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glass to reduce sunlight into pr
the building and save on destruction of the
energy bills.The pattern also
reduces bird collisions. environment in general. To

In Evanston, Illinois, just me, there needs to be a new
north of Chicago, architects
printed patterns of small concept of design
dots on glass to make a new
community center safer for aesthetics. ... This is part of
birds. But they varied how
they spaced the dots on it.” Dorothy Pesch, one of more than 150 volunteers who monitor bird ar
different facades, using them bir
to create more or less One of the most diligent
transparency and to enliven collisions in Chicago, looks for avian migrants to rescue or recover Ac
what might otherwise have students of bird collisions is
been a dull, uniform pattern. ha
David Willard, an in the early morning hours. She’s been volunteering since 2006. ho
“The solutions are
becoming more creative,” ornithologist and collections pa
says Brian Foote, project
manager for Woodhouse manager emeritus at the wooden cabinets in the bent, yet alert for the carts building’s managers, the But Dr. Willard has done a
Tinucci Architects, which
designed Evanston’s Robert Field Museum. In 1978 he musty and forklifts of workers also Metropolitan Pier and more than gather up dead th
Crown Community Center.
“There’s now a whole got a tip from a colleague museum’s
cottage industry that is
attempting to find that birds were hitting the backrooms. up early to prepare the Exposition Authority, says birds. He and his colleagues
technological solutions to
this problem. So I think the windows of McCormick Today, 44 years later, Dr. center for the day’s workers turn off lights when saw early on that ha
solutions available are more Willard is still going back, exhibition. Dr. Willard the building is not in use. McCormick Place offered an Na
attractive architecturally. Place, a convention center circling McCormick Place at estimates he has picked up Trees around the building opportunity to study sta
They’re more integrated dawn. On a recent morning, 30,000 birds at McCormick have also matured, which migration patterns, as well So
solutions. It’s not just that had been rebuilt seven the building is brightly lit, Place. In the early years of may reduce collisions.)
something you add at the and he picks up 13 birds, his visits, when the story continues on page 4
end.” years earlier after a fire. mostly sparrows. One, a tiny convention business was
Lincoln’s sparrow, feels booming and the building in
It’s also about learning as Designed by a protégé of warm in his hand. Its small constant use, he found as
you go. In the early 2000s, black eye, he notes, “still many as 200 a day.
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Birds ago after learning that North The results were
America had lost nearly a disappointing. “People don’t
continued from page 3 want to spend any money,”
says Mr. Cubie.“They’ll spend
as one building’s effect on $500 on plants, but they
collisions. The most

important revelation came third of its birds. “I thought, don’t want to spend $100 on

when convention business ‘30% loss, I’ve got to get to collision prevention.”

declined in the early 2000s. work,’” he says. This feeling is widespread Ms. Prince, who oversees Chicago’s volunteer network of bird
They found that on nights among those most collision monitors, carries a net and rescue gear as she looks for
when the center turned off He lived then in Sun City concerned about bird deaths birds to recover on a crisp November morning.
its lights for lack of Hilton Head, a retirement – that progress is far too
conference activity, bird community, where he slow. Chicago’s downtown buildings, city businesses, that require bird-friendly scanning the base of each
deaths declined by 60%. This belonged to a birding club. skyline may dim noticeably they want the lights on.” features on new buildings. building she passes. She
suggested that Lights Out He started by encouraging on fall and spring nights, but But these laws are recent wears sneakers, a baseball
programs worked. members to plant native the city still throws up an Till now, most efforts have and apply mainly to the cap, and a pale green vest
species like azaleas and immense blaze of light into depended on individual largest structures. And such with pockets big enough to
Of course, big buildings hollies to increase bird the night sky, as satellite initiative. In some places designs, especially patterned hold small chickens. She
are only one hazard for habitat. “It was very images readily show. And that’s changing. New York, glass, are used mainly by carries a voluminous tote
birds, and not the worst. successful,” he says. Then he many cities lack even a basic Chicago, and San Francisco public institutions and and a small white net. She
Across the country, efforts shifted his focus to windows. commitment to dimming as well as some smaller cities universities. Most private strides along beneath
have sprung up to encourage He collected different lights. have adopted ordinances developers avoid it, either cantilevered overhangs,
homeowners to do their products that were available: because of the extra expense climbs up and down
part to prevent the thump of netting, decals applied to the “The first stage is light
ne a warbler or thrush against glass, and arrangements of reduction,” says Ms. Prince,
ad their windows. hanging monofilament line or the bird volunteer in
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at has worked for activist Ralph his sunroom into a display the simplest of things. But it
an Nader and the U.S. Senate, area. He made a video. He can be a challenge. It doesn’t
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my turn

Congressional lame
duck quackery

with Cal Thomas

There is little

Republicans and

Democrats in Congress

agree on these days, but The current Democratic majority should not
push through major legislation in the waning
spending (and borrowing) weeks of the 117th Congress.

money is as nonpartisan as

it gets.

House Democrats eliminated, but the itself when it comes to as their voting for term of the public debt: on none
temptation to succumb to spending at current levels, limits. can delay be more
apparently have decided to Readers may email Cal these spending perks which, of course, are raised injurious, or an economy of
Thomas at appears to have been too nearly every year, giving us time more valuable.”
leave their majority with a seductive. It always is when a $31 trillion-dollar debt Warnings about
[email protected]. they’re spending other and counting. John Adams put it more
spending spree.They’ll do it Look for Cal Thomas’ new people’s money to overspending and high succinctly: “There are two
book “America’s Expiration perpetuate their careers. Where are the ways to enslave a nation.
the way they usually do. In a Date:The Fall of Empires and Republican leaders who taxation are ignored. The One is by the sword. The
Superpowers and the Future will teach Americans we other is by debt.”
script familiar to an can’t go on like this? Ronald Founders gave us a
of the United States” Reagan was the last The federal government
extortionist and to the Republican president to Constitution that is taking in a record
national parks? It’s all warn against debt. Since amount of revenue, but
public because we’ve seen theatrics. members of Congress can’t established boundaries spending more than it
restrain themselves when it receives and Democrats
it before, Democrats can Dec. 16 is the “deadline” A Wall Street Journal comes to spending, what is beyond which government want to spend even more.
for the expiration of needed is an outside Why is Congress deaf to
be counted on to threaten funding the government editorial notes,“Democrats auditor to go through cannot go. They repeatedly the warnings of the
and don’t you know that every federal program and Founders? They aren’t deaf.
a government “shutdown” Democrats will be hauling want to stuff all 12 of recommend what should advised against excessive They have covered their
out their “Scrooge” and be cut or eliminated. ears and eyes and don’t
if Republicans don’t go “Grinch” metaphors if Congress’s annual overdue Because Congress would and ongoing debt. That want to hear it to their
Republicans don’t do their have to approve of such an everlasting shame and the
along with their plans to bidding. Not all GOP spending bills into a giant approach and then approve government has long harm they are passing
members have clean hands spending reductions, that down to future
spend more money we when it comes to spending ‘omnibus’ to finance the seems as unlikely to happen exceeded constitutional generations.
and pork for their districts.
don’t have. Never mind that A majority of their caucus government through limits is why it has become
voted last week to restore
for the next few weeks earmarks, which they once September 2023.According so dysfunctional in so many

Democrats still have a to their media note takers, areas.

House majority. the failure to pass an The Founders

Republicans (and much of omnibus bill will result in understood human nature

the major media) will still one of two scenarios: a and its tendency to excess

be blamed should a government shutdown, or absent controls. In 1793,

shutdown occur. the ruin of federal agencies George Washington said,

Remember previous forced to maintain ““No pecuniary

threats about retirees not spending at current levels.” consideration is more

getting their Social Security Heaven forbid that the urgent, than the regular
government should restrain
checks and closed signs at redemption and discharge

Trump and his racist
admirers are a
threat the GOP
must disrupt

with Mary Sanchez

Adisgraced former and the doings of Readers can reach Mary
extremists who wanted to Sanchez at
president, a mentally upend the transfer of
power to President-elect [email protected]
struggling rapper and an Joe Biden. These and follow her on Twitter
insurrectionists covet the @msanchezcolumn.
avowed white supremacist idea of a civil war to split
the nation. resort residence, lives
sit down for dinner. What under his own shadow of
antisemitism. It’s odd that
came next was as we have this Black man who
spouts off things usually
predictable as the table talk attributed to white people
who at the very least need
that recent night (Nov. 22) more diversity and history
education in their lives.
at Mar-a-Lago. Trump – there’s the name
that GOP leaders can’t Here are two examples
GOP leadership seem to utter in a full of some of the antics Ye
condemnation. engages in: First, during the
continues to mince words. dinner with Trump, he wore Nick Fuentes answers question during
a t-shirt stamped with an interview with Agence France-
They’re stepping oh-so- “White Lives Matter.” Presse in Boston on May 9, 2016.
Second, just recently, he
gingerly to not offend the The Mar-a-Lago diners proclaimed that he sees
were Trump, Ye (Kanye “good things about Hitler”
trio of bad omens, but West) and Nick Fuentes. (Ye made the latter
comment during an
especially the former interview with conspiracy
theorist Alex Jones.)
president. Fuentes is the least comer – excelling at hate. he perceives as an affront to He’s part of a younger
Fuentes, 24, is an up-and- He was at the Unite the a white, Christian America, generation of racists,
Days later, ample known of the trio. That fact Right rally in including immigrants, the emboldened in recent years
opportunity arose again. Charlottesville, VA in 2017. LGBTQ community, people to slither out of their
quickly became part of He was also at the of color, and Jews. He rants underground circles, sidling
insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 against these groups on a up to disastrously gullible
The founder of a racist Trump’s back peddling and has been subpoenaed podcast and his various elected officials, people like
and anti-government militia by the congressional social media accounts. He Georgia Rep. Marjorie
called the Oath Keepers about the evening. He committee investigating has also created the Taylor Greene and Arizona
was convicted by a federal that terrifying attack on the America First Political Rep. Paul Gosar. And now,
jury of seditious conspiracy claimed he was unaware of U.S. Capitol and its threat Action Conference, which Trump.
for his actions before and to democracy. he uses to further
during the Jan. 6 riot. The Fuentes’ virulent broadcast his hateful ideas. He’s glad-handed with
conviction underscored the Fuentes opposes anyone
ties between former antisemitism and racism, see SANCHEZ on page 8
President Donald Trump
saying Fuentes had been a

party extra, a friend of Ye’s.

The reasoning skirted the
fact that Ye, who was
officially invited to Trump’s

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wearing my tool belt rig all do this as the piping is being conversation.
day long while building a installed from the house to
new house. Three years ago the septic tank.What a great gas lines that service their This new home being built near my house is
I had the pleasure of doing idea! furnaces, water heaters and lacking many cool hacks that could have
this installing all the ranges. Guess what? I had enhanced it in so many ways.
plumbing, radiant heating, Another really this at the last house I built
and electric in my daughter’s for my family. It took me just
new home. inexpensive hack is to install 30 minutes to install the tee
fitting in the black-iron pipe
an outdoor frost-proof hose line, cut and thread the that hung from the ceiling in attached garages and room and exit into another
short piece of pipe that the basement. With people basements using ordinary room in a distant part of the
faucet that has both hot and went outdoors, and connect wanting convenience with building materials and house. Think of the
the shut-off valve and quick laundry rooms — often on containers that would trick possibilities!
As you might suspect, cold water supply. I did this disconnect for the hose that the same floor as the a sly burglar. If you do this,
extends to the grill. bedrooms — I don’t think always plan for floods. You There are several
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hands-on building they can wash a filthy child disguised as bookcases,
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ones about secret spaces to entrances and exits. As for a secret room. You can
accumulated quite a few encrusted car in bitter-cold hide valuables. As you might myself, I’ve always wanted locate these companies with
suspect, I had thought of secret staircases and ease on the internet.
intriguing hacks that should weather. Once again, it only that and have one such passageways in a house. YouTube has quite a few
place in my existing home. They’d work much like in videos of clever ways to
be in many homes — as well takes a few extra minutes in At the very least there are the game of Clue where you create secret doors.
simple ways to do this in enter a passageway in one
as a handful of fantasy hacks most cases to install the hot

that you will only find in water line to this faucet. Moving inside, right at the
top of my son’s wish list was
homes built by those that Generous roof hard-wired ethernet cables
to all bedrooms and any
can afford them. overhangs, roofs over room that might have a TV
or monitor connected to
Not too long ago, I shared exterior doors, deep the Internet. Many feel
with my newsletter wireless is the way to go,
subscribers that I was going porches that offered shade but if you do your
to produce a simple yet in- homework, you’ll discover a
depth book sharing my on sunny days, and hard-wired cable provides
hacks. I decided to engage faster and more secure
my subscribers and asked screened-in porches were connections.
them what they’d love to
have in their next home if features many wanted on
they had a magic wand and
unlimited budget. All who their next home.A variation
offer a suggestion will get a
free PDF copy of the book. on the screened-in porch is Sanchez
This same offer is open to
readers of Ask the Builder, an octagonal stand-alone
and the link to the form to
share your ideas is at the structure that could be continued from page 6
end of this column. Gosar and many members
located in a lush shade of the far right. He’s been writing. gain a foothold on the GOP
photographed smiling in a by aligning themselves,
garden. I built one of these Quite a few people red MAGA cap, as if that McCarthy is being extra literally putting themselves
makes him an acceptable careful not to anger in the same room, with
years ago for a customer. walked down memory lane conservative, instead of just Trump’s base because he characters like Trump.
a modern version of a needs the support of far-
Ever since I completed the and desired an old- Klansman. right members of Congress
to become the next
punch list, I’ve always fashioned laundry chute. Speaker of the House. He is
already dancing to their
wanted one for myself. These require a tune, vowing to launch his Fuentes can likely sniff an
own investigation of the easy target. He knows the
Many folks wanted to considerable amount of committee investigating the GOP fears Trump’s base.
ditch their propane grill Jan. 6 riot.
canisters. They want a pipe work and harken back to
that extends out to their “Why?” You might ask.
patio or deck that connects the day when someone in It shouldn’t be a surprise Well, every indication is
to the propane or natural that Fuentes wormed his that he wants to soften the
Let’s start on the outside the house didn’t mind way to a seat at that dinner current findings, to cast And no amount of time
of the house and work our table. doubt on what is being
way inside. I’m not an RV sorting through different uncovered. He wants to is going to make this go
provide cover for the GOP
people’s laundry in the cage and Trump. away. For one thing, it’s

The enemy is not the Fuentes today, but could be
Democrats. It’s not House
What’s galling is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi or a militia leader of a yet-to-
more than a week later, too Republican Rep. Liz Cheney
Ullman many leaders within the in her leadership of the Jan be-established group
GOP are still carefully 6. investigative committee
trying to distance or even increasingly more tomorrow. Or a nativist
themselves from Trump moderate conservatives
without igniting the fury of like former New Jersey group. Or an anti-
his base. Gov. Chris Christie.
continued from page 7 government sort who
The danger to the GOP
probably make that a non- appeal needed to win In Congress, the vice is people like Fuentes. believes the federal
starter. election. And the vice These are people who can
president would have to be president would engage the government has no right to
able to work with
However, beginning in members of the opposition leadership of both parties exist.
2024, why not consider party in Congress.
using the vice president in a in both houses to House Minority Leader People with such
more substantial role? How would this work? In ideologies tend to morph
the executive branch, the coordinate legislation and Rep. Kevin McCarthy and splinter into new
president sets the strains with ease. But
decisions, priorities and reach agreement where condemned Fuentes, saying they’ve all found a way to
policies. The vice president embrace Trump. Trump is
The disadvantages are would ensure that the possible, bringing in the that such people have no the connector between
cabinet officers carry out themselves and the
many, from finding the right, those directives and president only when that role in Republican politics. republic they want to
orders, providing oversight dismantle.
"politically correct" and coordination. intervention was critical. But then McCarthy

individual, to Hopefully, this might defended Trump, citing the

overshadowing the temper excessive former president’s

president. That means the partisanship and apparent lack of knowledge

vice president must extremism. about Fuentes and falsely

possess the skill sets to Is the United States claiming that Trump decried The GOP must find the
capable of such a change? fortitude to sever that
serve as COO and not Future governance may the young white nationalist. dangerous bond.
depend on that.
necessarily constituent Trump did not. He still
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taken before full benefits before you reach
retirement age. So, if full retirement age, your It’s Nearly Unanimous!
you're like me, and your Social Security checks
eyes just glaze over will be reduced five- Almost all audience members have responded
when presented with ninths of 1% for the first to our survey request and 98% of them have
too many numbers, you 36 months and five-
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today's column and go remaining months. For This Holiday Show is so good we’re offering a
straight to the comics example, if your full
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newspaper instead! you want to take benefits
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numbers and all. I for the months from age
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from a reader who kind will be reduced five- should perform at Fireside in Fort
of chewed me out for twelfths of 1% for the Atkinson” - Al Barbour
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reduction that is applied 30% reduction if your night gave me chills!!” - Katt James
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Security representative Spousal benefits have a 60’s Doo-Wop and
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that. I'll explain those comes out to a 35%
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done, I think you'll see 67 and a 30% reduction if - Diana Stewart really missing out on this great show.”
why I simply say the your FRA is 66. And that - Nicole Christensen
early benefit reduction is reduction is applied to “Such talent!! Loved their performance.
"about one-half of 1%." the normal spousal rate, Right here in Kenosha.” - Chris White
which is half of the
Part of the problem is primary account holder's “Without instruments you don’t need "Really engaging show with familiar songs &
that there are different full retirement age roadies - wonderful!” - Deborah Miller wonderful harmonies!" - Karla Newman
reduction rates for benefit. Here is an
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Reduced benefits even gotten into the Raptors
reduction factors for
continued from page 11 widow's benefits. I'm not continued from page 5
going to get into them
recently explaining this numbers as in Wilma's because it's WAY too licenses in falconry and ingest through prey should
case above. So, if Betty messy to explain. Those rehab, as well as a master’s be highly regulated, she says,
spousal reduction took benefits at 62, her reduction factors can be degree in falconry. She has like rodenticide. Others, like
normal spousal rate of anywhere from 19/40ths picked up veterinary skills, lead ammunition, should be
business to a reader (I'll $1,500 would be of 1% to 19/48ths of 1% although raptors are sent to banned.
reduced by 35% giving to 57/152nds of 1% to practicing vets for major
call her Betty) who was her a $975 monthly 57/164ths of 1% and on surgeries.
benefit. The SSA rep was and on! If you want to
in a boat like Wilma's. telling her that she was really get into this stuff, The ideal, always, is to
going to get 32.5% of her then just Google "Social rehabilitate raptors and set
Her full retirement age husband's full retirement Security widow's benefit them free, says Ms. She notes that power
benefit. And 32.5% of reduction factors," and Shoemaker. If they imprint companies are starting to
was 67 and she wanted $3,000 equals $975. well ... good luck trying on caretakers or their respond to concerns and in
to understand it. injuries are too extensive to some places are building
to take spousal benefits This is why I just like to heal fully, the next best platforms where ospreys
keep things simple by Once again, I try to option is to train the birds can nest safely above power
on her husband's record telling a woman that if about spousal benefit keep things simple by for an educational center. If lines.
she takes spousal rates. They are always telling a widow that she that isn’t possible or the
at 62. In an email benefits at 62, she's going based on the husband's gets 100% of her injuries are too severe, they
to get about a third of full retirement age husband's benefit if she is must be euthanized.
exchange, Betty said she her husband's full benefit amount. We'll go full retirement age or
retirement age benefit. back to Wilma and Fred. I older when he dies. The Common threats to
was confused because I said Fred's FRA benefit earliest she can get raptors are windows, fishing Although she has periodic
Let me throw in one was $3,000 per month. widow's benefits is age line, power lines, lead
said her reduction rate more note of clarification But let's say Fred, whose 60, when she would get ammunition, and cars, says speaking engagements as a
full retirement age was 71.5%. So, the percentage Ms. Shoemaker: “I want to
would be 35% (as noted 66, started his own she gets is somewhere mitigate some of the conservationist, Ms.
benefits at 62. That between 71.5% and 100% problems that we’re
above for Wilma). She means his benefit is if she is between 60 and creating out there, because Shoemaker spends her day
reduced by 25%, meaning FRA when she starts her we’re just creating so many
said a Social Security he's getting only 75% of widow's benefit. And one hazards.” to day with the raptors.
his $3,000 benefit, or other factor: Unlike
Administration rep she $2,250. Wilma's spousal benefits to a spouse with But, she adds, sometimes Recently, she implanted new
rate is based on his FRA a living husband, widow's it feels like an uphill battle,
talked to on the phone rate of $3,000 and not benefits are based on the and “it’s harder and harder feathers into the wings of an
his actual benefit of guy's actual benefit, not to believe that I can make a
said she was going to get $2,250. his FRA rate. difference.” osprey that had broken

a 32.5% spousal rate. I To go to the other end Some threats that leave some. It took three sittings
of the benefit start date traces that raptors may
had to explain to her that spectrum, let's say Fred and five hours total to trim
waited until age 70 to
we were both right, and begin his benefits. That down the broken feathers
means he'll get a 32%
here is why. bonus added to his and implant new feathers
monthly benefits. In
Let's use the same other words, he is into the old shafts.
actually getting $3,960
per month. But again, “But it’s worth it,” she
Wilma's spousal rate is says, “because then the bird
based on Fred's FRA looks like new and it can fly
benefit, or $3,000, not on a whole lot better.”
his augmented benefit of
$3,960. Ms. Shoemaker says the
real joy of working with
I told you there would raptors is releasing them:
be lots of numbers in this “It’s what we do this for.
column, and I haven't These are wild birds and
they want to be flying free.”

By Sophie Mills

121522 One final note of
clarification that should
help most widows. Most
of the time, a woman is
well into her 70s or 80s
when her husband dies.
In those cases, the widow
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n’t How Native Americans’ resistance
shaped the United States
re books
Pekka Hämäläinen sections of North America,
ou even into the 19th century.
t’s begins his provocative European powers might
is have claimed the continent,
history of the conquest of the author observes, but
Indigenous peoples in fact
en North America by controlled it. “Time and
ou again, and across centuries,
ur describing a thriving group Indians blocked and
ld destroyed colonial projects,
ea of hunter-gatherers who forcing Euro-Americans to
se accept Native ways, Native
ps inhabited wide swaths of sovereignty, and Native
rk dominance,” he writes.
the land as far back as Hämäläinen, who has
written previous books on
10,000 B.C. It’s a fitting the Lakota and the
Comanche nations, cites,
introduction to Indigenous among other examples,
Iroquois expansion and
Continent: The Epic dominance in the 17th
century and the
Contest for North Comanches’ command
over the Southwest, which
America, which centers the lasted into the 19th.

as narrative on Native peoples
a
ss, rather than on European
ng
ur colonizers. While Native
he
ou, Americans have often been
ht
seen as tragic victims of
I Misinformation isn’t
wn new. Colonial America history, Hämäläinen
nd was rife with it
presents them instead as

significant actors whose

resistance and resilience

fundamentally shaped the

eventual development of

the United States.

“Indigenous Continent” In addition to maintaining

is In the 18th century, North Americans were desperate is a corrective to the control over much of the

for news, and the continent’s first newspapers endeavored version of American history continent in the face of
to satisfy their readers – regardless of whether their
ps stories were accurate. In the enlightening Misinformation taught in most schools. In Colonial expansion, Native
op Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in
or the traditional telling, with peoples, according to

its suggestion of manifest Hämäläinen, directly

nk Revolutionary America, historian Jordan E. Taylor destiny, the encounters influenced the prospects of The author repeats that the American leviathan.”
message throughout his
s. quotes the printer of the South Carolina Gazette as between Colonial settlers the different Colonial account, demonstrating that
Native Americans impeded
observing placidly in 1737 that his readers, so eager for and the original inhabitants powers. Referring to the first the land-hungry There is much more of
colonists, and then their note in this rich, substantial
information, were “as much pleased with false News as lead inexorably and Iroquois Confederacy, also descendants, well into the book. (For instance,
19th century. It’s a brutal Hämäläinen is particularly
true.” Toward the end of the century, the editor of the inevitably to the known as the Five Nations, and violent history: In attentive to the profound
addition to warfare, impact of the horse,
Massachusetts Western Star was asked by an impatient vanquishing of Native he writes, “The Five diseases – primarily brought by the Spanish to
smallpox – decimated the New World, on the
reader, “if you have no news from abroad why don’t you Americans. In reframing the Nations League profoundly Indigenous populations. power dynamics between
Meanwhile, the American Native Americans and
fabricate some?” story, reorienting it to the shaped American history by population grew rapidly, Europeans.) Its detailed
expanding ever westward emphasis on the Indigenous
Taylor’s erudite and engaging debut vividly Native perspective, bolstering certain colonial to the Pacific. perspective is welcome and
demonstrates the challenges of transmitting information occasionally revelatory.
in the early modern age. In the 17th century, British Hämäläinen, an American projects – New
commercial vessels were the colonists’ primary source for
foreign news. When a ship arrived at port, its captain history professor at Oxford Netherland, New York, and
would distribute letters he’d been asked to deliver upon
reaching his destination; in addition, the crew and University, presents not a the other middle colonies –
passengers would provide oral accounts of noteworthy
events back in Europe. Colonial America, but an while thwarting others,

Indigenous America. “The most notably New France,

history of the whose commercial and

overwhelming and territorial ambitions in the

persisting Indigenous interior were severely At times, however, the

power recounted here reduced by Iroquois analysis falls short.

Both of these information sources had obvious remains largely unknown,” power.” As a result of King In time, the United States Hämäläinen makes
shortcomings: letters took months to arrive and were
SR092321 frequently lost at sea, while oral reports might be little he writes, “and it is the Philip’s War in New England relied more on law and repeated references to the
more than unsubstantiated rumors. The rise of
newspapers, whose numbers expanded throughout the biggest blind spot in and the 1680 Pueblo Revolt treaties than on warfare in Colonial powers and, later,
18th century, made the distribution of news more
centralized and hierarchical. As a result, elites began to common understandings of against the Spanish in New dispossessing Native the Americans being afraid
exert more influence over the information that was
transmitted. “Compared to the letter-writing and oral the American past.” Mexico, Native Americans, Americans of their land. By of and humiliated by Native
cultures that preceded them,” Taylor writes, “newspapers
were more likely to obey the whims of the mighty.” Hämäläinen emphasizes in Hämäläinen’s words, the late 19th century, Americans. After noting
the extent to which Native
Americans dominated huge “rolled colonialism back in Hämäläinen points out, that nearly 100,000

different corners of the “Indigenous nations could

continent.” no longer win wars against story continues on page 15

Throughout the book,Taylor describes attempts by the NEW YORK TIMES
powerful to control the dissemination of information. For BEST SELLERS
instance, the author notes that white Southerners sought
to restrict enslaved people’s access to news of revolutions
in Europe and the Caribbean, concerned that it would
inspire them to revolt.

SSRR016211551292Even as newspapers proliferated, misinformation PRINT & E-BOOKS NONFICTION PRINT & E-BOOKS FICTION
continued to flourish. Taylor observes that journalism as
we know it did not yet exist, and newspapers often merely 1. The Light We Carry (M.Obama) 1. A World of Curiousities (Penny)
reprinted letters or newspaper stories that printers 2. Friends,Lovers,&theBigTerribleThing (Perry) 2. It Starts With Us (Hoover)
received from foreign sources.With the Colonies bristling 3. I’m Glad My Mom Died (McCurdy) 3. It Ends With Us (Hoover)
against British rule, their news became increasingly 4. The Body Keeps the Score (van der Kolk) 4. Verity (Hoover)
politicized. Because of the difficulty in verifying 5. Surrender (Bono) 5. The Boys From Biloxi (Grisham)
information, different newspapers frequently presented 6. And There Was Light (Meacham) 6. Lessons in Chemistry (Garmus)
y conflicting versions of the same event. Both Patriots and 7. So Help Me God (Pence) 7. Fairy Tale (King)
Loyalists “sought out and amplified congenial news 8. The Revolutionary (Schiff) 8. Where the Crawdads Sing (Owens)
ons. sources while limiting their readers’ engagement with 9. A Heart That Works (Delaney) 9. Triple Cross (Patterson)
3 unfriendly newspapers,” Taylor writes. (The author’s 10. The Song of the Cell (Mukherjee) 10. Ugly Love (Hoover)

S suggestion that the misrepresentations amplified by

story continues on page 15

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Europe staggered toward a
conclusion, U.S. military leaders bringing back
looked uneasily toward the Pacific.
Japan showed no willingness to lay his Stories of
down its arms, but after 3 1/2 years of
war, the American public was tired of Surrender
conflict, and the casualty projections
for an anticipated invasion of Japan book tour. The
were very high.
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To Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold, head 2023. Stories of Bono
of the Army Air Force, this was an
opportunity. If he could use his brand- Surrender is in
new massive B-29 Superfortress
bomber to bring the war to a swift support of
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case to establish the Air Force as a Bono's memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, released
separate branch of the U.S. military. In
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the in November. The show features Bono, musicians Gemma
Firebombing of Tokyo, and the
Road to the Atomic Bomb, Doherty and Kate Ellis, and musical director Jacknife Lee
historian James M. Scott recounts
what happened next. for an evening of "words, music and some mischief." The

new dates begin April 16, 2023, and run through May 3.

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From the beginning of the war, the U.S. bombers “burned more than 178 and superbly written book,“Bridge to Indigenous b
United States practiced high-level square miles of sixty-six cities, which the Sun: The Secret Role of the Continent w
“precision bombing,” which targeted were home to more than 20 million Japanese Americans who fought in the
military objectives and sought to men, women, and children.” Later Pacific in World War II,” is filled with si
minimize civilian casualties. The estimates concluded that these raids grace, courage, and patriotism.
British, having been subjected to the killed 330,000 people and injured continued from page 14 ev
Blitz, were in favor of “area bombing,” another 473,000. The stories of the U.S. Army’s
which, while prioritizing military 442nd regiment, composed of Patriot news sources were a necessary precondition for w
installations, acknowledged that At home, the results of the big raid Japanese Americans who fought in
civilians in the target area were at were cheered – it was payback for the Europe with great bravery, are the Revolution is intriguing if not wholly convincing.)
risk. sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. LeMay legendary and oft-told. Largely
was aware that he was targeting unknown is the story of the roughly After the Revolution, the pattern continued in the new te
But the Air Force had a dismal civilians. “If we lose,” he confided to 3,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry
record of putting bombs near the an aide, “we’ll be tried as war who acted as translators, nation, with rival Federalists and Democratic-Republicans o
target in Japan, mostly because of the criminals.” But neither then nor later interrogators, and interpreters in the
winds at high altitude over the island did he seem troubled: “I was not Pacific theater. preferring news that reinforced their different worldviews. to
kingdom. happy, but neither was I particularly
concerned, about civilian casualties on Japan’s military believed that the Americans were especially anxious for foreign news during o
After months of futility, Arnold incendiary raids,” he later recalled. complexity of the language would
replaced the head of the 21st Bomber make it impossible for their plans to the French Revolution. The pro-revolutionary b
Command with a highly respected But Scott notes that later, be interpreted, so they did not always
and aggressive young commander dispassionate observers took a far communicate in code. What they did Democratic-Republicans favored French news sources, p
named Curtis LeMay. His solution was dimmer view. The 1947 official U.S. not count on were a few young
to abandon high-level, daylight Strategic Bombing Survey simply said, Americans – many of whom had been despite the added burden of procuring translations, while fi
precision bombing in favor of low- “The raid of 10 March was clearly one educated in the United States and
level, night area bombing. Rather than of the greatest catastrophes in all Japan – who spoke both languages the Federalists favored British. Taylor quotes from several re
high explosives, LeMay would use only history.” Another bombing report fluently. When these messages were
incendiary bombs, which were simply noted, “Probably more persons ... lost intercepted and translated, it gave the reports on the 1793 execution of Marie Antoinette to
designed to start fires. their lives by fire at Tokyo in a six- Americans a secret weapon.
hour period than at any time in the dramatize the clashing perspectives; the British papers an
Most Japanese buildings were made history of man.” Henderson follows six young men,
of wood, and population density was growing up in 1930s America and, for were aghast at the violence of the event, while the French to
sometimes as high as 100,000 people It was, of course, the atomic bombs various reasons, finding themselves in
per square mile. On March 9, 1945, that ultimately ended the war. But the U.S. military. In four of the cases, focused on the charges against the queen. Frustrated by st
LeMay launched 300 bombers for a Scott persuasively argues that the their parents were living in
night attack on a part of Tokyo packed path to Hiroshima and Nagasaki internment camps during World War the inconsistent war coverage, one Boston printer sy
with small manufacturing firms and began with the firebombing of Tokyo II. The stories are heartrending. One
tens of thousands of people. five months earlier. There was little tearful mother in a guarded lamented, “the situation of France, in one set of Prints, is w
debate about the morality of killing so compound sent her departing son off
The raid lasted just 142 minutes, many civilians with an atomic bomb, to war with one plea: “Make us represented as deplorable and ruinous – in another set, as re
but results were devastating. Some 16 he suggests, because the U.S. had proud.”
square miles of Tokyo were already decided that civilian casualties prosperous and auspicious.” as
incinerated – more than 10,000 acres. were just part of war. As Henderson writes, these men
An estimated 267,171 homes, stores, “fought two wars simultaneously: one, With early America's news sources so biased, Taylor o
and businesses were destroyed. “The The raids that were so welcomed against their ancestral homeland; the
magnitude of the destruction and loss at the time look horrifying nearly 80 other against racial prejudice at writes that “individuals’ choices as news consumers E
was almost impossible to years later. But a fair reading of home.”
comprehend,” Scott writes. American history requires that we contributed to the formation of their political identities.” F
“Residents had gone to bed the night look at all sides of the story, even if The inspirational story of these
before ... only to awaken to a world they are inconsistent with the image men at a crucial juncture in American That sentence could easily characterize today’s partisan
on fire.” Only 14 bombers were lost. that we hold of ourselves. history makes for gripping reading.
Exhaustively researched and well More importantly, as Henderson media landscape, as the author is well aware. He intends w
Historians now estimate that written, Scott’s book is a key part of notes, “In an America that too often for his audience to reflect upon our own anxieties over b
105,000 people died that night. Scott understanding a fuller picture of prejudices people based on race and “fake news” as we read about similar concerns dating back Sa
makes brilliant use of firsthand World War II. ethnicity, their timeless message of more than 200 years. In Taylor’s telling, our democracy has sa
accounts to describe the experience courage and patriotism should not be not only survived misinformation but was practically built h
of those on the ground. If “Black Snow” is thought- forgotten.” on it. It's a notion that would be comforting if it weren’t so
provoking and deeply troubling, Bruce so troubling.
Air Force officials believed that Henderson’s brilliantly researched By Terry W. Hartle
LeMay had found the key to ending By Barbara Spindel lo
the war. Over the next five months,
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Indigenous people were forcibly removed to reservations o
west of the Mississippi, the author calls the reservations “a so
sign of American weakness, not strength.” Similarly, he es
writes of the 1890 killing of nearly 300 Lakota men, th
women, and children by the U.S.Army that “the apocalyptic p
Wounded Knee Massacre was a sign of American weakness p
and fear.” These characterizations fit his thesis but feel

inadequate in the face of the American government’s power to

to carry out such destructive and calamitous policies. ar

“Indigenous Continent” ends around the time of to
Wounded Knee. Hämäläinen briefly addresses the present to
day, noting that “today, many Native nations and th
communities are rapidly growing in numbers.The continent al
is speckled with hundreds of Native nations that preserve

Indigenous sovereignty and nationhood.”
in

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," commissions and bonuses -- may often suffer poor health somewhat weaker among and control something as
s. related to their financial insecurity, new research has shown. these employees that are important as the amount of "That is a solution at the
earning more money, but for money you take home at the
people who are highly reliant end of the day that really corporate level, where you
on volatile forms of pay -- in matters," she said.
other words, their monthly alter the pay arrangement so
commission makes up 40%
or 50% or 60% of their total that people are not as
take-home pay -- for those
Capitalism is thought to count on a steady salary. backaches, eye strain. And people, I still see this dependent upon
they also reported more relationship where more
bring out the best in About 57 million symptoms of insomnia." volatility predicts more Based on these results, commissions, bonuses and
Americans -- more than one- physical health symptoms,"
workers, but there's a dark third of the U.S. workforce - To find out why this is Sayre said. businesses should tips," he said. "But then you
- work in the "gig economy," happening, Sayre conducted
side to tying a person's taking piece work as another study of 375 Interestingly, the amount reconsider whether still need some sort of
freelancers, Uber drivers, workers with Amazon's of savings a person had no
everyday efforts to their food deliverers, landscapers Mechanical Turk, a website effect on the stress caused performance-based pay incentive process so they
and temp office employees, where gig workers are paid by the scarcity mindset,
or weekly paycheck. Sayre said in background small fees for piecemeal Sayre found. really helps their bottom don't say, 'well, I'm getting
notes. tasks.
Folks relying on short- People also weren't able line, Sayre said. They might paid for this so I don't have
Another 4.8 million work The participants to counter their pay-related
w term, freelanced office jobs, for tips as waiters, hair completed weekly surveys worries by using techniques get more out of workers to work as hard.'"
ns or jobs where pay is linked stylists, taxi drivers and nail for three weeks, with health like mindfulness, a practice in
ws. to hustle -- depending largely technicians, and nearly 15 findings similar to the study which people alleviate stress who have stable Muskin pointed to the
ng on tips, commissions and million work at desks in sales on tipped workers. by focusing on the present need to be creative.
ry bonuses -- may often suffer jobs where commissions and moment. compensation.
s, poor health related to their performance bonuses are Sayre found that MTurk
e financial insecurity, new the rule. workers who experienced "I was surprised -- and "It matters how "There are systems that
al research has shown. extreme swings in pay not, at the same time -- that dependent we are on volatile could be created if
The problem is that these tended to develop what he mindfulness didn't really sources of pay," Sayre said. companies chose, where
o Employees with fluctuating people aren't fully in control calls a "scarcity mindset." impact on it," said Dr. Philip "So basically, if you're employees had a vested
rs and unpredictable pay tend of what they make, Sayre Muskin, a professor of working a sales job and 80% interest in the effort they put
h to have poorer sleep, more said. They can be incredibly "That's referring to psychiatry at Columbia to 90% of your pay comes in so their pay was
by stress and miserable physical talented and put in a lot of financial worry, financial University Irving Medical from a steady salary, and you guaranteed, but their level of
er symptoms that affect their work, but their efforts can rumination, worrying about Center in New York City. get a small commission or work is also reciprocated,"
is work and home life, said lead be easily undermined by a having enough money to "Because being mindful in performance based bonus he said.
as researcher Gordon Sayre, an tight economy, a business dry make ends meet, worried your approach to things that makes up the other 10%
spell or a cheapskate about being able to cope doesn't pay the bills, and to 20%, that's not so bad.You The new study was
assistant professor of customer who won't tip. with unexpected bills, that paying the bills for many can handle volatility when it published recently in the
sort of thing," Sayre said. people is very scary." makes up a relatively small Journal of Applied
or organizational behavior at To see how unstable pay proportion of your pay." Psychology.
rs Emlyon Business School in might affect these workers, Beyond the toll taken by It's not just waiters, car
.” France. Sayre conducted a series of stress, people constantly salespeople or ad execs who By Dennis Thompson
three studies. preoccupied by financial are likely to feel the effects
an Those symptoms grow worries tend to neglect highlighted by Sayre's
ds worse as a person's finances In the first, he asked 85 other factors in their lives research, Muskin suspects.
er become more unstable, U.S. workers who rely on that are important to their Even professionals like
ck Sayre said, and the amount of tips to answer daily online health, he said. doctors and lawyers are
as savings they might have on surveys for two weeks about under pressure to see more
lt hand seems to provide no their total daily pay and "You're focused on patients or run up more
’t solace. health. remedying that source of billable hours, with their pay
scarcity, whether it's earning depending on how fast they
"There's a lot of research Participants said tips more money by working hustle, he said.
el looking at how performance- accounted for a quarter of more, whether it's trying to
their total income on find other sources of "I think this is not just
based pay, commission-based average, but they only income, or whether it's applicable to gig workers or
received tips 4 out of 5 work focused on budgeting more people sort of at the lower
pay, piece-rate based pay days. to save money," Sayre said. end of income earning. I
"And you're not so worried think this is throughout our
leads to higher levels of "Tipped workers who about eating a healthy dinner society," Muskin said. "And
experienced more volatility or getting your hour of yeah, maybe people who are
motivation or higher levels in their pay over the two exercise that day because earning $1 million a year and
ns of performance. That's been weeks that I followed them you have basically more
“a sort of fairly well- also tended to report more pressing issues on your
he established, and that's one of physical symptoms at the mind."
en, the reasons why these pay end of those two weeks,"
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animals Pet World
in the news with Cathy Rosenthal

An adopted dog needs help
Dog accidentally sent adjusting to his new home

through X-ray tunnel

at Madison airport Dear Cathy, My son kennel time, which might

The Transportation Security adopted a two-year-old explain the "zoomies." The As well as being a recuring
guest on Happenings Q&A,
Administration Great Lakes revealed in Shepherd/Doberman mix zoomies mean he needs more
Cathy M. Rosenthal is a
a Twitter post that a small dog was from a shelter. The dog loves physical and mental longtime animal advocate,
author, columnist and pet
"accidentally sent through the X-ray" people, and that seems to be stimulation, which your son expert who has more than

when it was left inside a traveler's the problem. He can't be left can provide through daily 30 years in the animal
welfare field. Send your pet
carry-on bag at Dane County Regional alone. If they put him in his training, play sessions, and questions, stories and tips to

Airport in Madison. "When traveling crate, he barks constantly. He leashed walks. [email protected].

Zoo asks the public with any animal, notify your airline & was not neutered until they Let's start with training. Tell Cathy Rosenthal joins
to vote on names for your son to work on the "sit," Happenings Q&A on
penguin chick know their rules. At the checkpoint, adopted him. The vet said he "down," "stay," "come," and
"kennel" commands. He Thurs. Dec. 29 at
remove your pet from the bag and has separation anxiety and should use a clicker or reward 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
word, like bingo, to mark the
send all items, including the empty that once his testosterone desired behavior, followed by a eating or playing with a toy, the
treat. Giving the dog his meals, kennel should remain open as
An Oklahoma zoo is asking flightless carrier, to be screened in the machine," levels go down, it should help. treats, chews, and puzzle toys much as possible. Never use
bird fans to help choose a name for its in the kennel is a great way to the kennel as punishment or
recently hatched penguin chick. The the tweet said. The tweet included the He told them to use begin kennel training - and as a cage where he spends
Tulsa Zoo said the chick hatched Oct. 3 X-ray photo of the dog inside the calming keep his mind busy. (If he's most of his time.
to parents Dassen and Ireland, and the chews and busy, he has less time to
zoo is now asking visitors to its traveler's backpack.TSA representative pheromone sprays, but they worry.) As for the cat,
website to vote on a name for the Jessica Mayle said the dog, a dachshund- worked only for a while. He is introductions should always
young bird. The zoo said the selected chihuahua mix, had been cleared to fly in training classes. Sometimes, Have your son say "kennel" be done slowly (over days)
names -- River, Sandy and Robbie -- are by the airline, but the passenger had he listens; and sometimes, he as he places the food in the with the dog on a leash. If the
gender-neutral, as the chick's sex has been unaware of the correct protocol doesn't. They keep him on a kennel. Use the clicker or dog chased or scared the cat
not yet been determined. when taking her pet through the leash in the house and reward word when the dog during the first introduction,
security checkpoint. "After [the dog] backyard. My son sleeps in a enters the kennel, followed by this dynamic has now been set
was discovered by the X-ray operator, recliner because the dog will a high-value treat. Once the up. Before re-introducing
the officer explained the proper not sleep in his crate at night. dog appears occupied with the them, have your son train the
River is a reference to Mariano process to the passenger and They were told to feed the food or activity, your son can dog with the "leave it"
leave the room for 30 seconds command. This can be taught
Rivera, a former closing pitcher for the confirmed she had disclosed she was dog in the crate, which they and then return. If the dog whenever the dog goes after
barks or whines, he can something, like food or the
New York Yankees; Sandy is short for traveling with the pet to the airline," do, but he doesn't want to stay shorten the time away. If he cat, that your son wants him
to leave alone.
Sandman, which is Rivera's nickname; Mayle said in an email to USA Today. in it. He also sometimes does
To make the cat feel safe
ves and Robbie was chosen in honor of "After her bags were cleared, she what my son calls the again, make sure there are
let Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in proceeded to her gate." Mayle said the "zoomies." places where the cat can jump
or hide to get out of the dog's
ck Major League Baseball. The baseball dog was unharmed but "a little skittish" They love him, and so do I. reach.
players were chosen as the basis for after going through the X-ray tunnel. But they have had to change
their lifestyle, and so has their I'm unsure if this is actual
the penguin's name as they both Iguana wanders into separation anxiety or just
to sported jersey No. 42, and the penguin anxiety and pent-up energy
he chick's current designation at the zoo substation, causes cat, who is petrified of the colliding in an unfamiliar
he is No. 4242. environment. However, if your
'large scale outage' dog. Please give us some ideas doesn't bark or whine, he can son trains him every day,
I teaches him that his leaving
Officials in a Florida city said a "large to make him feel secure use the clicker or reward doesn't mean forever, plays
up scale outage" for power customers was enough to be left alone. -- word to mark the quiet with him, and walks him, his
caused by an iguana that wandered into Suzy, Coram, New York behavior followed by a treat. dog should learn to be calmer
ur a substation. The city of Lake Worth Dear Suzy, A newly Over time, your son can build and less anxious.
Beach said on Twitter that the city's adopted dog usually needs up the number of times he
to power company, Lake Worth Beach help adjusting to his new leaves the room and the time
Electric Utility, dispatched repair crews home. I assume the dog's he is gone. This helps the dog
he to tackle a "large scale outage." The city kennel is in the family room learn your son can leave but
said the outage was caused by an because that's where your son will always return.
ou.

an

D.,

yo

iguana that wandered into the 6th sleeps. That's excellent; it When the dog is content

Avenue Substation and came into should always be where the with your son being gone for

contact with equipment. The city's family hangs out the most. 30 minutes, he should be fine

Escaped cow runs outage tracking map confirmed power Most dogs whine if they can't to leave in the kennel for an
into doctor's office
was restored later in the day. sleep near their families at hour or two. (If gone any
A pair of Virginia cow catchers
responded to a doctor's office where a Escaped puppy night, so he should consider longer, please have him hire a
650-pound bovine smashed through crosses Hudson River adding a second kennel pet sitter to break up the
the glass doors and entered the from NY to NJ upstairs. dog's day with play sessions.)
building. Timmy Lamb and Sam Once the dog associates the
Crawford said they rode on horseback I wonder though, why the
to the area where a cow was reported
on the loose in Orange. The cow had A puppy that escaped from his owner dog needs to sleep in the kennel with fun things, he will

in New York was seen entering the kennel at night and again become more comfortable in

Hudson River and was later rescued during certain times of the it.

when he was discovered hiding under a day. It sounds like too much Please note: Except for

New Jersey pier. Ellen Wolpin said Bear

jumped from the back of a trailer and the puppy, who is in training to be a

ran down a road to the area around seizure service dog for her son, pulled

Orange Family Physicians. The cattle free from his collar while she was

wranglers said the cow became walking him on the Upper West Side of

spooked when they arrived and ran Manhattan. Bear ran about 30 blocks,

around the building, ultimately crashing to where witnesses saw the puppy

through the glass doors and entering entering the Hudson River. Days passed

the office. Employees ran for cover and without any further sightings and

Lamb and Crawford entered the Bear's owners feared the worst. Three

building to lasso the cow in the office. days later the Edgewater Fire Company

"You ain't no cowboy if you don't in New Jersey responded to a report of
rope a calf out of a [doctor's] office," barking underneath an Independence
Lamb wrote on Facebook. The men Harbor pier and ended up plucking a
escorted the cow, which was not puppy out of the water.The puppy was
injured, out of the building. "Can't make soon identified as the missing Bear
this stuff up," Orange Family Physicians thanks to a microchip. Bear was
wrote on Facebook. returned to his family.

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Supply can't meet demand as C
diabetes drugs' use surges for weight loss 2

Because of a national Wegovy costs about $1,400 w
a month and Ozempic costs
shortage of a weight-loss about $900, before taking
insurance coverage and
drug called Wegovy -- other factors into account.
Both are made by Novo
touted as a "game changer" Nordisk, of Denmark.

when it entered the U.S. Despite shortages, which
the manufacturer says it will
market 1 1/2 years ago -- resolve soon, the good news ye
is that the estimated 4 in 10 up
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and struggling to lose weight
hard to obtain another finally have highly effective Tw
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medication intended to them, endocrinologist Dr. ex
Beverly Tchang said.
improve blood-sugar
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control but helps obese we've never treated these
patients [with obesity]
people lose weight, as well. before. It's not about taking
medications away from
Medical professionals say people with diabetes. It's ta
demand is surging -- fueled about actually treating a sta
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Ozempic is very real," Dr. weight loss is as important Charlottesville, Va., who specializes in obesity medicine, says it's not fair to shift 20
Paul Bradley, an Atlanta as blood-sugar control. blame for diabetes drug shortages to people who need weight-loss medication. ba
internist, told UPI in a phone pa
interview. "My diabetic "When we treat obesity,
patients are getting their we are either treating or Ve
prescriptions, but they're preventing diabetes," she be
being inconvenienced by said.
having to shop [at] multiple Then, in May, when the increase significantly, she weeks to reach pharmacies ground, though.
drug stores." The FDA approved FDA approved a higher said, "especially when the across the United States.
Wegovy for adults with strength, 2-mg. dose of company offered a coupon In May, the FDA approved giv
Pharmacist Erin Fox told obesity who have a body Ozempic -- putting it closer that allowed patients to pay So what are doctors Eli Lilly & Co.'s injectable ite
UPI in an email the situation mass index of 30 or greater, to Wegovy in potency -- only $25 per month for six prescribing in the meantime Mounjaro, or tirzepatide, to Th
is difficult on her end, too. or overweight adults with a Ozempic prescriptions took months for this game for weight loss? improve blood sugar ta
BMI of at least 27 who have off. changer." control. The FDA has an
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shortage -- we know condition, such as "There were 4.8 million without diabetes, "we would
patients depend on hypertension, Type 2 Weight loss is tied to the prescriptions written for consider Ozempic as an off- drug for weight loss.
Ozempic and the supplies diabetes or high cholesterol. size of a dose of semaglutide in 2021 and label medication," if they
are very inconsistent," said semaglutide, doctors said, so they couldn't keep up with meet guidelines for BMI and Y"Mounjaro is getting
Fox, senior pharmacy At least 50% of people Ozempic's approval at demand," Welford Varney have other weight-related mpicked up very well because
director at University of who take Wegovy lose 15% double its original dose said. health conditions, Tchang
Utah Health and adjunct of their body weight or made it more attractive as a said. of the SURMOUNT trial
professor at University of more, with 4 in 10 patients weight-loss drug -- until it, Novo Nordisk said in a showing 20% to 25% weight
Utah College of Pharmacy. losing 20% or more, clinical too, ran into short supply. statement it is "currently loss" from using it, Tchang w
trial data show. experiencing intermittent
supply disruptions on But most commercial said. "We may use Mounjaro
When it was approved, various doses of Ozempic health insurers, once less
Wegovy became the first due to the combination of strict about requiring a as an alternative to Ozempic an
new drug treatment for incredible demand coupled diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes
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not to have more detail since Saxenda, or liraglutide, Varney, a UVA Health family constraints." usually deny coverage unless
about how much product debuted in December 2014. medicine physician in a person has this diagnosis, and also talk about using th
you can expect to receive or But Saxenda requires daily Charlottesville, Va., who While patients "in some she said.
when the shortage will truly injections that result in less specializes in obesity areas of the country will Mounjaro off-label" in so
be resolved." weight loss, doctors said. medicine, decried efforts to experience delays," the
blame people with obesity company said it is making patients with obesity. ra
That's why demand for for creating shortages of a short- and long-term
Wegovy quickly exceeded drug for diabetes control. investments to resolve Still, Tchang isn't m
supply, and supply chain "temporary challenges."
issues made the costly convinced about Mounjaro's on
product even more scarce. Novo Nordisk also said it
Each brand that contains "recognizes that some If Ozempic is not ability to meet demand,
the active ingredient found By February, Novo healthcare providers may be available, Tchang said, she
in Wegovy, Ozempic and Nordisk halted 0.25- prescribing Ozempic for may switch diabetic patients either. to
other drugs, semaglutide, is milligram and 0.5-mg. patients whose goal is to to another semaglutide --
approved by the Food and starting doses of Wegovy "More accurately, we need lose weight, and it is up to either Trulicity, a once-a- "I think Mounjaro will iss
Drug Administration for and focused on supplying their clinical discretion to week injection, or Victoza, a
different conditions. 2.4-mg. maintenance doses to be blaming employers choose the best treatment daily injection. help meet some of the w
to people already taking the approach for their patients."
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or encourage off-label use
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drugs generally given by a Nordisk said it is "on track Ozempic shortage, there are
weekly or daily shot. The poor planning," she said, to make all dose strengths other anti-diabetes agents "also end up in shortage." pr
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the release of insulin and disputing Novo Nordisk's though it will take a few have adequate insurance According to Tchang, ad
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ble itemize your deductions. income.
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pic and investors are looking rise to $15,500 and catch-up
es forward to putting 2022 in contributions for those over
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adjustments within the tax code for next year, writes Jill Schlesinger.
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ng, adjustments within the tax withholding through the end sure to readjust after the you convert to a Roth, the the end of the calendar year,
of the year. If you are not New Year. money will grow tax-free or else you will pay a When you reinvest the
th code for tax year 2023. The working or are self- and when you retire and whopping penalty. proceeds of these sales, be
employed, you may want to Consider a Roth withdraw it, there will be no mindful of the IRS’ "Wash
ty, IRS announced increases for make an estimated tax conversion tax due. Because Roth plans Embrace your losers Sale" rule, which won’t let
payment to reduce or are not subject to Required you deduct a loss if you buy
[a the standard deduction, new eliminate potential tax If you had lower income in Minimum Distributions It has been a rough year a "substantially identical"
penalties. 2022 or the value of your (RMDs), many use them to for investors, but Uncle Sam investment within 30 days.To
om ranges of income to which traditional IRA is down, it help control future taxation may help assuage your avoid the rule, wait 31 days,
may make sense to convert of Social Security benefits suffering. If you have a and then repurchase the
ad existing marginal tax rates to a Roth IRA.When you do and/or increased costs of taxable investment account, stock or fund you sold, or
so, the amount that you Medicare, which are income you can sell losing positions replace it with something
ng apply, increases to the convert will add to your tested. and use those losses against that is close but not the
taxable income. sales of winning positions. If same (hopefully something
rd Earned Income Tax Credit, Down markets don’t you have more losses than cheaper, like an index or an
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Mediterranean Diet
for Weight Loss

The Mediterranean diet
may just be the most
studied diet pattern we
know. It consistently rates
as a top diet in U.S. News
and World Report's annual
review.

The Mediterranean diet,

which is actually a meal

pattern, was developed in Grilled Vegetable Salad

the 1950s and 1960s when Charlyn Fargo is a
registered dietitian with
a few researchers noticed 4 plum tomatoes, halved
SIU Med School in 2 medium-size zucchini, each cut lengthwise into 4 slices
ut the significantly lower Springfield, Ill. For 2 medium-size yellow squash, each cut lengthwise into 4 slices Preheat grill to medium-high. Combine vegetables in a large bowl and
comments or questions, drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and toss to coat. Place
a prevalence of heart disease 2 baby eggplants, each cut lengthwise into 4 slices vegetables on a grill rack coated with cooking spray. Grill 5 to 6
contact her at 1 large red bell pepper, seeded and cut into 4 wedges
re in countries bordering the [email protected] minutes on each side, removing vegetables as they become tender. Cut
or follow her on Twitter 1 large red onion, cut into thick slices grilled vegetables into bite-size pieces.Toss salad greens with
a Mediterranean Sea. They 1 pound asparagus
@NutritionRd. vinaigrette and place on salad plates.Top greens evenly with vegetables
a attributed the low 2 tablespoons olive oil and sprinkle with goat cheese. Serves 4 (serving size: 1 1/2 cups
that adherence to a 1/2 teaspoon salt greens, 1/4 cup of vegetables and 2 tablespoons cheese).
at prevalence of heart disease Mediterranean lifestyle Cooking spray
pattern was associated with Per serving: 263 calories; 11 grams protein; 28 grams carbohydrate; 16
ur to the overall lifestyle favorable weight loss 6 cups mixed salad greens grams fat (4 grams saturated); 11 grams fiber; 14 grams sugars (0
ak observed and particularly outcomes. The study was 1/4 cup light olive vinaigrette grams added); 523 milligrams sodium.
a the pattern of foods eaten. published in Science 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese
an Meals centered around journal.
he vegetables, fruits, nuts,
m seeds, legumes, whole Researchers examined
ak! grains, eggs, seafood and the relationship between
th less red meat. lifestyle patterns and weight
loss outcomes among those
nt Over the past two who kept their weight off
and those who regained
ry! decades, research has found weight they lost. Some 470 maintainers or regainers Index had 28% higher odds A: Brown fat, also called you take in extra calories.
adults were analyzed (62% and were asked to fill in a for maintaining their weight brown adipose tissue, helps Most of the fat in our
& the Mediterranean diet may were women) with a series of questionnaires on loss. maintain your body bodies is white fat, stored in
help manage diabetes, history of overweight or dietary intake and eating temperature when you get the thighs, hips and
ts protect against memory obesity and significant behaviors, physical activity The researchers added too cold. It's the same fat stomach. White fat is made
Go loss and reduce the risk for weight loss in the year prior and sleep. The participants that even modest shifts that bears use to stay warm of droplets of lipids or fatty
m/ developing certain cancers. to the study. Participants were rated using a toward healthier living may when they hibernate. Babies acids. Cells in brown fat are
he were classified as Mediterranean Lifestyle contribute to long-term are born with a lot of packed with mitochondria,
ur Now a just-released Index. weight loss. brown fat behind their rich in iron, which gives
study finds that the shoulder blades. You lose brown fat its color. Lean
m Mediterranean diet pattern The study found that Q and A most of it as you get older people have more brown
or may help those who lose those who scored the and form a shiver response fat than those who are
ha weight keep that weight off. highest in the Q: What is the difference to cold temperatures. overweight.
ial Mediterranean Lifestyle between brown fat and White fat builds up when
white fat?
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Makes 12 cookies 2. WHISK DRY: In a medium bowl, whisk
Molasses comes from the same place most regular white granulated sugar does: the tall, thick together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger,
grass called sugarcane. Molasses is made by boiling sugarcane juice into a sweet, sticky syrup. It 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (5 2/3 ounces) all-
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this recipe, but don't use blackstrap molasses here -- its flavor is too bitter and intense. 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 3. WHISK WET: In a large bowl, whisk melted
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon butter and brown sugar until smooth.Add
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1/4 teaspoon ground cloves well combined.

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1/3 cup packed (2 1/3 ounces) dark brown sugar
soft dough forms.
1/4 cup (3 ounces) molasses
1 large egg yolk 5. ROLL AND COAT: Place sugar in a shallow
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1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (about 1 heaping tablespoon each). Place dough
1/4 cup (1 3/4 ounces) sugar
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