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May 21, 2020
Volume 18 - #10

LOCAL COLUMNS BY At age 16,
Kandace Young
KENOSHA COUNTY EXECUTIVE went to work at
JIM KRUESER & MANY MORE! Culver’s. 18 years
later, she is now
co-owner of the
newest store to
open in our area

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At age 16, Kandace Young went to work at
Culvers, 18 years later, she is an owner!

With that first job, most 16- Pictured above are co-owners of the newest local Culver’s restaurant,Tom Harberg and Kandace Young. Over More about Kandace
year-olds are not thinking of the next month, the 25 states Culver’s calls home will start removing restrictions and allowing dining rooms & Culver’s
one day owning the business to reopen.They will continue to determine exactly what that reopening will look like, and don’t anticipate it
they just went to work for. will look exactly like their dining rooms did before. As always, their top priority remains ensuring the health of When you visit your favorite
However, it wasn’t long before their guests, team members and communities. For that reason, each franchisee will determine when their Culver’s, and you find yourself
Kandace Young began to ordering the Culver’s Double Deluxe,
dream of one day owning her teams are ready to reopen their doors. While there’s nothing they would love more than welcoming you you’re not alone.We asked Kandace a
own Culver’s. It’s a dream that back inside their restaurants, the owner-operators may need some additional time to put precautions in few questions about the Culver’s
became a reality with the place to continue limiting the spread of the virus.They are still working through the specifics, but dining menu.
opening of a new Culver’s, rooms will be set up to enable social distancing and implement all new important safety precautions so each
located on Hwy. 142 and I-94 What is you favorite
in Kenosha. Kandace recently location can provide a safe environment for guests and team members. sandwich?
took the time to answer our The Spicy Crispy Chicken
questions. gone away, but our Culver's regarding COVID-19 we had to offer a young teenager just Sandwich
hospitality and making sure our change a lot with how we entering the job market for Your favorite custard flavor?
As a child where did you guests are number one is still prepare for opening. the first time? Devils Food Cake
grow up? true to this day. Your favorite side item?
We usually do a VIP day at the To take it serious and have an The cheese curds.
Right here in Kenosha,WI. Can you tell us how this end of training week where the open mind. You learn a lot of
ownership opportunity came family's of my team members get important life lessons in your As for customer favorites, Kandace
How old were you when you to be? to come to visit the restaurant first job. Don't look at the says anything with their dark
started working at Culver's? and get a free meal. We had to restaurant business as if you can chocolate base custard is a big hit
Culver's has an excellent True cancel our ribbon cutting not have a life long career. You and the Culver’s Double Deluxe is
I actually started on my Blue Development Plan, that never know you might be a 16 their most popular sandwich.
sixteenth birthday in 2002. It was starts a new team member on How will your new store year old kid who falls in love with
my first job, and the first place I the path of becoming a leader differ from the Sheridan Road a company and 18 years later When Kandace started working at
applied for actually. eventually a General Manager and Green Bay Road Culver's opens and owns her own Culver’s in 2002, there were 134
and an invitation into the operations? restaurant. stores in 15 states.Today, they have
At the time, what were your mentorship program. The over 740 locations across the United
plans when you graduated mentorship program gives Operationally there will not be Interview by Frank Carmichael States.Whether they are cooking the
from high school? current GM's the opportunity to any difference. Photos by Donald Stancato perfect ButterBurger to order or
partner with an existing Culver's scooping up their freshest batch of
I wanted to do something in Franchise and own a restaurant When will you have your With their latest franchise the Flavor of the Day, they work
business/marketing. I have always with them. grand opening? opening along the i-94 off hard to ensure you will always leave
been drawn to that type of ramp near Amazon, Tom happy. It all goes back to their small-
career . What were some of the Hopefully end of June we can Harberg will soon be a co- town Wisconsin roots.They know
challenges you faced getting have a more formal Grand owner/operator of three you have a lot to do and many
At age 16 did you ever your new store opened? opening. Inviting Kenosha Kenosha locations. Tune in to options to choose from, so they
imagine that one day you leadership, our community appreciate when you take the time
would be in an ownership role? With our current situation partners, family, and friends out. Happenings Q&A on to visit Culver’s.
Thursday, May 28th at 2:30
I did not. But it was not long What advice would you In 1984, Craig and Lea Culver,
after I started at Culver's that I pm when Tom joins the along with Craig’s parents George
had the dream of owning one. conversation. Find us on your and Ruth, opened the very first
radio dial at AM1050 WLIP or Culver's in the family’s beloved
When you started working hometown of Sauk City,Wisconsin,
at Culver's, how many stores streaming live online at and began serving ButterBurgers and
did the company have and how www.wlip.com. Frozen Custard.
many states were they in?
As Craig Culver always says, "We
Over 134 stores in 15 states. never compromise on quality." It’s a
promise that begins with sourcing
For a 16 year old working at the best ingredients and continues
Culver's today, how does it through to the way we prepare your
differ from back when you meal: fresh, just for you.”
started?
Hospitality has always been near
Culver's has always been true and dear to their hearts. So, dining in
to their operations over the or on the go, they make a point of
years so not much has changed. treating you the way they would
Some of the menu items have want to be treated.

This dedication to hospitality goes
back to Craig’s mother, Ruth Culver,
who had a special way about her
that made every guest who visited
Culver’s feel welcomed like a guest
in her home.

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For US-China groups, the adversary is
COVID-19 – not a country

As top Chinese doctors in the void. Often behind the state, spearheaded keep restaurants afloat.
Wuhan detailed best scenes and unreported, they
practices from their battle are carrying out vital campaigns to donate medical “Everybody’s doing their
against the coronavirus, cooperation ranging from best to help fight the
about 300 American health scientific exchanges and supplies in China and locally. coronavirus and get through
experts – including a dozen donations of protective this hard time, we’re just
from the Centers for equipment to financial and The chamber most recently doing what we can,” says Liu
Disease Control and practical support. Zhixiong, whose family
Prevention (CDC) – listened helped launch a operates Frying Fish
intently by videoconference. restaurant in Bellevue.
“#FoodWithLove” drive that Despite suffering a 60% to
70% decline in business, Mr.
has so far delivered more Liu is donating hundreds of
free meals to first
than 15,000 free meals to responders. “They are doing
something we are not brave
“The virus doesn’t front-line health care enough to do,” he says.

recognize political disputes, workers and police in the Receiving 30 meals of
spicy tofu and stir-fried green
“During the early stage of nor national boundaries … Seattle area. beans from Frying Fish one
the outbreak, you can … recent night, Bellevue police
never imagine how the nor ideologies,” nor trade “I love this city, I love the Capt. Robert Spingler calls
patients rushed the hospital,” people here, and I want the the “#FoodWithLove”
Dr. Peng Zhiyong, intensive wars, says Mr. Li, chairman of environment to be better,”
care unit director at says Ms. Lv, who arrived from see US-CHINA on page 5 for more
Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan Himalaya Capital China in 2014. The food is
University, told the U.S. donated and prepared by 15
scientists, hospital chiefs, and Management. “With this local restaurants and
public health officials. delivered daily by Chowbus
virus we have now found a to 26 hospitals, clinics, testing
sites, and police stations.The
real worthy adversary.” goal is to raise donations to
pay for future meals, to help
It was mid-March. The Groups ranging from
corporations and mom-and-
United States had fewer than pop businesses to local
governments and nonprofits
50 COVID-19 deaths and are bridging the divide. They
are also pushing back against
2,000 confirmed cases, a a broader economic
decoupling of China and the
number that would soon United States, advanced by TAX PROBLEMS?
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Chinese and American defeating. In the United Early this year, Mr. Li big,” says Seattle Fire • Offers in Compromise.
States, they predict, such a Department warehouse • Installment Agreements
practitioners was policy could worsen internal started the Guardians of the chief Sundae Garner, adding • Lien/Levy Releases, Currently Not Collectible
divisions. “It would decouple that the department had • Audits
unexpectedly limited, said Washington from the rest of Angeles Charitable only one pallet left in stock.
the United States, because Filing back Tax Returns?
organizer Li Lu. the rest of the United States Foundation, inspired by the
is not ready to decouple you have to be compliant before
“I was surprised,” said Mr. from China,” says Scott death of Chinese doctor and a settlement can be negotiated!
Kennedy, a senior adviser on
Li, the Seattle-based investor China’s economy at the virus whistleblower Li Washington state has “I contact the IRS and/or State on your behalf,
Center for Strategic and so you don’t have to.”
and philanthropist who International Studies. Wenliang, to help protect relied heavily on donations
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China] are largely lost in More than 100 leading U.S. hospitals in 13 states. sister charitable organization

America,” Mr. Li told the academics, executives, and Chinese and American handled the mask import
cities are also leveraging
group. foreign policy experts, sister city relationships and from Hangzhou, overcoming
other municipal ties.
When the world most including prominent major bureaucratic hurdles
needs to join forces against a
common threat, the two Republicans and Democrats, in both China and the United
superpowers, gripped by
nationalist impulses, have signed an April letter urging a In Seattle’s waterfront States, says Man Wang,
squandered the opportunity industrial district, the fire
to lead, analysts say. Instead joint fight against the department last month director of the council.
they have “engaged in a welcomed 10,000 respirator
deeply counterproductive coronavirus, following a masks donated to the city by Groups like WSCRC with
rhetorical battle to see who the coastal metropolis of
can be more sanctimonious similar appeal signed by 100 Hangzhou. ties in both countries have
in blaming the other side,”
says Jessica Chen Weiss, Chinese academics. Despite proven particularly
associate professor of
political science at Cornell rising competition and valid proactive.
University.
concerns on either side, “no Seattle-based
entrepreneur Lv Lili, head of
effort against the “That’s a few weeks’ the Chinese Chamber of
worth for the entire Commerce in Washington
coronavirus,” says the U.S. department, so the impact is

letter, “will be successful 060619

without some degree of

cooperation between the

United States and China.”

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In Ahmaud Arbery case, unexpected
advocates for racial justice

Ben Davis is a self- Lives Matter cases have not
held. Conservative voices –
described Christian particularly in Georgia
government – are joining the
conservative and a strong chorus calling for justice.

supporter of Second Mr. Davis and other
conservatives see the killing
Amendment rights. He also of Mr. Arbery – in which
armed white men in a pickup
believes citizen arrest laws truck chased down a black
man wearing shorts and
have solid roots in common sneakers – as a defining
moment for conservative
law. ideals and racial justice.

The one-time campaign “To see someone killed
chief for former Kansas before one’s very eyes is
Secretary of State Kris horrifying, but ... there’s also
Kobach is also a former long- a sense of weariness and
distance runner. lament that I find in the
country after so many cases
And what Mr. Davis saw in of this sort of horror
the video showing the killing happening,” says Russell
of Ahmaud Arbery, a black Moore, author of “Onward:
runner in Brunswick, Engaging the Culture
Georgia, was jarring. Without Losing the Gospel.”
“There may be some
To him, the video offers ambiguities about some of
the questions here, but there
moral clarity, and he says that certainly is no ambiguity
about the end result: that
standing up publicly for a private citizens do not have
the authority to kill
fellow runner’s someone. There’s just not a
Christian justification nor an
constitutional rights doesn’t American justification for
this sort of action.”
negate his conservatism. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, shown on opening day for the state legislature in Atlanta in January, is among the Republicans calling for
While some think it’s too justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was killed while jogging. / Photo: John Amis/AP
“It seems like soon to say the national
conservatives are always narrative has shifted, some way overnight and it’s not probing the incident as a Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, The bipartisan outrage
kind of Johnny-come-latelies black Georgians interviewed going to change overnight. It possible federal hate crime.A a Republican, came out early over the killing and how it
with some of these really welcome white evangelicals will have to come down to a judge denied bond. to condemn the killing, was handled has jump-
important issues, instead of stepping off the sidelines. divine change from the calling for justice for Mr. started a conversation about
speaking imaginatively about hearts of people.” And white The men say they were Arbery. a Georgia hate crime bill that
how being conservative “Black people in this people, including evangelical chasing a burglary suspect has passed the Republican-
applies to the whole sphere nation have spent more time Christians, speaking up for who turned violently on She was joined by a led House but has lingered in
of public and collective life in involuntary servitude than that change is important, he them. Mr. Arbery was shot chorus of major a Senate committee. A
together,” says Mr. Davis, in freedom if you add it up says. “Words have meaning. three times at short range conservative voices. previous hate crimes law was
who wrote an Op-Ed about over time,” says James Words mean something.” with a shotgun.The elder Mr. voided in 2004, leaving
the shooting for The Wichita Yancey, a Brunswick McMichael’s attorney said “The time for being silent Georgia only one of four
Eagle newspaper in Kansas. attorney, who is African Two months after a the facts will present a ended last week,” Republican states without such laws.
“Many say, ‘Oh, this is just a American. “It didn’t get that prosecutor deemed the different series of events Senate leader David Ralston Lawmakers may also revisit
leftist issue so we’re going to chase and killing legal under than the public has seen so told the Atlanta Journal- citizen arrest laws that one
sit very comfortably in our the state’s self-defense and far. Constitution. Glynn County prosecutor
own little narrative. We’re citizen arrest laws, two men said protected the shooters
going to wait it out and keep – father and son Greg and For now, the current Georgia Attorney General from prosecution.
ourselves silent.’ Travis McMichael – were picture “fits into the worst Chris Carr, also a
arrested on May 7 by the impressions that people Republican, said: “It’s One of those supporting a
“I think that’s wrong.” Georgia Bureau of have, that Georgia is still important for people to probe into why it took two
Investigation on charges of ‘Mississippi Burning’ – that know that Republicans value months to make an arrest is
Something unusual has assault and murder. A fourth this is still the 1950s, where each and every human life. I U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter, a
happened in the aftermath of prosecutor has now been lynchings take place,” says think it’s important for Republican whose district
the Feb. 23, 2020, shooting of assigned to the case. The Charles Bullock III, a political everyone to understand that includes Brunswick.
Mr. Arbery: The entrenched Department of Justice is scientist at the University of civil rights is not within the
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Arbery local community and the official recognition until those Christian “Racial violence often
state of Georgia is getting 1999, when state officials communities. becomes a bifurcated thing
about ... a lynching,” says erected a historical marker on a narrow set of issues,”
historian Carole Emberton. at Moore’s Ford. “If you think about says Mr. Davis, in Wichita.
“The idea of institutional
continued from page 4 But others see a Odetta’s song in the mid- racism ... has always either
difference this time – if of been used as a weapon or as
“The American people and pretty quickly in the process, degrees. “The governor-elect [in 20th century, ‘God’s Going a way of sidestepping the
or because of the authority 1946], Eugene Talmadge, issue entirely.”
the people in the First of the person doing the Professor Bullock draws a didn’t say anything to Cut You Down,’ speaking
shooting,” says Andra parallel to the last American condemning the lynching, This is a different kind of
District especially need to Gillespie, director of the mass lynching, which and some people believed to the Klan and other white moment, he hopes.
James Weldon Johnson happened in Georgia in 1946 that the racist campaign he
be assured not only that Institute at Emory University when two African American ran that year may have supremacist terrorists, the “When there are real,
in Atlanta, who is black. “But couples were killed by a encouraged the lynch mob clear instances of racism
justice is going to be done, in this case you had an white mob at Moore’s Ford to think that there are no point of that song was to say such as what we have here,
extrajudicial activity where Bridge on the Appalachee repercussions,” says Mr. we should collectively speak
but that they have the narrative quickly became River. Bullock. that what you think is hidden out,” says Mr. Davis. “This
an unarmed jogger gets shot should not be tainted by
confidence in the judicial by vigilantes. That was State and federal law will be ultimately revealed,” political ideology. We can be
visceral and made this a enforcement poured in, but unified with one voice,
system and law clear black and white issue leads evaporated as the says Mr. Moore, president of condemn it and learn from
of right and wrong.” community closed ranks to it, and mourn it as a nation. ...
enforcement,” says protect the killers. The FBI the Ethics & Religious It’s got to be citizens leading
Others caution that the investigation was finally and the cultivation of virtue and
Congressman Carter.“I think outcry in this case may be quietly closed a decade ago Liberty Commission of the a spirit of reconciliation in
more politically motivated without any arrests. this country. It’s got to
a reassessment is essential. than anything else. Historians point out that Southern Baptist happen among the people.”
Georgia ranked second in
As damning as that video “The outcry and the numbers of confirmed But if the men who chased Convention in Nashville. By Patrik Jonsson
movement in the criminal lynchings through the Jim down Mr. Arbery believed
was, we want to make sure justice system, in a lot of Crow era. There was no the law and the community “That means that Christians
ways that’s a response to would protect them, adds
that ... these guys get a fair negative publicity that the Mr. Bullock, they were have a responsibility to seek
eventually proved mistaken.
trial. But, I mean, let’s face it: to walk in the ways of a just

This should never have God, and to bear another’s

happened.” burdens.”

Some historians are For many white What may also be
critical of purported “new happening now beyond
narratives” based on a evangelical Christians, condemning hate on moral
singular exception. grounds is an understanding
morality, race, and politics that conservatives may lose
more broadly when they
have long been wound into don’t demand equal justice
in cases of racist violence.
“Some of the other cases one tight cord through the
have been more ambiguous
in part because the victim’s South. The killing of Mr.
character gets besmirched
Arbery has started a

vigorous conversation within

US-China generous,” he says. The epicenter of the coronavirus and the massive 1976 governments, if you feel the
pandemic. Tangshan earthquake, he pain, people on both sides,
reasons are many, but amid emerged as a student leader you [do] what you ought to
“We are clearly living in an in the 1989 Tiananmen do,” says Mr. Li, who
continued from page 3 deteriorating U.S.-China interconnected world, and Square pro-democracy describes himself as “100%
the pandemic calls for more protests. After the military Chinese and 100%
deliveries about relations, heightened international cooperation,” crackdown, he escaped American.”
“pretty unprecedented.” 1,500 tests a day. says Hong Qi, secretary of China for the United States,
“The officers really enjoy it,” scrutiny of ethnic Chinese, UCAWA. “We don’t feel like where he is now a successful A popular line from
he says. “The food will be the government and public hedge fund manager, and last Chinese poetry expresses it
gone in an hour or so.” and a recent spike in anti- officials should ... play the month was elected to the best, he says: “Though
blaming game,” says Ms. Qi, American Academy of Arts mountains and rivers
A similar scene unfolded The Dolar Shop, a Chinese Asian racist attacks, Chinese who arrived in Seattle 30 and Sciences. separate nations, together
at the University of hot pot chain, is distributing years ago and has worked as we share the same sky.”
Washington virology lab, 100 free meals to the public Americans feel insecure, he a civil servant promoting “No matter what happens
where program coordinator from its Bellevue restaurant election participation. on the level of the two By Ann Scott Tyson
Lisa Rider emerged from the and another 150 meals to says, “like they have a target
around-the-clock COVID-19 hospitals and first The sheer human suffering
test analysis facility to collect responders each day. on their back.” They want to should compel the United
50 meals and two ornate States and China to rise
cakes from Chengdu go the extra mile to help, in above their differences, says
Memory restaurant in Mr. Li, who has overcome his
Seattle’s Chinatown. “It’s part “to prove they are as share of adversity. Having
been a godsend, particularly survived Mao Zedong’s
for people who are working American as others. ... It is radical Cultural Revolution
the midnight shift,” says Ms.
Rider, whose lab analyzes Chinese Americans feel a very upsetting and sad,” he

special responsibility, says says.

Haipei Shue, president of United Chinese Americans
of Washington (UCAWA)
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COVID-19 updates One more
time
COVID-19 at least 10 times deadlier
than typical flu With the stay-at-home lifted, we thought

COVID-19 causes at least 10 times more deaths than typical we would go through the drill one more time.
seasonal influenza, according to the authors of an analysis
published earlier this month by JAMA Internal Medicine. Using upi.com
statistics from Worldometer.info to make their case, the
researchers noted that the disease caused by the new pulmonary CT angiography, as the symptoms for COVID-19 and
coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, caused 15,455 deaths across the pulmonary embolism overlap," said lead researcher Dr. Neo
United States during the week ending April 21 and 14,478 during Poyiadi, from the department of diagnostic radiology at Henry
a week earlier. Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Conversely, during a typical week during the winter season, the "Early detection of pulmonary embolism can allow prompt
flu causes 350 to 1,600 Americans' deaths, based on a review of treatment with anticoagulation and minimize clinical problems,"
figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and he said. Hospitalized obese patients with COVID-19 should be
Prevention that cover 2015 to 2018. evaluated for increases in clotting indicated by a rising D-dimer -
- a blood test for clotting. According to the study, 22 percent of
The stark differences in the impact of the two viruses, however, 328 patients suffering from COVID-19 who had a CT scan
should alert Americans to the seriousness of COVID-19 and help angiography had a pulmonary embolism. Researchers also found
shape public health response to the ongoing pandemic, experts that patients taking statins to lower cholesterol before coming
said. down with COVID-19 were less likely to have a pulmonary
embolism.
"Unfortunately, differentiating between 0.1 percent -- the death
rate for the flu -- and 1 percent -- the death rate for COVID-19 "Further studies are needed to determine if statins have a
-- means little to the general public, but when you say that protective effect against pulmonary embolism in COVID-19
100,000 people will die from the flu compared to the 1 million patients," Poyiadi said. Poyiadi added that a recent study suggests
people who will die from COVID-19, then people start to take that COVID-19 patients should be placed on blood thinners to
notice," Kevin S. Harrod, an infectious disease specialist at the prevent clotting. Obesity may make COVID-19 worse because
University of Alabama at Birmingham, told UPI. it's associated with an increase in inflammation. Inflammation also
increases the risk of clotting.
Harrod was not involved in the JAMA Internal Medicine
analysis, which was conducted by researchers at Harvard The report was published online May 14 in the journal
University and Emory University.As many as 50,000 people in the Radiology.
United States die from the flu annually, according to CDC
estimates.As many as 35 million Americans suffered from the flu Dr. Marc Siegel is a professor of medicine at NYU Langone
this past winter, and fewer than 30,000 of them died, the CDC Medical Center in New York City. He said, "This study
said. underscores a point that's becoming more widely known about
COVID-19 -- that obesity leads to an inflammatory cascade.We
Only a fraction of all cases of the seasonal virus are confirmed know that inflammatory chemicals increase with obesity. That's
by laboratory analysis, however, which means the counts are the suspected mechanism of why obese patients are more at risk
estimates.The agency uses a mathematical model to estimate the for complications." Inflammation can lead to blood clots,
number of people sickened by the flu, doctor visits for flu-related although that's not been proven, he noted.
reasons, hospitalizations related to the virus, the deaths it causes
and the impact of influenza vaccination on these numbers. "The complications of COVID-19 that we've been seeing are
inflammation and a cytokine storm, which causes inflammation in
To compare, the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University the arteries and blood clots throughout the body -- and obesity
indicate that, through Thursday, nearly 1.4 million Americans have is a culprit in high-risk patients," Siegel said. "To say that's why
been infected with the new coronavirus, while nearly 86,000 we're seeing more pulmonary embolism in obese patients is
died. plausible. It's early small numbers, but it's a very important finding
and it's not surprising," he said.
The Johns Hopkins data is based on reporting of confirmed
cases of COVID-19 and deaths attributed to the disease from What is surprising is it looks like using statins might be helpful.
county and state health departments across the country. Public Statins are anti-inflammatories, Siegel noted. But whether statins
officials, however, continue to liken the impact of COVID-19 with are protective is something that would have to be carefully
that of seasonal influenza, authors of the new analysis wrote. studied, he said. There's no clear-cut reason to start obese
patients on statins if they weren't already taking them when they
For the week ending April 21, researchers calculated that were admitted to the hospital, he added.
COVID-19 deaths for the week were 9.5-fold to 44.1-fold higher
than the peak week of counted influenza deaths over the past Obese patients with COVID-19 need the same care as other
seven winter seasons in the United States. patients, Siegel said. That includes anticoagulation. Many of the
complications of COVID-19 seem to be caused by clotting, and
For the week ending April 11, the researchers found the starting patients on blood thinners may become a standard
number of COVID-19 deaths reported to the CDC was 14.4- treatment.
fold higher than the influenza-related deaths reported during
"the apparent peak week" of the 2019-20 flu season -- the week "We're already starting to look at preventative
ending Feb. 29. anticoagulation," he said. "It's already something we're highly
aware of, but this study adds evidence to a direct correlation
As the CDC continues to revise its COVID-19 estimates to between obesity and blood clots, that's what's new here."
account for delays in reporting, the researchers said, the ratio of
COVID-19 deaths to influenza deaths "is likely to increase."

"This apparent equivalence of deaths from COVID-19 and
seasonal influenza does not match frontline clinical conditions,
especially in some hot zones of the pandemic where ventilators
have been in short supply and many hospitals have been
stretched beyond their limits," the authors wrote.

"The demand on hospital resources during the COVID-19
crisis has not occurred before in the U.S., even during the worst
of influenza seasons," they continued. "Yet, public officials
continue to draw comparisons between seasonal influenza and
SARS-CoV-2 mortality, often in an attempt to minimize the
effects of the unfolding pandemic."

Obesity increases odds for lung clots
with COVID-19

Obesity makes COVID-19 worse and may lead to deadly blood
clots in the lungs, a new study finds. The researchers said that
obese patients with COVID-19 may have nearly three times the
risk of developing what is known as a pulmonary embolism.

"Clinicians can utilize our findings to aid in determining which
patients should have evaluation for pulmonary embolism with

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handy stats that could be determined that 200,000 government overreach in that it’s not COVID-19 that life based on science and
whipped out to address people are arguing about deaths would be prevented, the orders versus the sheep is causing cataclysmic stock what we continue to learn
those disinterested in efforts to control the along with 2.1 million amongst us, cowards who market plunges, businesses about COVID-19. And who
keeping 6 feet of distance spread of the virus in hospitalizations. And that’s will bow to any decree, no to post closed forever signs just wants to go their own
between themselves and a political terms, rather than just data for 30 cities. matter how detrimental to and unemployment figures way, biting on political spin,
stranger? as science and the reality pocketbook and pride. so dire that discussions of a oblivious or uncaring that
that public health measures Granted, this is an depression are not out of their actions could literally
There is such a gauge. are only effective with The study supports a line. They blame social cause the death of another
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my turn of reconciling with
Democrats. A good start
Coronavirus would be meeting with the
also threatens speaker of the House for
political health the first time in months.

This column has raised The presumptive
Democratic nominee, Joe
many questions pertinent Biden, has not put forward
policies that could attract
to the coronavirus.Why, for Republican support. In fact,
the current $3 trillion relief
example, has the U.S. stock bill passed by the House
has NO chance of
market remained so vibrant becoming law. Unless Biden
is so inclined to cross the
despite record global aisle as president,
coronavirus may have the
unemployment and President Donald Trump shows no sign nor interest of reconciling with Democrats. Photo by Tasos Katopodis/UPI longlasting effect of making
these partisan divides
dramatic economic decline? irreversible.

Despite whatever President Harlan Ullman two political parties, further and probably decisive vote. short-run thing. The likely If that were to happen,
widening huge political If, over the next few weeks, response will be getting then this disease's real
Donald Trump does, for crisis. An equal level of divides. Neither party is reopening does not spark a back to business as it was. danger will be imposing
prepared to propose spike in infections or a But that cannot happen.The irreparable damage to the
good or ill, how does he Democrats hold policies and strategies that resurgence of the disease in virus is now a persistent nation's political health
rise above partisanship. The America, many will part of the environment. rather than only to the
sustain 42 to 43 percent diametrically different coming election adds even understandably conclude Many of the jobs lost nation's physical health.
more political gasoline to the worst is over. And if, cannot be restored. Certain
levels of approval and views. this conflagration. later in the year, the sectors of the economy, By Harlan Ullman
pandemic does not cause a such as airlines, hospitality As well as being a recurring
support? And finally, why second wave of outbreaks, and real estate, will take guest on Happenings Q&A,
this conclusion will be more than a few years to Harlan Ullman is UPI's Arnaud
have the lessons of the Similar partisan divisions reinforced. recover. de Borchgrave Distinguished
reflect support for columnist and serves as a senior
economic boom that maintaining strict rules of Of course,America is not adviser at the Atlantic Council.
physical distancing and alone in battling this He was a professor of military
immediately followed the keeping the economy shut pandemic. Thus far, the strategy at the National War
down and the need to Southern Hemisphere has College and the Naval War
1918-20 Spanish flu reopen the economy in As bad, given the Trump not experienced the same
order to begin a recovery. level of infections and College. His latest book is
epidemic been ignored? After Pearl Harbor, while a administration's America contagion. In the Northern "Anatomy of Failure:Why
relatively tiny slice of Hemisphere, South Korea America Has Lost Every War It
A much more important Americans remained in first policies, international and China, among others,
opposition, the vast have experienced re- Starts." Follow him
question, however, needs majority of Republicans and cooperation and infections. Nor has Europe @harlankullman.
Democrats agreed on seen the virus running its
addressing. Is the greater fighting a world war to coordination to defeat course. Indeed, the Spanish If the virus does not Harlan returns to Happenings
defeat the existential threat flu became more virulent Q&A on Monday, June 1st at
danger posed by COVID- of fascism. After Sept. 11, COVID-19 likewise are after 1918 and the first recede, then returning to
Republicans and Democrat wave of infection. 1:30 p.m.Tune in to AM1050 or
19 to America's political coalesced on battling missing in action. The societal restrictions will find the show streaming live
violent extremism and That leaves two courses
health, rather than public destroying al-Qaida. United Nations, World of action. In the best case, persist until vaccines or online at wlip.com to hear more.
the pandemic will be a
health? In times of crisis, Health Organization, G-7, treatments are found or

from the Japanese attack on G-20, Association of coronavirus dissipates of its

Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, Southeast Asian Nations, own accord. The problem

1941 to the terrorist European Union and NATO and reality, regardless of the

attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 a have been sidelined. Given course of action, are that

divided nation unified to the growing conflicts with partisanship and animosity

deal with the threat or China over the handling of are worsening. Neither

danger. Yet, the coronavirus the coronavirus, IP theft, Republicans nor

pandemic has further trade and other issues that Democrats are likely to

divided the nation across seem to be worsening, the embrace bi- or non-

party lines. Some 80 That same unity is not outlook is not good for partisan policies in the
only missing in action today,
percent of Republicans the coronavirus has greater international aftermath.
exacerbated partisanship
believe the Trump and animosity between the cooperation. Presidential leadership is
essential. Donald Trump
administration is What is to be done? shows no sign nor interest
First, the virus has a huge
responding well to the

Opening America with anyone, practice social without spend-ing cuts (and possibly longer before a home ... stay in house
distancing – we can recite likely tax increases if vaccine is created. Dr. indefinitely, wear a mask,
The choice before us Cal Thomas these from memory – but Democrats win the Anthony Fauci, head of the socially distance yourself
seems to be no choice at then we are also told to November election)? U.S. National Institute of from me, avoid restaurants,
all: stay inside and have no out. stay inside and only go out Allergy and Infectious avoid baseball games, stay
human contact with for “necessities,” such as Restaurants can place Diseases, told a Senate off the roads, avoid malls
another soul, keep Then, it was Geiger food and prescriptions. tables six feet apart. committee Tuesday there is and beaches and parks ...
businesses closed, denying a counters that would no guarantee a vaccine will I’m done playing dumb
livelihood to millions, or determine the level of Grocery stores where I Those operating in work.And there probably is game ... I’m no longer going
step outside and risk death. radioactivity. Today’s Geiger shop require masks when warmer climates could add more than one strain, as to be a prisoner of your
Though I believe the risk is counters are temperature entering and one-way outside tables, benches and with influenza, so a single fear. I’m no longer staying in
small when comparing the gauges held to our traffic aisles. A hard plastic chairs. vaccine is unlikely to my house or catering to
number of people who foreheads. “wall” separates me from protect everyone from because are scared ... fear is
have been diagnosed with the cashier, who is also Last Sunday, my wife and I every strain. not an excuse to destroy
COVID-19 and have Symptoms, such as wearing a mask. went to a local restaurant. America.
recovered with the number Tables had been removed. Does that mean staying
who have died, fear may be coughing, sneezing and Hand sanitizers and We wore masks as did staff at home until perfect safety Fear is not my fear and
the greater threat. wipes are available at the behind the counter. We can be guaranteed? your fear does not have the
fever, as well as high-risk entrance and exit where purchased our food, left the right to interfere with my
Some of a certain age cart handles are wiped place and ate outside The public won’t stand life, my job, my income or
may recall the fears factors, such as age and down after each use. without masks where for it. Demonstrators are my future as a free
promoted during the Cold tables and benches were already petitioning state American citizen.”
War. There were underlying health If these practices are available. governments to open up to
newspaper stories and TV almost as good as staying redress their grievances. Readers may email Cal
documentaries about how conditions, are also part of home, why can’t businesses There were others there, Thomas at
long survivors of a nuclear employing these practices, not all of whom were six Writing on his Facebook
war would have to stay the diagnostic equation. including restaurants and feet apart. People engaged page, rock musician Ted [email protected].
inside reinforced shelters bars, be opened so people in social interaction, which Nugent expresses the Look for Cal Thomas’ new
until the fallout dissipated We are told to frequently can make a living and not is what humans do and growing frustration of book “America’s Expiration
to a point it was safe to go wash our hands, not touch rely on government, whose need to do. No one seemed many: “Why do I have to Date:The Fall of Empires and
our faces, don’t shake hands debt now exceeds levels fearful. stay home just because are Superpowers and the Future
that will never be reduced scared? How about stay
As experts have noted, it of the United States”
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May is Mental Health Month –
Be kind to your mind

Kenosha County residents are • May 27 from 4 to 5 p.m.: Facing
encouraged to Be Kind to Your Mind by Our Fears with Compassion and
attending these free virtual Courage: Managing Anxiety Amidst
presentations celebrating mental health Uncertainty with Clare Lewandowski,
month in May. PhD., LP, Clinical Psychologist and
Behavioral Health Supervisor, Kenosha
We are facing unprecedented times Community Health Center
and want to focus on helping improve
your mental health. Many people are • May 28 from 2 to 3 p.m.:
feeling anxious, stressed, depressed and Meditation and Self-Care with Nicole
lonely.You are not alone. Gustafson, MS, LPC, Therapist/Student
Support Counselor, Gateway Technical
“It’s important to take care of our College.
physical health during the Stay at Home
Order to help protect ourselves from • May 29 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.:
COVID-19,” said Kari Foss, Kenosha Treating Depression through the use of
County Behavioral Health Manager. Behavioral Activation with Dr. Jamie
“Our mental health is also important, Roberts, PsyD, clinical psychologist, and
not only during this time, but every day.” Mikayla Stackman, BA, Behavioral
Specialist, Rogers Behavioral Health.
Join us for one or all the presentations
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Director, Center for Suicide Awareness.

Remarkable Older American: Robert W. Pitts

Since 1963 our nation American: Robert W. Pitts. well as being a “Friends of Brookside”
has celebrated Older organization, he says, is
Americans month in May.   The award is given based representative on the because “The residents are
This year’s national theme number one.”
is "Make Your Mark" which on outstanding service to Southeastern Wisconsin
celebrates the countless
contributions older adults community through Regional Planning
make to our communities.
Their time, experience, and Military service, Commission. Notably, Bob is also a US
talents benefit family, peers,
and neighbors every day. volunteerism, and Under Bob’s oversight, Army Veteran having served
Brookside was first
commitment to family, as expanded in 1995, and again in the Korean War. After
in 2018. This latest project
well as career achievements – a great point of pride for being honorably
Bob – will ensure
which have made a Brookside will serve discharged, Bob owned and
residents for generations to
substantial and positive come.Though he was in his operated Forest Park
mid-80s, Bob was at the
impact. construction site nearly Barber Shop while raising
every day, lending insights
In keeping with this Bob, a Kenosha native, that resulted in valuable his two daughters with his
has certainly “Made his tweaking of the project.
tradition, Kenosha County Mark” having generously late wife, Mary Jean. He
given his time and energy
has celebrated and for decades for the now has five grandchildren.
betterment of Kenosha
honored its Older County. He served on the Bob will be presented
Kenosha County Board of with the award at a later
Americans for over 20 Supervisors for 20 years.At date, due to the current
88, Bob, continues to serve health pandemic.
years. An important part of as chairman of the Board of
Directors for Brookside, as
this tradition is the annual

Remarkable Older Please join us in thanking
Bob for his dedication and
American Award. This year, Everything Bob does and service to the Kenosha
has done at Brookside, community!
we are pleased to including launching a

announce the 2020

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any of the normal reasons: yesterday. spousal portion she was legally married. The Social
the social distancing, the Q: I am 64. My husband is getting be added back into A: Before I answer, you Security Administration
masks, the confusing signals Q: When I was 62, I 59. I only worked a short my benefit amount? should know that I am follows state laws when it
from Washington, etc. etc. started getting widows time outside the home, so I coming at this from strictly comes to the legality of a
What really makes me benefits on my husband's am due a very small Social A: I am sorry to hear a Social Security marriage. In other words, if
dislike the disease is that Social Security record. But I Security check. Can I get my about your wife's death. If perspective.You will have to the state you live in
folks must be getting tired continued to work part husband's Social Security they used the term check out any other legal or recognizes common-law
of watching "Tiger King" time. And I'm still working. I instead of my own? "portion" when you signed tax implications. relationships as valid
and "Ozark" and other am about to turn 70, and I up for benefits, that was marriages, then the SSA
streaming options and are checked with Social A: You made the same incorrect, or at least Because you said your will, too. So, if you live in
instead thinking up Social Security about switching to mistake my wife did. You misleading. They should Social Security benefit rates such a state, don't worry
Security questions to send my own account. But they robbed the cradle and have said that your wife was will be similar, that means about anything. But if you
me. Lately, I've been getting said my own rate, even with married a man who is five getting a percentage of your neither of you will be live in a state that doesn't
about 50 emails every day. the bonus I get for working years younger than you are. Social Security benefit. In eligible for any spousal recognize common-law
And yesterday, you helped until 70, is about $150 less While there may be some other words, nothing was benefits on the other marriages, and if you think
me break a record. I got 122 than my widows rate. So, do advantages to that taken out of your Social person's account. So being that little bump in survivors
emails from my readers! In I have to switch to my own (although my wife no longer Security check to pay your legally married really isn't an benefits might be important
just one day! and get less money? What sees any), one of the wife's benefit. So, when she issue -- while you are both to one of you, then
should I do? disadvantages is that you died, there was nothing to alive. consider marching down
Oh, I guess I shouldn't must wait until your give back to you. the aisle!
complain. I mean, how many A: You do not have to husband is getting Social Even though your benefit
games of Scrabble can I switch to your own benefit. Security before you can get Q: For a variety of rates are similar, obviously If you have a Social
play with my wife before You can just continue to any benefits on his record. reasons, my partner and I one of you will have a Social Security question,Tom
we really get on each receive the higher widows So, you can start your own have never married. We've Security check that is Margenau has the answer.
other's nerves? So, rate. benefits now and then been together for 35 years. slightly more than the
answering your questions switch to higher spousal But now, as we approach other. And if the person Contact him at
gives me something to do In fact, if you are working benefits on your husband's Social Security age (I'm 62, with the higher benefit thomas.margenau@comcast.
to help fill these "stay at just to boost your own account once he applies for and she is 60), I wonder if amount dies first, the other
home" days. Social Security benefit rate, his own Social Security. we should make things legal person could be eligible for net.To find out more about
it's not worth it. I'd quit and get married. Is there a small bump in his or her Tom Margenau and to read
But before I get to some tomorrow. Your widows Q: I have been getting my any advantage to doing this Social Security check in the
of these questions, let me benefit will probably always own Social Security since for Social Security form of widows or past columns and see
make this point. Because of be more than your own 2003. At the same time, my purposes? And just so you widowers benefits. features from other Creators
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seniors edition meals with neighbors, etc.).

Rent-less son could I don't think they've lied
become house sitter to us, but I believe they've
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Dear Amy: My husband Amy Dickinson home to face many large and absolutely within dreamstime details. I don't know what
and I are retired. We own tasks, he is 40 years old! He reason. You could suggest to do. I've shared my
two homes - one in the paying rent. And we should help with cleaning he move out altogether, or risk for the virus. They tell concern about the
north, one in the south. definitely want to relax and and do all of the yard work look into a six-month me they are careful. Last consequences of their
Our 40-year-old son still not be interrupted by his (unless your husband enjoys furnished rental during the week, they announced they decisions. We're all fatigued
lives with us up north. comings and goings (and it), and yes - you should summer (when you're in were going to a beach by this virus, but I want to
those of his acquaintances). return to a house (basically) the house) and then move house with two other put my foot down. How do
We spend about six as clean as you left it. It is into your home (rent free) couples and planned to visit I get through to them? -
months of the year in each We love our son dearly completely reasonable to in the winter. tourist destinations in the Upset
place. We are covering all and do not want to hurt or expect this. I'm guessing you area that were reopening. I
expenses for our son alienate him. Can you help have never made this Dear Amy: I live 3,000 was floored. I begged them Dear Upset: You won't
(except for his food, car, and resolve this dilemma? - expectation clear to him, miles away from my parents to reconsider and their get through to them. Your
telephone). We pay heat, Frustrated Mom however. and have only been able to response was, "We parents are taking risks, and
electric, water, cable, communicate with them by understand your concern they know this because
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son should be paying rent ideas. However, it sounds as COVID. My sister later learned with you about their
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financially in any way. He has you are all in the house with your son. That is Due to age, my parents my parents have not been them from 3,000 miles
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books ‘Pelosi’ tracks the career of a
powerful, driven politician

In ‘Afterlife,’ a woman Barack Obama was no
forges a path through darling of the right, but in
grief the months leading up to
the 2010 midterm
Retirement is supposed elections, Nancy Pelosi was
to be a time filled with featured in more than twice
family, trips, and hobbies – a as many Republican attack
finale to a long and ads than the man who was
satisfying career. This was then serving as president.
to be the case for Antonia
Vega, a recently retired Pelosi
college professor and by Molly Ball
writer living inVermont. But
everything changes one day “Pelosi just got a rise out of
when her husband Sam people,” journalist Molly
never shows up to a Ball notes in her sharp, lively
celebratory dinner. biography of the
Democratic leader titled,
Julia Alvarez’s newest novel “Afterlife” explores what simply, “Pelosi.”
happens when the golden years suddenly dim into
something unexpected. Sam’s untimely death (this is no Ball, the national political Trump like a mother would lodestars.) the Iraq war and her roles
spoiler; the opening pages deliver this news) charts Antonia correspondent for Time an unruly toddler. It’s a in the 2008 bailout, the
a course she’d really rather not take. magazine, offers several dicey comparison to make By the time she ran for passage of the Affordable
explanations for this effect. about a woman in power, Congress in 1987, she was Care Act, and Trump’s
The home that Antonia and Sam built together no longer Pelosi, who has served in but Pelosi herself often extremely well-connected. impeachment – all receive
feels like a place of comfort, but instead an unsteady boat Congress for more than refers to family, particularly Her victory made her one extended treatment.
on an uncertain sea of loss. “Late afternoons as the day three decades, has long her status as mother and of only 23 women in the
wanes, in bed in the middle of the night, in spite of her been caricatured as a San grandmother. Born in 1940, 435-member House of Pelosi, who successfully
efforts, she finds herself at the outer edge where, in the old Francisco limousine liberal she is the daughter of Representatives. (More staved off challenges to her
maps, the world drops off, and beyond is terra incognita, sea with extreme views. (She Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., than four times that leadership in 2016 and
serpents, the Leviathan – HERE THERE BE DRAGONS,” has more recently been who served as a number hold seats today.) 2018, is an intensely private
writes Alvarez. “Countless times a day, and night, she pulls criticized by her party’s left Democratic congressman Right out of the gate, at a woman, and Ball, who
herself back from this edge. If not for herself, then for the flank for being too cautious from Maryland before time when discrimination interviewed the speaker
others: her three sisters, a few old aunties, nieces and and moderate.) Even her becoming a three-term and fear were rampant and several times, found her
nephews.” allies say she can be mayor of Baltimore. Her the government had been “impenetrable.” While this
controlling, inflexible, and mother, Anunciata, was his slow to act, Pelosi made the biography doesn’t reveal
But the chaos of life has a way of interrupting periods of imperious. As the book “chief strategist and AIDS crisis her first fight: much about her inner life,
mourning, and this is no different for Antonia. Her three makes clear, there’s a more political enforcer,” Ball She succeeded in providing one suspects that the
sisters think a reunion in Illinois to celebrate her upcoming obvious answer to why the writes, but she stayed housing assistance to those speaker would wonder why
birthday is just what she needs.At home,Antonia finds that first woman to be speaker mostly behind the scenes, with AIDS and in funding anyone would care about
now she instead of Sam must be the one to answer the of the U.S. House of keeping house and raising vaccine research, among that anyway, that what
problems knocking at her front door – like Mario, one of Representatives gets under Nancy and her five other measures. matters is what she gets
the undocumented Mexican workers who milks the cows some people’s skin, and it’s brothers. done for the people she
at the farm next door. He wants her help in bringing his evident in the insults serves.
girlfriend – stuck in the powerful clutches of smugglers in directed at her. Hint:They’re
Colorado – safely to Vermont. the same ones – “unlikable,” Referring to the climate
“shrill” – that were in which Pelosi first became
The retired college professor, who once collected ideas frequently lobbed at Hillary speaker, in 2007, Ball
for stories in a shoebox in her office, really doesn’t want to Clinton. observes that “the culture
get involved with this scenario.And yet a reluctant empathy wasn’t ready to appreciate
stirs her from her grief. She is an immigrant herself, after all; Now is a fitting time to the complexity of a woman
she came to the United States as a child with her family who was both devoted to
from the Dominican Republic, and she knows she is one of consider Pelosi’s career. her family and a hard-
the few in her rural community who can help Mario charging, ruthless pol.” How
navigate language barriers. But her involvement unwittingly Despite having long since sweet it must be for the 80-
sets off a chain of events that ties her in even more tightly. year-old grandmother of
proven her legislative bona nine that the culture has
“Afterlife” is Alvarez’s first novel in a decade, and the finally caught up with her.
author skillfully brings her signature warmth and gentleness fides, keeping her diverse
to issues that are anything but: death, immigration, and By Barbara Spindel
health care. Without making overt political statements, caucus in line with a
Alvarez’s poetic and meditative prose pulls back the curtain
on the ambiguous nature of power dynamics and wades mastery that rivals Lyndon
into the discomfort wrought by family relationships.
Johnson’s, Pelosi was, until
More subtly, Alvarez offers a study in the concept of
home. What happens when it is no longer a fixed place of recently, taken for granted
refuge? Who earns the right to call a place a home? Can a
place of love and sharing be displaced by loss and desire? even by members of her

In the end, all of this emotional mayhem yields a positive own party. Her willingness
effect. And as the master storyteller, Alvarez collects these
broken fragments of Antonia’s life to form a whole. The to stand up to President
novella ends with Antonia learning the Japanese repair
technique kintsugi (in which repairs to cracked pottery are Donald Trump changed Like many women
not concealed but rather highlighted with gold) and thus
Alvarez delivers a final message: In periods of loss and that. Ball reports that at a Pelosi, who gave birth to working in male-dominated
emptiness there is often something better – a person, an
opportunity, a perspective – waiting to disrupt that space, reception with five children in six years and fields, Pelosi saw over-
and to give a new life after death.
congressional leaders days moved twice to preparation as insurance
By Kendra Nordin Beato
after the inauguration, accommodate her husband against being dismissed.

Trump repeated his Paul’s finance career, looked Results-oriented and

debunked claim that he had as though she “had fallen pragmatic, she “seemed to

in fact won the popular into exactly the same trap” do nothing but work, with a

vote because so many as her mother, Ball writes. maniacal level of energy,”

“illegals” had voted in the But she began hosting Ball writes, and still she was

election. Pelosi alone spoke Democratic fundraisers in dogged by sexism.With deft

up, insisting, “That’s not her home and involving political analysis, the author

true.” Since then, several herself in other volunteer charts Pelosi’s rise in the

images of her coolly activities on behalf of the ranks, her relationships

dressing down the party. (The Democratic with George W. Bush,

president have gone viral. Party and the Catholic Obama, and Trump, and her

Some say Pelosi handles Church are her twin record – her opposition to

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What if Hillary had never married
Bill? ‘Rodham’ answers that question

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a race for the Democratic
Rorschach test for our culture, as
she herself has noted. In the nomination started, I Spring picture books
1980s as first lady of Arkansas, to read with the ones
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Lewinsky in the White House sheltering in place during the coronavirus pandemic.
was revealed in the 1990s, worthy moments, is in
Hillary’s popularity soared for Hello, Neighbor! The Kind and Caring World of
standing by her man. Twenty seeing what problems Mister Rogers By Matthew Cordell
years later, she was reviled for
the same decision and called an surface. She still has Hands up if
enabler. She earned high approval you remember
ratings as a senator and as troubles in her the
secretary of state, but her neighborhood’s
interactions with clanging trolley?
Rodham Mr. McFeely and
by Curtis Sittenfeld reporters, but this Hillary his speedy
deliveries? Or
popularity plummeted when she makes different, more perhaps you
ran for higher office. were enticed by
successful tactical the fairytale
Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel world of Daniel
“Rodham” poses the fascinating choices. Donald Trump Striped Tiger. In
question: How would we feel his new picture book, Caldecott medalist Matthew
about Hillary without Bill? For appears, though not in Cordell (Wolf in the Snow) reminds us of all the reasons
Sittenfeld, the answer is we love Fred Rogers. He was adored during his TV career
complicated. Some may dismiss the way you might and now a new audience will discover him though books
Hillary’s political career as that tell his story. Enhanced by endnotes of fascinating
hinging on her husband’s, but as expect, as does Bill, as a facts from the neighborhood and his life, the book and its
anyone familiar with her record at illustrations have the intriguing feel of turning pages in a
Wellesley College and Yale Law thrice-married family scrapbook. This lovely reminder of the quiet,
School knows, she was by all accounts compassionate television host is the perfect book to
a brilliant, outspoken student – and technocrat, who encourage children to talk about kindness, about sadness,
“Rodham” opens with the graduation and about acceptance. The publisher’s recommended age
speech she gave at Wellesley that Sittenfeld suggests, would for “Hello Neighbor!” is preschool through third grade,
propelled her to public notice . but a wide audience of fans and soon-to-be-fans will
have been a better man appreciate this authorized biography of Rogers.
By turns historical fiction, fan
fiction, and a novel of manners, had he married Hillary. Lift Written by Minh Lê and illustrated by Dan Santat
Sittenfeld’s portrait imagines how
things might have been had Hillary staying and leaving was so thin: really it During the campaign, It's the job of young Iris to push the elevator buttons in
said no to Bill’s proposal of marriage. could have gone either way.” Sittenfeld gets at the her building. “Up or down, our floor or the lobby,” she
It’s a peculiar fantasy, but one that will “Rodham” hits its stride when it peels heart of how media takes to the task, shows pride in her work, eagerly awaits
resonate with readers who think away from Hillary’s youth to envision coverage of Hillary, the ride. But when her baby brother takes over touching
Hillary got a raw deal, both in her what her life might have been as a law tinged by everything the buttons and her parents not only allow but encourage
marriage and in the coverage of her professor. It’s the single, middle-aged from subtle sexism to this insult, she feels betrayed. Then she discovers a
2016 presidential bid. Hillary who is far more appealing, outright misogyny, made different kind of lift button, one discarded by the
whether she’s sharing a tea party with the road to the repairman.This mysterious, repurposed button is a magic
The novel’s first section is uneven. the daughter of a friend or presidency not just cupboard, Max’s boat, and Narnia’s wardrobe door all
Young Hillary’s narration can feel too confidences with the reader in her rocky, but riddled with land mines. rolled into one. Now Iris can travel to places she’s only
self-aware; for example, when leaving failed attempt at dating. In an office Those obstacles would have been dreamed of.The story is funny, poignant, and exciting, and
Bill, she reflects,“The margin between romance – an emotional affair with an there no matter who her husband Dan Santat’s graphic-novel like illustrations beg to be
unhappily married man – it’s hard not was, or which political rivals she faced. looked at more than once. Youngsters ages 4 to 8 and
to root for the two, as they bond over every grownup who shares this special family story with
watching Anita Hill’s testimony. I won’t give away whether Hillary them will love “Lift.” My favorite line? “After all, everyone
Sittenfeld shines at depicting these wins this 2016 race, but in a way it can use a lift sometimes.”
social interactions, with their doesn’t matter. There’s no possibility
inevitable moments of awkwardness, “Rodham” can give readers the
and how nuances of race, class, and satisfaction of a happy ending because
gender come into play in relationships whatever fate Hillary-without-Bill
as well as in politics. finds can only stand in contrast to our
current reality. Some voters may not
Hillary runs for president in this have trusted or "liked" Hillary, but she
alternative universe, too, and once the was nothing if not prepared. When a
woman is a policy wonk or adheres to
a scripted speech, it can seem less
cool or authentic compared with
politicians who ad-lib or grandstand,
but that kind of preparation can make
for awfully good leadership in a crisis.

By Elizabeth Toohey

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Pet World animals

with Cathy Rosenthal in the news

How to deal with off-leash
dogs that are aggressive

Dear Cathy, While walking please you, your dog may have might be liable for your
through a neighborhood park acquiesced to your demands veterinary expenses.
with my dog on a leash, two to stop. But she also could
off-leash dogs attacked my have submitted because two Dear Cathy, Like J. Stein
dog. The small dog came dogs were attacking her at
running toward us barking, once. from Holtsville, NewYork, who
which seemed to trigger the
bigger dog to attack us. Both When walking your dog, had a golden retriever afraid of
dogs ignored their owners. I carry an airhorn to startle an
don't think the dog owners approaching dog, citronella storms, I have had dogs that
were together, but it's hard to spray to disarm an aggressive
tell in the age of social dog, or an umbrella to were terrified of loud noises
distancing. One pet owner did separate you both from an
not even say anything after approaching dog. The umbrella and thunderstorms. One dog
pulling the large dog away. is easy to carry, opens quickly
Owners of unleashed dogs and can serve as a way to push wanted to be in the dark, so I
need to understand the effects a dog away, while at the same
their dogs have on leashed time blocking tensions would either cover her with a
dogs. between dogs.
blanket (and she would fall
What I'm wondering is how In a dog fight, the instinct is
I should have handled this to pull dogs apart. If you pull asleep) or I would leave the
interaction with my dog both your dog away using the leash,
during and afterward? She's 70 and the other dog's owner is closet door partially open so
pounds, so I couldn't scoop not doing the same thing, your
her up. She's a rescue and a bit dog comes across as she could hide under the
spooked. I have had her nine submissive, which is a
years and training took time. disadvantage to her in a fight. clothes in the dark. My current dreamstime
Instead, loosen your lead so
During the attack, she your dog has some flexibility six-pound dog didn't like the Sheep take over and spinning each other on the
started by defending herself to protect herself and you are Thundershirt. It seemed to parking lot of closed roundabout, or merry-go-round.
and getting into the fight, then a safe distance away. Make a make her more agitated and
one of the dogs got a grip on loud noise, like clapping for a she didn't like being left alone. McDonald's in Wales "I was quite shocked when I saw
her scruff, and she suddenly mild altercation, or use an them on the roundabout, we don't
cowered and submitted. airhorn for a serious fight.You My solution has been A flock of sheep descended on a usually have them down here so it was
Thankfully, we walked away also can try getting a closed ThunderWunders, a calming McDonald's restaurant closed due to quite amazing to see," Williams told
injury free. But I was yelling umbrella between them or dog chew at my local pet the coronavirus pandemic in Wales. ITV News. "Some of them were playing
and waving and stomping like spraying both dogs with water store. It is made by the same Andrew Thomas said he was leaving and others were all around the park. I
crazy, trying to stop the from a hose. Both owners also company that makes the the Aldi store in Ebbw Vale when he was really surprised at how quickly
strange dogs from attacking. could grab their dogs by the Thundershirt. It doesn't put noticed the nearby McDonald's parking they've started to play and get the hang
Was my behavior what made back legs and pull them away her to sleep; it just calms her lot was full of sheep. of it -- as I said they're not usually here
her cower and submit? It from each other. Never step when the park is open."
happened so fast that I into a fight to pull dogs apart down. Maybe one of these will "Even the sheep in Ebbw Vale, Wales,
couldn't think what else to do. because you will be injured, Goats overrun Welsh
- Anchorage, Alaska perhaps severely. work for dogs that don't like are having McDonald's withdrawals," town amid
coronavirus lockdown
Dear Anchorage, Dog As soon as the dogs break, wearing the vests. - Sandra, Thomas wrote in a Facebook post
fights happen quickly and it's walk your dog quickly away Residents of a Welsh town said a
important to stay as calm as from the fight. Pulling her back Meriden, Connecticut about the unusual scene. Thomas said herd of more than 100 goats is taking
you can. While highly could make the other dog advantage of the coronavirus lockdown
instinctive to do, shouting at attack again. Then check your Dear Sandra, I love reader the fast-food restaurant had been by overrunning their neighborhoods
dogs during a fight sometimes dog for injuries. If the other tips as there is no one-size- closed due to COVID-19. and eating their plants.
escalates tensions. In trying to dog was off leash, the owner
fits-all solution when it comes "I saw the sheep and took a pic to Locals in Llandudno said
approximately 122 Kashmiri goats
to helping our dogs weather put on Facebook as a joke after wandered away from their home in the
Great Orme country park and
thunderstorms. The pet everyone has been posting [about] ventured into city's streets, which have
been low on human activity due to the
market has developed many cravings and withdrawals for COVID-19 pandemic. Residents said
the goats have been feasting on their
over-the-counter products McDonald's food," Thomas told CNN. hedges and other plants.

that pet parents can try during "It's normal south Wales valley life to A North Wales Police spokeswoman
said authorities believe the goats will
storms. If that works for your see sheep wandering down the streets eventually leave town on their own and
officers will not be responding to non-
dog, I am thrilled. Maybe it will of EbbwVale. Or even horses or cows." emergency calls about the animal
trespassers.
work for J. Stein, too. Deer invade London
neighborhood during Bear makes late-
As well as being a recuring guest night visit to
on Happenings Q&A, Cathy M. Minnesota mall
Rosenthal is a longtime animal COVID-19 lockdown
A security guard at a Minnesota mall
advocate, author, columnist and pet A large herd of deer have moved into that's currently closed to the COVID-
expert who has more than 25 years a London neighborhood, taking 19 pandemic captured photos and
advantage of streets being emptied by video of his encounter with a bear that
in the animal welfare field. Send the coronavirus pandemic. Residents went window-shopping for pasta.
your pet questions, stories and tips on lockdown in the Harold Hill
Ryan Carlson, a security guard at the
to [email protected]. Miller Hill Mall in Duluth, said he was
patrolling the grounds in his vehicle
subdivision said a herd of deer moved around 3 a.m. when he spotted the
bear peering trough the window of
into the area and have been grazing and Noodles & Co., one of a few mall
eateries still open during the day for
taking naps on their lawns. delivery and curbside take-out service.

Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg Carlson shared his photos with mall
tweeted photos of the deer wandering general manager Katie Kaz, who
the empty streets and eating grass posted them to Facebook.
from lawns while residents remained
inside their homes on lockdown. Locals Kaz joked the bear was "Miller Hill
said the fallow deer wandered into the Mall's new mascot" and nicknamed the
area from Dagnam Park. bruin Noodles in honor of its apparent
favorite restaurant.
Sheep enjoy
themselves on empty
playground in Wales

A Welsh farmer shared video of a
flock of sheep taking advantage of the
coronavirus lockdown by playing on
the equipment at an empty playground.

Gareth Williams of Raglan Farm Park
in Monmouthshire said the sheep are
usually kept away from the children's
play area at the farm, but the
playground has been closed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic and the sheep
were allowed to wander free.

Williams captured video of the sheep

climbing on the playground equipment

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Dear reader, it is 11:26 pm panic and suffer the mental the necessary precautions and of your health is essential. For a photo: upi.com
Wednesday night and my wife and consequences. begin the journey to get strong large majority of people, this will
I just finished our work day. My again. Many others can’t afford to not happen at home. You are improve your health. Don’t give
deadline for this article was today In order to be strong and take a chance because of their age important and the healthier you up on the only activity that can
and I don’t even know if this healthy, our bodies require or a condition outside of their are, the better chances you have truly safe your life. Because after
article will make it to the regular exercises, proper control. Many others simply are to face anything in your life- all, regardless of what you are
publication. It is not like me to nutrition, and sleep. To avoid too scared to make any decisions. including this pandemic. You will told, the place that helps you
miss a deadline, but with the long crowds, we have been purchasing Keep this in mind; health clubs will have strong and better achieve all the benefits mentioned
hours, I can’t even remember if foods that can be stored longer, work hard to meet the guidelines functioning lungs, heart, muscles before – has to be essential.
the word is deadline or dateline. hence, not fresh. So our fuel is to keep you as safe as they can. If and bones. You will be less
not helping. Since health clubs you believe that they can do stressed and your immune system Louie Arecco has been in the
Just about every day for the last were considered non-essential, something more, ask for it. Most will be better prepared for industry of Health and Fitness for
two months has been exhausting. most people defaulted to lazy likely, they will appreciate the anything. So, if you can’t make it to
I am sure that your life is also a mode at home, so most people input. the health club, do everything in 14 years with a passion and
version of ours. My wife and I did are now deconditioned. Finally, your power to begin your journey challenge of helping his clients
not dare to stop with the since watching the news is This is a fitness article, so let for a lifestyle that will help you
improvements for the business stressful and completely drain any me wrap it up for you. Taking care maintain a fitness lifestyle at
for two reasons; (1) if the place is hope you may have, people are Anytime Fitness in Downtown
empty it is the best way to make defensive and stressed. This
sure our clients are thrilled when combination is just not conducive Kenosha.
they return, and (2) we had to of any lifestyle that will end well.
keep busy to distract ourselves
from the crazy and confusing Now, it might not be the end of
news about people dying, people the tunnel, but we can see some
that could die, and the devastating light; at least to allow us to have
damage our economy and our some tools to take care of our
business is experiencing. Without health. Health clubs are opening,
keeping busy, we would join the with restrictions, but they are
opening. Many people will take

Mayo Clinic rather than on how the drug

Genetic testing offers clues to how body Birth rate declines toinfluences the cause of disease -
may respond to antidepressants 35-year lowalthough some tests address that

issue, as well. Cost is also an issue,

as not all insurance
companies cover this type The birth rate dropped for the
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've draw or a swab fifth year in a row in the United
heard that genetic testing can help for saliva - for of testing.
determine which antidepressant genes that States, bringing the number of
would be best for me. How does encode certain Choosing antidepressants babies born across the country to a
this work? enzymes, and based on your health 35-year low, according to figures
the results can history and symptoms is still published Wednesday by the
ANSWER: Genetic testing is be classified the standard that health Centers for Disease Control and
available to help narrow down your according to how fast your body care providers use when Prevention. about 3.7 million.
antidepressant options, ideally metabolizes and gets rid of certain prescribing these medications.
reducing the need for a sometimes medications, such as particular Routine genetic testing isn't The report reveals that the Birth rates declined for nearly all
prolonged trial-and-error period antidepressants. For example, if recommended at this time. Still, the number of births in 2019 was 3.745 age groups in 2019 -- although, they
while settling on an antidepressant testing indicates that your body testing may offer important clues million, down 1 percent from 2018. did increase slightly for women in
regimen. Although these tests can't metabolizes a drug too slowly, the to aid in drug selection and dosing, The general fertility rate in 2019 their early 40s, the agency said.
tell you specifically which drug might build up in your body especially for people having trouble was 58.2 births per 1,000 among
antidepressant would work best, and increase the likelihood of side finding an effective option with few women between 15 and 44 years of In particular, the CDC reported,
they offer clues about how your effects. While the drug still may be side effects. (adapted from Mayo age, down 2 percent from 2018. birth rates continued to fall for teen
body may respond. useful for you, lower doses may be moms -- by 5 percent -- and for
appropriate. On the other hand, if Clinic Health Letter) - Richard Apart from a slight rise in the women in their 20s. In fact, the birth
This testing - known as testing suggests that the drug rate for mothers between age 15
pharmacogenomics - looks for would leave your body quickly, it Weinshilboum, M.D., birth rate in 2014, U.S. births have and 19 have declined virtually every
changes or variations in genes that may not have a chance to work year since 1991.
determine how quickly a drug is properly or would require a dose Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, been falling annually since 2007, the
processed, or metabolized, in your that is larger than normal. Cesarean births also dropped to
body or whether you might have Rochester, Minnesota agency said. under 32 percent of total deliveries
side effects from a certain drug. However, genetic testing has in 2019. The percentage of infants
limits. Most of these tests focus on Mayo Clinic Q & A is an The findings, which are born prematurely -- after less than
Pharmacogenomic tests check how your body metabolizes a drug educational resource and doesn't considered preliminary, are based 37 weeks of gestation -- increased
your DNA - obtained by a blood replace regular medical care. E-mail on a review of more than 99 slightly for the fifth consecutive
a question to MayoClinicQ&A(AT percent of birth certificates issued year, to more than 10 percent.

SIGN)mayo.edu. For more in 2019. Overall, the CDC found
information, visit www.mayoclinic.org that the number of births fell by

roughly 1 percent from 2018, to

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Look to the greater Kenosha area has seen around our normal high temperatures in Children come into foster
skies 16 to 18.5 inches of precipitation. Kenosha fall in the upper 60s to near
Normal would be around 10.5 inches to 70°F. We have seen mostly below care for a multitude of
with Jake Hoey a foot, and our record highest for most normal temperatures for the past 2
rain gauges is close to 20 inches at this weeks with few exceptions, including reasons, and no two
The month of May in Kenosha so far point in May. We had lower snow our low temperatures falling into the
has been characterized by cooler than accumulation this past Winter than 20s back on March 9th. Starting this children (or how they
normal temperatures and twice the usual, but as you can see, the past few Labor Day weekend, however, we
amount of rainfall as expected. In the heavy rains have pushed us up above should see highs rise into the 70s to process trauma) are the
one week span from May 13th through normal and within striking distance of near 80°F with continuing warmth into
the 19th, approximately 4 to 6 inches of the record books. Let's hope the rain the following work week. With June same. It doesn’t matter
rain fell here, whereas normal for the eases off and sunshine prevails going right around the corner, it will be nice
whole month would be around 3.85 forward. to see some warm weather to remind whether or not it’s
inches. This is the second instance of a us that Summer is fast approaching!
heavy rainfall event so far this Spring, Luckily, our cold trend seems to be abandonment, addiction and
with 3.5 to 4 inches falling in a coming to an end. By this point in May, Jake “The Weather Guy” Hoey is a
3 day span at the end of April. freelance meteorologist who substance abuse or mental
Flooding is a cumulative graduated from the
hazard, and this previous University of Oklahoma. As health concerns - children
surplus of rain laid the well as a interested in the
groundwork for the more weather, Jake is an avid in foster care often feel no
troublesome flooding this time traveler, having visited 49 of
around. Likewise, if another our 50 states. Jake is also a sense of belonging.They feel
instance of heavy rainfall recurring guest on
occurs in the near future, we Happenings Q&A M-F noon they don’t fit in with their
can expect less ground till 3pm. For more up to
infiltration, more run-off, and date forecasts please visit current home structure or
ensuing flood worries. Jake's Kenosha Area
Weather Page on Facebook at school. They suffer with
Looking at the year-to-date and follow
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Instagram.)
and food insecurities. I’ve

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parents in the Kenosha area

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started. The typical

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Children who’ve

experienced trauma, thrive

on structure and routine

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Jill on Money Earlier this week, Pier 1 Imports announced they are shuttering all of their retail operations. Before the pandemic, the company was already in
dire straits, declaring bankruptcy in January. UPI File Photo by Steve Morgan/Wikimedia Commons
Understanding the
devastation of this you will need. documents; attorneys, witnesses, and notaries must
pandemic participate in the conference and must be able to see the
* Will: A legal instrument that ensures that assets are client sign the documents; and clients must then scan
The U.S. economy lost a staggering 20.5 passed to designated beneficiaries, in accordance with your signature pages to the attorney.
million jobs in April and the unemployment wishes. In the drafting process, you name an executor, the
rate surged to 14.7%. person or institution that oversees the distribution of your After doing the hard work, you need to communicate with
assets. If you have minor children, you need to name a your executor and agents and review the information so that
To understand just how devastating the pandemic has been guardian for them. you can answer any questions they may have, while you are
to the labor market, consider this: 20.5 million is more than healthy. You can provide them with copies of documents or
double the total decline in employment during and after the * Letter of instruction/appointment of agent to control tell them where everything is stored.
Great Recession. It is 10 times more than the single worst disposition of remains. Kalib notes: "In some states, there is a
month on record, which occurred in September 1945, when form to complete (with witnesses), while in others, a letter of Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS News business analyst. A former
nearly 2 million Americans were out of work after WW II. instruction may contain appointment of someone who will options trader and CIO of an investment advisory firm, she welcomes
ensure your wishes are met." This is especially important if
As for the unemployment rate, in February, it matched a you are choosing a method that is contrary to your family's comments and questions at [email protected]. Check her
half-century low of 3.5% and now two months later, the rate tradition. website at www.jillonmoney.com
is more than 3.5 times that pace.The highest rate during the
last recession was a single month (October 2009) at 10% and * Power of attorney: Appointment of someone to act as Man in China
before that, it was 10.8% (December 1982). Official records your agent in a variety of circumstances, including learns it doesn't
don't go back to the Great Depression, but it's estimated that withdrawing money from a bank, responding to a tax inquiry pay to bury cash
unemployment hit about 25% in the summer of 1933. or making a trade, if you are unable to do so yourself.
A Chinese man who buried hundreds of thousands of
Economists fear that the government's report may * Health care proxy: Appointment of someone to make dollars five years ago is learning the hard way there may be
understate the severity of the situation. The reason is that health care decisions on your behalf if you lose the ability to better ways to store his life savings, according to local
millions of Americans are not actively looking for work, which do so. This document may also contain a "living will" or reports. Chinese state media and Taiwan's TVBS network
means they are not considered part of the labor force and "advanced directive" in which you can contemplate a variety reported the man, a farmer with the surname Wang, visited
not counted as unemployed. The labor force participation of health circumstances and instruct your proxy to act in a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China in Anhui
rate, which measures the share of workers working or accordance with your wishes. "This can be helpful," says Kalib, Province.
actively seeking employment, fell to 60.2%, its lowest level "especially if you think that your proxy may find it difficult to
since January 1973, just before women entered the labor execute difficult decisions without specific guidance." Amid The bank notes were rotten and moldy and broke apart
force in large numbers. the pandemic, many are taping their health care proxies to on contact, the reports say.Wang told the bank he had "10
the inside of their front doors, to make sure any emergency more bundles" at home, and that he had buried a total of
Additionally, there may have been confusion among service knows to contact your agent, in the event of an about $280,000 in cash five years ago.
respondents to the household survey, which is the basis for emergency medical situation.
the unemployment rate.The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted The Chinese man said his parents were merchants, and
"If the workers who were recorded as employed but absent * Appointment of standby guardian: This document allows that they had accumulated the money. He also said a local
from work due to 'other reasons' had been classified as for a guardian to step in when a parent is sick or dies television program claimed theft was common at ATMs.
unemployed on temporary layoff, the overall unemployment suddenly. It can be important, especially if there is no other The television claims compelled him to bury the large
rate would have been almost 5 percentage points higher than parent or legal guardian. amount of cash underground, he said, according to reports.
reported (on a not seasonally adjusted basis)."
* Trusts: Revocable (changeable) or irrevocable (not- Bank employees worked overtime to restore the
According to economist Joel Naroff: "Simply put, the 14.7% changeable) trusts may be useful, depending on family and tax damaged bills, Chinese state media said. The notes, often
rate is a lower bound and the 'real' number is probably close situations.Trusts for minors can "allow delaying payments to times clumped together, were "divided into small bundles,
to 20%," which is close to the broader unemployment rate children past the age of majority," which Kalib notes may be then divided into singles," the bank said.
(U-6), which includes those working part-time and want full important in the event of a sudden death. For 2020, the first
time and those who are not looking at all - that rate jumped $11.58 million of an estate is exempt from federal estate According to the People's Bank of China's regulations,
to 22.8%, the highest on record. Other awful and historic taxes. If an estate is above the threshold (or twice that for bills that retain 75 percent of their original features can be
highs were seen in the Hispanic unemployment rate (18.9%) married couples), you may want to consider a trust. exchanged at full value, but bills disfigured such that only
and the black unemployment rate (16.7%). 50 to 75 percent of the note is recognizable, can only be
In the lockdown environment, I asked Kalib about how exchanged for half the amount. The man's savings has lost
No industry was spared from the damage: leisure and documents can be executed. While some states "allow about 25 percent of its total value, or $70,000 owing to
hospitality, retail, professional and business services and signings via video conferencing (Zoom, Facetime), specific damage, according to reports.
education and health. Naroff notes: "The declines were so protocols must be followed." Clients must have the printed
broad-based that fewer than 5% of the 258 private industries
posted a payroll gain. Even at the worst point in the Great
Recession, over 15% of the industries posted gains."

Big questions loom for the U.S. economy, including how
many of the temporary layoffs will become permanent and
how many small businesses will survive. A survey of small
businesses by the Society for Human Resource Management
found that about 60% of business owners surveyed said
they've lost revenue as a result of the coronavirus and related
stay-at-home orders. If the pandemic lockdown continues,
12% said their businesses could not last another month and
52% said they would fold within six months.

Naroff said that while government efforts have created "a
temporary lifeboat for many businesses and households,
when funds begin to run out, they will have to stand on their
own."

Those lifeboats need to stay afloat for another three
months - after that time, they could be remembered as
ineffective and sink the fortunes of many Americans.

Estate planning vital during
pandemic

Few personal finance to-dos are more vexing than estate
planning. But in this pandemic crisis, no other issue is more
important.The need is immediate and pressing for front-line
health care workers and first responders, but also necessary
for everyone else.

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Our • Snap Dragon- The full to cover. The marbles act as a
Earth package- they release a scent landing pad while our little
and color combo that is guys stop for a drink. Over
with Gretchen Covelli irresistible to bees. ripened fruit is also a great
treat to leave out!
Pollinators patch • Marigold- plant variety
with open centers, also Thank you for taking the
Bees & Butterflies! If you're you are not a gardener , per se, • Sunflower- bonus also photo: mynewstouse.com benefits soil health! time to read and share this
an avid gardener you already and don't have time to attracts birds to your garden! space with me. I wish you
know how important they are, designate to keep up with any autumn! • Dahlia- choose simple many blessings of peace, love
and truly I am hoping that kind of garden, then a • Lavender- Beneficial herb single or semi double flower and happiness. Remember to
those of you reading this are pollinators patch is a match but also wards off flies & • Coneflower/ Echinacea- 2 types, which are low give yourself grace, hold the
saying.....EVERYONE knows made in heaven. Here are few mosquitoes! foot tall flower stalks. maintenance. ones you love the most close
how important they are! tips to start. First, plant in Beneficial Herb as well!! to you and be present in your
Without them our functioning clumps rather than having one • Bee Balm- shade tolerant! • Common Daisy- classic everyday. -Gretchen-
ecosystem would suffer type grouped together. Plant a Keep in mind these are • Milkweed- start early white and yellow variety is
greatly! In fact we rely on mix of colors and scents. Plan perennials & spread! indoors or buy tubers in the best. Hi there, I’m Gretchen.
pollinators to help produce as your patch with seasons in Spring. I own Gypsies Baskets, a small
much as one third of our food mind. Plant certain types in the • Goldenrod- Blooms late • Borage- self-seeding, very Fair Trade basket business. Most
supply! Right about now, I am early spring and other varieties summer & lasts well into • Butterfly Bush- Can reach low maintenance Saturdays you will find me in my
sure you are saying to in late summer for your heights & circumference of 8-
yourself..... "Wow, pollinators garden to continue into fall! 10 Feet. Leave plenty of room. When planning your booth at the Kenosha
do so much to help us, what Choose naive plants. Below pollinator patch it's best to HarborMarket. My family and I
can we do to help them?" are a few suggestions: think of it as it's own little love adventuring through nature
You're in luck, because there's habitat. Be sure to place it in
a lot & it's all pretty simple. If • Dandelions! Easy-let them an area that you will not preserves, shopping at
grow & don't spray!! disturb your visitors and give downtown businesses and
them plenty of space. And if restaurants, exploring the
you want to make it really museums and the art district, or
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station. Fill a bowl with
marbles and water, just enough lakefront.

Choose baked In a word: DoggoLingo

with Olano’s with Melissa Mohr

with Leslie Olano f dogs could talk, what
language would they speak?
I learned to appreciate obstacles. We decided The web has an answer:
to take a huge risk just DoggoLingo. You can find
food at a young age. like our ancestors before DoggoLingo anywhere
us. people post pictures of
Despite long hours at ways to improve and cute canines – pretty much
Much brainstorming, flourish. every social media
work, my Italian American planning and preparation platform.
followed. We knew our When the current
parents never failed to menu had to be unique COVID-19 crisis came
while appealing to the upon us we knew our
provide wonderful, masses. Alex opted for community needed us
empanadas as they were an more than ever. As the
homemade meals each enormous part of his markets are closed, pre-
childhood and a staple of orders have been our
night. Thoughts of savory his family dinners. He focus. We love delivering This “language” is
wanted to provide a dish our frozen empanadas as it characterized by short,
sauce layered into delicious that was healthy, serves to provide healthy, simple phrases; scattershot
convenient, and easy to eat well-balanced food to our adherence to grammatical
lasagna and seasoned at the market. Empanadas customer’s door-steps. conventions; inventive
allowed him to play with spellings that you may or
stuffed peppers always countless ingredients and Even though my parents may not find adorable
endless flavor combinations thought we were crazy (smol for “small,” bork for
brings forth nostalgia and to create the perfect baked when we told them we “bark”); and suffixes that
Peruvian treat. were going to start an signal cuteness, such as -
warmth. empanada business, they ino. For example:
From the homemade have been supporting us “Pupperino did a blep!”
Alex Olano was the first dough to the organic every step of the way! We (The dog stuck its tongue shared slang. Though DoggoLingo complements
person I ever met from fillings, completion was not are thankful for our family out.)
Peru and we fell in love an easy feat. Days and and appreciate all of our
immediately. He introduced nights consisted of rolling, customers. Sometimes you DoggoLingo has its own DoggoLingo might at first LOLspeak, the internet
me to exotic dishes from scooping, stuffing, baking, just have to follow your specialized vocabulary.
his home country and it and sampling until Alex heart, carefully plan, and go Other words include the glance seem insidery or language of cats. While
was apparent how talented deemed the goods up to for it! Our commitment to onomatopoeic mlem, a
he was in the kitchen. My par. After our first sale, we the community with quality large blep; boop, a bop on exclusive, its terms are internet dogs offer
husband always longed to were overwhelmed with an goods is never-ending, and the nose; and sploot, a dog
be an entrepreneur and enormous sense of we are trying to make a lying on its belly with its almost immediately positivity, cats express a
early on knew his destiny accomplishment. In that positive impact when we legs out behind it. For an
would be tied into food. He moment, we knew our can. internet phenomenon, accessible.You only have to variety of moods. They can
was determined to provide perseverance made all the DoggoLingo has had staying
for his family, but did not hard work worthwhile. Leslie Olano is a small power. It burst into see one picture of a corgi be silly and happy but also
know how to make his business owner and Kenosha memedom in 2017 and is
dreams a reality. Life is filled with still going strong. captioned “Sploot!” to aloof, selfish, demanding,
unexpected pleasures. I native, who’s mission is to
never thought I would own share her love of food with understand exactly what and most importantly,
a thriving empanada
One summer day we business and Alex never the community. Olano’s that means. Finally, angry and sad. Grumpy Cat,
discovered the Kenosha imagined he would settle in Empanadas is her family
HarborMarket. The various Kenosha with a family of DoggoLingo is relentlessly whose permanently
vendors and array of goods four. Seven years ago our business, specializing in
was impressive. Roaming empanadas were baked in freshly baked empanadas, or positive, just as we imagine downturned mouth made
the aisles had a great the rented kitchen of a
impact on us and soon homeless shelter. Today we “South American Pastries”. dogs to be. It reflects an her an internet sensation,
after, the inspiration for have two food trucks and Their product can be found
Olano’s Empanadas was offer 20 varieties. We are innocent cluelessness, love, didn’t like things: “I hate
born. constantly coming up with at local farmer’s markets,
food truck events, or through I spoke with E.J. White, and unfailing enthusiasm, morning people ... and
deliveries and catering. Social
professor of digital qualities that are mornings ... and people” is
media and website
olanosempanadas.com are humanities and author of uncommon online. one of her famous lines.

updated weekly, so follow the forthcoming book “A Part of DoggoLingo’s LOLspeak is useful because
them to stay up-to date with appeal is that it is so easy to
Unified Theory of Cats on pick up. Indeed, many it allows people to channel
their journey! people speak a version of it
Initially we were the Internet,” about what at home already. It is the negative emotions.
overwhelmed with hurdles. textual counterpart to the
How do we start a has made DoggoLingo so singsongy, high-pitched DoggoLingo lifts us up, and
business? Would people like baby talk we often employ
our product? How do we popular. She explained that with our pets, as well as LOLspeak helps us out
sell? When do we profit? with human infants. It’s easy
There were many it is “a shared game” that to go from calling Fido a when we are down, giving
unanswered questions, but “floof” at home to posting
we were determined to people in all corners of the about “dat Floofer.” us a way to vent or laugh
find them! This would be a
long road ahead, but our internet can play. It bridges off our bad moods.And you
need to provide for our
family outweighed any gaps between groups that thought that those goob

wouldn’t necessarily bois were just cute.

interact a lot online – Melissa Mohr is a
Wisconsin native and author
children, parents, and
who is a coorespondent for
grandparents can all the Christian Science
Monitor.
appreciate pictures of dogs According to Dr. White,

and take pleasure in the

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A fresh, healthful weeknight dinner without a sink full of pots and pans One-Pan Mediterranean
Shrimp
We're all spending more tests, we discovered that 6 to 8 with the briny shrimp. photo: dreamstime
time in our homes and cooking minutes in a 450-degree oven Serves 4 to 6
most or all of our own meals. was perfect. To liven things up and give shrimp were cooked through, Note:We prefer all-natural shrimp that aren't treated
But that doesn't mean we want the dish a Mediterranean flavor we scattered a handful of with sodium or preservatives. If buying frozen shrimp, the
to spend more time doing As for the vegetable profile, we tossed the shrimp chopped kalamata olives over ingredient label should list only "shrimp."
dishes. That's where one-pan accompaniments, we couldn't with oregano and lemon zest the top. A sprinkling of parsley
meals come in. For a sheet-pan find any that shared the same before adding them to the pan and a squeeze of lemon put the 1 1/2 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and sliced 1/2-
dinner that cooks quickly, has a short cooking time as the with crumbled feta and sliding final fresh touches on this inch thick
short ingredient list, and uses shrimp. So, we chose it back into the oven.When the satisfying, Mediterranean-style 2 fennel bulbs, stalks discarded, bulbs halved lengthwise
always popular Mediterranean ingredients that we could give shrimp supper. and cut into 1-inch-thick wedges through stem end
flavors, we started with shrimp. a good head start in the oven 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
and then add the shrimp for Salt and pepper
The beauty of using shrimp just the final few minutes. 2 pounds jumbo shrimp (16 to 20 per pound), peeled,
for a speedy supper is that they Potatoes were easy to deveined, and tails removed
cook through quickly when incorporate using this method 2 teaspoons dried oregano
exposed to any sort of heat. and bulked up the dish, but we 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest, plus lemon wedges for
And unlike other proteins that wanted something green too. serving
need direct contact with a hot We tried spinach and 4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled (1 cup)
surface or flame to achieve an broccolini, but they turned 1/2 cup pitted kalamata olives, halved
appetizing sear, shrimp taste slimy or swampy on the baking 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
great without it. sheet.
• Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat
But this is also the danger of The solution was fennel. oven to 450 F.Toss potatoes, fennel, 2 tablespoons oil, 1
shrimp - it's far too easy to Though its pale color makes it teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper together in bowl.
overcook them. If they spend appear less vibrant than other Spread vegetables in single layer on rimmed baking sheet
too long in the oven, their green vegetables, the slightly and roast until just tender, about 25 minutes.
delicate flesh turns tough and sweet, licorice-like flavor of • Pat shrimp dry with paper towels.Toss shrimp, oregano,
rubbery. After a few initial roasted fennel pairs beautiful lemon zest, remaining 1 tablespoon oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt
and 1/4 teaspoon pepper together in bowl.
Nutrition News with Charlyn Fargo • Using spatula, flip potatoes and fennel so browned sides
are facing up. Scatter shrimp and feta over top. Return to
Another Win for the Mediterranean Diet oven and roast until shrimp are cooked through, 6 to 8
minutes. Sprinkle olives and parsley over top and drizzle
Here's yet another only consumed in small people ate with extra oil. Serve with lemon wedges.
reason to try the amounts. more for
Mediterranean diet, breakfast Sweet Wheat Berry
which is actually not a How can you get started? than dinner, their diet-induced Breakfast
strict diet at all but a thermogenesis was more than
pattern of eating that Start the day with a bowl of twice as high as when they ate 1 cup raw wheat berries, rinsed
focuses on fresh, whole the same number of calories 1 cup red pear, diced
foods and avoids highly oatmeal with fresh berries. for dinner. A bigger breakfast 1 cup red grapes, diced
processed foods. resulted in lower peaks in 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Have some tuna over a leafy blood sugar and insulin. 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
New research finds Researchers found a smaller 2 1/2 cups vanilla yogurt
it may support healthy green salad for lunch and a breakfast was associated with
aging. And who among increased sugar cravings • Rinse wheat berries in strainer and place in a pot with 2
us doesn't want to live piece of salmon over brown throughout the day. Go ahead; 1/2 cups water. Bring to boil, and then cover and simmer
a long, healthy life? have that omelet and whole- until wheat berries are tender and most water is
Research published in rice with vegetables for dinner. wheat toast in the morning. absorbed, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat, and drain
The BMJ in February 2020 Then go lighter in your evening any remaining water. Place wheat berries in a medium
found that the Mediterranean Enjoy a glass of red wine with meal to burn more calories. bowl. Mix in pear and grapes. Stir in cinnamon and
lifestyle helps alter gut nutmeg.To serve, place 1/2 cup wheat berry blend in
bacteria, which, in turn, helps dinner, too. Think fresh, whole Charlyn Fargo is a registered bowl, and top with 1/4 cup vanilla yogurt. Serves 10.
reduce frailty and promote dietitian with SIU Med School in (Serving size: 1/2 cup wheat berry blend with 1/4 cup
healthy aging. The gut foods. As you age, you'll be Springfield, Ill. For comments or yogurt.)
microbiota of more than 600 • Per serving: 140 calories; 6 grams protein; 28 grams
people in five European happy you did. questions, contact her at carbohydrates; 1 gram fat; 3 milligrams cholesterol; 4
countries were profiled before [email protected] or follow her grams fiber; 12 grams sugar; 38 milligrams sodium.
they began a one-year-long photo: dreamstime Q and A on Twitter @Nutrition Rd.To find
Mediterranean diet. When SMART READER May 21, 2020 21
their gut bacteria were volume were associated with Q: Is it better to eat a bigger out more about Charlyn Fargo
checked at the end of the year, reduced frailty (improved breakfast or bigger dinner? and read features by other
they had better bacterial walking speed, hand strength
diversity in the gut, and the Creators Syndicate writers and
bacteria that increased in and cognitive function, and less A: It turns out eating a big cartoonists, visit the Creators
Syndicate website at
inflammation). breakfast compared with www.creators.com.

Just what is a Mediterranean eating a big dinner has a
diet? It is based on the dietary significant effect on
habits of people in Italy and metabolism, according to
Greece. Much of the diet research published in the
consists of vegetables, fruits, Journal of Clinical
whole grains, beans, herbs, Endocrinology and Metabolism
nuts, seafood and olive oil. in February 2020. Researchers
Poultry, eggs, cheese and red used a process called diet-
wine are consumed in induced thermogenesis, which
moderation. Red meat, refined is a marker for metabolism, to
grains, processed foods and measure how the body uses
sugar-sweetened beverages are energy after eating. When

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trivia

by Meridith Jumisko

Whether you're a long- historic districts.
time Kenosha resident or a
newbie to the area, you'll • How did Lemon Street
have fun with the Kenosha Gallery get its name?
Area Activity Book that our
staff at the Kenosha Area • In 1900, what Kenosha
Convention & Visitors
Bureau developed this building opened that was
spring. It's for all ages and
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quizzes, puzzles, and other
activities. There are also 50 Daniel J. Burnham, the
trivia questions related to
Kenosha! Here are just a leader of design for the
few of the trivia questions:
World's Columbian
• Name the first
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east of the Mississippi River
butchered by people. It 1893?
proved Native Americans
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1,500 years earlier than Rock From The Sun
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County and is featured at This car is now part of
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