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inbox Can’t see the Forrest….etc. The Google definition of this phrase (Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees) is: “their minds are like great big empty voids of any kind of logical thought”! I know some of my readers have heard my comments about Forrest Johnson in the past but his recent column from July 16th is beyond strange! Each sentence and thought about our great President makes it very difficult to respond in detail. Forrest jumps from shots about the environment, protestors and racism. So, my guess is that Forrest is OK with these “so called peaceful protests” (there is no such thing) in Portland and if Trump tries to regain peace and order then we have Pelosi calling the Federal agents “stom-troopers”! How does these Dumorats think this stuff up? Can the liberal, radical left really think that Sleepy Joe will be a great President? It is very similar when Trump defeated Hillary Dillary Dock. Hillary would have been 10 times worse than Trump and Biden could be even worse than that! Instead of being called Sleepy Joe he should be called Dementia Joe. So, Forrest ends by saying “Rumpt, a person who doesn’t give anything to anyone…..” Really? How about the strongest economy (pre-COVID-19), safe boarders, a strong military and the list goes on and on. Finally, I now see that I have a fan, Ray from Duluth, who is so far off base with his comments that he must play for the Twins? He wrote, “get real, Chuck”! I think Ray, Mr. Forrest and his buddy, Ed Raymond would make the perfect sequel to the hit movies “The Three Stooges”! Chuck Bracken Cannon Falls, Minnesota We dig Gary Kohls My husband Bob and I are avid fans of Gary Kohls’ column in the Reader magazine. I don’t always agree with everything he publishes but I do think his information is on the up and up. What reason would Gary have to publish false information? And I for one think he has a right to his opinion and his freedom of speech. If you don’t agree with Gary don’t read his column. But people like Mr. Brinegar have no right to slander Gary’s good name. I think Mr. Brinegar’s letter (Aug. 6 Reader) was unjust and cruel. Please don’t let one or a few people decide what is right or wrong. Thank you for listening and I hope

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to continue to see Gary’s column in the Reader for years to come. Joanne Stager Duluth, Minnesota The pandemic and climate crisis Like the climate crisis, the current Covid-19 pandemic is a global crisis that threatens the entire world community. Although some populations have proven to be more vulnerable to the virus than others – the elderly, the sick, the poor – no individual is immune. National boundaries have not proven to be a protection against infection. In less than six months the virus has pervaded nearly every human community on earth. Millions of people continue to become infected and hundreds of thousands continue to die. Despite the fact that approximately 1 person of every 25 infected with Covid-19 has died, some people foolishly and irresponsibly discount the threat. They refuse to cooperate with – or even ridicule – the recommendations of health experts and medical scientists, thereby exacerbating the spread of the disease. As we wait for a vaccine and effective therapeutic interventions, more of us will die – many unnecessarily – due to denial, inadequate preparation and lack of appropriate response. The global climate crisis, on the other hand, will impact us ALL. No one can hope to be spared from global warming by “playing the odds.” There will be no vaccine or therapy to protect individuals and communities, and as has been said, “There is no planet B.” We have already gambled too long in debate over the reality of the imminent danger. We can only hope to SAVE the one planet we share and the human community it supports before it is too late. Limiting the proportions and outcomes of both global crises will depend on leadership and collective action. We must acknowledge the present dangers, heed the recommendations of experts and scientists, and act NOW. Viable solutions need to be big and lasting – which means bipartisan legislation and global cooperation. In the coming elections, vote for responsible leadership that will support cooperative science-based action at home and abroad. Richard A. Dale, retired fruit farmer Bayfield, Wisconsin

Winnipeg bound? Just a few lines relative to our commander-in-grief! This presidential train wreck could do anything and get accolades from his robotic, die-hard fans. I worry about our precious Democracy is this egomaniac gets reelected this November. If this happens, I will most certainly move to Winnipeg, Canada! Who would blame me? p.s., Yes, I am Chuck’s brother! He’s appeared in these pages over the last few months. We are close but diametrically different politically. Peace out! Ken Bracken St. Paul, Minnesota Shame on us! The preparations made, the lessons learned, the cooperating agencies, the reagents prepared and disseminated, the public-private relationships ready for rapid response, communication, transparency, analyzing trends or outbreaks, epidemics, and what happened to this stream of prevention, detection, mitigations, vaccinations, forensic analysis, reporting protocols, development of standardized digital death certificates, operational definitions, rolling recommendations on therapies, funding, stockpiles and strategic placement of essential medical and physical products and services, and distribution of staffing along with scientific, knowledge-based protocols. If all this was set up during 20092016, test protocols were run and quantified and qualified, what happened or did not happen when COVID-19 began to rear its ugly head and we were all slow to respond? An example in theory and that example in fact went like this: You have to be true in your walk the walk, if you talk the talk. So apparently these document protocols were not implemented either by commission and/or omission. The United States was ready to go and all things were funded, supported, test runs of pandemic protocols. Let’s see. The CDC sent out old corrupted reagents with the first testing modules which gave out erroneous and inconsistent results. The CDC really dropped the ball. The military had broken, rusted and ineffective ventilators that needed to be repaired or thrown away. Almost every medical facility and every state were competing in the market for the same PPEs and S95 masks to the highest bidder. FEMA, who had all the expertise on procurement of these items because of previous disasters and a ready-made playbook, were completely left out

of the loop or countermanded on a governmental process and a capitalistic free for all of price, supply, and demand process inserted and political relationships were first used for head of the line procurement whether they could provide the product, but got the money first. Shame on us. Raymond L. Payne Duluth, Minnesota Health care revolution is needed Single payer would be the good way to reduce the economic disparity between those that have and those that don’t. Washington won’t do this because they don’t represent the PEOPLE but represent the rich corporate interests. Because they represent the rich, they have continued to increase military spending and so 60 % ! of our tax money goes for that. The US is always at war but none of that is a “service” to America but an actual disservice to what America should stand for. America has invaded/occupied or economically destroyed many nations that tried to make life better for their people. Just recently the US has succeeded in helping right wing fascists destroy progressive governments in Honduras, Bolivia, and Brazil. Armed invasions, economic embargos, occupations (all international crimes) are creating misery for those people-our brothers and sisters. Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and others are all suffering from these US crimes. It should be obvious to us that Washington doesn’t represent us but represents countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia and the rich corporations in the US. The US wants to control the world so it can steal their resources and dominate the markets. It isn’t rocket science but the media keeps us thinking that America is God’s gift to the world. It isn’t. They put whistle blowers in prison like Julian Assange who exposed US war crimes. The US fights against a free press. The US is far from being a decent democracy. Washington is incapable of doing the right things. Their hands are tied due to the power that big money has over them or due to the fact that that is what they themselves want. I believe they weren’t corrupted after becoming senators, representatives, or presidents but were already corrupt before their elections. There are very few good people in Washington. Steve Johnson Ely, Minnesota

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Twins’ dermatologist calls for logo change It’s time to change the Minnesota Twins logo, says a lifelong Twins fan and the team’s consulting dermatologist from an AfricanAmerican family with long ties to the Twin Cities history of diversity and inclusion. Dr. Charles Crutchfield III, MD, the Medical Director of Crutchfield Dermatology in the Twin Cities, is urging the Twins organization and the Pohlad family owners to update the team’s legendary “Minnie and Paul” logo with a new design to reflect the real racial makeup of the team ever since it moved to Minnesota in 1961. “As a dedicated, lifelong Twins fan and a 20-year season ticket holder who went to Twins games as a kid when they played at Met Stadium, many other fans and I loudly applauded the team’s proactive removal of the Calvin Griffith statue recently, based on the racist statements made by the team’s first Minnesota owner,” Crutchfield said. “"I have always loved Ray Barton’s original 'Minnie and Paul' logo design. But the time is now to create a respectful and subtle yet very significant update that honors and reflects the team’s players and its fans from different backgrounds. It’s an easy fix but it’s an important one – and it’s long overdue.” Heartbroken by what he witnessed after the death of George Floyd and the aftermath of riots that tore the Twin Cities apart, Dr. Crutchfield desperately wanted to find a way to help the community heal: One simple way would be to refresh the hometown team’s logo. To gain real data on the public’s reception of a new logo that he developed, Crutchfield posted an informal online poll in July about

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At left is the original Minnie and Paul logo, circa 1961, and at right, Crutchfield’s updated design. his modified logo online. People apolis. She was hired after finishing lies. He is also the consulting dermavoted via social media – including college in West Virginia, but when tologist for the Minnesota Vikings, the grown children of the Twin’s the school board met her and realTimberwolves, Wild and Lynx. With legendary player Kirby Puckett – on ized she was black, they rescinded thea career dedicated to serving Minwhether they preferred the original offer. The mayor of Minneapolis at nesota's communities of color, Dr. or a modified Minnie and Paul logo, the time, Hubert Humphrey, and the Crutchfield is known nationally as an or if they favored a completely new, publisher of the Black newspaper, Ce- expert in different skin types. He is yet-to-be developed logo. cil Newman, joined forces and had a also the immediate past president of At the poll’s conclusion, the results confrontation with the school board the Minnesota Association of Black were clear: 97% voted for either an demanding that they reissue the offer Physicians. updated Minnie and Paul or a com- of employment. The school board Like his family members before pletely new logo. backed down and she was hired. him, Crutchfield was the first black • 85% preferred the modified logo. • His mother was the first black graduate of the University of Minne• 12% preferred the development woman to graduate from the Unisota dermatology residence and the of a new and different logo. versity of Minnesota Medical School first black dermatologist to practice • 3% preferred to keep the logo – and also the youngest woman to privately in Minnesota. He was se"as-is." ever graduate from the U’s medical lected by the Grio – a division of NBC Should Dr. Crutchfield succeed in program at age 22, in 1963. news – as one of the top 100 Black changing the Minnesota Twin’s logo, • His dad was the first black ob-gyn newsmakers in the U.S. it will be another case of driving to practice in Minnesota, delivering He is also currently the Clinical diversity and helping to create inclu- 10,000 babies in St. Paul. Professor of Dermatology at Universion in Minnesota: As the Twins consulting team sity of Minnesota Medical School and • His grandmother was the first dermatologist, he has treated Twin’s Benedict Distinguished Visiting Problack public school teacher in Minne- players, coaches, staff, and their fami- fessor of Biology at Carleton College. August 13, 2020 7

How local governments are spending their share of federal COVID-19 aid Under fed’s use-it-or-lose-it constraints, municipalities quickly find ways to spend the money By Walker Orenstein | MinnPost Local governments around Minnesota are hustling to spend their share of an $841 million COVID-19 aid package from the federal CARES Act, planning to use the money on everything from child care operations and business grants to city hall remodeling projects and technology upgrades for remote work. Local officials welcomed the cash, which was distributed based on population size by Gov. Tim Walz roughly a month ago, though it comes with strings attached. The money cannot be used to cover lost tax revenue and it must be dedicated to pandemic-related costs. And governments have also been given a short deadline: Cities and towns must commit the cash by Nov. 15, or the money will be kicked up to county officials, or, for cities and towns in Hennepin and Ramsey counties, to local hospitals. And counties must dedicate the money by Dec. 1 or it will be returned to state coffers. Under those use-it-or-lose-it constraints, cities and counties are quickly finding ways to spend the federal aid. As Lisa Bode, governmental affairs director for the City of Moorhead, said at a recent council

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meeting: “We don’t want to forfeit a dollar.” How the CARES money works It was largely up to the state how to distribute the CARES Act money to local governments, and lawmakers struck a deal in June to use a formula based on population. (Hennepin and Ramsey counties, however, received money directly from the U.S. Treasury.) Walz initially balked at the plan, saying that actual need for pandemic relief was not distributed proportionally; some areas have had worse COVID-19 outbreaks or economic problems than others. Eventually, though, Walz relented and shipped the money out as proscribed by the plan brokered by House Democrats and Senate Republicans. (The governor also distributed $12 million to food shelves and food banks in the state.) Federal guidelines lay out what cities, counties and towns can use the money on, namely to reimburse money spent fighting COVID-19. That includes paying for a range of local services, such as communication and enforcement of public health orders, purchasing personal protective equipment and sanitation supplies and payroll for public workers who are responding to the pandemic. Also allowed are payments to businesses, nonprofits, hospitals and schools for COVID-19-related reasons. Several cities contacted said they expect to direct a significant chunk of the money to city expenses related to the pandemic. In Alexandria, most of the $1.05 million the city received in CARES Act

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money will be spent on technology upgrades for employees to work from home and to better record and stream council meetings and other city business. “Currently we can’t easily or with any quality, connect the mayor and council to the public through video,” said city spokeswoman Sara Stadtherr. The city also expects to use CARES Act money to buy signs in city buildings that will highlight COVID-19 regulations, as well as to create an employee-only entrance at city hall to control staff interaction with the public. Winona Mayor Mark Peterson said the council is still deliberating on how it wants to spend the city’s $2.05 million, but one possibility is to reimburse the fire and police departments for extra staff costs. That includes overtime incurred from a new shift system where the public safety workers rotate weeks at a time to prevent staff from being decimated by a COVID-19 outbreak. Bemidji City Manager Nate Mathews said their main focus is to recover budget expenses, including money spent buying PPE, but also staff time for city employees and officials who have dedicated much effort to developing and implementing protocols and preparedness plans for the pandemic. One expense Mathews highlighted was the purchase of barricades the city put in parking stalls to help restaurants grow their outdoor seating capacity. Bemidji got roughly $1.1 million from the federal aid package. Some of the CARES Act money is likely spent addressing long-standing problems that local officials can justify as a COVID-19 expense. In Moorhead, Bode, the city’s governmental affairs director, said they already have a detailed strategic plan for city upgrades and many would be a good fit for pandemic response — such as cleaning air duct systems. “We matched the resource to the need,” she said. Article continues after advertisement In all, a draft plan for Moorhead’s $3.28 million would spend $1.28 million on city expenses like election support, public building improvements, telework equipment,

public housing upgrades and public safety staff salaries. Governments roll out grants Another popular choice for using the CARES Act money is to spend it on grants for businesses and nonprofits. Nearly all officials who talked to MinnPost said they are considering dedicating at least some money to them. In Moorhead, the city’s remaining $2 million would go to a grant program for small local nonprofits that could be launched as soon as mid-August. Derrick LaPoint, president and CEO of Downtown Moorhead Inc., an economic development nonprofit that partnered with the city to devise the local business initiative, said at a late July council meeting they wanted to build on a state grant program that saw far more demand than it had money to hand out. LaPoint said one hole in the state program was that only Minnesota residents were eligible, even though many Moorhead businesses are owned and operated by people who reside in North Dakota. Nick Leonard, deputy administrator of Otter Tail County in west-central Minnesota, said he expects the bulk of their $7.21 million will be used on grants for small businesses and nonprofits. While the county has incurred plenty of expenses, Leonard said the county board wants the money largely to flow back into the community. A draft plan, which Leonard said was just a “starting point” for the board, earmarked $4 million for the business grant program and $1.5 million for housing food and financial assistance. Other cash was reserved for education, high-speed internet projects, public safety expenses and more. The city of Marshall plans to spend $500,000 of its $1.04 million on business and nonprofit grants to help a local economy that was “really affected” by Walz’s stay-home orders, said Mayor Robert Byrnes. “The lifeblood of our community and any community is the business sector,” Byrnes said. “If we can help the business sector then other sectors that rely on the business community are also indirectly helped.”

One city that may eschew business grants is Fergus Falls. Mayor Ben Schierer said his city hasn’t settled on a final plan for its $1.04 million, but that he’s exploring spending money to help a local health care provider and schools – especially since their county, Otter Tail, may have a business grant program of its own. Business help may come in indirect ways, such as partnering with nonprofits to provide space for child care programs, particularly if local schools decide not to have in-person classes. Dealing with restrictions One thing local officials can’t spend the CARES Act money on is to replace lost tax revenue during the economic downturn that have followed the pandemic and Walz’s restrictions on public life. Many city and county officials said they expected to have budget holes, though they were still assessing the economic damage. Mathews, the Bemidji city manager, said they would welcome the ability to make up for lost taxes. He said the city is considering restarting an ice rink at its Sanford Center, which hosts the Bemidji State University men’s and women’s hockey team. The athletes need to practice, but without money from food, beverages,

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sponsorships and tickets, taxpayers could be left to shoulder a significant burden of reviving the ice and running the building, Mathews said. New money for cities and states is a sticking point in Congressional negotiations over a large new coronavirus aid package, one that could allow local governments to pay for lost taxes. Besides the federal limitations on how CARES Act can be used, the short timeline for doling out the money is the largest restriction. It has sent some government officials scrambling to throw together spending plans. Still, local leaders universally said they will find an outlet for the money rather than letting the cash-strapped state reclaim any of it. “The big thing is ultimately getting the money into businesses hands, and not giving the money back to the state,” LaPoint, of Downtown Moorhead Inc., told the city’s council with a laugh. “That is the number one goal out of this whole thing is making sure this money gets distributed to the community.” Next week The Reader will look at how some local municipalities are spending their federal COVID aid.

The Alexandria City Council met July 27, in part to discuss how to spend its share of a federal aid package for local governments to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. MinnPost photo by Walker Orenstein.

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Calls for more testing as Wisconsin sees ‘significant’ coronavirus spread State boosted its capacity, but challenges loom and many shirk testing In the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, a shortage of testing supplies and staff at laboratories left Wisconsin and other states struggling to quickly identify infections and isolate contagious people. Four months after Gov. Tony Evers declared the outbreak a public health emergency, the state has dramatically expanded its testing capacity. But ex-perts say too few Wisconsinites are showing up – potentially thwarting efforts to neutralize a virus that killed at least 998 people in the state as of Aug. 9 figures from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). Wisconsin has 83 labs that can perform more than 24,000 total tests each day, according to data that public, private and commercial labs voluntarily report to the DHS. That’s about seven-times the capacity reported on April 1. Twenty-four additional labs are “planning to test.” But Wisconsin typically uses less than half of its reported capacity. DHS reports a seven-day average of roughly 11,700 test results per day, although

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that number hovered around 14,000 last week. Even Wisconsin’s June 3 record of 16,933 test results sits below the 19,000 needed to pursue a strategy to prevent spreading – or the 70,000 needed to suppress the outbreak, according to a Harvard Global Health Institute analysis conducted last month for NPR. Wisconsin was among 32 states falling short of the mitigation criteria, according to the study. DHS officials urge testing for people who have COVID-19 symptoms – including a cough, shortness of breath, fever and chills – or suspect they were exposed to the virus. Testing is likely lagging because many prime candidates still aren’t showing up, said Ajay Sethi, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of its Master of Public Health program. “The only way you will know whether you have COVID is to get Members of the Wisconsin National Guard disinfect their personal protective equipment a test,” he said. “It’s very important after a shift at a drive-through COVID-19 testing facility at the Alliant Energy Center in to make sure that when somebody Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Watch photo by Will Cioci. recognizes that they’re indicated for a test, they need to go get a test.” significant community spread here in Wisconsin may face additional Calls for more participation come as Wisconsin.” challenges as the virus keeps spreading known virus cases are surging across Chuck Warzecha, deputy adminnationally – such as a shortage of the state and country. Wisconsin set istrator of DHS’s Division of Public testing materials. daily records for confirmed cases four Health, called testing volume a But states should not expect much times since July 9, nearing 1,000 cases key piece of a complicated puzzle. help from President Donald Trump’s on some days, DHS data shows. Harvard’s recommendations are useful administration, which has played a “These numbers are not the result for mapping out capacity needs as hands-off role in responding to the of more testing,” DHS Secretary the crisis persists, Warzecha said, but pandemic, said Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Andrea Palm said on a recent media conducting “the right testing” is even vice provost for global initiatives and call. “These numbers are the result of more important. chair of the Department of Medical That means targeting high-risk Ethics and Health Policy at the populations, communities with active University of Pennsylvania. outbreaks and symptomatic people – “One of the problems of this whole along with their close contacts. The national approach that affects everyone strategy includes scrutinizing nursing is the fact that it has been – each group homes, where DHS has investigated is supposed to make its own decision,” 151 outbreaks of at least one he said. coronavirus case. The Evers administration has The Evers administration early in promoted testing statewide, even the pandemic also targeted testing deploying nearly 600 Wisconsin outreach to African American, Latino National Guard members to help and tribal populations. collect specimens at certain sites. “It would be great if everyone knew But officials cannot force anyone to their infection status, and then we get tested, and some people may be could all know when to stay home and avoiding the experience because they not to expose others,” Warzecha said. misunderstand the virus’ risks, Sethi “Without that, we just have to be a lot said. more strategic about how we use the “I think it’s important that we create testing that we have, so that we can an incentive and let people understand find those most at risk, isolate the virus that if you are infected, testing is the quickly and prevent the spread.” only way to know whether that’s the

case,” he said. Wisconsin’s reported surplus capacity, if accurate, bucks a national trend, Emanuel said. California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Colorado have turned people away or even shuttered some overwhelmed testing sites. The main culprit for the problem: an overwhelmed supply chain for materials like nasal swabs and reagents – the chemicals needed to perform the tests. The supply crunch has meant long waits for results, hobbling efforts to trace contacts and isolate people who test positive. Results become “literally worthless” if not reported within 10 days, Emanuel said. Wisconsin is not immune to regional testing hiccups, even with its reported capacity cushion. Some test-seekers in Milwaukee and Madison reported hours-long waits, according to media reports. In Iron River, 142 test samples at a National Guard site were thrown away after being damaged while sitting in a hot vehicle. And some clinical labs could test more if not for a shortage of chemical reagents, Warzecha said. The state resolved most early testing

In Iron River, 142 test samples at a National Guard site were thrown away after being damaged while sitting in a hot vehicle. issues, Warzecha said, acknowledging the need for further improvements. One upgrade this month: an online registration tool at National Guard testing sites that aims to reduce wait times. Wisconsin is evolving its strategies as some experts propose new ways to boost efficiency. Emanuel in mid-April joined Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer in calling for a 10-week national strategy to ramp up testing to millions per day. “It should leverage the thousands of research laboratories at U.S. universities, medical schools, and health-care systems,” the duo wrote for The Atlantic. (Nearly three months later, the United States is performing

fewer than 800,000 daily tests, according to The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project.) Emanuel and Romer also described pool testing — combining samples from several individuals and testing them together — as a “promising pathway” to speed processing and conserve supplies. “If a pooled sample tests negative, everyone in the pool is negative. If it is positive, the members of the pool can be tested individually,” the experts wrote. Other researchers have touted the method’s potential. Wisconsin has considered pooling tests, Warzecha said. The approach could prove effective in communities with lower virus rates, he noted. But pooling could waste time and supplies in COVID-19 hotspots, requiring more people to wait for a second test, he added. In an interview Tuesday, Emanuel called pooling “a way to squeak through” while the Trump administration offers little guidance or coordination to state and local public health leaders. “A country like ours, we should be able to do other things,” Emanuel said. “We should have been spending

the last four months beefing up the supply chain, making sure we had enough machines, inducing the large test companies to actually put in the capacity.” Warzecha said his teammates are learning as much from state and local health departments as they are from the federal government. “Everyone is doing the best that they can,” he said. But more testing alone can’t thwart the virus. Other behaviors matter, Warzecha added. “If people are opening up too quickly, and people aren’t wearing masks when they’re in public, and they’re spending too much time in congregate settings,” Warzecha said, “then it really isn’t going to be enough testing to help you stop the outbreak.” This story comes from a partnership of Wisconsin Watch and WPR. Bram Sable-Smith is WPR’s Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Fellow embedded in the newsroom of Wisconsin Watch (wisconsinwatch.org), which collaborates with WPR, PBS Wisconsin, other news media and the University of WisconsinMadison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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An entire political party is living an illusion “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Historian Daniel J. Boorstin Here it is, the year 2020, with information and knowledge at our fingertips as never before and as a society we’re a bunch of ding dongs in terms of using that information and knowledge for public good. Perhaps never before have we as a species ignored so much information and knowledge in our insatiable appetite for misinformation and conspiracy, lies and deceits. Social media and the internet the culprits? Gullible humans search-ing for answers? The illusion of knowledge? Welcome to the propaganda of the

blab-o-sphere. For some screwy reason humans want to believe crapola that’s been spoon-fed to them over time without ever doing a little fact check for themselves. Thank you right wing blab-o-sphere for setting our democracy up for a fall. I recently talked to a fellow who really believes that some unknown power is behind the COVID crisis for ill gain against all the rest of humanity. He is convinced. As I asked a few questions he oozed confidence in his position, he was knowledgeable in his illusion of knowledge. “There are so many conspiracy theories out there they can’t all be wrong,” he said. He believed that even if some weren’t wholly true there had to be a grain of truth in many of them or they

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Jennifer Carnahan, chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, believes there is a Democratic conspiracy to convert the state to communism. wouldn’t exist. “Somebody is trying to manipulate us, that’s a fact,” he said. Social media and the internet the culprits? Gullible humans searching for answers? The illusion of knowledge? No, I told him. Some people just want things to exist in a make-believe world and fall in hook, line and sinker. I explained that in my many years as a newspaper editor I had plenty of chances to poke a little bit behind the curtain and see exactly where much of our information was coming from. It was easy to find out that an opinion piece mailed to our office pertaining to a “bridging of energy sustainability to a renewable future” from a group calling itself “A Renewable Future” was instead sent by the Lignite Coal Association of America. At the time that group also was a sponsor of the Minnesota State Boys Hockey Tournament. The nice message was a simple greening of the coal industry to “help us” make it to a renewable energy grid way out there in the distant future. We received those mailings quite often. Propaganda in search of a medium willing to communicate said propaganda. Pretty simple to find out where the propaganda was coming from. Those little greenings of the fossil fuel industry are mere child’s play compared to some of the doozies thrown out there in 2020 masquerading as fact. What prompts normal people to decide to fight for truth and justice by joining hate groups? What makes normal people get mad enough that

they’ll grab a gun and go find that child sex ring in the basement of a pizza parlor in Washington, DC? Posts on a right wing site favored by white supremacists from a user calling himself Q started in 2017 and promise a “great awakening for patriots” and QAnon has ingrained himself into Donald V. (for vengeance) Rumpt’s mindset. This kooky but troubling conspiracy site now has plenty of followers who post the rantings on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Yikes. According to Winston Churchill, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Here, here. You don’t need quack sites to express kooky propaganda these days. Get a load of this, as conveyed through the North Shore Journal in Silver Bay. Writer Kitty Mayo had the chance to visit with Jennifer Carnahan, chair of the Minnesota New Conservative Neanderthal Party (NPNC), formerly known as the Republicans, and Democratic state chair Todd Redmann. Carnahan had the chance to explain a near conspiracy theory that Gov. Tim Walz is taking control of the daily lives of Minnesotans during the pandemic through executive powers granted during a time of emergency. “Walz is acting like the Supreme Leader and that’s a dangerous path to walk down,” she said, obviously hoping to stoke a little fear in gullible readers, a well-worn New Conservative Neanderthal Party tactic. “I do believe quite strongly that the Democratic party leaders and Walz are using this pandemic to transform this society from capitalism to communism, and it’s very dangerous,” she blabbed. She went on to warn that she was aware of this sinister plot. “But my eyes are wide open. That’s how it starts, right? It starts with someone taking extreme individual control (Rumpt?) and using whatever means by force, not just physical force in this case, for the government to take over and control every aspect of our lives.” There you are. The chair of the New Conservative Neanderthal Party spoke the party line, one riddled with misinformation and fear-mongering. What a way to see the world, a whole political party in Minnesota and the nation, knowledgeable in the illusion of knowledge.

Remember the past – work for the future “I was eight when the bomb dropped. My older sister was 12. She left early that morning to work...and never came home.” “I too was affected by the radiation and vomited profusely after the bomb attack. My hair fell out, my gums bled, and I was too ill to attend school.” “The war was caused by the selfish misdeeds of adults. Many children fell victim because of it. Alas, this is still the case today.” Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor.*

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I remember my fifth grade teacher reading to the class from John Hersey’s book Hiroshima.** I can’t honestly say it changed my life or made me into a peace activist. Like most kids, I wasn’t really paying much attention to school and soon forgot everything I was supposed to have learned. But I do remember him reading about the gruesome injuries people suffered. Now, as an adult, I know there was no justification for the horrific war crime we, as a nation, committed. Nor can there be any excuse for the unimaginable suffering we inflicted on the innocent people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. August 6, 1945, we dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later we destroyed Nagasaki with a second nuclear weapon. The world changed forever. We came under the shadow of a nuclear mushroom cloud that is still with us 75 years later. We should remember that the United States not only created these weapons of mass destruction but we are the only country in the world to use nuclear weapons against a civilian population. One would think this would inspire some remorse, or perhaps a little humility, or at least a little less celebration of “shock and awe.” We rarely see, and never consider, the impact of our militaristic actions on innocent people around the world. We just don’t care about the people we callously dismiss as “collateral damage.” Most Americans blindly accept the

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existence of these weapons of mass destruction and the lame excuses used to justify them. Nuclear weapons are insane because we all live DOWNWIND from the rest of the world. Literally what “goes around comes around.” As the nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima demonstrate, we can be affected by what happens on the other side of the world. The idea that nuclear weapons deter potential enemies is false. They do not work for terrorists, suicide bombers or “rogue states.” Nuclear retaliation cannot deter terrorists because they do not have a territory to retaliate against. Leaders of a“rogue” or a nuclear country know we can not actually use nuclear weapons. No one “wins” a nuclear exchange and the conquered territory would be unusable. So mutually assured destruction as a deterrence no longer works. We would be more secure by eliminating all nuclear weapons, which are the only weapons that could actually destroy the United States. NO other nation has the military capability to invade, or conquer, our country. But even a few nuclear weapons reaching our cities could be catastrophic. But the United States and Russia still have thousands of nuclear weapons on “alert,” ready to be launched in minutes. Unstable, conflict-plagued, countries like Pakistan, India and Israel have nuclear weapons. The possibility of an accident, a mistaken launch, or a technical malfunction is a serious threat. The mining and production of them is a huge public health and environmental problem. Nuclear weapons, because they exist, are a very real threat to the safety of everyone in the world. But our national leaders from both parties have an outdated Cold War mindset. They still believe nuclear weapons are necessary for national defense. They have not learned from the mistakes of 75 years of excessively militarized foreign policy. In 1945 we had alternatives to the use of nuclear weapons. In 1946 we could have easily abolished them. Today we still can. We have alternatives to perpetuating the threat of a nuclear holocaust. On July 7, 2017, an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations (122) passed an agreement to ban nuclear weapons. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will become

international law once 50 nations have signed and ratified it. As of July 2020, 82 nations have signed the treaty and 40 have officially ratified it. The treaty is not a panacea. The supporters recognize that without the support of the nuclear nations, especially the United States, it will only be a dream for the future. But it does create a path to reach that future. Like other disarmament treaties, it establishes norms of civilized behavior for all nations to work toward. Nations that sign and ratify the treaty agree to not: 1. Develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons 2. Use, or threaten to use, nuclear weapons 3. Transfer or receive nuclear weapons from other countries 4. Allow installation or deployment of any nuclear weapons in its territory The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN, icanw.org) is leading the effort to adopt the treaty. The United States refused to participate in creating the treaty and has stated it will not sign it. Once again, rather than leading efforts to build peace, the United States is a major impediment to solving world problems. We have refused to join the international bans on landmines and cluster bombs. We won’t submit to

the jurisdiction of the world court to decide cases involving our country. We only accept international law when it is convenient or when it is rigged in our favor. The world would be a better, safer place if the United States of America was the world leader in mediation rather than military intervention. The world would be more peaceful if the U.S. was the number one arbitrator of disputes instead of the number one arms dealer. We could use the trillions of dollars we waste on war and preparation for war to build bridges rather than walls and weapons. We could lead the world in abolishing nuclear weapons instead or being, as Martin Luther King said in 1968, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” But it is unlikely that politicians from either party will support signing this treaty unless pushed by considerable public pressure. American citizens must demand action on this treaty if banning the bomb is to become a reality. *Time Magazine “After the Bomb” stories of the survivors time.com/afterthe-bomb. ** “Hiroshima” by John Hersey is available from the New Yorker magazine at newyorker.com/ magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima.

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Shirely Ann Hansen 9/9/1936 – 7/31/2020 Shirley Ann Hansen (Humphrey) was born to Myrtle & Lynn Humphrey in Clear Lake Iowa. She was raised in Floodwood, Minn., and settled in Duluth, where she peacefully passed away, surrounded by family. “I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should just go ahead and be one.” Shirley began her career in the labor movement in 1958 as a Secretary for the United Food and Commercial Workers Local Union No. 1116. She quickly advanced and took on the role of organizer for the local and was instrumental in negotiating the first dime into the UFCW Pension Plan for workers of Chun King Corporation, which was followed by many more successful organizing efforts. Although Shirley retired in 2003, she remained active in the labor community. Shirley fought every day for the rights of thousands and held business owners and corporations accountable to provide safe working conditions, fair wages and equal treatment, while simultaneously fighting for her and her family. Not only did she succeed, she did so as a woman during a time in history that was far from accommodating professional, working women. In lieu of cards and flowers, the family is asking that you make a contribution to St. Louis County Rescue; Life House; Second Harvest Food Bank; or, Light House for the Blind.

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Michael Jeno Paulucci 10/26/1948 – 8/8/2020 Mick, our beloved husband, father and grandfather died at the age of 71. Born to parents Jeno F. Paulucci and Lois M. Paulucci (Trepanier) in Duluth, Mick attended Duluth East High School and Yampa Valley College in Colorado. Mick was the founder of Grandma’s Restaurant Company, with his first restaurant Grandmas Salon & Deli opening in Canal Park on Feb. 8, 1976, which altered both the character of Canal Park and the city’s culinary landscape. He further continued his success as a restauranteur by bringing his visions and innovative ideas to fruition with Grandma’s Sports Garden, Little Angie’s Cantina and Bellisio’s Italian Restaurant. Mick and his Grandma’s Restaurant were the original sponsors of the 44-year-old Grandma’s Marathon, which is now run by almost 10,000 runners every year. Mick enjoyed cooking, telling stories and surrounding himself with friends. He has left a legacy of love, generosity and joy among those who knew him. Mick will be greatly missed by all whose life he touched, but will never be forgotten. Services will be held at a later date, when it’s safe. Memorials are preferred and may be directed to Essentia Health-Amberwing, 615 Pecan Ave. Duluth, MN 55811. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home, Duluth.

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Jamarr LaVell Harkins, Jr. 6/25/2019 – 8/7/2020 Jamarr LaVell Harkins, Jr., 13 months, of Superior, died at Children’s Minnesota Hospital, Minneapolis. He was born in Minneapolis, son of Tayteaona Boykin and Jamarr Harkins. “Baby J” was very charismatic and was always being silly. He loved to make people smile and laugh. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, at Downs Funeral Home, Superior. Should friends desire, the family wishes to donate new unopened toys to Children’s Minnesota Hospital.

Charles Wesley Lauritsen 12/7/1927 – 8/6/2020 Charles Wesley Lauritsen, 92, of Duluth died at St. Luke’s Hospital. Charles was born in Faribault, Minn., to deaf parents, Dr. Wesley and Mrs. LaReine (Roper) Lauritsen. He was married to Inger Marianne Hornfeldt on May 22, 1976. He was a graduate of Faribault High School, a graduate of the Minnesota School of Business and the University of Minnesota. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps upon graduation from high school and served during World War II and the Korean Wars. He was also a Lifetime Member of the Disabled American Veterans. For 30 years he was the proprietor of Lauritsen’s Accounting Service. He had been a Scoutmaster for Park Point Boys and for mentally challenged boys. In 1972, he was in initiating a handicapped barrier-free environment at the DECC. Funeral services will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to the Salvation Army, the Park Hill Cemetery or a charity of your choice. Arrangements by Williams Lobermeier Boettcher Funeral Home.

planned for a future time. Michael James Little 8/27/1954 – 8/4/2020 Michael James Little, 65, died at Solvay Hospice House. He was born in Duluth to James and Edith Little. He attended Duluth Public Schools and graduated from Duluth Central in 1973. After graduation he volunteered countless hours in the press box at Public School Stadium for football games. His enthusiasm for helping out with anything Central Highrelated never wavered. This went on for many years past his graduation. A family service will be held at Park Hill Cemetery. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home. Mary Joan Patterson 7/5/1929 – 7/25/2020 Mary Joan (Swanstrom) Patterson, was born in Duluth to Dwight and Anna Jean Swanstrom. Mary loved spending time at her beloved cabin in McGregor on Lake Minnewawa. Per her request, there will be no funeral services. The family would like to thank the staff at Bayshore for their loving and compassionate care. Arrangements by the Cremation Society of Minnesota. Grace Bernice Patterson 2/5/1925 – 7/24/2020 Grace Bernice Peterson, 95, of Duluth, died peacefully in St. Mary’s Hospital, sur-rounded by her family. Grace was born in Midway Township to Adolph and Edna Erickson. She was the eldest of 18 siblings. She graduated from Proctor High School in 1943, and completed St. Luke’s Nursing School in 1946. Grace was a life-long caregiver and nursed for many years at St Mary’s, the Fargo VA Medical Center (ND), and the Parkland Health Facility (South Range, Wis.). Grace married Warren O. Peterson in Duluth on Nov. 25, 1946. Grace will be buried at Forest Hill Cemetery with a small gathering of immediate family. A celebration of life is

Bradley C. Roen 2/6/1961 – 8/8/2020 Bradley C. Roen, 59, of Minong, died at Spooner Health. Brad was born in St. Paul, Minn., the son of Donna (Ness) and Charles Roen. He graduated from Glenwood High School. He married Tammy Brown on March 20, 1999, and they celebrated 21 years of marriage. He had worked at Jack Link’s, Como Oil, and most recently as a brick layer with Mike Hall. Brad enjoyed fishing, hunting, and boating. Following Brad’s wishes, no services will be held. Garry W. Ruotsalainen 7/2/1953 – 7/25/2020 Garry W. Ruotsalainen, 67, of Proctor, was born in Moose Lake. Garry graduated from Moose Lake High School and was employed at Azcon Corporation for many years in Duluth. Garry loved spending time at his shack in Automba. He enjoyed going to the Lakehead Harvest Reunion & tractors, his Harley Davidson and most of all, he cherished his three grandchildren. Arlene G. Thomas 4/6/1937 – 7/29/2020 Arlene G. Thomas, 83 of Duluth was born in Duluth to Archie and Gladys Rappana. She was a graduate of Duluth Denfeld and attended UMD. Arlene met Ron Thomas and they were married in Aug. 1957. Arlene and Ron made their home on the North Shore near Silver Bay, where they were members of United Protestant Church. She moved to Duluth in 1991. Most of all she loved spending time with her family at the cabin on Fish Lake, watching her boys and her grandchildren’s sporting events and listening to the Minnesota Twins.

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Dear Readers: It’s August, it’s hot, and electric bills are high. Is there a solution both to staying cool and saving money? Yes, there is – it’s the ceiling fan. Did you know that the direction that a ceiling fan’s blades rotate can make a difference? Leading manufacturers of ceiling fans tell us that in the summertime, the ceiling fan blades should rotate COUNTERCLOCKWISE as you look up at it. You should be able to feel a light and cool breeze when you stand under the ceiling fan. The ceiling fan won’t lower the temperature in the room significantly, but it will FEEL cooler. Look for a switch on the motor, right below the fan blades. – Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: Meet Lucky. Frances

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R. in Mt. Angel, OR, took in Lucky as a kitten, and says he is a great mouser. He’s also quite at home in her bathroom sink, as his picture indicates! To see Lucky and our other Pet Pals, visit Heloise.com and click on “Pet of the Week.” Do you have a funny, frisky and furry friend you’d like to share? Email a picture and description to Heloise@Heloise.com. – Heloise HOW DOES YOUR HEEL FEEL? Dear Heloise: I’ve found that a wider shoe heel is more comfortable for me. My weight is distributed over a broader area, so I feel more sure-footed and I have less pain in my feet and ankles. – Helen in Texas Helen, how right you are! A wider heel offers more stability, support and comfort. – Heloise PENNIES PASTA Dear Heloise: My lab takes meds for joints, and those treats that hold pills can get costly. After making penne pasta one night, I put each pill inside the tubular pasta and now use it for pennies a day. She loves taking her

Meet Lucky the mouser, who feels at home pills! – Gale B., via email LOST DOG HELPER Dear Heloise: I carry a leash and collar in my car. If I come across a lost dog, I may be able to help it a little more easily. I’ve had this happen more than once and have always been glad the leash was there. I read your column in the Statesman Journal in Salem, OR. I hope this helps some doggies! – Karen R., via email

CHORES FOR CHILDREN Dear Heloise: When my children were young, I had assigned chores for them. These changed each week. If you washed the dishes one week, you wouldn’t be doing them the next week. Male or female, the chores were no different. And on Saturdays, yes, your chores had to be done before you went out to play. One Saturday morning, a friend asked if my daughter could come out to play. I asked her, is your room clean? She was quickly done and out to play. Another plus? Ask my daughter-in-law. She likes that my son pitches in without having to be asked. It’s embedded in his DNA. – Marnie W., The Villages, Fla. Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise@ Heloise.com. I can’t answer your letter personally but will use the best hints received in my column. (c)2020 by King Features Syndicate Inc.

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Mask it or casket! The baseness of Trump’s base Please, Democrats, Socialists, and Never-Trumpers, don’t pay too much attention to the political polls this time. You have to understand that Donald J. Trump is a psychopathic nutcase who has no ideology or moral base in his baseness. Baseness is defined as being corrupt, treacherous and contemptible with low moral standards. One of the greatest horror movies ever made was Nosferatu in 1922, the first film of the Dracula franchise. The sequels have frightened and horrified the bloodthirsty for a century. The main character travels on a ghastly ghost ship loaded with caskets filled

with diseased rats to a small German town and turns them loose. The rat’s task is to fill the caskets with dead. The residents panic in the streets, try to scatter to their homes before the rats can infect them with the fleas they carry, and then pray and cower behind their doors. Does it sound a little like our current coronavirus pandemic and our Great Leader who is helping to spread it? He was elected once – and his big base seems to be still behind him. There’s only about 90 days to the next election. Normally we talk about the first hundred days of an administration, not the last. Remember, the man who never

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pets dogs or laughs has millions of Southern whites, Jim Crow veterans, black voter suppression legislators, and worshippers of Jefferson Davis and the Ku Klux Klan who are still fighting the Civil War in his base. The sons and daughters of the Confederacy will most likely be displaying the Confederate battle flag in their homes and waving it in their hearts until they lose the war, even if it has been removed from NASCAR and the Mississippi flag. Remember, he has millions of conservative fundamentalist Christian bigots in both Protestant and Catholic ranks in his base who believe God created the colored, particularly blacks, to serve the whites. Remember, he has millions who believe that fundamentalist Christian Dominionists should govern a theocratic country and prepare us for the Rapture. Remember, Trump has millions who are against same-sex marriage, the LBGTQ+ community, and abortion. Remember, NRA and gun culture members of his base justify that the Second Amendment is worth much more than the 140,000 Americans killed and wounded by firearms each year. Any human sacrifice is worth carrying AR-15s and handguns on the streets, in the bars, in grocery stores and in state capitols in order to intimidate politicians and their fellow citizens. Almost 20% of American adults say they will not take COVID-19 vaccine while 28% of Republicans will refuse it. Who will the crazy anti-vaxxers, led by Robert Kennedy, Jr. vote for? Ignorance is dangerous. It’s real hard to deal with stupid. If Trump loses the election and refuses to leave office in the Divided States of America he has turned into a banana republic – well, shoot the son-of-a-bitch. That’s what happens in third-world countries. My favorite cynic, H. L. Mencken, left this message for citizens to consider when they go to the polls: “Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world…has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the American people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” Two new words about a human dissenter: Deluminating Covidiot Masks have been around for thou-

sands of years: hiding identities, protecting faces from swords and spears, shielding faces from freezing cold and ice crystals, protecting faces from heat and welding materials, and even keeping the lungs from ingesting pollutants and germs, but this may be the first time they have been used to identify a political ideology. The lack of a mask today can result in a deadly shooting of bullets or the respiration of deadly virus droplets resulting in death. The best bumper sticker to come out of the current crisis is “MASK IT OR CASKET!” In a challenging situation in a mall, an irate shopper yelled at a clerk: “Masks can’t stop viruses, pants can’t stop farts!” Perhaps the woman just had a series of brain farts. A Florida woman compared not wearing a mask to not wearing underwear because: “Things gotta breathe.” That’s as far as I will go with that one. Masks can block the spread of respiratory droplets of COVID-19 that can kill babies, teens, Gen X, boomers, and lots of old farts. Research indicates masks have prevented 450,000 COVID-19 cases by May 22. Scientists predict that we can save 33,000 deaths if 95% wear masks through October. Read Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Mask of the Red Death” published in 1842 for additional details! In the story a mysterious masked figure runs through an abbey killing an impressive list of people – sorta like a virus in a nursing home. By the way, deluminating (like a dimmer switch!) covidiots don’t wear masks because it’s a “hoax!” Greek ‘Fab Five’ ignorant compared to HS sophomores Students who have been forced to study Western and European history to gain a high school diploma or college degree today have run across the Greek “Fabulous Five” of Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Sophocles and Hippocrates. Hippocrates was the first to be fascinated by medicine. Socrates asked questions that the other three tried to answer – as well as millions of students over the centuries have also. Aristotle is called the father of Greek democracy – and ours. But I have never had a teacher proclaim that Aristotle staunchly defended slavery because it was “beneficial to the slave.” He

thought that some people were unable to do things for their own good, so they should be “living tools” for use by others. He wrote: “The slave is part of the master, a living but separated part of his bodily frame.” He also thought that women should not be considered to be citizens in his “democratic” city because they were incapable of authoritative decision-making – and that even capable manual laborers should not be considered for citizenship. So it is our job today to correct Aristotle’s opinions to fit today’s society. Science in all fields marches on. Henrich Rohrer describes what the task of science is: “Science means walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction – in short, between and old today and a new tomorrow.” Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics for using the electron microscope to construct small electronic circuits and for developing new technologies and equipment for the scanning tunneling microscope. It provides images of individual atoms on surfaces. He is recognized as the founder of what we call nanotechnology. Aristotle, Trump, Sojourner Truth and Jesus are all Africans If you want to believe that Adam and Eve came from dust and rib in the Garden of Eden, that’s your business, but Eden was most likely in Northern Africa – and the entire human race, including the seven-foot Watusi in the NBA and the three-and-half foot archaic pygmies of Indonesia also came from the universal birthplace. We all started out pretty dark. Despite all of our present shades of white, brown and black, we are all one race – the human race.

When our ancestors moved around Planet Earth, we ran into different loads of ultraviolet rays and vitamin D. As a result the color of our skin varies. Folks, this is not an Alex Jones conspiracy theory, it’s hard rock science developed from Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and all of the scientific facts discovered since then. But we have to be educated to accept the facts. Research (wallethub.com/edu//e/ most-educated) on the education levels of the states is quite illuminating. Comparing educational attainment (diploma and degree) and quality of education (test success, funding, and other factors), experts determined that out of the top 15 states in the ranking of the most educated, only one, Utah, voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Fourteen went for Hillary. Out of the next 16 through 30, 11 voted for Trump and four voted for Hillary (Delaware, Maine, Rhode Island, and California). In the bottom 20 in the rankings, all of them voted for Trump. Every Bible Belt state and every Old Con-federacy state voted for our “Only I Can Do It” stable genius Donald Trump. Fascinating. A Pew Research poll of voters reveals that only 45% of Republicans are worried about spreading COVID-19 while 77% of Democrats are worried. GOP voters are more willing to mingle with other people at a sporting event or concert while only 11% of Democrats are willing. Willing to dine at a restaurant? GOP65%, Democrats-28%. There’s a lot of “covidiotcy” going on. But Trump loves his base. He says: “I love the poorly educated.” But remember, he loves only himself. Do you think this anomaly has anything to do with the quantity and quality of education the voters have received? Perhaps the GesTrumpo

should study why 37 of the 50 largest cities in the U.S. have Democratic mayors. The largest city under GOP control is San Diego with 1.4 million. The other 12 are all in Republican states. StormTrumpers and the battle of the masks How would you like to be a cashier, a clerk, a Walmart greeter, a nursing home aide, a bartender or a flight attendant, particularly in the South, Bible Belt, or red state? Comments to a 63-year-old North Carolina woman who is a lifetime asthmatic made by covidiots are quite instructive about mask-wearing. She worked as a clerk-cashier in a small general store in a little town on the Intracoastal Waterway. The state just made the mask a requirement. Corky and I are familiar with the territory and the people because we lived on New Topsail Island, NC, 20 feet from the Atlantic for two years. I have selected a few comments from a Washington Post article. Signs requesting customers to wear masks were placed in prominent positions outside and inside the store. • “You’re infringing on my rights. This is a free country, and I’m here to shop, so who’s going to stop me?” • “F—k masks. F—k you.” • “You are a sheep. You’ve been

brainwashed. You’re pushing government propaganda.” • “You are suffocating me. I’m an agent of the World Health Organization. You are part of the deep state.” • “How do you like your muzzle? Is this going to be sharia law? Are you prepping us to wear burqas? What’s next? Mind control?” • “My rights, my rights. Why are you trampling on the Constitution?” The harassed clerks finally locked the door and admitted only those with a mask. King Donald indicated mask-wearing was a terrible weakness for four months to his Always-Trumpers – until his polls tanked. H. L. Mencken could spot a Trump a mile off: “As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” Remember when Trump said he was going to clean the swamp? He continues to pee in it. Actually, we all evolved out of a swamp. Trump has now created a cesspool out of the swamp.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the backlash against truth Last week was the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the whole truth continues to be heavily censored and mythologized, starting with the news of the events that created understandable joy among the American civilian victors of that awful war. Most Americans took in, as gospel truth, the heavily edited stories about the end of the war. To the average American, the war’s end was such a relief that there was no questioning about the mechanisms used to end the war. For the soldiers who were war-weary, no moral questions were raised regarding the use of the atomic bombs. The immediate history was written by the victors, of course, with no balancing input from the losing side. But, several decades later, after intensive research by unbiased historians, we now know that the patriotic narrative contained a lot of false information, often orchestrated by war-justifying militarists – starting with General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, aka “the American Caesar,” successfully imposed near total censorship of what really happened at Ground Zero. One of his first acts after taking over as viceroy of Japan was to confiscate and/or destroy all the unpleasant photographic evidence documenting the horrors of the atomic bombings. One example of the backlash against historical truth was the fact that – in 1995 – the Smithsonian Institute was preparing to correct the patriotic myths

about the war crimes committed in August 1945 by staging an honest, historically accurate 50th anniversary display exploring all sides of the atomic bombings. This provoked serious right-wing reactionary outrage from veterans’ groups and other “patriot” groups, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich from the GOP-dominated U.S. Congress. The Smithsonian removed all of the contextually-important aspects of the story, especially the bomb-related civilian atrocity stories. So again, pow-erful, politically motivated groups had again falsified history because of a fear that truth, albeit historically-accurate, would contradict their deeply held beliefs, an intolerable psychological situation for many blindered super-patriots. The Smithsonian historians did have a gun to their heads, of course, but in the melee, the mainstream media – and the easily brainwashable consumers of propaganda – ignored a vital historical point. And that is this: the war could have ended as early as the spring of 1945 without the August atomic bombings, and therefore there could have averted the three-month bloody battle of Okinawa that resulted in the deaths of thousands of American Marines with tens of thousands of Japanese military casualties and uncounted thousands of Okinawan civilian casualties. In addition, if the efforts had succeeded at ending the war via early Japanese efforts for an armistice, there would have been no need for the atomic bombs nor for an American land invasion – the basis of the

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subsequent propaganda campaign that retroactively justified the use of the bombs. President Harry Truman was fully aware of Japan’s search for ways to honorably surrender months before the fateful order to incinerate defenseless women, children, infants and the elderly people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who had never been given a choice by their militarist, fascist government about going to war in the first place. Top-secret intelligence data, declassified in the 1980s, showed that the contingency plans for a two-stage U.S. invasion of the mainland (the first one no sooner than Nov. 1, 1945, and the second one in the spring of 1946) would have been unnecessary. Japan was working on peace negotiations through its Moscow ambassador as early as April 1945 when the battle of Okinawa was just starting. Harry Hopkins, President Truman’s close adviser, was aware of Japan’s desire for an armistice. He cabled the president from Moscow, saying: “Japan is doomed, and the Japanese know it. Peace feelers are being put out by certain elements in Japan.” Truman’s team knew of these and other developments because the U.S. had broken the Japanese code years earlier, and U.S. intelligence was intercepting all of Japan’s military and diplomatic messages. On July 13, 1945, Foreign Minister Togo said: “Unconditional surrender (giving up all sovereignty, thereby deposing Hirohito, the Emperor god) is the only obstacle to peace.” What did Truman know? Since Truman and his advisers knew about these efforts, the war could have ended through diplomacy, first with a cease-fire and then a negotiated peace, by simply conceding a post-war figurehead position for the emperor Hirohito who was regarded as a deity in Japan. That reasonable concession was – seemingly illogically – refused by the U.S. in their demands for “unconditional surrender,” which was initially put forward at the 1943 Casablanca Conference between U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and reiterated at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) between Truman, Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin. When General MacArthur heard about the demand for unconditional surrender, he was appalled. He actually

recommended dropping that demand to facilitate the process of ending the war peacefully. William Manchester, in his biography of MacArthur, American Caesar, wrote: “Had the General’s advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary.” Even Secretary of War Henry Stimson said: “The true question was not whether surrender could have been achieved without the use of the bomb but whether a different diplomatic and military course would have led to an earlier surrender. A large segment of the Japanese cabinet was ready in the spring of 1945 to accept substantially the same terms as those finally agreed on.” In other words, Stimson felt the U.S. was prolonging the war, including the battle for Okinawa, and could have made using the bombs unnecessary if it had engaged in honest negotiations. Shortly after WWII, military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote: “The Japanese, in a military sense, were in a hopeless strategic situation by the time the Potsdam Declaration (insisting on Japan’s unconditional surrender) was made.” Admiral William Leahy, top military aide to President Truman, said in his war memoirs, I Was There: “It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons. My own feeling is that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.” And General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a personal visit to President Truman a couple of weeks before the bombings, urged him not to use the atomic bombs. Eisenhower said: “It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing . . . to use the atomic bomb, to kill and terrorize civilians, without even attempting (negotiations), was a double crime.” Yet, after the bombings of August 6 and 9, the “unconditional” surrender terms were quietly dropped. The emperor was allowed to remain in place as spiritual head of Japan, the very condition that made the Japanese leadership refuse to accept the humiliating “unconditional surrender”

terms. So the two essential questions that need answering (to figure out what was going on behind the scenes) are these: 1) Why did the U.S. refuse to accept Japan’s only concession concerning their surrender (Japan’s ability to retain their emperor) and 2) with the end of the war in the Pacific already a certainty, why were the bombs still used? The decision Scholars have determined that there were a number of factors that contributed to Truman’s decision to use the bombs, including the desire for revenge, the curiosity about the effects about the “new-type” weapons, and the fear of allowing Russia to share the spoils of war. The U.S. military and political leadership, not to mention most warweary Americans, had a tremendous appetite for revenge because of the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The fissionable material in Hiroshima’s bomb was uranium and Nagasaki’s was plutonium. Scientific curiosity about the differences between the two weapons was a significant factor that pushed the project to its completion. The Manhattan Project scientists and the U.S. Army director of the project, General Leslie Groves, wanted answers to a multitude of questions raised by the project, including “what would happen if a city was leveled by a single nuclear bomb?” The decision to use both bombs had been made well in advance of August 1945. Harry Truman did not specifically order the bombing of Nagasaki. The three-day interval between the two bombs was unconscionably short. Japan’s communications and transportation capabilities were in shambles, and no one, neither the U.S. military nor the Japanese high command, fully understood what had happened at Hiroshima, particularly the short-term or long-term aftereffects of the radiation. The Manhattan Project was so top secret that even MacArthur had been kept out of the loop until a few days before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The Russians had proclaimed their intent to enter the war with Japan 90 days after V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945), which would have been Aug. 8, two days after Hiroshima was bombed. Indeed, America’s Russian allies did declare war on Japan on Aug. 8 and were advancing eastward across Manchuria, eager to reclaim territories

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lost to Japan in the 1904-05 RussoJapanese War. The U.S. didn’t want Japan surrendering to Russia (soon to be the only other superpower and a future enemy) so the first nuclear threat “messages” of the Cold War were “sent.” Russia indeed received far less of the spoils of war than they had hoped for, and the two superpowers were instantly and deeply mired in the arms-race stalemate that eventually resulted in their mutual moral (and fiscal) bankruptcies that occurred a generation or two later. The reality An estimated 80,000 innocent, defenseless civilians, plus 20,000 essentially weaponless young Japanese conscripts died instantly in the Hiroshima bombing. Hundreds of thousands more suffered slow deaths from agonizing burns, radiation sickness, leukemia and virtually untreatable infections for the rest of their shortened lives; and generations of the survivor’s progeny were doomed to suffer horrific radiation-induced illnesses, cancers and premature deaths that are still on-going at this very hour. Another sobering reality that has been covered up is the fact that 12 American Navy pilots, their existence well-known to U.S. command, were instantly incinerated in the Hiroshima jail on Aug. 6, 1945. The 75,000 dead at Nagasaki on Aug. 9 were virtually all civilians, except for the inhabitants of an Allied POW camp near ground zero. They were instantly carbonized or vaporized by an experimental weapon that was developed by obedient, unaware scientists and soldiers, and blessed by Christian military chaplains who were just doing their duty by obeying orders. The War Department knew of the existence of the Nagasaki POWs and, when reminded of that fact before the B-29 fleet embarked on the mission, simply replied: “Targets previously assigned for Centerboard (code name for the Kokura/Nagasaki mission) remain unchanged.” To obscure some of these unpleasant truths, the official War Department/ National Security State-approved version of the end of the war in the Pacific contained a new batch of myths which are continuously fed to us by the corporate, military, political and media opinion leaders that represent the war-makers and war profiteers of the world. The well-honed propaganda of the war machine manufactures glory out of inglorious gruesomeness, as we have witnessed in the censored reportage of the U.S. military invasions and

occupations of sovereign nations like North Korea, Iran, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, the Philippines, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc, etc. And this list doesn’t even start to reveal the uncountable Pentagon/CIA covert operations and assassination plots that were secretly orchestrated in the rest of the planet. But somehow most humans in general and Americans in particular still hang on to a shaky “my country right or wrong” patriotism, desperately wanting to believe the myths that come from the ubiquitous “chicken hawk” politicians, military leaders and media talking heads that are in their employ of the ruling class elites. While it is true that the U.S. military has faced down the occasional despot, Americans tend to remain blind to the fact that our nation has historically supported right-wing, anti-democracy, fascist dictatorships that make the world unsafe for democracy while ensuring easy access for vulture capitalists, multinational corporations, Big Banks and other exploiters to be able to do their dirty “profits-uber-alles” work. The justification of the atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are symbolic of the brain-washing that makes possible all “total wars,” which always result in the varieties of mass slaughter that are euphemistically known as “collateral damage” or “friendly fire.” It might already be too late to rescue and resuscitate a more humanitarian, peace-loving America. It might be too late to effectively confront the corporate hijacking of liberal democracy in America. It might be too late to successfully bring down the arrogant and greedy ruling elites who are self-

ishly exploiting the resources of the world and dragging the planet and its creatures down the road to destruction. But there is always hope. Rather than being silent about the wars that ruthless warmongers are provoking all over the planet (with the very willing pushes by the Pentagon, the weapons industry, the weapons industry’s global investors and their war-hawk lapdogs in Congress), people of conscience need to ramp up their resistance and teach the truth of history, even if painful lessons will be revealed. Americans need to start owning up to the uncountable war crimes that have been hidden from history, perhaps starting with the war crime bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And then we need to go to the streets, publicly protesting and courageously refusing to cooperate with those who are transforming America into a criminal rogue nation that will eventually be targeted for its downfall by the billions of suffering victims outside our borders, just as happened to Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Fascist Spain and Fascist Japan after World War II. Doing what is right for the whole of humanity for a change, rather than just doing what is profitable or advantageous for our over-privileged, over-consumptive and unsustainable American way of life, would be real honor, real patriotism and an essential start toward real peace. Gary G. Kohls, MD, was a founding member of the now-defunct international peace organization, Every Church A Peace Church (ecapc.org). He was a member of an affiliate of ECAPC in Duluth, which called itself the Community of the Third Way. This article was published initially at readerduluuth.org and then re-published around the world, including at Consortium News, which first published it in 2012.

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Recent alarming headline A July 29 headline in the Ken-Ton Bee in Kenmore, New York, caught the attention of The Buffalo News: “Leprechaun spotted looting cars on Hamilton Boulevard.” Kenmore Police Capt. A.J. Kiefer told The News a white male with orange hair and wearing a green shirt was reported to be looting vehicles on the street July 23. Police arrested the 36-year-old, who measured 5 feet 11 inches and had someone else’s debit card, but no pot of gold. He was charged with petty larceny. [The Buffalo News, 7/30/2020] Government in action About 176 Rhode Island taxpayers waiting for their refund checks got a surprise when the checks they received in late July arrived bearing the signatures of “Mickey Mouse” and “Walt Disney” instead of state officials. State Department of Revenue chief of staff Jade Borgeson told WPRI that the division of taxation uses the signatures on dummy checks for internal testing, and the test image files were mistakenly added to real checks. “Corrected checks will be reissued to impacted taxpayers within one week,” Borgeson said. [WPRI, 7/31/2020] Karen not Karen Domino’s pizza restaurants in New Zealand were forced to end a promotion to give free pizza to women named Karen “that aren’t, well, Karens,” the promotion announcement read. United Press International reported that customers named Karen were invited to fill out an application for one of 100 free pizzas, but people objected online, suggesting the chain offer food to minorities or people who have been impacted by COVID-19. “We wanted to bring a smile to customers who are doing the right thing – Karen the nurse, Karen the teacher,” the company posted on Facebook, but

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“people interpreted this in a different way.” [UPI, 7/30/2020] Least Competent Criminals • Edward Thomas Schinzing, 32, was charged July 28 with arson for allegedly setting fires inside the Justice Center in Portland, Oregon, on May 29, beginning two months of protest in that city. The Oregonian reported the shirtless Schinzing stood out among about 30 people who broke into the building around 10:59 p.m., vandalizing offices and setting fires, because of the large tattoo of his last name clearly visible across his shoulders on surveillance images. Schinzing, who was on probation at the time for domestic violence assault, is being held at the Justice Center. [The Oregonian, 7/28/2020] • Pueblo, Colorado, police were intrigued to find a young man sleeping in a car parked behind a motel on Aug. 2, “since motels have rooms, with beds, that you can sleep in,” said Capt. Tom Rummel in a tweet. Upon running the car’s license plate, he continued, the officers found it had been stolen in an armed carjacking, and “there on the front seat was a sawed-off shotgun, just like the victim said was used yesterday!” [KKTV, 8/2/2020] Police Report A 26-year-old man in Plymouth, England, was detained on July 9 after officers working nearby heard a commotion and looked up to see the man struggling with a seagull and biting it. “He sunk his teeth into it before throwing it to the floor,” a police spokesperson told Plymouth Live. The man told police the seagull had attacked him, trying to get his McDonald’s meal, and also “volunteered ... that he was under the influence of drugs ... The seagull was clearly injured by the incident but flew off before we were able to check

on its welfare,” police said. The man was taken to a hospital for treatment. [Cornwall Live, 7/10/2020] Can’t take a joke After pub owner Steve Cotten jokingly announced in July that the beer garden at the Poltimore Arms in Devon, England, would become the Yarde Down International Airport for the summer, offering sightseeing flights, he was surprised to receive an official letter from Exmoor National Park Authority’s planning officer expressing concern about the change: “We have a duty to look into such matters to understand if there is a breach, and if so, whether any action is necessary.” Devon Live reported Cotten responded promptly in a social media post, saying, “All long haul flights have been suspended forthwith ... We apologise for any delays, and remind you that the departure lounge facilities are still open.” The park authority replied with good humor, and the taps remain open. [Devon Live, 8/4/2020] Awesome! • For her birthday, 5-year-old Macey Clemens of Parker, Colorado, went on her first horseback ride and was hooked, so she wrote her wish for a pet horse on a balloon, signed her name and let it soar. On Aug. 2, Jennifer Houghton, who owns seven horses and lives about an hour away, found the balloon stuck in a fence, and it wasn’t long before the two found each other through social media. “I feel like every little girl should get to enjoy the horse world,” Houghton told KOAA. “I couldn’t get her a pet horse, but at least try and help her ride and make somewhat of a dream come true.” She’s working with Macey’s family to find a horse close to home that the family can lease. “Hopefully, one day we’ll be able to meet up and go for a ride together.” [KOAA, 8/4/2020] • Father’s Day in Taiwan is celebrated on Aug. 8, and EVA Air wanted to make it special, so working around global travel restrictions, it announced a Hello Kitty flight to nowhere, Travel & Leisure reported. The anime characterdecorated airplane is scheduled to take off from Taipei Airport and fly for three hours at 25,000 feet. Guests will receive a special goody bag, enjoy a seafood feast created by a Michelin three-star chef and be given the opportunity to purchase Hello Kitty duty-free products at a big discount. Tickets cost $180 for economy seats and $215 for business class. [Travel & Leisure, 8/3/2020] Revenge An unnamed man in Cairns, North

Queensland, Australia, posted notices offering a $100 prize to the person able to best impersonate Chewbacca from Star Wars, but the contest turned out to be a hoax designed to harass the woman who dumped him. The posters listed the woman’s phone number and invited contestants to call and deliver their best Chewbacca roar. The woman, identified only as Jessica, told 9News: “I’m getting phone calls at really strange hours of the night. ... I thought it was quite funny, actually, a good joke.” However, she drew the line when the ex abandoned his car, without tires, in the driveway of her home, blocking her in. [9News, 7/23/2020] Nature calls An Amazon delivery driver in Nottingham, England, is out of a job after Sharon Smith, 53, discovered him defecating in her back garden in late July. Smith said she saw the man run toward her garden and went to investigate. “I asked what the heck he was doing, and he just remained pooing whilst asking me what my problem was – the cheek of it.” The driver told police he wasn’t feeling well and was desperate. Smith agreed to not press charges as long as he cleaned up the mess and his employer was informed; Amazon promised a gift voucher as a goodwill gesture. [Metro News, 8/4/2020]

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• Support the RESTAURANTS Act, which creates a revitalization fund for eligible food service establishments to keep workers employed, maintain operations and meet financial obligations. The legislation authorizes the Department of Treasury to provide grants to eligible food and drinking establishments for payroll, benefits, mortgage, rent, utilities, maintenance (including construction of outdoor seating), supplies (including protective equipment and cleaning materials), food, debt obligations to suppliers and any other expenses deemed essential by the secretary of the Treasury. • Create temporary tax incentives that encourage consumers to return to on-premise dining and drinking establishments once public health officials determine it is safe to do so. Examples include reinstating the expanded business entertainment tax deduction and creating a new temporary travel tax credit equal to 50% of any expense for meals, lodging, recreation, transportation or entertainment while traveling away from home within the U.S. • Encourage the administration to work with our trading partners to simultaneously suspend tariffs on beer, wine, distilled spirits products and our supply chain partners, and reduce trade barriers on the agriculture and food sector. Tariffs are taxes on our business operations, and the elimination or reduction of those tariffs would maintain the health of our businesses and global supply chains, support

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notch producer continues to be one of the greatest values in a land where value is in short supply. This beauty from Flora Springs shows impressive depth, with layers of blueberry, cherry and blackberry fruit, a hint of graphite and just the right touch of oak spice. Drink now or cellar. Rating: 93. Anaba 2019 Grenache Rose, Sonoma County ($30) – Pale onion-skin in color, this dry rose from Sonoma is a surprise on the palate, showing impressive complexity and crisp acidity that refreshes and whets the appetite for another sip. Notes of citrus, stone fruits and tart apple linger on the finish. Rating: 92. Tongue Dancer 2018 Pinot Noir, Pratt/ Putnam Vineyards, Sonoma Coast ($49) – Winemaker James MacPhail strikes again, this time with an impressive pinot noir from the Sonoma Coast’s Pratt and Putnam vineyards. Richly textured and complex, this vintage shows bright raspberry and cherry notes with a subtle touch of wood spice and firm but nicely integrated tannins. Rating: 92. Jean-Ernest Descombes 2018 Morgon AOC, Beaujolais, France ($23.99) – One of the most reliable and complex of all the cru Beaujolais, this example from Descombes runs true to form. A note of violets on the nose pulls you into the glass seductively, where it delivers sweet red fruits, a juicy texture and soft, supple tannins that make for easy summer sipping. Rating: 90. Follow Robert on Twitter at @wineguru.

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Anti-inflammmatory diet

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My daughter recently had my first grandchild (pretty exciting, right?). She’s on a journey to getting back to her pre-pregnancy weight and lowering her blood pressure and the accompanying swelling that she struggled with. She’s cut out processed and salty foods, and she’s exploring an anti-inflammatory diet.

Just what is an anti-inflammatory diet? In a nutshell, anti-inflammatory foods are those that most of us know are healthy – lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, plant-based proteins (like beans and nuts), fatty fish, and fresh herbs and spices. What may be surprising is that foods

with saturated fat are inflammatory. That means high-fat dairy is considered inflammatory, but low-fat dairy is not. Skim milk, for example, isn’t inflammatory; whole milk is. Choose baked chicken over fried chicken, a filet over a rib-eye. In addition, you want to avoid

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highly processed, overly greasy or super sweet foods. Limit the cakes, cookies and ice cream, as well as the processed meats, butter, whole milk and cheese. Weight gain, high blood sugar and high cholesterol are all related to inflammation. Sugar causes the body to release inflammatory messengers called

cytokines. Cut out added sugars as much as you can. Natural sugars, found in fruits and vegetables, are processed differently by the body. Just what should you eat? When it comes to fruits and veggies, go for variety and lots of color. Research has shown that vitamin K-rich leafy greens, such as spinach and kale, curb inflammation, as do broccoli and cabbage. And the substance that gives fruits such as cherries, raspberries and blackberries their color is a type of pigment that also helps fight inflammation. High-fiber foods also help with inflammation, so it’s best to choose whole grains such as oatmeal, brown rice and whole-wheat bread, as well as beans. Fat seems to play a big role in inflammation. For example, monounsaturated fats (like the kind in olive and canola oils) are helpful; saturated fats are not. Omega-3 fatty acids found in salmon, tuna, sardines and walnuts reduce inflammation. It’s also important to add herbs and spices to foods we cook. They add antioxidants (along with flavor) to food. Turmeric, found in curry

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powder, has a strong substance called curcumin. Garlic curbs the body’s ability to make things that boost inflammation. The bottom line? You can’t go wrong with a healthy diet – fruits, veggies, whole grains, lean protein and lean dairy. It’s time-tested, and it still works. Q and A Q: I’m trying to eat healthy – but I’m on a strict budget. Any suggestions? A: Let’s all try to stop throwing away food. The average family of four throws away nearly $2,000 worth of food each year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Think about what’s in your refrigerator now. Those carrots, celery stalks and asparagus spears might not look as good as they did when you bought them a few days ago, but if they’re not slimy or moldy, they are safe to eat. Use whatever odds and ends you have in the fridge in stir-fries, omelets, soups and fried rice, or roast them to use in salads and pasta. Another great way to save is to inventory your freezer and use up what’s in there. It’s food you’ve

already purchased. Frozen foods can also help cut your budget, whether it’s produce or fish. Often, frozen foods are much cheaper than fresh, especially if they’re out of season. Buy foods, such as roast chicken, that you can use in multiple meals – chicken salad, white chicken chili and chicken quesadillas. RECIPE Here’s a healthy recipe from Eating Well magazine. It uses whole-wheat pasta and colorful vegetables, a winning combination. WALNUT-PESTO PASTA SALAD 1 pound whole-wheat penne or rotini pasta 2 cups lightly packed fresh basil leaves, plus more for garnish 1/2 cup lightly packed flat-leaf parsley leaves 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, toasted 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1 clove garlic, grated 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground pepper 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium tomato, chopped 1/2 cup chopped, jarred roasted red peppers, rinsed

Bring a large pot of water to boil over high heat. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain, and rinse with cold water. Meanwhile, combine basil, parsley, walnuts, Parmesan, garlic, lemon juice, salt and pepper in a food processor. Pulse, scraping down the sides as necessary, until finely chopped. With the motor running, slowly drizzle in oil. Transfer the pesto to a large bowl, and add the pasta, tomato and peppers. Toss to coat. Top with more basil, if desired. Serves 8 (1 cup each). Per serving: 417 calories; 11 grams protein; 47 grams carbohydrates; 22 grams fat (3 grams saturated); 2 grams total sugars (0 added); 6 grams fiber; 472 milligrams sodium. Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian with SIU Med School in Springfield, Ill. For comments or questions, contact her at charfarg@aol.com or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRD. To find out more about Charlyn Fargo and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com.

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Mix your own classic cocktails sure you have stirrers, shakers and strainers available for mixing drinks.

A Margarita on the rocks. Who isn’t playing home mixologist these days? Many people are heading to the liquor store to make sure they have all the essentials on hand to blend classic cocktails and creative drinks for socially distant happy hours over Zoom or to toast to birthdays and other special events with loved ones at home. Novice mixologists and even seasoned amateur barkeeps may benefit from a rundown of all the elements necessary to create cocktails from the comforts of home. Prepare your inventory A good base of glassware is essential for pouring tasty cocktails. • Collins/highball glasses: Tall, chimney-shaped glasses good for vodka and club soda or gin and tonic. • Coupe or martini glasses: These stemmed glasses are ideal for cocktails served shaken or stirred with ice and served chilled. • Single rocks glasses: Stemless glasses for any spirit served neat or on the rocks. These hold between eight and 10 ounces. • Shot glasses: These small glasses tend to be short and stubby. In addition to these glasses, make

Drink ingredients Once your glassware cabinet is full, it’s time to stock the bar with liquor and other essentials. • Gin • Rum • Tequila • Triple Sec • Vermouth • Vodka • Whiskeys (including Bourbons and Scotches) In addition, it’s best to have on hand some other drink essentials. • Sour mix • Simple syrup • Green olives • Maraschino cherries • Grenadine syrup • Muddled mint • Citrus rinds • Citrus juices • Tonic water • Club soda and other sodas Learn the essentials With accessories and inventory in place, practice mastering these three classic drinks. Margarita Makes 2 drinks (courtesy of Serious Eats) 1 lime wedge, plus 2 lime wheels for garnish 1 tablespoon coarse salt, for glass rims 4 ounces high-quality blanco tequila 2 ounces Cointreau or other triple sec 11⁄2 ounces fresh juice from 2 limes 1. Run lime wedge around the outer rims of two rocks glasses and dip rims in salt. Set aside. 2. In a cocktail shaker, combine tequila, Cointreau, and lime juice. Fill with ice and shake until thoroughly chilled, about 15 seconds (the bottom of a metal shaker should frost over). 3. Fill glasses with fresh ice and strain margarita into both glasses. Garnish with lime wheels and serve.

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Tom Collins Makes 1 drink (Courtesy of The Spruce: Eats) 11⁄2 ounces gin 1 ounce lemon juice 1⁄2 ounce simple syrup 3 ounces club soda (or enough to fill) Maraschino cherry Lemon or orange slice 1. In a collins glass filled with ice cubes, pour the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup. 2. Stir thoroughly and top with club soda. 3. Garnish with a cherry and an orange or lemon slice. Whiskey Sour Makes 1 drink (Courtesy of Liquor.com) 2 ounces bourbon 3⁄4 ounces fresh lemon juice 1⁄2 ounces simple syrup

1⁄2 ounces egg white (optional) Angostura bitters, for garnish 1. Add all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake. 2. Strain into a coupe. 3. Garnish with three dashes of Angostura bitters. Espresso Martini Makes 1 drink (Courtesy of liquor.com) 2 ounces Vodka 1/2 ounce Simple syrup 1/2 ounce coffee liqueur 1 ounce freshly brewed espresso Garnish: Coffee beans 1. Add all of the ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake. 2. Fine-strain into a chilled cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with 3 coffee beans.

Getting in tune with Harp It still amazes me how many people are unaware of one of the world’s great lagers with the wonderful name of Harp. Out of town recently for an event, I stopped at a local liquor store to pick something up to bring to the shindig. I had nothing on my mind when I entered, but there wasn’t a second’s thought after I saw the sixer of Harp Lager. It was a hot day. I love Harp and haven’t had it for a while. Let’s go! At the counter, a young masked male exclaimed, “Guinness makes a lager?” “Yes,” I said, “a delicious lager.” “I didn’t know they made one,” the clerk said, pulling a bottle from the sixer to look more closely. One of his colleagues, a roly-poly masked woman, came up and looked at the bottle as well. “I’ve never heard of it,” she said. “Is it like Guinness.” “No,” I said. “Nothing like it. It’s o\One of the world’s great lagers,” I said. “I’ll have to try it,” the male clerk said. “Me too,” the female colleague said. When I got home and cracked open the first bottle, I realized what a wise decision I had made and was happy that I turned two more people on to this great beer. It’s so beautifully balanced, but with sweet malt front and center, as a great lager should. It is endlessly drinkable. Guinness introduced Harp Lager as a bottled beer in 1960, in response to the increasing demand for Euro lagers in the British empire. Perhaps this explains why Harp is ubiquitous in Northern Ireland – a British subject – and is rarely seen in the Republic of Ireland, or so I’ve been told. Every time you represent beer as a partisan thing, someone suffers, and

in this case, I think Ireland loses. Big time. Because Harp is delicious. In fact, if you were to catch me right now and ask what my favorite beer is, I might say Harp. It never, ever lets me down. *** Now for something completely different – a pal from Wisconsin was visiting recently and brought a treat from that Wisconsin-only brewery New Glarus, and it was one I was not that familiar with, Serendipity, a sour fruit ale made with apples, cherries and cranberries. New Glarus owners Deb and Dan Carey say Serendipity was a happy accident that Dan created when a severe drought affected the Wisconsin cherry crop and put a damper on his ability to brew the world famous New Glarus cherry bomb known as Wisconsin Belgian Red (a great beer, but even better, I think, is the New Glarus Raspberry Tart, which, on the coldest day of the year, I like to have on hand because it is pure summer in a bottle). So, back to the cherry drought Dan Carey was dealing with. He got what cherries he could, but it wasn’t enough for a batch of Belgian Red. However, he learned that the apple crop fared somewhat better, and there was a bumper crop of cranberries in Wisconsin. Carey decided to marry the three fruits in one beer, age said beer in oak barrels, and then sit back as “an almost magical wild fermentation” takes place, and, voila! What a beer it is! Try as I might, I can’t identify any individual fruit. The trio of fruits have merged into one totally new, pleasantly tart super fruit, a “kaleidoscope of flavor.” Serendipity, indeed!

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Beware the brassica ‘butterflies’ Photo: Cherry tomatoes ripening on a balcony garden (taken by me) by: A friend of mine recently planted a pollinator garden, and excitedly said she was already seeing more butterflies fluttering around her yard. I asked what kind, and when she responded that they were little white ones, I got concerned. “Oh...how are your brassicas looking?” She was surprised, “How did you know?! They are covered in holes and being eaten by something.” In a previous column we talked about the family of plants called the brassicas, which includes vegetables such as cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, collard greens and the Duluth Community Garden’s Vegetable of the Year, Broccoli. Since they are all technically the same species descended from wild mustard, they unfortunately share the same pests. The little white butterflies that my friend was so happy to see, were actually cabbage loopers and cabbage moths causing damage to her plants! These moths can be white with a black dot on the wings or mottled gray and brown, and complete their life cycle on the brassicas. Adults lay eggs on the underside of leaves, which hatch into larvae that devour the plant. Some larvae are bright green and match the color of the vegetables and camouflage so perfectly that if you’re not careful, you’ll end up with them in your frying pan or your salad if you don’t inspect your garden produce closely enough. They are not harmful to eat, but it can be quite disturbing to find them in your stir fry! The adult moths can even distinguish the silhouette of brassica plants from others and fly right toward them. A large well-weeded patch of kale is basically a siren’s call for these little

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There are three types of cabbage white butterflies, large cabbage white, small cabbage white and the cabbage moth, the caterpillars of which cause extensive damage to brassicas by making large holes in leaves. pests, completely irresistible. There’s some advice among gardeners to plant herbs and flowers around your vulnerable brassicas, which may help disguise them from the moths finding them and laying their eggs on them. This technique of planting herbs and flowers may even confuse other pests from bothering your vegetables, so it’s worth it to try next season. I like to use dill and calendula, because these attract different types of beneficial insects and both have many uses in the kitchen. Other than planting herbs and flowers to confuse the moths, if your garden is small enough you can try to pick off the larvae and drop them into a bucket full of warm, soapy water to interrupt their life cycle. Another option is to use a product called BT, which is a spray derived naturally from a bacterium, or Pyrethrin as a spray which is naturally derived from chrysanthemums (both are approved for certified organic use). If you don’t want to mess with any of that, that’s totally OK. Unless you are trying to sell your produce or enter it into the fair and win a ribbon, there is nothing really wrong with picking and eating produce that has been munched on a little by cabbage loopers. In fact, there is even evidence that plants under stress produce more antioxidants to protect themselves (yes, the same antioxidants that when eaten are good for humans!). So instead of being disappointed that the kale has bug holes, try to think of it as

being extra nutritious. Just make sure you’re checking your garden produce for the bright green larvae before eating it. Look very closely with broccoli, because they like to crawl up and hide inside of the head. Unless you want some extra sustainably produced protein in your diet, then go for it! Apparently they are very nutritious. But don’t worry, this week’s recipe doesn’t include cabbage loopers; it’s an easy pasta salad recipe that has a fun trick for flash cooking broccoli, and it will give you a chance to use the cherry tomatoes that are finally ripening around Duluth. It’s perfect for a summer weekday work lunch. If you want to share your creation, follow the Duluth Community Garden Program on Facebook or Instagram@ DuluthCommunityGardenProgram and send us a photo and description, or tag us. We’d love to share it! Happy Gardening!

1 15-ounce can chickpeas, rinsed ½ cup crumbled feta cheese (Optional) ¼ cup diced red onion Freshly ground pepper to taste Directions: Step 1: To prepare dressing: Mash garlic and salt in a medium bowl with the back of a spoon into a chunky paste. Add olive oil, oregano and vinegar; whisk until combined. Step 2: To prepare pasta salad: Cook pasta in a large pot of boiling water until ‘al dente’. Place broccoli in a colander and set it in the sink. Pour the pasta and the rest of the cooking liquid over the broccoli in the colander. (Pouring the hot pasta and cooking liquid over the broccoli “flashcooks” it, leaving it bright green and tender-crisp.) Rinse with cool water, and transfer to a large bowl. Add tomatoes, chickpeas, feta, black pepper and the dressing; toss to coat. Haley Diem is the One Vegetable One Community Coordinator with Duluth Community Garden Program, duluthcommunitygarden.org.

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Duluth Herald August 13, 1888 Harbor Improvements. The River and Harbor bill having become a law by limitation Saturday last, Major Quinn is now daily expecting official notification of that fact. He will then prepare a project of improvement for the use of the appropriation of $80,000 for Duluth harbor, and submit it to the department at Washington. After this bids must be advertised for and submitted to headquarters and contracts made and it will be October before any work can be done. As half the money to be used is specifically appropriated to the dredging of a channel to Grassy Point along the north side of the bay and up the west side of Rice’s Point, only $40,000 is available for the present harbor. Of this the greater portion will probably be used in cutting a channel; along the new dock line east of Rice’s Point and the rst in maintaining the canal piers and enlarging the harbor area. But little work can be done before next April.

Duluth Herald August 14, 1890 AN IMPORTANT EXPEDITION. The Government Talks Wildly of the Extent of Timber Thieveries. Washington dispatches refer to the expected expedition to the Rainy lake country which has been heretofore noted in these columns as follows: On Sept. 1 an expedition will be sent out from Duluth on an errand of extreme importance, and which may be fraught with great interest. Four special agents of the general land office, accompanied by a posse of fifteen men, will start to investigate the alleged robbery of valuable pine by Canadian lumbermen from public land in what

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pay up the $12,000 in back taxes when it was learned that the city needed the money, but thus far there is no indication of such haste on their part. The city has now on deposit in the various banks some $50,000 or $60,000 belonging to special funds that cannot be touched for any other purpose. The city officials are trying to figure out some plan whereby there special funds can be appropriated when an emergency like the present one arises. The running expenses of the city have been very materially increased during the current year by the increase in salaries in different departments. The council is ready to meet and pass the accumulating bills just as soon as the money to pay them is forthcoming.

Ad appearing in the Aug 16,1910 edition of the Duluth Herald. is known as the Rainy river country, in Minnesota. These men are going in search of Canadian lumber thieves who have for many years pillaged the lands on the northern boundary of Minnesota. An officer of the land office says: The forests of pine there are reckoned among the finest in the world. The profits of course are enormous, and the people of this country are the sufferers in two ways. In the first place the timer is stolen from them, and in the second place the sawed lumber is brought back into the Dakotas and other Northwestern states and brought into competition with the products of American mills honestly obtained. Complaint on this score has several times been lodged with the interior department, but has until now gone unheeded. At last, however, the department is aroused, and what is to extend into a practical inspection and

picketing of the whole border, with the view of running down the timber thieves, is to be inaugurated. Duluth Herald August 15, 1900 PECULIAR PREDICAMENT. Superior Finds Itself Without Money And Unable to Borrow. It’s a tough proposition that the city officials of West Superior have to face at the present time. With no available funds on the city treasury and the salaries of the officials for July long overdue, the city is as yet unable to borrow the $14,000 that the council authorized at a special meeting about a week ago. At first three banks offered to loan the money, but after thinking the matter over a little, the bank officials withdrew their offer, so the city must look elsewhere. Some of the city officers had an idea that the interstate bridge people would hurry to

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and children and three trucks along are on the Duluth & Northeastern the Vermillion road to Markham and as road. The population of Kelsey and the far north as Shields to remove women surrounding country is estimated at and children in that entire area. Col. 200. J. H. Trux, who is in command of the Ranger Gibbs said Duluth is in no state troops, was notified by Governor danger from the fires. The nearest fire Preus and Forrester Cox to rush all help to Duluth is at Caribou lake, about forty immediately to the two fire zones. The miles away. men, wherever possible, will be left to Every available man in Duluth, fight the fire in an effort to protect their out of work, has been inducted into homes. special service with the state forestry Kelsey is on the D. M. & N. and department in the fight against the about a mile from the Great Northern forest fires. About 2,000 men are already railroad, while Markham and Shields on duty in Northern Minnesota.

Ad appearing in the Aug. 15,1900 edition of the Duluth Herald. Duluth Herald August 19, 1910 BLOWS TOP OF HEAD OFF Arvid Peterson of Crookston Commits Suicide With Shotgun. Had Been Morose Ever Since Accident One Year Ago. Croookston, Minn, (Special to The Herald) – With the curtain of his bedroom spattered with his brains and pieces of his skull driven into the ceiling and walls and scattered about the floor, the body of Arvid Peterson was found at his home last evening two minutes after the report of a shot came from the house, in front of which the father and wife of the dead man were standing. It was a plain case of suicide, the shot gun with which the deed had been committed being found at his side. The man literally blew the whole top of his head off. Morose Since Accident. Peterson had been morose since aqn accident at the saw mill last summer when he was hit on the head and his nose broken. He had been closely watched of late, and the gun had been taken to the home of his brother-in-law, John Sandberg. Last evening Peterson stole away and got the gun shortly before 11 o’clock, and the suicide took place soon after. He is survived by a wife and one child. He was 25 years old. Duluth Herald August 17, 1920 MR. MOTORIST, BE CAREFUL, OR GAS GOES UP TO 40C Washington – Unless joyriders curtail voluntarily before Sept. 15 their present immoderate use of gasoline they will bring about a steadily rising

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price of more than 40 cents per gallon, or a system of rationing which will be applied informally but effectively in every state in the union. This is a warning from officials here who are watching the diminishing supply. Approximately 10,000,000 owners of automobiles, power boats and airplanes would be affected by the rationing system. A tentative proposal of the refiners to cut down consumption throughout the country to be applied entirely by the refiners themselves, though with the moral backing of the government, is now under consideration by government officials. The gas situation now is is declared to be more serious than it has been for months. Duluth Herald August 18, 1922 TRUCKS SENT TO BRING IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN Fires Are Confined to Two Zones, Aviators Report. Kelsey and the surrounding country. Forty-five miles northwest of Duluth, is in grave danger and the women and children of that community must be rushed out immediately. This is the message brought back shortly before noon today by Forest Ranger A. R. Gibbs of Duluth following an airplane flight with Lieut. T. G. Williams covering a circle north and northwest of Duluth with an area of approximately 1,400 square miles. They flew over twenty-four townships. Immediately upon receiving the report from Ranger Gibbs, State Forest Cox got in touch with Governor Preus, who is remaining in Duluth to direct the fight against the forest fires, and the latter ordered six army trucks rushed to Kelsey to remove all women

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Ratification of the 19th Amendment Minnesota’s suffragists worked tirelessly to win the vote beginning in the late 1850s, when Mary Colburn delivered what is believed to be the state’s first women’s rights speech. After a long struggle, the dream of equal suffrage took a big leap forward on September 8, 1919, when the state legislature voted to ratify the woman suffrage amendment, making Minnesota the fifteenth state to do so. Governor J. A. A. Burnquist opened the 1919 Minnesota legislative session on January 8 with his inaugural address, expressing his desire to send a memorial to the US Senate in support of the federal woman suffrage amendment. The U.S. House of Representatives had passed the amendment the previous January. The majority of Minnesota suffrage supporters, following the lead of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, clearly favored seeking the federal amendment. They recognized the difficulty of getting such a controversial state

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constitutional amendment passed by public vote, though a small number of suffragists continued to push for a state amendment. On January 9, Representative Charles H. Warner of Aitkin introduced a state constitutional suffrage bill. The House passed the bill ninety-six to thirty but it failed in the Senate by a margin of nineteen votes. Senators Frank L. Cliff of Ortonville and James E. Madigan of Maple Lake sponsored a similar bill in the senate that never reached a vote.

Minnesota Governor J. A. O. Preus and his wife, Idelle, voting in 1920. In response to the governor’s address, Representative Theodore Christianson, Jr. of Dawson introduced a concurrent resolution to Congress to approve the federal woman suffrage amendment on January 13. The House of Representatives adopted the resolution on January 22 by a vote of 100 to 28. The Senate passed the resolution the next day with a vote of forty-nine to seven. Governor J. A. A. Burnquist signed it two days later. In spite of this effort, the U.S. Senate voted down the federal suffrage amendment by just one vote on February 10. Perhaps anticipating this, Representative Christianson introduced a bill on January 23 granting women the right to vote for presidential electors, regardless of the outcome of the federal suffrage amendment. The bill did not give women the right to vote for state, county or municipal offices, which would only come with full federal suffrage. Both bodies of the legislature passed the bill.

The state senate considered two other pieces of legislation pertaining to female voting rights. One bill proposed extending woman suffrage to primary elections. A second bill offered women “the right to vote for certain offices and on certain propositions and matters pertaining to women.” Both bills were postponed indefinitely. On May 21, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Nineteenth Amendment resolution a second time by a vote of 304 to 90. The US Senate followed suit on June 4, with a vote of fifty-six to twenty-five. Suffragists nationwide turned their efforts to lobbying state governments to gain the three-fifths majority of states needed for federal ratification. In Minnesota, supporters met on the steps of the state capitol on June 9 to celebrate the the congressional victory and to encourage state lawmakers to meet in a special session to ratify the amendment. An estimated 1,500 women braved pouring rain to attend the event,

League of Women Voters members swearing in new members or registering women to vote, 1923. which featured parades and speeches by Governor Burnquist, Maria Sanford, Senator Ole Sageng, and others. Governor Burnquist was reluctant to call a special session for the suffrage amendment until he felt assured that enough states were committed to meet the thirty-sixstate approval requirement. By early August, he was confident of success and called for a special session to begin September 8. On the first day of the special session, both the House and Senate passed the suffrage bill by a total vote of 180 to 11, ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Jubilant suffragists held a parade to the capitol where they served a chicken dinner to thank legislators for their support, followed by a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s banquet at the St. Paul Hotel. Suffrage leaders witnessed the governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signing of the bill on September 12. It would be nearly a year before federal ratification of the amendment took place. Though it technically allowed all women to vote, barriers like literacy tests and poll taxes continued to keep many women of color disenfranchised in the decades to come.

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Here’s How: Turn vaulted ceiling into a curved ceiling The only downside to an arched ceiling is there will be some lost headroom out near the walls. There is usually a sofa or chairs near the walls, so this should not be a problem in most JAMES rooms. The peak of the room Dear Chris: Your DULLEY will also be slightly lower living room will look but still plenty high for an completely different open feeling. with just that change to If you want to convert a room with the ceiling. a flat ceiling to a curved one, it will The interest in curved or arched be a much more complex project. ceilings has waned in recent years There generally is a truss roof for some reason. They are not much above it in the attic that must be more difficult to build than vaulted removed and replaced with rafters to ceilings, and they create an elegant get the necessary headroom. look in any room. Dear James: I want a smooth, curved ceiling in my living room. It now has a standard vaulted ceiling. Is it a difficult project to convert it to a curved ceiling? – Chris K.

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Unless your room with a flat ceiling is at least 9 feet high, I would not recommend a curved ceiling. In your living room with the vaulted ceiling, the process to install a curved ceiling is relatively straightforward. Nail 1-by-4-inch furring strips to the wall, and drop a beam from the center peak. Position several backing boards in between. The furring strips are bent and nailed to these boards. Either paneling or drywall is nailed or screwed to the

bent furring strips. The first step is determining the shape of the curve you desire. These furring strips are usually available in lengths up to 16 feet, so you will likely need a separate one for each side of the curve. The curve need not be uniform throughout its length. Often, the final section coming down to the sidewall is flatter with less curve than the midsection of its length. You will need a couple of helpers on ladders. Position one at the peak

What’s wrong with vaulted ceilings? Vaulted ceilings are a controversial topic among architects, designers and savvy homeowners, sort of like any acquired taste that some love and the rest hate. Yes, vaulted ceilings have oldworld charm, but it’s a style derived from cathedrals and barns. Just as it does in a cathedral, a vaulted ceiling in a home gives a sense of openness and grandeur, but while all that empty space

and one at the wall. Have them hold a 1-by-4-inch furring strip against an end wall, and bow it to various curves. You can determine which curve you like and then draw a line along the wall. This line will be your template for the curved ceiling. Locate the rafters above the ceiling drywall. Nail a 2-by-6-inch backing board across the rafters so its bottom edge touches the line drawn on the wall. Space the backing boards about 3 feet apart. For the ones which have

above may be inspiring in a cathedral it feels wasted in a home – wasted in terms of both space and energy. Today, the “If you’ve got it, flaunt it” model symbolized by the vaulted ceiling seems as outdated as the Gilded Age architects who probably first brought vaulted ceilings from Europe to embellish the gaudy homes of the 19th century robber barons.

to be deeper to follow the curve, add a perpendicular 2-by-4-inch backing board to create an L-shaped backing board. Make a double-thick beam the appropriate depth to create the curve, and attach it under the peak. Nail another backing board along the sidewall where the curved ceiling ends. Nail or screw the furring strips to the backing boards and center beam to create the framing for the ceiling. Hang the ceiling covering from the curved furring strips. Most paneling

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Can waterfalls really make me happy? The notion of waterfalls making you happy is often viewed as an “old wives’ tale,” but there may be some truth to it given the so-called “negative ions” pervasive in such environments. The collision of water molecules with each other causes water to be positively charged and surrounding air to be negatively charged. According to The “Now and Then” Falls at Amnicon Pierce Howard, Ph.D., author of The Wisconsin DNR photo. Owner’s Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind-Brain Research, it “High concentrations of negative makes sense that waterfalls can make ions are essential for high energy and you feel good, given that negative ions positive mood,” he reports. “Negative hitting our bloodstream can produce ions suppress serotonin levels in much biochemical reactions linked to the same way that natural sunlight alleviating depression, relieving stress suppresses melatonin. Hence the and boosting energy. invigorating effect of fresh air and

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Falls State Park during spring flooding. sunshine and the correspondingly depressed feelings associated with being closed in and dark.” “The atmosphere we breathe normally is full of positive and negative ions,” he adds. “Air-conditioning, lack of ventilation and long dry spells remove negative ions…the best ratios of negative to positive ions are associated with waterfalls and the time before, during and after storms,” says Howard. “The worst are found in windowless rooms and closed, moving vehicles.” Our love of waterfalls only underscores that people thrive when they are exposed to nature on a regular basis. A 2013 study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology definitively linked exposure to nature directly with improved mental health, comparing the mental health of those who moved from city landscapes to greener, more natural settings with those who

relocated in the reverse direction. Researchers found that those who relocated to settings with a higher exposure to nature were noticeably happier during the three-year study period. “[E]nvironmental policies to increase urban green space may have sustainable public health benefits,” they concluded. In another recent study, researchers sampled the effects of nature on 537 University of Rochester students in both real and imagined situations, and found that individuals who spent time outdoors – or even just imagined themselves in nature – consistently experienced higher energy levels and increased feelings of happiness. Study participants who spent just 20 minutes outdoors a day experienced significant increases in energy levels as well as noticeable mood boosts. Even indoor plants played a role in helping study participants feel more energized. Another way to look at it would be to consider our sedentary, indoor lifestyle as a drain on our energy reserves and taxing to our mood and general sense of well-being. In the landmark 2005 book Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv coined the term “nature deficit disorder” to explain how our lack of time outdoors has led to behavioral problems in kids and adults alike. Louv’s prescription? Spend more time outdoors (away from screens) interacting with nature and each other. In case you needed another reason to get off the couch and out into the woods on a waterfall hike, now you have it. You’ll be sharper. You’ll be more productive. You’ll be invigorated. And you’ll be happier. Send questions to question@earthtalk.org.

Prednisone to treat poison ivy? Q: I used to take prednisone anytime I got poison ivy. Then my endocrinologist told me NEVER to take it for something so minor. My rashes were quite severe, but he said the prednisone could cause diabetes. That would be much worse and last much longer. My husband had a total knee replacement. After several months, he was still having some pain. Against my wishes, he and the doctor thought a steroid shot would do the trick. The resulting severe case of shingles was no joke. It was much more painful for him than the surgery. Steroids are dispensed too frequently. They are miraculous but also very dangerous. Everyone should be aware that diabetes and shingles are possible side effects. A: We agree with your endocrinologist that corticosteroids like prednisone can increase the risk for diabetes when taken for long periods of time. Such drugs also dampen the immune system. This can lead to a resurgence of the virus (herpes zoster) that causes shingles (Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Sept. 28, 2016). A bad case of poison ivy is not always a minor problem, though. There are times when a short course of prednisone is justified. Q: I took omeprazole for years, but when I learned it could weaken my bones my doctor switched me to ranitidine (Zantac). I was pleased to be using something safer for my reflux, but then I read that ranitidine may contain a cancer-causing chemical. What else could I take to ease heartburn symptoms? I do not want to return to a PPI. A: Have you considered famotidine (Pepcid)? It is in the same class as ranitidine, but its different chemical makeup means it has not been linked to potential carcinogens. Like ranitidine, it is available without a prescription. You can learn much more about preventing and treating acid reflux

and other gastrointestinal conditions in our newly revised eGuide to Overcoming Digestive Disorders. It is available in the Health eGuides section of PeoplesPharmacy.com. Q: Forty years ago, my doctor told me to use Vaseline petroleum jelly in my nose. It keeps my nose comfortable and prevents nosebleeds. I tried Ayr Nasal Gel but found it less effective, so I went back to the Vaseline. You just put a small amount on a cotton swab and coat the inside of your nose. It doesn’t take much. A: Many people use Vaseline or other petrolatum products to moisturize their nostrils, just as you do. One reader commented: “I have used Vaseline many times as a remedy for dry sinuses. Vicks VapoRub is good as a substitute. I have never had any adverse effects from the use of petroleum-based products.” We recommend against using petroleum jelly in the nostrils. The trouble is that when you breathe in tiny particles of the petroleum product, they enter the lungs and can cause a pneumonialike reaction. Such lipoid pneumonia is considered rare, but it can cause significant shortness of breath (Chest, March 1994). A case report of a young woman who used Vicks VapoRub around, not in, her nostrils for a year demonstrates that the consequences can be serious (Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, July 8, 2017). She had cough, fever and shortness of breath. Her abnormal chest X-ray led to a CT scan of the chest that demonstrated widespread pockets of lung inflammation.

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Climate groups call on ‘Sen. Coal’ to return tainted campaign funds DFL state Sen. Erik Simonson of Duluth received more campaign money from the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce than any other Minnesota candidate, according to a pre-primary contribution report filed last week with the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board. Now three Minnesota READER environmental STAFF organizations, MN350 Action, Sunrise Twin Cities, and Duluth Youth Climate Strike, are calling on Simonson to return the $750 contribution. “The Chamber has been out of step with Minnesota values for a long time, opposing protections for our climate and our communities,” said MN350 Action’s Danielle Trajano. “Sen. Simonson needs to give the money back now to show he stands with Duluth and all Minnesotans.” Simonson in 2019 was named a legislative “energy champion” by the Lignite Energy Council, a coal industry group, earning him the moniker, “Sen. Coal.” Simonson also is the ranking minority member on the Energy and Utilities Finance and Policy Committee, which helps control the pace and planning for Minnesota’s transition away from fossil fuels. That transition has been too slow, according to climate Simonson activists, who call the com-mittee’s coalreliant Clean Energy First legislation a Fossil Fuels Forever bill. Simonson in 2019 proposed amendments to the legislation that would have raised electric bills for Duluth-area families an average of $250 by shifting costs away from large industrial customers. Simonson is in line to become chair of the committee should the DFL become the majority party after the November election. Most of the

crisis. Accepting money from a group that supports the destructive fossil fuel agenda is the exact opposite of that,” Trajano said. “That’s why we’re urging Sen. Simonson to give the Chamber its money back. Duluth wants candidates to work for the people, not for corporations.”

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The OneEnergy Renewables Team. OneEnergy not only donated the solar panels for two installations for nonprofits in Ashland, but the employees also kicked in $6,000 to get the project going at the New Day Advocacy Center. Submitted photo. Chamber’s other contributions to legislative candidates in 2020 have gone to Republicans. “Minnesota has a chance to be a leader in combating climate change and transitioning away from fossil fuels,” said Sasha Lewis-Norelle of Sunrise Twin Cities. “We must take drastic and radical action to prepare for the worst consequences of the climate crisis and reduce our GHG emissions. By accepting donations from the Chamber of Commerce and supporting the Line 3 pipeline, Sen. Simonson has actively worked against this goal. He is not the kind of politician we need in Minnesota.” Sydney David, an organizer with Duluth Youth Climate Strike, said: “We support the call by MN350 Action and others in urging Erik Simonson to return the money from MN Chamber of Commerce to effectively show his support for climate action. Keeping the money does not support what voters of all ages in Duluth want and need for sustainable environmental change.” Simonson is being challenged for the DFL nomination in the

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Aug. 11 primary by Jen McEwen, an environmental lawyer who has received endorsements from both the party, which rarely goes against incumbents, along with MN350 Action and Sunrise Twin Cities. McEwen has criticized Simonson’s record on the environment, which includes support for the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, an expansion that would triple the current pipeline’s carbon pollution. The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, which advocates on behalf of member businesses such as the Flint Hills Refinery, has a checkered history of blocking common-sense legislation to address the climate crisis. The group has testified against the proposed ECO Act, which would increase the availability of energy efficiency projects. It also opposed Gov. Tim Walz’s 100% clean energy proposal, which would transition the state to renewable energy by 2050, and supported the same Line 3 expansion as Simonson. “Duluth voters are looking for climate champions who’ll provide bold leadership on stopping the climate

LISC Duluth and the U.S. Bank Foundation recently joined together to provide Main Street Lincoln Park businesses grants to implement their COVID-19 safe reopening and recovery plans. Grants of $5,000 along with technical assistance provided by Main Street Lincoln Park and the Entrepreneur Fund were awarded to eight businesses from retail to the trades to a neighborhood farm. Liila Boutique, Sew Duluth, New2-You, Duluth Pottery, Sheet Metal Solutions, Flora North, Saltless Sea Urban Farm, and Hemlocks Leatherworks were the awardees for the Duluth LISC and U.S. Bank Foundation COVID-19 Recovery Grant Program. “LISC is fortunate to have partners like Ecolibrium3 and Entrepreneur Fund to help us immediately implement a COVID-19 Recovery Program for small businesses. It is communityminded companies like U.S. Bank that have helped LISC on a national level raise $165.5 million to respond to the challenges of the pandemic, emergency orders and business shutdowns.”, said Pam Kramer, Executive Director of LISC Duluth. Reba Dominski, chief social responsibility officer for U.S. Bank agrees. “The pandemic has created significant challenges for communities and small businesses in our country. We partnered with LISC early on to support our communities, like Duluth. Today, we are excited to see these funds distributed directly to these small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy, so they can thrive once again.” The LISC/US Bank Foundation COVID-19 Recovery Grant Program was open to locally owned businesses with brick and mortar or production space located in Lincoln Park. Priority was given to women, minority, and veteran-owned businesses who may have been ineligible for other assistance programs. LISC’s COVID-19 response and business toolkit are updated daily and

can be found at lisc.org/covid-19/ Amanda Rolfe, owner of Liila Boutique says, “As a very small business, this grant will help give us a leg up on our new season. Since we did not qualify for other things, it’s hitting at just the right time for us to be able to grow our business.” All grantees have also agreed to participate in the development of case studies to better understand the impacts and creative solutions that can help small businesses in times of disruption.

Two Ashland nonprofits go solar Two Ashland, Wisconsin nonprofits are installing solar photovoltaic systems on their facilities. The nonprofits are household names in the Chequamegon Bay area of western Lake Superior – the New Day Advocacy Center and The BRICK Ministries. New Day Advocacy Center provides free and confidential domestic violence and sexual assault victim services, including shelter and other crisis intervention services. The BRICK’s mission is to compassionately help people in need. They are best known for their Food Shelf Program, but also provide emergency financial resources and referrals with a focus to keep people in their homes through their Benevolence Program Both organizations have considered solar installations in the past to reduce utility expenses and to generate clean energy. But as each nonprofit had roofs that needed repair and had purchased or recently moved into newly renovated facilities, they were both financially strained. The solar would have to wait. That was until Eric Udelhofen call-ed from OneEnergy Renewables, a community- and utility-scale solar project developer based in Seattle, Wash., with a satellite office in Madison. OneEnergy had 35 high-quality, modern solar modules they wanted to donate to a worthy Ashland nonprofit. OneEnergy was the solar developer on the recently constructed 1-megawatt Xcel Energy community solar garden in Ashland. The modules were “bones,” extra parts, left over from purchasing or shipping in bulk quantities, and OneEnergy wanted something good to come from their surplus. Solar modules represent roughly 15% of the cost of a small solar project. The other 85% is comprised of inverters, racking, miscellaneous additional materials and labor. Jolma Electric of Ashland, who was also involved in the installation of

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Ashland’s community solar project, joined the project, agreeing to perform its installation services “at cost,” and the total project cost was reduced by 22%. Then C&S Design & Engineering, also from Ashland, reduced their engineering cost by 50%, further lowering the total installation price. Additional funding was needed to cover the remaining balance of the installation. The New Day Board was the first of the two projects to vote to move forward with raising the remaining funds. A GoFundMe site was set up and $6,500 was raised in two weeks. In addition, $3,400 of private checks were received designated for the solar installation. Of the nearly $10,000 of cash donated to the New Day rooftop solar project, OneEnergy employees donated $6,000. So New Day’s project is off and running and now The BRICK has begun its fundraising campaign. An awning-style installation was designed by Jolma Electric and C&S Design & Engineering. The donated modules will fill half the south façade of the facility with opportunity to fill the remainder if or when funds allow. The full project would cost $31,990, of which $20,490 has already been raised. A GoFundMe site has been set up for The BRICK to fund the remaining $11,500. If you can help go to: https://bit.ly/3k0IeLm to donate.

Please collect new school supplies for students from August 1-23, 2020, and drop donations off at one of the dropoff sites listed below. Donated school supplies will be delivered directly to the school districts and distributed locally to students. To make a monetary donation to the drive, please mail a check to Head of the Lakes United Way, 424 W Superior St., Suite 402, Duluth MN 55802. Please note “Stuff the Bus – Superior” or “Stuff the Bus – North Shore” in the memo line. Additional information and posters can be found online at hlunitedway. org.

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U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) – a member of the Senate Banking Committee – introduced two pieces of legislation to prevent workers from losing their health care and child care savings when they lose a job, have a surgery canceled, or a child care center is closed. The measures are a direct response to letters Smith received from constituents who had lost hundreds or thousands of dollars in employer-based savings accounts following layoffs earlier this year. Federal Savings Accounts (FSAs) are an optional benefit that employers may offer to their employees. It allows workers to set aside money on a tax-advantaged basis to pay for certain out-of-pocket expenses. But the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has made it difficult for many workers to use their health and dependent FSA benefits. It’s also made many Americans lose their jobs. And unfortunately, under current law, workers can be forced to forfeit their unused FSA funds if they lose their job in a layoff or other event–even if the job loss is no fault of the worker. In addition, for workers remaining on the

United Way Stuff the Bus is a school readiness program that provides school supplies to help prepare local area students for school. Head of the Lakes United Way is asking individuals, employee groups, and service organizations to help students in our community by donating the “most requested supplies” listed in the chart below. “Education is one of Head of the Lakes United Way’s key impact areas. By hosting a school supply drive each year, we help area students start the school year with the tools they need for success,” said President Matt Hunter. Community Campaign Coordinator Kayla Erdmann notes that the success of this drive would not be possible without our valuable community partners. “We appreciate all of the organizations who help support this event each year; the Superior School District in Wisconsin, the Lake Superior School District on the North Shore in Minnesota, and our amazing business partners.”

job, unused funds can be forfeited at year end. Sen. Smith’s Fair FSAs Act and the Dependent Care Expense Relief Act would ensure that workers who lose a job can have their savings refunded to them, and provide flexibility on the use of flexible spending arrangement funds in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. “No one should lose the money they’ve set aside for medical expenses and childcare simply because they’ve been laid off,” Smith said. “And they shouldn’t lose their savings because of a cancelled surgery or closed childcare provider either. We should be doing all that we can to keep money in the pockets of workers, especially during this unprecedented public health and economic crisis. My legislation will help people who lost their jobs due to COVID-19 related economic downfall. It will also help workers with health FSAs who haven’t spent down their balances due to COVID-19 canceling elective procedures and limiting health care out-of-pocket costs. Lastly, it will assist workers with dependent care FSAs who haven’t been spending down their balances on preschools, childcare providers or afterschool programs due to the virus.”

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Cellphone law quietly celebrates first anniversary August 1 was the first anniversary of Minnesota’s Hands-free Cellphone Law, and in honor of that the Minnesota Safety Council sent this reminder: Statistics that show distracted driving, including cellphone use, injures and kills: •More than 50,000 crashes were distracted driving-related from 20152019, contributing to one in seven crashes in Minnesota. •In 2019, distracted driving contributed to 3,279 injuries and 32 deaths. •Distracted driving contributes to an average of 40 deaths and 195 lifechanging injuries a year (2015 –2019). •Distracted driving contributes to one in five crashes in Minnesota. •During the first nine months of the hands-free law, 16,405 drivers were cited for failing to comply. August 13, 2020 37

Prescription against COVID capitalism The United States, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in world history, is also No. 1 in COVID-19 infections and deaths. As White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Deborah Birx warned last weekend: “It is extraordinarily widespread. It’s into the rural as equal urban areas. To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus.” President Donald Trump responded by calling Birx “pathetic.” Six months into the pandemic, he’s offered no national plan to stop the spread of the virus, which is thriving. As Trump daily demands rapid reopening of schools and the economy, the lines for tests stretch ever longer, and the ever-expanding wait for test results, in many cases up to two weeks, renders the results essentially useless, making contact tracing and isolation of infected people virtually impossible. The American Association of Medical Colleges recently released “A Road Map to Reset the Nation’s Approach to the Pandemic,” urging the Trump administration to

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invoke the Defense Production Act to overcome the unconscionable shortage of personal protective equipment, or PPE, testing supplies and therapeutic drugs. Further, and more fundamentally, the AAMC calls for addressing systemic racism and other inequities that exist in our health care system and for a massive increase in funding for our beleaguered public health infrastructure. Included would be the fair, equitable and rapid distribution of a safe, effective vaccine when one becomes available, not only nationally, but globally. This roadmap sounds sensible, but what chance does it have with a science denier in the White House more concerned with his TV ratings and reelection than addressing the greatest pandemic in a century? Trump is providing socialism for multinational corporations, doling out billions of dollars to big pharmaceutical companies, supposedly to develop vaccines. Public Citizen’s Peter Maybarduk has said Trump’s $6 billion, taxpayer-funded program benefiting private companies has “a striking lack of transparency.” Pharmaceutical company insiders are making millions of dollars through stock options, as poor and uninsured Americans are left to fend for themselves in the “free market.”

A simple, overdue step would be to immediately expand Medicare, the national health insurance system for people 65 years old and above, to cover all Americans from birth. “Medicare for All” would separate health insurance coverage from employment status or wealth, saving trillions of dollars and, most importantly, saving lives. “People with low or moderate incomes do not get the same medical attention as those with high incomes,” President Harry Truman told Congress in 1945 when he first proposed single-payer health care. Twenty years later, a scaled-down bill passed Congress, establishing Medicare for older Americans, and Medicaid for millions of poor and disabled people. In signing the Medicare act on July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson made compromises with the American Medical Association, shoring up the inefficient, employer-based private health insurance system that has left tens of millions of Americans without access to health care. The ranks of the uninsured and underinsured are now swelling, as more than 54 million people have filed for unemployment since the onset of the pandemic in March. While some of those people have returned to work, millions of the jobs lost as a result of the pandemic may never come back. An Urban Institute study from mid-July predicted 10 million people will permanently lose their employer-provided health insurance. And, just as poor people and people of color are more likely to die of COVID-19, they are also more likely to be uninsured or un-

derinsured. One recent, mid-pandemic poll showed close to 80% support for Medicare for All among Democratic party members. Joe Biden, though, opposes single-payer health care, and said he’d veto a Medicare for All bill if, as president, it made it to his desk. But activist pressure has forced Biden to change his position in the past. Last week, an initial vote by the party’s Platform Committee shot down the Medicare for All proposal. Despite that defeat, at least 700 delegates to the upcoming Democratic National Convention have vowed to oppose the party platform if it doesn’t include Medicare for All. In both Missouri and Oklahoma, the public recently passed Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion by statewide ballot initiatives, overriding their red state governors and legislatures. In three recent, remarkable primary upsets, Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush in St. Louis, Marie Newman in Chicago and former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman in New York defeated establishment incumbent Democratic Congressmembers. All three challengers are expected to win in November, joining a growing, diverse contingent of progressives in Congress who support Medicare for All. When the people lead, the saying goes, the leaders will follow. It’s a matter of life and death. Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a daily international TV/ radio news hour airing on more than 1,400 stations (hear it locally on KUMD, 103.3, weekdays at 9 am).

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

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

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

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

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LaCrosse removes ‘Hiawatha’ sculpture The City of La Crosse has decided to remove a controversial statue depicting a Native American that has stood near the banks of the Mississippi River for nearly 60 years. Work began Monday morning to remove the 25-foot sculpture, dubbed “Hiawatha” and located in the city’s Riverside Park, after La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat sent a letter to the city’s Board of Park Commissioners requesting its removal July 13. The city’s Board of Park Commissioners voted unanimously to remove the statue a week later. Kera Cho Mani is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation living in La Crosse who has advocated for its removal for 20 years. He said now that it is being taken down, he and other Ho-Chunk members feel like celebrating. “If we look at all Native American imagery, not just in the state, but globally,” he said, “it’s all the same. It’s all archaic. It’s in the past, never modern, never highly accomplished individuals like Jim Thorpe or Mitchell Red Cloud, et cetera. So the experts have concluded, and for a very long time, that these kind of images are harmful to any Native American youth.” Kera Cho Mani said he weathered slurs and hate mail while advocating for the iconic statue to be removed. But he said it was all worth it. “There are those, unfortunately, who don’t recognize that it is progress,” said

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Contractors worked Monday morning to remove the statue dubbed “Hiawatha” from La Crosse’s Riverside Park. Members of the Ho-Chunk Nation have advocated for it’s removal for decades, saying it doesn’t accurately represent Native Americans. Photo by Hope Kirwan/WPR. Kera Cho Mani. “But that doesn’t mean it isn’t. It is. And so, we’ll all benefit.” The “Hiawatha” statue was created in 1961 by Anthony Zimmerhakle in Riverside Park, located near the confluence of the Mississippi, La Crosse and Black rivers. With the sounds of concrete saws and jackhammers in the background, La Crosse Parks and Recreation Director Jay Odegaard told reporters that the statue was a “great thing” for Riverside Park for 60 years. He said the city’s decision to remove the “Hiawatha” statue does not equate to a judgment about the controversial sculpture. “The simple fact that this piece of artwork – and that’s what it is, it’s artwork – was located in such

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a prominent city park that the individuals and communities found the art offensive warranted, you know, city officials to take a look at that,” said Odegaard. Odegaard said the city has consulted with the Zimmerhakle family and a “third party,” which is interested in

moving the statue to property outside the city limits. He said the third party has requested anonymity but noted the plan is for the statue to still be accessible by members of the public. As contractors worked, some city residents looked on. Donald Johnson said that some people had claimed they were offended by the “Hiawatha” statue but that being offended is “part of life.” “It’s been there since the ‘60s,” said Johnson. “I guess what you’re doing is taking away a part of history. So, what are you going to replace it with?” Odegaard said there weren’t any plans for placing anything in the spot where the statue stood. La Crosse resident Jerry McGrath said the statue should never have been erected in the first place and that he’s glad “Hiawatha” is being removed. “I think it had to be done, you know,” said McGrath. “It offended the Ho-Chunk Nation. So, no use to have it here.” Wisconsin Public Radio, © Copyright 2020, Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.

Emo advice for Venus in Cancer With Venus now in Cancer, emotional well-being follows the same rules as the swimming pool. There’s safety in matching abilities with the depths in which they’ll be used. While learning, stay in the shallows or near the wall. Practice until strongly skilled. After that, it’s the same moves whether the water overhead is one inch or one mile. ARIES (March 21-April 19). Life is pretty simple when you think of it in simple terms, which you very much will do today. You will do what you need to do to attract what you most desire. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The ones who are lying around and having a good ol’ time are either doing it very right or very wrong, and you’ll likely have a strong opinion about that today. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The way people treat one another when they are in public versus in private will be two different things. The discrepancy is one to ponder or, if applicable, remedy. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll find yourself mentally weaving an

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alternate version of things. Not all fantasy is escape. Sometimes it’s a creative way of understanding reality. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The guitarist can’t play with silk gloves on. Friction is what vibrates those strings. Don’t be afraid to dig into life with your nails. This day is waiting for you to give it a rhythm and sound. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Study past successes and failures for the keys to victory. To skip the research phase of a project is to waste time, as there is no use in repeating what didn’t work before. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You were not born with a serene air of confidence, rather the aura is wellearned through the extensive planning and preparation you do long before the moment of truth is upon you. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you are doing it your way, unselfconsciously and unapologetically yourself, you have no competition. No one can be you better than you can be you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There will be a certain amount of peacocking involved in the discourse of the day, pretty feathers fanned out to impress, enlarging the perception of the bird without upsizing the bird itself. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). People become associated with that of which they speak. You are drawn to intriguing facts, stories of warmth and

kindness and descriptions of beauty. No wonder people feel elevated around you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll fiercely agree with what is happening around you one minute. Then, in the next minute, fiercely disagree, And there is no predicting what will bring the turnaround. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll absorb some enthusiasm as you find yourself with bright, curious and passionate people. What you may not realize is how much you are rubbing off on them, too, in a very positive way. FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: Home can mean so many things. It can refer to the shelter where you sleep, the town where your family resides or the wheelhouse where

you feel most comfortable. Home can be something else, too, less of a structure and more of a feeling of being rooted, regardless of where you may find yourself in the wide world. As the Venus transit gets underway in Cancer, we settle into key comforts in the domestic realm, and also in our psychic abode. Many will be inspired to make changes or invest in what seems necessary to create a strong and more lovely sense of home. Recently, it has seemed that, with the right mindset, almost anything is potentially predictable. We choose to ignore prudence and then get surprised by what happens even when it’s the most logical outcome. A reversal of Uranus comes at the end of the week for some next-level thrills.

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Oxymorons on the river

Spiny softshell turtles are unique reptiles with some odd characteristics. Photos by Emily Stone.

Paddling trips provide an easy way to have socially distanced adventures with friends.

“I need a mental break,” my friend Jamie told me. She’s an essential worker in a small city. Living in an apartment, feeling nervous to visit crowded city parks, dealing with rude customers, and being an extrovert in isolation, have all taken a toll on her mental health. I’ve been realizing how privileged I am to have abundant access to CONNECTIONS uncrowded nature. So, we hatched a plan for a socially distanced canoe trip on the Namekagon River. The urge to give Jamie a hug as I pulled into the river landing was overwhelming, but our masks provided a constant reminder not to get too close. Unloading boats and organizing gear all took place as kind of an orbital dance. When we finally pushed off from shore, we got some odd looks. Jamie, in my yellow kayak, looked as normal as she can ever look (yes, that’s a poke at my very…unique…friend). But then there as me, with my 16foot canoe turned backwards so I could sit closer to the middle on what usually is the bow seat. This is a pretty common way for people to solo paddle a two-person canoe. All of our camping gear nestled – not touching – in among the thwarts, with plenty of weight toward the front to

because of her large size and blotchy shell. Males are smaller, with spots. Her wide, flat body, like a lumpy old pillow with legs, was covered by an almost flat, brown shell, as if last Sunday’s burned pancake had been commandeered for use as a blanket. And still, as you all knew I would, I squealed with delight, dug in my paddle to aim my course, and searched furiously for my camera. If only Jamie HAD been in the bow of my canoe to keep paddling while I photographed… Spiny softshell turtles are another foray into oxymorons. Who ever heard of a turtle having a soft shell? Isn’t a hard shell kind of the point? And, yet, there it was. Unlike the domed shelters of snapping turtles and painted turtles – with their grid of protective, bony scutes – softshell turtles have a leathery carapace. The flexible shell offers added maneuverability in open water, muddy lake bottoms and on land, where they can move much faster than most turtles. That pointy nose? It’s a built-in snorkel on the end of a disproportionately long neck. It allows the turtles to breathe while the rest of their body is submerged in mud, sand or water, a foot or more below the surface. In fact, they can exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide through many parts of their body, more than most turtles. That comes in handy as the lie in wait for prey – such as fish, frogs and invertebrates – to swim past. The same quick reflexes and powerful

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balance me. At the last minute, I’d thought to grab the paddle from my sea kayak, so I used its wooden blades to maneuver my loaded beast. It felt like I was paddling a tank – or perhaps it could be better described as a party barge. Hooting and hollering with joy, we swung out to the middle of the river and headed downstream. Social distancing can seem like a pretty ludicrous oxymoron. Being social didn’t use to mean keeping our distance. It’s odd to feel anxious about getting together. It’s odd to leave so much space between friends when we have conversations outdoors. It’s odd to talk through a mask and leave half of our facial expressions covered when we (rarely) talk indoors at the office, coffee shop or grocery store. Despite the incongruity, keeping our distance and wearing a mask are now the most caring ways we can be social. Paddling side by side, instead of having Jamie breathing clouds of aerosols ahead of me in the canoe, is better for talking anyway. And for some reason, she was better at spotting wildlife from the kayak. “Turtle!” she shouted, and pointed across my bow (or was it my stern?) to a sunny rock. There, basking in the sun, was a very odd-looking reptile. The tiny head, with a super pointy nose, faced upstream. The corners of the turtle’s wide mouth turned down at the corners like a grumpy Muppet. Her golden eye with a horizontal pupil gave the appearance of a perpetual squint. I could tell this turtle was female

bite that help them catch prey can turn defensive in an instant – so watch your fingers! In a move that’s odd for turtles, but common in other vertebrates, softshell turtles don’t leave the sex of their babies up to the variation in nest temperature during egg development. Instead, males and females are determined by genetics. As my canoe floated by and I snapped as many photos as I could, I finally saw the source of spiny softshell’s name. A fringe of pointy spines lined the edge of her carapace, just behind her head. From the other side of the river, Jamie admired her, too. I guess a softshell turtle can be spiny. And being social can be done from a distance. So much for oxymorons on the river. Our canoe trip was weirdly normal as we tried to act naturally and face the bittersweet new reality of traveling alone together. Emily Stone is the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum. Her second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is now available to purchase at cablemuseum.org/books. Or order it from our friends at redberybooks.com to receive free shipping! For more than 50 years, the Cable Natural History Museum has served to connect you to the Northwoods. The Museum reopened on Aug. 4 with the brand-new Mysteries of the Night exhibit. Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and cablemuseum. org to see what we are up to.

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Alfa’s new Stelvio brings F1 spirit to SUV world

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Resplendent in Misano Blue Metallic, the Alfa Romeo Stelvio brightens the atmosphere at Duluth’s McQuade launch site with its Quadrifoglio clover and bright brake calipers. Photos by John Gilbert.

here are several ways to point out that as an auto-owner, you are supremely lucky, because you are driving an Alfa Romeo Stelvio. That makes you very lucky because you get to drive this specialty SUV, which is one of the best-driving and most satisfying vehicles – cars, sports cars, trucks or SUVs – in the world. Another reason for your luck is the neat little cloverleaf emblazoned on the flanks. That stands for Quadrifoglio, which means it is the hot one of the bunch, with all-wheel drive and perhaps the most sophisticated engine put under the hood of any production vehicle. A third indication of your luck is that, unless you’re from a wealthy

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family, you have been very fortunate indeed, because you’ve made enough money to be able to afford the sticker price on the Alfa Romeo Stelvio – a cool $96,540 on the document stashed in the glove compartment of my weeklong test-drive Stelvio. No, you don’t have to spend that much on an SUV, even a sleek, stylish, and feature-filled SUV. But if you’ve got it, what could be more fun than to spend a chunk of it to get such a vehicle equipped with the 2.9-liter V6 designed and hand-built by Ferrari’s Formula 1 engineers. Think about all the overpowered sporty cars and trucks that have engines up and over 6 liters in displacement just to get enough power to satisfy their buyers. Well, with the right

technology, a comparatively tiny 2.9 liters of displacement can be designed and perfected to produce 505 horsepower and 443 foot-pounds of torque. Your neighborhood hot-rodder might be able to tweak any engine into providing extra power, but this is a whole ‘nother plateau. With all the trick parts at their disposal, the same engineering staff that puts the engines in the Formula 1 race cars driven by Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc on satellite TV most early Sunday mornings, was given a challenge by the late and charismatic leader, Sergio Marchione. As the head man at Fiat, and thus Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Marchione had orchestrated the design and building of the Alfa Romeo Giulia, a beauti-

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ful car with near-perfect handling, and because Fiat not only owns Chrysler, Alfa, Jeep and Ferrari, he went directly to Ferrari’s Formula 1 engineers and told them he needed an engine that would be as special as the Guilia’s design, because that would be the car that would help ease Alfa Romeo back into the U.S. market. Once built, Alfa also offers the car with an outstanding 2.0-liter 4-cylinder, designed by Chrysler engineers, and allowing the Giulia outstanding performance for about $30,000 less. That’s the way I would buy the car, but once you drive the hot engine, you will be spoiled. This Sunday, the Formula 1 tour goes to Spain, and while Vettel is having a tough year, and Leclerc is proving to be a young star in the making, we can only marvel at the incredible power Like the handling, power, style, and panache, Stelvio’s headlights are also over- that makes F1 cars the swiftest and most exciting form of motorsports on achievers. the planet. And while there is always something about an Alfa that forces a smile to cross your face, the company proved that it is not an insult to humanity to try to do the same thing with an SUV. The Stelvio is like a tall Giulia, and with the 2.0 twin-turbocharged V6, it flies around corners and teaches you to always pay attention to your gauges. At least a dozen times I found myself glancing down and saying, “Oops, I can’t be going that fast here.” The car requires close monitoring, because that engine wants to go. The fact that it is an SUV, with more clearance, and the seemingly incongruous ability to do a little light offroading, you have these mode controls that you can switch from normal driving to sport, track and track-plus, and you can click a different button and the low murmur of that engine suddenly becomes not-low but roaring with the urgency and intensity of a race-car engine. It is not sound, so much as refined mechanical music. That brings up one more question: If you had some money and wanted a special car, with special suspension, brakes, looks, steering and interior comfort, how much would you pay to have Formula 1 race engineers build your engine? The answer might seem like the old high school math problem where the answer is “infinity,” but Alfa supplies the answer with the Stelvio and its sticker price. The seats are comfortable and supportive, and driving position is perfect. I am a big fan of transmission paddles, to allow manual up and down shifting of your automatic transmission, and the Alfa has the best paddles I’ve seen.

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They are tall, maybe 6 to 8 inches in length, and they are fixed to the steering column. That means, if you take your hand off the wheel as you make a left turn in traffic, and you realize you are out of revs, instead of groping to find exactly where on the steering wheel your paddle is, you simply reach anywhere along the right side of the wheel and you’ve found it. Right for upshift and left for downshift, and when you downshift, the melodic sound of that engine roars with a fulllife crescendo. A less disciplined person might drive around the block a dozen times every trip, just to satisfy those animal instincts high-performance fanatics need. Great as the power is, the Stelvio’s cornering ability is every bit as impressive because the car’s quicksteering feels as though some computer is predicting your turn and making it flawless for precision. You can find an Alfa dealer in the west suburbs of Minneapolis, just past Ridgedale, where Morrie’s traditionally has offered exotic cars. Maybe you’d like to find a Jaguar, or a Ferrari, or Lamborghini to check out, but if you spot an Alfa Romeo Giulia or Stelvio, you might consider asking for a test drive. And if you see a 4-leaf clover emblem on the side, don’t ask – demand! – a test drive.

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Eleven seconds and some Stanley Cup news ST. PAUL – Well friends, that didn’t take long. After many analysts and fans thought the Minnesota Wild had established the way their best of 5 game series was going to be played, courtesy of their 3-0 Game one win against the Vancouver Canucks, the Canucks had other ideas. They made some subtle adjustments to their game, they pushed the Wild out to the perimeter in the offensive zone, and the Wild ceased to play the gnarly style they had played in G1, and the rest is history. So are the Wild after dropping Game 4 a mere 11 seconds into the Overtime frame. In a do or die scenario in Edmonton on late Friday eve, the Wild scored first to grab a 1-0 lead, they were tied, then went up 3-1 before allowing the Canucks to sneak back in at 3 each. Once again the Wild went up by a goal, couldn’t protect that, were tied up at 4 late in the game when the unthinkable occurred and the Canucks sent everyone home early before most fans had settled back into their recliners at home. At the 11 second mark of the OT frame, Chris Tanev scored from up top and that was that. The Wild season was over in a flash and the Canucks advanced to the official Stanley Cup tournament set to commence on Tuesday the 11th. After winning Game one the Wild dropped 3 straight tilts and I’d go with the theory that they basically didn’t play the rest of this series the way they played Game one. In that game they had an established physical superiority and nastiness, goalie Alex Stalock played a superb game, the defense kept Stalock’s work area pretty clear for him and the offense stayed out in front of the Canucks and that didn’t allow the Canucks young stars to get untracked. In Game 2 the Canucks focused on upsetting Wild forward Keven Fiala’s time and space, no one picked up that offensive slack, the toughness factor from the Wild fizzled and the Canucks grabbed a 4-3 win. It was more dominating than that, but the Wild got 2 late tallies to make the score look better than the game was for them. Game 3 was a 3-0 tail kicking from the Canucks placing the

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The Wild failed to continue with what worked for them in Game one, the Canucks shutdown Fiala, no others stepped up offensively for the club, the defense, which I thought would carry the team against the inexperienced Canucks younger players were inconsistent, and Stalock, after the Game one performance, was challenged to remain that good.

Wild into elimination game status and they failed that in spectacular fashion. Two of the goals allowed in this contest by Stalock were from far range, including the OT winner. I recall wondering during the intermission if a goal past the circles was going to be the Wild’s undoing in the OT. It was. The Wild failed to continue with what worked for them in Game one, the Canucks shutdown Fiala, no others stepped up offensively for the club, the defense, which I thought would carry the team against the inexperienced Canucks younger players were inconsistent, and Stalock, after the Game one performance, was challenged to remain that good. All that’s left for club management and fans to do is to contemplate what will occur over the offseason, which in the case of this season will be weirder than weird. We have likely seen the last game in a Wild uniform for Captain Mikk Koivu. He is now a UFA and at 37 there is no real reason for the team to re-sign him. The team won’t compete for a Cup in the near future and he would take up a spot a developing forward could use. Also, I believe we may have seen the last game for the Wild from Zach Parise. There was substantial rumbling about a deal being consummated between the Wild, the NY Isles and Parise’s former GM Lou Lamoriello at the trade deadline that would have sent Parise out East again, but it couldn’t be completed. I think this summer, it will get done. Parise knows his career clock is ticking down. So, Wild GM Bill Guerin will have much to do in a shortened offseason. It will include shoring up the netminding, a handful of UFA and RFA contracts, and working out Head Coach Dean Evason’s staff moving forward. Are the roster and the team a mess at this point? All I can say is that it could be worse and I’m thankful it’s not... THE STANLEY CUP entrants and seedings have been finalized just a

couple of hours ago and in a thrilling Game 5 between Columbus and Toronto, the Blue Jackets prevailed in a 3-0 win, securing their spot in the tourney with a 3 games to 2 series victory. They will go up against a strong Tampa Bay club that is now suddenly missing their top two superstars. Forward Steven Stamkos was already out, and after what appeared to be a twisted ankle in Saturday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers, big Victor Hedman looks to be uncertain for the upcoming series. This will damage Tampa’s chances if he is unavailable. With my qualifying and round-robin round picks shot in the posterior, the following teams didn’t make it through the ‘Q’ round and into the Cup tourney; PITT, WILD, NASH, EDM, FLA, NYR, TOR, and WINN. I honestly can’t say any of these eliminations are surprising to me though. Here is what the Eastern Conference series will look like along with their seeding; PHI (1) vs MON (8). TB (2) vs CBJ (7). WAS (3) vs NYI (6) and BOS (4) vs CAR (5). I’m not certain Montreal has enough to get past a Flyers team that’s playing some excellent hockey right now, even with Carey Price in goal. I’m going with PHI. If Stamkos and Hedman are both out for TB, the CBJ will probably oust them from the tourney, just like they did last year. I saw the Caps exhibition game and their round robins and I’m not impressed. I am leaning with the steady-eddy Isles here. I like what I’ve seen of the Canes thus far. I haven’t liked what I’ve seen of the Bruins. Give me the Canes in this round. In the Western Conference; VGK (1) vs CHI (8). COL (2) vs ARI (7). DAL (3) vs CAL (6) and STL (4) vs VAN (5). Overall the VGK can throw more at the Hawks then the Hawks can throw at them, plus short lived Hawk netminder Robin Lehner will likely get a shot at his former club. Take the Knights. Likewise, while I feel that the Av’sYotes series could be interesting, I

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believe the Av’s will prevail here unless former Wild netminder Darcy Kuemper comes through for the Coyotes. The Stars-Flames matchup is intriguing, to say the least. I feel they are pretty even, but when it comes to grit, CAL is just a bit nastier and that wins series sometimes. Take Flames here. For the Blues-Canucks series, VAN had a 2-1 regular season record against STL. Can the young Canucks take down the defending champs? Probably not. Could go 7 games though. And finally, kudos to the NHL for the way they have operated the tourney thus far! Well done! PEACE

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Iona Beach proves that life goes on Sports is an ideal tool to teach us important life lessons, and that has never been more true than in this, the year of the pandemic. Life lessons are all around us, as we hunker down in self-imposed semi-quarantine to give our reluctant country the chance to control the spread of COVID-19, and maybe we picked up some valuable ideas as we lived without sports, real or on satellite. So we had to learn some alternatives to sports to keep us active and interested, while wearing masks and avoiding crowds. For my wife, Joan, and me, living close to the North Shore provided an obvious and easy choice. In the process, we found a previously

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undiscovered and magical area up the shore close to Silver Bay. It is called Iona’s Beach, and not only had we never checked it out, we had never heard of it. The nearly mile-long alleged beach makes you feel as though you have been transported to another planet. I went back there, with my older son, Jack, last weekend, in the fading light of Sunday afternoon. We will be back often, now that we know what and where it is, because it has given us a worthy alternative to getting too far into the resumption of televised but fanless sports. As we waited and worried to find out what the high schools, and area colleges would do for fall sports, we learned that UMD has canceled fall sports. No football. No volleyball – two of the best Bulldogs sports elite programs. both of which had held intense and heavy workouts for a season that may not happen. Saint Scholastica is facing similar

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problems, and we all share the dilemma. Do we start school? Do we start fall sports and play games with no fans in the stands, the way Major League Baseball, the NHL the NBA, Major League Soccer, the Pro Golf Tour and the world of motorsports have done? Then Tuesday morning, as we were feeling bad for Bulldog football, and to see the final year of the fantastic development of Kate Berg as volleyball’s top hitter, word came that the Big Ten has decided to bypass the football season. The Pac-12 – my favorite major conference to watch because of its wide-open offensive creativity – are both eliminating participation in football, volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer. Of course, we in the Duluth area are waiting apprehensively for what might happen to UMD hockey, which is by far the biggest sport in the area, to say nothing of at UMD. And the Bulldogs are still the two-time defending champion until someone beats them. My intentions to watch the Twins get off to a roaring start, and then the Wild get their shot at Vancouver in a bestof-5 NHL playoff series, upended our

life even more. On the beautiful evening when the Twins were holding their home opener, without fans, I sat down in my favorite recliner and clicked on Fox Sports North on our DirecTV satellite. But the screen said no service was available for Fox Sports North. Same thing the next night, when the Wild were about to play their only exhibition, against Colorado up in Edmonton. No service. Now, we had divested ourselves of all extraneous channels, trying to corral the always-rising price, and we had gotten it down to $85 a month. I stressed that Fox Sports North was more important to me than all the movie channels and everything but a couple of news outlets. We got a new bill, for $125 or so, and I spent a few hours on the phone with the satellite outfit, and finally got a helpful woman in Singapore. She listened to my tale, sympathized, and then found the answer: The only way we could get Fox Sports North was to sign up for the top Premium package. How much? I asked. Two hundred twenty nine dollars, she said. I apologized to the woman and said I suddenly realized it wasn’t DirecTV’s fault, but the bean-counters at Fox

Let’s go get stoned at Iona Beach (aka Singing Beach). Photo by John Gilbert. Sports North realized nobody could go to Twins or Wild games, and everybody would be intensely interested in watching both – so let’s do a little gouging! I have no evidence of this, but why else would my long-standing service, for more than 20 years, be curtailed? We have found an alternative. So I watched the Twins win six in a row before they suddenly quit scoring runs. They came back Monday, at Milwaukee, when Eddie Rosario, my favorite aggressive hitter, socked a grand slam for a 4-2 victory to snap a 4-game losing streak. The Wild, meanwhile, were eliminated from entering the Stanley Cup’s actual playoffs when they followed up a perfect game 3-0 opening victory by losing three straight to Vancouver. Kevin Fiala started off hot, but after he scored twice in the closing minutes for a narrow 4-3 loss, he joined his teammates in a study in ineptitude. Their final hope in the berst-of-5 series came when the game went overtime. Captain Mikko Koivu, who was as effective as any forward on the club despite centering the fourth line, went out and won the opening face-off against the Canucks top line, but nobody gained possession and Vancouver scored at 0:11 on that first shift. End of game, end of season.

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General manager Bill Guerin decided he had to take some action, so remarkably he fired Bob Mason, the former UMD and International Falls star goaltender, who had been the Wild goaltending coach since they started. He brought Alex Stalock along to challenge for the starting job, and his soft-spoken demeanor surely would have brought Devan Dubnyk back for an intense 1-2 punch next season. Guerin said he had no complaints about Mason, but felt he had to make a change somewhere. Can’t fight decisiveness like that! So the Stanley Cup chase begins in earnest. Here’s how I see it: In the East, with all games in Toronto, I like the Philadelphia Flyers over Montreal, and Washington over the New York Islanders in their best-of-7 round, and I’m picking Tampa Bay to subdue Columbus in a wildly close match-up, and I’m picking the Carolina Hurricanes to upset the Boston Bruins. In the West, with all games in Edmon-ton, I like the 12th-seeded Chicago Blackhawks, with a rejuvenated Jonathan Toews joining Patrick Kane, to upset the Vegas Golden Knights, the top seed. Also, I’ll pick St., Louis to take out Vancouver, Dallas over Calgary, and Arizona over Colorado. My pick to win the Cup is

Washington. Every team seems to have two forwards capable of scoring with regularity, but the Caps have a Big Four that I don’t think anyone else can match, with Alex-ander Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, T.J. Oshie, and the vastly underrated Tom Wilson who all can beat you. With four games every day, afternoon, evening and late night, sports fans will learn anew that having complete parity is not always the best way to go. But indeed, anybody could win. In the first game, on Tuesday afternoon, the Tampa Bay Lightning and Columbus Bluejackets went toe-to-toe, and 2-to-2, through three periods, as well as three full, 20-minute overtimes. and on into the fourth OT. You want parity? I’ll give you parity. The tie wasn’t solved until Tampa Bay’s Brayden Point drilled a 30-foot shot into the Columbus goal at 10:27 of the fifth overtime of the NHL’s fourth longest playoff game ever, and it ended the record-shattering performance of Blue Jackets goaltender Joonas Korpisalo, who made made 85 saves on the Lightnings’ 88 shots. Andre Vasilevskiy made 61 saves for Tampa Bay. The game lasted nearly six hours and forced the following series opener between Boston and Carolina tp be postponed until Wednesday morning.

To get away from it all, you take on the expanding numbers of Twin Cities tourist traffic and head up the North Shore on Highway 61. Your destination might be the Rustic, where you can get the best ribs, the best Reuben, the best meatloaf and, for sure, the best pie (try the North Shore Berry, made of blueberry, blackberry, strawberry and raspberry combined), or the carrot cake, which is absolutely the best and tastiest piece of cake you will ever find. If there was a state tournament for desserts, the Rustic would wind up with its pie against its cake in the final. Then you drive northward, having already gone through both tunnels before you get to the Rustic, in Castle Danger, and after you pass Gooseberry Park, where we love to hike, keep your eye sharp for Twin Points Park, on the right. Pull in there, park on the left, and head for the little trail to Iona’s Beach. Iona fell in love with the North Shore back about 1930 and she and her husband eventually built a resort there. Her husband died, and so did Iona, but the DNR agreed to name this beach after her. Of course, there is no sand on this beach. Just rocks. Rocks of all sizes, and a billion or so of them. Big ones up near the woods, then as you drop down two or three plateaus to the lake, the rocks get smaller and smaller. When you get to the final ridge before Lake Superior’s waves can reach you, you hope for some waves because each one will cause a rustle that sounds like a giant sack of marbles rubbing against each other, as they are washed down toward the lake water it has tried for years, decades maybe, to escape. It is a thrill to eye and ear. Off to the western end of the “beach” there is a large rock formation jutting out into the lake. Flat on top, it is the ideal place to have a picnic. As we came in, an older fellow and his wife came toward us on the trail. “Where do you live?” I asked him. “Duluth,” he replied. I went on: “How many times have you ever been here?” and he said, “This is the first.” There it is. A newfound treasure. And I guarantee you, if you find it and check it out, you will be back. Life goes on, for all of us, and for all the billions of stones on Iona’s Beach, too. And if you go, you won’t care if you have Fox Sports North or not. March 26, 2020 August 13, 2020 49

Magnificent 7 is performing under the big tent at the Sawyer County Fair.

GitchiGrass Saturday, Aug. 15, 5:30 pm Earth Rider Brewery

Thanks to the ‘rona the original bigfestival plan has been scaled down, but still a great chance to hear Black River Revue and the reunited Tin Can Gin.

Similar Dogs Sundays in August, 1-4 pm Thirsty Pagan

Chris Kroeze plays the Saywer County Fair Aug. 14.

Joe Paulik Thursday, Aug. 13, 7 p.m. Lutsen Resort

The unique duo of Joe Lindzius & Sarah Jane Hale, similar in their desire to play a diverse repertoire grounded by acoustic guitar. Bring your lawn chair.

AIM March for the Homeless

Monday, Aug. 17, 1 p.m. Gitchi-ode Akiing (Lake Place Park) The American Indian Movement and allies march for City Hall to call for a legal homeless encampment with sanitation and basic amenities.

Lutsen Resort hosts Music on the Beach Thursday and Saturday at 7 p.m. Since 1988, Joe Paulik’s songwriting style and impressive vocal range has been compared to Gordon Lightfoot.

Chris Kroeze Friday, Aug. 14, 9 pm Sawyer County Fairgrounds

Singer and guitarist from Barron hit the big time on The Voice in 2018. He

Crescent Moon Wednesday, Aug. 18, 5:30 p.m. Barker’s Island

Glitterati plays the Cedar Lounge Aug. 20

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place on Wednesday evenings in various parks through Sept. 23. Crescent Moon plays a mix of genres including rock, soul and experimental

Glitteratti Thursday, Aug. 20, 5 p.m. Cedar Lounge

Supergroup with Marc Gartman (Coyote, Fever Dream), Dave Carroll (Trampled by Turtles), Tim Saxhaug (Trampled by Turtles, Dead Man Winter) and Kyle Keegan (Ben Howard, Mandolin Orange).

Bayside Sounds Around Town concerts take

Catch Black River Revue with Tin Can Gin during GitchiGrass Aug. 15 at Earth Reifer Brewery’s festival grounds.

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Day & night Thursday, 8-13

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

Hannah Rey, 4pm Spirit Room, 1323 Broadway St., Superior 715-8174775

Gordon Thorne, 7pm North Shore Winery, 202 Ski Hill Rd., Lutsen 218387-2788

Zakk Grandahl, 5pm The Rendezous, 1110 Scanlon Way, Scanlon 218879-9958

Shane Nelson, 7pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-6240626

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

Boat-In Concert Series: Torn & Frayed, 7pm Long Lake, Eveleth 218-327-5780

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

John & Andy, 7pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-392-1994

Todd Eckart, 6:30pm Burrito Union, 1332 East 4th Street, Duluth

Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391

Friday, 8-14

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

Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797

Sawyer County Fair, Sawyer County Fair Grounds, 14655 County Hwy B, Hayward 715-296-9000

Sawyer County Fair, Sawyer County Fair Grounds, 14655 County Hwy B, Hayward 715-296-9000 Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3-6pm Harrison Community Center, 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-726-1665 Bands, Brews & BBQ: Sharon Rowbottom & Dan Boyer, 4-8pm Minnesota Discovery Center, 1005 Discovery Dr., Chisholm 218-254-7959

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

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One Less Guest, 7pm Spirit Room, 1323 Broadway St., Superior 715817-4775 Centerville All Stars, 7:30-11:30pm Cloquet Bar & Lounge, 914 Cloquet Ave., Cloquet 6128655343 Aftershock, 7:30pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior Movies in the Park(ing) Lot: A Dog's Journey, 8:25pm The DECC, 350 Harbor Drive, Duluth 218.727.4344 Chris Kroeze, 9pm Sawyer County

Fairgrounds, Highway B, Hayward Buckwild, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-624-0626 American Ego, 7:30pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-3921994 The Most Wanted, 8pm Boondocks Saloon & Grill, 7047 Rice Lake Rd., Duluth 218.721.3003

Saturday, 8-15 Sawyer County Fair, Sawyer County Fair Grounds, 14655 County Hwy B, Hayward 715-296-9000 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847

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Ashland Area Farmers Market, 8amnoon 200 Block of Chapple Ave., Between Main St. & 3rd St. W., Ashland Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30amnoon First Street & Rittenhouse Avenue, Bayfield 715-257-0064 Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet Barker's Island Farmers Market, 9amnoon Barker's Island, Hwy2/53 and Marina Dr., Superior 715-372-8441 Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing

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Joe Polecheck Photography Pop-Up Shop, 9am-3pm Empire Coffee, 12-5 Tower Ave., Superior 715-718-0926 Americorps Scavenger Hunt, 9am Historic Duluth Armory, 1301 London Rd., Duluth 218-336-1038 Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174

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Grand Jam 2020, 2-10pm American Legion Park, Hwy 38, NW 14th St., Grand Rapids 218-326-2500 SonofMel, 2pm Out of the Woods Winery, 10588 Main St., Hayward 715-699-1709 GitchiGrass hosted by Black River Revue, 5pm Earth Rider Brewery Fest Grounds, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Rock-a-Billy Revue, 6pm Cast Iron Bar & Grill, 5906 Old Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth 218-729-7514 Music on the Beach, 7-9pm Lutsen Resort, 5700 W. Hwy. 61, Lutsen 800-258-8736 Ross Thorn, 7pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886 Race Night, 7pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715-6824990 Boat-In Concert Series: Divas Through the Decades, 7pm Pokegama Lake/Little J Gould Lake, Grand Rapids 218-327-5780 Christopher David Hanson Band, 7pm Pauly G's, 218 Chestnut St., Virginia 218-248-8500 Bantix, 7:30pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-392-1994 '80s Party, 7:30pm Charlie Brown's Bar, 1828 Iowa Ave, Superior 715394-5295 Buckwild, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-624-0626

Sunday, 8-16 Ingeborg Von Agassiz, 1-4pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior

715-394-7391 SonofMel, 1pm Ursa Minor Brewing, 2415 West Superior St. Suite B, Duluth 218-481-7886 Open Skating, 3-4:45pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711 Black River Revue, 3-6pm North Shore Winery, 202 Ski Hill Rd., Lutsen 218-387-2788 Similar Dogs, 1-4pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Duluth 715-3942500 Sawyer County Fair, Sawyer County Fair Grounds, 14655 County Hwy B, Hayward 715-296-9000 Sunday Night Showdown & Northern Renegades Sprint Car Series, 4:30pm Proctor Speedway Races, 800 N. Boundary Ave., Proctor 218624-0606 Drive-In Concert: Torn & Frayed, 7pm Hibbing Memorial Building, 400 E. 23rd St., HIbbingGordon Thorne,

Monday, 8-17 AIM Bringing Visibility to Duluth's Homeless, 1pm Gitchi-ode’ Akiing (Lake Place Park), Lake Avenue Entrance, Duluth

Central Hillside Farmers Market, 25pm Damiano Center, 206 W. 4th St., Duluth 218-726-1665Hibbing Farmers Market, 2-5pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing

Wednesday, 8-19 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 Colleen Myhre, 5pm Thirsty Pagan, 1615 Winter St., Duluth 715-3942500 Bayside Sounds: Crescent Moon, 5:30pm Barker's Island, Superior Gartman Plays Dead, 6-9pm Ripple Bar on Lake Superior, 325 S. Lake Ave Ste. 109, Duluth 218-606-1668 DSSO String Quartet, 6pm Duluth Cider, 2307 W Superior St., Duluth 218-464-1111 Bike Night with Buckwild, 6pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797

Shane Nelson, 7pm Pier B Resort, 800 W. Railroad St., Duluth 218-4818888

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Thursday, 8-20 Virginia Square Market, 2:30-6pm S. 9th Ave. W. & Chestnut St., Virginia Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 3-6pm Harrison Community Center, 3002 W 3rd St., Duluth 218-726-1665

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Misisipi Mike Wolf & Friends, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Glitteratti, 5-8pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391 Turns & Tunes, 6-9pm Mont Du Lac Recreation, 3125 Mont Du Lac Dr., Superior 218-626-3797

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

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

Music on the Beach, 7-9pm Lutsen Resort, 5700 W. Hwy. 61, Lutsen 800258-8736

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

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

Superior Siren, Jerree Small, 7pm Vikre Distillery, 525 Lake Ave. S., Suite 102, Duluth 218-481-7401

Friday, 8-21

Hannah Rey, 7pm Castle Danger Brewery, 17 7th St., Two Harbors 218-834-5800

Cyr & The Cosmonauts, 6pm Ripple Bar on Lake Superior, 325 S. Lake Ave Ste. 109, Duluth 218-606-1668 Sonja Martin, 6pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-3947391

Kyle Ollah, Liz Draper & Clancy Ward Trio, 7pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391 Movies in the Park(ing) Lot: Peanut Butter Falcon, 8:10pm The

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Saturday, 8-22 Duluth Farmers Market, 8am-noon Duluth Farmer's Market, 14th Ave. E. & 3rd St., Duluth 218-241-1847 Ashland Area Farmers Market, 8amnoon 200 Block of Chapple Ave., Between Main St. & 3rd St. W., Ashland Bayfield Farmers Market, 8:30amnoon First Street & Rittenhouse Avenue, Bayfield 715-257-0064 Cloquet Farmers Market, 9am-noon Premier Theatres, 904 Hwy. 33 S., Cloquet Barker's Island Farmers Market, 9amnoon Barker's Island, Hwy2/53 and Marina Dr., Superior 715-372-8441 Hibbing Farmers Market, 9am-1pm 1309 E. 40th St., Hibbing Two Harbors Farmers Market, 10am1pm 320 7th Ave., Two Harbors 218-310-7174 Real Horse Power Family Day, 10am5pm Forest History Center, 2609 County Road 76, Grand Rapids 218327-4482 Run for Beer, 11am Bent Paddle Brewing Co., 1912 W. Michigan St., Duluth 218-279-BPBC

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

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

The Most Wanted, 9pm Powerhouse Bar, 423 Third Ave., Proctor 218-6240626

Climate Emergency Poetry, 2pm Wussow's Concert Cafe, 324 North Central Avenue, Duluth 218-6245957

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

Sunday, 8-23

Open Skating, 3-5pm Duluth Heritage Sports Center, 120 South 30th Ave. W., Duluth 218-464-1711

Race Night, 7pm ABC Raceway, 2187 Butterworth Rd., Ashland 715-6824990 Teague Alexy, 7pm Castle Danger Brewery, 17 7th St., Two Harbors 218-834-5800 The Theory, 7pm Cast Iron Bar & Grill, 5906 Old Miller Trunk Hwy, Duluth 218-729-7514 Crescent Moon, 7:30pm Jack's Place, 1923 Tower Ave., Superior 715-3921994

Cider Run, 11am-2pm Wild State Cider, 2515 W. Superior St., Duluth 218-606-1151

Zakk Grandahl, 4pm Third Base Bar, 225 Chestnut Ave., Carlton

SonofMel, noon White Winter Winery, 68323A Lea St, Iron River 715372-5656 Ingeborg Von Agassiz, 1-4pm Cedar Lounge, 1715 N. 3rd St., Superior 715-394-7391

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Saturday, 8-15 Coffee & Guitar with Darin Bergsven, 9am facebook.com/ DarinBergsvenMusic. Astronomy: Fact or Fiction, 7 pm Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium, facebook.com/ UMDPlanetarium, Duluth 218.726.7129

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Bill & Kate Isles Weekly Stay-AtHome Live Concert, 7pm facebook.com/billandkateisles

Adventure Through the Universe, 7pm Marshall W. Alworth Pl anetarium, facebook.com/ UMDPlanetarium, Duluth 218.726.7129

Tuesday, 8-18

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

Trash Cat Tuesdays, 6pm facebook.com/thetrashcats

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Special Consensus pays tribute to Chicago’s bluegrass history When you think of Chicago, you think of what? Chicago dogs with sport peppers? Big shoulders? Cubbies or Bears? How about bluegrass? In celebration of its 45th anniversary, the Chicago-born bluegrass band Special Consensus credit the Windy City with a bluegrass legacy in their new release Chicago Barn Dance, paying tribute to ” the national radio show of the same name that aired Saturday nights from 1931 to 1952 on Chicago radio station WLS, and featuring country and bluegrass stars of the day, such as Hank Williams and Bill Monroe. It was one of the first American country music programs, and a model for the Grand Ole Opry. The liner notes explain: “The songs on this recording were either written about Chicago or by Chicago songwriters as a nod in this connection with

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country and bluegrass music history.” OK. What in the world is the Chicago connection to John Fogerty’s “Looking Out My Back Door”? Not that it really matters. It’s a great bluegrass rendition of the Credence hit, and I’ve long been a fan of bluegrass covers of popular music. A few years back I fell in love with a bluegrass cover of songs of The Moody Blues. It seemed like a most unlikely pairing, but it worked. The rest of the Chicago connections are easy to see, beginning with the titular opener. A beautiful violin screech opens the record like a call to bluegrass

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The married musical team of LuLu and Scotty – known as “The Sweethearts of Country Music” – were rgulars on the WLS National Barn Dance radio show. arms (the band is joined by two guest fiddlers – Becky Fuller and Michael Cleveland – they are identified as playing out of the left or right speaker, respectively). Fuller co-wrote the WLS Barn Dance tribute song, along with Missy Raines (who last year was named – for the eighth time! – International Bluegrass Music Association Bass Player of the Year) and album producer/arranger/collaborator/banjoist/guitarist Alison Brown. Speaking of production, the sound of this CD is amazing – big, bright, rich, alive. The second song, “Lake Shore Drive” (aka “LSD), also easily fits in place. It was originally recorded in 1971 by the unfortunately named Chicago rock band Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah. No. 3 is “East Chicago Blues,” written and sung by Chicago-based Bloodshot recording artist Robbie Fulks. It tells the first-person story of Bill Monroe’s move from a “west Kentucjy farmboy” to “drowning in the East Chicago blues.” A press release that came with the CD says Fulks was once a member

of Special Consensus, but does not elaborate. This song illustrates Fulks’ great chops voice in a powerful song. “My Kind of Town” follows, a sparky bluegrass instrumental take on the Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen hit for Frank Sinatra. The aforementioned incongruous Fogerty tune is next, with tasty dobro from guest Rob Ickes (rhymes with “yikes”), followed by “I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music,” by Tin Pan Alley songwriter Dave Franklin, who also wrote the tune “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down,” which was adopted as the Looney Tunes theme song. What Franklin’s connection to Chicago is, I’m still searching. This song sounds like something you might have heard in a Busby Berkeley musical of the 1930s, converted to bluegrass. But you can almost see the kaleidoscopic shots of synchronized dancers. That is followed by a natural in the form of “City of New Orleans” by the late, great Chicago singer/songwriter Steve Goodman. Still a beautiful song. “I Am the City” was written by the band’s bass player, Dan Eubanks, and is a lickey-split homage to Chicago’s fertile music scene. “Won’t That Be a Happy Time” shows off the band’s formidable acapella skills in a beautiful traditional gospel tune. Really great stuff. A cooking version of “Sweet Home Chicago, with poignant string work from banjoist Greg Cahill, guitarist Rick Faris and mandolinist Nate Burie, is the final song before the outro, “Chicago Barn Dance Reprise,” recorded as though you were tuning into the original broadcast on your old Victrola. This is a very invigorating and satisfying listen. Happy 45 years, Special Consensus!

Apostle Islands: A schoolhouse for sailors It’s about a dozen miles as the crow flies from the village of Bayfield to Stockton Island in the southwest section of Lake Superior. But on a recent three-day sailing trip in this extraordinary corner of North America, my buddy Dave Cushman and I were taking the long route as we tacked back and forth on our 33-foot vessel, The Breeze, with Capt. Mike Simon of Superior Charters. By the time we reached Presque Isle Bay – our anchorage for the night – we’d logged more than 25 miles, zigzagging past Basswood, Hermit and Madeline islands. In the process, Cushman and I had netted bushels of valuable sailing experience that will allow us to charter our own sailboat later on. Adding to our adventure was the 50th anniversary of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Advocated by former Wisconsin Gov. Gaylord Nelson, a visionary conservationist who later served as a U.S. senator, 22 islands in the Apostles’ archipelago were added to the National Park System in 1970. Nelson was also the man behind the establishment of Earth Day. I’d sailed in the Apostles – often called a freshwater version of the Caribbean’s British Virgin Islands – before, and I learned to raise and lower the sails during that trip, but I never quite understood how the boat sailed or even what some of the terms meant. So when the opportunity arose this early summer to take a class, I jumped on it. Better yet, Cushman – who grew up sailing in Lake Michigan – signed on to join me. We drove north from Wisconsin that first night. After buying provisions, we bunked on The Breeze, our home for the next few days. We met Simon the following morning, carefully motored the boat out of the Pike’s Bay Marina and headed into the open waters of Lake Superior. We soon raised the mainsail and then the jib sail at the bow of the boat. I learned that sailboats only “catch” the wind for propulsion when they are headed downwind. The rest of the time a sail essentially functions

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Pike’s Bay Marina on Lake Superior is home of Superior Charter. Photo courtesy of Brian Clark. as an airplane wing standing on end. When the sails are trimmed or adjusted correctly, each sail’s leading edge points into the wind, creating higher pressure on the windward side (the side facing the wind) and lower pressure on the leeward side (the side away from the wind), actually lifting the boat forward. Cushman and I shared time at the helm of The Breeze, doing our best to make the boat sail smoothly. We also practiced anchoring and docking the boat safely, a key skill to learn if you want to return a chartered boat worth $150,000 back to its owners undamaged. Late that afternoon we ate dinner in Bayfield at Gruenke’s Restaurant. Because of pandemic restrictions, we ordered takeout and sat near the marina watching boats on the lake and children playing on a public lawn. Simon arrived the next morning around 9. We began our voyage to Presque Isle Bay on 10,054-acre Stockton Island, the second-largest land mass in the archipelago after Madeline Island. We sailed into a northeast wind on a crooked, tacking

course, arriving at our destination around 4 p.m. and again practicing our anchoring skills. Later Cushman and I rowed our dinghy to a sandy beach and hiked past lovely displays of bluebearded lilies, lady slippers, lupines and ferns, as well as trees bent into magical shapes. We continued on to Julian Bay, where the beach is known for its singing (squeaking) sands. Sandhill cranes and loons serenaded our walk. Black bears are also abundant on Stockton Island, but we didn’t encounter any. The winds were whipping up whitecaps on the bay, so we didn’t stay long before returning through the forest to our boat. That night, Cushman made a delicious meal in the Breeze’s galley of pasta covered with tomato-ground turkey sauce plus sourdough bread and a mixed salad. We topped that off with a local beer and watched the sun set over the islands. While we ate Simon told us of his sailing adventures, which included running trips from the Florida Keys

to the Dry Tortugas and racing in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as well as the Gulf of Mexico. He quickly fell in love with this archipelago during his first visit and now makes his home near Bayfield. “I’d read magazine articles about this area being one of the top spots to sail in the country and they were right,” he said. “The natural beauty of the forests, the rocky islands and the caves carved by the big waves of Lake Superior really appealed to me.” We slept in a bit the next morning and with the wind blowing again from the northeast, we navigated a relatively straight shot downwind to the marina, practicing our docking skills a time or two before we pulled the Breeze into our slip to give it a thorough cleaning – which is required when you charter a boat. Brian Clark is a freelance writer. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at creators.com.

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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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Enjoy sports? So do I! DWF, 5’4”, fit. kind, attractive, 75. seeks SM who watches Twins and Vikings games for companionship. (58552:7/23) 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

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Personals 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) Try a Senior Moment Active, adverturous, affable, nice, nurtuting, nimble. Petite, positive, playful. Smart, shapely, spunky. ISO fit young (67-77) codger for smiles and converstion, serendipity, exploring. (58403:6/8) Compantionship WWF, 70, looking for companion to enjoy life with. Love football, picnics, and dining out. Must be honest. (58398:5/4) Looking for Soul Mate SWF ISO friend who likes camping, coffee, outdoors, travel, estate sales, and hanging out. Send photo. (58394:3/30) Looking for my Sweetheart DWF, 58, 5’5”, 160lbs, NS/ND, likes to cuddle, hold hands, camping, traveling, cooking, walks. ISO Christian guy 55-70 for friendship and possible LTR. (58374:12/15) Searching for Comanionship DWF, NS, retired veteran female. 63, honest, considerate, loves to laugh, visit and talk. (58373:12/15) Let’s Seek God’s Will Together

NS, 51, tall, exotic, attractive, Christian F. Fun, nature lover, educated, epicurean with diverse interests, healthy living. ISO Christain male 45-58 years young with similar interests. (58370:10/13) Searching for Mate 72yr old F ISO LTR with a passoinate, sincere, kind gentleman in near age group. NS/ ND. (58354:6/23)

Tall slim bearded sculptor in Superior Desires LTR with affectionate diversified tall busty lady with some extra poundage and at least shoulder length soft cuddy hair. I’m a mellow NS, 60?, open to age and race. (58553:7/23)

Female Activist Seeks Companionship Seeking like minded Liberal gentleman for friendship and fun. (58340:4/14)

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

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)

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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)

From the Range WWF, 62, NS, likes the outdoors, walks, animal lover, garage sales, dining out, movies. ISO honest, caring man to enjoy lfe with. Will answer all. (58352:6/23)

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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)

Vermilion Lake area DWM, 60, 6’1, 200, NS, seeks SF for travel, quiet nights around fire, must enjoy fresh fish dinners off grill. Let’s communicate. (58551:7/16) Time for a companion DWM, 70, 5’8”, 170 lbs., brown hair, blue eyes, looking for a lady to settle down with. I am loving, caring, helpful. Let’s talk and learn more. (58548:5/21) Exploring SWM, 5’10”, brown, blue, enjoy RV camping, boating, ATVing, travel, staying home. Seeking LTR with any race. Piercings, tattoos a plus. (58547:5/14) Living romance novel! Let me lead the way into our very own love story! SWM, tall, attractive, passionate, mysterious, James Bondish! Respond, I want to meet. (58545:4/23)

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Looking for love WM, 58, seeking mature BBW for dating. I have many interests. Camping, travel, concerts. (58544: 4/23)

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Lonely Again I’m 6’ brown retired from the rock scene, but still roll. (58539:03/25)

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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 to gether, Avarage 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 music. Possible LTR, photos! (58536:01/10) 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) Desiring an honest, intelligent significant other I’m likable, are you? I’m slim, attractive, humorous, middleaged, 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,

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

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) 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) Oral herpes for oral herpes 40s male looking for lady who has oral herpes. I do, too. 46-59. Slim or average build. Picture, please. I’m tall, ave. build. (58501:6/13) Loving, honest, passionate DWM, 74, 180, 5-8, looking for honest woman. Like gar-

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Pantie Play Looking for another 60 year old that enjoys wearing panties and stockings. Interested? 58546:4/23) 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)

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

Biverse Bear ISO friend, mid-40s Looking for hunt, fish & discreet Biverse friend 18-50 verse discreet friends with benis satisfaction. (58437: 9/30)

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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, open-minded, conversationalist, adaptable to your desires. (58506:7/4)

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)

ISO Top SWM WITI. 67. seeking christian SGWM for possible LTR, photo, phone please. (58453:5/31)

way blind & new to friend to have with. (58438:

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

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

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)

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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)

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)

tant. Someone simpatico with those values. Carpe diem. Send phone or email (58439: 11/8)

Wake me up, stud Northern Wis. Looking for playmates, top or bottom, for right stud, nice package. (58503:6/13)

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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)

dening, dancing, outdoors. Active, LTR, looking to adventure, try fishing and other sports, anything new. (58493:4/25)

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hard-working. Retiring in November. Will answer all/ (58513:8/1)

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Cryptoquote Answer It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little — do what you can. — Sydney Smith

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‘For the Love of Trees’ exhibit at the Lyric The Lyric Center for the Arts, Virginia, welcomes feature artist, Sue Rauschenfels and her lovely, For the Love of Trees Exhibit for the month of August. Using vibrant colors and varied textures Sue often portrays trees in a row, together standing tall. Much like people, we too need to stand together to protect each other, our communities, and our environmental treasures. Growing up in a very small northern Minnesota town in a tight knit neighborhood, Sue’s time was spent outdoors year-round playing with neighborhood friends and her sisters. Nature was an important part of her childhood. She has never lost her love for being in the woods and it is not surprising she enjoys painting trees. Sue is grateful to be surrounded by Lake Superior and our national forests for play and tranquility. She began painting full-time in 2009 after retiring from UMD. She has taken art classes and workshops locally and nationally, and she is grateful to study and to connect with creative artistic mentors for inspiration and for support. Sue is currently a member of Lake Superior Watercolor Society, Artists of MN and Arrowhead Artists. Her work can be seen at 47 Degrees Gallery in Knife River, Art on the Planet Gallery in Superior, and in her private home studio/gallery by appointment. The Lyric is open Friday and Saturday from 11 am to 3 pm.

tions whose practices and programming have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. In each program, funds can be used to help individuals and organizations maintain their core activities and their connections to Minnesota residents and communities. These are statewide grant programs. Any person or organization who meets the eligibility requirements is welcome to submit an application. Eligibility requirements are listed in the Program Overview and Application Instructions document posted on each program Web page. There will be two deadline options for each program, one in August and one in September. Deadlines and more detailed information can be found on the arts board website, arts.state.mn.us. A free, recorded training Webinar is available for each program and can be found on the grant program page.

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Arts board accepting applications for FY 2021 The Minnesota State Arts Board has posted application materials for two new grant programs: • Creative Support for Individuals. The grant range is $2,000 - $6,000 • Creative Support for Organizations. The grant range is $5,000 - $15,000 These programs will provide flexible support for individuals and organiza-

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art’s unique potential to bring communities together. Alyssa is so excited to return to the Duluth area and to join the Duluth Art Institute as the Community Engagement and Development Manager. Outside of her career, Alyssa spends her Duluth Art Institute time outside running, biking, snowVirtual Gala coming boarding, and taking her beautiful cat, Save the date for the Duluth Art Insti- Loki, for hikes. tute Virtual Gala, Wednesday, Sept. 16. Liz will serve the Duluth Art Institute What is a virtual gala? It’s your opas the Community Outreach Coordinaportunity to support the DAI from tor through AmeriCorps VISTA. In May, anywhere you can be online. We hope Liz graduated from St. Catherine Univerto raise $60,000. Stay tuned for more in- sity with a double major in Economics formation, which is to come over social and Public Policy and a minor in Statismedia and our eNewsletters. tics. As a recent graduate, Liz is excited The institute also announced two new to apply the skills developed through staff members – Alyssa Swanson, Com- college to give back to communities. The munity Engagement and Development Duluth Art Institute particularly caught Manager, and Liz Axberg, Community her eye as she is passionate about how Outreach Coordinator VISTA. we can use art as a vehicle for commuAlyssa an artist working in fibers, nity empowerment and uprooting false painting and drawing. She earned a BA neighborhood narratives, setting the in Art from the College of St. Scholastica seeds for grassroots movements, and and an MFA in 2-D Studies from Bowl- ultimately alleviating poverty. Liz looks ing Green State University. Her work forward to collaborating with the Ducurrently focuses on issues related to luth community to increase accessibility the feminine voice and domestic craft to our resources and expand our reach. and has been on display throughout the Liz is especially excited to be in Duluth Midwest. In addition to her career as for all of the outdoor activites and, of an artist, Alyssa is passionate about art course, life by Lake Superior. education, accessibility in the arts, and

DSSO Obsession concert available to stream Obsession, from the 2019-20 Season, is now available on DSSO at Home. DSSO at Home is completely free, just create an account and bring the DSSO into your home. The DSSO’s Obsession concert took place on Feb 1, 2020 with: • Daugherty: Red Cape Tango • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto featuring Concertmaster Erin Aldridge • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Michael Daugherty’s Red Cape Tango truly obsesses over something: It is the Gregorian chant of the Dies Irae, the judgment day. This piece tells the story of Superman and his archenemy Doomsday, and offers up this ancient melody in any variation you can think of. Berlioz also quotes this famous melody in his Symphonie Fantastique, a piece about an artists’ obsession for his beloved. August 13, 2020 63

Poisonous schemes unveiled! How Trump Stole 2020 Greg Palast, author Ted Rall, illustrator Seven Stories Press Has Trump already stolen the 2020 election? Vote theft was once considered to be a marginal issue that no one wanted to talk about, but as the stakes have risen and the facts have become known it is now recognized as one of the central issues deciding our presidential elections. Ironically, the last two confirmed cases of large scale voter fraud were perpetrated by Republicans. Then there is the whole issue of Republican-sponsored voter suppression practices. The scope covered by How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters is staggering. In the Georgia 2018 midterm election alone (the testing ground) Republican voting officials quietly removed half a million voters from the voter rolls – including Martin Luther King’s 92-year-old cousin Christine Jordan. How Trump Stole 2020 is the story of the racially poisonous schemes to steal the 2020 election, the political operatives behind the trickery – and the hard right billionaires funding it all, written by Greg Palast, an investigative reporter who has been covering this story from the outset. The only problem with How Trump Stole 2020 is that the folks who need to read it most (the 35% of our nation’s electorate who are dedicated Trump supporters) never will. Nevertheless, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters should receive as wide as possible readership as we come down to the November 2020 election which will, quite literally determine if our American experiment in freedom and democracy will survive. Greg Palast has worked as a government consultant and an investigator for labor unions before turning to journalism full time. For years Palast wrote a column for the Guardian called “Inside Corporate America,” and his articles have appeared in magazines and journals including the Nation,

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Harper’s, and In These Times. Palast is also the author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, which covered in detail the fiasco of President Bush’s victory in Florida in 2000. His most recent book is Billionaires and Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, with illustrations by Ted Rall. The Power of Positive Aging David Lereah, PhD Quill Driver Press The Power of Positive Aging: Successfully Coping with the Inconveniences of Aging advocates embracing the aging process with a different mindset, which is especially important for adjusting to the fact that Americans live some 30 years longer than the did less than a hundred years ago. The revered youth culture attitudes that exist today don’t help an aging population also adapt their mental attitude about changes in life, and there’s where The Power of Positive Aging comes into play. This is a manual for how to cope with the physical and mental challenges that are aging, and is based on life lessons author David Lereah learned during his fight against cancer. Its compendium of physical

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and spiritual exercises use mindfulness and acceptance strategies to mitigate the negative effects and perceptions of aging, providing older Americans with a solid game plan for cultivating positive attitudes in the face of oftenchallenging changes. It’s a book just as important as the myriad of volumes covering physical fitness and life changes as aging continues, and is recommended reading for any on the path to better wellness and attitude. Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution Don Fitz Monthly Review Press Unknown by most Americans is that the Cuban revolution was able to achieve some phenomenal goals, including the reclamation of Cuba’s agriculture, advancing its literacy rate to nearly 100 percent, and remaking its medical system. Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this “third-world” country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost.

In Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, author Don Fitz combines his deep knowledge of Cuban history with his decades of on-the-ground experience in Cuba to bring us the story of how Cuba’s health care system evolved and how Cuba is tackling the daunting challenges to its revolution in this century. Fitz weaves together complex themes in Cuban history, moving the reader from one fascinating story to another. He describes how Cuba was able to create a unified system of clinics, and evolved the family doctor-nurse teams that became a model for poor countries throughout the world. How, in the 1980s and ‘90s, Cuba survived the encroachment of AIDS and increasing suffering that came with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and then went on to establish the Latin American School of Medicine, which still brings thousands of international students to the island. Deeply researched, recounted with compassion, Cuban Health Care tells a story that an American readership simply won’t find anywhere else. This is a critically important history of how, in terms of caring for everyday people, Cuba’s revolution continues. Underscored by the disastrous American medical and political response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution should receive as wide a readership as

possible. Actually, the Comma Goes Here Lucy Cripps Rockridge Press

No one’s ever said that learning punctuation is fun until now. Actually, The Comma Goes Here takes a lighthearted yet highly informative approach to ensuring you never misplace a comma again. Whether it’s semicolons or exclamation points, this primer has you covered with chapters that dive deep into the correct use for each and every piece of punctuation. You’ll find plenty of fun (and funny) examples of proper writing while also learning how punctuation has changed throughout history. Actually, The Comma Goes Here includes: • A complete crash course. Keep things simple with chapters that progress from the most basic punctuation (like periods) to more advanced or uncommon punctuation (like brackets). • Memorable advice. Never mix your clauses up again thanks to easyto-remember breakdowns, handy mnemonics and entertaining sample sentences. • Matters of style. Discover a quick reference chart that details the differences between the most common style guides, including the Chicago Manual of Style and Associated Press. • Perfect your punctuation with the help of this comprehensive guidebook. Actually, the Comma Goes Here is a thoroughly accessible punctuation guide for writers of all skill and experience levels. Periods, semicolons, commas, brackets, clauses and much more are all explained in straightforward terms with examples and more than a dash of witty humor. Actually, the Comma Goes Here is a “must-have,” especially for aspiring and practicing professional writers, from columnists to novelists. Highly recommended. Gloria: A Life Emily Mann Theatre Communications Group Five decades after Gloria Steinem began raising her voice for equality and championing the voices of others, to this day she continues to remain one of the leaders of the American feminist movement. Gloria: A Life is Emily Mann’s new play that traces the progress of Steinem’s extraordinary life, from her undercover Playboy Bunny expose in the 1960s, through her founding of Ms. Magazine in the 1970s, to her activism in today’s women’s movement. A superbly crafted theatrical production must be based on a play’s originality and the playwright’s narrative storytelling skills. Both are in

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ethics: a single, short criterion that sheds light on many situations, and Hayward takes a cue, opening with a formulation of a “Silicon Rule” of “What do Silicon Valley technology executives choose for their children?” with a surprising answer: Steve Jobs did not give his children iPhones and iPads but walls of paper books and animated discussions with them. This single criterion unfolds at length in variations on the theme of right use of technology. Hayward adopts a revealing, chatty tone that winds intellectual debate, spiritual reflection, and cultural and social analysis in a curious, compelling manner. While this tone might not be for all readers, it will prove exceptionally fun and thoughtprovoking for those who relish both humor and a spiritual/philosophical style of inspection. Indeed, it is the Orthodox reader versed in this discipline and Biblical

abundance with Gloria: A Life – Emily Mann’s latest and highly successful effort for the stage. Emily Mann is a successful playwright and director. Her plays include Execution of Justice, Still Life and Having Our Say, among others. She is currently Artistic Director of Princeton, New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre and the recipient of the 1994 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Her numerous awards for artistic excellence include a Guggenheim, a Playwrights Fellowship and Artistic Associate Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a McKnight Fellowship and a Rosamund Gilder Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Theatre. In recognition of her achievements illuminating the possibilities for social, cultural and political change, Mann was awarded the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women/ NY. The Luddite’s Guide to Technology C.J.S. Hayward CJS Hayward Publications The Luddite’s Guide to Technology: The Past Writes Back to Humane Tech! comes from the “Major Works” series by C.J.S. Hayward and blends philosophical inspection with science, Luddite orthodoxy, and a curious blend of life inspection. It romps through the world of new devices with a clever eye toward considering the guideposts of technology choices. In the discipline of ethics, the Golden Rule represents a feat in formulating

references and inspections who will most likely be fascinated by the technological probe Hayward undertakes here. While some could say that this treatise is disjointed and too wideranging, The Luddite’s Guide to Technology always stays true to its foundation subjects (religion, technology and social impact) even as it traverses historical and social settings with seemingly disparate topics. Much like an internet browsing session, Hayward leaps from topic to topic, making logical connections that move readers from Biblical analysis to social and technological changes and back again. The result is a literary blend of spiritual, social, and technological reflection wound in an overlay of tongue-in-cheek wry humor. This book will especially appeal to intellectual thinkers interested in the intersection between orthodox beliefs and technology’s allure.

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2. How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, One World, $27

2. Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens, Putnam, $26

3. Begin Again Eddie S. Glaude, Crown, $27

3. Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey, $27

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4. Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid, Putnam, $26

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6. The Guest List Lucy Foley, Morrow, $27.99 7. American Dirt Jeanine Cummins, Flatiron Books, $27.99 8. The Dutch House Ann Patchett, Harper, $27.99

7. Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir Natasha Trethewey, Ecco, $27.99 8. The Room Where It Happened John Bolton, S&S, $32.5 9. The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson, Crown, $32

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Criterion’s best of Bruce Lee Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) $124.95 I seem to remember before the time of the great pandemic where there was a minor swell of nostalgia around Bruce Lee in 2020, and even after watching Criterion’s set devoted to his filmography, I still was not sure why, until I googled and lo and behold, Lee would have turned 80 this year. The guy who wore a mask and played Kato in shows like Batman and The Green Hornet had a kinetic sort of charisma that dazzled on screen and found himself light years ahead of those he worked with, and ultimately his dreams of Hollywood success would have to be placed on hold until he went to Asia and conquered Hong Kong cinema first, before tragedy struck just before his American success was to be realized. Unbeknownst to Lee, his work on The Green Hornet was well-received in Hong Kong, and it was suggested that he go there to help show his viability to American audiences. Thus begat The Big Boss, where Lee played Cheng, a Chinese man who moved to Thailand and live with his adopted family, and at the ice factory where he worked, he learns that it is used for drug smuggling. Following the killings of two of his cousins, Cheng’s resistance to fighting (a promise he made to his family in China) is put to the test as his Thai family is bullied by the crime boss Hsiao, and eventually Cheng and Hsiao meet for a fight for revenge and/ or victory. Not being sure how many people are well-versed in Lee’s non Enter the Dragon work I had no idea what to expect in The Big Boss other than whatever Saturday afternoon prototypical kung-fu film broke out, but Lee’s agility and versatility when he is not fighting is quite the surprise. There is some Chaplin or some Lewis to some of the lighter scenes in the film that make it fascinating, and his martial arts work had to feel like a revelation to audiences back in the day. Lee, producer Raymond Chow and director Lo Wei would reunite for Fist of Fury, which has Lee as Chen, a

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After gorging nearly nine hours of Bruce Lee, I have a deeper appreciation of how the stardom came to be, how the fall was tragic and deeply felt, and the numerous cracks at the cash cow are a little shameful yet oddly understandable Chinese martial artist returning to his school and learning about the death of his teacher. He endures verbal and physical taunts by the Japanese, along with a good amount of discrimination, until Chen eventually confronts the master of the Japanese dojo. Like The Big Boss, there is a reluctance to go for an easy win for the protagonist, that he has some regret on his actions, but manages to go out with the morally right thing for each character to do. Whether it’s turning himself in to authorities or leaping at the line of Japanese police in defiance, these are things that only these characters would do, and Lee emotes them nicely (and even more comic touch in Fist.) This brings us to The Way of the Dragon, which Lee wrote, directed and produced (along with starred), and perhaps is the purest film he was able to make. Lee is Tang, a Hong Kong martial artist who goes to Rome at the request of a family member to help

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them with their restaurant, which is being extorted by a local crime boss. Tang trains the restaurant staff in his type of fighting which is met with initial resistance, but once results are shown with it, the staff turns away the henchmen. The crime boss (Uncle Wang) eventually brings in several world-class martial artists to try and kill Tang. This is the one where a young, mutton chopped, startingly hairy Chuck Norris Code of Silence fights Lee in the Colosseum. The early moments of Lee in Rome make for their own comic moments again, but there is a more noticeable sense of comfort Lee has in what he’s doing. It’s this confidence that Lee uses in other things that he is comfortable with, like the scenes with Norris and Bob Wall (who we see a few times over Lee films) where there is trust in what the other is doing and allowing to be done that highlights their talents. But there is also the sense of message

when it comes to fighting styles that Lee’s purposing of many things into his own and its communication to the restaurant staff serve as a platform for him, and when it comes to Bruce Lee, martial artist, The Way of the Dragon should serve as much as a legacy for him as his last completed film. Enter the Dragon is next in Criterion’s set, aka the one that was Lee’s North American feature debut, which Chow produced and Robert Clouse (Gymkata) directed. Lee plays Lee, a Hong Kong martial arts instructor who is approached to infiltrate a private island owned by a crime lord named Han, as Han has an exclusive martial arts competition occurring on the island. Along with Roper (John Saxon, Nightmare on Elm Street) and Williams (Jim Kelly), Lee tries to not only find out more about Han’s operation, but avenge the death of his sister. Enter the Dragon on its own is good, but when you see the prior works of an aspiring, hungry Bruce Lee, it feels like a starring vehicle. For sure, the scenes where Lee fights O’Hara (Wall) really show off his fighting ability, along with his third act nunchuck using on the prison guards. But it lacks an emotional depth that Lee’s other characters had had to that point, which is too bad. It is a minor nit, because the fighting stuff in Enter is certainly the most polished looking of Lee’s work to that point. It is that point where Lee’s work would essentially cease to be. Of note, there are two versions of Enter; the first version is the 99-minute cut, and the second (on the last disc in the set) is the 102-minute one. But wait! Before Enter was filming, Lee’s work on shooting Game of Death was underway. He halted it but as we know was unable to resume it. Using the film that was available, Lee (and several stand-ins) is Billy, a martial arts star that is trying to head away a crime syndicate who wants to use him for various endeavors. An attempt on Billy’s life is made and he needs surgery for the wound, but also decides now’s a good time to fake his death! So, using footage from Lee’s funeral as part of the story, Billy goes after Steiner (Hugh O’Brian, The Shootist) and Dr. Land (Dean Jagger, Twelve O’Clock High), while trying to keep his fiancée Ann (Colleen Camp, Police Academy) away from their clutches. There is even a co-

starring role by Gig Young (They Shoot Horses Don’t They?), making two Oscar winners in this. And, well, it’s not good. Sure, the Lee fight scenes in the pagoda as he gets to the top (to face Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) are good, but there is a lot of effort spent in quick cuts from past films, using cardboard cutouts over people’s faces, using multiple stand-ins for fight and action sequences, and convenient camera shots. There’s an Ed Wood-type of feel to its disjointedness, combined with the unease of having film from the funeral in here, it is something that seems to serve as the spawn of the Brucesploitation genre, which we will get into in a bit. The second Game of Death is included on the next to last disc, and there is a little less Lee in this compared to the first, though it does use different films from his work (along with with old film of Lee when he was a teenager), and strangely feels a little more coherent than the first film. After gorging over nearly nine hours of Bruce Lee, I have a deeper appreciation of how the stardom came to be, how the fall was tragic and deeply felt, and the numerous cracks at the cash cow are a little shameful yet oddly understandable? Given the films usually cost less than $1 million to make and made several times that, why not give it a go I guess. And after seeing Criterion handle a different Hong Kong martial arts legend and friend of Lee’s recently, why not take a shot at the King I guess. If you’ve poured through The Legacy Collection or even Warner’s 40th Anniversary release of Enter the Dragon, then a lot (not ALL) of the extras there are going to be familiar to you. Each disc is packed with extras, from commentaries from a variety of insiders, biographers and critics to documentaries such as Bruce Lee: The Early Years and Legacy of the Dragon, a documentary focusing on the friends of students of Lee (including one-time James Bond George Lazenby!) with recollections of working with Lee. Each of the seven discs has an abundance of extras. As an example, let’s look at Disc 7, a special edition of Enter the Dragon. This is essentially the Warner version that a few of us know, and includes commentary by documentarian Paul Heller, but includes some different extras. Risk and Reward (16:11), where Golden Harvest producer Andre Morgan talks Hong Kong films in America, the task to sell them to same and the impact of them since Lee’s death, along with Jackie Chan’s impact on American audiences from Golden Harvest’s perspective.

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Brucesploitation (10:21) gets into the genre, where Bruce Lee and Popeye find James Bond, Emmanuelle and others in one film, and the promos for some of these films are included too (13:13). Match the Lips (11:54) looks at the effort of and challenge in dubbing Lee’s films, why it’s done for Hong Kong films, how it is done and recollections on working with Lee at that time. The Grandmaster and the Dragon (54:41) looks at the relationship between Lee and Wing Chun, some anecdotes of Lee, and how Lee worked. The friendship is discussed after the two stopped working together and includes fondness of Lee after his death. Heading to both Enter the Dragon films first, since they have 2K restorations, and each look great. Background detail is good and present nice dimensionality to the Hong Kong (and island) backdrops. Hair and beads of sweat on Lee were noticeable before and remain so now, with colors and flesh tones reproduced loyally, and both versions look pristine, with a nod to the theatrical over the extended. But you will not go wrong either way. Then you have 4K digital restorations of The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon and Game of Death. The Big Boss one gives full use of the backdrop for Hsiao’s compound, with backgrounds appearing clear and stable, visible film grain and colors that look natural and not oversaturated. Black levels fluctuate a little but given the source material it is forgiven. Fist of Fury is a bit better, with more image detail and more consistent black levels, colors that look great and no smearing or artifacts that were found during viewing. Game of Death is a level below the others, as the palette is a little simpler but colors are slightly muted and

the Jabbar battle sequences come off as darker than they should. Game II borrows more sources and thus is a little all over the place in terms of quality, kind of looking like a retrospective documentary, but without all the contemporary interviews to make it look better than it should. The package as a whole is very good for those that Criterion decided to spruce up. I watched all of the films with the Mandarin LCPM track, occasionally listening to the English dubs. That said, The Big Boss, The Way of the Dragon and Fist of Fury come with Mandarin and English LCPM mono tracks as well as a Cantonese Dolby Digital Mono Track, with Boss and Dragon getting an English Dolby Digital Mono track. Each of the tracks sound clear as can be, with little in the way of hissing or cracking noise to distract from the presentation. The dub tracks are fine, even funny, more than I was expecting. Game has two English LCPM tracks (one from the Japanese master) that sound fine, and Game II has a English Dolby Digital mono track that given the nature of whatever the film is supposed to be is

worth a chuckle or two. The theatrical release of Enter has an LCPM English mono track, which sounds great, and I would imagine since the film is almost the gem of sorts for the filmography. With Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits, Criterion gives you as exhaustive and comprehensive a look at the martial arts legend as you are going to find in one package. By no means is it a complete package; between the Warner rereleases of Enter the Dragon and the Shout Factory Legacy Edition there is a lot of overlap, though in Criterion’s defense they do try to cover as many bases as possible, and the new transfers on the early films are good to great, along with the restored ones. Given that I doubt we’re going to get a package like this again any time soon, I’m slapping the DVDTalk Collector Series label on this puppy.

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LOOK A legitimate sci-fi classic gets major update

The War of the Worlds (1953) The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray) $39.95 Based on the book of the same name by the legendary H.G. Wells and directed by Byron Haskin, the 1953 adaptation of The War Of The Worlds, which was produced for Paramount Studios by none other than George Pal, opens with a large object assumed by the locals landing in the woods near a small California town. The cops know that a team of scientists were fishing nearby and ask for their help in ascertaining just exactly what happened here. As some

of the local men dream of cashing in on the space rock and using it to bring in those tourist dollars, one of the scientists, a nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry), arrives on the scene and instantly hits it off with Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson). The town’s intrigue in the event soon turns to fear when it turns out that this wasn’t a meteorite but in fact the arrival of some Martian war machines that soon lay waste to anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves in its path. And, as luck would have it, there’s more than one. Soon enough, a full-fledged Martian invasion

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is underway not just in California, but around the world and not even the mightiest military forces on the planet prove able to stop these machines, as they’ve managed to clock themselves in electro-magnetic force fields. As the Martian lay waste to major cities across the continents, the American military decides they have only one option, and that’s to use the atomic bomb, but will it be enough? The War Of The Worlds is 85 minutes of vintage science fiction heaven, a beautiful Technicolor nightmare shot in blazing color and featuring loads of trailblazing special effects (which would earn the film an Academy Award) that still holds up incredibly well today. The pacing is tight and the film is lean, getting right into the action from the start while still managing to build interesting characters with Forrester and Van Buren who, of course, develop a semi-romantic relationship as the story unfolds. The human element is important in a picture like this and leads Gene Barry and Ann Robinson both deliver very fine work here, making us like and care about their characters while also creating people we can believe in, as they react to what is going on around them as the attacks intensify. Opening with a voiceover from Sir Cedric Hardwicke that gives us a quick rundown of the history of human warfare over the centuries before then declaring the events we’re about to see a literal “war of the worlds,” the movie plays well as a straight picture more than a half century since it was made. There are some truly dark scenes here, not the least of which is when Pastor Matthew Collins (Lewis Martin) approaches one of the Martian war machines, Bible in hand and quoting scripture, only to be fried in front of the members of his flock, something you really wouldn’t have expected to see in a major Hollywood production in 1953. We won’t spoil the ending for the few out there reading this review that haven’t seen the picture but it gets quite intense before the end credits hit the screen, and this had to have been very strong stuff in its day. The War Of The Worlds comes to Bluray from The Criterion Collection on a 50GB disc in AVC encoded 1080p high definition framed at 1.37.1 with the feature taking up just over 28GBs of space on the disc. Taken from a new 4k transfer of the original 35mm negative, the image quality here is gorgeous. First and foremost, the color reproduction on this transfer is amazing, the reds and greens in particular pop like never before,

really pulling you into the action scenes. Black levels stay nice and deep throughout the duration of the film and skin tones look perfect. There’s a lot of detail to take in here, evident in pretty much every frame of the picture, while the transfer remains virtually spotless, you’ll be hard pressed to find even a speck of print damage here. No problems with any noise reduction or edge enhancement and the disc is free of compression artifacts, this always looks like film and it’s beautiful. English language options are provided in a 24-bit LPCM Mono track as well as in a 24-bit DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio track. Subtitles are provided in English only. The 5.1 mix is quite good, spreading out the effects rather well during the action and alien attack sequences, with gunfire, canon fire and laser blasts coming from behind you and the sound of engines roaring to life, giving the subwoofer some nice rumble. The mono track obviously can’t have that range but it’s obviously the more authentic of the two options. Both tracks are clean and nicely balanced, no problems with any hiss or distortion at all. Dialogue remains very easy to understand and to follow. Extras start off with an audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Joe Dante, film historian Bob Burns and author Bill Warren. It proves an interesting look at the history of the film, its influence and importance within the genre film community and the themes and ideas that it explores. The cover the contributions of the cast and crew, the original source material and quite a bit more. There are quite a few featurettes included on the disc as well, including a vintage audio interview with producer George Pal from 1970 that clocks in at 50-minutes. Highly recommended.

Hanks in drag for ‘80s sitcom Bosom Buddies: The Complete Series Paramount $19.79

Guys in dresses get cheap rent and learn about women. Before watching these discs, it had been decades since seeing an episode of Bosom Buddies, and there was a sense of trepidation considering how the world has changed in that time. An early 1980s show about a couple of guys who pretend to be women has a real likelihood of having aged quite badly over the years (as 2012’s quicklycanceled drag sitcom Work It proved so readily.) Could a show about a pair of dudes who dress like women, made in an era before LGBTQ was even a term, possibly draw laughs without being seen as outdated at best and offensive at worst? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Not once in 37 episodes of the show was homosexuality used as a punchline, nor were transgender identities (the idea of being transgender was not exactly a mainstream topic – Renée Richards aside – and wasn’t likely to be mentioned either way.) If anything, the concept of men in dresses – Kip (Tom Hanks) and Henry (Peter Scolari) take on the identities of Buffy and Hildy to move into a cheap apartment in a building for women only – is used as a way for the guys to learn more about how women are treated first-hand. Sure, there are your expected gags about the uncomfortable nature of women’s clothing, the guys questioning their masculinity and unwelcome advances from other fellows, but for the most part the drag is a plot device (especially in the second season, where the idea is nearly discarded.) Obviously, the show is about Kip and Henry (and Buffy and Hildy) and thus the stars are the engine. With Hanks, we know what we have, and the charm and humor he’s made into his own personal brand was obvious from the start, even if now the part is against type as he plays something of a womanizer. The wilder of the duo, he tends to get the better jokes and the more

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outlandish behavior, but he’s still the Hanks we know and love. The unknown factor for many is Scolari, who didn’t have the same rarefied career trajectory of his co-star, though he has worked non-stop for nearly four decades – in live-action and animation. A funny actor in his own right – with a somewhat surprisingly muscular physique – Scolari was given plenty of opportunities to showcase his talents in Bosom Buddies, particularly his skilled impersonations, like his fine Peter Falk or Rod Serling, which are displayed on a number of occasions. Together, Hanks and Scolari are a solid duo, with good chemistry. For a show focused on two guys, the series had a remarkable female cast as well, and they are given just as much chance to shine as the guys, starting with Sonny, the object of Kip’s affection, played by Donna Dixon. The reason she’s in the role is obvious – she’s the stunning blonde that was required by TV law in the ‘80s – but she’s quite funny as well, allowing her to trade comedic punches with her co-stars, including Wendie Jo Sperber as Amy, who is stuck in an unrequited obsession for Henry. An underrated comedic gem who was so memorable in films like Bachelor Party and Stewardess School, Sperber is a blast in this show, bringing energy and humor every time she’s on-screen (with the exceptions of when we are supposed to

feel bad for her, as life isn’t quite fair for the non-traditional beauty in the bunch.) Telma Hopkins, like Scolari, never seemed to struggle for work, and this series clearly showed why, as she got to display all her skills, as the crew’s one black friend, the eventual manager of the building and a singing sensation. Hopkins also served to ground the show a bit, bringing her fantastical friends down to earth a bit, while also getting some fun one-liners in as the show’s resident sassy best friend. Of course, one cannot forget the brilliance of Holland Taylor, who plays the boys’ boss Ruth, and the only actual adult in the main cast (the rest are just a year or two removed from college, though since it’s the ‘80s, they seem like they are in their mid-30s for some reason.) Taylor gets to play perhaps the most complex character, a woman who knows what she wants and won’t let anything stop her from getting it, whether it’s in her personal or business life, however her focus on career and sex has left her lonely. That said, she has a sarcastic wit and a gift for physical comedy that the show puts to good use. A scene involving her and a bean-bag chair might be the funniest thing in the entire series. The show – at least in the early going – offers up a mix of stories about the guys trying to get by as women and not let their cover slip, while ingratiating themselves with their new neighbors. Only co-worker Amy knows the truth, as she acts as a co-conspirator, glad to have Henry live across the hall. The show milks as much as it can from the hidden-identity conceit before eventually pushing it into the background, allowing the main cast in on the ruse, though it does occasionally crop up, like when Kip and Henry’s parents find out (in two separate episodes.) It’s mostly a workplace, buddy comedy, about two pals with different personalities, with the second season focusing on their attempts to building their own advertising business. That the show changed so dramatically from the first season to the second – changing jobs and relegating the drag element – was a warning sign that the show wasn’t long for this life, and it ended after two seasons. Though there’s not a lot in the core of the series that separates this show

from other sitcoms of the era (aside from Hanks and some dresses), it does feel unique in how it tried to do things a bit different. Many episodes would push the comedy to the side and attempt a more serious tone, as the characters suffered setbacks. Of course, in the ‘80s the “very special episode” became a sitcom trope, but this was something different. This was an integration of comedy and pathos and though awkward, it was certainly striking. It was one of several elements that felt like the show could experiment, playing with voiceover, flashbacks and flash-forwards, and fantasy sequences. Sure, it relied far too often on bad puns, and Henry was frequently unlikable as he often treated the sexy, funny and loving Amy, like dirt, but the show is quite watchable, especially if you’re tuning in for the ladies. Disappointingly, but expectedly, the discs feature the syndicated theme song, “Shake Me Loose” by Stephanie Mills, rather than Billy Joel’s great “My Life” (even if it wasn’t actually sung by the Piano Man.) It’s a bummer, especially when you have to hear “Shake Me Loose” 74 times (in the opening titles and closing credits). Mr. Joel’s tune would have been much more bearable. The 37 episodes of Bosom Buddies are spread over six DVDs, which are packed in a clear, dual-hubbed, standard-width keepcase with two double-sided trays, while the twosided cover has an episode listing on the inside. The static, anamorphicwidescreen menus have options to play all the episodes, select shows and check out the extras (if applicable.) There are no audio options and no subtitles. Delivered in Dolby Digital mono, this track isn’t giving you anything besides what you would have heard at the time the show aired: flat, simple audio, though you will notice a few changes to the music if you’re someone with a remarkable memory of music cues from 1980-1982 (or a solid homemade VHS collection.) Without the cast on hand, Bosom Buddies would have been a footnote in TV history, rather than the footnote it is in Tom Hanks’ career. Even so, it’s not the worst show to binge away on, as there are a decent number of laughs to be found, particularly from the very funny female side of the roster. Worth checking out for the loyal and the curious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contact: Mike 651-406-8221

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

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

luth 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Movie: Walk the Line HBO 6:35 p.m.

Oscar-nominee Joaquin Phoenix stars as country legend Johnny Cash in this biographical drama which tells the story of his life, from his troubled youth and struggles with addiction to his whirlwind romance and marriage to June Carter (Reese Witherspoon).

The Wall NBC 7 p.m.

Chris Hardwick hosts as teams of two answer questions in the hopes of winning a life-altering cash prize in this game show. The series’ name comes from the four-story high wall which is Al Pacino stars in Scarface on AMC noon Saturday.

(Times listed are based on Central time zones.) nonprofit, examines the shocking footage of a 14-foot tiger shark being attacked by an unseen creature in this new special for Shark Week.

couple that has purchased a historic home in a prime vacation area that is in need of some major fixes. They help turn it into a gorgeous horsethemed rental home.

Saturday, 8-15

Wicked Sharks Discovery 8 p.m.

Mission Unstoppable CBS 8 a.m.

used to determine how much money the players can win.

Host Miranda Cosgrove shines a spotlight on fascinating female innovators in science, math, technology and engineering in this series. Viewers meet zoologists, engineers, astronauts, codebreakers and oceanographers on the cutting edge of science.

Being Reuben CW 8 p.m.

Movie: Scarface AMC noon

In the first of two new, back-toback episodes of this reality series, Rueben’s intense focus on his fans is becoming a detriment to his schoolwork. Meanwhile, Vicki attempts to get the kids into eater healthier foods and living a more active lifestyle.

Tiger Shark King Discovery 9 p.m.

Marine biologist, Dr. Austin Gallagher, a world authority on sharks and CEO of an ocean conservation

Massachusetts marine biologist and shark researcher, Greg Skomal, heads to Cape Cod in this Shark Week special. He puts cutting-edge technology to use in the new show to record ways to better protect people from Great White shark encounters.

Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, an ambitious Cuban refugee entangled in Miami’s cocaine drug trade in the ‘80s in this remake of the 1932 gangster film. Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer also star in this cult classic film from director Brian De Palma.

Harley Quinn HBO 7 p.m.

Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) struggles to get back on her feet after getting dumped by the Joker. Now that she doesn’t have his protection, she ends up in trouble with other criminals. Luckily, she makes some new girlfriends along the way.

Scott’s Vacation House Rules HGTV 8:00 p.m.

Contractor Scott McGillivray and designer Debra Salmoni team up to help a

Joaquin Phoenix stars as country legend Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, 6:35 pm Friday on HBO.

Sunday, 8-16 Naked and Afraid Discovery 7 p.m.

Veteran survivalists will have to survive on a strip of islands surrounded by shark-infested waters.

Fridge Wars CW 7 p.m.

This new episode features allstars chefs Nicole Gomes and Dustin Gallagher, who face-off in trying to win over a hockey-loving household. They make meals from ingredients the family has on hand, inspired by the family’s love for the sport.

We Hunt Together Showtime 9 p.m.

Lola (Eve Myles) and Jackson (Babou Ceesay) manage to finally find common ground when they interview Freddy (Hermione Cornfield) in an all-new episode of this drama. Then, Freddy and Baba (Dipo Ola) solve two problems with one killing.

Monday, 8-17 Penn & Teller: Fool Us CW 8 p.m.

This new episode features incredible performances from magicians Sora, Jaana Felicitas, Mario Lopez and Clinton W. Gray. They attempt to amaze Penn and Teller with tricks even they can’t figure out. Alyson Hannigan hosts this magical reality series.

Tune in for the premiere of this British comedy about a group of friends who are obsessed with a multiplayer online video games. When Meg (Alexa Davies) invites the new guy at her work to play, things don’t work out.

America’s Book of Secrets: Special Edition History 8 p.m.

The psychological allure of cults, and the magnetic pull of their leaders, is explored in this new episode. Learn about how certain cult groups and secret societies have managed to shape the nation in the past, and how they continue to do so today.

I Quit Discovery 9 p.m.

In this new series, a group of hopeful entrepreneurs quit their stable day jobs to dedicate all of their time to their dreams.

Wednesday, 8-19 Big Brother CBS 7 p.m.

For the second time in this series’ run, the Houseguests are all returning players, and this time they all have something to prove.

American Housewife ABC 8:30 p.m.

This Katy Mixon-led family sitcom has been renewed for a fifth season thanks to the star’s loveable performance as Katie Otto and her quirky family’s antics.

Thursday, 8-20

Movie: Escape From New York AMC 8 a.m.

In the dystopian future of 1997, Snake Plisskin (Kurt Russell) is offered his freedom if he can rescue the President (Donald Pleasence) from the island of Manhattan.

My Teen Is Pregnant and So Am I TLC noon

Marathon the first season of this unscripted series following the lives of mother-daughter duos who find themselves expecting at the same time. Complications arise as they prepare to become mothers, sisters and grandmothers all at once. The Derricos and their 11 children are expecting triplets on Doubling Down With the Derricos, Tuesdays, 9 pm on

NBC News: 2020 Democratic Convention NBC 9 p.m.

The 2020 DNC kicks-off with this first of its four day schedule, and will be mostly virtual this year due to safety concerns for members, despite Milwaukee’s winning host bid. Presumptive nominee Joe Biden selects a female running mate for the election.

Tuesday, 8-18 Hell’s Kitchen Fox 7 p.m.

With only a few all-star chefs remaining, chef Gordon Ramsay reveals that they must compete for the coveted black jacket by recreating a dish.

Dead Pixels CW 7 p.m. DuluthReader.com

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Noon: NBCSN WA Track & Field Herculis Diamond League Site: Stade Louis II - Fontvieille, Monaco Live 1:15 PM: ESPN NBA Basketball Live 4:30 PM: ESPN NBA Basketball Live 5 PM: NBCSN USA NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 6 PM: KQDS WWE SmackDown Live 7 PM: ESPN NBA Basketball Live 7:30 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live Midnight: ESPN NBA Basketball NBCSN UCI Cycling Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 3 Corenc Saint-Martin-de-Belleville 1:55 AM: ESPN KBO Baseball Live

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Indianapolis, Ind. Live NBCSN NASCAR Auto Racing Xfinity Series Site: Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. Live 2 PM: ESPN Boxing Top Rank Carl Frampton vs. Vahram Vardanyan Site: BT Studios Stratford, London Live 3 PM: KBJR Horse Racing Breeder’s Cup Challenge Series Site: Saratoga Race Course Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Live 4 PM: ESPN UFC UFC 252 Preliminaries Site: UFC Apex Las Vegas, Nev. Live 5 PM: KQDS MLB Baseball Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees Site: Yankee Stadium - Bronx, N.Y. Live 6 PM: KBJR NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 7 PM: SHOW Boxing Showtime Championship David Benavidez vs. Roamer Alexis Angulo Site: Mohegan Sun Arena - Uncasville, Conn. Live 10 PM: NBCSN AMA Motocross Loretta Lynn’s National Lucas Oil Pro Site: Loretta Lynn Ranch - Hurricane Mills, Tenn. Midnight: NBCSN UCI Cycling Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 4 Ugine - Megève 1:55 AM: ESPN KBO Baseball Live

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Benavidez vs. Roamer Alexis Angulo Site: Mohegan Sun Arena - Uncasville, Conn. 7:05 AM: ESPN F1 Auto Racing Spanish Grand Prix Site: Circuit de BarcelonaCatalunya - Barcelona, Spain Live 8 AM: NBCSN RFU Rugby London Wasps vs. Northampton Saints English Premiership Live 10 AM: KBJR AMA Motocross Lucas Oil Site: Loretta Lynn Ranch Hurricane Mills, Tenn. 11 AM: KBJR INDYCAR Auto Racing Indianapolis 500 IndyCar Series Qualifying Day 2 Site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Indianapolis, Ind. Live WDIO WNBA Basketball Dallas Wings at Phoenix Mercury Site: Talking Stick Resort Arena - Phoenix, Ariz. Live ESPN MLB Baseball Cleveland Indians at Detroit Tigers Site: Comerica Park - Detroit, Mich. Live 12:30 PM: KBJR-2 PGA Golf Wyndham Championship Final Round Site: Sedgefield Country Club - Greensboro, N.C. Live 1 PM: KBJR NASCAR Truck Racing Truck Series Site: Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. WDIO WNBA Basketball Seattle Storm at Connecticut Sun Site: Mohegan Sun Arena - Uncasville, Conn. Live 2 PM: NBCSN INDYCAR Auto Racing Indianapolis 500 IndyCar Series Practice Site: Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Indianapolis, Ind. Live TBS MLB Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers at Los Angeles Angels Site: Angel Stadium Anaheim, Calif. Live 2:40 PM: ESPN NBA Basketball Live 5 PM: ESPN MLB Baseball Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees Site: Yankee Stadium - Bronx, N.Y. Live 5:30 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 6 PM: KBJR NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 8 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live Midnight: NBCSN UCI Cycling Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 5 Megève - Megève

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5 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 6 PM: USA WWE Raw Live 7:30 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live

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11:30 AM: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs Live 2 PM: NBCSN Dirt Racing Lucas Oil Late Model Series Site: Golden Isles Speedway Brunswick, Ga. TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 3 PM: NBCSN Dirt Racing Lucas Oil Late Model Series Site: Magnolia Motor Speedway Columbus, Miss. 4:30 PM: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 5 PM: NBCSN USA NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 7 PM: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 7:30 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 10:30 PM: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs

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2 PM: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 4:30 PM: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 5 PM: ESPN MLB Baseball Live NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 6 PM: USA WWE NXT Live 7 PM: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 7:30 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 8 PM: ESPN MLB Baseball Live 10:30 PM: TNT NBA Basketball Playoffs 2 AM: ESPN MLB Baseball

THURSDAY

5 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live 6 PM: ESPN NFL Football New York Jets at Detroit Lions Pre-season Site: Ford Field Detroit, Mich. Live 7:30 PM: NBCSN NHL Hockey Stanley Cup Playoffs Live

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