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inbox Destructive feedback climate change Find the documentary “David Attenborough A LIFE ON OUR PLANET” where ever you can. This 2020 film says it all better than I. But in short: self-reinforcing destructive feedback loops are a characteristic of climate change. Carbon emissions lead to climate warming; leads to drought; leads to wild fires; leads to more carbon release into the atmosphere; leads to loss of forests and their ability to reabsorb carbon from the atmosphere; leads to more trapping of heat in the atmosphere; leads to more climate warming; leads to more drought; leads to more, and more intense, wild fires; and so on and on and on. Another example: the climate warms; polar ice sheets melt; the melting of the ice absorbs some of the excess heat in the short term, but once the ice is gone this climate shockabsorber will be gone and the warming of oceans and atmosphere will be accelerated. At the same time the loss of ice means less of the sun’s light is reflected out into space and so more of its intensity is converted into trapped heat. This leads to the melting of more ice and the self-reinforcing destructive cycle repeats over and over with ever more devastating effect. Another example: emissions into the atmosphere of carbon and methane from modern human activities cause more of the sun’s energy to be trapped within the Earth’s atmosphere. This leads to increased warming of the planet. This leads to melting of the permafrost across Earth’s northern latitudes (Siberia, Scandinavia, Greenland, Canada and Alaska) leading to the release of more methane. This leads to more warming, leading to the further release of more methane, and on and on and on. Earth’s climate is running along an increasingly destructive tend line of an ever higher average global temperature. Weather and climate do experience cyclical effects oscillating back and forth across the trend line. So El Nino years will be different from La Nina years. Some years will be cooler in some places and then warmer maybe several years later, and then cooler, and then warmer. But the trend is not our friend. The peak temperatures and droughts of the warm years will become ever more extreme. This is because the long term

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trend driven by increased carbon in the atmosphere is trapping more and more of the sun’s energy so as to help us cook ourselves. If 20 years ago we had begun a war against climate change rather than against imaginary weapons of mass destruction in Iraq we could have accomplished a lot. But we didn’t. Elections really do have consequences, in this case tragic. Let us pray that we don’t make the same mistake this time. George Einar Busséy Ashland Mask conspiracy theory The 9/11 event was designed to extend the reach of the empire while stealing Iraq’s oil and begin to extinguish the liberties of the American people. The COVID exercise is meant to complete the job. We watched over the decades, how our government and its agencies and military bullied the countries of the world for fun and profit. That is why a new report shows that millionaires and billionaires own 79 percent of America’s wealth. That’s not a mistake, it’s how it was planned. The plan is working. Poverty is not the problem, it is the solution. The United States government, its agencies and military are not owned or commanded by us, the people. The owners and commanders are the millionaires and billionaires with 79 percent of the wealth who are looking to make it 85 and 95 percent. We watched them take over the world, perhaps not thinking they would some day come for us. Of course they would do the same thing here. Especially here. The place where I work, once a vibrant environment, has been destroyed by the COVID mask hoax. That scenario has been repeated in probably millions of venues around the country and the world. I guess we could sit by and watch this takeover just as we watched all the others. Or not. Mike Palecek Saginaw Duct tape, the handyman’s secret The leader of the pack is coming unglued before our eyes with his gib-

berish. His paranoid imagination has run amok with foolhardy accusations. World leaders are aghast and are more than willing to provide the duct tape to muffle the bellowing.

The reality is, in his facile mind, Trump believed that the virus would make him look bad, and he was hoping that somehow, he could sweep it under the rug. As a result of Trump’s failure to tell the truth to the American people, our Gerald Norrgard country has been hit harder than any Duluth nation on earth by covid-19. At the time of this writing, approxiDebate No. 1: The month after mately 215,000 Americans have died. This is nearly four times the number of As we all wait for the toxic dust to Americans who died in the entire Vietsettle on that fiasco called a debate nam War, and these deaths occurred (Sept. 29) we collectively wonder: What in the space of approximately seven the Holy Hell just happened? months! Did we all witness a verbal boxThis is an unmitigated and totally ing match minus the gloves? Have we preventable catastrophe. Trump has not had a bellyful of Trump’s vicious failed the most basic test of leaderand ruthless personal attacks? Does he ship. He failed to warn and protect the not deserve the moniker “clown” and American people. Rather than tell us “the worst president we’ve ever had?” the truth and help us prepare, he lied, And will not two additional meetings and 215,000 Americans died. between these two men be counterproVote him out. ductive at best? I think we know the answers to these questions. Brian Vroman As baby boomer and a student of Grand Rapids politics, I get a sense of what pre-war Germany must have been like during Who’s the racist? the ‘30s and ‘40s when a certain authoritarian abomination rose to power. The actual racist in this year’s America will simply not survive anpresidential race is Joe Biden. I offer as other four years of this unmerciful Bozo evidence: in thousand-dollar suits! 1) Biden’s political mentor was RobLike Biden said when not getting un- ert C. Byrd, the Exalted Cyclops of the ceremoniously interrupted, “Get to the Klu Klux Klan. polls and vote” as if your lives depend 2) Biden opposed busing, which puron it, because they truly do! pose was to desegregate schools. Ken Bracken 3) Biden expressed concern regardSt. Paul ing his children growing up in “a racial (Vietnam-era Navy vet ... not a loser!) jungle.” 4) Biden says he’s from a slave state, Liar, liar! Delaware, and he could work easily in the U.S. Senate with southern U.S. Donald Trump lied to us. He knew senators Talmadge and Eastland, both what was coming. He knew in January segregationists. of this year, and he lied to us. 5) Biden voted against a Black man In recorded interviews with Bob for the Supreme Court. Woodward, Trump said that he knew 6) When Obama was elected to the the coronavirus was coming, that he U.S. Supreme Senate, Biden said he’s knew it could be spread through the air, “the first mainstream African-American and that it was more serious even than who is articulate and bright and clean “the severe flus.” and a nice-looking guy.” Instead of warning us, instead of And finally: ensuring we were ready, instead of see7) Biden promoted and voted for ing to it that our frontline health care the 1994 Crime Bill in the U.S. Senate. workers had adequate PPE, the presiIt was unfavorable to many Blacks. The dent, by his own admission, “downprison sentences given out to Blacks played” the seriousness of what was were excessive. President Trump is recoming, comparing it at one point to “a mediating their excessive sentences. cold.” When called out on this, Trump So you can see who the true racist said he didn’t want the American is in this race. It is not Trump, it is Joe people to panic. Biden. This is utter nonsense. The best antidote to panic is the truth. The Gregg Schweiger virus was coming anyway, and we were Duluth going to find out one way or another.

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Getting fear out of working class hearts During the Great Depression Franklin Delano Roosevelt said “There are many ways of going forward but only one way of standing still.” Well folks, get ready for a lot of standing still or going backwards in the coming months. I now fully believe that it’s easier to train a bear to ride a bicycle than it is to try and talk sense to someone who gets their facts from Donald Rumpt and the right wing blab0-sphere. But you can’t give up trying. Not now. While Rumpt and the New Conservative Neanderthal Party were able to convince a block of voters that the moon was made of green cheese

and it was Obama’s fault, the rest of us have to rev up the engines and put it in gear. If progressive thinkers have a fault it’s that we’re far too trusting in reason and common sense. Hopeless optimists, we generally see a brighter future out there no matter that it always takes so damn long to get worked up and put fearless action into thought. Thoughts into action? How about the oil embargo of 1973. Americans couldn’t gas up for 25 cents a gallon any longer so we got motivated to the idea of weaning ourselves off oil and start looking at wind and solar and other means of sustainable energy. 1973. But fearless thought slumped and we

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ignored Jimmy Carter and then we had Reagan and fossil fuels were back full stride even with the first serious warnings about greenhouse gases and climate change here on Planet Earth. I’ve always said we put a man on the moon and then went dumb. The sustainable energy race was in front of us and we went dumb. It’s 2020 and we still haven’t put that space race zeal into our efforts and while we can plug a phone into our ear and watch a movie on Dick Tracy’s wristwatch we’re still not sure we can commit ourselves to greening the economy and living in a cleaner world. Bad for business Rumpt and his minions say. Fear the change. Fear the future even though we’re racing into that horizon at breakneck speed. Fear says we can’t afford to spend, spend, spend on sustainability even though that’s exactly what we do with our wars and on Wall Street and in the casinos. Perhaps we’re just too dumb and we haven’t figured out how to package the good stuff like the bad stuff. Mindless consumers and mindless citizens love the bad stuff. And we’re the best mindless consumers in the world. Perhaps we’re the best mindless citizens as well. The fear mongers understand that all too well. They won an election that way in 2016. Progressives just don’t operate that way. Fear is not a way to get things done. Reason and common sense and the bare facts should motivate the masses to do the right thing, to work in the best interest of the many, not the few. But in a political landscape determined by fear mongers and the fearful, progressive thought has been decidedly ineffective, naïve, wishful, dreamy, portrayed as elitist and condescending to the common folk even though we really do have the numbers on our side. Fear works better and politicos who

see the grand scheme of things as a game of myth and roulette have seized advantage of the times and have been able to turn the blame 180 degrees away from themselves and direct it at progressive thought. While progressive sit there and say, wait a minute, this tax cut is for the wealthy and we have to protect and welcome immigrants and watch for the inevitable efforts to cut social security and medicare, Rumpt and his minions are out there spewing more fear and loathing that large parts of the electorate seem to eat like candy. While progressives are fact checking, the New Conservative Neanderthal Party is loading more voters on the bus and heading back toward the glory of a past nation that never existed for most people. Who in their right mind would actually believe some of the 20,000 tidbits of lie and misinformation peddled by a faux billionaire with big hair and shiny shoes? Like carnival barkers promising Bob Melvin the two-faced man or Lobster Boy, Rumpt and the New Conservative Neanderthal Party see people standing in line just waiting to be part of the greatest show on the midway. Illegal immigrants get free health care? Government takeover of health care? Socialism in our classrooms? People who aren’t white claiming a larger share of the population? Climate change? Someone is stealing our Christian religion and our family values and they want our guns too? Damn right we don’t want that. Lead us to the voting booth and we’ll cast our ballots against our own best interests any day! Fear is a powerful motivator. The progressive base can’t stand still now. It may be easier to train a bear to ride a bicycle than it is to get the fear out of the hearts of the middle class but we can’t stand still now.

The fall of Lincoln A week ago angry protesters knocked over statues of two of my favorite presidents on the day set aside by Congress to let Italians know they were finally considered white. Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln both suffered from a condition known as being human. They had no access Dr. Who’s tardis to teleport them into a gentler future to see the errors of our past. That said, it could be argued that Teddy imagined a future where the environment would be treasured and Abe saw a future where the words “all men (and women) are created equal” would be taken seriously. The historian in me can forgive this trespass against my heroes. Pushing over a couple bronzes is hardly the end of the Republic. Our challenge might simply be to better learn the past so as to distinguish between slave owning traitors and our better angels. I don’t feel nearly so charitable towards the Republican successors who abandoned their party’s founders. Republican Texas rewrote school text books to teach young Texans that it wasn’t slavery that sparked the Civil War but federal interference in the state’s economies. I’m sure Abe has been rolling in his grave ever since. The state’s 1861 “Declaration of Causes” explaining its secession defends slavery paragraph after paragraph including this charming run-on sentence: “… We hold as undeniable truths that the … various states … were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity, that the African race … were rightly held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race ... ” And Texas Republicans delight in spreading their toxic history. Because Texas buys every public schools text books they require textbook publishers to write Texas’s warped view into history books. Because all of the publishers salivate to make this huge sale they embed Texas claptrap into their textbooks for the entire nation to propagandize every American school child. Texas wants every American child to see the world

the way Rush Limbaugh says it works. Republicans began abandoning Lincoln in pursuit of the South just after I moved to Minnesota from Kansas in 1963 at age 13. The Civil War’s Centennial was in the news then as was Martin Luther King Jr. My new schoolmates called me “Reb” for my Kansas accent. The next year Arizona’s Republican Senator Barry Goldwater ran for President but only won the South’s electoral votes. He earned them by opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. My Republican parents voted Democrat for the first time in their lives. In 1968 Richard Nixon poached George Wallace (“segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”) voters to win the Presidency. And in 1980 Ronald Reagan conspicuously announced his presidential campaign in Neshoba County where sixteen years earlier the college kids Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were murdered for helping to register Mississippi’s black voters. But Donald Trump trumped them all in his bid for the Republican Presidential nomination by jetting around the nation with his preposterous claim that President Obama was a Kenyan and not an American. In his bid to stay in office, he came to Bemidji, Minnesota a couple weeks ago and told an audience of Aryans that they had good genes unlike Minnesota’s Somali population. So much for the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence. AND that’s not the half of it. Trump has told us that he’s been a better president than Lincoln or George Washington. He also thinks he’s entitled to an unconstitutional third term. The Republican party of my youth would have demanded that Trump take a psych evaluation. Which leads me to the lap dog I challenged in the recent Republican primary, Congressman Pete Stauber. There has been no daylight between Stauber and Donald Trump. Nowhere has that been more stark than on Republican Party’s calamitous handling

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Young protesters in Portland, Oregon joined the Republican Party in toppling this statue of Honest Abe from his pedestal. (Photo: Wikipedia) of the corona virus. Three weeks short of the election Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease, has warned that: “the next six to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic.” Maskless Pete just flew into Duluth on Air Force One with President Trump’s infection tour. The Republicans who saved the union would be dumbstruck by the divisions their southernized successors are sowing today. When I attended my first meeting in a short lived experiment to be a Democrat I was delighted that they made a big deal out of Abraham Lincoln. I trust them to tell our nation’s history to the angry

youngsters who pushed Abe and Teddy over in Portland. And it makes it easy for me to throw my support to Quinn Nystrom for Congress. I’ll be one of her “RepubliQuinns” The contrast with Pete is stark. Pete will help Donald Trump kill the Affordable Care Act. Quinn Nystrom organized bus trips to Canada to buy affordable and lifesaving insulin for diabetics like herself. Voting for Quinn is a life or death decision. Harry Welty wrestles with his conscience and everything else at: www. lincolndemocrat.com.

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In a post-Roe world, Minnesota would become a haven for abortion rights as other states move to restrict access With a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett slated for Oct. 22, the anxieties of some — and hopes of others — have been reignited: That Roe v. Wade may be overturned. On Tuesday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar pressed Barrett about her thoughts on Roe, the half century old Supreme Court decision that granted abortion rights. Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, asked whether Barrett thought Roe was a “super precedent,” meaning so enshrined in law — like Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Ks. — that it could not be overturned. Barrett said no, but added, “That doesn’t mean it should be overruled.” If confirmed, Barrett would further cement the Supreme Court’s conservative majority, with six conservative justices appointed by Republican presidents, and three liberals appointed by Democrats. Anti-abortion activists believe the Barrett nomination will be a decisive turn in their decades-long battle against abortion, with ramifications that could be felt almost immediately in the upper Midwest. “We think [Barrett] would be a good Justice,” said Paul Stark, spokesman for Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. “We hope that moving forward, the Supreme Court will allow for more protections for the right to life.” Abortion rights advocates here say

this is a moment they feared — but have been actively preparing for, turning Minnesota into a haven for abortion rights and reproductive health care, even as neighboring states look to restrict access.

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If Roe v. Wade were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the right to an abortion would still be protected in the state of Minnesota. That’s thanks to a 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court case, Doe v. Gomez, which said abortion rights are protected by the state’s constitution. Still, abortion rights advocates are pressing ahead, suing the state to remove restrictions in Minnesota law, including the requirement that patients under 18 notify both parents, a 24-hour waiting period and the burial or cremation of fetal remains. Minnesota has long been seen as a progressive outlier compared to its more conservative neighbors, and the same applies to abortion access. North Dakota and South Dakota both have “trigger laws” — meaning they would automatically make abortion illegal, except in rare circumstances — if Roe v. Wade were overturned. Wisconsin has a pre-Roe abortion law on the books that could be enforced should Roe be overturned. Robin Marty, a Minneapolis resident and author of Handbook for a PostRoe America, said the 2010 election,

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which saw Wisconsin and Iowa shift markedly right, was a tipping point for abortion access in broad swaths of the country. Republicans not only emerged victorious but then redrew legislative maps to lock in their gains. The erosion of abortion rights followed. “Abortion is probably the least accessible that it’s been since [Roe v. Wade] was first decided. At this point, I believe we’re down to around 700 clinics in the United States,” Marty said. “Especially the Midwest and especially in the South, you’ll find that most of your states have very few abortion clinics left.” Minnesota’s neighboring states already have their own broad restrictions in place. In Wisconsin and the Dakotas, for example, telehealth appointments for medication abortions are prohibited. In Iowa, patients must have an ultrasound before undergoing the procedure; in Wisconsin,

physicians must show and describe the ultrasound image of a patient’s fetus before an abortion takes place. In North Dakota, like Minnesota, patients must meet with a counselor 24 hours before obtaining an abortion; in South Dakota, that wait time is 72 hours. The pandemic has worsened access. In South Dakota, for example, the Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls has not performed abortions since March, because no physicians in the state provide the procedure. Planned Parenthood would regularly fly physicians in from Minnesota, but COVID-19 has inhibited such travel. Despite Minnesota’s barriers to access — especially outside the Twin Cities — the North Star State would likely become an “abortion access oasis state” in the Upper Midwest, Marty said. The need to travel here would jack up the costs for women in other states. “In some places, I may not be able

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to get an abortion without an airline ticket, an Amtrak ticket or without getting into a car and driving multiple hours one-way,” Marty said. Given the cost of the procedure and travel, an abortion could cost $1,000 or more, which is a huge sum for low income women. Sen. Tina Smith, a former Planned Parenthood executive, said overturning Roe would place an undue burden on women, especially low income and rural women in other states. “I want to make sure that people understand the seriousness of what is at stake here, that this is a Supreme Court nomination that has potential to have a direct impact on the Upper Midwest. What would happen, I fear, is there will be women who just won’t have those choices anymore.” Leaning into contingency plans Sarah Stoesz, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States, recalled working on a task force when George W. Bush was president that sought to plan for a post-Roe future. Potential strategies for Planned Parenthood include connecting patients with nonprofits that provide financial help for women who want abortions, and working more closely with independent providers. “Planned Parenthood would shift only to the extent that we would want to ensure that we had adequate capacity to welcome people from other states. I believe that we have that now, but only time will tell — it depends on how many states go dark,” she said. Emily Mohrbacher, the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota coordinator for the Midwest Access Coalition, which helps low income people cross state lines for abortion access, said that Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination hasn’t necessarily brought a new or heightened sense of urgency. Shifting legislation is something the organization has learned to plan for, she said. “We’re prepared to support many more people as Roe …is potentially dismantled bit by bit,” Mohrbacher said in an email to the Reformer. She said she expects operating costs will rise as they help more people, and they expect communities of color to be disproportionately affected. Though he couldn’t speak to the exact details of future legislation, Stark said he thought MCCL would

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Planned Parenthood is getting ready for a post-Roe world. Photo by Dylan Miettinen/ Minnesota Reformer. likely advocate for restricting abortion access across state lines. He pointed to instances in which minors may try to cross state lines to avoid parental notification laws as an example for where it’s already been a point of concern. When asked about Minnesota potentially becoming a haven for abortion, he said, “We don’t want that to ever be the case.”

Even as Minnesota abortion rights advocates prepare to help women from surrounding states, the accessibility of abortion in Minnesota proper remains a charged debate. “We have very few clinics. We have very few providers,” said Erin Maye Quade, campaign manager for UnRestrict Minnesota, which advocates for abortion rights. “Accessibility depends on where you live, what kind

of health insurance you have, and how much money you have.” Maye Quade said UnRestrict Minnesota has found that Minneostans are generally uninformed about the status of abortion access statewide. When Minnesotans were asked how many clinics provide abortions in the state, the average answer was 41, according to a 2019 survey. The real number of abortion clinics in Minnesota? Five. Of those five, four are located in the Twin Cities metro area; one is in Duluth. Maye Quade said the fight for accessible abortion will not end even if Roe does. “We shouldn’t pretend to be confused about what is happening right now. There has been a decades long anti-abortion movement aimed at making abortion either illegal or inaccessible,” Maye Quade said. “This is not a new fight.” minnesotareformer.com

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Marilyn Halverson Bamford Nov. 8, 1944 ~ Sept. 27, 2020 (age 75) We are heartbroken to share that our dear mother, wife, sister, friend, aunt, godmother, and neighbor, Marilyn Halverson Bamford, breathed her way out of this world at age 76 with amazing grace as the sun beams illuminated the fiery sugar maple leaves, on September 27th at 1:10 PM. She was surrounded by her daughters Maria Bamford Cassidy and Sarah Bamford Seidelmann and husband of 55 years, Dr. Joel Thomas Mitchell Bamford. Born and raised in Marquette, MI November 8, 1944 to Mary and Lynn Halverson as the 3rd of three children - a wonderful “surprise” born 12 years after her closest sibling, preceded in death by brother oldest George Halverson and survived by her beloved elder sister Elizabeth “Deda” Treloar, residing in Florida. After high school, she went on to attend Kalamazoo College for 2 years and then transferred and graduated with honors in 1965 from the U of MIchigan Ann Arbor with B.A. in Education (Phi Kappa Phi) She was a member of the sorority Alpha Chi Omega. at the University of Michigan. After a life-changing Christmas holiday blind date in a Florida trailer park with Baltimore medical student, Joel Bamford, who swept her off her feet with a combo

To submit obituaries, births, vows for publication, email to submissions@readerduluth.com of “bedroom eyes” and his final acquiescence to eating a whole bowl of potato chips he had earlier refused. Joel and Marilyn married June 22, 1965 at in Baltimore, Maryland where the groom was attending medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Marilyn then began teaching 2nd grade in Baltimore public schools. A year later, moving to Cooperstown, NY for her new husband’s Internal medicine training, she served as caseworker for the Otsego County of Department of Social Services and gave birth to her first daughter, Sarah in 1967, beginning what would be a lifetime of combining of love, family, community and service. From Cooperstown, they relocated due to military service and lived in Holt Michigan, New London, CT and in Port Hueneme, CA where Marilyn gave birth to her 2nd daughter, Maria in 1970. She had a deep passion for travel and adventure. The only country she hadn’t quite gotten around too was Morroco. South Africa was her favorite. With a natural curiosity and celebration of each stranger’s individuality, she also had an uncanny ability to find a 6th degree of separation with anyone in the world “Oh! You’re from Hyderabad? We have a dear friend who’s daughter took a job in Mumbai! I love India! Do you like to read? What’s your favorite book about that area of the world? I have always wanted to learn more about it! Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy and The Toss of A Lemon by Padma Viswanathan are my two personal favorites.” A lifelong Christian, her relationship with Jesus Christ gave her infinite solace early in childhood and later inspired her progressive politics fighting for the Democratic Farmer Labor Party. She had hoped to live long enough to see the Presidency of Joe

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Biden. Up until 3 weeks before her death, she was joyfully making calls on behalf of Quinn Nystrom and she enjoyed speaking with voters on the phone. Her ability to patiently, in fact gleefully, engage with any customer service agent for hours was a miracle to behold for anyone who’s ever been on the phone with AT&T. Her professional resume demonstrates a dedication to facilitating her community’s spiritual and emotional health. She was an ordained deacon for Holy Apostles Church in West Duluth, and a licensed marriage and family therapist among others. She was always voraciously interested in and excited about the lives of others, whether relative, friend, neighbor or stranger (soon to become a friend). She volunteered with the Episcopal Retreat Center Board, The Women’s Coalition, Hospice St. Luke’s, and as a volunteer chaplain at Miller Dwan Medical center. Additional involvement was extensive and includes but is not limited to: Cochair Capital Campaign for Lake Superior Family Justice Center, Capital Campaign Committee for Amberwing Center for Children and Young Adult Mental Health, Board Chair of Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women for 3 terms. And she dearly enjoyed teaching chaplaincy students in Cameroon and Bangalore, India in 2009 and 2010. What can’t be put across in the few words here is what a force of nurture Marilyn has been to people touched by her presence. She’s inspired and encouraged both of her daughters to creative and service pursuits. She taught us that we could be “whatever we want to be” when we grew up and we believed her: becoming a pathologist turned shamanic healer and a stand up comedian. Though she was very shy about her own gifts and contributions, she was

extremely generous with her support of the artistic pursuits of others - even when they included her in a humorous light as she was featured in many of her daughter Maria’s comedic performances - either as herself or with her daughter or Emmy-winning actress Mary Kay Place playing her. A consummate gardener, she was always so happy with her hands in the earth tending her beautiful perennial beds and trees. She made flowers, people and organizations bloom with her great care and love. Donations would be welcomed in her memory at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Miller-Dwan Foundation, Life House Center for Youth, Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community or at Safe Haven Shelter. Each was an organization in which she believed and supported.

Rita Francine Clapper Aug. 17, 1946 ~ Oct. 14, 2020 (age 74) Rita Francine Clapper, 74 of Duluth, passed away in the early morning hours of Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at Essentia Health, St. Mary’s Medical Center of natural causes. She was born in Walla Walla, WA on August 17, 1946 to Elmer and Naomi Kramer. She spent her formative years in Denver, CO before moving to Minnetonka, MN as a high school student. Rita attended the University of Minnesota, where she particularly enjoyed her theater courses. She

married David Lee Clapper on April 6, 1968 in Minnetonka, MN. In her younger years, Rita enjoyed singing in choir, participating in debate, and performing in theater. She enjoyed music and playing the guitar with her family. Rita was a voracious reader who stayed up-to-date with politics and current events, and she was a fierce supporter of human rights and other progressive causes. Rita loved to cook and explore recipes from different cultures. She was an animal lover from an early age, bonding with her grandmother’s chickens and goats, and sharing her life with many avian, feline, and canine companions. She and David moved to Duluth in 2007 so that they could be closer to and involved with their grandchildren. She very much enjoyed living in Duluth in the dream house she designed and following the lives of the local wildlife, especially family groups of deer who are always visiting the bird feeders. Rita courageously battled many health challenges over her lifetime, including Crohn’s disease, cancer, diabetes, and their consequences. Throughout it all she maintained a positive outlook and vigor for life and was an inspiration to her family and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband of 52 years, David; daughter, Leslie (Michael) Clapper-Rentz; grandchildren, Connor, Joseph, and Morgan Rentz; all of whom are of Duluth. Private family funeral services will be held. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to World Central Kitchen, 1342 Florida Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009 or donations@ worldcentralkitchen.org. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home.

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Assembly choices for NW Wisconsin The Wisconsin Legislature has done nothing to address the state’s worsening public health crisis and its potential impact on the voting rights of Wisconsin’s citizens. In fact, the Legislature has not enacted legislation of any kind since April 14, 2020—a six month period of inaction.” Governor Tony Evers (quoted in Up North News) In our federal system of government state legislatures are important. What happens – or doesn’t happen – in state legislatures

significantly impacts everyone. So voters also need to pay attention to the the choices down the ballot. This election there are two important State Assembly races in Northwestern Wisconsin. As I have discussed in past articles, Republicans HURT PEOPLE with their greedy, short sighted, divisive policies. In Wisconsin, Republican roadblocks to an effective pandemic response are just the latest example. Wisconsin is seeing the tragic results Republican “leaders” who care more about partisan power struggles than

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the health and well being of people. Every effort by Governor Evers to limit the spread of this deadly disease has been undermined or overturned by the Republican legislative leadership. Now cases across the state are spiking, hospitals are running out of capacity, and many people are dying unnecessarily. So who wins the Assembly races may literally be a life and death issue. In the 73rd Assembly District (Superior, Spooner, Siren) incumbent Democrat Nick Milroy is being challenged by Republican Keith Kern. In the 74th (Ashland, Phillips, Hurley) incumbent Democrat Beth Meyers faces Republican James Bolen. In both of these races voters have similar choices. Meyers and Milroy have both served multiple terms in the Assembly. They both advocate for expanding healthcare access, controlling healthcare costs, adequately funding public schools, protecting the environment, and improving the economy by supporting people, infrastructure, and local businesses

rather than subsidizing large outof-state companies. They both are moderate Democrats who care about people and try to improve the well being of everyone. They both have done a good job representing the area. Both Bolen and Kern are small business owners and consider this a primary qualification for office. They both claim this gives them a special understanding of economics, business development, and the needs of NW Wisconsin. They both think our area has been under represented in Madison and they can do better. They both claim to support improving healthcare. On some issues they sound more like Democrats than Republicans. But when you listen to them more closely it becomes clear they both believe in the usual harmful Republican policies. Contrary to the claims of Kern and Bolen, a business background is no better preparation for public service than many other occupations. In fact it may be worse because being the “boss” often leads to authoritarian attitudes. Business owners tend to

believe they drive the economy by “creating” jobs so they are best able to govern. This business focus ignores the contributions and needs of others in society and is the opposite of what is needed to be successful in the political world of compromise, collaboration, inclusiveness, and seeking the most good for the most people. In addition neither of the Republican challengers is what one would call a “captain of industry.” Inheriting and running a small neighborhood bar (Keith Kern) doesn’t make one an entrepreneur or an expert on economic development. It doesn’t prepare one for the complicated policy issues legislators must deal with. Neither does running a small resort in Cable, Wisconsin (James Bolen) give one special qualifications for understanding public health, environmental, or social justice problems. What does make for better representatives is a broader background, more education, and more ability to relate to people across the economic spectrum. Most important for political leaders is an understanding of, and empathy for, all the people they represent. Both Nick Milroy and Beth Meyer have these characteristics. Nick Milroy is the only member of the Assembly with a background is science. He has worked in environmental protection,

been a biology teacher, and is a military veteran. Beth Meyers earned a college degree while being a single mother. She worked for years as a social worker for the Red Cliff tribe. She was also executive director for a non-profit serving senior citizens. She served on the county board for five year before being elected three times to the Assembly. Keith Kern does have experience as a Superior City Councilor. But local feedback I have received on his performance indicates he advocates for issues related to his business, personal interests, and friends. He is not good at representing the interests of the whole constituency. He has little concern for the environmental, labor, unemployment, or poverty issues. Both Republican candidates repeat the usual platitudes about building the economy, attracting good paying jobs, increasing tourism, and helping develop the workforce. But they have no specific suggestions for accomplishing these goals. In the Assembly both Kern and Bolen are likely to be a compliant vote for the current Republican leadership, thus exacerbating the problems we face in Northern Wisconsin. Nick Milroy and Beth Meyers are the best choices for the job of representing the people of the 73rd and 74th Assembly districts.

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A two-minute political fly-by Where Was That Messenger From? During the vicepresidential debate there were three beings on stage who tried to obey the established rules that responses to questions must be limited to two minutes: two were moderator Susan Page and candidate Kamala Harris, the other was a fly that landed on VicePresident Mike Pence’s head. Actually, the fly broke the rules, too. He was on Pence’s hair for two minutes and three seconds. The fly has been the most fascinating character in the

2020 campaign so far—and it was very black. I was smitten by the fly immediately. Was it a message from some powerful being in outer space? But it didn’t move. Did it drop dead? Was Pence wearing killer hair oil? It just sat there, unlike any flies with which I have been acquainted. I remember how flies would attack me and annoy cows on a chilly fall day while milking. I had to duck swishing tails and powerful kickers and protect a bucket-while hanging on to teats and brushing flies off my face and arms. Those barn flies never sat in one place for three seconds.

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Then it came to me. I was watching a pregnant fly lay eggs on Pence’s head! The common barn fly lays eggs resembling grains of rice, most often in rotting things, manure, dead animals, etc. The eggs then hatch in 24 hours, birthing creepy white maggots that consume waste and dead materials. Maggots chow down for five days. Then they turn into flies and the whole process starts again. Why would a single fly be so occupied in laying eggs on Pence’s head? Would it be because there is little life there? Inquiring minds want to know. Pence certainly exhibited he was braindead by constantly interrupting Page and Harris, running way over his two minutes, and spouting Trump nonsense to an embarrassed nation. He is definitely a queer duck. ‘Tis said he never meets or has lunch with a woman if his wife is not present—and he calls his wife “Mother.” Is he afraid of rape? Can’t he control his impulses? Why does he show such contempt for women? Even a pompous ass would shut up after hearing “Thank you, Mr. Vice President!” twice! Voters want to know. Anyway, the fly searching for a good egg spot is the most scintillating political event so far in a very boring campaign. An Apprentice Who Could Never Graduate To Journeyman Four years ago electors representing a minority of voters cast their vote for an apprentice president who had never served a day as a public servant. Actually, his opponent received 2.9 million more votes. An apprentice signs up for a specific period of time to learn a skill, a art form, a trade, a business. Alas, we elected a rich neverdo-well incapable of learning anything because he is consumed every second by his narcissistic psychopathic self. He fits every criterion for both psychopath and sociopath listed in the Manual for Mental Deficiencies prepared by the American Psychiatric Association. In the short span of four years he has withdrawn the United States from being a moral force in the world admired by most countries to one that most pity. He loves the killers leading

North Korea, Russia, and Turkey and hates the leaders of Germany, Canada, and the Scandinavian countries. He has turned us into a banana country suffocating with rotten political bananas. But I digress. One of our Ohio-class nuclear submarines is armed with 24 Trident II ballistic missiles, each carrying eight nuclear warheads with each having the power of six Hiroshima bombs. And this psychopath can reach the nuclear button on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. The 25th Amendment should be used immediately to remove him far from the button. Pence, at least, is probably waiting for the Christian Rapture. What Are The Important Issues In This Election? Ninety years ago we were in the Great Depression. It was a period of 25% unemployment. Desperate unemployed workers were selling apples on the streets. Bankers were splattering themselves on Wall Street sidewalks. The homeless were living in thousands of Hoovervilles named after the president in charge. I remember reading about the time he approved $100,000 to feed starving cattle—but refused to sign the same for feeding human beings. With this COVID-19 pandemic, we are already in another Great Depression. Soon we will have millions of citizens living in Trumpvillas when they are evicted or foreclosed on. Here are a few of the real issues facing this country after 244 years of trying to form a “more perfect union.” Income Inequality. In the first Gilded Age for the superrich the Vanderbilts built their 254-room mansion outside of Asheville, North Carolina alongside a huge winery and cattle barns. John D. Rockefeller cheated and gunned his way to a fortune estimated at $700 billion in today’s dollars with his Standard Oil monopoly. His breakfast prayer was always about money. In 1980 Ronald Reagan lay the groundwork for the second Gilded Age by bringing his “Greed is Good” culture to Washington with tax cuts and the abolition of

business regulations. Before the pandemic, 80% of Americans were living paycheck-topaycheck while 20% were dashing to the bank. Goldman-Sachs made a $3.62 billion profit in the third quarter while 30 million were getting tiny unemployment checks. The One Percent didn’t know what to do with all their money so they decided to play the lottery on the Wall Street Casino for the thrill of making more. The richest One-Tenth of One Percent owns wealth equal to the Bottom 90 Percent. The 50 superrich increased their net worth by $339 billion in the eight months of the pandemic, equaling the money and assets of the bottom 165 million. The bottom 165 million now hold just 1.9% of all household wealth. That means the top 50% of 165 million hold 98.1% of household wealth. It’s shocking to learn that the Top One Percent holds 30.4% of all household wealth. This is the second Gilded Age. Anyone in his right mind knows this will not stand for long. When hunger, thirst, and misery take over, the heads will start to roll into baskets. The 1929 Great Depression hit male jobs hard. The 2020 Great Depression is female dominated. Women have been laid off at much higher rates than men. Women hold more low-wage jobs. In September alone 865,000 women dropped out of the labor force. Women have two-thirds of the minimum wage jobs. Women carry two-thirds of all student debt. Over 25% of white female-headed households are living in poverty; Black and Latino womanheaded households are at 30% poverty. Black women make 62 cents for every dollar earnd by White men. This, by far, is the greatest political issue in 2020. Healthcare. I have spent 55 years studying our healthcare “system”—28 years on teams negotiating salaries, benefits and other issues for over a thousand employees, and 27 years writing columns on the second greatest issue in the 2020 election. At this point, whatever the “system” is, it is providing the best care in the world for the Top Twenty Percent in the United States and the worst care in the industrialized world for the Bottom 80 Percent. The battle between medical “do no harm” and corporate greed has reached obscene levels. Here are a few examples among millions of obscenities:

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1. Dr. Zachary Sussman of Austin, Texas went to his hospital’s emergency room for a $175 COVID-19 test, just to be sure. He thought it would be free because he was an employee of that hospital chain. He got a bill for $10,984 for the test—which his insurance company paid! The emergency room was “out-of-network.” Greed won again. 2. A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient in critical care was transferred by helicopter from one Philadelphia hospital to one 20 miles away because it had more appropriate equipment. She survived after a six-week stay. She got a bill for $52,112 just for the ride. That air ambulance service, owned by a private-equity firm in the business to make a lot of money, did not have a contract with her insurance company, so it refused to pay the bill. The ambulance service is now being sued multiple times for such billing practices. 3. A survey by Kaiser Family Foundation has determined the average health insurance family premium has gone up 4% to $21,342 for 2020. Twenty years ago the average family premium was $5,791. Since 2010 the family premium has gone up 55% while wages have increased 27% (or practically zero for the bottom 80%) and inflation at 11%. Americans pay on average twice as much as persons in civilized countries with universal coverage pay. Why do Americans pay ten times more than a Canadian or Mexican for vials of insulin? Why did my last hip replacement cost about $60,000 when I could have gotten one in Thailand or India in a first-class hospital for $6,000 plus air fare--plus a week’s vacation? COVID-19 has made it very plain. The only solution is to go to a singlepayer universal care plan run by a government which sets prices. Let’s retrain all those insurance company CEOs and workers to actually provide health care to patients instead of trying to screw them out of it. UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest insurer with 320,000 employees, made $3.17 billion in profits in the third quarter off the sick and dying. Why don’t we put white coats and nurse uniforms on those employees so they actually treat patients instead of shuffling rejections? Freedom Of Religion (and Freedom From It). Over my years, when religion ever entered my mind,

Hamlet’s opening lines in a soliloquy followed my thought: “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.” He later says we dread what happens after death because no traveler has returned from Heaven or Hell to describe the environments. On freedom of religion: I’m not against the Christian Tennessee SnakeHandlers wrapping rattlesnakes and cottonmouths around their necks while dancing to hymns and speaking in Pentecostal tongues, just don’t try to wrap a snake around my neck and try to convert me. We have come a long way from when some humans thought clocks and watches were so amazingly complicated that only God could have made them. We are now so dominated by science and technology, the decline of religious commitment around the world has been predictable. Religions have too much of the ignorant medieval in them. The fact that white evangelical Christians have decimated the Christian religion by voting for an immoral narcissistic psychopath because he promised them pro-life and anti-homosexuality judges simply

boggles the mind. (My God! “The Chosen One?”) The evangelicals and conservative Roman Catholics lost the LBGTQ+ “intrinsically disordered” and gender argument in a historic blink of an eye. In 2020, 1,006 homosexuals ran for office in primaries. The November 3 ballots have the names of 574 openly LGGTQ+ candidates put there by voters. Another example of universal acceptance of the LBGTQ+ community: Trevor Meyer, a senior at Clovis High School in California was elected Homecoming Queen by his classmates. Trevor is “gender neutral”: sometimes he feels like a girl, sometimes like a boy. Previously, as a junior, he had been nominated to run for Homecoming King. He defeated three girls for the crown this year. He has masculine and feminine clothing. For his half-time coronation as queen he wore six-inch heels and a sleeveless dress—and stood next to King Kenneth Lim. They both received loud cheers from the crowd in a conservative town. Time no longer marches on. It dashes on.

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Following the Sci-Fi Gads but I get annoyed hearing unctuous pronouncements about following science from individuals following popularity. I’ll ask you. How science and statistics savvy are you? Either of those an area you feel you’re qualified? Thought so. Articles written for a general audience count on us not being expert. So, to attract attention and curry favor information is presented in selected ways. And here’s the thing. That might be OK if done with more honesty, more attention to critically informing, and less attention to looking good. God knows hard science or statistical analysis would bewilder the bejeebers out of most of us. (Try reading a CDC report if you doubt.) But when articles knowingly (laziness is probably the least damning excuse for it) leaves out qualificators it is preaching a foregone conclusion when it could be on the more useful (but to be sure more difficult) path outlining a process that helps us understand and therefore have more meat than gravy for our intellectual meal. Readers aren’t stupid because they aren’t masters of the intricacies of science or statistics. Indeed, people in those specialized areas often don’t agree on specifics either. But like I said, gads it’s annoying when readers are given sloppily prepared drivel that’s supposedly following “science.” (As a note, an appeal to “science” is akin to an appeal to “God;” each in a role of high authority and not at all a scientific argument.) Take the presentation of science fact placing the US as planetary leader in corona death. If that stat were presented in a more scientific manner (science is what it’s all about and that’s where the truth is, right) then why omit an essential qualifier. Leading in reported incidents is not the same as an actual lead. Here’s how that works. Say you’ve two populated nations one with almost no policing of vehicle use; the other with aggressive enforcement. Which might have the better public

safety record? Not reporting road accidents and incidents doesn’t mean you don’t have them, nor does diligent reporting indicate a poor safety record. The place not doing much about a problem is likely to be worse off and more dangerous than those that do. So, is leading the planet a tombstone or a sign of accomplishment? Fake science reporting settles that question at the start, doesn’t it? It does so by loving the easy route of following a soft argument. A lead in reported cases is an achievement demonstrating a high degree of being on top of things. Am I using rosy hue glasses or exaggerating? You decide, but I think if we’ve tested Park Point beaches for virus and we read about dogs, cats, and mink in Utah being infected therein might lie a clue to how aggressive and successful we are. A sad part of this (not that scientists have ever been scientifically bias free) is using the mask of science to front for a private or political goal. It’s essentially scientifically reliable that pointing out sham in others is a classic way of diverting attention from your own sham. Applies to me as well. Annoying as the snake oil version of science is the unctuous and phony play on public health. If, as example, masks are critical for public health then what exactly is the standard for masks and how to wear them? HMMM? Is it OK (as many do) to leave the nose uncovered much or all of the time? Is 50% mask coverage sufficient? Just exactly is this critical health requirement that threatens fines and prevents us going into stores? Cheesecloth, mosquito and bee keeper nets, Halloween masks, fencing masks, space helmets, painting respirators, firefighter air supplies, and wedding veils might all serve but with vastly different levels of protection. And who are you protecting? Is it yourself, others, or both, and should you wear disposable gloves in public. It’s public health, isn’t it so why is insistence acceptable public behavior so vague in certain important areas/ I think

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it’s because public health is no more scientific and lofty than anything else that gets politicized; which doesn’t leave a lot out. The reason masks, etc. get attention is their political utility and general public popularity. For decades the US has lumped and bumped along with some unpopular public health concerns that were easy to wave aside. The annual reported rate of overdose death is in the 60 to 70 thousand range. You can guess there are more deaths and medical issues in the total package. But it is politically unpopular to be a stuck-inthe-mud about drugs. And, looking at it realistically, what leader wants to hitch their wagon to a loser cause? Prohibition didn’t work with alcohol. It’s unlikely it will succeed with drug use. If we knowingly accept high costs and deaths for alcohol and drugs please don’t unction me with a pious regard for public health. I think it possible to do a better job with the problem, but not by slobbering silliness as we’ve been doing. In political action entertainment certain fictional elements are required

for the act to appear meaningfully serious. So, as example, we house the homeless. Or look at it this way, we gather dependents and give them expectations. I can’t argue against the value of a roof overhead, but did the addict or mentally troubled get that way due to rooflessness? And what of sex offenders, car thieves, or armed robbers? Do they need a roof, too, as their problem solver? A helpful intent does not alter circumstances any more than reading low-fat labels brings weight loss. Political wand wavers make appealing arguments, but without detailed constructive criticism it’s so much fantasy. We can be sure of this: fantasy weavers are unlikely to take responsibility. Their job is done. You figure it out. For that look to views from those you wouldn’t normally consider. Finding agreement is nice, but is that the route to self-satisfaction or to problem solving? With universe, planet and its problems not standing conveniently still solutions aren’t found in insisting otherwise or demeaning ideas that aren’t yours.

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Awesome! Architect Nick Drummond loves to renovate old houses and was told the century-old home he purchased last year in Ames, New York, had been built by a German baron who turned to bootlegging in the 1920s, but he was still surprised to find evidence within the walls on Oct. 9: dozens of bottles labeled Old Smuggler Gaelic Whisky. “We discovered multiple false walls and secret compartments under the floor in our mudroom,” he told Lite 98.7. “The foundation walls and floors in the mudroom are lined with intact cases of 1920s whiskey.” he said. Drummond said auction houses and collectors have contacted him, speculating that the value on the some of the bottles might range between $500 and $1,200. [Lite 98.7, 10/13/2020] More things to worry about As many as 9 million wild pigs are roaming the United States – expanding from 17 states to at least 39 states in the last 30 years and causing $2.5 billion worth of damage each year to crops and domestic livestock, reported The Atlantic in September. Many of the feral swine are hybrids, a mixture of domestic breeds and wild boars called “super pigs,” that multiply so fast “I’ve heard it referred to as a feral swine bomb,” said Dale Nolte, manager of the National Feral Swine Damage Management Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In the U.S. and Canada, government organizations are working to control the numbers; Montana has been especially vigilant, with a 24hour hotline for residents to call when they see the animals. [The Atlantic, 9/19/2020] Right time, right place Postal carrier Fernando Garcia in

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Norwalk, California, heard someone calling for help as he walked his route on Oct. 9 and soon found a man lying on the ground, covered in blood. The unnamed victim had cut his arm with a chain saw, so Garcia leaped into action, using his belt as a tourniquet until paramedics arrived. L.A. County Sheriff Lt. Pauline Panis told CBS Los Angeles, “I think we should let everybody know that anyone can make a difference ... it’s a heartwarming story.” The victim’s family says he’s recovering. [CBS Los Angeles, 10/10/2020] Names in the news As a fun way to get customers involved with the new Ikea store in Valladolid, Spain, the Swedish retailer asked the public to name the street it’s on. The Independent reported that anyone who’s been frustrated trying to assemble items bought from the store will appreciate the winning entry: Calle Me Falta un Tornillo, or I’m Missing a Screw Street. And Ikea’s OK with that: “We wanted to make our arrival here more special ... always with a touch of humor, which defines our style,” a spokesperson said. [Independent, 10/14/2020] Latest religious messages In Guadalupe, Mexico, pilgrims are flocking to a parking lot, leaving candles and flowers beside a detailed portrait of the Virgin Mary that inexplicably reappeared in early October, having been drawn in chalk by an anonymous artist in 2007. Oddity Central reported the artist has confirmed that the drawing is the same one he created as part of a local festival, and the area is now blocked with traffic cones and watered periodically to make the image more visible. Said Felix Palomo, director of culture for the municipality, which is

part of greater Monterrey, “Whether you believe in miracles or not, the question is how did this image reappear 13 years after its creation?” [Oddity Central, 10/12/2020] Oops! William Hubbard, dean of the University of South Carolina School of Law, was thrilled when he saw that 82% of the school’s graduates taking the bar exam had passed, so he shared the happy news in an email to the school’s students. Unfortunately, the email also contained attachments with confidential exam scores for all who took the test – those who passed and those who failed, The State reported. “Please delete the message I just sent about bar passage,” Hubbard wrote in his second email. “Please do not open and, if opened, do not reveal any information in that attachment to anyone.” The former president of the American Bar Association appeared devastated by the error in an interview. “I’ve sent a personal email to every one of those students ... I am deeply, profoundly sorry for my mistake,” he said. [The State, 10/13/2020] The spirit world The New York Post reported on Oct. 14 that Amethyst Realm, 32, of Bristol, England, announced on British morning television that her planned wedding to Ray, a ghost she met in Australia two years ago, was off because he “kept disappearing” and started hanging around with a sketchy spirit group while they were on vacation in Thailand. “He’d disappear for long periods of time. When he did come back, he’d bring other spirits to the house and they’d just stay around for days,” Realm, said. She said the decision not to marry was mutual. “He just completely changed.” [New York Post, 10/14/2020] Ewwwwwww Alicia Beverly of Detroit was sleeping in the back seat of a red-eye flight home from Las Vegas on Oct. 12 when she felt “something warm” on her side, and woke up to realize a man standing in the aisle was urinating on her, Fox 2 reported. “I screamed and that woke everybody up,” she said. “I looked and there was a puddle of pee in the seats!” An off-duty police officer on the flight restrained the unidentified man, described as a well-known pastor

from North Carolina, and he was taken into custody upon landing, but has not been charged. Beverly had to sit in her wet clothes for the duration of the trip and is suffering anxiety following the incident. “Since then I have only gotten four hours of sleep,” she said. [Fox 2, 10/14/2020] Bright ideas • The Netherlands is home to a new trend in wellness therapy that promises serenity to those who try it: “koe knuffelen” (cow hugging). The BBC reported that a cow’s warmer body temperature and slower heartbeat are thought to increase oxytocin levels in humans, reducing stress and promoting positivity. The practice began more than a decade ago, and now farms in Switzerland and the U.S. along with the Netherlands offer cow-cuddling sessions, which typically begin with a tour of the farm before participants are invited to rest against a cow for up to three hours. [BBC, 10/9/2020] • The Finnish airline Finnair began selling its business-class airplane food in supermarkets on Oct. 13, in an effort to keep its catering staff employed as well as offer a taste of nostalgia to travelers grounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ready-made “Taste of Finnair” dishes include reindeer meatballs, Artic char and Japanesestyle teriyaki beef and cost about $12, The Associated Press reported. Marika Nieminen, vice president of Finnair Kitchen, said the idea allows the airline to “create new work and employment for our people.” (Associated Press, 10/15/2020] Inexplicable Customs officials at the Jacksonville (Florida) International Mail Facility came across a package from Hungary on Oct. 14 that contained more than 200 equine bones – a complete horse skeleton, United Press International reported. Daniel Alonso, acting director of field operations for Customs and Border Protection in Miami, tweeted a photo of the skeleton with the caption: “No horsing around this Halloween.” Because the package did not have a required veterinary services permit, he said it would not be sent to its destination. [UPI, 10/14/2020]

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Merlot fights back October is Merlot Month. Before you yawn, consider this. Merlot was ascendant in the domestic wine market prior to the 2004 movie “Sideways.” The movie, filmed in California’s Santa Barbara wine region, glorified (rightly) pinot noir and dissed (wrongly) merlot. The widespread popularity of “Sideways,” nominated for an Academy Award, had a profound influence on what ordinary folks thought about the two wines. Pinot noir sales soared, while merlot sales plummeted. Merlot Month has been a way for merlot producers to fight back. Yes, it’s a gimmick. But as these things go, it’s a useful gimmick because it serves to remind wine enthusiasts that merlot is indeed a noble wine that deserves our respect and admiration. How do we know this? For one thing, arguably the most sought-after (and expensive) red wine in the world is the iconic Bordeaux, Chateau Petrus. The chateau is situated in Pomerol, on the Right Bank of the Bordeaux region, meaning east of the Gironde estuary and the Dordogne River and Garonne River. The money grape on the Right Bank is merlot. It would be an understatement of many magnitudes to suggest the wines of Pomerol and Saint-Emilion aren’t among the finest red wines anywhere in the world. The money grape on the Bordeaux Left Bank is cabernet sauvignon. Both grapes

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produce incredible wines. But cabernet sauvignon historically has not done well when planted in the soils, particularly clay, found on the Right Bank. It doesn’t ripen evenly, whereas the merlot (and cabernet franc) is glorious. Both grapes were planted widely in California during the winery boom of the 1970s. California vintners tended to favor cabernet sauvignon because the grape could take the heat of the California summers, always got ripe and was sold to the American public through ambitious promotion by the likes of Robert Mondavi. It took longer for merlot to get its footing. It was often planted in the warm spots, when it does better in cooler coastal climates. Hence, the southern sector of the Napa Valley, near the San Pablo Bay, became a favored site for merlot producers. It also does well in the Pacific Northwest and on the eastern end of Long Island. In those early years of winery growth in the 1970s, merlot was generally thought of as a blending grape. It supposedly softened the tannic cabernet sauvignons of that era. In California, Duckhorn Vineyards and Matanzas Creek, in Napa and Sonoma, respectively, began to turn heads with the merlot they made in the early 1980s. As their success caught on and spread, others began to turn to merlot as a primary grape. Sterling, St. Supery and Markham in the Napa Valley regularly produced dazzling merlot. At the same time, more merlot vineyards were planted, and in the rush to cash in on the growing popularity of merlot, there came to be a glut of what some would describe as “wimpy” merlot on the market. It wasn’t all Duckhorn, not even close.

Thus, the diss on merlot in “Sideways” took hold, and there became a growing consensus that the merlot craze was over. And for a time, that was true. Today, there are many examples of outstanding merlot to be tasted and enjoyed, and that even improve with cellar age. Producers such as Duckhorn, Nickel & Nickel, St. Supery and Wolffer Estate on Long Island are true believers and make merlot for the ages. Aaron Pott, a prominent consulting winemaker in the Napa Valley, is a proponent of Right Bank blends similar to the wines he once made at the Saint-Emilion estate Troplong Mondot. Pott’s favored terroir is Carneros, and he loves nothing better than creating new blends from merlot and cab franc. Your takeaway from merlot month, should you choose to sample the many examples of fine merlot being made today, is that when merlot is made from grapes planted in the right places and given the TLC a noble grape variety deserves, it is capable of standing its ground with the greatest red wines in the world. For example, the Duckhorn Three Palms Vineyard merlot that I reviewed recently is a monumental wine. Yes, it’s pricy, at more than $100 a bottle, but that’s a fraction of the cost of a bottle of Chateau Petrus or Cheval Blanc, two of the greats from the Bordeaux Right Bank. And if you simply want a delicious everyday merlot at a modest price, the Estancia, Decoy or Kendall-Jackson at about $25 won’t disappoint. Revealing these truths is what Merlot Month is all about. Tasting Notes

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. Mumm Napa Brut Prestige, Napa County ($24) — Mumm’s Brut Prestige has long been one of the most consistent of all California bubblies, and one of the best values around, too. The balance between fruit and acid is exquisite, and the mousse is soft and refreshing, all things that make this cuvee one of the finest non-vintage brut sparklers money can buy. The current release shows notes of lemon and pear, subtle richness and a long, persistent finish. Rating: 92. Decoy 2018 Merlot, Sonoma County ($25) — The Decoy wines, the second label of Duckhorn Vineyards, continue to be one of the great values in California wine. The 2018 merlot is as solid as it is affordable, showing notes of blueberry, plum and red currant, a subtle hint of wood spice and mellow tannins. Rating: 90. Follow Robert on Twitter at @wineguru. To find out more about Robert Whitley and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. Email Robert at whitleyonwine@yahoo.com.

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When I see someone serious about losing weight, they typically have a habit of tracking their calories. Most use an app on their smartphone such as MyFitnessPal or Lose It! or MyNetDiary. There are many others as well. These happen to be free (although some offer premium upgrades for a fee).

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Weight loss by the numbers Besides tracking calories, these apps can help improve the quality of your diet by helping you know how much fiber, vitamins or other nutrients you are consuming (or not consuming). Some include motivational challenges; some let you connect with others on the same app; some scan barcodes of products to get the most accurate nutritional information. Look for one with a huge database of foods and prepared dishes. It’s also helpful to have one where you can import a recipe. If all this seems like too much to do, realize that most of us eat the same foods over and over. So, once you add a food to your app, it’s there, ready to pop in a day’s calorie count. Why use an app? Accountability. Tracking your food intake with an app can help keep you accountable and open your eyes to where you’re falling short nutritionally. A meta-analysis study in the journal Obesity Reviews found that app-based

mobile interventions can improve diet quality and help with weight loss. In another study, researchers found those who used mobile apps lost nearly 2 pounds more in weight compared with those not using an app. Researchers used data from 14 studies involving over 2,000 people. While there is plenty of room for human error — overestimating or underestimating portions — there is something powerful about keeping track of what you eat. Many people have no idea how many calories a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich might have or how many calories are in a glass of wine. A wise dietitian told me (as I worried about losing my pregnancy weight) that it really boils down to calories in and calories out. For most of us to make a change, we have to know how many calories we’re taking in. That’s where an app might help.

Q and A Q: What’s the difference between a sweet potato and a yam? A: Sweet potatoes have a thin, smooth skin with flesh that is orange, reddish-orange or sometimes yellow. Yams are typically imported from the tropics and have coarse, brown skin and dry white or purplish flesh. Both are more popular than ever because of their nutrition and versatility in recipes. The root vegetable is low in calories and high in fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C and potassium. You can serve them mashed, baked, as a french fry or in a pie. Try them oven-roasted with olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper or roasted with an apple, brown butter and fresh chopped sage. RECIPE Here’s an easy way to get another serving of heart-healthy salmon this

week: Bake it in a sheet pan with fresh asparagus. It’s fast, easy and healthy, and cleanup is a cinch. This recipe is from Hy-Vee. SALMON WITH ASPARAGUS 2 (6- to 8-ounce) salmon fillets, about 3/4-inch thick 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup 1 tablespoon red miso 1 1/2 teaspoons seasoned rice vinegar 1 teaspoon refrigerated ginger paste 1/2 teaspoon refrigerated garlic paste Nonstick cooking spray 16 asparagus spears 1 tablespoon olive oil Garnish: orange slices, chopped Italian parsley Pat salmon dry with paper towels; place on a pie plate. Combine syrup, miso, rice vinegar, ginger paste and garlic paste. Drizzle half of mixture over salmon, and gently rub on fillets. (Save the other half of the mixture for later). Let salmon stand at room

temperature 15 minutes. Preheat over to 425 degrees F. Spray a large sheet pan with nonstick cooking spray, or line with foil. Set aside. Cut asparagus spears into 8-inch lengths. Toss asparagus with olive oil. Arrange the spears along the edges of the sheet pan, leaving room in the center for the salmon. Place salmon in center of the pan. Bake for 8-12 minutes or until salmon flakes easily with a fork (145 degrees F) and asparagus is crisp and tender. Brush remaining half of miso mixture over salmon. Garnish with orange slices and parsley, if desired. Serves 2. Per serving: 520 calories; 38 grams protein; 22 grams carbohydrates; 31 grams fat (6 grams saturated); 95 milligrams cholesterol; 3 grams fiber; 16 grams sugar, 3 grams fiber. Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian with SIU Med School in Springfield, Illinois. For comments or questions, contact her at charfarg@aol.com or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRD.

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For many Americans, the name Betty Crocker evokes an image of domestic perfection. From the often-reissued Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook to the iconic red spoon logo that bears her signature, Betty Crocker is one of the most recognized names in cooking. It comes as a surprise to some that “America’s First Lady of Food” is, in fact, fictional. Betty Crocker got her start not in the kitchen but in the advertising department of the Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis. After an October 1921 contest in the Saturday Evening Post, Washburn Crosby received many household questions along with contest entries. Samuel Gale, head of advertising, wanted to answer the questions but felt that the advice should come from a woman. Gale solved his problem by inventing Betty Crocker. Her last name was chosen to honor former company director William G. Crocker. “Betty” was chosen because it sounded cheerful and friendly. The advertising staff began to answer consumer questions using Betty Crocker’s name and persona. The answers, provided by the all-female home service department, promoted a new kind of cooking. Betty’s answers encouraged standard pan sizes, measurements, and cooking temperatures. She gave advice about how to use new electrical appliances. And she offered

The changing faces of Betty Crocker, from 1936 to 1981. homemakers nationwide the chance to receive personal advice from a kindly figure who signed each letter, “Cordially Yours, Betty Crocker.” In 1924, the Washburn Crosby Company bought a faltering radio station and renamed it WCCO. On October 2, the first Betty Crocker Home Service Program premiered on the station. Betty, voiced by Washburn Crosby home economist Blanche Ingersoll, promoted good cooking as the secret to a happy home. By the following year, The Betty Crocker Cooking School of the Air was offering listeners a chance to cook along with Betty. In twenty-seven years on the air, over one million people completed the program. By the end of 1925, the two radio programs were on the air in twelve regional markets. While different women voiced Betty in each city, they read scripts in the main Betty Crocker office in Minneapolis. While Blanche Ingersoll provided Betty’s voice in the Twin Cities, it was another home economist, Marjorie Child Husted, who drove her persona. Husted had joined the Washburn Crosby Company sales team in 1923. She led a team of home economists to

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create and triple-test recipes to meet the Betty Crocker standard. She also wrote the scripts for Betty Crocker’s radio broadcasts. Husted carefully shaped the public face of Betty Crocker. She arranged for “Betty” to interview Hollywood stars about cooking, their favorite recipes, and their home lives. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Betty Crocker brand responded to the shifting needs of American homemakers. During the Great Depression, she offered tips for household thrift as Husted and her staff worked to create low-cost recipes that would stretch food budgets. During World War II, she advertised recipes for rationing and encouraged patriotic work on the home front. In 1945, Fortune magazine declared Betty Crocker the second most popular woman in America. Also during the war, Husted worried that women were not being honored for their work in the home. She developed the Betty Crocker American Home Legion in 1944 to recognize women for their contributions. Husted championed the rights of women in the workplace, criticizing General Mills and other companies for discriminating against their female employees. The 1950s brought changes for Betty Crocker. The step-by-step instructions

of the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook (1950) helped make it a best seller. In 1954, General Mills introduced Betty Crocker’s red spoon logo that gave cookbooks, cake mixes, and other items the Betty seal of approval. In 1958, the Betty Crocker Test Kitchens moved from Minneapolis to General Mills’ headquarters in Golden Valley. Tour guides often found themselves consoling guests who had been shocked to find that their cooking heroine wasn’t real. Betty Crocker’s popularity waned in the later decades of the twentieth century. However, cookbooks, recipes, and products bearing her logo, signature, and portrait continued to be produced. In 1996, a new Betty Crocker portrait was made by blending the faces of seventy-five contest winners with the previous portrait to create a Betty for the next century. General Mills did not invent cake mix, but in the early 1950s, Betty Crocker helped make it nationally popular as a staple of the American pantry. In 1933, P. Duff and Sons, a Pittsburgh molasses company, patented the

This Colorvision cake ad appeared in a 1952 edition of Family Circle magazine.

first cake mix after blending dehydrated molasses with dehydrated flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients. The mix required only water and baking to yield gingerbread. By 1947, more than 200 companies produced cake mixes for regional distribution, but consumers were skeptical. Packaging was often inadequate and jeopardized the mix’s quality. Mixes remained expensive, produced inconsistent results, and lacked flavor. Some companies added soap to lighten the consistency. After World War II, many women who had replaced soldiers in industrial jobs during the war resumed their domestic lives. American gender roles, however, had permanently shifted. In 1950, one in four married women was employed. With the return of domesticity and a newfound lack of time, women turned to products like Minute Rice and Reddi-Whip. Contrary to corporate predictions, women used convenience foods reluctantly, adopting them as ingredients in from-scratch recipes. After four years of development, General Mills debuted its Betty Crocker Ginger Cake mix in 1947. General Mills joined the convenience-food movement because flour sales had been declining since the 1920s. Higher postwar incomes allowed families to buy bread instead of baking it. These higher incomes, coupled with increased nutritional awareness, drove households away from potatoes and breads toward diets of fruits, vegetables, and meats. General Mills hoped to compensate these flour losses with mix sales.

In 1949, General Mills debuted Devil’s Food and Party Cake mixes. Party Cake allowed consumers to prepare a white, yellow, or spice cake, depending on the eggs and spices added. Betty Crocker continually debuted new flavors: yellow cake and white cake in 1952, Honey Spice and Angel Food in 1953, marble in 1954, and chocolate in 1955. Unlike other “convenience” foods, for many women cakes symbolized femininity and household happiness. Women felt pressured to perfect the homemade cake. A 1953 Gallup poll ranked cake the second “real test of a woman’s ability to cook,” behind apple pie. Domestic ideals split American women; - some accepted mixes while others clung to recipes. Although cake mix sales tripled between January 1947 and August 1948, they soon plateaued. General Mills asked marketing expert Ernest Dichter to find out why. After interviewing groups of women, Dichter concluded that the simplicity of mixes made them feel too self-indulgent. So, General Mills removed dried eggs, requiring women to add their own. Sales improved. In 1954, Betty Crocker debuted Answer Cake—cake and frosting mix prepackaged in a pan—and marketed it to small families. Although later discontinued, Answer Cake returned as Stir ‘n Frost mix in 1976. Betty Crocker’s Chiffon cake mixes came out in 1958. Chiffon combined the richness of butter cake with the lightness of sponge cake and was created by celebrity caterer Harry Baker.

In affluent postwar America, products flooded grocery shelves, forcing companies to creatively sell their products to stay competitive. Betty Crocker, General Mills’s fictional homemaker mascot, embodied quality and value. General Mills used Crocker’s image to refute popular perception of mixes as “shortcuts.” Some Crocker devotees were shocked to see her marketing mixes. General Mills drew female shoppers with “high impact” colors, such as their red packaging. It advertised with television commercials and even promoted a fourth meal consisting of Betty Crocker cake. Ads inundated women with reminders of their frantically busy schedules to sell “shortcuts” like mixes. The company also steered attention away from the mix’s ease of prepara-

tion by promoting lavish frosting designs on packaging and in cookbooks. Appearance became the standard for success, trumping flavor and texture. The importance of appearance is exemplified in the success of Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook. Published in 1950, it sold over one million copies in its first year. By the 1950s, General Mills, Duncan Hines, and Pillsbury monopolized the cake mix market. In 1977, General Mills, inspired by Pillsbury, added pudding to its mixes to make them more moist. Since then, General Mills has marketed an array of cake mix formulas and flavors, including Stir’n Streusel and Light Style, a mix with one third fewer calories than the original. Betty Crocker cake mix remains popular in the 2010s.

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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY Duluth Herald October 22, 1888 THE DAY IN THE CITY. There is now no doubt as to the building of the Mason temple next year. About one hundred and fifty men are at work digging water trenches on East Third street . Travel to Cloquet still continues lively many going up after work on the new Duluth & Winnipeg. It is not probable that the question of electric lighting will be settled at this eveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s council meeting. The new Congregational church will probably be occupied for the first time next Sunday. For a few weeks services will be held in the basement. James Burne accidentally fell into a ditch on first street near Lake avenue, yesterday and broke his leg. He was employed by the contractor on street work. The Superior street pavement is now entirely laid from Seventh avenue west to Fourth avenue east and a large amount of work has been done east of Fourth avenue east. The colored men are to hold a meeting this week to discuss the political questions of the day and to arrange for a complete registration of voters in Duluth. Mr. Richey has the matter in charge and will see that the colored vote is represented at the

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town, leaving his wife in a destitute condition. Arrangements are being made to send her to Ishpeming, her former home. Duluth Herald October 23, 1890 THE TOTAL COUNTY TAX. Levy for 1891 Now Completed and Given Below. IT IS A TRIFLE LESS THAN LAST. The county levy for the taxes of 1891 has been placed at 26.2 mills, 2 mills less than that of last year. The levy will be divided as follows: County purposes, 3 mills; schools, for all the different funds, 8.2 mills; city purposes, for all funds, 11 mills; state tax, including the 1 mill school tax, 4 mills. The total levy for city purposes last year was 10.8 mills. The general fund levy last year was 4.5 mills as against 4.1 mills this year; fire department last year 3 mills, this year 3.1 mills; interest fund last year 1.3 mills, this year 1.6 mills; library fund 5-10 mills; park fund, last year 1 mill, this year 1.1 mills. November election for Harrison and Morton. When a man desserts his wife and leaves her destitute and with no money, not even enough to buy

a meal, then does he deserve the condemnation of every living creature. Cleary, formerly employed on the Duluth & Iron Range road received his pay last month and skipped the

Duluth Herald October 24, 1900 WEST DULUTH The startling disclosures made at Duluth a few days ago, and which have made the people of the city that a wretch up to such nefarious practices should be punished most severely, are said to be almost equalled by things that have been transpiring at this end of the city for some years past., and with which the name of a well-known West Duluthian, carrying on a certain business, is connected. Reliable citizens have stated that this man for the last two or three years has escaped his just desserts through the fear of publicity on the part of the persons that he has attempted to do wrong. They claim that he has insulted married women, tried to lead young girls astray, and has had justice meted out to him, in part by being slapped on street cars by indignant ladies and soundly trounced by the brothers of girls he has insulted. The last incident in connection with this man, according to reliable authority, transpired but two weeks ago, when he undertook improper liberties with a 14 year-old girl that entered his place of business. The girl resented the insult and fled home, where her agitation was noticed and and her parents finally induced

her to tell her story. Her father took a policeman and went directly to the man accused. The father gave the man a scathing talk and told him that it was only physical disability on his part that prevented him from ridding earth of such a beast. The father would have prosecuted the case, but the entreaties of his daughter to not make public the affair alone prevented the matter from going into court. The principal facts of this case have leaked out in West Duluth, however, and there is a sentiment growing against the man accused of the wrong that may be possibly develop into something stronger than talk before many moons. Duluth Herald October 25, 1910 WITHOUT AN AMBULANCE Injured Man Is Taken to Hospital in an Automobile. Woman Wounded in Shooting Affray Carted Away In Wagon. That West Duluth has been without an ambulance for the past five weeks was brought to light this morning when the Zenith Furnace company had occasion to send for the one which has been run by Roach Bros. Livery and was obliged finally to take an injured man to the hospital in an automobile. Sam Belich, 26 years old, of 124 North Fifty-sixth avenue west, was hit by a “clam shell” while employed on the company’s coal dock this morning, and sustained a broken leg.

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Supt. Fred C. Harris telephoned for an ambulance, and then found out it had been in a down-town paint shop for the past five weeks. Roach Bros. Livery sent a cab to take the injured man to the hospital, but it was sent back, and after considerable delay the man was taken in an automobile to St. Mary’s hospital, where Dr. Payette dressed his injuries. “It is an outrage,” said Mr. Harris this morning, “that we should get such service at West Duluth. You can’t make it too strong whatever you say. A short time ago, when a woman was shot out here in front of the carbolite works, she was carried to the hospital in a wagon. West Duluth certainly ought to have better facilities than this.” Duluth Herald October 27, 1920 BISHOP MITCHELL WILL DEDICATE WOODLAND CHURCH SUNDAY Dedication services for the Woodland Methodist Community church, Elysian avenue and Winona street, will take place next Sunday. Bishop Charles Baynard Mitchell of St. Paul will conduct the ceremonies. Arrangement for the services and the program during the day are being made under the direction of Rev. Earl F. Baumhofer,pastor of the church. The formal dedication services will be held in the afternoon. Dr. McKee, superintendent of the Duluth district for the Methodist church, will preach at the services at 10:30 am. Bishop Mitchell will conduct the afternoon service at 3

o’clock and will also preach at 7:45 o’clock. The community church was recently completed at a cost of $26,000. The local congregation has been instrumental in raising a large part of this sum. The new church replaces the building which was destroyed in the forest fire of Oct. 12, 1918. Mr. Baumhofer has been pastor of the local church for the last year and is just beginning his second year in charge of the congregation. During the last year the membership of the church was almost doubled through the pastor’s activities. The pastor extends an invitation to the Duluth public to attend the services Sunday. Duluth Herald October 28, 1922 $10,000 WORTH OF FURS STOLEN FROM SILBERSTEIN & BONDY’S DURING NIGHT Thieves Enter Through Rear Window Between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. Discard All But Better Class and More Expensive Skins. Inventory May Show Loss Even Greater; Police at Work Ten thousand dollars worth of fur coats and dresses that were trimmed with fur were stolen last night by burglars who entered the store of Silberstein & Bondy at 7 West Superior street. A complete check of the articles stolen was being made today by E. A.

Silberstein, manager of the store, and it was said after the inventory was begun that the total loss might run in excess of the first estimate of $10,0000. About thirty-five wraps were stolen, it was said. Every detective on the city police department has been assigned to the case. Capt. Frank Schulte, who is directing the investigation, said some leading clues are expected to be uncovered before the end of the day. Police believe that two or more persons participated in the robbery and that an automobile was used to transport the booty. While the value of the coats is very high, the wraps themselves would not occupy much space and could easily be concealed in the rear of an automobile, police say. The persons who rifled the store were well acquainted with the value of furs and only the most expensive articles were taken. Several sables and other fur wraps worth several thousand dollars are among the goods that were stolen.

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Halloween pranks led to Anoka tradition

Anoka County’s sesquicentennial coin, 2007. Designed by Bromley Printing, Inc. Anoka, Minnesota, became the Halloween Capital of the World in 1937. The title recognizes its status as one of the first cities to discourage Halloween tricks by hosting a citywide party: the Anoka Halloween Celebration. In the early 1900s, Americans braced themselves every October for pranks committed by not-so-innocent children. The mischief-making spiraled so out of control in Anoka

that the town decided to put an end to Halloween-night shenanigans by throwing a celebration. Starting in 1920, Anoka civic leaders and local organizations, led by businessman George Green, formed a Halloween committee to address the growing prankster problem. The Halloween committee hoped to create an event so captivating that Anoka’s youth would forgo the usual troublemaking and join in the festivities. On the evening of Sunday, October 31, 1920, the committee MINNESOTA sponsored HISTORICAL its first-ever communitySOCIETY wide Halloween celebration. The highlight was a parade down Main Street that included the Fireman’s Band of Minneapolis, the Anoka police and fire departments, and the Kiwanis and Commercial Clubs. A drum corps, the Anoka National Guard, and hundreds of children also marched.

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A souvenir beer can from the 1978 Anoka Halloween Celebration. After the parade a bonfire was lit in nearby Bridge Square, and the youth who marched received free popcorn, peanuts and candy. The event was so successful that the police received no reports of pranks. Soon, plans were underway for the next Halloween celebration. Anoka’s new tradition expanded each year to include activities such as dances, parties, games, concerts and fireworks. It also grew to include community sing-alongs, races, costume contests and a storefront-decorating competition for local merchants. Together, the festivities attracted thousands of people each year. The city’s multi-day Halloween activities helped establish Anoka as the Halloween Capital of the World. That title, however, wasn’t official until 1937, thanks to an act of Congress. In that year, 12-year-old newspaper carrier Harold Blair of Anoka was one of 200 Minneapolis Journal paperboys to win an all-expenses-paid trip to tour the nation’s capital. Civic leaders behind the Halloween activities seized on Blair’s visit as an opportunity to establish their little town as a big player on the Halloween scene. Anoka’s Commercial Club, headed by drug store owner Bernard Witte, led the charge. It commissioned local artist Alyce Vick to create a customized patch for Blair to wear in DC. The large insignia showcased a witch

flying in the light of a full moon with “Halloween Capitol” (sic) written in the sky and “Anoka, Minnesota” below it. On the bottom of the patch was an open gate with the words, “The Gateway to the Great Northwest.” The patch was sewn to Blair’s yellow sweater, a gift from Anoka clothing storeowner and Commercial Club member Craydon Colburn. The club sent Blair off with a proclamation to deliver about Anoka’s unique achievement in attracting youngsters to the annual celebration. In recognition of this, the town asked for Anoka to be officially known as the Halloween Capital of the World. In DC, Blair did his best to represent a city on a mission and gave the proclamation to Minnesota Representative Millard Rice. Shortly afterward, Congress granted Anoka’s wish. With Anoka officially the Halloween Capital of the World, 1937 proved to be an especially celebratory Halloween season. The following year, Life magazine sent a photographer to Anoka to capture the Halloween spirit in a town that was virtually unknown outside of Minnesota. New events were added each year. Meanwhile, civic organizations and community volunteers raised money and worked year-round to make each celebration more impressive than the last. Anoka’s Halloween traditions continued without interruption until 1942. By then, many of those involved in the planning of the Halloween activities were called to service in World War II. In their absence, the committee opted to focus on homefront activities like raising money for the war effort instead of celebrating Halloween. The festivities were suspended again in 1943 but reinstated in 1944 toward the end of the war. Over time, Anoka’s Halloween events moved away from Halloween night so residents were home for the trick-or-treaters. New traditions began, including haunted houses, royalty coronations, celebrity appearances, Pumpkin Bowl football games, and house decorating. As the Halloween Capital of the World continues to defend its title, the celebration remains ever-evolving and expanding, providing a month’s worth of Halloween fun every October.

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Will Trump open Arctic refuge for drilling? Dear EarthTalk: Is Trump going to be able to finally open up the contentious coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling before his first term ends? -- J.P, Maumee, OH

side conservationists to protect it. But in late 2017 Congress paved the way for opening the contentious strip of land by authorizing oil drilling there in its tax bill. But even though Trump is champing at the bit to start drilling in the coastal plain, he’ll have to wait until seismic tests are complete—and there is no way that can happen before the end of his (first) term. Seismic surveys need to be conducted in order to provide hard data as to how much oil exists in a given area. But the seismic blasts themselves can negatively affect wildlife species’ behaviors and mortality rates. Since oil companies haven’t been able to show conclusively that seismic testing won’t harm protected species (like polar bears), the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has held firm against issuing the permits. But the Trump administration is trying to do an end run around these precautions and get the seismic tests approved by the Department of Interior instead. If the Trump administration can get the testing done and the results are to their

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The debate over whether to open up the most ecologically sensitive part—the so-called 1002 area, or coastal plain—of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling has raged for decades. Known for its scenic beauty but more so as the birthing place of migrating caribou as well as hundreds of species of birds that use the coastal plain as a nursery for their newly hatched offspring before migrating south for the winter, ANWR’s coastal plain is also thought to be rich in oil. These lands are not only crucial to wildlife, but also to people. Long before the U.S. government named ANWR in 1960, the Gwich’in knew it as “Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit” (“the sacred place where life begins”). Now they and other Alaskan natives are working along-

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MinnPost poll finds close Biden-Trump race Senate race between Sen. Tina Smith and Jason Lewis also close

Forty-nine percent of likely Minnesota voters support former Vice President Joe Biden, while 44 percent support President Donald Trump, a poll by Change Research commissioned by MinnPost finds. The online poll was conducted among 1,021 likely voters in Minnesota last week, from Oct. 12 to Oct. 15, and the results’ margin of sampling error is 3.1 percentage points. Separated by just five points and within the margin of error, this represents the closest the two presidential candidates have been in a recent public poll. Fewer pollsters have surveyed Minnesota lately compared to in August and early September, when the state had a brief flirtation with national media outlets as a more than remote

possibility for flipping from blue to red. On Aug. 31, FiveThirtyEight gave Biden a 69 percent chance of winning the state, giving Trump a little less than a third, the closest the site has had the race before or since. More recently, pundits have placed Minnesota in the much more likely blue column. As of Tuesday, FiveThirtyEight gave Biden a 92 percent chance of winning the state, his highest odds since the race began. The site’s polling average put Biden at 50.7 percent, compared to Trump’s 41.6 percent — a spread of 9.1 points. Polls done in September and October have suggested Biden ahead by as little as 4 points and as many as 17. Some recent polls suggest the race may be tightening as Election Day nears, though. A SurveyUSA poll released in early October found Biden ahead of Trump by 7 points, a

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slightly larger margin than the one in the MinnPost/Change Research poll, compared to 9 points in early September. Change Research’s methodology involves targeting survey takers based on geography, age, gender, race and partisan identification via advertisements on websites and on social media. The company argues this allows it to “cast a net that is wider” than pollsters who rely on phonebased surveys. This poll was weighted – meaning the results were corrected to better represent the electorate – by gender, race/ethnicity, age, education and 2016 presidential vote. MinnPost will release additional data as we report more results in the coming days.

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This election year, a record number of Minnesotans are expected to vote early or by mail, a side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and encouragement by election officials and Democrats to keep traffic at polling places down. This poll finds a stark divide in partisan preferences between people who have already voted and those who have not. Of those who already voted, 79 percent said they had voted for Biden, while 17 percent said they had voted for Trump. In the Senate race, 76 percent said they had voted for Smith, compared to 17 percent for Lewis. Those who had not yet voted heavily favored Republicans: 61 percent said they would vote for Trump if the election were held today, and 60 percent said they would vote for Lewis.

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The infection election On July 8, Mark Anthony Urquiza, with his sons as pallbearers, was carried to his final resting place in Phoenix’s Holy Cross Cemetery. He died of COVID-19 complications, on a ventilator, alone but for a frontline health care worker holding his hand. Urquiza’s passing might have gone with scant notice, like far too many of the more than 217,000 people in the United States who have succumbed to this deadly disease so far, had his daughter Kristin not penned an obituary that garnered national attention. “His death is due to the carelessness of the politicians,” she wrote, “who continue to jeopardize the health of brown bodies through a clear lack of leadership, refusal to acknowledge the severity of this crisis, and inability and unwillingness to give clear and decisive direction.” Kristin Urquiza places the blame for her father’s untimely death squarely with President Donald Trump. “My dad was a healthy 65-year-old,” she said, addressing the Democratic National Convention this summer. “His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump. For that, he paid with his life.” Trump’s calamitous pandemic response has cast a pall of death and economic calamity over the country, as he inflames racism and division in the lead up to this infection election. After nine months of ignoring, downplaying and outright lying about the pandemic, the White House – perhaps now better called “the Blight House” – is a COVID-19 hotspot itself. On Wednesday, we learned that Trump’s teenage son Barron tested positive for the virus. Less than three weeks ago, the indoor reception and packed Rose Garden ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination, with no social distancing and very few masks, created a likely superspreader event. At least 40 people who were there or otherwise close to Trump have since tested positive. Trump, after being hospitalized,

returned to the White House, ignoring all Centers for Disease Control and Prevention standards and medical norms, dramatically removed his mask and walked inside, potentially infecting staff and others. Days later, he held a rally on the South Lawn with many attendees – again, closely packed in and mostly maskless. From Florida to Pennsylvania to Iowa, maskless crowds have gathered at Trump rallies, where Trump claims he is now “immune” to COVID-19 and not contagious, providing no medical evidence. Trump is also actively promoting a dangerous “herd immunity” response to the pandemic, risking millions of deaths. Meanwhile, infections and hospitalizations are surging as the long-predicted autumn COVID-19 wave strikes. With close to 60,000 new cases reported Wednesday, intensive care units from North Dakota to Wisconsin to Mississippi are at or near capacity. The pandemic has caused the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, yet Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate continue to stonewall federal COVID-19 relief. Instead they’re attempting to ram through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The hearings have revealed some of Barrett’s disturbing legal views, including

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her belief that the right to bear arms is inviolable, but the right to vote is not. She refused to answer questions about the Affordable Care Act, Roe v. Wade, voting rights or even if President Trump could delay the election or refuse to transfer power peacefully. Republicans are aggressively attempting to suppress Democratic votes. One of Trump’s sons, Donald, Jr., has called for volunteers to “join ARMY FOR TRUMP’s election security” at Democratic precincts to challenge the right of individuals to cast their vote, to question the signatures on mail-in ballots, and otherwise intimidate and discourage voters. In Pennsylvania, a judge ruled the Trump campaign’s deployment of “poll

watchers” in Philadelphia violated state law. Guns Down America reports that in the five swing states of Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, “[t]he threat of armed individuals disrupting polling places is not theoretical. Private citizens with firearms have demonstrated at polling places during the 2016 and 2018 elections and are poised to do so again this November.” In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott limited each county to just one ballot drop location, regardless of county population. Thus, Harris County, including Houston, with more than 4.7 million residents, gets as many ballot drop locations as Loving County’s 169 residents. Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose similarly ordered just one ballot drop location per county, regardless of population. The intent is clear: Make it hard to vote in cities, which tend to vote Democratic. Despite the obstacles, the threat of thugs at polling places and the looming tsunami of lawsuits promised by Trump and the Republicans, more than 14 million people have already voted early, shattering previous records. Many are risking exposure to COVID-19 and enduring lines that can take more than 10 hours to cast their vote. During the infection election, voting is a vaccination for our ailing body politic. Mass participation just might be a miracle cure.

A psychological evaluation of a certain megalomaniacal narcissistic paranoid demagogic leader from recent world history This is a reprise of a four-year-old Duty to Warn column published the week before the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

is foreign, especially of strangers or of people from different countries or cultures. A demagogue is a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.

A megalomaniac is a pathological egotist, someone with a psychological disorder who exhibits symptoms like delusions of grandeur and an obsession with greatness, Once upon a time, there power or wealth. was a megalomaniacal, A sociopath is a person sociopathic, narcissistic and whose behavior is antisoparanoid national leader DR. GARY cial, often criminally greedy, who was attempting to rise KOHLS who lacks a sense of moral to political power in his responsibility, empathy or politically-divided, postsocial conscience. Sociowar nation. This deeply paths never sincerely apologize nor are flawed demagogue, who was worthey capable of exhibiting remorse for shipped by millions of rabble-rousing, wrongs that they have committed. beer-drinking, racist, sexist, gun-toting, A narcissist is person who has an anti-Semitic, flag-waving, uber-nationinflated sense of their own importance, alist, xenophobic white supremacists, a deep need for admiration, sexual professed that his goal in running for gratification, applause and a lack of national office was only to make his empathy for others. supposedly-weak, supposedly underA paranoid person or group exhibmilitarized country great again. its excessive or irrational suspiciousness This sometimes charismatic political and distrustfulness of other individuals leader was one of the richest persons or groups. in his country yet he was often joked A xenophobe is a person who is about by comedians at the time. He fearful or contemptuous of that which was sometimes regarded as a buffoon,

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but he impressed his followers at his frequent campaign stops by dramatically flying in to his political rallies on a private airplane. This leader often used inflammatory and hate-filled language in his speeches, actually inciting violence among his listeners. He was thus widely covered by the press as an aberration in the struggling, once-civilized, democratic nation. He amassed a devoted coalition of angry, under-employed, white supremacists, especially among the millions of psychologically-wounded combat veterans from the last war who were easily recruited to participate in street-fighting for the cause – indeed, even being willing to start a violent revolution. His followers revered and exuberantly pledged allegiance to the flag. This leader’s nation had suffered the loss of a recent war that had essentially bankrupted the nation – both economically and morally. The lost war had resulted in serious

economic challenges. The war had been stupidly started by out-of-touch, over-privileged, ultra-wealthy, rightwing, all-male leaders that included the nation’s bankers, industrialists and militarists, all of whom had promoted the war because they sought military glory and potential economic benefits by pillaging the wealth of other nations, especially their oil wealth. The foreign nations targeted by the banks and assorted corporations were actually not realistic military threats. In fact, in order to get full support to start the ill-advised war, the political and military leaders of the nation secretly conspired to orchestrate a false flag operation that alarmed the nation into war-readiness – indeed,, and unstoppable patriotic war eagerness. After the Big Lie/Pro-War agenda had been accepted as truthful by the gullible masses (thanks to the eventually corporate/government-controlled print and radio media [which never ques-

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tioned the deception]) the soon-to-beinvaded nation was accused of provoking a war and the brain-washed, duped electorate endorsed the invasion. This particular megalomaniacal political leader had successfully purged from his adopted right-wing party many of the old establishment leaders that had originally been somewhat center/right, although still agitating for less regulation, less corporate taxes and less regulation. This leader had seemingly come out of nowhere and gained notoriety and political momentum after a sudden, world-wide economic collapse and recession that had been created by powerful Wall Street speculators and predatory investors. The leader chose not to blame the disastrous war on the traitorous uber-wealthy corporate warhawks because were economic supporters of his. Instead, this paranoid politician blamed the disastrous situation on his left-wing, antiwar enemies s who had taken on the nearly impossible task of resolving the nation’s economic depression and huge unemployment situation that they had not been responsible for in the first place. The US stock market crash in 1929 that tanked the world economy had led to planetary chaos, but it had been ignited by the reckless actions of the predatory, multimillionaires who amassed their excess wealth in finance, banking and investments in an overblown stock market. These millionaires had escaped the punishm for the

world’s media to allow their investigative journalists the freedom to expose their corruption. to allow their reputations to tarnished in the media. This megalomaniac and his followers were citizens of one of the most advanced, cultured, literate and highly Christianized nations the world had ever known. Sadly, the religion professed a belief in a god was a punitive, vengeful and angry god rather than a merciful, all-loving, nonviolent one as had been the belief of the religion’s founders. The nation was also highly militarized. It had had a long military tradition that was universally revered by most sectors of the society, even though the military’s officers and soldiers were frequently guilty of actions that were considered international war crimes and crimes against humanity. The nation’s police and military had possessed the best military intelligence, the best spyware and the most lethal weapons systems that the world had ever known – all at crippling cost and little or no return on investment - to the tax-paying population. The nation’s child-rearing tactics were often punitive (the spare the rod/spoil the child doctrine) which resulted in very obedient children and obedient future soldiers who did not question the orders of their superiors – even if ordered to torture enemy non-combatants, for example. Thus the nation’s soldiers quite easily became willing executioners. The leader and his followers thought that their nation – albeit “weakened” at the time, had been mighty in the past and would soon again be powerful. Some of the nation’s religious lead-

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ers believed that the leader had been ordained by a punitive god to have dominion over all the other nations of the world. Because god had supposedly blessed the leader, the nation’s right-wing church-going citizens thought that aggressive action against dissidents was needed, even to the point of censorship, deportation, and even imprisonment, torture and even extra-judicial execution. In other words, the followers of this sociopathic demagogue – who had a history of being a serial liar and an over-whelming desire to increase his already significant power and wealth – abandoned all logic and actually believed that the leader could make 1930s Germany great again. In order to convince voters to support and vote for him in the next election, this leader instilled a paranoia among them to irrationally fear nonwhites, non-Christians, people whose first language was not native tongue, immigrants and other economic refugees f(rom destabilized nations that his nation’s giant multinational corporations had caused in the first place. The megalomaniacal, sociopathic, narcissistic and paranoid national leader/fuehrer described above was, of course, Adolf Hitler. The militarized nation was Germany, not America; the war that economically and morally bankrupted Germany was the First World War (1914-1918) – not America’s Gulf War; the flag was the swastika – not the Stars and Stripes; the rightwing political party that hated liberals, progressives and socialists with a lethal passion was the Nazi Party - not the Republican Party; the targeted 1% minority were Jews – not Muslims; and the false flag operation that gave Hitler a reason to start World War II by invading Poland was Operation Himmler (Google it) – not 9/11. But the historical similarities between what seems to me to be American Neo-fascism and classical German Fascism do indeed exist and it is not just the fault of Donald Trump. Indeed, Donald Trump probably has never taken the time to study – much less read - ANY history books at all, so one cannot claim that he is following the historical playbook of fascist dictators. What he is doing is just the nature of demagogues.

And the historical similarities between the psychological aberrations of the fascist fuehrer Hitler and the various leaders behind what is becoming a reality in America do exist. Therefore, in the interest of educating those who are open-minded enough to sit still for some historical enlightenment, the remainder of this essay will try to make some of the connections between what has been said in this political season and what might be in store for America. The commentary below is mine but the criteria are from established documents that are easily available in the literature. I invite readers to do their own psychological evaluations. Recall that both sociopaths and fascists are not to be trusted with political power, military power, police power or economic power. Both sociopaths and fascists consistently lie and deceive and may not even realize that they are doing it. It is also important to understand that, for all intents and purposes, sociopaths and fascists are incurable and need to be isolated from society. Essential addendum to the previous column The Criteria for A) Antisocial Personality Disorder; B) Narcissistic Personality Disorder; and C) Paranoid Personality Disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). Plus D) the 14 Characteristics of Fascism A) Donald Trump (and Adolf Hitler) Scores 7 out of the 7 on the Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder (DSM-IV 301.7) The official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder (aka Sociopathic Personality Disorder) is listed below in bold letters. In each of the seven categories I have added a few examples from the life and times of Donald Trump – as of 2016) - that supports his qualifications for being diagnosable as a sociopath. Readers should make their own determinations on Trump’s qualifications for the US presidency. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes called psychopaths or sociopaths. According to the DSM-IV, only three of the seven criteria re required to

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qualify for the diagnosis. 1. Repeated Acts That Could Lead to Arrest (Recall the multitude of highly believable charges of sexual assault or sexually-inappropriate behavior that have come from some of the women from Trump’s past. What happened could easily have resulted in Trump’s being charged with criminal sexual assault. On the infamous Access Hollywood interview where he bragged about his approach to women and one of his many appearances on the Howard Stern Show, Trump actually laughingly admitted to being a sexual predator - in the presence of his approving daughter Ivanka and son Donald, Jr.) 2. Repeated Lying, Conning Others for Profit or Pleasure, or the Use of Aliases (Recall Trump’s lying about knowing Russian President Putin; his refusing to pay creditors for work done on his projects; and his infamous acts of self-promotion on radio programs by pretending to be somebody else.) 3. Being Impulsive or Failing to Plan Ahead (Recall Trump’s infamous investments in THREE Atlantic City casinos in the 1990s, including Trump Plaza, Trump Castle and the Trump Taj Mahal in the already over-built casino sector. Analysts knew, but Trump didn’t realize, that the three casinos were certain to cannibalize each other and that debt-service of the high-interest loans would be impossible. Within two years all three Trump casinos declared bankruptcy.) 4. Repeated Assaults on others (Recall his numerous sexual assaults, his infamous attack on the owner of a professional wrestling association during a match and his verbal assaults on foreigners, Muslims, Mexicans, protestors, assorted minorities, the disabled and the media.) 5. Reckless Disregard for the Safety of Others (Recall Trump’s reckless disregard for the victims of his sexual assaults, his numerous frivolous lawsuits and his many bankruptcy filings.) 6. Failure to Honor Financial Obligations (Recall his numerous bankruptcy filings that stiffed a multitude of creditors and workers that then resulted in dozens of downstream bankruptcies of smaller businesses.) 7. Rationalizing the Pain He or She Has

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Inflicted on Others (Recall Trump’s refusal to apologize to anybody that he has hurt, including President Obama, his sexual conquests and those he has victimized financially.) B) Donald Trump Scores 8 or 9 out of the 9 Criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (DSM-IV 301.81) This disorder is characterized by a behavior or fantasy of grandiosity, a lack of empathy and a need to be admired by others. A useful definition is “pathological self-love”. Narcissistic individuals have an unrealistic or inflated sense of self-importance, an inability to see the viewpoints of others, and are hypersensitive to the opinions of others as indicated by five or more of the following nine traits: 1. A Grandiose Sense of Self-Importance, Superiority and Talent and Expects to Be Recognized as Superior 2. A Preoccupation with Unlimited Success, Beauty, Brilliance, Ideal Love, Power or Wealth 3. A Belief in Being Special and Unique and Can Only be Understood by (or Should Only be Associated with) People of High Status 4. Requires Excessive Admiration (Especially Applause) 5. An Unreasonable Sense of Entitlement and an Expectation of Being Treated with Favor or Expecting an Automatic Compliance to His or Her Wishes 6. Is Interpersonally Exploitative, Taking Advantage of Others to Achieve His or Her Goals 7. Lacks Empathy 8. Believes that Others are Envious of Him (or is Envious of Others) 9. Exhibits Arrogant or Haughty Attitudes or Behaviors

nation, but, in the highly competitive culture of America’s “dog-eat-dog” capitalism, paranoia may be the norm, especially among the “take-no-prisoners”, “fight-to-the-death” multimillionaires or billionaires at the top - like Donald Trump. Four or more of the following seven criteria are needed to make the diagnosis: 1. Suspects Without Reason that Others are Exploiting, Harming, or Trying to Deceive Him 2. Has Unjustified Doubts About the Loyalty or Trustworthiness of Friends or Associates 3. Believes Without Reason That if He Confides in Others, the Information May be Used Against Him. 4. Finds Hidden or Threatening Meanings in Harmless Remarks or Events 5. Persistently Bears Grudges and is Unforgiving of Insults or Slights. 6. Is Quick to React with Anger or To Counterattack When He Perceives that People Are Out To Attack His Character or Reputation 7. Is Suspicious of The Fidelity of His Spouse Or Sexual Partner

D) The Political Views of Donald Trump and Hitler are compatible with 14 out of the following 14 Characteristics of Fascism (google “Fascism – the 14 Points”) 1. Powerful and Continuing Expressions of Nationalism 2. Disdain for the Importance of Human Rights 3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause 4. The Supremacy of the Military/ Avid Militarism 5. Rampant Sexism 6. A Controlled Mass Media 7. Obsession with National Security 8. Religion and Ruling Elite Tied Together 9. Power of Corporations Protected 10. Power of Labor Suppressed or Eliminated 11. Disdain and Suppression of Intellectuals and the Arts. 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment/Law and Order 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption 14. Fraudulent Elections

C) Donald Trump (and Hitler?) Score 6 or 7 of the 7 Criteria for Paranoid Personality Disorder (301.0) Paranoid Personality Disorder is summarized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a “pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of the motives of others that are interpreted as malevolent”. Documentation is best determined during a thorough psychiatric exami-

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Oaks & water lilies on the nature trail Behind the Sherman & Ruth Weiss For each of 18 stops, I crafted short Community Library in Hayward, Wisnarratives, recorded them, and uploadconsin, there is a half-mile loop trail ed them to my Natural Connections around a wetland, through a forest, podcast feed. You can access a link to and beside a restored prairie. The level, the Spring Guide (and soon summer, gravel trail is a favorite spot for dogtoo) on http://www.weisscommunitywalkers and hikers who are library.com/. The link and out for some fresh air and a QR code, are posted at exercise. It’s a special spot, the trailhead as well, and and the library has often you can access the library’s worked with the naturalists CONNECTIONS Wi-Fi to download the file at the Museum to help infaster without using data. crease peoples’ enjoyment For today, while the first of the trail. snow swirls, I’ll take you Earlier this summer, the back to spring and sumlibrary’s Assistant Director mer, and give you a little Ann Larson spearheaded a taste of the trail, and how StoryWalk along the trail. You now can the audio guides build on each other read a weather-proofed kids’ book, two through the seasons. pages at a time, as you hike. The library also received a grant to create four Stop 3 (Spring): seasonal audio guides for the trail. So Baby Oak Leaves far, I’ve walked the trail at the peak of spring wildflowers, during the summer The small tree behind the sign post heat of July, and as the leaves changed is a northern red oak. If its leaves have color this fall. started to emerge, you can take a look

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The leaves of white water lilies are round with a wedge cut out, and look very similar to our old friend Pac-Man. Photos by Emily Stone. at how they have lobes with sharp, pointed tips. These tender young leaves need protection. Look closely. Can you see that they are fuzzy? Fuzz helps protect them from the cold, just like your sweater. They might also be red or pink. That color is created by a pigment called anthocyanin, and it’s the same chemical that makes cranberries red and blueberries blue. Anthocyanin is often described as a “sunscreen” that protects young leaves from too much sun. This hasn’t been proven unequivocally, though, and the red color may also protect the leaves against insects who want to eat them. Stop 3 (Summer): Oak Leaves The small tree behind the sign post is a northern red oak—a native tree. Take a look at how the leaves have lobes with sharp, pointed tips. In the spring, these leaves were covered in fuzz and contained red pigment and phytoncides to help protect them. Did it work? You might notice some holes in the leaves, or ragged edges, or even lumps called galls. Oak trees feed over 500 species of caterpillars and countless other insects, too. Are the insects destroying the tree? Well, no. The tree

still has plenty of leaves to make food for itself, and all of those insects are making food for the birds. A single family of chickadees with five chicks eats between 6,000 and 9,000 caterpillars in a single summer! Planting native plants like oak trees is a great way to support wildlife in your yard. Read more about it in a book called Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Doug Tallamy. Now, if only there was a place nearby where you could go to find books… Stop 4 (Spring): Wetland Habitat Take a walk out onto the Observation Pier. What do you see? Who do you hear? Red-winged blackbirds are one of the very first birds to return in the spring. Male red-winged blackbirds like to perch on a cattail stalk and flash their red-and-yellow shoulder patches while they sing “konk-la-ree!” Farther south, red-winged blackbirds don’t have to migrate at all. Our blackbirds need to go just far enough south to find crop stubble with waste grain and weed seeds not buried by snow. This

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Yellow water lily leaves are somewhat heart-shaped.

When red oak leaves emerge in early spring they are covered with fuzz to protect against the cold, and filled with red pigment to protect against the sun and insects.

is about a 700-mile trip. You may also see a small, gray bird that bobs its tail and darts off a perch to catch insects. Flycatchers are long-distance migrants, and fly all the way to Central or South America for the winter. That’s 4,000 miles! They can’t return north until there are flying insects for them to catch. Speaking of flying insects, do you see any big dragonflies? Common green darner dragonflies migrate south for the winter, too! Once they get to Texas or Mexico, they lay eggs that hatch and develop into nymphs and then adults. It’s the new dragonflies who fly back north in the spring.

leaves will tremble. Most leaves have round stems, and this allows the tree to hold them at the best angle toward the Sun. Quaking aspen leaves have stems that are flattened in cross section. This makes them strong in one direction, and flimsy in the other. Any breeze sets them trembling. But how could that be good for the tree? For starters, the twisting leaves seem to “dump the wind.” By moving out of the way instead of resisting, the leaves won’t be torn off the tree in a storm. Another benefit is that the motion helps the leaves get enough carbon dioxide, and makes sure that they don’t get too much sunlight. Some of that extra sunlight might hit the trunk of the tree instead, where additional photosynthesis can take place. One study even suggested that the wiggling leaves are less prone to insect damage than leaves that hold still. Can you imagine why that might be true? How do you think that compares to the chemical defenses of an oak leaf? I hope you’ll consider taking a guided walk on the Library Nature Trail during all four seasons. Right now, you could just imagine what it looked like in spring and summer, and by this winter, I will have all four audio guides ready to go. We are grateful to the C.D. Besadny Conservation Fund of the Natural Resources Foundation of

Stop 4 (Summer): Water Lilies Walk out on to the Observation Pier. Two types of water lilies add both beauty and habitat in the pond. It’s easy to identify them by either their flowers or their leaves. White water lilies have many white petals. They look lacey and elegant. The leaves of white water lilies are round, with a triangular notch. Many people look at that shape and think of the old arcade game Pac-Man. Yellow water lilies are also called spatterdock or bullhead pond lily. They have just six petals that are bright yellow, sometimes with green on the outside and red on the inside. Yellow water lily leaves are heart-shaped

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instead of round. Can you see leaves of both species in the pond? No matter what the shape of their leaves, water lilies face a challenge. Their rhizomes, which are horizontal stems the size of your arm, are rooted to the bottom of the pond in muck that holds little oxygen. But plants only need carbon dioxide, right? Wrong. Plants do need carbon dioxide in order to make sugar during the process of photosynthesis. But in order to use that sugar to live and grow, plants need oxygen for respiration, just like we humans. So, water lilies have devised a neat system to get oxygen down to their roots. Young leaves take up oxygen into tightly packed air spaces of young tissues. The air moves through spongy cells in their stems. Older leaves, which have looser cells, with tatters and tears, release oxygen into the atmosphere. Since they are all connected to the rhizome, oxygen moves into young leaves, down through the rhizome, and out the old leaves—bringing life to the rhizome on its way. Pretty smart, eh? Stop 8 (Summer): Quaking Aspen At this intersection you’ll see a medium-sized tree with pale bark and heartshaped leaves. This is a quaking aspen. Even if there’s only a slight breeze, the

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Blue Flame paint announces the arrival of the 2020 Toyota Corolla XSE. Photos by John Gilbert. For 11 generations, the Toyota Corolla has buzzed into a solid position in our automotive consciousness as dependable, loyal, maintenance-free, efficiently economic – and comparatively free of any suggestion of fun-todrive performance. But behold the 12th generation Corolla, which demands a new scrutiny, because it is improved enough that it could become the vanguard of the revitalized Toyota realm. And it definitely is fun. At least, far more fun to drive than any previous Corolla. It may still lack the all-out satis-

faction and performance refinement of the Mazda3 or the Honda Civic, or several other newly redone com-petitors, but it is time to give the Corolla its due, especially the XSE model with a stick shift. That may raise eyebrows, especially for those who have scrutinized the most popular auto magazines, such as Motor Trend or Car and Driver, which seem to have looked right past the Corolla, maybe still willing to zing it for being appliance-like. Those magazines gave notice to the Corolla but ranked it behind the Civic and generally behind

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the Mazda3 in comparison tests, although Motor Trend in its 2020 New Car issue ranked the Corolla behind the Civic but ahead of the Mazda3. Look closely, however, and you’ll notice the Corolla was last among those in acceleration, but their test Corolla had a CVT, the continuouslyvariable transmission that definitely drones, even though that model was improved when equipped with the steering-wheel paddles to provide a dose of manual control. I recently got a chance to test a new and more recent 2020 Corolla XSE with the revised 2.0-liter 4-cylinder upgrade, which has both direct and port fuel injection, with 169 horsepower and 151 foot-pounds of torque. The horsepower peaks at 6,600

RPMs, and the torque at 4,400. The key to my enjoyable week with the XSE with its flashy Blue Flame paint job, though, was it came with a 6-speed manual transmission. Yes, a 6-speed stick! Any car, but particularly a smaller and lighter one, feels considerably sportier and quicker than the same car with an automatic, and by a greater margin over one with a CVT. That’s simply a fact, even though the contemporary flow of car-buyers aren’t willing to consider, or to seek out, a manual transmission, especially with some of the slick new dualclutch automatics. The Corolla XSE, however, would

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Night visibility is enhanced by LED headlights and foglights styled into grille design.

Alterable instrument panel, large nav screen, and the top of the manual shifter are highlights of the XSE. be a much more worthy challenger for the Civic and Mazda3, as well as the rest of the world’s compacts and subcompacts, if the magazines would retest them all and give the Corolla the stick version. My guess is it would knock off about two seconds from the CVT’s 0-60 stroll. Otherwise, except for a spoiler, 18inch alloy wheels, and other trim items that aid aerodynamics and flair, plus a renovated interior that looks fresh and new with vibrant blue accents on the instrument panel, the safety elements and electronic connectivity is a constant from the more garden-variety Corollas. That includes, for 2020, a hybrid version, which may cut into Prius sales, if you prefer the styling of the Corolla. Climbing inside is a pleasant surprise, too. The seats have a more attractive appearance, with good support and neat stitching, and the dashboard has a more contemporary

look, as does the large, 8-inch navigation screen located on the center of the dashboard with a slight angle toward the driver. And all the latest ingredients are on board – Toyota’s Safety Sense with pre-collision warning and aid, blind spot detection, lane departure alert, and lane-keeping assist, automatic LED headlights, remote start, and the full complement of airbags. The way the Corolla XSE cornered with a flat attitude also represented a sportier outlook on driving. Being secured on what Toyota calls its “TNGA-C” platform, new for the new generation, undoubtedly helps get us past the older and stodgier Corolla we used to know and love. The stick shift is not a drag-racer’s special, with longer throws, but if the intention was merely to give the car a sporty upgrade, it is definitely successful, combined with the larger wheels, grippier tires, and the new attitude. Inside that angular body there is a lot of rear seat room, adequate for adults as long as they don’t play in the NBA, and under the rear hatch there is a surprisingly spacious amount of storage space, and that’s without folding down the rear seats. In base form, the XSE starts at $23,240, a bit more than the lower grade models, but adding contemporary options ran the sticker up to $28,450 – still in the bargain range. And anything that is efficient and fun to drive while staying less than $30,000 is a good deal these days.

Nicely styled front to rear, the addition of a 6-speed stick turns the more-potent Corolla a sporty direction. If you jump on the gas, and run the revs up every shift, the fun quotient might cost you in fuel economy. The EPA estimates are for a combined 31 miles per gallon, but the actual city estimate is 28 and the highway estimate is 37 miles per gallon. After a couple days of focusing on fun and performance, we calmed down and drove more rationally, and we were able to stay up and over 40 mpg without difficulty. The color scheme, with the black roof and spoiler contrasting with the bright blue body, might startle

customers who are used to more conservative colors and driving habits. But driving the whole realm of Corollas will leave you impressed with the new design, new platform, and the hybrid model. But leave time for the sporty SE, or the top XSE model and give the stick shift a whirl around the dealership. If the new Corolla game plan is to eliminate boredom and go for spirited driving, taking what seems like one step back with the stick shift is the quickest way to take that step forward.

The interior is attractively restyled with improved fit and finish.

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Jottings: the only way to touch ‘em all We can pay tribute this week to Sid Hartman, by the simple use of “Jottings:” as our headline. It also serves a dual purpose, because Sid — who died Sunday at age 100, on the same day his final sports column appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune — made that term his own by his scattergun style of trying to get something in on as many sports topics as possible every day. I worked with Sid at the Minneapolis Tribune for 31 years, although when you worked with Sid, you weren’t sure if you were working with him or against him, because in his zeal to get the news first in his highly competitive world he also had to get it before the various beat writers on the same staff. Because Sid was never really into hockey, our paths didn’t cross much in the college, high school, NHL and WHA arenas where i did my work. And I would have to say he never would have accused me of being one of his ubiquitous “close personal friends.” He would insult us all, and maybe that was his method of acknowledgment, and I would counter by asking him if he sent out his hundreds of Christmas cards, all addressed to “Occupant,” while trying to cultivate more sources. But while praising his relentless daily work ethic, today the term “Jottings:” also means there is so much news in the regional sports scene that the only way to touch everything is to go to Sir Sidney’s rapid-fire approach. For example, we have baseball reaching the World Series, football where the Vikings nosedived to their worst performance of a 1-5 season in losing to previously winless Atlanta. We have the Gopher football team swinging into action to open an abbreviated Big Ten season against perennial power Michigan this Saturday in Minneapolis. We have the UMD Bulldogs hockey team heading for Omaha for a creative 10-game start to their NCHA season, with all teams playing for three weeks to get their schedule started, and news of that process was just released a couple days ago.

And right here in the Twin Ports we have an amazing flurry of activity, with high school football and volleyball just starting in earnest after other prep sports were able to start normally because they weren’t considered as high risk for crowding and Covid-19 contamination. Tennis had an exciting season, and Duluth East brought home the elusive Section 7AA championship, behind the superb play of No. 1 singles star Aili Hietala and impressive depth — with no state tournament to advance to. Same for the cross country runners. But the biggest stories in the area are the fantastic upswing in high school soccer for both boys and girls, and in both Class A and AA. Maybe it’s appropriate that in this pandemicshortened season, the Section 7A and 7AA championship showdowns were scheduled for Wednesday, but the looming approach of snow, sleet and travel advisories may have pushed it back to Thursday, Friday or even Saturday. You’ll know before the Reader will. Along the way, we can already bow down to the Denfeld boys team, which absorbed some crushing soccer setbacks in the last week of the regular season. That included being blown out 11-0 by a powerful and undefeated Cloquet-Esko-Carlton-Carlton outfit. But Denfeld came away with the kind of unifying, cohesive team chemistry right at playoff time. The Hunters had no argument when they were seeded eighth, they just went out and beat ninth-seeded Hermantown 4-0 in the first round. We were commenting about how their reward was a trip to Cloquet to play the team that had just humiliated them 11-0. But Denfeld upset the Lumberjacks, who hadn’t lost all season, in a 1-0 classic. That sent them to the semifinals at Grand Rapids Monday, but the weird and fast-closing wintry weather had coated the new Grand Rapids artificial turf with ice, so the game was moved to Public Schools Stadium, where there already was a game scheduled — the Class A

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Duluth East sophomore Austan Orvedahl circled left end to score his first of three touchdowns in the Greyhounds 48-0 romp over Denfeld. Photos by John Gilbert. semifinal for the Marshall and Anoka girls. No problem. The didn’t have to worry about hustling many fans out of PSS because of limitations on allowed fans, and s soon as they cleared out, Denfeld, wearing the visiting white, stunned Grand Rapids 5-0. Xavier Decker scored two goals and assisted on another to help Denfeld advance. As it turned out, Princeton gained the finals in the other bracket, which means the Hunters, who haven’t given up a goal all through the playoffs, will go for their fourth straight shutout in the final. Meanwhile, before the snow flurries started to get serious Monday night, Marshall knocked off St. Francis 1-0 on a breakaway goal by speedy little Baamlak Haugen. She got loose twice earlier, speeding past the Saints

defenders but shooting wide, before she connected after scoring star Maren Friday sent the ball ahead and through the defense where only Haugen could get to it. Friday, who was surrounded and knocked around most of the game, got tougher in response, but she, too, hit the post on a break-in. Seeking the clincher late in the game, Haugen sped through the defense one more time, racing in at full speed, only to fire a shot that glanced off the right post. No matter, the 1-0 lead held up for a 1-0 victory, and, with Cloquet-Carlton getting goals from Jillian McCullough in the first half and Brenna Mattson and Alexa Snesrud in the second half beat Zimmerman 2-0. So Marshall plays at Cloquet for the 7A title.

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There was more on the soccer pitch. Duluth East earned the right to play at home at Ordean in the first round, and knocked off Anoka 4-3 to open the playoffs. Next came a trip to the Twin Cities for a semifinal at Andover. It stood 1-1 until Kai Hoffman went to work, scoring to break the tie before halftime, then scoring twice more to open the second half and lead the Greyhounds to a 6-3 victory and a berth in the 7AA finals. Now 12-1-1, East takes on Centennial for the title on Thursday. Back when it was sunny and clear, if chilly, the annual rivalry football game took place with Denfeld playing at East. The Greyhounds, with mostly a new cast of characters, were too much for Denfeld, as sophomore running back Austan Orvedahl scored three touchdowns, and Aaron DeBeir scored two more in a 48-0 East romp. The World Series just getting started after a highly entertaining pair of 7-game playoff series leading to the emergence of the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. They are, statistically, the best two teams in the Major Leagues, with the Dodgers having the best record in the National

League and Tampa Bay the best in the American League. They showed their skill in the divisional finals, where I must say the Rays showed me the best defensive play I’ve ever seen in a long playoff to escape from the Houston Astros. The Dodgers had to survive an explosive Atlanta Braves outfit in a strange series that included the Braves winning the first two games, 5-1 and 8-7, then the Dodgers scoring a record 11 runs in the top of the first for a 15-3 Game 3 blowout. The Dodgers also won 10-2, then lost 7-3, in the momentum-baffling series, and Atlanta also beat them 3-1 in Game 6, to set up Game 7, a 4-3 Dodgers victory. My pick was Tampa Bay, just for the neat touch of that city winning both the Stanley Cup and the World Series. Of course, LA could create a double also, having won the NBA title. In college hockey, the NCHA is mimicking the NHL bubble playoffs, but with an interesting twist. Hoping the pandemic allows a somewhat normal if late regular season, the NCHC teams will play their 10 games against teams that would require the most travel. The would mean UMD won’t play St. Cloud, or North Dakota, because those are bus trips instead of the much costlier air travel required of playing Denver or Colorado College. In that way, when “normal” play begins

Denfeld’s Logan Colt blasted a shot just past Grand Rapids defender Cal Johnson, but Thunderhawks goalkeeper Chris Pederson came up with the save. The Hunters won 5-0 to reach the Section 7AA finals. for the shortened remainder of the season, teams won’t have to make the costliest trips and can save money as well. It’ll all start December 1. We may not want to dwell on the Vikings, who were embarrassed 40-23 by Atlanta’s winless Falcons Sunday. Whatever it is that quarterback Kirk Cousins has, it may be contagious. He threw three interceptions, and only some meaningless late-game points avoided an even worse result. But Aaron Rodgers caught it, too, and after leading the Packers to a crisp 10-0 lead in the first quarter, Tom Brady came back to register four second-quarter touchdowns, and the Buccaneers unpacked the Packers undefeated record 38-10 — 38 straight points after the 10-0 Packer lead. The Chicago Bears held off Carolina 23-16 and Detroit beat Jacksonville 34-16, which means the Vikings are now 1-5 and the only undefeated team left in the whole conference is Seattle, which was idle. The brings our jottings back to Sid Hartman. I always hoped that Sid and I could become friends, instead of news-tidbit rivals. The best we did was a stretch where he asked me about how Mercedes cars were. This was back in the early 1970s, and I gave Sid extensive scouting reports on the Mercedes models I had test-driven for my column, On the Road, which ran in the Minneapolis Tribune and later Stars-Tribune for all 31 years I worked there. Sid asked the right questions,

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and I presented some significant reasons why Sid might want to check out a couple models of Mercedes cars, instead of simply buying another new Cadillac every two years. When it came time, of course, Sid always bought another Cadillac. He did his research, but he always played by his own rules. Sid was never much for pulling for the underdogs, at any time. When the state hockey tournament was held, and everybody in the building was cheering for Warroad to knock off perennial power Edina, Sid would be cheering in the press box — for Edina. Who cared about underdogs when they’re going against money, prestige, and hundreds of Sid’s close personal friends who might give him a valuable tip somewhere along the line. It’s been said many times this week that there will never be another sportswriter like Sid Hartman. And that’s true. He was Minnesotan through and through, except for St. Paul, which he called “East Berlin.” And he cheered for the home teams so much, that I must say that I heard the news that Sid had died just after the Vikings horrendous performance against the Falcons. I turned to my wife, Joan, and said, “The Vikings were so bad, they might have killed Sid!” Somewhere, I hope Sid’s spirit is soaring overhead and maybe he’d get a chuckle out of that. Or at least a Jotting.

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A MN sports journalism icon passes on West Duluth ... It was around 1964 or so that I got my first paying job. It was delivering newspapers for the Minneapolis Star & Tribune. It was a very popular newspaper, even in St. Paul on West 7th Street, where I grew up. In a neighborhood full of apartments, I could drop 80 papers in the morning in about a half an hour and return home to sleep a little bit longer before going to school. Or I could stay up and get that final bit of homework leftover from the night before I didn’t quite finish. And it was a unique place to grow up. For instance, my last stop of the day was at the grocery store-bakery across the street from where we lived. Based on a prior arrangement with the paperboy I took the route over from, I would order one extra paper per day. It was for the bakery. For my last stop, I’d go into the alley and pound on the solid back door twice. There was no doorknob on the door; only the hole leftover from where one would go. Someone would come to the back and say through that hole, is that you paperboy? At that point, the door would open only slightly, and I would hand off a foldedup paper, and a small white bakery bag with a couple of fresh goodies came back the other way. In my three years of delivering papers, I never saw who was on the other side of that door. In three years of dropping papers every morning, I had some fantastic fresh baked goods with my daily breakfast. And from a financial standpoint, I’m sure I was coming out on the better end. I chuckle at some of the things I recall from my youth. My mom got me into going through the paper every day at four years of age. I wasn’t reading yet, but the “funny pages” made me smile. As I did learn to read, I read the paper every day, front to back. As I got older, I would sometimes go through up to 5 papers a day, obtaining out of town papers at magazine-newsstands. Those are becoming a thing of the past now. And yes, I was reading Sid Hartman’s columns back then. They were a must

if you wanted to know what was going on in the sports world. Even back then. The man has been known coast to coast for a great deal of his sports journalism career. Sid passed away earlier today at the age of 100. In a great tidbit about Sid, he was still working and writing for the Star Tribune. When I was a kid, the Tribune came out in the morning, and the Star came out in the evening. At various times, I delivered one or the other or both. I was an enterprising young lad. They eventually merged in the eighties. I can’t remember if Sid wrote for one or the other or both. But I do remember reading a lot of Sid Hartman sports opinion growing up. In fact, if you loved sports as I did, it was a daily requirement to read Sid’s work. He knew everyone; he outworked every other writer in town and was usually the one who got the most “scoops.” You couldn’t not read Sid every day he was published. That was Twin Cities sports law. He had a unique writing style. He’d write about the games but finish each column with some personal tidbits about his favorite local athletes. And he didn’t stop there. Over time he developed a lot of relationships with visiting star players and coaches. He wasn’t much into hockey, but Twins, Vikings, Gopher sports, and eventually, the Timberwolves were his favorites. But whether he preferred a sport or not, his sports celebrity Rolodex probably had more info in it than anyone else in the country in his business. He didn’t like St. Paul too much. And some of his opinions regarding the business side of sports didn’t always align with mine. But the guy commanded the respect of subjects and readers alike. He had mine. When I lived in the Metro as a kid and young man, I went to tons of sports events. Through the courtesy of friends and others I knew, I could beat the crowds by entering through the media gates. I can’t recall ever going to anything without a Sid sighting. He had to be one of the, if not THE hardest working

his career work. He’s credited with 21,235 columns. That’s a lot of writing and a lot of reading. To remain sharp with mental clarity to the end would be a gift. Sid received that, and if his writing was a gift to his followers, I could only say that I’ve gotten a lot of them over all of these years. His departure saddens me and that, due to these times, he won’t get the sendoff he deserves. I’d bet anything the US Bank Stadium would fill up for a Sid Memorial service. To do something you truly love and get to do it all of your life is a blessing and a half. I’d say that Sid got double. Thank you, Sid. RIP.

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Bronze statue of Sid Hartman by the Target Center, Minneapolis. man in sports writing. I’ve had a friend who lived into his upper nineties and had his mental faculties to the end. I had another friend who lived to be 102 and was exactly two weeks short of her 103rd birthday when she passed. She was as sharp as a tack. (Huge STL Cardinals fan too) Sid never faltered either. He was one of the fortunate ones. Not everyone possesses that great aging gene that allows one to be mentally on top of things right through to that moment they cross over that bridge. But Sid had it. And I consider myself fortunate that he did. I can’t say that I’ve read every single Sid column over the years, but I’m confident I’ve read over half of

JUMBO JOE THORNTON has signed with the Maple Leafs. Why? He is from the area, so I can see why he would want to do so. But at the age of 41, does Joe put the Leafs over? I don’t see it. But he was a half a point per game player last year. His experience and leadership qualities might be a positive to a team having problems getting over. But I’m just not feeling it. It’s the Leafs. Is Joe the missing piece? THIS EVENING the LA Dodgers beat the ATL Braves to advance to the World Series to face the Tampa Bay Rays. After getting behind in the series three games to one, the Dodgers scrapped back to eke out a game seven victory. The Rays eliminated the Houston Astros in seven games for their berth in the Fall Classic. How do I see this series? I believe that the Dodgers have a more balanced overall roster than the Rays do. And that’s what will give them a series win. LA is a minus 210 Vegas odds favorite going in. It should be a great watch! PEACE

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Magnificent 7 Embassy Plaguestream Live Friday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. facebook.com/theEmbassy.love Livestream poetry event and fundraiser for Duluth All Souls Night, featuring Bob Monahan, Daniel Oyinloye, Zomi Bloom, Rocky Makes Room, Julie Gard and Natasha Lancour.

Goin’ Postal Fall Art & Music Festival Saturday, Oct. 24, 1-8 p.m. Thirsty Pagan The time has been adjusted from 3 p.m. to an earlier start due to the cold, but we Nurtherners can handle a hearty outdoor fest, can’t we? Bonfires, food, prizes and music by John Sequin, Born Too Late, Woodblind, Nio, Theft by Swindle and Boomstick.

County Seat Theater Halloween Spooktacular

Michael Monroe: You Got a Friend Friday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m. West Theater Michael Monroe performs a James Taylor tribute and CD release party. His soulful performance delights and inspires.

County Seat Theater Halloween Spooktacular Oct. 23, 24, 29 & 30, 6 p.m. Encore Performing Arts, Cloquet Seat of Your Pants Parking Lot Players stage an outdoor event for all ages. Drive-through haunts starting 6 p.m. with stage show at 6:30 p.m. $20 per car suggested donation.

Theft by Swindle at the Art & Music Fest Saturday.

The Slamming Doors Saturday, Oct. 24, 4;30 p.m. Earth Rider Brewery Fronted by Adam Herman, the Doors capture the audience with a high energy set somewhere in between The Band’s roots rock and Chris Stapleton’s soulful delivery. With Lyla Abukhodair.

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Gavin St. Clair Sunday, Oct. 25, 3-6 p.m. Earth Rider Brewery The folk singer who puts the ‘Art’ in Garfunkel has been making his rounds throughout the Twin Ports and will serenade you beneath a heated tent Sundays Oct. 25-Nov. 8.

Scarium at the Aquarium Tues.-Thurs., Oct. 27-29, 4-7 p.m. Great Lakes Aquarium Explore a spookily-decorated Aquarium, trick-or-treat among the exhibits and show off your creative ways of incorporating face masks into your costumes. Pre-registration required.

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Day & night Thursday 10.22 Winter Clothing Drive, noon-5pm Bonnie Jacobson Farmer's Insurance, 738 E. Superior St., Duluth 218-4289501 Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia Bo Allan, 5-8pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-6240626 Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends, 5pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Turns & Tunes, 6pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 Marc Gartman, 6pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886 Gordon Thorne, 6pm North Shore Winery, 202 Ski Hill Rd., Lutsen 218387-2788 Haunted Ridge, 7-9pm Haunted Shack, 1781 Cty. Rd. 1, Carlton

Friday 10.23 Trick or Treat at Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 10am-6pm Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 5399 Samuelson Rd., Duluth 218-393-6382 Project Homeless Connect, 11am1pm Damiano Center Parking Lot, 206 W. 4th St. , Duluth 218-7228708 49th Annual Ski Swap, 4-9pm Spirit Mountain Upper Chalet, 9500 Spirit Mountain Pl., Duluth

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Charlie Parr, 6-9pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Superstition Tours: Ghosts of Fairlawn, 6-10pm Fairlawn Mansion & Museum, 906 East 2nd Street, Superior 715-394-5712 County Seat Theater Halloween Spooktacular, 6pm Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, 2035 Hwy 33 South (on Frontage Rd), Cloquet 218-878-0071 Haunted Forest, 7-10pm Haunted Forest, 7187 Saginaw Rd., Saginaw 218-340-3147 Haunted Ridge, 7-10pm Haunted Shack, 1781 Cty. Rd. 1, Carlton Tiny Tent Show, 7pm Big Top Chatauqua, 32525 Ski Hill Rd., Bayfield 888-BIG-TENT Crescent Moon, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-394-3616 Bittersweet, 7pm Grand Rapids Eagles, 1776 S. Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids 218-326-4845 Kaylee Matuszak, 7pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886

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Saturday 10.24 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 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

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Sixth Annual Apple Festival, 9am3pm Salem Lutheran Church, 4715 Hermantown Rd., Hermantown 218727-1357 Joe Polecheck Photography, 9am3pm Empire Coffee, 12-5 Tower Ave., Superior 715-718-0926 Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174 Haunted Ridge, 10am-2pm, 7-10pm Haunted Shack, 1781 Cty. Rd. 1, Carlton

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Chickadees Harvest Bazaar, 10am3pm Chickadee Coffeehouse, 3691 Alan Syverson Drive, Barnum

Goin Postal Fall Art & Music Festival, 1-8pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Duluth 715-394-2500

49th Annual Ski Swap, 10am-4pm Spirit Mountain Upper Chalet, 9500 Spirit Mountain Pl., Duluth

North End Nightmare 2-Miler, 5pm Tower Ave. & N. 8th St., Superior 218-727-0947

Trick or Treat at Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 10am-6pm Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 5399 Samuelson Rd., Duluth 218-393-6382

County Seat Theater Halloween Spooktacular, 6pm Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, 2035 Hwy 33 South (on Frontage Rd), Cloquet 218-878-0071

Lincoln Park Walking Mural Tour, 10am Zeitgeist Arts, zeitgeistarts. com/community/bus-bike-walk, Duluth 218-722-9100

Venison Cupcake, 6pm Klockow Brewing, 36 SE 10th St., Grand Rapids 218-999-7229

Ruby's Pantry, 11am-noon Mission Creek Church, 521 131st Ave W, Duluth, MN 55808, Duluth

Haunted Forest, 7-10pm Haunted Forest, 7187 Saginaw Rd., Saginaw 218-340-3147

Oulu Corn Maze, noon-5pm Ken Johnson, 2595 Pudas Rd., Oulu 715372-4148

John & Andy, 7pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-3943616

Lincoln Park Solar Garden Celebration, noon-6pm Ecolibrium3, 1320 W. Michigan St., Duluth 218-3361038

Bittersweet, 7pm Grand Rapids Eagles, 1776 S. Pokegama Ave., Grand Rapids 218-326-4845

Severio Mancieri, 7pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886 Crescent Moon, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218624-0626

Sunday 10.25 Trick or Treat at Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 10am-6pm Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 5399 Samuelson Rd., Duluth 218-393-6382 49th Annual Ski Swap, 11am-3pm Spirit Mountain Upper Chalet, 9500 Spirit Mountain Pl., Duluth Oulu Corn Maze, noon-5pm Ken Johnson, 2595 Pudas Rd., Oulu 715372-4148 Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heri-

tage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711 Gavin St. Clair, 3pm Earth Rider Brewery, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Haunted Ridge, 7-9pm Haunted Shack, 1781 Cty. Rd. 1, Carlton

Monday 10.26 Action for the Homeless Rally, 6pm Duluth City Hall, 411 W 1st St # 403, Duluth

Wednesday 10.28 Superior Downtown Farmers Market, 11am-2pm 1200 Block of Banks Avenue, Superior 715-394-3557 Duluth Farmers Market, 2-5pm Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Scarium at the Aquarium, 4-7pm Great Lakes Aquarium, 353 Harbor Drive, Duluth 218-740-FISH

Tuesday 10.27

Gartman Plays Dead, 5-8pm Earth Rider Brewery, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391

Hibbing Farmers Market, 2-5pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing

Thursday 10.29

Scarium at the Aquarium, 4-7pm Great Lakes Aquarium, 353 Harbor Drive, Duluth 218-740-FISH

Fuse Fright Night, 5-7pm Skyline Lanes, 4894 Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth 218-722-5501 Black Dog Howlin, 5-8pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-624-0626 Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends, 5pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Turns & Tunes, 6pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797 County Seat Theater Halloween Spooktacular, 6pm Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, 2035 Hwy 33 South (on Frontage Rd), Cloquet 218-878-0071 Gordon Thorne, 6pm North Shore Winery, 202 Ski Hill Rd., Lutsen

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Haunted Ridge, 7-9pm Haunted Shack, 1781 Cty. Rd. 1, Carlton

Center, 720 NW Conifer Drive, Grand Rapids 218-327-5780

Todd Eckart’s Creepy Halloween II, 7pm West Theater, 319 N. Central Ave., Duluth 218-606-1211

Charlie Parr, 6-9pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391

Friday 10.30 Trick or Treat at Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 10am-6pm Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 5399 Samuelson Rd., Duluth 218393-6382 Project Homeless Connect, 11am1pm Damiano Center Parking Lot, 206 W. 4th St. , Duluth 218-7228708 Larry Yazzie, Native Pride Fancy Dancer, 1:30pm Reif Performing Arts

Superstition Tours: Ghosts of Fairlawn, 6-10pm Fairlawn Mansion & Museum, 906 East 2nd Street, Superior 715-394-5712 County Seat Theater Halloween Spooktacular, 6pm Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery, 2035 Hwy 33 South (on Frontage Rd), Cloquet 218-878-0071 Zombie Days Drive-In Movie Night, 6pm Mt. Ashwabay Ski Area, 32525 Ski Hill Rd., Bayfield 715-779-5408

Haunted Forest, 7-10pm Haunted Forest, 7187 Saginaw Rd., Saginaw 218-340-3147 Haunted Ridge, 7-10pm Haunted Shack, 1781 Cty. Rd. 1, Carlton Tiny Tent Show, 7pm Big Top Chatauqua, 32525 Ski Hill Rd., Bayfield 888-BIG-TENT Sun Ride, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-624-0626

Saturday 10.31 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 The Great Pumpkin Hunt, 8am-5pm

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Lake Superior Art Glass, 357 Canal Park Drive, Duluth 2184641799 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 218-310-7174 Trick or Treat at Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 10am-6pm, 6-8pm Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 5399 Samuelson Rd., Duluth 218-393-6382 Oulu Corn Maze, noon-5pm Ken Johnson, 2595 Pudas Rd., Oulu 715372-4148

Socially Distant Scavenger Hunt, 1pm Lincoln Park Craft District, facebook. com/northexp, Duluth 218-789-6322

Belknap Halloween Costume Party, 8pm Belknap Lounge, 130 Belknap St., Superior 715-394-3616

Halloween Outside the Planetarium, 3-5pm UMD Marshall H. Alworth Planetarium, 1023 University Drive, Duluth 218-726-7129

Flipside Band, 8pm Checkerboard Bar, 3957 S. Cty Rd. E., South Range 715.398.7027

Halloween Mask-erade Ball with Big Wave Dave & One Less Guest, 4-10pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Adessa & The Beat, 6pm Klockow Brewing, 36 SE 10th St., Grand Rapids 218-999-7229

Runaway, 8:30pm Beacon Sports Bar & Grill, 5044 Hermantown Rd., Hermantown 218.729.4929 Sun Ride, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-624-0626

Sunday 11.1 Trick or Treat at Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 10am-6pm Whoopsa Daisy Farm, 5399 Samuelson Rd., Duluth 218-393-6382 Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711 Gavin St. Clair, 3pm Earth Rider Brewery, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391

Haunted Forest, 7-10pm Haunted Forest, 7187 Saginaw Rd., Saginaw 218-340-3147 Haunted Ridge, 7-10pm Haunted Shack, 1781 Cty. Rd. 1, Carlton

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Virtual events Thursday 10.22 Rachael Kilgour, 7pm facebook.com/ rachaelkilgourmusic

Friday 10.23 Gather: Local Panel on Indigenous Food Sovereignty, noon-1pm Zeitgeist Arts, zeitgeistarts.com/community/bus-bike-walk, Duluth Film Lecture: 'Street Scenes 1970', 3:40pm College of St. Scholastica, spotlight.css.edu, Duluth 218-7237000

Embassy Plaguestream Live: Spoken Word Duluth, 7pm The Embassy, facebook.com/theEmbassy.love William Souder Presents Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck, 7pm Zenith Bookstore, zenithbookstore. com, Duluth 218-606-1777 Mary Bue & The Monarchy, Alan Sparhawk, 8pm Hook & Ladder, thehookmpls.com/event/mary-buethe-monarchy

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Lincoln Park Solar Garden Celebration, noon-6pm Ecolibrium3, 1320 W. Michigan St., Duluth 218-3361038

Sharp, 6pm University of MinnesotaDuluth, cla.d.umn.edu/departments/ art-design/news-and-events/vcls, Duluth 218-726-8000

North End Nightmare 2-Miler, 5pm Tower Ave. & N. 8th St., Superior 218-727-0947

Luthern Social Services Therapeutic Foster Care Information, 6:307:30pm free online famiy foster care information 218-600-6996

P.B & J Facebook Live Show, 9pm facebook.com/P.BJRocks

Monday 10.26 The Deep North With Fred Keller, 1pm facebook.com/fkeller

Coffee & Guitar with Darin Bergsven, 9-10am facebook.com/DarinBergsvenMusic/

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Scorpio: Oct. 22 - Nov. 21 A steely-eyed glare, wild hair flying, screaming shrieks as if from a banshee, a fierceness you’ve never seen in your life, a single-minded rage, coming at you with teeth bared and talons extended….sounds like an image from a scary Halloween horror movie, but no…it’s really just your pissed off Scorpio girlfriend if you even think of crossing her in any way….which leads us to:

for safe keeping) you will, and I am certain here…eventually suffer the wrath and the venomous rage of your Scorpio partner. Yes … they are exotic Yes … thrilling Yes … fun to be with, and then … Their eyes take on the look of Voldemort when he’s really pissed, and you suddenly search your periphery for your wand … ANYTHING to stop the inevitable attack that WILL ensue. Scorpio men as partners play it somewhat differently … they will threaten suicide if you think of leaving them…hide out in the garage or the basement for days….fashioning a make-shift homemade version of a guillotine. To love a Scorpio is to say goodbye to the way you used to live. Goodbye to college friends

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Ways to piss off a Scorpio

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1. Talk to anyone else … I mean ANYONE! 2. Agree with anyone else (once again, ANYONE!) 3. Laugh with anyone else. Well … you get it by now.

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Goodbye to drinking buddies Goodbye to any female contact at all (if you’re male.) Goodbye to your Mother??? Yes, I said your Mother, because let’s face it she could come between you and the “LOVE OF YOUR LIFE!” If you somehow manage to reach a compromise with your Scorpio friend or lover, the moment you think everything is fine is when they suddenly decide that you are UP to something!! And pull the following stunts: A. “You never loved me … ever!” B. “You don’t want to be with me!” C. “You secretly hate me, don’t you?” D. “You like your friends better than me!” (Well, actually you do.) E. “Why don’t you just leave?” F. “Go back to your OLD girlfriend (or boyfriend)!” G. “I should just kill myself!” Scorpio is perhaps the most complex and misunderstood zodiac sign…approaching life with total commitment, or none at all. Deeply secretive and impenetrable, Scorpios are often intensely lonely, and have a voracious need to connect deeply with others….picture if you will a sullen Loki trapped in an Asgardian prison, desperate to reach out to his brother, Thor, but clinging mindlessly to his mischievous, trickstery (real word) ways. Don’t kid yourself, though, Scorpios don’t need your sympathy, they need your allegiance … in other words … kneel! Get your crow bar out if you want to extract any real feelings from a Scorpio…but it can be done. It all depends on how vulnerable they happen to be feeling at the time … picture Snape with a “tude” … impossible to deal with. Being highly intuitive and psychic, you may get the creepy feeling that your Scorpio friend or lover is messing with your head … one step ahead of you…saying what you are thinking before you get the chance to think it…. and plotting their revenge in advance in case what you were thinking isn’t agreeable to them … “CARRIE,” anyone? Scorpios are the most susceptible to the forces of darkness and light. Milton’s Lucifer in “Paradise Lost” exemplifies the dark side of the Scorpion nature: “Better to reign in hell,

than serve in heav’n.” Michael Myers, Freddy, Chucky, Jigsaw, and the Gingerbread Man (to name a few characters) are merely Scorpios in training….the kind that walk really slowly behind you and still catch up to you! Creepy! But all is not lost … all Scorpios can effect transformations in themselves and transcend their personal and egocentric desires. Often their lives undergo dramatic twists of fate, and they seem to experience many lives in one. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” Harry Potter … Albus Dumbledore If the pervy side of you needs feeding…date a Scorpio. They can be the dominatrix of your dreams or just beat the shit out of you…your call. Oddly enough, Scorpios seem to be drawn to the health care profession. Envision a Nurse Cratchett swapping out your anxiety meds for arsenic tabs. Being no strangers to crises (some of their own making) they are highly perceptive of others. They see right through people, making others feel very uncomfortable. Don’t even think of bullshitting a Scorpio, as they can smell a rat a mile away, and just like being on a Grand Adventure like Lord of the Rings, they will (like the Gollum) seek you out and find you , corner you, and demand what’s rightfully theirs! You can almost hear a Scorpio hissing: “Me wants it!” “Me needs it!” “Must have the Precious!” “They stole it from us!” “We so needs it!” If you think you can escape a Scorpio’s wrath, know this….if necessary their fixed nature will allow them to wait for years to achieve their goals. Be afraid…be very afraid. Scorpio days of interest Power days: Nov. 2, 3, 4 Challenging days: Nov. 15, 16, 17 Scorpios go apeshit: Nov. 17 Till we meet again … Lady Ocalat is a Professional Astrologist, Reiki Master, Minister, and Tarot Reader. She can be reached at 218722-2240, or at Lady Ocalat’s Emporium in downtown Duluth. ladyocalat.com

Eliminating 12 risk factors for dementia What do having little or no education, high blood pressure, untreated hearing impairment, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, low social contact, head injuries, excessive alcohol consumption in midlife and air pollution exposure in later life have in common? They are risk factors for dementia and, according to The Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care, if they’re reduced or eliminated, that could prevent or delay 40% of dementia cases worldwide. The commission upped their list of risk factors from nine to 12 recently, and they’re sounding a wake-up call. So listen up. It can help you make sure you and your loved ones do not have to contend with cognitive impairment as you grow older. They want to call your attention to lifestyle choices that damage cardiocerebral health, increasing the risk of dementia: high blood pressure, inactivity, smoking, obesity, excess alcohol intake and air pollution exposure. Also risky are head injuries, hearing loss and psychological conditions such as depression. They can lead to poor lifestyle choices and/ or neurological changes. The good news is that you’re never too young to protect yourself from dementia when you’re old (don’t smoke, protect your brain from sportsrelated injury, exercise regularly and eat healthy foods). And you’re never too old either! Walk daily and do strength training, don’t smoke, drink very little alcohol, eat a Pesco-Mediterranean diet, stay in contact with friends and family, volunteer, do/learn new things, meditate, sleep and laugh. So, what are you going to do today to help protect your brain tomorrow?

vice president and heir to a family fortune reinforced the idea that sex is dangerous for someone with heart problems. In the past, doctors explicitly told their patients that sexual activity could lead to heart attacks, but a new study suggests that sexual activity actually improves the prognosis for people with a history of heart attacks. The research, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, is based on nearly 500 healthy adults (mostly men, average age of 53) with a history of heart attacks. The researchers found that maintaining/ increasing the frequency of sexual activity within the first six months after a heart attack was associated with a 35% lower risk of death compared with those who abstained from or reduced sexual activity. What’s the link between sexual activity and improved health? Sex helps a person regain muscle tone (including the heart muscle) and lower blood pressure, just as moderate exercise or a walking routine does. Plus, it improves feelings of well-being and mental health. How to get started? The American Heart Association says if you exercise hard enough to work up a light sweat without triggering symptoms, it’s safe to have sex. You can also have your doc give you a stress test to put you at ease. Just don’t deny yourself the improved health and joy that a mutually enjoyable sexual relationship can bring back into your life.

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Getting back in the saddle after a heart attack extends your life Rumor has it that Nelson Rockefeller died of a heart attack in 1979 at age 70 while intimately romancing his secretary. The fate of the former

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for important routine checkups often enough. The number of primary care visits declined by more than 21% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to previous years. And there was a 50% decline in blood pressure checks and a 37% decline in cholesterol checks. Cases of undiagnosed cardiovascular disease may be brewing out of sight of docs and patients. And who knows what else is being missed? So, make an appointment today for a telemedicine, in-office or combo visit. With masks, social distancing and other precautions, in-office appointments are safe. Be prepared for your appointment:

-- Keep a journal. Record symptoms or concerns so you remember to ask important questions. -- For telemed: Get instructions on taking and sharing your vitals, such as heart rate and blood oxygen. -- For telemed: Ask about monitoring blood pressure at home, sending in daily glucose readings electronically using a smart monitor and/or using similar devices to share info about atrial fibrillation. -- In person: Get routine blood tests to check lipid, inflammation, blood cell and thyroid levels, kidney and liver function and more. Then you’ll truly be protecting your health.

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Doing doctor visits -- digital and inperson- -- the right way Singer Lionel Richie and politician Jeb Bush have invested in a telemedicine startup called Heal that helps doctors interact with patients using a mobile app-based Uber-type service and digital appointments. It seems everyone is trying to figure out how to make doctor appointments more appealing to patients. We’re confident it will happen -- but right now, people aren’t using telemedicine or in-office appointments

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Can’t contact you Nluv4eva, Tammy2Bammy38 and AintGoinNowhere3. My messages are not going through. I would much appreciate it if you would email me soon. muzhikcat@gmail.com. (58553:10/15)

Let’s dance WF, 60ish, 5’4”, 140, brown hair, blue eyes, healthy, happy & independent. Seeking tall, dark, handsome Prince Charming. Send photo. (58557:9/3)

Looking for Mark Looking for Mark Bo ... Thinking he lives in Morgan Park. We roomed together at Arrowhead West. Please contact John E. (58549:6/4)

Social distance for now Searching for interesting man to share letters or phone calls. Let’s get to know each other this way, for now. Preferably 60-plus, single, honest, caring and affectionate. Range area only. (58542:4/23)

Where are you now? Two Dobermans. The Ore House. Orange Crush. Pie and coffee. Rocky Raccoon. West Duluth apt. couch. (58494:5/2) Looking for a best friend DWF, 49, brown hair, hazel eyes, ISO quality honest, loyal, financially stable WDSM for fun, summer events, concerts, fishing, camping, snuggling in the winter, watching movies, love motorcycle rides, great sense of humor, tattooed & pierces, may lead to LTR. (58490:4/11)

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! Penpal wanted SWB: Gender-fluid student ISO a penpal. I love writing letters and want to do it more often. (58514:7/22)

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

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Maybe Mid 60s, active, liberal, looking for same! N.S., light drinking, non-motor sports. (58539:02/21) Searching Mate on the Range SWF; 5’ 5”; NS/ND Outdoors, walks, movies, cuddling, traveling etc. (ask) ISO compassionate, lovable guy w/humor. please be NS; interested in LTR; honest, will answer. (58463:01/28) A special friend for coffee, etc. WWWF, 65, 5’6”, chubby. Likes: Crafts, bowling, fishing & so much more. Limited due to knee braces, but willing to try new things. (58535:01/16) Looking for my one SWF, 51, heavyset, looking for someone to spend the rest of my life with. Hope you are the one for me. (58525:10/24) Grand Rapids area ISO my life partner that rides a Harley or Indian. I’m a DWF, 67, 5’6”, average weight, NS/ ND, long black/chrome hair, brown eyes. Three things are important to me, God, family, riding motorcycles. Live on hobby farm. Like being outdoors. Let’s have coffee. I’ll buy! Exchange photos. (58519:10/10) Seeking Partner Looking for a life partner. I’m a WF, 64, divorced a long time. I’m ready to retire and go down a new road with a kind, adventurous soulmate. I love God, cuddling, fun, the outdoors, travel, sharing and caring. (58512:7/25) Looking for a nice guy Hey! Let’s have some fun things together-outdoors, or

Biker who enjoys life DWF, 52, ISO WM, someone who knows how to treat a lady. Love the outdoors. Honesty & loyalty a must. (58486:4/11) Looking for you WWF, 76, walking conversation, fishing, dancing, Facebook account. 5’6” brown hair & eyes. (58471:08/17) Spoil me and I will spoil you! Attractive blonde SWF - 71, 5’8” wanting travel. laughter, love & more. I love to fish both deep sea & lake. Looking for intelligent, kind loving man. (58432:05/31) Companionship LTR Uses walker 68 yrs young. Chubby & busty. Enjoys Christian activities NS ND Books, travel, movies, cards & games, dining out, RV camping. Kind & honest w/sense of humor (58430:05/31) Country Girl Looking 5’7” medium build 66 yr young country gal NS ND loves to travel & be appreciated (58429:05/31) Seeks Christian Man DWF, NS/ND, 59. Enjoys bicycling, walks, music, dining out dancing, snowshoeing, camping. ISO christian man w/similar interests. (58419: 11/9) Hot with Cabin Fever Seeking happy, healthy, 60ish gentleman in Central Lakes/ Cotton area for some lake time. Northern, WI ok too! I’m fun, fit, easy on the eyes. Let’s toast the sunset. (58412:8/31) Lonesome in Ashland Looking for caring, honest man, understanding of physical imperfections to talk and go out with. F 60s, NS/ND. (58409:8/31)

Personals Companionship WWF, 70, looking for companion to enjoy life with. Love football, picnics, and dining out. Must be honest. (58398:5/4) Looking for Soul Mate SWF ISO friend who likes camping, coffee, outdoors, travel, estate sales, and hanging out. Send photo. (58394:3/30) Looking for my Sweetheart DWF, 58, 5’5”, 160 lbs, NS/ND, likes to cuddle, hold hands, camping, traveling, cooking, walks. ISO Christian guy 55-70 for friendship and possible LTR. (58374:12/15) Searching for Companionship DWF, NS, retired veteran female. 63, honest, considerate, loves to laugh, visit and talk. (58373:12/15) Let’s Seek God’s Will Together NS, 51, tall, exotic, attractive, Christian F. Fun, nature lover, educated, epicurean with diverse interests, healthy living. ISO Christian male 45-58 years young with similar interests. (58370:10/13) Searching for Mate 72 yr old F ISO LTR with a passionate, sincere, kind gentleman in near age group. NS/ND. (58354:6/23) From the Range WWF, 62, NS, likes the outdoors, walks, animal lover, garage sales, dining out, movies. ISO honest, caring man to enjoy life with. Will answer all. (58352:6/23) Female Activist Seeks Companionship Seeking like minded Liberal gentleman for friendship and fun. (58340:4/14)

Looking for Older Gentleman 77yr, DWF, blond, 5’5”, 140lbs. ISO older gentleman. I love reading, animals, movies, quiet times, fun. Let’s talk. (58342:4/14)

Just as handy as Red Green DWM, 63, 5’9”. 180 lbs., fit, retired. Likes quiet, outdoor activities and cabin time. ISO responsible, fit woman to share talks, walks, and the other good stuff. (58559:9/24)

Soulmate Wanted Men 55-72 yrs old. 180-210 lbs. Kids okay. Write me. (58336:3/24)

Something from the South Shore Retired academic, widower, tall healthy, attractive, 72 years, liberal, likes animals, books, travel, film, music, gardening, baseball, lake cottage. ISO similar 50s-70s female. Photo/short bio appreciated. (58560:9/24)

Seeking Companion How old is too old? WW. ND/NS. Educated, traveled, experienced, bilingual. Don’t get any wild ideas now. Talking is a start. (58319:1/14) Wants the Farm Life DWF, 51, 5’6”, auburn hair, blue eyes. Not afraid of hard work. ISO NS man 45-60 who loves family, nature, animals, fishing, farming, warm fires and romance. I would like to spend the rest of my days with the same. I have other interests too, could I be the one for you? (58311:11/19) Looking 4 Romance SWF looking for a Jewish man. Brown hair/eyes, 5’8”, 170 lbs. Want a pal-lover-romance. (58304:10/8)

Men

ISO crazy old lady 6’2”, 240, old enough to know better. Excited about James Webb? Me too! Gourmet food? Me neither! Music & dog lover. Snuggling optional. No whiners. Cloquet or Duluth area. (58562:10/8) Looking to give pure pleasure Black man, 52, looking for a woman who loves to be pleased and to feel that kind of pleasure she been searching for. 5’11, 200 lbs. (58561:10/8)

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Seeking kindness and love SWM, 6’1”, 220, brown hair, brown eyes, NS, just retired, handsome, kind and honest, seeking a lady that enjoys life. Lake homeowner, boats, Harleys. Must love God. How about dinner? Exchange photos. (58556:8/13) Active widower SWM 6’1”, 195, 82 years, good health, likes to travel, summer home in MN lake, winter home in south Texas. Looking for lady 60s70s. (58555:8/6) Blood in my veins Passionate, retired DWM, well educated, intelligent, ISO F, intellectual equal for companion, travel, lover in Duluth. (58554:8/6) Tall slim bearded sculptor in Superior Desires LTR with affectionate diversified tall busty lady with some extra poundage and at least shoulder length soft cuddly hair. I’m a mellow NS, 60?, open to age and race. (58553:7/23) Vermilion Lake area DWM, 60, 6’1, 200, NS, seeks SF for travel, quiet nights around fire, must enjoy fresh fish din-

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Time for a companion DWM, 70, 5’8”, 170 lbs., brown hair, blue eyes, looking for a lady to settle down with. I am loving, caring, helpful. Let’s talk and learn more. (58548:5/21)

Young 70 Looking for Female 55 & up Retired, divorced Iron Ranger in Bemidji would like lady who enjoys life and wants to enjoy with partner who treats lady as lady should be, respectfully. You may be her! (58531:12/12)

Exploring SWM, 5’10”, brown, blue, enjoy RV camping, boating, ATVing, travel, staying home. Seeking LTR with any race. Piercings, tattoos a plus. (58547:5/14) Living romance novel! Let me lead the way into our very own love story! SWM, tall, attractive, passionate, mysterious, James Bondish! Respond, I want to meet. (58545:4/23) Looking for love WM, 58, seeking mature BBW for dating. I have many interests. Camping, travel, concerts. (58544: 4/23) Lonely Again I’m 6’ brown retired from the rock scene, but still roll. (58539:03/25) Won’t be sorry Am looking for partner 63 on disability, heart surgery. Ok now 5’10” 185lbs DWM ISO L&R Hope to find home together, Average looks (58538:02/24) Seeking a mature woman SWM, tall, dark, handsome, romantic, in search of a mature woman who enjoys living life with a fun down-to-earth man with many interests! (58537:01/23) Romantic looking for lady SWM, NS, 71 5’9” 160, trim, fit, seeks fun-loving girl 50’s or 60’s Duluth, NW Wisc. casual hiking, dinners, old movies, good

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Desiring an honest, intelligent significant other I’m likable, are you? I’m slim, attractive, humorous, middle-aged, ISO possible LTR. I enjoy walking, movies, cooking, cuddling and music. I’m financially secure. Let’s bask in utopia. (55829:11/21) Mesabi Bike Trail DWM, 60s, 5’8”, 165 lbs., seeks Christian healthy in-shape gal 50s-60s. Love for outdoor music, biking, camping, lakes, sunsets. Humor a must. I’m honest, secure, please be the same. (58528:10/31) Looking for fun & partner DWM 69, 5’10”, 215 lbs., NS, light drinker, muscular, well built, looking for fun honest woman. Like to cuddle amd love. Like camping, swimming, traveling, movies, TV, staying home or pen pal and romantic. (58526:10/24) Best friend and partner DWM, 60, 190 lbs., 5’10”, looking for LTR with woman that loves camping, hiking, canoeing, fishing, road trips and just quiet nights home. (58524:10/24) Hopeless romantic in Two Harbors 61, on pension, fairly attractive, spiritual, love gardening, cooking, watching movies and cuddling. If this appeals to you please respond. (58523:10/24)

Not the age, it’s the mileage WM, 61, 6’, 250 lbs., NS, light drinker. Not handsome but handy, easy going, honest, homebody. Very affectionate, likes to cuddle, slow dance. Enjoys shore fishing, light gardening, easy walks. movies, music, cooking and more. ISO cuddly, warmhearted woman 55-65 for LTR. (58518:9/5) Respect joy & fun for you Tell me your story. I’m attractive, healthy, athletic, Amtrak retiree, 6’, slim, financially stable, liberal, NS. Enjoy hiking, swimming, cooking, movies, writing personal letters, conversation. ISO F LTR, any race or age. I like reciprocally gentle foreplay. Seesaw with me as friends. (58516:8/8) Tired of being alone WW, WM, 61, blonde, blue eyes, 5’11”, honest, caring, hard-working. Retiring in November. Will answer all/ (58513:8/1) Lonesome old guy There has to be some lonesome lady in the Virginia area that would like to go for coffee & conversation, maybe play some cribbage. (58510:7/16) Seeking Honesty SWM 57 looking for SWF, fit, educated,love to travel. Camping, adventures. Picture a plus but not required. Must be romantic. (58508:7/16) Attractive Discriminating Ninety Intellectual Stimulating NS 5”9” 170lb seeks slim-trim female biologically 65ish independent fox to persue happiness. Wine/dine, dance, karaoke. Upper North Shore -Let’s explore!. (58507:7/4)

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Loving, honest, passionate DWM, 74, 180, 5-8, looking for honest woman. Like gardening, dancing, outdoors. Active, LTR, looking to adventure, try fishing and other sports, anything new. (58493:4/25) Togetherness DWM, NS, 74, 180 lbs., 5’8”, likes cooking, gardening, woodwork, dancing, Hallmark Channel. Looking for LTR, life partner. Learn from each other. (58488:4/11) 41 seeking 50-60 Seeking lady age 50-60 for dating that leads to LTR. I’m in Superior. 6’2”, 225 lbs., Caucasian, dark brown hair, brown eyes. (58485:4/11) Tall Horse Lover DWM 65 6’2” 180lbs ISO country woman. Where are you? Let’s meet so we can horse around. Honest, sincere & marriage minded. (58481: 4/6) Looking for a wonderful best friend Single man 60 yrs, seeks lady that loves life, movies, fishing, sports, cards, board games, cooking &

Relating to guys Retired mid-70s professional gentleman to provide ful body attention Turkish style. (58550:6/25) Pantie Play Looking for another 60 year old that enjoys wearing panties and stockings. Interested? 58546:4/23)

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The smaller the better MWM 60-plus looking for a male friend. casual get-togethers. (58529:12/5) Fishing friend with benefits MWM, 64, looking for a guy with similar intent. Love to fish, a little play time when the bite is slow. (58521:10/10) Wake me up, stud Northern Wis. Looking for playmates, top or bottom, for right stud, nice package. (58503:6/13)

Show me the way WGM 36, fully blind & new to scene. ISO M friend to have a good time with. (58438: 10/18) Biverse Bear ISO friend, mid-40s Looking for hunt, fish & discreet Biverse friend 18-50 verse discreet friends with benis satisfaction. (58437: 9/30) Senior fun time 70, 67”, NS, Bi, fun time, tall, up close-personal, enjoyment. (58436: 8/7)

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New to Grand Rapids DWM age 78, NS, looking for NS woman 60-80 who likes road trips outdoors, fishing, dining out & financially stable. (58502:6/13)

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

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Want to love again WM, 62, 5/3, 140, ND/NS, faithful, honest, passionate, seek LTR. Love camping, fishing, hiking, cuddling, holding hands, bonfires. Seeking younger to same age. Want to share love, life and hardships. So much to give. (58504:6/20)

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I am a reminiscent sentimental romantic Professional writer, community education teacher, 6’1”, thin, NS, middle-aged, enjoys hiking, classical music, reading, humor, loves holding hands, cuddling, openminded, conversationalist, adaptable to your desires. (58506:7/4) Partnership Have a nice country home, some pets, camping, fishing and learning. ISO a lady to share and communicate with. Will exchange photos. (58505:7/4)

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Visual Culture Lecture Series: Kelsi Sharp

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Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 a.m. Walking tour of the public art in the growing Lincoln Park area, led by Shannon Laing of Ecolibrium3. This tour is part of Zeitgeistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bus Bike Walk Month. In order to maintain social distancing, this tour will be limited to 10 guests, including children. Please wear a mask. This tour covers some uneven sidewalks and you will be on your feet throughout the 1.5 hour tour; please be prepared. You may also want to bundle

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Livestream event Tuesday, Oct. 27, 6 p.m. Kelsi Sharp is a graphic designer, signmaker and embroidery enthusiast. Growing up in American Southwest, she is strongly influenced by the signage, gas stations, and other relics found on the historic Route 66 highway. After studying construction methods, earning certifications in fabrication technologies, and apprenticing in an iconic Santa Fe sign shop, she began Sharp Design, a signage and environmental design company based in the Midwest, with projects all over the country. This Zoom presentation is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Duluth,

Department of Art and Design. It may be accessed at cla.d.umn.edu/ departments/art-design/news-andevents/vcls.

Pepperkakebyen Gingerbread City of Duluth

The Nordic Center of Duluth and Sons of Norway Nortun Lodge host the ninth annual Pepperkakebyen Gingerbread City of Duluth. This year features a virtual tour of the village, with an online opening Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to come and peek in the windows at 23 N. Lake Ave. for some winter magic until Jan. 2. You can create your own gingerbread house from scratch or purchase $20 premade kits. Order kits by Nov. 1. Free with the premade kit purchase comes two live virtual Zoom workshops hosted by Patrick the Gingerbread Man. Nov. 7, 2-4 p.m. Assembling your gingerbread house Nov. 8, 2-4 p.m. Decorating your gingerbread house

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Working Artist Grants

Grants of $2,000 are available to Working Artists to Create Art in the next 6 months. The Emergency Working Artist Grant provides $2,000 for working artists to do a work of art in the next six months and sustain themselves during the COVID-19 crisis. The art produced does not have to be specifically about the pandemic, but rather we are looking for projects that can be done within the next six months. A portion of the grants will be set aside for teaching artists to pay for their time or needed equipment to convert their work to new virtual requirements. Artists who received an Emergency Grant in the spring/summer may apply if they have completed their previous project and submitted an acceptable final report. The deadline is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, with decisions before the end of December. For information go to aracouncil.org.

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It could be verse II In my previous opus (Note: This is the small “o” opus, and therefore should not be confused with the cartoon penguin Opus. In this context, opus usually refers to something musical, and I, at least, consider my poems to be lyrical in nature, which suggests song lyrics, which usually rhyme except for some Hank Williams Jr songs.) But I digress ... I mentioned that I was a fan of Calvin Trillin, and have often claimed to be from the Trillin School of Poetry, which says a poem is not a poem unless it rhymes. Calvin is scornful of free verse poets. Free verse poetry, he says, is like playing tennis without the net. You still get the exercise, but there is no challenge. A true poet gnashes his teeth and suffers sleepless nights trying to come up with a word that rhymes with “orange.” Then a free verse poet comes along and blithely rhymes “orange” with

“banana,” which is perfectly acceptable to him. Trillin freely admits to having received in “the high two figures” for his poems in “The Nation.” I don’t have his background, but still I think it reasonable to expect the high single figures for my poems. This will complete my Shakespearean oeuvre for now then, because from here on out I expect to be rolling in the big bucks. Shakespeare is not for the squeamish. I suspect that backstage at the old Globe Theater must have had buckets of fake blood on hand for these plays. The least bloody is “Romeo and Juliet,” which is often the play of choice to inflict on high schoolers. It seems an odd choice, since it tends to make offing yourself a romantic notion, which is the wrong message to be sending to angsty teenagers, but who am I to judge?

I should point out that it is often necessary for getting the rhyme to use what is called “poetic license,” which may alter the facts slightly. For instance, I could have rhymed “lost his swagger” with “fell on his dagger” or “stiff as a board” with “fell on his sword.” As it turned out, “knife” is the proper word, so it worked out swell. “Macbeth” was probably written around 1600. That’s before the French Revolution, and it wasn’t until 1649 that the Puritans made Charles I shorter by a head. ( Little known fact: That’s where we got the term “head of state.”) Poor Charles was only 5’4” to begin with. In any case, Macbeth beat them to the punch.

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This play is where those buckets of blood really come in handy. Chiron and Demetrius have to be bled before they get ground up. Sure, Lavinia tries to catch it in a basin, but she has no hands, so you have to imagine it still gets pretty messy. You may wonder why this play instead of some lighter fare. The fact is, double dactyl poems have some very strict rules, and one is that the subject name should be a double dactyl. Thus, Titus Andronicus fits the bill. Troilus and Cressida would work, too, but it’s too damn complicated. PRELUDE TO SWEENEY TODD Pastrycus, Gastricus Titus Andronicus Feels that his problems Are Tamora’s fault. Serves up her sons to her Cannibalistically Wrapped in a pie crust With ketchup and salt. Now here is where that poetic license comes into play again. Salt is a given, I think, but the ketchup is an educated guess. My son, my brother-in-law and I all use ketchup on meat pie. A small sample size, I know, but there’s a pandemic, and the positive responses were 100 percent. Dragonflies at Night Anne Marie Bennett KaleidoSoul Media Dragonflies at Night tells of a mother/daughter connection after death, fears of cancer and connection, and the possibilities of love between a thirty-something couple whose secrets and fears have prevented them forming connections, in the past. Mother Deidre Rose continues to watch over her daughter even after she passes away from inherited cancer in her forties. Her biggest fear is that she’s passed this legacy to daughter Savannah. But more has been inherited than physical challenges alone, and Savannah is newly tasked with finding her way through these psychological fears to live a better life. Anne Marie Bennett’s story covers romance and mother/ daughter relationships in a gentle, compassionate manner. This draws readers into the perceptions and logic of all involved, from potential suitor and successful artist Ben’s mistrust and loneliness to Savannah’s drive to create a positive direction for her life even as she eschews the notion of building a family. All three personalities contribute to a gentle probe of love and the

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willingness of those set in their ways to let another person become involved in their lives: “He could feel some of the adrenaline from the concert dissipating into the wide openness of the night sky, and into the welcoming presence of this woman. He was deeply touched. Who else had ever asked him how he felt about his own concert? As Savannah began to lightly stroke his face, he closed his eyes, savoring the sensations.” As they meet each other’s friends and form new connections, they begin to resolve and overcome some of the barriers that have led to their individual isolation. These range from Ben’s ongoing feeling that everyone wants something from him to Savannah’s determination not to pass on the health legacy she may have inherited to children who might come later. As she faces the challenges of others around her, Savannah comes to realize that the close connections in her life are more important than she’d perceived: “What do you mean, you don’t see the point? The point is life, the living, the loving! Look at us. We love you. We certainly don’t think your time is up.” Dragonflies at Night is an evocative exploration of fears, futures, and connections between family and friends. It will delight readers of women’s fiction who look for stories of romantic adversity, growth, and change. It’s also highly recommended reading for women who want an exploration health and family issues added into the romantic interplays and evolution of all involved. The Trapped Daughter Jay Kerk Jay Kerk Books “When locked up in my room, I can no longer imagine good things.” This opening statement in The Trapped Daughter offers a clue to the young protagonist’s strong voice in this “dark and twisted psychological thriller” (as it bills itself) about a young woman wronged by a man and punished by her father, locked in a repressive mansion both of her father’s rule and her own making. First, Jay Kerk draws readers into the psychological tangle of emotions and fears that is narrator Belle Andresson’s world. Through firstperson observations of her life, readers become attuned to her role as her father’s hostage in his home, and her dilemma surrounding Gabe’s ethereal presence in her life. Freedom isn’t the only goal she cultivates after eight days of being

locked up. Understanding is also high on her list of objectives: “I can only think of escaping to survive, but before escaping, I must know why my father is doing this to me.” Kerk is a master at mingling dreams with reality, both over the presence and figure of the mercurial Gabe and in Belle’s own perceptions of what is happening to her. This focus on psychological tension, revelation, and the fine lines between reality and fantasy are the hallmarks of a thriller which questions what is real and what is not. Readers thus receive an everchanging scenario of good, evil, purposeful intentions, and survival and danger which is always in flux, keeping them guessing about Belle’s situation, the people in her life, and the boundaries of reality. While this story is a thriller with many tense encounters, struggles, and moments; above all, it is a masterpiece of psychological inspection that hones

its focus on the emotional twists and turns Belle experiences as both a victim and a prisoner: “My emotions are conflicted. Part of me wants to leap up and whoop with joy; the other part is scared. I feel like a child suddenly, faced with the wideness and strangeness of a world that has been beyond my reach for weeks. I draw a slow breath and focus on the first feeling. This is what I wanted. I cannot let myself think I did the wrong thing. Selfdoubt will latch its claws in me, and I’ll find myself yearning for the safety of Richard’s prison.” Belle’s self-inspections are sharply exquisite, and the tension is welldrawn. Thriller readers who enjoy complex psychological inspections will be delighted in a story that offers no clear answers and directions, but keeps its audience on its toes until its ending. Its conclusion is unexpected on some levels and predictable on others as it winds through the wellsprings of illness, art, and love.

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Recent horror DVD highlights Shout! Factory have rolled out the red carpet with their special edition release of The Stepfather, the finest thing that Terry O’Quinn has ever done (and yeah, that includes LOST). The always enjoyable Glenn ‘DVD Savant’ Erickson took a look at Shout!’s efforts and found that “The original The Stepfather from 1987 need not claim Cult status to defend itself; it was recognized from the get-go as a superior horror thriller. The elements all click, and not because of blind chance. The intelligent script relies on an interesting character hook with universal appeal. The late 1980s was a time when the notion of family values had a loud voice in the cultural debate; I think that’s when I first became aware of the term “dysfunctional family.” Although the film’s means are modest it gets a real grip on the audience; more money wouldn’t make it better. The picture is almost perfect

just as it is. Shout! Factory’s DVD of The Stepfather is a good-looking enhanced transfer that restores cameraman John Lindley’s beautiful images of the fall season in the great Northwest – the colorful red and orange leaves add to the aura of domestic peace. Lindley would later DP the fascinating Pleasantville a movie even more directly concerned with the illusions of the traditional family as propagated in mass media culture. Director Joseph Rubin is on hand for an OK commentary. He assigns actual credit to the various writers, after acknowledging the WGA’s virtual tyranny over the subject (tyranny is my word, not Ruben’s). The interview documentary The Stepfather Chronicles is a bit overlong but uncovers a goodly number of interesting facts. The exteriors were filmed in near-freezing conditions, something well disguised by both the

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camerawork and the actors. To shoot the happy-neighbor backyard picnic scene, the crew first had to break up frozen ice. Why nobody’s breath is visible is a mystery. Director Ruben, actor Jill Schoelen, the producer and screenwriter contribute. Along the way we see some of the glowing reviews garnered by the film on its first release. Word of mouth was excellent, but as The Stepfather wasn’t picked up by a major distributor, most of us caught up with it on cable TV. Or, depending on your

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age, VHS. Regardless, it’s a very solid release of a criminally underrated movie now the subject of a glossy PG13 remake. Sigh. Remakes always cause a stir in horror fandom – we know most of them stink. Continuing that grand tradition is the recent straight to video remake of Larry Cohen’s ‘70s classic, It’s Alive!, arguably the coolest killer baby movie ever made. Brian Orndorf took one for the team when he sat down with the DVD, recently issued by First Look Pictures. Here’s what Brian had to say: “Let’s be clear here: It’s Alive wasn’t some precious genre classic that needs a great deal of defending. In fact, its potency has already been thoroughly drained by creator Cohen, who pulled together two sequels to his original picture, cashing in while the gettin’ was good. Oddly, Cohen takes a co-screenwriting credit on the new picture, but the end product isn’t his doing. Instead the remake is funneled through director Josef Rusnak, a filmmaker with a questionable track record in the industry, previously helming pictures such as The Thirteenth Floor and The Art of War II. Cohen is more of a bleak exploitation master, while Rusnak is a forgettable technician of mediocrity, and his ineffective touch ruins the delicious highs of absurdity that could’ve made this remake shine. The new It’s Alive is an anti-abortion

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parable, pitting Lenore against her worst fears as reluctant mother. It’s a juicy concept, ripe for a profound psychological exploration, but in Rusnak’s hands, the concept is only half-heartedly executed. The director is bending the material back to more conventional ground, leaning on gore and tepid suspense sequences to deliver a basic horror experience, not an exceptional one. It’s Alive isn’t scary or weird, failing to create any impression besides boredom, and the cast is left out in the cold trying to convey a sense of panic with little cinematic energy to back up their efforts. They also suffer a specific humiliation with the film’s looping overdose, breaking the moment with every kung-fu matinee moment of thickly dubbed coverage. It’s Alive, running just under 80 minutes, doesn’t enjoy much in the way of momentum. The emotions have also been trimmed from the film, with Lenore facing imaginable terror and motherly revelation, only to convey a slight sense of dismay, as if she burnt bake sale cookies. Proving that some classics are always worth revisiting, Jamie S. Rich dove deep into the treasure trove that is the Lionsgate DVD reissue of the ultra-cool Mad Monster Party. “Mad Monster Party is a silly musical comedy brought to life by the signature Rankin-Bass Animagic style, a combination of puppets and stopmotion that is probably best known from the various Christmas specials the studio put together and that still get annual airings on the networks. This theatrical feature was co-written by Mad Magazine-pioneer Harvey Kurtzman, and it features character designs by his Mad cohort Jack Davis. Boris Karloff stars as the lead vocal talent, playing Baron von Frankenstein, a scientist on the Island of Evil who has just discovered the secret of antimatter, the destructive counterpart to the reanimation tech that allowed him to bring a man back to life as a monster. That creature still lives on the island with the Baron, alongside its mate, a character voiced by and physically modeled after comedienne Phyllis Diller. Full of goofball gags and all kinds of horror movie puns, Mad Monster Party is an antiquated but still very fun kid’s picture that, though mostly tame, also has a few winks at the grown-ups in the audience. Francesca is clearly a character designed to appeal to the fathers doing their matinee duty. She delivers the occasional double entendre and even ends up getting stripped down to her underthings in one cat fight with the

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Monster’s Mate (complete with cat sounds). Certain caricatures are also likely to only mean anything to film buffs, with the Baron’s toady Tetch having been modeled after Peter Lorre and the Invisible Man having a little Sydney Greenstreet in him. There is also a parody of longhaired rock bands and the dance crazes they manufactured, with the bony Little Tibia and the Fibias performing “Do the Mummy.” This and all the other songs, which are mostly in a more easy-listening pop style, hold up surprisingly well, though it’s interesting to note that most of them have nothing to do with the fright flick theme. Yes, there is some nostalgia at play in my adoration of Mad Monster Party, so apply whatever grains of salt you will, but I think there is an appeal to this wonderfully odd animated comedy that shines even brighter than the glow of memory. Rankin-Bass’ stop-motion gathering of the famous monsters from cinema past is a fun and kooky flick, blessed with the off-kilter talents of Mad Magazine alumni Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis, memorable songs by Maury Laws, and the groovy 1960s vibe of the character designs, now considered retro but just as classically cool as they ever were Blue Underground has done the Lord’s work and released the first ever Lucio Fulci film on Blu-ray with their excellent offering of his still controversial slasher picture, The New York Ripper. Quite possibly the only giallo to feature a killer who talks like a duck, it’s a picture that holds up well in terms of suspense and shock

value but which also serves as a great time capsule to the New York City that used to be. Stuart Galbraith IV was keen on this release, writing “Whether you’re a native New Yorker or not, the film offers endlessly fascinating, unblinking glimpses of the city as it was nearly 30 years ago, especially its views of pre-gentrified Times Square and 42nd Street, thoroughfares awash in sex shops and grindhouse movie theaters. You may want to linger as I did, studying the posters and marquees promoting such films as 5 Fingers of Death, 60-Second Assassin and Revenge of the Bushido Blade. The film also spends a lot of time on the Staten Island Ferry, and in New York’s subway system at a time when every square inch of every subway car seemed covered in graffiti. Few American movies offered such an unvarnished look at the city as this does. Directed by Lucio Fulci, The New York Ripper relies on a lot of hand-held and probing zoom shots, but these never get in the way of the story as they do with the prolific Jess Franco, who was shooting like-minded films under similar circumstances. The film tries hard to stay one step ahead of the viewer; it doesn’t

really succeed, but deserves points for sincerely trying. If you’re a fan of this kind of sleazy horror-thriller, you’ll agree that Blue Underground’s The New York Ripper is one of the year’s major genre releases.

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Places where you can sleep with history How would you like to spend a night or more at a hotel once frequented by Clark Gable, Ingrid Bergman and a long list of other Hollywood luminaries? Or snuggle down under the sheets at a former stagecoach stop along the famous Chisholm Trail, which played host to George Custer, the cavalry commander in the Civil and American Indian wars, and Jesse James, who needs no introduction. A hotel can be much more than a place to catch a good night’s sleep. Properties throughout the country offer interesting stories of famous guests, accommodations that range from laid-back to lavish and opportunities to snooze with intriguing chapters of history. At this time of little travel they provide a welcome escape, and one or more is probably within driving distance of where you live. An Italian Renaissance-style building that houses the first high-rise hotel in Phoenix and first in the state of Arizona with elevators (hand-operated) was the go-to place for Hollywood celebrities when it opened in 1928. Guests of the Hotel San Carlos today enter the same limestone-tile lobby with its original carved crown moldings, crystal chandeliers and other architectural features that once greeted movie stars. The setting was less sumptuous at a rest stop built in 1861 along the Chisholm Trail to accommodate ranchers and drovers herding cattle from Texas to Kansas. Over time the modest but comfortable Stagecoach Inn also provided lodgings for 19th-century dignitaries who were passing through Texas, ranging from the famous to the

infamous. Stagecoaches, rather than cattle drivers, holed up for the night at quarters in Colorado that are older than the state itself. Following its debut in 1874, The Cliff House at Pike’s Peak was a stagecoach stop along the goldmining route from Colorado Springs to Leadville, Colorado. Later it became a military barracks and then host to dignitaries as diverse as Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Dickens and P.T. Barnum. Many rooms offer views of Pike’s Peak and its surrounding foothills. Rather than a place to stay when on the go, some historic hotels were designed to be destinations themselves because of their opulent decor and furnishings. From 1913 to the late 1930s the Grand Hotel in Indianapolis offered guests the height of luxury. Reopened recently as the Omni Severin, it retains touches of its elegant past, including a dramatic marble stairway, an immense Austrian crystal chandelier and original mahogany dressers located in each elevator landing. The Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, which was built during America’s Gilded Age to rival the finest hotels in Europe, opened in 1913. Rich woodwork, mosaic and terrazzo floors, gilded hallways and other adornments were created by artisans from France and Italy who toiled for two and a half years to make the building a monument to outstanding craftsmanship. The result of their efforts serves as a reminder of a decades-long period of economic growth in the United States that began

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The Cliff House at Pike’s Peak was a stagecoach stop along the gold-mining route from Colorado Springs to Leadville, Colorado. Photo courtesy of The Cliff House. in the 1870s. During the 19th and 20th centuries and beyond some well-heeled travelers who could afford to overnight in the lap of luxury liked to “take the waters” at health spas built near natural springs. The 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa in Eureka Springs, Arkansas was one such property. The massive stone structure perched on a hilltop is reminiscent of castles in Europe and earned the epithet “Castle in the Air.” The hotel is surrounded by acres of lovely gardens and forested walking trails, and it retains the tasteful traces that made it a popular mountain retreat for wealthy clientele. Less luxurious but equally inviting in its way is a personal favorite located in a quaint village in the lakes and mountains region of western Maine. The Rangeley Inn, set in a tiny town with the same name, opened as the Rangeley Tavern in 1909. Several years

later another smaller inn which stood nearby was attached to the larger building and today is one wing of it. The interesting history of the Rangeley Inn, combined with the Norman Rockwell-like town where it’s located and four-season choice of activities, makes this a perfect place to sleep with history. WHEN YOU GO Historic Hotels of America, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, includes more than 300 properties throughout the country that have “faithfully maintained their authenticity, sense of place and architectural integrity.” All are recognized as having historical significance and offer exceptional accommodations and amenities: www. historichotels.org.

The Crescent Hotel and Spa in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, bears the nickname “Castle in the Air.” Photo courtesy of Bonita Cheshier/Dreamstime.com.

Art helps tell Egypt’s long story When my husband and I decided to visit Egypt he was interested in the country’s history and I couldn’t wait to see the art. As it turned out, the two are inextricably linked — the history gave rise to the art and the art would help us to understand the country’s rich past. Once there we visited temples whose walls and columns were covered with hieroglyphics, museums filled with statuary, and tombs alive with color because their paintings had so long been underground and out of the light. At the first temple I was overwhelmed by carvings that covered every inch, but I soon learned that every mark had a meaning and that once I knew a few principles they were within my power to decipher. A hieroglyph (meaning “sacred carving”) is a character in ancient Egyptian writing that depicts a thing or action, expresses a sound and clarifies the characters around it. These are often collected into a cartouche — an oval with a straight line at a right angle at one end — to tell who is being honored by the edifice and indicate that they were royal. Scenes in these places represent everyday life events and humanize the people, who were all seen as equals, despite the figures in crowns and carved more deeply being royal. People with disabilities were not discriminated against in real life or in art. In fact, such infirmities were considered gifts from the gods. We learned this at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where my favorite sculpture, titled simply “Man and Woman,” depicts a happy couple who seem totally unaffected by the man’s condition. On tomb and temple walls we saw pictures of everything from a simple meal to battles to preparing a dead body for the next life. If a woman is kneeling among other women she is giving birth. If anyone else is kneeling he or she is a servant. If he’s wearing the mask of a jackal he is a priest. If a man’s beard is straight he was alive when his statue was created; curved ones appear in the tombs. Sobek, always represented as a crocodile, was the god of the Nile who brought fertility. The sun god Ra is a falcon. The right eye of Ra symbolizes protection and good health, while the left eye of Horus offers many of the same properties. A figure’s vandalized

WHEN YOU GO In order to see and learn about everything Egypt has to offer, a guide is an absolute must. Google “tours of Egypt” and you’ll find many at several different price points. We decided on Smithsonian Journeys and recommend them highly: www. smithsonianjourneys.org.

The colors in the burial tombs in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens have been naturally preserved because no light has been able to reach them. Photo courtesy of Phil Allen. nose means his or her enemies have Color pairings also had meaning. sought to deny the person breath and Silver and gold represented the moon thus an afterlife. This is especially and the sun and green and black the noticeable at Hatshepsut’s various stages of the life cycle. Where temple in Luxor, where the figures are pictured in a line their skin angry stepson who succeeded tones alternate between dark and light. her destroyed most of her Kings were depicted in blue with gold effigies. leaf, and red ochre was the color of Objects also have specific common people’s skin. meanings. Scarabs and The ancient Greeks, led by Alexander baboons are symbolic of the Great, built the temples during the sunrise. The ankh is their stay in Egypt, which began in the emblematic of everlasting life. seventh century B.C. This explains the Much of the color on plethora of columns in the temples’ temples has faded, but inside hypostyle areas. Especially in the the burial chambers in the Valley of southern part of the country some the Kings and Valley of the Queens it is of the columns look like bundles of pristine and almost indescribable in its papyrus since it grows abundantly in beauty. Beyond looking pretty, however, the Nile marshes there. Our group made the colors also have meaning. a stop at the Luxor Papyrus Institute, Early Egyptian artists relied on mixing where we watched how the plants pigments from minerals and plants are turned into a substrate for writing with ground stones, egg yolk and water and painting. We were also able to to produce the colors in their palettes. see — and purchase — works of art by The word for “color” could mean either Egyptian painters. character or appearance, and how these At Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art we shades were used was symbolic and wandered through rooms filled with well-regulated. Green stood for growth colorful designs in wood, glass, ceramic, and regeneration, and women’s skin jewelry and textiles. Since the faith was white or pale yellow while men’s does not allow for depictions of Allah, was a shade of brown. Black represented we saw instead incomparable tiles, the fertile land along the Nile, and fountains, saddles, lamps and vessels for white had several meanings: purity, use in mosques. cleanliness and simplicity. It was used But not all of Egypt’s art took place for priests’ sandals as well as for tools in the time of the pharaohs. Our group and sacred animals. Red stood for the also discovered more contemporary desert, since that’s where the pigment artists, such as sculptor Mahmoud was gathered, as well as chaos and Mokhtar, painter Mahmoud Sa’id, blood. Blue represented the heavens. surrealist Ramses Younan and feminist In several tombs we visited the ceilings painter and activist Inji Efflatoun — were bright blue and spangled with gold modern all but still influenced by the stars since silver was the more precious art of their ancestors. metal in those days.

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Fender Jazz Bass, black, humbuckers. Like New $400 OBO 218-235-1475 Two Lawrence green box flashers. Mac 1 Eagle graph--Lawrence. $75. 218-984-2669 Hammond organ J-122 model w/ bench. Great condition. $100 or best offer. 218-244-1629 SWR studio 220 bass head and 2 AMPEG 4x10 cabs $600. 5905664 Wanted Computer geek or geekess to educate an older dummy on some basics and a little beyond. Prefer cleanly non smoker, will discuss pay. 715-919-4550 Wicker porch furniture. Text or call 612-599-6983. Two- or four-wheel folding grocery cart, less than $15. Call evenings, 218-940-9005. Small cast iron wood or pellet stove. 218-834-3709 lv messg Honda Trail 70, Z50, XL70, SL70, XR75 motorcycles. 218-428-3474 Cheap-used recesed ceiling fan. 218-310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Cheap used/refurbished room, window or portable air conditioner in good shape. 218-310-1781 Wanted - snowblower with electric start, 8 HP more or less. Reasonable - Leave or Text message to 715-610-1710. 2 into 1 stock muffler from early ‘80s Harley FX 218-341-2841 Sets of Dresser scarves. 218-9409005 evenings Reasonably priced 20’ Pontoon boat w/ 4-stroke engine and power lift. 928-234-3325 Seeking private woodlands to sustainably harvest balsam boughs in Sept & Oct. Cash paid. Senior couple. 218-428-5220 Super 8 Viewer. 715-919-1028 Plastic model cars and car kits, parts & pieces. 1/24 & 25th scale. 218-393-1375 Computer/Elec New Nidec ac motor with condenser. 3-1/2” diameter, duel 5/16” shafts 1”&3” long, 1.5 volts, 50/60hz, 0.5 amps, 500/600 rpm, $30. 715-919-4550. Ham Radios-Best Offer. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981 Old “Air Master” radio. Text only for info & pics. 218-750-7981

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Dell Inspiron desktop $100..218341-2607 White Baby Monitors $10. or BO 218-310-1781 or 218-276-4985 Bluetooth Music Light up bulb. $25. or BO Mini electric cigarette roller. Blue&Black comes with pushstick & brush $30. or BO218310-1781 PS2 Console w/3 controllers. Slim PS2 $40. or BO Will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218276-4985 RCA digital converter box wth remote, gently used-still in box. $35 or BO-will trade for other electronics. 218-310-1781 or 218-2764985 Appliances Free 1956 Singer sewing machine in wooden cabinet. 920-727-3550. ATTENTION LANDLORDS: Frigidare washer, Maytag dryer, XLarge Kenmore Refridgerator w/ ice maker, Maytag Dishwasher. Downsizing. Excellent running cond. Some scratches from moving. $1,000. for all. 218-241-1842 Cube-style dorm fridge in good cond. $40. 218-638-2399 Jen-aire Glass Top Stove. Works great. Best offer 218-724-5358 Wood space heater $50. 218-7214481 Stove for home, cabin or garage. Burns wood or coal. $95. 715-3998569 White Kenmore microwave. $10. 218-206-1278 Two 250 gal fuel oil tanks. Paint red for gasoline. $50/ea. 218-8482007 Furniture Pair of brass plated table lamps with beautiful red satin shades. 20 1/2” high 7 1/4” diameter base. Excellent condition $40 firm! 715919-4550 Oak plant stand. Holds ten plants. Can also be used as book shelf. $20. Call 218-525-7702 Oak TV cabinet. Door and shelf. Excellent condition. $30. Call 218525-7702 Solace medical bed. good condition. Call 218-481-0175. Blue office chair. Good condition. $10. Gold floor lamp with shade. Good condition. $15. Shelving unit and 14 ceramic bears. $25 Call 218-525-7702

Miscellaneous Teeter Hang Up Inversion table, $175. 218-727-3550. Thirty quart size canning jars with lids $15 715-919-4550. Beautiful potted plants. Variety. $8 each or less. Call 218-525-7702. Clean Shower seat. Good condition. $10. Call 218-525-7702.

Wesco Cardio Glide exercise bike 950. USed twice. $95. 218-9691781. Legal sized pool table, very good condition. You disassemble. $500. 218-428-9963. Twenty beautiful potted plants. Variety. $5 each. Call 218-525-7702 Old-fashion toddler winter wood sled. great condition. $25 o/b/o.

218-481-0175. Big fish tank $5 call 218-481-0175. Log splitter – 22-ton with 8” wedge hydraulic, towable, Forest King, brand, like new. $900 cash. 715774-3279. Triumph Wilson tennis racket $10. Call 218 481 0175.

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Wanted_ Looking for a trustworthy, responsible person to be the caretaker of a small apartment complex in Duluth. The job will require mowing, snow removal, and a few other tasks and overseeing the property. Basic knowledge of plumbing and electricity a plus. At least a 2 year commitment. In exchange we offer a free one-bedroom apartment with all utilities included. Call Hubert at 218-409-0484. Managing editor of The Reader is seeking a home or apartment to rent. 920-421-3441. Wanted: Furnished bedroom, apartment, or cabin in Duluth area for senior couple for month of August. JANEorTOM@gmail.com Disabled P/T employed male in need of stable housing, room or basement with available kitchen. Far East End. Please call James 218-461-0703. 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 For Sale: 2.35 acre lot w/100’ shoreline on Lake LaVerne, WI. Motivated to sell: $27,000 Call Lori 612803-6607 for details. For Sale: 1978 2 bedroom, 2 bath mobile home in Sunnyside Estates, Cloquet. Needs repairs. $1,500. or B.O. 218-481-5881 Responsible nonprofit animal rescue looking for pet friendly rental housing, fenced yard, spacious. Rent to own pref. ASAP. 218-576-8534 50 acres hunting land. 2 enclosed deer stands, building site, power & phone access. Westerlund Loop, Solon Springs, Wis. 920-344-8016 Mobile home $18,500 Vintage Acres/Gary 2br//1ba includes appliances. Quiet. Large yard/garden area. 218-464-5524 2-Bedroom Cabin on Siskwit Lake, 500’ frontage, Cornucopia, Wisconsin 847-710-2967 Lake of the Woods, MN 30 acres for sale with well, septic, power & sheds. Minutes from the lake! Asking $78,900. 218-242-7304 Rentals__ Proctor: 2-bedroom newly remodeled, no pets. Deposit, first and last month’s rent plus electric, all other utilities paid. 218-727-5793 or 218-848-2291. Condo in Aspenwood 3 bed - 1.5 bath, garage,fully firnished. All utilities inc. Available October 1st. 6-8 month lease. $1,595. 218-390-7291

Fisherman cabin 1 mile from boat landing on Lake Superior. For info or pictures call (715) 682- 2568 Vacation Rental. Causeway on Gull, Nissewa, MN. 2 Bdrm, 2 bath, sleeps 8 May 13-15th. Close to marina, free boat slip. 218-865-6591

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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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Job Opportunites PART-TIME MUSICIAN Forbes United Methodist Church Proctor, MN. Assist in developing inspirational Sunday services thru music for virtual presentation. Adaptable. Able to accompany vocal & instrumental performances. Temporary position with growth potential. Competitive wage. Apply via email to forbesumc33@gmail.com. White Cedar Shingles, Inc., 2700 Winter St., Superior, is seeking people for temporary positions that could turn full time. The work involves staining, cutting and bundling. For a telephone interview, call Joe at 218-522-1189. Graphic Artist needed. Adobe Creative Suite, pagination skills a plus. Send resume to: info@readerduluth.com Needed Immediately Some one ASAP to work with elderly, nice lady to do some errands, shopping, Doctors appts. etc. No housework. Must be kind and honest. Have to have car, insurance. Must like pets and be kind to animals. Good pay. Variable hours. 3419027 LvMessg. Business Opportunity. Photo/picture framing equipment, Fletcher 2100 & 3000 mat/glass cutters, Vacu-Seal programmable press. Extra supplies incl. $7,500. value selling for $2,500. Can purchase items separately. 218-830-1255 Adults 18 or older and generally healthy wanted for research on the physiological and subjective stress responses of individuals who use marijuana regularly. Compensation provided. U of MN Medical School Duluth Research Study, 218-726-8623. President’s Liquor has full & part-time employment

openings for stock clerk, cashier, maintenance & office assistant. Apply in-person at the Liquor store. 3824 E. 2nd St. Superior, WI. Ask for Jim “Ever wonder what the world looks like at 5 am? Always dreamed of having afternoons off? Amazing

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All Super Ones Cub Foods Mount Royal Fine Foods Mount Royal Bottle Shop Mount Royal Library Whole Foods Co-op Cashwise Liquor Lake Aire Bottle Shoppe Holiday - 27th Ave W. Holiday- 40th Ave W. Holiday - London Road Holiday – Rice Lake Road Minit Mart - 19th Ave. W. & Superior St. CHUM drop-in center Marshall Hardware Reader box - Dewitt Seitz Reader box - Main Post Office Reader box - Downtown Sammy’s – West Duluth University Liquor Vintage Italian Pizza Woodland Market Place Wussow’s – West Duluth

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All Super Ones Belknap Liquor Hammond Liquor Keyport Liquor Holiday - 21st & Tower Holiday - Belknap Holiday - E. Second St. Vintage Italian Pizza Superior Meats

Proctor, Cloquet & I-35 South

Kendall’s - Knife River Answers onBay page 55 Holiday - Beaver Bri’ Essa’s - Silver Bay Co-op - Finland Holiday - Tofte Lockport - Lutsen Holiday - Grand Marais

Iron Range

All Super Ones Harvest Co-op – Virginia IGA – Eveleth Northwoods - Ely Zup’s - Babbit Zup’s - Ely Zup’s - Tower Y Store - Hwy 100 Holiday - Gilbert Short Stop –Eveleth Short Stop - Buhl Clark – Virginia 169 Freedom – Chisholm Bloomberg’s – Babbit Lucky Seven -_Biwabik Iron Junction - C-store

Northwest Wisc Super One Super H Ashland Co-op Ashland Star Liquor Our Family Grocery O’Brien - Iron River Andy’s - Bayfield IGA – Minong Victory - Minong Mobil – Trego ICO – Gordon

Super One Chris’s Food- Sandstone Marketplace Foods - Moose Lake Holiday - Cloquet Holiday - Proctor Minit Mart - Proctor Casey’s - Sandstone

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

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

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

town Duluth. 218-940-9005 Reliable man to care for elderly in home. Run errands, work in your home. Very diversified, excontractor. Call for details 218409-4725 Feet on the Go! Yes! I will come into your home to give you a pedicure. 218-208-7950 Handyman. $13/hr - Call Ryan @ 218-428-1626 Musicians.. Part-time musician: Forbes United Methodist Church, Proctor. Assist in developing inspirational Sunday services through music

Employment for virtual presentation. Adaptable. Able to accompany vocal & instrumental performances. Temporary position with growth potential. Competitive wage. Apply at forbesumc33@gmail.com. Fellow musicians unite. Singer songwriter, guitarist, performing and recording, collaborative spirit, seeks like minded others for collaborations. Call, text, email. 612 423 5083, richmondscharf@gmail.com

GUITAR LESSONS from Austin, Tx professional new to the Twin Ports! (Also Bass & Vocal) go to new levels! Call 512565-5000 Guitar lessons available. 16 years experience. All styles, reasonable rates. Contact Aaron at 218-760-1599. Professional violin/fiddle lessons. Credentials: Performance degree U of M Twin Cities, toured nationally as American/ Celtic/Nordic/Rock fiddler. Duluth. References. 218-2353235 Eli Bissonett Free Piano Lessons for Beginners in your home. If you have the desire to learn the basics this is a good start. I will not give lessons to under 18 without others present. Jay 218213-4687

ment. We meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at the West Duluth American Legion at 1 PM Scandinavian Crime Writers Book Club meeting in Duluth Call Kirk 612-558-1318

HELP WANTED Keyport Lounge

is currently hiring wait staff to greet customers, wait tables, serve food and beverages. Please apply in person with Connie at Keyport Lounge 1900 Belknap, Superior.

Alernative Therapies Mind Body Spirit Harmonization with Tachyon Energy. One only a few Tachyon Chambers in U.S. Superior, WI 715-501-4046 Lost/Found

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I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant

TLC 9 am Tune in for back-to-back episodes of this TLC favorite, beginning with this episode featuring a woman whose boating vacation doesn’t go as planned. While on the open water, a woman screams for help with severe, inexplicable abdominal pain.

Movie: Bride of Chucky

AMC 5 pm An evil doll and his bridal doll girlfriend trick a young couple into taking them on a road trip in this scary film. The trip quickly turns into a murder spree as the dolls desperately search for the voodoo amulet that will return them to human form.

How To With John Wilson

HBO 10 pm Awkward and anxious, filmmaker John Wilson films fellow New Yorkers from the shadows in this premiering sixpart journey of self-discovery, resulting in an often candid and hilarious commentary with life tips that he learns through observation.

Saturday 10-24 Extreme Cheapskates

even asking her neighbors for leftovers. As a result, she spends only $1400 a month.

Ocean Treks With Jeff Corwin

ABC 6:30 am Host Jeff Corwin travels to Kyoto, Japan in this new Season 4 episode, exploring the rich history of the country’s legendary swordsmen - the samurai. Then, he creates handcrafted treats fit for an emperor with a master confectioner.

Movie: It

TBS 2 pm A group of kids fight off a bloodthirsty shapeshifting clown that adults don’t believe exists in this hit horror remake based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. Bill Skarsgård stuns with this unforgettably creepy performance as Pennywise.

Eli Roth’s History of Horror

AMC 9 pm The power and origins of spookysubgenre “body horror” are discussed in this new episode - films known for showcasing mutation, disease and mutilation in an attempt to confront humanity with the fear of our own bodies. Eli Roth hosts.

TLC 5 am TLC presents a morning marathon of this series. Jordan, a penny-pinching housewife from Utah has a family of five to support; she rations everything, How To With John Wilson, the first of six episodes, airs at 10 pm Friday on HBO.

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Sunday 10-25 Say Yes to the Dress

TLC 5 am Tune in for a marathon of this beloved bridal series, beginning with this episode that features a picky bride who has already tried on over 100 dresses. A stage actress who is on tour with the musical Wicked wants to step away from her costumes.

The Comedy Store

Showtime 9 pm From the stage to the studio and back again, the return of Joe Rogan is featured in this new episode. This docuseries chronicles the ups and downs of the titular comedy club’s nearly 50-year history on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles through interviews.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond

have played an essential role in fighting the pandemic. Gloria Estefan and Ricky Martin will also appear.

Soulmates

AMC 9 pm Mateo (Bill Skarsgård) discovers his new friend Jonah (Nathan StewartJarrett) stole his passport, which might make him miss his chance to meet his soulmate, so the pair goes on a wild adventure in an attempt to get it back in this new episode.

Tuesday 10-27 The Soul of America

HBO 8 pm Kate Davison directs this premiere documentary based on American history stories told in the best-selling book, The Soul of America: The

AMC 9 pm While taking shelter inside of an abandoned high school and resupplying, the group imagines what it might have been like to go to school. The group encounters new threats from both the dead and the living in this new episode. Nicolas Cantu stars.

Monday 10-26 Dancing With the Stars

ABC 7 pm Hosted by Tyra Banks in its 29th season, professional dancers are paired with celebrities and compete to perform the best routines weekly. In this new Halloween episode, the partners incorporate famous villains into their costumes and routines.

90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?

TLC 7 pm Elizabeth makes a shocking discovery that threatens her entire wedding in this new episode, while Colt finally tells all to his mother. Karine learns more about what Paul’s America looks like, and Larissa makes a surprising phone call.

Essential Heroes: A Momento Latino Event

CBS 8 pm Eva Longoria hosts this new special event that celebrates culture and brings joy to the deeply-affected Latinx community and those who

Michelle Williams stars in Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later, airing Friday at 8 pm on AMC.

Battle for Our Better Angels, by John Meacham. This film explores the themes from the celebrated novel.

Little People, Big World

deal with the house that belonged to their hoarder mother after she passes away. Filled with clutter and debris, they believe the home contributed to killing their mom.

TLC 8 pm A new renter is set to arrive in this new American Housewife episode, leaving Matt scrambling to ABC 7:30 pm clear out the farmhouse while Amy Katy Mixon and Diedrich Bader return takes one last tour of the place she in this Season 5 premiere as Kate and called home for 30 years to say her final Greg Otto, a couple of modest means farewell. Zach has a revelation about - at least in comparison to their superthe farm’s future. wealthy neighbors. Raising humble kids when surrounded by the elite is just as The Best of All the Smoke with easy as it sounds.

Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson

Big Brother Showtime 9 pm CBS 8 pm With a combined 28 seasons in the Season 22 comes to end in this finale; NBA and time spent on more than the winner will be chosen from the 12 teams, Matt Barnes and Stephen remaining All-Star Houseguests. Hosted Jackson know professional basketball. In this compilation series of the duo’s by Julie Chen, this reality series places podcast, clips from their best interviews strangers in a house for 85 days, where they compete in challenges and vote with NBA “point gods” are shown. each other out.

Wednesday 10-28 Hoarding: Buried Alive

TLC 3 pm In this rebroadcast, three siblings Aimee, Cheryl and Jimmy - are left to

Movie: Ghost Ship

AMC 9 pm The crew of a marine salvage operation on the Bering Sea finds an ocean liner thought to have disappeared in 1962, but when they attempt to salvage the

ship, supernatural events stop them from taking their haul and trap them aboard. Karl Urban stars.

Thursday 10-29

Movie: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan AMC 2 p.m. During a day-long pre-Halloween marathon, this comically-titled slasher starring Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees airs. A boat full of high school seniors travels from Crystal Lake to New York City, but a certain hockey-masked stowaway is aboard.

Superstore

NBC 7 pm America Ferrera will appear in the first two episodes as her character, Amy, the manager of Cloud 9, leaves for a new job. In Season 6, the store’s employees deal with becoming essential workers during the pandemic. Ben Feldman also stars.

Star Trek: Discovery

CBS 9 pm The Starfleet crew continues their attempt to end the ongoing war with

America Ferrera stars in Superstore, airing at 7 pm Thursdays on NBC. the Klingons in this new episode, raising the stakes and tensions even higher. Burnham (Sonequa MartinGreen) settles into her new position aboard the Discovery. Doug Jones also stars.

Court Cam

A&E 9 pm Tune in for this season premiere as emotional and unbelievable moments from courtrooms across the country are caught on camera and explored by “Live PD” host, Dan Abrams. Perspectives from involved victims and witnesses are also showcased. Meg Donnelly, Julia Butters, Diedrich Bader, Katy Mixon and Daniel DiMaggio star in American Housewife, airing Wednesday at 7:30 pm on ABC. DuluthReader.com

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