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inbox Rational vs. irrational choice As human beings, there are two basic ways we express emotions. One is healthy, and indicates maturity; the other is unhealthy and can indicate unresolved emotional issues. With the first method, we “report” our feelings TO others, and look to have an effect on others. With the second, we “blame” our feelings ON others. and look to control how others respond to us. The desire to control how others respond to us is an indication of fear underlying one’s behaviors and reactions. This is usually due to a person learning to not like or accept themselves as they are, who then needs to use others as mirrors, so they can think they’re okay. This also allows a person to assume they have some “power” in the world. In the long run, it’s not healthy to act this way, because the only person we have any control over is ourselves. Those who are internally afraid can spend endless amounts of time and energy trying to control how others respond to them, and still end up insecure, when it’s healthier and more productive learning to control how we respond to others. President Trump is the poster child of the “victim mentality.” As a fearbased” personality, who denies how afraid he is, he’s free to blame his emotions and problems on others. Once blame is placed on others, Trump (and his followers,) assume it’s okay to demand that everyone else change, their thinking being “I’m not the problem – everyone else is the problem.” It’s my belief that ALL the problems in the world, begin when one person or group of people, tries to control the choices of another person or group of people. This country is based on the idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, with each person having the right to define what that means for themselves, as long as it doesn’t infringe on the right of others to do the same. With Trump (and his followers,) however, they believe their system is “perfect,” and everyone should think, look, and act as they do. In reality, it’s “perfect” only for Trump and his followers, and “perfect” only as long as we allow them to do what they want, when they want, with few to no consequences for what they do. In his book Emotionally Free, David Viscott wrote “Accepting responsibility for your (emotional) reactions to

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events, not only diminishes the blame you place on others, but also empowers you to change and move on. After all, in the words of the Swahili saying, it is NOT what name others call you that matters, but what name you RESPOND to that determines who you are, (and what you, ultimately, have to deal with.) In the case of Trump, once he denies his fears, and he’s free to place blame on others, he’s NEVER going to be responsible for anything he chooses to say or do. The primary lie he promotes is that he’s never wrong about anything. As the saying goes, we should trust more the person who is occasionally in error, than the person who’s never in doubt. Gary Burt Marble, Minnesota Killing the Messenger I’m wondering about the curious inclusion in the August 6th “Letters to the Editor” of an attack piece written by “Jim Brinegar,” who makes it clear that he really, really hates Duluth Reader’s columnist, Dr. Gary Kohls. And that’s about all that is clear. “Jim Brinegar” – of Duluth, no other background is provided – unloaded on Dr. Kohls’ July 30th “Duty to Warn” column without specifying, for clarity, the title of the article he objected to (perhaps because he didn’t want readers to find and read it for themselves). The title is, “Iatrogenic Errors: the 3rd Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.” Translated into everyday English, iatrogenic means harm to the patient caused by medical treatment. (Something I’ve been reading about in other publications since at least 2000; it’s hardly a new topic.) Calling Dr. Kohls’ articles bad, silly names, Brinegar ticked off a confusing list of misinformation and disinformation, and cited a British Medical Journal (BMJ) article without providing either title or correct publication date, making it pretty hard to look up said article for oneself. The otherwise anonymous “Jim Brinegar” ended with a troll-style smear so disturbing and false that, if I were Dr. Kohl, I’d be looking to bring “Jim Brinegar” into the light for all to see. By way of contrast, Dr. Kohls introduced his July 30th column with a clarifying quote from the WHO (World Health Organization) about iatrogenic harm, followed by excerpts from the May 3, 2016, BMJ

article, “Medical Errors are the 3rd Most Common Cause of Death in the US,” written by Martin Makary, MD, a professor in the Surgery Dept. at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with Michael David. Kohls also included an excerpt from a July 17, 2019, report, “Prevalence, Severity and Nature of Preventable Patient Harm Across Medical Care Settings,” by Maria Panagioti, et al. As usual, Dr. Kohls posted sources and links so readers can judge and research for themselves the merits of his information. I’ve been reading Dr. Kohls’ articles, regularly and gratefully, since 2014, when he called for an investigation into comedian Robin Williams’ suicide. I know the Duluth Reader has an archive of Dr. Kohls’ well-researched articles. And I like your kicky alternative weekly, which is far and away better than anything currently in the St. Louis area. So I have a question for the editor, or staff person, who selected “Jim Brinegar’s” vicious attack piece for reader edification: What were you thinking? Peggy Bradbury, St. Charles, Missouri A pox upon his house Idiot brinegar....r u sure it isn’t “Vinegar”...reads like it is “vinegar” of the most ignorant, stupid, revolting efforts on his ridiculous beetle brain mind, what little there is of it, has nothing better 2 do with his all 2 many hours of complete stupidity than let the world know just how bitter about “something” & he thinks, idiotically, obviously that “attacking” the good Dr. Is good only 4 his mis bent, displaced, patheric ego! A pox upon his house, he has so obviously earned it! Expat Tom Surguine Manilla, The Phillipines Clearly a hit piece In response to Brinegars comment about Dr. Gary Kohl’s articles. This was clearly a hit piece. I’ve spoken with Dr. Kohl’s many times in depth and I would describe him as a kind, compassionate, and highly intelligent human being. Calling his demeanor scary and child like could not be further from the truth. Dr. Kohl’s has spent a mind boggling amount of time researching and has the utmost integrity in his columns. It’s not easy going against the main stream media’s narrative considering 6 corporations own 90% of it. Please do not censor his articles like the majority of media sites now a days. It’s the death of journalism if you

allow it to happen and it’s unfair to print a clearly biased trolling attack piece on the doctor. Kadaj Akatosh Duluth, Minnesota Strongly disagree I strongly disagree with Jim Brinegar’s comments stating that Gary Kohl’s information is nonsense. I have read Gary Kohl’s articles for many years. Our region is fortunate to have this information which challenges our minds and offers much insight. Gary carefully researches each topic and has numerous citations and foot notes to back up each article. I greatly appreciate information that is thorough, and not edited to the point of losing valuable meaning. The articles are exactly what the Reader needs -- information written with integrity, fact checking, and compassion. Sally Smith Duluth, Minnesota When Biden-Harris win When Biden-Harris and U.S. Senate Democrats win, they must repair America with our help: Enact public financing of campaigns like we have in Minnesota since 1970s, i.e. taxpayers’ voluntary contributions for elections annually, instead of relying on special interests. Also, repeal the 79% tax cuts given to wealthy people since the Reagan Administration so the middle and low income people survive. Special interests like Wal-Mart do not pay most employees living wages, so we taxpayers have to subsidize the food stamps, health care and housing they are eligible for. Too many of the around seven million people who die annually are uninsured or underinsured; we must have coverage for everyone. The gun violence must be finally taken seriously as we lose more than 140.000 people every year, which is about the Duluth Metropolitan area. Of course, the Corona is another disaster that must be defeated! Did not list everything, but the above would be a good start in the first 100 days. Mike Jaros, State Rep. 1973-1980; 1985-2008 Duluth, Minnesota

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Bright new mural going up in Lincoln Park neighborhood Designed by Fond du Lac direct descendant and Duluth artist Moira Villiard, the mural project is set for completion by the end of August 2020. Moira Villiard and Red Cliff artist Michelle DeFoe are the lead artists on the project, though community engagement in the design process has been at the heart of the work. Heather Olson and Aurora Webster are two volunteers also helping with the project.

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The proposed mural aims to bring color and life to a community resource center in Duluth’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, using Anishinaabe symbolism to provide insight into some of the city’s Indigenous history. A portion of the mural will use designs submitted online to Villiard by youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. The dragonflies were largely designed by youth and are a symbol of resilience and transformation, and serve as a relevant reminder of our need today to

grow and transform our lives in ways that allow us to live fully. Through cultural imagery – including a hand holding asemaa and references to wild rice – the mural also serves as a reminder that even in uncertain times, we shouldn’t forget the stories of the land we reside on and the people who were the first stewards of Turtle Island. Using social distance practices, several youth groups have also participated in the early painting stages of the mural, including a youth

group from the Steve O’Neil apartment building. The project was funded in part through an Art Project grant by the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council and through a grant program awarded by the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation in partnership with the McKnight Foundation to the American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO) arts program (the “Art in the Present Moment” initiative).

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No justice, no peace! A restorative perspective

As protests have spread across our nation during the first half of the summer of 2020, the powerful chant, “No Justice, No Peace,” has been spreading as well. In the wake of racist violence from police, triggered anew by the killing of George Floyd, it was understandable to increasing numbers of people that something had to change. If there was ever to be real peace, it had to stem from real justice. This has not been the only chant, of course. “Black Lives Matter” is still a centerpiece slogan for the majority of protests, even as protests have spread internationally among groups expressing solidarity. What I would like to explore in this article is how the phrase “No Justice, No Peace,” with its potential for varied meanings, can invite protesters to think more deeply about the way they define both justice and peace. Is there an agreed upon meaning for “No Justice, No Peace?” Does it mean we want better systems to replace unjust systems? Does it mean we want justice as retribution against wrongdoing? Does it mean we want fair processes that engage all sides? Might it mean that if justice isn’t happening, then don’t count on peace happening either? What is clear is the slogan’s multivalent character: it can hold multiple meanings that may or may not harmonize together. Those who say “No Justice, No Peace,” are certainly in good com-

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pany. Desmond Tutu, who laid the groundwork for South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation process in the 1990s, described how in the Apartheid system “there is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there is first justice enjoyed by all inhabitants of this beautiful land.” Pope Francis, in 2015 before an audience of children at the Peace Factory, echoed Tutu’s sentiment in the same context of prizing equity for all people. Everybody has the same human rights, he stated, and if society is unjust and “does not follow the rule of justice... where there is no justice, there cannot be peace.” This quote, along with Tutu’s, implies a desire for both justice and peace to be positive realities in society. One of the earliest uses of “No Justice, No Peace” helps us to see the complexity of meanings associated in the phrase. In December of 1986, a group of

white male young adults assaulted three black men whose vehicle had stalled in Howard Beach, Queens, which is east of Brooklyn, NY. The incident resulted in the death of one black man. When legal proceedings indicated elements of race-based negligence, pressures mounted from the black community for better justice. Outrage and mourning related to both the racism of the incident and of the justice process understandably led to numerous marches, including one through the Howard Beach neighborhood. The largest one brought together more than 4,000 black protesters in Manhattan who marched 30 blocks down Fifth Avenue to the Greenwich Village home of Mayor Edward Koch. Veteran activist Sonny Carson promoted the slogan, “No justice! No peace!” with these qualifying words: “No peace for all of you who dare kill our children if they come into your neighborhood . . . We are going to make one long, hot summer out here . . . get ready for a new black in this city!” Carson’s statement reflects a sequential “if...then…” usage of the phrase. This is reinforced in an interview he had with The New York Times where he said he hoped the slogan would emerge as a rallying cry for his cause. “You don’t give us any justice, then there ain’t going to be no peace. We’re going to use whatever means necessary to

make sure that everyone is disrupted in their normal life.” Predictably, “No Justice! No Peace!” gained momentum and popularity in the wake of the Los Angeles race riots of 1992, ignited by the acquittal of four white police officers in the Rodney King beating. As the smoke rose on our TV screens, we all watched the enactment of Carson’s logic: since there was no justice from our city, there will be no peace in our city. The multivalence of the phrase cuts both ways. If there is not a positive unfolding of justice and peace, then in their absence there will be a negative unfolding of both. While we might decry the burning and destruction of the Rodney King riots, it is important to complexify this situation of “no peace.” A study of targeted white-owned businesses that were burnt down can show how deeper, race-related economic tensions can exasperate communities of color when their pleas for systemic change have previously fallen on tonedeaf ears. As John F. Kennedy said in 1962, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Disturbances of the peace Similar to Carson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also understood how it was necessary to “disrupt” the normal course of things to stimulate social

change. Civil protests are designed to disturb the ‘peace’ in service of a greater peace. “We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open where it can be seen and dealt with” (Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963). This perspective allowed Dr. King, in his 1967 Stanford University speech, to view riots as the “language of the unheard” despite the fact that they are also “socially destructive and selfdefeating.” In this light, “Certain conditions continue to exist in our society, which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots.” By ignoring root causes, history is bound to repeat itself as we are now seeing in 2020. King was sympathetic to the emotional energy that caused riots, understanding how the same energy finds its “voice” through planned protest. “There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of injustice where they experience

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the bleakness of corroding despair.” King was asking white moderates to “accept our legitimate and unavoidable impatience” (Birmingham Letter). This sentiment could apply to both rioting and protesting. Whereas President Trump spoke of

rioters and protesters in Minneapolis as a single force in order to delegitimize peaceful demonstrations, King distinguished them with respect to legitimacy. Nevertheless, he understood their intersectionality. Both are responsive to the systemic

disregard for muted voices of the past. In this complexity, he developed his theory of nonviolent civil disobedience as a constructive (though indeed, disruptive) force for social transformation. King helps us to see two kinds of peace. In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail he explained how the white moder-ate, devoted more to “order” than jus-tice, “prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension, to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.” Justice here is not simply an outcome from a legal process, typically viewed as retributive justice; it speaks broadly and economically of a distributive justice, one that delivers life and liberty for all. The irony is that those who simply want the security of civil order more than the presence of justice will tend to label protesters as the source of the problem. Protesters are identified as instigators, the real “disturbers of the peace.” A “law and order” response would get rid of them, since protesters give rise to the tensions. King, on the other hand, advocated a “disturbance of the peace” against the status quo, against

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systemic injustice, to awaken people to a fuller and equitable justice. Asad Haider, in his insightful Viewpoints article “No Justice, No Peace” (June 4, 2020), recognizes the value of King’s delineation of positive and negative peace. If people are truly committed to the long-haul in the movement for genuine social change, the insistence of predicating peace on justice makes good sense. “No justice, no peace” is a slogan which represents the intransigent pursuit of justice, against all the forces of containment wielded by the state, against the voices of the white moderates who would blame protestors for the violence of the police, and against all those who fail to grasp King’s lasting message that a politics of overcoming injustice is a politics of revolutionary change. To sum things up thus far, we can understand how “No Justice, No Peace” can have a strong conditional meaning which functions somewhat as a threat. “If you don’t deliver justice, then don’t count on us to keep the peace.” But, from King’s approach, the phrase can have a wider and longer-range meaning. “As long as injustices remain in society, we will not stay quiet. We will continue to disturb the peace until we see true transformation.” Rather than viewing justice and peace as either rising or falling together, I see King as offering a more inter-sectional meaning. In 1967 he went to California to show solidarity with anti-Vietnam protesters held in the Santa Rita prison. Joining anti-war activity with civil rights activism, he said, “I see these two struggles as one struggle. There can be no justice without peace and there can be no peace without justice.” He not only said that war and racism can’t be separated; justice and peace can’t be separated either. They inform

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This brings us full circle to the relationship between justice and peace. Restorative justice, by focusing more on broken relationships than broken laws, includes peacebuilding elements in the very means of justice. each other. King’s dual commitment to peace and justice led him to consider how the tactics or means of protest had a direct effect on the ends of protest. In other words, how you protest deserves a lot of consideration. “I believe in this method because I think it is the only way to reestablish a broken community….We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself” (King, “The Quest for Peace and Justice,” Nobel Lecture, 1964). A restorative JustPeace perspective King’s view of justice, similar to what one finds in Jewish and Christian scriptures, makes no division between criminal justice and wider social just-ice. This would include racial justice, too. All injustices are intersectional. It does no good to simply have a fair and just legal process when issues of poverty and racism severely restrict the distribution of life and liberty for all. The Ferguson unrest of 2014 and 2015 revealed how the institutional failures of distributive justice cannot be separated from the legal failures of retributive justice. A host of wider injustices were nam-ed throughout the unrest,

including how income from escalating court fines was the second-largest source of revenue for Ferguson in 2013. The emotional response to the officer’s acquittal is best seen against the backdrop of a justice system that held a heavy hand over poor and black communities. Consequently, police and commun-ity relations became increasingly strained, setting the stage for a downward spiral of polarization and microaggressions. That was six years ago. The same tensions help us understand the reaction to the murder of George Floyd. Understandably, most people of color and white progressive communities want the justice system to work fairly, but, here’s the rub – work fairly for them. Traditional (punitive) justice is designed for winners and losers. Like sports, it is built for competition. We want justice “done” to those who caused race-based harms, and we want perpetrators of racist systems to be ousted. This issue is more complex than just wanting justice to be done. Deep histories of trauma, both gener-ationally and individually, can be stirred by interactions with the justice system. When a black person’s fight-or-flight response to a police encounter is construed as “resistance to arrest,” the tensions and mistrust that are already there are compounded. And when disempowered people “lose” when an offending party is acquitted, it gives the community one more traumatic setback. But what if there was a form of justice that aimed at helping people on all sides of the equation to be winners? What if there was a justice process that ended up strengthening rather than weakening police and community relations? What if a unified process brought healing to victimized parties and meaningful accountability to offending parties, yet in a way that helped both sides reintegrate into a community that addressed root causes? One of the sad realities of our justice system is that it is so thoroughly in the hands of professionals who are far removed from local communities that deserve more ownership in resolving

matters. The same could be said, for example, of the way hospitals, for decades, controlled the birthing experience, re-moving it from family and midwifebased empowerment. When people say they want “justice done,” they often don’t realize they expect professionals to handle things in which communities could have greater involvement. Restorative justice may not have all of the answers to heal divided communities, but it does promise community empowerment. It offers a new paradigm of addressing harm that has major implications for building stronger communities. A restorative circle process was used in Seattle after a police officer fatally shot a First Nations wood carver in 2010. Street protests ensued, and tensions escalated over time as the victim’s family experienced multiple episodes of disrespect from the police. Eventually, at the request of the victim’s brother, Seattle police leaders agreed to participate in a 3-hour restorative circle with family and community members. According to facilitator Andrea Brenneke, “By choosing an action following the shooting, but symbolic of the underlying tensions, we found a portal through which to explore the deeper rifts and ongoing conflicts between the Seattle Police Department, the family and the community.” During the meeting the chief of police shared regrets and sadness for the harm done and for the broken trust experienced in the Native community. This encounter, along with follow-up meetings, served to replace alienating litigation processes that are costly and time-consuming. It also led to new reforms where the police discovered and addressed patterns of excessive force. Just as King distinguished a positive peace from a negative peace, here we see a “positive justice” that is distinct from the traditional and often abstract “negative justice.” This alternative, rather than reducing justice to establishing blame and administering punishment, seeks to restore wholeness to the community. Restorative justice, in the words of Navajo Judge Robert Yazzie, seeks to have “life come from it.” It is measured by the positives delivered to all involved. This brings us full circle to the relationship between justice and peace. Restorative justice, by focusing more on broken relationships than broken laws, includes peacebuilding elements in the very means of justice.

In short, it recognizes that if peace is not a key part of justice, justice will not bear the fruit of peace. Hence, the term, JustPeace. By creating space for listening, trust-building, empathy, apology and reparation, harming and harmed parties find new strength to coexist with each other. How, then, does restorative justice relate to King’s advocacy of nonviolent direct action? For one, both peacemaking dialogue and peacemaking civil disobedience value the “conversation” created in spaces that inevitably involve dissonance and discomfort. In the midst of clashing narratives, either between two parties or two visions of society, there is the hope of a shared narrative that dispels the enmity between sides and strengthens relationships for future coexistence. Ideally, shift happens. Restorative justice, therefore, can be viewed within a full spectrum of peacemaking strategies. While mostly known as an alternative process for resolving casework through dialogue, restorative justice also seeds deeper social transformation. Fania Davis, in her 2019 book, The Little Book of Restorative Justice and Race: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation, makes a strong case for integrating the healer impulse to guide resolution processes through dignifying dialogue, and the warrior impulse to build better societies where racial justice and equity are normative. We all know that violence tends to produce more violence. We know that hurt people hurt people. Aggravated assault leads to more aggravation. We know that repeated injustices upon a traumatized group of people will result in forceful reactions. No one wants to be hurt again. In the midst of these cyclical patterns, there is a genuine cry for justice. The bottom line in all of this is – what kind of justice? Do we want a justice that vindicates one group over another and perpetuates more tensions, or do we want a justice that deeply addresses those tensions and transforms the future? Non-retributive justice will naturally expand the discussion into social and economic justice. By thinking more deeply about the kind of justice we want, we are drawn into thinking more deeply about the meanings we give to the phrase, “No Justice, No Peace.” If our slogan is simply a conditional statement whereby the absence of “negative justice” (punitive) will lead people to produce the absence of

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“negative peace” (civil disruption), I fear that the same old clashing patterns between empire and insurrection will dance their way toward a greater loss for everyone. But if we have the moral imagination to seek a “positive peace” that is intersectional with a “positive justice,” I believe we can interrupt those imperial-rebel patterns, and find saner ways to build a beloved community. That kind of peace-building will likely involve “disturbances of the peace” as King taught us. And it certainly will not be popular with either security-seeking moderates (who want negative peace at the expense of justice) or confrontation-seeking demonstrators (who want negative justice at the expense of peace). There is a nonviolent, peaceinformed way to create “good trouble” (as John Lewis taught us) that still prizes a justice that brings life. I have no advice as to whether we keep using the slogan, or whether we add qualifying words or punctuation. My hope is that people who want to see systemic changes will grapple with the various meanings and think more deeply about how their actions align with the meaning they choose. But I will say this in closing: whether in protest or in resolution processes, our greatest challenge is to find better ways to weave justice and peace together. Ted Lewis is a restorative justice practitioner and trainer, working for the Center of Restorative Justice & Peacemaking (University of Minnesota, Duluth). He also runs the Agapé Peace Center in Duluth which hosts the Restorative Church website project.

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Omar’s victory affirms progressives’ control of Minnesota’s Fifth District By Gabe Schneider and Greta Kaul Rep. Ilhan Omar’s victory over primary challenger Antone MeltonMeaux might have felt familiar to anyone paying close attention to the history of elections in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District. MeltonMeaux, who ran more as a personality than policy foil to Omar, banked a considerable amount of campaign cash and won high-profile DFLers support. He waged a serious lawn sign and mailer campaign, and some speculated there could be an upset in the district.

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In the end, the race wasn’t that close. Omar won 58 percent of the district’s vote, compared to Melton-Meaux’s 39 percent. Looking closely at the returns, it’s clear how that happened: while Melton-Meaux won considerable support in parts of Minneapolis and some of its suburbs, it wasn’t enough to overcome Omar’s edge in the bulk of Minneapolis, the increasingly progressive voting bloc that dominates the district. Her win, thanks to Minneapolis, echoes the primary win of her predecessor and now Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in 2006. Over time, activists have built a turnout machine that’s energized immigrant communities and the working class. These voters, sometimes seen as unlikely to go to the polls, have

helped elect a succession of progressive officials across levels of government. Ellison held the Fifth District seat for more than a decade before Omar won it. His decision to run in 2006 when Martin Sabo retired put him in what was effectively a three-way race. He was a two-term state representative who had the DFL endorsement and campaigned on turning out a large cross section of what were then termed unlikely voters, including “peace activists, gay and lesbian voters and minorities, especially Somalis,” the Star Tribune reported at the time. He ran against former Sabo staffer and DFL chair Mike Erlandson and state Sen. Ember Reichgott Junge, who campaigned on health care. When Keith Ellison took the stage to accept the DFL endorsement in 2006, activists say you could feel the winds changing. With a unanimous endorsement on the third ballot, Ellison made his pitch. “We have to unify. We have to come together from the suburb and the city,” he told the crowd. “We have to come together.” Ultimately, Ellison won the primary with 41 percent of the vote, compared to Erlandson’s 31 percent and Reichgott Junge’s 21 percent. Despite losing CD5 suburbs, Ellison racked up a wide margin in Minneapolis, where most of the district’s votes are located. For Old Guard DFLers, Ellison’s 10-point victory in the primary was unexpected. Ellison’s predecessor, Martin Sabo, endorsed Erlandson. The Star Tribune’s Editorial Board endorsed Erlandson, too. In Congress, Ellison was one of

the most progressive members in the country. He was the chair of the House Progressive Caucus, then just a nascent political force. He was an early supporter of Medicare for All, a constant critic of the Iraq War and early endorser of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ political campaign in 2016. A decade later, Ellison retired from Congress to run for Minnesota attorney general. His departure resulted in another three-way DFL primary race between first-term state Rep. Ilhan Omar, who won the DFL endorsement in a hastily arranged convention after Ellison’s surprise retirement, former House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, popular among more moderate voters, and state Sen. Patricia Torres Ray. The conventional wisdom held that a candidate needed to win moderate votes in South Minneapolis and the suburbs to win the seat, said Joelle Stangler, who’s worked for several candidates and groups in the Twin Cities including Take Action Minnesota, State Rep. Raymond Dehn’s Mayoral Campaign, and Omar’s 2020 campaign. “When I came into this work, everyone said that you need wealthy white homeowners to win any race,” Stangler said. She said that in Omar’s first race, people said there wasn’t a path forward because she wanted to win by turning out new immigrant communities and young people. Many political observers expected it to be a tight race between Omar and Anderson Kelliher, with Torres Ray potentially attracting a significant number of votes. In the end, it wasn’t that close: Omar captured 48 percent to Anderson Kelliher’s 30 percent and Torres Ray’s 13 percent. Though she ran in a district slightly changed from Ellison’s time due to redistricting, like Ellison, Omar’s decisive win in Minneapolis propelled her to victory. In her first term in Congress, Omar’s tenure mirrored Ellison’s. She joined the Progressive Caucus, taking on a leadership role as whip; and she too has been an unabashed supporter of Sanders, endorsing him in 2020, as well as leading efforts to promote the Green New Deal, a progressive energy policy agenda; and Medicare-for-All. She also quickly became one of the

body’s most visible members; she was part of the “Squad,” a group of firstterm women of color challenging the status quo in Congress. This brought her praise from progressives, but she was also singled out by the right with xenophobic and Islamophobic comments (including by President Donald Trump). Her high profile also earned her increased scrutiny when it came to missteps, as when she invoked anti-semitic tropes in Twitter comments. Melton-Meaux launched a primary challenge against her; presenting himself as a candidate who could “bring us together, not tear us apart,” as one mailer put it. He received an endorsement from two former Minnesota DFL Chairs (Brian Melendez and Erlandson) and raised a considerable amount of cash. Of Omar’s second race, Stangler said there was again pressure to focus on more moderate parts of the city. “When she ran a second time, people didn’t say there was no path, but there was a similar assertion that, ‘Oh, well you really need to make sure you’re spending all of your time in Southwest Minneapolis and in Wards 11, 12, and 13,’ to combat what, will inevitably be, a lack of support from the suburbs.” But many voters in the district weren’t interested in what they per-ceived to be a more centrist candidate. For Renae Steiner, 54, her impression that Melton-Meaux was the more moderate candidate convinced her to vote for Omar. Steiner, an attorney in Linden Hills, isn’t interested in more centrist congressional leadership. “There aren’t, in my estimation, that many really progressive Democrat districts,” said Steiner. “So if we don’t elect progressives, where are they going to come from?” Turnout in last week’s primary was massive. Across the Fifth Congressional District nearly 178,000 people cast votes, compared to 135,000 in 2018, a year when there was a contested gubernatorial primary on the ballot. While Omar amassed more than 65,000 votes in 2018, she won with more than 103,000 this time around. Primary results shouldn’t come as a surprise, said Erlandson the former Sabo staffer who ran against Ellison in the DFL primary in 2006 and endorsed Melton-Meaux this time around. He said the district has become more progressive since his run in 2006. “I think there is an expansion of the bloc of primary voters,” he said; more people seem to be highly engaged in politics. “The primary voter tends to be the most liberal or progressive voter,” he

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said. “They tend to be voters that miss very few elections. The city tends to have more of those than the suburbs.” Not only did Ilhan Omar win reelection in the primary through the strength of Minneapolis’ progressive bloc, but two long-term Minneapolis state legislators who were generally thought of as progressive stalwarts – Sen. Jeff Hayden and Rep. Ray Dehn – were knocked out by political newcomers, Omar Fateh and Esther Agbaje. It’s not the first time in recent years Minneapolis voters have sought to replace a longstanding elected official with someone new: In 2017 City Council president Barb Johnson lost to Phillipe Cunningham. In 2018, longtime Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin was defeated by political newcomer Angela Conley. Asma Nizami, a former field organizer for Sen. Al Franken in the Twin Cities, says politicians like Ellison and Omar represent views that are widely held by people of color in the Twin Cities. And she criticized

white voters and the Star Tribune’s Editorial Board (which has never endorsed Omar or Ellison in a contentious race) who see Ellison and Omar as too radical. “They want to turn on KARE-11 and hear about the weather. And they want to hear these happy stories about great white people donating food,” Nizami, who currently works as the Advocacy Director for Muslim women at Reviv-ing Sisterhood, said. “They don’t want to hear about how terrible our city is to Black and Brown people.” In a press call after her win, Omar said the shift to a new slate of candidates that happened in the primary makes complete sense. “I first went and challenged the 44year incumbent – that was unheard of here in Minneapolis,” Omar said, referring to her defeat of longtime Rep. Phyllis Kahn. “And because of that, we have seen so many people take that leap and unseat so many people, and it’s not surprising that that progressive movement that we have built continues.”

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George Conor Reindl 5/20/1999 – 8/13/2020 George Conor James Reindl, 21, died in his home in Superior. Conor was born in Winona, Minn. Although Conor has gone far too soon, he leaves behind a legacy of hearts touched by his love, compassion, joy, and friendship. Conor had a strong passion for learning. He graduated from Denfeld High School in Duluth, where he was a part of HOSA – Future Health Professionals, Debate Team, Speech Team, and was an active member of the theater. Conor went on to attend the College of St. Scholastica, where he was studying biology and had future plans to attend medical school. His interest in theater continued at CSS, where he was involved in many plays, including Sense and Sensibility, where he met Katherine Grotte and they shared their first kiss. Conor and Katherine went on to date, and eventually marry, and were a beautiful example of love. Conor had a love for adventure. He enjoyed hiking, climbing, camping and simply being with friends and family in nature. His friends will remember late nights chatting around a fire, his great sense of humor, and his support in their times of hardship. Conor was a true gift to this earth and to all of our lives. He will be deeply missed. Visitation will be held Aug. 21, noon until the 1 pm Celebration of life in Mission Creek Church, 521 131st Ave. West, Duluth, MN.

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Herman J. Hammerbeck 1/5/1919 – 8/14/2020 Herman J. Hammerbeck died at New Perspective in Superior at the grand old age of 101. He was born in Grandy, Minn., and was a resident of Superior since 1929. He graduated from Superior Central High School in 1937. Herman served in the Army Air Force Aviation Engineers in Africa and Italy during World War II, earning 3 Battle Stars. He was the owner and operator of Silver Tonsberg for 40 years. He was a very civic-minded citizen serving as director of the Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program, the Planning Council for Wisconsin, Jaycees, United Fund and the Chamber of Commerce. A lifelong member and former President of the Lions Club, Herman received the Melvin Jones Fellowship, which is the highest honor achievable from the Lion’s International. As one of the founders of the Superior Amateur Hockey Association, he served as president, treasurer and coached many local rink teams and won several state championships. He spearheaded the drive to install the first indoor artificial ice complex in Superior. When the weather warmed in the summer, Herman helped organize the first Superior Little League and coached the Dodgers to several league titles while his sons were playing. A celebration of life will be held in the future.

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James J. Cronin 8/1/1933 – 8/5/2020 James “Jim” J. Cronin, 87, of South Range, died at Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minn. He was born in Superior, son of George and Catherine Cronin. Jim was honorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force after serving in Korea from 1951 to 1953. He retired as a lieutenant from the Superior Police Department in 1991, after 27 years of service. Jim also worked as an over the road truck driver with his wife, Sue. Early in his life, Jim was an outstanding baseball player. He played for the Superior Blues and the Chicago Cubs. Some of his other interests included bowling, watching TV and spending time with his morning coffee group. A private interment will be held at a later date. Paul Leo Franklin 1953 – 8/7/2020 Paul Leo Franklin, 67, was born in Duluth, the youngest of four children of Leo and Carol Franklin. He graduated from Duluth Denfeld High School and was employed in Duluth until his recent retirement. A private family service will be held. Friends are invited to Paul’s Celebration of Life on the outdoor patio at the Buffalo House from 2-5 p.m. this Friday August 14. The family wishes to extend their deep gratitude for the exceptional care Paul received from St. Luke’s staff. Patricia Horvath 11/20/1925 – 8/8/2020 Patricia Jeannette (Roney) Horvath, 94, of Meadowlands, Minn., died at Benedictine Health Center in Duluth. Patricia was born to Carl and Albina (Oulicky) Roney of Floodwood, Minn. She attended Floodwood High School, where she was very active and excelled in school sports and activities, graduating in 1943. She then

worked at Floodwood State Bank as a teller and secretary. She married Frank Horvath on May 28, 1949. They settled into farming and raised their four children in Elmer Township. Pat lived and loved farming life, hard as it could be sometimes, without one complaint. Private services were held Aug. 15, arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home, Duluth. Corinne LaFave 11/3/1939 – 8/5/2020 Corinne Westerlund LaFave, 80, of Duluth, died peacefully at Viewcrest Health Center. She was loved by many. She grew up on the west side of Duluth, and graduated from Morgan Park High School. Growing up she loved ice skating, roller skating, singing and theater. Corinne was an intelligent woman who had a number of administrative jobs throughout her working career; however, she was most proud of being the word processing supervisor for the City of Duluth, taking that task from the ground up. She married her high school sweetheart, Michael C. LaFave, in 1957 and enjoyed 63 years of marriage until his death a few months ago. There will be a private burial service soon at Union Cemetery, where she will be laid to rest next to her husband. Joyce C. Larson 1/29/1949 – 8/8/2020 Joyce C. Larson, 71, lifelong resident of Superior, died at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth. Joyce was born the daughter of Margie (Gray) and Leo Larson. She worked as a waitress at the Saratoga Restaurant before becoming a CNA and working at St. Francis Nursing Home for 38 years. Visitation will be on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 11 a.m. until the noon funeral service at Downs Funeral Home, 1617 N 19th St., Superior.

Anthony John Peters Jr 1936 – 8/7/2020 Anthony John Peters, Jr., 84, of Duluth, died peacefully at home. Tony was a veteran of the U.S. Marines and a member of the Cement and Laborers Union. He was preceded in death by his parents, Anthony, Sr. and Dorothy Peters; daughter, Desire Amendora; and his brother, Andrew. Tony is survived by his wife, Cecelia; son, Anthony III; sisters, Annette (Bernie) St. George and Angie (Ralph) Benson; his brother, Angelo; two grandsons; and several nieces and nephews. No service will held. Betty A. Poe 10/30/1938 – 7/31/2020 Betty was born in Duluth on to Melvin and Alli Johnson. She lost her fight to cancer on July 31. She graduated from Clover Valley High School and went on to attend college in Duluth. After that she worked for both Maurice’s and Lakeview Castle for many years. Betty married Fred Poe on June 6, 1959. They loved to travel, camp, spend time with family, dance and go to Country Fest. She was an active member of French River Lutheran Church. Betty was a hard worker, kind and always made people laugh. A celebration of life was held Aug. 15. Stephen R. Wood 1941 – 8/8/2020 Stephen R. Wood, 78, died after a brief illness. Stephen started his working career at Skyline Webb as a gas station attendant, going on as a salesman for Pioneer Coffee and finishing up as a bus driver for Duluth Transit Authority. Stephen married Carol Kay Vukelich, and together, raised two daughters, Penny and Patti. “Steven was a great brother. I’m so thankful for all the days he was with us. May his spirit ride the waves of Lake Superior.” - David Lee Wood. A private family gathering will be held.

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Dear Heloise: I get scared seeing bicycle riders blowing through red lights at intersections. Aren’t they supposed to follow the traffic laws, just like automobiles? – Janet in Tennessee Janet, absolutely! Bicycle riders MUST follow the rules of the road for their own safety and for everyone else’s too! They must obey traffic signals and stop signs, ride with the traffic and use the rightmost lane in the direction they are going. Bicyclists have the same rights, but also the same responsibilities as all drivers. Here are some hints for bicycle riding safety from the League of American Bicyclists (bikeleague.org). Bicyclists should: • Make sure the bike is ready for the road: tires inflated properly, brakes in

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good working order, chains running smoothly, quick-release levers closed and white lights in the front and red in the back. • Ride safely: Wear a neon vest or something equally easy to see and a helmet, make eye contact with drivers when turning and ride in a straight line. • Anticipate what’s down the road: potholes, turning vehicles, construction, debris and other road hazards. – Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: This week’s Pet Pals aren’t pets, just a majestic mama deer followed by her curious twins. In this picture captured by Carter and Vincent of Pittsburgh, Penn., you can almost hear Mom saying, “Come on, you two ... quit dawdling!” as they make their way through the backyard. To see this terrific trio, visit Heloise. com and click on “Pet of the Week.” Do you have a funny, furry friend you’d like to share? Send a pic and description to Heloise@Heloise.com! – Heloise

hands. You can follow up with soap if needed. I read your column in the Houston Chronicle. – Patricia R., Bellaire, Texas

TWOFER Dear Heloise: No. 1. Making breakfast for kids and low on milk? Make oatmeal (cooked, not instant). It uses far less milk than cold cereal and is more nutritious. Add raisins and brown sugar for an extra treat. No. 2. Got something nasty on your hands? Wash them with hand lotion and water. The oil in the lotion will take the nasty, greasy stuff off your

CLEAN SHOWER Dear Heloise: I’m allergic to chlorine, mold and fragrances. I have tried every formula for keeping my shower clean, but only chlorine bleach works. I realized that once the shower is clean, I can keep it that way by wiping it down with a cloth each time I shower and then applying liquid cleanser with chlorine bleach in spots as I see the grout get dark. The trick is to put the liquid cleanser in a plastic ketchup dispenser with a long, pointed tip. I rinse the cleanser off and scrub if needed with a brush I keep in the shower. I read your column every week in the Ledger in Polk County, Fla. – Kathleen R., Winter Haven, Fla. 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.

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The golden age of impunity Will we ever recover from the Trump Pandemic? Some foreigners are terribly concerned about the future of the Divided States of America. They say we are committing mass suicide. We are in the middle of a number of national pandemics we need to fight. The 400 million firearms flooding the country are now appearing on both sides in our current racial civil war. Protesters supporting Black Lives Matter protests in hundreds of cities have been killed and wounded during marches by firearms made available through a firearms tsunami of the National Rifle Association and the gun culture. We evidently have failed to learn the

lessons taught at the OK Corral and all of our mass shootings. We have hundreds of private militias “snoopin’ and poopin’” in the woods, preparing to continue the civil war. One of these days we are going to read about a mass killing of protesters and antimaskers by an exchange of AR-15 bullets. It is inevitable unless conceal and carry laws are changed quickly. Firearms are for hunting, not for settling disputes, establishing policy or shopping at the mall. Carrying firearms and magazines loaded with bullets is as dumb as spreading COVID-19 by not wearing a mask. There are ways to eliminate both pandemics. Politics at the point of a

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gun is outrageous. We don’t need a High Noon atmosphere to dominate civil rights protests: “I do not know what fate awaits me, I only know I must be brave And I must face a man who hates me, or lie a coward A craven coward, or lie a coward in my grave.” There is another national pandemic brought on by disaster capitalism, often called “plantation” capitalism by blacks who suffer from it. It’s the overwhelming greed of the drug, insurance, and health care industries that have killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2019 and more than 230,000 in the last five years. Deadly drug overdoses and addiction by highly addictive opioids have decimated the middle class to the point where our overall life expectancy is declining. All other developed countries are constantly increasing their life expectancy. And then we have a psychopathic bunco con man who has convinced many “Christians” he is “The Chosen One!” He is a president who is the leader of the Ku Klux Klanners and has psychological flaws too numerous to mention here. Read the criteria for sociopath and psychopath in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disabilities (DSM-5) and see if you find one that does not fit Trump’s character. He is another national pandemic we need to eliminate. The world Is worried about the lack of American leadership I was somewhat surprised to see a column titled “”To America, From A Worried European Friend” in the July 29 issue of the conservative Wall Street Journal, written by Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the American Jewish Committee, a global advocacy organization based in Brussels, Belgium. The paper knew a lot about him because he worked for the WSJ seven years as an editorial page writer and op-ed editor in Brussels and Amsterdam before assuming his present position. He was quite eloquent in expressing his concerns about Trump Company: “America today is what it has always been: a flawed society, like all others, but also a unique force for good in the world. No other multiethnic, multi-religious society can credibly claim to be more democratic, more prosperous and more just than the U.S. But America

cannot remain the leader of the free world if it is itself no longer free. To be the guarantor of Western security requires military and economic power, but also a sense of mission. And right now Americans are committing mass character suicide…A country convinced that it is irredeemably racist can’t lead the world as the indispensable nation. America’s headed for unprecedented polarization and possible civil unrest.” The former WSJ op-ed editor has expressed the thoughts of most of the capitals of Europe. It has come to pass that the rich since Ronald Reagan are enjoying a Golden Age of impunity. For the last 40 years disaster capitalism has screwed the middle class and the colored races, including some whites. In the future we will need an economic system that will work for everyone, not just the top Ten Percent. We currently have 705 billionaires and 18.6 million millionaires in the Divided States of America. About 60% of their current wealth is inherited. In 2020 Americans will inherit about $765 billion. Many inheritors have never worked a day in their lives. They don’t even stick around when the going gets a little tough. The census takers in New York City are having a devil of a time doing their job because the lowest response rates to the census come from the wealthiest areas of the city. Many official residences of the wealthy are empty because they have escaped the virus by going to their island alwayson-vacation homes around the world. What are the 500,000 ultrawealthy doing to help? There are 500,000 people in the world who have fortunes exceeding $30 million. Many keep busy flitting among the estates most of them own. An underwhelming 83 of them have called upon their governments to permanently increase their taxes to help their countries pay for the economic recovery from COVID-19. Some of the rich have empathy: “We are not the ones caring for the sick in intensive care wards. We are not driving the ambulances that will bring the ill to hospitals. We are not stocking grocery store shelves or delivering food door to door. But we do have money, lots of it. Money that is desperately needed now and will continue to be needed in the years ahead, as our world

recovers from this crisis.” Bravo! But then we have the others, just like our Great Leader, who love only themselves. Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez will each spend six months in jail, will pay a fine of $200,000, and work off 200 hours of community service for spending more than $500,000 to get their two daughters enrolled in elite universities. Such an effort included bribing coaches, preparing fake athletic photos to interest recruiters, fixing scores on entrance exams, and other sins too numerous to mention. They are among the 55 wealthy people charged with fraud and racketeering by the FBI so far. The statement made by the judge in this case chastises the wealthy for the selfishness demonstrated in all the fraud cases: “You have woefully misused your great wealth, and for the commission of this crime you need to go to jail, not only as punishment but also to deter any like-minded millionaires who might think that just because they are over-the-top wealthy, they aren’t obligated to live by the laws or the moral code applicable to everyone else.” It’s a marvelous message to the 500,000 hiding from the virus in their tax havens – and their duties to the common good of their countries. I just read an article about Dwight Eisenhower as supreme commander of allied forces on D-Day during World II and his role as our president during the following peace. In both jobs he realized there must be unity of purpose. He was a skillful manager of people while being an unpretentious man. He was buried in an old military uniform with five stars and just one row of ribbons on his chest. His casket was an $81 GI special. There’s a message there. Just 40 years for wealthy to destroy American democracy It’s almost impossible to track the

wealth 0f Amazon’s Jeff Bezos during the last six months because in one day he gained $13 billion. His worldleading personal fortune must be more than $200 billion by now. Since his divorce settlement his exwife is the fourth richest woman in the world at last count. How did he get there? Maybe he is a “stable genius,” but a rotting government has made his climb possible. He still doesn’t pay hundreds of thousands of his workers in hellhole distribution centers a living wage and fights unions at every level! Meanwhile, Amazon and Walmart became monopolies and have closed millions of small businesses in every state. Small business owners became Walmart greeters. The agencies responsible for regulating capitalism have been starved in the last four decades. The Internal Revenue Service has been cut 23% in the last decade. More than 30% of the FBI investigators who normally patrolled the “Greed is Good” boys of Wall Street were reassigned between 2001 and 2008. That’s exactly when Wall Street bankers brought on the Bush Recession by making lousy subprime mortgage loans one day and peddling them out the back door to investment suckers the next. Millions of Americans lost their homes as a result. U.S. banks should keep any mortgage they grant for the life of it. Canadian bankers have to be responsible for the life of mortgages. Canada did not have a housing disaster In 2010 the Obama administration created “wealth squads” to find tax evaders and avoiders. It takes a lot of investigators to check on millionaires who may have bank accounts in 100 banks recommended by lawyers specializing in financial matters in Panama, Delaware, South Dakota, Monaco and hundreds of island tax havens. To examine 100 bank accounts an

investigator has to get 100 subpoenas. Some billionaire tax returns are 800 pages long. In 2014 The IRS estimated that one hour of investigative time yielded $4,545 in recovered revenue per hour. Because of funding cuts, only 3% of almost 20 million U.S. billionaire and millionaire tax returns are audited, The rest are probably getting away with fraud, abuse, neglect and outright thievery. “Catch Me If You Can” becomes reality. We now have 14 million households with 40 million people going hungry in the so-called richest country in the world. Of our 700 billionaires only 100 have pledged to give away half of their wealth to charity. They “earn” it so fast it’s hard to spend it. In the last 10 years their wealth has increased 95%, from $376 billion to $734 billion. In the last four months the 100 have increased their wealth during the pandemic by $214 billion. That’s why there’s so much money in the Wall Street casino stock market. It’s like Vegas on steroids. Who is regulating health insurance and hospital charges? How are billionaires getting more billions? We now have $2.125 million single drug treatments for spinal muscular atrophy and a drug treatment costing $71,306.48 a month for abnormal fat distribution. The

drug companies have already killed 230,000 people with prescription drugs. Evidently, now they are creating 230,000 medical bankruptcies through drug bills. Debbie Krebs, an insurance attorney, went to a New Jersey emergency room for a COVID-19 test because of lung pain and cough. The test was negative but her bill wasn’t. It was $1,980. Hayan Chara camped in a line for about 10 hours so his eight-year-old son could have a COVID-19 test. His final bill came to $2,479 although the test cost $175. Welcome to free market health. One western hospital has an interesting range for COVID-19 tests: $199 to $6,408! One Texas lab charges $2,315 for virus tests. A recent COVID-19 victim had to have a double-lung transplant. The primary bill was $1.3 million, but did not include intensive care, hospital room, and “miscellaneous” costs. She’s waiting for the rest of the bills, hoping some are not “out-of-network.” If you are against a universal health care system such as Medicare-For-All you must be a health insurance CEO, a hospital administrator, a cardiologist, a Wall Street investor, a real fan of Joe Biden, or go to Fox News for medical news instead of the New England Journal of Medicine or the Lancet.

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Open letter to public school superintendents Minnesota’s superintendents of public schools have been placed in a difficult position, one that the folks at the CDC and the Minnesota Department of Health (DOH) have put them in with their Distance Learning Plan 2.0. I would like to point out some flaws in the DOH’s Distance Learning Plan 2.0, which I fear will be obediently and blindly followed by school districts across the state, without anyone in position of power and influence actually checking the DOH’s math. The figures published in the Aug. 5 Duluth NewsTribune presented the following information about the increasingly restrictive learning levels for schools according to the incidence of COVID-19 “cases” that have been reported to the DOH. What follows is the Distance Learning Plan 2.0 formula that totally ignores the reality that the RT-PCR nasal swab test, which is considered the “gold standard” for making the diagnosis of COVID-19, is fatally flawed, resulting in high percentages of false positive tests (see article below for more information) that make the test essentially worthless – and misleading. The first of the serious problems dealt with in this article is the flawed DOH 5-part formula for how Minnesota’s children are to be educated this fall and into the future. 1. if the incidence of “cases” (actually positive tests, which are frequently false positives) is 0 – 9 per 10,000 in the community then all elementary

and secondary schools can open for in-person learning. This tiny fraction (less than 10/10,000 means that there are essentially zero active “cases” (or at least what the Public Health bureaucracy considers “cases”) in the community; 2. if the community incidence was between 10 – 19 “cases” per 10,000 population, in-person learning would be still be allowed for elementary students but “hybrid” learning would be offered for secondary students; 3. if there were 20 – 29 “cases“ per 10,000 population, then both elementary and secondary schools would have to be ”hybrid”; 4. if there were 30 – 49 “cases” per 10,000 population: elementary schools “could be hybrid” while secondary schools “would be hybrid”; 5. if there were 50 or more “cases” per 10,000 population, all students would be offered only distance learning, essentially meaning a return to essentially lock-down status for students – and parents. However, each of those ranges of “cases” actually represents very small incremental fractions of the community that are erroneously assumed to be sick and contagious despite many of the cases being totally asymptomatic and essentially noncontagious. Moreover, these “assumptions” about how far to open our public schools are based on seriously flawed PCR tests – with the incidence of each of the five groups falling below the numbers of annual common cold coronavirus infections, annual influenza infection or the more common “influenza-like

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illnesses” (ILI) cases that are epidemic each flu season – none of which, it must be pointed out, have resulted in draconian lock-downs – or even mandatory mask-wearing. What is being uncritically reported to the DOH includes totally asymptomatic “cases” of people that had false positive nasal swab tests but never were ill and never become ill after the false positive test results were revealed. Unfortunately, these PCR tests have never been approved by the FDA for diagnostic testing, but that hasn’t stopped them from being very profitably marketed by a multitude of biomedical companies. Instead, they have been granted blanket Emergency Authorized Use by the FDA! Every PCR test kit on the market – to my knowledge – has been found to have high percentages of false positive results, often in the 40% to 70% range. That makes them unreliable at best and worthless at worst, especially when the test results are used for propaganda purposes by greedy, vaccinology-illiterate billionaires like Bill Gates and his billionaire buddies at the World Economic Forum, co-opted academic epidemiologists/statisticians, CDC bureaucrats, WHO bureaucrats and greedy Big Pharma/Big Media/Big Medicine CEOs that have influenced governments all around the world. Other innocent entities that are necessarily vaccinology-illiterate (because vaccinology and virology

are such complex areas of study) and are therefore dependent on the advice of bought-and-paid for “scientists-for-profit”, include struggling small business owners, school superintendents, mayors, governors, presidents, politicians and even most physicians and nurses that are influencing serious decisions about the futures of our nation’s children, the economy and the planet. The DOH’s statistical error that needs to be pointed out to all public school superintendents and school boards in Minnesota is this: the seemingly large “relative” differences between 10 or 20 or 30 of 50 “cases” per 10,000 population “actually” means 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 PCR positive tests per 1,000 population, which, in “actual” percentage terms, translates to the very small percentage figure differences of 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3% or 0.5%. What should disturb everybody is the fact that the Minnesota Department of Health (probably at the behest of the CDC) has erroneously/deceptively (intentionally?) led us all to believe that a positive PCR test is the same as a “case” of COVID-19, whereas nothing could be further from the truth. To document the above statements, read Julian Rose’s article “PCR Testing Can’t Tell the Difference Between Benign Common Cold Coronaviruses and the COVID-19 Coronavirus” at globalresearch.ca.

Gambling with children “The U.S. attempt to return children to the classroom this fall has turned into a slow-motion train wreck...” Anne Flaherty, ABC News Parents, teachers, and medical experts are worried about sending children back to school. People are worried about the consequences of opening schools for in-person classes while Covid-19 cases continue to climb and people increasingly refuse to follow recommended protective measures. In the rush to get back to “normal” and open up the economy, are we gambling with the safety of our children? Contrary to what was thought earlier in this pandemic, children are not immune to this virus. Young people are getting sick and they can transmit the disease to others. Covid-19 is not just another flu bug. It is more contagious, can be harder to overcome, and can have serious long term effects. It is not limited to older individuals with other health problems. A recent report by the American Academy of Pediatrics estimates 338,000 children have been infected in the United States. In the last two weeks of July 97,000 cases were reported in children. So cramming kids into confined spaces (school buses, crowded hallways, cafeterias and poorly ventilated classrooms) is going to result in increasing the spread of the disease. Before the pandemic many schools were crowded and had old, inadequate facilities. Almost all schools were underfunded and were cutting noninstructional staff like school nurses, counselors and aides. It is simply not reasonable to think that suddenly schools will be able to accomplish the social distancing, health monitoring, hand washing, smaller class sizes, and other disease control measures needed to open regular classes safely. These fears are being confirmed in places where schools and similar activities have already opened. Despite extensive planning, and supposedly following recommended safety procedures, re-opening is not going well.

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Schools that have resumed in-person classes are experiencing new virus outbreaks resulting in students being quarantined and re-opening plans being abandoned Georgia is the national petri dish for gambling with children’s health. Earlier this year a summer camp in Georgia had 75% of the campers and staff (almost all of them under 18 years old) test positive for the virus. They were supposedly following all recommended control measures. Another example is North Paulding High School in Georgia where a student posted photos of a crowded hallway with no social distancing and few masks being worn. The student was initially suspended for posting the photos but the administration had to back down. After the FIRST WEEK of school NINE students tested positive (with many more waiting results) and the school temporarily moved to online instruction. Georgia’s Cherokee County School District has 42,000 students and open-ed Aug. 3. They have reported 59 positive COVID-19 cases and have quarantined more than 1,200 students as of August 11. The district’s Etowah High School has 17% of the in-person students in quarantine. According to the district administrator, 77% of students’ parents supported in-person classes. In contrast 80% of parents nationally do not favor in-person opening. In Georgia 866 student athletes across the state have tested positive since sports practice stated in June. On Aug. 11, the state posted its highest single-day death total of 137 fatalities. The state is averaging 60 deaths each day. Quarantine doesn’t mean the affected students are sick or even testing positive. But when one student does get sick, or tests positive, ALL the students and staff that ONE student came into contact with must be quarantined for 14 days. The rush to open schools is creating chaos rather than education for students. Wisconsin Public Radio reports most of Wisconsin’s rural schools are planning to reopen in-person classes with no mask requirements. Sixtytwo percent said their districts were planning for in-person reopening with social distancing. The other 38 percent were planning for some combination of online and in-person instruction. Madison area schools originally planned to open with a combination

of online and in-person classes to allow more social distancing but have since changed to only on-line instruction. In Minnesota schools will have three options: in-person classes, full time distance learning, or some combination of both. The decision will be made by local school boards based on the number of COVID-19 cases in their area. There are other health standards including requiring masks. The two largest districts, Minneapolis and St. Paul are opening with only online classes. A number of other suburban districts are trying hybrid arrangements. Many rural districts will meet the criteria to have in-person classes. In Minnesota Gov. Walz plans to provide an additional $250 million to help with the increased costs. In Wisconsin Gov. Evers is using $46.6 million in federal pandemic relief funds to provide grants for local school districts. Will this extra money be enough to handle the pandemic-related costs? The national School Superintendents Association estimates school districts will need $200 billion ($490 per student) for schools to re-open safely. Using this estimate Minnesota would need $436 million and Wisconsin $427 million. Does anyone believe the extra staff, school buses, nurses, testing kits, or money necessary to re-open safely will

actually be provided? Certainly this will not happen in Wisconsin, where the Republican-controlled legislature is doing everything possible to defeat Evers’ efforts to control the virus. They have a long history of cutting funding for public schools. Even with everyone pulling together, defeating this pandemic and safely opening the schools would be a huge task. But we live in a divided country. Now we are truly caught between a rock and a hard place. Because of the initial ineffective response to this pandemic the economy is in shambles. A key part of re-opening the economy is opening the schools. We need the full-time child care services provided by schools. Everywhere people have opened things up there has been a spike in new COVID-19 cases. There is no reason to believe opening schools will be any different. Rushing to fully open schools will risk the health, and possibly lives, of students, teachers, school staff and their families. We are gambling with the health of our children and ourselves.

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Awesome! It isn’t often that you can thank your overweight belly for saving your life, but a 28-year-old man in Henan Province, China, is doing just that. The man, identified as Liu, fell through a wooden cover on a well in his hometown of Fuliudian Village on Aug. 7, Fox News reported. But rather than plunging to the bottom, he got stuck in the opening with his built-in life preserver. At least five firefighters were needed to hoist the man out of the well. [Fox News, 8/12/2020] Oops At Shooters World in Orlando, Florida, a teenage girl walked into a display gun safe on Aug. 11 – and the door closed behind her, locking her inside. Orlando firefighters responded to the scene, where they “tried the manufacturers’ suggestions and unfortunately the fail-safe system failed on it,” explained Chief J.J. White. Instead, ClickOrlando.com reported, responders used a hydraulic extrication tool to free the girl. [ClickOrlando.com, 8/11/2020] Compelling explanation In Chesterfield County (Virginia) court on Aug. 12, prosecutors and the defense attorney for 55-year-old Robert Raff floated a dubious agreement in Raff’s grisly murder case. Raff is accused of killing his father and his mother in the same home, during the same twoday period in 2019. Two psychologists agreed that at the time of the killings, Raff was insane. But the lawyers want to hold him culpable for his mother’s death, but not guilty by reason of insanity for his father’s death. “Explain to me how he can be guilty of one and not guilty of the other?” asked Circuit Judge David E. Johnson, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Raff, who has a long history of mental health issues, admitted to killing both parents. The lawyers’ unusual plea agreement is designed to produce a suspended 40-year sentence for the killing of his mother that would compel Raff to adhere to treatment at the Central State Hospital for the murder of his father. [Richmond Times-Dispatch, 8/12/2020] Government in action Jade Dodd renewed her driver’s license in Hickman County, Tennessee, on time, but when she received the new card in the mail, it was missing a key ingredient: her photo. Where Dodd’s face should have been was an empty chair, WKRN reported. “The lady at the DMV did not really believe me when I was like, hey, I need my

license fixed,” Dodd said. Wes Moster of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security explained that the chair photo was an old one on file for Dodd that was reused for the renewal by mistake, and she was issued a new license right away. [WKRN, 8/11/2020] Chutzpah Daniel Albert Neja, 39, is a homeless man who resides in St. Petersburg, Fla. For nearly two weeks, however, Neja lived in relative luxury, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Neja was arrested on Aug. 9 after a cleaning crew found razors, shaving cream containers and blankets in a seldom-cleaned suite at Al Lang Stadium, where the Tampa Bay Rowdies soccer team plays. Neja had been helping himself to food and Rowdies clothing valued at more than $1,000. He had also consumed $250 worth of drinks. [Tampa Bay Times, 8/13/2020] Aspirations Pal Onnen of Hastings, Minnesota, just wanted to put her nwot on the pam, United Press International reported. And indeed, on Aug. 12, she did just taht. Onnen set the Guinness World Record for spelling words backward: 56 words in one etunim. Sgnitsah is so proud of you! [United Press International, 8/13/2020] Bright idea Rev. Eileen Harrop of the Church of England is taking social distancing seriously as houses of worship reopen, Sky News reported. During holy communion, the church has decreed that communicants should be offered only bread, not wine from a “common cup.” But Harrop is going a step further, using extra-long chopsticks to deliver bread. She’s using the method at both churches where she serves. [Sky News, 8/10/2020] Police report Brian Duffy, 40, was charged with felony battery on Aug. 7 following an incident on July 26 at a Pinellas Park, Fla., 7-Eleven. Around 9:20 that morning, Duffy allegedly complained about the price of his Slurpee, knocking the drink out of the worker’s hands and causing the frozen treat to fly “onto the victim’s person,” the police report said, according to The Smoking Gun. Duffy left the store but was later identified by the 7-Eleven employee, although he said he didn’t recall knocking the drink out of her hands. A judge ordered him to have no contact with the victim and to stay away from that particular 7-Eleven. [The Smoking Gun, 8/8/2020]

TASTE! News reports from the Champagne region of France paint a grim picture for this year’s harvest. For a change, the growing level of panic has nothing to do with the weather. The Champagne industry has been slammed by the COVID-19 pandemic. While consumption of table wine has skyrocketed, Champagne sales have plummeted. The widespread lockdowns may keep people sheltering in place and tippling more than usual, but celebrations such as weddings and graduations have been verboten. It has been reported that by fall, there could be as many as 100 million unsold bottles of Champagne resting in the cellars of the Champagne region. Worldwide Champagne sales have dropped a stunning $2 billion. In France alone, which accounts for 50% of all Champagne sales, the drop is 70% of normal. France was in total lockdown for more than two months due to COVID-19. The backup in inventory is so great that an emergency meeting has been called for Aug. 18 to

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decide whether to proceed with the harvest or destroy the grapes. Other alternatives being considered are using the grapes to produce hand sanitizer, or possibly table wines without the fizz, though table wine from this rather cool region (where grapes struggle to ripen) could be a bit rough around the edges. The CIVC, the organization that controls regulations in the Champagne region, is likely to impose severe limits on harvested grapes due to the backlog in inventory. One option not being discussed, at least openly, is a dramatic reduction in price. Champagne is expensive. It is expensive primarily because it is timeconsuming and costly to produce. Many non-vintage Champagnes are aged a minimum of three years before release. That’s a long time to sit on inventory without any sales revenue. Vintage Champagne and special cuvee Champagne are typically aged far longer than non-vintage Champagne, sometimes up to nine years. The old saying “time is money” is especially true in the Champagne business. By contrast, most New World sparkling wines are released after aging for two years or less. No one knows what the CIVC will decide later this month, but none of the options are very appealing. I’m hoping for a painful but bold decision to move the excess inventory with steep discounts worldwide. For wine consumers, that would be something to celebrate during these strange times.

Best Value 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. Graham Beck Brut Rose, Western Cape, South Africa ($18.99) – This non-vintage bubbly from South Africa comes in at an attractive price, and you will love what’s in the bottle, too. The cuvee relies heavily on pinot noir, hence the strong note of raspberry and cherry. A jolt (34%) of chardonnay brings structure and notes of citrus. On the palate, this sparkling rose is supple and inviting, shows exceptional fruit purity and delivers great persistence through the finish. Rating: 88. Tasting Notes Majuscule 2018 Cabernet Franc, Mount Veeder ($80) – Forget whatever you know about cabernet franc before you take your first sip of Majuscule. Light? No. Green? No. Boring? Hell no. This beauty from the Napa Valley’s Mount Veeder sub-appellation is richly layered with impressive depth and remarkable complexity. The 2018 shows notes of blueberry and blackberry, supple tannins and a generous hit of wood spice. Hefty price

tag, hefty wine. Rating: 96. La Crema 2016 Pinot Noir, Saralee’s Vineyard, Russian River Valley ($55) – It’s not always easy to find a newrelease pinot noir with a little bit of bottle age, but here it is. La Crema’s 2016 vintage from the iconic Saralee’s Vineyard offers a pinot of uncommon depth and complexity, shows beautifully integrated tannins and is ready to drink now. Complex notes of raspberry, strawberry and cherry come together in a dazzling display of RRV pinot noir at its very best. Rating: 95. MacRostie 2019 Pinot Noir Rose, Russian River Valley ($28) – Bursting with notes of strawberry and cherry, this is a crowd-pleasing dry rose that just goes on and on. MacRostie is famous for its chardonnay and pinot noir, but now it seems rose is getting in on that class act. Rating: 94. Follow Robert on Twitter at @wineguru. To find out more about Robert Whitley and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com. Email Robert at whitleyonwine@yahoo.com.

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BY CHARLYN FARGO Creators Syndicate

So, how much sodium is too much? Depends on how much sodium you’ve had already. It’s the total amount for the day that matters the most – a combination of salt from the shaker and sodium in processed foods. The American Heart Association recommends consuming no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per

day. That’s equivalent to a little more than 1 teaspoon of table salt daily. If you have high blood pressure, the recommendation is 1,500 milligrams of sodium a day. In a 2018 study in the journal Hypertension, researchers found that

a high sodium intake matters to your blood pressure even if you eat a hearthealthy diet. Researcher-correlated data on dietary intake, urinary sodium, blood pressure and other factors for 4,680 middleaged people from the U.S., the United

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Potassium is known to modestly offset the blood pressureboosting effect of high sodium consumption, but you can get too much of a good thing. Consuming very high levels of potassium can be dangerous. The bottom line? Ban the saltshaker at the table, and limit your intake of foods high in sodium such as bacon, sausage, ham, deli meats, chips, canned soups, soy sauce and pickles. Stay on the road to healthier eating by choosing more fruits and veggies. Q and A Q: Should the percentage intake of macronutrients (protein, carbohydrates and fat) be adjusted depending on body type? A: We’ve all heard claims that individuals with different body types metabolize nutrients differently,

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but currently, there is no scientific evidence to support that, according to Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter. Here’s what is supported by science: Choose an eating pattern based on MyPlate from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The tried-and-true plan recommends to fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables, a fourth with lean protein and a fourth with whole grains, along with a lean dairy. Rather than worry about macros, use the MyPlate pattern for every meal. It will help you eat healthier and maintain a healthy weight. RECIPE Here’s a low sodium recipe – with plenty of vegetables – to try as a summer side. Top it with your favorite protein to make it a main dish. This chopped salad is from Eating Well magazine. CORNBREAD CHOPPED SALAD 1/2 cup cubed cornbread 6 cups chopped romaine lettuce 1 1/2 cups thinly sliced red cabbage 1/2 cup canned black-eyed peas,

halfway, until golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool. Combine lettuce, cabbage, blackeyed peas, corn, tomatoes and pimientos in a large bowl. Add dressing, and toss to coat. Serve topped with onion and the corn-bread croutons. Serves 6 (1 1/3 cups each). Per serving: 160 calories; 3 grams protein; 15 grams carbohydrates; 10 grams fat (2 grams saturated); 3 grams fiber; 5 grams total sugars (0 added); 272 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 @NutritionRD. To find out more about Charlyn Fargo and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com

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Pairing pointers for wine novices Pairing a delicious meal with the perfect wine can be a match made in heaven. Wine novices may be intimidated by the challenge of making the perfect pairing, but they need not put themselves under such pressure. Just because a certain wine might make for a perfect pairing, that doesn’t mean others cannot step in and serve an equally flavorful function. People who appreciate a great meal accompanied by an equally great wine need not have an encyclopedic knowledge of food or wine to successfully pair the two together. In fact, some basic pairing knowledge might be all that’s truly necessary to make a meal more memorable. • White and light: White wine fans should know that such wines tend to pair best with light meat, such as chicken or fish. According to Backbar, a platform designed to help bars and restau-

rants manage their inventory more effectively, white wines pair well with fish because the acidity in these wines enhances the taste of the fish. Chicken dishes vary greatly, and the online wine resource Wine Folly (winefolly.com) notes that the sauce will greatly affect the flavor of the meat. That means a wine that pairs well with a certain chicken dish may not necessarily pair as well with a different one. Representatives at local liquor stores or wineries can help people choose which wine to pair with chicken dishes. • Reds and reds: Red meats tend to match up best with red wines. Though they can be found in white wines, tannins are predominantly found in red wines. According to Backbar, the tannins in red wines soften the proteins in the meat, thereby helping enhance the flavors of the fat. That makes for a more flavorful meal.

White and light wines pair beautifully with fish and shellfish. • No need to spice things up: Spicy foods are beloved across the globe. Such foods can be among the more intimidating to pair with wine, as spicy foods have bold flavors that no one wants to detract from. In a 2016 interview with Eater. com, professional chef Sean Pharr advised against pairing high alcohol wines with spicy foods, noting that the alcohol can intensify the heat and spice of the food. That can

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prove disastrous for anyone trying to impress a date or show off their skills with spice. Many people prefer a Riesling with spicy food, as the sweetness of this white wine can help offset the spice, making for a satisfying, flavorful meal. Pairing wines may seem intimidating. But a few simple strategies can help novices find a wine that makes a homemade meal that much more delicious.

Match food to favorite brews The rise of craft and home brewing has created more beer flavor profiles than ever before. In fact, there’s likely a beer for everyone, whether you’re a novice or connoisseur. The Brewer’s Association, a trade association that represents small and independent American craft brewers, reports that, in 2018, small and independent brewers collectively produced 25.9 million barrels and experienced a 4 percent total market growth. The BA also states that these small brewers achieved a collective retail dollar takein of $27.6 billion. While wine will always have its enthusiasts, beer is fast on its heels as a popular mealtime beverage. Much in the way wines are paired with certain foods, it has become the natural course of action to pair certain foods with particular styles of beer. “Beer is a great match for food because of the complexity of its flavors, its ability to provide refreshment and to interact with many food flavors,” says Marc Stroobandt, a master beer sommelier for the Food and Beer Consultancy, UK. Although each person has his or her preferences, here is a brief listing of generalized pairings, courtesy of the Brewer’s Association and CraftBeer. com.

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• American Amber Lager: Creamy risotto, wild rice, polenta • American Pale Ale: Game birds, such as duck and quail • Belgian-style Dubbel: Pork chops, sausage, tenderloin • Belgian-style Flanders: Grilled ribeye, root vegetables • Blonde Ale: Chicken, salads, salmon, nutty cheese • Dark Lager: Barbecue, sausage, roasted meat • Hefeweizen: Weisswurst, seafood, sushi • Imperial Stout: Smoked goose, foie gras, strong cheeses • IPA: Spicy foods, curries • Porter: Roasted or smoked foods, blackened fish The Brewer’s Association recommends matching delicate dishes with delicate beers and strong dishes with assertive beers. Commonalities, like aromas and sub-flavors, also work together. A beer with roasted notes may pair well with chocolate, for example. Opposites also attract, in that a spicy food may taste best when paired with a sweet beer. Pairing might once have been limited to matching wines with certain foods. But the booming craft beer business has popularized pairing flavorful beers with foods to make meals even tastier.

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To say that COVID-19 transformed daily life would be an understatement. Few, if any, aspects of life were untouched once the virus hit. One aspect of daily life that changed considerably is the way people shop for food. As recommendations to remain home and out of crowded places spread, many people felt that shopping in bulk, or at the very least, meal-planning and buying necessities for a few weeks at a time, would reduce the number of trips they needed to make to supermarkets or small food stores. In addition, due to shortages of popular foods, many people have purchased items they did not necessarily need in anticipation that such foods may not be available in the coming weeks or months. Large packages of meat and poultry can be broken down and frozen easily. But what about the fresh produce that many people rely on for im-

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portant nutrients? Fresh vegetables only last so long, so people need to learn how to safely freeze fresh vegetables to avoid throwing them out. To freeze vegetables properly so they retain their flavor and texture, it is important to freeze them

within a few hours of picking them from a garden or taking them home. Certain vegetables can be frozen in their raw state. The texture might change slightly upon thawing, but they will remain flavorful. Other vegetables may require blanching before freezing. Blanching requires scalding vegetables in boiling water or steam for a brief time. Then quickly submerge the veggies in ice water to prevent them from cooking. Dry thoroughly on paper towel-lined sheet pans. Why blanch? Blanching prevents enzymes from damaging color, flavor, and nutrients, a process that can occur even in frozen storage. Blanching also destroys unkind microorganisms that might be lingering on the surface of vegetables. Items that do well with blanching include spinach, kale, winter squash, and broccoli, according to HGTV.com. The key to packing fruits and veggies for freezing is to keep moisture inside the package and air outside. Contact with air can cause changes in flavor and color. You can do so by filling containers or bags and pushing out the extra air. Vacuum sealers can work to remove the air and help preserve items in the freezer longer; otherwise, use a tray pack method to freeze items. Place chilled and drained blanched vegetables in shallow trays or pans. Freeze them until the vegetables are firm and then

quickly fill freezer bags or containers, says the National Center for Home Food Preservation. Remember to label and date containers so items can be used in the order in which they were packed. Most vegetables maintain high quality for eight to 12 months at 0 F or lower, according to the University of Georgia. Pack vegetables snuggly to avoid air contact. Wrap freezer bags in heavy-duty foil and seal with freezer tape. Stay away from plastic sandwich bags, which are not heavy-duty enough. A few hours before adding food to the freezer, set the freezer to its coldest setting. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overload the freezer (it will slow the freezing process). Most vegetables can go directly from freezer to boiling water, though corn does best when allowed to thaw a bit first. Fruits are best when allowed to thaw at room temperature. Delicate berries can turn mushy when thawed completely, so consider eating them before theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thoroughly thawed, such as in smoothies or as a topping for ice cream or yogurt.

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Duluth Herald August 21, 1888 Col. Wood’s Aquarium. The veteran show manager, Col. J. H. Wood, is in Duluth again, this time with his aquarium car, in which he exhibits a host of novelties and interesting sights. The car is at the Lake avenue crossing and will be open for exhibition from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow. It is well worth seeing. There are alligators of every size and age, rare and beautifully plumaged birds from every country on earth. Cages of monkeys and apes, hundreds of curiosities, a live Asiatic vampire, life size figures of the hanged Chicago Anarchists in wax, two mermaids and scores of novelties that cannot be enumerated. Col. Wood is assisted by his wife, and their beautiful car is made enjoyable to all who visit it. It is a rare sight for ladies and children. It has taken a lifetime to gather his curiosities together and they represent $50,000 cash. Admission is 25 cents. Duluth Herald August 21, 1890 BIG JOBS IN STONE. The Lyceum Theater Contract: Work of One Stone Yard. The contract for the stone work for the superstructure of the Lyceum theater has been let to Quinby & Omeis of this city. The contract is for a total sum of $37,000. Besides this the Duluth Brownstone company is furnishing about $10,000 worth of stone for the elegant theatre. The superstructure is to be entirely of red sandstone of the Portage quarries. It was intended to use brownstone from

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of similar ones that have become very common in the past two or three years. Many of the admiral’s intimate friends have mistaken Mr. Van Buren for the genuine article several times. President McKinley was once very nearly caught, and was about to address him as “admiral” when he suddenly stopped, looked closely at Mr. Van Buren and expressed astonishment at the wonderful resemblance. Mr. Van Buren sent his picture to Dewey about the time the remarkable likeness began to attract notice, and received a cordial note from the latter, in which he admitted that there was a very strong likeness. Not many months ago Mr. Van Buren met him and was with him for about ten minutes, and they had a good laugh over the singular resemblance, which they bore to each other, but yet it was easy to see that it was very striking and might fool anyone but the admiral’s most intimate friends. The likeness has brought many amusing incidents to Mr. Van Buren. Among these have been several mistakes made by men who had served under Dewey. He will remain in Duluth for two or three weeks. He is accompanied by F. R. Burg of Elgin, Ill.

Ad appearing in the Aug 26,1922 edition of the Duluth Herald. the Duluth company’s quarries, but the job was too large for the company to undertake with its other work. The contracts for this building are the largest ever made in Duluth, in fact are nearly double what a year or two ago were considered enormous stone jobs. “I am going to St. Paul and Minneapolis this evening,” said F. H. Quinby, “to get more stonecutters. We have about $125,000 of cut stone contracts on hand now, al of them for Duluth buildings, and we are working forty-five or fifty men. This theater job is such a large on and must be done so suddenly that we shall need very many more men and I shall soon have 125 or 130 cutters and carvers at work in the Lake avenue yard.” Nothing in Duluth illustrates the growth of this city better than the growing output of local quarries, and the larger employment in them and the several cutting yards of the city is a very material factor in the business of the city. Duluth Herald August 23, 1900

HIS DOUBLE. Man Whose Likeness to Admiral Dewey Is So Remarkable Is Here. “Admiral Dewey is in town.” That was the word which was flashed up and down the street today. Several men who had seen Dewey in the past were ready to swear that they had seen him in Duluth today. Everyone is as familiar with his picture as that of any American who has ever lived, and so when a man of medium height, with white hair and white mustache, and with every indication of being the genuine Dewey, was pointed out, every man who saw him succumbed and was a hero worshipper for a time. What could Dewey be doing here at this time and how did he get in unannounced? was the question on every lip. The cause of all the excitement is Frederick Van Buren, a traveling man of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who is here at the present time for relief from hay fever suffering. It is no new thing for him to be mistaken for the famous admiral, for the mistake which has been made in Duluth is but a repetition

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Ad appearing in the Aug. 25,1920 edition of the Duluth Herald. Duluth Herald August 24, 1910 STRAY SHOT STRIKES BOY Walter Knight Shot in Hip By an Unknown Person. Injury Is Not Serious and The Boy Will Recover. Walter Knight, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Knight, was accidentally shot in the hip this morning by an unknown person. He was repairing fences near his home at Forty-first avenue west and Eighth street with a hired man. He states that he heard a shot and then felt a bullet strike him. It is believed that someone shooting carelessly at targets is responsible for the boy’s injury. He was taken to the office of Dr. A. E. Walker, who dressed the wound and sent him back to his home. Unless an infections sets in he will recover. The bullet has not been removed. It is claimed that there is too much promiscuous shooting in the city limits and that something radical should be done to put a stop to it. Duluth Herald August 25, 1920 SQUAW DANCE MENACED. Younger Indians at La Flambeau Assert “Shimmy” Indicative of Progress. Ashland (Special to The Herald) – The council of older Indians at La

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Flambeau to put the ban upon the “shimmy” dance, and other modern innovations which are threatening to supersede the ancient dances of the Chippewa tribes, has met with defiance on the part of the younger generation. The younger generation take the ground that the squaw dance is well enough as a formal dance to perpetuate the ancient customs of the tribes, but that the shimmy and the fox trot give that tinge of exhilaration which the formal dance lacks. “If the white people simply adhered to their ancient dances,” say the younger Indians, “they would be dancing the minuet and the polka, just as we are expected to confine our activities to the squaw dance and the scalp dance.” The agents at the several Wisconsin reservations see in this the inevitable struggle between progress and conservation, and are not taking sides. The trouble began a month ago, when older members of the band at Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation objected to the introduction of the shimmy and the fox trot into the ancient squaw dance. Duluth Herald August 26, 1922 JACK LENCE FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER Hyatt Slayer Sentenced to Life by Judge Stanton. Grand Rapids (Special to The Herald) – After being out from 3:30 until about 8 o’clock last night, the jury in the murder case of the state vs. Jack Lence returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The verdict of guilty was arrived at within ten minutes after the jury retired, but the time taken was spent in determining the degree of guilt of the defendant. Judge C. W. Stanton immediately sentenced Lence

Ad appearing in the Aug. 25,1920 edition of the Duluth Herald. to life imprisonment. Lence was a former police officer of Taconite, who, when Officers E. P. Hyatt and Howard Harmon went to arrest him at Holman on a moonshine warrant on July 3, show down the officers, from which shooting Mr. Hyatt died two weeks afterwards. Lence made a place of self-defense. He went on the stand in his own behalf, testifying that the officers had

attacked him with clubs and that he had shot them in self-defense. This statement was made by Lence and was practically unsupported, while the state had four eye-witnesses who testified that the officers had not used any violence and that they had been shot down in cold blood without any provocation. County Attorney Ralph A. Stone prosecuted the case.

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Living the dream Man’s plan to sail Viking ship from Duluth to Oslo carried out by family While recovering from a fall in 1971, Moorhead Junior High School guidance counselor Robert Asp read a book on Viking shipbuilding. This sparked the thought that he should build and sail his own Viking ship. After 10 years of planning, building, and training, the ship named Hjemkomst sailed from Duluth, Minnesota, to Oslo, Norway. Robert Asp dreamed of building and sailing a Viking ship as a way to connect with his Norwegian heritage. He read several books on the subject while recovering from a broken leg after a fall. Once recovered, he began working on the ship in earnest. Asp chose for his ship the name Hjemkomst, a Norwegian word that means homecoming, and set his plan to sail the Atlantic Ocean into action. In July 1972, the first lumber was milled at Harvey Engen’s sawmill north of Viking, Minnesota. Asp personally selected each white oak tree that was milled. He estimated that 15 trees would be needed to build a Viking ship; ultimately, more than 100 were needed. He chose an old potato warehouse in Hawley, Minnesota, to house the ship and leased it from the city for $10 per year. Renovations transformed the Welter Potato Warehouse into the newly minted Hawley Shipyard. Asp was diagnosed with leukemia in 1974 but never lost sight of finishing his dream ship. It took six years for him and his volunteers to complete. The finished ship featured the horned head of a dragon, which the crew named Igor, at the bow. Sleeping quarters, along with a stove, water, food, sea anchor and inflatable life boat, were all outfitted on the ship. The center mast was 63 feet tall and supported a 30’ x 40’ main sail and a 10’ x 30’ top sail. On July 17, 1980, the Hjemkomst

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Above, the Hjemkomst and crew on open water during their voyage to Norway, 1982. At right, Robert Asp works on board his dream viking vessel. Photos from the Asp collection, Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. made her debut and was presented to a cheering public. The ship was towed overland from Hawley to Duluth and first set sail in Duluth Harbor on Aug. 9, 1980. More than 4,000 spectators witnessed the maiden voyage. The crew trained for weeks on Lake Superior for their journey to Norway. Robert Asp took his last trip on his dream ship in Duluth Harbor on Sept. 27, 1980. He died of leukemia later that year on Dec. 27. After his death, his family and friends remained committed to keeping his dream of sailing the Hjemkomst to Norway alive.

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The Hjemkomst in New York Harbor, June 8, 1982.

In May of 1982, a crew of 13, including four of Robert’s children, began the voyage from Duluth to Norway. The first leg of the journey took them through the Great Lakes, where they stopped in several port cities for celebrations. The Hjemkomst arrived in New York City on June 8, 1982. The ship sailed around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor and then embarked on its cross-Atlantic journey. A few days out of New York, the crew encountered a storm. When the winds and waves caused damage to the ship, including a crack that ran 14 feet along the keel, the crew considered turning around. However, their experienced Norwegian skipper determined that they could continue on. During the following weeks, the crew sailed and entertained themselves by writing in journals, playing cards, water skiing off the back of the ship, and playing guitar and singing. On July 19, 1982, the crew arrived in Bergen, Norway. Family and friends had flown to Norway to greet them and locals came out in large crowds. The crew was honored in many celebrations, including a royal visit with the king of Norway on his yacht. The Hjemkomst fulfilled Robert Asp’s dream by reaching its final destination of Oslo, Norway, on Aug. 9, 1982. The Hjemkomst was stored in Oslo for one year after the voyage, then transported from Norway to Cleveland, Ohio, aboard a freight ship in August 1983. It was towed from Cleveland to Detroit, Michigan, and transported by truck back to Minnesota. In 1986, the Asp family donated the Hjemkomst to the City of Moorhead. The city built a visitors’ center to preserve the ship, tell the tale of the voyage, and keep Robert Asp’s dream alive for future generations. The Hjemkomst was taken into the

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care of the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County and installed in a museum (the Hjemkomst Center).

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recessed lighting in home office Dear James: The lighting is bad in my home office, and I plan to add some recessed lighting. I need it primarily over my computer. What is the best type of recessed light to use? – Donald H.

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Dear Donald: Recessed light is a good choice for your home office, particularly over your computer area. With the lighting coming down from directly above, there should be very little reflected glare on the monitor. Studies have shown adequate lighting is also good for concentration and creativity.

There are two design choices you must make. First, if the recessed light is in a ceiling under the attic, it is wise to select a sealed, airtight design for energy efficiency. It is not safe to insulate a standard recessed light fixture, because it is not designed for the heat buildup. If there is a second floor above the fixture, this is not

an issue. Next, decide if you want a fixed or an adjustable recessed light fixture. Fixed fixtures look nicer because the lightbulb is totally recessed in the fixture. Its drawback is you cannot change the direction of the light. Some

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bulbs have a 135-degree range of light, so even a fixed one illuminates a fairly large area. An adjustable recessed light fixture is designed similarly to a fish-eye bulb with a spherical section extending downward from the primary canister. By rotating the fish-eye section, which actually holds the bulb, the direction of the light can be changed. If you are installing just one recessed light, select a fish-eye design. A fixed one may satisfy your current lighting needs, but if you move anything, the lighting will be in the wrong location. If you install several recessed lights, select fixed ones, and space them appropriately so there is overlap. Most bedrooms already have some type of light fixture in the ceiling that is controlled by a wall switch, so use this as your source of electricity. If there is no existing light fixture, and you have to run a wire to the new light fixture, you might consider using track lighting instead. This is easy to install on the ceiling surface, and it does not require fishing a wire through the ceiling. Determine where you want to locate the recessed fixture(s). All recessed light fixtures include a paper

template showing the size of the hole to be cut in the ceiling. Tape the template up on the ceiling. Before starting to cut the hole in the ceiling drywall along the template, drill several small holes around the perimeter of the circle. Poke a long wood or plastic stick up through the holes to make sure you are not hitting a ceiling joist, plumbing or wiring. It is easy to fill the small holes with spackling compound if you have to find another location for the light. Another method to check inside the ceiling is to drill a hole in the center of the template. Bend a stiff wire at a right angle, making one leg the radius of the template. Stick the wire up through the hole, and spin it around. You will feel if it hits anything inside the ceiling. Install the fixture per the manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s instructions. Send your questions to Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s How, 6906 Royalgreen Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45244, or visit dulley.com. To find out more about James Dulley and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com.

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Here comes the space junk! Dear EarthTalk: Elon Musk plans to put thousands of new satellites into space to blanket Earth with high speed Internet. What are the environmental implications of this? – M. C., Atlanta. GA Putting sat-ellites up into the ionosphere – the layer of our atmosphere extending from 50-600 miles above the surface where a high concentration of ions and free electrons facilitate the reflection of radio waves – isn’t anything new. The Soviets beat us to the punch when they launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, but these days there are more than 9,000 satellites overhead, the majority from U.S.

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Some 9,000 satellites already orbit the ionosphere hundreds of miles above Earth’s surface, shedding parts that turn into hurtling “space junk.” Credit: Pixabay. companies and government agencies. But with Elon Musk’s SpaceX poised to launch tens of thousands of new ones in the next few years, many people wonder whether putting all this technology overhead is such a good idea.

This beach ball-sized satellite started it all on Oct. 4, 1957. Actually, this is a replica of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite in outer space. The replica is stored in the National Air and Space Museum. Public domain photo. One concern is that all this hardware eventually breaks down and shed parts. Peter Greenstreet of the Institute of Physics reports that this so-called “space junk” orbits at some 7.5 kilometers per second – so fast that even the tiniest pieces create a potential hazard for space stations and other man-made or natural objects making the same rounds. Greenstreet adds that space junk falling to Earth’s surface is less of a concern, given that most of it breaks down into tiny pieces due to the heat and friction encountered upon entry to our atmosphere and thus stands little to no chance of hurting any people or property below. Another environmental issue with satellite proliferation is so-called “sky

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pollution.” By reflecting the light of the sun, satellites cause streaks of light across the sky where astronomers would prefer darkness for peering into the heavens and where everyday people will be robbed of their own views of a dark sky. But despite these drawbacks, there are plenty of good reasons to like satellites if you care about the environment. “From the International Space Station (ISS) to hundreds of other observational satellites, remote sensing allows for climate and environmental monitoring,” reports Daisy Gill on Earth.org. “These imaging satellites are an incredible source of data for climate change research, enabling us to see the global changes on the planet that are happening more frequently, and with data freely available for anyone to view and use.” Examples include tracking changing oceanic temperatures, currents and sea level. Satellites are also key to understanding global and local precipitation and flooding patterns, how wildfires start and spread, the distribution of wildlife populations, and other indicators of environmental health. Satellites are also useful as early warning systems for natural disasters and extreme weather events. If we can figure out ways to clean up space junk, we can use satellites with less guilt. NASA’s e.DeOrbit project is focusing on seeking out and removing satellite debris in the upper reaches of the ionosphere. Meanwhile, the European Space Agency is hard at work on its own “capture mechanisms” to pick up space debris such as nets, harpoons robotic arms and tentacles. Only time will tell if these technologies can help restore the heavens above – or at least the ionosphere—to a more pristine state. EarthTalk® is produced by Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss for the 501(c)3 nonprofit EarthTalk. See more at https://emagazine. com. To donate, visit https://earthtalk.org. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.

Can diet intensify serious body odor? Q: My husband has horrible body odor. He showers every day, but he still smells terrible. It’s not only his underarms; it’s his whole body. I think it’s coming from the inside. Could certain foods be causing it? Please help. A: We don’t know why your husband smells. However, there is a condition called “trimethylaminuria” in which a person’s sweat, breath and urine smell like rotten fish (Drug Discovery Today, July 2020). This condition is rare, and scientists have not done much research on its treatment. The smell can be controlled in part by avoiding fish, poultry, eggs and red meat in the diet and washing with a low pH cleanser such as Alpha Hydrox moisturizing body wash, Cetaphil, CeraVe foaming facial cleanser or Sebamed. In mice, a garlic compound called allicin helped reduce the buildup of TMAO that causes the bad smell. We don’t know if eating garlic would help humans, however. You may need to find a health professional who is familiar with trimethylaminuria diagnosis and treatment to see whether this is responsible for your husband’s problem. Q: I have been taking atenolol for some time now, and I am feeling very foggy and tired. My doctor suggested I change to losartan. I have read a number of patient reviews about the side effects of losartan, and I am concerned. Is there any data about the relative safety of the two drugs? A: Atenolol is an old-fashioned beta blocker heart medicine. It is no longer considered a first-line blood pressure treatment unless the patient has angina or irregular heart rhythms (American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs, July 25, 2020). Side effects such as fatigue, slow heart rate, lethargy and depression are not uncommon. Losartan is generally well tolerated, though some people develop a cough. Other side effects include

digestive upset or fatigue. Guidelines from the International Society of Hypertension recommend starting treatment with an ACE inhibitor like lisinopril or an ARB such as losartan (Hypertension, June 2020). You can learn more about the pros and cons of these medications and many nondrug approaches in our eGuide to Blood Pressure Solutions. This online resource is available through the Health eGuides section at PeoplesPharmacy.com. Q: It’s summer and the “wear sunscreen” drumbeat is loud and clear. I live in the South where local ponds and open storm drains make mosquitoes a big problem. I am more concerned about Zika, West Nile virus and chikungunya than wrinkles and skin cancer. So DEET is my skin application of choice. Do we know anything about the combination of sunscreens and DEET? Is there reason to suspect that using both makes either less effective or more harmful? A: Dermatologists have found that applying the insect repellent DEET together with sunscreen results in greater absorption of both compounds (Journal of Dermatological Treatment, January 2016). According to these scientists, picaridin would be a better choice for repelling insects if you also need sunscreen (which you mostly do). Although DEET is the gold standard, picaridin is about as effective and appears less likely to cause side effects. When used together with sunscreen, it reduces absorption of both compounds. You’ll find picaridin in several commercially available insect repellents. They include Sawyer Picaridin Insect Repellent, Natrapel 12-hour Insect Repellent, Repel Tick Defense and Ranger Ready Picaridin 20 Percent. Joe and Teresa Graedon answer letters from readers. Write to them in care of King Features, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803, or email them via their website PeoplesPharmacy.com. (c) 2020 King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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Event held in new emergency room On Wednesday, Aug. 12, the Area Partnership for Economic Expansion (APEX) was pleased to host our most recent Insider Event at St. Luke’s. The event featured their newly renovated, state-of-the-art emergency department set to open this fall. We are honored to have had the opportunity to allow APEX members a sneak peek of the new emergency department prior to its opening to the public. “St. Luke’s has always offered premier care throughout READER our region and the expansion STAFF of their emergency department is a testament to their growth and success,” explained Brian Hanson, APEX President and CEO. “We were proud to be able to host this Insider Event as it celebrated, not only St. Luke’s growth as a facility, but also their mission to provide optimal patient-centered care throughout our region.” St. Luke’s has been working on the planning, design and development of the new emergency department for more than three years. With the expansion of rooms, amenities and advanced medical equipment, the hospital’s safe and modern facility is focused on keeping patients’ privacy top of mind. “The new department offers cutting edge equipment and highlights a stateof-the-art, patient-driven design,” said Michael Boeselager, Vice President of Support Services at St. Luke’s. “A lot of planning and preparation went into this facility, including multiple site visits to hospitals like Regions in St. Paul, Gunderson in LaCrosse and the Mayo Clinic. We took our time to define and study best practices while also gaining valuable input from our physicians and care providers who would be usng the department most.” The Insider Event included a social hour and short presentation that highlighted prominent features of the new facility as well as the progression of the project. After, small groups were taken on a 15-minute walk-through of the new department. Service line leaders were available to talk about trauma care as well as unique aspects of the space, all centered on the patient experience.

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The Area Partnership for Economic Expansion held a gathering at the not-yetopened renovated emergency room at St. Luke’s Hospital. Submitted photo. Historically, St. Luke’s emergency department has been on a solid growth pattern, averaging 90 to 110 visits per day in the emergency department. The new space will ultimately allow the hospital to sustain their increasing numbers, care for patients efficiently and effectively, and make a patient’s emergency department visit as comfortable of an experience as possible. “I think the new emergency department creates a space matching the talent of our care providers, giving them the resources and an environment that they and our patients deserve,” explained Boeselager. “After all, the emergency department is a difficult place to be, so our goal is to help diminish our patients’ anxiety as much as possible by providing comfortable, private rooms backed by professional care they can count on.” APEX is the private sector led business development engine for northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin. For more information on APEX, visit APEXgetsbusiness.com.

Lakeside Early Learning announces campaign

St. Michael’s Lakeside Early Learning has found a way to continue to provide quality child care, but it will take support from the community to make it happen. In April, when St. Michael’s Catholic Parish announced the school’s closure, a group of parents, community members, and staff formed Lakeside Early Learning to operate the center independently. The new Lakeside Early Learning is working to raise $50,000 to

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purchase the current school building from the church. “Our staff and families work together so well and are constantly going out of their way to help and support each other.” said Nichole Reed, Lakeside Early Learning Director. “We have faith that our neighbors will support us too to keep the school open.” A severe shortage of child care options in the Northland makes keeping the school open vital, not just for the families that rely on Lakeside Early Learning, but for the entire community. “In the spirit of socioeconomic equity and community service, the program at Lakeside Early Learning worked to become four-star rated by the state so that parents in need could receive scholarships for their children to attend. Closing our school would not only be abandoning our current families to a scarce market, it would mean one less high-quality option for low-income families in Duluth.” said Angela Mejdrich, Lakeside Early Learning’s Board President. A GoFundMe page has been created to benefit Lakeside Early Learning at gofundme.com/f/lakesideearly-learning. More information about the center can be found at lakesideearlylearning.org.

Historic Cook County seeking members

Welcome to Historic Cook County, a community built on creative and resourceful people who made their living from the land and lakes. In this remote frontier, inspiration came from the beauty and bounty of the

natural world. Celebrate Cook County’s heritage this September! Become a new or sustaining member offering regular support for the important services they provide to the community. The Cook County Historical Society was established in 1924, before the road to Grand Marais was completed and during a time when visitors still arrived by steamship or dog sled. Since that time, the organization has fulfilled its mission to collect, preserve and share the history of Minnesota’s northeastern-most county. Historic Cook County is counting on you! Through the month of September, they’ll be sharing the stories from the past that still stir the imagination. Tune in to WTIP on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the best of “Moments in Time” series, check their website each Tuesday evening to connect to livestreamed interviews with elders sharing their memories. But most importantly, become a member and show your support for local history. Those who become sustaining members or new members this month will be entered in a drawing featuring wonderful prizes from area businesses. Visit cookcountyhistory.org to become-a-member.

Blood needed to meet shortage

Amid the ongoing challenges of recruiting blood donors during the COVID-19 pandemic, local nonprofit Memorial Blood Centers (MBC) is facing a shortage of blood and platelet donations. The need for blood is constant, but the number of donors decreases during the summer. To replenish supplies for Northland hospitals, trauma centers, and air ambulance bases, more healthy donors are needed at blood drives and donor centers in the coming weeks. Appointments can be made online at MBC.ORG or by calling 888-GIVE-BLD (888-448-3253). Memorial Blood Centers also continues to collect COVID-19 convalescent plasma at all Northland donor centers, to build up the public supply of this potential treatment for patients with severe or life-threatening coronavirus disease (MBC.ORG/CPdonor). More than 50% of the blood supply was lost when community blood drives were cancelled due to COVID-19 this year, and the supply remains low (less than a 3-day supply of all blood types). Blood drives are resuming, with additional precautions at all donation sites;

The Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad announced this week that it will remain closed for the season. Submitted photo. appointments are preferred to help maintain social distancing, and donors are required to wear a face mask or face covering. Blood donation is safe and essential, and MBC has a COVID-19 self-screening policy in addition to general eligibility guidelines. Visit MBC.ORG to find your nearest drive or donor center, or to make an appointment at one of the public blood drives below. • Aug. 21 – Boswell energy Center, Cohasset, 9:31 am-4 pm. • Aug. 24 – Carlton Communicty Center, 124 Chestnut Ave., 9 am-5 pm. Aug. 26 – Kolar, 4781 Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth, 9:30 am-5:30 pm. • Aug. 27 – Eldercircle, 1701 5th Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, 1-6 pm. • Aug. 28 – Eldercircle, 1701 5th Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, 9 am-2 pm. • Aug. 31 – Elm Lutheran Church, Barnum, 2:30-6:30 pm.

Tourist railroad closed for the season

In consideration for the health and safety of our valued customers and crews, the Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad made the difficult decision to cancel all passenger excursions for the remainder of the 2020 season. The difficulties of remaining compliant with recommended and relevant Covid-19 safety measures, the ability to maintain sufficient crews of volunteers who may be at high risk, and the probability of not generating sufficient passenger revenue to cover operating expenses has led the LS&M Board of Directors to the following decision: “In the best interest of safety for all passengers, crews and operations volunteers, the excursion opening will be

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postponed until the 2021 Season.” During this season of down-time, the Volunteers will focus available resources on tasks such as build/repair tracks, equipment maintenance, restoration of coaches & cars and preparing for an exciting and safe 2021 season. New volunteers are welcome to join the volunteer crew as we continue with our projects. Check the website lsmrr. org or call 218-624-7549 for information.

Needs-based child development grants

The Minnesota Department of Health announced new health equity grants for preschoolers. Working toward greater health equity is a key priority for the State of Minnesota, and a novel partnership with members of American Indian communities and communities of color seeks to accelerate that work with a new grant program focused squarely on improving outcomes for children in these communities. The Community Solutions for Healthy Child Development grant program is a new approach where members of American Indian communities and members of communities of color play a lead role in selecting grantees based on the needs of children identified in their communities. The grant program will award approximately $1.5 million each year from state fiscal year 2020 through fiscal year 2023. The Minnesota Legislature made the funding available during the 2019 legislative session. The grantees will provide various services to the community to improve early childhood development for communities of color and Indians. August 20, 2020 37

Kamala Harris stands on the shoulders of great women August 26 marks 100 years since Congress ratified the 19th amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women’s right to vote. The amendment states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Unfortunately, the amendment was not implemented equally, and many states created laws and other impediments that continued to deny women the vote. African American women were subjected to the same Jim Crow laws that had already been used to deny African American men the vote. The movement for women’s suffrage began early in the 19th century, and was closely connected to the movement for the abolition of slavery. Sen. Kamala Harris’ selection as Joe Biden’s running mate is a consequence, however late, of these early, intersectional struggles

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for freedom and equality. Harris is the first vice presidential nominee of a major party to be a woman of color, as well as the daughter of immigrants. Her father, Stanford economist Donald. J. Harris, is from Jamaica and her mother, cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan, was of Tamil ancestry, from India. At her first campaign event with Biden, Harris acknowledged “all the heroic and ambitious women before me whose sacrifice, determination and resilience makes my presence here today even possible.” A seminal moment in the women’s suffrage movement was the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, in upstate New York. It produced a Declaration of Sentiments, that read, in part: “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her ... Having deprived her of this first right as a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.” Renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who had escaped slavery 946

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Sen. Kamala Harris in his youth, was the only African American who attended, and was one of the men who signed the declaration. The controversial demand for women’s suffrage was hotly debated, and Douglass spoke in favor of its inclusion. He later reported in his abolitionist newspaper, The North Star, that the women-led gathering was an “extraordinary meeting ... marked by ability and dignity.” He continued, “in respect to political rights, we hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man. We go farther, and express our conviction that all political rights which it is expedient for man to exercise, it is equally so for woman.” Not long after, in 1850, Sojourner Truth, another formerly enslaved person, remarked in her best known speech, “I think that ‘twixt the negroes of the South and the women of the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.” Another who advocated for women’s suffrage was Harriet Tubman. She escaped from slavery then became a legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad, making dangerous trips back to Southern slave states to help others escape. During the Civil War, she was a spy for the Union Army, and became the only woman to lead troops, leading 150 African Ameri-

can troops on the Combahee River Raid, freeing 700 enslaved people and destroying several plantations. Harriet Tubman was to be honored on the centennial of the 19th amendment, with the release of a new $20 bill bearing her portrait, but Donald Trump and his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin put a stop to that. Trump prefers the old version of the $20, with Andrew Jackson, a fiercely racist, slave-owning president best known for The Trail of Tears, forcing indigenous people to march from their ancestral homelands in the southeast U.S. to Oklahoma. Thousands died on the forced marches. Crusading anti-lynching journalist Ida B. Wells, labor organizer Lucy Parsons, civil-rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, presidential candidate Shirley Chisolm, Congressmember Barbara Jordan and countless other African American women leaders forged the path that Kamala Harris now walks, often at great risk and without recognition or reward. Trump is dead set to undermine the struggles and achievements of these women and the social movements they led. He and many in the Republican Party are desperately trying to suppress the vote of millions by crippling the U.S. Postal Service. Voting by mail is critical, particularly to communities of color that are being hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump has already unleashed racist and misogynistic attacks on Kamala Harris, and as the final three months of the 2020 campaign unfold, they will only get worse. During one of Sojourner Truth’s speeches, as she was heckled by men, she fired back: “You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither.” Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/ radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations (hear it locally on KUMD, 103.3, weekdays at 9 am).

Brilliant new strategy I got to thinking (a sure way of getting myself in trouble) about the strategy of going after former slave owners. Think of them as the buyers and users as we do today for non-prescription drug use. Putting a pointed burden on the user was once a major enforcement tactic in a drug war slowly lost to expanding use and reducing consequences. Possession was viewed as less or more serious based on the amount possessed. Found in possession of a minor amount results in some inconvenience, a lot less than if you’ve got tons of the stuff and the enforcement people (who may or may not survive defunding) will (unless you’re released on good faith) hold you for trial while they begin confiscating and disposing of your property and assets. You are savvy (is that term more or less prejudicial than saying you are smart) enough to spot the obvious flaws in the gravity of offense between owning a fellow human being and allowing that human person to tippy toe along the pathway of addiction. (Could argue both are pretty darned nasty, but we got to value the freedom of addicts to be addicts.) Anyway, it’s clear that owning a person is seen as more damaging to the future than, say, selling drugs today and dismiss the consequences to a fetus irrelevant as we’d say of responsibility for an accident by a car you sold. If you were the one who bought the vehicle, had an accident, were injured, and concluded the used car was defective then you might well want to hold a past owner liable for your misfortune. If you’d sold the car you could claim a good faith sale, you were unaware of a safety defect, and had no control over the driver’s vehicle handling. Holding former owners/users culpable is not cut and dried. It’s much less so when we attach liability or responsibility to the next of kin of a prior owner. Does your family want to defend against damages claimed that a grandparent killed a prized pet in 1958? I hope you dislike this kind of conjecture and speculation much as I do. In fact, I hate it, but if for any number of seemingly “good” reasons a society opens the way for past griev-

ances to become current policies and actions do you believe for a minute nothing will happen? If one could allege a predecessor of a hugely wealthy individual in today’s world drove the car that scared the horse that bolted and caused a great grandparent’s miscarriage leading to resulting generations of ills and sorrows such civil charges will be made. And if enough others want to see that gainful game enjoyed by more players at life’s roulette wheel you can picture those civil complaints turning criminal with cash restitution payoffs for a win. You might call it social cannibalism, but if there is an occasional big winner to provide hope you can be confident the practice will last as long as the lottery. And hey, persons stopped in 2010 for non-violent offenses that are not actionable in 2020 have a reasonable case for damages that under the new version of things they were denied their rights, were abused, and are owed compensation. Cannibalizing off the past can become a lucrative new field as historic flaws and social discrepancies are mined for contemporary cash reward. I can say this fanciful and improbable thing as if it has validity because the ever-fertile human ability to seek gold will jump in the same way nugget and diamond miners battle elbow to elbow for a chance at the big time. Human nature will provide. Back when I was a kid an Iron Range politician criticized other politicians saying they’d “sell mothers and sisters into prostitution for the sake of 10 fulltime jobs in their districts.” Nothing much has changed in the nature of humans, has it? Half of you see it in the sleaze of Trump Tower. The other half spot it in fraud of Burisma Biden. Little change except who points what at whom. I understand readers saying I exaggerate and invent. Sadly, not so. The French Revolution (less so the American Revolution preceding it) was a long, bloody, destructive mess that divided citizens into collective classes. (The U.S. was perhaps a little more successful avoiding chaos by its emphasis on individual rights.) In other words the current turmoil has a significant history of conflict between group rights and individual

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rights. Liberal reform of government often runs afoul when the rights of the individual in a society are overridden by claims of group rights (groups being forms of collectives or unofficial government bodies). Say a group of purple hair lefthanders claims damage of discrimination by blonde righties. Who elects either group? What gets you in one or the other? To gain new advantage as a member of the disadvantaged group do I get in with my right hand in a sling and wear a green wig? Collective or group rights typically claim concern for abused individuals while discarding individuality in favor of the group they claim to represent (a dandy gig in terms of status and benefits). In the name of individual liberty French society tore itself to bits

trying to smash the group rights of the nobility and clergy, only to end up with new sets of group right holders climbing up atop less politically powerful holders of individual rights. Very quickly, as it turns out, power goes (legitimately or not) to those claiming group authority. They often stomp any individual seen threatening their power and standing. On the left or right, watch how political cancer metastasizes as the individual representative takes on the power and glory of a group leader. If the aggrandized leader claims noble birth, radical identity or proletarian standing makes little difference in the outcome. Exercise of group rights without accepting the integrity of the individual will turn as lethally brutish as the ill it claims to correct.

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Technicality could drop Green Party from Wisconsin presidential ballot Four years after the Green Party’s presidential candidate received 31,000 votes in Wisconsin’s pivotal presidential race, there’s an effort underway to keep the party off the state’s November ballot. The Wisconsin Elections Commission will consider a petition this week that would reject thousands of nominating signatures for Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins and vice presidential candidate Angela Walker because they list Walker’s incorrect home address. Candidates are required to list their current address on nominating petitions, and according to guidance on the Elections Commission’s website, if any information is incorrect, their signatures must be rejected. “I don’t think it’s unreasonable or unfair to expect that candidates who want to be President of the United States can follow the clear rules that each state sets out,” said Jeff Mandell, a Democratic attorney from Madison who filed the complaint. State law requires independent

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ballot access. “It’s a trivial objection,” said Hawkins in an interview with WPR. “We have plenty of people in Wisconsin who want us on the ballot. And it would be a travesty of justice if we were knocked off the ballot.” Hawkins said Walker, a Milwaukee native who now lives in South Carolina, moved during the petition drive. He said their campaign manager talked to staff at the Wisconsin Elections Commission to make sure their paperwork was in order. Wisconsin Green Party leaders told party activists in a July 25 memo that they had recently moved and that they should collect future signatures on new petitions with Walker’s current address. Hawkins’ campaign did not file a formal response to the challenge. It will be up to the six-member Wisconsin Elections Commission to decide whether to grant the Green Party ballot access when they meet next week. At the same meeting, commissioners will consider another challenge that seeks to keep rapper

Kanye West’s name from appearing on Wisconsin’s presidential ballots. West, who is running under the label of “The Birthday Party,” has been a supporter of President Donald Trump and has been aided by Republicans in the early stages of his presidential bid. He recently told Forbes Magazine that his candidacy could pull votes from Democrat Joe Biden. Third-party candidates are coming under intense scrutiny in Wisconsin, in part because of what’s at stake. Donald Trump carried the state by fewer than 22,748 votes in 2016, and both parties have pointed to Wisconsin as a potential tipping point state in the 2020 election. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 candidate for president, received 31,072 votes in Wisconsin, an amount that was larger than Trump’s margin of victory, leading some Democrats to blame her for helping Trump secure his bid for the White House. Hawkins rejected the idea that his candidacy in 2020 could pull votes away from Biden and help Trump win Wisconsin for a second time, saying Trump was running at a time when tens of thousands of people were dying from the COVID-19 pandemic and the nation’s economy was mired in a severe recession. “If the Democrats can’t beat that, it’s not the Green Party’s fault,” Hawkins said. Hawkins said issues like the climate crisis and the nuclear arms race would be ignored if not for the Green Party. If the Wisconsin Elections Commission rejects Hawkins’ petition and keeps him from the ballot, he says his campaign will challenge the decision. “We’ll take it to court if we have to,” Hawkins said. Mandell acknowledged that a court might have the final say in the matter, but said the legal question at issue was a simple one. “The rules are clear and plain and publicly available,” Mandell said. “And here they were not followed.”

Emo advice for Venus in Cancer With Venus now in Cancer, emotional well-being follows the same rules as the swimming pool. There’s safety in matching abilities with the depths in which they’ll be used. While learning, stay in the shallows or near the wall. Practice until strongly skilled. After that, it’s the same moves whether the water overhead is one inch or one mile. ARIES (March 21-April 19). Life is pretty simple when you think of it in simple terms, which you very much will do today. You will do what you need to do to attract what you most desire. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The ones who are lying around and having a good ol’ time are either doing it very right or very wrong, and you’ll likely have a strong opinion about that today. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The way people treat one another when they are in public versus in private will be two

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different things. The discrepancy is one to ponder or, if applicable, remedy. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll find yourself mentally weaving an alternate version of things. Not all fantasy is escape. Sometimes it’s a creative way of understanding reality. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The guitarist can’t play with silk gloves on. Friction is what vibrates those strings. Don’t be afraid to dig into life with your nails. This day is waiting for you to give it a rhythm and sound. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Study past successes and failures for the keys to victory. To skip the research phase of a project is to waste time, as there is no use in repeating what didn’t work before. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You were not born with a serene air of confidence, rather the aura is wellearned through the extensive planning and preparation you do long before the moment of truth is upon you. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you are doing it your way, unselfconsciously and unapologetically yourself, you have no competition. No one can be you better than you can be you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There will be a certain amount of peacocking involved in the discourse

of the day, pretty feathers fanned out to impress, enlarging the perception of the bird without upsizing the bird itself. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). People become associated with that of which they speak. You are drawn to intriguing facts, stories of warmth and kindness and descriptions of beauty. No wonder people feel elevated around you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll fiercely agree with what is happening around you one minute. Then, in the next minute, fiercely disagree, And there is no predicting what will bring the turnaround. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll absorb some enthusiasm as you find yourself with bright, curious and passionate people. What you may not realize is how much you are rubbing off on them, too, in a very positive way. FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: Home can mean so many things. It can refer to the shelter where you sleep, the town where your family resides or the wheelhouse where you feel most comfortable. Home can be something else, too, less of a structure and more of a feeling of being rooted, regardless of where you may find yourself in the wide world.

As the Venus transit gets underway in Cancer, we settle into key comforts in the domestic realm, and also in our psychic abode. Many will be inspired to make changes or invest in what seems necessary to create a strong and more lovely sense of home. Recently, it has seemed that, with the right mindset, almost anything is potentially predictable. We choose to ignore prudence and then get surprised by what happens even when it’s the most logical outcome. A reversal of Uranus comes at the end of the week for some next-level thrills. CELEBRITY PROFILES: Sundance Institute founder and movie star extraordinaire Robert Redford was born when the sun was in the last degrees of Leo and passionate Mars was also in this chivalrous part of the sky. The strongest force in his natal chart, though, is Virgo: The Moon, Mercury, Venus and Neptune are all stationed in that down-to-earth, detailoriented, nurturing and hard-working sign. Write Holiday Mathis at HolidayMathis.com

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Butterflies are weird

A female monarch butterfly probes a bergamot flower for nectar using her proboscis. Photos by Emily Stone. On one of those steamy, hot, and humid mornings last month I found myself staring out of my air conditioned office at the museum’s vibrantly blooming pollinator gardens. Movement caught my eye, and I wandered outside with my camera and tripod to catch some of the action. By the end of the day, I had realized that butterflies are not only lovely, but CONNECTIONS really, really weird. As I’d hoped, a lovely orange butterfly was sipping eagerly from the pale purple bergamot flowers. Zooming in, I could watch as she probed the cluster of tubular flowers with her delicate proboscis. Except, calling it sipping isn’t quite accurate. A butterfly’s proboscis is more like a paper towel than a drinking straw. Like a paper towel absorbs water when even a corner touches the puddle of spilled milk, tiny grooves on the inside of the proboscis pull liquids upward using capillary action. The inner structure of the proboscis also breaks the column of liquid into tiny droplets that pose less resistance. Trying to suck the liquid up would require more force than the butterfly can exert, especially since butterflies don’t just drink thin nectar, they also consume water from puddles, juice from rotten fruits, animal tears, tree

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sap, and several other unexpected substances of widely varying thickness. As you might expect, different butterfly species have fine-tuned their proboscises to match their preferred food – even dried food. Earlier this June, on a trip to Moquah Barrens, I snapped some photos of a dense mass of silvery checkerspot butterflies crowding around a lump in the sandy wheel track. What were they eating? A closer look revealed that the lump was a hairy, old wolf scat. Your first reaction to this might be a revolted “why?” Your next question might be “how?” Let’s tackle the “how” first. It’s actually pretty simple. Butterflies can send watery saliva down through their proboscis and onto the dry surface, where it picks up the substances they desire, and then travels back up the tube’s tiny grooves. Remember when we used to make Kool-Aid by adding water to powder? The “why” is a little weirder. Butterflies are drawn to the scat (poop) of carnivores, but also to mud puddles, rotting plants and dead animals. Those gross things are a source of the nitrogen and sodium that are lacking in the butterflies’ usual diet of flower nectar. In most species, only males will “puddle.” He then passes these valuable nutrients on to a female when they mate so that she can use them to produce healthy eggs. It’s called a “nuptial gift.” I mean, who wouldn’t want a little packet of the essence wolf scat or mud puddle on their wedding day?

These silvery checkerspot butterflies are able to extract nutrients from wolf scat by sending saliva down their proboscis get it wet, and then drinking the resulting saltand nitrogen-rich soup. Seriously, those are two of my favorite things! Speaking of butterfly mating practices (I did mention that the day was hot and steamy?), the museum staff got a good laugh last week when one of our volunteers walked across town just so she could impress us with the fact that “butterflies have eyes on their genitals!” That sent me down a Google black hole! Well, technically they are simply photoreceptors that can detect ultraviolet light, not eyes that can see movement and shapes, but it’s still an impressive discovery (by accident) into the sensory world of butterflies. This research was done on the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly in 2001, but extraocular photoreceptors – light-sensitive structures that are found outside of an eye – occur in many animals. What’s the use of literally having “hindsight”? It’s different for males and females. They both have two small patches of photoreceptors covered by transparent cuticle. In male butterflies, the patches are located so that when he has successfully connected with the female during mating, the photoreceptors go dark. Once he knows his aim is true, he can deposit both sperm and a nutritious nuptial gift that also acts as a plug. In females, the photoreceptors aid in egg laying. The whole process takes at least three types of sensory organs! First, a female butterfly will use chemical receptors on her front legs to taste a plant and make sure it’s the right species for her caterpillars. Then

she extends her ovipositor, and uses the two photoreceptors to tell her that it isn’t obstructed by a bit of schmutz, which would block light, and also eggs. Finally, as she pushes her ovipositor against the leaf, pressure sensors tell her that a leaf is really there, and she deposits an egg. The full story of the discovery of the photoreceptors is pretty fascinating, and I recommend reading the full article, “Hindsight of Butterflies: The Papilio butterfly has light sensitivity in the genitalia, which appears to be crucial for reproductive behavior,” by Kentaro Arikawa of Japan. That monarch who was (not sipping) on the bergamot flower fluttered away. I’ve always admired butterflies for their beauty and pollination services – but in hindsight – the weirdly elegant solutions they’ve found to life’s various problems are even more amazing. If you’d like to see video of the butterfly feeding on the beramot, go to https://youtu.be/ABCMfqV2ExI. Emily Stone is the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum. Her award-winning second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is now available to purchase at cablemuseum.org/books. Or order it from our friends at redberybooks. com to receive free shipping! For more than 50 years, the Cable Natural History Museum has served to connect you to the Northwoods. The museum is now open with the brand-new Mysteries of the Night exhibit. Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and cablemuseum.org to see what we are up to.

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Toyota’s top Avalon gets TRD hot-rod touches

GILBERT’S GARAGE JOHN GILBERT Blacked-out grille adds definite sporty flair to 2020 Toyota Avalon TRD. Photos by John Gilbert. All right, we can appreciate Toyota’s efforts to lift up some previouslyboring sedans and give them a dose of performance, such as the Camry, Corolla, and even a couple of Lexus sedans, and we can celebrate the company’s producing some advanced platforms and even new engines as well as major alterations in its hybrid systems. Throughout the corporate wide renovations, though, we could all take comfort in knowing there will always be an Avalon. The Avalon has always been an interesting sedan, a stretched version of the popular Camry midsize car, but always loaded up with luxury features. In its lifetime, I always had the theory that since Toyota spun off Lexus as

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a separate brand for luxury versions of various Toyotas, the company’s preferred progression for customers was to start off with a Corolla, and after a couple of them, move up to a midsize Camry, and after a couple of them, move on into the Lexus brand for something a little more expressive. Along the way, however, some Toyota customers who loved their mainstream Camrys, decided it might be a bit pretentious to have the neighbors drive by and see a Lexus in their driveway. For those folks, the Avalon was the perfect vehicle. Longer and roomier than the Camry, and with a lot of Lexus-like creature features, the Avalon was there for them, at the top of the Toyota car list. So we can excuse Toyota for allowing

the Avalon to remain constant, naturally tweaking it here and there with interior plushness and upgrading the exterior design now and then. But new chairman Akio Toyoda needn’t include the Avalon in the performance swath covering some of the other models. And then a new 2020 Avalon was delivered to my house in Duluth, Minnesota, and to my surprise, bordering on shock, I found the stunning red – Supersonic Red, thank you – Avalon had the letters “TRD” emblazoned on the rear deck. TRD stands for Toyota Racing Division, and it gained its popularity for creating some pretty incredible offroad versions of Toyota’s Tundra and Tacoma pickup trucks. When Toyota

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moved into NASCAR racing with some totally illogical Camry models – frontengine V8s with rear-wheel drive, neither of which exist in the Toyota line – TRD expanded its reach. But on the Avalon? Are you kidding me? The last Avalon generation added some better handling firmness and thus a touch of sportier driving, but the big change came a year ago, when the 2019 Avalon hit the showrooms on the New Global Architecture platform Toyota had crafted for future vehicles. It was the first time the Avalon got its own platform and stretched away from the Camry. But the TRD guys have done a number on the 2020 Avalon, beyond tweaking the familiar if aging 3.5-liter V6, to put its 301 horsepower and 267 foot-pounds of torque to good use through the front-wheel-drive setup. A direct-shifting 6-speed automatic can be manipulated by steering wheel paddles – yes, paddles on an Avalon! – and equally impressive, there are three subtle little buttons on the console, just driver-side of the shift lever, and they allow you to click into Eco, Normal, or Sport. The Sport switch gives you more revs, held longer, and an overall firmer feel to the TRD-tuned suspension, front and rear. The braces under the car have been replaced by thicker braces, stiffening the platform still more, and even though the V6 is not new – although it has Toyota’s concept of combining direct injection with normal port injection – the tRD engineers have succeeded in an overall feeling of satisfying cornering stiffness and stability, and with Sport you get a little enhanced sound from the dual exhausts. Naturally, there is the full complement of Toyota safety devices, with lane-departure alert and steering assist if you’re slow to react, plus dynamic radar cruise control that adds pedestrian detection, to the usual rearview cross-traffic warning. The aero moldings are more subtle ways to detect that the car is something more than the garden-variety Avalon. If you drive it hard, you can succeed in getting the lower end of the EPA fuel economy estimations, which range from 22 City to 31 Highway, with a proclaimed combination of only 25 mpg. In our driving, on the steep hills of Duluth, mostly, we found we could get up to 31.3 overall, which is impressive, considering the size of the vehicle and the power at hand. The base price for an Avalon is $42,300, and the TRD alterations take it up to $45,394. The TRD adds some styling touches,

like the moldings, the color-keyed exterior, and 19-inch low-profile tires, which also enhance handling. Yet, it’s reassuring to note that the features that have made the Avalon attractive are still there, only nicer and better than before. The quality of the dashboard fabric, the seats with their red-line trim on black, and the incredible legroom in the rear seat, are things you wouldn’t leave out of an Avalon. Also, the sound from the 14-speaker JBL audio system, with a subwoofer for the 1,200-watt amplifier, creates impressive sound. A 9-inch touchscreen helps you adjust the audio, and everything from climate control to cellphone usage. So when we figure there’ll always be an Avalon, that’s true. But prepare to be surprised that you can get all the builtin features of an Avalon in a virtual hot-rod model, with the TRD.

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From a low vantage point, the Avalon TRD appears menacing, in a luxurious sort of way.

Stanley Cup tourney forges ahead And a future Wild star arrives in St. Paul… HERMANTOWN – The Stanley Cup tourney is well into the first round and thus far it would suffice to say that it’s been interesting. The stars of the Qualifying round in my opinion were MON, CBJ, CAR, and the NYI in the East and VAN, CHI, ARI, and CAL in the West. Of course they were all Q round winners, however, the “best” teams don’t always win. In this case, my picks going in didn’t ring true, I went 2-6 in the Q round. Can we be surprised by the Q round results? Probably not. This is a season like no other and to actually try to handicap any round of this tourney would be an epic challenge this year. In the East, Montreal ousted the Pens. It wasn’t a surprise. The Habs have Carey Price in goal and the Pens did not appear to have their “A” game with them. They are in full handwringing mode out in PIT right now regarding what happened. Well, I’ll tell you what happened – your club wasn’t Cup-worthy this year, and then your GM thought he could get them over by obtaining Jason Zucker and Patrick Marleau. Holy hockey pucks, Batman! Zucker has never performed in the playoffs and Marleau is weeks away from his first Social Security check. So what did the Pens do? Canned all of their assistant coaches. Your GM should have got the first pink slip, and then go from there. You can figure it out, I have. I could’ve told Jimmy Rutherford that Zucks wasn’t going to get them over. And you should have rolled with Jarry in goal, not Matt Murray. The NYI knocked FLA out of contention with a 3-1 series win. The Isles never allowed Florida’s stars to get loose and got solid goaltending to advance. Columbus, in what was probably the best Q round series got taken to 5 games to eliminate the Maple Leafs, when they could have done so in G4, but give the Leafs a bit of credit, they stretched it to a 5th and deciding game before the Blue Jackets put the

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hammer down and spanked the Leafs 3-0 in the consequential tilt. CAR had little trouble dispatching the NYR in a 3 game sweep. The layoff broke any momentum the Rangers may have built within the regular season prior to it’s suspension. Over in the West, VAN, after a G1 loss to the Wild, had their way with them in the next three tilts, and the Wild went bye-bye. The Jets, playing without two of their best forwards went down in four games to CAL. They get some respect though; they battled all the way through but were severely undermanned. The Desert Dogs ousted the Predators, and this series outcome wasn’t a surprise to me. When former Wild netminder Darcy Kuemper is on his game and ARI has their five-man unit “D” game going, they are a tough out. The Pred’s netminding struggled and the outcome is history now. CHI sent EDM packing 3 games to 1, and all this loss by the Oilers did was to dig up all the old questions about where this franchise is going. Talent and youth aside, the Hawks veteran stars know how to win at this time of year, and the Oilers stars don’t. Simple. There was no seismic news for the Round Robin portion of the tourney. The order of finish in the East was; PHI, TB, WAS and BOS. In the West it was; VGK, COL, DAL and STL. Of course, I was off on these picks as well. I thought Philly and Vegas were the two best clubs in this portion of play with TB and COL close behind. I didn’t feel that WAS, BOS or STL were impressive at all. Are there any Cup challengers from the Q round? I like the NYI game right now and I like the Canuck level of play at this time. Right at this moment they are preparing to go into a G3 OT versus STL. They hold a 2-0 series lead and if they notch a W here the Blues will be toast for this series. (STL won 3-2/15:06 OT1) Prior to the tourney and in the early going I had contemplated a COL-TB SC Final. I’m not so sure at the moment. It could be that Vegas has the best goalie tandem in the West and the most balance. And in the East, TB has not had star forward Steve Stamkos throughout the tourney. On top of that I’m not certain that Philly couldn’t beat them in a

seven-gamer. So, it’s been interesting, and becoming even more so. The tourney has been good, the NHL has done a stellar job of protecting players and staff, and it has been excellent to see some live hockey action again. *** DID THE FUTURE OF the Minnesota Wild just arrive in St. Paul last Monday? On Monday the 11th, Russian star and Wild prospect Kirill Kaprizov was met at MSP International airport by Head Coach Dean Evason. He is inked for the next two seasons and, personally, I’m eager to see him play and see how Kirill Kaprizov he does against NHL talent. I have been locked in a wait-andsee mode for the last couple of years while there are others ready to anoint him as the next coming of Federov or Ovechkin. I say slow down. This is the Rubik’s Cube of all hockey leagues in the world. It’s a tough nut to crack. But there are some who do not desire to think things through all the way. I’d tell them look, I have seen clips of his KHL play, I saw him live in all of his PyeongChang Olympic games, and so on. But here is the deal; lets not forget that the young man was a 5th round pick, 135th overall. That’s NOT an overall number one pick. He had a very good performance at the Oly’s, without question. But I remind you that the NHL didn’t allow it’s players to go that year. It was NOT a best-on-best tournament. His draft year was 2015 and he is now 23. That’s fine. You could say he has been developing and working on his game all of this time, and he has. Was he better off back in Russia or would the AHL have helped him refine his game a bit more? That’s a great question. I’d urge all of the people that I waged battle with over this player for the past two to three seasons to look at his numbers, his whole body of work thus

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far, break them down and then ask yourself if this player has the ability to drive the Wild to a Cup. Don’t get me wrong. I’d love it if he did. But put your hockey emotions aside, get out your thinking cap and mull over your answer. Is he for real? Or just another product of the Minnesota sports hype machine? PEACE

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Cancer cuts short Swanny’s optimism This should be a week of excitement and happiness for sports fans, with the Twins playing better than we could have hoped, the Stanley Cup Playoff series all featuring phenomenal competition in every first-round series, and the biggest event in motorsports coming up this weekend, with the Indianapolis 500 ready to roll Sunday after a spinetingling finish to qualifying. But a reallife drama that took a shocking and horrible turn over the weekend has reduced the enjoyment factor for anyone and everyone who ever knew or came into contact with Dick Swanson, the long-standing girls softball coach at

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Denfeld, who was whisked away from us Sunday night, just when we all believed he was succeeding in his fight against pancreas and liver cancer. Universally known as Swanny, or simply Swan to those who knew him well enough, Swanson had blazed a larger than life trail coaching Denfeld softball. He had coached other sports at Denfeld, too, but he was softball coach since he took over the Denfeld team in 1990. He knew a stocky young man named Tim Utt, who was a fast-pitch pitcher in the Duluth area when men’s fastpitch was a big-time sport. So Swanny asked Utt to come along and assist him, which he did, for 30 years and 299 victories. “Our first year, we went to state,” said Utt, who remains as loyal as any assistant can be, and is responsible for bringing along the always-impressive Hunters pitching prospects. “I was with Swan every year since, except for two years, when I got sick in 1998.”

Always with a twinkle in his eye, Dick Swanson gathered with nine of his Denfeld softball players – and a cream-filled donut.. Photo by John Gilbert. Sick meant a multiple melanoma diagnosis that gave a “bad prognosis,” Utt said. “I came back, and we’ve won 299 games together, although Swan has over 350 himself.” Swanson was one of those coaches who was soft-spoken but forceful enough when necessary, although his girls always mention his sarcastic humor that was such a big part of his heckling players to better performances. But he also was one of those coaches that you couldn’t dislike. I would bet no opposing coaches ever had an intense rivalry because of his personality. In fact, if there was a hassle in a game, Swanson would usually head over to the opposing team and apologize after the game. He also made big impacts on the Gilbert family. He contacted me when the Denfeld Hall of Fame, which he helped organize, got rolling in 2015 and he wanted me to attend the ceremony to represent my dad, Wally Gilbert, who was being inducted as one of Denfeld’s greatest athletes ever, back before 1920. That was a beautiful ceremony, and a couple of years ago, Swanny called me and said he had been pestering the top officials at Valparaiso University in Indiana because they had started a hall of fame but never inducted Wally Gilbert, who had quite a career there,

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when Valpo was a big-time sports power. Wally Gilbert starred in football, basketball and baseball at Valparaiso, was captain of all three, and was named All-American in football his senior year. He went on to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Duluth Eskimos and on touring AAU pro basketball teams – all at the same time – in the 1920s and 30s. So Swanny questioned them enough that a year ago, Valparaiso did indeed put him into their hall of fame. They sent me the program from the ceremony, which was nice. So last Thursday, I learned that Tim Utt had rounded up the right people and got the approval to dedicate the softball fields adjoining Wade Stadium. They had been renamed in honor of Swanny, but Utt made sure signs were made and there would be an official dedication. I hustled out there last Thursday for the 1 p.m. ceremony. When Swanny arrived, he had walked from his house to his car, drove himself to the park, and was walking through the parking lot when I caught up to him. I told him I just wanted to thank him for the impact he had on Valparaiso to help get my dad inducted into their hall, and this was my first chance, since the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the spring sports seasons.

We had a nice talk walking across the parking lot. He told me the doctors had told him they had done as much as they could, and the cancers were under control, and they were taking him off more chemotherapy for a month to see if the disease had stabilized. He said he had lost 80 pounds from the chemo, but he had accepted the consequences and was feeling good about the progress of his fight. Swanny never married, and said it was because he was so married to sports and coaching that he didn’t have time to pursue such ventures. Utt, who has been fighting a successful battle against a new cancer on his cheek, gathered up a half-dozen other assistants, and got nine of the softball players to show up at the Wade Stadium fields. A couple of them asked Swanny to meet them there to talk about some hitting techniques, so he’d be sure to come. Once gathered, Utt read a brief introduction, then assigned Swanny to pull the curtain off the sign that said the fields would forevermore be known as Dick (Swan) Swanson Fields. Swanny spoke briefly, and said most of his games and time were spent on those fields, so it was a special honor. Then the girls from his softball team surrounded him for a few photos. “They’ll be the key parts of our team, and I can’t wait to get out there with them next year,” Swanson said. Nice ceremony, and after Swanson drove home, Utt gave him a call last Sunday to see if he wanted to join the usual group of coaches for their weekly round of golf. “He said he had missed the last two weeks, and he thought he’d sit out one more week, then come back next Sunday,” said Utt. “He went in and sat in his wellworn recliner, and we think he was watching golf on TV, and took a nap. He never woke up.” Swanny’s sister called Utt with the news Monday morning, and it hit him

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like a sledgehammer. “He looked good, and he sounded so optimistic it was sort of a double shock,” Utt said. “The only good thing is that he wasn’t in the hospital, he was still at home, and he fell asleep in his favorite chair and never woke up. I figure God must have liked him, because there’s not a much better way to go.” There was to be a visitation at Wade Stadium at 10 a.m. this Thursday, followed by the funeral, in Wade Municipal Stadium. We’re all going to miss you, Swanny. Twins on a roll The Twins are getting the thunder of home run power and the superb hitting of Nelson Cruz, while Jorge Polanco surging up and over the .300 batting mark, and proving the Twins don’t need home runs all the time by squeezing in a big run to finish off Kansas City. But the big surprise is that the two presumed aces of the pitching staff, Jose Berrios and Jorge Odorizzi, are languishing at the bottom of the staff statistics, while the two aces so far have been Randy Dobnak and Kenta Maeda. Dobnak started the week with a 4-1 record and a 1.43 earned run average, while Maeda was 3-0 with a 2.00 ERA. We’d heard good things about both of them, but we hadn’t seen it, so it’s been a great reward to long-suffering Twins fans. As for the hitting, we know that the low numbers for Eddie Rosario, Max Kepler, Josh Donaldson, Ehire Adrianza, Mitch Garver, and the woefully terrible figures for Miguel Sano and Jake Cave are going to come up, right along with the groove-finding of pitchers Berrios and Odorizzi, and the emergence of Homer Bailey and Rich Hill. As it is, defensively the Twins are making highlight video plays every game. It makes them fun to watch, fans or no fans. Many hockey fans quit watching the NHL playoffs because the Wild didn’t make it, but watch anyway! There are great games, highly competitive, every night, and this first round is special, because you can see all or part of four or five games every day. After this round, the games get even more serious, but the number falls off because half the teams are eliminated. Minnesota impact Virtually every Stanley Cup Playoff game has a Minnesota influence, even without the Wild. The biggest surprise has got to be the New York Islanders, who have used balance and depth to take a jolting 3-0 lead on the powerful Washington Capitols. The Caps have TJ Oshie from Warroad, but the Islanders have captain Anders Lee from Edina and Notre Dame, on the first line with Brock Nelson, from Warroad, and Nick Leddy, from Eden Prairie with a brief stop with the Gophers, on defense. Calgary has Derek Forbort, from Duluth East; Vegas

has Nate Schmidt, an outstanding defenseman from St, Cloud. Philadelphis has Matt Niskanen, an Iron Ranger who starred at UMD, on defense, and Tyler Pitlick, nephew of Gopher star Lance Pitlick, played a year at Minnesota State Mankato then left to play Major Junior in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Montreal counters with Ryan Poehling, former St. Cloud State standout from Lakeville. Vancouver has Brock Boeser from Burnsville and North Dakota, facing former UMD defenseman Justin Faulk, playing for St. Louis. Tampa Bay has Ryan McDonough, standout defenseman from White Bear Lake who played at Wisconsin. Arizona has former Gopher Alex Goligoski from Grand Rapids and a former Gopher, and former Wild goaltender Darcy Kuemper has been a star against Colorado. The Avalanche have defenseman Erik Johnson, from Bloomington by way of the Gophers. The Boston Bruins have former UMD captain Karson Kuhlman, from Cloquet-Esko-Carlton, and former / Wild winger Charlie Coyle; and the Carolina Hurricane have Brady Skjei, former Gopher from Lakeville, defenseman Jake Gardiner from Minnetonka, who played three years at

the University of Wisconsin. That’s 20 guys with Minnesota connections who help enliven the playoffs for true hockey fans. Indy 500 on Aug. 23 A stirring last lap claiming of the pole will heighten Sunday’s running of the Indianapolis 500, as Marco Andretti, son of Michael Andretti, snatched the pole position with a 4-lap average speed of 231.068 mph, eclipsing the quest of Chip Ganassi star Scott Dixon, who had an average of 231.051. That, friends, is close! Honda appears to have taken the fight to Chevrolet at Indy, as the only Chevy-powered race car to make the Fast Nine for the final pole-winning bid, was driven by Rinus VeeKay, a 19-year-old from The Netherlands. In fact, of the 33 starters, 11 of the top 12 will be Honda-powered, while 12 of the last 13 will be Chevroletpowered, with the middle eight being 4-4. Roger Penske, who now owns the Speedway, has all his top drivers clustered at the rear. Josef Newgarden is 13th, Will Power is 22nd, Simon Pagenaud is 25th, Helio Castroneves 28th. Michael Andrettis’s four cars are Marco Andretti on the pole, Ryan Hunter-Reay fi.fth, James Hinchcliff sixth, and Alexander Rossi nin

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BTJO’s 30th year celebration at the NorShor was canceled due to the ‘rona, so a smaller event takes place on the Duluth Cider patio. Randy Lee leads some of the finest Twin Ports jazz musicians for a lively and fun evening.

Cyr & The Cosmonauts Friday, Aug. 21, 6 p.m. Cedar Lounge

Eccentric original music that probes for the cosmos in the chaos.

Mary Bue Saturday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m.

facebook.com/ sacredheartmusiccenter Bue was a longtime fixture of the Duluth music scene before she moved to the Twin Cities, so it’s only fitting she debuts her anxiously awaited new album, The World in Your Lover, with a live stream event at Sacred Heart. With Sonja Martin.

Climate Emergency Poetry Sunday, Aug. 23, 5 p.m. Wussow’s

Music in the Park: Hobo Revival Tuesday, Aug. 25, 6 p.m. Olcott Park, Virginia You never know who will show up to jam. Bring a chair and cooler.

Moors & McCumber Wednesday, Aug. 26, 5:30 p.m. Hammond Park

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Day & night Thursday 8.20 Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3-6pm Harrison Community Center, 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-726-1665 Bands, Brews and BBQ, 4-8pm Minnesota Discovery Center, 1005 Discovery Dr., Chisholm 218-254-7959 Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Glitteratti, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797

Friends of Big Time Jazz Orchestra, 6pm Duluth Cider, 2307 W Superior St., Duluth 218-464-1111

Sonja Martin, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391

Music on the Beach, 7-9pm Lutsen Resort, 5700 W. Hwy. 61, Lutsen 800-258-8736

Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-7223

The Boys Next Door, 7pm Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, 2035 Hwy 33 South (on Frontage Rd), Cloquet 218-878-0071

Russ Darwin & Friends, 7pm Bridge's Bar, 6891 S. Lake Ave., Lake Nebagamon 715-374-3111

Circuit Breakers, 8pm Powerhouse, 423 Third Ave., Proctor (218) 6240626

Friday 8.21 Spirit Room, 4pm Spirit Room, 1323 Broadway St., Superior 715-8174775 Cyr & The Cosmonauts, 6pm Ripple Bar on Lake Superior, 325 S. Lake Ave Ste. 109, Duluth 218-606-1668

The Boys Next Door, 7pm Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, 2035 Hwy 33 South (on Frontage Rd), Cloquet 218-878-0071

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N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Whiskey Trail, 7pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886 Hobo Revival, 7pm Rapids Brewing, 214 N Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids 218-999-9712 Stranded, 7pm Cast Iron Bar & Grill, 5906 Old Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth 218-729-7514 Christopher David Hanson Band, 8pm Britt Lounge, 7301 US-53, Britt 218-741-2035 Movies in the Park(ing) Lot: Peanut Butter Falcon, 8:10pm The DECC, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth 218.727.4344

Shane Nelson, 9pm Birds Bar, 5801 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-9995 The Most Wanted, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-6240626

Saturday 8.22 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Ashland Area Farmers Market, 8amnoon 200 Block of Chapple Ave., Between Main St. & 3rd St. W., Ashland Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30amnoon First Street & Rittenhouse Avenue, Bayfield 715-257-0064 Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet

Barker's Island Farmers Market, 9amnoon Barker's Island, Hwy2/53 and Marina Dr., Superior 715-372-8441

Moonen Sisters, 4:30pm Vintage Pub, 6344 Merchants St., Askov 320838-3232

Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing

Van & The Free Candies, 6pm Klockow Brewing, 36 SE 10th St., Grand Rapids 218-999-7229

Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174

Rich Mattson & The Northstars, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391

Real Horse Power Family Day, 10am5pm Forest History Center, 2609 County Road 76, Grand Rapids 218327-4482

Broken Road Collective, 6pm Moose Lake Brewing Co., 244 Lakeshore Drive, Moose Lake 218-485-4585

Run for Beer, 11am Bent Paddle Brewing Co., 1912 W. Michigan St., Duluth 218-279-BPBC

Race Night, 7pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715-6824990

SonofMel, 2pm Out of the Woods Winery, 10588 Main St., Hayward 715-699-1709

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Ingeborg Von Agassiz, 1-4pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391

The Night Nurses (Brad Nelson & Alan Sparhawk), 5-6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391

Similar Dogs, 1-4pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Duluth 715-3942500 The Boys Next Door, 2pm Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, 2035 Hwy 33 South (on Frontage Rd), Cloquet 218-878-0071 Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711

Ely Farmers Market, 5-7pm Whiteside Park, 58 S 7th Ave E, Ely King J Lar, 6-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Music in the Park: Hobo Revival, 6pm Olcott Park, 901 9th S. N., Virginia

Zakk Grandahl, 4pm Third Base Bar, 225 Chestnut Ave., Carlton Jacob Mahon & the Salty Dogs, 4pm Skyport Lodge, 205 Fireweed Lane, Grand Marais 218-387-9414 Climate Emergency Poetry, 5-7pm Wussow's Concert Cafe, 324 North Central Avenue, Duluth 218-6245957

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Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia

Duluth Farmers Market, 2-5pm Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Kid Dakota, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Bayside Sounds: Moors & McCumber, 5:30pm Hammond Park, 1920 Hammond Ave., Superior 715-395-7200 One Less Guest, 6-9pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Duluth 715394-2500 Gartman Plays Dead, 6-9pm Ripple Bar on Lake Superior, 325 S. Lake Ave Ste. 109, Duluth 218-606-1668 DSSO String Quartet, 6pm Duluth Cider, 2307 W Superior St., Duluth 218-464-1111

Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3-6pm Harrison Community Center, 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-726-1665 Bands, Brews and BBQ, 4-8pm Minnesota Discovery Center, 1005 Discovery Dr., Chisholm 218-254-7959 Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Kaylee Matuszak, 6pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886 The Fractals, 6pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Duluth 715-3942500 Gordon Thorne, 7pm North Shore Winery, 202 Ski Hill Rd., Lutsen 218387-2788

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Eddie & Sarah, 7pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-6240626

Friday 8.28 Glensheen: The Musical, 6pm Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids 218.327.5780 Marc Gartman's Fever Dream, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Ian Alexy, 6pm Ripple Bar on Lake Superior, 325 S. Lake Ave Ste. 109, Duluth 218-606-1668 Friday Night Races, 6:30pm Head of the Lakes Fairgrounds, 4700 Tower Ave., Superior 715-394-7223 Boat-In Concert Series: Christopher David Hanson Band, 6:30pm Tioga Beach, 24308 Tioga Beach Rd., Grand Rapids 218-327-5780 Nathan Frazer, 6:30pm Vintage Pub, 6344 Merchants St., Askov 320-8383232 One Less Guest, 7pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St.

Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886 Russ Darwin & Friends, 7pm Bridge's Bar, 6891 S. Lake Ave., Lake Nebagamon 715-374-3111 Crescent Moon, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-394-3616 John Cron, 7pm Castle Danger Brewery, 17 7th St., Two Harbors 218834-5800 Movies in the Park(ing) Lot: Abominable, 8pm The DECC, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth 218.727.4344 South of Superior, 8pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-3921994 Stranded, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-624-0626

Saturday 8.29 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Ashland Area Farmers Market, 8amnoon 200 Block of Chapple Ave., Between Main St. & 3rd St. W., Ashland Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30amnoon First Street & Rittenhouse Avenue, Bayfield 715-257-0064

SonofMel, 2pm Out of the Woods Winery, 10588 Main St., Hayward 715-699-1709 Grand Minnesota Taste-Together, 4pm Grand Casino Hinckley, 777 Lady Luck Drive, Hinckley 800.472.6321 Jacob's Light fundraiser featuring The Northwoods Band, 4:30-11:30pm Lake County Fairgrounds, 1381 Fair-

Grounds Rd., Two Harbors 218-2694159 Glensheen: The Musical, 6pm Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids 218.327.5780 Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391

Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet Barker's Island Farmers Market, 9amnoon Barker's Island, Hwy2/53 and Marina Dr., Superior 715-372-8441 Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors

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Phurry Physics, 7pm Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium, facebook. com/UMDPlanetarium, Duluth 218.726.7129 P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks

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Mary Bue, 7pm Sacred Heart Music Center, facebook.com/sacredheartmusiccenter, Duluth 218-723-1895

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The Dark Underbelly: Sons of Bert The latest album from this Duluth band can be best approached using Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s Five Stages of Grief. Stage 1: Denial. Oh no they didn’t! Okay, I expected it would be dark. They’re called “The Dark Underbelly.” But I didn’t know it’d be this dark. Over the past five years they’ve produced what may be described (emphasis on may) as black-n-blues oldschool metal prog rock. We’ve compared them in these pages to Primus, Bauhaus, Dead Kennedys, GWAR, Zappa and Captain Beefheart. Now it seems obvious their closest kin is ” early Black Sabbath, that is, if Ozzy were replaced by Svengoolie. The musicians play pounding subbasement rock while frontman and lyricist Robert Petoletti hollers like a street lunatic, sometimes in tune, usually not. They created ghoulish songs like “Happy Blues for Jeffrey Dahmer,” “Judy Garland is Dead” and “Master of Skulls.” But it’s been an oldhorror-movie kind of dark, both fun and cathartic. (By the way, the band has broken up. Drummer and music composer Nick Petoletti, Robert’s son, said, “It ran its course. It was time to wrap it up.” But they still have a backlog of material to release.) This album pushes the envelope.

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Most of the songs are about death, some about suicide. (Lyrics: “Some people think suicide’s bad and I don’t know why.”) Metal bands sing about suicide all the time, so that alone is not too shocking. Then there’s “Kill the President,” the title of which seems intended to get the band investigated by the Secret Service. The lyrics clarify that the target could be any president, like the president of a college. Well, that’s not so bad, is it? But it’s about a guy with a burning itch to put on his wife’s wedding dress, go out and kill someone. Then, “I’ll put a bullet through my head and I’ll make it gory. Before the final trigger springs, I want to say, I’m sorry!” This is followed by Robert’s evil laugh, which he’s honed to perfection over five years. It gets worse. This is a concept album. The band provided me with a plot outline (see below), though it’s unavailable with the CD. It’s hard to

follow the story just by listening, but you get the gist. Basically it’s about a mother and her two screwed-up sons. She also gets involved with a racketeer named Rupert Ross who ends up killing himself. One son drinks himself to death and the other, the would-be assassin, jumps off a building and goes splat. Bert (short for Bertha) spends her final miserable days in a nursing home before sailing away on “the black ship of time.” The end. Bert is the actual name of Robert’s late mother. The cover photo is of Robert and his brother (who’s not involved with the band) when they were kids. There’s an unflattering picture of her on the CD. Her voice can be heard twice in between songs: “You’re worse than your brother ever was” and “What are you going to do, take me out and shoot me?” These were recorded on her deathbed. Stage 2: Anger. The f--k did they think they were doing?

Is the album a posthumous act of payback? Couldn’t they keep that in the family? Why are they showing us their dirty laundry? Who the hell makes a horrible depressing bummer rock opera starring their mother/grandmother? Stage 3: Bargaining. The album is available as a “name your price” download on Bandcamp (where you can also find all the lyrics) and you can get the CD for $6 on Amazon. But why would you want to?? Stage 4: Depression. This is the most appalling, upsetting, disturbing album I’ve heard since David Bowie’s deathbed opus Blackstar. Stage 5: Acceptance. Got to admit, any album that gets this kind of reaction must be good. Ultimately, I don’t think the Petolettis are so cavalier in the way they deal with pain, loss and grief. They seem to be confronting it head-on. Which is painful, but after listening to it I feel more prepared to face the day, the future and whatever happens when I sail that ship. In a text message Robert told me, “Sons of Bert is dedicated to my mother, but it is in no way factual. I was glad to incorporate my mother while she lived with us in some meaningful (albeit bizarre) artistic endeavor. She was used to my shenanigans, and I only wish she could have lived long enough to see the end result.” So, five out of five stars for this bad boy of an album. But if there is an afterlife, let’s hope Bert has a sense of humor. Otherwise she might be waiting for her progeny with a red hot pitchfork.

The concept behind the concept album Sons of Bert Act One: Back to the Roots Bert, a fiercely independent woman with a fiery spirit, joined the carnival, upon age of majority, as a means of escape from the farm where she grew up. She naïvely yearned for the city. Once there, she met a merchant marine who swept her of her feet, and Bert produced two sons in rapid succession. The sailor soon lost interest in domestic life and sailed off never to return. Despondently, Bert was left to raise two sons with no father figure. Son #1 grew to be a belligerent alcoholic. Son #2 grew passive aggressive and turned to drink as well. Son #1 drank himself to

a gruesome death at a rather early age. Son #2 became manic depressive and ran away, abandoning Bert. She had to reconstruct her life. Act Two: The Suicide Suite Bert became involved with a rich entrepreneur and gambler named Rupert Ross who traveled the county on various “business” affairs. He fancied himself a very generous and charitable man. Bert quickly saw through his scam. He set her up in a house where his central office was stationed, and she had regular dealings with his midget henchman “Old Carl.” She discovered

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that Old Carl was running a sex trafficking operation for Rupert Ross. Old Carl was even pimping out his wife. One night, the wife’s best friend, “Scary Sherry,” confronted Old Carl as he came out of a back alley, and she stabbed him to death. With the sex trafficking ring exposed and prison looming over his head, Rupert Ross committed suicide. When the dust settled on the Rupert Ross debacle, Bert’s son #2 resurfaced. He was completely insane. Apparently, he had been in a dysfunctional, codependent relationship which ended tragically, and now he ran home to mother. He disgusted Bert. He was obsessed with killing a president – any

kind of president. “You’re worse than your brother ever was,” she snidely remarked as she ran him off. Eventually, he attempted to kill a bank president and failed. When the police closed in on him, he jumped off the roof of the bank thinking that he could fly. He splattered on the pavement below – quite dead. With both of her sons dead, and her life in ruins, Bert retired to a nursing home and lived out her last years in futility knowing that one day she would be forgotten on the winds of time. Her last known spoken words were, “What are you going to do? Take me out and shoot me?”

White Gull Inn: A Door County delight Northern Door County’s charming White Gull Inn is on Main Street in Fish Creek but not on the main drag – a key distinction. Rather, it’s tucked away on a quiet road in an idyllic location bordered by parks that provide a restful space to view the inviting waters of Green Bay. So when a guest and I shared a recent weekend at the hotel, which dates to the late 1800s, we were well away from the traffic that flows through town on Highway 42, which also doubles as Main Street. That meant we could sit on our veranda, sip coffee that was delivered to our door, and enjoy birdsong, butterflies and children’s laughter instead of vehicle noise. Much more attracts visitors to the White Gull Inn, which dates to 1896, such as its location beside the Episcopal Church of Atonement’s lovely grounds and nearby Sunset Park. The inn consists of several buildings for a total of 17 rooms. The main The White Gull Inn provides a quiet place to stay when visiting Fish Creek in Wisconsin’s Door County. Photo courtesy of structure, a hotel built by German doctor Hermann Welker, was originally Brian Clark. named after his wife, Henriette. He also mornings, and the evening meal of eventually,” she said. “However, I One evening we ventured north owned a casino down the street, now a baked salmon graced with string beans wasn’t quite sure how that would work a few miles to Sister Bay, where we hostelry known as the Whistling Swan. out after going to school for 12 years boarded the Edith Becker, a 65-foot The inn, crowned with a broad second- ended with a delightful finish of icecream-topped fruit crumble. for something else and having all my sailboat that’s a replica of a late 1800s story balcony, has a cozy feel and “That ‘Best Breakfast Challenge’ student loans.” merchant schooner, for a sunset outbeautifully landscaped surroundings award really put us on the map When her parents began talking ing. With Capt. Andy Hallett at the that give guests a feeling that they’ve nationally,” said Meredith Coulsonabout selling the inn, Meredith and her helm we sailed past forested hillsides stepped back into a slower time. Kanter, whose parents owned the inn siblings were alarmed. and rocky shores. He told us that Herb It has been updated in an underfrom 1981 to 2018, when she and her “We didn’t want that to happen, but and Doris Smith, authors of Sailing stated way, though, so bathrooms are husband, Chris, bought the property. we couldn’t just drop what we were Three Oceans, built the ship in the early now en suite, no longer requiring a trek Meredith and her two sisters grew up doing,” she said. “As it turned out, 1980s and named it Appledore III. In down the hall in the main building. at the inn helping their folks. my folks lost their long-time kitchen 1984 the couple and some paying crew Many rooms have gas fireplaces. And “I worked as a busser, my mom’s manager around the same time. I filled members set off to circumnavigate the four-suite Welker building – which retail assistant and a prep cook,” in, and after six months it became clear the globe. They then sold the ship to was erected 20 years ago but looks like Meredith said. But that fell off when that this was where I wanted to be long Peder Nelson, a former Chicago school it could also be from 1896 – even has she went to college and veterinary term.” teacher and avid sailor who renamed two-person jet tubs for those seeking a medicine school. Her husband, who was working on it for his great grandmother, Edith bit of warm luxury. She toiled for seven years as an his Ph.D. thesis in dairy economics at Becker, who spent her entire life in The food here is excellent. The emergency room veterinarian, often UW-Madison when they moved north, Door County. inn gained fame in 2010, when Good working night shifts at a clinic in signed on, too. In 2018, they bought At sunset we headed back to the Morning America named its Cherry Madison. But the inn drew her back the inn. marina, with the deckhands firing a Stuffed French Toast the best breakfast six years ago after a year’s sabbatical When we visited Fish Creek the small cannon to announce our return. in the country for that year. The inn’s at the University of Wisconsin, during inn was relatively busy, with travelers “It’s fun to captain this boat,” said fish boils are also popular, as are the which she received a master’s degree beginning to come out of their panHallett, a science teacher at Gibraltar candlelight dinners offered several in sustainable agriculture and food demic shells. All of the staff at the High School when he’s not sailing. nights a week. systems. hotel and restaurant wore face masks, “She really does feel like a piece of I had the inn’s signature and “Even though I became a vet, I and tables in the restaurant were at history, even if she isn’t 130 years old.” delicious cherry-topped French toast always envisioned myself being here least 6 feet apart. White Gull Inn: whitegullin.com with Door County maple syrup both

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Looking 4 Romance SWF looking for a Jewish man. Brown hair/eyes, 5’8”, 170 lbs. Want a pal-lover-romance. (58304:10/8)

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Duluth Poet Laureate Second Sunday Series The Duluth Poet Laureate Project announces the “Second Sunday Reading Series,” three online open poetry readings organized by Gary Boelhower, 2018-2020 Duluth Poet Laureate. The monthly readings will take place from 3-4 pm. on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 13, Oct. 11, and Nov. 8. Each month’s reading will feature two local poets whose presentations will be followed by an open reading. The reading on Sept. 13 will feature Phil Fitzpatrick and Daniel Oyinloye; Oct. 11 will feature Deborah Cooper and John Herold; and the reading on Nov. 8 will feature Sheila Packa and Blair Powless. All three poetry readings will be offered through the ZOOM online video communications technology. The public is invited to view the readings through a ZOOM online portal; please register for one, two or all the programs with Gary Boelhower

through email, gboelhower@msn.com. Poets who wish to participate in the open reading segment should contact Gary Boelhower with the date they wish to be placed on the program. The Duluth Poet Laureate Project began in 2005 and is funded by donations from The Friends of the Duluth Public Library, Lake Superior College, and the English departments at the College of Saint Scholastica, UMD, and by generous individuals. The Zeitgeist Community Arts Center is the fiscal sponsor. More information can be found at duluthpoetlaureate.org.

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The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra has partnered with Wisconsin Public Radio, to broadcast DSSO concert recordings on 91.3 FM (KUWS) and 88.5 FM (WSSU). Broadcasts will be featured on KUWS and WSSU on Thursday evenings at 7 pm. Listen live on the radio, or stream online at uwsuper.edu/kuws. Recordings of DSSO concerts will be available on Fridays at Home OnDemand page and will be available to stream for 45 days after release. DSSO at Home is a free on-demand service that the DSSO launched in early May to provide a connection with the Orchestra during continued COVID-19 Stay Safe guidelines that are in place. DSSO at Home features links to virtual performances, conversations with Music Director Dirk Meyer and more. Visit dsso.com/athome to find the latest posts and learn how to access the DSSO’s on-demand content. The DSSO is working hard to continue to stay connected to its

audience vir-tually, until the DECC and Symphony Hall are able to safely reopen to large audiences. Broadcast schedule: • Aug 27: Heaven & Earth (due to an error in broadcast when this was originally supposed to air on July 23, we have rescheduled the broadcast for Aug 27). Heaven and Earth meet in this combination of two 20th century masterworks: Respighi was inspired by four different church windows, and the stories they tell, when writing his colorful work Vetrate di Chiesa. Then experience one of the most beloved choral pieces of all time: Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, describing the serenity of heaven, the earthly delights, and suffering of men, as well as the futility of fate. • Sept 3: Revolution. Revolutions abound in this program of groundbreaking compositions, including Miguel del Aguila’s The Giant Guitar, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12, commemorating the Russian Revolution of 1917. • Sept 10: Four Seasons. Experience two blockbusters: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Mozart’s Requiem.

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Insight into Shakespeare’s world A Shakespeare Motley: An Illustrated Compendium Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Thames & Hudson, Inc. Arranged in alphabetical order, A Shakespeare Motley: An Illustrated Compendium is an inherently fascinating and impressively informative collection and presentation of Shakespearean curiosities that will inform, enthuse, intrigue, and amuse anyone who wants to know more about the life and work of the world’s best-known author. Drawing unusual connections, this ingenious and beautifully illustrated guide will show you what Hamlet’s Ophelia has to do with The Tempest and Twelfth Night, and how a stage direction speaks to Elizabethan treatment of bears. With entries ranging from “apothecary” to “zephyr,” this succinct compendium is full of captivating details illuminating all corners of Shakespeare’s world. The volume is illustrated throughout with images taken exclusively from the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Readers will quickly gain a vivid, authentic sense of Shakespearean times, from the fascination of falconry to the elegance of eglantine and the resonances of ring-giving. Accessible yet also full of expert insight and knowledge, A Shakespeare Motley: An Illustrated Compendium presents a wonderful window on the

collections, and award-winning learning programs, the trust attracts approximately three-quarters of a million visitors each year.

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ideas and influences that may have informed Shakespeare’s work. Enhanced with 225 illustrations (185 of which are in color), “A Shakespeare Motley is a fascinating and entertaining volume to simply page through from beginning to end. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is the independent charity that cares for the world’s greatest Shakespeare heritage in his hometown of Stratfordupon-Avon. It is the global center for learning about and experiencing the works, life, and times of the world’s best-known writer. Through the historic Shakespeare family homes, internationally designated museum

The Memorandum: A True Story of Justice Forged from Fire Robert W. Kelley Sutton Hart Press In The Memorandum: A True Story of Justice Forged from Fire, Florida attorney Robert W. Kelley offers the reader a truly gripping and detailed account of his years-long epic battle against one of the world’s most powerful companies and his efforts to seek justice for a family forever devastated by its misconduct. Part legal thriller, part personal memoir, part trial strategy, attorney Kelley’s narrative brings to life one of the most important legal cases of the decade, in which a giant corporation, a secret memo exposing its reprehensible conduct, legions of lawyers blocking the truth, are all ultimately brought to justice by Kelley and his relentless band of warriors. A kind of David vs. Golith story of a major care company’s deadly coverup of their flawed automobile and a grieving family’s struggle for justice against huge odds, The Memorandum is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended read. Kelley is an award-winning American trial lawyer, author, and one of the nation’s premier catastrophic injury and wrongful death law firms. His professional life is focused on complex, high-profile trials where he battles for justice on behalf of people seriously injured by the negligence or misconduct of an individual or corporation. My Generation: A Memoir of the Baby Boom Nowick Gray Independently published Fresh out of college, with $30 to his name, Nowick Gray survives his 3 a.m. catnap crossing the Mississippi, in a VW Beetle bound for the golden vision of California. An education in antiwar politics, the poetry of nature, and the required courses of the era (sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll) has spurred his ambition to follow his bliss. But by then the mantra of the boomers has already changed from “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” to “Get a job.” My Generation: A Memoir of the Baby

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Boom is inspiring, often humorous account, marked by handshakes with fame and brushes with death, as Nowick Gray charts his unique yet representative journey through the tumultuous ‘60s and ‘70s that included a quest for alternatives to corporate conformity and the looming threat of apocalypse. My Generation also reveals his selfexile from East Coast suburbia spirals through a campus rebellion, California dreaming, a testy Canadian romance, and an Inuit village preparing for its own revolution – bound for a back-tothe-land utopia in the mountains of British Columbia. While it proves to be an informative, entertaining and nostalgic read by author Nowick Gray’s fellow baby boomers, it is highly recommended for younger folk who would be interested to know what life was like during the ‘60s & 70’s for their parents’ (and even grandparents’!) generation.

Stealing First and Other Old-Time Baseball Stories Chris Williams Sunbury Press Baseball fans who enjoy memoirs, history and sports reflections are in for a treat with Stealing First and Other Old-Time Baseball Stories. It captures the ironies, adventures and oftenzany stories of players and baseball moments that may not have achieved

broader exploration, using language and description that adopt a “you are there” feel for readers who would use their home easy chair as a bandstand seat. These statistical baseball essays pair numbers with nostalgia to bring the sport and its notable moments to life. It does so by employing captivating language to draw in readers, who will feel as though they are not just observing a game’s action, but reveling in the lives, personalities and perspectives of its players: “You’d have to be a real grump not to like Germany Schaefer. Even grouchy web trolls might have cracked a smile watching this guy play baseball. If anyone who ever played major league baseball posessed a sense of humor, it was William Herman Schaefer. Nicknamed ‘Germany’ because of his heritage, Schaefer was quite the clown...” Baseball memoirs, histories and explorations typically don’t appeal to those not already thoroughly immersed in the sport because they tend to belay the personalities and emotions of players in favor of technical observations of the sport itself. Chris Williams cultivates a unique ability to inject excitement and personality into each story, and this in turn offers lessons that embrace both statistical descriptions of events and the players who contributed to historic successes or failures. Quotes from baseball classic writings and interviews, recreations of personalities and events, and summaries that offer bigger-picture thinking about the sport and its players craft essays that often will prove inviting even to those with minimal interest in baseball statistics or history although it’s the avid fan who will best appreciate these numerical surveys of baseball history. This collection also incorporates photos, a sense of humor, and affection for the sport. For some, the many statistical supporting details may prove overbearing, especially given the allure of the personality-based observations made in the introductory tale. But, again: this is primarily a recommendation for avid baseball fans who enjoy historical explorations backed by statistical representation. The blend of amusing anecdotes and baseball statistics supporting key moments in the sport’s history will attract and delight those who hold a passion for the sport. Love in the Time of Corona Diana Wiley, Ph.D. DearDrDiana.com Love in the Time of Corona: Advice

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from a Sex Therapist for Couples in Quarantine is an advice guide that blends sex therapist Dr. Diana Wiley’s tips for better relationships and sexual experiences with the new realities of physical intimacy in the time of coronavirus. It promotes reigniting relationships and sexual intimacy between partners who are sheltering in place. New approaches fostered by the age of intimacy can benefit from quarantine proximity. Restrictions can lead to actively working on and revising one’s approaches. This will result in lifelong benefits beyond quarantine. As a licensed family therapist, Dr. Wiley well knows the types of stress and discord that can stem from longterm isolation and prolonged periods of being cooped up together. But while she acknowledges these challenges, she also poses thoughts, routines, exercises and ideas that lead to better communication, understanding and sexual experiences between couples. The foundation message in this book is: “Enjoyable sexual activity between partners can distinctly benefit a couple’s mental and physical health.” Chapters explore how this activity can be revitalized, offering couples new avenues for understanding and pleasure. They discuss feedback, creating boundaries and approaches that go beyond survival strategies and into the realm of actively working on improving one’s relationship while sheltering at home. This approach is every bit as inviting and important for long-term connections as adopting a hobby or expanding one’s leisure life. Many different lessons are introduced in the course of this exploration, from mindfulness meditation to unlocking deeper states of consciousness through mindful breathing, leading to better sexual satisfaction.

includes Earth Day, but David M. Guion provides a specific probe of the federal government’s role in environmental management well before and after the event. This focus provides a broader understanding to the history of environmentalism in a survey that should be on the reading lists of anyone concerned about the history of environmental regulation and management efforts. Chapters outline the state of environmental law, beginning with the Truman administration and how the Eisenhower administration’s economic policies encouraged wastefulness. Perhaps even more importantly, it outlines what Earth Day did wrong and how its leaders still omitted or changed some important truths and insights about humans and the environment. One of the most important (and, likely, controversial) chapters in this book is “Attacks on Mainstream Society,” which offers much food for

thought. For example, the issue of overpopulation led some influential authors to question basic democratic principles: “In 1967, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had declared that any decision regarding family size rested with the family alone and no one else could make it for them. Hardin protested vigorously. And he asserted the impossibility of promoting population control by appealing to conscience. It would require coercion. He denied that it would require arbitrary decisions by some distant bureaucracy, but how else would a critical mass of people relinquish their freedom to breed?” From the unity that Earth Day brought to the discord that we now experience, and how the event changed the concept of environmentalism from a specialty approach to a mainstream issue, Guion’s important history should be required reading for any environmentally-conscious individual.

Before And After The First Earth Day, 1970 (2nd edition) David M. Guion Independently published The second expanded edition of Before And After The First Earth Day, 1970 points out that the first Earth Day celebration did not begin environmental efforts, as is commonly assumed, but in fact made the public more aware of existing environmental issues. Some of the leaders called into question not only the condition of the environment, but social institutions and democratic processes themselves. Other surveys of environmentalism have offered a general focus that August 20, 2020 65

George Carlin unleashed George Carlin Commemorative Collection MPI Home Video, $99.98 As we remember George Carlin on the twelfth anniversary of his passing (June 22, 2008), it will come as a great joy to fans to be able to celebrate George’s talent with a new 10-disc multiformat set, George Carlin Commemorative Collection. The set incorporates all fourteen of George’s standup specials for HBO, several hours of additional television appearances and interviews, the recent posthumous CD I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die, and HD versions of his final two specials. It’s the definitive George Carlin video collection. Fans of stand-up comedy already know that George Carlin is often mentioned as one of the top two or three stand-ups of all time. (If George isn’t number one, then maybe we give it to the visionary storyteller Richard Pryor, or maybe the anti-establishment soothsayer Lenny Bruce.) Fans also probably know that George’s stand-up has gone through many phases. The first phase, from his start in the late ‘50s to some time in the late ‘60s, was, in essence, his “entertainer” phase. He would goof on popular culture, do funny voices, and attempt impressions of famous people. George never necessarily stopped doing this kind of stuff entirely, but as the counterculture grew in prominence, and the ‘60s became the ‘70s, George’s focus shifted from the funny things people say on television to the “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” In the next phase, George’s material became more autobiographical, more observational, more poetic and more philosophical. The first two impulses are strong in the nostalgic bits from his 1972 Class Clown album (from which the famed “Seven Words” routine originates), while the latter two are obvious in the title track of his 1973 follow-up, Occupation: Foole. That’s the space where we find George during his first HBO special,

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On Location with George Carlin (1977). The show, recorded in front of a college crowd at the University of Southern California, is looser than most folks would expect a TV stand-up special to be. After a disclaimer about the profanity contained within the special, George is interviewed about his comedy influences. Then when he takes the stage, he riffs for a good two or three minutes before attempting any material. Later, a stagehand comes up and swaps out a faulty microphone, forcing George to dig himself out of the hole created by that energetic lag. Considering the powerhouse that HBO would become in the world of stand-up specials, it’s interesting to see both George and the company just casually trying things out in this first effort together. George does a version of the “Seven Words” routine in On Location, and he continues to do variations on it for the next few specials, redacting and expanding the list with new selections.

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It makes sense that someone who “thinks up goofy shit,” as George claims he does in his second special George Carlin: Again! (1978), would never be satisfied boiling down humanity’s complex relationship to language into one 10-minute routine in 1972. Although, by reprising the bit and getting the guaranteed laughs, there is also the vague sense of George resting on his laurels. The choice to shoot the Again special in the round, with the audience on all sides, also feels like a gimmick to goose some extra juice from material that a large chunk of the audience might already know by heart. But... it’s arguably a gimmick that works. George’s mid-’80s specials blur together for me, but I always remember this one for its look and energy. Speaking of those specials, Carlin at Carnegie (1983), was taped after Carlin’s second heart attack. The long hippie hair is gone, and a new hardness is visible in George’s eyes. His material is still pretty whimsical here, but one

catches a whiff of future anger in bits like his argument with his Rice Krispies: “Snap, Crackle, Fuck Him.” Carlin on Campus (1984) opens with George combining phrases from the Lord’s Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance into a prayer for the separation of church and state. Arguably, it’s an early version of the poetic word games that George would often use to kick off future sets and an indicator that his mild disillusionment with his Catholic upbringing was starting to change into something more intense. This special is essential, if only because it contains great performances of two of George’s best-known routines: the materialism critique “A Place for My Stuff” (“Have you ever noticed that other people’s stuff is ‘shit,’ and your shit is ‘stuff?’”) and “Baseball and Football,” in which George illustrates how the first sport is calm and the second is war-like. The 1986 special Playin’ with Your Head is sometimes characterized as the creative nadir before Carlin rebounded with his “cranky old man” phase. Sure, the special is a little short (padded out by a fake noir short film featuring Vic Tayback that has nothing to do with anything), and thematically, it’s kind of scattershot, but George is so damn good at what he does that this one can’t be categorized as a miss. There are just too many laughs. In fact, I’ve read quite a few online rankings of George’s specials (including one from my DVD Talk colleague, Oktay Ege Kozak), and I realized that even the specials that were getting dissed by these other writers I’ve watched multiple times in my life. The weakest George Carlin hour is still better than most comics’ best. Not that Playin’ with Your Head is my personal least favorite. That one is still to come (and, if you’re a Carlin fan, it’s probably not the one you’re suspecting). With 1989’s What Am I Doing in New Jersey?, George’s philosopherpoet persona morphs into something angrier and more aggressive. The energy he once put fully into analyzing the minutiae of everyday interactions he now focuses upon dissecting the hypocrisies of those in power and those who seek power. The Reagan administration and Christian fundamentalists are among the ripe targets he tackles with vicious aplomb. There’s still some everyday stuff in there, like a long chunk on driving, but

the tone has already changed. As its title implies, 1990’s Doin’ It Again might as well just be What Am I Doing in New Jersey? part two (it was even taped in Jersey, although in a different city this time). He continues to rail against the Republicans, but follows up by bashing political correctness and feminists too. There’s something to offend and infuriate everyone, which is pretty much true for all of George’s specials from here on out. But his analyses of the way language is used to disconnect people from meaning – such as the way “shell shock” mutates over time into “posttraumatic stress disorder” – is some of his sharpest, most thoughtful and most memorable material. Originally broadcast live in 1992, Jammin’ in New York is already widely known as George’s favorite of his own specials. It’s easy to see why. Angry George is firing on all cylinders, taking aim at the first Gulf War and the military industrial complex, carving up the ill-gotten gains of the rich and powerful and offering it to the homeless (in his imagination, at least), and reframing the intentions of smug do-gooders who want to “save the Earth” by rebutting, “The planet is fine. The people are fucked. ... The planet isn’t going anywhere. We are!” He even incorporates some of his old relatable observational humor, but with the explicit purpose of bringing his listeners together, to combat those in power who try to drive us apart. Wow. Back in Town (1996) was another live broadcast, and the way George whips around the stage, this might be his most energetic special. Once again, he tackles the corrupt political system, elitist hypocrisy, and the cartoonish excessiveness of American culture. At one point, he dismisses the “sanctity of life,” and as if to prove that point, he later envisions a dystopic prison farm, where criminals are allowed to kill each other for the amusement of a national TV audience. The tenth special in the set is a hybrid of sorts. George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (1997) is part career retrospective, part interview, and part regular stand-up show. Hosted by Jon Stewart, each of these three elements of the special go off without a hitch, and the stand-up chunk in the middle is surprisingly generous (roughly a half-hour, much of it unique to this special). George closed out the ‘90s with You Are All Diseased (1999), a vitriolic attack on American BS in its various forms: corporate perversions of the

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counterculture, like Harley Davidson and the House of Blues; advertising and the lies it sells on behalf of corporate greed; and, maybe most viciously, religion and its overwhelming, brainwashing power. Many of these bits hit home, but the long opening chunk about the frustrations and ineffectiveness of airport security acts as a weird pre-9/11 time capsule now; most of George’s complaints are irrelevant, now that the TSA demands more and stranger concessions from flyers. Speaking of 9/11, now we come to my personal least favorite special in the set, Complaints and Grievances (2001). Recorded a little more than two months after the terrorist attack on New York City, this set bears the evidence of last-minute changes. The special was originally going to be called I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die, a sentiment that would not have worked at the time, but which might have given this special a more coherent focus. Instead, we get scattered rants about the vapidness of American culture. Not bad – as I already said, nothing in this set is – but little of the special rises to the level of George’s closing bit, where he trims the fat from the Ten Commandments and leaves us with the few solid ones worth following. George’s penultimate special, Life Is Worth Losing (2005), might be his most infamous. Devoted almost entirely to ruminations upon death, the special can almost seem too dark to laugh at. Many viewers didn’t. To these eyes, the special has aged well, with George’s perceptiveness and craft really shining through. It’s certainly one of his best constructed hours. Inevitably, there has to be something to offend everyone, and I don’t particularly dig the bit about donating genitals from the supple dead to be used by lonely horny people. It’s still pretty icky. At least when Louis CK came up with a similar bit, he offered up his own corpse to be used for gratification. (But I digress.) George’s final special, It’s Bad For Ya (2008), returns to his pet theme of BS. (His oft-repeated refrain during this hour, shortened for the title, is: “It’s bullshit, and it’s bad for ya.”) George becomes the anti-Mister Rogers during an extended bit on parenting, in which he hypothesizes that children are not special and they are not our future. He spits venom at the concept of patriotism. As always, he attacks the way we misuse and abuse the English language. But the finest chunk concerns the self-delusion that goes into believing dead people

are in heaven, smiling down on us. Well, it’s been 12 years since we lost George. And if he’s anywhere, I’m sure he’s scowling up at us. The George Carlin Commemorative Collection is a 10-disc set, packaged in a five-tray Digipak-style case inside a box, along with a folded collectible poster of the cover art and a booklet with program information, photos, and a liner note essay by Patton Oswalt. The 14 main specials are presented on five DVDs. The bonuses are presented on the next three DVDs, a CD, and a Blu-ray (region A). Considering the differing vintages of these TV specials, they pretty much look and sound how you would expect. The first 12 specials are presented in standard 1.33:1, while the final two specials are widescreen 1.78:1. Most of them look suitable for their age; not crystal clear, but you can make out what’s happening (i.e., it’s a guy on a stage). You Are All Diseased looks a little more washed-out than one might expect, but it’s not a deal-breaker. All of the programs are presented in Dolby 2.0 stereo, and they sound fine. You can always hear the jokes A-OK. All of the specials offer English subtitles. The first four specials also offer Spanish subtitles. What an extraordinary set. Not only do we get all 14 of George Carlin’s HBO stand-up specials in one place, but there are also hours and hours of excellent bonus material, including: • Carlin on CBS Talent Scouts (6:16): A black-and-white clip from 1962, in which George does a number of impressions. That’s right! Impressions! • Carlin on The Hollywood Palace (October 1966) (6:01): Adam West introduces George, complete with Bat puns. George reimagines Cowboy & Indian movies. • Carlin on The Hollywood Palace (December 1966) (6:44): Jimmy Durante introduces, complete with excessive sincerity. George does a “Wonderful WINO Radio” bit. • Carlin on The Jackie Gleason Show (8:00): A clip from 1969, it features George making jokes about television culture and the FBI’s 10 most wanted. • The Real George Carlin (50:38): From 1973, this is George’s first TV special. He performs a lot of material included on the Class Clown and Occupation: Foole albums. He also has three musical guests: Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, and B.B. King. What a find! • Apt. 2-C (30:08): An unaired pilot for an HBO series that George wrote and starred in, in 1984. He plays a freelance writer, constantly harangued by his neighbors, played by a bunch of

comics, s and George’s own daughter, Kelly Carlin. • George Carlin’s Personal Favorites (59:50): A 1996 compilation of various memorable moments from the specials, plus the 1986 Comic Relief version of “A Place for My Stuff” and a 1990 redux of “Baseball and Football.” Carlin at the Comedy Store (1999) (1:05:11) - A video recording of George doing final tweaks to the hour that would become You Are All Diseased. It’s interesting to see him reading some of the jokes off a collection of pages, as he tries to memorize them. For Carlin fans, there is no question that this is a must-own collection.

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LOOK Criterion updates classic comedy by Preston Sturges The Lady Eve: Criterion Collection Blu-ray, 39.95 One of Preston Sturges’s best-loved films, the 1941 screwball comedy The Lady Eve gets the Blu-ray upgrade from the Criterion Collection, who first put the movie on DVD in 2001. (It also appeared in a Universal box set of Sturges films.) The film stars Barbara Stanwyck as con woman Jean Harrington, who sets her sights on snake scientist and heir to an ale fortune, Charles Pike (Henry Fonda). Pike is handsome and booksmart but totally naive, making him a big

fat mark for Jean and her card sharp papa, known as the Colonel (Charles Coburn). Stanwyck is perfectly in her element, savvy and sexy in Edith Head’s flattering gowns. Fonda, though better known for drama, is a marvelous comic milquetoast who finds himself constantly tripped-up – often quite literally – by his female co-star. For Jean, the idea is to make Charles fall in love with her _ which happens quite easily. The complication comes when Jean realizes she’s falling for Charles just as hard. When it comes time for the Colonel to fleece the shnook for all he’s worth,

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Jean steps in and saves her oblivious suitor. However, when Charles learns the truth about Jean – thanks to the snooping of his streetwise pal Muggsy (Sturges’s regular secret weapon, William Demarest) – their brief courtship ends in acrimony. For the second half of the film, the embittered Jean decides to make good on that con she fouled up by being a lovestruck sucker. She poses as visiting British nobility, the Lady Eve Sidwich, and seduces Charles all over again. When “Eve” shows up at the Pike mansion for a party, Muggsy argues with Charles that Eve is clearly Jean. “Positively the same dame,” becomes the sidekick’s mantra. Charles retorts that Eve looks too much like Jean to actually be her. His gut tells him that if this was Jean trying to pull a fast one, she would be more clandestine about it. Leaning on that kind of pretzel logic, Charles’s comeuppance is almost completely assured. The Lady Eve is a lightning-in-a-bottle production where the chemistry of the cast converges with the wit and economy of the material to make magic. And while the chemistry of our leads is almost miraculous – as evidenced in an oft-referenced longtake two-shot, where Stanwyck and Fonda’s faces are smushed side by side, with her playing with his hair as they talk about love – every single part is filled by a memorable character actor who seems tailor-made for their role. Demarest as Muggsy. Coburn as the world-weary and wise Colonel. Eugene Pallette as Charles’s bulldog of a dad. Eric Blore as a cheeky British con man whose noble racket gives Jean her inspiration for Eve. And on and on. While The Lady Eve is not my favorite Sturges – that honor belongs to The Palm Beach Story – it’s hard to deny that this film features some of his best dialogue and best scenes. It’s just flawlessly executed. The Lady Eve comes packaged with a booklet that includes an essay by Geoffrey O’Brien and a 1946 LIFE magazine profile of Preston Sturges by Noel F. Busch. This isn’t sourced from the original negative, so it’s not startlingly crisp. But there is noticeably more fine detail than the old SD version. And the image is stable and clean, with good contrast. Special Features: • Audio commentary by scholar Marian Keane: Originally featured on the 2001 Criterion DVD. A wellprepared and nicely polished dissection of the film as it unspools. • Peter Bogdanovich Introduction: Brought over from the 2001 DVD, Bogdanovich talks about the film

and Sturges’s career, highlighting the sharpness of the dialogue in his films. • Tom Sturges and Friends: I think I’ve seen a bonus feature conducted over Skype before, but this is the first Zoom call bonus I’ve seen on disc. Welcome to 2020. Preston Sturges’s son Tom talks to filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich, James L. Brooks, Ron Shelton; historian Susan King; and critics Leonard Maltin and Kenneth Turan about the film. Everyone pitches in with thoughtful analysis and history. Sturges also offers some fairly interesting bits of gossip about his dad as well. • The Lady Deceives: A suitably snappy video essay on the film from David Cairns. • Edith Head’s Costume Designs: Written excerpts from the book Edith Head’s Hollywood are counterpointed with sketches and clips to show off the famous designer’s striking work for Barbara Stanwyck in the film. • Lux Radio Theatre (44:46): The radio adaptation of the film, featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland and Charles Coburn. “Up the Amazon”: An audio recording of the proposed opening number to a musical theater adaptation of The Lady Eve. Written by Rick Chertoff and David J. Forman, performed by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks. Criterion does a great job updating their DVD edition of The Lady Eve, with a great-looking main feature and some thoughtful new extras. The film itself is a must-own anyway, so this edition is an easy inclusion in the DVD Talk Collector Series.

Clueless turns a quarter-century old Clueless: Anniversary Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray and digital, $14.99 It is hard to believe that Clueless is now old enough to rent a car, or at least can rent one whenever travel restrictions are eased a little more. But yeah, I remember when I was skeptical that the girl in the Aerosmith videos, who was seemingly playing a California girl to the nth degree could pull it off. But she did and she had help with a lot of people in the film, and it was one that I am more than willing to eat my hat on. Written and directed by Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), the film is inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma, and that person in this film is Cher (Alicia Silverstone, The Crush), the daughter to a lawyer workaholic father who dotes on his daughter to keep them together after her Mom died. Cher is going through life with Dionne (Stacey Dash, View From The Top) and helps people for personal gain, until she seems to realize there is nobody’s life left to enhance but her own. What was immediately endearing for me about Clueless then as it is now is that Heckerling makes sure that Silverstone (and everyone else in the ensemble) own those roles, to the point where the story can be told. Cher and Dionne are named after famous people, which should speak for itself, but there is an obliviousness that each own for various reasons, and it is something that they use to the benefit of the story. Cher and Dionne are admittedly kind of selfish, but they are not dumb. Dumb people could not get teachers to fall in love, or get Tai (Brittany Murphy, 8 Mile) to agree to a makeover and still be friends with her despite her interest in a lite Jeff Spicoli in Travis (Breckin Meyer). They may look dumb to people but they are smart in their own ways, and their “stupidity” is done in the film for the sake of laughs. Silverstone helps sell Cher so well

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with these attributes too; she is the girl that people like a lot but they dismiss for many of the reasons I mentioned above. But she is smarter than people would give her credit for. She plays the scenes with her Dad (Dan Hedaya) and stepbrother (hey, that’s Paul Rudd!) so well that it can’t be something of a fluke. Cher, Dionne and the other kids at Beverly Hills High are smart, but they just are not smart to other people, and getting the peek into the former is what makes the latter work so well. Paramount has been revisiting their catalog over the last few months and remarkably Clueless is one that works in a variety of ways; the backdrop is entertaining and the quest of the protagonist is carried on enough that you do not forget about it as the film goes on, and the work of the cast is such that when the end does happen and you are happy that some mild incest occurs, it is sort of cute! Such as it is, Clueless is funny, charming and all of that, despite what your better judgment may tell you. Not having seen the 2012 blu-ray, I will make the leap and say that Paramount used the same transfer for this, and on its own it looks good. Film grain is present and the image appears natural; the darker moments of the film stand out a little sharper than I thought they would. Colors are vivid and look good as do flesh tones, and the film is done justice on high-definition. DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless to go with this one, and it is also good. The film’s ample musical score is given a lot of justice and sounds broad and dynamic, with bass sounding clear and robust to go with horns and guitars, be it

Mighty Mighty Bosstones in the party sequence or what have you. Dialogue is a winner here as it is clear and well-balanced through the film, and channel panning (such as when Cher walks through the quad) is just as effective. Nice work by Paramount. So it looks like the extras that were on the 2012 blu-ray are back for this anniversary edition, nothing more nothing else (unless a digital code counts). There is a trivia track (titled ‘Clue or False’) followed by the “Class of ‘95” (18:31), where some of the cast recall things about the film for the 10th anniversary, and is mixed up with vintage video. The older cast talk about the younger ones and how impressed

they were by them, and some test footage and bloopers are included too. A nice piece, too short though. “Fashion 101” (10:46) gets into the challenge of dressing the kids at the time, and the retrospective angle shares their thoughts on the clothes then and how it helped them since. Like the first piece, a little short, but slightly intriguing. “Language Arts” (8:09) get into the various dialogue and Hecklerling’s adjustments to the cast for it, while “Suck ‘N Blow: A Tutorial: (2:47) is self-explanatory. “Driver’s Ed” (3:49) examines the kids as they talk about driving on camera, while “We’re History” (8:52) focuses on the legacy and history of the film. There are also a teaser and full trailer to boot in this steelbook. It boils down to what camp you are in, really; if you have the previous release of the Blu-ray, then the cost hinges on the steelbook and maybe a digital copy of the film If you don’t, well, it is not that strong of a title on its own merits. No commentary track, a fine but not great transfer and soundtrack, and an Alicia Silverstone-sized hole in the bonus features of this thing. So hopefully that makes the decision on buying (or re-buying it) easier, but it still holds up well after 25 years.

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Wanted_ Managing editor of The Reader is seeking a home or apartment to rent. 920-421-3441. Wanted: Furnished bedroom, apartment, or cabin in Duluth area for senior couple for for month of August. JANEorTOM@gmail.com Disabled P/T employed male in need of stable housing, room or basement with available kitchen. Far East End. Please call James 218-461-0703. Will provide all inside/outside upkeep, maintenance, etc. for your property/home. Swap for free but private living quarters on site. Multi-skilled 70 yr old man. Excl. Character. 218-213-43-69 MINNESOTA HUNTING LAND Wanted. Earn thousands on your land by leasing the hunting rights. Free evaluation & info packet. Liability coverage included. The experts at Base Camp Leasing have been bringing landowners & hunters together since 1999. Email: info@basecampleasing.com Call: 866/309-1507 BaseCampLeasing.com I buy homes, multi-units and land. Cash $. 218-5562542 webuytwinports.com_ Real Estate Hunting Land 40 acres Ajoins 2000 A County Land. NW Douglas County. Buildable, heavily wooded. Wood value $26k - Taxes $670. Price reduced to $60,000 218-428-5844 WILDERNESS HUNTING CABIN with storage shed 1000 ft. off forest management road on leased land in St. Louis County Brimson area. Call 218-391-4131 or 218-879-6585 For Sale: 2.35 acre lot w/100’ shoreline on Lake LaVerne, WI. Motivated to sell: $27,000 Call Lori 612803-6607 for details. For Sale: 1978 2 bedroom, 2 bath mobile home in Sunnyside Estates, Cloquet. Needs repairs. $1,500. or B.O. 218-481-5881 Responsible non profit animal rescue looking for pet friendly rental housing, fenced yard, spactious. Rent to own pref. ASAP. 218-576-8534 50 acres hunting land. 2 enclosed deer stands, building site, power & phone access. Westerlund Loop, Solon Springs, Wisc. 920-344-8016 Mobile home $18,500 Vintage Acres/Gary 2br//1ba includes appliances. Quiet. Lg yard/garden area. 218-464-5524 2-Bedroom Cabin on Siskwit Lake, 500’ frontage, Cornicopia, Wisconsin 847-710-2967 Rentals__ Room for rent in Superior. Large unit, shared kitchen, private bath. $700. Text or call Sara, 763-760-5937. Large 2 bedroom apartment in West Duluth. Available Sept. 1st Call 218-940-6237 Condo in Aspenwood 3 bed - 1.5 bath, garage,fully firnished. All utilities inc. Available October 1st. 6-8 month lease. $1,595. 218-390-7291 Newer 2 story side by side duplex in Superior w/att. 2 stall garage. 2bdr w/full & half ba gas heat & water. $1025/ mo + util. & dep. No pets. Avail. May 1 Call 715-394-2028

Seeking Rental - Whole house or private entrance w/o shared ventilation. Chemically sensitive tenants - Can Afford $800-1000 per month depending on utilities. Asthma triggered by poor indoor air quality. Call or text (218) 260-5091

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Wilderness Hunting Cabin 16’ x 24’ cabin with steel-sided shed on county-leased land in Ault, Minnesota, 1000’ off forest management road.

$40,000 Call 218-491-0972 or 218-355-1668

Iconic Northwoods Restaurant for Lease The Chocolate Moose is available for lease to a qualified operator for the 2020 season and beyond. Ely’s most popular restaurant since 1985 needs new energy and creativity. Sixmonth lease with very liberal terms to get started. Operationally ready to move in. Profitable for more than 30 years. Call Piragis Northwood Co., 218-365-6745 or steve@piragis.com

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

$48,000 Wooded Lot with Creek & Well 6632 Hwy 61, Little Marais

Ready to build on level site. Year round access. Well, electricity, and identified septic 1-3/4 acres includes: 25’ travel trailer, 18’ X 18’ Shed, mature trees, winding creek

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Build your Vacation Home or Cabin Very nice, remote 10 acres. Fully surveyed, driveway in, building site fully ready. Walk down to lake and fish for Walley, Northern and perch. Ducks, Geese, Deer, Moose and Bear roam the property. Build your dream home, or hunting cabin. Located in central Lake County. Forrest service road accress, not plowed in winter. 18 miles from Finland, MN. $35,000

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Job Opportunites Graphic Artist needed. Adobe Creative Suite, pagination skills a plus. Send resume to: info@readerduluth.com Needed Immediately Some one ASAP to work with elderly, nice lady to do some errands, shopping, Doctors appts. etc. No housework. Must be kind and honest. Have to have car, insurance. Must like pets and be kind to animals. Good pay. Variable hours. 3419027 LvMessg. Business Opportunity. Photo/picture framing equipment, Fletcher 2100 & 3000 mat/glass cutters, Vacu-Seal programmable press. Extra supplies incl. $7,500. value selling for $2,500. Can purchase items separately. 218-830-1255 Living Well workshop series is for people with conditions such as chronic pain, diabetes, arthritis or mental health conditions. We are looking for volunteers and professionals to become class leaders to motivate and inspire. Leaders co-lead a 6-week workshop with another certified instructor in a community setting of their choice. Must lead one workshop per year. yourjuniper.org. Wanted: In search of Talent Manager & mentor to help me reach my potential. I am a comedian & speaker with electric personality. I have potential to impact the world but I need a believer to believe in me. I want to make the dream attainable.Write me: Benjamin Jorgenson, 2 East 2nd st. Duluth, MN 55802 Adults 18 or older and generally healthy wanted for research on the physiological and subjective stress responses of individuals who use marijuana regularly. Compensation provided. U of MN Medical School Du-

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Employment Have lots of nest stuff 4 sale. Have Amazon acct. Need someone w/internet sales ability. For info 218-348-2903 “Ever wonder what the world looks like at 5 am? Always dreamed of having afternoons off? Amazing Grace is looking for a full time breakfast line cook. The right candidate will be: Reliable and skilled in the arts of time management; Ready to become an indispensable piece of our ever-growing team; Able to work fast-paced professional kitchen; Excited about working in a fromscratch kitchen in a family owned restaurant; Stop by & pickup an application, we look forward to meeting you.” ARE YOUR KIDS IN SCHOOL? V.I.P. is in need of a few good kitchen workers. Day hours available. If you are interested call your nearest V.I.P. or stop in. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY DRIVERS WANTED Looking for self-motivated people that would like part time work transporting people to appointments in your area. Great benefits. Please leave message 612/978-2115 Paperboy looking for help with marketing on internet. 218-348-

2903 Housekeepers Wanted Must be available mornings and weekends. Apply in person at the front desk/ Allyndale Motel, 510 North 66 Ave. West and Cody St.

Looking for an amazing career and a great place to work? Aerostich is hiring! View our video and all available positions at www.SewAero.com. Arrowhead House Foster Care has part time employment opportunities working with adults with mental illness. Day/evening & awake overnight positions available. Competitive wages, paid training, paid time off and employee bonuses! Call 218-727-8040, or apply online at ahprograms. com Work Wanted Sharpening Service 29 years exp. Circle saws, planer knives, Zamboni knives, tec. John 218879-6143 Experienced pet sitter would love to watch them in your home & house sit. References. Call 218380-3340 Trudy. $0. one dog, $5 each additional

Licensed Nurse-Duluth/Superior area. Good driving record. Will assist clients: DRs appts, meds, shopping, lunch, some light housekeeping duties. Avail. 2-3 hrs on weekdays. Reasonable rates Call Lynn 218-348-7393 Experienced personal care assistant/home health aide looking for jobs. 29 yr old female with reliable vehicle and valid insurance. can run errands, clean, do small projects, drive u places, assist u with things inside and outside of the house, shovel, as well as assist with activities of daily living. 218-481-3388

Employment Educated hair stylist willing to come to your home and do your hair. Very fair rates. Wendy 715-919-0979 Senior will do phone fundraising/surveys. PT, afternoons, downtown Duluth. 218-940-9005 Reliable man to care for elderly in home. Run errands, work in your home. Very diversified, ex-contractor. Call for details 218-409-4725 Feet on the Go! Yes! I will come into your home to give you a pedicure. 218-208-7950 Handyman. $13/hr - Call Ryan @ 218-428-1626 Musicians.. Anyone looking for a drumset or Bass player? I play both. 612-396-8307 GUITAR LESSONS from Austin, Tx professional new to the Twin Ports! (Also Bass & Vocal) go to new levels! Call 512565-5000 Guitar lessons available. 16 years experience. All styles, reasonable rates. Contact Aaron at 218-760-1599. Professional violin/fiddle lessons. Credentials: Performance degree U of M Twin Cities, toured nationally as American/ Celtic/Nordic/Rock fiddler. Duluth. References. 218-2353235 Eli Bissonett Free Piano Lessons for Beginners in your home. If you have the desire to learn the basics this is a good start. I will not give lessons to under 18 without others present. Jay 218213-4687

Superior, WI 715-501-4046 Lost/Found Lost - Black I-Phone on Dec. 16. Within 4 blocks of East High School in the snow. $50 reward Text/Call 218-2136213

Meetings NARVRE Unit 92 - Protecting Railroad Retirement - we meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at the West Duluth American Legion at 1 PM Scandinavian Crime Writers Book Club meeting in Duluth Call Kirk 612-558-1318

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Storage Wars A&E 6 am Gear up for a morning of modern-day treasure hunting as A&E presents a marathon of this reality TV series. People attend storage unit auctions where they bid on the contents of lockers in the hopes of finding something valuable inside.

The Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Challenge TLC 11 am Artists take ordinary toilet paper from the bathroom to the craft room, creating extraordinary wedding dresses you need to see to believe in this

Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum star in Independence Day, airing at 6 pm

rebroadcast special. A panel of celebrity judges awards a $10,000 prize to the best in show. Movie: Legally Blonde Bravo 7:30 pm Reese Witherspoon stars as Elle Woods in this beloved comedy. After being dumped by her boyfriend for not being smart enough, she decides to follow him to law school, only to prove she’s more talented than expected. Luke Wilson also stars.

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Pet Vet Dream Team CBS 8:30 am Dr. Peter is excited about Beatrice the guinea pig’s pregnancy, and ready to show off her adorable newborns in this rebroadcast. Meanwhile, Dr. Alex must fight to save a puppy who was attacked by a 200-pound bull mastiff when he was just 3 months old. The Pioneer Woman FOOD 9 am In this new episode, Ladd stops by as Ree roasts up a gorgeous Greek salad, creates a stir-fry of homemade sesame noodles with mushrooms, buffalo-style breaded mozzarella bites and a “King of the Ranch” ice cream pie for dessert. Untold Stories of the ER TLC noon This super-dramatic rebroadcast features a recovering stroke patient who is left horrified when his wife, and both of his girlfriends, come to visit him in the hospital, resulting in an all-out brawl. In Iraq, army doctors fight to save explosion victims. Movie: Neighbors FX 3 p.m. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne star as new parents Mac and Kelly, who are disappointed when a rowdy fraternity moves in next door in this comedy. A turf war soon erupts between the couple and the fraternity’s president, Teddy (Zac Efron). Movie: Queen & Slim HBO 7 pm After a bad Tinder date with Slim (Daniel Kaluuya), defense attorney Queen (Jodie TurnerSmith) is shot by an officer when the two are pulled over in this crime drama. Sean Giambrone stars in The Goldbergs, airing Wednesdays at 7:30 pm.

Sunday, 8-23

The Circus: Inside the Craziest Political Campaign on Earth Showtime 7 pm Amidst a global pandemic, international protests and economic turbulence, John Heilemann, Alex Wagner and Mark McKinnon tackle the wildest political rides in Season 5 of this docuseries. The hosts discuss both Trump and Biden’s presidential campaigns. Lovecraft Country HBO 8 pm Leti (Jurnee Smollett) and George (Courtney B. Vance) have inexplicably awoken from their terrifying night fully recovered in this new episode. While they indulge in the new atmosphere, Atticus (Jonathan Majors) grows suspicious of their hosts.

Monday, 8-24

Movie: The King’s Speech Fox 7 pm Colin Firth stars as George VI, whose severe stammer prompts him to meet with Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), a rather unique speech therapist, in this Oscarwinning drama. The two forge a friendship that continues when George is suddenly crowned king. Bull CBS 9 pm When a fertility clinic makes a mistake and uses the wrong sample, Benny (Freddy Rodriguez) and Bull (Michael Weatherly) take on the case of a couple who are being sued by the biological father of their child in this rebroadcast. Geneva Carr also stars.

Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya star in Queen & Slim on HBO 7 pm Saturday.

NBC News: 2020 Republican Convention NBC 9 pm The 2020 Republican National Convention begins with live coverage from the NBC news team, culminating on Thursday, Aug. 27. Having won both the Florida and Illinois primaries, Donald Trump and Mike Pence will remain the party’s delegates.

Tuesday, 8-25

Movie: Total Recall AMC 2 p.m. In this sci-fi hit starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, a man discovers he is the victim of a futuristic 21st century mind-tampering scheme. Once he remembers his true identity, he journeys to Mars to help fight a power-hungry madman.

NCIS CBS 7 pm Mark Harmon stars as NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs in this spinoff of the critically acclaimed series “JAG.” He and his team travel the globe to investigate everything from terrorism to murder involving U.S. Navy and Marine Corp personnel. Counting On TLC 8 pm Join the Duggar family for Christmas in this new episode. Jinger and Jeremy cut down their first Los Angeles. Christmas tree. Then, the whole family pitches in when Jana and Jessa organize a pageant and cast Jim Bob in a very special role.

Wednesday, 8-26

Long Lost Family TLC 7 a.m. Host Chris Jacobs tries to help two sisters in search of their birth mother who want to uncover the reason for their adoption in this rebroadcast. Meanwhile, Lisa Joyner helps a mother looking for the daughters she put up for adoption when she was young. The First 48 A&E 3 pm Delve into real-life crime drama as A&E presents a marathon of this long-running unscripted series. Cameras follow homicide detectives during the critical first hours of an investigation as they search for clues in high profile cases.

documents some of the most haunting and fascinating cold case investigations from various detectives across the country. Originally produced by Tom Golden, this version of the show highlights some of the original’s best. Cellblock 6: Female Lock Up TLC noon Tune in for a marathon of this revealing reality series, following the lives of eight women incarcerated in Gwinnett County Jail in Georgia. The cameras follow them as they struggle to deal with their living situation and the actions that led them here. The Late Late Show With James Corden CBS 11:35 pm James Corden hosts this acclaimed late-night show from Los Angeles.

Junee Smollett stars in Lovecraft Country, airing 8 pm Sundays on HBO.

Tough as Nails CBS 8 pm Men and women who work in some of the most physically demanding careers face off in mental and physical challenges in a new episode hosted by Phil Keoghan.

Thursday, 8-27

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1 pm: NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Whelen Modified Tour 3 pm: NBCSN IMSA Auto Racing GT Challenge at VIR SportsCar Championship Site: Virginia International Raceway Alton, Va. 4:30 pm: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 5:30 pm: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 7 pm: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 9 pm: NBCSN eSports Canada Regional 10 pm: NBCSN eSports U.S. Regional 10:30 pm: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs

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SUNDAY 5:30 am: NBCSN FIM Motorcycle Racing Styrian Grand Prix MotoGP Site: Red Bull Ring Spielberg, Austria Live 8 am: NBCSN IMSA Auto Racing GT Challenge at VIR SportsCar Championship Site: Virginia International Raceway - Alton, Va. 10 am: KBJR LPGA Golf British Open Final Round Site: Royal Troon Golf Club - Royal Troon, Scotland Live 11 am: KBJR Indy Pre-Race Live NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Drydene 200 Xfinity Series Race 2 Site: Dover International Speedway Dover, Del. Live TBS MLB Baseball New York Yankees at New York Mets Site: Citi Field - New York City, N.Y. Live 11:30 am: KBJR-2 Bull Riding 12:30 pm: KBJR-2 PGA Golf The Northern Trust Final round Site: TPC Boston - Norton, Mass. Live KBJR INDYCAR Auto Racing Indianapolis 500 IndyCar Series Site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Indianapolis, Ind. Live 2 pm: NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing

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Drydene 311 Cup Series Race 2 Site: Dover International Speedway - Dover, Del. Live 4 pm: FSN CHAMPIONS Tennis Classics 2019 Champions Cup - New Haven, Conn. 4:30 pm: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 5 pm: ESPN MLB Baseball Philadelphia Phillies at Atlanta Braves Site: Truist Park - Atlanta, Ga. Live 6 pm: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 7 pm: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 9:30 pm: NBCSN INDYCAR Auto Racing Indianapolis 500 IndyCar Series Site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway Indianapolis, Ind. 10:30 pm: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs

MONDAY 12:30 pm: NBCSN WA Track & Field Bauhaus Galan Diamond League Site: Stockholm Olympic Stadium - Stockholm, Sweden 2 pm: NBCSN INDYCAR Auto Racing Indianapolis 500 IndyCar Series Site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Indianapolis, Ind. TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 4:30 pm: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 5:30 pm: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live

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THURSDAY 5 pm: KQDS MLB Baseball Philadelphia Phillies at Washington Nationals Site: Nationals Park - Washington, D.C. Live 5:30 pm: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 8 pm: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 11 pm: NBCSN AMA Motorcycle Racing Indy Mile American Flat Track

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CRYPTOQUOTE A X Y D L B A A X is LONGFELLOW One letter stands for another. In this sample, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints.

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