Smart Reader July 2, 2020

It’s Not Your Ordinary July 2, 2020
Volume 18 - #13

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Bike boom: Sales take off with new
business from bored Americans

After years of lackluster essential businesses. soared nearly 1,400 percent Local bicycle shop owners Robby Gauss (Total Cyclery) and
and declining sales, the U.S. and in-person sales climbed Ralph Ruffolo (Southport Rigging) take a ride along Kenosha’s lakefront.
bike industry has received a The industry is benefiting, 41 percent year-to-year. Sales Combined, the two shops have been serving Kenosha for over 73 years!
major push by the COVID- experts say, because biking of bike parts, likewise, rose
19 pandemic, as distancing has proven well-suited to by 466 percent.
rules and other restrictions new realities of the COVID-
have led more American 19 era. With bicycling, the The pace of new sales has
families into the outdoors. risk of transmitting the novel become so overwhelming
coronavirus is low, it's that some bike shops have
Overall bike sales surged compliant with distancing become swamped with
by 31 percent to $1.3 billion guidelines and can be a family buyers clamoring for new
in the first three months of group activity. outfits or wanting old ones
2020 compared to the first repaired.
quarter last year, according Bike shops have been
to the NDP market research allowed to stay open as an The COVID bike boom
group, as people looking for essential transportation has been a substantial
safe recreation embraced industry, and many people departure from the norm
bicycling amid strict stay-at- have flocked to them, over the past three years.
home orders nationwide. according to figures Over that period, bike sales
compiled by the non-profit nationally were essentially
Ridership increased even PeopleForBikes coalition. flat or in slight decline.
in areas where movement
restrictions weren't as tight, The group says online bike Now, in what could signal
due to shutdowns of non- purchases near the start of a longer-term shift, the
the health crisis in March
See BIKE BOOM on page 7 for more

Q&A Q&A

with Ralph Ruffolo with Robby Gauss
Owner, Southport Rigging Owner, Total Cyclery
2926 75th Street 5039 Sixth Avenue
262-652-5434 262-652-2222

What was your first bike you've owned What was your first bike you've
and what is your favorite bike of all-time? owned? My first bike that can I remember
My first bike was Schwann Stingray in 1959. was an old Schwinn Sting for BMX racing. 
 My favorite bike is the Trek Domane carbon
bike I own now. Since bike shops are an essential

Since bike shops are an essential business, you were able to stay open, tell them find the right bike for them. 
business, you were able to stay open, tell
us how businesses was? Business has been repairs being dusty bikes that haven't been us how businesses was? Being deemed an Huge influx of old bikes being dusted off
very strong since the gyms, bars and and brought in. People like the nostalgia of
restaurants are closed and kids aren't going used for a very long time.  Dry rotted tires, essential business when the safer at home the vintage bikes.   That has also caused a
to school.  It is like the 90's again when most shortage in parts. Parts needed to bring life
people had disposable time. tubes that don't hold air. went into place business never stopped! back to these old bikes. 

What is an average day like in the shoes What services do you supply for bikes? People were either in looking for new bikes What services do you supply for bikes?
of a bike shop owner? I have to come in 2  We are a full service family bike shop.  We or bringing in old ones for repairs. Not much  Services that we provide start with the very
hours before the store opens to getting do flat repair while you wait and many simple else for people to do so getting outside for basic to the complete overhaul.  We service
purchasing done or answer emails. Once the brake and derailleur adjustments.   We take fresh air and exercise was the new thing for all styles/make of bicycles   and carry
store opens the parade of customers is non trade-ins of your and your kids bike shop the whole family. And it hasn't slowed down  skateboards too.   Every accessory you can
stop.   2 or 3 customers for each of my 5 think of for the casual cyclist to the die
employees all day long.   quality bikes.  We fit you to your new or old What is an average day like in the shoes hards.  Total Cyclery = total bicycling needs 

How many years have you been in bike.  Often the bike you have had for 10 or of a bike shop owner? A day in the life of a Favorite place to go for a ride at? I enjoy
business?  This is our 39th year serving all aspects of cycling from the velodrome to
Kenosha. 20 years needs adjustments to fit the current bike shop owner changes day to day.  In the the road and the trails.  

How did you come up with the name shape you are in.  We can make your bike fun recent months it's gone from people in Is family bike riding back in style now? I
for you store? One of the early names of would like to think family biking has always
Kenosha was Southport.   The store was to ride again.  We promote adult rides with buying new bikes like crazy with now been a thing having done it since I was 4.  But
started as a windsurfing store, so Southport recently there has been a definite surge in
Rigging seemed to work.   We changed the our Saturday morning Coffee ride "For the depleted inventory to the old bikes coming families coming in and getting everyone
name to Southport Bikes & Boards in 2010 . rolling. It's something the whole family can
health of it" starting at Common Grounds in for repairs.   Repairs vary from simple to do together no matter the experience and
Looks like more and more people are skill level. Cycling is great for the body and
riding bikes as a result of social distancing, every Saturday morning at 8am.  We produce complex and there is never a dull moment.  mind as well.  
what bike would you recommend to new
customers?   I think you mean new bike BMX freestyle events at the Anderson Park How many years have you been in How do you educate you staff on all the
riders.   Most new riders should get a trends in the biking community? Staff
comfortable bike that fits their size.   This skatepark. business?  My parents opened Total Cyclery education is constantly evolving just as the
bike is called a Hybrid bike in the industry. bike itself is evolving from the old school to
Favorite place to go for a ride at?   In in 1986 .  I took it over in 2014 when they the new hybrids.   Bike expos and brand
Are you seeing a influx of repairs on old Kenosha, I like to ride along the Lakefront. decided to retire.  training is a continuous thing. Knowledge and
bikes that people are pulling out of know how are very important in keeping our
storage because of social distancing? Yes,   My best ride was exploring Napa by bike How did you come up with the name customers safe and ready to ride. 
we are seeing probably 50% of the bike
with my wife. for you store? I can remember the family Interview and photos
by Donald Stancato
Is family bike riding back in style now?   sitting at the kitchen table all brainstorming
Yes, families are definitely getting a bike for for names and ideas. Trying to put together

everyone and riding together. all things bicycle related... and the next thing

we knew we had come up with Total Cyclery
How do you educate you staff on all the and the bike frame worked it's way in. 
trends in the biking community? Trek

University provides excellent online training. Are you seeing a influx of repairs on old

  We also attend industry events and meet bikes that people are pulling out of

brand reps.  Our staff is involved with Bmx, storage because of social distancing?

local road rides and we support the Kenosha Hybrid bikes seem to be the most popular.

Velosport team. But we make sure to ask customers some

Interview and photos crucial questions about how/where they plan
by Donald Stancato to use their bike. Not everyone has the same
wants and needs so we make sure to help

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North Korea and Trump: Is it back to
square one, only worse?

On Inauguration Day one with Pyongyang, some Office next January, where
2017, when Barack Obama experts say. North Korea figures on the
ushered Donald Trump into list of national security
the Oval Office, the outgoing That is, with one big catch. threats will largely depend
president had a blunt on whether North Korea is
warning for his successor “We are basically back to acting up and forcing some
concerning North Korea. kind of response,” says Bruce
square one – only in some Klingner, a former CIA Korea
analyst who is now a senior
cases it’s worse,” says Frank research fellow for
Northeast Asia at the
The volatile and Aum, a former Pentagon Heritage Foundation in
unpredictable dictatorship Washington.
with a nascent nuclear senior adviser on North
arsenal and an “But it won’t exactly be
intercontinental missile Korea who is now senior back to where we were,” he
program nearing an ability to adds, “because both [the
reach the continental United expert on North Korea at North’s] nuclear and missile
States would be the new capabilities are higher – in
president’s gravest national the U.S. Institute of Peace both quality and quantity –
security challenge, Mr. than they were in 2017.”
Obama cautioned. (USIP) in Washington. He
Series of provocations
notes the North Koreans are
With the world
quietly amassing more fissile preoccupied with the
coronavirus pandemic,
material every year – enough North Korea had receded to
the background of the global
to build seven to 12 nuclear stage, an ignominious spot it
retreated to after the
bombs annually, experts collapse of the second
Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi,
estimate – and are steadily Vietnam, last year.The North
ultimately balked at the U.S.
Now 3 1/2 years later, and improving their demand for full
as the 2020 presidential denuclearization before
election gears up, many intercontinental ballistic economic sanctions relief.
Northeast Asian experts say
the same warning Mr. Obama missile capabilities. That summit appeared to President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone
offered President Trump is end the “love” Mr.Trump had separating the two Koreans in June of 2019.
very likely to apply for “So they have all that,” he said existed between the
whoever occupies the Oval adds, “but we don’t have two leaders. be ignored,” especially when the South, and threatened to anniversary of the start of
Office on Inauguration Day anything to show for the last there is something – in this the Korean War to attack
2021 – whether it’s Mr. 3 1/2 years in terms of But as Mr. Klingner notes, case relief from punishing send troops into border “hostile policy” from the
Trump settling into a second denuclearization.” the North “does not like to U.S. and international U.S., saying it has had no
term, or former Vice economic sanctions – it cooperation zones and choice but to counter
President Joe Biden moving wants very much. And so, in “nuclear with nuclear” and
up to the top job. recent weeks, Pyongyang has remilitarize the make that a cornerstone of
launched a series of its national security policy.
Others bluntly deem the provocations aimed at Demilitarized Zone between
“back where we started” alarming and punishing both
characterization inaccurate South Korea and the U.S. the two Koreas.
and even dangerous, because
it fails to take into account Last week Pyongyang Pyongyang did an abrupt Sister act
the North’s significant rattled Northeast Asia – and about-face and announced
Indeed, after Mr. Trump’s nuclear and missile progress Korea watchers in the U.S. – suspension of its military The recent harsh
– and fails to recognize that by blowing up the inter- plans against the South – a
unorthodox diplomatic four more years of Korean liaison office in the move analysts summed up as pronouncements have
Pyongyang as a de facto border town of Kaesong.The typical “keep them guessing”
approach to the North nuclear power is not likely to North closed off all behavior. coincided with the
make the North any more communication lines with
Korea of Kim Jong Un, which likely to negotiate away its emergence and expanding
nuclear status.
temporarily lowered But it did not signal a public profile of Mr. Kim’s

tensions but failed to move significant rhetorical sister, Kim Yo Jong, as a hard-

the country toward softening toward Seoul and liner with strengthening links

denuclearization, it’s Washington. to the military.

essentially back to square “Whoever is in the Oval Pyongyang chose the 70th See NORTH KOREA/TRUMP on
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For migrant farmworkers,
coronavirus adds new burdens

When Yesenia Madrigal America, Jamaica, and as far Here in west Michigan’s a hard time with speech, but busy ordering supplies, between workers.
and her family planned their away as South Africa. Oceana County, an early May with me being home, I have cleaning and sanitizing, and
annual trip from Florida to freeze added an extra layer been helping him with that. I establishing best practices to Uncertainty for farmers
Oceana County, Michigan, In the current pandemic, of distress to both growers give my boys jobs and things monitor for the virus.
they thought their travels as even as food-industry and farmworkers. The freeze to do throughout the week. The industry is grappling
a seasonal farmworker family workers such as grocery forced asparagus growers to But it’s not the same as being “We’ve been reaching out with uncertainty on many
would proceed as in years clerks have gained public cut off and discard the in school.” to the farmworker families fronts, from shifting demand
past. They would arrive in attention for providing damaged spears and then as they return to the area. It’s (as restaurants curtailed
time for the May asparagus “essential” services, seasonal wait for them to grow again As harvest season ramps really been a struggle with operations) to an already
harvest, take a short break, farmworkers remain largely to the height required for up nationwide in a time of the families that want the tight supply of agricultural
and then plunge into the tree out of the limelight. They’re sale to the fresh market.The pandemic, worker safety centers to be open, but we workers. In some cases,
fruit season before returning tasked with picking much of delay in turn caused an becomes an even more have to be measured in our workers have been unable to
to Florida. Their children America’s food, while facing income gap for the labor pressing concern. Because of approach,” Mr. Kuchnicki come to the U.S. due to
would be able to go to heightened challenges and crews. food safety regulations, some says. problems obtaining visas and
schools and Head Start health risks due to the workers were already restricted air travel. Some
programs while she, her coronavirus. Eroded savings and required to wear personal The virus has introduced a farmers, meanwhile, have
husband Lazaro, and 22-year- added duties protective equipment (PPE), stark risk assessment into adjusted their crop mix this
old son Hector Vasquez And they are doing this including masks and gowns, the lives of workers and year to be less labor-
were earning money. The combination of the before COVID-19. Social their families, as they balance intensive.
difficult work for low pay. late start of harvest, the distancing is easier to the need for income against
pandemic, and a delay in the achieve during outdoor the risk of a serious illness “For the most part, it
Average pay for farmworkers arrival of unemployment work, depending on row that has hit some seems that as long as they
benefits – which had still not spacing and the distance farmworker communities can get workers, they’re
Not so in 2020. COVID- in 2019 was $13.99 per hour arrived as of June 10 – between fruit trees and hard. going to try and harvest the
19 and the resulting stay-at- wrecked the careful financial bushes. Social distancing crops they’ve historically
home orders provided a – 60% of what U.S. plans put in place by the becomes more challenging “If you’re feeling sick, are produced,” says Michael
one-two punch of setbacks Madrigal family that normally indoors, where areas such as you going to let someone Marsh, executive director of
to the Madrigal family and production and guide the transition as they packing and inspection lines know or are you going to the National Council of
added extra pressure to the head north. After their traditionally have people keep that to yourself? If you Agricultural Employers.
migrant farm labor system nonsupervisory workers savings were eroded, they working in close proximity. test positive, the last thing “Farmers are very innovative
for workers and employers were forced to sell one of you want to do is bring in finding solutions. They’ve
alike. outside of agriculture their vehicles. attention to yourself,” Mr. rolled with this and done as
Kuchnicki says. well with it as they can.”
averaged, according to From there, it has been a
waiting game until an Farm businesses such as The workers and their
analysis by the Economic overburdened state of the Scaroni Family of allies are also trying to cope,
Michigan unemployment Companies, which operates day by day.
Policy Institute. For the rising system could provide farms in the western United
benefits. Until children could States, say they are following “We want to open up the
share who come to the U.S. return to schools and day- Centers for Disease Control Head Start centers when
care facilities, Ms. Madrigal, a and Prevention guidelines on appropriate, but we want to
on a guest-worker basis, the U.S. citizen, had to care for social distancing and PPE.The make sure it’s in the best
her sons who are too young farms instruct their workers interests of the families,” Mr.
“When I first heard about federally set minimum ranges to work in the fields and on how to use masks and Kuchnicki says, noting that
[COVID-19], I thought, ‘OK, keep them occupied while gloves and on proper services will probably be
the kids won’t be in school by state from $11.71 to fending off boredom. For seasonal farmworker sanitation procedures in the offered in smaller classroom
and that’s a big deal.’ I have a fields and in housing. In-field groups. “There are so many
2-year-old and he couldn’t go $15.83 an hour, after a “Thank God they’re good service provider leafy green harvesting and moving pieces that it makes
to day care. So I would have kids,” she says. “I keep them packing machines now the situation challenging.”
to stay home and that means proposed reduction was busy. My 2-year-old is having organizations, 2020 has include plastic barriers
I wouldn’t be able to go to By Lee A. Dean
work,” Ms. Madrigal says. averted this spring. meant finding new ways to

“Essential farm workers help clients. Telamon, a
continue putting food on our
tables, but too often can’t nonprofit that provides
feed their own families,”
United Farm Workers educational services to
President Teresa Romero
said in a statement released farmworker families, has not
early this month. “We will
There are an estimated 2.4 keep pushing for urgently yet gained governmental
needed remedies,” she said,
million seasonal such as paid sick leave approval to open its 13 Head
regardless of the size of an
farmworkers in the United employer. Start centers.

States, including permanent Donald Kuchnicki,

residents, “follow the crop” workforce and career

workers such as the Madrigal services director for

family, and workers who Telamon in Michigan, said the

come to the U.S. from other organization has been getting

countries. Those workers ready for the day the centers

come from Mexico, Central can reopen. Staff have been

Migrant workers from Mexico carried containers filled with blueberries at a farm in Lake Wales, Florida, on March 31, 2020. As the harvest season ramps up, growers have been adding safety measures during a
pandemic that puts farmworkers at risk.

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Space tourists might rise above Earth with
hydrogen balloons

The newest entry into a
growing field of space
tourism firms says it will use
giant hydrogen balloons
launched from Kennedy
Space Center in Florida --
rather than rockets -- to give
passengers a view of the
stars from the stratosphere.

At 20 miles up, Space
Perspective's observation
capsule would reach about
one-third of the way to
outer space, but passengers
could see the blackness
above and observe the
curvature of the Earth.

The company, which An artist's rendering depicts a high-performance balloon and pressurized capsule designed by entrepreneurs at Space Perspective, a startup company that plans to send paying
signed an agreement to use customers toward outer space. Image courtesy of Space Perspective
NASA facilities, has potential
to boost the growing space reach cruising level, where it about the success of space Spencer, an outer space interest in the sector. Tune in to Happenings
tourism sector that includes would drift for hours and tourism in the long run architect who worked on Q&A/AM1050 WLIP on
Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff then descend slowly to a because it hasn't been done. the International Space "They are pioneering a
Bezos' Blue Origin. splashdown in the Atlantic We do know people are Station design. whole new regime of space Thursday, July 9th at
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MLB restart likely to Some MLB

include quirky finishes, pros opting

underdog contenders out of 2020

The 2020 MLB season will season
be unlike any other when it
begins in July after a four- Washington Nationals the organization's
month delay. Quirky rules for veteran first baseman Ryan understanding and support."
extra innings will allow for Zimmerman and starting
new excitement, while a pitcher Joe Ross are sitting Zimmerman recorded a
shorter season could make out of the pandemic-delayed .257 batting average with six
underdogs World Series 2020 season "for the home runs and 27 RBIs in 52
contenders. personal health and safety of games (171 at-bats) last
themselves and their loved season. He appeared in 16
MLB team owners and ones," the team announced. postseason contests during
players agreed this week to the Nationals' run to their
safety protocols for a "We are one hundred first championship in 2019
resumed 2020 season after percent supportive of their and had a key home run in
play was suspended during decision to not play this Game 1 of the World Series.
spring training in mid-March year," Nationals general
due to the coronavirus Joey Votto (R) and the Cincinnati Reds could have a better chance to reach the playoffs this year after manager Mike Rizzo said in a The two-time All-Star
pandemic. MLB imposed a shortened 60-game season due to the coronavirus pandemic. statement. "We will miss selection was set to play on
their presence in the a one-year, $2 million
The 2020 regular season clubhouse and their contract this season after
will start July 23 or 24 and contributions on the field." the Nationals declined to
include just 60 games instead exercise an $18 million club
of the usual 162. Both the Zimmerman, 35, was the option.
American League and Nationals' first draft
National League will use the Brewers.The Phillies had just runs, stolen bases, RBIs and Freeman, Charlie Blackmon selection when the franchise "To be clear, I am not
designated hitter position -- a half-game lead on the pitching wins can't, of course, and Justin Turner should be relocated from Montreal to retiring at this time,"
for an entire season -- for Atlanta Braves in the NL reach the heights of past among the players who could Washington, D.C. He has Zimmerman said. "I have not
the first time. East. The Yankees led the seasons. near -- or eclipse -- the .400 played for the club in every decided on my future in
Rays by just 2.5 games in the mark in 60 games. season since making his baseball past 2020. But this
One of the biggest rule AL East. Ted Williams was the last debut Sept. 1, 2005. year I'll be staying safe at
changes will be that each MLB hitter to average at The record for lowest home and pulling as hard as
half-inning after the ninth This season, teams are least .400 for a full season -- ERA for a pitcher in a season "After a great deal of anyone for our guys to
frame will begin with a expected to play 40 games .406 for the 1941 Red Sox. is 0.857, set by Tim Keefe in thought and given my family defend their championship."
runner on second base until against division opponents MLB players might have their 1880. Bob Gibson posted the circumstances -- three
a team wins. The rule and 20 interleague games best shot to reach that lowest ERA since Jackie young children, including a Ross, 27, appeared in 27
changes should allow for against teams in the same number this season due to Robinson broke the league's newborn, and a mother at games (nine starts) last
speedier games and for region. the shortened campaign, but color barrier in 1947, with a high risk -- I have decided season, posting a 4-4 record
streaky teams to contend for the achievement would likely 1.123 ERA in 1968. not to participate in the with a 5.48 ERA. The sixth-
post-season spots. Oddsmakers expect teams come with an asterisk. 2020 season," Zimmerman year veteran -- who
to have closer records at the This year, starting pitchers said in a statement. underwent Tommy John
Who could contend? end of the season due to Braves legend Chipper could get 10 to 12 outings "Everyone knows how much surgery on his right elbow in
fewer games played. Jones was the last player to during the regular season it means to me to be part of 2017 -- was expected to be
The New York Yankees led BetOnline.AG projects the hit over .400 through the instead of the typical 25 to a team, and I will miss that the Nationals' fifth starter in
MLB with 60 wins at the Yankees and Dodgers' win first 60 games of a season 30. The rare opportunities camaraderie dearly this year. 2020.
2019 All-Star break, 92 totals at 38.5.The oddsmaker (.408 in 2008). Last year, could make some earned run
games into their season. envisions 20 teams with Dodgers star Cody Bellinger averages balloon while "Of course I would love Zimmerman and Ross
New York went on to win more than 31 wins. hit an MLB-best .376 through others could be historically to pursue back-to-back
the American League East, the first 60 games. low. titles. I cannot speak for became the second and
despite numerous injuries to Some teams that were anyone else, but given the
its All-Star lineup. Other expected to have poor Nolan Arenado had a .343 Dodgers pitcher Yun-Jin unusual nature of the third MLB players to publicly
teams didn't fare so well in records at the start of the average 60 games into last Ryu led MLB starters with a season, this is the best
the second half. season could end up closer season. Rays outfielder 2.32 ERA last season. Jacob decision for me and my opt out of the 2020 season
to the pack in their division Austin Meadows hit .349. deGrom (2.43), Gerrit Cole family, and I truly appreciate
The Boston Red Sox were races due to a limited Mike Trout had a .298 (2.50) and Justin Verlander Monday over concerns
49-41 at the All-Star break amount of games being average through 60 games in (2.58) also were among the
last year, but missed the played. 2019. league's stingiest pitchers. about the coronavirus,
playoffs. The Cleveland
Indians had 50 wins through Oddsmakers have the race White Sox shortstop Tim Ryu had a 1.48 ERA following Arizona
88 games and also missed for second and third place in Anderson led MLB with a through 11 starts and just
out on the post-season. The many divisions closer than .335 average in 123 games before the Dodgers hit the Diamondbacks pitcher Mike
Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia usual, which would allow for last season. Christian Yelich 60-game mark last season.
Phillies and Texas Rangers an underdog team to have a finished the season with a DeGrom's ERA was 3.45 Leake
didn't get to the post-season shot at a playoff spot. .329 average, which tied with through 58 games. Cole had
despite solid mid-season Arizona Diamondbacks a 3.94 ERA through 60 Washington Nationals veteran Ryan Zimmerman was the team's
starts. The Cincinnati Reds, utility man Ketel Marte for games for the Astros. first draft selection when the franchise moved from Montreal to
Chicago White Sox, Los second in baseball. Washington, D.C. He has played for the club in every season since
The Washington Nationals Angeles Angels and San Verlander had a 2.16 ERA
began the season with a 19- Diego Padres all finished at Thirteen players -- other through the Astros' first 59 making his debut Sept. 1, 2005.
31 record before they went least 12 games under .500 than Williams -- have hit at games. Mike Soroka had a
on to win the World Series. last season, but should post least .368 in a season since 1.41 ERA through 58 games.
The majority of MLB teams more than 30 wins in the 1941, qualified by at least 100 Jake Odorizzi (1.96) and
had played 60 games by June new format, according to games played and 50 at-bats. Zach Davies (2.20) were also
4 of last season and the BetOnline.AG. Ichiro Suzuki was the most- among the MLB's leaders in
Twins, Houston Astros and recent player to reach that ERA at that point in the
Dodgers sprinted out to Stats inflated and mark when he hit .372 in 161 season.
enormous division leads of at underwhelming games in 2004.
least 10 games. Many of those same
Some player statistics will This year Bellinger, Trout, pitchers could challenge
The other three divisions be more impressive than Yelich, Arenado, Anderson, Gibson's mark this year, but
remained tight with the NL usual, like batting average, Mookie Betts, Jose Altuve, are unlikely to break Keefe's
Central tied between the slugging percentage, on-base Joey Votto, D.J. LeMahieu, record.
Cubs and Milwaukee percentage and earned-run Anthony Rendon, Freddie
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Bike boom North Korea/Trump

continued from page 2 continued from page 3

industry is seeing a return of trends like e-bikes and fat- Ms. Kim was trumpeted as policy emerges as a major
the type of riders experts say tired gravel bikes. the Ivanka Trump of the Kim factor in the presidential
have been drifting away for regime when she appeared – campaign, Mr. Trump will be
years -- families and children. With the renaissance of impeccably dressed and with able to claim the U.S.
more traditional riders, expensive designer bag in benefited from his outside-
NDP analyst Dirk Sorenson said, it shouldn't hand – to lead the North’s the-box approach to North
Sorenson, an expert in the take much for dealers to delegation to the Seoul Korea, some analysts say.
consumer sports industry, keep the family crowds Olympics in 2018. But her After the initial “fire and
said recent figures bear that coming back. transformation from fashion fury” stage of his
out. plate to tough-talking leader engagement with the North,
"Simple efforts like in her own right may be a the spectacle of the 2018
Sales of lifestyle and leisure educating retail sales staff on kind of insurance policy for Singapore summit did lead to
bikes, which appeal to causal how to help newer riders get the Kim regime’s survival, reduced tensions, a hiatus in
adult riders, rose more than out and safely enjoy cycling given Mr. Kim’s suspected weapons and missile testing,
120 percent in March, and again can pay big dividends," precarious health, some and Mr.Trump’s assurance to
children's bike sales spiked he said. experts say. Americans that they could
56 percent. Sales of road “sleep well at night.”
bikes -- those that appeal to Longer term, he added, the It may also be a message Kim Yo Jong (right) helps her brother, North Korean leader Kim Jong
more serious enthusiasts -- opportunity is just as rosy. both to North Koreans and Even some big names in Un, sign a joint statement following the summit with South Korean
saw only 4 percent growth. to the world that the family- national security issues have
"I see an opportunity for based regime is here to stay recently come out in support President Moon Jae-in at the Paekhwawon State Guesthouse in
The return of family riders marketing to engage both – and still has the of the president’s effort to Pyongyang, North Korea, Sept. 19, 2018.
is pushing bike builders and families and enthusiasts. The wherewithal to unsettle do something different. In his
sellers to rethink their core challenge for both retailers neighbors and superpowers new book, “Exercise of that while he believes the failure.
strategies. and manufacturers is how to alike. Power,” former Defense North could continue with
balance both messages and Secretary Robert Gates says minor provocations in the “We shouldn’t fault the
"I certainly think the sales service both rider groups." Signs have grown recently he supported Mr. Trump’s coming months to let the president’s outside-the-box
surge is inviting a lot of that a jilted Mr. Kim intends summit diplomacy because world know it can still cause approach to North Korea for
conversation on how to Earl's Bike Shop in Atlanta, to remind Mr.Trump that the “every other effort to limit a ruckus, he does not expect why we got nowhere,” he
continue this trend," for instance, has been so two countries have the North Korean nuclear any crossing of “red lines” – says, “but we should be
Sorenson said. "Finding busy that owners told unfinished business – and capability over the last 25 like a nuclear test or an critical of the way that out-
short-term, practical ways to customers last month they that Pyongyang has tricks up years” had failed. intercontinental missile of-the-box diplomacy was
continue family interest in weren't able to answer its sleeve to influence the launch – that could lead the carried out.”
cycling for the course of the phone calls or emails any U.S. election if it chooses to October surprise? world to impose even more
summer is an approachable longer. use them. sanctions. The combination of
step." Still, Pyongyang may have “reality-TV diplomacy based
"We are thankful for all the Earlier this month the no intention of sitting Whoever ends up in the on personalities” and “the
To keep up sales in recent business. ... However, we are North’s foreign minister, Ri passively in the plus column Oval Office next January, Mr. maximalist demands that
years, the U.S. bike industry experiencing a surge of Son Gwon, issued a blistering of the president’s foreign Aum says the lesson of the [the North] give up all of its
has had to focus marketing repairs and sales," the shop's critique of Mr. Trump’s policy achievements. last four years will not be nuclear program before
to a dependable, but smaller, website states. summit diplomacy, calling it that trying something new getting any sanctions relief”
set of serious, committed “nothing but a foolish trick Heritage’s Mr. Klingner with North Korea was a was not a productive match,
athletes, and by following By Don Jacobson hatched to keep [Pyongyang] says he has never seen such mistake, but rather that a Mr. Aum says. “That was
bound to dialogue” and to direct and repeated combination of “superficial” never going to work.”
skew “the political situation referencing of U.S. elections summits with all-or-nothing
and election in the U.S.” by the North, a development U.S. policies was a recipe for By Howard LaFranchi
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my turn

Donald Trump is
the new Douglas
MacArthur

Seventy years ago, North Harlan Ullman A South Korean soldier stands guard in the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. File Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI
Korean troops swarmed
across the 38th parallel example of the failure to army to the south. The rise commander in chief. fire MacArthur. At that Fortunately, Little Rocket
dividing the peninsula and maintain a viable military in and fall of tides in Inchon stage, Truman's popularity Man has not invaded South
started a three-year and peacetime. was 30 feet, making the Disregarding his was at 22 percent. Korea and the outbreak of
very bloody war ended by a assault risky. Had a major war is quite
truce still in force. The The United States MacArthur chosen a superiors in Washington unlikely.
reasons for that proposed a United Nations landing site 30 miles to the
unprovoked attack rested resolution calling for a south, tides were not an and the president's MacArthur clearly The critical question is if
in the Cold War and the "police action" to save issue and the effect on the there is a Truman to check
year 1949. South Korea. Foolishly, the North Korean army would concerns about Chinese believed that he was and balance a commander
Soviet Union boycotted the have been similar. One can whose ego clouds judgment
Emboldened by Mao's session and could not veto speculate why MacArthur intervention, in November, omnipotent. He was and who believes he is the
victory over the Nationalist the resolution. Seventy- pursued the higher risk smartest guy in the room,
Chinese and the founding year-old Army Gen. Douglas strategy. MacArthur dismissed three reckless in choosing Inchon regardless of fact or truth.
of the Communist People's MacArthur, supreme Allied Perhaps and ironically, the
Republic of China and the commander in Japan, was Chinese attacks in force because of the risks of the 70th anniversary of the
Soviet development of the named commander in chief start of the Korean War
atomic bomb, Soviet Union of the U.N. forces. across the Yalu River tidal changes. He should give Americans
Premier Joseph Stalin saw reason to pause and to
an opportunity on the Made famous in World separating Korea from consistently rejected worry about the where the
Korean Peninsula. War II promising he would nation is headed under this
return to the Philippines China as bluffs. On intelligence that showed president.
Earlier in 1950, a speech after having been ordered
delivered by U.S. Secretary to evacuate from Thanksgiving Day, hundreds China would intervene.And By Harlan Ullman
of State Dean Acheson Corregidor, MacArthur As well as being a recurring
inadvertently excluded believed that his experience of thousands of People's he had contempt for the guest on Happenings Q&A,
South Korea from and seniority gave him Harlan Ullman is UPI's Arnaud
America's Asian defense unique authority to By October, U.N. forces Liberation Army soldiers president and joint chiefs, de Borchgrave Distinguished
blanket. Moscow saw that override the chain of Columnist, a senior adviser at
as a green light to unify command in Washington crossed the 38th parallel poured across the Yalu, whom he regarded as the Atlantic Council and author
Korea. As an insurance and a weak president. of the upcoming book, "The Fifth
policy, Stalin gained the and raced north against an overwhelming MacArthur's lacking his experience.
agreement of Beijing for In September 1950, Horseman:To Be Feared,
Chinese support to North MacArthur launched the enemy in disarray. The joint U.N. forces driving them Does that description Friended or Fought in a MAD-
Korea if the invasion stunning Inchon landing on resonate to today? To
faltered. Korea's west coast near chiefs feared that if south. some, President Donald Driven Age."
Seoul south of the 38th Trump is the new
Kim Il Sung had the parallel that surprised and MacArthur drove too far The battle finally MacArthur, believing his
mandate to invade. South cut off the North Korean instincts and judgment are
Korean and U.S. forces north, the Chinese would coalesced around the 38th far better than any advice
were surprised and fell back he may receive to the
to the Pusan perimeter on intervene. MacArthur was parallel. MacArthur wanted contrary from experts.
the southeast tip of South Trump is also reckless in
Korea. In the retreat, the warned. But his ego and to expand the war to China minimizing the dangers of
U.S. Army's Task Force the coronavirus and in his
Smith was annihilated and prior successes led him to and argued for the use of disregard for wearing face
remains today a tragic masks and practicing social
ignore intelligence counter nuclear weapons. By April, distancing.

to his own. That month, he Truman concluded that

was summoned to Wake MacArthur was

Island for consultations insubordinate, determined

with President Harry to take the war to China.

Truman whom he insulted After conferring with the

by landing after Truman's joint chiefs, on April 11,

plane set down, in essence 1951, Truman concluded he

disrespecting the had no option except to

When the mob 3) again legislated from the Court building should also trophies and in some cases before. And this is biblical
rules bench when they redefined grades have been truth, this is experiential
“sex” in the 1964 Civil be removed. It shows many abandoned because some truth. The loneliest people
Rights Act as meaning not who were not as talented, in the world are amongst
simply gender, as in male lawgivers looking to Moses, or didn’t work as hard to the wealthiest and most
and female, but sexual achieve honor might feel famous who found no
identity, as in gay and who is at the center holding bad. So, we dumb down and boundaries within which to
transgender. make everyone “equal,” live. That is a fact I’ve seen
What did we think would the Ten Commandments. supporting mediocrity as again and again.”
happen once boundaries After the Court’s 2015 the highest objective.This is
were destroyed? ruling in favor of same-sex Those are no longer what socialism does. As the Psalmist wrote
marriage (it was 5-4), long ago, “When the
The chaos plaguing the polygamist groups said they considered relevant in Those who deny any foundations are being
country today was in would be next to demand standard and then appeal to destroyed, what can the
evitable after truth, equal treatment. What is to today’s America, so maybe the rest of us based on a righteous do?”
standards and self-control stop them? What if morals standard of their own
were all but ignored by and laws evolve and they should be chiseled creation can’t have it both Readers may email Cal
many in our society. conformity to the spirit of ways, though they are Thomas at
the age and opinion polls is away. Church-state trying.
That great “philosopher,” what matters most? [email protected].
the late Marilyn Monroe, separation, you know. The late evangelist and Look for Cal Thomas’ new
was ahead of her time when Statues and paintings that scholar Ravi Zacharias book “America’s Expiration
she said, “When I was five, I Cal Thomas offend some, but not “In God We Trust” is observed:“Pleasure without Date:The Fall of Empires and
think, that’s when I started others, are being torn embedded on walls in the God, without the sacred Superpowers and the Future
wanting to be an actress. I you could make your own down, or defaced. Perhaps House and Senate and on boundaries, will actually
loved to play. I didn’t like the boundaries.” the frieze over the Supreme our money. Clearly, that is leave you emptier than of the United States”
world around me because it no longer objectively true,
was kind of grim, but I loved Making one’s own so perhaps we should
to play house. It was like boundaries has led us to remove that saying.
this moment. Truth has Hearings could be held so
become subjective. The people who claim we
Constitution, some judges continue to trust in God
claim, is now open to can present evidence we
interpretation, as we still do.
witnessed last week when a
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dear doug forearm, side of leg or hand
on knee for support.
Support vs.
control Muscular strength and
flexibility are critical for
Q: My daughter has Doug Mayberry individual decision. You can only in my mid-70s!), but locking them in place. seniors, and each point
struggled with her weight suggest changes but cannot they see it differently. increase on this test is
for her entire life. Now she be hard to come by. enforce them -- constant For the grip strength associated with a 21%
seems to have given up, and nagging doesn't work. I don't think I'm that bad, test, buy a hand decrease in mortality from
her health is suffering. If your daughter is willing but how can I tell? dynamometer to measure all causes.
to work on her health, Instead of forcing your grip, and compare it to
Her problem has always make your own effort, too! changes upon your loved A: An objective test of others of the same age and Any exercise counts, and
involved going to extremes, Most people have at least a ones, help them find and your physical ability will sex. you will see the results.
but nothing anybody says few bad habits. use resources that work help you avoid gradual Studies have shown that
seems to help. She used to for their needs. -- Emma, decline. The sitting-rising test moderately inactive people
go on fad diets and lose a Do you know of a local Doug's granddaughter have 16-30% drop in death
bunch of weight. But then nutritionist? Pay attention Perform three regular may be most crucial of all, risk compared with those
she'd gain it all back with to his or her qualifications Q: I feel like I'm on a slow activities as an objective who are completely
interest within a year. and patients' long-term but noticeable decline. I measure to keep yourself in measuring balance, inactive.
outcomes. An expert was never all that active, check: a flexibility test, a
I'm worried that she'll opinion can make a huge but it was by choice. I don't grip strength test and a flexibility and strength. Joining a group or team
have a heart attack and be difference. think that's true anymore. sitting-rising test. activity is a great way to
gone before I am. Stand in the middle of a stay motivated. On top of
Be careful with My family loves to go on For flexibility, try room and lower yourself to the physical benefits, the
How can our family help franchised weight-loss an annual hike for touching your toes.You can the floor, without leaning social aspect is great for
her maintain her health? operations, as they vary Thanksgiving, which is do this either standing up on anything for balance. mental health and possible
wildly depending on the coming up. This year, my or on a chair with one leg Then, rise again to standing. loneliness.
A: Focus on a lifestyle franchise operator. children are saying it might extended. A good goal is to
change (not weight loss), be better if I stay at home get your fingers within 4 It sounds simple but gets Whatever you do, don't
and be willing to make Most importantly, give it instead of risking a fall. I inches of your toes. Avoid harder and harder with age. stop moving! Regular
some changes yourself to time. Abrupt weight don't feel that old yet (I'm bending your knees or Giving yourself 10 points exercise even benefits
be supportive. changes stress the body for a successful maneuver, people in their 80s and 90s.
and aren't good in the long subtract one point each for -- Doug
The important thing here run.A better plan is to lose using your hand, knee,
is to focus not on looks but weight gradually and keep it Doug Mayberry makes the
health. off. most of life in a Southern
California retirement
Have an honest Ultimately, health is an community. Contact him at
conversation as a family
about your concerns for [email protected]. Emma,
her health and why you Doug's granddaughter, helps
want to help. If you can't write this column.To find out
find a way to work with more about Doug Mayberry
your daughter, success will
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ago, I did just that. But I something else. There are Jan. 2, 2020, can't do that. Supplemental Security confuse SSI with Social Social Security taxes in five
knew ahead of time it more than a few seniors They must file for their own Income. But I know that is Security.They think they are out of the last 10 years. It
would cause problems. out there who continue Social Security benefits first wrong because my nephew, the same thing. In fact, many sounds like you haven't
Why? Because there can be working well beyond age before they can consider who has been disabled people think SSI stands for worked and paid taxes in
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associated with Social much money they are on a spouse's record. recently inherited $100,000 does not. Supplemental you simply are not eligible
Security's rules. And when I making, those extra from his mother's estate, Security Income and Social for Social Security disability
try to keep my answers earnings added to their Q: In a recent column, and he lost his SSI check. Security and two entirely benefits. But you still can
short and sweet ... well, they Social Security account you said the $255 Social Please retract your prior separate programs with get your retirement checks
may be short, but they are could increase their Security death benefit is answer. entirely different sets of because that program
not always so sweet. I monthly Social Security only paid to a surviving rules and regulations. doesn't have the "five out of
simply cannot cover all the check. For example, I have a spouse. But that is wrong. A: I don't have to retract the last 10" rule.
variables that may pop up, friend who is a doctor, and When my mother died, she anything. But I do have to Q: For a variety of
and I can't explain all the he is still practicing was already a widow, and I clarify that we are talking reasons too complicated to If you have a Social
nuances to any given Social medicine even though he is collected the $255 death about two different explain here, I retired 10 Security question,Tom
Security situation. 90 years old. And every benefit. programs. In that prior years ago, when I was 52. I Margenau has the answer.
year, he gets a little boost in column, I told someone just turned 62 and filed for
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record by answering 16 because of all the money he died a long time ago, Security benefits that the fibromyalgia and wanted to thomas.margenau@comcast.
questions in one column, is still pumping into the because it was way back in inheritance he got would apply for disability, too, but I
the 16 answers I gave system. the 1980s that they have no affect on his was told I couldn't. Yet in a net.To find out more about
probably led to 160 more changed the law. Before monthly Social Security recent column, you told a Tom Margenau and to read
questions from confused Q:A woman wrote to ask then, the death benefit checks. I went on to explain guy with heart problems
readers.And here are some you if she could take could be paid to any one of that Social Security is not who was about to turn 62 past columns and see
of them. benefits on her husband's a whole list of approved welfare, so he could inherit that he should file for both features from other Creators
record first and then later family members or estate a million dollars, and he'd Social Security retirement
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you said that people could she could not do that. But I package of cost-cutting benefits. time. So, did my Social cartoonists, visit the Creators
continue to get increases in beg to differ. Because I did Social Security reforms
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after age 70. But I thought for Social Security several the payment of the measly www.creators.com.
the delayed retirement years ago. little death benefit to a
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A:You are right about this allowed people to file for
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called delayed retirement delay taking their own until
credits, or DRCs. And you a later date, usually at age welfare program that pays a
get a DRC equal to two- 70, to get the delayed
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Tommye and Rody performance than any pandemic cemented lives.”
Johnson have been other age group aside her decision to vote a
registered Republicans from 18- to 29-year- “straight blue” ticket in Indeed, voters in
for almost seven olds. Much of that November. their late 70s and 80s
decades. So while the decline seems directly are often called the
couple from Vero related to the virus, “I’ve never seen this silent generation – a
Beach, Florida, had which so far has posed level of mishandling my reference to the civic-
some reservations a far more serious entire life, and I was minded conformity
about then-candidate health threat to older around during Richard that was forged by the
Donald Trump in 2016, people. Nixon and Watergate,” Great Depression and
they just couldn’t says Ms. Penk. “This World War II. Yet
imagine voting for As the debate over coronavirus situation having lived through
Hillary Clinton. has just highlighted numerous
lifting lockdowns has how inept [President presidencies, many
Trump] is.” older Americans also
intensified, the say they know the
difference leadership
Now, after nearly president’s eagerness can make during a
four years of President crisis.
Trump’s tweets, the to get the economy To be sure, many
impeachment scandal,
and especially, what moving again seems to seniors still support
they see as his
disastrous handling of have put him at odds the president. Older
the COVID-19
pandemic, they can’t with many older voters voters tend to be
imagine voting for him
again. – who, as retirees more conservative in “This could have
been an opportunity to
without children at their politics than unite the country,” says
Mr. Johnson. “We were
home, may not be as younger ones, and children in World War
II, and if we had that
focused on reopening Supporters of President Donald Trump waited in line for a campaign Republicans have won kind of leadership
rally June 18, 2019, in Orlando, Florida. Mr.Trump won seniors in today, this crisis would
schools or local Florida by 17 points in 2016, but a recent poll showed him losing voters over 65 in the be a different thing.”
them to former Vice President Joe Biden.
businesses. In the same past three presidential

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undervalued this crisis Johnsons, voted for Mr.
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around, but is now part
Trump’s approval rating prioritize halting the “The people my age, of a “Republicans for 2016, Mr. Trump Republican from the
we have become Biden” Facebook
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Wendy Penk, a lifelong about her husband’s
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from Charlotte, North Trump’s handling of the
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other customers not
COVID doctors wearing their masks
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family wedding their noses). The cashiers
are the same! This gives me
Dear Amy: My fiancé and Amy Dickinson Please – don’t let others you. Wondering anxiety.
I are both doctors in a mid- frame this choice as
sized American city. We are little more responsible. The political, when it is medical. Dear Amy: About two Dear Healthy: You went I want to say, “Hey, you’re
regularly caring for COVID only concession has been months ago, my boyfriend through this with your not wearing your mask
patients and recognize that that they've said they will If you as physicians lack potentially had COVID-19. boyfriend, and so you have right!” but I hate
we are high-risk to be understand if we feel like the ability to make a clear been exposed to this story confrontation.
potential vectors. We've we can't come. choice, based on science, The week he started to many times from many
spent the last several then what chance do the work from home, he got different angles. You can Also, they have markers
months being absolutely At this point, it feels like rest of us have? very sick.Taking care of him have whatever interior on the floor to indicate
horrified by this disease and any decision we make is was scary and stressful for reaction you want, but your where you should stand so
shocked that some don't wrong. My fiancé Because you are me. boyfriend should continue you are six feet apart, but
seem to be taking it desperately wants to be concerned and compliant to talk about this three times I have had
seriously. there, but it is hard to (good for you!), if you did He was able to get a experience if he finds it someone stand way too
imagine spending 36 hours attend the wedding, you helpful. His brush with close to me as I waited in
My fiancé’s family lives in in a series of situations that would have to get tested, virtual doctor’s serious illness might have line. It just freaks me out!
a different state, where his are risky and socially travel, (possibly) isolate, get deepened his empathy
sister is supposed to get negligent. tested again, and wear appointment. He tested toward others. He may also I let them get in front of
married next month. masks and maintain your be tacitly inviting you to me and I scoot back to six
Despite our frequently Do we go? Do we stay? If distance while there. negative for the virus, but share in this drama, and to feet. What is the best way
voiced discomfort, the we do go, do we wear confirm to others how to ask someone to back up?
current plan is for a 95- masks and attempt to The ethical choice is for still believes he had it, due challenging this was. There
person wedding -- physically distance despite you to stay home. are fears about people I am just fearful someone
grandparents and all! -- with the fact that this will be to the high rate of false developing the illness again will curse me out if I ask
absolutely no COVID completely out of place and The way to bow out – after they believe they them to back up or to wear
precautions at all in his seen as a political gracefully is to respond negative test results. have recovered – and he their mask correctly. -
parents’ backyard (outside, statement? If we don't go, honestly: “We are might be worried about Anxious
at least, but their home will how do we bow out heartbroken to miss this He recovered in two that possibility.
be open to anyone). Masks gracefully?- Caught Couple wedding, but we realize that weeks and is good, now. Dear Anxious: In order
and physical distancing are we pose a risk to others, Some people are to minimize your own
not on the table; they say Dear Caught: You and and we could not live with He brings this up genuinely traumatized by an risk/anxiety, you should
they "can't control what your fiancé are medical ourselves if someone whenever we have Zoom experience with serious make choices to shop at
people do" and that things experts, but maybe it will became ill because of our calls with family or friends; illness. If he is ruminating places where employees
have "gone back to normal" take an amateur (me) to presence. We hope you he even brings this up with excessively or seems to be comply, and during times
where they are. clarify things for you: Wake have a wonderful time and his clients. When it initially stuck in an anxious loop, when there are the fewest
up! Wake up and smell the look forward to seeing lots happened -- and the month you should encourage him other customers.
In a nutshell, they get COVID! of photos and videos.” following – bringing it up to set up another
their news from far more made sense. I realize that appointment with his No – I don’t think you
conservative sources than As physicians on the front These family members sharing with friends and doctor. should call out another
we do, don't know people lines, you risk exposing might be willing/able to family can help to process a customer for wearing a
who have been sick, and others to illness. You admit livestream the wedding for scary event. mask incorrectly (because
don't think it can happen to as much in your question! this involves them and their
them. It has now been two body), but yes – you should
months (it feels like six), and definitely ask someone to
Obviously, in an ideal he’s OK. I’m confused as to space themselves further
world we could talk this out why he still feels the need from you (because this
and end up with a wedding to talk about it now, involves you and your
that would at least feel a however. - Healthy and body): “Hey, could you do
me a favor and step back a
little bit?”

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June to take you places
The 10 best books of
June bring hope and In June, take an armchair trip across the world – first
insight through the mind of an intrepid detective, then into
America’s meadowlands and orchards, on to a dystopian
1.The Voyage of the Morning Light by Marina future set in France, and finally back to a Tennessee of the
Endicott past.

An intrepid young woman journeys with her half-sister
and captain brother-in-law aboard a Nova Scotia merchant
ship to the South Seas in 1912.Awash with vistas of beauty,
the novel follows the deep pull of the characters toward
harmony, justice, and home. The tale shimmers with
intelligence and humor.

2. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett "Trouble is What I Do" by Walter Mosley “The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half
a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America” by Hannah
Twin sisters take very different paths in this gripping Read by Dion Graham; Hachette Audio; three hours Nordhaus
exploration of race, identity, and the meaning of home. A and 30 minutes
poignant combination of mystery and history, the novel Read by Xe Sands;Tantor Audio; seven hours
moves as briskly as a beach read while addressing issues of The latest installment in the Leonid McGill detective
great weight.While the plot occasionally hinges on unlikely series plays out like an old-fashioned detective potboiler Fans of science, bees, cultural history, and memoir will
coincidences and surprises, the same could be said for the – but it’s a perfect update to the genre, filled with enjoy this nonfiction work. Author Hannah Nordhaus
nation and the times that are chronicled in this book. multilayered characters who display insight, humor, and follows a small but dedicated group of beekeepers who
depth of knowledge. Author Walter Mosley takes every pollinate American crops by literally trucking their
hardboiled stereotype and flips it on its head. As private colonies to farms across the country. Her writing can be
investigator, McGill takes on a 94-year-old client from his a bit glib and occasionally disjointed, but overall, this
past – one Philip “Catfish” Worry – and he must negotiate audiobook is compelling for three reasons:The fascinating
both sides of the law. Narrator Dion Graham is a story of beekeeper John Miller and his cohort, Nordhaus’
complete delight, with a wide array of character voices explanation of bee culture, and her breakdown of the
and a knack for voicing both men and women.Though too likely causes of colony collapse disorder. Narrator Xe
short, this is a fantastic distraction that you can sink into Sands is perfectly lively, chummy, and spirited. Grade: B+
and finish in one sitting. Grade: A+

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embellishing their family myths; in alternating chapters, their
descendants work to understand their legacy. Flashes of Twenty years in the future, a father and daughter The unregulated landscape of early American adoption
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rooted in her own family history and offers much insight, if devastating effects of climate change.While scavenging for family of children orphaned in the 1920s is tied to a
you have time to linger. supplies, they stumble upon a sailboat stuck in a parched modern-day tale of romance and mystery. Unfortunately,
garden miles from the shore – a connection to a second, the historical aspect of the novel far outshines the ho-
4. The Mountains Wild by Sarah Stewart Taylor separate narrative centered around lost love and set amid hum contemporary plotline, in which a politician’s
a growing water crisis. Both stories unfold against chilling daughter carries out an investigation into the past. The
This gripping mystery introduces Maggie D’Arcy, a top- backdrops of environmental collapse and unrest, though backstory, however, is both fascinating and horrifying. Both
notch Long Island homicide detective whose cousin love and forgiveness remain at the heart of the book.The narrators embrace appropriate Southern accents, are age-
vanished in Ireland 23 years ago. The book’s intriguing story is read by two narrators; Jean Brassard has an appropriate for their characters, and bring energy to the
characters spiral through multiple timelines, plot twists, and engaging French accent and a firm command of the plot, story. Grade: B
lush Irish settings, and Maggie’s quest to finally learn the while Jane Copland maintains a refined British accent and
truth runs parallel to her hopes of reuniting with a lost a nuanced and rich performance. Grade: A- By Rochelle M. O’Gorman
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Longfellow fell out of fashion. A
biographer aims to bring him back.

With the arrival of “Cross of Snow: Best Books of June
A Life of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow,” the fabled 19th-century continued from page 14
poet has perhaps found his ideal
biographer in Nicholas A. Basbanes. 5. Cross of Snow by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow aren’t in
Cross of Snow: great fashion today, but in the first major biography of the
A Life of Henry Wadsworth fabled New England poet in many years, Nicholas A.
Basbanes argues that Longfellow is starting to make a
Longfellow comeback. His exhaustively researched account of
by Nicholas A. Basbanes Longfellow’s life and career should give that reappraisal a
boost.
Basbanes is best known for “A U.S. frontier. Longfellow was also a we typically reserve for bestselling 6. Union by Colin Woodard
Gentle Madness,” his 1995 cultural great interpreter of Europe for his novelists. Historian Colin Woodard tells not the story of how
history of bibliophilia. Longfellow fellow Americans and known for his America became a nation, but rather of how America
(1807-82) endures in popular translations of Dante. He was also capable of creating crafted its own version of its national history, and how
reputation as a poet for antiquarian effects on a smaller scale. “The that national mythology has changed over the decades.
tastes, and many would say that he is Little wonder that Longfellow was a Children’s Hour,” an 1860 poem in
the kind of poet only a bookhound Dante fan, drawn as he was to poetry which he cheerfully resigns himself to 7. The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
like Basbanes could enjoy. that embraced a long narrative arc. being interrupted in his work by his In this fascinating book, Wendy Williams not only
“Evangeline,” his poem about lovers young children, will resonate with any lovingly relates the variety and natural history of
But in “Cross of Snow,” Basbanes separated by the expulsion of parent. The poem’s reference to the butterflies around the world, but also shares with readers
argues that the poet behind “The Acadians from Canada, is still revered “patter of little feet” remains part of the weird and wonderful stories of the people who have
Courtship of Miles Standish” and “Paul in Louisiana, where many residents the national lexicon. chased, studied, and explained butterflies over the
Revere’s Ride” should be regarded as embrace its Cajun-themed premise, centuries.
more than an antique curiosity. though largely a work of fiction, as Despite its ostensibly benign tone, 8. The Cubans by Anthony DePalma
Basbanes says a Longfellow revival is historical fact. The same is true of “The Children’s Hour” concludes with Former New York Times foreign correspondent
underway, and he quotes approvingly “Paul Revere’s Ride,” which freely a glancing reference to ruin and decay, Anthony DePalma tells the vivid story of communism
from scholar Christoph Irmscher’s indulges poetic license yet speaks to a suggesting that happiness is precious through the eyes of several generations of Cubans. He
observation that Longfellow is coming number of Americans as the definitive precisely because it’s fleeting. includes telling details, such as the pantomime of stroking
to be appreciated as a pioneering account of a critical moment in the Longfellow’s life was touched by family imaginary beards before criticizing the government, to
multiculturalist and “bold American Revolution. loss, a reality that shadows his poems. avoid retribution for mentioning Castro’s name. DePalma
experimenter with poetic form.” shows what life was like, and is like, for Cubans.
Longfellow was most memorably a It’s such complexity, “Cross of
Basbanes’ sprawling and immersive narrative poet, creating characters Snow” suggests, that makes Henry
biography is an exercise for true who can feel real, even when they Wadsworth Longfellow worth
disciples: It leans like Longfellow were born primarily from his revisiting.
toward the epic sweep. imagination. His gifts as a storyteller
gave him the kind of stature that today By Danny Heitman
Basbanes details Longfellow’s fame
during his lifetime. “Total strangers
wrote him letters by the hundreds ...
and he answered as many as he could,
always gracious, always thoughtful,” he
writes. “When admirers arrived
unannounced at his home in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, which they
did by the droves, he was the person
who opened the front door,
occasionally inviting them inside,
readily dispensing autographed cards
kept nearby for just that purpose.”

Longfellow’s appeal crossed the
Atlantic, too. “[He] is still the only
American writer to have a bust of his
likeness displayed in Poets’ Corner at
Westminster Abbey,” Basbanes notes.

A fitting tribute, no doubt, since
Longfellow was something of a bridge
between the Old and New Worlds.
Long poems like “The Song of
Hiawatha,” which drew on Ojibwe and
Iroquois cultural traditions, affirmed
for Europeans the exotic appeal of the

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Pet World animals

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Respect neighbors' yards by
keeping dogs away from them

Dear Cathy, In regard to listen when they ask them to is the potential for that plant
your response to Howard in walk their dogs elsewhere. or spot of grass to turn brown
Oceanside, New York, you said Sadly, people are usually and die.This explains why I can
you have never seen a plant die defensive on both sides of this have so many dogs and still
from dogs peeing on it? How issue and there is often have a green lawn. There is an
about female dogs peeing on discord between neighbors, no adequate amount of water
your lawn creating burn spots matter how nicely and politely filtering through my landscape,
of dead grass? Never? I am something is requested or which is flushing out the
with Howard. I work very hard discussed. nitrates and salt in the soil.
on my lawn and property.
As to whether dog urine Fortunately, and perhaps by
People walking their dogs can kill a plant or lawn, I got a
have no respect for others. few letters about this, so let design, both male and female
While you can clean up poop, me explain more fully. When I
how do you clean up pee that said I have never seen a plant dogs tend to urinate in
brings other dogs to the smell or lawn die from dog pee, I
and then they relieve was speaking from my own multiple locations, reducing
themselves there? personal experience with five
dogs who peed all over my the chances of killing a single
I have had three Great heavily landscaped yard as well
Danes, two German shepherds as from my work at the plant or spot on the lawn.
and three cocker spaniels.They Humane Society where
all have been trained to "make" hundreds of dogs were walked Dominant female dogs, as you
in the street when they were daily, and which didn't result in
taken for their daily walks.Your any brown spots in the open point out, are the most likely
dog should relieve itself on spaces where we walked them.
your own property, not your to pee on the same spot over Cat stranded 50 feet Escaped 45-pound
neighbors' property. (I have So, can dog urine kill a plant and over again, but this mostly up tree rescued after tortoise wrangled in
been a dog owner for over 40 or make a brown spot? It can, occurs in their own yards. If a Illinois neighborhood
years.) - Bonnie, Kings Park, but a number of factors must dog doesn't pee in the same three days
New York be in play for dog urine to An animal control officer in a suburb
actually kill the plant or create location every day, it's not as A New Jersey town enlisted the help of Chicago responded to an unusual
Dear Bonnie, I agree with a brown spot in the yard. For call that involved her having to wrangle
you that pet owners should example, when you fertilize likely to have the impact on of a professional tree climber to rescue a 45-pound African tortoise. Morton
respect their neighbors' yards your yard, you are putting Grove Animal Control Officer Megan
and said so in my response to nitrogen into the soil. If you the lawn or plant that some a cat that was stranded for three days Glawocz said she responded to a
Howard. People can train their don't water properly after report of a large reptile eating parkway
dogs by not allowing them to fertilizing the lawn or if you people presume. My landscape on a high branch of a tall tree. The grass on a residential road near the
stop and sniff at their over-fertilize the yard, your Walgreens on Waukegan Road. "I
neighbors' yards and walking lawn will burn and turn brown. was one of the nicest in the Town of Smithtown said the domestic probably had about eight families on
their dogs instead to public Dog urine contains nitrates the block taking pictures of the
locations, like a park or and salt that can change the Ph neighborhood, and yet I had shorthair tabby cat, named Tiger, went tortoise when I arrived," Glowacz told
common space, where this level of the soil, which can also the Chicago Tribune.
won't be an issue. burn roots if too much of it is several pets urinating all over missing from his home in the
delivered in one spot. "It wasn't afraid. It was just having a
I also agreed that people it. Nesconset area and was spotted by a good grass meal and enjoying the
who love their plants and So, if a dog pees in the same sunshine. It was a very friendly
lawns should be able to expect spot over and over again and Regardless, neighbors have neighbor a few days later in a tree tortoise." Glowacz said she needed
their dog-owning neighbors to that spot does not get help from another officer to lift the
avoid their yards, or, at the adequate water, then yes, there every right to ask dog owners more than 50 feet off the ground.Town massive African tortoise into a police
very least, expect them to car while she attempted to find the
(in a kind way) to walk their officials said they initially hoped the cat animal's owner. The officer said the
tortoise, named Betty, was reunited
dogs someplace else. People would climb down on its own, but after with her owner later in the afternoon.
She said it turned out Betty had
with pets should be respectful three days it was determined that the escaped from her owner's yard by
digging her way to freedom.
of their neighbors and not let feline was stranded and needed help.
"Her claws are very big and tortoises
their dogs pee or poop in their Mitch Crowley, director of Smithtown are notorious for digging," Glowacz
said. "It was an appropriate enclosure,
neighbors' yards.Trust me, dog Traffic Safety, led a crew attempting to but persistency got in the way."
Glowacz said it was her first time being
owners, it can be done, and it's use a bucket truck to reach Tiger, but called out to wrangle a tortoise. "It was
a fun day," she said. "It's always
the best way to keep the peace they were unable to get high enough interesting; you never know what
you're going to come across.
with your neighbor. on the tree. A Nesconset Fire
Escaped bull lassoed
As well as being a recuring guest Department crew attempted to use a after wandering onto
on Happenings Q&A, Cathy M. ladder to reach Tiger, but they were Illinois highway

Rosenthal is a longtime animal also unsuccessful. The town ended up Drivers on an Illinois highway had to
dodge an unusual traffic hazard when
advocate, author, columnist and pet enlisting the help of a man named an escaped bull wandered onto the
interstate and was eventually lassoed.
expert who has more than 25 years Omar who works as a tree climber for The Columbia Police Department said
officers responded to Interstate 255
in the animal welfare field. Send Impressive Properties. Omar donned a after drivers reported the large animal
your pet questions, stories and tips helmet and a harness and climbed the wandering into the roadway. At least
one driver captured video of the bull
to [email protected]. tree to reach the feline and carry him watching vehicles pass from the side of
the highway. The police department
back to safety. Officials said Tiger was said officers were able to guide the bull
away from the highway and it was then
given a check-up by Animal Control lassoed by its owner. The animal, which
was not injured, was returned to its
and was reunited with his family. owner's farm in Carondelet.

Officers rescue hawk
stuck in truck
bumper

Authorities in New York state said a
pair of off-duty police officers came to
the rescue of a hawk they spotted
stuck in the front bumper of a truck.
The Nassau County Police
Department said Marine Bureau
Officers Schwaner and Leek were on
their way to work when they spotted
the hawk stuck in the front bumper of
a parked Dodge Ram pickup truck.The
officers stopped to investigate and
discovered the bird, a red-tailed hawk,
was still alive, but unable to pull itself
free from the bumper. The officers
carefully extracted the raptor from the
vehicle and took it to the Nassau
County Police Marine Bureau base in
Bay Park, where they contacted the
Volunteers for Wildlife rescue group in
Locust Valley. Volunteers transported
the bird from the police station to the
wildlife facility, where it is being treated
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issues, patients typically incident, and he or she can narrowing, inflammation or
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trouble swallowing when phase. It involves the mouth attempting to swallow. is stuck behind the may be taken. If narrowing of can swallowing difficulty
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she's eating. She says it's not and throat.The second is the nose or slip out of the in the esophagus while expansion of the esophagus interfere with nutrition and
mouth. If an oropharyngeal swallowing. Eventually what may be performed during an
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Conditions that cause problem seems to be the esophageal motility problem
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difficulties include many swallowing study typically is although generally these
that can be done to treat esophagus (food pipe). neurological diseases, such as performed with X-rays. This disorders are uncommon.An swallowing difficulty are
stroke and Parkinson's study can reveal structural esophageal muscle test,
this problem? Determining whether disease. issues, or problems with called "manometry," can be embarrassed by it and avoid
muscle coordination or used to measure muscle
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understood and potentially transit often can be within the esophagus also During this procedure, a most cases, however, potentially depression.
needs to be wide enough to thin, flexible and lighted problems with swallowing
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endoscope, is passed down significantly reduced once
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common concern that has swallow. Magnus Halland, M.D.,

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explanations. A thorough requires proper function of Hepatology, Mayo Clinic,

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Archaeologists have landscapes on earth and it is ancestors," said Nick Snashall, In addition to the Kale everyday. -Gretchen-
Collards
discovered the markings of a remarkable that the application National Trust archaeologist Durrington Walls, the

prehistoric structure of new technology can still lead for the Stonehenge and boundary formed by the pits

surrounding Durrington Walls, to the discovery of such a Avebury World Heritage Site. also includes a second

an ancient monument massive prehistoric structure "The Hidden Landscapes team monument, the Larkhill

positioned just 1.9 miles which, currently, is significantly has combined cutting-edge, causewayed enclosure, built

northeast of Stonehenge. larger than any comparative archaeological fieldwork with 1,500 years before

The discovery suggests that prehistoric monument that we good old-fashioned detective Stonehenge.
roughly 4,500 years ago, know of, in Britain at least," work to reveal this
Neolithic builders -- the same Vincent Gaffney, one of leading extraordinary discovery and The latest discovery
people who constructed archaeologists on the survey write a whole new chapter in suggests Britain's Stone Age
Stonehenge -- dug a series of effort, said in a news release. the story of the Stonehenge populations were remarkably
deep shafts, forming a circle landscape." sophisticated and capable of
Because the Durrington tremendous geoengineering

spanning 1.2 miles in diameter, Walls, one of Britain's largest While Stonehenge is feats. Researchers say digging

according to a study published monument sites, sits at the positioned in relation to the such massive pits with

Sunday in the journal Internet center of the massive circle of summer and winter solstices, primitive tools is every bit as

Archaeology. shafts, researchers suspect the marking the limits of the sun's impressive as arranging giant

Until recently, the pits were pits served as a boundary to range, the newly discovered stones.
thought to be sinkholes or dew lands considered sacred by the pits suggest ancient recognition
ponds. But their uniformity population. of even larger cosmological "Seeing what is unseen! Yet
inspired further investigation, phenomena. It's not clear again, the use of a
and aerial surveys using a "As the place where the whether the pits were multidisciplinary effort with
combination of technologies, builders of Stonehenge lived intended to guide people remote sensing and careful
including ground-penetrating and feasted, Durrington Walls toward the ancient sampling is giving us an insight
radar and magnetometry, is key to unlocking the story of monuments or keep people to the past that shows an even
revealed a larger pattern. the wider Stonehenge out, but the shafts suggest the more complex society that we
landscape, and this astonishing region's monuments were part could ever imagine," said
"The area around discovery offers us new of an expansive cultural and Richard Bates, an earth
insights into the lives and spiritual tradition. scientist at the University of St.
Stonehenge is among the most beliefs of our Neolithic Andrews.

studied archaeological

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Jill on Money U.S. beekeepers saw
unusually high summer-
The gigantic economic hole time colony losses in 2019

Imagine you remains the big question. In recent year for which there is
are asked to fill data.The Census Bureau also
a 12-foot deep conjunction with its two-day drills down to racial income
hole. Now imagine that the levels and the difference is
hole is only 11 feet deep. Feel June policy meeting, the vast: median income for
better? Of course 11 is white households was
better than 12, but the task Federal Reserve released its $70,642, for Hispanic Beekeepers in the United
ahead is immense. That households, it was $51,450 States lost 43.9 percent of
massive hole is the US economic projections. and for black households, it honey bee colonies between
economy and right now, was $41,361. April 2019 and April 2020,
although it may be shallower Central bank officials but surprisingly, a majority
than first feared, it is still of the losses were recorded
gigantic. predicted that the U.S. during summer months.

Two recent examples economy would shrink by Every April, researchers
underscore the point. The with the Bee Informed
May jobs report was better 6.5% this year.That would be Partnership distribute flyers
than expected -- yes, the rate to beekeepers across the
was understated, but 2.5 the sharpest annual decline United States. Participants
million jobs were added, are asked to provide
which is an unambiguous since GDP fell 11.6% in 1946, A new paper from the information about the
good sign. Still, employment colonies they managed over
remains down by nearly 20 when the nation was National Bureau of Economic the past 12 months.
million jobs (13%) since
February. To put that demobilizing after World War Research finds that the The results of the latest
staggering number in survey were released online,
context, the US labor market II. The unemployment rate inequality is also apparent showing summer was much
lost about 9 million jobs worse than winter last year.
during the last recession will drop, but it will likely with small business failures.
(between December 2007 "They give us the number
and February 2010). remain above 9% by the end Over the past three months, of colonies they managed at
different times, the number
Similarly, retail sales soared of the year. As analysts from 3.3 million small firms shut of splits they made or new
by 17.7% in May from April, colonies they bought, or
the largest monthly increase Capital Economics noted, their doors - that's more sold, etc., and from all that
on record. But April and information, we calculate
March results were awful and "things aren't quite as bad as than all of the 17-month the 'turnover rate,'"
sales were still $42 billion Nathalie Steinhauer, BIP's
lower than February, before we feared, but they are still Great Recession. But, the science coordinator, told
the pandemic caused national UPI in an email.
lockdowns. In addition to potentially worse than at any closings disproportionately
jobs and retail sales, there is Researchers expect to
also evidence that the most time since the Great hit minority- and immigrant- see fluctuations in the the high risks factors," question, but Steinhauer
beaten down sectors like air turnover rate from year to Steinhauer said. suggests there's still not yet
travel, train traffic and even Depression of the 1930s." owned firms, and "may year, usually with particularly enough data to say for sure.
visits to the dentist, may have bad years followed by less While understanding how
bottomed. But the hole is still It's going to take time to portend longer-term dramatic losses, and vice beekeepers perceive risk
deep. versa. But typically, winters can be useful, Steinhauer
dig out of this gigantic hole - ramifications for job losses are worse than summers -- said there's plenty of "We know from
The sudden drop in especially for small-scale research highlighting the beekeepers that they think
economic output led the we're probably not going to and economic inequality." beekeepers. biggest threats to honey bee the current levels are really
National Bureau of Economic colony health. high," she said. "Also, a lot of
Research to declare that the fill it until the middle of 2022, African American businesses According to the latest beekeepers tell us that
economy officially entered a results, losses over this past The biggest threats to bee they've managed to keep the
recession in February. How according to Fed Chair Jay were the hardest hit. winter were down 15.5 colony health include: colony numbers high, but
long the downturn lasts percentage points from the parasites, particularly the they notice the colonies are
Powell. In his press The gigantic hole is deeper winter before. Varroa mite; a variety of not as 'plump' as they used
for some Americans than viral, bacterial and fungal to be. It's hard because
conference after the Fed others. We are all going to "We recorded high losses pathogens; pesticides; and again, we don't have
have to grab a shovel and in the summer of 2019 on poor nutrition. All of these historical data on those
meeting and then again pitch in to fill it. the other hand," said threats can be exacerbated aspects either. So, generally,
Steinhauer, who is also a by weather patterns and we say our goal is to
during his Congressional post-doctoral researcher in poor management practices, improve honey bee health."
the entomology department experts say.
testimony, he reiterated that at the University of
Maryland. "And when we dig According to Steinhauer,
millions of Americans will Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS deeper into beekeeper weather anomalies best
News business analyst. A former categories, we realized it explain the unexpected
become permanently was mostly large sale results from the latest
options trader and CIO of an migratory beekeepers that survey.
unemployed from this crisis, investment advisory firm, she seemed to suffer the most
that summer." "We have heard
as the companies they used welcomes comments and anecdotally from various
questions at askjill@ The Bee Informed sources that spring 2019
to work for go out of Partnership's survey results was particularly late and
jillonmoney.com. Check her don't offer a colony-by- wet, slowing a lot of the
business or their old jobs are website at www.jillonmoney.com colony autopsy report, but development of colonies
the questionnaires and queen rearing early in
eliminated. And while the distributed to beekeepers the year, which meant
do inquire about the colonies did not grow as
pandemic impacts all suspected cause of colony strongly as you would have In addition to continuing
losses. wanted," she said. to collect data on colony
Americans, it does not do so losses, Steinhauer and other
"We ask beekeepers their Despite alarmist stories honey bee researchers are
equally. Powell underscored, opinion as to what caused about bee losses, honey working on ways to combat
their colonies to be lost, but bees aren't on the verge of the honey bee's biggest
"The rise in joblessness has Tune in to Happenings it is rather subjective, and extinction. Bee keepers are threats, including pests,
Q&A/AM1050 WLIP on mostly indicative of what usually able to replenish pathogens, pesticides and
been especially severe for Wednesday, July 8th at the beekeepers perceive are their colony stocks via hive poor nutrition.
splitting and other
lower wage workers, women, 12:30 when Jill management techniques to
Schlesinger returns to replace annual colony
African Americans and losses. Still, there is plenty of
the show. evidence that both wild and
Hispanics." managed bees are facing a
litany of environmental
The pandemic is laying bare threats. "Each of those can affect
income inequality that honey bees directly, and
already existed. US median "Some level of colony each of those impact the
household income was turnover is normal, but the effects of the others,"
$63,179 in 2018, the most question is how much is Steinhauer said. "Nutrient
normal and how much is deprived bees have lower
too much," Steinhauer said. capabilities to detoxify
pesticides; infected bees will
The Bee Informed not collect as much food
Partnership was largely from their environment. It is
started to help answer that all a vicious circle where
one stressor makes it
harder for bees to resist the
others."

Research suggests that

when bees have access to a

greater diversity of plants

and live in generally

healthier ecosystems,

they're better able to fight

off parasites and resist

disease.

"There is no single culprit
which means there is no
single solution. But if we
generally improve the
environment our bees -- and
we -- live in, it might help
more than the bees
themselves," Steinhauer
said.

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disability or die from a less processed meats
stroke? (bacon, sausage, deli meat) While a handful of small
and had fewer alcoholic
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grams a day. A cup of
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grams. Switch from a lower-
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Choose a snack of grapes
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-- can lower women's risk instead of a cookie. All
This delicious dish is simple enough for for stroke. these little decisions add up 2019 in the journal
to healthy lifestyle changes.
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nearly 60,000 women, who Take a 30-minute walk,
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It seems to me that cook and entertain this splashes of white wine and old at the start of the study. break while working from peppermint oil capsule
home. Run up your stairs, if
people who love to cook at year, I'd like to share a cream - transform the They were followed for 26 you have them at home. (enteric-coated) or a
Exercise doesn't have to be
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more about including it in
separate styles of recipes is equally welcome and easy surprisingly elegant. The quitting smoking, being your daily consciousness. the eight-week trial, there
It's never too late to get
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come the everyday dishes serve it to your loved ones spooned over the pork, minutes (or more) a day abdominal pain or overall

that they make week after on a weeknight or present which gains its own bright and losing weight were symptoms in either group.

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food they can cook quickly cider sauce. assembled elements add up a 36% lower risk of
and easily with minimal fuss. to a dish that looks like ischemic stroke. Ischemic is constipation. A low-
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pork loin and ask the healthy diet, the Charlyn Fargo is a
registered dietitian with SIU
I think, however, that the butcher in your it a recipe I hope you'll participants lowered their Med School in Springfield, Ill.
For comments or questions,
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contact her at
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PORK MEDALLIONS ON Makes 12 muffins • Combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients, mixing until well
APPLE COMPOTE WITH 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed incorporated. Fold in the diced strawberries.
BLACK PEPPER CIDER SAUCE 1/4 cup warm water • Fill the muffin cups with the batter, and bake for 20 minutes,
1 3/4 cup whole-wheat pastry flour until edges are lightly browned.
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For the black pepper cider sauce: 1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup (250 mL) good-quality canned chicken stock or broth, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda Per muffin: 165 calories; 2 grams protein; 25 grams carbohydrates;
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2 tablespoons apple cider jelly or apple jelly 1/3 cup oil (coconut, olive or avocado) milligrams sodium.
1/2 cup (125 mL) heavy cream 1/2 cup maple syrup
1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 medium banana, mashed
1 tablespoon crushed black peppercorns, plus extra to taste 1 tablespoon vanilla
2 teaspoon white vinegar
For the apple compote: 2 cups strawberries, diced
2 pounds (1 kg) large pippin or Granny Smith apples
1 tablespoon unsalted butter • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2 teaspoons apple cider jelly or apple jelly
1/4 cup (60 mL) dry white wine • Lightly oil a muffin tin, or use muffin liners. In a small bowl,
1/2 cup (125 mL) heavy cream combine flaxseed and water, and mix well. Set aside to thicken.
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper • In a large mixing bowl, combine whole-wheat pastry flour, rolled
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix, and then set aside.

For the pork medallions: • Add oil, maple syrup, mashed banana, vanilla and vinegar to the
1 1/2 pounds (750 g) pork loin, cut into 8 equal medallions bowl with the flaxseed mixture, and mix well.
1 to 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Kosher salt Calorie counts IT’S SHOWTIME!
Freshly ground black pepper on menus may save
1 to 2 tablespoons vegetable oil billions in Only 2 comedians have
1 to 2 tablespoons unsalted butter healthcare costs received standing ovations at
Finely chopped fresh Italian parsley, for garnish the Kenosha Comedy Club:
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• First, prepare the sauce: In a productivity and other Scott, aka Mr. Showtime, who
10-inch (25-cm) skillet, requirements for menus in costs, according to the returns to Kenosha with his
combine the stock or broth study recently published in unique Vegas style show.
and the jelly. Over medium- U.S. restaurant chains could the journal Circulation: Once you see David Scott, you
high heat, simmer briskly Cardiovascular Quality and will never forget him.
until the liquid reduces to 1/2 save tens of thousands of Outcomes.
cup (125 mL), stirring With your safety in mind, we
frequently to take care that lives and billions of dollars "Prior to COVID-19, have moved the Comedy Club
the sugar in the jelly doesn't Americans were relying on to the large ballroom to
burn along the side of the pan. Pour in the cream and simmer in health care and other restaurants for one in five achieve social distancing.
briefly, just until the sauce thickens.Whisk in the butter and calories, on average. Most
crushed peppercorns to taste. Cover and keep warm. costs, a new study claims. likely, we will come to rely July 3rd at 8pm
• For the compote, peel, core, and quarter the apples, then on them again. Our study July 4th at 7 & 9pm
cut into thin slices. In a 12-inch (30-cm) skillet, melt the Researchers created a shows that menu calorie
butter over high heat.Add the apples, saute briefly, and then model to assess what would labeling may prevent RRee--OOppeenniinngg
reduce the heat to medium and continue cooking, stirring happen if the labeling rule meaningful disease and save WWiitthh aa
occasionally, until the apples are soft.Add the jelly and wine led to moderate calorie billions of dollars in BBAANNGG!!
and stir until the jelly melts.Add the cream and stir until the reductions among 1 million healthcare costs," said co-
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• To prepare the medallions, first lightly dust them all over Between 2018, when the nutrition science and policy SR070220
with the flour and season to taste with salt and pepper. Over law went into effect, and at Tufts University in
medium-high heat, heat 1 or 2 heavy skillets with enough 2023, healthier menu Boston.
cooking surface to hold the medallions in a single layer choices could prevent
without crowding.Add 1 tablespoon each of oil and butter to 14,698 new cases of heart Based on prior studies of
each skillet, and swirl to coat the cooking surface.Add the disease -- including 1,575 food labeling, the model
pork medallions and saute until golden-brown, 3 to 4 minutes deaths -- and 21,522 new suggested that calorie
per side. type 2 diabetes cases, the counts on menus would
• To serve, mound the compote on 4 heated plates.Arrange study concluded. Healthier result in 7 percent fewer
two medallions on top of the compote on each plate. Spoon a menu choices could add calories eaten during an
little sauce over and around the medallions. Garnish with 8,749 years of life, in good average restaurant meal.
parsley, and serve immediately. health.
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Capturing summer

memories

by Meridith Jumisko

If you're venturing out of districts, signature dishes of Meridith Jumisko is through your still a lot to see and do Twitter, Instagram, and
the house this summer, be local restaurants, or Public Relations Director YouTube for the latest
on the lookout for great sunrises over Lake neighborhood, of here! Check out our scoop!
photo opportunities. The Michigan. Submit photos of at the Kenosha Area
ongoing Picture Your your family posing beside a Convention & Visitors handwritten thank you website VisitKenosha.com – Please remember to
Kenosha Photo Contest, mural on the side of a Bureau. Contact her at maintain social distancing
sponsored by the Kenosha building or next to a [email protected] or notes, of at-home haircuts, and sign up for our Visit when in public and also be
Area Convention & Visitors sculpture in the Sculpture respectful of the safety
Bureau, is an opportunity Walk. And we can never drop her a tweet of flowers you received, or Kenosha Monthly restrictions that individual
for you to show visitors have too many Southport @MJ_Kenosha places are setting.
what a wonderful place the Lighthouse or North Pier of a food delivery you Newsletter – to stay on top
Kenosha Area is, no matter Lighthouse photos! favorite spaces, places, food,
the season. and fun. Then use the ordered from a local of attraction, dining,
Digital photos may be #KenoshaFun hashtag to
We are always building submitted online in a few share your framed photos restaurant. shopping, and event
our photo library, to use in quick steps. To enter the with us on social media.
our online and print contest, log on to the Note, the frame also While this isn't a typical updates. Also follow Visit
marketing efforts. Photos Kenosha Area Convention doubles as a magnet! Kenosha summer, there is
help draw tourists to the & Visitors Bureau's website Kenosha on Facebook,
community. Tourism, in at VisitKenosha.com (look If you've been specifically
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impact on the local the page). In early January, feel free to share those
economy. The photos all photos submitted during photos with the Kenosha
should be taken at a public 2020 will be judged. The History Center so that
place in Kenosha County. individuals who submit the future generations can
Think photos of top photos will be awarded learn from these historic
recreational activities, dinner for two at an area times. Some ideas are
landmarks, parks, and restaurant. Photos will be photos of visiting with
attractions. judged based on content family on Zoom or through
and quality. a window instead of in
Some ideas include person, of paper hearts
photos of fishing or sailing Another way to share your family created for
on Lake Michigan, biking on your photos with us is by your front window or a
one of the bike trails, or using an I (Heart) Kenosha business window, of a
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Florida, emerges to talk to shave off. When it was kept
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covering, bandido-style. minute, I don’t know if I
agreed to this,’” he adds.
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him a Nassau Safe that hit harder in some spots
certification from the local than in others also
Chamber of Commerce, but exacerbated issues. “You put
he is also met by glares of those together and we were
contempt from some just primed to see what we
patrons who feel it is are, in fact, now seeing.”
inappropriate for the chef to
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Mr. Pigg’s experience mid-30s, who may
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from the current spike will
Carolina to Texas see truly be lower.

dramatic spikes in COVID-

19 cases and hospitalizations,

causing officials to rein in

reopenings and plead for

residents to wear masks in Adamary Carrillo (left) and Maynor Ochoa, rising seniors at KIPP Austin Collegiate High School, picnic in Mueller Lake Park in Austin,Texas.
“Because we reopened everything, people probably thought that [COVID-19] went away, when in real life ...it was still here,” says Maynor.
crowds. On Monday,
Mirroring trends in
Jacksonville, Florida, Arizona, Florida, and Abbott, and perhaps other to support his reelection the governor “conveyed But sociologists who study
California, hospitalizations in Sun Belt governors “gambled campaign, the on-a-dime- sufficient urgency about the the interplay of behavior and
mandated masks be worn Texas from the virus have on their ability to manage turn in tone and policy in degree to which people had public health say that
tripled since the start of this, and frankly on the fact Texas and Florida suggests to modify their behavior for personal values and risk
indoors and in public spaces June, according to state data, that people would be that Republican governors this phased opening to assessment carry more
with just over 5,500 COVID- compliant and cooperative,” are willing to set politics work.” weight than politics in how
where social distancing isn’t 19 patients as of Saturday. says James Henson, director aside in order to safeguard people respond to public
Last week, the Texas Medical of the Texas Politics Project their publics. “The far-right forces in his health crises – including, in
possible. Center in Houston reported at the University of Texas at party are out there and the South, “an ideological
that its intensive care units Austin.“As of now, that’s not “There is a price to be clearly casting a shadow over reluctance to tell people
“Unfortunately when hit 100% capacity. working out.” paid for being visibly his every policy move,” he what to do,” says Professor
unserious about this stuff, continues. “That’s where Jillson.
[Texas] cracked open that The spikes mean that the and these governors know some of the impetus to open
virus is “becoming more real that,” says Cal Jillson, a up quickly, and some of the “It would be a mistake to
door, everyone took that as a for people,” says Austin political scientist at Southern reluctance to backtrack say that messaging would
resident Larry Tu, stopping to Methodist University in when the numbers started cure this, or if only people
sign that it was safe and get ice cream on Saturday Dallas. moving in the wrong had more information they
with his three children. direction, came from.” would understand more,”
everyone charged through,” In Mueller Lake Park on says Jennifer Reich, author of
Polls show Democratic Saturday, Adamary Carillo Confusion caused by “Calling the Shots: Why
says Angela Clendenin, an nominee Joe Biden with a and Maynor Ochoa, rising pandemic politicking has also Parents Reject Vaccines.”
lead over President Donald seniors at KIPP Austin manifested in disputes “People tend to not just do
assistant professor of The percentage of tests Trump in Republican Sun Collegiate High School, between the governor and what they know but do what
for the virus that come back Belt strongholds, including admit that the virus may have local Democratic officials. feels true. It’s not knowledge
epidemiology and positive has been steadily Texas, Florida, and Georgia. taken a back seat in many The reopening order that leads to perfect health
climbing since May. The Some 55% of Americans people’s minds. superseded any local orders behaviors, but values and a
biostatistics at Texas A&M seven-day positivity rate in disapprove of the president’s that may conflict with it – sense of identity and how
Texas last week was just handling of the virus, while “Especially with the other localities, for example, things work for your own
School of Public Health. At over 13%, compared with 1% 40% approve, according to problems, it took away the couldn’t impose fines or life.”
in New York, the previous poll averages compiled by attention from this,” says penalties on people not
the same time, she adds,“It is U.S. epicenter, with the website FiveThirtyEight. Adamary, noting large wearing face coverings in In Florida’s Nassau
hospitalizations in that state protests against police public. County, Mr. Pigg says he finds
really challenging to have to dropping below 1,000 for Governors Abbott and brutality after the killing of comfort in supporting the
the first time last week. DeSantis reversed course George Floyd in Minnesota In mid-June, as cases community, even if patrons
make decisions in that and closed bars just a day on Memorial Day. continued to rise in Bexar get mad when he wears a
after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan County, home to San mask.
environment, especially one Patrick told Fox News, “We “Because we reopened Antonio, county Judge
won’t be going back.” Mr. everything, people probably Nelson Wolff mandated that “I’m going to sound like an
where the disease you’re Abbott also banned tubing thought that everything went local businesses require old hippie, which I’m not, but
and ordered restaurants away, when in real life ... it employees and customers to this now requires empathy
trying to contain and control back to 50% capacity, saying was still here,” adds Maynor. wear masks. The order, he and understanding,
the virus had taken “a said, “may be pushing the respecting each other’s
sometimes makes a sharp dangerous turn” and for In shutting down some legal bounds a little bit.” decisions, helping each other,
Texans to be vigilant. businesses again, Mr. Abbott and being transparent,” says
left turn on you.” is doing what he said he Instead of objecting, as he Mr. Pigg.“The only way to get
Even as President Trump might have to do. But his had done in the past, through it is together.”
The challenges in not just Although only two states has pushed reopening leadership has been Governor Abbott a few days
the South, but also the West, economies, downplayed combative and confusing at later said that Judge Wolff By Patrik Jonsson
suggest that the United have seen declines in cases, mask-wearing, and held the times, adds Professor “finally figured that out.” & Henry Gass
States is entering a “long nation’s first large gathering Henson, and it’s fair to ask if
slog” phase of the pandemic, the spike has put the
pitting personal beliefs and
regional values against what spotlight on states whose
experts say is a growing
imperative for Americans to Republican governors
take responsibility for one
another. ballyhooed their decisions to

reopen ahead of meeting

federal guidelines. They

include Govs. Ron DeSantis

in Florida, Doug Ducey in

“It’s a mystery to many of Arizona, and Greg Abbott in
us what’s going on. ... You
have to think about it with a Texas.
great deal of humility,” says
Michael Osterholm, author An April poll by The Texas
of “Deadliest Enemy: Our Tribune and the University of
War Against Killer Germs.” Texas at Austin found that,
while 66% of Texas voters
“When we did the considered the coronavirus a
national lockdown, we never serious crisis, 72% were
created an expectation of “extremely” or “very”
what it was going to be, concerned about the
other than it was a short- national economy.

By rushing to reopen their

economies, Governor

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