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Keepers of the flame vs. climate change
reduction: Gas bans worry cooks

Humans have been Chan School of Public
cooking with fire for Health. Natural gas is now a
millennia. But, with concerns key target, he says.
over greenhouse gas
emissions rising, some cities Pollution and safety
are banning natural gas in concerns
the kitchens of the future,
and creating a policy Methane, released from
dilemma: Can we slow
global warming and still eat natural gas systems,
well?
accounts for about 3% of all

U.S. greenhouse gas

emissions, a pollutant that

Dozens of jurisdictions contributes to climate
from Brookline,
Massachusetts, to San change, according to the
Francisco have moved to
ban new gas hookups for U.S. Environmental
heating and cooking, and
New York City last month Protection Agency.
brought its heft to the
trend, setting restrictions on Concerns also exist about
fossil fuel usage in new
buildings by phasing in natural gas as an indoor air
emissions limits beginning
next year. pollution source.

A clean energy advocacy Cities nationwide are banning new natural gas hookups in favor of
group, RMI, estimates that clean energy sources, creating culinary angst for those who love gas
by 2040, the New York City
bill could eliminate the cooking. It’s one reason many locales are banning the gas bans.
equivalent amount of a
Culinary angst over the year’s worth of emissions
from 450,000 cars.

bans among those who find While the natural gas California is simple, he adds. Still, the model from the how powerfully a cultural “Our tastes have been
contribution to the “If you put in the nation’s largest city could be tradition like cooking can shaped through the
flame cooking superior has emissions problem may infrastructure for gas “hugely influential” for other come to bear on public generations by food cooked
seem small compared with hookups, then you run the cities and states looking to policy. Many may see the by direct flames,” Willow
sparked a blowback of bans emissions for transportation risk of locking in continued enact similar legislation to larger picture of Mullins, professor of folklore
(the largest contributor), gas use for decades and slash emissions, Ms. Turner environmental responsibility and ethnology at the
on the bans. Some localities those places instituting gas decades down the road.” says. (And New York Gov. of reducing emissions from University of Edinburgh in
hookup bans are only Kathy Hochul this month natural gas used to heat Scotland, explained in an
and at least 19 states have banning use of gas in new Restaurant chefs mount announced her support for buildings or to power email interview. “As a result,
construction. In California, some of the strongest a statewide gas ban.) electrical production, but there’s a cultural distrust
passed laws to prevent for example, 26 jurisdictions objections to the gas bans, some objections at the towards other ways of
have passed laws to require even though they will still be “You just couldn’t have grassroots level boil down cooking in which we can’t
municipalities from “all-electric” construction, able to use gas in buildings the menu that we have to the attachment to see the fire, even if we know
including Berkeley, Oakland, where hookups already [without gas],” says Tony cooking over fire. they work.”
restricting new natural gas and San Francisco, though exist. Palermo, co-owner of Tony
some exceptions to “all- P’s Dockside Grill in Marina The taste for flame-kissed One of those other ways,
connections. Also behind electric” exist for “If you want to start a Del Rey, California. A chef food is ancient
commercial cooking. restaurant that uses natural for more than 50 years, he see GAS on page 4
these actions: gas-industry gas sources for cooking, likes the way the gas
there are lots and lots of burners can sear a steak,
lobbying for “energy choice” buildings in New York City cook it evenly, and provide
that can accommodate,” reliable heat.
and broader legislative says Amy Turner, senior
fellow at the Sabin Center U.S. census data suggests
tussling along party lines. for Climate Change Law at that gas fuel for cooking is
Columbia Law School, “just used in about 40% of
“With all the progress not brand new buildings.” American homes, and those
most vocal about it suggest
that we’ve made over the

last 10 years or so in terms

of changes to the electrical

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that should be the obvious idea behind the NYC ban
and similar bans in
target of policies to reduce

emissions has changed,” says

Jonathan Buonocore,

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As temperatures rise coast, had similar conditions A combination of dangerously low temperatures and bitter winds
across the West Coast, with a morning low of 47 are making for bone-chilling weather in Alaska this week.
potentially breaking records below zero and a daytime Photo courtesy of Katmai National Park/Twitter
across California, it's a high of 27 below zero, both
different story farther north well below the average low town's unofficial record conditions. Image courtesy temperature the town has northern Alaska producing
in Alaska. Thanks to a of 21 below zero F. wind chill of 100 below zero of AccuWeather reported so far this winter.
combination of dangerously F, set in 2014. dangerous low
low temperatures and bitter On Monday morning, the Utqiagvik reached minus
winds, bone-chilling weather remote northern town of 30 early Monday, and "The intense cold is temperatures and
has overtaken the Last Deadhorse reached 50 temperatures did not get
Frontier this week. below zero, with winds This image, captured early much higher throughout the confined to the northern AccuWeather RealFeel®
making it feel as low as 88 day with a high of minus 25
Bettles, Alaska, located in below zero. Believe it or Tuesday, shows F. This is the lowest high part of the state across the Temperatures that are
the north-central part of not, that's not the coldest
the state, had a low it's ever felt in Deadhorse. It temperatures across Alaska, Brooks Range and the abnormal even for one of
temperature of 51 degrees felt like 101 below zero on
below zero Fahrenheit Jan. 28, 1989. with the northern tier North Slope," said the coldest parts of the
Sunday morning, well below
the average of 15 below Meanwhile, Nuiqsut hit an experiencing the coldest AccuWeather senior country," said AccuWeather
zero F this time of year. actual temperature of 53
During the day Sunday, the below zero. Howard Pass,
afternoon temperature home to some of the state's
barely peaked at 25 below most extreme weather,
zero F. Prudhoe Bay, situated reported a wind chill of 91
on the state's northeast below zero, only a few
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Kenosha Minimum! Fairbanks area struggled to temperatures near normal
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Red California? Housing woes squeeze
Florida’s middle class

Six years ago, Jennifer afford it. and tax-and-spend play. But at the mall, she says
Taylor counted herself policy. Florida is also at she refused to sign a
among some 800 people a “People who get the center of evolving petition to raise the state’s
day moving into a state long struggles of climate minimum wage to $20 an
considered “California on their money are still change, environmental hour. (It is currently $10.)
the cheap”: shorts weather degradation, and political
in February, a decent house going to come into the narratives that are
for not that much money, seeking to redefine the
and low taxes. state, but what does it meaning of freedom and
individualism.
Taxes are still low, and she say when you look In her view, raising wages
can get her shorts out at artificially will raise costs.
least once a week after more like California Her rent is already going up
Groundhog Day. But in this spring when she renews
December, her rent rose by than you did Florida?” her yearly lease. But she is
20%,“from three figures into not sure that Republicans
four figures.” And Ms. Taylor, says former Florida are paying attention to core
a veterinary tech, says her issues, either.
middle-class dreams are resident Seth McKee,
fading as household costs –
including the roof over her who now teaches One reason Mr.
head – are rising faster than DeSantis’ rhetoric is
her income. political science at playing well, says Mr.
McKee, the Oklahoma
“I’m looking back and Oklahoma State State political scientist, is
starting to wonder, why did that Florida is bucking
we leave again?” she says. University in Stillwater. Jennifer Taylor and her daughter, Kimberlie, stand in demographic trends In fact, as a lifelong
“Are we really better off?” seen in neighboring states. Republican, she says, “I’m
front of their rented bungalow in Jacksonville, Florida. embarrassed by what I’m
Not too long ago, a seeing.” To her, playing up
$26,000-a-year income used Liberal California has culture war issues is
to guarantee middle-class shortsighted. The problems
status here. From Fluffy long been a piñata for are out in the open for
Landing to Possum Bluff, politicians to try to solve,
Florida was “a hopey- conservatives, who see The increases in Recession. The state was she says. But instead all she
dreamy state,” as Sarah Palin hears is complaining about
once called it. But as Ms. hypocrisy around bromides Jacksonville have touched among those hardest hit by what’s going on elsewhere.
Taylor and millions of others
middle-class sun seekers are about diversity and inclusion real lives, real fast, says Eric the mortgage crash. Georgia, for example,
finding: “Florida is becoming
expensive,” says historian clashing against an Hinojos, a principal at First The fundamentals are voted for Joe Biden in 2020,
Gary Mormino. affordable housing crisis fed Coast Heroes, which caters stronger this time around,
by NIMBY-ism. to military families says Ken Johnson, a real but Florida, long a swing
That’s true across the relocating to work at Naval estate economist at Florida
country, as housing prices, Yet the same dynamics Air Station Jacksonville. Atlantic University in Boca state, is moving in a
mortgage rates, and rents that have caused a crisis in
climb in lockstep, and concertedly more
available inventory reaches
new lows. But the sticker conservative direction.
shock is hitting Floridians
particularly hard, and it’s California have been He recounts how he Raton.That homes are being Voters here gave former Her concerns point to
coming at a time when the Florida’s more existential
state is making headlines for creeping into Florida recently helped a young valued far above where they President Donald Trump a problems, says Mr. Mormino.
its unexpected plunge into
the kind of culture wars the markets. Tampa, Miami, and couple sign papers on a should be given historical wider margin in 2020 than in
Sunshine State used to
avoid. St. Augustine – the oldest home. But Veterans Affairs trends, he says, is “scary, but 2016. Constant growth,

Florida’s current real city in the U.S. – have all balked after it was appraised it’s not as bad as it was” at And while many African environmental degradation,
estate boom cycle is a study Americans are retracing
of the intersection of seen double-digit price at $275,000, instead of the the height of the last boom their families’ generational and climate change are part
middle-class aspirations and migrations back to the
emerging values around growth for years. $290,000 listing price. The in 2006. South, the demographics of of the state’s broader
what Americans really want those moving into Florida
– and whether they can “I just don’t see it” couple appealed and won. But that emerging status tell a different story. “That challenges. Last year, as a
migration stream is
But the boom in “The military is our huge quo is pitting a growing incredibly white,” says Mr. result of pollution, Floridians
Jacksonville suggests deeper attraction,” says Mr. Hinojos. conservative and largely McKee.
currents: Slightly dingy “We’ve got some growth, urban, white middle class witnessed a historic mass
suburbs are suddenly hot but we’re still just against the policies and
properties for flippers, fund Jacksonville – it’s not San direction of Tallahassee, starvation of manatees, the
investors, and young families Francisco or Miami.” which is solidly in
seeking increasingly in vain Republican hands. Housing state animal.
their own postage stamp lot Mark Wright, a retired policy, especially, is tough to
in the sun. private investigator, owns implement during a boom Mr. Mormino counts off a
two houses that he bought cycle, says Mr. Johnson.
Long considered one of at a flush moment in the late That doesn’t mean an list of Florida chroniclers
the stinkiest urban areas, 1970s. So far, he sees taxes A “turnstile immediate reckoning on
given now-shuttered paper squeezing his fixed income electorate” rising home prices, given who have decamped: Tampa
mills and turpentine as valuations rise. Yet he what some political
distillers, Jacksonville – the knows he is also sitting on a The state’s Republican scientists have called the Bay writer Jeff Klinkenberg
largest city in the U.S. by small fortune. governor, Ron DeSantis, state’s unique “turnstile
hails from Jacksonville. He electorate.” now lives amid the snow-

dusted peaks of Appalachia;

well-known Florida

columnist Howard Troxler

retired to North Carolina.

Shortsighted culture Yet Mr. Mormino has
wars? decided to stay. He is
holding on to what he calls
acreage – smells a lot better A few months ago, he squeaked by a progressive Danielle Bobino, who left “the hope of the parent –
a job to care for her that the future holds
these days. It’s a 30-minute tried unsuccessfully to buy a Democrat named Andrew kindergarten-aged son, promise.”
Benjamin, has watched the
drive to white beaches and neighbor’s bungalow for Gillum in 2018, but has since changes in her home state
from her cinder block rental
lapping Atlantic waves. $70,000. Last week, it sold yanked the ship of state house in Jacksonville
Heights, the city’s most
House prices and rents for $200,000. hard to the right. affordable corner. “Florida is still Florida: A
trip to the Everglades or to
soared nearly 30% from Mr. Wright shakes his Aligning himself for a Fort De Soto Park at sunset,
it’s a remarkable place,” he
2020 to 2021 – one of the head at the gap between his possible presidential run in says. “And did we mention
there’s no state income
highest rates in the country. perception and reality.“I just 2024, he has framed the tax?”

The pace is not far behind don’t see it.” state as a vanguard in a

the U.S. real estate The last time Florida saw national struggle over public She has a nice park with a By Patrik Jonsson
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Infrastructure

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and the upcoming book "The

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• Ensure every American a Divided Nation and the
(Infrastructure Investment has access to reliable high- World at Large."
speed Internet
and Jobs Act). How much of Harlan Ullman joins
• Repair and rebuild our Happenings Q&A on
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my turn

A deal with

the devil Readers may email Cal
Thomas at
with Cal Thomas
[email protected].
Former President for consideration. And that Look for Cal Thomas’ new
is Trump’s condemnation – book “America’s Expiration
Donald Trump has further not criticism, but Date:The Fall of Empires and
condemnation – of anyone Superpowers and the Future
– if that’s possible – who disagrees with his
claim to have had the of the United States”
undistinguished himself by election “stolen” from him.
This is not about that claim.
again attacking his vice It is about Trump’s language
and personality, his
president, Mike Pence. In demeaning of Democrats, practice of personal Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), right, listens as Vice President Mike
the media and even some morality as at least equal to Pence speaks during a joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College
another of his ongoing fellow Republicans who a president’s stand on votes of the 2020 presidential election in the House Chamber on Jan. 6, 2021,
don’t subscribe to his line. political issues now refuse in Washington, D.C. ((Erin Scott/Pool/Getty Images/TNS))
email messages to to hold Trump to that
standard.
supporters (which are

usually accompanied by a

donate button), Trump says

he wanted Pence to personal integrity in our are substantial enough to hopes the dreadful record
leaders have done with move on” (Criss Jami, of Biden and his fellow
overturn the results of the What does it mean to Trump? Does the end Salome: “In Every Inch in Democrats will not be the
justify meanness and lying? Every Mile”). The second: main issue this November
last election. He referenced make a deal with the devil? Can they ever credibly “Anger, resentment and and in 2024, but from my
question the behavior and jealousy doesn’t change the observance of Pence since
a bipartisan effort to Trump effectively lumped Anne W. Zahra, M.Ed, is a language of future heart of others – it only he was in Congress, it is
his most loyal vice presidents when they have changes yours” (Shannon not in his nature to engage
strengthen the Electoral president into the tub of language teacher. She sold their souls on this big Alder, “300 Questions to in personal attacks, even
“RINOs” and others he question? Ask Your Parents Before It’s when he has been falsely
College Act of 1887, regards as enemies. During responded to the question Too Late”). accused. As a practicing
their four years in office, There are many Christian, Pence abides by
ensuring that no vice Pence never spoke ill of his on the website quotations about revenge Writing in The the teachings of his true
boss. When I once asked and grudges from famous Washington Post, columnist Leader who spoke of
president can be allowed to him about Trump’s Answers.com: “When you and not so famous people Henry Olsen notes that “turning the other cheek.”
personality he responded, over the centuries. Two Pence has avoided Some Bible commentators
overturn presidential “look at the results.” ‘make a deal with the devil’, make my point: “Grudges criticizing Trump since both interpret this as saying let
are for those who insist men left office. Olsen says God handle it. That’s a far
election results, assuming you ally yourself with a that they are owed Pence should “reconsider.” better “bargain” than
something; forgiveness, Sure, some on the left seek hitting back and descending
that vote counts in the person of ill repute to however, is for those who to divide Republicans in to the level of his critic.

individual states are accomplish what you want.

accurate and governors The idea here is that you

have properly submitted compromise your

them to Congress for In some ways this has principles in a way that may

ratification. been a bargain with the turn out to be extremely

While the wisdom of devil. Republicans and harmful to you.”
updating that law is
debated, there is another especially evangelical Is that not what
issue that is long overdue especially evangelicals and
Christians who once others who highly regard

honored character and the

The problem isn’t banned
books, naughty words or
wokeness. America is
dumbing down

with Mary Sanchez

The crux of America’s But “Maus” is a bit Readers can reach Mary This illustration photo taken in Los Angeles on Jan. 27, 2022, shows a
looming educational crisis is different. And potentially, Sanchez at person holding the graphic novel "Maus" by Art Spiegelman. (TNS)
obvious and it has nothing more alarming, if America
to do with the books in the continues down the path [email protected] that’s being discussed, And yet, here we have blocked, for example.
curriculum. we’re perilously striding. and follow her on Twitter they’re going to miss it, board members atwitter
@msanchezcolumn. some of my freshman this about a handful of words. As a longtime reporter, I
The lesson is deep into Understand first that year still had a hard time The discussion does not can attest to the fact that
the much-maligned “Maus; A Survivor’s Tale” is board members found connecting the dots and show the group to be board conversations, be
transcript of a Tennessee ingenious. The work by Art positive things to say about being ethical, moral and all marching for the door, they for schools or any
school board’s discussion Spiegelman depicts how he the two volumes. They just that other stuff. It’s because “Maus” in hand to burn. public entity, can end up
before unanimously voting coaxed his father to tell him didn’t like the naughty they have not been in the down rabbit holes. But this
to nix the Pulitzer Prize- of surviving the Holocaust. words or the unclothed classroom for nearly two They’re oddly hyper- example shows more a lack
winning graphic novel It’s deeply nuanced with mouse. years because of Covid, focused on the words, as if of higher level thinking,
“Maus” from the 8th grade threads of loss and grief, they are missing a lot of they can’t shake the image analysis and real problem-
curriculum. historically informative and In the transcript of the stuff that they might have, of the naked mouse long solving. Similar simple-
accessible; the very sort of early January meeting, an had they been there. It’s enough to grasp broader mindedness is increasingly
The vote got the McMinn text that educators seek for unnamed high school going to be a lot harder to views. So much so that normalized.
County board members youth. teacher acknowledges that get them to understand.” much attention is given to
widely roasted, belittled as the school board wasn’t nonsensical gerrymandered Study the history of book
another example of The Nazis are drawn as opposed to teaching the Succinctly, the teacher non-options. The board banning and agreed upon
overreach by elected cats. Jewish people are Holocaust. stated what’s true of delved into copyright themes, pronouncements
officials. For many, it fit mice. The animal depictions schools nationwide. infringement if words are by scholars, begin to strike.
neatly into disputes in somehow make them that Then, she gets to the
districts nationwide; book much more real, people point, saying of students: see SANCHEZ on page 8
censorship, the meddling on existing amid one of the “unless they have adequate
mask mandates and most deplorable acts of background of the concept
insistence the children may genocide in history.
be made to feel badly about
themselves if they learn And except for a few bad
about racism’s historic words, seriously not that
roots. bad, and one female mouse
drawn nude, well, even the

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Ullman
says USPS wants to order
5,000 electric postal vehicles continued from page 6
appears to be flawed, possibly fatal, as no one seems to be
U.S. Postmaster General statement Sunday. mistaken for an ambivalent The service said electric in full charge. What then might be a more effective means
Louis DeJoy said this week commitment to operating a to upgrade and modernize the infrastructure?
the U.S. Postal Service is The postal service said it cleaner postal vehicle fleet postal vehicles an internal
proposing a purchase of has made its leading for our country." My book, The Fifth Horseman and the New MAD
5,000 electric vehicles as it engineering, logistics and combustion engine would be (Massive Attacks of Disruption, proposes such an option.
starts to update its aging labor staff available to key DeJoy said that Congress Named for the greatest economic boom in U.S. history that
fleet with more federal agencies to is aware of the postal more fuel-efficient as began after the 1918-20 Spanish flu pandemic, a 1923
environmentally friendly determine what is needed service's financial limitations National Infrastructure Investment Fund would be created.
options. from an environmental in getting electric vehicles on compared to the current The fund would be a public-private partnership. The $1.2
standpoint for its new the road and the service will trillion in the act would be transferred to this fund. An
The Postal Service faced delivery vehicles. continue to operate in a ones despite being larger. additional $2 trillion to $3 trillion would be raised from the
criticism for not including manner to move toward private sector through 30-year bonds, guaranteed by the
more electric vehicles in its getting the new vehicles on The new vehicle would U.S. government and yielding 2% over prime in interest
current plan, which calls for the road. payments. The bonds would be repaid by tolls, user fees
90% of the fleet to be gas- provide the postal service and other sources.
powered vehicles, CNN
reported. carriers with numerous The fund would have a board consisting of government
and private sector officials, the latter coming from the
DeJoy said the USPS modern safety features investment cohort having a strong self-interest for oversight
would like to order more to succeed as in business. For those who question whether
electric vehicles but DeJoy said he hopes that including 360-degree government is capable of ensuring that it does not lose
additional funds would have many of the vehicles can be money in such projects, after the financial crisis of 2008,
to become available. delivered by next year but cameras, automatic front TARP -- the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- returned
added that financial billions to the Treasury.
"Absent such funding, we restraints continue to and rear braking, and a
must make fiscally hamper the agency. How to make this happen? The public should demand of
responsible decisions that driver airbag. their elected representatives in Congress to know when
result in the needed this infrastructure effort will begin; how taxpayers will be
introduction of safer and "When you're an protected against fraud, waste and abuse; and what is the
environmentally cleaner independent government plan for oversight. The answers will not be reassuring.
vehicles for the men and entity running billion-dollar
women who deliver annual losses, and with a Sanchez
America's mail," he said in a Congressional mandate to
operate in a financially
sustainable manner, we are
compelled to act prudently
in the interests of the
American public," DeJoy
said.

"However, that

responsibility should not be

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021022 What’s often happening today is far more uninformed.

Peel back the layers and it’s often revealed that books
have been misinterpreted or judged by cryptic snippets.
The fervent pushback is based on a lack of knowledge.

Take recent history, efforts to keep children from
understanding the complexities of gender and sexual
orientation. That’s control, fear and usually, a deep lack of
factual information.

This is the crucial distinction to ponder with “Maus.” And
we need to consider this while enough of us still have the
cognitive skills to muster the exercise.

Despite drilling into the text to find problematic words,
the board doesn’t seem able to draw out to broader issues.

They just can’t get there. And so, a vote is taken. All say
get rid of it. And it’s on to the next item on the agenda
item.

They don’t come across as mean-spirited, or not wanting
to think critically. And yet, they don’t.

The classroom that the unnamed teacher described can
be found across America, in private and public schools,
suburban, urban and rural. Children are struggling. Baby
boomer retirements are sweeping the teacher ranks. The
depletion is exacerbated by the pandemic and pointless
attacks by boards, parents and legislatures.

So many of these actions, the slights to the studied
reasoning of educators, fall to the simplistic approaches like
what ditched “Maus.”

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February 10, 2022 health
lifestyle
Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center community

news

Using the Internet may help seniors
stay sharp after retirement

Help in retaining from the Survey of
mental function when Health, Ageing and
you age could be only a Retirement in Europe, or
few keystrokes away. SHARE. The survey
collects information
While crosswords and about older people,
exercise are often touted including their work
as ways to retain thinking history, their socio-
skills, British investigators economic status and
found that the Internet their health.
may also help seniors
stay sharp in retirement. Using the Internet
after retirement was
Those who used the linked to a marked
Internet more after their reduction in the rate of
careers ended had cognitive decline, and the
substantially higher association was more
scores on cognitive, or pronounced among
thinking, tests, according women, O'Sullivan said.
to the study.
However, the study did
Still not entirely clear, not prove a cause-and-
however, is why this effect link.
works.
On average, retirees
"To be honest, we who used the Internet
could recall 1.22 more
don't know for certain. words on a 10-word of the test," he said. may live far away. On the online," said Rosen, who "Low levels of social
cognitive test than those Internet, a person might
We have a number of who did not. "Then you might pick discover events, such as was not involved in this connection are
up one or two words at the screening of a movie study.
hypotheses. We think it Among women, those the end of the test. And taking place at their local associated with declines
who regularly used the then immediately you're art center. Keeping brains active is
has to do with Internet could recall 2.37 asked to recall the key to brain health, she in physical and
more words than those words. And then after a "We think it's to do said. Playing music is one
socialization. You are who did not. Retired few minutes, let's say five with socialization rather of the best ways to train psychological health, and
male Internet users minutes, you're asked to than with people doing your brain. Learning an
connected to people recalled an average of .94 recall the words again," sudoku puzzles or instrument can enhance further social isolation,"
words more than men O'Sullivan said. crosswords," O'Sullivan verbal memory and
through the internet, who didn't use the said. spatial reasoning, and it Rosen said.
internet. uses both sides of the
through social media, you The findings were Though the Internet
"These words are published in the October can be helpful for
are more engaged with short words. They are 2021 issue of Journal of seniors, it doesn't take
one or two syllables long. Economic Behavior and the place of in-person
people, perhaps at a time On the list people start Organization. social engagement for
remembering the first
in your life where it's few words because Virtual connections are
they're coming at you very valuable in helping
hard to meet people or quite quick," O'Sullivan Though the greatest to combat social
said of the test. effects were associated isolation and loneliness,
arrange to meet people with women, Internet- said Dr. Sonja Rosen, brain, which strengthens most people, she noted.
"And then what you using retirees tended to chief of geriatric memory power, Rosen "There's unique benefit
physically," said study co- notice when you're doing be male, younger, better medicine at Cedars-Sinai said. to interacting with
the test is after a while educated and in better Medical Center in Los
author Vincent you sort of get health. Angeles.
overloaded, but then you
O'Sullivan, a lecturer at probably missed some "We have seen this Exercise is another people one-on-one,"
words in the second part during the pandemic, Rosen added. "So this is
Lancaster University in when even health care good way for seniors to in no way a suggestion
and exercise classes went that virtual interactions
England. maintain cognitive replace face-to-face

The researchers Cognitive decline is function, Rosen said,
looked at the cognitive associated with poor
function of more than health and lower quality because it helps prevent
2,100 Europeans in 2013 of life, according to the
and 2015, some years study. dementia while interactions because they
after they had retired in don't, but they definitely
2004. benefiting heart and help connect us,
especially if there's some
brain health, preventing type of active program
that we're involved with
Older people may find falls, improving mood and virtually, which involves
some type of
it harder to leave the maintaining mobility and communication back and
forth."
Their careers had house, O'Sullivan flexibility.
begun before computer
usage was mainstream in explained. Social connection
many lines of work. improves both physical
They may not have and mental health, as well
The study used data their driver's license as emotional well-being,
anymore. Their children she said.

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Dear Amy: much I appreciated their Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194,
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federal welfare program

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Social Security You are getting SSI
disability. And to repeat,
Administration. And in SSI is a welfare program.
And as a general rule,
that column, I said that someone who inherits
$100,000 doesn't need
many people confuse SSI welfare. I'm not a real
expert on the SSI
with Social Security.And I program, but you may be
able to set up something
specifically wrote that called a "special needs
trust" that lets you keep
lots of folks (obviously your SSI checks. Those
may be the "hoops" you
including you) mistakenly are trying to jump
through.
think that SSI stands for

Social Security Income. It

does not. To repeat, SSI

stands for Supplemental

Security Income, which is

a welfare program.

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you said that someone
getting disability benefits tidbit that further shows
(and this is a direct
quote) "could inherit a how these two programs
million dollars and still be
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benefits." I recently
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books Was King George III slandered by
historians? A biographer thinks so.

Q&A with Rebecca Can the reputation of Britain’s King George III be
Solnit, author of rehabilitated after centuries of vilification? In “The Last
‘Orwell’s Roses’ King of America:The Misunderstood Reign of George III,”
author Andrew Roberts calls him “the most unfairly
American author Rebecca Solnit used to think that traduced sovereign in the long history of the British
George Orwell, who wrote “Animal Farm” and “1984,” monarchy,” and he sets out to prove it.
was a “grim, serious, and pessimistic figure.” How could a
writer so zealous about exposing totalitarianism have had Roberts is in familiar contrarian territory. His earlier
much time for other pursuits? In “Orwell’s Roses,” she book “Napoleon:A Life” portrayed Bonaparte as the living
challenges many people’s preconceptions of the British embodiment of all the best qualities of the French
literary giant, showing him to be a man who found solace Revolution (because nothing says “Liberté, Egalité,
and satisfaction in tending to gardens, trees, and even, yes, Fraternité” quite like making your brother king of Spain).
roses. Roberts argues that George III was not the monstrous oaf
typically described by historians, but was practically
What inspired you to perfect in every way, as pure an example of the
revisit Orwell? Enlightenment as could be imagined – except, Roberts
implies, where the Enlightenment got things wrong.
I found an essay [of his] the their countrymen and replace a perfectly valid political
called “A Good Word for the “The Last King of America” is every bit as compulsively legitimacy deriving from the sovereignty of Crown and
Vicar of Bray,” where he readable as anything else Roberts has written. In this case, Parliament with their own form of legitimacy, which was
describes planting fruit trees he’s had the benefit of the 200,000-page Georgian Papers equally valid but incompatible with the first.”
and roses that he bought in the Royal Archive, recently opened to the public.Access
cheap from Woolworths and to the papers, containing vast amounts of research not All of which sounds fairly innocent, but the only way
how coming back 10 years previously easily accessible to scholars, allows him to paint Roberts can keep his hero’s crown untarnished is to press
later, he saw them thriving. I a fuller picture of the man, and particularly the politician, his case. “Before the Americans revolted, no newspapers
loved the essay, and I always than authors of previous books about the monarch. were closed; no popular meetings were banned; no arrests
thought, “Oh, this is a fugitive were made without trial; no troops were put out on the
trace of who Orwell might Most people know only two things about George III: street,” he writes, “except latterly in one city, Boston, and
have been had his life not that he lost the American Colonies, and went mad at the even then only once the unrest had already begun.”
been utterly caught up end of his life, leaving England to be ruled by his son, the
fighting fascism, totalitarianism, communism, prince regent. Roberts makes a convincing case for a Never mind that King George III gave his royal consent
corruption of his society, Stalinism, and all the rest.” diagnosis of severe manic depression. This picture of an to the Quartering Act in 1765, long before – and in large
intelligent, sensitive man believing that his own mind was part responsible for – the unrest that would come in the
When I was in England, I decided to visit Orwell’s betraying him is an extremely touching one. It does more next decade. Never mind the circumlocution of saying the
cottage in rural Wallington. The lovely people who lived to humanize George III than anything else written about king wasn’t a tyrant except for the times when he was.
[there] let me in, gave me tea, showed me the garden, and him. If Roberts had been content with that, all would be Since Roberts insists that George III never read the
told me the roses he planted were still growing. They well. But instead, he consistently tries to superhumanize. Declaration of Independence, the king must be innocent of
asked, “Would you like to see them?” That was a huge a all the abuses it attributes to him.
moment for me. His George III is the perfect Renaissance prince,
displaced to 18th-century London.The king invited Mozart Americans likely won’t be convinced. But every reader
I started to read Orwell’s letters and journals and to Buckingham House, championed Handel and Haydn, will learn a lot, either way. And they’ll wonder who
biographies, and found that my picture of him was not very played a variety of musical instruments himself, and took Roberts’ next subject will be. Genghis Khan the avid stamp
accurate – that, in fact, he was a passionate gardener and an informed interest in botany, zoology, art, gardening, collector?
took immense pleasure, all of his life, in the natural world. landscaping, architecture, and astronomy. He “promoted
the scientific aspects of Captain Cook’s voyages ... By Steve Donoghue
What effect did nature have on him? promoted vaccination despite losing a child to smallpox
post-inoculation, established a book bindery at
His friend [and biographer] George Woodcock said that Buckingham House,” etc.
Orwell was like Antaeus, who drew his strength from
contact with the earth. He was dedicated to opposing the But no matter how earnestly Roberts wants to talk
evils of his time, as he saw them, and to exposing them, but about the king’s accomplishments, he still must deal with
he also devoted a huge amount of time to this other stuff. the fact of those lost American Colonies. According to
Most of us [think] that there’s real work and everything Roberts, the American Revolution began as a series of
else is self-indulgence or distraction or triviality. What I “proxy protests against British political control by a
found striking in this most serious of writers is that he people who sensed they could now thrive as an
clearly didn’t think this way. independent country.” The conflict didn’t boil down to
taxation without representation, as generations of
You can see in his journals, his diaries, where he’s noting American schoolchildren have been taught, but rather to
things down, that he’s deeply interested in what’s conflicting ideas of government. “It was the genius of the
happening with the lettuces or what birds are flying American founding fathers,” Roberts writes, “to excite
through and what the weather is doing. It was an example
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Just before publication [of my book], the residents said
that they were no longer so confident those were his
roses, but the roses do correspond in many ways to what
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roses. One of them pale pink. One was a bit richer pink
with yellow at the base of the petals. They were kind of
exuberant but also straggly and very much their own – not
overly pruned and trained.

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‘Thank You, Mr. Nixon’ and other tales
of the Chinese diaspora

Award-winning author Gish Jen’s latest collection opens century and bursts into the 21st. The imperfectly normal
with a Chinese saying: “A long journey begins with a step.” life of medical doctors
Readers could add, gratefully, “And ends with a story.” Jen’s stories prove engrossing thanks to her polished
prose and multifaceted characters. Equally riveting is the If you find yourself
There are 11 here – insightful, wistful, nuanced – fearless way she dives into fraught, ripped-from-the watching a few to many
sometimes heartbreaking and often funny. Each tale packs headlines topics. “A Tea Tale” touches on the complexities popular medical shows, your
in social commentary, political asides, and keen of cross-cultural – and cross-racial – adoptions of Chinese takeaway might be a distorted
observations that lodge the characters in time and place children. “Rothko, Rothko” asks readers to consider the or preconceived notion of the
like thumbtacks on a map. Even more satisfying, these very gray areas between artistic homage and creative theft. medical community. On the
different women, men, and children get more than a surface, at a distance the life
moment in the sun; many appear in an early story only to “Thank You, Mr. Nixon” concludes with “Detective of a physician might appear as
reappear, more grown up, altered, later in the book. Dog,” a pandemic story that brings back several familiar being a charmed life. Most
faces. Jen loads the brisk tale with comments on anti-Asian doctors are held in high
Jen, a member of the American Academy of Arts and hate, protests in Hong Kong, Zoom school realities, and esteem and have the respect
Sciences, is a short fiction wizard; her stories can be found Chinese surveillance. The story asks: How does crisis of of their patients. With
in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and “The Best American redefine home and reshape family? The answers are both contact limited to brief
Short Stories” anthologies. “Thank You, Mr. Nixon” is her poignant and pending; the present is very much a work in interactions in an office setting
ninth book. progress. it is understandable that some patients would think that
doctors have somehow managed to avoid many of the
The title story appears first; it’s a letter from Tricia Sang, In this collection, Jen stares down history with a pitfalls of everyday life.
lodged upon a cloud in heaven, writing to United States discerning eye, cracking wit and well-tuned words.
President Richard Nixon at his “Ninth Ring Road, Pit 1A” The nature of the job requires that they be decisive with
address in hell. Tricia, one of the young girls Nixon spoke By Erin Douglass their patients and their care. So it is understandable that
with during his 1972 visit, reflects on the historic event – this can translate into the misconception that doctors
the cleaned-up streets, the carp-crammed lake, the would of course be as decisive and in control when it
scrubbed slogans, the prepped populace. “Really the whole comes to their own personal life.
China you saw was a tailor-made China,” she declares with
a child’s cheerful bluntness. Then on the other end of the spectrum is the
misconception that doctors, due to the time demands of
It was also a China ready (yet again) for change. Tricia, their profession divorce at a much higher rate than the rest
aloft and all-seeing, makes her case that the first sparks of of the population. To the contrary, according to a Harvard
China’s economic opening and consumer boom can be Medical School news letter, the divorce rate for most
traced to the vibrant red coat the first lady wore during that physicians is at 24%, which is actually lower than the
visit. “You let a big genie out of a bottle,” Tricia writes to general population unless you're a psychiatrist which clocks
Mr. Nixon. “Still, I am glad that you came.” in at 50%.

Jen’s next story, “It’s the Great Wall!”, follows travelers In Harley Sobin's new novel, "What Would Kassel Do"
on a package tour to China shortly after the parting of “the protagonist Dr. Richard Olmstead is about to become a
bamboo curtain” in the 1980s. Grace is Chinese American part of that 24 percentile. Despite numerous warnings
and her husband Gideon is of Caribbean and Sephardic from his wife Carolyn, Richard's priorities to his practice
Jewish background. The couple bring Grace’s mother, who and his obsessive note taking leaves little time for her and
ends up serving as an ad hoc translator during the tour, even their daughter Emily, until one day she up and leaves.
as she struggles with her own outsider status after slipping Initially Richard seeks solace in his work.
away for a family reunion.
Outside of his medical environment Richard is lost. Not
“It’s like going to Narnia … [or t]he moon,” Gideon that his work life has been a panacea since making the
blurts about their trip of a lifetime. Grace disapproves of decision to sell his practice and becoming an employee of
the statement, but identifies with the sentiment. “China had the hospital. At odds with his new employer, Richard finds
been no-go for so long,” she muses, that it was hard not to himself in a continual balancing act of trying to practice
feel whiplash at its new travel destination status. medicine as he once did while appeasing hospital
administration.
Such cultural whiplash – whether characters belong to
the Chinese diaspora, live on the mainland, or hail from Socially, Richard is a mess, incapable of successfully
other backgrounds – threads through Jen’s collection. Jen interacting with members of the opposite sex. However a
captures the pull, mystery, and myriad contradictions of life changing event takes place when Dr. Richard Kassel re-
China as it marches through the last decades of the 20th enters his life and reluctantly agrees to mentor his old
friend and colleague.
8-year-old author's book Dillon's book, said library staff decided it was too good for
becomes a hit the lost and found, so they added it to the facility's catalog. "What Would Kassel Do" is an engaging and insightful
at Idaho library read. As a former practicing physician of 35 years, Dr.
"I thought it was very cute. I was struck by how much Harley Sobin successfully pulls the curtain back. He not
An Idaho library said a book written and illustrated by an effort went into it," Beach said. "I definitely thought we only entertains but also enlightens readers on the
8-year-old boy who personally placed it on the facility's should do something special with it and not just hand it challenges facing medical practitioners today. In the
shelves now had a waiting list of 135 people hoping to back to him. It was very well done and deserved some process Sobin humanizes them and reminds us, despite
check it out. recognition." appearances, that doctors don't always have it all together.
Read this book and your perspective just may change a bit
Alex and Susan Helbig of Boise said their son, Dillon, 8, The library made Dillon the first recipient of The during that next office visit with your doctor.
announced to the family in November that he had written Whoodini Award for Best Young Novelist.
a book and secretly placed it in the stacks at Lake Hazel By Frank Carmichael
Branch of the Ada Community Library. The boy's parents were the first to check out the book,
which follows Dillon's adventures as he deals with an Tune in to Happenings
"He put the book together in like four days," Alex Helbig exploding Christmas tree topper and travels in time to Q&A on Monday, Feb.
told CNN. "With him putting it in the library, we weren't events including the first Thanksgiving.
surprised that he did anything like that." 28th at 1pm when
Librarians said the book has become such a success that author Harley Sobin
The parents said Dillon often writes 5-10 page comic there is now a waiting list of 135 library card holders joins the conversation.
books, but they were surprised to learn he had completed waiting to check it out. On AM1050 WLIP
an 88-page tome titled The Adventures of Dillon Helbig's
Crismis, with the author credited as "Dillon His Self." "We've been fielding a lot of calls from publishers," Beach SMART READER February 10, 2022 15
said. "I'm not sure if their family has decided on anyone in
Susan Helbig said she wanted to see her son's work, so particular, but there are a lot of calls and offers to get it
she called the library. published."

"After Dillon told me that he put his book at the library, Dillon said he is now hard at work on his next book: an
I had called to see if we could retrieve it, thinking it was in update of a previous comic he made about a closet that
the lost and found," she said. "They did find the book, they eats jackets.
loved the content of it, they loved the book itself."
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Librarian Paige Beach, who was the one who found get to recess, I open the closet and my jacket is gone."

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Disabled Americans report high
levels of distress during pandemic

Loneliness, isolation and this research goes beyond pandemic. A survey of 441 adults conducted between October
fears about contracting documenting high levels of and December of 2020 found that 61% of
COVID-19 have turned life distress, however. "Even so, there have been respondents who self-reported a disability had signs
upside down for people many examples many of us of a major depressive disorder.
with disabilities, causing high "We can look at what is have experienced
levels of depression and associated with those high throughout the pandemic affects breathing, as COVID- suppose you're blind and became widely available and
anxiety, a new survey finds. levels of stress, so that's a where hospitals and 19 often does, is particularly you don't drive. Do you feel some services reopened.
way that we can find things healthcare workers are so scary, she noted. safe getting on a bus? Do
Even before the to intervene upon," Bogart strapped dealing with you feel safe getting on a One positive, Bogart
pandemic, individuals with said. COVID, that people are not Fear of infection also train or an airplane? The
disabilities were more likely able to go in for their made some individuals paratransit systems are noted: Some of the social
to experience social People who have regular healthcare," Bogart concerned about having notoriously unreliable, and
isolation than their peers disabilities often have other said. "And for some people aides visit their homes, you might feel reluctant to isolation and difficulty
without disabilities. health issues that put them with disabilities, simply being which may have caused be the only person on a bus
at higher risk from SARS- able to go into physical significant lifestyle changes. in a paratransit situation accessing medical care were
But this survey of 441 CoV-2, according to the therapy once every few with just a driver. All the
adults conducted between study. weeks or to get an infusion, "If people went home or systemic things from eased through video
October and December of say that they may need once they went to live with their insurance to transit systems
2020 found that 61% of Early in the pandemic, a month, to have those parents or someone else in to rules about getting conferencing. That includes
respondents who self- stories about people with disrupted can severely the family, that brings about federal funding or food
reported a disability had disabilities not being impact their daily function, ... all kinds of issues. stamps or anything else, telehealth appointments
signs of a major depressive prioritized when medical their pain and all of those Especially now if they those all get exacerbated
disorder. About 50% had care was being rationed may things." become your personal during a pandemic." with healthcare providers
probable anxiety disorder. have added to the isolation, attendant," Olkin said.
the study author suggested. The findings were These aren't new and social events on Zoom.
That's significantly higher recently published online in Individuals may have had problems, she said, they're
than in previous studies in Some places had explicit the journal Rehabilitation to wait longer than usual for just "more paramount" Several large disability
which people with policies to prevent people Psychology. repairs of equipment that during a pandemic.
disabilities had a 22% chance with disabilities from can affect their daily life, organizations have been
of being diagnosed with receiving priority for a The study is worth such as a broken wheelchair It's not known whether
depression over a lifetime, ventilator or COVID-19 noting, but is also small, said or vehicle lift. rates of anxiety and organizing virtual
the researchers said. In an tests, Bogart noted. The Rhoda Olkin, a professor in depression among people
average year, about 3% of healthcare system often the clinical psychology "All of the systemic with disabilities have community events.
adults in the United States underestimates the quality doctoral program at Alliant problems that existed were dropped since vaccines
have a generalized anxiety of life of a person who has a International University in exacerbated during the "There have been some
disorder and 7% have a disability, she said. San Francisco. Olkin was not pandemic," Olkin said. "So,
major depressive disorder. involved with the study but really nice examples of the
When providers stopped reviewed the findings.
"Sadly, [this] did not "non-essential" care to disability community coming
surprise me -- many of our prevent the spread of Olkin said she would like
research team have COVID-19 or to cope with to see more research on the together, especially
disabilities ourselves and limited resources, it meant issue. Past research has
we're very connected to the individuals with disabilities suggested rates of virtually," Bogart said. "We
disability community, so we could not access physical depression may vary
knew the stories that therapy or surgery, the depending on specific types have all, I think, gotten a little
people were going through study authors pointed out. of disability.
already, but it was important bit better at using video
to document," said study "Our findings did show Several factors specific to
co-author Kathleen Bogart, that anxiety and depression the pandemic could conferencing, connecting
an associate professor of was associated with having contribute to mental health
psychology at Oregon State experienced disability- issues in people with online and things like that,
University in Corvallis. related stigma," Bogart said, disabilities. For those who
adding that healthcare already have impaired and I think the disability
Bogart said the value of rationing became less breathing, an illness that
common later in the community has been a good

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Mayo Clinic

What are high-dose flu vaccines?

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I upcoming season and they to get vaccinated for flu
just turned 65 and had my are given by injection. But annually, whether it's a
annual physical. This year, my they are only approved for standard or high-dose flu
doctor recommended that I people 65 and older. vaccine.
receive a high-dose flu
vaccine. Why do I need a High-dose vaccines As COVID-19 also
high-dose vaccine? remains a threat, consider
include four times as much protecting yourself further
ANSWER: Influenza is a by getting vaccinated for
viral infection that attacks flu virus antigen -- the part of COVID-19. Talk with your
your respiratory system, health care provider about
including your nose, throat the vaccine that stimulates what is right for you.Also, be
and lungs. Influenza, mindful of the different
commonly called the flu, is the immune system -- as symptoms you may develop
not the same as stomach flu, to accurately diagnose
which is an intestinal standard flu vaccines. This whether you may have side
infection marked by watery effects from a vaccination,
diarrhea, abdominal cramps, can give older people a flu, COVID-19, or another
nausea or vomiting, and virus or coronavirus. --
sometimes fever. higher immune system Compiled by Mayo Clinic
staff
For most people, the flu response against flu.
resolves on its own. But DEAR MAYO CLINIC:
sometimes the flu and its Some older adults may For years, I have been cannabis indica strain or a cannot rely on the amount of enzymes in the body, while it
complications can be deadly. have weaker immune hearing about the advantages sativa plant not grown in the interferes with other
systems, which can lead to of taking CBD products for U.S. CBD listed on labels, unless enzymes that metabolize
People at higher risk of them being less protected sleep, pain and just about other drugs, making CBD a
developing flu complications after a regular flu vaccine. In anything that ails you. I now assessed by an independent substance to use carefully if
include: response to a regular flu see these products you take other over-the-
shot, older people produce everywhere being sold over counter or prescription
• Children under 5, 50% to 75% fewer antibodies the counter in drug stores. Is medications.
especially those under 6 than younger adults. These CBD beneficial, and does it
months. antibodies protect against live up to its claims? Current research indicates
vaccine antigens. that CBD is not as beneficial
• Adults 65 and older. ANSWER: CBD is one of as claimed.While research is
Studies have found higher the main cannabinoids found Although CBD claims to party such as the United ongoing into CBD as a
• Residents of nursing antibody levels in older in the marijuana, or cannabis, treatment for a wide range
homes and other long-term adults who received high- plant. Overall, more than 500 have many beneficial effects, States Pharmacopeial of conditions, including
care facilities. dose flu vaccines than in compounds and more than cancer, hepatitis, Parkinson's
those who received 100 cannabinoids are in a the Food and Drug Convention. In addition, you disease, diabetes, certain rare
• Pregnant women and standard-dose flu vaccines. marijuana plant. inherited disorders and
women up to two weeks Administration (FDA) cannot be assured that CBD some psychiatric disorders,
postpartum. Products made with CBD future indications may result
in the U.S. retail market classifies it under its orphan is free from contaminants in CBD not being classified
• People with weakened should not contain THC, the as an orphan drug. Until
immune systems. psychoactive ingredient in drug designation. This is a such as THC, pesticides or better evidence indicates
marijuana that produces a that more common uses are
• Native Americans. In addition, one study high. These products are special status designation heavy metals. safe and effective, CBD will
found almost 25% fewer supposed to be only derived continue to be a product
• People who have chronic cases of influenza in adults from the marijuana strain that must meet criteria of At this time, CBD cannot that lacks evidence to
illnesses, such as asthma, 65 and older who took the cannabis sativa, which be rated for any condition support claims of efficacy for
heart disease, kidney disease, high-dose vaccine, compared naturally has less than 0.3% therapy for a rare disease or other than epilepsy due to many conditions.
liver disease and diabetes. with those who took the of THC. lack of evidence. This is true
standard-dose vaccine. is used so infrequently that it even though it is used for, or Before you try
• People with a body mass CBD is available by claimed to be effective for, nonprescription CBD for
index of 40 or higher. prescription commercially may not be a profitable many other conditions. any medical concern, you
alone or as an added should speak with your
Although the annual flu ingredient in many over-the- product because of low use health care provider or
vaccine isn't 100% effective, counter products. These pharmacist about whether it
it is the best defense against products are legal at the or demand. would be safe and effective
flu. Experts recommend that federal level as long as the for you. Also, your health
those 6 months and older As with any vaccination, CBD is derived from a CBD has primarily been CBD is a central nervous provider may be able to help
get vaccinated for flu. Given the high-dose flu vaccine has cannabis sativa plant grown marketed as an anti- system depressant, so it can you determine which
your age, that is the likely side effects. In a large study in the U.S. from a company convulsant agent for rare make you drowsy. However, product to purchase. --
reason why your health care comparing standard and with a specially issued seizure disorders, though its long half-life in the body Michael Schuh, Pharm.D.,
provider recommended the high-dose flu vaccines, those license. The products are some newer indications are of 50-60 hours makes it R.Ph., Pharmacy, Mayo Clinic,
high-dose vaccine. who received the high-dose illegal if derived from the being investigated. undesirable as a sleep aid. Jacksonville, Florida
vaccine were more likely to higher THC-containing Half-life is defined as how
High-dose flu vaccines are develop side effects the At this time, long half of the drug is
like other flu vaccines in that week after getting eliminated after one dose.
they are made up of the flu vaccinated. Side effects nonprescription CBD Sleep aids are best suited to
strains most likely to cause included a headache, medications with shorter
an infection during the soreness at the injection site, products lack consistent half-lives, so fatigue and
muscle aches and fatigue. drowsiness are not
Typically, side effects ease oversight to ensure their experienced into the next
after a few days. day. Other common side
purity and safety, or verify effects are decreased
appetite, fever, increased liver
manufacturer claims. The function tests, anemia, fatigue
and gait disturbances.
CBD that you can buy over

the counter is regulated

more like herbal

Studies continue to supplements than
evaluate the outcomes of
high-dose flu vaccines. If medications. This is because
research finds outcomes to
be better than standard flu the FDA only enforces
vaccines, high-dose flu
vaccines may eventually quality and safety standards if
become the vaccine of
choice for most adults, not a safety issue arises once a
just those 65 and older. But
for now, it's most important product is on the market. The highly touted pain
relief indication of CBD has
The standards for CBD not been shown by current
products, like herbal research.
supplements, are based on
manufacturers making ethical CBD is also metabolized
and honest claims. You in a complex way by many

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Nutrition News took 3,729 steps per day, of from the U.S. Department Chicken & Brussels
with Charlyn Fargo which 1,875 were light- of Health and Human Sprouts Skillet
intensity steps and 1,854 Services for at least 150
Walking and Diabetes were vigorous-intensity minutes of moderate to Servings: 4
steps (steps that cause you vigorous physical activity 4 bone-in chicken thighs, skin removed
Most of us wish for an to breathe a little heavier). per week; once you've
easy fix for our health Researchers said that for started walking, keep it up 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
issues -- a magic pill to lose every 1,000 steps daily. 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
weight or a magic way to participants took per day,
cook vegetables that we results showed a 6% lower 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
love. diabetes risk. If older adults 1 onion, cut in half-moons
were to take 2,000 more
And then along comes a Charlyn Fargo is a steps every day (in addition Q and A 1 pound Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved
study, recently published in registered dietitian with to what they were already 1 cup low-sodium vegetable broth
the February 2022 issue of doing), they might expect a Q: Do omega-6 fatty Juice of 1 lemon
the journal Diabetes Care, SIU Med School in 12% reduction in diabetes acids cause inflammation?
that finds we can walk to Springfield, Ill. For risk, according to study co- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. In a
prevent diabetes. The study comments or questions, author Alexis Garduno in a A: No, intake of omega-6 large oven-safe skillet, heat the oil over medium high heat. Place the chicken in
found that the more steps UCSD news release.
you take, and the more contact her at fatty acids doesn't cause the skillet so that the side with skin faces the bottom and sear for 3 to 5
intensely you walk, the [email protected] Here's the bottom line: If minutes, or until browned, then flip. Scatter the onion and Brussels sprouts
lower your odds of getting or follow her on Twitter 500,000 older individuals inflammation; in fact, they around the chicken.Add the stock and bring to a simmer.Turn off the heat.
Type 2 diabetes. who are newly diagnosed Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake for 20 minutes, or until cooked
@NutritionRd. with diabetes every year are anti-inflammatory. through. Remove from the oven. Sprinkle the lemon juice over the top of the
Researchers at the would increase their steps
University of California, San Charlyn Fargo joins by 2,000 per day and the Omega-6 fatty acids, called chicken and Brussel sprouts. Serves 4.
Diego and San Diego State Happenings Q&A on 12% figure is correct, Per serving: 275 calories; 27 grams protein; 17 grams carbohydrates; 12 grams
University studied more Garduno said 60,000 linoleic acid, are found in
than 4,800 participants who Thu. Feb. 24th at people each year would not fat (2 grams saturated); 5 grams fiber; 434 milligrams sodium.
were women aged 65 and 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP. suffer from diabetes. nuts, seeds and plant oils
older. None had diabetes. Pepperoni Pizza Rolls
All lived independently. This study goes along such as sunflower, safflower,
with a recommendation Makes 12 rolls
soybean, canola and corn. Vegetable oil spray
1 pound pizza dough, room temperature
Because linoleic acid can't 24 slices pepperoni
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (4 ounces)
be synthesized by the body, 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 garlic clove, minced
it must be consumed in the 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (1/2 ounce)
1 cup pizza sauce, warmed
Participants wore a diet. Besides being anti- 1. Place a parchment paper round in the bottom of an 8-inch round metal cake
device on their hip that pan. Spray the parchment paper and sides of the pan lightly with vegetable oil
recorded the number of inflammatory, omega-6 fatty
steps they took 24 hours a spray.
day for a week. Participants' 4,800 women, 8% acids help lower LDL 2. Spray a clean counter lightly with vegetable oil spray.Transfer room-
health was monitored for developed diabetes during temperature dough to greased counter. Gently press and stretch dough into a 6-
up to seven years. Of the that time. cholesterol and inch square, popping any large bubbles. Use a bench scraper or kitchen shears to
cut the square into 12 equal pieces. Cover dough pieces with plastic wrap.
On average, participants triglycerides as well as 3. Remove 1 piece of dough from under plastic (keep remaining pieces covered).
Pat dough into a 3-inch circle. Place 1 slice of pepperoni in center of the circle.
helping to lower blood Top pepperoni with 1 heaping tablespoon of shredded mozzarella cheese and a
second slice pepperoni. Fold edges of dough up and over filling, and pinch edges
glucose. well to close. Flip the ball over and place in the parchment lined cake pan. Repeat

America’s Test Kitchen with remaining dough balls.
4. Cover the cake pan with plastic wrap and let the dough balls rise until slightly
Take DIY pizza night to a whole new level
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bread -- they're all different names for the same to 400 degrees. In a small microwave-safe bowl, combine oil and garlic. Heat in
kind of dish: balls of dough, baked close together
in a pan, that are served warm and pulled apart microwave until warm and garlic is fragrant, 15 to 30 seconds.
with your hands. 6. Once dough has risen, remove plastic. Use a pastry brush to paint tops of

While there are lots of savory tear-and-share dough balls with garlic oil. Sprinkle evenly with Parmesan cheese.
breads (like this one!), its roots are sweet. In the 7. Place the cake pan in the oven and bake until the tops of the rolls are well
1950s, a Hungarian dessert called aranygaluska browned, 30 to 35 minutes.Transfer the cake pan to cooling rack and let rolls
("golden dumplings" in Hungarian), a cinnamon-
flavored, pull-apart coffee cake, became popular cool in pan for 15 minutes.
in America. Today, many Americans refer to a 8. Carefully run a butter knife around the edge of the cake pan to loosen rolls
similar recipe, made of yeasted dough balls from the pan (pan will be hot). Use oven mitts to carefully turn pan on its side
coated in butter, cinnamon and sugar, as "monkey and remove rolls from pan. Let rolls cool directly on the cooling rack for 10
bread."
minutes. Serve with warm pizza sauce for dipping.
And although you might think little ones would Recipe note:The slices of pepperoni help seal the cheese inside each roll.You can
prefer the sweet side of this snack, these savory
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to 2 hours to bring it to room temperature
before starting.To bring it to room temperature
faster, place cold dough in a zipper-lock plastic
bag, squeeze out extra air, and seal the bag. Place
the bag in a large bowl filled with hot water. Let
dough sit in water until warmed to room
temperature, about 15 minutes, turning and
squeezing dough a few times while it sits.

18 SMART READER February 10, 2022

animals Pet World

in the news with Cathy Rosenthal

stairs and exiting the pool. "A vet was Howling keeps cat owner from getting any
on hand to provide assistance if Wizard rest
became distressed, but as the horse
Zoo hires Marvin remained calm, they did not require Dear Cathy, We have a 17- As well as being a recuring everything you suggested. --
Gaye impersonator to Wizard to be sedated," NFRS said in a year-old indoor cat. His guest on Happenings Q&A, Laurie, Las Vegas, Nevada
get monkeys in the Facebook post. The rescuers said brother passed away five years
mood Wizard had wandered into the pool ago, and he has been an only Cathy M. Rosenthal is a Dear Laurie, I am glad the
area from a neighbor's property cat ever since. To say he is longtime animal advocate, suggestions I gave to Steven in
A British zoo aiming to bolster its through a broken gate. spoiled is an understatement. author, columnist and pet East Meadow, New York, are
population of endangered monkeys He likes being combed while expert who has more than helpful for you as well. I also
hired a Marvin Gaye impersonator to Missing Maine cat he eats, likes sitting on our recommend getting a
visit the enclosure and croon love turns up in Florida 7 laps, and sleeping in our bed. 30 years in the animal thorough veterinary exam for
songs. David Largie, an experienced years later The crying after we go to bed, welfare field. Send your pet your older cat. Sometimes,
Marvin Gaye impersonator, performed however, has been going on for questions, stories and tips to when one cat is ill, cats in the
selections from the soul legend's A cat who went missing from her years and has now turned into same household may suddenly
catalog including "Let's Get It On" and owner's Maine home seven years ago howls and has gotten worse. [email protected]. "pick on" the sick cat. Let's
"Sexual Healing" inside the habitat. "We will be reunited soon with her family He injured his paw and is being make sure your older feline is
thought it could be a creative way to after turning up more than 1,400 miles treated for carpal cat tent and put him in the healthy and not harboring
encourage our females to show a little away in Florida. Denise Cilley said her hyperextension and is in an tent for about an hour or so some quiet illness. As for the
affection to males that might not have family's pet, Ashes, was strictly an orthotic brace. Now we have daily, depending on the pheromone collars, Comfort
been so lucky in love," Park Director indoor cat when the feline escaped to keep him out of our bed to weather. Being outside is Zone makes a breakaway
Matt Lovatt said on the zoo's website. from the house in August 2015. Cilley keep him from jumping down. stimulating for a cat's mind and collar for cats that you can
"Females in season mate with several said her family searched for the then-1- Our sleep is obviously the cat tent offers him a safe find at a pet store or online
males so paternity among our furry year-old cat, but there was no sign of affected, and we are desperate place to be. retailer.
residents is never known. Each birth is Ashes. She said the family eventually for relief. -- Kathy, New
vital to the species with Barbary came to believe she had been taken by Smyrna Beach, Florida. Over time, these Dear Cathy, My Jack
macaques being classed as a fox or other predator. Cilley said she suggestions should help tire Russell was very sensitive
endangered." Lovatt said zookeepers was initially confused when she Dear Kathy, Among other him out and reset any about his tags hitting the food
expect to discover whether the visit recently received a phone call from a things, cats vocalize to express nighttime behaviors. Until bowl when he ate, so I put
had any effect on the monkeys when veterinarian in Longwood, Fla. "I live in discontent, boredom, anxiety, then, get some ear plugs for rubber tape around the bowl,
birthing season arrives in late spring or Maine. We don't have a cat in Florida," pain, or discomfort. We can't you and a sound machine for so it didn't hurt his ears. I
early summer. Cilley recalled telling the vet, according discount the discomfort (or your bedroom -- and close the thought this might help Karen
to an interview  with Patch. The irritability) he may be feeling bedroom door (only if from Port Washington, New
Loose chicken found veterinarian told Cilley the feline had a with the brace. I recommend needed) -- so you can get York. -- Kathy Connolly,
wandering in microchip, and after receiving a though, getting him checked by some rest. Elwood, Illinois
Pentagon security description of the animal, she realized a veterinarian first to make
area the cat must be the long-lost Ashes. sure he has not developed Dear Cathy, I read your Dear Kathy, Some dogs
Cilley said she has no clues as to how another health problem, since column about cats fighting and (and people) can be sensitive
Ashes ended up so far from home. "We the howling is getting worse -- it was very informative.We are to the sound of dog or cat tags
have no idea," Cilley said. "Maybe and worsening behaviors can having the same issue with our hitting food and water dishes.
somebody found her in Maine, thought often signal illness. two cats who have lived In addition to using rubber
she was a stray, took her in and moved together a long time and now (silicone) tape, another DIY
to Florida, and she got out and couldn't If he's healthy and you don't are fighting.We have split them solution is to glue felt onto the
find her way home." think it's the brace, then up for now. The older cat is back of each tag to act as a
introduce three 10-minute almost content to be away buffer between tags. You also
Animal rescuers responded to an Dog rescued from play sessions a day with the from the younger cat. I will try can purchase tag silencers at
unusual national security situation -- a halfway down 200- last session being 30 minutes the pheromone diffusers, but I pet stores and online retailers.
chicken on the loose in the Pentagon's foot cliff before bedtime; activities like am scared about the collars They are pieces of rubber that
security area. The Animal Welfare chasing laser lights, batting cat because of possible harm from fit around each tag to keep
League of Arlington said personnel Authorities in California rescued a toys, tossing catnip toys into cats hurting themselves with them from clanging together.
were summed when a "chicken was dog who became stranded halfway the air, and/or solving puzzle the collars. Is there any There are also storage
caught sneaking around the security down a 200-foot cliff while hiking with games. Then feed him before pheromone collar that is safer pouches that attach to the
area at the Pentagon." The animal his owner. The Los Angeles County you go to bed.With a full belly and truly breakaway? I am collar where the tags can be
rescue group said it cannot identify the Sheriff's Department said its Search and tired body, he will be more having trouble finding one. stored. Or you can opt for a
location of the security checkpoint and Rescue teams  responded after a likely to sleep afterward. (Cats Thanks so much for your nametag that is riveted to the
where the chicken was found. "For dog named Onyx fell from the top of a should be fed at a minimum article. We are going to try collar or embroidered to the
actual security reasons we are not 200-foot cliff in the Delta Flats area in twice daily and no more than collar to eliminate the sound
allowed to disclose the exact location," Big Tujunga Canyon and ended up 12 hours apart, so you may entirely.
AWL spokeswoman Chelsea Jones told stranded halfway down. The Sheriff's have to feed him later in the
The Washington Post. The AWL said Department said Onyx  fell while morning to do this.) By the way, for all my
the chicken, now dubbed Henny hiking  with his owner and another readers, the new year is a
Penny,  will have a new permanent family dog late. The dog's family If you have a yard, deck, or great time to update your
home at a Virginia animal sanctuary. remained at the top of the cliff patio, you also could get him a pet's ID tags and microchip
overnight to talk to Onyx and try to information.
Horse rescued from keep him calm until rescuers could
empty swimming arrive in the morning. The rescue
pool teams  were able to reach  Onyx and
determined the dog was uninjured.
Emergency responders in Britain
were summoned to a home where a
neighbor's wandering horse had ended
up stranded in an empty swimming
pool. A horse named Wizard ended up
stranded in the 1.5-foot shallow end of
an empty swimming pool that is about
5 feet deep. Officials came up with a
plan to build a makeshift staircase out
of wooden pallets. The rescue team
then used hay, carrots and sugar lumps
to coax the equine into climbing the

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jill on money

The great reshuffle

with Jill Schlesinger

The Great Resignation is Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS For example, those who warehousing was up by ample jobs for higher pay COVID and its variants are
so 2021.This year, we should News business analyst. A 218,000. may help explain why so done for good, or whether
replace that term with a new former options trader and CIO were furloughed or worried many people are able to quit they might rejoin the labor
one, according to LinkedIn of an investment advisory firm, The trend of moving from freely.“It is not a coincidence force. Research from the
Principal Economist, Guy she welcomes comments and about being exposed to a one sector to another that hires, quits and wage Center for Retirement
Berger. With millions of suggests that the labor growth are extremely Research at Boston College
Americans quitting their jobs questions at front-line job in leisure and market is experiencing a elevated right now,” suggests that there has been
since last summer, it’s easy to [email protected]. Check reshuffle, rather than a flat- explained Berger, “this is all “only a small increase” in
understand why we all hospitality found that they out resignation. Berger part of the Great Reshuffle.” workers claiming Social
hopped on the Great her website at noted that in trying to find Security retirement benefits,
Resignation bandwagon. www.jillonmoney.com could land jobs in workers, those sectors most In addition to transitions so there many older
deeply impacted by the among sectors, Berger said workers could find their way
Before we get to the bonbons on their couches, warehousing and COVID recession have been that the pre-COVID trend of back to work as COVID
replacement term, a little which means that the Great forced to right-size pre- Baby Boomer retirement has retreats.
primer: the report on which Resignation is more of a transportation. By doing so, pandemic low wages to added to the Great
economists declare that the Great Reshuffle. entice eligible workers to fill Reshuffle. The Federal Berger notes that we are
number of resignations is at they could lock in higher pay, open positions. He noted Reserve Bank of St. Louis still in the early stages of
an “all-time record” is called Employees at all earnings that pay growth in leisure found that “there were understanding the Great
the Job Openings and Labor levels have been seeking benefits, and a more and hospitality is up 16% slightly over 2.4 million Reshuffle and its lasting
Turnover Survey (JOLTS). higher pay, flexibility, and from a year ago, more than excess retirements due to impact, so it would behoove
The survey began in 2001 work-life balance. As consistent schedule.The shift twice the pace of inflation, COVID-19″ by August 2021, us to be open to the story
and as such, it captures the postings became plentiful while warehousing pay but Berger contends that it changing over the next
past two decades, but not and labor shortages pinched amounted to a massive growth is up 8% annually. is not yet clear whether months and even years.
seismic events in the labor various industries of the Knowing that there are older workers who left amid
force like the Depression economy, a slew of change in each sector’s
and World War II. That said, Americans realized that they
as the labor market has could seek better workforce, according to the
recovered, millions of opportunities if their needs
workers have quit their jobs weren’t satisfied. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
voluntarily amid millions job
openings. Did most tell their From February 2020, the
bosses to take their jobs and
shove it? Sure, but that does pre-COVID peak, through
not mean that they are never
going to work again. Berger the end of 2021,
contends that workers are
switching jobs, not eating employment in leisure and

hospitality dropped by 1.2

million and during the same

time frame, employment in

transportation and

Correction 2022:
The party pooper arrives

with Jill Schlesinger

In the early part of 2022, selling.
investors were introduced to
something they barely Additionally, the much-
recalled from the early days
of COVID: scary stock adored Meme stocks, like
market losses.The proximate
cause of the selloff was AMC and GameStop, caused
concern that the Federal
Reserve is on a path of rate the most faithful to lick their
increases that at best, could
make investing in the stock wounds as they absorbed
market somewhat less
compelling, and at worst, 60% losses from a year ago
could trigger a recession.
as of this writing.And crypto
Seemingly overnight, hot
stocks, like tech companies adherents who adopted the
with no earnings, and risky
bets like crypto or meme mantra “HODL,” originally a
stocks, seemed to fall out of
favor. It wasn’t exactly misspelling of “hold,” learned
sudden, because as early as
the first week of the year, what if felt like to “Hold On
some of the highest flyers
had already started to lose for Dear Life” — the major
altitude. Through the third
week of January, more than currencies Bitcoin and Ether
half of Nasdaq Composite
stocks were down 40% or shaved off about 40% of their decline). I know it may be be terrible, but it will pass. I years for stocks. In 2021, the recent article, which posits
more. Some of those stocks hard to do but taking a little am talking about the periodic broad S & P 500 index was that we are in a series of
were companies that values since November air out of some of the stock drops that help reset up almost 27%, and that was asset bubbles that could pop
benefited from the COVID market is a healthy valuations to reasonable after a 16% and 29% rise in and cause a lot of damage.
stay-at-home-era, like Zoom recently and reached their development for long-term levels. Enduring market 2020 and 2019. The three- My advice is simple: all
and Peloton, which saw brisk investors. corrections is the price of year period was the best investors need to have an
lowest point in the past six admission for being an performance since 1997- overall financial game plan,
As a reminder, periodic investor. The challenge will 1999. We know what they need to stick to that
months and the more pullbacks are normal for be if the current correction happened after that period plan, and always understand
markets. I’m not talking turns into something more — the dot-com boom went where the risk in their
esoteric (Dogecoin, about the scary five-week dramatic, like a sustained bust and it took a decade for portfolio lies. As Grantham
cliff-dive that occurred in bear market. the NASDAQ to recover. notes, “in a bubble, no one
anyone?), fared even worse. February-March 2020, which wants to hear the bear case.
wiped out a third of the Here’s a thought I am not suggesting that It is the worst kind of party-
None of this should be value of the S & P 500. That experiment: How would you you should bail out and run pooping,” but I have been a
surprising to anyone who event was more like weather a more extreme for cover, though if you want party pooper for decades
watched the meteoric rise of watching a hurricane blow outcome, like a bear market? that argument, read and I’m comfortable in the
these assets, but even if you across the area: you know Maybe you feel a little investment firm GMO co- role.
don’t own them and stick to that the damage is going to overconfident after amazing founder Jeremy Grantham’s
the plain vanilla stuff, you
should be rooting for a
correction (defined as a drop
of 10% from the recent high
— and maybe even a bear
market (a more than 20%

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No vaccine, no entry: A civic good,
or creeping tyranny?

Nestled along a corridor Mall against federal, local, Richardson says, it’s seemed residents are at least
bustling with streetcars and and employer vaccine slower than usual – though partially vaccinated, is
restaurants 10 blocks from mandates. The rally featured much of that may be considering implementing a
the U.S. Capitol, a controversial list of because of the recent surge similar mandate but faced
neighborhood eatery Fare speakers including Robert F. in cases. Still, they had to significant opposition from
Well was until recently best Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Robert cancel contracts with a members of the business
known for its vegan comfort Malone, who critics say are company that brought 100 and Hispanic communities
food. Tired of sprouts? Try spreading misinformation tour groups through last at a recent hearing.
their buffalo wings, or about COVID-19 and spring, due to unvaccinated
award-winning cupcakes. vaccines. students in the coming Across the river in
groups.
Arlington, Virginia, Lisa

But on Jan. 23, the One factor fueling the DiConsiglio wishes her
division is a lack of clarity
restaurant became yet around what the policies are Caple Green, owner of community would
actually meant to achieve. Eclectic Cafe in northeast
another battleground in the When New York City D.C., also says business is implement a similar
introduced its mandate in down a bit. “It could be the
nation’s vaccine mandate August, vaccines were vaccine, but it could be the mandate – but it can’t do so
widely believed to be the climate,” he says, noting that
wars. Owner Doron best tool in preventing the it’s the coldest January he without the state
spread of COVID-19. But can remember since he
Petersan says a dozen-plus with a wave of breakthrough moved here from Jamaica. government’s permission.
cases linked to the omicron
people showed up to variant, and the Centers for And newly elected GOP
Disease Control and
protest their proof-of- Prevention (CDC) now Gov. Glenn Youngkin
saying vaccinated individuals
vaccination requirement, can transmit the virus, that’s campaigned against vaccine
left citizens and
calling the staff “Nazis” and restaurateurs debating the mandates.
merits and demerits of the
“dictators.” She had requirements. Frustrated On his storefront, Mr. While opponents say the Caple Green, owner of Eclectic Cafe in Washington, D.C.,
and exhausted by the Green has displayed a decision should be left up to has been trying to encourage his customers to get
instituted the policy in extended disruption to “Proud Black Vax Small individual businesses, Ms. vaccinated by sharing information from public health
“normal” life, proponents Business” sign. It’s part of a DiConsiglio says that places officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci.The "Proud Black Vax Small
September, four months and opponents often blame broader effort to shift an undue burden on the Business" sign was given to him by a group trying to boost
the other for prolonging opinion among Washington’s business. vaccination rates among the city's Black population.
before Washington’s pandemic suffering. And 46% Black population;
when it comes to among Black residents
citywide mandate took requirements that leave under age 40, vaccination
people literally in or out, it rates trail those of their
effect, out of concern for can be particularly hard to white counterparts by
find common ground. double digits.
the well-being of her As founding board
member and manager at
employees – one of whom Westover Farmers Market to get vaccinated because continue to hold up this
in Arlington, she says it she believes she has
recently lost a parent to wasn’t too hard to enforce immunity after getting ‘vaccinated vs. unvaccinated’
the governor’s mask COVID-19 early on.
COVID-19. mandate, despite pushback when we know that both
from a minority of Gripping hand warmers
Just across the street – customers. But it got much as she walked back to her can get [COVID-19] – and
but a world apart – The Big harder when the governor car after attending the Jan.
Board, a burger joint, does lifted the mandate and the 23 Defeat the Mandates spread it as well,” says
not ask customers to show farmers market opted to rally in Washington, she
vaccine cards at the door At the Jan. 23 rally, a local continue it. “Although as a compares the current Angela, a federal employee
but simply welcomes them white protester who works private enterprise we were acceptance of vaccine
in. The restaurant has been with public employees fully in our right to require mandates to the adoption of attending the Jan. 23 rally
repeatedly warned, has been expressed concern that masks, I had no backup for the Patriot Act after 9/11.At
fined $2,000, and had its D.C.’s mandate is enforcement,” she says. that time, she believed it who did not want to give
liquor license suspended last discriminatory because it was necessary to give the
week for violating the city’s will disproportionately government expanded her last name while the
new vaccine requirement. impact Black residents. powers and sacrifice some
Initially at least, its stance civil liberties in order to vaccine mandate for federal
wasn’t bad for business. On keep the nation safe. Now
a recent Friday night, the she sees that as a mistake, employees was still pending.
restaurant was packed, with just like the mandates.
some patrons saying they And if vaccination is mainly
came out just to show Debate over the goals
solidarity. But by Tuesday, the of mandates about preventing
city had ordered the
restaurant to shut down Mr. Green says he doesn’t One of the mandates’ hospitalization, then she
until further notice. see it that way. implied rationales –
stopping transmission in the feels that should be an
community – has been
Impact on businesses, complicated as new variants individual choice, not the
minorities emerge.
“The citizens are Mary Josephine government’s.
resistant,” he says, as A CDC online summary
Wa s h i n g t o n ’s MSNBC plays in the Generoso, a lifelong New about the omicron variant Ms. DiConsiglio of
requirement is being phased background. “The city is says vaccines are expected Westover Farmers Market
in, with proof of partial doing their best.” Yorker who runs two cafes to protect against severe says she and her husband,
vaccination required by Jan. illness, hospitalizations, and who are both fully
15 and full vaccination a with her husband, says she death, but breakthrough vaccinated and boosted,
month later. Those with cases are likely among the tested positive in December
religious and medical Outside, a woman waiting complied with all vaccinated and vaccination after he had to visit a busy
exemptions can show a does not stop transmission. urgent care center where
negative test instead. for a bus says that she was regulations, including masks, “CDC expects that anyone many people were
with Omicron infection can unmasked. It wasn’t too bad;
initially hesitant about the social distancing, and spread the virus to others, she learned to crochet.
even if they are vaccinated
COVID-19 vaccines, temperature checks. But or don’t have symptoms,” it
says. It adds that vaccines
Washington is one of 10 because she worried they when the city implemented provide the best public
health tool for protecting
metro areas – along with were developed too fast. its vaccine mandate last people against COVID-19,
and recommends vaccinated
New York, San Francisco, “We all have a summer, it was a step too people age 12 and older get
responsibility to keep our a booster.
New Orleans, Los Angeles, community safe,” said Mayor “But I had to think real far. She put up a sign that
Muriel Bowser. “And it is hard about my job,” she “I don’t know why you’d
Seattle-Bellevue-Redmond, true that we’re asking our adds, explaining that she said, “We do not Yet, knowing everyone
businesses to do more, but works in a school system has been vaccinated in a
Chicago, Philadelphia, we also think that this is a and is not quite at discriminate against ANY given venue “makes me feel
benefit to their business.” retirement age. Now she’s safer,” says Ms. DiConsiglio.
Boston, and Minneapolis-St. waiting on her booster. customer based on sex,
Having just lost a brother to
Paul – that now require COVID-19, she has little gender, race, creed, age,
sympathy for people who
proof of vaccination for are shut out of restaurants. vaccinated or unvaccinated.” Sameer Chaudhry of New
“If they don’t want to get York, another Jan. 23 rally
certain indoor public vaccinated, they can eat at While she worried it might participant, says he
home,” she said, declining to understands that those who
spaces. That has elicited Rory Richardson, give her name before hurt their business, she says support vaccine mandates
boarding the bus. are “doing what they think is
cheers from their mainly assistant general manager at there’s actually been an right for themselves and
their families.”
liberal residents, who see Pinstripes, an Italian bistro outpouring of support, from

vaccination as a civic duty to and bowling alley in the customers scrawling

protect the broader Georgetown neighborhood, supportive notes on napkins

community and help bring says the requirement hasn’t to postcards and even

an end to the pandemic. been as hard to implement donations from all over the “But I hope they come to
see that the truth is
Critics, on the other hand, as he’d anticipated. Initially country. somewhere in the middle –
and be willing to look at
see such requirements as he or another manager There have been a handful data that contradicts what
of outbursts, she says, they think they know,” he
onerous and an unjustified stood at the front to check What’s best for including from a longtime says. He adds that he’s trying
business? customer whose son is an to do that, too. “We’re in
exercise of government vaccine cards, but soon the EMT. “She said, ‘I love your this together.”
place, but I can’t come now
control. hosts were able to take over In nearby Virginia and because you’re not keeping
people safe,” recounts Ms.
On Jan. 23, thousands of the task. Maryland, residents are Generoso, who chose not
protesters – some of whom
traveled across the country He’s less sure about the watching D.C.’s
– rallied on the National impact on business. While
January and February are implementation closely.
often a little slow, Mr.
Montgomery County, By Christa Case Bryant

Maryland, where 95% of

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Boarding the

“Intern-SHIP”

by Carolyn Serpe

Part of planning for the every year to go over Carolyn Serpe is a our plan and used the content, making it scratch…a Promotional
new year in business is some new ideas, new Kenosha native whose Handshake app.  Boy did consistent and growing our Package for our webstore
taking a look at what areas business connections and family owns The Lettering we luck out.  We found brand awareness.  But first customers.
need some love and lets us know of new ways Machine in Downtown Sophie!  she had to create a brand
figuring out how to make our shop, and team, can get Kenosha. She has been for us.  We have always It has been a little over a
them better.  One thing involved in the community.  manager at the shop since Sophie joined us at the been so focused on month that we have had
that we needed some This group is one that we her parents purchased it start of the new year and promoting our customers’ the pleasure of Sophie
work on was our can bounce ideas off of and from the previous owners quickly melded with our brands, that we have working with us, and the
advertising and marketing.  ask for advice.  We are back in 2002. Carolyn is a team.  We are asking a lot forgotten that people need results she has shown us
We needed consistency, a very lucky to have them in mom to 3 beautiful girls of her and her plate is very to know who we are and are outstanding.  We can’t
plan and someone that our corner! and a wife for 10 years to full here.  Not only did we what we do as well.   On wait to see what this
could implement said plan.  her handsome husband ask her to take over all of top of our normal partnership has in store for
I am a big fan of this part of Donny with Happenings Chris. Carolyn welcomes all our social media but she marketing and promoting, our shop and its
the business, but Magazine and  Ktown to her crazy journey in life also needs to try to make we had a special project we customers.
unfortunately, this is Connects Podcast  is the and about how she tries to some sense out of it by needed her to create from
something that falls by the promoter of all promoters organizing it, adding Thanks for reading.
wayside to quoting,  and such a wonderful balance it all.
production and customer friend!  He is always
service.  Lucky for us there looking for ways to cross comfort zone.  We hired
are a handful of ways that promote businesses and an INTERN!  It was a
can offer assistance. throw in plugs for all his process that took a bit to
supporters and clients.  If warm up to and jump on
Visit Kenosha  is an you have an event coming board with.  I took some
organization that goes up or something that you instructional classes on
above and beyond for its’ want to get the word out how to hire an intern, what
partners.  Laura, Meredith, about, Donny will bend to look for and what the
Dennis, Jake, Kris and Eva over backwards to help intern would need from
make a great team and however he can.  We truly us.  All this information was
truly serve Kenosha and appreciate him at the shop! VERY overwhelming and
our businesses.  They work actually made me want to
extra hard to bring tourists Tapping into and utilizing jump ship.  With the
into our town and to our these types of connections guidance of Laura from
shops by promoting us can help a business with Visit Kenosha, we simplified
through online resources, getting their name out
word of mouth and there.  But this year we
connections.  Laura meets took a HUGE step and did
with us at the start of something out of our

What’s the word

with Justin Sawyer

Putting those 24 hours
to work!

New year, new you! We’re Kenoshan Justin Sawyer hits the snooze button 10 of negativity for the know I know, I love pasta and those 24 hours of every
a month+ into 2022 and it’s has over 15 years in the times, and there are those remainder of your day. pizza just as much as you, single day, it just takes a little
time for a bit of reflection on who will get moving the and that's okay to have! Just motivation and willpower.
your day to day routines, and food and beverage moment that sound wakes Two areas I feel fall to the practice moderation. Remember the 3 most
short term goals. With “Dry industry, as well as a you. My advice? Stop hitting wayside as we become busy important areas to focus on
January” wrapping up some former Tour Manager for the snooze button, allow adults, parents, etc is your Sleep! This is so important are people, places, and
of us have fallen off the national touring artists for yourself the required eating and sleeping habits. I and I swear it’s one of the things. If nothing is changing
health kick already. If there is 7 years. His interests and amount of sleep you need, understand not everyone hardest things to manage. It then nothing is changing. It
one thing in life I’ve learned pieces will cover a wide and wake up in a more has the time to sit down for seems like we’re burning the may be a little irritating in
as I’ve aged, it’s that life gets variety of topics ranging relaxed and less rushed meals throughout the day, wick at both ends, on less the beginning, but I promise
in the way of living. That can from music & art, food & manner. Take the time to but your performance day to than an ample amount of getting on a better routine
make things like health, sleep, fashion, to mental health enjoy your morning cup of day is largely based on what sleep. 4 hours is the bare even in small areas of your
eating, and time management and self awareness. coffee, don’t grab your you’re consuming.A few easy minimum you should be day to day, will be overall
quite the challenge day to phone right away and to add to your daily routine getting, but 7-9 is the most beneficial to your physical
day. are different people with submerge yourself in that is adding a multivitamin, ideal for health and wellness and mental health. It’s a new
various demanding areas of stress right out of the gate. drinking enough water, and purposes. Now that's over a year and every day you wake
When you think about it, life. For me, things like That’s going to get yourself ditching the fast food. Go for 24 hour period, so cat naps if up is another opportunity to
24 hours seems like more utilizing my calendar on my in a panicked and stressful brain and body fuels, fruits possible, you should crush those goals no matter
than enough time to get a lot phone, writing notes, dry mood, which can easily and nuts, lean meats, and absolutely take advantage of. how big or small they are.
of things accomplished. Now erase boards help with snowball into an overall tone ease up on those added
putting that into practice organization and allow me to sugars and refined carbs. I In closing, there are
takes a little (or a lot) of fine have a failsafe in case my several ways to optimize
tuning. The most common memory is lacking. Think
struggle I’ve seen people about systems and mini
encounter is time support systems that would
management. What is time fit best with you, and start
management? It’s pretty cut little.
& dry, you have to think of
your daily routine, and Most people are 1 of 2
curate it around the time types, there’s the one who
you have, in a more
organized manner. This is
pivotal if you’re looking to
optimize your day, outside of
your “down time”. There
isn’t a straightforward set of
guidelines for this, as we all

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