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A PERFORMANCE
AUDIENCES HAVE BEEN BLOWN
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Harmonix taking Kenosha by A
storm through the holiday season M
It’s just not the holiday performance certainly left performers who know how
season without holiday us merry!,” the blog’s to put on a great show for The Harmonix residency runs through Dec. 30 at the Wyndham au
music – and Kenosha is reviewer continued. “Each our audiences.” Garden Hotel, 5125 6th Ave. Tickets for those shows are available ov
already experiencing that piece was lively, fun, and full online at www.hap2it.com or at the Happenings office at 1420 63rd er
joy-to-the-world feeling of cheer! Harmonix truly And don’t expect only to St., Kenosha. The price of reserved seats is $20 for ages 14 and up M
through the unique stylings packs a jubilant punch hear holiday, songs, either. and $13 for ages 13 and below. Group discounts are available. pl
of Harmonix. delivering holiday favorites. Charlie Arthur, who pl
My husband and I truly provides bass and vocal Well, some hints can be much about family and Adam, Ryan, Charlie, and go
The five-member a loved the holiday percussion, says their shows found in the “A Little Time hearing personal stories Danny each brought $
cappella group is in the performance and left ready offer a cornucopia of and a Keyboard” review. from each artist infused a something unique to the av
midst of a six-week to continue celebrating the musical styles – including sense of family into the audience not only in their
residency here – billed as “A season!” tunes from The Beatles, Josh “Beyond the music, I performance. talents but their stories as au
Cool Yule” -- that runs Groban and Queen. loved that the performers well.” bi
through Dec. 30 at the Reactions like that are each infused their own lived “The show went well 20
Wyndham Garden Hotel, music to the ears of Mason “High energy medleys of stories into the beyond artists belting out By Gary Schneeberger re
5125 6th Ave. Tickets for Van Gieson, the group’s songs by popular artists performance,” the reviewer holiday classics and modern w
those shows are available soprano. make up a large portion of said. “The holidays are very favorites. Members Mason, by
online at www.hap2it.com the show,” Arthur says. ye
or at the Happenings office “We're here to kickstart “Audiences will also hear In
at 1420 63rd St., Kenosha. your holiday season by Christmas songs from w
The price of reserved seats bringing the joy, and if you're across the decades, paired Se
is $20 for ages 14 and up ready to let loose and have with props, costumes, and
and $13 for ages 13 and some fun with us, this is the all sorts of yuletide un
below. Group discounts are show for you!,” she says. tomfoolery.” m
available. “We give you all-vocal fo
music, all the time.” And that’s not all pa
Audiences are loving the Harmonix brings to the ac
tight vocals, spirited dance But a Harmonix show, as stage, according to Danny ar
moves and easy much as it is about the Zimberg, the group’s self- M
camaraderie of the quintet. blending of the voices, is described “fun and sensitive gr
The blog A Little Time and a also about high-energy stage one.” o
Keyboard said the show presence – and antics. pr
“lifted my spirits and floated “We got a couple tricks co
me straight into the holiday “I can’t think of another up our sleeve that allow us
season. The energetic a group with the amount of to hit more musical genres fo
cappella group had the choreography we do,” than most a cappella Se
audience bopping to familiar explains Adam King, who groups,” he says. in
tunes from start to finish. sings baritone and tenor. “It pa
The show was such a merry really elevates the show far Any hints on what those th
way to start the holidays!” beyond what you’d normally tricks might be? to
get from a vocal group. And
“The Harmonix holiday although the group may be “Well, then, it wouldn't be
new, we’re all experienced a surprise, would it?” Arthur
says with a smile.
Six weeks of holiday harmony with Harmonix pl
es
Christmas holiday! re
Arthur, the bass vocalist her fun rendition of Santa
The Harmonix show at who specializes in vocal Baby and shares her th
the Wyndham Garden, percussion, or as others may memories of what she w
which offers show times in call it, beat-boxing. He kept would ask Santa for as a ex
the afternoons and asking me, how does he do child versus what she asks bu
evenings, runs about 90 that? And as Charlie jokingly Santa for as a grown-up…a un
minutes and is a fantastic mentions in the show, yacht, and really that’s not a
mix of modern music instruments are too
medleys and Christmas expensive so they use their lot! You’ll be delighted to
classics. It’s two shows in voices and bodies to
one, really, and it is truly a complement their sound. see other fun costume de
harmonious show for all That’s right, no instruments
ages. here…sometimes they changes by Adam King, C
don’t even use a
Harmonix music groupIn microphone! Danny Zimberg, and Ryan In
the first part of the show
you will hear a mixture of The second half of the Slone too. I won’t spoil it for M
1960s, Doo-Wop, and show features a costume
current hits presented in change and the Christmas you…let’s just say you’ll feel fr
medley-form which keeps Party portion of the show.
the music moving and Each group member like a kid again. th
grooving. There’s never a describes what Christmas
The Christmas holiday is My eight year old son (a catch them for a bonus dull moment. Between the means to them and then the If you’re in the mood for a M
my absolute favorite time of huge Christmas fan) and I performance at the City of friendly banter of the group sings and performs a way to celebrate this holiday ac
year and every year I look had the incredible Kenosha Christmas Tree performers and their choreographed dance to season in a harmonious way fe
for new ways to enjoy the opportunity to see this Lighting on Friday, exquisite talents, the energy showcase their favorite with a mix of Doo-Wop, th
magic of the season. high-spirited a cappella November 25. Harmonix is infectious and just so Christmas memory through Pop, and Christmas charm, he
Christmas wouldn’t be as group sing at the Wyndham will sing and dance their way much fun. My son’s favorite song. Mason Van Gieson this Harmonix show is for st
special without all the Garden - Kenosha through some holiday performer was Charlie commands the stage with
wonderful music…for me, it Harborside hotel as part of classics and some modern you, your friends, and family.
just ties the whole season their six-week residency favorites starting at 3:45pm
together. This year Kenosha performing their “Very Cool as people begin to gather at Come share the joy of the ap
has a very merry addition to Yule” show – and you can the City Christmas Tree at
bring us all together in the too! They have a lengthy Fountain Plaza by the season and rediscover what w
joy of the season, and that’s performance schedule lined Kenosha Public Museum. I
Harmonix! up going all the way through can’t think of a more jolly Christmas means to you. in
December 30! You can even way to kick start the
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Audits reveal millions in
Medicare Advantage overcharges
Newly released federal "have not been finalized."
audits reveal widespread
overcharges and other Corrigan declined to say
errors in payments to when the agency would
Medicare Advantage health finish its work. "We have a
plans for seniors, with some fiduciary and statutory duty
plans overbilling the to address improper
government more than payments in all of our
$1,000 per patient a year on programs," she said.
average.
The 90 audits are the only
Summaries of the 90 ones CMS has completed Government audits have uncovered about $12 million in net
audits, which examined over the past decade, a time Medicare Advantage overpayments for the care of 18,090
billings from 2011 through when Medicare Advantage patients sampled, though the actual losses to taxpayers are
2013 and are the most has grown explosively. likely much higher. The fast-growing alternative to original
recent reviews completed, Enrollment in the plans Medicare is run primarily by major insurance companies.
were obtained exclusively more than doubled during
by KHN through a three- that period, passing 28
year Freedom of million in 2022, at a cost to
Information Act lawsuit, the government of $427
which was settled in late billion.
September.
Seventy-one of the 90
The government's audits audits uncovered net
uncovered about $12 overpayments, which public deserves more in legal fees to Davis Wright Overall, average underpayments of $10.5
information about that." Tremaine, the law firm that million.
million in net overpayments topped $1,000 per patient represented KHN. CMS did overpayments to health
At least three parties, not admit to wrongfully
for the care of 18,090 on average in 23 audits, including KHN, have sued withholding the records. plans ranged from a low of Auditors scrutinize 30
CMS under the Freedom of
patients sampled, though the according to the Information Act to shake $10 to a high of $5,888 per contracts a year, a small
loose details about the
actual losses to taxpayers government's records. overpayment audits, which patient collected by sample of about 1,000
CMS calls Risk Adjustment
are likely much higher. Humana, one of the largest Data Validation. High coders Touchstone Health HMO, a Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage, a fast- Medicare Advantage In one case, CMS charged Most of the audited plans NewYork health plan whose contracts nationwide.
a law firm an advance search fell into what CMS calls a
growing alternative to sponsors, had overpayments fee of $120,000 and then "high coding intensity contract was terminated "by UnitedHealthcare and
provided next to nothing in group." That means they
d original Medicare, is run exceeding that $1,000 return, according to court were among the most mutual consent" in 2015, Humana, the two biggest
ht primarily by major insurance filings.The law firm filed suit aggressive in seeking extra
e companies. average in 10 of 11 audits, last year, and the case is payments for patients they according to CMS records. Medicare Advantage
pending in federal court in claimed were sicker than
according to the records. Washington. average. The government Most of the audited insurers, accounted for 26
pays the health plans using a health plans had 10,000
ir Officials at the Centers CMS paid the remaining KHN sued CMS in formula called a "risk score" members or more, which of the 90 contract audits
plans too little on average, September 2019 after the that is supposed to render sharply boosts the
as for Medicare & Medicaid anywhere from $8 to $773 agency failed to respond to higher rates for sicker overpayment amount when over the three years.
per patient. a FOIA request for the patients and lower ones for the rates are extrapolated.
Services have said they audits. Under the healthier ones. Eight audits of
settlement, CMS agreed to UnitedHealthcare plans
er intend to extrapolate the Auditors flag hand over the audit found overpayments, while
summaries and other seven others found the
payment error rates from overpayments when a documents and pay $63,000 In all, the plans received government had underpaid.
those samples across the patient's records fail to $22.5 million in
total membership of each document that the person overpayments, though these
plan -- and recoup an had the medical condition were offset by
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US stopped being a nation of workaholics. D
Enter Elon Musk. s
Elon Musk has proved return to the office and p
visionary in defying commit to full days of in- to
conventional wisdom.When person work. In June, s
others said electric cars Starbucks’ CEO said he was w
were the technology of the doing all he could to coax a
future, he made them a staff back to the office. In th
profitable venture in the October, Goldman Sachs O
present. When others revealed it had convinced
claimed private space travel about two-thirds of its staff G
was a niche, he created an to return to the office five r
industry that looks as if it days a week, not far from its o
could boom in the next few pre-pandemic norm. Last s
years. week,Apple CEO Tim Cook u
reiterated his call that c
But when last week he employees ditch full-time p
gave Twitter employees an work from home. fl
ultimatum – become d
“hardcore” workers or quit But Mr. Musk and the rest Twitter CEO Elon Musk, shown at the E3 gaming convention in
– he sounded to many like a of corporate America have Los Angeles in 2019, has made sweeping changes in the weeks p
throwback. In the United met with resistance from since he purchased the social media company Oct. 27, 2022. im
States and many nations in workers. In September, a a
the West, post-pandemic survey of about 3,500
workers appear to be workers in Australia, announcing that insulin and taken over two: Tesla, billion. But as a startup, poll of Twitter users, Mr. c
looking for balance and Canada, the United would be “free”; and even his most profitable success SpaceX is still dependent on Musk reinstated the former t
flexibility rather than long Kingdom, and the U.S. found Mr. Musk’s own Tesla, so far, and Twitter. rounds of funding from president’s account, which in
hours at the office. that nearly 6 in 10 said it claiming proudly that the private sources. These risks alienating liberal users. d
was time to ditch the 40- carmaker was using child investors may not take In the interim, Mr. Trump fl
It’s a vision “almost like hour workweek. labor. Twitter has now So how is it that the kindly to a $400-million-a- helped start a new social s
the 1930s,” says Daniel paused the service. But it, consummate entrepreneur- year drag on profitability. media company,Truth Social, a
Hamermesh, an economist That may explain why too, is now vulnerable to CEO, who has and so far has expressed g
at the University of Texas at these companies have reputational harm since Mr. demonstrated the ability to By contrast, Tesla is a disinterest in returning to e
Austin,“that people work as coaxed and urged workers Musk eliminated its balance competing priorities public company and quite Twitter. e
hard as he tells them to rather than issued communication by leading Tesla and SpaceX profitable. But it faces an o
because they haven’t got any ultimatums. The employee department, charged with to the forefront of their ever-growing list of In the first five days after S
alternatives. But clearly right turmoil at Twitter is only the protecting the brand. respective industries, could competing electric vehicles the libertarian billionaire T
now, they’ve got lots of latest apparent misstep in fall flat on his face with from the world’s largest took over, more than a
alternatives.” Mr. Musk’s one-month Twitter? automakers. Even Mr. Musk’s million users deactivated or
ownership of the social whopping pay at Tesla is
By last Thursday, media company and If Mr. Musk were an For one, the model of a under attack from a suspended their accounts,
hundreds of remaining threatens to tarnish his ordinary entrepreneur, part-time CEO is not one shareholder suit claiming
employees quit. (Mr. Musk reputation as a manager. It these moves might be that is widely embraced as the company paid the “part- Aaccording to one estimate.
had already laid off or fired also hints that even the understandable. Company best practice in the time CEO” too much in
about half of Twitter’s world’s richest man has founders often make lousy corporate world. “This is 2018. That’s a drop in the bucket
employees.) The chaos was financial limitations. CEOs. By the time a typical just weird,” says Eric Talley, a for a platform with more co
so great that the company startup company lists itself corporate law professor at than 230 million daily active
denied all workers badge on a stock exchange, more Columbia Law School.
access to its buildings, asking “Musk directionally has than three-quarters of its “Who has a part-time CEO users, from which Twitter
them to work from home some good ideas” for founders have left the that’s a major company?” can profit.The bigger danger sp
temporarily. Then, Mr. Musk Twitter, says Dan Ives, an company, points out Noam Twitter’s own financial for Mr. Musk is that the So
called an in-person meeting analyst at Wedbush Wasserman, author of “The woes are also a burden. turmoil at Twitter leaks over w
for Friday at 2 p.m. for Securities. “His execution Founder’s Dilemma” and Twitter was struggling even to his other companies, ov
“anyone who can write has been a train wreck.” dean of Yeshiva University’s Three of Mr. Musk’s four before Mr. Musk came on pr
code.” business school in New the scene. By piling on extra especially Tesla.
York. “Founding skills are companies are debt to buy it, he now faces au
very different – often the the challenge that its Are his bluntly expressed co
Twitter Blue’s rough opposite – from later-stage transportation-based, which revenues won’t cover the politics turning off potential A
launch CEO skills,” he writes in an payments needed to service
email, “which is both why a provides some overlap for that debt, says Professor Tesla buyers? Will his M
change in CEO is often Talley. From that
Mr. Musk is shaking up He has wasted no time in needed as the company his limited time to oversee perspective, Mr. Musk’s rush
grows and why it’s rare to to raise revenue and cut
worker relations on several making changes. In less than find someone who can do each one. Also, Twitter is a workforce costs makes managerial missteps at "c
both well.” sense. In meetings with
fronts: demanding a month, Mr. Musk has much bigger and more employees, he has Twitter cause Tesla investors ov
reportedly painted a bleak
employees to go “hardcore,” shaken up Twitter’s board, established takeover for Mr. picture of the company’s to reevaluate the carmaker’s ag
future without serious
firing workers who disagree fired key executives, and laid Musk than Tesla was, writes changes. high value? re
with him, and overhauling off 3,600 workers. And that Mr. Wasserman. In a way, Mr. Musk faces su
Twitter’s mission and was before last week’s Then there are the his own version of the RA
multiple financial challenges
corporate ethics around ultimatum, when more that may be straining even founder’s dilemma in trying ev
Mr. Musk’s considerable
radical free speech, including workers quit. His suggestion resources. He became a to recover his reputation
hero in Ukraine earlier this
antisemitic and racist that users pay for verified year when he offered free and managerial balance. ov
access to his satellite-based Either he gives up Twitter
commentary. On all these status angered many internet service, Starlink, to
keep its war-torn populace
fronts, Mr. Musk’s brash celebrities, news Mr. Musk joins the ranks connected. But it was such a leadership to someone
financial drain that he
personal style has brought organizations, and charities, of exceptional founders, like threatened to cut off that more experienced or he
access.The uproar was such
with it complications. Either who up to now got the auto pioneer Henry Ford that Mr. Musk continued the The political overtones risks failure by moving
free service even though it
Mr. Musk is playing the designation for free because and Microsoft’s Bill Gates, could cost his SpaceX surrounding the Twitter forward. The serial
company $400 million over
contrarian, foreseeing a they were influential users who successfully ran the the next 12 months. acquisition complicate his entrepreneur has stared
future labor force driven by whose brands were deemed companies they started. task. In 2021, two days after bankruptcy in the face
the same workaholic important to defend against He’s pulled off the even the storming of the Capitol, before and proved his
passion that powered his copycats. rarer feat of successfully the social media company naysayers wrong.
drive to the top, or he has founding multiple permanently banned its There are “a lot of
challenges in the next three
made a serious management Indeed, Twitter launched companies and taking over most famous user – then- to six months,” says Mr. Ives,
the Wedbush analyst. “If he
mistake that threatens the the Twitter Blue service, others. The late Steve Jobs President Donald Trump – gets through this dark
storm, there are better days
viability of the company he allowing anyone to become founded and managed two because of the risk of ahead.”
just bought for some $44 a verified user for $8 a companies – Apple and further incitement to
billion. month. Spoofers NeXT computers – and violence. That move
Back to the office immediately began to pose took over Pixar, which alienated many
as PepsiCo; Eli Lilly, tanking became a computer- That sum may not sound conservatives, who moved
like much for someone
Mr. Musk is hardly alone the pharmaceutical animation leader. Mr. Musk reportedly worth $180 to other platforms. On By Laurent Belsie
in asking employees to
company’s stock by has founded four companies Saturday, after conducting a 2
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Drought hit large portion of the globe in 2021,
state of water report says
More than 3.6 million "And yet, there is
people do not have access insufficient understanding of
to an adequate water changes in the distribution,
supply, and large areas of the quantity, and quality of
world are only getting dryer, freshwater resources."
according to a report from The area of the Earth
the World Meteorological with below-average
Organization. streamflow was twice as
The WMO State of large as the above-average
Global Water Resources area when compared to the
report shares a grim 30-year average.
outlook of the Earth's water Particularly dry regions
supply with many places
under drier than normal included Rio de la Plata in
conditions in 2021. It
provides a look at river South America and North
flow, flooding events and
droughts around the world. America's Colorado,
Missouri and Mississippi
river basins. Rio de la Plata
has had a drought since
The report said 2019.
precipitation patterns were Terrestrial water storage,
impacted by climate change or water naturally stored in
and a La Niña event. canopies, snow, ice, bodies
r. "The impacts of climate of water and water below A person sits by a water reservoir with low water levels and
er change are often felt the surface, was below dried grass at Walthamstow Wetlands in London in August.
h through water -- more average compared to the
s. intense and frequent period between 2002-2020. positive ones," the report the world's largest natural On Nov. 14, WMO problem and a potential
p droughts, more extreme said. water reservoir. The WMO solution." The initiative was
al flooding, more erratic The western United plans to assess the introduced the new Action drafted at COP27 in Egypt.
al, seasonal rainfall and States, central South Water resources also cryosphere in future
d accelerated melting of America, Patagonia, North have an effect on worldwide reports. for Water Adaptation and The initiative outlines
o glaciers -- with cascading Africa and Madagascar, food supply, particularly the actions to decrease water
effects on economies, Central Asia and the Middle cryosphere. This includes UN-Water reported 74% Resilience initiative in U.N. loss, improve water supply
East, Pakistan and North glaciers, mountains and of all natural disasters were and create sustainability
ecosystems and all aspects India had low water storage. permafrost which make up water-related. Climate Change plans.
er of our daily lives," WMO
re Secretary General Petteri "Overall, the negative negotiations to stress the
a Taalas said. trends are stronger than the
or significance of water as a
"key climate change
s,
e. Audit findings "preliminary" and routinely have inflated most Medicare audits, CMS of Medicare Advantage
et noted they were based on a patient risk scores to officials have never applied it contracts nationwide and
sampling of years-old claims. overcharge the government to Medicare Advantage should do more to protect
re continued from page 3 by billions of dollars. audits because of fierce tax dollars.
"While we continue to opposition from the
ve Healthcare in Florida and Puerto Rico have substantive concerns insurance industry.
er United that CMS had audited twice with how CMS audits are
er spokeswoman Heather in three years. conducted, Humana remains Brian Murphy, an expert in Doolittle, the former CMS
committed to working official, said the agency needs
e Soule said the company closely with regulators to medical record to "start keeping up with the
improve the Medicare times and doing these audits
er welcomes "the program Advantage program in ways documentation, said "While this data is more on an annual basis and
that increase seniors' access extrapolating the results."
s, oversight that RADV audits The Florida Humana plan to high-quality, lower cost collectively the reviews than a decade old, more
care," she wrote.
provide." But she said the also was the target of an show that the problem is recent research
Billing showdown
audit process needs to unrelated audit in April 2021 "absolutely endemic" in the demonstrates Medicare
Results of the 90 audits,
d compare Medicare by the Health and Human though years old, mirror industry. Advantage's affordability and But Kathy Poppitt, a Texas
more recent findings of a
al Advantage to original Services inspector general. slew of other government Auditors are finding the responsible stewardship of healthcare attorney,
reports and whistleblower same inflated charges "over
is Medicare to provide a That audit, which covered lawsuits alleging that and over again," he said, Medicare dollars," said Mary questioned the fairness of
Medicare Advantage plans adding: "I don't think there is
at "complete picture" of billings in 2015, concluded enough oversight." Beth Donahue, president of demanding huge refunds
rs overpayments. "Three years Humana improperly the Better Medicare Alliance, from insurers so many years
’s ago, we made a collected nearly $200 million a group that advocates for later. "The health plans are
recommendation to CMS that year by overstating how Medicare Advantage. She said going to fight tooth and nail
es suggesting that they conduct sick some patients were. When it comes to getting the industry "delivers better and not make this easy for
money back from the health
e RADV audits on every plan, Officials have yet to recoup plans, extrapolation is the big care and better outcomes" CMS," she said.
sticking point.
ng every year," Soule said. any of that money, either. for patients.
n Humana's 11 audits with In an email, Humana Although extrapolation is But critics argue that CMS By Fred Schulte
e. overpayments included plans spokeswoman Jahna Lindsay- routinely used as a tool in audits only a tiny percentage & Holly Hacker
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not violating their oaths of been reluctant to return to
office to preserve, protect work as evidenced by the
and defend the number of “now hiring”
Constitution of the United signs hanging in many
States? Part of the oath business windows.
Chuck Schumer, each senator takes is to “… Between the 1920s and A
then and now faithfully discharge the 1960s, immigration was n
duties of the office on largely shut down in u
with Cal Thomas which I am about to enter: America. A quota system
So help me God.” Schumer was created to limit w
If an awards show were is not faithfully discharging immigrants from many
his duties when he countries. It allowed those r
created to honor encourages lawbreaking. who arrived during the fi
European migration that R
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assimilate into American a
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Sen. Charles Schumer (D- border is “secure,” and native land in language and w
culture. No nation can be w
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without controlling who is s
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Thomas at nations have far more r
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book “America’s Expiration u
Sen. Schumer said the Date:The Fall of Empires and the moon. Sen. Schumer’s flip-flop e
Superpowers and the Future on illegal immigration will e
following: “…illegal A reporter should ask only make things worse. a
of the United States” Schumer and other elected Maybe Governors Greg d
immigration is wrong. We officials who refuse to Abbot (R-TX) and Ron n
and embrace immigrants, close the border how many DeSantis (R-FL) should bus
must create a system that dreamers, and all of them, are enough? Do we and fly some of them into d
because our ultimate goal welcome the world? Is Schumer’s neighborhood as t
converts the flow of is to help the dreamers, but there to be no limit and if they did to Martha’s a
get a path to citizenship for so, based on what? Do they Vineyard, New York and a
primarily low-skilled illegal all 11 million or however have a number in mind? Philadelphia. That might
many undocumented there What is their goal? make him flip again.
immigrants into the United are here.” Schumer claims it is about
importing more workers
States into a more Schumer doesn’t know because there are currently
how many there are not enough. There are
manageable and controlled because the Department of many reasons for this, in
Homeland Security can’t addition to abortion. Other
flow of legal immigrants tell him. Neither can he say reasons include money
how many are bringing in spent during Covid-19,
who can be absorbed by drugs, how many are U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, allowing people to receive
terrorists, or pedophiles, or D-N.Y., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill a check without having to
our economy.” human traffickers. Border in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 29, 2022.
Fast-forward to last Patrol has managed to legislators pass laws they
week and a different Chuck arrest some people who fit presumably expect will be
Schumer emerged. Citing a these categories, but the enforced. What is
“drop” in the U.S. birth rate number of “gotaways” happening at the southern
(could the aborting of 60 continues to rise so they border is massive
million-plus babies be a can’t calculate the total. lawbreaking. If Schumer and
factor?), Schumer said,“The the Biden administration
only way we are going to Schumer and his fellow refuse to enforce
have a great future in
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more Black people into his This is true despite Irving a
scheme, the one where he being suspended from play Mary Sanchez joins Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets looks on from the bench c
labels Jews “The Synagogue for at least five NBA games, Happenings Q&A on during a game at Barclays Center on Nov. 1, 2022. id
of Satan” and tries to dropped from his Kyrie 8 Mon. Dec. 12th at T
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responsible for 9/11, for blistered by media scrutiny. that he’s latched onto is the Another thread in this such as Historian Henry e
idea that God’s chosen ideology holds that Israel, Louis Gates of Harvard, e
originating lynching, That’s the fallout for his people are African because it’s home to so have debunked the claim. v
Americans, not Jews, as the many Jews of European
sharecropping and a host of reckless spreading of a true descendants of the descent – sometimes called
Hebrews. Ashkenazi Jews – doesn’t
other horrors. Holocaust denying, have a right to exist. There were Jewish slave a
Some people who claim
Holocaust denial and antisemitic 2018 movie launching into the circular to be Black Hebrew African Americans have owners. And some did g
blaming Jews for the slave rhetoric that often falls Israelites tend toward these long been trolled by
trade are probably called "Hebrews to from the mouths of those theories. They often use antisemitic propaganda. It’s participate in the stealing of p
Farrakhan’s greatest splits trying to sound profound. centuries-old tropes tying imperative that people
from historical fact, Negroes: Wake Up Black Jews of European descent grasp how antisemitism people from Africa, sending g
although there’s a long list to themes of greed and a lures in new prospects.
of that. America." desire for domination over them on the torturous in
others. Take the claim that Jews Middle Passage and then in
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in doubling down recently, A person can’t hate slave trade.
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reporters who didn’t seem is claiming. Numerous scholars, many simply weren’t enough
to follow the full scope of showcases the of them African Americans
what the troubled NBA
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figurehead, a man with states pre-Civil War to
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star, the Brooklyn Nets’ I know where I come from," he couldn’t be antisemitic
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headed in the wrong elections, Trump still holds human being that is 30- asking for a more sustained
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factor in this election. Sadly, -- take it back. come from a people that
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times, a lot of folks government benefits supposed to tell you this, She owns her home and example of the rules for
program. On the other but it's a welfare has a few hundred dollars
probably just figure, hand, they messed up a program." Then I'd see In a nutshell, it does in the bank. If she applies an extremely messy
nice, clean government some degree of just what its name says. It for SSI, her $750 Social
given its name, that operation used to dealing recognition in their face. "supplements" someone's Security check would be welfare program. For
mostly with grandpas and Despite its connotation, "income" to give that supplemented up to $841
Supplemental Security grandmas and saddled it people at least know person some degree of -- meaning she would get example, there are
with the task of running a what "welfare" is. They financial "security." $91 per month in SSI
Income is some kind of big, messy welfare don't know what "needs- benefits. But there is a different payment levels
system. based" means. little twist that says the
supplemental Social first $20 per month of for people who live in
And their second bad income she has doesn't
Security benefit. It is not. idea was the name. Some count toward the SSI someone else's
people somewhere in the limit. That means they
So, I guess it's time to Nixon administration To qualify for benefits, would only apply $730 household and who don't
decided to call the new against the SSI threshold.
dust off and update program Supplemental you must be 65 or older, pay any rent. And there
Security Income. I
some of the columns I've understand what they or you must be disabled. are also complicated
were trying to do. They
written in the past that wanted to remove the (That latter category rules about "deeming"
negative connotations of
explain the SSI program. the word "welfare" from includes disabled income and resources
the minds of potential
To begin with, here is program beneficiaries. children.) And most from other family
just a short history But this act of political
lesson. Back before the correctness has led to importantly, you must members.
early 1970s, there were problems ever since.
hundreds of different Anyway, they called the have limited assets and Anyway, happy birthday
welfare programs in the On a related side note, new program to a messy and
country. Sometimes I remember the beginning Supplemental Security income. These income misunderstood
states administered days of the program Income, and they gave the government program!
welfare programs. Other when the government program to the Social and asset rules are WAY
times, counties had their was first introducing it to Security Administration
own welfare programs. American citizens. Social to run. And almost more complicated than I
And in some places, Security Administration everyone back then in
cities or other employees (like me) were the 1970s, and almost will be able to explain in a
jurisdictions had their absolutely forbidden to everyone still today,
own welfare programs. It use the word "welfare" thinks that Supplemental short column. But here Viola player sticks with
was a mess. when explaining SSI to Security Income is some same orchestra for 71
people. The closest we kind of supplemental they are in a very general years, earns world record
could come to being Social Security benefit.
open and honest with sense. An 86-year-old viola player in England was awarded
them was to say it was a
"needs-based program." I The asset limit is a Guinness World Record after playing with the same
recall many an interview
$2,000 for one person or orchestra for over 71 years.
$3,000 for a couple.
Assets include cash, bank The record-keeping organization confirmed Ann
Miller was the new record holder for longest career
accounts, personal as a player for the same orchestra after playing viola
for the Redhill Sinfonia in Surrey for 71 years and 194
Some officials in the But as I said, it's not. SSI property, etc. Essentially, days.
Nixon administration
had a good idea. They is a federal welfare anything you could
decided to federalize
and standardize this program that has readily convert to cash
hodgepodge of welfare
programs into one absolutely nothing to do and use to pay for food
national program. But
tthen they had two bad with Social Security other and shelter. (Usually, the Miller, who is still active with the group, first played
ideas. with the Redhill Sinfonia at age 14 and has now been
than the fact that it value of your home and with the organization for 73 seasons.
happens to be managed car don't count toward
by the Social Security these limits.) Miller took the record from bass player Jane Little,
who spent 71 years playing for the Atlanta Symphony
Administration. SSI The income rules are a Orchestra.
little messier. The basic
payments are funded out federal SSI payment is
$841 per month. Some
The first bad idea: of general tax revenues -- states add more money
TThey gave this new to that federal payment,
NOT Social Security so the SSI benefit could
program to the Social be higher where you live.
SSecurity Administration taxes.
tto run. On the one hand,
Gosh, how I wish they So, the SSI program
I suppose it made sense. would have called SSI
TThe SSA had a network something like the supplements your
oof field offices around Federal Welfare Program.
tthe country, and it had And gosh, how I wish income up to that federal
tthe computer they would have created
a new federal agency to or combined federal and
infrastructure necessary run it and called it
tto manage a big national something like the state income level. For
the following example, I'll
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books Mike Pence focuses on honesty and ‘
loyalty in new autobiography M
Mystery, movies, and
Arthur Miller enliven If former Vice President C
these new books Mike Pence is ever in need lo
of a character witness, he a
1. The Magic Kingdom, by Russell Banks could not do much better h
Measured and thoughtful, the latest novel from Russell than one statement former ra
Banks details the promises – and limitations – of utopias. President Donald Trump (A
In 1902, Harley Mann and his family find belonging amid made to him. c
the Shakers of rural central Florida. “We were being A
welcomed back into Paradise,” he muses, and indeed life is In his new book So Help ye
good ... until infatuation and doubt upend Harley’s world. Me God, Pence quotes m
Banks effectively explores the tensions between Trump as pressuring him to p
individuality and idealism. overturn the results of the (“
2. Blackwater Falls, by Ausma Zehanat Khan 2020 election by rejecting “
Denver Police Detective Inaya Rahman – a devout electoral votes from the h
Muslim – investigates the murder of a Syrian teen. She states. When he refuses, a
faces a wall of resistance, including racist officials, as well Pence says Trump told him T
as a terrified Muslim community. The story examines our “you’re too honest.” It was M
current political moment with freshness, nuance, and cynicism at its worst and g
compassion. what so many people hate e
3. Gilded Mountain, by Kate Manning about Washington and e
It’s 1907 in Moonstone, Colorado. Quarrymen toil in politics. ac
the perilous marble mine while their families, like 16-year-
old Sylvie’s, scrape by. But Sylvie escapes, first to the local Pence says he told Trump, p
paper run by a fearless woman, and then to the mine “…other than your family,
owner’s manor to work for his frivolous wife. A steady- no one in the a
eyed look at the costs of justice, Kate Manning’s latest administration has been
novel is a solid, sweeping read. more loyal to you than me.” O
4. Godmersham Park, by Gill Hornby That is undeniably true.
Gill Hornby, who wrote “Miss Austen” in 2020, follows Some critics have accused and political order to the reflection on Pence’s life was reading. The campaign W
governess Anne Sharp as she navigates upstairs and Pence of being too loyal and country. In his book, Pence and his role in one of the had issued a statement S
downstairs at the family home of Jane Austen’s brother. say he should have spoken says he twice voted for most controversial periods directly contradicting what g
Thoroughly immersive, witty, and moving, Hornby’s novel out, or resigned, in the face Carter, but later became a of our political and national I had told the president just w
features sparkling prose that makes this novel of Trump’s denial of the Reagan Republican. history. Pence admits when a few hours earlier.” When th
unputdownable. election outcome. he has made mistakes, Pence’s chief of staff, Marc 2
5. A World of Curiosities, by Louise Penny In an interview with something rare for Short, called the campaign’s n
Louise Penny’s 18th Chief Inspector Gamache mystery If Trump defines David Muir of ABC News, politicians, and he doesn’t communications director, a
is simply outstanding. It’s springtime in Three Pines when narcissism, Pence defines Pence described Trump’s make his criticisms of Jason Miller, Pence writes 1
past and present criminal cases collide. Danger threatens integrity: “adherence to language and behavior that Donald Trump personal. He that Miller apologized and W
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gift for intelligent and transcendent storytelling delivers principles; soundness of U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and behavior, but does not fi
light, bringing themes of forgiveness and redemption to moral character; honesty.” as “reckless.” He said it demean the man. Trump had no choice.”
society’s darker moments. Can someone who is more “made me furious.” should take note. c
6. Winterland, by Rae Meadows mild-mannered than Clark While these are some of B
Rae Meadows’ captivating 1970s Soviet-era tale echoes Kent and the answer to He told Muir he had not Pence comes as close to the juicier parts of the ye
the stark landscape of its Siberian setting.A ballerina goes Diogenes’ search for an spoken with Trump in more saying Trump lied to him as book, much of the rest is n
missing; her husband pieces his life together, as their young honest man be elected than a year and didn’t seem he could without saying it about Pence’s upbringing, ra
daughter is ushered into the grueling sport of Olympic president in our toxic especially displeased with outright. Pence had told the his father and mother, wife to
gymnastics. Meadows testifies to the invincible human environment? that. Asked whether he president he did not believe and children. It is a recipe d
spirit. could support Trump who he had the power to block for how his values and b
7. Arthur Miller: American Witness, by John Lahr The same question was announced Tuesday he is congressional certification worldview developed.
John Lahr’s slender, sharp biography offers an engaging raised following the running again for the of President-elect Biden’s a
account of the playwright’s life, beginning with his New Johnson and Nixon presidency, Pence said he election. “Regardless,” he
York childhood. Lahr also provides a penetrating administrations which saw thinks there are “better writes, “the Trump Pence told Muir his family a
interpretation of Arthur Miller’s canonical works, including demonstrations and street choices.” campaign issued a
“Death of a Salesman” and “The Crucible.” violence in reaction to statement saying that I had will gather over Christmas
8. Hollywood: The Oral History, by Jeanine Basinger Watergate and the Vietnam The book is not a never said that and calling
and Sam Wasson War. Along came Jimmy salacious “tell-all” screed (The New York Times and likely decide what the st
Two film historians sifted through nearly 3,000 Carter, a church-going, that some other people report) ‘fake news.’ future holds. If he runs for so
interviews archived at the American Film Institute. once-married man who who worked for presidents president, he will have stiff a
Weaving together recollections from directors, writers, seemed just the right have written to settle “I couldn’t believe what I competition, all of whom W
actors, and more, they’ve created a delightful and candidate to restore moral scores. It is a sober are much better than m
illuminating account of moviemaking from the silent era to Donald Trump.
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weighs in.
Celebrated ballet dancer Misty Becoming a world
Copeland has a raft of “firsts” in her
long list of honors and record holder in
accomplishments, including her
historic 10-year rise through the pull-ups surely
ranks of American Ballet Theatre
(ABT) to become in 2015 the requires dedication
company’s first female African
American principal dancer. That same and resolve. One
year she was named one of Time
magazine’s 100 most influential might not expect a
people. She is a bestselling author
(“Life in Motion,” “Black Ballerina,” person who has
“Ballerina Body,” and “Firebird”) and
has been the subject of TV features accomplished that
and the documentary “A Ballerina’s
Tale.” In September, she launched the feat to be averse to
Misty Copeland Foundation with the
goal of bringing greater diversity, a life focused on
equity, and inclusion to dance,
especially by making ballet more goals and
accessible and affordable.
achievement, but
But as Ms. Copeland is quick to
point out in her new book, The Wind one might not
at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and
Other Gifts from My Mentor Raven expect the pull-up
gn Wilkinson, she has not done it alone.
nt She has stood gratefully – and record holder to be
at gracefully – on the shoulders of those
st who have come before her, especially a philosopher, either.
n the trailblazing Ms. Wilkinson (1935-
rc 2018), who Ms. Copeland credits as Adam Adatto
’s not just a mentor and role model, but
or, also the perennial wind at her back. In Sandel has a
es 1955, the New York-born Ms.
d Wilkinson overcame skepticism and doctorate in and has
“I often open hostility to become the
first Black woman to join a major taught philosophy,
classical ballet company, the all-white
of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. For six and, as he explains in
e years, her artistry was acclaimed in
is notable roles with the company, until Happiness in
g, racist threats during the company’s
fe tours of the Jim Crow South nearly Action: A
e derailed her career. Ms. Copeland’s
d book chronicles their deep friendship What was it about the art form that the ballerina,” and that the greatest Philosopher’s
and their individual paths in pursuit of ended up winning you over? gift she gave you was hope. How has
ly artistic and personal fulfillment. that sustained and motivated you? Guide to the Good Life, he has also devoted an
as Q. Your book pivots between your Initially, I was outside of my comfort
e story and Ms.Wilkinson’s inspiring but zone and felt like I didn’t fit in. My A. She allowed me to understand inordinate amount of time to what he describes as “the
or sometimes horrifying experiences as whole adolescence, all I was trying to how to translate the power you have
ff a Black ballerina in the ‘50s and ‘60s. do was fit in and not have people as a performer onstage into the absurd task of hanging from a bar and then raising oneself
m Were you hoping to highlight how know what was going on in my home person you are as a human being. She
n much has changed as well as how life, which was really chaotic. But once set the example just by her daily until one’s chin is over the bar, again and again.”
much farther we need to go for I stepped into the ballet studio, I actions, the way she treated people.
as equity and inclusion – in ballet and the actually felt like I fit in, that I had The elegant, graceful, amazing Since 2014, that training has paid off to the tune of three
world at large? everything it took to be a ballet ballerina she was onstage – she was Guinness World Records for Most Pull-Ups in One Minute
dancer, and that was so empowering that same person offstage. It allowed (Sandel is currently working to reclaim the record). But it’s
A. Yes, 100%. Learning of Raven’s to find the perfect outlet to express me to understand the power I hold also led the author to think deeply about why the
journey and having her come into my myself and be heard.As a middle child and the symbol of being a Black body accomplishment of goals so often fails to bring about
life, I was struck by how much hadn’t of six children with my mom working onstage. lasting happiness, even when we expect that it will. Instead,
changed. It made me feel even more many jobs, there was not a lot of he writes, “Orienting our lives to achievement somehow
responsibility to continue doing the focus on us as individuals. In the Q. Historically, young dancers of leaves us perpetually unsatisfied.”
work I’m already doing and bring the studio, I got that nurturing attention. color have often been steered away
conversation to the forefront about from ballet toward modern dance. “Happiness in Action,” as its title suggests, proposes that
the lack of diversity and inclusion in Q. And found your voice? You’ve talked about defying your fulfillment comes not from racking up successes, but from
dance, and the power and impact background, pedigree, and body type, losing ourselves in activities that we find meaningful. (He
dance can have in people’s lives. Raven A. Initially I did not like to speak. My but that at times you felt like a test contrasts “goal-oriented striving” with “activity for the sake
and I come from such different nickname was Mouse growing up. But case – a rare Black woman in a of itself.”) In the case of the author’s pull-ups, the pleasures
backgrounds growing up, but as Black when I first experienced dance, ballet rarified art form representing and challenges of his immersion in the exercise, not to
people had such similar experiences, in particular, I learned a whole new generations of people who never felt mention the camaraderie he enjoys with friends and
and it’s important to acknowledge language, and to express myself in that welcome in that world. Is that a mentors at the gym, has led him to excel. He regards his
that we have a lot farther to go. I form was incredible. I grew in leaps burden at times? world records as the fruits of a character-building journey,
would say more hasn’t changed than and bounds in every way, and had a not as the result of a single-minded fixation on achieving a
has. better understanding of myself. A. I am one of so many who have particular outcome.
experienced this. I don’t feel like it’s a
Q. My first real exposure to ballet Q. You were in the midst of your burden per se but more a beautiful The book is organized around three interrelated virtues
was on a basketball court at the age professional career at ABT before you responsibility to share my life and that Sandel says are essential to happiness: self-possession,
of 13 in a program run by the Boys & discovered Ms. Wilkinson through a experiences.We only grow if we share friendship, and engagement with nature. All three, he
Girls Club, and you’ve said that documentary on the Ballet Russe de and communicate and teach. believes, have been displaced by the pressure, both internal
initially you didn’t really like ballet. Monte Carlo, and you say in the book and external, to prioritize future success over experiencing
that you were stunned to see a Black Q. Do you feel a mission not just to life in the moment. He explicates these virtues using his
woman in the company in the ‘50s. be a role model, but to bring to light own life story, the work of ancient and modern
Was that a turning point for you? a legacy of dancers of color, like Ms. philosophers (Aristotle and Socrates in particular), and
Wilkinson, who helped pave the way examples from popular culture.
A. I didn’t realize there had been for your success?
Black women at that level in that time “Happiness in Action” offers much to ponder; Sandel’s
succeeding in classical ballet. That’s A. I think that here hasn’t been critiques of technology and its effects on our judgment and
not what we’re shown on TV and in enough documentation around our agency are particularly resonant.The book’s examples help
history books. It was inspiring and history in classical ballet. For me to elucidate its themes, but one wishes Sandel had drawn
intriguing, but at the same time made have this platform and these from a wider range of material. He returns to the Larry
me really angry that I hadn’t learned opportunities to write books – it’s an David sitcom “Curb Your Enthusiasm” again and again, aptly
about her, and it pushed me to think honor to share these stories and I’m calling it “a caricature of our cultural maladies,” but surely
about my career in a different light, going to continue doing this. there are others. In addition, as a philosophy book
that I have a bigger purpose and seemingly intended for a wide audience, its extensive
responsibility. It made me start to dig Q. You’re 40, an age when many refutation of the ancient philosophy of Stoicism might be of
deeper and learn about other Black dancers stop performing. What does limited interest to the general reader.
ballerinas. She really changed the the future look like?
course of my career. I don’t think I Finally, it is notable that the author’s vision of happiness
would be a principal dancer if I had A.The future is dance, whether [it’s] is biased toward being in demanding positions: he endorses
not stumbled upon her story. my production company, the “adventure and risk,” “situations of resistance,” and
foundation, or Greatness Wins [an “hardship and failure.” This inclination is perhaps not
Q. You began your friendship with athletic apparel company].All of these surprising from a guy whose idea of fulfillment has for years
Ms. Wilkinson in 2011, and you say things will be forever part of my life involved pushing himself through grueling sets of pull-ups.
that she helped “bridge the gap whether I’m onstage or not. Some readers might associate the good life with less
between Misty the person and Misty arduous pursuits, and with things like fun or tranquillity or
By Karen Campbell well-being. “Activity for the sake of itself,” of course, will
mean something different to everyone.
By Barbara Spindel
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Eating a serving of dark, leafy greens daily may
slow memory decline
People who eat and drink plaques and "Flavonols are primarily
more foods with flavonols -- found in kale, beans, tea,
found in certain fruits and hyperphosphorylated tau spinach, broccoli, tomatoes,
vegetables, including kale, apples, wine, oranges, pears
tomatoes, apples and protein or neurofibrillary and olive oil. That being said,
oranges, plus tea and wine -- this is not an exhaustive list,"
may have slower memory tangles in the case of Holland said. "It is just where
decline in older age, a study the largest concentrations of
published Tuesday suggests. Alzheimer's disease, begin flavonols are found."
perhaps 10 years to 20 years The highest level of
flavonols generally is
before the onset of easily contained in the leaf or skin
of the vegetable or fruit, and
detectable clinical signs of it. in lower concentrations in DT2021-1
the extract or juice, Holland
The findings appeared in However, he stressed that said. M
Neurology, the journal of the healthy behaviors, especially
American Academy of when it comes to food and So, although black, white S
Neurology. drink, are always timely. or green tea, and wine -- red
more so than white wine --
According to Dr. Thomas "The main point ... is it is contain flavonols, it isn't a Eating more fruits and vegetables and drinking more
M. Holland, the study's lead never too early, or too late large concentration. tea is an easy way for people to take an active role in
author, taking such simple to start making healthy maintaining their brain health, a study indicates.
steps as eating more fruits lifestyle changes, especially A person would need to
and vegetables and drinking when it comes to diet," drink three to four cups of about how often they ate elderly participants beans, tea, spinach and
more tea is an easy way for Holland said. tea daily to reach the highest certain foods, and they were broccoli; quercetin, found in
people to take an active role level of flavonols, he said. placed into one of five consumed less, averaging tomatoes, kale, apples and
in maintaining their brain "The research presented groups based on the amount tea; myricetin, found in tea,
health. here adds to the ever- He added: "But, to of flavonols they had in their roughly 10 milligrams of wine, kale, oranges and
growing body of evidence reiterate, it is very important diet. tomatoes; and isorhamnetin,
that what we eat matters. A to consume diverse fruits flavonols per day; the lowest found in pears, olive oil, wine
diet diverse in fruits and and vegetables. This will They also took cognitive and tomato sauce.
vegetables is critical for both provide the best results and memory tests each year group averaged about 5 mg.
cognitive and physical regarding the quantity and that included recalling lists of
"In our study population, functioning." quality of nutrients and words, and remembering per day, and the highest
those who consumed the bioactives." numbers and putting them in
highest level of flavonols, an the correct order. group, 15 mg.
average of seven servings of The study involved 961
dark leafy greens a week or participants, averaging 81 They were asked about After adjusting for other Dietary intake of
one serving of dark, leafy years old, who did not have factors such as their level of factors that could affect the
greens a day, versus the Flavonols are a specific dementia. They were education, how much time rate of memory decline, the kaempferol and quercetin
lowest [level], had a 32% subclass of flavonoids, which followed for an average of they spent doing physical investigators found the
decrease in their rate of are molecules found in many seven years. activities and how much time cognitive scores of people was associated with slower
cognitive decline," he told fruits and vegetables, along they spent doing mentally who consumed the highest
UPI in an email. with tea and wine, that have Annually, the participants engaging activities, such as amount of flavonols declined global cognitive decline, buts
antioxidant and anti- completed a questionnaire reading and playing games. more slowly than people
inflammatory properties and who had the lowest intake. myricetin and isorhamnetins
are known to prevent or According to the
diminish cellular damage researchers, the average daily were not, the researchers-
throughout the body, intake of flavonols among
including the brain, said U.S. adults is about 16 to 20 found. -
Holland, assistant professor milligrams. The study's
at Rush Institute for Health The scientists noted thats
Aging, Rush College of
Starting dietary Medicine & Rush College of Holland said this is the food frequency
Health Sciences in Chicago. probably due to the inherent
modifications and lifestyle antioxidant and anti- questionnaire used in thed
inflammatory properties of
interventions earlier in life flavonols, but further study was self-reported, anda
research is needed.
would most likely yield the people may not accuratelye
best outcomes, Holland said. remember what they havee
That's because changes in eaten. fe
the brain, such as the
accumulation of amyloid The study focused on four By Judy Packer-Turnsman g
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for premature death. all races and ethnicities, he having a strong purpose. Center for the Advancement e I
noted. of Well-Being at George t a
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researchers who spent eight The link was also seen in Having more money, being Va. He reviewed the findings. n
years tracking about 13,000 both men and women, in better physical and mental ra
Americans over age 50. though the protective health, and younger age at "[It's likely] that people el
benefit was somewhat the study's start were all who have clear goals and ds
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their life particularly researchers found. purpose to begin with. future with some rm
purposeful were found to expectation and anticipation
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death from any cause during that is meaningful to them,"
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study found. That figure benefit more from the people a reason to take care
jumped to almost 37% For the study, participants purposefulness-longevity of their physical and s
among participants with the were asked between 2006 connection than men, Shiba psychological health, so that i
lowest level of purpose. and 2008 to indicate how said more study will be they can eventually enjoy the
purposeful they considered needed. fruits of their labors." from a lot of research that beyond personal n i
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is defined as the extent to standard questionnaire. They Having a purpose also themselves better than such ase k
which people perceive their were then classified as having provides a daily alternative unhappier people," Maddux
lives as having a sense of a "low," "medium-low," But he pointed out that in to spending time regretting said. helping others and/or beingl
direction and goals," said "medium-high" or "high" general, men tend to be less the past or worrying about politically and sociallys. f
lead author Koichiro Shiba, sense of purpose. Deaths inclined to seek out the future, he said. He noted that the way
an assistant professor of were tracked for the next healthcare than women. researchers' definition of involved. r
epidemiology at Boston eight years. "People who believe that purpose was broadly based
University School of Public And along with promoting they are making good on having clear goals and The good news, he said, isd r
Health. progress on accomplishing plans without any specifics as that developing goals andt l
lower stress and protecting important goals are generally to what those goals or plans plans is something peoplel e
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purpose was linked to a against problematic can learn how to do. c
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risk of death during that having goals and plans, but w
period fell, be it from stroke, suggested that having a having goals and plans that go longer and healthier life, gets f
cancer, diabetes, high blood busy doing something that isg a
pressure and/or lung disease. purpose probably prompts important to you," Madduxd i
urged.
people to take better care of
themselves.
Researchers noted, All of which makes sense, By Alan Mozesy a
however, that several factors
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Strategies for staying active with joint pain
particular movement or Time. To start and
joint.
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stress on the shoulder. Make that best fits your goals. The
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supporting bone health. up or before you go to bed. When joint pain begins to
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r participating in water fitness. specific issues. For example, including: Sore muscles after plan for treatment to keep going, lack of motivation can
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o have begun to bother me, you may have more pain in people are new to exercise Orthopedists have a wide One successful strategy is to
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other aches and pains. I don't one knee than the other, you Cardio, which increases their activity level, are treatment toolbox. These why you want to exercise,
heart rate and improves normal. But sharp or ongoing options range from the least whether it's to keep up with
may have decreased range of your overall cardiovascular pain may indicate an injury invasive, such as physical the grandkids, feel better or
fitness.This includes vigorous or chronic problem. therapy or medications, to lose weight.
motion in a hip or shoulder, walking, swimming, biking, more invasive, including
playing pickleball, or taking a Some points to keep in injections or surgery. Their
or you may be stronger on dance or water fitness class. mind are: goal is to get patients back
to the lives they want to
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n the activities I love.What can exercise program.Try not to
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t and cope with joint pain? since that may increase your
in that it can identify specific risk of injury. Joint pain is just one
barrier to regular exercise.
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for the rest of the day. small segments, with each
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recurring pain, get it checked block might be a first step --
d seniors. Pain can be a big lessen pain, as well as help and improves performance out. not signing up for a 5K.
e barrier to not only your body move more safely, in the gym, as well as • Build in time to recover
between activity sessions.
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rebuild and repair.
exercise program, but also and reduce the risk for Strength activities include
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therapist, sports medicine
s Recognizing how symptoms. resistance bands; climbing specialist or trainer to The benefits of regular
determine the right and exercise are both physical
important physical activity is The findings from a stairs; and exercises such as wrong way to perform an and mental. Make sure you
functional movement test exercise, or strengthen play the long game when it
in your life, I recommend also can be beneficial in pushups, situps and squats. muscles to support a comes to your exercise
these four strategies to help building a program that's program. Find a style of
n keep you active: going to be safe and effective Flexibility, which stretches exercise that works for you
t,"s for you and let you exercise muscles and ligaments and long term and that you can
ase as pain-free as possible. promotes range of motion. incorporate into your daily
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ndt level, is to set up an Whatever your level of class or following an online For more information on
plel evaluation with your primary fitness, a good exercise exercise program. It also creating an exercise routine,
routine should be means moving throughout the importance of a strong
care provider, or see a sustainable. Regular exercise the day, especially to break core and other topics, check
provides a host of health- up periods of sitting. This out online videos. -- Jacob
ad sports medicine specialist related benefits, including unstructured exercise may Erickson, D.O., and Andrew
gets who can assess your overall reducing risk of be sweeping the floor, Jagim, Ph.D. -- both of Sports
isg fitness level, general mobility, cardiovascular disease, walking in place by your desk Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health
uxd and if you have current managing weight, maintaining or performing some simple System, Onalaska,Wisconsin
injuries or pain.
zesy Either of these experts
also may conduct a
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animals Pet World D
in the news with Cathy Rosenthal ne
fam
Help for dog that pulls hard be
on leash and chases or
grandchildren
Dear Cathy, We adopted a Dear Cathy, Your recent be
column on changes in pet ar
2-1/2-year-old boxer mix, and behavior after surgery was As well as being a recuring co
interesting. When my Lab, guest on Happenings Q&A, plu
have had her for about five Zena, was six months old, she bla
had a terrible accident on the Cathy M. Rosenthal is a gr
weeks now. She goes after beach that required longtime animal advocate, ho
emergency surgery. After author, columnist and pet cu
cars, bicycles, and people bringing her back to the expert who has more than ge
vacation rental that evening, on
jogging when we walk. She is a someone walked by with a 30 years in the animal
well-behaved shepherd, and welfare field. Send your pet
handful to hold back. We have Zena had an adverse reaction. questions, stories and tips to
I was shocked. Before that, she
a choker on her, but it doesn't was a friendly pup. She had no [email protected].
fear or problems with people
help. She also has the habit of or animals. Since then, she has
been horrible with other dogs.
play biting. I have small I learned to walk her in the
opposite direction of other
Skunk spotted in the a microchip with his family's contact grandchildren who like to run dogs. from the accident on the
stands during information.Without it, I wouldn't have around the house, and she beach. You didn't provide ne
Browns-Bucs game known Calvin's story," Prochaska said. sometimes runs after them, A trainer said she was not details but said it was a lik
Campbell said Calvin was treated for knocking them down. -- aggressive but was in an "I'll terrible experience for her. of
A skunk was spotted in the stands stomach parasites and tick bites, but is Emilio, Ridge, New York get you before you get me" That's precisely the kind of ma
during the Cleveland Browns game posture and agreed something
against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and now settling in back at home. "It is rare Dear Emilio, You can happened at the vet's office experience that can make a ho
the animal was caught on camera by that day. Maybe another dog
surprised fans. Fans captured for an indoor cat to survive for 18 address her lunging for approached her viciously in dog fearful. It's no different rip
photos and video last Sunday when the post-op area or maybe on
the skunk was spotted wandering in months in the wild," he said. people, animals, and cars the way out to be reunited from us experiencing fav
section 141 of FirstEnergy Stadium in with me. It always bothered
Cleveland. It was unclear how the through training and by using a me that I never knew who or something traumatic and then su
skunk found its way into the stadium what had changed her that
and its ultimate fate was unknown. It Rare antelope calf head collar, like a Gentle day. It was so sad. I had this having a post-traumatic stress ca
was also unclear whether anyone was born at zoo Leader(R) or a Halti(R), when beautiful dog until she died at reaction when faced with an
sprayed by the animal. The animal was you take her for a walk. age 13. -- Susan, Bushkill similar triggers to the so
branded the "rally skunk" by some fans Township, Pennsylvania
after the Browns came back from The LehighValley Zoo in Pennsylvania Instead of pulling on a collar experience later on. or
behind to defeat the Buccaneers in Dear Susan, As I noted in
overtime. announced the birth of a scimitar- and leash from her neck and the column about pets' In the future -- and for
changed behaviors after
About 20 escaped horned oryx calf, a rare antelope that's shoulders - the strongest surgeries, it's not uncommon anyone who has had a dog ma
ostriches run loose for dogs to develop fears or
through Canadian extinct in the wild.The zoo announced parts of her body, the head anxieties after traumas, with severe behavior changes as
town surgeries, or extended
the calf was born on Sept. 9. The calf, collar controls her illnesses. The behavior you after a traumatic experience, or
Police in Alberta flocked to a town to describe sounds like "fear
round up about 20 ostriches that dubbed Eclipse, was born to mother movements around her aggression," when a dog illness, or surgery -- you can sh
escaped from their owner's property. becomes confrontational out
The Taber Police Service and RCMP Too Haute, and the pair were given muzzle, much like a horse of fear of an approaching help your dog by building their cli
officers responded when the flightless animal or person.
birds were seen running loose through time to bond in private before harness, making it easier for confidence again. This involves Sta
Taber and the surrounding area. Knowing what changed a
Residents captured video of police and returning to the exhibit, the zoo said. you to control this behavior. dog's behavior is not always more training to reinforce the m
the ostriches' owner chasing after the possible. While Zena could
animals in marked cruisers. Police said The species is native to North Africa. Put the head collar on and have had a scary experience at bond between pet and owner, au
it took more than five hours to wrangle the vet's office, the behavior
all of the birds. The Lehigh Valley Zoo is part of a take her for an immediate changes more likely resulted and slowly reintroducing co
Indoor cat reunited breeding program aiming to walk, so she gets used to it previously positive to
with owner after 18
months in the wild responsibly increase the species' quicker. experiences to recondition “e
An indoor cat who escaped from his population in captivity. Also, train her to "heel." Say the dog's reactions.
Ohio home was reunited with his
owner after surviving 18 months in the the command, then make a Begin by keeping the dog cr
wild. Richard Campbell, a retired Miami further away from the trigger mo
University professor, said his cat, Bear attacks sudden turn and walk in the to prevent a reaction. Move str
Calvin, escaped from his Oxford home inflatable Rudolph in opposite direction so she has closer to the stimulus over ba
while family members were visiting in California yard to follow. When she does, use time as your dog's tolerance an
April 2021. Campbell said Calvin had a clicker or her reward word increases. An example of this na
been an indoor cat ever since the feline might be to take a dog to a pet Ev
and his brother were rescued from a A California man's home security to mark the correct behavior store parking lot and stand at or
tree as kittens in 2017. There was no the far end where she can see law
trace of Calvin until this fall, when camera captured footage of an and give her a treat. Practice other dogs but is not close un
Susan Prochaska, a fellow retired enough to react to them. Each sn
professor, spotted a cat wandering apparently confused bear that this on every walk until she visit to the parking lot would in
loose on the edge of the Miami result in getting closer and tra
University Natural Areas. Prochaska attempted to make a meal out of an learns to stay by your side. closer to the trigger to build sp
was finally able to capture the feline the dog's confidence that sta
Oct. 29, and a few days later she took inflatable Rudolph holiday decoration. As for the grandkids, they
him to a veterinarian who scanned the
cat for a microchip. "He was able to be Dave Lester of Zephyr Cove, in the are triggering her prey drive
reunited with his family because he had
South Lake Tahoe area, said in a to chase. To ensure the kids'
Facebook post that he woke last safety and reduce your dog's
Saturday morning to find the inflatable play biting, teach the kids not
Rudolph he had put out for Christmas to run or scream around the
had been shredded by an early-morning dog. If the kids need to run those other people and
visitor. "Sad news," Lester wrote, and scream, separate them so animals are not a threat. say
"Woke up this morning to Rudolph they are not playing together Thanks for taking care of
Zena all those years.
laying on the ground unresponsive. No at that moment.
amount of CPR or duct tape could
revive him." Lester shared security
camera footage showing the
decoration being mauled by a bear that
visited his yard about 5 a.m. He said the
animal showed no interest in any of his
other decorations. The homeowner
said a group of bears are known to
frequent the area and are usually
spotted about once a week. "They have
a little route they use where they walk
right in front of the houses," Lester
told KTVU-TV. He said the bears
occasionally showed interest in the
inflatable Rudolph last year, but never
damaged it before. "There were a
couple stare downs last year but for Bi
la
some reason he just figured he was
going to make a meal out of Rudolph,"
Lester said.
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Drought: Is there a way to have sustainability and a lawn?
In some Phoenix splotch of yellowing turf in a
neighborhoods, strolling f r e e d o m - l o v i n g
families and dog walkers can neighborhood where the
be seen playing a game: real conscientious sacrifice their
or fake? Saturdays to crawling on
Guessing at this used to hands and grass-stained
be laughably easy. Now knees in search of renegade
artificial lawns are so dandelions.
convincing that it may take Shame on you, says
plucking and sniffing a wispy another, for having a lawn at
blade to discern if the lush all, you irresponsible,
green carpet outside a climate-disrupting monster.
home is living flora or How dare you?
cunning plastic. Even dogs Rip out the lawn was Motivated less by shame than a government subsidy, Bill Nottingham and his wife, Susan
their “right thing” Denley, resolved earlier this year: “Let’s do the right thing and rip out the lawn.” But even
get confused. The snootier after learning that the incentive they’d hoped for had expired, their resolve held.
Susan Denley and Bill
ones turn up their noses. Nottingham were motivated architectural icons as the millions of acres of turf morning at the University of way to make something
less by shame than a local Palace of Versailles. Soon farms and the golf course better.”
e In Los Angeles, the agency’s financial incentive Thomas Jefferson had a lawn fairways, cemeteries, parks. California, Riverside’s
e neighborhood game is more when they decided to rip planted at his Monticello and, yes, front and back Foolishly mention the
a like an office pool, the goal out the lawn adorning their estate and George yards nationwide to which sprawling agriculture type of turf that doesn’t
r. of which is to guess how front yard in Los Alamitos, a Washington at Mount they cater. need water at all and he
of many months it will take Southern California suburb Vernon. research center, researcher growls, “I’m not a fan.” The
a homeowners who have on the border of Orange fake stuff, he says, can heat
nt ripped out their lawns in and Los Angeles counties. A couple of centuries Jim Baird holds aloft a dirt- up to 190 degrees on hot
g favor of government- later, William Levitt saw the days – and environmentalists
n subsidized native shrubs or They had bought their “charm and beauty” of lawns packed root-and-grass trot out even harsher
s cactus to reverse course home in the development as such a strong selling point critiques, citing microplastics
h and replant water-guzzling almost 40 years ago. that he wrote covenants Lawn supporters, stolon, a horizontal runner leaching from the
e sod when they decide to sell into the deeds of his petroleum-based synthetic
“Every house had a front affordable and notoriously including those who write from one of the new turf and mountains of the
or get a new cornhole set. yard with a lawn and trees conformist Levittowns, fabric piling up at landfills
and rose bushes,” Mr. imposing fines on the webpages for the $2 cultivars of grass he has among the side effects.
r The stakes in such Nottingham says. “It was homeowners who didn’t
g matters are far from trivial, ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ ‘Father mow theirs at least once a billion Scotts lawn company, been cultivating. Dr. Baird’s pride in his
s as reflected in the yellow, Knows Best.’” week in season. work and passion for the
e, orange, and dark plum will tell you that those green Dr. Baird, who declares his form and function of living
n shades splashed across Everyone on the street And that, Case Western lawns is so irresistible that a
r climate maps of the United seemed to tacitly accept the Reserve University history acres suck carbon dioxide favorite color to be “green,” reporter can’t help but kick
s States this season – hues aesthetic. professor Ted Steinberg off his shoes and stroll over
e meant not to suggest reports in his 2006 book, out of the air and release says he fell under the spell of a patch of dewy turf, letting
r, autumn leaves but color- Gradually, though, as “American Green: The bare soles connect with
g coding for “abnormally dry” temperatures crept up and Obsessive Quest for the oxygen, trap dust, dampen well-tended turf, redolent of memories of backyard
e to “extreme” and the West’s recurring Perfect Lawn,” was one tackles broken by spongy
n “exceptional” drought. droughts drove water bills more step in the the clamor of urban life, the outdoors and sports, in loam and the sting of wet
higher, their commitment to “colonizing” of the nation by green blades that stroke a
Lawns have become the lawn teetered. Even after grass. It has become, mitigate storm runoff, high school while working at body careering headlong off
learning that the incentive researchers say, the most a slip and slide.
g crucibles of conscience, one they’d hoped for had expansive irrigated crop in prevent erosion, and cool a Colorado golf course. He
r more way individuals expired, their resolve held. America, one that sprawls Similar memories, from
e struggle to maintain a over more land than cotton our homes and picked the colleges he the days when their children
r balance between freedom “Let’s do the right thing,” or corn, covering tens of played soccer and baseball
e and responsibility in the Mr. Nottingham said, “and neighborhoods. To which attended for their programs on the family’s front and
s nation’s cultural tug of wars. rip out the lawn.” back lawns, keep Mr.
et Even in places such as Ohio environmental skeptics in turfgrass research and has Nottingham from swearing
at or New Hampshire, where Turfgrass historians – and under oath that he and Ms.
e lawns already hibernate yes, there are many respond, well, maybe so, but spent the past decades Denley will never roll out
e under inches or feet of scholarly tomes on the turfgrass again.
h snow, a glimpse of a mower subject – trace the nation’s natural landscapes do a teaching and researching the
d in the garage can stir lust for lawns to the 18th
d traumatic memories of century, when word trickled much better job of all that genetics, breeding,
d springtime’s judgmental back about a landscaping
at stares: trend taking root on the without squandering water propagation, and care of
grounds of such enviable
d Shame on you, one scowl and poisoning rivers, lakes, grass.
says, for having a weedy wetlands, and the ocean While his peers at
of with herbicides, pesticides, universities in water-rich
and fertilizers. Florida may focus on the
A growing body of work, ever-popular Kentucky
with titles such as “Requiem
for a Lawnmower,” pleads bluegrass and those in
for, though never quite
predicts, a future without Michigan or Colorado on
lawns.
the fescues that thrive in the
midwest, Dr. Baird focuses
mainly on Bermuda grass, a
Americans, after all, are so warm-weather cultivar that
loyal to those comforting
expanses of green that landscapers and
agronomists, botanists,
horticulturalists, and other groundskeepers have been
nudging westward as the
Earth heats.
scientists nationwide spend Water agencies and But so far they seem
environmental organizations proud of their role as sod-
entire careers, funded in “scapegoat” lawns for water busting pioneers of a more
shortages, Dr. Baird says. It is sustainable suburbia. And so
part by the multibillion- in the spirit of compromise far, Mr. Nottingham says,
that he and colleagues have neighbors have expressed
dollar golf and lawn care crossbred recent strains, he only admiration for their
says, to be at least a third new front yard of
industries, studying, less thirsty than the decomposed granite, river
previous types of Bermuda rock, olive trees, and
breeding, and testing turf to and use more than 50% less xeriscaping – with just a
water than cool-season fringe of artificial lawn for
fine-tune regionally grasses like the fescues, the sake of continuity with
ryegrasses, bluegrasses. the neighborhood’s “Leave It
preferred cultivars for color, to Beaver” past.
“As long as there’s genetic
durability, bug and weed variation,” he says, “there’s a By Bob Sipchen
resistance, and the textures
so many of our bare feet or
cleated shoes crave.
Bill Nottingham and Susan Denley of Los Alamitos, CA, recently replaced their In search of the
lawn with drip-irrigated, drought resistant plants, like this Black Rose succulent sustainable lawns
On a warm autumn
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January, when a pandemic- outstanding balances above
era moratorium is set to the forgiveness threshold sp
expire. Here is a Q&A to amounts if you can afford to
help those in limbo create a do so. Payments now will co
plan of action. shorten the amount of time
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Who is eligible for loan an emotional relief and may
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priorities sooner.
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APPLIES to federal loans, not During this waiting period,
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managed by private banks News business analyst. A doing so will keep you on repayments. The repayment
but guaranteed by the former options trader and CIO track for the resumption of If you previously had not is based on what you earn, The Administration had st
federal government. of an investment advisory firm, payments and help avoid signed up for loan which is currently 10% of previously eased some of the be
she welcomes comments and missed payments and forgiveness, what should your discretionary income. rules for PSLF, which means ne
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time loan cancellation of [email protected]. Check out the DOE Loan Simulator The Department of would be capped at 5% of
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rationale for the larger balances of $12,000 or less.
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the cost of a four-year public Income-Driven of the legal battle. forgiveness cost? C
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It has been almost a year leaders of many tech fo
since the NASDAQ companies staffed up as if the
Composite and the trends would continue to co
NASDAQ 100 indexes hit fuel even more profits in the
all-time highs. Since then, a future. m
lot has changed. lo
A year later, the once- th
To start, the Federal lauded geniuses of these re
Reserve got busy raising companies had to sheepishly C
interest rates, which tends to admit that they had gotten fav
hurt the earnings of growth ahead of themselves. In a
companies, like those in the letter that announced a 13% In this photo from November 9, 2022, Anwar Almojarkesh and Alan Chalabi (R)
technology sector. Rate hikes reduction in workforce from England take a photo at Meta corporate headquarters in Menlo Park,
might have been manageable (11,000 workers), Meta CEO California.- Facebook owner Meta laid off more than 11,000 of its staff in "the
but compounding the Mark Zuckerberg outlined most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history," boss Mark Zuckerberg said.
problem for the once-high the problem that he and
flying tech sector is a simple many of his fellow tech more than 700 other and many of the biggest happened after that period you feel like you wanted to
fact: management got it CEOs made: “At the start of companies, have laid off names are down two times — the dot-com boom went buy Bitcoin or Ethereum, you
wrong. COVID, the world rapidly almost 120,000 tech that amount. That’s a far cry bust and it took a decade for had to remind yourself that
moved online and the surge workers this year, according from the end of last year the NASDAQ to recover.” To investing is a risky endeavor.
The storyline a year ago of e-commerce led to to Layoffs.fyi. These losses when mega-tech firms be clear, I did not have a
was that the pandemic had outsized revenue growth. are occurring amid a labor helped boost the S&P 500 by crystal ball, but was pointing I don’t know whether the
accelerated the trends that Many people predicted this market which has added an almost 27%. In fact, tech was out that very little in the tech rout is over or if there
were in place: consumers, would be a permanent average of 290,000 workers the biggest contributor to investment world is new or are more shoes to drop.
workers, and businesses acceleration that would per month for the past three the S&P 500’s stunning 2019- groundbreaking. What I do know is that the
were moving to a full online continue even after the months. 2021 more than 90% gain, patient investor who sticks
existence, where brick and pandemic ended. I did too, so the best three-year Yes, what moves markets to her game plan is usually
mortar would be a thing of I made the decision to So where does this leave performance since 1997-99. is different, but the patterns better off than the one who
the past and so too would significantly increase our investors in the once high- remain the same. Human jumps on the bandwagon in
in-person experiences like investments. Unfortunately, flying companies? As a self-declared wimp beings tend to get euphoric either direction. If that
going to the gym, attending this did not play out the way when it comes to investing, when times are good, and doesn’t sound like advice
concerts and events, and I expected.” The NASDAQ Composite that three-peat of stock despondent when they are from a self-proclaimed
shopping for everything from and NASDAQ 100 indexes performance prompted me bad. It’s also why a year ago, investment wimp, I don’t
toilet paper to cars to Meta, Getir, Twitter, Lyft, have dropped by almost 30% to warn, “We know what when every crypto bro made know what does!
houses. Carvana, Stripe, Opendoor, from year ago high prints,
Netflix, Shopify, Snap,
After cashing in on huge Peloton, Twilio – along with
pandemic era profits, the
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A Time To Give
by Meridith Jumisko, Visit Kenosha
‘Tis the season for giving, Meridith Jumisko is
right? Kindness, compassion, Public Relations Director
and generosity are
attributes that are needed at Visit Kenosha.
year-round. However, this Contact her at
seems to be the time of year [email protected]
when the spotlight shines on
charity. It’s also the time of gallery, music organization, sale of 132 acres of land to special shout-out to Captain Now Available!
year when people need to or other cultural nonprofit be used by Richard Bong Mike's Beer and Burger Bar
start bundling up outside … organization by making a State Recreation Area – who use their food truck IT’S YOUR HOMETOWN HOLIDAY 2022!
and so Visit Kenosha is donation, becoming a visitors. For years, KUSD The Galley as a soup kitchen Keep it local this holiday season by
spearheading a winter-wear member, or signing up to be has allowed the public at Library Park on
collection drive. a volunteer. If you are a fan access to that portion of Thanksgiving Day. Also this supporting our Kenosha area businesses
of Kenosha’s Electric land and now future access holiday season, Trolley Dogs
Bundle Up Kenosha is Streetcars – or rail is secured. The price is $1.2 is hosting its 9th annual
going on now through transportation in general – million and the Bong dining event for those in
January 6, 2023. Please help considering joining the Naturalist Association has need. Kudos to all who give
us keep Kenosha warm this Kenosha Streetcar Society! raised most of it already in back!
winter! All donations will partnership with other
d stay in the community and If you appreciate the organizations and individual Don’t forget, the Merry &
e be distributed to those in donors. They have until Bright holiday events
s need through the ELCA outdoors, consider January 12, 2023, to raise continue all month long.
k Outreach Center.The public the remaining $79,000. From Santa visits and
t, is invited to drop off new or supporting a nature museum celebrations to VeidsCiithtiKeocneknooofsuFhtuant.hc1eo0ml1ataetst
it gently used coats, hats, Speaking of giving … let’s holiday concerts, plays, and
r scarves, and mittens, as well association. Become a give a big thank you to all markets, there are many
r as new socks at one of our the local businesses that ways to enjoy the festive
two locations. member of the Friends of give back to the community. season. Go to
Whether it’s during the VisitKenosha.com/Holidays
n The Wisconsin Welcome Hawthorn Hollow. This holiday season or to find all the details. Be sure 2022
Center – Kenosha is located throughout the year. to use our website
group has been involved in Whether it’s donating food VisitKenosha.com when
st at the southeast corner of I- to seniors and those in need looking for #KenoshaFun.
n, 94 and Hwy. 165, at 10519 - creating educational … or sharing a portion of Visit Kenosha has been
y 120th Ave.This time of year, sales with local nonprofit Kenosha’s official travel
n it’s staffed by the Visit programs and taking part in organizations and schools. A resource since 1986.
el. Kenosha team Tuesday
e through Saturday from 8 many behind-the-scenes
ts a.m. to 4 p.m.We also staff a
projects over the years. Or
Visitor Information Center
at our administrative office, become a “Friend” of
which is at 600 52nd Street,
Suite 140. It’s open Monday Pringle Nature Center;
through Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Please go to you’ll be helping local
VisitKenosha.com/BundleUp
for a list of additional environmental education
collection points.
while also receiving free or
If you are considering a
monetary donation to a reduced rates on programs,
local nonprofit organization
this holiday season – equipment rentals, summer
remember the cultural ones.
Consider supporting your camps, and more.
favorite local museum, art
Consider a donation to
the Bong Naturalist
Association. The Kenosha
Unified School District
(KUSD) and the Wetlands
America Trust, Inc. have
signed a contract for the
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Vegetable Salad
Nutrition News
with Charlyn Fargo Servings: 6
1/4 cup canola oil
Holiday Strategies 1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
'Tis the season for family, 1 teaspoon salt
festivity and food — lots of 1/2 teaspoon sugar
food. Temptations are Coarsely ground black pepper
everywhere, and parties 2 cups thinly sliced cauliflower
and travel disrupt daily 1/2 cup sliced pimiento-stuffed olives
routines. What's more, it 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
starts before Halloween 1/2 cup chopped red pepper
and goes past the New Year.
In a jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the first six
How do you stick to Charlyn Fargo is a ingredients (oil through pepper); shake well. In a salad
your healthy eating goals registered dietitian with
when everyone around you bowl, combine the cauliflower, olives and peppers;
seems to be splurging? SIU Med School in drizzle with dressing and toss to coat. Cover and
Here are five tips from the Springfield, Ill. For refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Serves 6
Centers for Disease comments or questions,
Control and Prevention (1/2 cup each).
that can help. contact her at
[email protected] Per serving: 120 calories; 1 gram protein; 4 grams
No. 1: Holiday-proof or follow her on Twitter carbohydrates; 12 grams fat (1 gram saturated); 0
your plan. We may not be milligrams cholesterol; 2 grams sugars; 2 grams fiber;
able to control what food @NutritionRd.
we're served, and we're 644 milligrams sodium.
going to see other people Charlyn Fargo joins
eating tempting treats. Have Happenings Q&A on —If you slip up, get right easier. can't get any other time of No. 5: Get plenty of C
a plan: Mon. Dec. 12th at back to healthy eating with year, like Aunt Shirley's sleep. Going out more and
2:30 on AM1050 WLIP. your next meal. —Have a small plate of Italian cream cake. Slow staying out later often
—If you have diabetes, the foods you like best and down and savor a small means cutting back on
eat close to your usual along. —Choose pumpkin pie then move away from the serving, and make sure to sleep. When we are sleep
times to keep your blood —If you want to have a instead of pecan to cut buffet table. count it in your meal plan. deprived, we tend to eat
sugar steady. If your meal is calories and sugar by one- more and prefer high-fat,
served later than normal, sweet treat, cut back on third. —Start with vegetables No. 4: Keep Moving. high-sugar food. Aim for
eat a small snack at your other carbs (like potatoes to take the edge off your We all have a lot on our seven to eight hours per
usual mealtime and eat a and bread) during the meal. —Keep moving. You may appetite. plates this time of year, and night to guard against
little less when dinner is need to break physical physical activity can get mindless eating.
served. That strategy also —Don't skip meals to activity into smaller chunks —Eat slowly. It takes at crowded out, even
works if you're trying to save up for a feast.You'll be to fit it in.Taking a walk for least 20 minutes for your forgotten. However, being Most of all, remember
lose weight. more likely to overeat. 10 minutes, three times a brain to realize you're full. active is a secret holiday what the season is about:
day, adds up to 30 minutes weapon. It can help make celebrating and connecting
—Invited to a party? of exercise. —Avoid or limit alcohol. up for eating more than with the people you care
Offer to bring a healthy dish If you do have an alcoholic usual and reduce stress about. When you focus
No. 2. Outsmart the drink, have it with food. during this most stressful more on the fun, it's easier
buffet. When faced with a time of year. Take a walk to focus less on the food.
spread of delicious holiday No. 3: Fit in favorites. after a holiday meal.
food, make healthy choices No food is on the "I can't
have it" list. Choose the
dishes you really love and
Gingerbread, gingerbread, gingerbread rocks! Soft and Chewy Gingerbread People
Especially when the cookies are homemade
Makes 12 cookies the dough sit on the counter for 15 minutes before
One of our favorite ways to decorate cookies is with a glaze you can spread on 1 1/2 cups (7 1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour
with an icing spatula or the back of a spoon. To make glaze: In a medium bowl, 1/2 cup packed (3 1/2 ounces) dark brown sugar rolling out.
combine 1 1/3 cups (5 1/3 ounces) confectioners' (powdered) sugar, 2 tablespoons
milk, 1 tablespoon softened cream cheese, and 1 to 2 drops food coloring (if 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 4.Adjust the oven rack to the middle position and heat
desired). Use a rubber spatula to stir until very smooth. 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
oven to 350 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with RE
Glazing your cookies gives you a blank canvas for decorating. Just make sure to let 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
the glaze dry completely, about 30 minutes, before serving. 1/4 teaspoon salt parchment paper. MI
Here's how to do it decorate your gingerbread cookies: 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled ISS
1/3 cup molasses 5. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and discard Per
Use small icing spatula or back of spoon to spread the glaze in even layer on a
cookie, starting in the middle and working your way toward the edges.While the 1 tablespoon (1/2 ounce) milk plastic. Place dough in the center of a second large sheet
glaze is still wet, sprinkle with sanding sugar, sprinkles, crushed cookies or candy.
1. In the bowl of a food processor, combine flour, brown of parchment. Place a third large sheet of parchment on
sugar, cinnamon, ginger, baking soda and salt. Process until G
combined, about 10 seconds.Add melted butter, top of the dough. Use a rolling pin to roll dough into 11- CO
molasses and milk.Turn on the processor and process
until soft and crumbly dough forms and no streaks of inch circle (about 1/4-inch thick), rolling the dough KE
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flour remain, about 20 seconds. between the parchment. the
2. Use a rubber spatula to scrape the dough onto a clean
counter. Knead dough until it comes together, about 20 6. Peel off the top sheet of parchment. Use a cookie co
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seconds.
3. Lay a sheet of plastic wrap on counter. Place the dough cutter to cut the dough into gingerbread people. Use a is
in center of the plastic and flatten the dough into 8 inch
circle.Wrap dough tightly in plastic and refrigerate for at spatula to transfer shapes to a parchment-lined baking join
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least 30 minutes or up to 24 hours. If the dough has sheet, spaced about 1/2 inch apart. an
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