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Study says trees may be key to More on trees
cooler temps during the summer see page 4

Could trees be the key to area of northern Columbus reducing effects, but shaded
a cool summer in the city? to assess the effect that grass provided more
shade from trees and cooling than sun-exposed
Yes, claims new research buildings had on land grass.
that calculated just how surface temperatures over
much greenery can bring one hour on a summer day. As expected, buildings
temperatures down. increased the temperature,
The researchers found but shadows cast by them
"We've long known that that the amount of tree could significantly cool
canopy had a significant temperatures, particularly if
the shade of trees and impact on what's known as they shaded the rooftops of
the urban heat island effect. adjacent buildings, the study
buildings can provide authors said.
For example, on a day
cooling," said study co- when the temperature was
93.33 degrees Fahrenheit in
author Jean-Michel one neighborhood, the
temperature would have
Guldmann. He is a been 3.48 degrees lower --
89.85 degrees -- if all the
professor emeritus of city current trees had been fully For example, a 1%
grown.
and regional planning at increase in the area of a
And if the neighborhood
Ohio State University, in had 20 more full-grown building led to average
trees, the temperature
Columbus. would be another 1.39 surface temperature
degrees lower.
"But now we can more increases of between 2.6%
precisely measure exactly The researchers also
what that effect will be in found that both shaded and and 3%. But an increase of
specific instances, which can sun-exposed grassy areas
help us make better design had significant heat- 1% in the area of a shaded
choices and greening
strategies to mitigate the rooftop led to average
urban heat island effect,"
Guldmann said in a temperature decreases of
university news release.
between 0.13% and 0.31%,

the researchers found. Systems. The type of information maximize shading on other
provided by the model can buildings and roadways,"
For the study, his team Shade on roadways and "We learned that greater be used to "formulate Guldmann said. "This could
created a 3D digital model parking lots also significantly heat-mitigation effects can guidelines for community have significant effects on
of a nearly 14-square-mile decreased temperatures, be obtained by maximizing greening and tree planting temperatures at the street
according to the study the shade on building efforts, and even where to and neighborhood level."
published online recently in rooftops and roadways," locate buildings to
the journal Computers, Guldmann explained.
Environment and Urban

Take Five with John Bernacchi of Lakeside Tree Care

Do you ever encounter out of removals that way. which is going to be big for or early fall are oaks and be watered.The only time a your home, and it also can
someone who wants to the future of the tree, elms. They can only be drought would affect affect your heating and
take down perfectly healthy If you were going to plant branch structure can trimmed in the winter after mature trees is if they had cooling bills if the tree’s big
trees?/2. Have you ever some trees for your own determine what type of the first couple of hard other problems. We’ve had enough to provide shade or
tried to change their mind property what would they tree you buy for sure. My freezes. Other trees can be way worse drought block wind...and trees fit
and talk yourself out of a be? personal favorites are trimmed at pretty much any conditions in the Kenosha right in the bigger picture of
job? anything that has a good fall time in the year except area during my career that landscaping your lawn, and
I think it has a lot to do color, a lot of maples do. right around the bud break haven’t affected them (the they provide a feel good
Yeah, obviously all the with your property in when the leaves are healthy/mature trees). factor.
time. We have to assess general. If you have a finely Is there a good or better forming.
sometimes if the tree’s landscaped yard or a big time of the year to trim or If someone asked you for John Bernacchi joins
overgrown in the yard or if yard or a small yard, that’s prune a tree? Does it vary What kind of effect, if any, a few reasons why they Happenings Q&A on
it poses some kind of going to affect your depending on the type of did the recent drought have should plant a tree on their
threat. If it’s a perfectly choices. I always think of fall tree? on trees in our area? property what would be Tue., July 13th at
healthy tree and there’s no colors as a deciding factor, your response? 1:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
reason to take it down we’ll the size of your yard is It does vary depending Drought conditions really
give a little bit of pushback, going to affect the type of on the type of tree. The don’t affect mature trees, I think one of the key
and we do talk ourselves tree because each tree has only two trees we can’t they really only affect newly things (about planting a
a different growth pattern trim in the spring, summer planted trees that need to tree) is that it adds value to

Tree City USA

Trees are not only better their presence. Well, being Tree City USA means. Tree City USA, the state of of Agriculture) Wisconsin preservation and growth,
important for cooling fortunately for us, Kenosha Tree City USA is a program Wisconsin has planted contains 17 million acres of and I believe that is because
purposes, but they are also and Racine has already that was created in 1976 to 33,221 trees, with 195 forest land and was our state contains so many
responsible for creating taken the necessary steps encourage the planting and communities of the state communities that are a part
oxygen, preserving soil and to become a part of the growing of public trees being a part of the estimated to be home to of programs like Tree City
water, storing carbon, Tree City USA program. throughout towns and program. Now again, that about 11.5 billion trees as USA. To learn more about
enhancing air quality, and Now if you’re like me when cities within the United data was recorded in 2019, of 2017.They reported that their program and work
serving as homes to I first heard this title, you States. Over 3,400 so imagine where we are this was a 2.4 percent visit their website at
numerous species of (like my past self) may not communities within our now that two years have increase when compared https://www.arborday.org/p
wildlife. So, now that we’ve be aware of the significance country have signed on to passed! After hearing these to the numbers that they rogra ms/treecityusa/. You
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trees are, you may be what it entails. So to ensure and again, Kenosha is one of a bit more about our state, shows that, unlike some
wondering what our that we are all on the same them, and has been for 40 and according to the USDA states, Wisconsin is on the By Sophia Matteucci
community is doing to page, let’s discuss what years. As of 2019, thanks to (United States Department more positive end of forest

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Taxes and the rich: America’s history of
favoritism and crackdowns

Journalism, like history, the revelations were tax. Now, everybody’s
doesn’t repeat itself, but it followed by … well … we subject to it. 
can rhyme – loudly. don’t know yet.
The tax revelations come
In 1933, The New York Partly, that’s because the at a time when income
Times revealed that inequality is  an issue  of high
millionaire J. Pierpont explosive revelations are so concern for  some
Morgan Jr. paid no income Americans.And while the tax
tax in the previous two new and ProPublica system didn’t cause that
years.  inequality, it’s an open
promises more. On question how much it’s doing
to readjust the balance. The
Wednesday, it revealed that challenge runs far deeper
than a debate over what rate
multimillionaire Tali high-income Americans
should pay, and it’s hardly
Eighty-eight years later – Farhadian Weinstein, the limited to Mr. Bezos. Last
week’s blockbuster report
  this month  –  the leading candidate for showed that Elon Musk,
Michael Bloomberg, Carl
investigative news Manhattan district attorney, Icahn, and George Soros also
paid no income tax at least
website  ProPublica revealed paid no federal income tax in once in the past 15 years.

that billionaire Jeff Bezos three of the last eight years. Is the system fair if some
of the richest men on earth
paid no income tax in 2007 If Ms. Weinstein wins the sometimes don’t pay taxes?
Is it equitable if they pay a
and 2011. election, she would take over lower rate than the middle
class?
The similarities are one of the key investigations
According to ProPublica,
striking. Both men were into the taxes of former the answer is clear: “Taken
together, [the data]
among the richest Americans President Donald Trump, demolishes the cornerstone SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as he visits the construction site of
myth of the American tax Tesla's gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin, May 17, 2021. According to leaked IRS
at a time of high inequality. another person of wealth. system: that everyone pays records reported by ProPublica, Mr. Musk was among several billionaires who paid paid no
their fair share and the
(Mr. Bezos is now the world’s It’s also important to note richest Americans pay the income tax at least once in the past 15 years.
that for all the similarities, most.”
richest  person.) Both the United States economy
is in a much different place Take Mr. Musk, the founder
appeared to use legal means today than it was in 1933. of Tesla and SpaceX. Between declared income of $1.52 extraordinaire who once ‘perfectly legally’ in not
Then, it was mired in the 2014 and 2018, he paid a billion – or about 30%. But said his secretary paid a paying a federal wealth tax,
to cut their taxes, feeding fourth year of a depression total $455 million on considering that Mr. Musk’s higher rate than he did, 0.1%. which doesn’t exist.”  (It’s a
that had some questioning wealth grew an estimated crime to disclose someone’s
perceptions the system was the future of capitalism. $13.9 billion during that Not so fast, conservatives tax returns. Authorities are
Today, it is recovering time, his “true tax rate” is counter. ProPublica’s “true looking for the person who
rigged in favor of the rich. smartly from a pandemic- only 3.3%, according to tax rate” is fictitious. The gave the data to ProPublica,
induced recession that lasted ProPublica. The median United States doesn’t tax which says it doesn’t know
Both exposés appeared only months. Then, the American household, earning wealth, only income. “The the identity of its source.)
federal government was far about $70,000 a year, pays an stolen IRS data provide the
months after the smaller and had a long average 14% federal tax rate. story with voyeur appeal, but
record of generally balancing it turns out to be a bait-and-
inaugurations of Democratic its budget – at least in Mr. Bloomberg, publishing switch,” complain former
peacetime – compared with billionaire and onetime Senate Banking Committee
presidents pledging to boost today’s much larger Democratic presidential chairman Phil Gramm and
bureaucracy and chronic and candidate, paid even less:  a Mike Solon, a partner of U.S.
government spending after growing deficits. Then, only “true tax rate” of  1.3% Policy Metrics, in a
the rich paid federal income during that period. Mr. Bezos, recent  Wall Street Journal
sharp economic downturns founder of Amazon.com, 1%. op-ed. “ProPublica laments While most Americans
Warren Buffett, investor that taxpayers are acting
and to tax the rich to pay for support the idea of taxing

it.  the rich, it’s not a  top-

In 1933, the revelations ranked  issue for

about Mr. Morgan were many,  according to Gallup,

followed by Senate hearings, the polling organization. Just

widespread public 1% of Americans say the

indignation, and the New rich-poor gap is the nation’s

Deal, which sent tax rates biggest problem and in some

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California's blue oaks threatened by
hotter temps, longer droughts

The near-five-year drought that dehydrated much of Using Landsat satellite images, researchers in blue oak woodlands were more pronounced during the
California between 2012 and 2016 led to significant tree approximated tree cover losses, as well as conditional drought's hottest, driest years.
cover declines and die-offs. changes, among the blue oak woodlands over the last
decade. Scientists also used fire records to ensure "We hope that our research findings will be useful for
According to a new study, California's famed blue oak documented losses were attributable to drought identifying and prioritizing the most vulnerable areas of the
woodlands were especially hard hit. conditions.The data showed forests that were both woodlands for appropriate management interventions,"
affected and unaffected by fire experienced significant tree Dwomoh said.
The latest analysis, published Tuesday in the journal cover loses and conditional changes -- partial disruption or
Frontiers in Climate, revealed declines of more than 1,200 degradation -- as a result of the mega-drought that "Furthermore, our results might be helpful to plan for
square kilometers, or nearly 650 square miles. stretched from 2012 to 2016. more resilient blue oak woodlands and similar landscapes
as the harsher climatic conditions of 2012-2016 are likely
The blue oak, Quercus douglasii, which is endemic to The data also showed the negative impacts of wildfires to be more common in the future," Dwomoh said.
California, can be found dotting the foothills of the Sierra
Nevadas.

It is the state's most drought-resistant oak species, but
the new research suggests the typically resilient tree may
struggle to survive more frequent and prolonged droughts.

"Our findings indicate that droughts that last several
years, and which occur along with warmer than historically
normal temperatures, pose serious threats to the blue oak
woodlands," first study author Francis Dwomoh,
researcher with ASRC Federal Data Solutions said in a
press release.

"Acting in concert with wildfires, these harsher climatic
conditions may lead to major tree cover loss, with negative
consequences on the plants and wildlife that depend on
them, as well as the goods and services we derive from this
ecosystem," said Dwomoh, a researcher with ASRC
Federal Data Solutions, a contractor to the United States
Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and
Science Center.

California's blue oak woodlands are estimated to be the
state's most widespread old-growth forest ecosystems,
predating the arrival of European colonists.

The woodlands are also host to rich biodiversity,
providing food and shelter for more than 300 vertebrate
animal species.

Tree rings help researchers understand
drought intolerance

Tree rings are giving scientists answers for how fire and drought-intolerant.
suppression has increased forest density and reduced
their tolerances for droughts and wildfires, a study The study suggests that even growing carbon
says. dioxide levels like atmospheric CO2, which has risen
by 40 percent since the beginning of the industrial age,
Researchers at Oregon State University and Utah won't help the trees fight back against the effects of
State University analyzed 2,800 hectares of mixed- forest density.
conifer forest in central Oregon. Some of the
ponderosa pines have inhabited the study area since "We've known for a long time that fire suppression
before 1910 -- that's around the time when putting has led to crowded forests, which means more
out forest fires became federal law. competition for resources," said Andrew Merschel, a
graduate student at the College of Forestry and study
The study results, published this month in Global co-author. "We've known that because of that, trees
Change Biology, show that as tree stands got thicker are more prone to drought, which makes sense --
over time, the trees pushed out more of the heavier there's less water reaching deep below ground and
stable isotope of carbon for photosynthesis. This more trees pumping it out. Our research shows in a
brought on more drought stress by blocking the gases physiological way what's happening.We thought there
from reaching their leaves. would be signals in the annual tree rings, and there
are."
Researchers have conducted many studies in this
area, which also contains grand firs that are both fire-

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reform involving a wealth tax

Taxes and the rich (which conservatives see as
harming growth) or a
continued from page 3 business income, so that a European-style value-added
ways they like having a rich high-income person’s highest tax (which scares liberals
class, perhaps as something rate was 29.6% if the money because of its potential to hit
to aspire to for themselves. came from their business as the poor more than the rich)
opposed to 37% if it came in are on hold. But Mr. Biden is
A lot also depends on how the form of wages. proposing a boost in the tax
one counts income. Officially, rate on capital gains, and is
the top 400 income earners The Trump tax cuts seeking, in effect, a tax on
in the nation pay about 23% represent one swing of a large inherited fortunes. 
of their income in federal long-running pendulum. Much
income tax, according to the of 20th-century tax history Conservative economists
latest IRS data. seems to be an ongoing see reasons to favor capital
search for the right rate to income in the tax code,
But that doesn’t tell the full tax wealthy people.    because it incentivizes This is a view of the stratosphere taken by cameras on board the Space Perspective
story, either, write entrepreneurs to create new Neptune One prototype during a test flight Friday above Florida.
economists Emmanuel Saez Instituted in 1913 as a 1% products and companies,
and Gabriel Zucman in their levy on the rich – with a 6% creating jobs and economic Florida-based space
2019 book “The Triumph of surcharge for the uber-rich activity that generate tax balloon company
Injustice: How the Rich Avoid who were pulling in $500,000 revenues in their own right.  launches ticket sales
Taxes and How to Make or more – the top tax rate
them Pay.” That’s because has bounced around Would the nation really A new space tourism we believe in that adage that blackness of space. Such
billionaires are unlike most considerably (see chart). want through heavy taxes to company began to sell a rising tide lifts all boats," views will allow space
Americans. Instead of making During World War II, the top discourage a young Bill Gates tickets Wednesday for six- Space Perspective co- tourists to see about 450
most of their money from rate hit a whopping 90%, even from starting Microsoft or a hour balloon rides to the founder Jane Poynter said in miles, the company said.
wages or salaries, which are as the federal government young Elon Musk from stratosphere starting in an interview.
taxed, they make it from the extended the income tax to creating Tesla and SpaceX? 2024. The price of a seat: Up to eight passengers
growth in their capital the middle class. The economic growth and $125,000. The company began to will ride in a pressurized
holdings, which are not taxed. jobs created by these testing a capsule under a capsule with an experienced
companies have generated giant balloon Friday with a pilot, a bar and a bathroom.
In short, the ProPublica After the war, the idea of a far more tax revenue than The company, Florida- successful 20-mile-high flight The trip will end with a
“true tax rate” may not be broad tax on income stuck, even the most onerous based Space Perspective, from Florida that landed in splashdown.
measuring what is legally but the practice of taxing $9 taxation on those two plans up to 25 flights in the the Gulf of Mexico.
owed, but it does provide a of every $10 of rich people’s individuals would ever first year into what is the Operations are to be based Branson's firm initially
gauge for assessing the income gradually lost favor produce. second major layer of the at Kennedy Space Center signed up passengers for
system’s fairness, Dr. Saez and with both Republican and Earth's atmosphere and initially, Poynter said. $250,000 a seat, but halted
Dr. Zucman argue. Democratic presidents Then again,  some extends to about 31 miles, sales after a test-flight
pushing through cuts to the or more than 163,000 feet, Space Perspective also crashed in 2014. As testing
Consider Mark top rate. In 1986, President researchers question above the planet's surface. released a photo from continues, seats are being
Ronald Reagan and Friday's test flight that sold for research and
Zuckerberg, who owns 20% congressional Democrats whether extra job growth shows the curvature of the training flights, but not for
reached a bipartisan deal Earth, a blue layer of space tourism.
of Facebook, which makes where the top rate was follows  tax cuts for the atmosphere and the
lowered to 28% in exchange By Paul Brinkman
him the world’s fifth-richest for closing many of the wealthy. And, they ask, should
loopholes the rich had been
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billion  in a year. And the who do? Also, should the tax Space Perspective

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there was nothing to tax That was a high point of everyone else’s?  tickets, following plans by
bipartisanship that could have
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Elliott Brownlee, professor with the political clout of
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U.S. can win Dr Harlan Ullman is UPI's
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Here is a chastening withdrawal of American
contradiction: Since the (and by extension, NATO) Harlan Ullman joins
early days of the Korean military forces from Happenings Q&A on
War, the U.S. military has Afghanistan by Sept. 11. In
won virtually every battle it plain language, the United Thu., July 15th at
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war the United States really prediction made in a 2007
won? The answer is World Atlantic Council study on An Air America helicopter crew member helps evacuees up a ladder on the roof of 18 Gia Long Street on April 29,
War II. Afghanistan that began 1975 shortly before Saigon fell to advancing North Vietnamese troops. It's the iconic image of defeat.
"NATO is losing in
After 20 years in Afghanistan." But what is
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A New Jersey school shared, diverse culture to
district has voted of the United States”
to eliminate “the names of please a small politically
all religious and secular
holidays from the school correct minority.
calendar … opting for the
more generic description Americans should stand up Before her incidents and decisions rethink our entire different country.
‘Day Off.’” You can guess made by school boards education system.  Public
the reason. They used to this nonsense when it speech, RedState.com repo across the country have education, established Whatever school board
those increasingly popular raised the ire of many three centuries ago with changes might occur,
words — “inclusive” and comes to their rts, a student recited the parents. Some have shown values that are in sharp parents have it in their
“equitable.” up at public board contrast to what is taught hands to make a lasting
communities and fight Pledge of Allegiance, but meetings, denouncing today, has long exceeded its difference by depriving the
No more Christmas, members. Others are expiration date. system of raw material —
Hanukkah, Memorial Day, back.” not the one we are used to: engaged in recall efforts. their children — who in
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The question is whether Parents should take many cases are being
or even Indigenous Peoples In Fairfax County, “I pledge allegiance to the any of their replacements advantage of school choice indoctrinated with secular
Day (formerly known as will be better than the in states that allow them to progressive ideas. President
Columbus Day). Maybe Virginia, the country’s 10th flag of the United States of current ones and would choose the schools — Biden wants to begin
they should keep April they also give in to public, private, religious, or molding young minds even
Fools’ Day because that largest school district, America. And to the pressure from various home school — which best earlier. He has
accurately reflects their groups that want to teach subjects that matter proposed  free pre-
decision. Or, since they school board Republic for which it “fundamentally transform and at a minimum do not K classes.
have chosen “Day Off,” they America,” as former undermine the country, its
could name them after the member  Abrar stands, one nation under president Obama pledged history (good and bad), An admonition by the
film character Ferris to do? their faith and societal late first lady  Barbara
Bueller. Omeish  was invited to Allah, indivisible, and with values. Bush  seems even more
This summer offers a important today: “Your
New Jersey State deliver the commencement liberty and justice for all.” unique opportunity for The pandemic has success as a family … our
Senator Anthony M. Bucco parents and their children. allowed many parents to success as a nation …
tells me:“We’re getting to a address  to Justice High Under Allah? After more than a year of see the contrast between depends not on what
point where it’s becoming distance learning that has what many public schools happens inside the White
acceptable to sanitize School, formerly known as left some students behind, have become — House, but on what
American history and our especially those in “missionaries” for a far-left happens inside your
J.E.B. Stuart High School. Omeish said the U.S. was marginalized communities, and secular agenda — and house.”
guilty of stealing land from now is an excellent time to what they were taught as
The name was changed as Native Americans. She also students in an altogether And in schools.
denounced “extreme
part of the continuing capitalism, individualism and
white supremacy.” She has
effort to eradicate anything previously
made  remarks  The Jewish
related to slavery and the Community Relations
Council of Greater
Confederacy.  J.E.B. Washington has said
“target and marginalize
Stuart was an officer in the Jewish students and their
families.”
Confederate Army.

Omeish was a co-chair of

Bernie Sanders’

presidential campaign in

Virginia. She is also a

spokeswoman for the

group “No Muslim Ban

Ever.” These and other

Confused about systemic
racism? In The Heights
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with Mary Sanchez

In a matter of weeks, the joyful film that purports to choreographed number at Readers can reach Mary
swell of Latinx pride and be about the New York that pool. Sanchez at
anticipation surrounding community of Washington
the release of “In The Heights, should have more But to dismiss the racial [email protected]
Heights” has turned and accurately represented the and follow her on Twitter
swiped at the film’s races of the people who makeup of those who do @msanchezcolumn.
creators. live there.
inhabit those spaces by not
Racism is like that. Never Washington Heights is
doubt its power; sly and richly an Afro-Latino area, casting more darker- dreams and fears, all share a
capable of infecting just with deep influences from common trait.They’re light-
about anyone and any the Dominican Republic. skinned Afro-Latinos, skinned. Many are ethnically
endeavor. But that’s not fully androgenous in the way
highlighted. The film falters especially in lead roles, is that Hollywood downplays
Lin-Manuel Miranda and to white-washing, the the racial spectrum of
Jon M. Chu quickly reacted cinematic erasing of Black more than an oversight– it’s humanity, but especially
to shield their reputations, lives. Latinx people, who can be
which are substantial as how racism works. of any race.
individually, they’re the “In The Heights” is a
forces behind the wild musical. It’s not a Unwound, the gaffe is It’s not that both
success of the stage documentary. No Heights grounded in hundreds of
production of “Hamilton” resident is performing the years of Latinos seeing creators, Chu as director
and the film “Crazy Rich Gene Kelly-Spiderman- lighter skin as preferable,
Asians.” esque dance scene where the African descendent as and Miranda as the creator
two actors gracefully dance, lesser than, suitable to be
Both men, but especially scaling the side of a building. tokenized, but not equal.
Miranda, have humbly Nor does the community
replied in recent days to the routinely gather at For those confused about and star of the original Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the opening night premiere of 'In The Heights'
well-founded criticism: A Highbridge for the joyfully what systemic racism is; pull
up a chair. Miranda and Chu Tony-award winning during 2021 Tribeca Festival at United Palace Theater on June 09, 2021 in
just offered a $55 million
primer. musical, don’t understand New York City.

the sensitivities. character of Nina with Rican, who attends

In a New York Times Leslie Grace. She is Afro- Stanford. The character
article released before the
The Latino central figures criticism erupted, they Dominican. And her identifies as trigueña; a term
of the film, people that discussed intentionally
viewers are courted to choosing to cast the storyline is that of a hero, noting layers of identity;
connect with, to share their
the studious and disciplined African, Spanish and

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Sanchez But to do so and then refuse to examine the Ullman "speaking softly." Tough rhetoric
historical racism within our own communities is alone is not a smart strategy. Third,
continued from page 7 self- deceit. It happens all the time, in part continued from page 6 perhaps even a greater danger, the
because these racial attitudes are so wound into new MAD for Massive Attacks of
indigenous. The reference is probably lost on how society operates. George H.W. Bush and Joe Biden, Disruption, must be incorporated
most viewers. four presidents were elected with into national security planning and
Would Hollywood backers have balked if more no or minimal foreign policy strategy.
During one segment, the dialogue praises the dark-skinned actors had been cast? Did Chu and experience.
fact that Washington Heights residents hail from Miranda, even unwittingly, accept that as valid Critical strategic thinking must
countries where people survived conquistadores, instead of challenging the premise? Today, the Trump National start by defining achievable
dictators and slavery. And yet, the attitudes of Defense Strategy, approved on an outcomes and then developing
those eras infected the lands with a brand of Chu’s statement to The Root, that they “tried interim basis by the Biden team, strategy. That is not the U.S.
classism by skin tone that’s still present. to get the people who were best for those roles” tasks the Pentagon to "compete, practice. Instead, the United State is
edges uncomfortably close to the old “we deter, and if war comes, defeat" a list prone to allowing a combination of
It happens even in Latino families.The shades of couldn’t find any” excuse of corporate America. of potential adversaries headed by imprecise objectives and technology
children are noted in nicknames and also because China, "the pacing threat," followed and tactics to drive strategy. This is
of how society might judge or worse, None of this negates how fluidly the film by Russia.Yet how to achieve those precisely backward.
discriminate. captures threads to relish; the homage to aims is unclear and probably
matriarchs, the fear and isolation of being unexecutable and unaffordable, Unless American leadership
Miranda and Chu couldn’t have predicted the undocumented and the emotional weight first meaning each is more aspirational acknowledges the United States'
political and social turmoil of today when they generation children carry, tasked with cementing than practical. limited record in winning wars, not
began the arduous task of taking the work from to reality the dreams of their immigrant parents. just battles, and ascertains why
Broadway to Hollywood. Black Lives Matter as a What needs to be done? First, victory has been so elusive, do not
movement and the distortion of Critical Race It’s just that once noted, the absence of Afro- assessment of national security expect the current defense strategy
Theory as a frame to study history weren’t yet Latinos is overwhelming.You can’t unsee it. challenges and issues must focus regarding China and Russia to yield
on the horizon. beyond assessing only threats and better results.
examine more closely weaknesses
Latinos have stood alongside (and respectfully, and vulnerabilities of potential
often one step behind) African Americans adversaries and dangers. Second,
throughout the BLM movement. Teddy Roosevelt was correct about

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news

10M people in U.S. improperly
use daily aspirin therapy

Nearly 10 million older adults in the United States drug increases the risk for hemorrhagic, or bleeding, therapy if it is not actively discontinued, especially
who take aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks strokes, as well as excessive bleeding in the small among those with diabetes," Kalyani said.
shouldn't be using the drug, according to an analysis intestine and stomach ulcer, the researchers said.
published by JAMA Network Open. "It is important for healthcare providers to actively
The risk for these complications is even higher ask their patients aged 70 years and older if they are
About 62% of adults age 60 and older with diabetes, among seniors with diabetes. taking aspirin for primary prevention and on an
and 42% of those without, use aspirin every day, the individual basis discuss the need to discontinue [its]
data showed. Based on this newer data, organizations such as the use," she said.
American Heart Association and the American
This is despite the increased risk for bleeding Diabetes Association have revised their guidelines to
strokes, bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract and account for these risks.
stomach ulcers associated with the medication among
adults age 70 years and older, particularly in those with As a result, for adults age 70 and older with diabetes,
diabetes. aspirin should only be used when their risk for heart
disease, heart attack and stroke outweighs that for any
"Many professional societies have now discouraged bleeding related complications, Kalyani and her
routine use of aspirin for primary prevention of [heart] colleagues said.
disease in adults aged 70 years and older based on
recent evidence," study co-author Dr. Rita R. Kalyani For this study, the researchers surveyed more than
told UPI in an email. 7,100 adults age 60 and older on their use of daily
aspirin between 2011 and 2018.
"It's possible that not all healthcare providers are
aware of recently updated guidelines discouraging This period was before the guidelines for aspirin use
routine aspirin use in older adults," said Kalyani, an in older adults dramatically changed, according to
associate professor of endocrinology, diabetes and Kalyani.
metabolism at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
More than 60% of study participants with diabetes
Aspirin, one of the world's oldest drugs, has reported using daily aspirin.
historically been recommended for use as a
preventative medication for blood clot-related heart As more than 14 million seniors age 65 years and
attacks and strokes, due to its blood-thinning older nationally have diabetes, roughly 9.9 million
properties. people may be improperly using daily aspirin therapy.

In recent years, however, studies have found that the "Our study suggests that a substantial number of
older adults may have potential overuse of aspirin

Most cases of dementia in U.S. seniors go undiagnosed

Most Americans with members -- responded "There is a large high school education, at hospitalization and over 65."
disparity in dementia- 91%, the findings showed.
dementia are to the survey, the rate fell related treatment and death. COVID-19 also Co-author Ryan
diagnosis among Black Higher education is
undiagnosed, which to around 75%, which is older adults, who are often associated with causes long-lasting McGrath, an assistant
often diagnosed much greater wealth and more
shows how important it still significant, said study later in the disease access to resources that neurological impacts in professor of health,
trajectory compared to affect both dementia risk
is to screen and assess co-author Sheria other racial and ethnic and disease progression, some people, perhaps nutrition and exercise
groups," Robinson-Lane Robinson-Lane noted.
seniors for the disease, Robinson-Lane. She is a said in a university news increasing their dementia sciences at North
release. There's also evidence
researchers say. gerontologist at the that education level may risk. Dakota State University
Men, at 99.7%, were affect results on thinking
Their new analysis of University of Michigan more likely to report no and memory -- Dementia screening in Fargo, said evaluating
data from a nationwide diagnosis than women, at "cognitive" -- tests. isn't a routine part of
survey of about 6 million School of Nursing, in Ann 90.2%, and those who annual well visits for seniors' thinking skills is
Americans aged 65 and didn't graduate high Robinson-Lane said older adults, she noted.
older revealed that 91% Arbor. school had a higher the findings are important.
of people with cognitive estimated rate, at 93.5%, particularly relevant now
impairment consistent Rates of non-diagnosis than those with at least a because people with "We recommend that
with dementia did not varied by race, gender dementia have higher
have a formal medical and education. For risk for COVID-19 "Now more than ever, health care providers
diagnosis of dementia or example, Black seniors these routine screenings
Alzheimer's disease. had a higher rate -- 93% - and assessments are screen for low cognitive
- than other racial really critical," Robinson-
groups, according to the Lane said. "I think it's functioning during
report published Monday particularly important to
in the Journal of have some baseline routine health
Alzheimer's Disease. information available to
providers of patients assessments when

possible," McGrath said.

"A telemedicine option

When other people -- may reduce clinic time

generally, family and expand reach."

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Your Kenosha ADRC update

Virtual Memory Café Meets
Once of Month

Please join the Alzheimer’s Association and the
Kenosha County ADRC for a Virtual Memory Café,
on Tuesday, July 13, 1 - 2 p.m. The Virtual Memory
Café is a place for persons with Mild Cognitive
Impairment, early-stage Alzheimer’s, or related
dementia, and their care partners to socialize and
have fun, all from the comfort of your home! Once
registered, you will receive connection instructions.
The Virtual Memory Café meets every month on
second Tuesdays. Interested? Call the Alzheimer's
Association at 800-272-3900.

Medicare Minutes: Getting Seniors connected Available by video conferencing or phone.
Troubleshooting Medicare Facilitated by Dementia Care Specialists from the
Coverage Problems Attention Seniors in Kenosha County!  Have you ADRCs of Kenosha and Walworth County. To
considered learning how to use an iPad or computer register contact the ADRC in your county: Kenosha
Medicare Minute presentations are being offered and wish you had a friend who could help? KAFASI County ADRC: call 262-605-6646 or Walworth
monthly by the Kenosha County ADRC. These Senior Connect may be just what you’re looking for. County ADRC: call 262-741-3273.
programs provide information on a wide range of The program  connects you with family, friends and
Medicare topics. July’s Medicare Minutes will focus the community. We can even provide you with a Kenosha County Durable
will be Troubleshooting Medicare Coverage tablet that can be borrowed long term and pair you Medical Equipment Loan
Problems. The program will be offered virtually on with a technology mentor who will help you work Closet in Need
Thursday, July 29, 2021, from 1 – 2 p.m. through the challenges of using the device. This
program provides you with the resources you need Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource
SHIP-branded Medicare Minutes are developed by to learn how to share pictures, read on-line books Center (ADRC) Durable Medical Equipment Loan
the Medicare Rights Center as a State Health and news publications or facetime with family and and Supply closet is in need of donations. Stock is low
Insurance Program (SHIP) National Technical friends. It can also help you be less isolated. Contact on the following items.
Assistance Center service. The Medicare Rights KAFASI Senior Connect at 262-658-3508 for more
Center is a national, non-profit consumer service information.  Rollators and walkers, Bath benches, Shower
organization. They are one of the SHIP National chairs, Manual and transport wheelchairs,
Technical Assistance Center partners. Are YOU a family caregiver? Commodes, Bed rails
ADRC offers two Family
For reservations call the ADRC 262-605-6646 or Support Groups — Caregiver Individuals needing durable medical equipment for
1-800-472-8008. A Zoom link will be provided. Coffee Club and Lunch Bunch either short-term or long-term use, who are not
enrolled in one of Wisconsin’s long-term care
Dementia Friends Information Are you helping with the care of a loved one? programs, such as Family Care, IRIS and Partnership
Session (Virtual) Running errands, grocery shopping, doing laundry, may contact the ADRC to request an item.
cooking and driving a loved one to the bank and
Dementia Friends help make our community more other appointments are just some of the tasks family If you have gently used or new items you wish to
“dementia friendly” by changing the way people caregivers do when caring for a loved one. Often, we donate, or are in need of medical equipment or
think, act and talk about Alzheimer’s disease and don’t see ourselves as caregivers—we are simply supplies, please call Steve at the ADRC, 262-605-
related disorders. Learn the simple things you can do husbands and wives, daughters and sons, neighbors 6667, Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., to make
to become and Dementia Friend and make a and friends. arrangements. While the ADRC takes additional
difference in the lives of people living with dementia.  steps in sanitization, for everyone’s safety, we ask that
Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource all items be cleaned and sanitized prior to donation.
Community members are welcome to attend one Center, together with Walworth County, is offering
of two information sessions being offered. Sessions two virtual support groups to help family caregivers
will be presented by Susan Johnson, MS, Dementia stay connected and informed. Join others engaged in
Care Specialist, Kenosha County Aging & Disability helping their loved ones manage day to day living, to
Resource Center (ADRC) and Trudy Farrell, a relax, chat and learn helpful tips and strategies.
Dementia Friends Champion.    
To accommodate employed caregivers, as well as
Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 2 – 3 p.m. those at home, the Family Caregiver Lunch Bunch
Register through the Kenosha Public Library meets the first Thursday of every month. The next
website calendar to obtain a Zoom link via email or meeting will be held on Thursday, July 1, noon – 1 p.m.
call 262-564-6130.   Prior to the presentation, it  is
recommended to download the DFWI workbook The Caregiver Coffee Club meets the first
attached to the calendar entry. Wednesday of each month from 10-11 a.m.The next
meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 7.

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do something similar.And answer, I said you can't A: You can't just have
story headlined Q: I was born and your wife may be eligible give your Social Security your Social Security
raised in France, and I am for spousal benefits on to your ex-wife. And by benefits deposited into
"minimizing your Social a French citizen. But I your account. Let me that, I meant you can't the Social Security trust
have lived and worked in explain. assign the benefits to be funds. But there is a
Security." the United States for the paid in her name. But procedure that allows
past 25 years. I am about once you start getting you to make donations
Or consider this. Over to turn 62 and retire, and your monthly benefits, to the trust funds. (Just
the past 50 years, I think I plan to move back to the money is yours to do google "Donation to
the south of France with as you please. So if Social Security trust
where I have a villa near Because you have you want to send her funds.") So I suppose you
Nice. I was married to an money each month in the could take the proceeds
American citizen. We worked and paid into the amount of your Social of your Social Security
have been divorced for a Security check, go ahead check and write a check
few years, but we are still U.S. Social Security and do it.And by the way, each month (or maybe
very good friends. She is your ex is one lucky annually) to the trust
also 62. Because my system for a quarter woman! funds.
family is wealthy, I really
don't need my American century, you are due Q: I am about to turn But do you really want
Social Security check. I 66. I have worked and to do that? Your
would like to give my Social Security paid into Social Security thousands of dollars in
Social Security to my ex- for all of my adult life. But contributions to a
wife. Can you tell me retirement benefits as good fortune has shined multitrillion-dollar fund
how I go about doing on me, and I am would be so insignificant,
that? early as age 62. Even if independently wealthy. I it would be essentially
simply don't need my meaningless.
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works. You can't give single. I've never married. If you really don't want
France, you are still due I really have no family the money, can't you
other than some very think of something
the money. (You worked distant cousins. I heard better to do with it? Like
there is some procedure maybe donate the
and earned it, after all.) where I can have the proceeds to your favorite
proceeds of my Social charity? Or how about
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to the Social Security scholarship for a
checks can be sent to trust funds so that other deserving youngster? I'm
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your bank account in benefits of my something.

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books There’s no place like home – if you
can afford Bay Area prices

Beach-worthy books to Diane Johnson takes on an elusive twins, a jumbo mortgage, and tangled Lorna wonders, “Was ‘happy’ an
savor this summer subject in her latest trenchant finances.  operative term in her life anymore?”
transatlantic comedy of manners:
Summer afternoons are best spent in a comfy, shaded Happiness.  Lorna muses, “One of the hardest Johnson writes with assured brio
spot, a glass of lemonade at hand, engrossed in a book.The tasks of Motherhood, she had always and wit – although with some
staff at the Christian Science Monitor shared their summer “Happiness was like one of those found, was keeping this delicate repetitiveness. She spins a plot busy
favorites.  floaters in your eye that you can balance between helping children with crises, beginning with a mudslide
never focus on, intangible and maintain their self-esteem on the one that exposes and jumbles the
••• fleeting,” observes her pragmatic hand, and giving them the requisite gravesites in the Pont-les-Puits village
heroine, who after 20 years of little pushes from time to time.” cemetery. (Among the affected graves
While renting a house in coastal marriage to a charming but is that of a posthumously appreciated
Rhode Island years ago, I saw a worn chronically unfaithful Frenchman has But Lorna, accustomed to being American painter with whom Lorna
copy of Pat Conroy’s “The Prince of decided it’s time to move back to her solvent if not rich, also quickly realizes was close.) Much of the drama
Tides.” The fact that it had been made native San Francisco.  how helpless she is without funds. She revolves around a teen pregnancy,
into a major motion picture almost can barely find an affordable which triggers alarm, consternation,
discouraged me from reading it, but With Lorna Mott Comes Home, apartment, never mind bail out her soul-searching, and multiple
when I opened the first page, Conroy’s Johnson returns to the same terrain children. “So much of her life had emergencies. Through it all, Johnson
musical descriptions of the South covered in her beloved trio of novels always been predicated on her having fondly ribs her characters – for their
Carolina coast pulled me in. I’ve been a about American expats living in a support system  – male, in general, avarice more than anything, as they all
fan of his ever since. France – “Le Divorce,” “Le Mariage,” given the way society was presently angle for a cut of Randall’s rich wife’s
and “L’Affaire”  – and again plays the constituted,” she reflects. pie. There are ridiculous
Something I’ll be reading this summer: I’m a big fan of the contrasts  between French and complications, and complications to
short story, and have had T.C. Boyle’s “Stories II: The American culture to highlight the Lorna is taken aback by how much the complications. 
Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle” in my bookcase strengths and absurdities of each. But harder life is in San Francisco than in
for several years. I’ve been avoiding it because it’s 900 the overarching focus this time France, where “there were trains and About half of the novel’s 54 short
pages long, but I started this week and am enjoying it so around is on 60-something Lorna medical care.” She bemoans the chapters announce their themes with
much I ordered a used version of the preceding volume, Mott’s determination to set both traffic, her dingy apartment, the high the sort of punchy, wise  bons mots
“Stories: The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle” herself and her struggling grown crime rate, “the sanctimonious health for which Johnson is known: “Loyalty
from my favorite used book store – another 800 pages. – children on a happier path. preoccupations of Americans.” Of is a virtue everyone admires,
Greg Fitzgerald, communication manager course, none of these criticisms of especially the disloyal.” “Parenthood
Lorna is tired of her playboy American culture are new, but they hath murdered sleep.” “To see the
••• husband Armand-Loup Dumas’ still land sharply. right thing to do and not to do it is
embarrassing “wild infidelity” – which cowardice.”
Last year, books about race flew off bookstore shelves. made her an object of pity in the small On the flip side, Lorna realizes that
“The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White village of Pont-les-Puits, where they’ve she misses Armand’s “cheerful Despite its incisive barbs, “Lorna
Mother,” a memoir by James McBride, fell into my lap, a lived since he retired from his job as a hedonism and real erudition,” and Mott Comes Home” is an affectionate
castoff from a relative who was cleaning house. I was curator at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. how life with him was “so romp of a book. Who can resist a
immediately hooked by McBride’s prose and the mysteries She hopes to revive her career as an emphatically rooted in the mire of the character who gallantly proffers her
of his fierce Jewish mother, who raised 12 Black children art lecturer and reconnect with her physical.” She corrects herself: “Not Hermès silk scarf to swaddle a
without ever discussing race. Entangled in this rich, yet three grown children from her first ‘mire,’ wrong word – but pleasure. newborn? Johnson’s fans should lap
breezy memoir are threads of what it means to be an marriage.“No matter where you are,” Pleasure in the physical.” But, she this one up, along with the duck à
“other” that echo loudly 25 years after its original she reasons, “you don’t stop being notes, “Joy seemed in short supply l’orange served in the French hospital
publication.  – Noelle Swan, Weekly editor American.” hereabouts. Was there more joy in cafeteria.
France than in America?”
••• But it’s 2008, and Lorna finds her By Heller McAlpin
beloved Bay Area slammed by When Armand flies to America on
I bought Wayétu Moore’s “She Would Be King” in the astronomical housing prices, a rise in some business – including a visit to his
early fall of 2018 at a book festival in St. Louis.The cover’s violent crime, and rampant latest lover – and asks if she’s content,
hues of serene blues and an illustration of a dark-skinned homelessness.The lecture circuit, alas,
woman with fiery red hair caught my eye. Moore’s is not what it was when she left 20
captivating prose weaves in and out of time and place from years earlier; much has moved online,
Virginia to Monrovia, Liberia, telling the story of warriors and contentious religious
and heroes with supernatural abilities designed for fundamentalists now outnumber art
liberation. And at the end, the tales of survival and rebirth lovers at her talks on medieval French
made me, a person of Liberian heritage but estranged from tapestries.
that part of my identity, feel just as full of a resurrected
hope as the characters Moore made.  – Ashley Lisenby, And Lorna can no longer ignore the
multimedia reporter and writer on race and equity fact that her daughter and two sons,
all in their early 40s, are struggling
••• financially. Her first husband, Randall
Mott, a retired dermatologist who's
The American coming-of-age story, “A Tree Grows in wrapped up in his younger second
Brooklyn,” sat on the shelf in my childhood home, but I wife, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire,
didn’t get to it until recently, when my book club decided and their 15-year-old daughter, seems
to read a “classic” for a change. No wonder Betty Smith’s disinclined to help them. 
novel became an immediate bestseller when it was first
published in 1943. Rich in detail and heart, it takes you to Lorna wants to help – and she also
the tenements of Brooklyn in 1912, where 11-year-old wants to feel needed – but she has “a
Francie Nolan collects junk for pennies with her brother, firm policy of not seeming to
their practical mother scrubs floors to keep a roof over intervene in the affairs of her
their heads, and their charming, singing-waiter father children.” Note the crucial qualifier,
battles drink. But Francie finds beauty among the ashes, “seeming to.”
resilience in hardship, and love in flawed people. Just like
the tree that grows from cement outside her window, she “Which is worse, to meddle or
thrives.  – Francine Kiefer, West Coast bureau chief withdraw?” Lorna wonders as she
notices her divorced daughter’s
see page 15 for more excess weight and unflattering
clothes, and becomes aware of her
younger son’s unsafe living situation
and ailing pregnant wife. Meanwhile,
her elder son, a former hedge-fund
manager, has run off to an undisclosed
locale in Thailand following his
recovery from a near-fatal bike
accident, leaving behind a wife, young

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Worse than Hitler: How Stalin
orchestrated World War II

Adolf Hitler looms largest in Manchuria. Stalin’s machinations in
the pantheon of evildoers. As
the Far East – largely hidden from Books for the beach

Sean McMeekin notes in his his titular allies U.S. President continued from page 14

massive and indispensable new Harry Truman and British Prime You know that old saying about how everyone wants to
book Stalin’s War: A New Minister Winston Churchill – lay write a book? (I mean, I’m one of those wannabes myself.)
History of World War II, “Hitler bare an agenda entirely Lily King’s “Writers & Lovers” cuts right through the
still haunts our nightmares as an characterized by tyranny and cliché. The story follows a woman in her 30s navigating
all-purpose bogeyman, with conquest, an agenda in which the anxieties and absurdities of life as an aspiring novelist.
remembrance of the horrors he fighting Hitler was a means to gain But despite its all-too-real portrayal of the agony of
unleashed uniting us in territory and plunder, a wolf writing – not to mention trying to get published – the
denunciation of Fascism, anti- fighting a wolf not for a world free book somehow made me want to risk the attempt even
Semitism, racism, and the other of wolves but for unimpeded more. Maybe it was the pleasant tinge of ’90s nostalgia
evils of Nazism.”  In the West, preying on the sheep.
Hitler and the Nazis occupy the throughout (the story is set in 1997), or the aching
farthest reaches of  human
depravity:You’re bad, you’re really The anger animating “Stalin’s vulnerability of the main character, Casey. Either way, a
bad, and then, finally, you’re Hitler. 
War” is about Western great read for those who love to write – or want to

complicity: Once the Soviet Union understand people who do. – Jessica Mendoza,

seemed to join the Allied cause, multimedia reporter

As McMeekin points out, the there was scarcely anything Stalin ••
farther East the focus shifts, the could ask of those allies that
more Joseph Stalin and Soviet would be denied him. As One of my favorite books
Russia dominate the picture. McMeekin writes, in the last 14
McMeekin is absolutely right months of the Pacific war the is set at Walden Pond, my
when he writes that the Allied Soviets received more than 4
victory in World War II brought million long (metric) tons of war favorite Massachusetts
only more pain – in the form of matériel for Stalin’s Far Eastern
conquest and civil war – in Eastern armies, including 870,000 long tons of swimming spot. Little-known
Europe and northern Asia. In those petroleum – roughly equal to the
areas, Stalin’s “postwar wars” netted entire amount shipped to Russia for fact: Henry David Thoreau
millions of new forced laborers for help in fighting the Nazis. 
Soviet industries from Poland, Latvia, “Uncle Joe,” sending millions of his once accidentally burned 300
Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Romania, people to the fight. And as McMeekin notes, Stalin’s
Ukraine, and Hungary – plus, after nature was clear all along. “If there acres of the surrounding
1945, nearly a million Japanese, If any vestige of this propaganda still were any lingering doubts in London
Mongolians, and Koreans. “Thus exists, “Stalin’s War” should see it and Washington about Stalin’s woods. The inferno also
began,” McMeekin writes, “a renewed soundly off the stage. There are new intentions for the soon-to-be-
period of Soviet terror, fed by books every year that promise “a new conquered peoples of Europe,” threatened the nearby town
increasing paranoia about Jews and history” of such a well-studied subject McMeekin writes, “these should have
other pro-Western cosmopolitans, as World War II, but McMeekin actually been dispelled by his behavior as the of Concord. This 1844
that would last until Stalin’s death in delivers on that promise. The war, he Red Army, riding on the trucks and
1953.”  asserts, had a protagonist whose incident inspired John
armies fought in both Asia and Europe
on an epic scale that spanned the Pipkin’s literary novel
whole Eurasian continent, who
participated in the conquest of the “Woodsburner.” The tale
Axis powers and enormously enlarged
his own empire in the process. “In all follows Thoreau and several fictional characters as the
these ways,” he writes, “it was not
Hitler’s, but Stalin’s war.”  encroaching blaze transforms their lives and their way of

The inclusion of the key thinking. Since its 2009 release, this page-turner has
battlegrounds of Asia lends an added
element of heft to McMeekin’s thesis. largely been forgotten. But its story is indelible. –
The author’s extensive use of Soviet
archives (the book has 100 pages of Stephen Humphries, chief culture writer
often wonderfully discursive endnotes)
informs a darkly fascinating look at •••
Stalin’s dealings with Chiang Kai-shek’s
government in China, leading to the rubber tires of lend-lease, powered I never knew comics could attain the power of great
Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and
Alliance signed in August of 1945 and into formerly (and soon again) literature until I came upon the work of Yoshihiro
encompassing the West’s increased
By any accounting, the number of awareness of Soviet atrocities in occupied Poland in the second half of Tatsumi.The Japanese artist pioneered a realistic, socially

innocent people Stalin caused to be 1944.”  conscious style of manga, called gekiga, in the 1960s and

murdered, particularly in the decade At the end of the war, Churchill ’70s. His two collections,“Abandon the Old in Tokyo” and
instructed his chiefs of staff to prepare “Good-Bye,” often explore the inner crisis of working-
after the war, dwarfs that of Hitler’s a plan for attacking Soviet forces in class men amid Japan’s postwar economic boom.Taut and
Eastern Europe (his generals called it cinematic,Tatsumi’s stories are about things people don’t
victims, military or civilian. And as so “Operation Unthinkable”), but of want to admit to themselves, yet you can’t look away. –
course nothing like it was ever done. Jingnan Peng, multimedia producer
many books have done before it,

“Stalin’s War” makes abundantly clear

that the dictator was, if anything, even

more coldly reptilian than Hitler. Instead, Stalin was allowed almost total •••

Stalin's duplicity and rapacity were victory in a war he had largely As a novel that’s become emblematic of the original
engineered for his own benefit. Sean Roaring ’20s, “The Great Gatsby” may be suited to a
exercised on a scale not seen in the McMeekin has done a fantastic job summer that could herald the start of another age of
telling that war’s story.  excess, as the pandemic recedes. But F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
world since Genghis Khan, and yet for

an entire generation subsisting on

Western-produced wartime By Steve Donoghue 1925 novel isn’t a paean to hedonism. Far from it: Jay

propaganda, he was stern-but-kindly Gatsby’s quest ends in failure and death. His gauzy parties

are tragicomedies, seen through the eyes of narrator

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS Nick Carraway. I read and reread “The Great Gatsby” for
its deft storytelling and probing of the morality of its era,

one both remote and recognizable a century on. – Simon

Montlake, senior writer 

•••

PRINT & E-BOOKS NONFICTION PRINT & E-BOOKS FICTION I have two history reads from last summer. My husband
and I went on a cross-country road trip and one of our
1. Killing the Mob (O’Reilly/Dugard) 1. The President’s Daughter (Clinton/Patterson) stops was Kansas City, Missouri, to see the Negro
2. Live Your Life (Kloots) 2. The Maidens (Michaelides) Leagues Baseball Museum and the American Jazz
3. The Body Keeps the Score (van der Kolk) 3. The Last Thing He Told Me (Dave) Museum, which are right next door to each other in the
4. Greenlights (McConaughey) 4. Malibu Rising (Reid) city’s historic district. As a result of that visit I picked up
5. The Bomber Mafia (Gladwell) 5. Golden Girl (Hilderbrand) two books. The first was “The Best Pitcher in Baseball:
6. The Premonition (Lewis) 6. Where the Crawdads Sing (Owens) The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant” by Robert
7. Untamed (Doyle) 7. Sooley (Grisham) C. Cottrell. Many baseball fans know about Satchel Paige
8. What Happened To You? (Perry/Winfrey) 8. The Midnight Library (Haig) and the great ball players from the Negro Leagues, but
9. Born a Crime (Noah) 9. Project Hail Mary (Weir) not as much about the founder of the league. The
10. On Juneteenth (Gordon-Reed) 10. People We Meet on Vacation (Henry) business guy behind it all has a story as well.

The second book was “Wide-Open Town: Kansas City
in the Pendergast Era,” a collection of essays about the
city in the years between the two world wars. – Mary
Ann Lomascolo, Project Management office manager

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Pet World animals

with Cathy Rosenthal in the news

Fighting fleas might mean Family reunited with
you have to treat your lost dog after more
home and yard than 11 years

Dear Cathy, The flea leaving the bags on the An England family had an unexpected
reunion when a veterinarian called to
problem in South Florida is sidewalk or side of the road. As well as being a recuring report their lost dog had been found -
- after more than 11 years. Sarah
bad. I have tried external You agreed with her saying guest on Happenings Q&A, Covell, of Buckland Newton, Dorset,
said the Jack Russell terrier named
drops, flea collars and that it was "lazy and Cathy M. Rosenthal is a Crumpet was only 3 months old when
she vanished from the family's back
chewables, and they do not irresponsible." Wow, that is longtime animal advocate, yard in 2010. Covell said she, her
husband and their two daughters,
work. My dog has been not true. We take our two author, columnist and pet Woodpecker destroys Elektra and Tallulah, searched the area
expert who has more than nature camera at for weeks trying to find Crumpet, but
miserable. Intuitively, to put dogs for lengthy walks every nature reserve there was no sign of the canine. Then
30 years in the animal Covell received a phone call this
something inside of an animal day. When one of them does a welfare field. Send your pet month.
questions, stories and tips to
to repel or kill something on poo, we clean it up and leave "I got a phone call from an
emergency vets in Bournemouth to say
the outside of the animal does the bag on the side of the road [email protected]. A nature reserve in Russia said a that they had found my dog, and my
first thought was that one of my three
not seem right. Someone from so that we can pick it up on nature camera disguised as a piece of terriers had managed to get out,"
bark had an unintended consequence Covell said. "Then when she said they
the companies that produce our way back home. We best way to be a good when it was destroyed by a hungry had looked at the microchip and her
neighbor. I hope you will woodpecker. The Nizhne-Svirsky name was Crumpet I couldn't believe
these products need to come always go back and get it. consider trying this. it." Crumpet was found wandering
loose and was brought into the
to the area and find out why Please give pet owners a break veterinary clinic, where she was
scanned for a microchip.
the fleas have become immune and give them the benefit of Dear Cathy, I just read the Nature Reserve in Leningrad Oblast
"I was on my bike at the time and I
to their products. -- Dane, Fort the doubt that the person who column about dog owners said in a Facebook post that the black nearly fell off, I was so shocked. I had
given up on hoping she would come
Lauderdale, Florida left the bag is neither lazy nor leaving full poop bags on woodpecker, nicknamed Zhelna by back and thought she was lost forever.
It's so lovely that she has come home,"
Dear Dane, I am not sure irresponsible. I've never read sidewalks. I saw this a few researchers, apparently was hunting for Covell said. She said the family is now
why your dog seems immune your column before and likely working with a vet to get Crumpet's
to flea preventatives, except to will not again. -- Bunnie, years ago in West Hollywood. insects when it unintentionally health issues addressed.
say that you may need to treat Enfield, Connecticut
There was a lack of waste committed "vandalism" on the camera. "It's such a shame that we have
missed the best years of her life, but
your home and yard as well as Dear Bunnie, I hope you containers, and I just figured The reserve shared video of the hopefully we will have some more with
her," she said.
read this column at least one that without a convenient woodpecker methodically pecking
Bear caught on
your dog. place to dispose of the poop away at the camera until it broke. camera breaking into
New Hampshire car
You can buy diatomaceous more time so you can see my bags, they were just left in "Zhelna quickly discovered the
earth and spread it on your response to your letter. I don't place. I think the moral of the camouflaged device and for several A New Hampshire homeowner's
yard. It's safe for you and your mind when people disagree story is that we need to have days methodically hit the camera," the security camera recorded the moment
dog, but it causes fleas to with me and am always willing convenient waste disposal post said. The reserve said the camera a bear wandered up to a car parked in
dehydrate and die. Next, I to consider differing available in our walkable cities. has been removed for repairs and likely the driveway, opened the door and
would use a fogger in the viewpoints. -- Timothy,Tucson, Arizona went inside.
will be out of commission for some
house to get rid of any fleas While I am thrilled that you The footage, recorded outside a
Dear Timothy, In my old time. home in Thornton, shows the bear
and flea eggs. And I would retrieve your dog's poop bag, opening the car door and going inside
neighborhood, the Runaway dog in in an apparent search for food.

bathe your dog in a dip that you must know there are Homeowner's Association put Manhattan takes the The Thornton Police Department
trash containers and doggie tunnel to Queens said there have been multiple reports
kills fleas. people who will forget it or poop bags every quarter mile. in recent days of a bear opening the
doors of parked cars and rummaging
After you do all this, use a even leave it behind It definitely got people to pick A New York dog who fled from a around inside for food and trash.
spot-on topical (the drops) on intentionally. There also is no
your dog. I think when you hit way to look at a poop bag on up after their dogs, so your sitter in Manhattan was found seven "Please remember to remove food
your flea problem from all the ground and know the dog items from your vehicles and do not
sides, you will begin to see an owner's intentions. So does a idea has some merit, especially days later in Queens after crossing leave your trash bags outside or in
improvement. Flea-infested neighbor wait for someone to your trunks or truck beds," the
pets can develop anemia, so pick it up or pick it up and in public spaces. When between the boroughs via the Queens department said in a Facebook post.
please keep trying to find a dispose of it, grumbling all the
way to rid your dog of these while about dog owners? neighborhoods don't have Midtown Tunnel. Heather Angus said

public waste containers, some Indie, a dog rescued three months ago

dog owners will dispose of from Kolkata, India, gave a dog sitter

their dog's poop bag in a the slip on the evening of June 8 on

pests. To maintain neighborhood neighbor's trash can.While this Manhattan's Upper West Side. Angus

Dear Cathy, I've never harmony, dog owners need to may seem logical, please know said sightings reported on the Next
written to a columnist before carry their dog's poop home.
but felt compelled to write in The best way to do this is to there are people out there Door app said Indie was heading south,
response to your comment to use one bag to pick up the
Elise from West Hartford, poop and tie it into a knot, who will get extremely angry and just over an hour after her
Connecticut. She wrote then drop it into another bag
complaining that people were and knot that bag. This with you for using their trash disappearance the canine was spotted
picking up their dog poop and eliminates any odor and is the
can. by security cameras at the Queens

Dog owners, please take Midtown Tunnel.

your dog's poop bag with you "I started to feel hopeless but I

and dispose of it at home. received a call that night from a Bridge

and Tunnels officer who said she tried

to stop a dog with an appearance

similar to Indie while she was bolting

through the Queens Midtown Tunnel,"

Angus told the New York Post.

Metropolitan Transportation

Authority officials said workers were

unable to capture Indie, but they

directed tunnel traffic to keep the

canine safe during her dash between

boroughs. Indie emerged on the

Queens side of the tunnel and gave

MTA workers the slip on the Long

Island Expressway.

It wasn't until seven days later that a
worker at a warehouse in Queens'
Long Island City spotted a dog
wandering in an area of the building
known to be home to a family of feral
cats. Angus said Indie now has some
scraps and black tar stuck to her fur.
She said the dog was dehydrated and
had lost about 1 pound of weight, but
she is "doing well" back at home.

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DT2021-1

Mayo Clinic artery in the groin) and right-sided valve in a patient
snaked up to the heart. The older than 70 or in patients
Deciding between TAVR prosthesis is then with contraindications to
mechanical or tissue heart ballooned open inside the warfarin, a tissue valve is
valve replacements requires old valve, smooshing it out of likely the right choice. In
some thought the way. TAVR requires patients younger than 50 or
patients to have adequate patients already on
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: when they fail.There are two blood vessels and a large anticoagulation for other
My father is having issues major types of prostheses enough native aortic valve to reasons, such as atrial
with his aortic valve. He is 53 used for valve replacements: accommodate the new fibrillation, a mechanical
years old and was told he mechanical valves and tissue prosthesis inside of it. valve is often the right
needs to have a valve valves. One type of choice.
replacement. I was reading prosthesis may be a better There are two main
that there are different types option for your father, so
of valves. Can you explain which valve is right requires benefits to a tissue valve. Although this doesn't
the differences and what some thought.
option may be best? First, the potential option for apply to your father, I do
Mechanical valves are
most commonly used when transcatheter delivery recommend that young
replacing the aortic and
mitral valves. Types of (particularly in aortic patients who want to
mechanical prostheses have
evolved over time, but most stenosis); and second, the become pregnant or who
modern ones are made of
pyrolytic carbon and have fact that after the initial are participating in very
two tilting discs that allow
ANSWER: There are four blood to flow one way implantation time period, physical sports with a high
through them.
major valves in the heart, 1970s. I generally think of mechanical valves, where the they do not require warfarin, bleeding risk consider a
Mechanical valves require mechanical valves as lasting old valve is removed and the
two on the left side of the a cardiac surgeon to remove forever. However, mechanical new prosthesis is sewn in its only aspirin. The biggest tissue valve to avoid warfarin
the existing valve -- most valves require the blood place.
heart (aortic and mitral) and commonly via a sternotomy thinner warfarin to keep drawback of tissue valves is in the short term, with the
(midline incision through the them from clotting and
two on the right side of the breastbone) -- and requires aspirin. Although there are their durability. An average knowledge that it is a
stopping the heart new anticoagulant
heart (pulmonary and (cardiopulmonary bypass). medications being used for tissue prosthesis lifespan is temporary treatment
The greatest benefit of a other indications, the only
tricuspid). Heart valves serve mechanical valve is durability. blood thinner that is In the last 15 years, about 10 years, however, in expected to require repeat
Some of my patients are appropriate for mechanical
as "one-way doors" allowing doing well with mechanical valves is warfarin. Warfarin transcatheter valve younger patients or those on replacement. As your father
valves implanted in the increases a patient's risk of
blood flow through the bleeding and is not suggested replacement has emerged as dialysis, they can deteriorate is still relatively young, it is
for use during pregnancy.
heart.Valves can fail because a different way to implant much faster. When tissue important that he talks with
Tissue valves are made
they have difficulties opening from porcine (pig) or bovine tissue valves, used almost prostheses fail, they become his cardiologist about the
(cow) tissue and can be used
(stenosis), leaking to replace any cardiac valve. exclusively for aortic valve stenotic or regurgitant, just pros and cons of his
Tissue valves can be
(regurgitation) or both. implanted surgically, just like stenosis. This procedure, like native valves, and then personal situation so he can

These conditions may lead called transcatheter aortic require repeat replacement. make an informed decision. -

to heart valve surgery. valve replacement or TAVR, So, which valve is right for - Jeffrey Geske, M.D.,

Sometimes, when the mitral avoids the need for a your father? The risk of valve Cardiovascular Medicine,

or tricuspid valves fail sternotomy and often has a infection does not differ Mayo Clinic, Rochester,

because of regurgitation, much shorter hospital stay. I between tissue and Minnesota

they can be repaired.And if a always think of TAVR as a mechanical prostheses, and E-mail a question to
MayoClinicQ&[email protected].
valve is repairable, that is "valve on a stick" because a neither require
For more information, visit
preferred to replacement. tissue prosthesis is crimped immunosuppressive www.mayoclinic.org

However, many times, onto a balloon catheter, medications. If valve
valves require replacement
which is then placed in an replacement is needed on a

artery (often the femoral

How people act when stressed key indicator for satisfaction in relationships

How couples treat one governed by stress and how And the third quality was communication is important
each individual processes it, attachment avoidance, or in relationships, it is
another during times of the researchers said. their level of emotional particularly important
engagement or commitment during times of stress, which
stress affects the level of "Stress can be in relationships. is also when it may be more
overwhelming -- it occupies difficult, they said.
satisfaction in their our thoughts and takes our
energy," study co-author Jim "It can be easy to neglect
relationships, according to McNulty said in an email. our relationships during
times of stress because we
an analysis published by "How two people treat In this study, the effect of get preoccupied with the
one another during their other things in our lives that
the  Proceedings of the interactions with one both spouses' qualities on are demanding our
another is the primary way attention," McNulty said.
National Academy of that they affect one another, satisfaction was entirely "But these are also the times
and these behaviors can be during which we need our
Sciences. Behavioral particularly impactful during explained by their relationships the most, so
times of stress," said these are the times we need
"interactions" between McNulty, a professor of behavioral interactions. The to be extra clear to our
psychology at Florida State partners exactly what we
spouses are heavily University in Tallahassee. findings highlight the are feeling and what we
need," he said.
influenced by each of their The findings are based on complex relationship
an analysis of data from 10
"enduring qualities," or between enduring qualities,

personality traits, and have stress and behavior and may

the most effect on what long-term studies that their tendency to display provide insight into why up
included 1,104 married
each of them thinks of their couples. In the studies, negative traits such as anger, to half of marriages in the
spouses were asked to rate
relationship, the data their partners based on anxiety, self consciousness, United States end in
three enduring qualities, the
showed. researchers said. The first irritability, emotional divorce, McNulty and his
quality was neuroticism, or
The nature of these instability and depression. colleagues said.
interactions, particularly
during problem-solving The second was attachment Although most people
conversations, appears to be know that clear and effective
anxiety, or their ability to

feel secure in relationships.

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rfoecoidpe&s Fish & Vegetable Foil
Packets
Nutrition News
with Charlyn Fargo Servings: 4
4 aluminum foil squares
It's never too late 1 cup zucchini (green or yellow), sliced
1 cup corn kernels or cubed potatoes
Here's proof it's never 4 (5-ounce) cod or tilapia fillets
Salt and pepper to taste
too late to start making
1 clove garlic
some healthy lifestyle 1 bunch green onions, sliced thin
1 cup grape tomatoes, cut in half
changes. They can make a 1/3 cup fresh basil leaves, torn

difference later in life. 1/2 teaspoon paprika

New research finds that a • Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place aluminum foil squares on a flat surface. In
a small bowl, mix all other ingredients together. Split vegetable mixture
diet of vegetables and other
between 4 squares, placing mixture in the center of the foil square. Place fish
healthy foods, combined fillet on top. Fold foil over mixture, crimp edges to seal tightly and place

with a routine of regular completed 4 packets on baking sheet. Bake in 400-degree oven until vegetables
are tender and fish flakes easily with a fork, about 20 minutes.
physical activity, is key to
• Per serving: 175 calories; 27.6 grams protein; 13.1 grams carbohydrates; 1.2
middle-aged adults Charlyn Fargo is a The physical activity activity recommendations grams fat; 51.9 milligrams cholesterol; 151.9 grams sodium.
registered dietitian with SIU guidelines were based on
achieving optimal Med School in Springfield, the 2018 Physical Activity had 51% lower odds of
Guidelines for Americans --
cardiovascular health later Ill. For comments or 150 minutes of moderate metabolic syndrome.
questions, contact her at physical activity or 75
in life. The study was minutes of vigorous Participants who adhered
[email protected] physical activity per week.
published in the Journal of or follow her on Twitter The dietary guidelines just to the dietary
were based on the
the American Heart @NutritionRd. recommendations in the guidelines had 33% lower
U.S. Department of
Association. developing serious health Agriculture's MyPlate: half odds. Participants who
conditions in their senior your plate fruits and
The study analyzed data years. Those conditions vegetables, a quarter lean followed both guidelines
from 2,379 adult included heart disease, protein, a quarter whole
participants of the stroke and Type 2 diabetes. grains, and low-fat dairy on had 65% lower odds of
Framingham Heart Study, the side.
which began more than 70 Researchers found 28% developing metabolic
years ago in Framingham, met recommendations of Even achieving one of the
Massachusetts. Adults who both physical activity and guidelines in midlife made a syndrome.
met two recommendations dietary guidelines. Another difference. Participants who
during midlife had lower 47% met recommendations followed the physical If you knew you could
odds of metabolic in at least one of the two prevent diabetes, stroke or
syndrome (a cluster of areas. heart disease later in life
disorders that include just by exercising daily and
excess fat around the waist, eating healthier, would you
insulin resistance and high do it? If your answer is yes,
blood pressure) and I'm confident you'll be glad
you started making those
changes as soon as
possible.

It's never too late.

America’s Test Kitchen

Make your own version of these store-bought breakfast treats

Did you know the classic brand of these frosted hand pies -- Pop Tarts -- are more than 50 years old? The original
Pop Tarts' claim to fame was that they contained fruit filling but did not have to be refrigerated. When they first hit
supermarket shelves, there were no frosted varieties. It took a few years for the company to develop a frosting that
could withstand the heat of the toaster. If you want frosted treats at home, you can make you own icing.

Strawberry Pop • Add sour cream mixture. Pulse until just combined, about • Use a bench scraper to cut off the edges of the dough to tart edges are just beginning to brown, 20 to 24 minutes.
Tarts 10 1-second pulses. Process until the dough forms a ball, 10 form a tidy 12-by-9-inch rectangle. Use a bench scraper to Transfer the baking sheet to a cooling rack and let the pop
cut the dough into 8 3-by-4.5-inch rectangles. Place the
Makes 8 pop tarts to 15 seconds. rectangles onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. (These will tarts cool on the baking sheet for at least 30 minutes.
1/2 cup sour cream, chilled be the bottoms of your pop tarts.) Place the baking sheet Serve.
• Sprinkle the counter lightly with extra flour.Transfer the in the refrigerator to chill while the rolling second piece of
1 large egg dough to the floured counter and press together into ball. To make icing:
2 1/2 cups (12 1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour, plus extra for Use a bench scraper to divide the dough in half. Form each dough. • In a small bowl, whisk 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar, 2
piece of dough into a 3-by-5-inch rectangle.Wrap each tablespoons milk and 1 tablespoon softened cream cheese
counter rectangle tightly in plastic wrap. Place in the refrigerator • Repeat rolling and cutting with the second piece of
1 tablespoon sugar dough. Use a fork to poke 2 rows of holes in each until smooth.
1 teaspoon salt and chill for 1 hour. rectangle. (These will be the tops of your pop tarts.) • Spread 1 teaspoon of icing onto each cooled pop tart.You
12 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and
• While dough chills, make the filling. In a small microwave- • Remove the baking sheet with the bottoms from the can also add sprinkles for fun!
chilled safe bowl, whisk together jam, cornstarch and water. Heat refrigerator. Use a measuring spoon to place 1 level
3/4 cup strawberry jam in the microwave until the mixture begins to form small tablespoon of the cooled jam mixture in the center of each Recipe notes
1 tablespoon cornstarch bottom rectangle on the baking sheet. Dip your finger in • Pop tarts can be stored at room temperature in airtight
1 tablespoon cold water bubbles, about 2 minutes. Remove the bowl from the water and lightly moisten the edges of each rectangle.
microwave (bowl will be hot).Whisk the mixture until well container for up to two days.
• In a small bowl, whisk together sour cream and egg. Set • Place 1 top rectangle onto each bottom rectangle, making • Unfrosted pop tarts can be reheated in a toaster on the
aside. In a food processor, combine flour, sugar and salt. combined. Set aside to cool. sure all edges are lined up. Firmly press the top and bottom
Process for 3 seconds. Sprinkle chilled butter over the flour lowest setting for 1 to 2 minutes.
mixture. Pulse until only pea-size pieces of butter remain, • Assemble the pop tarts: Remove the chilled dough from edges of the rectangles together to seal. Use a fork to • Frosted pop tarts can be reheated in a toaster oven on
the refrigerator and let them sit on the counter to soften press sealed edges together to crimp dough. Place the
about 10 1-second pulses. slightly before rolling, about 10 minutes. Line a rimmed baking sheet with the shaped pop tarts in the refrigerator the lowest setting for 1 to 2 minutes. Do not reheat
and chill for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, adjust the oven rack to frosted pop tarts in an upright toaster, as frosting may melt.
baking sheet with parchment paper. the middle position and heat the oven to 350 degrees.

• Sprinkle the counter lightly with extra flour. Use a rolling • Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake until the pop
pin to roll 1 piece of dough into a 12.5-by-9.5-inch
rectangle on the floured counter.

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jill on money

Economic
intermission 2021

with Jill Schlesinger

As mid-year approaches,
it’s the perfect opportunity
to catch our collective
breaths and take stock of
where the economy is—and
could be heading. Welcome
to Intermission 2021.

US Economy:  The Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS short term, what is not clear anticipated, and inflation, erred on the side of raising made home purchases less
economy expanded at a News business analyst. A is just how much of the which is likely to run hotter interest rates sooner, rather affordable. Those conditions
6.4% annualized pace in the former options trader and CIO increase will burn off. “High than previously predicted. than later, which could argue for a slowdown in
first quarter, and for all of of an investment advisory firm, prices are the ultimate The situation puts officials in potentially snuff out the house price gains over the
2021, US growth is expected she welcomes comments and corrector to high prices,” a tricky position: they are recovery. Consensus is that second half of the year.
to increase by more than says Swonk, which means tasked with the dual the Fed will not raise rates
7%, according to Grant questions at that when stuff costs too mandate of full employment until well into 2022. Markets: After the first six
Thornton Chief Economist [email protected]. Check much, consumers and and price stability, but months of the year, which
Diane Swonk. If so, it would businesses pull back. That sometimes those two goals Housing: The hot housing featured volatility in meme
be the strongest yearlong her website at process is unfolding in the are in conflict. market may be cooling, as stocks, Bitcoin, and NFTs,
pace since 1984, when it was www.jillonmoney.com goods sector of the would-be buyers are sick of the more traditional parts of
7.2%. If the numbers are just economy but will take some Right now, central bankers the endless search process, the stock and bond markets
slightly better than that, it casualties of the pandemic time to work through the are counting on price which often culminates in seem to have settled into
would be the strongest pace recession, will be fully service side. Swonk believes increases being “transitory”, getting out-bid. Both existing more boring, range-bound
in 70 years, when the post recovered – and when that that prices should moderate or temporary, which allows and new home sales are action. When fears of
WWII boom occurred. The full recovery might occur. by the end of 2022. them to focus on fostering slowing down, mostly inflation escalate, the sellers
welcome pickup in growth Estimates are all over the an economy that will put because there are still so few take over; and when those
comes after the worst pace, but most economists Federal Reserve: Although more people back to work. homes for sale. fears recede, the buyers
contraction since the Great agree that the labor market the economy is “strong,” and But how long will the Fed Unfortunately, low inventory jump in. Until there is a
Depression. should look more “normal” “solid”, the Fed is focused on allow inflation to remain levels have pushed up prices. clearer direction, there is
sometime in 2022. employment gains, which above its desired threshold However, those higher likely to be more of the
Employment:  The have retreated from the of 2%, before acting to curb prices, combined with a tick same.
Inflation:  When I asked blistering pace that was it? In the past, they have up in mortgage rates, has
economy should continue to Swonk about the spike in
prices, she responded, “We
add jobs throughout the are in the Great Unknown.”
While it was expected that
year, but with a labor market inflation would surge in the

in flux, it’s hard to predict

with any certainty how many

of the more than 7 million

jobs that have been

When saving should
FINE replace FIRE?

with Jill Schlesinger

A recent CBS occurred because global are not enthusiastic about more productive when you done and achieving goals. of how we adapt to the
News/YouGov poll found governments shut down do work?
that 69% of Americans are their economies to prevent returning to difficult jobs The shifting labor market disruption that we have just
optimistic about their own the spread of COVID-19. These questions are made me think about the experienced.
personal finances, generally. Those same governments with low pay and no benefits. prompting many to consider
That’s an amazing also provided ample relief to their options. Recent work
turnaround from the early workers, who were sidelined Can you blame them? While indexes, and surveys find that FIRE (“Financial Imagine if you could save
pandemic days, when millions from jobs, through no fault of about a quarter of
of workers lost jobs and their own. warehouse work may not be employees are planning to Independence, Retire Early”) enough over your early
were unsure and anxious look for a different job this
about the future. The unique nature of the easy, it sure pays better than year – and more than a third movement, which working years so that you
current recession and of Millennials, the biggest
In just over a year, the recovery has done many hospitality jobs, and it generation currently in the encourages people to save as could afford to explore
worst recession since the something seismic to the US labor force, say they are
Great Depression appears to labor force. There seems to often comes with health ready to kickstart their much as possible, as early as other options mid or late
be in the rear-view mirror, a be a tectonic shift amid the searches. Many job-changers
far faster recovery than that reopening of the economy, insurance and a retirement are motivated by dollars, but possible, to retire early. career? Perhaps the move to
seen after the Great one which has workers and more and more, they want
Recession. The difference employers scrambling to plan. For others, the flexibility, and they want to Clearly, the lockdown hybrid work — a blended
between the two downturns adapt and thrive. Consider be part of an organization
has a lot to do with the the most obvious example: pandemic has refocused that considers new economy has prompted a model where some
causes of each. The Great the US economy has 7.6 approaches to getting work
Recession, which officially million fewer jobs than their attention on work-life rethinking of working, employees return to the
began in December 2007 before the pandemic hit, but
and concluded in June 2009, at the same time, job balance. Who among us retirement, and potentially workplace and others
was caused by the housing openings have reached a
boom, which was financed by near two-decade high. wants to sit in traffic or career options. As a result, I continue to work from
banks’ easy lending to
consumers – and In the post-pandemic navigate public am calling for a new post- home — will open doors to
exacerbated by financial period, we are seeing a major
institutions’ packaging up shake out of how workers transportation for hours pandemic movement, which different jobs that some
loans to make massive bets. are thinking about their jobs
The pandemic recession and careers. Some of them each week? Isn’t it better to one of my podcast listeners might not have ever

be able to spend that wasted dubbed “FINE”. FINE stands considered. And that would

time managing your for “Financial Independence, suit most of us, just FINE!

household and family New Endeavor” and I think it

obligations and in fact, be could be the next iteration

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Texas hailstone confirmed as largest ever to
fall in Lone Star State

Shattered windows, Highway 90 in Hondo, about
half a mile from the location
dented cars and damaged of the record-breaking
hailstone. The person who
homes and businesses found it estimated the
diameter to be 6 to 7 inches,
became reality for portions meaning it could have
potentially been larger than
of Texas and Oklahoma this the record-breaking stone.

spring when a massive Whether that stone off
the highway was the true
hailstorm pelted the two record-breaker or not will
forever remain a mystery, as
states. it was used to make
margaritas before it was able
Hailstones from the storm to be officially measured.
ranged in size from golf balls
and baseballs to grapefruits - Previously, the largest
- but one stone, in particular, credibly reported hailstone
has made a name for itself diameters in Texas were 8
for its record-breaking size. inches in Washington
County in 1892, 7 or 8
A report released by the inches in Winkler County in
1960, 6 inches in Moore
National Center for County in 2010 and 6 inches
in Ward County in 1991.
Environmental Information

Hailstones as large as the one reported on April 28 can cause tremendous damage, and an estimate from AccuWeather chief this month confirmed that
meteorologist Jonathan Porter suggests that the entire storm that night could have resulted in billions of dollars in damage.
Photo courtesy of Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety one hailstone that fell broke

the record for its "unheard

of" size as the largest

hailstone in the state of

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When a group

comes together

by Carolyn Serpe

Well, it is 11:30pm and I
can't sleep. You know why?
I am still super excited
about the event I just
participated in! Let's talk
about the first ever
Downtown Kenosha Wine
Walk!

I have worked many Carolyn Serpe is a Local music group Violet Wilder was the live entertainment at The Lettering Machine last Saturday
events in my life and each Kenosha native whose for the first annual Downtown Kenosha Wine Walk (photo via Facebook from different event)
one has had its ups and family owns The Lettering
downs, failures and Machine in Downtown I want to walk you through Maybe you chose to start people come into our shop morning phone calls and
successes, rants and raves. Kenosha. She has been the event. Check in was at at places you already had saying that they had no clue late night meetings, she put
This event was no different. manager at the shop since The Vault where you been to, or explore those we were there. It has been all she had into preparation
The Downtown Kenosha her parents purchased it received rules, were you had no clue existed. a goal of ours to hear this and execution. Props to
Inc board members crafted from the previous owners carded, given a lanyard with This event brought all less and less. We were able her for stepping out of the
this amazing idea to bring back in 2002. Carolyn is a your sample punch card different types of to showcase our apparel as box! Super proud
downtown back together mom to 3 beautiful girls and a sweet gift bag! From businesses to the table,The well as our beautiful shop daughter here.
after a VERY trying year: to and a wife for 10 years to there, attendees were Lettering Machine being and the amazing musical
bring the people back her handsome husband directed to either the one of them. talent of Violet Wilder. Quick shout out to the
downtown and show them Chris. Carolyn welcomes all streets or the street car, Copy Center for being so
that everyone is open and to her crazy journey in life thanks to the Kenosha Area Our shop has always This event in our minds speedy and wonderful with
ready to serve them. and about how she tries to Transit for creating a been more for production. was a HUGE success that all the last minute printing.
special route for the Not until recently (about 4 would have never As well as, Ken with Avanti
Unfortunately, our balance it all. walkers. They proceeded years) have we had a happened without all the Brothers Wine Co. for
to visit 27 different proper showroom where hard work of the DKI going above and beyond.
director resigned t-minus As an outsider coming into downtown locations to we can display our staff's board and members of the
these meetings to help sample and learn about creativity with fun Kenosha community. I have to gush Were you able to attend
two weeks to the event where needed, it was a different wines. At each apparel and other novelty a little and hold my amazing the Wine Walk? What did
sense of relief seeing how location you receive a one items. We have so much to Mom, Tina Chatmon, on a you think of the event?
date. Although we wished well this group worked ounce pour of the selected offer, but this is not known. pedestal really quick. She Would you attend a similar
together. They all wanted wine they chose to offer, So we were super excited saw what this event could event in the future? Talk to
her the best, and the this event to be successful, and get to enjoy the shop that we could participate in do for our downtown and us - cserpe.blogger
memorable and hopefully or restaurant environment. this event and gain some jumped right in to help @gmail.com
groundwork was laid, there able to be the first of many exposure. We had many make it happen. From early
events to come. Thanks for reading!
was quite a bit more work
This was such a fun time,
that needed to be done for

everything to be successful.

The board came together

quickly, brought in some

heavy hitters that have put

on some great events in

the past, and got to work.

Music to our ears Learn more about these
events, as well as about the
with Meridith Jumisko local shops, restaurants, and
attractions in our area at
Summertime is always Meridith Jumisko is VisitKenosha.com. An
music to our ears. Public Relations Director extensive Event Calendar,
Especially this summer, after our FUN 101 list: 101
the hiatus in 2020 for many at Visit Kenosha. Things to See & Do for $10
events. One of the Kenosha Contact her at & Under (Many are FREE!),
area's most distinguishing [email protected] and a blog can be found on
characteristics is the our website. Planning a
numerous free outdoor 14, July 28, and August 11. wedding, reunion, meeting,
concert series that are or other gathering? We
offered. Not to mention You have your pick of free have a section of our
some awesome music concerts on Thursday website just for planners!
festivals! Nearly every evenings. Peanut Butter &
evening there is a place to Jam happens at Veterans With so many events
gather outdoors and enjoy Memorial Park in
great music. Here is a list of Downtown Kenosha, July 8 coming back this summer,
some of those places: through August 26.There is
also a lunchtime edition; photo - visitkenosha.com stay-in-the-know by signing
First up are the free please keep in mind some Center near the lakeshore.
concert series. Tuesdays At of the acts will be Also new is Bristol located at Wyndham seen at Country Thunder!) up for our e-newsletters at
The Shell is appropriately performing a scaled down Woodstock at Bristol Garden - Kenosha
named as it takes place on acoustic show at lunch. Woods Park: a free concert Harborside.There is a fee. The Peacetree Music VisitKenosha.com/newslett
Tuesday evenings through New this year is Lakeside takes place Thursday Festival is at the Bandshell,
August at the Lounge at Kemper Center evenings through August 5. August 6-7, while the er. EventSource - Weekly
Sesquicentennial Bandshell on July 22, August 5, August HarborPark Jazz, Rhythm &
at Pennoyer Park. Twilight 19, and September 2. This An additional music series Then there are all the Blues Festival is on August Event Highlights is sent to
Jazz happens on the lawn of will happen behind Kemper – with an admission fee – is 21. And don't forget all the
the Anderson Arts Center the Pike River Benefit music festivals and events! music at the Bristol your inbox weekly –
on July 13, July 27, August Concert Series at Renaissance Faire, which is
10, and August 24. Hawthorn Hollow Nature On July 10, the Kenosha open for nine weekends typically on Mondays. The
Sanctuary and Arboretum plus Labor Day starting July
On Wednesday evenings, on July 16 and August 13. Symphony Orchestra 10, as well as at the Visit Kenosha Monthly
the Kenosha Pops Concert On weekends, you can find Kenosha County Fair,
Band performs at the live music at the Petrifying presents a free concert at August 18-22. Also, many Newsletter highlights
Bandshell through August 4. Springs Biergarten; there is local restaurants have live
Lincoln Park Live! takes no admission fee. Live the Petrifying Springs music to enjoy while you events, restaurants,
place at Lincoln Park on July music can also be enjoyed sip cocktails or dine out –
on weekends at the Biergarten. Blake Shelton, so pay close attention to attractions, shops, and
Lakeside Deck, which is social media for upcoming
Eric Church, Kane Brown, dates and performers. more Kenosha fun.

Dustin Lynch, and more Visit Kenosha has been
Kenosha's official travel
country stars will be here resource since 1986. We
remind everyone to please
July 15-18 for Country be respectful of the safety
guidelines that individual
Thunder. (I'm a huge venues are setting; be
patient.
country fan and Dierks

Bentley, Luke Bryan, Carrie

Underwood, Reba, Alan

Jackson, and LeAnn Rimes

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Independence Day Parade, 1885

This photograph of the July 4th, 1885,
parade gives a good view of the west
side of Main Street (Sixth Avenue),
between Wisconsin Avenue (58th
Street) and Market Street (56th Street).
The Marshall for the day (on horse) is
Mr. Fred C. Stemm. The band is the
National Band. Members of the band
are, from left to right: First Row: Henry
Wynn, James S. Barr, George Vollmer, E.
C. Cook. Second Row: John Langin,
Frank Wells, C. G. Schultz, James Hoye.
Third Row: C. E. Dewey, F. L. Rawson,
John J. English, Henry Marsh. Fourth
Row: Charles Parker (bass drum),
Orson Barber (snare drum).

The Kenosha History Center, 220
51st Place, is now open to the
general public. Masks will be required
and other safety protocols will be in
place, please be respectful of others
when you visit. They are open
Tuesdays - Sundays. For more info
and great daily Kenosha history
lessons, find them on Facebook.

Explore Kenosha!

with Meryl Strichartz

Ahoy – Lakeshore Pedal goes north towards TG's, photo submitted by Meryl Strichartz Meryl Strichartz is a
Tours (lakeshorepedal.com) Puzzlehouse, the City Zoo, Kenosha resident and
has been launched and I Cheers, and around Union with live music. It was a didn't know! devout following, but is active board member of
couldn't be more proud. Park Square. The third goes polka band when I stopped the Kenosha Community
You may have seen our 14- through the parks along the in and I loved it. I might be In any case, part of what is often described as a dive Sailing Center. She is also
passenger, pedal-powered lake towards La Fogata and the last person in Kenosha great about being on the a member of the Kenosha
party bike on the streets of the Waterfront Warehouse. to know about this gem of a "land yacht" is that you can bar. Well, we had a group of Yacht Club and ally to
downtown Kenosha or at The fourth leaves at 10am place because everyone I try new places.Walking into many Kenosha harbor
the Kenosha Harbor on Saturdays and heads have spoken to about it a bar with 13 of your schoolteachers that
market. I'm calling it my land over to the Kenosha asks me if I have tried their friends really opens up the businesses and
yacht, since our tours start Harbor Market where fish fry. Apparently, they door to where one might absolutely loved Fec's and environmental groups. She
and end at the Kenosha riders can shop and eat have a great Friday night fry. otherwise go. Fec's for is the owner of Lakeshore
Yacht Club and our drivers delicious food from the I would say, "who knew" but example, is a place with a came back saying that was
all wear captain's hats. local vendors. All of the I guess it's really me who lot of local flavor with a Pedal Tour and Career
Whatever you want to call routes offer something their favorite stop. So again, Coaches of Wisconsin.
it...it's fun! special and I would be hard She has her MBA from
pressed to pick a favorite. who knows...it's all about UW-Parkside and has
We have four approved been involved with many
routes. One goes What I'm really excited exploring. Kenosha and Racine
downtown into the about is discovering new
entertainment district and places. I went to the Union Personally, I was excited nonprofits.
allows riders to choose Park Tavern for the first to discover 58 Below and
from many different time and learned they had a love that they have live Kenosha Community Sailing
establishments. The second beer garden in the back music going on, too. Do Center and how they rent
y'all know that we have an kayaks, stand up paddle
After A One Year Hiatus The Country’s Biggest Tribute Band Festival Returns For incredible amount of live boards and teach youth and
The 4th Year With 3 Days, 5 Stages and Over 50 Tribute Bands Covering All Of music going on in our adult sailing so they can
downtown? Really, it's explore our vibrant city
Your Favorites Including... incredible and we from the water
absolutely need to support (kenoshasailing.org).
ALANIS MORISSETTE • ALICE IN CHAINS • ALLMAN BROTHERS • BLACK CROWES our local music scene.
BLACK SABBATH • BLINK 182 • CARRIE UNDERWOOD • CHEAP TRICK This past Sunday,
DEF LEPPARD • DIO • DOKKEN • DOOBIE BROTHERS • EVANESCENCE 4th Season! JULY 30 - AUG. 1 The Lakeside Deck at the lakeshore pedal tours drove
Wyndham has a great line in it's first Kenosha
FLEETWOOD MAC • FOO FIGHTERS • FOREIGNER • FRANK SINATRA • STYX Dockside Downtown up of artists and Rustic veteran's-day parade. As I
GODSMACK • GREEN DAY • HEART • IRON MAIDEN • JANE’S ADDICTION Kenosha Roads and the Boat House sat in the captain's chair
JIMI HENDRIX • JOAN JETT • JOHN MAYER • JOHNNY CASH • JUDAS PRIEST also frequently have guest waiting to start, I asked
LED ZEPPELIN • LINKIN PARK • LUKE BRYAN • METALLICA • MOTLEY CRUE artists. And don't even get myself, "How in the world
MOTORHEAD • PAT BENETAR • PINK FLOYD PRETENDERS • ROD STEWART RUNAWAYS me going about Slip 56 and did I get here?" Then the
SAMMY HAGAR • SANTANA • SYSTEM OF A DOWN • THE GRATEFUL DEAD THE Swede's who along with parade started and we
WHOTHIN LIZZY TOM PETTY • UFO • VAN HALEN • WEEZER • WHITESNAKE... Ono's, rock the block with passed out fruit snacks to
great music and food. This the crowd and I waved to
AND MORE Friday, July 2nd between 5- all the smiling faces. It was
8pm the Kenosha Yacht so heartwarming and I
Tickets Go On Sale Soon Club will have Haley thought, "you never know
Klinkhammer performing. the places you'll go or
For Up To Date Information Go To Her voice is amazing and should go, until you get
Hap2it.com, Tributeisland.com or pick she is just a great artist. there."

up a copy of Happenings Magazine When people come down Take a ride with us. See
for their pedal tours, I also you down at the lake!
tell them about the

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