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inbox Stauber and his comrades You, and your fellow Republicans spent four years watching Trump tell more than 29,000 lies, and did and said nothing – because it kept you in power. You had the chance to impeach him, and you and your fellow Republicans did nothing, again because it helped you stay in power. And during the impeachment trial, you and your fellow Republicans told all kinds of lies and half truths, to muddy the waters, and blunt or change the focus of the charges, again so you could stay in power. And when the President went golfing five times, and held eight rallies during the first month or two of the Covid virus pandemic, you and your comrades said and did nothing. I could fill this page, and many others about your failures to do and say anything truthful about Trump, in your quest to maintain and increase your power in government. I could, BUT WHAT’S THE POINT? You already know everything I might say. And you and your comrades will never admit to the whole, unvarnished

truth because of how it would make you appear to your constituents. Keeping power, and winning at any cost, is the bottom line, isn’t it. The end always justifies the means, no matter how deceitful you have to be. You’re always willing to tell the part of the truth that makes you look good, or, at least, doesn’t make you look bad – just like Donald J. Trump, right! Because your fear, and your ego are involved, you love the lie that saves your pride, but NEVER the unflattering truth. You love the lie that allows you to control how well you’re thought of by your base, but never the unflattering truth about how many mistakes you make as a human being. And this is why you and your comrades will never change. Obama had the courage to publicly admit to more mistakes in his eight years as President than I suspect you have in your entire career as a “public servant.” Robert Kennedy wrote “Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues,

the wrath of their society. ‘Moral courage’ is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle, or great intelligence. Yet, it is the one essential, vital quality (necessary) for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully, (grudgingly, and slowly) to change.” Who do you seek to change, Mr. Stauber? Would it be everyone, but yourself, because you don’t think you need to change anything about yourself? In playing the game of “politics,” as you’ve learned to play it, moral courage is the essential quality you lack. Along with your fellow Minnesota House Republicans, (Emmer, Fischbach and Hagedorn,) it’s also the quality you’re

afraid to admit you need the most. Gary Burt Marble, Minnesota So disrespectful of Trump Hello I’m a frequent reader of your newspaper. I have to say I’m disappointed in Jan. 21, 2021 edition front cover. You insult President Trumps “Make America Great Again” with Bidens picture. That’s wrong and disrespectful, but that’s how the left are. Have no respect for their country or their people. Needless to say i am no longer going to read this paper of disrespectful human beings. Michelle Rodberg Eveleth, Minnesota

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The Inauguration Poem Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, read the following poem during the inauguration of President Joe Biden on Jan. 20: When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade We’ve braved the belly of the beast We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace And the norms and notions of what just is Isn’t always just-ice And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it Somehow we do it Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken but simply unfinished We the successors of a country and a time Where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one And yes we are far from polished far from pristine but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect We are striving to forge a union with purpose To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us but what stands before us We close the divide because we know, to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another We seek harm to none and harmony for all Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried DuluthReader.com

That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious Not because we will never again know defeat but because we will never again sow division Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree And no one shall make them afraid If we’re to live up to our own time Then victory won’t lie in the blade But in all the bridges we’ve made That is the promise to glade The hill we climb If only we dare It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit, it’s the past we step into and how we repair it We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy And this effort very nearly succeeded But while democracy can be periodically delayed it can never be permanently defeated In this truth in this faith we trust For while we have our eyes on the future history has its eyes on us This is the era of just redemption We feared at its inception We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour but within it we found the power

to author a new chapter To offer hope and laughter to ourselves So while once we asked, how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe? Now we assert How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us? We will not march back to what was but move to what shall be A country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation Our blunders become their burdens But one thing is certain: If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left with Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west, we will rise from the windswept northeast where our forefathers first realized revolution We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states, we will rise from the sunbaked south We will rebuild, reconcile and recover and every known nook of our nation and every corner called our country, our people diverse and beautiful will emerge, battered and beautiful When day comes we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid The new dawn blooms as we free it For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it If only we’re brave enough to be it

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Minnesota vaccinating more slowly than other states – here’s why In the weeks since two COVID-19 vaccines became available, Minnesota has gotten flak from residents and lawmakers for data that show the state not vaccinating its population as quickly as other states. As of Jan. 20, federal data showed Minnesota is tied for 41st place for share of the population that has received a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine (3.7 percent). Worse, perhaps, Minnesota has ranked near the lower middle of states for the percent of shots distributed by the federal government that have been given, leading some to conclude there’s a stockpile of vaccines somewhere that isn’t being used. That’s not the case, say state and health system officials and experts. Instead, they say, the reason data show Minnesota’s vaccination process isn’t going as quickly as some other states’ has to do with the state’s decision to ensure that those most at risk for severe cases of COVID-19, and those who care for them, are vaccinated first. The data cited on vaccine distribution in most state-by-state trackers comes from the Centers for Disease Control’s vaccine tracker. Last week, the most recent CDC tracker data showed Minnesota with 519,600 distributed doses, and 251,535 doses administered – an administration rate of 48 percent. That doesn’t look great compared to other states. West Virginia and North Dakota had both administered more than 65 percent. But it’s an oversimplification to say that Minnesota has administered 48 percent of the shots it has and is sitting on the other 52 percent. “It’s a common misperception,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, due in part to the way the CDC’s vaccine tracker measures the vaccine roll out. Until Jan. 20, doses distributed referred to the number of vaccines

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Steve Leslie administering a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to Kelly Lind in Virginia, Minn. Both are public health nurse supervisors for St. Louis County. Photo courtesy of St. Louis County Public Health & Human Services Dept. that have been recorded in the CDC’s tracking system as shipped to Minnesota since Dec. 13. That means some of them are in transit, either direct to Minnesota vaccination sites or, if they’re Pfizer vaccines that need ultra-cold storage, in transit from Minnesota’s hub sites, where such cold storage is available, to spokes, smaller facilities where the vaccines are being used. In northwestern Minnesota, for example, Sanford Health in Bemidji is the hub site for vaccination sites in Baudette, Crookston, Park Rapids and other smaller towns across the region. Any vaccines that go to those sites are first shipped to Bemidji, then taken out of ultra-cold storage and brought to the smaller sites to be administered, where they have to be used within five days, said Matt Webb, director of pharmacy for Sanford Health of northern Minnesota. Ideally, Hannan said, a state getting weekly vaccination shipments would

show up at about 70 percent of vaccine shipped administered on the CDC’s vaccine tracker, because at the same time their providers are receiving shipments and giving shots, they’re waiting on the next week’s allotment of vaccines, marked as “shipped.” “Because of the dynamic of the supply coming every week, you’re never going to be at 100 percent unless supply actually stops,” she said. There are also lags in the data associated with when vaccinations get reported to the federal government. Also at issue has been the long-term care vaccination program, which is run by the federal government and administered by pharmacy chains (in Minnesota, it’s Walgreens, CVS and Thrifty White). States have been required to set aside doses for this program, which has been slow to get off the ground, and they can’t just reallocate those shots for other uses, Hannan said.

The exception is West Virginia, the lone state that didn’t sign onto the federal program to vaccinate long-term care. West Virginia officials have cited this as one reason their numbers look so good. As the long-term care vaccination program moves forward (MDH said in a legislative hearing Wednesday that Minnesotans in 1A are expected to have their first shot done or at least scheduled by early February), states’ ratios of vaccines used out of those distributed are coming up. Taking out the number of doses allocated to the long-term care vaccination program, some states are up near 70 percent, and every state is improving, Hannan said. Midweek last week, CDC changed the metric on its tracker from doses shipped to doses delivered to states, which cuts some of the shipping time out of the equation. The number of doses delivered as of Jan. 21 was up

to nearly 596,000, while the number of vaccines administered was 252,548. That puts the state’s ratio of vaccines administered to delivered at just 42 percent. Other factors are at play, too. The states with the highest ratios of vaccines administered per capita are, in order: Alaska, West Virginia and North Dakota. These states have a couple of advantages when it comes to vaccine distribution, Hannan said. One, their populations are smaller, so it’s easier to manage inventory, and two, they tend to have strong relationships with a smaller number of health providers. That contrasts with states like Minnesota, which has to manage inventory across some pretty big health systems, she said. Minnesota has also stuck close to CDC guidelines for vaccinations. Group 1A, the only one eligible for vaccination until last week when Minnesota added those 65 and older plus small numbers of school and child care workers, included those living and working in long-term care and health care providers. Some states opened up vaccinations to broader groups of people, such as

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older people not living in long-term care facilities or those with underlying health conditions that could put them at risk of severe COVID-19 complications, almost from the jump. In these places, Florida and Texas among them, a large swath of the population was made eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine even before the state finished vaccinating in long-term care settings and among health care workers. While that strategy has allowed people who wouldn’t be eligible for vaccination yet in Minnesota to get shots, it hasn’t made everyone happy. As of last week, Texas was vaccinating its 1A, which was much like Minnesota’s, and 1B, which includes those 65 and older and those younger with an underlying health condition, at the same time. “Some states that opened [vaccines] up early, like Texas, seem to have more doses administered, but at the same time, I was just on a call and their Medical Association is very loudly saying a lot of health care workers got left behind,” Hannan said. Florida is still in 1A, but the state included those 65 and older and anyone hospitals deem to have an

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underlying health condition for whom COVID-19 poses extreme risk. The state has made some vaccinations available to those eligible on a firstcome, first-served basis, a strategy that created long lines and demand that far outpaced supply. “My dad’s in Florida and people in Florida are upset when people that are in assisted living and skilled nursing haven’t gotten their vaccines ahead of time,” MDH Infectious Disease Director Kris Ehresmann said. In the meantime, “People are flying into Florida to get vaccinated and their residents are frustrated.” By contrast, Minnesota’s approach, which MDH calls “immunizing for impact,” has required an effort to make appointments for the more specific groups of people who qualify. “I think they took a very deliberate approach, which is good, but you know, I think it results in some doses seemingly sitting on the shelf, which I don’t necessarily think is true. I think all of the doses are spoken for. They’re somewhere in that plan of scheduling, giving, reporting, all of that taking some time on the hospital side,” Hannan said. Ehresmann used a State Fair analogy

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to illustrate how Minnesota’s approach differs from other states’, noting that it would take longer to fill a number of, say, seats at an event at the Fair with people wearing red shirts than it would to just fill them with anyone. There’s some chance Minnesota’s efforts to more tightly control its COVID-19 vaccine rollout could hurt the state. The Trump administration had indicated earlier this month it would consider how fast states are vaccinating people when it distributes doses, giving more vaccine to states moving at a fast clip. MDH Commissioner Jan Malcolm said it’s not clear whether the Biden administration will take the same tack. While the data suggest a smaller share of Minnesotans have been vaccinated than residents of other states, MDH has stressed repeatedly that the biggest hangup in its ability to vaccinate Minnesotans more quickly is federal vaccine allocations. Other states say the same thing. Last week, some states – New York and Florida among them – were plagued with reports of canceled COVID-19 vaccination appointments because of a short supply.

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Pillow King’s chaotic rise threatened He may need divine intervention again to dig him out of this one Just a few months ago, Mike Lindell was flying high. The pillow mogul had become a key surrogate for President Donald Trump and won legions of fans – and customers – with his ubiquitous presence on Fox News. His redemption story from cocaine to riches and Jesus was a good one as he publicly mulled a run for governor, and the chair of the Minnesota Republican Party had already endorsed him. The intervening months have been less kind. He became a point man for Trump’s effort to overturn the election results, even as the MAGA movement took a violent turn, overrunning and ran-sacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Lindell accused left-wing activists of a setup, despite a bevy of video evidence debunking the claim. His notes of a meeting with Trump in the Oval Office indicate Lindell pushed a hard line, calling for military force to smite Trump’s enemies and keep him in power. There’s at least some indication he’s bought into the QAnon conspiracy that claims Trump is leading a fight against a cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles in the “Deep State” and Democratic Party; the MyPillow website recently briefly offered discounts to customers who entered the code “QAnon.” Major retail outlets like Bed Bath & Beyond and Lowe’s promptly dropped his pillow line from their stores after his Oval Office appearance. And, he confronts the strong possibility of a major lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems. He’s accused the election technology company, without evidence, of fixing the election results. Dominion has already sued former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for

more than $1 billion after she made some of the same accusations. The turbulence of the past few months are a microcosm of Lindell’s life story, as recounted in his 325-page memoir, as well as court documents and interviews. He’s won and lost fortunes gambling, started multiple businesses that went bust, declared bankruptcy, spent years strung out on cocaine, crack and booze and hit the big one with a foamfilled pillow he invented in his garage. Like many salesmen, including his hero Trump, Lindell is best at selling himself. Through the memoir and countless media appearances, he’s created a rich mythology. Less well known are allegations of domestic violence by an ex-wife and an ex-girlfriend, who reported he kicked her so hard in the back that she broke a rib. The allegations, which Lindell claims are not true, can be found in police reports and court documents, including an order for protection granted against Lindell that the exgirlfriend later voluntarily dismissed in hopes of reconciliation. Lindell, surely aware of Americans’ A bromance steeped in corrupt personalities and conspiracy theories. love of redemption stories, recounts details of his roustabout years in his book, however: Two women’s sworn and police reports, he’s denied the ex2019 autobiography, What are the allegations of physical and verbal abuse girlfriend’s allegations. Odds? in 2007-2008 and 2013. He’s never been prosecuted for or He burglarized a St. Peter gas station, During their divorce, his second wife convicted of spousal abuse. racked up multiple DUIs, was pinched accused him in an affidavit of trying Lindell’s first marriage to Karen for not paying a debt to a Las Vegas to run her over and nearly hitting her Dickey lasted 20 years before they casino. After his first wife of 20 years divorced in 2007. left him, he abandoned his two teenage 2-year-old granddaughter. And, in a request for an order for protection, In his book, Lindell writes that sons in the family home, which was in an ex-girlfriend accused Lindell of in early 2008, his live-in-girlfriend foreclosure, to move in with his crackrepeatedly beating her. called the police on him – “what for, addicted girlfriend. Lindell denied the allegations in a I didn’t know” – and a warrant for his Mostly unremarked upon in the voicemail, calling the story a “hit job” arrest was issued. (The Reformer is not and saying “There was never anything naming the woman, who has since with either one of my ex-wives so your died, to protect her family’s privacy.) facts are wrong there.” He writes that he fled to his drug He threatened a lawsuit. “So you dealer’s place in Minneapolis and did better make sure you have your facts cocaine while staying awake for 14 right before you try and defame somedays, before three of his dealers staged thing from the past. I’m very open an intervention. about my past,” he said. When he returned to Carver, he He did not address his ex-girlfriend’s was arrested, but writes that he called allegation in the voicemail. the girlfriend and pleaded with her He has also denied his ex-wife’s alto “Please go down to the courthouse legations in an affidavit. In his book and withdraw these false charges,”

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which she agreed to do. He claims he was “found innocent” days later, but the Reformer found no record of any prosecution or proceeding arising from these events. Court documents provide more detail: In her request for an order for protection in January 2008, she said Lindell grabbed her around the neck and threw her on the ground and kicked and hit her until she called the police, but he wasn’t arrested. She alleged several incidents of abuse led up to her decision to request the protection order: • On a trip to Laughlin, Nevada, in late 2007, Lindell kicked her so hard in the back that her ribs cracked. The reason? She refused to give him her money after he blew $3,000 gambling. • She said she’d called the cops in August 2007 after a fight in which Lindell punched her in the face, but, “Mike lied to them and I was arrested.” After that, his verbal and physical abuse got progressively worse, she said. (The woman had a 2007 misdemeanor domestic assault conviction on her record at the time of her 2018 death at the age of 50.) • She said Lindell wouldn’t let her in the house to get her insulin and dog when she came home one morning. After she got in, Lindell beat and kicked her in the face and body. As she ran for the door, he picked up a wooden dowel and hit her on the leg, kicking and punching her dog as they ran out the door, she alleged. An emergency one-year order for protection was granted, but a few months later, she asked that the order be dismissed because she and Lindell “want to seek counseling together.” Carver County Sheriff’s records show additional calls months later to settle domestic disputes between Lindell and the woman. Records from the Carver County Sheriff’s Office show the two had multiple domestic situations in August 2008, one of which resulted in a warrant for Lindell’s arrest. “They are calling on each other trying to get the other person in trouble,” Deputy Gary Stahlke wrote in his incident report. Weeks later, Lindell called to report the woman was throwing things at him and told the deputy she had multiple personality disorder. Others living in the house told the deputy the two fought regularly. “I myself was just out at that residence about three weeks ago on the same type of deal where Mike Lindell was arrested for domestic assault with (redacted) he left the residence and a warrant was put out for his arrest

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at that time,” Stahlke wrote in his incident report. In his book, Lindell writes that he hired the woman to work at MyPillow after they both got sober. Lindell’s second marriage only lasted weeks. Lindell sought to annul the marriage, and was accused of verbal and physical abuse by his second wife, Dallas Yo-cum, when she responded in a 2013 affidavit. They became acquainted years earlier on his gambling trips to Laughlin, where she worked at the Riverside Casino. In the summer of 2011, he offered Yocum a job as executive assistant at MyPillow, Yocum wrote in the affidavit. “Mike had always told me that he talks to God in his dreams and that God told him I was supposed to work for My Pillow, Inc.,” she wrote. He promised to keep it professional, but she wrote that when she first moved to Minnesota, he urged her to stay at his sister’s house, where he was living, and when they traveled for work, “He insisted that I sleep in a bed with him” even though they were not romantically involved. Lindell responded in his own affidavit that the company didn’t have the money to book a second room for her, and the hotel didn’t have any rooms with two beds. Yocum said Lindell could also be very cruel and abusive to his employees, of-ten firing employees when angry. Nearly a year later, Lindell broke up with a fiancée and began dating Yocum; within weeks they were engaged.

A month later, in February 2013, he bought a house on Lone Cedar Circle in Chaska for $965,000, borrowing about $647,000 from MyPillow and $300,000 from his friend who was the company’s then-chief marketing officer, according to his affidavit. Lindell and Yocum married on June 8, 2013, in an elaborate wedding. Their relationship deteriorated quickly, Yocum said. Two days after the wedding, Yocum told him her 2-year-old granddaughter would be living with them for at least a month, possibly for life, according to Lindell’s affidavit. They fought about the arrangement. Yocum claimed in her affidavit that Lindell became upset and “almost hit my granddaughter.” She said Lindell chased them out of the lakefront house and she stayed in a hotel for a week afterward. In his sworn response to Yocum’s affidavit, Lindell said her allegations contained “many exaggerations and outright fabrications.” “Dallas is a bitter woman whose main objective has been to manipulate me into showering her with gifts and cash,” he wrote in his affidavit. Lindell also denied her allegations that he could be abusive to his employees, but the following year a profanity-laced YouTube clip surfaced of him berating workers. And he acknowledges in his book, “Though free from my addictions, I still had fits of rage and often took my deep-seated anger out on people who didn’t deserve it.” Yocum accused Lindell of further abuse after the separation. “Since we have been separated, Mike has tried to run me over with his truck,” Yocum wrote in her affidavit. “While staying at my brother’s house, I woke up to find him standing over me, watching me sleep. I am scared of

Mike.” Lindell’s affidavit denied her allegations. Lindell’s book recounts daredevil stunts, harrowing drug addiction and drunken escapades like totaling his Ford Mustang and wrapping his stepfather’s pickup around a tree. He claims 14 near-death experiences made him feel invincible. “I fell into a lake and was trapped under a sheet of ice,” he wrote. “I was nearly electrocuted by a bolt of power so massive that it shut down half the town. I bought a motorcycle and wrecked it twice – the second time on the way to a skydiving lesson, during which I smashed into the ground at 60 miles per hour because my parachute didn’t fully open.” At various times, he seems to have eluded creditors. He and his wife filed for bankruptcy in 2004, reporting about $26,000 in assets and $147,000 in debts, including $2,700 in state taxes, over $1,000 to the Flamingo Laughlin in Nevada and over $1,500 to the Grand Casino in Tampa, Florida. It was a complex bankruptcy that led to years of litigation. Lindell says in his memoir that he declared his “fake bankruptcy” to avoid a ruinous lawsuit that alleged the bar he owned at the time over-served two people before they crashed a snowmobile and were injured. Lindell says in his book he bought a bar called Schmitty’s in 1990 with the winnings from a football bet. Schmitty’s takes a starring role in Lindell’s memoir and is portrayed as a south metro Cheers. “I was selling alcohol, but I wasn’t selling alcohol, if you know what I mean. I was selling fun. Family. Belonging. Maybe that was because, be[ginning in childhood, I never felt like I belonged.”

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By his senior year of high school, Lindell was deep into sports betting, following in his card-dealing grandfather’s footsteps. He briefly attended the University of Minnesota before dropping out and driving to California. He stopped in Las Vegas. “From that first breath of stale cigarette smoke and Aqua Net, I was in love,” he wrote. He blew all his money in the casino while his friend slept in the van, then noticed his friend had five silver dollars on the van’s dash. Lindell promptly bet them on craps and won $2,600. The euphoria of winning fueled his gambling addiction. After a stint in rehab in 1986, Lindell went into the concession business with Lee Tischleder, who still lives in Carver. Tischleder hasn’t read Lindell’s book but confirmed in an interview that he borrowed money to start the Sunshine Concessions “lunch wagons” with Lindell. “I have no time for the man,” he said of Lindell. All of their investments were done in Tischleder’s name, he said, because of Lindell’s record. “It got to a point where he and his wife were drawing $20 an hour and we weren’t getting a dime,” he said. “He could sell sand to an Arab, but somehow he would always lose it all between the drugs and the gambling.” Tischleder said the last time he saw Lindell was in the Carver bank, where Lindell was looking to borrow money for a bigger place. “Even at the bank they were just rolling their eyes going ‘This guy is f***in’ crazy.’ But you know what? He made it work.” Along with the gonzo escapades and failures, divine premonitions and cosmic coincidences litter the book. Lindell hints that God repeatedly spared him for a reason, with plans to eventually give him a grand platform. For years, his platform was an info-

mercial for his famous pillow. Once Lindell got sober in 2009, he woke up from what he called a “cultural coma.” “Even up to 2014, I had no idea of the difference between a Republican and a Democrat, or a liberal and a conservative,” he writes in his book. A few weeks before Trump announced his candidacy for president, Lindell said he had a “very weird, very vivid dream” where he posed for a picture with Trump in an office. Then he got invited to sit in Trump’s family section at the Republican National Convention, and later met the future president at Trump Tower in August 2016. They posed for a picture in the very office he’d dreamt about Lindell was hooked on Trump. He attended three presidential

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debates and the Trump election night watch party. After Trump won, Lindell popped up at everything from Rose Garden coronavirus briefings to 2020 campaign rallies. Lindell had been on FOX News hawking pillows – where he first got a huge sales bump for his U.S.-made product in 2014 – but now he was on the news for his political views. His conservative cred steadily rose and he started making noise about running for governor of Minnesota. Minnesota GOP Chair Jennifer Carnahan tweeted her admiration: “Minnesota’s Honorary Chairman for the Trump Campaign @realMikeLindell is working tirelessly across the country to ensure we deliver @ realDonaldTrump #FOURMOREYEARS and flip Minnesota in 43 days. It will happen. And then we are going to make him our next Governor.” After the election, Lindell joined Trump in trying to overturn the results, claiming Dominion Voting Systems was involved in fraud. He donated $50,000 to The Fight Back Foundation Inc., set up by proTrump lawyer Lin Wood to help fund election fraud litigation and post bail for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-yearold Illinois boy charged with fatally shooting two men and wounding another during protests last year in Kenosha, Wis. Lindell also helped finance and spoke at “March for Trump” events by Women for America First, making more

than two dozen stops in a two-week tour that ended in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 14, according to Reuters. That same group organized the Jan. 6 “Save America” rally that devolved into chaos at the Capitol. Lindell told Reuters his financial backing ended in December. But he was at Trump’s rally before Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol. Afterward he posted a video on multiple social media sites saying the rioters may have been “plants.” “I’m never letting the fraud go,” he told Reuters. Lindell continues to insist Trump won, saying Trump got more votes but the “algorithms broke” at 11:15 p.m. on election night. China and other countries manipulated the results, he claims. Republican election officials and dozens of judges have declared the results valid; even the few irregularities found would not come close to changing the outcome. “Maybe the big win isn’t Donald Trump winning – being inaugurated on Jan. 20,” he said in a video interview on Jan. 7. “We don’t know, but I know that we are part of a great revival and the big win is bringing everybody to Jesus.” Lindell claims God has talked to him all his life, guiding his path to redemption. With vendors fleeing, Trump uninterested in his coup ideas and social media mocking him, Lindell may need divine assistance, again.

NUFA going to be friendly, friendly, friendly The National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) has been summoned to lead the effort to rid the world of present quantities of anger, mistrust, fear and misinformation. Rather than try to convince people who harbor present quantities of anger, mistrust, fear and misinformation that they have been duped and schmoozed into thinking that way, NUFA will in-stead be overtly and covertly friendly. Friendly, friendly, friendly. At all times the millions of members of NUFA will approach every day with a friendly attitude and helpful intent. We will harass no one who has fallen prey to years of right wing talk radio and conservative doublespeak, the cesspool of internet and social media. You’re going to see our smiling faces even in the face of angry hapless rhetoric spouting conspiracy theories that read like cartoons. Only a friendly attitude will overcome such utter nonsense. Friendly, friendly, friendly. NUFA may sneak in a little playful mayhem on occasion, yes, but our actions will fall within simple, cordial fun. We may put a little dog crap in a paper bag and place it on the doorstep of Rush Limbaugh, light it and ring the doorbell. We may send a rotten fish special delivery to Mar-a-Lago or let the air out of the tires of Mitch McConnell just before he goes out to dinner with his fellow probates to figure out how to put the kibosh on anything we need to do in this country for the good of all. We may make phone calls to obstinate Minnesota legislators asking them if their refrigerators are running and that they’d better catch them before they get away. Send us your suggestions for fun pranks and innocent mayhem and we’ll sure try to get things rolling. Friendly, friendly, friendly. I believe a good number of republicans will give in to The Big Friendly. What do they have to lose in a time like this with their party held hostage by angry mobs of all stripes. I even believe Q-anon followers will eventually give in to The Big Friendly. Oh yes, they’re as angry as the rest of them but anyone who would spend their days wallowing in such comical

notions has to have a little mirth in them somewhere. I’m not so sure of the angry white people who teach their children to hate. The KKK and the Proud Boys are just too mad for simple friendly gestures. There are bad seeds who can’t be nudged or cajoled into friendly territory so why waste your energy. Sorry, some people need to be knocked in the head before they can open their eyes. Still, it’s the children we think about. All that hate is toxic for young minds and souls. The little children are innocent. I watch all the grandkids play with their pals of all colors and persuasions with malice toward none. They just play. Hatred is a learned behavior so somehow we have to get to the children. That bit of The Big Friendly we haven’t reckoned with quite yet

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but our crack social scientists and behavioral engineers are on the job around the clock searching for solutions. Friendly, friendly, friendly. A clown I once knew, a real clown with a smiley face, big shoes and a funny hat reminded me that friendly is all you can do in a troubled world. The last time I saw him was at an elementary school fundraiser where I was the star of the dunk tank. Spend a couple bucks and dunk the newspaper editor into cold water. I’d sit up on my perch, wag my finger and warn the little kids not to run up and hit the round metal plate that dunked me time and again. They laughed and ran up and pushed the metal plate time after time. Even some of the parents would put the $2 into the bucket and walk up and dunk me. I was outside drying off in the spring sun and there sat my friend the clown smoking a cigarette, looking pained. His big smiley face looked up at me and he told me about his latest heart

attack and the cancer that was eating away inside of him. Still, when people walked by he would jump up and honk his little horn and do a happy dance for them. Here was this dying man who could put a smile on his face and do his best to make people happy. “What the hell,” he said. “Doesn’t do any good to grouse about things. Give them a little happy and you get happy.” Now that’s a clown for you. Nothing like the clown Donald V. (for vindictive) Rumpt, a real fake clown who spends his life making life miserable for people. NUFA is going to be friendly, friendly, friendly. Doesn’t do any good to grouse about things. Give them a little happy and you get happy. Friendly, friendly, friendly.

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Rigged elections President Biden’s plate is overflowing with crises to address. But there is one problem that is critical to all the other issues. This is our elections. EVERYTHING ABOUT HOW WE CONDUCT ELECTIONS IS BROKEN. Until this is fixed many other critical issues will languish in legislative gridlock. None of the essential reforms will happen as long as big money and corporations rule and the will of the people means nothing. No progress will be made until gerrymandering is ended. Creating a real democracy is essential to achieving and sustaining all other reforms. Republicans claim the last election was rigged. Biden won as fairly as it is possible under our current flawed election system. Our elections have been “rigged” from the beginning by an undemocratic Constitution. They have been rigged by court rulings declaring corporations “people” with unlimited rights to pour money into elections. They have been rigged by legislative district gerrymandering

which favors one party and undermines democracy. They have been rigged by numerous schemes to disenfranchise some people and suppress their votes. For many decades the Republican party has been using all these ways to rig elections in their favor. So the first and most important objective of President Biden and the Democratic majority in Congress must be comprehensive electoral reforms. And NOW is the time to do it while they have control of Congress. It is time to ensure that our elections are open, fair, secure, verifiable, and easy for voters. No one should have any doubts about the integrity of any election in the future. Abolishing the Electoral College is a key element of this agenda. The Constitution was written by slave owners intent on maintaining slavery. The authors were the landed gentry and wealthy merchants who were afraid of real democracy and the power of the “mob.” They wrote into the

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Constitution “checks and balances” to limit the political power of the people. This is the reason we have an archaic, undemocratic Electoral College for presidential elections. Too many presidential elections have had the the winner of the popular vote lose to the winner of the Electoral College vote. Every time this happens people have complained about this unfair, undemocratic result. But neither party has been willing to abolish this obviously archaic practice. No serious challenge to the Electoral College has every happened. During this election another even more outrageous scenario was a possibility. Because of the number of too-close-to-call states there was a possibility that neither candidate would get a majority of the Electoral College. When this happens the House of Representatives chooses the winner. BUT the Constitution says for this purpose EVERY STATE GETS ONE VOTE. In this situation it does not matter if one party has more representatives and “controls” the House. Currently there are more individual state congressional delegations with a majority of Republican representatives. This election we very easily could have had a president who failed on THREE measures of popular support or the will of the people. Ultimately Biden won by a good margin. But the outrageous possibility that he could have lost to a three time loser should be the last straw for the Electoral College. Getting the money out of politics is also essential to establishing a real democracy. We all know this and polls show wide popular support for campaign finance reform. Now is the time to overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited spending on elections by corporations. There is too much money being spent on elections and there is no doubt that this has a corrupting influence on public policy and our elections. Gerrymandering is another practice that must be abolished. Gerrymandering is manipulating political boundaries for partisan advantage. In Wisconsin, after the 2010 census, Republicans drew up the legislative districts in secret and crammed the undemocratic result through the state government they controlled. The result is that the state

legislature continues to be controlled by Republicans despite the fact that most citizens of Wisconsin vote Democratic. Voting district boundaries must be established with a fair, nonpartisan process based on sensible guidelines and not political power. The last election has many examples of rigging the vote through various voter suppression tactics. In states Republicans controlled they hindered voter registration, arbitrarily purged large numbers of voters from existing registration lists, opposed same day registration, limited early voting days, interfered with voting by mail, and manipulated the number and location of poling places for partisan advantage. Their advocacy for voter ID law has never been about preventing individual voter fraud (proven to be almost non-existent). It was intended to be another obstacle for people voting. Like Jim Crow pole taxes and literacy tests, all this made it harder for poor people and people of color to vote. Even having Tuesday as the election day is an archaic, undemocratic relic that makes it harder for working people to vote. Fixing our elections should include a number of positive improvements to modernize the system. These would increase citizen participation, make voting easier, fairer, and more secure. We need elections with convenient features like voting online, voting by mail, voting over a period of time, automatic voter registration and standardized federal, state, and local voting procedures and registration requirements. Everything else in our economy is being done online and via the mail. There is no reason voting can’t be the same. Any technological solutions must be trustworthy. Mistrust of the voting machines is engendered by private companies controlling the software. There must be paper trails that allow recounts and auditing of elections. Elections are public functions and must be controlled by public, non-partisan, civil service employees. We need a 21st century electoral system that is open, easy fair, secure, verifiable and truly democratic. Now is the time to make it happen.

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Security at the Minnesota State Capitol was tight on Jan. 19, the day before the Biden Inauguration. MinnPost photo by Tom Olmscheid the results of the 2020 presidential election. Both of those periods of unrest have convinced Gov. Tim Walz that there must be better security around public buildings, especially symbolic places like the 115-year-old Capitol, which underwent extensive renovation and remodeling in 2014 and 2015. Any permanent fencing would likely have gates that could be left open under normal circumstances but be closed in emergencies, and proposals for metal detectors and an increased presence of troopers are meant to help reopen the building. “This is not a short-term goal,” Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who chairs the Capital Security Advisory Committee, said of overall Capitol security. “I have no illusions that any quick fix or half-hearted attempts to secure the Capitol complex will resolve any of the underlying security problems that we face.” Flanagan said the state must balance security and access for the public. She also said there needs to be a discussion about guns in the capitol building itself and on the Capitol complex. Currently, concealed handguns with permits are allowed inside, but not rifles and other long guns. Both are permitted outside. And while Flanagan said no options have been endorsed by Walz or her, they are being formulated by commissioners appointed by Walz. Any proposals would have to be approved by the Legislature, but Flanagan said [PDF] she will convene additional meetings of the advisory committee to hear ideas and consider comments from the public and full-time users of the buildings.

The advisory committee is made up of Flanagan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, two members of the state Senate and two members of the state House. Currently, those members are Sen. Warren Limmer, R-Maple

Grove; Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis: Rep. Jim Nash, R-Waconia; and Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley. State Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington told the advisory committee there have been specific threats against the building, including a May 30 threat to burn it down. Social media traffic during the lead up to the inauguration of President Biden also detailed a plan to stash firearms and explosives nearby for an assault. But he said the fence also prevented other damage, including graffiti and broken windows, which happened before the temporary fence was installed in the spring. The statute of Christopher Columbus that was toppled by protestors in mid-June is outside the fencing. In 2020, the state recorded 81 damage to property cases, and since June, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has been tracking potential threats. “We have tracked 88 events that at least had some overtones of threats or violence connected to them,” Harrington said.

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That temporary fence around the Minnesota Capitol building is likely to become permanent. A state advisory committee on Capitol security heard a list of proposals last week to beef up security, among them was an idea to replace the chain-link fence that has surrounded the domed building with a permanent enclosure. Other ideas included increased staffing for state troopers and security guards at the building, body cameras for those troopers, metal detectors and an employee to monitor and analyze social media traffic related to the building. “Suffice it to say that that the fence has been a benefit when we talk about protecting the capitol building itself from people that wish to do harm to that building, whether graffiti, throwing objects, breaking things or climbing on structures,” State Patrol Chief Matt Langer told the Advisory Commission on Capital Area Security. Langer’s comments follow Gov. Tim Walz informing legislative leaders earlier this month that he will be asking for security improvements in his 2021 supplemental budget. “Making improvements to ensure safety on our Capitol Complex is of paramount importance,” Walz said in Jan. 14 letter [PDF]. “I ask the legislature to take swift action to support this funding and pass these measures early in the session, as opposed to waiting until the end of session.” The Capitol is currently open only to legislators, legislative staff and news media. But when it opens again to the public, there are no gates or checkpoints to monitor or control who enters the building. “I think everyone agrees that the current fence around the capitol, functional as it might be, is not physically attractive and there are a variety of opinions about that fence in regards to ingress and egress,” Langer said. The fence was installed to respond to threats to the building that followed the death of George Floyd in May. It has remained at the request of the Minnesota State Patrol and the state Department of Administration and was credited with helping secure the Capitol during the Jan. 6 protests about

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Partisan divide only grows in Wisconsin This summer, amid the country’s roiling pandemic and racial unrest, Sage Conrad hung signs outside of the café her parents own. The message was simple: “Black Lives Matter.” Conrad, the shop’s general manager, also placed signs at an adjacent boutique she owns in the Door County, Wisconsin, town of Baileys Harbor. The family typically kept business apolitical, but Conrad felt the moment’s gravity called for the gesture. “We found it important to vocalize our political views and use our business as a platform to talk about what was going on in the world,” she said. Most of Conrad’s customers applauded the message of solidarity. But several longtime customers left angry voicemails vowing to never return. Another showed up to shout disapproval, she said. Such was life in smalltown Wisconsin as hyper-partisan rhetoric echoed and the state was poised to play a major role in the 2020 presidential election. In Door County, one of two counties President Joe Biden flipped in its tightest election in at least 40 years, that also meant vandalism at the county Republican Party headquarters and discomfort over another business owner’s “Blue Lives Matter” display. Wisconsin, which also narrowly went for Biden, has a history of razor-thin statewide election returns, with voters deciding four of the last six presidential elections by fewer than 23,000 votes. Analysts and pollsters say these close contests may become more common as the state electorate inches toward a

nearly even party split. While such division can increase political participation, it can also exacerbate polarization at a time when national politics are fueling partisanship and violent rhetoric. Those forces boiled over on Jan. 6, when a pro-Donald Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in a futile effort to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s victory. At least one Wisconsin resident was arrested. “This was the worst it’s ever been,” said Wisconsin Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh. The 13-year veteran of the chamber said he had experienced a year of aggressive rhetoric directed “to me, to my wife, on social media – even from people who I either consider friends or am friendly with.” A dramatic cooldown appears unlikely in a gerrymandered political system that incentivizes more extreme campaigning, analysts say. It doesn’t help that partisan Wisconsinites increasingly disagree on what is even true, as misinformation about the pandemic and politics spreads widely. The state is among just five to have elected one Democrat and one Republican to the current U.S. Senate: Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican Ron Johnson. Baldwin is considered among the most liberal in the Senate, joining party mates and a few Republicans in calling for Trump’s removal following the Capitol siege. Johnson was among the crackpots leading opposition to certifying the

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During a summer of nationwide racial unrest in 2020, Sage Conrad, general manager of Bearded Heart Coffee in Baileys Harbor, Wis., hung “Black Lives Matter” signs at the café and an adjacent boutique she owns. Most of Conrad’s customers applauded the message, she says. But several longtime customers left angry voicemails vowing to never return. Photo by Brett Kosmider/Wisconsin Watch election – reversing his position only after the attack. “That’s just very reflective of Wisconsin,” said state Rep. Joel Kitchens, a Republican who represents Door County and most of the peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan. “Our Democrats tend to be very liberal, and our Republicans tend to be very conservative … Everybody wants us to get along, compromise and all that. But then you look at the leadership on both ends, and it’s just pretty extreme.” Partisan division has paralyzed Wisconsin’s efforts to tackle its biggest challenges – including a pandemic that has killed more than 5,600 residents and left thousands jobless and dependent on a dysfunctional unemployment system. The GOP-controlled Legislature last year successfully sued to restrict the pandemic powers of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration, alleging an overreach. That left local governments on their own to adopt public health measures, some of which sparked partisan pushback. Evers and top Republican lawmakers did not speak for six months of 2020, a stretch when Wisconsin’s full-time Legislature was the least active in the country. Kitchens said he wouldn’t be

surprised if the Legislature in 2021 sends Evers a record low number of bills. Wisconsin wasn’t always so narrowly split. The state’s first 80 years of elections mostly returned Republican winners, while some local races departed from the trend. Milwaukee, a Socialist stronghold in the early 1900s, elected the nation’s first Socialist congressman and a string of three Socialist mayors. Wisconsin’s presidential vote has oscillated since 1952, with Democrats clinching 10 races and Republicans eight. With the exception of Barack Obama’s wins in 2008 and 2012, less than 1 percentage point decided the last several elections. “We did see an evolution over the last nine years that took us from very competitive but a slight Democratic edge to this basically dead, even party split,” said Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll. “And almost all of that shift came from white men without a college degree.” In 2012, these voters identified 4 percentage points more Republican than Democratic. Now they identify 24 percentage points more Republican than Democratic, Franklin said. This shift predated Trump, and Franklin sees the declining influence of

Wisconsin’s labor unions – acceler-ated by Republican-passed laws – as playing a role, alongside a GOP strategy to tailor messaging to working voters. The shifting dynamics surface regionally, Franklin said. Southeast Wisconsin is less of a Republican stronghold than it once was, while northern and western Wisconsin are increasingly Republican. This divide is tougher to parse out, Franklin said, but is likely linked to differences in education levels and other socioeconomic factors. State Rep. Joel Kitchens, a Republican who represents Door County and most of the peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan, is shown at Sturgeon Bay Under The Stars Night Market on July 11, 2020 in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. “My district is a pretty good microcosm of what happened around the state — where the divisions got so much starker,” Kitchens says. Door County, home to Conrad’s café, is split differently, Kitchens said. Northern communities are voting more Democratic, while southern communities are increasingly Republican. The shift comes amid a tussle over who represents the “real” Door County: the highly-educated retirees, artists and environmental enthusiasts in the north or the farm families in the south? “Sometimes the different sides don’t understand each other very well,” Kitchens said. He also represents Door County’s southern neighbor, Kewaunee County, which in recent years shifted from Democratic to Republican. “I think my district is a pretty good microcosm of what happened around the state – where the divisions got so much starker,” Kitchens said. “Trump’s personality played into it so strongly. Certainly the rural and urban and suburban divide deepened.” Partisan gerrymandering – in which lawmakers pick their voters during once-per-decade redistricting – has

deepened divisions. In redrawing the state’s electoral maps in 2011, the Republican-controlled Legislature and Republican Gov. Scott Walker created a system that could lock 60% of legislative seats for their party with just 48% of the statewide vote, according to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice. Republicans in 2018 won a minority of the statewide vote but a majority of seats. Sachin Chheda, director of the Milwaukee-based Fair Elections Project – a nonpartisan group promoting independent redistricting – said gerrymandering deepens divisions in two ways: It makes lawmakers more responsive to their parties than their constituents, and it encourages more extreme positions to secure primaries that typically draw more partisan voters. Wisconsin is gearing up for a fresh redistricting fight following the 2020 census. Evers has assembled a ninemember commission to collect input from public hearings and present the Legislature with “nonpartisan” maps. But GOP leaders will likely send their own maps to Evers, which he could veto, leaving judges to decide. A 2019 Marquette Law poll found that 72% of Wisconsin voters want a nonpartisan committee to draw new lines. At least 17 states have adopted practices aiming to limit partisan gerrymandering, but lawmakers in the majority have no incentive to overhaul a system designed to keep them in office. Lawmakers and policy experts are pondering a “chicken or the egg” question surrounding hyper-partisanship: Are voters echoing politicians or vice versa? “It’s not an absolute one side – one way or the other,” Kitchens said, “But I think overall, when the people are this polarized, we get pushed by them to take our positions.” Said Hintz, the Democratic leader: “It’s probably a fusion of forces, in-

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cluding social media, including the nationalization of politics.” Hintz knows that connecting with Republican constituents remains inherently difficult for members of his party. When speaking to someone who believes Trump’s repeatedly debunked claims that Democrats stole the election, for example, Hintz must acknowledge that they understand facts differently. Hintz subscribes to the route U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, laid out following the Capitol violence: “The best way we can show respect for the voters who were upset is by telling them the truth.” But insistence that the election was stolen has become more a “religious fervor rather than anything that can be moved by evidence,” said Charlie Sykes, a former conservative radio host in Milwaukee who has spent years criticizing Republicans who embrace “Trumpism.” Some Wisconsin Republicans have faced fierce backlash after speaking out against Trump’s false claims. Fond du Lac County GOP Chairman Rohn Bishop, who called efforts to invalidate the election results disenfranchisement, said the response from Trump supporters “almost broke me.” And several members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation, including Republican U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald, amplified the false message that “irregularities and violations” had tainted the election – the same one that elevated both of them to Congress. Neither responded to interview requests.

Trump-style rhetoric has spread statewide. In St. Croix County, the local Republican Party called for “removing leftist tyrants from all local and County positions” in a web posting that also warned: “If you want peace, prepare for war.” The party initially left the message online after the Jan. 6 attack, but disabled the website and ousted the chairman, following media scrutiny. Another Republican congressman, Rep. Mike Gallagher of Green Bay, pointed out the risk of such rhetoric in a video he posted after barricading himself in his Capitol office. “This is the cost of countenancing an effort, by Congress, to overturn the election and telling thousands of people that there is a legitimate shot of overturning the election … even though you know that is not true,” he said. Sykes fears that the disinformation and vitriol of 2020 may forecast what is to come. “We don’t know where it’s going … whether or not this is the last spasm of something, or whether it’s prologue,” he said. The state’s thin party split carries some advantages for a functioning democracy, including driving voter engagement. Wisconsin saw the country’s fifth highest turnout in the 2020 presidential election, and the second highest in state history. That means statewide politicians – governors and U.S. senators, for instance – must still respond to voters, even if gerrymandering means less competition and less accountability.

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Cauldron of chaos Are We Heading For “Double, Double, Toil And Trouble?” Shakespeare’s MacBeth is a play about chaos that results when a person in the human chain of being rises above his level of competence. In our society we call it the Peter Principle. We have just finished four years of chaos with many more on the horizon because we elected a man to the highest office in the land manifestly unqualified to lead anything except a malignant, corrosive cult. In the play Shakespeare has three witches throw poisonous, toxic and revolting things into a bubbling hot cauldron such as lizard’s leg, eye of newt, swelter’d venom, scale of dragon, hemlock, and finger of birth-strangled babe to forecast that King Macbeth and his lady were going to meet an untimely end because they tried to climb the chain links above their normal station. President Donald J. Trump was born a narcissistic psychopath with bone-spurs deferment syndrome who filled his bubbling cauldron with lies, greed, alternative facts, self-love, ignorance, “enemy of the people” rants, vindictiveness, racism, white power dementia, “fake” news, cruelty, spite and perpetual chaos throughout his life. So what did “The Chosen One,” the reigning prophet of the evangelical white “Christians,” the holder of five deferments, and the guy who said “I alone can do it,” do to have his stinking hot cauldron overflow on him? He developed the processes of his “The Big Lie.” Thousands of high school, college and pro basketball games were played last weekend to an established set of rules enforced by officials. Somewhere out there in this huge land a game clock showed a score of 81-74 when it showed .00. The last bucket had been scored just before. The team with 81 points was declared the winner. No questions. In the 2020 election, which covered years of hard work under established rules by state governments, the winner was finally declared after the last ballot was counted by election officials in the last counting house to close its doors. The score was Joe Biden with

81,281,502 votes; Donald Trump with 74,222,593. Biden was declared the winner after the last ballot was counted. But Trump said he had won by a landslide because millions of ballots were not counted. The election was rigged, the election officials in certain states were corrupt, and the votecounting machines had been hacked to switch votes. Trump did not concede and brought 62 cases of voter fraud to the courts. All were denied, but “The Big Lie” swelled to enormous size among his cult, who then invaded and trashed the capitol under his direction. It was his “The Big Lie” that finally dumped the overflowing cauldron on him in his private personal abyss.

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Can a Democracy Overcome Faithless “Christians” and Fake “Patriots?” Democracy has been frail and sickly for more than 400 years, and the Trump administration denied hospice for four years, hoping to replace it with fascism. The health of the country is in the critical stage and recovery is debatable. A recent diagnosis by historians raised doubts about survival because of a recent poll of the human cells which provide oxygen to the body politic. In a recent reliable poll, only three percent of Americans indicated that things are going “very well” in the Divided States of America (DSA) these days. More than 80% of Republicans cited that the Democratic Party has been taken over by socialists while 78% of Democrats say the Republican Party had been absorbed by racists. Eightyfive percent of Republicans said the Confederate flag was simply a symbol of Southern pride. Republicans (57%!) even said white people face more discrimination than Blacks (52%!). These poetic lines by Leonard Cohen cover some of our major problems: There is a war between the rich and the poor, A war between a man and a woman. There is a war between the ones who say there is a war And the ones who say there isn’t. There is a war between left and right, A war between the black and white, A war between the odd and the even.

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A Southern Baptist minister announced the morning of Jan. 19 that “The Chosen One” was going to serve four more years as our president because Jesus Christ had come down to earth to tell him the rapturous news. There would be no inauguration of Joe Biden. The Rapture would start soon. All “good” Christians would be transported to Heaven-naked-to begin our lives next to God on the golden streets of Paradise. I’m still here…. So far, The FBI has investigated some members of the Insurrection Party that vandalized the capitol: a covey of Roman Catholic nuns, the son of a prominent New York judge, one of our Olympic swimmers, and a

Texas real-estate broker who flew to D.C. in a private plane. The American Psychiatric Association says at least 6% of Americans take turns being bonkers each year. I bet many of them were in D.C. on Jan. 6. How can we restore them to mental health about government? I have collected quite a number of statements made by members of assault teams invading the capitol. I’m going to list a few. They are going to be a major problem for President Joe Biden’s unification program. • Guy Reffitt, a 48-year-old Texas oil worker, is a member of the Three Percenters and The Texas Freedom Force, two militias of note. He has been

arrested for participation in the riot. He told his wife, son, and daughter: “If you turn me in, you’re a traitor and you know what happens to traitors – traitors get shot.” • Americus, Ga., attorney William McCall Calhoun. Jr. is facing a number charges, one being kicking in the door of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s door. His words: “And get this – the first of us who got upstairs kicked in Nancy Pelosi’s office door and pushed down the hall towards her little sanctum, the mob howling with rage. Crazy Nancy probably would have been torn into little pieces but she was nowhere to be seen.” He practices criminal law. • Thomas Edward Caldwell, a Navy veteran from Virginia, is one of the leaders of the Oath Keepers militia and is charged with leading 30-40 people in the storming of the capitol. He was there to make “citizen’s arrests” of senators and representatives. He told other violators about tunnels, doors, and hallways in the capitol, and was recorded saying: “All members are in the tunnels under capitol. Seal them. Turn on gas. We must smite them now and drive them down. Every single person in there is a traitor. Every single one.” • Brendan Hunt is a full-time employee of the New York state Office of Court Administration and a part-time actor. He did not go to the capitol riot but he posted instructions to rioters: “KILL YOUR SENATORS!” In a video he said: “We need to go back to the U.S. Capitol. What you need is to take up arms, get to D.C., probably the inauguration, and put some bullets in their f------- heads. If anyone has a gun, give it to me, I’ll go there myself and shoot them and kill them.” • Jessica Watkins is a U.S. Army veteran and operates a bar named the Jolly Roger in Ohio. She communicated to Thomas Caldwell in D.C.: “We have about 30-40 of us. We are sticking together and sticking to the plan.” In her Ohio home the FBI found many firearms, cellphones, pepper spray, radios, a bag with helmet and respirators, paintball guns, cut-down pool cues, zip and cable ties, camo clothes, and a copy of Making Plastic Explosives From Bleach. The Big Question Is: How Do We Get These Five To Vote For Democracy? Seventy-three million Americans voted for a ”I-alone-can-do-it” fascist psychopath in the 2020 election. Among them were many honest people fed up with no increase in income or wages for the last 40 years. But also among them were millions

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of the American Taliban represented by “Christian” religions that want a theocratic government to keep women pregnant and in the kitchen. Among them are millions who wanted to make America great again by making America White again. Among them are million of QAnon conspiracists who believe Democrats are Satanists running child sex rings, drinking the blood of Christian White babies, operating a real “Deep State,” and putting micro-chips in the shoulders of innocent people as they are vaccinated so they can be later controlled by a higher authority. Some QAnoners said after the riot they were disappointed that everyone at the inauguration was not sent to Guantanamo and executed. Georgia Trumplicans elected Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon conspiracy supporter, to the House. She claims the mass murders at Sandy Hook and Parkland were not real – but were “faked” by the government of Obama. Among the millions are militia members in 50 states carrying semiautomatic AR-15s and Glocks in a country that now has more than 425 million firearms , enough for one for every man, woman and child in the DSA – with 90 million spares available because of “need.” Absolute insanity in a country that suffered the OK Corral. Now it seems that every night in the F-M area is shattered by the sounds of gunfire.

organizations and individuals in the minority, yet powerful, far ethnonationalist right. Trump picked up the reins from the Tea Party, which was too scattered to unify a far-right movement, but which definitely paved the way for demonizing, no-compromise, quasi-authoritarian politics. Partisan polarization skewed to the right did not start with Trump, but has been sped along and given an antidemocratic, authoritarian focus. This is the overt extremism of the Trumpists.” Another political scientist, Julie Wronski of the University of Mississippi, has a more pessimistic view: “When Americans are divided on simple facts, and live in two different realities, we are not a governable people. To put it another way, when two people are playing a game cannot agree on the basic rules and layout of the game, they cannot play. When groups within American society believe in two different sets of rules on how to play the game of democracy, it cannot be played and we become ungovernable.” I think she is right.

Did Democracy Prevail, Survive or Fail Because of Trump’s Capitol Riot? After the”wilding” riot at the capitol, New York Times veteran columnist Thomas Edsall surveyed a number of American historians on whether America was “ungovernable” because 35-40 million Trumplicans are convinced Biden’s election was illegitimate and rigged – despite a 7 million vote advantage. The pessimists seem to have an edge over the optimists whether democracy will survive. Harvard sociologist Theda Skocpol tried to sum up the feelings on both sides: “The key dynamic in U.S. politics right now is political civil war dividing the white middle strata between those who want to be part of a multiracial, inclusive future, and those who fear and refuse that. A significant chunk of very right-wing minded people has been present in the U.S.A. for a long, long time. The changes in recent times are in the GOP as a party and in a set of related organizations. Trump’s impact has been to remake many state GOP parties and to embolden

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Getting soot off the firescreen Dear Heloise: In the past I had difficulty cleaning the inside of my glass fireplace screen. It gets coated with sooty residue from the burning of wood. Some of this is very hard to remove. I had tried many chemicals, even industrial grade cleaners. They did not work well. Then a friend suggested the following: Wet the glass with a sponge soaked in water. Then put a soaked sponge in the ashes from the fireplace and apply them to the glass and scrub. Most of the soot and residue will come off immediately. Hard ashes need more applications. There may be an area around the edge of the glass that requires some scraping with a razor blade or putty knife, especially if the glass hasn’t been cleaned in a while. – Bruce R., Garden City, Kan.

due to a malfunction of a computer. They want you to hand over that information or you won’t receive you Social Security check (or stimulus check). They may say they are from some government agency, but they’re NOT! This is merely another attempt to cheat you by using threats to get personal information. Do not give them any information at all; just hang up. Connected to this type of scam is one where someone calls and says you were underpaid on your stimulus check. They’ll ask you to send back the money you received so they can issue a larger amount, which they claim is due to you. It can be any amount from $1,000 to $2,000. Don’t send them anything. They’re trying to cheat you out of your stimulus money. Just hang up. – Donald H., New York MASK REMINDER Dear Heloise: Since we’ve had to wear masks, as a reminder to use mine, I have a mask hanging on the inside of my front door’s doorknob. – M.E.B.,

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NEW SCAM, OLD SCAMMERS Dear Heloise: There is a new scam going around. Someone calls or emails and tells you that your bank’s routing and account number have been lost

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Houston, Texas M.E.B., I like to keep several in my glove compartment in the car and a couple clean ones in my purse. This way, if I forget to bring one along with me, I have them right at hand. -- Heloise

VINEGAR MYTH BUSTER Dear Heloise: Sponging vinegar on a sunburn will only make you smell like a salad. It has been shown to have no effect in helping heal a sunburn. Use sunblock to protect your skin. Adding vinegar to the water when making hard boiled eggs does not make them easier to peel. The older the egg, the easier it is to peel. Adding vinegar to your wash load does not set the colors. Not in today’s clothing dyes. Adding vinegar to the water when poaching eggs will not help keep the whites from running. When poaching an egg, remember that the fresher the egg the more likely it will hold its shape rather than spreading out in the pan. – Betty J., St. Paul, Minn. DOGHOUSE Dear Heloise: We don’t keep our dog outside, regardless of the chilly weather, but sometimes he’s in the backyard with us, and he has a shelter out there. What’s the best way to keep the shelter warm, clean and dry in the snowy, blustery, wet winter? -- Marie S. in Wisconsin Marie, so glad you asked. Dogs are social animals, and they want to be with us, wherever we are! First step: Make sure the doghouse is as airtight as possible. Fill in gaps in walls to lessen draftiness, make sure the roof is watertight, and place the doghouse in a non-windy space, elevated up off the ground. The entrance to the doghouse needs a cover that can keep cold air out, but also allow the dog entrance and egress. A bathmat can work well here. Now, bedding. Don’t use blankets or carpet. These, if they get wet, will retain moisture. Opt for straw, hay or even wood shavings. Change these out every week for freshness. Something else to keep fresh? Drinking water. Change it daily. There are heated water bowls on the market, and also heaters for the doghouse itself, but these are most likely not necessary in your case. – Heloise PET PAL Dear Heloise: We enjoy your column

daily in the San Antonio Express-News. Our dogs Molly (lab mix) and Jon Stewart (terrier mix) are putting 2020 “behind” them. We hope everyone has a happy and healthy 2021! -–Marti and David N., via email Fabulous! Readers: to see Molly and Jon, visit Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.” – Heloise A MOM WITH BOYS WILL TELL YOU Dear Heloise: I clean the toilet, especially the outside of the bowl down to the floor, with men’s shaving foam. It smells fresh, clean and minty, and it cleans a multitude of sins (you know what I mean) when you have boys using the toilet. – Gina D. in Pennsylvania THE SCIENCE OF SOAP SLIVERS Dear Heloise: You had an article some time ago when you discussed methods to reuse slivers of soap. I’ve been doing this for 40 years. I start with about 20 slivers of soap, and I like to use different colors of soap because they make interesting patterns when they’re combined. A container for my new soap bar? A coffee cup. I heat it in the microwave on high for a maximum of 10 seconds. When the soap is thoroughly heated, I use a spoon to level off the top of the soap. When I’m finished, I put the soap in the freezer overnight. I prefer the shape of the newly created bar of soap to the ones from the soap factories. The new shape fits the palm of my hand. It’s easier to hold, to pick up and to handle. – John S., Dallas, Texas TIMESAVER Dear Heloise: I became a Heloise fan because of my mom’s devotion to your column. Few women have time to clean their closets on a regular basis. My solution is to keep a large trash bag in the closet to donate clean clothes that either shrunk or I no longer want. It prevents warehousing things I don’t wear. – Del T., Kent, Ohio Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise@ Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints received in my column. (c)2021 by King Features Syndicate Inc.

TASTE! Wine-pairing myths If you find it useful when someone suggests a specific food to pair with a specific wine, you aren’t alone. I appreciate the advice and often make my own suggestions. Fresh crab with Chablis; oysters with Muscadet; and Champagne with lox are specific pairings I enjoy and sometimes pass along. The problem with suggested pairings, however, is that sometimes they are seen as etched in stone, which inhibits exploration that could well prove enlightening. There are a couple of myths I would like to tackle this week. The first is the oft-repeated wisdom that red wine can’t be served with fish unless it’s pinot noir with salmon. I beg to differ. There are certainly parts of the world where fish is plentiful and white wine isn’t, Bordeaux, France, being the best example. So what’s a serious foodie to do in such a situation? One chef I know, while preparing a multicourse dinner for a crowd of Bordeaux collectors, cooked up a Mediterranean sea bass surrounded with earthy root vegetables and mushrooms. The crowd ate it up, literally. There was nary a complaint. The takeaway from that experience was that pairing often has more to do with the preparation, seasoning and sauce than the protein on the plate. The other oft-repeated myth I would like to explode is the imperative of serving merlot with lamb. Yes, merlot with lamb is a beautiful combination. But so is syrah with lamb, cabernet

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sauvignon with lamb or a savory Barolo with lamb. It’s all good. The object should be to tackle the strong flavor of lamb with a bold, savory red that has power and depth. The takeaway is simple: The rules of wine and food pairing were made to be broken – or, at the very least, tweaked to your own liking. Tasting Notes Wines are rated on a 100-point scale. Wines are chosen for review because they represent outstanding quality or value, and the scores are simply a measure of this reviewer’s enthusiasm for the recommended wine. Merry Edwards 2013 Chardonnay, Olivet Lane, Russian River Valley ($60) – It turns out the Queen of Pinot Noir has an equally deft touch with chardonnay. Merry’s 2013 vintage from her favorite vineyard (my presumption) is at once exotic and the epitome of nuanced complexity. Take a sip now and you might pick up floral and spice notes. A second later you’ll perhaps pick up tropical fruit and citrus, and even lemon creme, with a slightly oily presence on the palate and remarkable length in the mouth. This wine is a truly extraordinary California chardonnay that is packed with flavor and exquisitely balanced. Rating: 96.

Donnafugata 2011 Mille e una Notte, Sicilia Rosso IGP, Italy ($80) – Donnafugata has long been one the greatest examples of the wine renaissance that transformed Sicilian wine more than two decades ago. Its flagship wine is Mille e una Notte, an eclectic blend that marries Sicily’s most celebrated red grape, nero d’avola, with several international grape varieties, notably petit verdot and syrah. The 2011 is a stunning wine that is massively structured and shows nuances of red and black fruits with an overlay of wood spice. Serve it now, or cellar it for the next 10 to 15 years. Rating: 95. Franciscan 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley ($29) – Winemaker Janet Myers is renowned for her bold cabernet sauvignons, and the 2014 from Franciscan is no exception, delivering richness and weight, mouthwatering black fruits, a touch of wood spice and mouth-puckering tannins that will recede in another three to five years. This is a superb candidate for the cellar and a steal of a Napa Valley cab for this price. Rating: 90. Robert Mondavi Winery 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley ($29) – The late Robert Mondavi’s name is synonymous with Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon,

so it’s only fitting that his namesake winery continues in that tradition with a new vintage of cabernet that lives up to the promise of the Mondavi name on the label. The 2014 is an elegant cab that shows layered black fruits on the palate, notes of sweet wood spice and tobacco, and soft, supple tannins that make the wine enjoyable and satisfying from the moment of release. Rating: 90. Robert Mondavi Winery 2013 Merlot, Napa Valley ($23) – Napa Valley merlot is the deep, dark secret of the Napa Valley, where cabernet sauvignon is king. But you will generally pay a dear price for a top-shelf Napa Valley cab, and not so much for a good Napa Valley merlot. This 2013 vintage from Mondavi is a steal at the price. Exhibiting density and layered complexity, it shows a savory leather note, hints of blueberry and plum, and a touch of wood spice. It’s worth every penny! Rating: 90. Migration 2014 Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley ($38) – This vintage of the base pinot noir from Migration shows an earthy forest floor bouquet with dark cherry fruit on the palate and firm tannins, suggesting it could evolve nicely over the next few years. Rating: 89. Decoy 2014 Merlot, Sonoma County ($25) – Decoy’s 2014 vintage of Sonoma County merlot delivers bright red-fruit aromas with notes of wood spice in the background. The wine is supple and soft, so it’s easy to drink now while you wait for your bigger reds to come around. Rating: 88. 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.

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If your New Year’s resolution hasn’t lasted any longer than your kids’ Christmas toys, here’s a way to get started again. Consider the Mediterranean diet to make some lasting healthy changes. For the fourth year in a row, it ranked as the best overall diet by U.S. News and World Report. It also claimed the top spot in five other lists – best diets for healthy eating, easiest

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diets to follow, best diets for diabetes, best plant-based diets and best hearthealthy diets. Just in case you’re wondering, the DASH diet and “flexitarian” diet tied for the No. 2 spot on the Best Diets Overall ranking list. The keto diet? Bottom of the list, ranking 37 out of 39 for Best Diets Overall and 39th in Best Diets for Healthy Eating. The rankings are made by an expert panel of 24 of the country’s top

nutritionists and specialists in diabetes, heart health and weight loss. But back to the Mediterranean, which seems to be the best way to eat healthy and get to your healthy weight. How do you get started eating Mediterranean? It’s based on the traditional foods that people used to eat in countries around the Mediterranean, such as Italy and Greece, back in the 1960s. Those Italians and Greeks were

exceptionally healthy compared with Americans and had a low risk of many diseases. So, researchers began studying what they were eating. The Mediterranean diet focuses on plant-based foods, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, breads, legumes, potatoes, nuts and seeds. The main dietary fat is extra-virgin olive oil, and the diet also includes moderate amounts of red wine, fish, poultry, dairy and eggs. Red meat

typically plays a small part, often only at Sunday dinner. That pattern has found to improve health and prevent disease, especially heart disease. A large study, called the Predimed study, looked at 7,447 individuals with a high risk of heart disease. For five years, participants followed one of three different diets – a Mediterranean diet with added extra-virgin olive oil, a Mediterranean diet with added nuts and a low-fat diet control group. The risk of combined heart attack, stroke and death from heart disease was lower by 31% in the Mediterranean and olive oil group and 28% in the Mediterranean and nuts group. And dropout rates were twice as high in the control group compared with the two Mediterranean groups. Results like that have been repeated over and over. Other studies are showing that the Mediterranean diet can help with weight loss, Type 2 diabetes and premature death. The bottom line is this is a diet worth looking into. Q and A Q: Can foods high in flavanols,

such as tea, berries and cocoa, help lower blood pressure? I recently read something that said they could help. A: It appears they might. In a study reported in the October 2020 issue of Scientific Reports, researchers compared foods eaten and blood pressure of more than 25,000 people in the United Kingdom. They found that those with the highest flavanol intake were associated with significantly lower systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and the biggest difference was seen in people with the highest blood pressure. So, grab a cup of tea; eat some berries; and enjoy a piece of dark chocolate. RECIPE Eating the Mediterranean way doesn’t have to be difficult. Try this Greek salad recipe. It’s adapted from the website The Mediterranean Dish. Serve with crusty bread. You can increase the protein by adding grilled chicken. TRADITIONAL GREEK SALAD Servings: 6 1 medium red onion 4 medium tomatoes 1 cucumber, partially peeled

1 green bell pepper, cored 1/4 cup Greek pitted Kalamata olives 4 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 1-2 Tablespoons red wine vinegar 2 ounces Greek feta cheese 1/2 Tablespoon dried oregano Cut the red onion in half, and thinly slice into half-moons. Cut the tomatoes into wedges or large chunks. Cut the partially peeled cucumber in half length-wise, and then slice into thick halves (at least 1/2-inch in thickness). Thinly slice the bell pepper into rings. Place everything in a large salad dish. Add the pitted kalamata olives. Season with dried oregano. Pour the olive oil and red wine vinegar all over the salad. Give everything a very gentle toss to mix, and then add the feta. Serve with crusty bread. Per serving: 102 calories; 7 grams protein; 4.7 grams carbohydrates; 9.5 grams fat (1.3 grams saturated fat); 1.1 grams fiber; 28 milligrams sodium.

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Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian with SIU Med School in Springfield, Ill. For comments or questions, contact her at charfarg@aol.com or follow her on Twitter

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The health benefits of quinoa Whole grains are vital components of a healthy diet. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), whole grains provide a host of nutritious benefits, including some that were discovered only recently. AND notes that whole grains were long seen as rich in fiber, which promotes healthy digestion and heart health. That’s still true, and WebMD notes that many whole grains provide between one and four grams of fiber per serving, an amount that puts them on the same level as various fruits and vegetables in regard to fiber content. But recent research has found that whole grains also are rich in protein, B vitamins and trace

minerals such as iron, magnesium and zinc. Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah) is one highly nutritious whole grain that’s easy to find and even easier to prepare. Quinoa comes from Peru, Bolivia and Chile. It grows in the Andes Mountains, and for millennia it has been a food staple for the native people there. Quinoa is considered a complete protein, which means it includes all nine essential amino acids. Why is that important? To understand that, it’s best to first consider the importance of protein. Protein is comprised of 20 amino acids, 11 of which the body can produce on its own. For optimal health, the body needs all 20 amino acids. Diet is the

only way to get the nine essential amino acids that your body cannot produce on its own. Complete proteins like quinoa provide all nine in a single food, making them especially healthy, convenient options for people looking to ensure they get enough protein in their diets. As noted, whole grains are good sources of iron, and quinoa is no exception. That’s a considerable benefit, as iron is an essential part of hemoglobin, a red protein that’s responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood. Quinoa also is a good source of magnesium. That’s another significant benefit of including quinoa in your diet, as the Office of Dietary Supplements notes low levels of magnesium have been linked to various ailments, including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Pregnant women or women hoping to become pregnant, as well as their male partners, also can discuss the benefits of including quinoa in their diets with their physicians. That’s because quinoa is high in the B vitamin folate, which is needed to perform various functions in the body, including the production of

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red and white blood cells in the bone marrow. Adequate folic acid consumption before and during pregnancy can protect against miscarriages and congenital defects. And while women may be familiar with the importance of folate regarding their pregnancies or future pregnancies, men also may need to monitor their folate intake. A 2013 study from researchers at McGill University in Montreal found that paternal folate deficiency in mice was associated with a significant increase in congenital deformities. Whole grains like quinoa benefit the body in myriad ways, making them worthy additions to anyone’s diet. It is also gluten-free and is recommended for people who are on a gluten-free diet. Often used as a substitute for rice, quinoa is commonly considered to be a grain and is usually referred to as such, but it is actually a seed. When cooked, quinoa is soft and fluffy, with a slightly nutty taste. It can also be made into flour, flakes and various foods like pasta and bread, according to the Grains and Legumes Nutrition Council.

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Wild State Cider and Fair State Brewing introduce collaboration Wild State Cider has paired with Fair State Brewing to release a winter seasonal Grapefruit hopped cider. Ruby is the result of a socially distant collaboration between head cidermaker Andrew Price and founding brewer Niko Tonks. “It’s not easy to spend a lot of time in close contact with others right now, so a little creativity and UPS was all we needed” Price said. Tonks experimented with the Ruby Red grapefruit blend shipped by Wild State and selected Sultana hops to pair with this winter fruit. Otherwise known as Denali hops, Tonks noted, “Sultana hops are a great fit for this cider, they bring out ripe pineapple notes with a very low dankness that compliments the grapefruit best.” Fair State also features Sultana hops in their Pahlay beer. Wild State and Fair State make great partners because of their mutual commitment to giving back. “Wild State started with a vision for

a business that stands for something bigger than the products they make. We honor that commitment as members of 1% For The Planet donating 1% of annual sales to nonprofits celebrating and protecting wild places.” said co-founder Adam Ruhland. Fair State also partners with nonprofits monthly through their Fair State Cooperates initiative, donating 10% of crowler sales to these organizations. Minnesota, already recognized for its craft beer culture, has seen an increase in craft cidery startups in the past several years. Wild State believes collaborations like this are important to the growth of the cider industry as more consumers are exposed to cider in ways that may seem unexpected. This is in comparison to their existing perceptions on a beverage with deep roots in American history. “It’s not uncommon for customers new to Wild State to say that our

products aren’t like what they’ve had before, and they like it,” said cofounder Ruhland. This semi-dry cider packs a great hop aroma, bright citrus, fresh pineapple, tart grapefruit and a subtle hint of pine. All Wild State Ciders are free from concentrates, added sugar and sorbates. The cider will be rolled out in 4-packs in the Wild State taproom, online and statewide in Minnesota and in northwestern Wisconsin starting Jan. 28. About Wild State Cider: Since 2019, Wild State Cider has quickly grown to be one of Minnesota’s largest producers of hard cider, focused on natural ciders without added sugar, concentrates, or sorbates. Wild State’s ciders are drier, balanced and varied to meet the expectations of the modern cider drinker. In 2020 WIld State joined 1% For The Planet and has committed

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1% of annual sales to nonprofits supporting the celebration and preservation of wild places. About Fair State Brewing Cooperative: In 2014, Fair State Co-op became the first cooperatively-owned brewery in Minnesota, and the third in the country. The cooperative’s membership is currently more than 1,500 and growing every day. Fair State operates a 40,000 square foot production facility in St. Paul. At their original Northeast Minneapolis brewery, they continue to brew innovative small-batch beers that feature hard-to-source and local ingredients. The co-op is committed to giving back through Fair State Cooperates, which works with selected nonprofits to raise funds, awareness, and involvement.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY Duluth Herald January 28, 1889 THE OPERA HOUSE IN RUINS. Loss Above Insurance Considerably Over $100,000. Origin of the Tremendous Blaze a Mystery. Duluth’s beautiful opera house is a mass of burned brick and charred timbers with nothing but the rear and end walls left standing. The work of the flames was complete, there is no salvage on what was yesterday one of the handsomest buildings of its kind in America and when the work of rebuilding is begun it must be from the very bottom of the foundations. Its loss will be severely felt by the amusement public and much more so by the many whose losses, above insurance, foot up a total of nearly $110,000. Besides the opera house proper the four floors of the great building were full of stores and offices on all of which there is a heavy loss. The opera house was the center of the various embryonic libraries of which Duluth has several and in the holacost [sic] valuable books of reference, musical and general libraries were burned which will be the most serious and difficult in replacement.

Ad appearing in the Jan. 21, 1889, Duluth Herald.

Ad appearing in the Jan. 30, 1900, edition of the Duluth Herald. About 1:30 this morning fire was discovered in the cellar of the building under the store occupied by M. M. Gasser s a grocery and which was also used by him as a storage for goods of all descriptions. No plausible explanation of the cause can now be given, but when it was first discovered it had burned up through into the grocery and soon filled the store with smoke. By the time the fire department was on the ground the flames, which had evidently been at work for some little time before discovery, had gained considerable headway. It burned with tremendous fury and terrific rapidity and in considerably less than an hour the roof had fallen in and the space confined within the four heavy brick walls was a mass of flames reaching far up into the sky and showering sparks and half burned wood far and near. At this time the heat from the burning building was fearful and the window casings and walls of the St. Louis hotel, directly across Superior street, burst into flame. The old Bay View house on the avenue also caught, but the fires of both were easily extinguished. The loss is approximately $120,000 above insurance which falls most heavily, of course, on Munger & Markell, owners of the building. They had about $62,000 insurance and the loss in all to them including stage settings, etc., is $100,000.

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Duluth Herald January 29, 1890 TALKS ON A CANAL BRIDGE. The engineer, Mr. Boller, Looks Over the Canal Bridge Site. Alfred P. Boller, a leading New York engineering expert, arrived in the city yesterday, being called here by the city to confer with its engineers and Maj. Quinn regarding a bridge over the canal. “It is impossible for me,” said Mr. Boller to a Herald reporter, “to even approximate the cost of a bridge across the canal. The scheme is perfectly practicable, and it will not interfere in the least with navigation. The cost depends on many things. The structure will be a drawbridge, with piers to the south side of the canal. The foundations for the piers are expensive. How far they will extend below the surface is unknown. Soundings and borings will be made, and the results will be sent to me at New York. “I am only here now to gather data and facts regarding the canal, but until I Can arrive at a definite calculation by several weeks’ figuring I cannot give anything definite, even an approximation of the bridge or what money will be needed to build it.” Mr. Boller returns to New York his evening. He will probably visit Duluth again in the spring.

Duluth Herald January 30, 1900 BITING BLASTS Polar Regions Hurl Great Chunks of Iciness Down Upon Duluth. Cold waves, from a cloudless Northwest, accompanied by fierce, biting winds, quickened to the velocity of a gale, struck Duluth last night, and established a new cold weather record for the winter. Emerging from warm beds this morning, people imagined that the Zenith City of the unsalted summer carnival idea had suddenly been transposed to the vortex of the Polar regions, and in fact Duluth is near the center of an immense area of territory that has been deluged with zero frigidity. It was one of those days when the oldest inhabitant likes to sit on a red-hot stove and tell of his boyhood in a little vine-clad cottage nestling among the roses, where he could hear the rippling of the brook among the trees and the chirping of birds, in the calm, half-hidden pool in the forest. It was a great day for the oldest inhabitant, and also for the plumber and coal man. The advance guard of the intense cold wave reached the city early last evening and reinforcements kept piling in all night. In a little over twelve hours the mercury had dropped 35 degrees, and the sudden transition from springlike weather caused the swooping cold wave to be felt all the more acutely. According to official records yesterday afternoon the maximum temperature was 15 degrees above zero, making the drop to 201/2 below just 351/2 degrees. Thermometers all over the city beg to differ with the government article, bu the official record goes. At Third avenue west and Superior street at 8 o’clock this morning 27 degrees below was recorded. West Duluth reported 29 below. Woodland and Duluth Heights people failed to report, but it is so cold up on the Heights today that there is no school.

Duluth Herald January 31, 1910 COMPLIMENT FOR POLICE. Committee Reports That Laws Are Being Enforced Here. Conditions Are Much Better Here Than in Superior. The moral condition of Duluth is far above that of Superior, according to a committee from the three Good Templar lodges and the Swedish Mission church of the West end, which visited the two cities Friday and Saturday nights for the purpose of making a comparison. This was the mysterious committee mentioned in the Herald Saturday. The Duluth red light district was found to be practically dead, while across the bay they saw scores of scarlet women and big crowds of men, most of the latter being so young as to attract particular notice. In the so-called “better” saloons in the uptown district in Superior they found men entertaining women in the wine rooms. Their report says that Duluth was clean n this respect, and also that the closing order is observed at 11 o’clock. The committee issued this statement: “We have no hesitation, after making these observations, in saying that any claim to the effect that ‘Duluth is as bad or nearly so,’ or that ‘Duluth is as bad as Superior,’ are unqualified and rank lies; lies as black and unscrupulous as the man or faction who dares to make such statements. “Our chief of police and his force are to be congratulated upon their faithfulness and success in carrying out the written order of Mayor Haven bearing date of Dec. 22, 1908, in regard to closing of the red light district, and also another similar order of date, March 8, 1908, in regard to the observance of the state law in regard to the closing of saloons.” Duluth Herald February 2, 1920 CITY COUNCIL MAY DISCUSS EPIDEMIC Little besides routine business will come before the regular council DuluthReader.com

Ad appearing in the Feb. 3, 1922 edition of the Duluth Herald. meeting this afternoon, there being few new resolutions to be submitted. Whether the question of “flu” regulations will come before the council, depends on whether there are any new developments arising since this morning. At noon there was nothing to bing before the council on this matter. An ordinance will be introduced this afternoon to put a ban on all dances, public and private. A resolution will also be offered

ordering the paving of Seventh street from Forty-sixth avenue west to Central avenue with concrete 24 feet wide, the estimated cost being $15,519.63. Duluth Herald February 3, 1922 DEPLORES FEELING AGAINST DETECTIVES; COURT REBUKES JUROR Jurors who “doubt” whether they are in favor of enforcement of the

prohibition laws, and who view askance the testimony of detectives, were rebuked by Judge Cant in district court this morning. “To think that any citizen, worthy of the name, should say in this court that he is in doubt as to whether the laws of the country should be enforced – enough on that,” and Judge Cant shook hi head and with a wave of the hand expressed the matter as distasteful even to discuss. He referred to a juror who said he could not sit in the trial of a liquor case on the ground that he would be prejudiced. Referring to another juror who, when asked by counsel whether he would have prejudice against a detective’s testimony, simply because it was a detective, and answered that he would, Judge Cant said that as “unwholesome” prejudice has been created against detectives, instigated by those on whom “their hands had been laid heaviest.” “Do people who commit crimes ring bells, call the people together and announce that they are about to commit crime?” Judge Cant asked the jury, which was about to go out in the case of John McDonald, charged with the manufacture of whisky. “Detectives the world over have rendered a remarkable service, and more wholesome public sentiment would prevail if there was as much opposition to crime in this country as there is to detectives. We have enough wrongdoing here. The United States stands out as among the worst of the civilized countries in the matter of crime.”

Ad appearing in the Jan. 31, 1910, edition of the Duluth Herald.

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Ah, Bach! The Bach Society of Minnesota was founded in 1933 by students at the University of Minnesota who wanted to perform music of the great Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. One of the oldest Bach societies in the United States, the ensemble features the timeless music of both Bach and those he inspired. Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, in 1750, after a remarkable career. He composed sacred choral music, organ and keyboard music, and other instrumental works, and served as cantor and music director at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. He wrote hundreds of church cantatas and performed during Lutheran Sunday services. He also composed longer, larger-scale choral works. These include the Saint Matthew and Saint John Passions, Mass in B minor, Magnificat, and Christmas and Easter Oratorios. Bach choirs, festivals and societies emerged in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when scholars and singers renewed an interest in the composer’s artistry. His works were catalogued and published, inspiring a greater appreciation of the Bach corpus. Professional as well as amateur singers have loved the intricacy, timeless beauty, and profound meaning in Bach’s music and have gathered to perform it for generations. In 2018, several hundred Bach societies, choirs, and festivals exist around the world. They range from Brisbane (Australia) to Budapest (Hungary), and from Pretoria (South Africa) to Palo Alto (California). In 1933, University of Minnesota (U of M) music students of Professor Donald Ferguson suggested that members of two music fraternities, Phi Mu Alpha and Sigma Alpha Iota, prepare a Bach cantata under Ferguson’s direction. They then formed a society and rehearsed before performing at the university for the first time. Prior to Ferguson’s efforts, there had been since 1898 only one major Bach choir in the United States: the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Bach Society, under Ferguson’s

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direction, met each week for rehearsal. Then, near the end of the year, it held an “open rehearsal” to which the public was invited. During April of its first year (1934) the society performed the Mass in B minor. This great work would be repeated many times throughout the history of the Bach Society. A fifty-three-member choir sang that first concert at Northrop Auditorium. Six years later, the society organized a four-evening Bach Festival. The event included a night of instrumental music, an evening organ recital, and two nights of choral works featuring Bach’s Saint John Passion and Mass in B minor. In 1950, nearing age seventy, Ferguson reached the mandatory retirement age for the U of M and retired from the Bach Society. (At the October 1983 ground breaking for a new School of Music building, Ferguson, age 101, was present. The new building was christened Ferguson Hall.) During the 1950s various attempts were made to revive the festivals during a period of transition. In 1959 Dr. David LaBerge, an associate professor of psychology at the university, reorganized the Bach Society into a large chorus of 100 singers and reinstated the annual festivals. Unlike Ferguson, LaBerge performed more than just the music of Bach. In the 1960s and 70s choruses grew even larger when the group performed regularly with the Minnesota Orchestra in Northrop Auditorium. At the time, the venue could seat nearly 5,000 people. When LaBerge retired in 1980, Henry Charles Smith became music director of the Bach Society in addition to serving as resident conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra. During the 1980s both organizations collaborated on annual concerts of Handel’s Messiah. In 1985 the society celebrated the 300th anniversary of Bach’s birth. At the urging of more recent artistic directors, the society reduced the number of singers in keeping with the performance practices of Bach’s time. As a result, only three or four performers sang per voice group of a SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) choir. Subsequent artistic directors include Paul Oakley, who succeeded H. C. Smith in 1987; Roderick Kettlewell, 1997; Myles Hernandez, 2000; Thomas Lancaster, 2004; Paul Boehnke, 2007; and Matthias Maute, 2016. Under

Maute’s direction the society shares its mission to communicate “the depths and passions of Bach’s compositions through period instruments and historic practices.” Chronology 1933: The Bach Society of Minnesota is formed at the University of Minnesota, with Professor Donald Ferguson as its first conductor. 1950: Ferguson retires. 1959: David LaBerge, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, becomes the society’s director and resumes its festival traditions. 1966: The Bach Society of Minnesota is incorporated as a nonprofit, taxexempt organization in Minneapolis. 1980: Henry Charles Smith, resident conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, begins his tenure as artistic director. 1985: J. S. Bach’s 300th birthday is celebrated. The society plans a cantata cycle in which a Bach cantata is per-

formed in a Minnesota church each week. 1987: Paul Oakley becomes the society’s artistic director after the retirement of H. C. Smith. 1991: Under Oakley’s direction, Bach Society singers perform in concert for the American Choral Director’s Association National Convention in Phoenix. 1994: The Bach Society issues its first recording, Music Fit for a Queen: Cathedral Music of Great Britain. 1997: Roderick Phipps-Kettlewell becomes director after Oakley’s retirement. 2000: Myles Hernandez is appointed director. 2004: Thomas Lancaster, long-time director of choral activities at the University of Minnesota, assumes duties as artistic director. 2016: Matthias Maute, composer and virtuoso recorder performer, begins his tenure as artistic director.

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Funds coming for child care providers More than 8,250 eligible child care providers who received funding support in December 2020 to ensure the health and safety of children and staff in their programs will be able to receive additional funds for January and February 2021. The application deadline is Feb. 5, 2021. Providers must be operating to be eligible for this funding. As part of the child care emergency response funding in the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 that was signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020, the Minnesota Department of Human Services will issue approximately $45 million in new January and February COVID-19 Public Health Support Funds for Child Care payments. This is the third round of funding to help providers remain operating. Beginning Monday, Jan. 25, the department began emailing links to online application and another form to the providers who are eligible to apply for these funds. Only providers who receive an application link will be eligible to apply. Child Care Aware of Minnesota will, as in previous funding rounds, be available to support providers with the application process. “Throughout this pandemic, child care providers have given tremendous time and effort to remain open and serve families,” said Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead. “Their efforts have provided stable care for children, economic stability for families, and ongoing support for the workforce we need for our emergency

response and economic recovery in Minnesota.” The department already issued payments to: • More than 7,000 programs, including almost 5,800 family child care providers, more than 1,100 licensed child care centers and almost 100 certified centers (only nonprofitcertified centers were eligible in July and August for summer school-age care) from July through September. • More than 8,300 programs, including almost 6,300 licensed family child care providers, about 1,500 licensed child care centers and more than 500 certified centers received payments from October through September. Payment amounts in July to September were $1,200 for licensed family child care and $8,500 for licensed family child care. Eligible certified centers received $8,500 per month in July and August and $3,000 per month in October to December. Department data from a provider survey in April demonstrate that the number of licensed family child care and licensed centers operating dropped at the beginning of the pandemic, but data from the COVID-19 Public Health Support Funds from July to December show that nearly all licensed child care programs in the state are operating.

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Superior Hiking Trail Association seeks board members

The Superior Hiking Trail Association seeks new volunteer board members to

replace those whose terms are expiring in May 2021. The board serves as the governing body of the association and works closely with our staff to accomplish our ambitious strategic goals. Although we are always interested in recruiting avid SHT users to join the board, we are equally excited to invite those who are passionate in supporting equity and inclusion in outdoor recreation to apply. Applications will be accepted through March 31, 2021. We hope to hear from you. Visit superiorhiking.org to learn more and apply for this unique volunteer opportunity.

Bong Center gears up for busy month

The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center is gearing up for community events and activities in February. We are excited to be able to offer these events at this time. • Feb. 5: Superior Museum Blood Drive at the Bong Center: bongcenter. org/event/superior-museums-blooddrive-at-the-bong-center. Once again, we are partnering with Superior Public Museums and Memorial Blood Centers to host a blood drive from 10 am to 5 pm. This is a great way to support your community and we encourage those who are able to donate blood to do so. Information is available on our website regarding potential donors who have received the COVID-19 vaccine. • Feb. 12-14: Escape the Bong III: bongcenter.org/event/escape-the-bongiii. Escape the Bong returns for a third year! Four escape rooms will be

available during the three-day event. Hours have been extended for those wanting to come later in the evening on Friday and Saturday, with the last game starting at 9:30 pm. Looking for a Valentine’s Day date idea? Book a time slot for a room starting at 9:30 am with the last game starting at 8 pm.

Updating the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy

The Arrowhead Regional Development Commission (ARDC), in coordination with an array of regional partners with the Arrowhead Growth Alliance (AGA), is launching its engagement process for an update to the region’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS). The CEDS covers the seven counties of northeast Minnesota (Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis Counties) and seeks a unified vision for its economic development. It aims to create more prosperous, resilient, diversified and inclusive economies and communities across Northeast Minnesota. The CEDS is built around four cornerstones (human capital, economic competitiveness, community resources, and foundational assets) that form the foundation for economic growth in the region. Completion of an updated CEDS every five years is critical for the region’s ability to secure federal funding through agencies such as the Economic Development Administration and provides a comprehensive vision for regional cooperation on a variety of initiatives. Recent regional efforts include recovery strategies after mass layoffs in Koochiching and Itasca Counties, an infrastructure grant on the Grand Portage Reservation, funding for an incubator building in Cohasset, and numerous applications in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The engagement process will take place between January and March 2021 over at least 20 sessions conducted via Zoom. ARDC has contracted with Northspan to facilitate the sessions, which will be led by Northspan President & CEO Elissa Hansen. The engagement process will also use community coordinators in locations where the sessions take place to recruit community participants and ensure broad participation. Engagement events will take place on the following dates: Aitkin County: Feb. 2 and 26 Carlton County: Feb. 4, 9 and 22

Cook County: Feb. 4 and 10 Itasca County: Feb. 5, 10 and March

Lake County: Feb. 9 and March 1 Koochiching County: Feb. 8 and March 3 St. Louis County: Feb. 2, 19, 22 and March 3 For a complete schedule and registration information, visit surveymonkey.com/r/ CEDSRegistration. Participation is open to all who live or work in the seven counties and requires registration. Once you register, you will receive a brief pre-session survey that will help the facilitators frame the discussion by gathering ideas on how to move the region toward its vision.

Winter Bike Week kicks off this Friday

Winter Bike Week, an annual celebration of biking and outdoor activity, kicks off Friday, Jan. 29, running through Friday, Feb. 5. Zeitgeist, in partnership with organizations across the Duluth-Superior area, will host family friendly events promoting community well-being and health all week long. Activities will be centered around the question: How can active living in the winter be fun, practical and accessible? The week will consist of both in-person and virtual events such as a winter biking class, a kids helmet giveaway, a commuter meet up and online discussions. All in person events will follow COVID-19 guidelines. “Winter Bike Week is a way to celebrate one of the most defining seasons in our community – winter – while highlighting all the ways we can stay active and healthy during the cold, snowy, and icy months,” said Andrea Crouse, Zeitgeist’s community development manager. “There are so many people who embrace the season, and this is an opportunity to highlight their expertise while following their example to help make active living in the winter accessible to all in our community, regardless of age, class, race or skill.” More details and event information can be found at zeitgeistarts.com/ community/winter-bike-week.

Kimball to lead WLSSD Electrical Department

Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) Executive Director Marianne Bohren has promoted Charles Kimball to Supervisor of Electrical Maintenance and Instrumentation. Kimball and his team ensure the efficient and effective

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Winter Bike Week functioning of the electrical and instrumentation infrastructure across WLSSD’s large regional wastewater system. Under Kimball’s leadership, the electrical team supports WLSSD’s energy goals by identifying and supporting new energy reduction and efficiency opportunities. “Chuck’s strong technical abilities, leadership skills and broad experience is essential to the successful management and reliability of WLSSD’s electrical distribution infrastructure,” said Carrie Clement, WLSSD’s manager of operations and maintenance. “Chuck’s expertise will help support WLSSD’s asset management program and planned combined heat and power project where WLSSD will generate electricity and heat on site by using methane-rich gas from the wastewater treatment process.” Energy is vital to WLSSD’s strategic future. It is WLSSD’s largest non-payroll operating expense. With WLSSD since 2018, Chuck previously served as a Senior Engineer, providing technical assistance and project management in the electrical maintenance department. Chuck joined WLSSD with nearly 30 years of experience as an electrical engineer, superintendent and manager at Minnesota Power Kimball earned a B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at North Dakota State University in Fargo. He is a registered Professional Engineer licensed in the State of Minnesota, and recently obtained a State of Minnesota, Master A Electrician license. Western Lake Superior Sanitary District provides award-winning wastewater and solid waste services to

residents, businesses and industries within its 530 square mile legislative boundaries in Southern St. Louis and northern Carlton counties, and is a nationally recognized leader in pollution prevention.

Medal of Honor Scholarship Winner

Courtney Werner, a senior at Proctor High School, will received the $1,500 Mike Colalillo Medal of Honor Scholarship at a presentation ceremony at Veteran’s Memorial Hall in the St. Louis County Depot on Jan. 25. Courtney Werner accepted the scholarship from Dennis Hughes, Chair of the Veterans Memorial Hall Advisory Committee, and a Colalillo family member. As part of her application, Thomas Werner Courtney wrote

a four-page, annotated essay about her great-grandfather, Thomas Wilfred Werner, and his service in WWII. “A few pages of writing can never tell the whole story of a veteran and all they have been through,” Courtney Werner wrote in her application cover letter. “We can never fully repay the sacrifices our veterans and current military men and women have made, but I hope we can learn about their stories and give them the recognition they deserve.” Thomas Werner was drafted in January 1943 and inducted into the U.S. Army one month later. He was shipped to the Pacific and served in the 132nd General Hospital Unit. As a medic and ambulance driver, Thomas Werner transported wounded and deceased soldiers. His unit supported the 41st Infantry Division at the Battle of Biak Island in Papau, New Guinea. The island is now part of Indonesia. The unit was then moved to the Philippines, where it provided support for the Battles of Luzon and Manila. After telling Thomas Werner’s story, Courtney Werner ended her essay with these words: “My great-grandfather is the true definition of an American hero. People that knew Thomas Wilfred Werner well could all agree he was one of the hardest workers ever. It didn’t matter what the task was. His “go-getter” personality led him to success in many aspects of life. Thomas Werner is someone who I look up to in heaven and strive to be like every day. He is the true definition of a Veteran and American hero.” Mike Colalillo was the last known surviving World War II Medal of Honor recipient in the State of Minnesota. He was born and raised in St. Louis County, and he dropped out of school when his mother died so he could help support the family. Following the war, Mr. Colalillo raised three children in Duluth. To learn about his military service, visit thehistorypeople.org/mcolalillo-scholarship.

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Snowshoe at Glensheen with tour purchase With many people seeking outdoor activities these days, snowshoeing at Glensheen delivers just that with free snowshoe rental for guests. The mansion is also open for selfguided tours at reduced capacity and is still decked out for the holidays, with Never Ending Christmas tours. Which makes the snowy, winter months an unexpectedly awesome time to tour the mansion and explore the estate via snowshoe. What sets snowshoeing at Glensheen apart from other snowshoe experiences is that the terrain is mostly flat and easy to traverse. Since many people are snowshoeing for the first time this year, Glensheen is a great place for beginners. Every Saturday and Sunday through the end of March, (or until the snow melts) all members and tour guests will receive a free snowshoe rental with the purchase of a Full Mansion tour, Classic Tour or Grounds Admission. Since Chester Congdon was a lover of the estate and an advocate of the North Shore, paired with the excitement around outdoor activities

this winter, the old-school wooden snowshoes are a perfect enhancement at Glensheen. Glensheen encourages folks to explore off the path, too. If merely experiencing the 12-acre, historic estate from paved pathways,

folks are missing out. With snowshoes, guests can explore areas they wouldn’t normally have the opportunity to experience, or didn’t even realize existed at Glensheen. For example, guests can snowshoe through a wooded area at the front of

the mansion and even venture under the Stone Arch Bridge. Given safe ice conditions, guests can walk across the frozen Tischer Creek and under the famous Stone Arch Bridge for a stunning side view of the mansion. To enhance the grounds exploration experience, there is educational signage across the estate making a snowshoe rental an added perk to a mansion tour. Plus, guests can follow along on Glensheen’s free app to learn more about the estate as well. If guests want to stay outside and skip the mansion, they can explore the estate by purchasing a $5 Grounds Admission. The snowshoe experience is complete with various types and sizes of snowshoes for a wide range of people, including kid sizes. The snowshoe rental process has been modified to accommodate health and safety measures. To learn more, read Glensheen’s Full Safety Plan. Glensheen is open Saturdays and Sundays, 9 am-5 pm. Tours are only available for purchase onsite at Glensheen. To learn more, visit glensheen.org.

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Diane M. Krych 3/24/1952 – 1/18/2021 Diane M. Krych, 68, of Esko, Minn., and Stone Lake, Wis., died after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer. Diane was born in Minneapolis, to Robert and June Rittenhouse. She graduated from Southwest State University in Marshall, Minn., in 1974. She met her husband, Dean, in an elevator at the JCPenney store at the Southdale Mall in Edina in 1976 and was married in Brookings, SD, in 1977. Diane was an auditor for the Southland Corporation from 1980 until 1986, she was a past director of the Lake Superior Life Care Center, and she owned and operated Esko Tax Service from 1980 to 2021, serving countless thousands of clients over the years. Diane was passionate about the pro-life movement and education-related issues. God placed it on her heart and the heart of her husband, Dean, to adopt their son Adam from Calcutta, India, in 1984, and her daughters Rosa, Lina and Natalia from Manizales, Colombia, in 1993. She was very proud of the people her children chose to marry, and she loved her grandchildren with all of her heart. Arrangements have been trusted to the Downs Funeral home in Superior.

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Mary Fisher 9/12/1952 – 1/16/2021

Mary Catherine (McCarthy) Fisher, 68, was born in Duluth to Robert and Janet McCarthy. Mary died at St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth after an unexpected critical illness. Mary was a devoted and loving wife and mother to her husband Jim and her two children, Kelly and Rebecca. She also cared deeply for her dog Maggie. Mary enjoyed a successful career both as a Director of Patient Information Services and later as a Health Unit Coordinator for Essentia Health in Duluth. Mary loved spending time with her family and friends more than anything – the people she cared for were always her priority. She also loved traveling, flowers, fashion, and making her home beautiful. Preceding Mary in death were her parents, her brother Patrick McCarthy, her Sisters In Law Jan Wedin and Mary McCarthy. A celebration of life will be planned at a time when it is appropriate to have a larger gathering after pandemic restrictions have been lifted. Mary’s Mass of Christian Burial will be live streamed, starting at 10:55 am Thursday, Jan. 28 at youtube.com/channel/ UCdqiIvURaOqDpFtmi28G3w. Funeral arrangements made through Dougherty Funeral Home, Duluth.

Blanche E. Kangas 3/28/1945 – 1/21/2021

Blanche Elizabeth Kangas of Duluth, died with family by her side. She was born in Duluth, the daughter of Oscar and Grace (Trudeau) Rosendahl. Blanche retired from the Duluth School District in 2010 after 35 as a paraprofessional at Nettleton Elementary. Blanche was a devoted football fan. She loved to watch the Vikings. She enjoyed doing puzzles and spending time with her family and friends. Blanche was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Cindy Salo; two brothers, Walter Rosendahl and Roy Rosendahl; and one sister, Bonnie Carpenter. She is survived by her son, Corey (Laura); three sisters, Grace (Darwin) Chester, Judy Gustafson, and Mary VanDell; one brother, Oscar “Butch” Rosendahl; six grandchildren, six great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Arrangements by the Cremation Society of Minnesota. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

Jerome ‘Jerry’ J. Baker 9/29/1958 – 1/24/2021

Jerome “Jerry” J. Baker, 62, of Superior, died at his residence, surrounded by his family. He was born in Rochester, Minn., son of Howard and Carolyn (Sonquist) Baker. On Oct. 10, 1992, in Superior, Penelope “Penny” LaPorte and Jerome Baker were united in marriage. Jerry was a dispatch/truck driver for Jeff Foster Trucking. When Jerry was not working, he loved to be out fishing. Survivors include his wife, Penny; brother, Charles (Nadine) Baker, Deer River, MN, their children Dean, Two Harbors, MN, Linda Dobie Spring Valley, MN; sisters, Bonnie Andrist, Deer River, MN, and daughter Coral Quandt, Grand Rapids, MN; Sandy Baker, Rochester, MN; daughter, Amy (Bob) Christianson, South Range, WI; son, James (Jamé) Christianson, Grand Blanc, MI; twin grandsons, Jesse (Kaitlynn) Christianson and James (Sara) Christianson; grandson, Jake Christianson; granddaughters, Devyn Claire (Katriel) Menendez, Nicole McDonough and Heidi (Bob) Groskreutz; great-grandchildren, Kaelin, Keanin, Gage and Cali, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Visitation will be from noon until the 1 pm service, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021 at Downs Funeral Home, 1617 N. 19th Street, Superior, Wis.

Dustin John Kilby 4/22/1989 – 1/22/2021

Dustin John Kilby, 31, of Duluth, was a kind-hearted spirit taken from us too soon. Dustin was born in Duluth to Nancy (Kilby) Ewer and Gary Snyder. Dustin was a graduate of Duluth Denfeld High School. He also graduated from CCU; he was a gifted barber and stylist. Dustin excelled in his career. Dustin said he loved cutting hair because it was like having a blank canvas every time. Dustin had such a bright outgoing personality, everyone who met him loved him. Dustin loved outdoor activities such as skateboarding, snowboarding, and playing outside with his two children. Dustin played on a youth bowling team where he succeeded and began to get into tournaments with his grandfather, John Kilby. Dustin was an avid music lover. Dustin’s pride and joy were his two children Milayah and Cashis. Dustin was proud to say that Nancy was his mom, his love for her was beyond words (that love between a mother and son was inseparable). Rest in Peace my baby boy, I love you with all my heart. You are my proudest Accomplishment in Life! I will Love you forever, your mom. Due to Covid, a gathering will be held at a later date to put Dustin to rest.

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In the worst storm, you want a Defender

It was completely appropriate that when a 2021 Land Rover Defender was delivered to me for a week-long evaluation, our home just outside Duluth was hit by a heavy snowstorm. It has been a weird winter, without a lot of storms on the North Shore of Lake Superior, but the few we’ve had have been nasty, often with high winds and followed by thermometer plunges. The Defender has a very classy look, in a contemporary sort of way. Gone are the squarish corners that immediately identify most of its sibling vehicles, replaced by smoothly rounded corners that make it look somehow less rugged if not at all dainty. But I was reluctant to go driving off into the unplowed roadways because I didn’t want to mess it up, particularly after the car-wash

reopened and displayed a subtle, almost-pastel green color called Panges Green. Then I realized that the Defender, while a well-known model from the company, it was the reborn version of the Defender that had been gone for 23 years, without ever losing its familiarity – or its reputation. As a Land Rover, and not a Range Rover, the Defender was always aimed at adventurers who intended to use it to go anywhere, over and through any obstacles. It is the personification of the reason I first described Land Rovers as the vehicle you would choose if you were going to drive to Hudson Bay – without using any roads. The price is way up there – a base of $63,000 for the Defender SE model, and an as-tested sticker of $72,180.

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That is a lot, but it is less than loaded versions of, for example, a Cadillac Escalade and a GMC Yukon I recently tested. And while it’s out of my price range, after driving it for a week in “all terrain” of Northern Minnesota roadways, I must say it has the substance to justify such a price tag. Two of the most prestigious names in sport-utility vehicles – dating back to well-before the trendy “SUV” catchphrase came along – are Range Rover, and Land Rover. And both of them are from the same company, a proud British manufacturer that over-engineered its vehicles for use in wartime or peace, for work or pleasure, and only belatedly for being the classic luxury family hauler of the wealthy. The company is Land Rover, and it makes a fleet of different Range Rovers, which meet all sorts of different objectives of class and luxury. The over-engineered trait is well docu-

mented. The first Range Rover I ever drove was a few decades ago, and I learned that while it was shaped in a sort of squarish motif that housed a remarkable living space of rich leather, with real wood and real metal for trim. Just sitting in a Range Rover meant you found immediate strength and luxury. It wasn’t until later that I learned the structure underneath Range Rovers was over-built for ruggedness, with frame rails that resembled structural girders. In short, the least-qualified Range Rovers were still substantially built, and the equation also went the other way. The most hardy Land Rovers built to challenge the roughest terrain anywhere were also awash in classy luxury features. British motor companies have fallen on difficult times, but Land Rover, and its British cousin, Jaguar, have survived by finding benefactors who could finance their stubborn determination to build their vehicles to their own demands.

Those first Range Rovers I drove had aluminum V6 engines bought from Buick to power them. Now, jointly purchased by Tata Motors in India, Jaguar makes outstanding sedans and sports cars and engines, and Land Rover makes its uncompromising SUVs that have lost their questionable power plants by utilizing the high-tech engines from Jaguar. The Defender is offered with either a high-output 2.0-liter 4 cylinder or, in the case of my test vehicle, a 3.0-liter in-line 6, that is turbocharged for highend power, and awarded fantastic lowend torque via an electric supercharger that gets you up into the turbos range. In the Defender, I had the 3.0 in-line 6, and it produces 395 horsepower and 406 foot-pounds of torque in a range from 2,000 to 5,000 RPMs. The engine is also equipped with a 48-volt motor-generator that brings the slick engine up to contemporary standards of the newest hybrid concepts of bolstering engine output instead of only improving fuel economy. The Defender’s 8-speed ZF transmission worked smoothly and sent the 5,700-pound vehicle on its way swiftly. We got about 18.7 miles per gallon mostly in town or scaling the steep avenues of Duluth. I didn’t have to use the low-range transfer case, but a simple knob can easily switch you to full lock-up or whatever type of terrain you are hoping to conquer. With various other models taking the spotlight in recent years, Land

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Rover did it right when it brought back the Defender, replacing the old truck-like body on frame platform for a new unibody design made mostly of aluminum, and they could do any tricks they wanted to the suspension. The step-up SE model came with adaptive air suspension, the twin-speed transfer case for the all-wheel drive, terrain-response system with selectable driving and terrain modes, including off-road modes for whether you’re scaling boulders or making your way through ruts, controlling hill descent, or splashing through up to 35.4 inches of water depth. The entire vehicle can be raised or lowered if you have nasty ruts ahead, and it has 11.5-inch clearance underneath. It also has a 38-degree approach angle and 40-degree departure angle without scraping those stylish body panels. It also incorporates all the latest safety features – lane recognition and lane-keep assist, electronic traction control, dynamic stability control and roll stability control, blind spot assist, driver condition monitor, emergency brake assist, adaptive cruise control with speed limiter, 400-watt Meridian audio system, and 360-degree monitor on the large navigation screen. The Defender drives smoothly on its 20-inch alloy wheels and would never offer a hint that it might be eager to go charging off the road and tackle the terrain on either side. My experience through the years with Land Rover includes some of the

most fantastic introductory trips they could dream up. I attended a launch of the Discovery in Iceland, where we drove around the country on the highway that circumnavigates the glaciers and volcanoes of that chilly paradise. We also experienced a specific company-made and company-owned off-road course in Quebec. And a highlight remains unforgettable when we drove up into the Rocky Mountains to the Continental Divide that caused us to negotiate some breathtaking trails best-suited for mountain goats or mules – but not humans, and certainly not motor vehicles. So having experienced such ventures, I fully accept the intentions of all the details on the Defender’s price sticker as valid. The fact that the Defender would do all those things better than its Range Rover siblings is impressive, but adding in the facts that you have a third row of seats for kids and the ability to haul seven to the shopping center or on a trip – preferably after we get past the pandemic – means we can welcome back the Defender. It not only will conquer every opportunity, it also will be the Defender of Land Rover’s rich heritage.

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When the wall becomes a door President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris leapt into action after taking the oath of office on Jan. 20. Biden signed 17 executive orders, dismantling many of Donald Trump’s signature policies. Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization, ended the Muslim travel ban, halted most deportations and construction of the border wall, fortified DACA, rescinded the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, implemented a nationwide mask mandate on federal property, and more. Kamala Harris is the first woman, first African American, first Asian American, first Indian American and the first Caribbean American to hold the office of vice president. As president of the Senate, she swore in Alex Padilla, California’s first Latinx U.S. senator, appointed to fill the Sen-

ate seat she vacated, as well as Georgia’s two new Democratic senators, Jon Ossoff, the first Jewish senator from Georgia, and Rev. Raphael Warnock,

the first African American Democrat elected to the Senate from the South. The Democrats thus gained control of the Senate, albeit by a razor-thin, 50-50 margin, with Vice President Harris able to cast tiebreaking votes. All this was made possible by the mass movements that brought these politicians to power. Like the elected officials they supported, movement organizers also wasted no time, announcing pressure campaigns to push the Biden-Harris administration to pursue progressive policies. Politicians respond to pressure. “Make me do it,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously told union and civil rights organizer A. Philip Randolph,

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Amanda Gorman who was demanding help for African Americans and working people. “It is a time for Joe Biden to deliver results for the multiracial majority that delivered the presidency to him,” Waleed Shahid, spokesman for Justice Democrats, said on the Democracy Now! news hour. “We want to see Joe Biden deliver on the four issues that he says he has a mandate on: the pandemic, the economy, the climate crisis and systemic racism.” The climate-focused Sunrise Movement started with protests focused on Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin, and a national Sunrise Day of Action on the day after Biden’s inauguration. “In the midst of major crises, including the hottest year on record, a global pandemic, record inequality and a failing democracy, America is at a crossroads,” Sunrise Movement’s executive director Varshini Prakash said in a statement. “The Decade of the Green New Deal must start now.” The Sunrise Movement is calling for a massive mobilization to transition our society off of fossil fuels. The window to enact change is narrow; Democrats control the presidency, the House and the Senate, but the 2022 election may shift control of Congress back to Republicans. Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose presidential campaign inspired and engaged tens of millions of progressives, is ad-vocating for swift action using a procedure known as “budget reconciliation,” through which major legislation can be passed in the Senate by a simple majority vote, bypassing the filibuster. Sanders is now the chairm of the Senate Budget Committee, and thus will wield significant influence

over Congress’ power of the purse. Democrats are also hoping to pass H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” a bill to strengthen fundamental aspects of our democratic process. It passed the House in 2019, and has languished in the Senate under Mitch McConnell. It would end partisan gerrymandering, make it much easier to register to vote, declare Election Day as a national holiday, provide public funding for campaigns, and more. This year, state legislatures will use the results of the 2020 U.S. Census to redraw Congressional districts. Republicans control the legislatures in 31 states, where they are expected to carve up districts to maximize their political power, even while representing a minority of U.S. voters. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 partisan decision, ruled that federal courts could not hear challenges to gerrymandered districts; H.R. 1 would change that. “This moment is a once-in-a-generation moment for the United States of America, that Joe Biden really could be known historically as one of the most transformative presidents in American history, like a Lincoln, like an FDR, like an LBJ,” Shahid said on Democracy Now!. One of the inauguration highlights was the nation’s youngest poet ever to read at an inauguration. Amanda Gorman finished writing “The Hill We Climb” just after the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. It includes the lines: “We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation.” Progressives faced a wall, literally and figuratively, with Donald Trump. With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the wall has become a door. Whether it gets slammed shut or kicked open depends on the efforts of mass movements. Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations, including KUMD, 103.3 FM, weekdays at 9 am. 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) 2021 Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan. Distributed by King Features Syndicate

Apple bobbing in the pit Ideas pop up. An icy covering only slows and delays them. I’ve found that periodically reminding myself I’m a plain old bastard is one way to keep me from thinking I’m Virgin born. Maybe I need to do more reminding. A unique flavor experience can be had by adding a quarter cup of vinegar to a strawberry malt. Am I right? A wry thought; the perfection of diversity is conformity. I heard an acting person (how’s that for correctness) say in interview they were not trying to make great art. I had to applaud their success, but even more admire the wisdom of aiming for the far horizon of kneecaps. As a small child I learned that by agreeing and behaving I made the lives of big people much easier. That summary remains true with age. Agree with retribution because if you don’t there will be retribution. A former student thought I’d be fascinated to learn how very-very much pot he smoked and how totallytotally loaded that student was in class. Contrary to the past learner’s hopes I was not fascinated. Old news is not compelling when it’s an obvious repeat of nothing new. When did it become a “courtesy call” for someone I don’t know to call interrupting and trying to sell me something I don’t need or want? I recently read a local news article that planted a biased conclusion in the first paragraph. I remember scorning when the Reagan administration called the ketchup in school lunches a vegetable. That now seems somewhat comically reasonable compared to legalizing more drugs as a response to addiction

problems. Damn it’s annoying to agree with Hitler. He said people want to be lied to. And damn me if they don’t, and with the relish of teenage lusts. If “old biddy” be objectionable is young biddy acceptable? Just wondering. Why is there never a shortage of those who know what others should believe or how they should behave? Finding joy in the discomfort of others is to be pitied, or in this case pitted. One can’t court unreason expecting it to become reasonable. Questionable compromise. The cannibals agree to eat only those who are dead. A matching compromise; cannibals vow to never eat anyone over 120 years of age. If someone snaps at you saying “Why are you such a smart ass” you might reply “It’s easy when you’re being such a dumb ass.” Such balances in nature are things of sublime beauty Reflect on the ancients’ belief that actors (later including troubadours) and prostitutes were low people because they cultivated falseness of person by taking money to play roles. As democracy developed politicians were added I suspect for similar reasons. Of the three prostitutes are seen as the more honest, or at least more reliable. Actors fall nearer the middle. That leaves politicians doesn’t it? Willingness to believe in or say the worst of others is either cynical reality or questionable habit. It becomes a bad habit when applied pleasurably and with bias meant to harm others. I heard a friend of someone decided to call its dog a miracle cat because

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they barked. Some groups might can be creatively called a silliness of people as accurate description. Over time one learns the hard way that sometimes a textbook case turns out to be no more than a box load of miscellaneous books. The problem with Deer Crossing signs rests in the lack of reading programs for deer. We have, do we not, many dear party members well suited to gainful employment as deer instructors. The absolute surest way to eliminate all traffic violations is to remove speed limits, stop signs, and lights, etc. Nothing can be violated if there’s nothing to violate. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the event in January will be the first razor wire Inauguration. I sincerely and fervently wish it is the last of its kind. Democracy debates and argues. Kingdoms rule and fight. Know anyone who has gone out of their way to assure you “Hey, man, I used a LOT, and look at me. I turned out fine.” Does any of them actually think others need to be told they are old school stoners? Seemed fairly obvious all along, well, except to them maybe. Good thing about aging drunks and stoners, though, only half get difficultly paranoid. I’m trying to think of another good thing. I’ve known quite a few people who need to be agreed with. I suppose they go by the principle either you’re with me or against me. Annoying, isn’t it, when someone quickly presses forth a case for judgement forcing you one side or the other. They don’t want to talk. Argue perhaps, but not talk or

ask or compare views. Decide now one way or the other to settle this. Settles nothing except for lowering my regard for them. However, a bastard optimist I know has assured me fake agreement and sincerity will work most every time. Even better, non-politicians can master this skill with little training, reserving it for use to get out of unpleasant situations rather than to sustain them. I’ve made the argument and will make it again. Better to have a single deity remote and far away in Olympian, heavenly paradise than have hundreds here on earth claiming the same divine right to rule and reign. It’s not whether God or Gods exist that concerns me so much as when one of the earth-bound versions sets up shop nearby. I hate flawed comparisons such as equating the American Revolution rebelling (taxation was only part of it) against the power and wealth of the noble class with power and wealth concentrated in business or political classes instead. The nobility lived separated from and looking down on the commoner, something business and political elites would ever do. Yes, I hate such comparisons though at times I question beneficence moving more surely from the bottom upward than coming from above.

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The argument got out of hand when McCoy “brought up how the victim has only one testicle, which caused the victim to get upset,” according to The Smoking Gun. When the victim pointed his finger at McCoy, he grab-bed and twisted it, “causing him pain.” McCoy was arrested for domestic violence. [The Smoking Gun, 1/19/2021]

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Too Hot to Handle The Sun reported on Jan. 18 that a woman in the United Kingdom suffered an “inferno” in her living room after a candle exploded as she was lighting it. Jody Thompson, 50, won the candle, labeled “This Candle Smells Like My Vagina,” in an online quiz from Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop website. “The candle exploded and emitted huge flames,” Thompson said, “with bits flying everywhere. The whole thing was ablaze and it was too hot to touch.” Thompson and her partner “eventually got it under control and threw it out the front door.” [The Sun, 1/18/2021] In Plane Sight On Jan. 16 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, two employees of United Airlines approached a man and asked for his ID. Aditya Singh, 36, of Orange, California, produced an employee badge, but it was not his: Another employee had reported it missing on Oct. 26, the Chicago Tribune reported. Authorities said Singh had arrived at O’Hare on Oct. 19 from Los Angeles and was too afraid to fly back home because of COVID-19, so he hid in a secured area of the airport for three months, living off food given to him by strangers. Singh is unemployed but has a master’s degree in hospitality and doesn’t have a criminal background. He was charged with felony criminal trespass. [Chicago Tribune, 1/17/2021] The Devil Made Them Do It Members of Poughkeepsie, New York’s Church of Satan are down in the dumps this week after someone torched their gathering place, known

as “Halloween House,” on Jan. 14. According to the Poughkeepsie Journal, video footage shows a person carrying two gas cans, splashing liquid on the front porch, lighting it and running away. Two people who were inside at the time escaped unharmed; the arsonist has not been caught. “Sadly there are some ‘people of faith’ who are intolerant, and typically ignorant, of other belief systems,” noted Church of Satan high priest Peter H. Gilmore. Church member Isis Vermouth called the arson a “terror attack. Whoever did this is going to be hexed by all of us,” she said. “I just don’t understand why anyone would want to piss off Satanic witches. ‘Cause now there’s going to be hell to pay.” [Poughkeepsie Journal, 1/19/2021] Unclear on the Concept Nicholas Debetes, 18, was finally placed in handcuffs in Titusville, Florida, on Jan. 14, after Brevard County officers chased him as he drove “at an extremely high rate of speed” to his mother’s trailer. Debetes, Click Orlando reported, had a unique excuse: “If I would have tried to stop quicker I would have crashed the vehicle,” he told police. He went on to say that his mother wanted him home for an unknown reason. Debetes had an outstanding warrant and was driving a stolen Hyundai Elantra. [Click Orlando, 1/18/2021] Police Report In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Curtis McCoy, 46, and his husband of 10 years got into a spat “that escalated since they have been drinking alcohol” on Jan. 17, police reported.

Irony Esequiel Robles, 40, was caught after a traffic stop in Williston, North Dakota, with methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia on Jan. 14. The Smoking Gun reported that Robles was on probation for narcotics possession at the time, following a 2019 conviction for meth possession. Notably, however, when Robles was arrested, he was wearing a T-shirt with the message, “Don’t Do Drugs.” Do as I say, not as I do. [The Smoking Gun, 1/15/2021] Least Competent Criminals • On Jan. 7, police received a call from a 7-Eleven store in Lehi, Utah, where earlier in the day a man wearing a “sheriff’s deputy” jacket stole a donut, then left in a white pickup truck. KUTV reported that Lehi police examined surveillance video and tracked the truck to a nearby motel parking lot, where they knocked on the door of 47-year-old Daniel Mark Wright, who was staying there. As officers spoke with Wright, they saw a Salt Lake County Sheriff’s jacket hanging in the room’s closet. They arrested Wright for impersonation of an officer and theft, along with receiving or transfer of a stolen vehicle in relation to the truck. Wright, his companion, Christian Olson, and another accomplice are also under investigation for racketeering. [KUTV, 1/18/2021] • Leobardo Hernandez, 32, of Pomona, California, went to extraordinary lengths on Jan. 16 to evade police after allegedly stealing a car. As Hernandez ran from officers, he entered an apartment complex and found an unlocked door, the Daily Bulletin reported. The apartment residents were not at home, so Hernandez moved right in, shaving his face, changing clothes and even cooking tortillas to make it seem as if he lived there. Unfortunately, he also burned the tortillas, summoning the fire department. Hernandez eventually

surrendered and was charged with burglary and possession of a stolen vehicle among other offenses. [Daily Bulletin, 1/18/2021] Awwwwww Russell Jones of London couldn’t figure out why his dog, Billy, was favoring one of his front paws while walking. He took the pet to the veterinarian to have X-rays, United Press International reported, but the vet found nothing wrong. Jones, however, had recently broken his own ankle and was wearing a cast and limping. At the $400 vet visit, the doctor suggested that Billy was simply imitating his owner. Man’s best friend, indeed. [United Press International, 1/19/2021] What’s in a Name? Before social distancing and masks became the world’s norm, CBS News reported on Jan. 12, Paul O’Sullivan of Baltimore was noodling around on Facebook one night, searching for other Paul O’Sullivans. Several of those he found accepted his friend request, which was when he noticed that some were musicians, as he was. Baltimore Paul, as he’s known, reached out to others, and eventually he and three others formed the Paul O’Sullivan Band. Manchester Paul plays bass; Pennsylvania Paul is the percussionist; and Baltimore Paul and Rotterdam Paul play guitar and sing. They recorded a single at the beginning of 2020, but when COVID hit, they thought it was a great opportunity to make a whole album. “It feels great to be able to contact people on the other side of the world when you’re in lockdown because you don’t feel alone at the moment,” commented Rotterdam Paul. [CBS News, 1/12/2021] Government in Action Bigfoot hunters in Oklahoma will be happy to know their pastime could get its own season. State Rep. Justin Humphrey introduced a bill on Jan. 20 asking the Oklahoma Wildlife Commission to establish a Bigfoot hunting season, “set annual season dates and create any necessary specific hunting licenses and fees.” Southeastern and south-central Oklahoma is infamous for Bigfoot sightings, including a large festival. If passed, the bill would become effective in November. [KOKH, 1/20/2021]

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Things that raise blood pressure Q: It was fascinating to read in a recent column that mouthwash might raise blood pressure. I found that is true in my own case, though I realize each person is different. Coffee also elevates my blood pressure. What other common foods or over-the-counter pharmaceuticals might raise blood pressure? I’m trying my best to avoid such things, but it would help to know what they are. A: The antiseptic mouthwashes you are referring to kill a variety of oral bacteria. There is growing recognition that the ecology of the mouth is important for good health. Although the benefits and risks of antiseptic mouthwash remain controversial, some experts worry that disrupting the mouth microbiome may increase the risk for cardiovascular complications (Intensive Care Medicine, January 2021). Coffee drinking is also controversial. Some studies suggest that coffee and caffeine can raise blood

pressure, while other research demonstrates no effect (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, October 2011). We suspect that individuals vary in their response. Processed foods high in salt and sugar are prime suspects for high blood pressure. You will also want to avoid decongestants. These constrict blood vessels and raise blood pressure. They’re found in some hemorrhoid products as well as cold and allergy medicines. NSAIDs such as ibuprofen and naproxen can also elevate blood pressure. Q: My brother took lithium for many years to treat bipolar disorder. Apparently, the dose was too high, as he now has badly damaged kidneys. While it helped his bipolar disorder tremendously, the effects on his body should have been monitored closely, and the dosage should have been as low as possible. Please warn your readers about this danger. A: Lithium is considered a firstline treatment for bipolar disorder,

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but kidney damage is a potential complication of this medication. The prescriber must monitor lithium levels and kidney function frequently to detect problems before they become irreversible. Some psychiatrists may not be aware of recommendations to use estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) rather than just creatinine (BJPsych Bulletin, August 2017). Monitoring should be conducted at least twice a year and possibly as often as every two to three months for high-risk patients. Q: My sleeping problems are worse than ever. I frequently wake up with nightmares involving COVID-19. Then I have trouble getting back to sleep. Do you have any suggestions? A: Melatonin might be worth a try. Not only can it contribute to better sleep, but it may also strengthen the immune system against infection with SARS-CoV-2 (Antioxidants, Jan. 2, 2021). Some scientists have suggested that it could be used along with antiviral medications to boost immunity and curb inflammation due to

COVID-19 infection (International Journal of Medical Sciences, Jan. 1, 2021). You can learn more about using melatonin for insomnia in our eGuide to Getting a Good Night’s Sleep. This online resource also provides information on many nondrug strategies. It may be found in the Health eGuides section of PeoplesPharmacy.com. If you don’t find that melatonin is adequate in addressing your nighttime awakening, you may wish to talk with your primary care provider. There are a few short-acting prescription sleeping pills that may be used in the middle of the night. These include a short-acting form of zolpidem (Intermezzo) as well as zaleplon (Sonata). They should only be used if you have at least four hours left to sleep. Joe and Teresa Graedon answer letters from readers. Write to them in care of King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or email them via their website: PeoplesPharmacy.com. (c) 2021 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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The demise of the Monarch Last week, the peaceful transfer of power in our Capitol was a symbol of how – for 245 years – we’ve prevented the rise of a western monarch. This democracy was founded in opposition to the idea of monarchies, and the functioning of democracy can be a source of pride. But I’m not here to talk politics. I only mention the inauguration to make a bit of word play. Because, an invertebrate species of Western Monarch is currently being vanquished by accident. And that CONNECTIONS should be cause for alarm. Earlier last week, the Xerces Society (an international nonprofit focused on the conservation of invertebrates), announced that the population of monarch butterflies who spend the winter along the California coast is nearing collapse. For the past few years, volunteer counters have found fewer than 30,000 butterflies overwintering in the groves. Those were record lows, and cause for alarm. This year, the community scientists counted a mere 1,914 monarch butterflies. That’s 99.9% fewer butterflies than were found in the 1980s. And still, there exists no legal protection for them or their essential habitat. Western Monarchs aren’t all of the monarchs, though. The black-andorange beauties who spend summers with us in the hot and humid Midwest have migrated to remote oyamel fir tree forests in the mountains west of Mexico City. They are enduring an unusually cold winter there, and official counts have not yet been completed. We can only hope that their numbers won’t show the same precipitous decline as their western counterparts. The odds are not in our favor. Last year, the monarchs overwintering in Mexico exhibited a 53% drop. The details of each population’s decline are slightly different, but the big picture holds true: their demise is driven by loss of habitat for overwintering, breeding, and migration; and by pesticide use.

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Monarch butterfly populations have dropped to critically low numbers. Photo by Emily Stone. In the past, it was easy to blame our southern neighbor for the declines. Illegal logging in the mountainous butterfly preserves of Mexico was a major problem, but that has largely been addressed by the Mexican government. There is still more to be done with supporting the region’s economy so the locals won’t need to extract resources from the protected forests, but the biggest challenge to the monarch’s struggle for survival is no longer across an international border. It is right here in the U.S., in the ever-moreproductive Corn Belt where I grew up. In early spring, monarchs will head north again, hoping to lay their eggs on fresh milkweed plants in Texas before they breathe their last butterfly breath.

But what if there isn’t any milkweed? Drought, cold weather and habitat loss have all caused its decline. And the challenges continue as generations of monarchs leap-frog north into the Midwest. Farming practices have changed a lot since my Grandpa Warren hunt-ed pheasants among habitat-rich fencerows and pastures in southern Iowa. Since the first genetically modified (GMO), herbicide-resistant soybeans were introduced in 1997 (with GMO corn following shortly after), there has been an 80% decline in milkweed in the Midwest, and a concurrent 81% decline in monarchs. In Iowa, one biologist estimates there has been a 98% reduction in milkweed on the landscape. While GMO products have garnered

support among some scientists, the changes that GMOs have caused in our farming practices and the subsequent habitat loss for many organisms (not just monarchs) are a significant bit of collateral damage. Although habitat loss is the biggest problem, it’s one that you can help address! Now is the time when eager gardeners start making plans for spring. Every additional back-yard milkweed plant and unsprayed flower garden could host one more caterpillar, and provide nectar for hundreds of pollinators. But gardens like these are not going to make up for millions of acres of corn and soybeans. Large conservation efforts – and sustainable farming practices – also are necessary. You can

Above, a string of monarch butterflies at Pismo Preserve in San Luis Obispo County, Cal. Photo by Steve Corey. Below, a monarch feeds on a milkweed. Photo by USFWS. help there, too, by choosing carefully at the grocery store, by supporting the organizations doing good work, and by letting your representatives at all levels of government know that you value conservation efforts. Should we work hard and make sacrifices just to save a single species of butterfly? Well, yes. But we also should work to save the monarchs because in doing so we will be conserving nature for ourselves and for our kids.

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 achieve rare scoring balance It would be easy to temper the enthusiasm of UMD hockey fans by saying last weekend’s 5-1, 4-1 sweep over Western Michigan “was only Western Michigan.” But that would be an insult to both teams, and to the NCHC in general. Western Michigan had come into the series at AMSOIL Arena on a 3-0-1 tear, having beaten Miami 4-1 and tied Miami 3-3, while UMD was getting swept at home by St. Cloud State, and then stunned first-place St. Cloud State 6-2 and 3-1. Impressive. UMD, on the other hand, was struggling to score after a strong start in the Omaha Pod, losing 4-1 to Colorado College and tying Omaha 2-2 before losing 2-1 to North Dakota. The Bulldogs went to St. Cloud and beat the huskies 4-3 in overtime before falling 3-1 in the second game, and then coming home to drop those 3-1, 4-3 games to St. Cloud State. That stretch measured a shaky 1-5-1 stretch that threatened to drop UMD out of contention. The most impressive thing about UMD’s sweep was the return to full balance offensively, the kind of balance the Bulldogs used to win the last two NCAA championships. In Saturday’s game, Noah Cates got a goal for the first line, Cole Koepke got one for the second line, and Ben Almquist scored his first college goal for the fourth line, while freshman defenseman Connor Kelley scored on an impressive rush for a goal for the defense. The only line that didn’t score was the third line, and, that line scored four of the five goals in the first game, thanks to Jackson Cates’s pure hat trick and one by Kobe Roth. With a series at Miami postponed by the pandemic, the Bulldogs spent 10 days in quarantine, and only got back on the ice last Wednesday to get ready for Western Michigan, coming in hot. So it was no small feat when the Bulldogs got two goals a minute and a half apart, by Nick Swaney and Kobe Roth, late in the first period for a 2-0

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Connor Kelley peeled off to the right after scoring his first college goal in UMD’s second game 4-1 victory. lead, and when Western cut the lead in half at 3:46 of the third period, the Broncos were on the verge of taking over the game. But Jackson Cates came to the rescue to score at 5:48, 11:22, and at 13:46, settling the game 5-1. The Bulldogs looked clearly anxious to play, f ring off the game’s first seven shots and outshooting the Broncos 3618 for the game. Jackson Cates recalled scoring a hat trick in junior hockey at Waterloo, but this was his first one at UMD, and it was before an appreciative part of the small allotment of fans allowed into AMSOIL Arena. “It’s the first time in my three years here I’ve played on a line with Kobe Roth and Koby Bender, and we seemed to click right away,” Cates said. “And my parents were able to come, and it was nice to see them.” In the second game, that balance came through. Zach Stejskal played goal, after Ryan Fanti had won the first game, and after killing an early penalty the Bulldogs seized command when Koepke scored from the slot after a slick pass out from behind the net by Tanner Laderoute at 7:31, then Almquist, centering the fourth line,

backhanded in a rebound at 8:38. Two goals in 1:07. Quinn Olson, a sophomore playing better by the game, took a pass from Nick Swaney up the right side and fed to the goal-mouth where Connor Kelley had joined the rush and looked like a career forward as he deked and scored at 17:49. The Bulldogs gave up a powerplay goal to Ty Glover to open the second period, but Noah Cates got his fifth of the season on a UMD power play — and the family’s fourth of the weekend — to counter that one and the third period started 4-1. Senior defenseman Matt Anderson charged end to end on an impressive thirdperiod rush and tumbled to the ice at right pipe. The puck wound up in the net, after Western defenseman Aidan Fulp crashed over goaltender Austin Cain, and for some reason, after a long review, the officials disallowed the goal. Otherwise the Bulldogs would have had matching 5-1 victories. As it was, two victories thrusts UMD back into contention, heading for Miami. And maybe the best part, along with the total team balance, was the Bulldogs discarded what had seemed

to be their habit of dumping in every puck, instead of trying to make plays. “It was a good weekend for our guys,” said Sandelin. “We made some great plays and got some offense off the rush.” GOAL DROUGHT The UMD men weren’t the only ones needing to score some goals. The UMD women went through an excruciating weekend at Bemidji, falling 1-0 in overtime in the first game to Bemidji State, then coming back in Game 2 to battle scorelessly through three periods. Freshman defenseman Nina JobstSmith got behind the defense in overtime and star center Gabbie Hughes sent her a long pass with 1:37 remaining in the 5-minute 3-on-3 overtime. Jobst-Smith looked like a veteran scorer as she raced in, made a neat move and scored to give the Bulldogs a bounce-back 1-0 overtime victory. It was her first collegiate goal for the Bulldogs. The great disparity in the Women’s WCHA continues, as the Bulldogs

are striving to get up into the heady atmosphere of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Ohio State, which are currently ranked 1-2-3 in the country, and yet need to put distance between themselves and the three closest pursuers – Bemidji State, St. Cloud State and MSU-Mankato. The split at Bemidji was a setback, and now the Bulldogs have to regroup and make sure St. Cloud State doesn’t disrupt their plans this weekend at AMSOIL Arena.

kept battling, and it never looked as though Hermantown was running up the score. They just kept making plays, and the Rails never had the puck long enough to make a play or get a shot. “TB” FOR TAMPA, OR BRADY?

NOT POURING IT ON Grand Rapids is an established AA power in Section 7, and Hermantown is the reigning power in 7A, and hearing renewed suggestions the Hawks should move up to AA. This year’s Hawks are loaded, and they have bolstered their balance and strength with the addition of sophomore center Zam Plante, the oldest of former UMD star Derek Plante’s three boys. Zam got his name as a unique twist on the height of comic book descriptive bubbles. A friend of mine suggested that maybe it come about as a shortened form of Zamboni. I’ve watched him play, as a Bantam last year, and last weekend at Proctor, where he scored

Senior defenseman Matt Anderson can be seen hurtling to the ice to the right of the goal, as Western Michigan relief goalie Austin Cain was crashed into by his own defenseman, Aidan Fulp (24), and officials ruled no-goal because of goaltender interference! Photos by John Gilbert. with a lightning-quick pull and tuck with a rebound for a 4-0 lead. He has scored something like seven goals, and he is a treat to watch, with his dad’s hockey sense and playmaking ability, and doses of the quick-skill prowess of Huffer Christiansen, Mike Antonovich and Mark Pavelich added in. I’m going to suggest to Derek that Zam’s name

should officially be changed to “Zam!” – with the exclamation point. Hermantown led 4-0 after one at Proctor, and the shots were 29-0. The score was 6-0 after two periods and the shots were 51-0. The final score was 9-0, and the Hawks, rotating four full lines every time around, outshot the Rails 72-2. To Proctor’s credit, the Rails

It was an intriguing match of master quarterbacks, when Tampa Bay went to Green Bay and Tom Brady beat Aaron Rodgers 31-26. Both quarterbacks threw for three touchdowns, but both had their troubles. Brady was intercepted three times, and I wonder when that last happened. Rodgers didn’t throw any interceptions, but he was sacked a half-dozen times. I think the better team won, and when you consider that Rodgers had to beat Drew Brees and New Orleans to get the chance to play at Green Bay, where a Brady-Rodgers match ensued, Brady doesn’t have much left to prove. Now he gets to try to unseat the rising star of Pat Mahomes when the Buccaneers face defending champion Kansas City in the Super Bowl in another week. It is in Tampa Bay, for good measure. It would seem that souvenir jerseys with an enormous “TB” on the front would be a huge item, and nobody has to say whether it stands for Tampa Bay, or Tom Brady.

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Homerun pursuit exposed some of us NINE MILE LAKE – It was almost 50 years back now, but I recall it as if it were yesterday. The pursuit, the eventual capture, the euphoria (for some), and the full hate and ugliness of some that dare call themselves sports fans came back to me right away. Last Thursday, we were informed that American baseball legend and icon Henry Aaron had died in his sleep at 86 at his Atlanta area residence. As I walked down memory lane concerning “Hammerin’ Hank,” I had to take in the whole story. In particular, the summer when he dared to break a long-held and somewhat sacred MLB record, at least to some of the Caucasian fan base, that of the game’s all-time homerun record. As within the past four years, we have been painfully reminded of how many racial haters live among us, that summer exposed a raw nerve here as well. What Aaron dealt with that summer was as ugly as what we have witnessed in our recent, sordid past. But the basic precipice of that season was that of an African-American ballplayer chasing a record held by a white guy. Sure, this wasn’t just any “white guy” but the globally renowned Babe Ruth; neither was it only any baseball record. The homerun record has long been revered as a standard of the game. And there were many white fans of the game that were quite upset by the notion of this. Before the 1974 season, there was a bit of chatter relative to the fact that Aaron would likely surpass Ruth’s alltime mark of 714 career homeruns and that it would occur early in the new season (he ended the prior year at 713). And of course, as that played out, the national baseball media was focusing on it, as they should, and the amount of contention and hate that came forth was not merely sickening, to say the least, it invoked within me, a young 19-year-old guy, a moment of a terrible reckoning of sorts. And that was that this country of mine was in possession of a specific part of its populace that hated another simply because of skin

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color. I mean, I was already quite aware of this. But the extent of the vile hate hurled toward Aaron was a bit of a new low for me. There were even sports journalists receiving death threats for merely covering the homerun chase. Can you imagine the depravity of a person that low? They were referred to as “nigger lovers” and told that if there were one more article about Aaron, they would “die.” And of course, being the forebearers of today’s computerized “keyboard warriors,” the letters went unsigned. The courage to sign on to the written words was in absentia. What else would I expect? Aaron himself was under the protection of law enforcement for much of this time. And all of this over a sports record from a GAME. Oddly enough, Ruth himself never played for the Milwaukee-Atlanta team and hailed from Baltimore! Hate apparently exceeds the want to cheer for one of your own ball club. But such are things in this country in general and in the deep south in particular. My big-sports moment viewing was usually done with my father, and this occasion would be no different. Seated in the living room, right after dinner, we got the game on and settled in to

see if it might happen on this night. We wouldn’t have to wait. In Aaron’s first at-bat and on the second pitch, he sent one into the stands, and my pops and I just got to view another bit of American sports history. Aaron’s homerun trot was captured for the world to see, evoking joy for many and contempt from perhaps a like number. It defeated my inner spirit to think that a person couldn’t cheer for or acknowledge this accomplishment because a person of color achieved it. That just never registered with me. Even then. I stood up with my fist clenched in deference to Aaron; the new King had finally been crowned! I looked over at my dad to catch a smile on his face. If you loved baseball, as we did, this WAS a big deal. And it would have been that way for us no matter who had broken the record. Hank was near the end of his storied career at that point. He would go on to play a couple of more seasons and call it a day. But within those two years, he added another 40 dingers to his HR total to end up with 755. Some steroid (PED’s) addled clown named Barry Bonds is supposedly the new holder of the record at 762, but I refuse to recognize that. Do with that what you may. Hank never used performance

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enhancers. He’s the real HR king as far as I’m concerned. Ruth would remain the next closest with his 714 total. I’ve been amazed throughout my life at how many black American men, who dared to accomplish something in life, have been hated by all too many white Americans: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammed Ali, Aaron, Dr. Harry Edwards, and so many more. Apparently, the haters never even paused to understand the sheer courage it took to BE these men and embrace the causes they did because it took way more than they could ever comprehend or indeed ever possess themselves: their own insufferable self-loathing and personal weakness weighing down their ability to reason. To have a black American possess this record was more than their weak minds could grasp. And weakness it is, because hate is not inherited, it is taught. And that means you’ve allowed another to control your thoughts and psyche—shame on you. As I studied the articles available from that time, one of the threats leveled at Aaron stood out to me; it was that sickening. It said, “My gun is watching your every black move.” Then I consider our very recent (un) American past. We haven’t changed a bit. We’ve learned nothing. We still hate for reasons unsupported by reason. Our hate renders our Constitution a cruel joke with it’s “ All men are created equal” monotony. that could be the biggest lie in world history. At least in this country. Aaron endured all of this with an unequaled dignity and class. There would be postcareer interviews where he would speak of some of his feelings about what he took. But they rarely, if ever, contained a hint of hate or malice from him. Aaron was a bigger person than that, and thus, more significant than any of his haters could ever dream of being. I want to think that for those of them who might possess a molecule or two of gray matter, that this grated upon them even more. That it exposed them for the fools they are. Then I think, no, they probably aren’t intelligent enough to even realize that. Aaron dedicated his post-baseball life to the pursuits of justice and equality. What about his haters? PEACE

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Get benefits of bisphosphonates Five years ago, TechCrunch predicted that in 2021 checkbooks, cash, credit cards and passwords would be entirely replaced by digital magic. Well, that didn’t happen. But we can see the advantages of eliminating them (especially passwords). The new recommendations for postmenopausal use of the bone-building medications called bisphosphonates say they too should be gone in five years – from your medication regimen, that is. JAMA has released a “Patient Page” that outlines the latest findings on using the medications to halt the bone deterioration of osteoporosis and reduce the 1.5 million related fractures every year. The fractures lead to more than half a million hospitalizations, over 800,000 emergency room visits and the placement of 180,000 folks in nursing homes. The risks associated with the medications include loss of blood supply to the jawbone (rare) and fracture of the thighbone. Necrosis of the jawbone often happens after an invasive dental procedure (ask about stopping the med before such work is done). Fracture of the thigh bone becomes more likely after taking the meds for five years. So, stopping the medication before that maximizes benefits (they’re substantial) while minimizing risk. That’s especially true if you also adopt bone-protect-

ing lifestyle habits, such as doing strength-building exercise two or three times a week; jumping 20 times morning and night if your doc agrees; eating calcium-rich foods such as dark leafy greens, canned salmon, and fortified soy products; and making sure to get 1,000-1,200 milligrams of calcium daily from food and 600-800 IU of vitamin D daily through foods and supplements. *** There’s a retirement boom going on. In the third quarter of 2020, about 28.6 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 said they’d retired. That’s 3.2 million more boomers than retired in the same quarter of 2019. If that’s you – or soon to be you – it’s important to recognize retirement’s rough spots and access its pleasures. Those who go abruptly from working full time to complete retirement are especially challenged, according to a study in Work, Aging and Retirement. But many seniors find a solution. By 2026, around 30% of the labor force will be made up of folks 65 to 74. Working can help you stay emotionally connected and mentally sharp. Interested? Go to aarp.org and search for “Top 25 Part-Time Jobs for Retirees.” Other smart moves: • Joining clubs, taking classes, volunteering and strengthening

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glyceride levels healthy. The key? Eliminating processed carbs and added sugars, upping your intake of omega-3-rich fish like salmon, achieving a body mass index below 27, and exercising regularly. *** So many pro football players have had to contend with gastrointestinal reflux disorder that you could call their playing field a GERD-iron. But both the Denver Broncos’ John Elway and the Green Bay Packers’ Brett Favre, who suffered mightily during their former quarterback days, now know how lifestyle changes can help keep GERD under control. A research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine agrees. The researchers found that folks who had GERD at least once a week (even those taking medication for it) and adhered to an anti-reflux lifestyle saw a 40% reduction in symptoms. That’s sending in a reliever when it’s needed! The study identified lifestyle traits that provide relief from GERDrelated nausea, burning pain, sore throat, hoarseness, burping, chest pain and more: • Not smoking. • Getting more than 30 minutes a day of brisk walking. • Having less than two cups of coffee, tea and or soda daily. • Maintaining a healthy weight (a body mass index of 18.4 to 24.9). • Eating a diet low in saturated fats, with fat calories, even from healthy fats, limited to 15% to 30% of daily calories, with no junk or ultraprocessed foods, a moderate intake of alcohol and salt, and lots of high-fiber veggies and fruit. So if you’re one of the up to 99 million Americans with GERD, get back in the game by talking to your doc about your symptoms, asking about the benefits of short-term use of medication (it is not for the long haul) and adopting a lifestyle that’ll let you score big points against GERD. Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer Emeritus at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into The Dr. Oz Show or visit sharecare.com. (c)2021 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Sun argues with Uranus Extenuating circumstances happen – and the wise don’t use them as an excuse. Variances from the plan are actually the norm. This principle emerges loud and clear with the position of the sun to Uranus. The tension inside a square of these two powerful luminaries highlights the drama but needn’t thwart the main action. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Inside every single relationship, there’s a dullness that will, sooner or later, emerge. When it does, don’t take it as a bad sign but as an invitation to meet the tedium with equal forces of creativity, love and expression. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One idea leads to the next, and before you know it, you’ve about 25 of solid merit. So, which is worth pursuing? The brightest ones, of course — the ideas that illuminate what’s around them. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Multitasking is a good way to make sure that nothing is done quite right. That said, almost any work can be enhanced by upbeat music that doesn’t tax the brain. CANCER (June 22-July 22): Now is the only inhabitable moment. Keep track of what happens. You’ll retell the story later, and it will be good to have your fresh impressions about how it felt from the inside. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are not the only voice in your own head. There is no shortage of noise sources: culture, echoes of parental voices,

peers and more. Separating out the signal of truth will be the hard part. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Feelings elongate, stretching from moments into hours, becoming moods. Moods are powerful, as they set the tone for the scenes of your life. So it’s important to pick good ones, such as being cheerful or amused. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Charming and open, cheerful and agreeable: As far as desirable company goes, you hit all the notes. It’s easy around certain people. Together you’re creating this supportive environment. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): The confidential information lands with you because people trust you to hear them without judgment, problem-solve without drama and keep it all under wraps, too. Discretion is one of your super talents. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Make a deliberately vague request to a number of people and observe how it’s resolved differently by each individual. Such exercises are fascinating to you, a student of human behavior, empowered with each lesson. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ve a delightful sense of spontaneity about you. You keep people wondering, and because of this, they check in to see what you’re up to and how they can be a part of it. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is a certain amount of effort involved in relationships – more with some people than others. You like to make

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yourself easy to be around, but the fact is, people will value the relationship more when it requires work. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Maybe you haven’t been called “poetry in motion” out loud, but someone is thinking it as they watch you handle the day. You see and respond to life’s beauty in a way all your own. TURN THE DOWNSIDE OF YOUR SIGN INTO AN ASSET: Each sign has strengths and weaknesses, and often, they are very same quality. Childishness is part of an ARIES personality at any age. The ram is the firstborn child of the zodiac, and Aries natives often remain a bit naive no matter what they know of the world. They are also impulsive and impatient. Aries can make the most of these qualities by using them to get out of bad situations and into more fulfilling ones. Whereas a more patient person will wait around to see if a situation gets better, Aries is the first to spring up and move on, believing that something better is out there for those bold enough to start over. TAURUS is known for being stubborn. No one can get a Taurus to change. Change has to be internally motivated. No one can alter the mind of a Taurus; it’s a decision that only the Taurus can make. No one can motivate a Taurus. Taurus is selfmotivated. Taurus can make the most of this stubbornness by choosing worthy goals that will take a long time to accomplish. Taurus will keep going after all the others have given up and

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Lake Superior Ice Festival Fri. & Sat. Jan 29 & 30 Barkers Island Ice and snow creations, games, ice racing, fat tire bike demos, bonfire pits and a scavenger hunt. See lakesuperioricefestival. com for details.

Winter Bike Week Jan. 29-Feb. 5 Duluth An annual celebration of biking and outdoor activity with new events daily. Go to zeitgeistarts.com/community/winter-bike-week for details. Also remember International Bike to Work Day on Feb. 12.

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John Beagrease Sled Dog Race Jan. 31-Feb. 3 beargrease.com The longest sled dog marathon in the lower 48 states from Duluth to Grand Portage, this year viewable online.

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Winter Dance Party Sunday, Jan. 31, 7 p.m. facebook.com/toddeckartmusic The Winter Dance Party took place at The Duluth Armory 62 years ago on Jan. 31, 1959 with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Dion and The Big Bopper. Join Duluth native/musician Todd Eckart as he takes you back in time for a special night of music from his own house.

Ely Winter Festival Feb. 4-14 Downtown Ely, Minn. Ten days of celebrating winter in all its glory with snow carvings in the park, art in store windows, winter sports, music, food, and fun. See elywinterfestival.com for details.

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Day & night Thursday 1.28 Great Lakes Aquarium virtual fundraiser, Virtual, glaquarium.org/ events/experiences/otter-slide, Duluth 218-740-2014 A Dala a Day, 9am-9pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth Zoom discussion: Jim Crow of the North, 4pm University of Minnesota-Duluth, calendar.d.umn.edu/ event/2065-jim-crow-of-the-north, Duluth 218-726-8000 Lincoln Park Concept Plan Virtual Community Workshop, 4:30pm Duluth Parks and Recreation, duluthmn.gov/live-meeting, Duluth 218-730-4300 Racial Justice Study & Action Weekly Gathering, 5-6:30pm Chequamegon Bay Racial Justice Coalition, facebook.com/CheqBayRJC, Ashland &

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Lake Superior Ice Festival Half-Price Tours & Snow Creations, noon-4pm Fairlawn Mansion & Museum, 906 East 2nd Street, Superior 715-3945712 Death and Desire in Dickinson and Rossetti, 3:40pm College of St. Scholastica, spotlight.css.edu, Duluth 218-723-7000 Theresa Williams, 4pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Tony Williams, 5pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500 UMD Women's Basketball, 6pm University of Minnesota-Duluth, nsicnetwork.com/?S=umdbulldogs, Duluth 218-726-8000 John Sequin, 6pm Cast Iron Bar & Grill, 5906 Old Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth 218-729-7514

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Alworth Planetarium Facebook Live Show, 7pm UMD Marshall H. Alworth Planetarium, facebook.com/ UMDPlanetarium, Duluth 218-7267129 The Crunchy Bunch Hotline, 8pm twitch.tv/thecrunchybunch 827-2069386 Flipside Band, 9pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-392-1994

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Birkie Tour, 8am OO Trail Head, McNaught Rd., Seeley 715-634-5025 Open Skating, 8:30am-2pm Miners Memorial Building, 821 S 9th Ave. W., Virginia 218-748-7506 Garden Talks - Orchids & Other Spectacular Tropical Plants from Columbia, 9-11am Online Zoom 715-3945712 A Dala a Day, 9am-9pm Nordic Center, 23 N. Lake Ave., Duluth Lake Superior Ice Festival Half-Price Tours & Snow Creations, noon-4pm Fairlawn Mansion & Museum, 906 East 2nd Street, Superior 715-3945712 Livestream: Duluth Poetry Chapter, 1pm facebook.com/duluthpoetrychapter

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Great Lakes Aquarium virtual fundraiser, Virtual, glaquarium.org/events/ experiences/otter-slide, Duluth 218740-2014 Embracing Winter: A Virtual Discussion, noon-1pm Zeitgeist Arts, zeitgeistarts.com/community/winterbike-week/, Duluth 218-302-4275 Chris Clemens, 5-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Superior 715-3942500

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Waabizheshikana: The Marten Trail, Interpretive Plan Public Meeting, 5pm Duluth Parks and Recreation, duluthmn.gov/live-meeting, Duluth 218-730-4300

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Alworth Planetarium Facebook Live Show, 7pm UMD Marshall H. Alworth Planetarium, facebook.com/UMDPlanetarium, Duluth 218-726-7129

Visual Culture Lecture Series: Brian Barber, 6pm University of MinnesotaDuluth, cla.d.umn.edu/departments/ art-design/news-and-events/vcls, Duluth 218-726-8000 Trash Cat Tuesdays, 6:05pm facebook.com/thetrashcats Superior City Council meeting, 6:30pm Government Center, 1316 N 14th St., Superior 715-395-7200 Duluth and Arrowhead Solar Co-op Infosession, 6:30pm facebook.com/ solarunitedneighbors St. Louis County Board Meeting, 9:30pm St. Louis County, facebook. com/StLouisCountyMN 218-7262000

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ALIENS Aside from the people who claim to have been abducted by aliens, many people also believe that we have been, or still are visited by aliens. UFOs still make occasional news, and some of the sightings are difficult to ignore. You might expect reports from those weird, tin-hat wearing people, but when experienced, sober and rational pilots describe things that have no rational explanation, we have to try to adjust our thinking, accept the unthinkable or scratch our heads and wait for more data. To the best of my knowledge, there are at least three episodes which have not been explained. The hardest one to explain is the egg-shaped craft that was witnessed by about 10,000 soccer fans at a game in Florence, Italy in 1954. Silvery threads fell from the sky which were found to contain boron, silicon, magnesium and calcium. There is no rational explanation for this. The problem is, If we insist on the alien hypothesis, they are as limited by light speed as we are. Under the laws of physics that we are aware of, faster than light speed is impossible and actually, even light speed is unattainable by any method we know of. Even the nearest stars are out of our reach by conventional methods. Unless our aliens are extremely long lived or have discovered some physics that are unknown to us, it is very unlikely that they are visiting us. With approximately 2 trillion galaxies in the universe, each having billions of stars, it is inconceivable that there would not be intelligent life elsewhere. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest to ours, at 2.5 million light-years away, meaning that any signal we might get from there originated at least 2.5 million years ago. So searching the universe for signals is not going to tell us anything much. The question is, is there intelligent life elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy? SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) began, in 1961, to discuss the Drake equation, which tries to put a number on the possible civilizations which might have the capability to produce radio signals in our direction.

The equation is as follows: N=R(*)f(p)n(e)f(i)f(l)f(c)L Where R(*)= the rate of star formation in the Galaxy f(p)= the fraction of stars with planetary systems n(e)= the # of planets in such systems capable of supporting life f(l)= the fraction of such planets on which life develops f(i)= the fraction of those planets on which sentient beings evolve f(c)= the fraction of those worlds which radio is invented L= the average lifetime of those civilizations At best, most of these quantities are just guesses. An article on the internet gives values for them which it says are widely quoted, but vaguely known. R(*) is given as 10 per year, which is as good as it gets when we only know the number of stars in the Milky Way to within plus or minus a hundred billion. f(l) in this case =1.0. In other words, if a planet has liquid water, then life WILL develop, meaning at least microbial lifeforms. We assume this is the case, because we believe life appeared very early in the Earth’s history, and we find life in the most unlikely places. So the critical questions are: How rare is sentient life? and: What is the average lifetime of sentient beings? One of the first things you learn in chemistry is that if water CAN form, it WILL form. So water is ubiquitous. We find it on the Moon, Mars and even Mercury. Several bodies, like Pluto, Euoropa, Ganymede and Ceres are thought to have vast oceans under their frozen surfaces, but unless we find microbes in Europa’s jets, we can’t count any of them as habitable. Mars clearly once had water on its surface. Scientists more knowledgeable than me think that if life arose there, it is all dead now. I’m not so sure. There has been a lot of time for microbes to evolve to survive the harsh conditions, and we have extremophobes on Earth that have adapted to hellish conditions. I think we still might find microbes living deep under the Martian surface. Earth is a unique planet in some respects. We have the giant planet Jupiter, which deflects or absorbs some of the space detritus which might otherwise hit the Earth. Of all the rocky inner planets, only Mars has moons, both of which are little more than

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Image: NASA captured asteroids. Our moon is of a size that makes us a two-planet system. It has noticeable effects on us, and in the past, when it was closer, those effects were much greater. I have seen arguments that the moon has kept the Earth in an orbit that made conditions favoring the evolution of intelligence. Those conditions may be very rare. Then there was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Had that not occurred, is there any chance that mammals would have still developed intelligent life? Or could some small dinosaur evolve enough? I think it is safe to assume that intelligence would eventually arise, but there is no way to estimate how long it would have taken. Finally, the oldest stars which might have developed sentience are estimated to be about 13,000 light years from the center, which is about halfway to us. One source says that if .1% of civilizations could learn to stay alive, there should be 1,000,000 of them within a few hundred light years of us. On the other hand, a lot of skeptics think that those civilizations are probably dead now, assuming that the aliens are no

smarter than we are. One group of scientists have recently reworked the Drake equation and come up with 36. This is reasonably close to the 42 that readers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy would have expected. The focus of SETI has been to listen for signals from alien civilizations. A newer group, METI, is now actively sending out signals in hopes of connecting with them. Of course, we have been sending out radio waves to space since radio began. We have broadcast our existence to anyone within about 100 light years from us in this time. The people running METI think the aliens already know we are here, they just need to know that we are anxious to connect with them. Another group suggests that humans will be gone before we can exchange information with anyone else, either dying from runaway climate change or nuclear annihilation. Had we been able to keep atomic weaponry out of the hands of religious fanatics, we might have stood a better chance, but we could not, and did not.

Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster Alan Dean Foster specializes in describing alien species and their culture. This book, while not one of his best, introduces the Thranx, who will be part of the universe in which most of his subsequent characters live. This is the first contact story between humans and Thranx. It is overly optimistic in my opinion, because these humans don’t act like any I know, but it is set in the far future, so I suppose I can give them the benefit of the doubt. Foster imagines that sentient aliens will be influenced by characteristics of their evolutionary path. Thranx are colony insects who have evolved past the queen-centered stage to have male-female pairs. The larvae are kept in Nurseries, where they are taught by Nurse/Teachers until they are ready to metamorphose. After they spin their cocoons, they sleep for about half a year before they emerge. The adults resemble Earth’s locusts, They walk more or less upright, with the hind legs always feet, their middle limbs can be used as hands or feet, and their front limbs are hands. As in many insects, the females tend to be slightly larger than the males. They are between 4 and 5 feet tall. I’m sure I have read that animals with exoskeletons can’t grow that large, but then again, I remember when scientists said that according to their calculations, bumblebees can’t possibly fly. They are very family and hive oriented individuals who depend on co-operative relationships. Some mostly elderly males are philosopher-poets called Eints, and they are highly respected members of their society. They also have a military, members of which are more aggressive than the normal citizen, which would be expected. Their home planet is Hivehom, a planet whose polar regions are cold enough to have snow at least part of the year; while the majority of the planet is humid tropical. A second planet, Willow-wane, is more tropical but not as densely populated. In this story, a military Thranx spaceship encounters a human exploration vehicle which has been attacked by the AAnn, a reptilian race who believe they are destined to rule the universe. The Thranx proceed to board the crippled spaceship, and encounter a human — we are left to wonder about the outcome.

This is not a logical scenario. The AAnn are ruthless predators, and they would never attack a ship and leave it. If the Thranx can board it, then so would they, undoubtedly at the cost of some lives and taking the rest prisoner. However, it suits Foster’s plan to unite humans and Thranx in the Humanx Confederation, which will be a part of many subsequent novels. The story begins by following one Thranx named Ryo from his time as a larva, and then through his metamorphoses. The pilot of the military spaceship tells a relative of their encounter, and is then forced to retract that information by his military superiors. He more or less disappears from the story at this point. Ryo, now an agronomist on Willow-wane, hears about it, and decides he has to investigate. And here the story devolves into a series of unbelievable coincidences.. It may seem unreasonable to expect logical consistency in a work of fantasy science fiction, but it seems to me

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that the plot could have come to its inevitable conclusion without so much reliance on happenstance. This is lazy writing. I give Foster credit for inventing the Thranx and describing their cultural characteristics. The only reason I can see for using Ryo as the protagonist is to show the development of the larval stage. There must have been another way to do that. Ryo leaves his home and travels to the big city, where he would have starved, but he HAPPENS to meet a wealthy Eint who listens to his story about the aliens and takes him under his wing. He brings Ryo to Hivehom, where they focus on the far North military outpost, expecting that to be the place where aliens would be kept. They travel to the outpost, where Ryo HAPPENS to be where two aliens overpower their guards, take their rifles, and run into the Northern forest, taking Ryo with them. (No clue what humans would expect to accomplish on an alien world.) They manage to escape detection for a month or more, in which time Ryo manages to establish communication. Astonishingly, no one at the military base had attempted to

do that! Ryo talks them into surrendering, and tries to convince the military leaders that they are friendly, but the leaders are afraid to reveal the presence of their homeward to the humans. Ryo then betrays his people by leading the humans back to their ship, which just HAPPENS to be unguarded and ready to go. They get to Earth’s base on Alpha Centauri, where Earth scientists get as much information as they can from Ryo before deciding they need to dissect him. (Would Earth scientists dissect a sentient alien?) The exploration crew on learning of these plans, decide they have to get Ryo back to his home. Thranx resemble locusts, and the humans don’t think they will be welcomed as friends by most people, so Ryo comes up with a plan to introduce human children to Thranx larva. That works in the book. I doubt that human children are quite THAT accepting. So the book is flawed, and the plot is contrived, but I still recommend it for its description of an alien species that makes sense. Foster is generally a better writer than this, and many of his stories are in the Humanx universe, so this book is a good grounding for that. Several later books will describe other alien civilizations. some successful, and some not. Another of Foster’s successes in describing alien life is the AAnn.The AAnn are only seen briefly as raiders in this book, so we don’t hear them talk. They are expanded on in later books, where we will learn some of their mannerisms and customs. They are evolved from reptiles, and they still have tails and claws, which are unlikely to be retained in evolved species in my view, but of course, my view doesn’t count here. In most of the later books, we only see the AAnn military, so the aggressiveness is a given. Being military, they are very status conscious. Subordinates acknowledge higher ranks by exposing their necks, symbolically offering their lives. Later, we will meet AAnn civilians and scientists, who are much more sympathetic characters, and in some cases, even likable. Their home planet is hot and dry and more like a desert. The Thranx live totally underground, but the AAnn homes are mostly below the surface, with only a small part above ground.

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Friendship in Duluth WWF, 60s, relocated to Duluth, seeks friendship/activity partner with older single newcomers to Minnesota. Enjoy coffee chats, hiking, XC skiing, canoeing, classical music, reading and listening to people’s stories. And you? (58487:4/11)

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Looking for a nice guy Hey! Let’s have some fun things together-outdoors, or just watch TV/movies. Mid 60s height/ weight average. OK if later LTR. (58508:7/16) Where are you now? Two Dobermans. The Ore House. Orange Crush. Pie and coffee. Rocky Raccoon. West Duluth apt. couch. (58494:5/2) Looking for a best friend DWF, 49, brown hair, hazel eyes, ISO quality honest, loyal, financially stable WDSM for fun, summer events, concerts, fishing, camping, snuggling in the winter, watching movies, love motorcycle rides, great sense of humor, tattooed & pierces, may lead to LTR. (58490:4/11) Biker who enjoys life DWF, 52, ISO WM, someone who knows how to treat a lady. Love the outdoors. Honesty & loyalty a must. (58486:4/11) Looking for you WWF, 76, walking conversation, fishing, dancing, Facebook account. 5’6” brown hair & eyes. (58471:08/17) Spoil me and I will spoil you! Attractive blonde SWF - 71, 5’8” wanting travel. laughter, love & more. I love to fish both deep sea & lake. Looking for intelligent, kind loving man. (58432:05/31) Companionship LTR Uses walker 68 yrs young. Chubby & busty. Enjoys Christian activities NS ND Books, travel, movies, cards & games, dining out, RV camping. Kind & honest w/sense of humor (58430:05/31) Country Girl Looking 5’7” medium build 66 yr young country gal NS ND loves to travel & be appreciated (58429:05/31) Seeks Christian Man DWF, NS/ND, 59. Enjoys bicycling, walks, music, dining out dancing, snowshoeing, camping. ISO christian man w/similar interests. (58419: 11/9) Hot with Cabin Fever Seeking happy, healthy, 60ish gentleman in Central Lakes/ Cotton area for some lake time. Northern, WI ok too! I’m fun, fit, easy on the eyes. Let’s toast the sunset. (58412:8/31) Lonesome in Ashland Looking for caring, honest man, understanding of physical imperfections to talk and go out with. F 60s, NS/ND. (58409:8/31)

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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)

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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)

Male mate Looking for male friend for casual get-togethers, 50s to late 60s. Answer all. (58569:1/21)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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Death & Desire in Dickinson & Rossetti A St. Scholastica faculty member and student will team up for a discussion about how influential 19th-century poets Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti portrayed women in their work. Death and Desire in Dickinson and Rossetti, originally scheduled to be held in March of 2020 was cancelled for that date. Now rescheduled, the School of Arts and Letters Faculty Colloquium will be held from 3:40 – 4:40 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29. Writing in an era when women’s bodies were covered, confined and often endangered, Dickinson and Rossetti affirmed female desire and the value of the body. English and philosophy double major Ashley Etter ‘22 will examine Dickinson’s reconsideration of the female’s role in traditional narratives of sin and shame and her engagement, above all, with questions about selfhood and identity. Associate Professor of English Stephanie Johnson, PhD, will discuss the complications of the erotic for Rossetti’s devotional poetry. Despite their dissimilar bodies of work, Rossetti, in England, and Dickinson, in America, both represented artistic and theological authority for women in the nineteenth century. The 40-minute talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The event is free and open to the public. Visit spotlight.css.edu to register. Now in its 14th year, St. Scholastica’s School of Arts and Letters Colloquium is a monthly lecture series highlighting faculty research in the SAL. St. Scholastica is a 109-year-old private, independent college founded in the Catholic Benedictine tradition. It is nationally recognized for quality and value. It has been named the top Minnesota college for economic mobility, and U.S. News & World Report includes it on its Best National Universities and Top Performers on Social Mobility lists. The College is ranked on Money magazine’s “Best Colleges for your Money”

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Add your own home wet bar Dear James: My combo living room/ dining room would be better for entertaining if it had a wet bar. How can I build a very strong one myself, and what is the best size for it? — Ted T. Dear Ted: You cannot go wrong for entertaining, convenience and resale value by adding a wet bar to your house. The small refrigerator, freezer, sink and tall bar stools can be used JAMES by your entire DULLEY family. Obviously, it comes in handy when entertaining and relaxing with a drink. It is good that you mentioned “strong,” because a lightweight, flimsy one can be uncomfortable and dangerous. People who have been drinking may have impaired balance and may fall against the bar. Also, with the typical tall bar stools, even a sober person can lose balance and reach for the bar for support. Hopefully, one end of a standard straight bar can be attached to a perpendicular wall to provide much more stability than a freestanding, totally detached bar. If you are designing a detached bar, design it to be L-shaped to give more depth and stability to at least one end. Another design for increased stability for a detached bar is to build a small storage closet at one end. The closet will provide additional depth at that end to support the bar. Make the closet strong by using a 4-by-4-foot posts as its frame. It will be hidden inside a corner of the closet, so it won’t take up much space. A homemade bar can be made any

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size, but a depth of about 24 inches is typical. This is deep enough to provide stability and adequate top surface area. If you plan to use tall bar stools, design it with about a 10-inch overhang. This makes it comfortable to reach a drink on the bar top without banging one’s knees on the bar front. It is also wise to have a small overhang in the back of the bar. This not only looks good but also provides protection for the shelves and refrigerator from a spilled drink. For tall bar stools, the height of the bar top from the floor should be 40 to 44 inches. A 6- to 8-inch footrest ledge is comfortable for an average-size person. Any typical kitchen countertop material also works fine for a bar. These include solid surface materials, granite, marble, laminate, etc. The heavier countertop materials are popular today, and the additional weight creates more stability for the entire bar. Plan the height and depth of the shelving under the bar based upon the items you plan to store. Measure the height of the liquor bottles so they all fit, unless you plan to place them on shelves on the wall behind the bar. A blender is often used at a bar as well as the typical mixing tools. Don’t forget room for glasses and eating utensils and perhaps a small microwave oven. If you want to get creative with the styling of the bar, consider several options. For a ‘50s-style bar, consider adding a root beer fountain and ice cream freezer for the children. A stainless steel countertop and blackand-white checkered stool would be nice. Another more contemporary design may use an all-wood countertop and stools. Send your questions to Here’s How, 6906 Royalgreen Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45244, or visit dulley.com.

A Batwoman/Panther Women double feature This “fantastic double feature” from VCI Entertainment presents two “Mexican genre classics in English, restored in 4k from the original negatives.” Sounds great, right? What could go wrong? Read on… Batwoman: Directed by Mexican genre cinema powerhouse René Cardona and released theatrically in 1968, Batwoman was clearly inspired by a certain DC Comics property and, just as likely, the success of the TV series that was released only two years prior, but it’s obviously not an authorized take on the Dark Knight mythos. Also known as La Mujer Murcielago, begins when some bodies wash ashore on the Mexican coast. The Secret Service can’t make heads or tails out of what’s happened here, and so dashing agent Mario Robles (Héctor Godoy) talks his cohorts into enlisting the aid of Batwoman (Maura Monti). He explains her deal quite simply: she’s filthy rich and uses her resources to fight crime, but she’s also got superhuman strength and just so happens to be an expert wrestler! As if this weren’t enough, she also gives back even more to the community by teaching wrestling at a local gym. Mario and his right hand man, Tony (Armando Silvestre), have no trouble talking Bat Woman into helping out, even going so far as to get together for some drinks to seal the deal. Elsewhere, Dr. Williams (Roberto Cañedo) and his assistant Igor (Jorge Mondragón) have set up a laboratory inside an ocean freighter where they are trying to create a mixed species stemming from both human and amphibian DNA. To make this happen, they’re abducting wrestlers from the Mexican mainland and trying to mix them up with some fish. It’s complicated. Anyway, Inspector (Crox Alvarado) urges Batwoman to get moving and so she does, using a rad underwater propelled device of some sort to make her way to the doctor’s ship, tossing some acid in his face and scarring him for good! But the doctor’s thugs give chase and, well, we’ve already said too

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much. This movie is a blast! It’s got wrestling, monsters, mad doctors, a foxy heroin in various goofy outfits, questionable technology and plenty of swanky cocktail hour shenanigans all working in its favor. Maura Monti steals the show, strutting about in various skimpy outfits (even as Batwoman she’s typically wearing a sort of Bat-bikini!) and, at the risk of sounding like a dirty old man, looking very good doing it. Aside from being an attractive woman, however, she also proves a solid casting choice because she handles herself pretty well during the action scenes. Sure, some of the moves she busts out in the fights look a little too obviously staged but she’s got energy and screen presence and we have no trouble buying her ability to whip the various asses of the men and monsters that she goes up against in the feature. Cardona keeps things moving at a nice pace, pulling from various monster movies and spy flicks like the James Bond pictures that were blowing up the box office around this time (Batwoman has some pretty neat gadgets, the kind that would make Q jealous!). The monster effects are reasonably well done and have plenty of quirky, vintage charm and the cinematography is pretty solid too. All in all, it’s just a lot of goofy fun. The Panther Women: Once again directed by René Cardona and released a year earlier than our first feature in 1967, The Panther Women (or Las mujeres panteras en español) is another great genre mashup featuring pretty ladies in wonky outfits, monsters and wrestling! When Professor Rafael Petra Santa (Jorge Mondragón) is murdered, two female wrestlers, Loreta Venus (Ariadna Welter) and her pal Golden Rubi (Elizabeth Campbell), step in to figure out what’s going on and if it has any connections to the wild crime wave taking their city by storm. They team up with well-meaning but bumbling cops Arturo Diaz (Eric del Castillo) and Leocadio (Manuel Valdés), as well as a male wrestler named El Ángel, who brings to the mix a whole bunch of kooky gadgets to help them out. It turns out that all of this nefarious behavior is connected to Satanasa (María Douglas), a devilish witch who, along with the members of her evil coven, has been holding black magic ceremonies in her cave in hopes of

reanimating a zombie! If that weren’t reason enough for professional wrestlers to hit the streets and fight crime, Satanasa is in cahoots with a bunch of mobsters and seems to have control over a gang of sinister panther women! The most important of these is Tongo (Yolanda Montes), who is the lead in a popular nightclub act in the city and who has the ability to shapeshift, taking on the form of a panther monster thing at random times. Loreta and Rubi know the only way to really deal with something like this is to get in the ring, but will they be able to stop Satanasa and her cronies if they can turn into monsters mid-match? Cardona had seen some success earlier in the ‘60s with the release of The Doctor Of Doom, the better-known Wrestling Women Vs. The Aztec Mummy and probably figured, hey, why not go back to the “wrestling women vs. monsters well” and see what happens. While this isn’t quite as strong as the first two movies mentioned, it’s still a pretty fun watch. There’s a bit more wrestling than we need and not quite enough monster action to really seal the deal, but even if the first two matches go on longer than they probably should, Cardona does a decent job with the pacing here. The black and white picture was clearly made fast and cheap, as most genre pictures where in Mexico around this time, but Cardona and his crew manage to craft some memorable set

pieces. The cave scenes are great, with Satanasa holding court in interesting ways and allowing the crew to show off some neat set design. The panther women might not always get the most convincing makeup jobs, but they look kind of cool in the way that ladies made up to look like panther women should, and bonus points for doing a nice job on not only the zombie but also the giant stone coffin that he lives in. Ariadna Welter and Elizabeth Campbell are fun to watch here, they’ve got screen presence and work well together in the ring, but it’s El Ángel (Gerardo Zepeda in real life) who gets the best moments here. His amusing array of gadgets gives him a few opportunities to save the day and he makes the most of it. Batwoman is in color and it would probably look pretty decent if it didn’t suffer from obvious digital noise reduction scrubbing away all of the grain and much of the fine detail. The plus side? Colors look OK. As to Panther Women, the contrast on the black and white presentation isn’t awful but it looks a bit warm, meaning we get really dark greys instead of true blacks. VCI has opted to scrub out any of the natural film grain that should be there and, along with it, a lot of the detail, which is a shame. Extras include newly created English language trailers for The Panther Women, Santo and Dracula’s Treasures and Santo Vs. Frankenstein’s Daughter (note that these trailers are dubbed just like the features). That cover art though… both of these movies have some amazing original poster art, which you can see used in thumbnail form on the front cover, obscured by gaudy text and comic book-style sound effect balloons. At least VCI gave us some reversible cover sleeve art with an option without the balloons included, but the layout is still not great. VCI’s Blu-ray release of Batwoman & The Panther Women: Double Feature offers up two genuinely enjoyable vintage Mexican genre cinema oddities, which is great, but the presentation is a puzzling one. It isn’t so much that the extras are light, though they are, but the problems with the transfers and the audio. This really should have been a great disc, one to easily recommend to fans of psychotronic oddities from south of the border, but it’s a swing and a miss, unfortunately. Rent it.

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Cleaning up after Trump Dear EarthTalk: What are some of the last minute changes the Trump administration has wrought that are hurting the environment and efforts to battle global warming? And will the Biden administration be able to undo them? – Tim Jeffries, Sarasota, FL President Joe Biden has ambitious plans to make up for lost time with climate remediation and encouragement of the clean energy sector – including rejoining the Paris Climate Accord that Trump withdrew the U.S from in 2017. Biden will also be looking to clean up some shorter-term environmental messes left

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Similarly, Trump has also just proposed to strip protections from millions of acres of California’s desert to open up mining projects, which would destroy native ecosystems and conservation lands. California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein has already pledged to “work with the new administration to immediately block this rule change” which jeopardizes a bipartisan desert conservation plan years in the making that carefully balances recreational use, energy production and preservation. On the bright side, President Biden has already issued executive orders for the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, to direct federal agencies to consider revising vehicle fuel economy and emissions standards, and to cancel permits for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. After cleaning up Trump’s mess, which could take anywhere from weeks to years, Biden also aims to implement his own omnibus climate package similar to the proposed Green New Deal. Biden’s plan calls for increasing electric vehicle usage, expanding wind and solar energy markets, creating millions of new jobs in sustainable energy, and paving the path to 100 percent clean energy by 2050. EarthTalk® is produced by Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss for the 501(c)3 nonprofit EarthTalk. See more at emagazine.com.

Saving the Oregon Trail: Ezra Meeker’s Last Grand Quest Dennis M. Larsen Washington State University Press wsupress.wsu.edu $28.95, 266pp Ezra Meeker first came west on the overland trail in 1852. At age 75 MIDWEST he trekked REVIEW OF east over the Oregon BOOKS Trail with oxen and a covered wagon, setting markers along the way, and became a national celebrity. Never one to shy away from adventure, his other exploits included publishing books, lecture tours, additional Oregon Trail expeditions, attending the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, experimenting with motion pictures, founding societies, cruising in what may have been the

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Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty and Marianne Stone as his companion Vivian Darkbloom entertain the guests at a Ramsdale High School dance with a “beatnik”

version of dancing, in Stanley Kubrick’s amazing 1962 film version of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.

The Ghost of Peter Sellers Peter Sellers was a chameleon. From the early 1950s on, British radio and movie audiences heard and saw him perform in an astounding number of disguises, long before his comic genius was revealed to the larger world. But, according to the new documentary The Ghost of Peter Sellers, he also was a deeply disturbed man – perhaps because of his chameleonic nature (Sellers once famously said he had no personality of his own). Directed by prolific Hungarian-born filmmaker Peter Medak (The Ruling Class, The Changeling, Romeo Is Bleeding), it tells the story of trying to make a pirate movie in 1974 called Ghost in the Noonday Sun, starring Sellers and conceived of by his former Goon Show colleague Spike Milligan. Despite the fact that everyone involved knew Sellers had almost immediately lost interest in the project and did his best to sabotage it, even faking

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a heart attack to leave the location to party in London, it was director Medak who has shouldered the blame for the failure all these years. He believes it hurt his career and, as it becomes obvious in the documentary, the failure haunts him to this day. In short, we learn that despite the image Sellers put on the screen in so many great movies (and some not so great), Sellers was not an easy man to work with. Apparently this was well known in the industry because at what appears to be a press conference in the documentary, Sellers says that he is not difficult, he just likes perfection, and not all directors are capable of that. He says that only a couple of them had the correct genius to direct him (he must certainly be referring to Stanley Kubrick as one of them – wish he would have named the other director).

To most Americans of a certain age, the comic genius of Peter Sellers was revealed in the almost back-to-back movies The Pink Panther (1963) and A Shot in the Dark (1964). The latter is the movie where Henry Mancini introduced the iconic Pink Panther theme song, with hard bop tenor saxophonist Plas John Johnson Jr. embedding the tune in so many young brains. Brits, however, had a long history of Sellers going back to 1951 when he became a radio star as a member of the comedy troupe The Goons with Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe, as well as appearing in a wide variety of British TV and films, at first in supporting and then starring roles. Growing up in Duluth, I became an Anglophile because WDIO would show classic British films late-night Thurs-

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Peter Sellers won a British best actor award for his role as uptight shop steward Fred Pike in the hilarious 1959 satiric look at English post-war class and capital, I’m All Right, Jack. Director Peter Medak claims in his documentary The Ghost of Peter Sellers that during filming of the failed 1974 pirate movie he was making with Sellers, the actor adopted his old role of Fred Pike in trying to foment labor troubles on the set. days – my mom’s bowling night – so I would stay up for them, devouring things such as the harrowing military movie Tunes of Glory and the serial killer tale Kind Hearts and Coronets, both featuring the also chameleonic Alec Guinness (he has nine roles in Kind Hearts). Or things such as the Alexander Mackrendrick’s satire Whisky Galore and the 1962 British sci-fi thriller Day of the Triffids. The only reason I can guess that WDIO – the new ABS affiliate in town at the time – was showing British films, well, the British invasion was happening, not just with music, but fashion and television, with shows such as The Avengers and The Saint and Secret Agent Man (later The Prisoner). I was so swept up in the London Swings as a Pendulum Do thing that I eventually moved there, working my passage on a Norwegian tanker from Duluth to Liverpool, but that’s another story. This is just a set up for Peter Sellers. I do believe I first saw him on WDIO in the 1955 black comedy The Ladykillers, a movie in which the two chameleons – Guinness and a young Sellers – work together as part of a band of bad guys planning a heist while posing as a string quintet to fool the old lady who has rented them a room to plot their. I have to imagine that fellow Minnesotans the Coen Brothers also saw and were blown away by The Ladykillers when they were kids, hence their 2004 remake. So, this is just by way of saying that I was already a Peter Sellers fan by the time The Pink Panther and the

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even more Clouseau-focused A Shot in the Dark came around. But those two movies certainly cemented for me the idea that Sellers was fun to watch. The bloom eventually wore off the Clouseau character during the six films he made in that franchise, but there were some great moments along the way. As a longtime Sellers fan, I was quite happy to see the Criterion Channel release The Ghost of Peter Sellers, along with 11 Sellers’ films, including the 1961 Mr. Topaze, which I had never heard of before this, and, better yet, is directed by Sellers himself. Mr. Topaze is a very odd film in the Sellers filmography. His character is an honest French schoolteacher who refuses to change the poor grades of a bratty boy with powerful connections. Because of his honesty, he is fired from teaching, but quickly learns he has a flair for capitalism. Here is the full lineup: Let’s Go Crazy: A 1951 short featuring variety acts and both Sellers and Spike Milligan in a variety of comic roles. The Ladykillers: A 1955 caper comedy filled with dark humor and eccentric performances. Directed by the too-little known Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore, The Man in the White Suit, Sweet Smell of Success). I’m All Right, Jack: A 1959 Boulting Bros. production, also starring the great Terry Thomas as an exquisitely slimy personnel director. Sellers won a BAFTA for his role as the uptight labor boss who gets trapped in the scheming of his capitalist bosses. The Mouse That Roared: A 1959 political satire with Sellers playing three

roles – the inbred royal family of the tiny country of Grand Fenwick, which declares war on the U.S. as an economic strategy. The Running Jumping Standing Still Film: A goofy short shot over two weekends for about 70 pounds by soon-tobe-famous director Richard Lester (A Hard Day’s Night). Spike Milligan joins Sellers for the mayhem. Never Let Go: One of the several dramatic roles Sellers has in this lineup. In this 1960 British noir, hinged on the theft of a car, Sellers is the sadistic boss of a London car theft ring. Mr. Topaze: This 1961 movie was directed by Sellers and he stars as well as the titular character, a French schoolteacher who loses his job for refusing to alter a grade. Only Two Can Play: Sellers stars as a randy Welsh librarian. Though married, he sees himself as a player. His downfall comes through his second job as theater critic for the local newspaper. He tells his wife he is going to review a play, but leaves the play for a tryst. After his meeting with the also married woman, he turns in his review of the play that he didn’t see (written by his nemesis, a goateed poet played by Richard Attenborough). As he’s sitting at the breakfast table with wife and children, his wife alludes to his review of the play on the inside pages of the newspaper. However, on the front page is a story that the theater burned down before the play was acted. It’s an odd little movie that I enjoyed largely due to Sellers’ frustrated librarian. Lolita: James Mason as pedophile Humbert Humbert and Peter Sellers as his nemesis, writer Clare Quilty. This 1962 film might be my favorite Kubrick movie, because of the performances of Sellers and Mason – oh, and Shelly Winters, too, as lonely widow Charlotte Haze, mother of the titular character, also well played by Sue Lyons. Kubrick apparently loved working with Sellers and once said of him, “He’s the only actor I know who can improvise.” Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: The funniest movie ever made about Cold War hysteria. Sellers is absolutely brilliant in all three roles – the crippled former Nazi Dr. Strangelove, U.S. President Merkin Muffley and British RAF officer Capt. Lionel Mandrake, who is assigned to Col. Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) on the very day Ripper decides it’s time to make war with the Commies. Mandrake might be my favorite Sellers character, and this, too, might be my favorite Kubrick movie. The Optimists: Sellers in what may be the oddest role of his life, playing a former music hall performer who now gets by busking on the streets with his

old dog Bella serving as the money collector. Two London urchins latch onto the old man, and they become an odd trio. The urban decay of inner city London of the early 1970s has never been on better display that it is in this 1973 film, directed by Anthony Simmons from his 1964 novel The Optimists of Nine elms. It was the only film appearance for either of the two child actors. The girl, Dona Mullane, was cast when the crew spotted her on the street. Her greatest dream is for her family to move from its present tenement to a tall, shiny block of flats across the Thames. But that does not happen.

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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

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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. 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 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 Cus-

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tom. 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 Diamond Plate Aluminum Pickup Tool Box, 14” Deep, 60” Long, 20” Wide with 5” Overhang, Single Cover. In Great Shape. $100 (218)743-3933 Brand new Kumho Solus KR21 tire & wheel. 225-70-16. $85 OBO New Dayton tire only. 215-65-16

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$50 OBO 218-606-2011 Trailer hitch fits Jeep Grand Cherokee, Reese Model 51010, like new $75 obo 715-794-2089 ARE Chev white topper. 6’ wide. Slider windows & screens Brake. Like new. 218-525-1477 4 Hankook Ventus V12 ev0. 245/45 ZR 19 Extra load tires with less than 7,000 mi. $200 218-4093913 4-275-65-18R (F150) Goodyear Wranglers 8-9/32 Tread $100. 218-341-0396 Lawn tractor wheel weights. 30lbs each. Fits 8 or 10” rims. $60 obo. 218-729-5273 2002 Chrysler TOC passenger outside door handle. $30. 218591-7712 L&R front fender script emplems and chrome fender scoop ornaments for 69’ Firebird. $50 firm. Cash only. 715-718-0092 Music Kimball organ. Excellent shape. Dual keyboard, bass pedals, with bench. Asking $1800 (OBO). Cash only. 218-722-1312. Jusek Violin. Made by a master in Prague 1926, #107 valued at $4,000. Will trade for cash and a good violin or BO Call Jim 218491-4201 Conn Organ - Free if you have children, otherwise $20. Also, consol TV, free 218-624-4900 35 String Irish Harp made by Duluth Harp maker David Kortier. Excellent cond. with case. $1,800. 218-428-0563 Two 15” JBL speakers w/tripods, Peavey XR-600 P.A. Head. For band or solo. $500. firm 320-6308004 4-piece PDP drum set with cymbal stand and double bass pedal. Excellent condition! $300. Call Terry at 218-206-7571 Fender KXR-60 Keyboard amp50amp 12”speaker $135. 218235-1475 Ibanez Micro Bass. Great for beginners. Black New $195 OBO 218-235-1475 Fender Jazz Bass, black, humbuckers. Like New $400 OBO 218-235-1475 Two Lawrence green box flashers. Mac 1 Eagle graph--Lawrence. $75. 218-984-2669 Hammond organ J-122 model w/ bench. Great condition. $100 or

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best offer. 218-244-1629 Wanted Old-fashioned hand-knit wool TV slippers, men’s shoe size 11. Leave message at 218-340-1330. Computer geek or geekess to educate an older dummy on some basics and a little beyond. Prefer clean nonsmoker, will discuss pay. 715-919-4550 Wicker porch furniture. Text or call 612-599-6983. Two- or four-wheel folding grocery cart, less than $15. Call evenings, 218-940-9005. Small cast iron wood or pellet stove. 218-834-3709 lv messg Honda Trail 70, Z50, XL70, SL70, XR75 motorcycles. 218-428-3474 Cheap: used recessed ceiling fan. 218-310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Cheap used/refurbished room, window or portable air conditioner in good shape. 218-310-1781 Snowblower with electric start, 8 HP more or less. Reasonable - Leave or Text message to 715610-1710. 2 into 1 stock muffler from early ‘80s Harley FX 218-341-2841 Sets of dresser scarves. 218-9409005 evenings Reasonably priced 20’ Pontoon boat w/ 4-stroke engine and power lift. 928-234-3325 Seeking private woodlands to sustainably harvest balsam boughs in Sept & Oct. Cash paid. Senior couple. 218-428-5220 Computer/Elec New Nidec ac motor with condenser. 3-1/2” diameter, duel 5/16” shafts 1”&3” long, 1.5 volts, 50/60hz, 0.5 amps, 500/600 rpm, $30. 715-919-4550. Ham Radios-Best Offer. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981 Old “Air Master” radio. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981 Dell Inspiron desktop $100..218341-2607 White Baby Monitors $10. or BO 218-310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Bluetooth Music Light up bulb. $25. or BO Mini electric cigarette roller. Blue&Black comes with pushstick & brush $30. or BO218310-1781 PS2 Console w/3 controllers. Slim PS2 $40. or BO Will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218-

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276-4985 RCA digital converter box with remote, gently used-still in box. $35 or BO-will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218-2764985 Appliances Free 1956 Singer sewing machine in wooden cabinet. 920-727-3550. ATTENTION LANDLORDS: Frigidare washer, Maytag dryer, XLarge Kenmore Refridgerator w/ ice maker, Maytag Dishwasher. Downsizing. Excellent running cond. Some scratches from moving. $1,000. for all. 218-241-1842 Cube-style dorm fridge in good cond. $40. 218-638-2399 Jen-aire Glass Top Stove. Works great. Best offer 218-724-5358 Wood space heater $50. 218-7214481 Stove for home, cabin or garage. Burns wood or coal. $95. 715-3998569 White Kenmore microwave. $10. 218-206-1278 Two 250 gal fuel oil tanks. Paint red for gasoline. $50/ea. 218-8482007 Furniture Six-drawer bottom dresser. Separate small 4-drawer upper with mirror. Must see. Best offer. 7245358. 20 potted plants. Variety. $3 each. Call 218-525-7702 Pair of brass plated table lamps with beautiful red satin shades. 20 1/2” high 7 1/4” diameter base. Excellent condition $40 firm! 715919-4550 Oak plant stand. Holds ten plants. Can also be used as book shelf. $20. Call 218-525-7702 Oak TV cabinet. Door and shelf. Excellent condition. $30. Call 218525-7702 Solace medical bed. good condition. Call 218-481-0175. Blue office chair. Good condition. $10. Gold floor lamp with shade. Good condition. $15. Shelving unit and 14 ceramic bears. $25 Call 218-525-7702 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 Doll high chair, excellent shape ($40). 218-624-2143 For sale: spinning wheel replica. $100 obo. 218-969-1781. Teeter Hang Up Inversion table, $175. 218-727-3550. Thirty quart size canning jars with lids $15 715-919-4550. Beautiful potted plants. Variety. $8

each or less. Call 218-525-7702. Clean Shower seat. Good condition. $10. Call 218-525-7702. Wesco Cardio Glide exercise bike 950. USed twice. $95. 218-9691781. Legal-sized pool table, very good condition. You disassemble. $500. 218-428-9963. Old-fashion toddler winter wood

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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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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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Employment ARE YOUR KIDS IN SCHOOL? V.I.P. is in need of a few good kitchen workers. Day hours available. If you are interested call your nearest V.I.P. or stop in. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY DRIVERS WANTED Looking for self-motivated people that would like part time work transporting people to appointments in your area. Great benefits. Please leave message 612/978-2115 Paperboy looking for help with marketing on internet. 218-3482903 Housekeepers Wanted Must be available mornings and weekends. Apply in person at the front desk/ Allyndale Motel, 510 North 66 Ave. West and Cody St.

Looking for an amazing career and a great place to work? Aerostich is hiring! View our video and all available positions at www.SewAero.com. Arrowhead House Foster Care has part time employment opportunities working with adults with mental illness. Day/evening & awake overnight positions available. Competitive wages, paid training, paid time off and employ-

ee bonuses! Call 218-727-8040, or apply online at ahprograms. com Work Wanted Life Enrichment Activities Professional. In home, residential facility, memory care, music, life enrichment, companion care, home care..Call, text, email: 612-4235083.richmondscharf@gmail.com Sharpening Service 29 years exp. Circle saws, planer knives, Zamboni knives, tec. John 218879-6143 Experienced pet sitter would love to watch them in your home & house sit. References. Call 218380-3340 Trudy. $0. one dog, $5 each additional Licensed Nurse-Duluth/Superior area. Good driving record. Will assist clients: DRs appts, meds, shopping, lunch, some light housekeeping duties. Avail. 2-3 hrs on weekdays. Reasonable rates Call Lynn 218-348-7393 Educated hair stylist willing to come to your home and do your hair. Very fair rates. Wendy 715919-0979 Senior will do phone fundraising/ surveys. PT, afternoons, down-

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Employment Musicians.. Part-time musician: Forbes United Methodist Church, Proctor. Assist in developing inspirational Sunday services through music for virtual presentation. Adaptable. Able to accompany vocal & instrumental performances. Temporary position with growth potential. Competitive wage. Apply at forbesumc33@ gmail.com. Fellow musicians unite. Singer songwriter, guitarist, performing and recording, collaborative spirit, seeks like minded others for collaborations. Call, text, email. 612 423 5083, richmondscharf@gmail.com

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Friday 1-29 Baby Bodybuilders TLC 9 am

Tune in for this rebroadcast special that dives into the shocking and sometimes controversial world of competitive preteen bodybuilding. Three families share their daily lives with young children who eat, sleep and breathe weightlifting and workouts.

In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl PBS WCFE PBS WGBH 9 pm PBS KQED 11 pm

This new episode features an epic jazz jam session with Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Marcus Miller and Cindy Blackman Santana (a.k.a. Mega Nova). Plus, Brazilian musician Ivan Lins performs with Dianne Reeves and many others.

Little Women: Atlanta Lifetime 8 pm

Tiffany “Monie” Cashette makes her big return to Atlanta in this Season 6 premiere, but she has trouble finding the support she is searching for particularly from “Ms. Juicy” herself, Shirlene Pearson. The ladies are caught in the crossfire of a feud.

Penn & Teller: Fool Us CW 8 pm

Busan International Magic Festival winner Jeki Yoo, who competed on Season 12 of “America’s Got Talent,” is featured in this new episode. Other performances include mind readers Matthew Pomeroy and Natasha Lamb, as well as Peter Wood and Lewis Starnes.

Saturday 1-30 Four Weddings TLC 9 am

Tune in for back-to-back episodes of this fun wedding competition series, kicking off with this rebroadcast featuring a globe-trotting travel theme, extravagant carnival dancers, an explosion of color and even a winery-themed celebration.

Movie: The Shawshank Redemption AMC 7 pm

Ray Romano plays for charity on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, airing 7 pm Sunday on ABC.

When a banker (Tim Robbins) is wrongfully convicted of murder and sent to prison for life, he befriends a fellow inmate (Morgan Freeman) and ultimately wins the favor of the corrupt warden and other prisoners in this celebrated Stephen King adaptation.

Movie: Burden Showtime 8 pm

Inspired by true events, this film chronicles the story of Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund), an orphan raised by the Ku Klux Klan, and Reverend Kennedy (Forest Whitaker), the Black Baptist church leader who agrees to protect him when he goes on the run.

The Pacific History 8 pm

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of Brothers.” James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello and Rami Malek star as American soldiers fighting in the Pacific during the Second World War.

I Can See Your Voice Fox 11 pm

Ken Jeong hosts as a panel of celebrities use clues, prompts and lip-sync puzzles to figure out which contestant is actually a talented singer - without ever hearing them sing. Like The Masked Singer, this series is adapted from a South Korean version.

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Movie: Back to the Future TNT 9 am

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) travels back in time with help from an eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd) in this sci-fi trilogy. Marty meets his high-school-age parents and must ensure they fall in love, otherwise he will be erased from existence.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ABC 7 pm

Comedy TV legend Ray Romano and special education teacher Shadi Seyedyousef get their shots in the hot seat in this new episode. Romano plays for the charity Harvest Home, whose mission is to provide support and housing to pregnant homeless women.

The Lady and the Dale HBO 8 pm

Don’t miss the premiere of this fourpart docuseries. Elizabeth Carmichael was a transgender entrepreneur who marketed The Dale, a three-wheeled sports car, in the 1970s. Combining footage, interviews and animation, the series shares her mysterious story.

Desus & Mero Showtime 10 pm

Desus Nice and The Kid Mero return for a second season of their talk and interview series. The duo kicks off Season 2 with late-night legend David Letterman. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Missy Elliot and Seth Meyers are also set to appear this season.

Monday 2-1 My Strange Addiction TLC 3 pm

Tune in for a mini-marathon of this fascinating series, known for many of its shocking viral moments. In this episode, a woman who can’t stop digging in her ears is featured along with another who has been drinking bottles of nail polish for five years.

Independent Lens PBS WCFE PBS WGBH 9 pm PBS KQED Midnight

This new episode takes viewers inside 9to5, the inspiring 1970s movement to earn workplace equality for women. A group of Boston secretaries attract press attention through humor, shaming bosses into equal pay and trying to end sexual harassment.

The Investigation HBO 9 pm

Tune in for the premiere of this

Scandinavian drama following the reallife murder investigation of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Her death on a homemade submarine became one of the most notorious cases in the history of Danish media. Søren Malling stars.

Homestead Rescue: Survival Shelter Animal Planet 9:05 pm

The Raneys spring into action to help a family whose food source has been threatened by a rampaging moose in this new episode. In Arizona, ravenous coyotes stalk a family’s cattle, and the Raneys are once again racing against time to help out.

Tuesday 2-2 Killer Kids A&E 9 am

Tensions rise in New Jersey when a pseudo mafia is formed by a group of outcast teenagers in this rebroadcast.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Southpaw, airing 7 pm Saturday on AMC.

As the pressures of high school mount, the group begins to turn on each other, leading to deadly results that impact the entire town.

Movie: Cold Comes the Night Showtime 5:30 pm

Bryan Cranston, Alice Eve and Logan Marshall-Green star in this crime thriller directed by Tze Chun. A blind criminal takes a mother and her daughter hostage after she implicates herself in the murder of a prostitute at the motel where she works.

Home Again with the Fords HGTV 8 pm

Steve and Leanne work to update an old farmhouse in preparation for a couple’s retirement in this new episode. Complete with a minigolf course, the home has been in the family for generations, so the Fords attempt to keep its rich history intact.

Unpolished TLC 9 pm

Lexi works on a set of nails with an amusement park theme in this new episode. Meanwhile, Bria’s personal life continues to distract her from work, and an inevitable mother-daughter blow-up arises when Jennifer asks Lexi to pay up for the salon’s rent.

Wednesday 1-3 Movie: Zero Dark Thirty AMC 8 am

This somewhat controversial, critically acclaimed film chronicles the decadelong hunt for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (played by Ricky Sekhon) after the events of 9/11. Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, James Gandolfini and Joel Edgerton star.

Forged in Fire History 2 pm

Kick off a marathon of this unique competition series with this rebroadcast, in which the bladesmiths are tasked with forging signature-style blades. The catch? They can only use metal harvested from old motorcycles. Things don’t go according to plan.

surrounded by the entitled elite is more than a two-person job.

Name That Tune Fox 8 pm

Filmed in Australia, American expats compete to do just as the title says in this fun game show hosted by Jane Krakowski. Contestants name songs as quickly as they possibly can to win big prizes. Randy Jackson serves as the series’ music producer.

Thursday 1-4 Untold Stories of the ER TLC 3 pm

Real-life emergency room doctors talk about their most puzzling cases in a marathon of this fascinating series. This episode features a woman who appears to have Cotard’s syndrome, causing her to believe she is dead. A runner goes blind during a marathon.

Superstore NBC 7:30 p.m.

When Amy (America Ferrera) left for California at the start of this season, the employees of Cloud 9 were left to deal with suddenly becoming essential workers without their enigmatic manager in this comedy. Ben Feldman and Lauren Ash star.

Call Me Kat Fox 8 pm

In this new sitcom, 39-year-old Kat (Mayim Bialik) opens a cat café to prove to her mom that she can be happy and single at once. Kat’s plan to prove independence is derailed, however, when her former crush (Cheyenne Jackson) arrives back in town.

Fast Foodies truTV 9:30 pm

Tune in for the premiere of this celebrityfilled cooking competition starring culinary masters Kristen Kish, Justin Sutherland and Jeremy Ford, who compete to recreate the guest’s favorite food. In this episode, Joel McHale reveals his love of hot dogs.

American Housewife ABC 7:30 p.m.

Katy Mixon stars as an unapologetic wife and mother struggling to stand out among her seemingly perfect neighbors. Trying to raise humble kids with her husband Greg (Diedrich Bader) while

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