “I Like You” are also country-tinged songs. “Go Go Go” features blissful harmonizing (all

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Nelson on layered tracks). “Focus,” the one recorded with The Hounds, is a startling veer into left field, as it sounds like lounge music. For good reason, as The Hounds used to be called The Lounge Hounds. Nelson is a virtuoso guitarist, as you can tell from one of his Facebook videos in which he shreds impressively to a Steve Ray Vaughan song. But except for “Nothing on Me,” he doesn’t try to show off his skills on this album, focusing instead on well-crafted songs. Maybe he’s still influenced by the grumpy adult who threw shade on their first Battle of the Bands competition.

Eerie folk project Superior Siren has released a new music video for “Trying Too Hard” off the 2018 self-titled album. The song was originally written about the turbulence of intimate relationships, feeling underestimated by others and breaking free from limitations. Alison Peluso plays three different characters: the main being a young woman tapping into her inner wisdom, contemplating matters of the heart, and connecting with her familial history; the second character is an oppressed ancestor, unable to stand up for herself; and the third character represents the divine feminine energy and goddess within. A defining lyric of the song is “Don’t underestimate me,” which is chanted as an anthem. A counterpart of the music video is a limited-edition shirt with the anthem, designed and printed by Duluth Screen Printing. Throughout the month of January, 20 percent of shirt sales will be donated to Safe Haven. The music video was shot at Sacred Heart Music Center where the album was recorded, and at the Washington Studios Artist Cooperative, where the band creates. The video can be viewed and shirts purchased at superiorsiren. com.

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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, serendip-

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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”, 160lbs, NS/ND, likes to cuddle, hold hands, camping, traveling, cooking, walks. ISO Christian guy 55-70 for friendship and possible LTR. (58374:12/15) Searching for Comanpionship DWF, NS, retired veteran female. 63, honest, considerate, loves to laugh, visit and talk. (58373:12/15) Let’s Seek God’s Will Together NS, 51, tall, exotic, attractive, Christian F. Fun, nature lover, educated, epicurean with diverse interests, healthy living. ISO Christain male 45-58 years young with similar interests. (58370:10/13) Searching for Mate 72yr old F ISO LTR with a passoinate, sincere, kind gentleman in near age group. NS/ND. (58354:6/23) From the Range WWF, 62, NS, likes the outdoors, walks, animal lover, garage sales, dining out, movies. ISO honest, caring man to enjoy lfe with. Will answer all. (58352:6/23) 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) Wondering? SWW, 5’11”, 185lbs, 61yrs. Is there a lonely guy out there with a colostomy pouch? I have one too. Let’s meet. (58343:4/14) Soulmate Wanted Men 55-72 yrs old. 180-210 lbs. Kids okay. Write me. (58336:3/24) Lake Superior Country Girl Pretty, 5’3”, mid-50s, healthy, fit, well read, ISO companion to dance with, garden, dine out, hike, explore life, earth, universe, off grid life style. (58327:2/18) 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)

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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) Vermilion Lake area DWM, 60, 6’1, 200, NS, seeks SF for travel, quiet nights around fire, must enjoy fresh fish dinners off grill. Let’s communicate. (58551:7/16) Time for a companion DWM, 70, 5’8”, 170 lbs., brown hair, blue eyes, looking for a lady to settle down with. I am loving, caring, helpful. Let’s talk and learn more. (58548:5/21) Exploring SWM, 5’10”, brown, blue, enjoy RV camping, boating, ATVing, travel, staying home. Seeking LTR with any race. Piercings, tattoos a plus. (58547:5/14) Living romance novel! Let me lead the way into our very own love story! SWM, tall, attractive, passionate, mysterious, James Bondish! Respond, I want to meet. (58545:4/23) Looking for love WM, 58, seeking mature BBW for dating. I have many interests. Camping, travel, concerts. (58544: 4/23) Lonely Again I’m 6’ brown retired from the rock scene, but still roll. (58539:03/25) Seeking a mature woman SWM, tall, dark, handsome,

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home. (58524:10/24) Hopeless romantic in Two Harbors 61, on pension, fairly attractive, spiritual, love gardening, cooking, watching movies and cuddling. If this appeals to you please respond. (58523:10/24) Not the age, it’s the mileage WM, 61, 6’, 250 lbs., NS, light drinker. Not handsome but handy, easy going, honest, homebody. Very affectionate, likes to cuddle, slow dance. Enjoys shore fishing, light gardening, easy walks. movies, music, cooking and more. ISO cuddly, warmhearted woman 55-65 for LTR. (58518:9/5) Respect joy & fun for you Tell me your story. I’m attractive, healthy, athletic, Amtrak retiree, 6’, slim, financially stable, liberal, NS. Enjoy hiking, swimming, cooking, movies, writing personal letters, conversation. ISO F LTR, any race or age. I like reciprocally gentle foreplay. Seesaw with me as friends. (58516:8/8) Tired of being alone WW, WM, 61, blonde, blue eyes, 5’11”, honest, caring, hard-working. Retiring in November. Will answer all/ (58513:8/1) Lonesome old guy There has to be some lonesome lady in the Virginia area that would like to go for coffee & conversation, maybe play some cribbage. (58510:7/16) Seeking Honesty SWM 57 looking for SWF, fit, educated,love to travel. Camping, adventures. Picture a plus but not required. Must be romantic. (58508:7/16)

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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)

Play Mate Looking for playmate, 40-plus. MWM, 65. Prefer Cloquet to Cotton area. (58567:12/10)

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)

Relating to guys Retired mid-70s professional gentleman to provide full body attention Turkish style. (58550:6/25)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Show me the way WGM 36, fully blind & new to scene. ISO M friend to have a good time with. (58438: 10/18)

Tall Horse Lover DWM 65 6’2” 180 lbs ISO country woman. Where are you? Let’s meet

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Lay down the law WF, early 50s, seeks WM 50s to spank, punish and ground me. (58527:10/24)

Looking for love I’m 64 years old. Love movies and music. Candlelight dinners, walks on the Lakewalk. Looking for LTR. (58496:5/9)

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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)

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Still looking in North Central WI SWM 63 NS/ND 5’8” 160 lb. Still believe life is meant to be shared. Enjoy the outdoors,good conversation, self sufficiency & people w/the same values. No games, just the simple life values. (58479, 4/6)

Senior fun time 70, 67”, NS, Bi, fun time, tall, up close-personal, enjoyment. (58436: 8/7)

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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Partnership Have a nice country home, some pets, camping, fishing and learning. ISO a lady to share and communicate with. Will exchange photos. (58505:7/4)

Looking for a wonderful best friend Single man 60 yrs, seeks lady that loves life, movies, fishing, sports, cards, board games, cooking & grilling together that wants a true, best friend. (58480, 4/6)

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I am a reminiscent sentimental romantic Professional writer, community education teacher, 6’1”, thin, NS, middle-aged, enjoys hiking, classical music, reading, humor, loves holding hands, cuddling, openminded, conversationalist, adaptable to your desires. (58506:7/4)

so we can horse around. Honest, sincere & marriage minded. (58481: 4/6)

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Attractive Discriminating Ninety Intellectual Stimulating NS 5”9” 170lb seeks slim-trim female biologically 65ish independent fox to persue happiness. Wine/dine, dance, karaoke. Upper North Shore -Let’s explore!. (58507:7/4)

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Duluth Playhouse presents a virtual staged reading of The Mountaintop for MLK Day To honor and celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, The Duluth Playhouse proudly presents a virtual staged reading of The Mountaintop, written by Katori Hall from January 15-18, 2021. In this virtual staged reading, audiences will get a front-row seat to witness an exhausted Dr. King on the evening of April 3, 1968, as he retires to his room at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis after making his memorable “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. While a storm rages outside, Dr. King is visited by an enigmatic maid, Camae, who can unveil the humanity and vulnerability of America’s larger-than-life icon. The Mountaintop received its world premiere in London at Theatre 503 before transferring to Trafalgar Studios in the West End, where it won the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play. The 2011 Broadway production starred Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett. “The Playhouse is proud to be producing a virtual staged reading of Katori Hall’s brilliant and deeply powerful play, The Mountaintop,” said Phillip Fazio, the new artistic director of the NorShor Theatre. “Hall is one of our country’s most exciting new playwrights and we are thrilled to bring her work to Duluth.” Appearing as Dr. King is Gabriel Mayfield (recently seen in the virtual holiday show, Songs of the Season) and Daysha Ramsey is Camae (previously seen in Smokey Joe’s Café and Grease). Diona Johnson is tackling the dramaturgy of the production and Phillip Fazio is taking on the production’s staging. “While The Mountaintop first premiered on stage more than a decade ago, Katori Hall’s poignant examination of the life and legacy of Dr. King is timelier than ever,” said Fazio. “After watching this production, we hope our

audiences will discover something new about this great American and recognize his lasting impact on our world today.” The Mountaintop premieres on Jan. 15 at 7 pm, and will stream on ShowTix4U through Jan. 18, 2021. Tickets are $10 per household and once a ticket is purchased, the patron will have 48-hours to watch the performance ondemand from the comfort of their own home. An educational study guide will also be available by request for classrooms and other educational groups who are interested in a deeper learning experience with our virtual production. For more information on this special Martin Luther King Jr. Day performance, visit duluthplayhouse.org/ main-stage.

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Christmas forever at Glensheen Mansion Glensheen opened for indoor and outdoor tour operations on Jan. 16, but the mean spirit of 2020 can’t dampen the Christmas spirit at Glensheen. All of the holiday decorations are still up and the Christmas magic lives on. This weekend, (Jan. 16-17) Glensheen Mansion will open for selfguided Christmas General Admission and Full Mansion tours from 9 am to 5 pm. Glensheen is throwing out the rule book on Christmas and recreating the magic of the holiday season by bringing back the 25 Christmas trees and 25 hidden elves with a few twists. The General Admission tour is the best tour for families to I-spy all of the elves. Glensheen is also adding a new throwback to the Congdon Christmas era. As an ode to the Congdon family tradition of celebrating Christmas in the Amusement Room. Here we’ve added ANOTHER Christmas tree that was inspired by a historic photo. The

photo recently resurfaced during lockdown collection research providing a richer picture of the Congdon family’s holiday celebrations, so this re-creation probably won’t exist next year.

Duluth Art Institute Clay Art exhibit and annual meeting

Wednesday, Jan. 20, 6:30-8 p.m. duluthartinstitute.org The institute is installing its first ever juried Clay Artists exhibition. This exhibition was inspired by the resiliency, tenacity, creativity, and skill of the 37 ceramic artists who rent studio space and make work at the Duluth Art Institute Lincoln Park Building. They will celebrate these artists by presenting three jurors choice awards. Ceramicist Linda Christianson juried a collection of pottery and ceramics that includes functional, sculptural, and abstract pieces. Art on view will include wheel thrown vessels, hand-built sculptures, and decorative ceramics with painted and glazed surfaces fired in electric, gas, and woodfired kilns. We have invited Christianson to announce the three juror’s choice awards during this upcoming virtual event. In addition to the ceramic exhibition awards, this virtual event will serve as the Annual Member Meeting (which typically coincides with the Annual Member Show). The annual member meeting is a time for members to cast their vote to approve new board members and officers who will serve the DAI for the next three years. This is a unique aspect of membership at the DAI, as members have a direct influence on the leadership roles in the organization. Attending DAI members will be sent a Google Form during the event to cast their votes to approve nominated board of directors members. This event is for both members and non-members.

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Avoid bathroom design errors Dear James: We are in the planning codes in some areas. Sanitation may stages to add a half-bathroom on our be an issue, and people just don’t want first floor for my elderly mother. What bathroom sounds and odors nearby are some basic design tips to consider where they eat. and errors to avoid? — Cathy D. Another common problem is Dear Cathy: As our population installing an inexpensive vent fan in ages, adding a first-floor full or halfa new bathroom that does not have bathroom is becoming a typical home a window. You don’t need a vent fan improvement project. Although this with a large air flow capacity in a small is not a difficult project, it must be bathroom, but you do want a quiet planned properly during the designJAMES one. A noisy one will not be used phase in order to make the new because the sound can drive you crazy bathroom most usable, attractive DULLEY and in a small room. functional. Always follow the vent fan One of the first considerations manufacturer’s installation when adding a bathroom, even just specifications, particularly for the a lavatory, is stealing enough space vent duct. Exceeding the maximum from another room. Sometimes, for vent duct length and/or the number convenience to water and drains, of elbows and turns can dramatically the bathroom door is located off increase resistance and decrease air the kitchen area. This definitely is a flow. Even a good-quality fan can be mistake and may even violate building virtually ineffective with poor duct

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installation. Inadequate lighting is another common design problem. This is particularly true if your daughters will put on makeup in the new lavatory. Natural lighting is always best because of its excellent color rendition. If there is no window in the lavatory, install a tubular skylight in the ceiling or fullspectrum, compact fluorescent bulbs. Another design idea to improve lighting is to use privacy-glass blocks to an adjacent room. Just a partial glass block wall, in front of the sink, not

the toilet area, can add a significant amount of light. A partial glass-block floor or ceiling is also effective for more light by the mirror and sink. From a design standpoint, never face the toilet directly toward the door. It does not look good when one enters the lavatory or from inside when in use. It is better to offset the toilet out of the direct view of the door and, preferably, perpendicular to it. If at all possible, install some type of divider panel, even a small one, between the toilet and the sink.

Slippery floors are another common design problem. Large, glossy tiles can be very attractive, but when wet, they can become slippery. Even though the lavatory will not have a shower or bathtub, just washing hands and a face can get some water on the floor. Use smaller floor tiles with a rougher surface. Smaller tiles also require more grout lines for better traction. Finally, but most importantly, water is used in a lavatory, so make the room waterproof. Although it is attractive, avoid using exposed wood. If you

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Winter sports and climate change Dear EarthTalk: Given the existential threat to their industry, what are ski resorts, gear makers and professional skiers and snowboarders doing to fight global warming? – J. Simms, Rutland, VT It’s undeniable that climate change has been affecting and continues to threaten the winter sports and tourism industries. Colder regions around the world are experiencing a steady decline in snowfall and snowy months. In the classic tale of Frosty the Snowman, Frosty promises to come back next winter

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Skiers might not have any snow left to ski on if we can’t get global warming under control right quick. when the cold returns. But as global average temperatures continue to climb, will Frosty keep coming back? The SNOTEL network has kept detailed records of snow at high elevations since the 1960s. Based on their data, scientists have determined a 10-20 percent average loss in the annual maximum snow water equivalent (the amount of water stored in snow packs) during that time because of global warming. They have also recorded a one-to-two-week loss in days with snow cover in these regions since the 1970s. “Warmer winter temperatures also affect the characteristics of accumulated snow on the ground, including snow depth, how long the snow stays on the ground, and snow ‘slushiness,’” reports the group Protecting Our Winters (POW) in a report produced in conjunction with gear retailer Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI). Of course, more slushiness and less powder are not ideal for winter sports enthusiasts. Whether it’s skiing, snowboarding or

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just rolling around in the snow, there are many of activities that rely on the cold. One study found that 20 million Americans participate in winter sports annually, generating $20.3 billion dollars in the winter sports tourism industry. This industry supports over 191,000 jobs. So, what’s the industry doing to address these changes? The National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) has taken on global warming via its Climate Challenge program. Promoting education around global climate change, creating more sustainable slopes, and furthering outdoor business climate partnerships. Winter sports athletes have also been advocating for climate action. Before the 2014 Winter Olympics, 75 decorated Olympic skiing and snowboarding medalists wrote to President Obama calling for more ambitious action on climate change; they continue to advocate for climate action to this day. Additionally, “sustainability” was recently announced as one of the three pillars

of Olympic Agenda 2020. Last but not least, Protect Our Winters (POW) has been a huge player in pushing for climate action. “We find things in deep winter or at high altitude elevations that we don’t find anywhere else, that speak very directly to our connection to nature and to the human soul...” POW’ executive director, Mario Molina, tells Yale Climate Connections. POW rallies athletes, scientists, business leaders and others to advocate for policies that protect climate and has resources for advocacy, education, donating and volunteering. Dear EarthTalk: I see more and more EVs out of the road. When will they start to outnumber internal combustion cars on American roads? – Jane L., New Bern, Electric vehicles (EVs) have been around about as long as cars themselves. In fact, primitive EVs were the dominant form of automotive transportation at the dawn of the auto age in Europe and the U.S. in the

late 19th century. It wasn’t until the 1920s – when the U.S. road system was starting to be built out and cheap oil was available from newly tapped Texas oil fields – that internal combustion cars began to take over as the predominant vehicles across the United States. And we never looked back. Until recently, that is. Nowadays, EVs (Teslas, Leafs, Bolts, etc.) are indeed everywhere. Analysts estimate the EVs will be cheaper to buy than internal combustion cars as soon as 2022. Beyond that, it’s probably only a matter of two decades before EVs represent the majority of cars, light trucks and SUVs plying American roads. In 2018, EVs made up only about two percent of total U.S. new car sales, but that figure represents an astonishing 70 percent growth from the year prior. Moving forward, analysts expect around 13 percent annual compound growth in the EV sector for the foreseeable future. Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a research arm of the New York-based media company, expects sales of passenger EVs to overtake conventional internal combustion-based vehicles by 2038 (with EV sales topping 50 million a year as compared to conventional vehicle sales of 47 million by then). After that, EVs, with their lower ongoing fuel and maintenance costs, will continue taking over more and more of the market every year, calling the very future of the internal combustion engine passenger car into

question. As technologies mature (allowing for better battery storage and extended driving range) and manufacturers ramp up production and prices come down accordingly, consumers will begin to look exclusively at EVs when shopping for new cars. Indeed, a recent survey of 2,000 adults living in either California or the Northeast Tristate Area (NY, NJ, CT) by consulting firm West Monroe Partners found that the majority (59 percent) of respondents think their next vehicle will be an electric car. Not surprisingly, the survey found that Gen Zers (those born after 1996) are especially inclined toward EVs. That said, only 16 percent of respondents are driving around in EVs today, and concerns including short battery life and lack of charging stations (limiting the vehicles’ range), as well as high up-front purchase costs, are still holding many of us back from taking the all-electric plunge. But the writing is on the wall for gas guzzling passenger cars as we overcome these short-term hurdles. With about 15 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions emanating from the tailpipes of our internal combustion cars and light trucks, and gasoline becoming more expensive, the inevitable switchover to EVs is going to be a win-win for consumers and the planet. 2038 can’t come too soon! See more at emagazine.com. To donate, visit earthtalk.org. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.

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A member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, with her religious headgear (a colander) fashioned into a stylish black bowler.

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The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster examined in documentary What consititutes a “real” religion? Does it need a god? A devil? Angels? Heaven? Hell? While the U.S. Supreme Court has wrestled with the idea of what constitutes religion, because of the wide variety of religious views in this country, it has never been able to settle on a definition. In an 1890 decision (Davis vs. Beason), the court embraced traditional Western religion by ruling that the “term ‘religion’ has reference to one’s view of his relations to his Creator, and to the obligations they impose of reverence for his being and character, and of obedience to his will.” However, 71 years later the court ruled in a nod to non-Western religions (Torcaso vs. Wakins} that the govern-

ment cannot make a distinction between “those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.” Say an explorer from another world came to Earth and tried to understand religion. Would that independent observer think any one of the world’s many religions is the one true way? Or would she think they all sound insane for putting faith in an unseen “god”? These questions of what constitutes a true religion is at the heart of the documentary I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story, which tells the story of the 21st century religion called Pastafarian, adherents of which believe the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the great creator of all life. They claim to have 10 mil-

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lion members worldwide. The tenets of the religiion are outlined in the 2006 The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, with such laudable goals as ending poverty, curing

disease and bringing down the cost of cable. While it may seem just one more frivolous fake religion, Pastafarians around the world have hired legal

counsel to defend the religion in hearings that have allowed adherents to have their drivers license photos shot wearing the religious headgear of the sect, which is a colander or pasta strainer. We learn, however, that the wearing of colanders is not in the gospel. In fact, in the beginning, Pastafarianism required pirate clothing because they believe all humans are descended from pirates. But as German Pastafarian Bruder Spaghettus explains, it was an Austrian Pastafarian who introduced the wearing of the colander, and as the Bruder, who continues to wear his pirate cap, says, Germans do not want to follow the lead of another crazy Austrian. That Austrian colander wearer, Niko Alm, changed the face of Pastafarianism when he won the right from the Austrian government to wear a colander in his drivers license photo shoot. The authorities, however, said they granted permission not because they recognized the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a legitimate religion but because Alm’s “religious headgear” did not obscure his face in the photo. The colanders can be metal or plastic. One follower has attached a black brim to her black colander so that it looks like a bowler hat, and she wears it at a rakish angle reminiscent of the boyos in A Clockwork Orange. The documentary introduces us to several Pastafarians who take their fight for legal recognition of the religion to court. The Pastafarian legal counsel who represents them says it is impossible to prove that one religion is real and another is fake. It takes almost three-quarters of this almost hour-long documentary to get to the real point of this noodly religion when we learn that Gospel author Bobby Henderson wrote a letter in 2005 to the Kansas State Board of Education when (shades of the 1925 Scopes Trial!) it made the successful attempt to force public high schools to teach intelligent design along with evolution in science classes (two years later, a new board voted 6-4 to eliminate intelligent design from the curriculum). The documentary makes the Scopes Trial connection by adding some images from the trial of Tennessee math teacher and athletic coach John Scopes, who agreed to test the state’s ban on teaching evolution. The American Civil Liberties Union had advertised for someone to challenge the Tennessee law. Arguing for the state was three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, and in defense of Scopes was brilliant Chicago defense attorney

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The best part of this movie is the veracity of the two veteran actors in the leads – March and Tracy are perfect foils as they passionately argue their views in this movie that is not afraid of ideas. Tracy, especially, delivers some great lines, such as, “Fanaticsm and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding.” When asked what it is he finds holy, Drummond gives this very human answer: “The individual human mind. In a child’s ability to master the multiplication table, there is more holiness than all your shouted hosannas and holy of holies.”

Pastafarian Niko Alm conducts state business in his religious colander.

Spencer Tracy (left) as Henry Drummond grills Bible-thumping prosecutor Matthew Brady, played by Fredric March, about the veracity of the Bible. At center, veteran character actor Harry Morgan watches in the role of Judge Merle Coffey. Clarence Darrow, who eventually called Bryan to the stand and reduced him to a national laughingstock in the major victory for the teaching of evolution. So, Pastafaria has established itself as a force of good in the world. “He boiled for your sins.” But the documentary sent me directly to Stanley Kramer’s 1960 movie about the Scopes trial, Inherit the Wind, with Fredric March as the sanctimonious blowhard Matthew Brady (the fictional representation of William Jennings Bryan) and Spencer Tracy as wellknown defense lawyer Henry Drummond (Darrow). Dick York – just a few years away from gaining fame as Elizabeth Montgomery’s husband on Bewitched – played the adventurous science teacher Scopes.

The cast also includes Gene Kelly as influential Baltimore newspaperman E. K. Hornbeck, who is modeled after real Baltimore newspaperman H. L. Mencken, who actually covered the Scopes trial and is credited with dubbing it the “Moneky Trial.” It was, in fact, Mencken and the Baltimore Sun who enlisted Darrow to defend Scopes, and the newspaper paid Darrow’s expenses. While the movie clearly discusses the question of evolution and creationism, director Kramer was also referencing the suppression of reality that had emerged just a few years before under the dark cloud of McCarthyism. But you can also take it at face value as a courtroom drama pitting those who believe the Bible to be literal truth and those, who like Henry Drummond, believe Darwinism is as “incontrovertible.”

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2003 Honda CVR

Sunroof, 230k miles. Best offer! 218-940-6237

2007 Toyota Avalon Touring

LOADED, Leather, sunroof, 230k miles. Broken headlight. Best offer. 218-940-6237

1963 Oldsmobile

4 dr collector car. 17,700 original mil. Museum quality. $15,000. 218-778-688 6 after 6pm

2017 Nissan Leaf SV

ALL ELECTRIC, Charge with house power, 107-mile range, back-up camera, GPS, Bose audio, heated seats. 16k miles. $12,500 or BO. 218-428-5631

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 Toyota Corolla 4cyl sedan 4D LE 90k miles $2900. 218-727-6724 Sold AS-IS for restoration or parts. Collector 91 Buick Riviera, 68

Chevrolet 3/4 ton pickup. 88 Mercury Topaz, 74 Mercury Montery 218-525-1477 2000 Dodge Intrepid, still runs good, (been babied), FW drive, tires fairly new, 178,000+ miles, $2,000 or BO 218-786-0339 2003 Saturn LW200 Wagon. Great shape, great runner, low 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 power!! $75.00 218-6242143 96 Dodge Dakota ExCab, V-6, 137xxx mi. $1850.00 218-7493993

1997 Red Chev 1/2 ton, Z71, leather, 3rd door, push button 4x4++! 157000 mi. $3850. 218749-3993 2015 Yukon SLT. Fully loaded. 50% wear on tires. 103KMi Free of 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 with 18 hp motor. No trailer, $1300. 218-254-3289. Razor scooter for kids. great condition. $15. 218-481-0175.

1986 O’Day 222 Sailboat with trailer. $1,500. Text 218-749-2723. 2001 Honda Valkyrie Interstate 1500. Red with matching trailer, loaded with chrome, full cover, shop manual, mint condition, 9,400 miles. $7,000. 715-374-2588. “01” 14’ Alumacraft T-14-V with cover; “99” PERO Boat Trailer with spare tire; “89” 15 HP Evinrude outboard & tank; 2- collapsible seats; 2 oars. $1,700. Also, “86” 15 HP Evinirude, $300. 218-626-3023 (home), 218-216-5372 (cell) Ladies co-ed Schwinn 2-speed tourinig classic, red, gel seat, helmet, $200. rdtnews@gmail.com Ladies cruiser, blue chrome fenders, needs TLC. $40. rdtnews@ gmail.com. Arctic Cat Snowmobile Suit. Like New, paid $260 make offer cash only. 218-834-3709 2004 HarleyDavidson Heritage Softail. Lots of extras, helmet, available. 12,000mi $10,000. 218966-1748 14ft fiberglass fishing boat, molded seats $200. or BO 218-848-2007 1985 Honda Shadow 650 122,000 odometer. Runs good. Comes with brand new helmet & leather saddle bags. $900 OBO 715-813-0757 OLD MOTORCYCLES WANTED Collector looking for old motorcycles sitting in the barn or shed collecting dust mostly looking for 60s and 70s motorcycles but possibly newer ones as well what do you have? Cash paid! Call me 320420-7675 2010 Yamaha Cruiser Red, 1000cc, 1,800mi, saddlebags, removable backrest, windshield, cruise control. Like new $5000. 218-410-2616 1998 AlumaCraft 185 Trophy 150hp Johnson, 6hp Nissan, 2 Locators, Marine Radio, 4 Downriggers, 2 planner boards, 7 rods & reels. $10,000 or BO 715-8178030 2252 Ciera Express. Set up for Lake Superior. Asking $10,000. or reasonable offer 218-348-5450 91 H.D. Sportster 1200cc Rebuilt & modified. Good cond. $5,000. OBO 218-724-1946 1972 Harley 50cc Did run last 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

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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 Older 1/2-ton 4x4 pickup, in good running condition and rust free. 218-929-9161. 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. 218-464-2824 4 Weather Master, Snowgroove,

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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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Real Estate 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_

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__

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

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.

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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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14th Avenue West & 3rd Street Wood setting near Enger Tower in the middle of Duluth. 2 bedroom apartment, everything included 950.00 a month Newer secure building, views of bay, OSP, laundry, non-smoking, no pets. 100 yards from hiking and biking trails. Students and young professionals welcome. Call Dan. 218-348-8008

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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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The 685-lb Teen TLC 5 pm Teenager Justin Williamson weighs nearly 700 pounds, but he doesn’t let that stop him from pursuing his musical dreams. This one-hour special follows Williamson as he works to transform himself, paving the way for the happy, healthy life he leads today.

Uma Thurman stars in both volumes of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, airing backto-back on HBO at 7 pm Saturday.

Movie: The Lobster Showtime 7 pm Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz star in this acclaimed European absurdist comedy set in a strange dystopian society where all single people are given 45 days to find a partner or else be transformed into an animal. A hotel serves as a home for singletons. Paranormal Caught on Camera TRAV 9 pm In this new episode, Louisiana natives get a visit from a suspiciously smelly sasquatch. At the Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada, patrons are terrorized by a haunted statue, and a UFO is seen flying over Kentucky’s infamous Fort Knox. Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch Discovery 9:15 p.m. After making a final decision against entering the flooded cave again, Duane and the team begin to seek out new entry points to the cavern system in this new episode. However, something lurking in the dark leaves everyone re-evaluating their safety.

Saturday 1-16 Extreme Couponing TLC 5 am Kick off this marathon with Adrienne, a minister from Alabama with a goal of converting her congregation to couponing. Then, meet Sarah from New

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Hampshire, a 14-year-old girl who takes care of her whole family’s grocery shopping entirely with coupons. Dirty Jobs Discovery 10 am Starting off a marathon of this popular unscripted series hosted by Mike Rowe, this rebroadcast features the famous Jelly Belly Candy Company. Mike heads to the factory to create and taste test a few rather unique and untraditional new flavors. Movie: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 HBO 7 pm Uma Thurman stars in both volumes of this cult action hit from Quentin Tarantino, airing back-to-back. A former assassin goes on a bloody mission to take out the teammates who betrayed her, one by one. Vivica A. Fox and Lucy Liu also star. Movie: Widows FX 9:30 p.m. Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo star in this thriller as four Chicago women attempting to finish a $5-million heist started by their husbands before a botched getaway plan left all four of them widowed Swoozie Kurtz and Julian Grant also star.

as respected New Orleans judge, Michael Desiato. When Michael’s son, Adam (Hunter Doohan), is involved in a hit-and-run, both men become embroiled in a web of lies, deceit and corruption of the legal system.

Monday 1-18 The Neighborhood CBS 7 pm Midwesterner Dave (Max Greenfield) and his wife, Gemma (Beth Behrs), learn making friends in their new Los Angeles community isn’t easy. Luckily, Dave has some experience dealing with conflict. Cedric the Entertainer also stars in this fun comedy. Weakest Link NBC 9 pm Jane Lynch hosts this intense team trivia-show revival, in which contestants answer questions in order to bank money. At the end of each round, the team members vote out their underperforming “weak link,” until only the top two players remain.

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The Wall NBC 7 pm Contestants win or lose millions depending on where a ball lands after being dropped down a four-story wall. In this game show hosted by Chris Hardwick, teams of two answer trivia, hoping luck is on their side and that they chose the right partner. Card Sharks ABC 8 pm Contestants attempt to guess whether the next giant playing card to be flipped will be higher or lower than the previous one in this game show reboot hosted by Joel McHale. If they can make it across the board, the contestants enter the Money Cards round. Your Honor Showtime 9 pm Bryan Cranston stars in this miniseries

Kori Sutton is one of the contestants vying to become Chef Gordon Ramsay’s new head chef for his Lake Tahoe restaurant in Season 19 of Hell’s Kitchen, airing Thursday at 7pm on Fox.

Movie: G.I. Jane AMC 10 pm A tough-as-nails Navy Intelligence officer (Demi Moore) enters the elite Navy SEALs training program in the hopes of becoming the first female SEAL, but a scandal threatens her future in the program in this Ridley Scott film. Viggo Mortensen also stars.

Tuesday 1-19 Ride With Norman Reedus AMC 8:30 am Norman Reedus meets up with Michael Rooker in Alabama in this rebroadcast Season 4 premiere. The on-screen brothers then explore and have some fun in Atlanta before heading to Senoia, Georgia, where “The Walking Dead” is filmed, for a series reunion. Movie: Cinderella ABC 7 pm Lily James stars as kind-hearted Ella, a young woman left in the grips of a cruel stepmother (Cate Blanchett) after her father passes. After a chance meeting with a prince, Ella must overcome her stepmother’s wicked schemes to reunite with him.

Chicago Med NBC 7 pm In this medical drama, Dr. Manning (Torrey DeVitto) and Dr. Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) struggle to find balance between their personal and professional lives while working to save lives in Chicago’s busiest (fictional) ER. Brian Tee and Yaya DaCosta star. Court Cam A&E 8 pm Enter courtrooms across the country without having committed a crime in this fascinating series. The most outrageous, emotional and unbelievable moments caught on camera are showcased along with perspectives from involved victims, witnesses and culprits. Call Your Mother ABC 8:30 pm Empty-nester Jean Raines (Kyra Sedgwick) surprises her children, Jackie (Rachel Sennott) and Freddie (Joey Bragg), by moving across the

country to be closer to them in this new sitcom. Unfortunately, she wasn’t really invited. My Feet Are Killing Me TLC 10 pm Dr. Vincent helps a drummer get his feet back on the beat in this rebroadcast. Plus, one woman’s serpentine foot has prevented her from living life to the fullest, so Dr. Schaeffer helps to straighten the foot and give her a new lease on life.

Thursday 1-21 Paralyzed and Pregnant With Twins TLC 10 a.m. A tragic accident in 2006 left Claudia Salley paralyzed from the chest down and, with her husband, grieving the death of their infant son. This special follows the couple’s strength as Claudia prepares to give birth to twins three years later. Hell’s Kitchen Fox 7 pm Chef Gordon Ramsay seeks a new

head chef for his Lake Tahoe Hell’s Kitchen restaurant during Season 19 of this hit series. The Red and Blue teams attempt to complete an intense dinner service, and the losing team must nominate members for elimination. B Positive CBS 7:30 pm Thomas Middleditch stars as Drew, a divorced father in desperate need of both a kidney transplant and a social life in this sitcom. Drew forms an unlikely bond with his donor, Gina (Annaleigh Ashford), one of his former classmates from high school. The Chase ABC 8 pm Teams of three attempt to win big money in this game show adaptation from across the pond. Answering trivia questions to increase their prize pool, contestants race against a ruthless quiz master known as “The Beast” to answer the most questions.

The Resident Fox 7 pm Based on Marty Makary’s novel Unaccountable, this medical drama stars Matt Czuchry, Shaunette Renée Wilson and Emily VanCamp. The series follows the lives of doctors, nurses and interns at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. This Is Us NBC 8 pm Taking place across multiple timelines, this tear-jerking family drama unveils the story of Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia); his wife, Rebecca (Mandy Moore); and their children, Randall (Sterling K. Brown), Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Kevin (Justin Hartley).

Lily James stars as kind-hearted Ella, a young woman left in the grips of a cruel stepmother (Cate Blanchett) in Cinderella, airing Tuesday at 7 pm on ABC.

Wednesday 1-20 Movie: Air Force One AMC 1 pm When Air Force One is hijacked by Russian nationalists with the president (Harrison Ford), the first lady (Wendy Crewson) and their daughter (Liesel Matthews) aboard, the president is forced to stand up to the terrorists himself in this action film. DuluthReader.com

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