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FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 1 "Very, very pleased, the extra bit of personal touch was so appreciated." -Joanne J. "Very, very pleased, the extra bit of personal touch was so appreciated." -Joanne J. Visit us at 3016 75th St. Kenosha SR120122 Volume 21 - #2 February 9, 2023

F 2 W d c c s o a R o h m n o a W m S C C a p R K s a m t p s t a I f w m s S 6 d p S I d D b w S b V 2 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 Cover photos credit: Waynes: Mike Wallace & Chad Greenway; Gordon: UPI Smart Reader is published bi-weekly by Carmichael Communications Editor & Publisher/Frank J. Carmichael • Assistant to the Publisher/Reanna Stockdale • Sales/Kim Carmichael, Donny Stancato Editorial Manager/Jason Hedman • Ad Design & Layout/Glen Kelly, Sara Vego • Reception/Sarah Coleman Carmichael Communications 1420 63rd Street, Kenosha, WI 53143 February 9, 2022 - Volume 21 Number 3 262-564-8800 • 1-800-568-6623 • www.hap2it.com Kenosha’s amazing dining scene takes center stage during an annual nine-day celebration each February. Kenosha Restaurant Week takes place February 18-26 this year. Visit Kenosha is the sole producer of Kenosha Restaurant Week with participation open exclusively to its Tourism Partner businesses throughout Kenosha County. More than 50 locally owned restaurants, pubs, and food shops are participating this year. Firsttime participants include Coopers Uptown, Frankie D's Vino & Pizzeria, Lou Perrine's Gas & Groceries 80th Street location with Einstein Bros. Bagels, Morelli's Deli Catering, Ono, Sandlots of Salem, Swede’s, and Tavern on 6th. This week is an opportunity for people to try a new restaurant(s) that they haven't been to before, try different or new menu items at their favorite places, take advantage of the discounted menus, and/or support locally owned, small businesses in the community. Dining out or ordering carryout during Kenosha Restaurant Week is a great way to show appreciation for the restaurants and food shops that are here. The hope is that people will continue to Dine Local – even beyond Restaurant Week. And that while they are out and about exploring, they are also enjoying the local shops, attractions, and other events. Check out the feedback from diners who participated in last year’s Restaurant Week. Respondents to the online 2022 Kenosha Restaurant Week Guest Survey were asked to provide any feedback they had on their Restaurant Week dining experience so that Visit Kenosha could make the next event even better. Here are some of those comments: “Best event in Kenosha.” “Enjoyed it!” “Love Kenosha Restaurant Week!!” “It was a lot of fun! We only did the deals at one restaurant but it was a nice reason to eat out extra that week to support local businesses!” “It’s great every year!” “This is a fantastic promotion! Thank you to all the businesses who host specials.” “We love to support local business and restaurant week made it enjoyable.” “Restaurant week always motivates me to try new local restaurants!” “We loved it. It was our first time participating. There are some restaurants we plan to try even though the week is over.” “Fantastic as always!” “Love patronizing local businesses!!!” “It’s such a fun time to experience new places.” “Kenosha Restaurant Week was awesome as always!!” Perhaps this comment says it best: “Kenosha is so special because we have so many non-chain establishments. We’re supporting local businesses, charities, and families in one week. Love the opportunity to make Kenosha shine.” Here are some frequently asked questions about Kenosha Restaurant Week, to help you start making your plans for February 18- 26: How do I know who is participating? The 50+ participating venues are listed at VisitKenosha.com/RW; their menus continue to be added. You can search by amenity/category, including Breakfast/Brunch Specials; Lunch Specials; Dinner Specials; Sweets, Treats & Spirits; Take & Bake/Take & Heat Meals; Family-Style Meals; Dine-In Available for Specials; Carryout Available for Specials; and Reservations Accepted. Are tickets, passes, or coupons required? No. During Restaurant Week, simply visit/order from participating restaurants and ask for the special Restaurant Week menu. Do I have to order from the Restaurant Week menu? No. The restaurants will be offering both their special Restaurant Week menu and their regular one. Should I make a reservation? If the business takes reservations, it’s recommended you make one. How can I Dine & Win? As Kenosha Restaurant Week approaches, there will be numerous opportunities to win gift cards to our great local restaurants as well as Kenosha Restaurant Week merchandise – via Facebook and Instagram. How can I Dine & Give? Please consider making a donation to the Shalom Center, The Sharing Center, or the Kenosha County Food Bank. These are the official nonprofit partners of Kenosha Restaurant Week. Enjoy dining out during Kenosha Restaurant Week! From as far north as HobNob Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge to as far south as Johnny'Z Pour House and as far east as Ashling on the Lough to as far west as Sandlots of Salem, there is bound to be a restaurant near your home, work, or school to visit! Invite your friends to join you! By Meridith Jumisko, Visit Kenosha Dennis DuChene & Laura Gregorski of Visit Kenosha stop in to Happenings Q&A on Fri. Feb. 17th at 2pm. Tune in to WLIP AM1050 for more

FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 3 Coming up February 18- 26 is Kenosha Restaurant Week. You can find more details on this nine-day celebration of our community's delicious dining scene elsewhere in this issue of Smart Reader, as well as at VisitKenosha.com/RW. Right now, I’d like to focus on how you can give a helping hand to those who may not know where their next meal will come from. As you enjoy the many options and delicious meals and deals during Restaurant Week, please consider making a donation to the Shalom Center, The Sharing Center, or the Kenosha County Food Bank. These are the official nonprofit partners of Kenosha Restaurant Week. Shalom Center is Kenosha’s only homeless shelter, largest food pantry, and longest running nightly meal program. Its mission “is to serve the community by providing emergency food, shelter, and support in ways that meet immediate needs and respect human dignity.” Its vision “is that through food, shelter, and guidance, we will help people maximize their potential for self sufficiency. In 2021, Shalom Center served 63,632 meals and distributed 1.1 million pounds of food. (Source: Shalom Center’s 2021 Impact Report) There are various ways to donate to Shalom Center. Donate financially online or by mailing in a check. Other ways to give include gifts of stocks/bonds, retirement assets, real estate, and life insurance. You may also drop off items from their Needs List on the northside of their location at 4314 39th Avenue. Items include nonperishable food cans/boxes, fresh vegetables/fruit, hygiene items, and other items. Volunteers are welcome. The Sharing Center has been serving the needs of Western Kenosha County families since 1983: homelessness, housing, hunger, and more. On September 14, 2023, the organization will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary at The Red Oak Restaurant in Bristol. In 2021, The Sharing Center served over 3,100 individuals and served 284,000 pounds of food. (Source: The Sharing Center’s 2021 Annual Report) Monetary donations may be made via online, text, mail, or in person. Consider planned giving or hosting a fundraising event/drive. Donations of food items, as well as new sheets, blankets, and clothing items are welcome. Or donate your time; become a volunteer. The Sharing Center is located at 25700 Wilmot Road in Trevor. The Kenosha County Food Bank is the bridge between healthy food resources and Kenosha County’s network of hunger-relief organizations. The Kenosha County Food Bank works actively with the food pantries of Grace Welcome Center, Salvation Army, Shalom Center, The Sharing Center, and the Twin Lakes Food Pantry. Its goal is to bring healthy food to all Kenosha food pantries and help them address the problem of food insecurity. 1 in 8 children in Wisconsin suffer from food insecurity, while 1 in 5 children in Kenosha do. (Source: Kenosha County Food Bank January 2023 Progress Report) Consider an online financial contribution. The Kenosha County Food Bank also accepts large industrial, palleted food donations that are best suited for a network of pantries. Volunteers are welcome as well. You can find the links at VisitKenosha.com/RW to donate to these three organizations. In addition, some of the participating Restaurant Week venues are hosting a charitable component to support local nonprofit organizations during Kenosha Restaurant Week. This may include a food drive, donation jars, or a donation of a percentage of sales from a certain night or item. Go to VisitKenosha.com/RW for a list of Kenosha Restaurant Week participants, menus, and more details. 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4 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F B c an hi cu ca In ho tw fo C pr sla lat Fi pl th $8 es co bi cu av ex m A du W an co co de C Te In w W ch co de ci co of m by m on Ju C Fe Memphis’ question: Can we have tough policing without brutality? SCORPION hit the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, in late 2021 in unmarked cars, some without standard-issue dashboard cameras. The police crimesuppression unit, divided into four, 10-person teams, racked up hundreds of arrests in months. It targeted suspected drug dens, gun smugglers, and reckless drivers who had grown brash during the pandemic. SCORPION’s sting was effective, city leaders said. The acronym stands for Street Crimes Operation To Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods, and by late last year, the crime wave had begun to subside. Democratic Mayor Jim Strickland hailed its achievements in his 2022 State of the City speech. In a city where leaders had embraced post-George Floyd police reforms, the changes seemed significant. Was Memphis on to something? Last week, Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “CJ” Davis permanently disbanded SCORPION. Hours earlier, the United States watched in horror as a video released by the city showed five of the unit’s officers beating Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old motorist, so badly that he died from his injuries three days later. The demise of SCORPION shows a chief and a city trying to find a balance between addressing serious crime and reforming how U.S. policing is done. It comes as nationwide police reforms in the wake of Mr. Floyd’s 2020 murder by a Minneapolis officer collide with a wave of rising crime that began during the pandemic. And Memphis is a microcosm of how America is struggling to find aggressive, effective policing that doesn’t tip into brutality. “There is a balance that has to be struck with gun crimes on the rise,” says Andrea Headley, an expert at Georgetown University on equity in the criminal justice system. “The desire for people to want to feel safe in their communities is real. At the same time, there is clear evidence around some of these aggressive units that they historically have been shown not to work.” Memphis’ crime wave When the SCORPION unit was forged, Memphis, like many other American cities, had seen troubling spikes in violent crime. In 2020, more than 18,000 violent crimes were reported in the city – 1,359 for every 100,000 people, three times the national average. The pace quickened in early 2021. And in 2022, Memphis was forced into a four-hour citywide lockdown while a mass killer prowled the streets, ultimately killing four. Memphians like Aaron Foster aren’t shocked by the numbers. As a homeowner off Lamar Avenue – a largely Black area dotted with catfish joints and barbecue pits – Mr. Foster sees crime daily. A few feet away, police are investigating why an abandoned van is wrapped around a power pole. Crime, he says, can feel omnipresent. But he also has friends who have been on the receiving end of harassment and violence from SCORPION. Mr. Nichols likely ran because he was scared, says Mr. Foster. “Look, here he is, driving home in one of America’s most dangerous cities, and all of a sudden there are guys all over him,” says Mr. Foster. “Yeah, there are police lights, but he doesn’t have time to react. Suddenly he’s on the ground; then he’s up and running. Looking at what happened, who can blame him for running?” “People will only have the boot on their neck for so long until they strike back,” says Mr. Foster. SCORPION is one in a long tradition of crime suppression units in the U.S., many of which have ended in infamy. • Detroit had its 1970sera STRESS unit. One white officer, Raymond Peterson, killed at least five Black suspects in 1971 alone. He once called Detroit’s streets worse “than a jungle.” • Atlanta’s Red Dog crime suppression unit notoriously fired 39 shots while breaking into the house of an 82-year old woman in 2008. She had fired a shot at them as they entered her house during a no-knock drug raid filled with errors, including falsifying evidence, according to investigations. The unit was shut down in 2011. Memphis Police Chief Davis ran the Red Dog program for a time when she was at the Atlanta Police Department. • More recently, Washington’s RIP (Robbery Intervention Program) unit engaged in so-called jumpouts, where officers sped up to cars and jumped out, guns drawn. Last year, an investigation by The Appeal secured a trove of internal emails that show that militarized, tough-on-crime policing was championed throughout the ranks even after the public was told such tactics had ended. The video of Mr. Nichols’ beating points to the chronic problem with such efforts: Police officers can become empowered by impunity. “These kinds of units, because of their nature and autonomy that they’re given, they have a propensity to violate citizens’ constitutional rights,” says David Thomas, a former police officer who is now a forensic expert at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. A better model? The idea behind such units can have merit. Before it fell to budget cuts in the early 2010s, Memphis had Operation Blue CRUSH (Crime Reduction Using Statistical History), which tapped specialized units drawn from across the force to focus on hot spot areas. The Blue CRUSH unit had a tough-on-crime aspect, sociologist Phyllis Betts told the Memphis Commercial Appeal in 2021. Its intent, however, was to “mobilize and connect with people in their neighborhoods.” That, she told the paper, is “true community policing.” The idea came from Ms. Betts’ husband, criminologist Richard Janikowski, whose parents fought Nazis as part of the Polish resistance in World War II. His work was guided by a concern for people living in marginalized and crime-ridden neighborhoods. During the past decade, his ideas expanded nationwide. Studies have found that the hot spot policing pioneered by Blue CRUSH can work. Such efforts resulted in statistically significant reductions in crime, according to a 2018 report by the National Research Council’s Committee on Proactive Policing. “When you have targeted police intervention with certain people or certain places, that can be effective,” says Professor Headley of Georgetown University. “But when you broadly incentivize police to make lots of arrests in certain areas, that usually leads to overpoliced communities. That harms people and doesn’t often lead” to less crime. “That is the real tension here: Did it have to be this aggressive?” The key is accountability, adds Professor Thomas of Florida Gulf Coast University. “There needs to be strict oversight, and the edict should be quality over Protestors march in Memphis, Tennessee, over the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by police. see MEMPHIS on page 8 Tune in to Happenings Q&A Tue. 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0 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 Biden targets 'junk fees' for credit cards, travel, cable President Joe Biden has announced new progress on his "competition agenda" to cut junk fees from credit cards, airline tickets, Internet services, and hotels. The president announced two new actions during the fourth meeting of his Competition Council, to promote economic fairness. The first action would slash "excessive credit card late fees." The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to cut late fees from the typical $31 charge to $8, which the administration estimates could save consumers as much as $9 billion a year. "Today's rule proposes to cut those fees from $31 on average to $8. That change is expected to save tens of millions of dollars for Americans," Biden said during the meeting at the White House. The second action announced Wednesday could give consumers more control over their mobile devices. The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which released a report Wednesday, is calling for changes that would boost competition for mobile app developers. The report also cited the need to help consumers get apps outside of the current app store model, which is controlled by Apple and Google. During the recent meeting, Biden also called on Congress to pass the Junk Fee Protection Act. "And today, I'm calling on Congress to pass the Junk Fee Protection Act to ban four of the most frustrating charges Americans face," Biden announced. Among the four fees the president wants to target are airlines charging passengers to select a seat so they "can sit near their child" and hotels charging resort fees which he said "can be over $50 a night." "And third, you should be able to switch your Internet, cable or cellphone plan without the $200 early termination penalty some of these companies charge," the president added. "And fourth, you should lower the huge service fees that companies like TicketMaster slap onto tickets for concerts and sporting events that can easily add hundreds of bucks to a family's night out," Biden said. "Over the next few weeks, my team is going to meet with state and local officials across the country to identify things they can do to crack down on junk fees in their own jurisdictions," Biden said as he called on all service providers to list fees up front on "clear, easy to read labels." In addition to Wednesday's new actions, Biden reviewed what the Competition Council has accomplished since its September 2022 meeting, when the president urged agencies to focus on reducing junk fees. "We have convinced major airlines to rebook canceled flights for free, rather than charging customers for rebooking," Biden said. "We've pushed banks to stop pushing surprise overdraft and bouncedcheck fees, saving Americans an estimated billion dollars a year," he added. "Last month, we took a big step toward promoting competition in the labor market, when the Federal Trade Commission proposed the rule banning non-compete agreements for 30 million Americans," the president said. "Look, the bottom line is this. These fees add up," Biden said. "It's a basic question of fairness and with the help of the people in this room, we're going to keep building an economy that's fair, an economy that's competitive and an economy that works for everyone." By Sheri Walsh President Joe Biden urges Congress to pass the Junk Fee Protection Act as he meets with his Competition Council at the White House in Washington. t , t h n d h n ” f y. y e n o . d s n s y, f t o e r SMART READER February 09, 2023 5 Locally Owned & Operated for Over 30 Years 5403 52nd Street Kenosha Phone (262) 656-1717 www.bandlofficefurniture.com 020223 SALE PRICE QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED. Seat Color Options Available $ 385 • Forward tilt • Seat depth slider • Adjustable height arms • Lock Tilt Control • Tilt Tension Control • Ratchet Back Height Adjustment • Adjustable Back With Lumbar Support CH R A ED HOT IR DEAL CH R A ED HOT IR DEAL FEATURES: FREE Specially Made Paielli’s Bakery Cookie With Any Chair Purchase FREE Specially Made Paielli’s Bakery Cookie With Any Chair Purchase Kenosha Funeral Services and Crematory Prepay for your funeral now and the price will be guaranteed. 8226 Sheridan Rd. Kenosha, WI 53143 (262) 652-1943 www.kenosha-funeral-services.com SR012722 Quality • Value • Service When you need it the most When you need it the most Cremation with Memorial Services……$3,825 Includes: Professional Service Fee, Alternate Care of Remains, 1 hour Greeting Time, Memorial Services, Transfer of Remains to our Facility, Cremation Fee, and Alternative Container. Make An Appointment To Pre-Plan Your Funeral Today 110322 $28 Eye Exam 262 - 554 -1121 • 3701 Durand Ave. Racine $18 Eyeglasses Place SR090822 Eyeglasses exam $49 without purchase of eyeglasses. See store for details.

6 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F N d th sh 10 20 bi w nu in ye U In Fi w ni in be un re re re cl fe hu re po ca bi sa nu w de co sa of N Pr Re ar ar im be es N ne m re an N un bu am ex nu N bi at 12 bi ha G Lo Inequality in decline? Tech jobs fade, waitstaff jobs boom On one side of Chauncy Street in downtown Boston last week, laid-off tech workers came to the headquarters of internet provider Starry to drop off their company equipment and say goodbye. “It’s sad,” says the security guard downstairs. “I tell them I’m sorry.” On the other side of Chauncy Street, the Lotus Test Kitchen is hopping. You can smell the spices even before opening the door. Inside, seven food-prep workers make rice bowls for delivery services that will bring lunch to customers all around Greater Boston. The newest employee, who just started that morning, tentatively places toppings on the rice under the direction of a fellow worker. Owner Thomas Xie is interviewing two more applicants that afternoon. “We have been having a heck of a time finding people,” Mr. Xie says, sitting at the register. At his suburban grocery store, he adds, he could use two or three more workers in addition to the current halfdozen already on staff. An economy that is firing high-paid tech workers and hiring low-paid kitchen staff may not sound very healthy. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the United States added a whopping and unexpected 517,000 jobs last month. Nearly a quarter of those jobs came from restaurants and the rest of the leisure and hospitality sector, which includes travel and art and music, while tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have been shedding workers. But in this topsyturvy economy, fewer programmers and more cooks and servers might actually represent a healthy re-balancing. At the very least, it’s a snapback to a kind of prepandemic normalcy, before lockdowns closed restaurants and boosted home-office tech sales. And if such big job gains continue, it suggests that the U.S. might be able to bring down inflation without sinking into a recession, a so-called soft landing that in practice is very difficult to achieve. Perhaps the most intriguing question, however, is whether something more fundamental is underway. If the snapback from the pandemic turns out to be a long-term trend instead of a blip, it could begin to reverse more than four decades of ever-growing U.S. income inequality. Automation, which economists believe was a major factor in decimating some of the best-paying blue-collar jobs, may now have advanced to the point where artificial intelligence (AI) could begin to thin the ranks of white-collar industries. “If you asked people, let’s say a decade ago, they would have thought, ‘Oh, the waiters are easier to automate than programmers,’” says Anton Korinek, an economist and fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Based on what we have seen just in the last year or two, it actually turns out that the opposite is true.” Big slowdown in Big Tech After years of growth, the tech sector is retrenching. Although layoffs were well underway last year, they began to accelerate in November after superentrepreneur Elon Musk bought and tried to remake Twitter, laying off half the workforce in the process. Those cuts were followed by Salesforce (1,000 layoffs); Meta, the owner of Facebook (11,000 layoffs); and DoorDash (1,250), according to Layoffs.fyi, which tracks the announcements. The tech sector announced more cuts last year – 97,000 workers – than any since the dot-com crash in 2000, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a career transition firm. “We got caught up in some hiring mania the last two years,” says Andy Challenger, senior vice president at the Chicagobased consulting firm. Tech “companies are recognizing they got out ahead of themselves.” The pace of cuts accelerated even more in January as Salesforce announced further layoffs (8,000) along with Amazon (a total of 18,000 over two rounds of cuts); Microsoft (10,000); Google’s parent, Alphabet (12,000); IBM (3,900); and a host of smaller tech companies, such as Spotify, Coinbase, and Shutterfly. In 2023, “a major theme will be tech layoffs as Silicon Valley after a decade of hyper growth now comes to the reality of cost cutting,” securities firm Wedbush predicted in a note in January. “The Cinderella ride has ended (for now).” Some of these cuts may have been overdue as tech firms were hesitant to trim unprofitable units while everyone else was hiring. “You tend to see a little bit of a piling-on effect of companies just saying, ‘I can let people go right now because the cuts at Amazon and Google are getting all the headlines and I’m not going to get as many,’” Mr. Challenger says. A 25% jump in pay For cooks and servers, the picture looks much brighter. After the pandemic closed restaurants and cut industry employment by nearly half, the workforce has steadily expanded and is less than 5% from its prepandemic peak. Nearly 9 in 10 restaurants say they’ll hire more workers this year – if they can find them, according to the National Restaurant Association. The big surprise is the wage hikes for low-income workers. From the prepandemic peak through the end of 2022, hourly pay for restaurant workers jumped 25%. That’s more than double the average pay increase for computer systems designers, who earn more than twice as much as servers, according to the U.S. Labor Department. This disparity isn’t limited to servers and systems designers. Young high school graduates and workers on the lowest rungs of the income ladder are seeing bigger pay raises than higher-income employees, Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor told an audience at Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance in December. “For the first time in four decades, wage inequality is falling.” Whether this narrowing of inequality is a blip or a long-term shift is something many economists are now pondering, says Aaron Terrazas, chief economist of employer review service Glassdoor Inc. For the moment, the data isn’t strong enough to say for sure. At worst, the tech sector has eliminated a year’s worth of employment growth. “A lot of laid-off tech workers are finding new jobs relatively quickly,” he says. “The reality is that there is still demand for their skills.” A third to half of the widening of income inequality since the 1980s stems from automation, many economists believe, as machines replaced highly paid factory workers, while rewarding knowledge workers with ever higher pay. Globalization also played a role by shipping off those jobs to China and elsewhere. So did immigration, which swelled the ranks of low-income workers, making it easier for employers to keep wages low. Now these trends appear to be reversing. U.S. companies are diversifying away from China and beginning to bring some of Many service sector jobs remain in high demand. 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0 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 7 Number of unprovoked shark bites worldwide drops to 57 in 2022 It's a little safer to get into the water: Unprovoked shark attacks dropped to a 10-year low worldwide in 2022, shark watchers say. A total of 57 unprovoked bites occurred in 2022, tying with 2020 for the fewest number of reported incidents during the last 10 years, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File. Of those attacks, five were fatal -- down from nine deaths in 2021 and 10 in 2020. Since 2013, there have been an average 74 unprovoked bites a year, researchers say. The 2020 low likely was related to COVID-19 travel restrictions and beach closures, which resulted in fewer encounters between humans and sharks, researchers said. Declining shark populations are one likely cause of the low numbers of bites in 2022, researchers said. "Generally speaking, the number of sharks in the world's oceans has decreased, which may have contributed to recent lulls," said Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Museum of Natural History's Florida Program for Shark Research. "It's likely that fatalities are down because some areas have recently implemented rigorous beach safety protocols, especially in Australia," Naylor said in a museum news release. The United States had the most bites, with Florida reporting more bites than anywhere else in the world. None of Florida's 16 unprovoked bites were fatal, but two resulted in amputations. Long Island also experienced a record number of shark bites, with New York reporting eight bites in 2022. Before these attacks, the state had only 12 reported unprovoked bites on record. Juvenile sand tiger sharks have taken up residence in Great South Bay between Long Island and Fire Island, researchers have determined. The sharks use the sheltered bay as a nursery, and the majority of Long Island bites likely are from sand tiger sharks hunting bait fish in the surf zone. "The Gulf Stream's eddies ebb and flow each year. Sometimes they can come very close to shore, bringing nutrients and fish with them. The juvenile sand tigers will follow the fish, which in some cases leads to an uptick in encounters with people," Naylor said. "Juveniles tend to be more experimental and will try things that an adult shark wouldn't," Naylor continued. "If fish are especially dense where people are swimming and visibility is poor, then it is more likely that young sharks, which lack the experience of older animals, will mistake a swimmer's foot for their intended prey." The United States had only one unprovoked bite death, involving a snorkeler who went missing along Keawakapu Beach in Maui, Hawaii. Australia had nine confirmed unprovoked bites, and single bites occurred in New Zealand, Thailand and Brazil. South Africa had two unprovoked attacks, both fatal and likely caused by white sharks, researchers said. Two fatal attacks occurred on the same day in Egypt's Red Sea, where shark bites are rare. The attacks, less than a mile from each other, are suspected to be the work of a single shark. Even without the worldwide decline in shark bites, your chances of being attacked by a shark are incredibly low, researchers said. Drowning poses the greater hazard -- it's the third leading cause of accidental death worldwide -- and rip tides and powerful currents can swiftly carry away beachgoers. To lower your risk of an unprovoked shark bite, take steps like removing reflective jewelry and avoiding areas where people are fishing. The International Shark Attack File's annual report focuses mainly on unprovoked bites, and does not highlight attacks that might have been caused by nearby fishing, chum in the water or other mitigating circumstances. 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8 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F Y S l (A re o to Z In C N m w o e to c sa si p d o b o w il S c L C p c a E p fi p C C C p p w Mid-winter is a good time as any to start to plan to build a similar playhouse or clubhouse for that special young person in your life. It’s not that hard to do when you consider that the job is not much different than eating a pachyderm. Those are best eaten one bite at a time. You can have extra fun if you include your little ones in this planning stage. Look at photos online about playhouses and clubhouses. Ask your junior architects what they want in their playhouse. Try to accommodate as many requests as possible that make sense. Talk to them about helping build it so they’ll have rich memories of the project as they grow older. You can get inspiration to build one of these by just spending 10 minutes looking inside the prefab sheds they sell at big box stores in your town. These sheds are basically carbon copies of the clubhouse I spent time in. They have simple wood floors, plainvanilla 2×4 walls, and the roof rafters can be 2x6s. Nothing about this is hard. The first step in the process is to check with your local building and zoning department. You need to see what the stipulations might be for outdoor structures like a garden shed or storage shed. That’s what you’ll call this tiny building that you intend to build. You may discover that a structure like this can’t exceed a certain size and that it must be placed a certain distance from your property line. In my opinion, the next biggest concern is wind. It’s not uncommon for windstorms and violent thunderstorms to blow outdoor sheds over. This happens if the tiny building is not secured to the ground. Buried concrete piers that extend below the frost level of your area do a great job of preventing your new clubhouse from tumbling. Inexpensive metal connectors connect to steel anchor bolts that are placed in these concrete piers. I have a series of videos at AsktheBuilder.com that show you how to build these piers and place the anchor bolts. Building the floor and walls for this tiny building is also simple. I’d recommend you use treated floor joists as well as treated plywood. You can buy this plywood at just about any traditional lumber yard that sells treated dimensional lumber. If you use untreated plywood or oriented strand board (OSB), within a few years it will start to rot and become spongy. You’ll discover more videos on my website showing you how to build the floor and the walls. Framing the roof of your playhouse/clubhouse might be the most challenging aspect of this project. I have videos about this too, and you’ll discover that there are many helpful videos on the Internet showing you how to cut the simple rafters for a project like this. It’s very easy, and all you need is a simple framing square and a circular saw. In my opinion, it’s best to plan ahead. The little urchins who will use this structure will grow out of it. Think about how you can use it once they get interested in other activities. Maybe you’ll use it to store your garden tractor, snow blower or other yard-care tools. If so, think about how you can add a ramp at a later date to get these things in and out of the shed. Make use of natural light. The clubhouse I played in didn’t have a skylight. It had one small window. When the door was closed, it was pretty dark inside. With very little effort, you can install a simple skylight in the roof that will make all the difference in the world. As crazy as this sounds, a simple piece of plexiglass plastic laced into the roof shingles will suffice. Be sure to cover the wood roof sheathing with 30-pound tar paper to prevent wood rot should you not be an expert roofer! This inexpensive material is installed before you nail on the asphalt shingles. Ask the Builder: Build a magic playhouse or clubhouse Subscribe to Tim’s FREE newsletter at AsktheBuilder.com. Tim offers phone coaching calls if you get stuck during a DIY job. Go here: go.askthebuilder.com /coaching Tim Carter joins Happenings Q&A on Tue. Feb. 28 at 2:30 pm on AM1050 WLIP. quantity, because you want convictions and you want those convictions to stand so that people understand what you are doing and support what you are doing,” he says. “The greatest tragedy in policing,” he adds, “is that the profession has never learned from its mistakes.” “Fists don’t work” One Memphis woman worries about the hot spot approach. She asked that her full name not be used because of her work with local law enforcement. She says smaller crimes, including traffic infractions, dominate online neighborhood bulletin boards. She lives near Cooper Street, a business district lined with schools and churches. Residents would call 911 nearly nightly as cars clocking over 60 mph raced down the street. “People would be woken up by sirens, and in a neighborhood like this they would complain,” she says. “That would create a hot spot or an impression of a hot spot.” Chuck Wenzler, a smallbusiness owner on Madison Avenue, has seen the crime wave hit him personally. He had his motorcycle stolen. It was found stripped days later. He agrees police should be tough – but to a clear point. Twenty years ago, a friend landed in a hospital for a year after being beaten by police. “Fists don’t work,” he says. Various factors in Memphis offered some hope SCORPION might be different. It enjoyed bipartisan support. And the Memphis Police Department had shown it was open to change. It adopted much of the “8 Can’t Wait” campaign, which demanded eight police reforms in 2020. Before her hiring, Chief Davis was president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. She testified to Congress in support of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which she said would address “the continued desecration of what I’ve always thought to be a noble profession.” Residents have generally applauded Chief Davis for moving quickly to fire the officers. And activists and civic leaders have supported the move to disband SCORPION. But as recently as Friday, she was not willing to give up on the idea entirely. She told The Associated Press, “The whole idea that the SCORPION unit is a bad unit, I just have a problem with that.” By Patrik Jonsson continued from page 4 Memphis Question The playhouse you build for your grandchild, daughter or son doesn’t have to be elaborate. Simple works well too. their factory work back to the U.S. Due to the efforts of the Trump administration and the pandemic, immigration has slowed, making fewer low-income workers available. The retirement of baby boomers has heightened the employee shortage, and so far, former workers are not returning en masse to the workforce, according to Friday’s Labor Department report. At the same time, AI has reached the point where it can write everything from computer programs to (gulp!) news stories. Needed: Less-harmful automation? Mr. Korinek of Brookings calls this new phase “cognitive automation.” “Automation will continue everywhere, but it’s probably going to be a very new feeling for the cognitive workers that are suddenly going to experience it on a much larger scale,” he says. Tech companies have the option of shaping the future of automation, perhaps away from job-destroying to jobenhancing technology. “What is needed is a new direction for the tech industry,” writes Daron Acemoglu, another MIT economist, in an email. “This new direction should prioritize more workerfriendly and citizen-friendly technologies.” For example, he writes, it should try to improve the productivity and experience of workers in workplaces, and protect and empower users, rather than “incessantly” collecting their data and using that for digital ads or as inputs into new AI programs. However, he continues, “I don’t see any evidence that there is a realization that the previous direction was deficient (harmful to society at large and failing to deliver the promised huge returns).” Back at the Lotus Test Kitchen in Boston, Mr. Xie marvels at some of the applicants he’s now getting for the delivery jobs he needs to fill. “It’s these young students who have just gotten out of college, one with a master’s degree,” he says, who are applying for positions that only pay $18 an hour. Across the street at Starry, the future looks uncertain. Failing to get the investment needed to rapidly expand its fixed wireless internet service, the company had to lay off half its workers last fall and more of them last week. But the confidence in tech remains. Says a company spokesperson in an email: “If history is a guide, there will be a rebound and the tech industry will continue to deliver a lot of economic growth and value.” By Laurent Belsie continued from page 6 Waitstaff

0 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 9 health lifestyle community Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center news February 9, 2023 Your Kenosha ADRC Update Senior Group offers lecture Adventures in Lifelong Learning (ALL), an organization of mostly retired people ages 55 and older, offers free lectures on various topics. ALL’s Next Lecture is: February 20, 2 p.m. via Zoom  An Introduction to CIT (Crisis Intervention Team) Training. Speaker: Nick Greco, Coordinator and lead Trainer, NAMI, CIT Programs People living with mental illness may become involved in situations where their own lives, or the lives of others, are at risk.  Law enforcement officers may be called to deal with these situations.  How can those officers be trained to act safely and effectively in those situations? Join us for an informative presentation with Nick Greco to discuss how law enforcement officers across Kenosha County are being trained to improve the outcomes of police interactions with people living with mental illness.   Nick, an expert in Traumatic Stress with several degrees and certifications, is Coordinator and Lead Trainer of the NAMI Kenosha CIT CIP Training Program, a program recently accredited and certified by NAMI Wisconsin. He is also President and Founder of C3 Education and Research, Inc., a public safety training and consulting firm. He is a trainer for CIT programs across Illinois and for the Chicago Police Department and CIT Coordinator for the Lake County Sheriff's Office. He has presented globally on over 600 professional presentations, workshops, and in-services, and authored or co-authored numerous articles and text supplements in psychiatry and psychology. For more information, call the ALL office at 262-595-2793 or go to www.uwp.edu/aLL. Valentine’s Day MEMORY CAFÉ Join the Kenosha County ADRC's Dementia Care Specialist, Susan Johnson, and the Alzheimer's Association for a Memory Café, a place for persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment, early-stage Alzheimer’s, or related dementia, and their care partners to socialize and have fun. Memory Café is meets in-person at Kenosha Librarys. February’s meeting will be at the Northside Neighborhood Library, 1500 27th Avenue. Offered the second Tuesday of every month, 1-2 p.m., the next meeting will be on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2023. For questions and to register call Alzheimer's Association: 800-272- 3900. Going on Medicare? Learn about the decisions you’ll need to make The Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center (ADRC) offers no-cost, unbiased, Medicare workshops for those who are new to Medicare, or those who want to learn more. Trained benefit specialists will be available to answer your questions and discuss the decisions you’ll need to make, including the basics of Medicare coverage, options for private health and drug coverage, and public benefits that can help with health care costs. Medicare 2023 Workshops to choose from: Job Center, 8600 Sheridan Road, Rm. N2, North Entrance A Wednesday, Feb. 22, 10 a.m. – noon Wednesday, March 22, 10 a.m. – noon Thursday, April 20, 10 a.m. – noon Wednesday, May 24, 10 a.m. – noon Salem Lakes Village Hall, 9814 Antioch Road, Salem Wednesday, June 14, 10 a.m. – noon Paddock Lake Village Office, 6969 236th Ave., Paddock Lake Wednesday, July 19, 10 a.m. – noon Bristol Village Office, 19801 83rd St., Bristol WI 53104 Wednesday, August 9 10 a.m. – noon Due to limited seating, reservations are required. Call the ADRC at 262-605-6646 or 800- 472-8008 to make a reservation or to learn more. e e g e g t e e r 8 t s e y s e lf e e s. y If ll h o c e

10 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F Memory Screen Mondays The Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center (ADRC) is offers free, confidential memory screens every Monday, 8 a.m. - noon. Memory screens are suggested for anyone concerned about memory changes, at risk of Alzheimer’s disease due to family history, or who wants to check their memory now for future comparison. Some memory problems can be readily treated, such as those caused by vitamin deficiencies or thyroid problems. In general, the earlier the diagnosis, the easier it is to treat memory loss. Memory screening can: • Provide relief for individuals concerned about normal memory loss • Lead to diagnosis of treatable conditions • Offer the ability to make lifestyle changes early when they have the greatest potential for positive effect and the opportunity to participate in making future decisions Warning signs of dementia include forgetting people’s names and events, asking repetitive questions, loss of verbal or written skills, confusion over daily routines, and personality changes. Screening results are not a diagnosis, and individuals who have concerns are encouraged to pursue a full medical exam. Appointments are recommended. Interested persons may call the ADRC at 262-605-6646 to make an appointment. February Medicare Minutes – Medicare Special Enrollment Period Medicare Minute presentations are offered monthly by the Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center. These free programs provide information on a wide range of Medicare topics. February’s Medicare Minutes will focus on the Medicare Special Enrollment Period. The program will be offered virtually on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, from 10 – 11 a.m. SHIP-branded Medicare Minutes are developed by the Medicare Rights Center as a State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) National Technical Assistance Center service. The Medicare Rights Center is a national, non-profit consumer service organization. They are one of the SHIP National Technical Assistance Center partners. To participate and for reservations call the ADRC 262-605-6646 or 1-800-472-8008. A Zoom link will be provided. Connect with Your Peers Virtually Are you looking for a way to connect with your peers?  Kenosha Area Family and Aging Services’, Inc. (KAFASI) Virtual Connect offers a great way to do just that. If you are 60 or older and would like to listen in or view KAFASI’s Virtual Connect Programs with featured topics and speakers of interest to seniors, you can join using your own phone, or online using the free online software program Zoom.  The one-hour programs are held on Mondays or Wednesdays. A monthly calendar is sent out with all the upcoming events. The calendar can be mailed if requested.  An initial invitation you can save to your calendar with the link will be emailed one week prior to each meeting. Also, an email reminder with the Zoom link is sent out the morning of each event. A call-in number is also available to join over the phone. February 2023 Schedule • Monday, February 13, 11 a.m. Valentine’s Day Stories and Trivia with Dan L. Stika • Monday, February 20, 1 p.m.  Do you Know Your U.S. Presidents? With Carthage College History Professor • Monday, February 27, 11 a.m., Kenosha Senior Center Activities with Director, Denise Jacobs. Please contact Janice Erickson for more information or to sign up to receive the program schedule. Email  [email protected] or leave a message at 262-287-7469. Your Kenosha ADRC Update K O C N 7, R fo to w U ta T im be m re Tu ac ta th ho pr ca ad Sp Y A D w c w re st w w co by R Sh w ye sa m w in at do th at si ap Sh R pe o fo

0 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 11 ur s. he if to ne ail he so r, re m a Kenosha County ADRC to Offer Powerful Tools for Caregivers Online Class Next free, six-week course to begin March 7, 2023 The Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center is now accepting reservations for its next Powerful Tools for Caregivers course, to be conducted online. Powerful Tools for Caregivers is a free, sixweek educational series designed by Stanford University, intended to teach skills for how to take care of yourself while caring for a loved one. The class helps family caregivers reduce stress, improve self-confidence, communicate feelings better, balance their lives, increase their ability to make tough decisions and locate helpful resources. The 6-week online classes will be held Tuesdays, beginning March 7 – April 11, 3 - 5 p.m. To participate, caregivers will need internet access and access to a computer, iPad or other tablet. They will receive a brief phone call from the program leader prior to the first session on how to use the Zoom video conference program. Registration is required by March 1. To register, call the ADRC at 262-605-6646 or visit " adrc.kenoshacounty.org. Ask about our classes in Spanish! Your Kenosha ADRC Update D'yan Forest named world's oldest female comedian at 88 An 88-year-old woman who still regularly performs stand-up comedy was dubbed the world's oldest comedian (female) by Guinness World Records. Diana Shulman, aka D'yan Forest, was certified as the world's oldest female comedian at the age of 87 years and 201 days, Guinness World Records said. Shulman, now 88, said she worked as a musician for decades, but pivoted to comedy when the demand for her musical talents waned in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "And so, I finally asked a friend of mine, 'How do you get into comedy?' and she put me right in the show and after three weeks people laughed at me. I was amazed and I've been doing it ever since for 20 years," Shulman said during a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. Shulman was awarded the Guinness World Record after the death of her friend and fellow performer, Ruth Miller, who was six months older than Shulman. "I mean what a tragedy? But what a lucky break for me," Shulman joked.

12 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F S con IT p d th F F p H to H re is to a th st b h S ca (T b w p m o fi d sp se b m h so N c le h th m sc th ad sa n ac h d ap ye th th p a m in ru th d F m h fi u h C th to T ag Several readers recently sent me copies of a news story that appeared in papers around the country. The author of that piece criticized the Social Security Administration for not updating a listing of jobs that benefit applicants might be able to do instead of going on the government dole collecting disability benefits. (The law says that a person must be unable to do any kind of work to be eligible for such payments.) I'm sure those job listings will eventually be updated, but here is a point I need to make. I worked for the Social Security Administration for 32 years, and in almost every one of those years, Congress passed laws designed to "fix" the disability program. Also, in each and every one of those years, there were internal SSA studies and commissions that resulted in proposals also intended to make the disability process more fair, more streamlined and at the same time, less prone to fraud and abuse. So, what's going on with that? Why is the disability program apparently always under scrutiny and constantly subject to congressional and administrative and media meddling? The answer to that question is what this column is all about. Here is the bottom line: any disability program is an absolute mess to manage. And the Social Security disability system is even more prone to administrative nightmares because it is, by far, the biggest such program in the country. And why is a disability program such a mess? Because it is so subjective. For example, compare it to the Social Security retirement program. The eligibility rules for retirement are relatively cut and dried. You contact the SSA, show them a birth certificate to prove you are old enough for benefits, answer a few questions and meet a few other eligibility requirements, and you qualify for benefits. No muss, no fuss. But it's a completely different story for the disability program, and that's because it is hard to get people to agree on the answer to this question: How disabled does someone have to be to get disability benefits? One person's disabling condition is another person's relatively minor inconvenience. Think of this in practical day-today terms to which anyone can relate. We all know fellow workers who call in sick because they have a case of the sniffles. On the other hand, we also know of co-workers who will show up at the workplace even though they look like they are knocking on death's door! In other words, we all have different interpretations of what should keep a person from being able to work. Here is another example. I've got a neighbor who has a 35- year-old son with multiple sclerosis. The son uses a wheelchair and needs other forms of help. Yet, he still goes to work every day at a local Target store. At the same time, I've encountered thousands of people over the years who claim to be disabled because they have a bad back or sore knees. Is my neighbor's son "disabled"? How about the guy with the bad back? The government tries to make the Social Security disability program as objective as possible with a handbook full of regulations to help SSA adjudicators decide who is legally disabled and who isn't. Teams of medical professionals are also involved in the process. Yet, it always comes down to the fact that some government bureaucrat, after reviewing the medical evidence, consulting the professionals and employing the guidelines, will have to make a (SET ITAL) subjective (END social security The problems with running a disability program with Tom Margenau If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast. net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. continues on next page Do you have a disability? CALL US 262-657-3999 If you need help getting your COVID-19 vaccine, call Society’s Assets. 262-657-3999 -XVWRQHFDOOWR¿QGRXWDERXW ŒVaccine Locations ŒTransportation ŒMaking Appointments ŒTele-health ŒAnd More www.societysassets.org $/RFDO1RQSUR¿W$JHQF\ 6HUYLQJ6RXWKHDVWHUQ:, Are you helping someone who is on Medicaid? Or could be? We train and pay you to be an in-home caregiver as part of our Familiar Faces, Familiar Places program. 020923 FREE 6-WEEK CLASS FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS POWERFUL TOOLS Tuesdays, March 7 – April 11, 2023 1 - 3 p.m. Online class. Caring for someone? Taking care of yourself is just as important. You’re there for them, we’re here for you. Aging & Disability Resource Center Kenosha County RSVP by March 1, 2023 Call the ADRC: 262-605-6646 Ask about our classes in Spanish! SCAN ME!  020923 SR060222

0 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 13 Social Security continued from previous page ITAL) decision about a person's eligibility for disability benefits. Let's take that guy with the bad back. I'll call him Frank. And we'll say that Frank actually has some painful spinal damage. How severe should it be to qualify for disability? He had a job that required heavy lifting. He is certainly too disabled to do that kind of work anymore. But perhaps there are other lessstrenuous jobs Frank can be trained to do. Should he qualify for Social Security disability if he can do those other jobs? (The media report I began this column with was alleging this listing of potential jobs Frank might be able to do is outdated.) Let's assume Frank filed for Social Security disability and was told his spinal condition was not severe enough to get benefits. But then he mentions that he also has high blood pressure and some hearing problems. Neither one of those conditions by itself is legally disabling -- but how about all three of them together? Do they make the guy disabled? Following this scenario, let's assume that the initial person adjudicating Frank's claim says no and decides he is not disabled enough according to law. Frank is upset because he is convinced he is disabled. So, he files an appeal. And after about a yearlong wait, (because there are tens of thousands of other people who are also filing appeals), he eventually meets with a judge who interprets the disability rules a bit differently than the first adjudicator did, and he approves Frank's claim. Frank has mixed emotions. He's happy his claim has been finally approved. But he's upset it took so long. So, he writes his member of Congress and demands that something be done to improve the process. The representative agrees that the program is too strict and cosponsors a bill with language demanding that SSA "fix" the disability program. But is the process broken? Was the first adjudicator wrong, or was the judge too lenient? Different people will have different opinions. That's just the nature of a subjective process. Let's follow Frank's case a little further. Six months after he starts getting disability benefits, a neighbor sees him out on a ladder cleaning his gutters. It took a lot of effort, but Frank managed to do it. The neighbor has always been a little suspicious of Frank's disability allegations and seeing this put him over the edge. So, he contacts Social Security's fraud department and alleges Frank is cheating the system. He says, "This guy claims to have a bad back and can't work, and yet I saw him up on a ladder working on his house. How can this be?" This call triggers a fraud investigation. More SSA adjudicators examine Frank's claim. After interviewing Frank and obtaining updated medical records, they decide he is still legally disabled. This upsets the neighbor even more. So, he writes his representative in Congress claiming that "the incompetent government is wasting taxpayer money by sending monthly checks to a guy who is clearly not disabled." The s y m p a t h e t i c representative agrees that the program is too lenient and sponsors a bill with language demanding that SSA "fix" the disability program. And on and on it goes! By the way, the Frank example (with the name changed) is a true story. It's a case I was involved in about 25 years ago while working for the SSA. Golf may help seniors heart health Want to stay healthy well into your golden years? Grab a bag of clubs and hit the green. Golfing beat walking when it came to improving several key measures of heart health in the small study. "The results of this study are meant to encourage older adults to spend more time on the golf course and play by walking," said study author Julia Kettinen, a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biomedicine/Sports and Exercise Medicine "Golf is a great way to exercise, as it motivates individuals to move, often without even realizing the distance they've walked during the game." For the study, investigators compared the heart health effects of an 18-hole round of golf to about 3.7 miles of Nordic walking or walking among 25 healthy golfers aged 65 or older. The researchers measured blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol. Participants also wore heart monitors and fitness devices to track distance, duration, pace, steps and calories burned. All three types of aerobic exercise improved heart health after a single session, but golf took the top prize, the study showed. Golf is a lowerintensity exercise than Nordic walking and walking, but an 18-hole golf game lasts around four hours, and players may walk up to six miles during a game. As a result, golfers burn more calories, which has a greater effect on cholesterol and blood sugar levels. "Playing golf by walking is a form of proper health exercise and can be recommended for healthy older adults as a means to prevent cardiovascular diseases and improve [heart] health for those already suffering from [heart disease]," said Kettinen. Still, golf isn't accessible to everyone, and walking and Nordic walking also produce powerful health benefits. "These age-appropriate aerobic exercises can be recommended to healthy older adults as a means of enhancing their physical health and preventing cardiovascular diseases, and can also serve as a treatment strategy for improving [heart] health in individuals who already have a cardiovascular disease," she said. 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14 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F ‘ S H d I R H T J H r t R t Je p w w li a “ fo t “ R o w t lo fi g w w a Jo T s m d t s in H d s li m S “ li K “ c t b w books 1. The Chinese Groove, by Kathryn Ma It’s 2015, and 18-year-old budding poet Xue Li – call him Shelley – has bid China farewell for a new life in fogshrouded San Francisco at the home of his “rich uncle.” Reality quickly reveals an extended family under financial and emotional strain, plus a city far different from his expectations. Shelley narrates his newcomer experience with optimism, generosity, and humor. Kathryn Ma’s deftly written novel soars. 2. In the Upper Country, by Kai Thomas In 1859 in Dunmore, Alberta – a stop on the Underground Railroad – a young Black journalist meets with an older woman in jail for killing a white slave catcher. Tales of brutality, escape, survival, and grit are volleyed in their story-for-a-story pact. Kai Thomas’ first novel, lyrical and layered, illumines the complex ties among Indigenous, Black, and white individuals of the era. 3. The End of Drum-Time, by Hanna Pylväinen When a charismatic Lutheran minister is sent to northern Scandinavia to convert the Indigenous population, both sides must deal with the consequences, especially when a tribal leader experiences a religious awakening. Set in the mid-19th century, Hanna Pylväinen’s tale offers not only exquisite prose and insightful observations, but also fresh perspectives on family bonds, cultural traditions, and religious colonialism. 4. Small World, by Laura Zigman Great wit and wisdom permeate Laura Zigman’s quirky story of two newly divorced sisters who, looking for a fresh start, become roommates. The siblings are forced to confront fallout from their childhood, when the family struggled to care for a sister with severe disabilities, who died at age 10. Balancing grief with humor, Zigman throws in the sisters’ ongoing frustration with unusually noisy neighbors, who may be running an illegal yoga studio. A delight. 5. Independence, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni A Hindu family is thrown into chaos during the 1947 Partition of India. Told through the lives of three sisters, the novel is a captivating tale of family, love, and friendship during heartbreaking times, making it ultimately a story of resilience and courage. 6. Better the Blood, by Michael Bennett Michael Bennett’s crime fiction debut explores themes of colonization and Indigenous culture by way of New Zealand. A serial killer looking to avenge the 160-year-old murder of a Maori chief is pursued by police detective Hana Westerman, whose Maori ancestry makes the case personal. 7. Master Slave Husband Wife, by Ilyon Woo In 1848, married couple William and Ellen Craft – both story continues on page 15 Fully booked: New titles to take you to faraway places The defusing of the Cuban missile crisis involved delicate diplomacy It has been 60 years since the Cuban missile crisis, a two-week standoff between the United States under President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union under Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The two countries’ brinkmanship brought the world to the edge of nuclear annihilation. The Cuban missile crisis has been the subject of countless books, including one by President Kennedy’s brother and attorney general, Robert Kennedy. Adding to that collection is the latest book from bestselling popular historian Max Hastings, The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962. Reading any account of the crisis, much less one as accessible and involving as this crafted by Hastings, always provokes a graveyard chill. The story is by now familiar: In late 1962 the Kennedy administration received photographic confirmation that the Soviet Union had placed a number of ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of Florida. President Kennedy was immediately faced with a shortlist of options, all of them bad. He placed a military quarantine around Cuba to prevent the delivery of any further ordnance, and a flurry of increasingly nervous messages crawled between Washington and Moscow. “A critical feature of the Crisis was the snail-like pace of communication between Washington and Moscow,” Hastings writes, “impeded by bureaucracy, imperfect technology and the requirements of ciphering and deciphering, followed by physical delivery of messages to intended recipients in the Kremlin, Soviet embassy, US State Department and White House.” U.S. generals urged a fullscale military response, and Cuba’s dictator, Fidel Castro, seemed every bit as ready to believe what Hastings refers to as Khrushchev’s “rocket rhetoric,” which amazed even Communist officials. “We were completely aghast,” Khrushchev told Czech leader Antonín Novotný. “After all, if a war started it would first be Cuba that would vanish from the face of the Earth. ... Only a person who has no idea what nuclear war means, or who has been so blinded, like Castro, by revolutionary passion, can talk like that.” As Hastings puts it, “Khrushchev suddenly found himself eyeball to eyeball not only with the Americans, but also with the wild Latin American revolutionary whom he had chosen to embrace.” War could easily have erupted, either through frayed nerves or belligerence or simple incomprehension. JFK somehow threaded a diplomatic solution through this cacophony, a delicate series of hard lines and face-saving measures that might allow the Soviets to withdraw their missiles peacefully. By the time the quarantine was lifted on Nov. 20, the world’s two superpowers were already inching back from the “abyss” of this book’s title. This author has always had a talent for drawing vivid characters, and his various sympathies are clear throughout the narrative. His Kennedy and Khrushchev are both practiced politicians who are suddenly shocked by the horrifying potential for a cataclysm. His Castro is a doltish zealot who never quite understands the full importance of what’s happening. “For years afterwards, Castro quizzed top Russians about the rationale underlying their actions in the summer and fall of 1962,” Hastings writes. “He never received a rational response, because there could be none.” Interestingly, the standout character in the book is Bobby Kennedy, “he of the mean mouth and iceblue eyes, only thirty-six, committed to his brother through flame and fire,” as Hastings writes. “RFK ... had some common sense, terrific energy, together with a confidence rooted in intimacy with the president, and another virtue uncommon in politics: he was willing to change his mind.” Hastings calls his conduct “sometimes immature, often ruthless, spasmodically ugly,” but also “capable of sensitivity.” These flourishes underscore the pivotal role RFK played in defusing the situation. In the end, however, the entire drama centers, as it must, around Kennedy and Khrushchev. Hastings concedes their hardheaded personal courage, but his judgment is that their most important shared characteristic was that they were “prudently haunted by consequences.” Readers of “The Abyss” will naturally hope the world hasn’t run out of leaders who are as “prudently haunted by consequences.” By Steve Donoghue Book returned to British library after 56 years A British woman who borrowed a book from her local library when she was just 14 years old returned the tome 56 years later, at the age of 70. The North Tyneside Council in England said Lesley Harrison, 70, told officials she was a 14-year-old student at Whitley Bay Grammar School when she checked the German language textbook Ich Lerne Deutsch out from the old Whitley Bay Library in April 1966. "I knew I hadn't brought the book back and when I moved out of my parents' house, I thought I wouldn't be able to afford the fine, so it stayed in a drawer. We moved around a lot, and it always came with me," Harrison told council officials. Harrison said she decided to return the book after hearing the council had eliminated late fees from library books and had challenged patrons to find the most overdue book in the local library system. She decided to hand-deliver the book to the Killingworth Library. "When I heard about the amnesty, I thought, 'I'm sure I've got an old book lying around somewhere,' and I know the library staff were shocked and amused when I brought it in. It's still in a good condition though. I do look after my books," Harrison said. Councilor Sandra Graham, North Tyneside's Cabinet Member responsible for Libraries, said the book is the most overdue to yet be returned to one of the council's libraries. "Just for fun, we did a rough calculation of the late fee that a book 56 years overdue could have incurred and it would have come to more than £2,000 [$2406.83]," Graham said. "The book is in a great condition, and I want to thank Lesley for bringing it back. We've had such a positive response to our decision to scrap fines and this is the oldest book we've had back by some distance. Better late than never!"

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Braiding Sweetgrass (Kimmerer) NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS ‘I cannot allow these people to die’: Saving Jews in World War II Barbra Streisand to release memoir in November enslaved in Georgia – launch a daring escape: Light-skinned Ellen, disguised as a wealthy white gentleman, travels north accompanied by William, an enslaved servant. Their remarkable journey rivets, as does their subsequent work as lecture-circuit abolitionists who “demanded that others not look down at them, but eye to eye.” 8. Preparing for War, by Bradley Onishi A religion scholar and former evangelical youth minister looks at evangelical Christianity in the United States and the movement’s increasing involvement with political extremism. The author argues that the Jan. 6 insurrection was not an aberration but the logical outcome of the melding of politics and white Christian nationalism. 9. Shirley Chisholm, by Anastasia C. Curwood Shirley Chisholm became the first Black congresswoman in 1968 and sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination four years later. Anastasia C. Curwood’s stirring biography of the trailblazing politician presents her as a “brilliant strategist, inventive intellectual, and flawed human.” 10. Three Roads Back, by Robert D. Richardson Robert D. Richardson, who died in 2020, was an acclaimed biographer of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James. In this slim but profoundly affecting volume, he argues that their experiences with grief inspired their enduring contributions to intellectual history – and can serve as a guide for modern-day readers coping with loss as well. The title of Richard Hurowitz’s tremendously moving new book In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust refers to a real place. It’s located on the Avenue of the Righteous at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem. The garden, first planted in 1962, honors with a tree each person who worked to save Jewish lives during World War II – and as Hurowitz writes, “the garden is verdant with foliage as hundreds more trees have been planted.” “In the Garden of the Righteous” tells the story of some of the people whose names are honored there. In this case, a quiet and lovely garden is a far more fitting monument than a gallery of heroic statues would be. Hurowitz, a writer whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, assembles the stories of people who made the lonely, terrifying decision to stand against the armored fist of the Nazi state. Drawing on interviews and archives, Hurowitz presents the details of a handful of these stories, and each one reads like a sharply etched, miniature version of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie “Schindler’s List” (or its literary source, Thomas Keneally’s 1982 novel “Schindler’s Ark”). Hurowitz’s cast of characters is as varied as the ways in which human beings can respond to the worst of crises. The most dramatic member of that cast is Princess Alice, the great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria who married Prince Andrew of Greece and came into conflict with the encroaching Nazi forces that invaded Athens in the spring of 1941. As Hurowitz points out, her royal status was no guarantee of safety. “The danger was constant, despite the princess’s stature,” he writes. “An Italian princess had been sent to a concentration camp for harboring Jews.” In addition to sheltering Jews, Princess Alice funded soup kitchens and orphanages, and for a while, she was accorded respectful treatment from the Nazis, who assumed that her German heritage made her sympathetic to them. “But when a general visited her, she refused to shake his hand,” Hurowitz writes. “When he asked what he might do for her, she replied, ‘You can take your troops out of my country.’” Some of these stories are very nearly as unexpected as that of a defiant princess. One of the most memorable of these is the tale of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, “a bon vivant who enjoyed welltailored suits and gourmet food,” who was posted to a Lithuanian city that had never seen a Japanese person before. The thought of being a hero had obviously never occurred to Sugihara, but when he found himself suddenly confronted with thousands of Jewish refugees and Polish soldiers desperate to flee – perhaps to one of the Dutch colonies in the Americas – he felt he had no choice but to act in his modest capacity by issuing visas to as many of those people as possible. “I cannot allow these people to die,” he recalled thinking. Perhaps the star of Hurowitz’s book is a figure he describes as “the littleknown midlevel Portuguese diplomat [who] quite possibly saved more people than any other individual during the Holocaust,” a man named Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who used his bureaucratic authority to thwart his country’s punitive “Circular 14” policy that sharply restricted the movement of certain categories of refugees, including Jewish people. In defiance of his superiors, Sousa Mendes wrote out visas for as many desperate people as he could. “I would rather stand with God against man than with man against God,” he said, and even later, when he was stripped of his official authority, he continued writing paperwork. It's estimated that he saved an estimated 30,000 people over several weeks in the summer of 1940, Hurowitz writes. Sousa Mendes even personally led hundreds of people to safe passage out of Portugal. A surprising amount of “In the Garden of the Righteous” turns on paperwork; most of its heroes use bureaucracy's own machinery against it, thwarting unjust laws and inhumane governments. But the book’s heart is that simple statement from Sugihara: “I cannot allow these people to die.” By Steve Donoghue Barbra Streisand will release her first memoir in November. The 80-year-old singer and actress will explore her life and career in the book My Name is Barbra, Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, announced. In My Name is Barbra, Streisand recounts growing up in Brooklyn, her early struggles to become an actress, and her first appearances in New York nightclubs. The memoir also covers her breakout performance in Funny Girl, the making of Yentl and The Prince of Tides, her friendships with Marlon Brando, Madeleine Albright and other famous figures, her political advocacy, and her marriage to James Brolin. My Name is Barbra is slated for release Nov. 7. Streisand confirmed plans for a memoir on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon in August 2021. She shared how former first lady Jackie Kennedy offered to edit the book in 1984. Streisand is an EGOT winning singer and actress who released her most recent album, Walls, in 2018. continued from page 14 Barbra Streisand New books n t, e e is is es s, o .” es e e e it d gs de, at nt as y .” ll d rs y ” ue th er he be l's gh ok ed an id. nd it ve ap ve te SMART READER February 09, 2023 15

16 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F C an fo pa he w se he ar A au im w de im m im alt yo w in im fo co ho to m th w th ea th ca vi th m vi th in th sh co M W im av ap th th to O in ep m ad in m "s he 12 w dr ov ag tr ov na Nc W New drugs, if approved, could have big impact in 2023 Predicting when new drugs come to market in the United States has never been an exact science, and it has become even harder since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts told UPI. But some drugs on the horizon have the potential to make a major impact. Over the last three years, the Food and Drug Administration, which oversees the drug approval process, has focused much of its attention on clearing COVID-19 tests and vaccines for use -- at record pace. But the FDA also came under fire for its controversial approval of the Alzheimer's drug aducanumab, studies on which raised concerns over the drug's safety and effectiveness. "The FDA has been through a lot" over the past couple of years, Dr. John R. Teerlink, director of the heart failure program at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, told UPI in a phone interview. Such "external" factors can influence the approval process of drugs in the pipeline, including those in the final stages of clinical trials, delaying the process, he said. Still, several drugs that may be approved in 2023 could have a significant impact on health for millions of people. Here's a look at five key drugs that could hit the market this year. Alzheimer's disease More than 6.2 million people nationally have been diagnosed with some form of dementia, or decline in brain function -- a number that is expected to double by 2050, according to the Alzheimer's Association. With Alzheimer's disease the most common form of dementia in the United States and worldwide, efforts are under way to develop drugs that treat the condition or prevent it from developing. One such drug that is expected to receive FDA approval in 2023 is donanemab, Alzheimer's researcher Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings told UPI in an email. Designed to prevent and/or disrupt the formation of amyloid plaque in the brain, donanemab, manufactured by Eli Lilly, would be administered via monthly IV infusions, said Cummings, director of the Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Amyloid plaques "are toxic to nerve cells," or the cells that help the brain function, he said. In clinical trials, the drug has been shown to slow the progression of memory loss in people with Alzheimer's, and it may help prevent the disease among those at risk for it, according to Eli Lilly. However, it has only been used so far on patients with "mild cognitive impairment or very mild Alzheimer's disease dementia," said Cummings, who has been involved in clinical trials from a number of dementia drugs, but not donanemab. "Patients with more severe disease have not been tested and the efficacy and safety of donanemab in these patients is unknown," he said. Even if the drug is approved for use in people with mild dementia, "it will not be widely used unless the cost of the drug is reimbursed by Medicare," Cummings added. Currently, Medicare, the government-run health plan for adults age 65 years and older, doesn't cover new monoclonal antibodies like donanemab for Alzheimer's disease, he said. Last week, the FDA rejected accelerated approval of the drug because Lilly had not submitted sufficient clinical trial data from patients who were treated for at least a year. However, the company argues that this is because patients stopped treatment once their amyloid plaques were cleared -- an outcome reported in 40% of patients following six months of treatment. Lilly still plans to report results from Phase 3 trials, the last step in the drug research and development process, in the second quarter of this year, and that the data would form the basis of donanemab's application for traditional FDA approval, perhaps sometime this summer. Heart failure About 6.2 million people in the United States have heart failure, or impairment in the ability of the organ to fulfill its primary function, which is to pump blood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, several different forms of heart failure exist, with more than half of cases involving reduced ejection fraction, said Teerlink, of the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Ejection fraction is the percentage of blood that leaves the heart's left ventricle -- the final area that blood passes through before being distributed to the rest of the body -- with each heartbeat, the Mayo Clinic says. In a normal heart, about up to 60% to 65% of the blood leaves the left ventricle with each pump, but in those with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, this figure is less than 40%, with reduced forward blood flow to vital organs and contributing to congestion or build-up of fluid in the lungs and legs, Teerlink said. Current treatments for heart failure were initially developed for other diseases such as diabetes, angina, high blood pressure or pulmonary hypertension and were found to be effective in treating heart failure only later, he said. However, a new drug, omecamtiv mecarbil, is the first designed specifically to improve heart function in people with heart failure, Teerlink said. To do so, it targets the myosin heads of the contracting cells in the heart, effectively increasing the pumping function, he said. "Think of the myosin heads as hands pulling on a rope -- omecamtiv mecarbil gets more of those hands to pull on the rope with each heartbeat," he said. This means the left ventricle of the heart pumps more blood to the rest of the body, without increasing a person's risk for abnormal heart rhythms or the need for more oxygen for the heart to function, Teerlink said. A ruling on omecamtiv mecarbil from the FDA is expected at the end of February, said Teerlink, who was involved in the basic science behind the drug and in the pivotal clinical trials. However, in December, the agency's Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee voted 8 to 3 against approving the drug, with those against suggesting that it failed to reduce patients' risk for heart failure events in clinical trials. Still, Teerlink remains optimistic that the drug will ultimately be approved as an add-on therapy for currently available heart failure treatments. "It's approval is hardly a slam dunk, but I am optimistic," Teerlink said. "This is a drug heart failure patients can take in addition to their current medication that can help reduce their risk for hospitalization, and perhaps even stroke," he said. Multiple myeloma Multiple myeloma is a relatively rare cancer in the United States, with adults nationally having less than a 1% lifetime risk for the disease, according to the American Cancer Society. Still, of the roughly 35,000 people diagnosed with the blood cancer, nearly one in three will die from it, the organization estimates, making it one of the more deadly forms of the disease. Although researchers are learning more about how best to treat multiple myeloma, the majority of patients continually relapse, according to Dr. Ajai Chari, who specializes in the affliction. Talquetamab, a drug in development, has been shown in early clinical trials to produce positive responses in the majority of patients who received it, including those whose cancers no longer respond to other treatments, said Chari, director of clinical research in the Multiple Myeloma Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In results from Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials -- the first two steps in the three-phase clinical trial process -- presented in December during the American Society of Hematology meeting, more than 70% of patients responded to treatment with talquetamab, he said. "This is a promising result," Chari, who has worked on these clinical trials, told UPI in an email. "Given the impressive results of the phase 1/2 portion, we're hopeful to see an approval for this innovative therapy in the near future pending the results from the confirmatory Phase 3 studies," he said. Phase 3 trials are the last stage in the research and development process. In June, the FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for talquetamab for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, according to manufacturer Janssen. The designation is designed to expedite the development and review of drugs for serious or lifethreatening conditions, the FDA said. Drugs given the designation must demonstrate that they may offer "substantial" Dr. Ajai Chari says a new treatment for a rare form of blood cancer has produced "promising" results in clinical trials. Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings says a new Alzheimer's drug awaiting FDA approval appears to slow memory loss. A new formulation of an old medication for opioid use disorder could make treatment easier and safer, experts say. story continues on next page

0 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 17 DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm 70 years old and have worn hearing aids for about a decade. Over the past several years, my hearing seems to be getting worse. Although I have tried several different kinds of hearing aids, I feel as if they are not effective any longer. A friend suggested I ask an audiologist about cochlear implants. I thought those were just for people who are deaf. Could a cochlear implant help someone like me? How does it work? ANSWER: A cochlear implant could be a good alternative to hearing aids in your situation. It's true that when they were introduced in the 1980s, cochlear implants mainly were used for people who had complete hearing loss. Today, however, they often are used to help people who have more advanced hearing loss that cannot be corrected with hearing aids. Your ear has three areas: the outer, middle and inner ear. Sound waves pass through the outer ear and cause the eardrum to vibrate. The eardrum and three small bones of the middle ear transmit the vibrations as they travel to the inner ear. Within the inner ear, the vibrations pass through fluid in a snailshaped structure, called the cochlea. Inside the cochlea are thousands of tiny sensors, called hair cells, that turn the vibrations into electrical signals that are sent to your brain through your auditory nerve. The vibrations of different sounds affect these tiny hairs in different ways, causing the nerve cells to send different signals to your brain. That's how you distinguish one sound from another. In most people who develop hearing loss, the hair cells in the cochlea are damaged or missing, usually due to aging, exposure to loud noise or for genetic reasons. That means the electrical signals can't be transmitted efficiently to the brain, and the result is hearing loss. A cochlear implant replaces the function of the hair cells by sending electrical signals directly to the hearing nerve and giving the brain the ability to perceive sound once again. The implant has two main pieces: an external processor that fits behind your ear and an internal receiver implanted under the skin behind your ear. The processor captures and processes sound signals and then sends those signals to the receiver. The receiver sends the signals to tiny electrodes that are placed directly into the cochlea when the device is implanted. Those signals are received by the auditory nerve and directed to your brain, and your brain interprets those signals as sound. All parts of a cochlear implant are small, and the processor that fits behind your ear looks similar to a hearing aid. Because of the small size of these devices, they are relatively inconspicuous, particularly in people with long hair. Cochlear implantation requires a consultation with an otolaryngology surgeon who would perform a relatively short outpatient surgical procedure. A small incision is made behind the ear to insert the device. Most people experience little discomfort from the surgery, and its overall risk is low. Once a patient has had a chance to heal -- usually several weeks after surgery - - an audiologist connects the processor to the implant for the first time. The patient should be able to hear immediately, but many cochlear implant users report that they needed to adjust to the sounds that they hear with their implant. This adjustment process often takes at least six months, with many patients reporting that the sound quality and their ability to understand speech continue to improve for a year or more. Cochlear implants are a well-established technology. At first, physicians and researchers only recommended them for people who had total hearing loss. Over the years, though, research has shown that cochlear implants can be useful for people who still have some hearing or who have useful hearing in only one ear. They can be particularly helpful for people who have difficulty understanding speech in everyday listening situations, despite using good hearing aids. Talk to a health care professional who specializes in hearing loss to find out if you would be a good candidate for a cochlear implant. Most people who receive a cochlear implant find that they can communicate better with the people around them, and more fully participate in conversations and other daily activities that require the ability to hear clearly. -- Joseph Breen, M.D., Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida Mayo Clinic What is the benefit of cochlear implants over hearing aids? improvement over currently available treatments, it adds. Janssen submitted its application for approval to the FDA in December, and the agency has up to 60 days to review it. Opioid Use Disorder The United States remains in the throes of the "opioid epidemic," with nearly 3 million people nationally addicted to drugs that include prescription pain medications, as well as "street" drugs such as heroin, the CDC estimates. In 2021, more than 120,000 deaths nationally were attributed to these drugs, with most caused by overdoses, according to the agency. Although there are treatments to reverse opioid overdoses, including naloxone (marketed as Narcan), and medicines to prevent addiction relapse such as methadone, naltrexone and buprenorphine, a new formulation of the latter could help make the process easier and safer, according to Kevin Wenzel, a psychologist and director of research at the Mountain Manor Treatment Center in Baltimore. Expected to be approved this year, Brixadi, a longacting injectable formulation of buprenorphine, which reduces cravings for opioids and blocks their effects -- thereby helping to prevent overdoses -- would eliminate the need for taking daily pills and reduce the risk that the medication could be misused, Wenzel said. As with another injectable opioid use disorder treatment, including those marketed as Vivitrol and Sublocade, those prescribed the drug will receive it in the form of monthly injections, administered by healthcare professionals, he said. "The major benefit of a new buprenorphine product on the market is that it expands the options for patients and providers," Wenzel, who part of the clinical trials for the drug, told UPI in an email. "We often hear patients ask, 'Which of the available relapse prevention medication is the best one?' Our answer is the one that you are willing to take," he said. Braeburn, which makes Brixadi, submitted its application for approval to the FDA in December, which means the agency has up to 60 days to review it. Dry eye disease Nearly one in 10 adults in the United States -- or up to 20 million people -- suffers from dry eye disease, due at least in part to increased use of screen-based devices, which are known to cause eye fatigue and impact tear production, recent research suggests. Though not a lifethreatening condition, dry eye disease does cause uncomfortable irritation, redness and eye fatigue, and may lead to blurred vision, as the eyes fail to produce adequate levels of tears to remain lubricated, according to the Mayo Clinic. The topical drop reproxalap, a new treatment for dry eye expected to gain FDA approval sometime this year, has been shown to work faster than currently available drugs for the condition in clinical trials, ophthalmologist Dr. Christopher E. Starr told UPI in an email. It is designed to both stimulate tear production and counteract the effects of inflammation in the eyes that reduces tear supply in the first place, he said. Aldeyra Therapeutics, which makes reproxalap, submitted its application for approval to the FDA in late November. "No other prescription topical for dry eye has been shown to work within minutes or as broadly," said Starr, an associate professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College, who, as a consultant with the drug's manufacturer, Lexington, Mass.-based Aldeyra, has been involved in the clinical trials. "I think it has potential to immediately become a routine part of dry eye disease treatment -- it certainly will in my practice as soon as it is FDA approved and available," he said. By Brian P. Dunleavy Dr. Christopher E. Starr says a new dry eye treatment "could work in minutes" to manage annoying symptoms. 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18 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F w U A C in y r e lo d A b d t n b t s c g a s c p in fi im a t a m s in d n M D b u n D v i c A n w b o F w t u u a o d h f S c Policing is in urgent need of reform, but it will not happen through the efforts the nation will soon witness. Not with President Joe Biden addressing a grieving family with “thoughts and prayers” and inviting them to “come to the State of the Union after your kid gets killed.” That is the facetious tone that House Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., took recently as he threw shade at Biden and the fact that the president extended an invitation to Tyre Nichols’ surviving mother and stepfather for his State of the Union address on February 7. Nichols was the 29-yearold man who was beaten to death by a special unit of Memphis police officers early last month. The officers tased, kicked and punched him repeatedly after a traffic stop. Nichols died days later in the hospital. It’s not that the invite is without merit. Nichols’ family deserves the spotlight, the chance for the nation to share their grief and the presidency to acknowledge the heinously racist strains deeply woven into American society, including law enforcement. But Biden is trapped between a public bewildered in seeing yet more police body camera footage of officers going brutally rogue on a citizen and a GOP-controlled House that knows spinning phrases like “defund the police” can squash any attempt to pass significant legislation on the issue. Instead we should look to the sergeants. They are the police officers who function much like middle managers, controlling the culture of any business. As unsatisfying as this sounds, this is one place where significant shifts could happen in law enforcement. It’s not that a chief of police and his or her tone, aptitude, and dictates do not matter. But adults, like younger people, function to a large extent with peer pressure in mind. What is condoned, what is underscored and valued is managed at many levels in any system, whether it is a family, a middle-sized business, a global corporation, or a police department. Members of the Black Political Caucus met with Biden ahead of the State of the Union and pleaded for him to reinvigorate the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, named after Floyd’s 2020 death. In that case video footage allowed the public to watch an officer slowly murder a citizen. The act seeks to nip at qualified immunity, which makes it more difficult (but not impossible) to hold officers liable in civil court for their actions on duty, among other points. Instead, expect another executive action on policing by Biden, which is what he settled for at the two-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder. Expect also that whatever is signed will not radically change how police function. Little of what Biden could execute with a pen will bridge the gap Want to change police culture? Look to the sergeants with Mary Sanchez Readers can reach Mary Sanchez at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @msanchezcolumn. No adjective is sufficient to describe the reaction one gets from watching five Memphis police officers beat 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to within an inch of his life. He later died of his injuries in a local hospital. “Inhumane” and “senseless” are as close as it comes. While Nichols was accused of “reckless driving,” it was an insufficient charge to cause such a violent reaction by the five cops. In fact, the 67- minute video shows Nichols posed no threat and tried to calm the officers, who were quickly dismissed from the force and their special Scorpion crime-fighting unit disbanded. In the gutwrenching video we hear Nichols calling out for his mother, who later stated she didn’t want any protests to turn violent. All five officers have been charged with seconddegree murder, two counts of official misconduct, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, one count of official oppression and one count of aggravated assault. Unfortunately, there are people who use such incidents for political purposes. One example came from CNN commentator Van Jones, who said even though the five officers were Black (as was Nichols), the beating could still have been driven by racism. His argument was that police officers – even Black police officers – “internalize” certain stereotypes about other Black people. Antifa is a group that seems to be on a mission to harm the country. It immediately called for nationwide protests, which quickly broke out in some major cities. An Antifa poster obtained by the Daily Mail called for demonstrators to gather in New York and other cities, bring weapons and “burn it all down.” On cue, protesters threw fireworks at a Los Angeles police cruiser and a squad car was smashed in New York. Thousands of protesters turned out in Memphis, Portland and Seattle. Several things must be said about this in addition to condemning the undeniable cruelty of the beating Nichols sustained. In response to Jones’ suggestion of racism, Black people are the majority race in Memphis, over 64 percent, according to the latest Census. A majority of the city council are Black, as is the police chief. This should quiet claims of racism among the population and the projection of this sin on other police officers who serve with honor and distinction, sometimes risking their lives. A question I have asked on several occasions when demonstrators became rioters and attacked property, looted and committed other criminal acts: who are these people? Are they all locals? If not, where did they come from? How did they get to these cities so quickly? What organization is paying them? Who printed and paid for some of their signs? During past protests there have been reports of trucks showing up and handing out pre-printed signs. There is a website that offers protesters for virtually any cause in exchange for payment. It’s called “Crowds on Demand.” I have never heard a reporter ask any of the above questions or investigate who is behind some of these demonstrations, who underwrites the cost of their transportation, lodging, food and whether any of them are being paid? It does not diminish what happened in Memphis, or the culpability of the fired police officers to ask these questions. From what the video shows there was no justification for what happened to Tyre Nichols. Neither is there any justification for violent behavior in reaction to it, which changes and improves nothing. The justice system will proceed, as it should. If the five men are found guilty, they will pay a stiff price. Unfortunately, Tyre Nichols has paid the ultimate price. No amount of justice for those now ex-cops will restore his young life. Inhumanity in Memphis with Cal Thomas Readers may email Cal Thomas at [email protected]. Look for Cal Thomas’ new book “America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers and the Future of the United States” my turn A mourner sits next to a candle display during a vigil for Tyre Nichols at Regency Skatepark on January 30, 2023 in Sacramento, California. Mary Sanchez joins Happenings Q&A on Thu. Feb. 23rd at 1:30 on AM1050 WLIP. The city of Memphis released video of the violent encounter between police and motorist Tyre Nichols. continues on next page

0 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 19 Americans have much to worry about. The war in Ukraine could escalate. An Air Force general predicts China "will probably invade" Taiwan within two years. COVID-19 could return. Debt is exploding. An economic "hard landing" looms. Environmental disasters occur every day. And the nation has not been as politically divided in decades and possibly since the Civil War. Yet, other potential nightmare scenarios cannot be discounted. In particular, the safety, reliability and security of the nation's critical infrastructure are at grave risk. In full disclosure, as past chairman (and now senior adviser) of a company engaged in protecting part of this infrastructure, I gained a firsthand education on the importance of this mission and the consequences of the absence of a coherent and overarching government and private sector strategy for safeguarding it. A leading threat to this infrastructure is through disruption, accidental or not. During the Cold War, Mutual Assured Destruction was the bizarre shorthand underscoring the vital necessity of preventing a cataclysmic nuclear war that would have proven existential to much of society. Today, a new MAD, for Massive Attacks of Disruption, whether by man or nature, is the most immediate threat to America. COVID-19, environmental catastrophe, cyber and accidents, unintentional or otherwise, endanger societies that ironically are more vulnerable and susceptible to disruption as they have become more advanced and technologically sophisticated. Consider the vulnerability of infrastructure to disruption and specifically the threat MAD poses to the power, gas and water infrastructure. These statistics show the size of the utility infrastructure. Some 3 million miles of pipelines provide about 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas to 80 million Americans. Nearly threequarters of a million miles of high-voltage transmission lines supply electricity. On a daily basis, Americans consume 30 billion gallons of water carried in 2.2 million miles of piping. Most of this collective infrastructure is antiquated, some over a century old. Exploding manhole covers, water line failures and gas leaks are among the dangers. The National Transportation Board has just added gas leaks and explosions to "the most wanted list." And natural causes of damage through environmental disasters can be matched or exceeded by manmade acts, whether physical or through cyber disruption. That danger is real, growing and too often downplayed. Suppose, for example, access to electric power, natural gas and water is denied for days or weeks, as is the case in many third and fourth world states? How would Americans react? This is no longer an idle question. The more dependent on infrastructure America becomes, the greater are the consequences of disruption. Yet, what is being done on a national or coordinated basis to protect this access and prevent disruption? Despite all the attention paid to this question, effective action has been limited. Since federal, state and local governments have not assumed full responsibility for the safety, reliability and resilience of this infrastructure, the private sector must fill this gap. With $7 trillion appropriated in the American Rescue Plank, jobs, chips and science, inflation reduction and Omnibus spending bills, money should not be an issue. To ensure that adequate funds go to protecting this and other parts of America's infrastructure, the consequences of inaction must be made clear. And a plan is needed. Responses to the new MAD must be, first, prevention of disruption followed by containment and then limiting damage. Any number of obstacles, however, have thwarted efforts to protect and secure this infrastructure. Cost is one of them. It is often less expensive to deal with damage and denial of service than paying for the means to detect and prevent these events from occurring in the first place. Some electric utilities have concluded that manhole explosions are so costly in terms of damage, liabilities, power outages and reputation that early detection of possible disruptions through an array of sensors is highly cost-effective. The same logic applies to electric fault detection to pre-empt outages. Gas explosions, as noted, are always serious. Prevention, through leak detection, likewise is cost effective. In the water industries, the introduction of chemical or biological weapons is less a threat than physical disruption. Cyberattacks are potentially more disruptive and are preventable through early detection. One conclusion is clear: Detection and prevention of disruption must be the new norms if this infrastructure is to be fully protected and safeguarded. But is anyone listening? Decaying, vulnerable infrastructure creates an American nightmare with Harlan Ullman my turn Dr Harlan Ullman is senior adviser at Washington's Atlantic Council, the prime author of "shock and awe" and the upcoming book "The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD: How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at Large." Harlan Ullman joins Happenings Q&A on Thu., Feb. 16th at 1pm on AM1050 WLIP. President Joe Biden speaks at Hudson Yards train yard on Tuesday in New York City, where infrastructure funding will go to the Hudson River Project for improving reliability for the 200,000 passenger trips per weekday on Amtrak and New Jersey Transit. between what is legal for officers to do under the Fourth Amendment and what increasing numbers of the public view as unacceptable behavior. This is crucial to understand. A civil case brought against a specific police officer or a department doesn’t necessarily change how that department functions. This is because lawsuits are brought routinely and they’re often settled out of court. Nor will better data collection on how a department functions immediately alter how it functions. More data is what Biden has sought in the past. The problem is that police departments often resist fully participating in honest data collection, even when it is mandated by law. There are more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and not all of them have the staff or technology to drill down into every incident in ways that would result in comparable and accurate data. What really controls police culture and training is far less tangible, far more difficult to categorize and study in ways that make for easy headlines or legislative changes. In fact, it’s the decisions that officers make secondto-second in differing circumstances that need to be managed and trained for more effectively. A 2018 report issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights titled “Police Use of Force: An Examination of Modern Policing Practices” includes excellent discussions of this idea. The report points out that it is often the minutes that lead up to when an officer feels threatened enough to draw his or her gun or to tase an individual that prove crucial. Police can inadvertently escalate situations in which it makes sense and is legal for them to take a life, or make a less desirable choice that never makes the news. How sergeants or higher ranking colleagues routinely discuss those incidents with individual officers is critical learning on the job. Sergeants, like middle managers, are the ones who either carry out or stymie key reforms in any organization. Improved policing requires paying close attention to individual, distinct situations that can’t be fairly described in data points and covered under legislation. Substantial change can occur using these means. But ultimately, what sticks with officers in terms of meaningful reform will be accomplished via internal discussions few of us will ever hear. Sanchez continued from page 18 ld rt ty, er ng he ar d’s at ot ce at a ap er d? at or d e e o at s. ny nt t, d e d, n ill e. ls e. or ll a on a. age

20 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F Two recently released economic reports paint a nuanced picture of the U.S. economy. The government said that U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) increased at a 2.9% annualized pace in the fourth quarter of 2022, capping a year when growth was up by just 1% (as measured from the fourth quarter a year earlier), down substantially from the 5.7% blazing hot 2021, though up from the horrendous 2020 when the economy shrank by 3.4%. The pandemic really did wallop the economy. The U.S. does not usually see big swings up or down in successive years. In fact, in the five years leading up to COVID-19, here is how the economy, as measured by GDP, performed: 2015: +1.9% 2016: +2.0% 2017: +2.8% 2018: +2.3% 2019: +2.6% Even though the economy eked out a gain last year, there are signs that trouble could be brewing. Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics noted that “despite the apparent resilience of fourth-quarter GDP growth, the economy was on the precipice of a recession, and may already have fallen off the ledge,” mostly due to a pull-back in spending by consumers and businesses. Off a ledge? That language may lead you to think that the Federal Reserve would halt its rate hike campaign. But that is not what happened. While the central bank reduced the amount of the increase from a half of a percentage point to a quarter of a percentage point, it still hiked. The new range is 4.50 – 4.75%, the highest level since October 2007 when the Fed had just started cutting rates from a then-peak of 5.25%. The reason behind the increase is that although inflation readings are improving, prices remain high, especially on the service side of the economy, which represents about 70% of the economy (vs. 30% for goods). In fact, there is a special inflation reading from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta called “the sticky price index,” which tracks the components of the consumer price index (CPI) that are “sticky” or slow to change. The Fed keeps a close eye on the sticky-price index, which as of December, was up 5.6% (on an annualized basis), following a 5.5% increase in November. On a core basis (excluding food and energy), the sticky-price index increased 5.7% (annualized) in December, and its 12-month percent change was 6.6%. Those sticky numbers are still too high for the Fed, which is why they raised short-term interest rates. Although economists are worried that the Fed’s effort to tackle inflation could cause the economy to slow and even enter a recession, one group of Americans is very happy: savers. As of December, the personal saving rate (the percentage of people’s incomes left after they pay taxes and spend money) stood at 3.4%. That is down significantly from the COVID apex of 33.8% (April 2020), but it is an improvement from the recent low level of 2.4% last September. As Americans starting to sock away cash, just in case, they are enjoying much higher rates. According to bank account comparison site DepositAccounts.com, as of the end of January, the average 1-year Online CD Index stood at 4.37% and for those who want to lock-in for a longer period, the 5- year Online CD Index was yielding 4.04%. Additionally, there are a bunch of online savings and money market accounts that are yielding more than 4%, though “unlike the small online banks, the major online banks haven’t come close.” Bottom line for those fearful of growth falling off a ledge: an ample safety net can provide a lot of protection. Will US economic growth fall off a ledge? with Jill Schlesinger jill on money Tax season is officially open and to prepare, the IRS has a warning: DO NOT expect refunds to be quite so generous this year. The average tax refund for the 2022 filing season (through the end of October) was $3,176 — a 13.8% jump from the prior year average refund of $2,791 and a sizable increase from the pre-pandemic year of 2019, which was $2,869. The reason for the early warning is that many of the COVID-19 relief measures stopped last year. There were no Federal or state stimulus recovery rebates or credits; no enhanced child or dependent care tax credits; and no charitable deductions for standard filers. As these emergency programs go away, you will likely find that much of your tax preparation for tax year 2022 will look a lot like your prep for the 2019 tax year. That said, there are still some pandemic-era issues that the IRS needs to address. According to the Taxpayer Advocate’s 2022 Annual Report to Congress, taxpayers and tax professionals “experienced more misery in 2022” due to paper processing delays and poor customer service. But the report also says the IRS made considerable progress in reducing the volume of unprocessed tax returns and correspondence and is poised to start the 2023 filing season in a stronger position, after greatly reducing backlogs of paper returns and starting to increase staffing. The opening of tax season is a good reminder of some basic facts: Tax filing deadline The deadline is April 18, due to observance of Emancipation Day in the District of Columbia. April 18 is also the due date to file for an extension, which gives you until October 17. IRS Free File Open to taxpayers with Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of $73,000 or less in 2022. Free File lets you file your federal taxes at no extra cost either through electronic fillable forms or through IRS partnerships with private tax preparation services. Avoid delays, file electronically Paper = Problems. File electronically and use direct deposit and you will avoid the headache of a delay. If you are due a refund, then you will likely receive it within 21 days of filing electronically. Don’t call the IRS The IRS received 173 million calls during FY 2022. Only 22 million (13%, or roughly one out of eight calls) got through to an IRS employee. As a result, most callers could not get answers to their tax-law questions, receive help with their account problems, or speak with an employee about compliance notices. Those who got through waited an average of 29 minutes on hold before the call began. The IRS is your friend…really! In my book, The Great Money Reset, I stress that anyone who is considering a life change needs to contemplate the tax implications of doing so. “What we might not fully appreciate is how life or career changes might create opportunities for us to save money or at least achieve more certainty about our tax burdens. The money you save or the certainty you gain might make a Great Money Reset more practicable. "You might be able to retire earlier, take a job that pays less, or enjoy a higher quality of life in the years ahead — all because you understood what the tax law allows and took advantage of it. The IRS very well can be your friend during a major money reset, but only if you know what to do.” (The excerpts are from the forthcoming The Great Money Reset by Jill Schlesinger. Copyright (c) 2023 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Available for purchase at the retailer of your choice: https://www.jillonmoney.com /the-great-money-reset) Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS News business analyst. A former options trader and CIO of an investment advisory firm, she welcomes comments and questions at [email protected]. Check her website at www.jillonmoney.com The IRS is your friend with Jill Schlesinger The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters, in Washington, DC on Jan. 10, 2023. 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0 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 SMART READER February 09, 2023 21 D r n 5- as a d at %, ll r e e a et of ou aw of be or ou m at ill c) nd of up. he ce: m Dear Cathy, We have an adorable eight-month-old Havanese. She is sweet and lovable most of the time, but then she has a daily episode in the late afternoon when she acts like a maniac. She runs, jumps, growls, shows her teeth, and tries to nip and bite us. It lasts for about an hour. We usually put her in her crate until she calms down. She then returns to her charming self after the episode. Our trainer has called this behavior the "zoomies" and thinks she will grow out of it. Any suggestions on what we can do? -- Michael, Port Jefferson, New York Dear Michael, If your dog has a clean bill of health from your veterinarian, then your trainer is probably right; your dog has the "zoomies." Zoomies is a term used to describe the frenetic behavior that occurs when a dog (or cat) has pent-up energy and literally "zooms" all around the house. It is more common in younger dogs and cats because they naturally have more energy than older pets. Your puppy may or may not grow out of it, though. Dogs can have the zoomies well into their adult lives. But there is something you can do. Recognize it as a sign that your dog (or cat) needs more playtime and exercise. If you know this happens every day around the same time, you can pre-empt this behavior by taking her for a walk or playing with her for at least 30 minutes. If you offer playtime and exercise before she gets the zoomies, you will help burn up some of that youthful energy before she has to try to do it herself. Dear Cathy, We love our dog dearly, but he is terrified of thunderstorms and barks when they occur. We have tried Thundershirts(R), pheromones, CBD oils, and tranquilizers. Harley is 10 years old but has been reacting to storms since he was six when we adopted him. Please help. We don't know what else we can do? -- Phyllis, Las Vegas, Nevada Dear Phyllis, I have had three dogs in my life with noise phobia and know how stressful this is for any family with a dog afraid of storms and fireworks. You're trying all the right things, but sometimes you must combine some of these things simultaneously to reduce her anxiety. In other words, one thing may not help, but two or three things combined may be what she needs. So, you may have to try a Thundershirt(R), a pheromone collar and/or spray tranquilizers, and sound therapy - like providing white noise or keeping a radio or TV on - to help drown out the noise. While you can reduce her stress when storms occur, you will never completely eliminate her fear and anxiety. Keep looking for the right combination of things that will, at the very least, reduce her overall reaction to storms. Dear Cathy, In the Arizona Daily Star on December 16, 2022, you had a question about a nine-year-old terrier mix with breathing problems. We had a lab mix years ago who had breathing problems and was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. She would tilt her head back to breathe, and if she tried to lie down, she would get back up immediately. Despite medication, we lost her when she was 13 due to her heart condition. Our last dog, "Gracie," also had a breathing problem. Her problem was different. We had taken her to an oncologist for mast cell tumors. At the time, we had just started noticing she was having difficulty breathing. When I asked the vet about it, she said it sounded like laryngeal paralysis. At 10 years old, Gracie had surgery to address it, and it significantly improved her life. We hand-fed her in small amounts to prevent aspiration. We lost her at age 13 due to bone cancer in her lower left jaw. It was devastating. Diane's story said she had been to three vets. That's unacceptable; she needs to try a different vet, perhaps at a specialty clinic. I wish her luck. -- Pat & Bill, Tucson, Arizona Dear Pat and Bill, Thank you for sharing your story. As pet owners, we are our pet's best advocates. Even if three vets said her dog was OK, if she (or any pet owner) sees their pet struggling to breathe or having any other major health problem, they should return to their vet or find yet another vet to get to the bottom of what's happening. Pet owners can also look for a holistic veterinarian for complementary and alternative therapies to traditional veterinary medicine. Pet World with Cathy Rosenthal Why do dogs and cats get the 'zoomies'? As well as being a recuring guest on Happenings Q&A, Cathy M. Rosenthal is a longtime animal advocate, author, columnist and pet expert who has more than 30 years in the animal welfare field. Send your pet questions, stories and tips to [email protected]. Cathy Rosenthal joins Happenings Q&A on Thurs. Feb. 23rd at 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP. animals 'Puppy Bowl XIX' to air on Animal Planet, TBS, Discovery, Discovery+, HBO Max The ever-popular Puppy Bowl XIX is returning to the airwaves, but this year will be simulcast across four channels. The annual show three-hour show featuring rescue pups highlights the work of rescue, shelter and animal workers across the country. This year's event includes 122 puppies from 67 shelters across 34 states. This is the first year a Native American rescue will be featured along with a puppy player from the island nation of Dominica. The 11 dogs with special needs who can be adopted include Julius a Dalmatian, who is hearing-impaired, Marmalade, a sight and hearing-impaired border collie/Australian cattle dog and Mykonos, an American Staffordshire terrier/bulldog who has a cleft palate. The Puppy Bowl is the annual animal competition, which is a precursor to the Super Bowl. It airs on Feb. 12, starting with a pre-game show at noon. Just like the big game, the Puppy Bowl will hold a draft that includes interviews with players and coaches, along with a dog DNA test to see which competitors have winning traits. The Animal Planet show will also air on the Discovery Channel, Discovery+, HBO Max and TBS. Hosts include some of the channel's top talents including sports broadcaster Taylor Rooks of Bleacher Report, sports commentator Steve Levy, Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson of Married to Real Estate, Zak Bagans of Ghost Adventures, Alex Guarnaschelli of Supermarket Stakeout and Faruq Tauheed from Battlebots. Dan Schachter, in his twelfth year, Levy and Rooks will provide the playby-play. Just like the big football game that follows on Super Bowl Sunday, a Puppy Bowl pre-game show starts with interviews with players and coaches and a puppy player draft that includes DNA testing to figure out which dogs have winning traits. And just like their human counterparts, the pups can earn awards including the MVP - Most Valuable Puppy Award and the Underdog award. And Puppy Bowl XIX offers other things to watch for like the Puppy Cheer squad, the water bowl cam, the slo-motion camera, and the pylon cam and the pups will be dressed up for their red-carpet arrivals. During the game, eleven shelters will showcase puppies available for adoption and during the Kitty Halftime show, three shelters will include kittens that are also looking for forever homes. Puppy Bowl XIX airs on Feb. 12, starting at noon for the pre-game show. The main broadcast starts at 1 p.m. . in the news Dog rescued after living with coyotes for months in Nevada A dog was rescued in Nevada after spending at least 7 months living in the wild with a pack of coyotes. Susan McMullen of the Southern Nevada Trapping Team said the white dog, dubbed Ghost, was first spotted traveling with a pack of coyotes in July. Neighbors in the area documented sightings of the canine, who was occasionally recorded by trail cameras and home security cameras. McMullen said Ghost may have been a pet abandoned by his owner. She and her partner, Timi Zondiros, began to worry for Ghost's safety when he was recently seen limping. "He was actually just running with them and eating with them, but then he started to limp, and we were afraid limping that the coyotes could turn on him," McMullen said. She said Ghost was successfully captured last week, when he walked into a crate baited with food. McMullen said the dog turned out to be extremely friendly toward humans, but is dealing with numerous health issues including an ear infection, eye infection, skin issues, a broken toe that needs to be amputated and scarring from old fights. She said Ghost also needs to be neutered. A GoFundMe has been set up to help pay for Ghost's veterinary bills. McMullen said the goal is for Ghost to eventually be adopted into a loving home.

22 SMART READER February 09, 2023 FOR ADVERTISING RATES CALL 262-564-8800 F Most of us know we probably need to cut back on the added sugars we consume, but how do you do that when you have a craving for something sweet? These days, the average American eats an estimated 17 teaspoons of added sugar each day. A study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health states that added sugar consumption worldwide is at a "pandemic" stage. Research shows a clear association between eating too much table sugar and higher risk for tooth decay, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. An answer for some has been to use more artificial sweeteners. The Food and Drug Administration has declared all sweeteners on the market to be safe; however, they have been under scrutiny by other groups. Consumers have turned to more natural sugars, such as honey, maple syrup, molasses and coconut sugar. The truth is that sugar is sugar, whether it comes from sugar cane or a tree, and as sugar, it is high in calories. Should you try other sweeteners? Stevia is a wellknown natural sweetener, derived from the leaves of the stevia plant. It has no calories and no nutritional value but is sometimes blended with sugar alcohols, like erythritol. Monk fruit extract is another zero-calorie natural sweetener. The best sweetener is the one you enjoy eating. But like sugar, have them in moderation. How can you tame a sweet tooth? It's best to try for moderation rather than cutting out sugar completely. Aim for cutting back to six teaspoons a day for women and nine teaspoons for men, or about 10% of total calories, as recommended by the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines. Make swaps little by little rather than adopting an all-or-nothing mentality with sugar. The bottom line? Over time, try to limit consumption of added sugars. Practice mindfulness when you eat a piece of candy or cake. Rather than having sugar daily, save it for a special occasion. Substitute fruit for that cookie, and over time, cravings will lessen. Q and A Q: Is taking a vitamin C supplement as good as getting vitamin C from foods? A: Research has shown that getting the recommended amount of vitamin C from foods rather than supplements was associated with several positive health benefits: lower risk of cardiovascular disease, lower risk of cancer of the stomach, esophagus, cervix and lung and lower risk of death. The same effect wasn't found for vitamin C supplements, which research found were associated with a higher risk of breast cancer and kidney stones. Foods high in vitamin C include many fruits and vegetables. The current recommended amount of vitamin C is 90 milligrams for men (ages 19 and older) and 75 milligrams for women. A cup of strawberries has about 58 milligrams of vitamin C; a medium orange or a cup of broccoli both have 70 milligrams. Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian with SIU Med School in Springfield, Ill. For comments or questions, contact her at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRd. food & recipes Charlyn Fargo joins Happenings Q&A on Thu. Feb. 16th at 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP. Nutrition News with Charlyn Fargo Taming a Sweet Tooth 1 1/2 pounds chicken breast strips 1 (46-ounce) bottle V8 original low sodium 100% vegetable juice 2 (15-ounce) cans no-salt-added black beans, drained 1/2 cup diced celery 1 (12-ounce) bag frozen corn 1 (16-ounce) container mild salsa Salt and pepper, to taste Combine all the ingredients in a slow cooker. Cook 2 hours on high or 4 hours on low. Top with tortilla strips, Greek yogurt, cheese, fresh lime juice or cilantro for added flavor. Serves 8 (1 cup each). Per serving: 280 calories; 28 grams protein; 38 grams carbohydrates; 2.5 grams fat; 10 grams fiber; 11 grams sugars (0 grams added); 800 milligrams sodium. Chicken Enchilada Soup Pulled Barbecue Chicken Sandwiches Serves 4 1/2 cup ketchup 1 tablespoon molasses 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 2 tablespoons finely chopped shallot 3/4 teaspoon chili powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 (8- ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut in half lengthwise 4 hamburger buns Pickle chips (optional) 1. In a liquid measuring cup, whisk together ketchup, molasses, mustard, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. Set aside. 2. In a 12-inch skillet, heat oil over medium heat for 1 minute (oil should be hot but not smoking). Add shallot, chili powder, and salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until shallot is softened, about 3 minutes. Stir in ketchup mixture, scraping up any browned bits. 3. Add chicken to skillet. Bring mixture to boil. Reduce heat to medium- low, cover, and simmer for 4 minutes. 4. Flip chicken pieces over. Cover and simmer until chicken registers 165 degrees on instant-read thermometer, 4 to 6 minutes. Turn off heat. 5. Transfer chicken to a large plate. Let cool slightly, then use 2 forks to shred chicken into bitesize pieces. Return shredded chicken to skillet and stir to coat with sauce. 6. Heat chicken over medium heat until warmed through, 1 to 2 minutes. Evenly divide shredded chicken between hamburger buns. Top with pickle chips, if using, and serve. Barbecue chicken ... indoors? No, we're not pulling your leg! (Get it?) It might not be outdoor grilling season, but you can still enjoy barbecue chicken! Start by making a sweet and tangy barbecue sauce in a skillet and then cook the chicken right in the sauce to help it absorb lots of great flavor. Two forks make quick work of shredding (or "pulling") the cooked chicken (it's even quicker if you ask the kids to help!) 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