Depending on what source you read, Wisconsin bars may be flooded with traffic or closed.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the state shutdowns were illegal. Bar traffic results vary widely.

Nicks Bar

Brown County

Fox News - Bars Flooded

Fox News reports Wisconsin Bars Flooded with Patrons hours after state Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order.

Nicks Bar in Platteville, Wis., shared a photo on Twitter with the caption: 45 minutes after the bars open in Wisconsin showing the establishment packed with mostly young people, none of whom were wearing masks or observing social distancing.

A photo taken by the Green Bay Press-Gazette showed that the State Street Pub in Green Bay had briefly reopened with about a dozen customers inside after the state Supreme Court ruling. Decorations for St. Patricks Day, the March 17 holiday, remained on display the first day of the reopening. Neither the bartender nor the customers had masks.

But that bars reopening was also short-lived. By Wednesday night, Brown County Health Officer Anna Destree issued a local safer-at-home order to replace the now resolute state rules, requiring all county residents to remain home until at least May 20.

Star Tribune - Rolling the Dice

The Star Tribune reports Bars and other businesses quickly reopen in Wisconsin for now.

Ted Mosby couldnt help but feel conflicted Thursday as he finished his drink at Jonesys Local Bar and Grill a day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court quashed Gov. Tony Evers stay-at-home order.

The virus is real. We supposedly havent reached our peak yet. Thats the scary part, said Mosby, a carpenter and retired EMT worker. Well reach it sooner now that were open.

But its also good, he admitted, to once again sit at a bar and quench his thirst after work. Im rolling the dice. People are getting antsy. Theyre stir-crazy.

At Hop and Barrel Brewing, half the tables had been removed and as well as half the seating at those tables that remained. No one will be allowed to sit at the bar when it reopens Friday. Workers will wear masks and gloves.

At Abigail Page Antique Mall, owner Linda Weiser is allowing only five customers in at a time. Everyone must wear a mask. She offers them a pump of hand sanitizer for free, a mask for a $1 and gloves for 50 cents.

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CNN Reports Wisconsin bars reopen after court throws out stay-at-home order -- some with new rules

Seven customers showed up at BK's Bar in Shullsburg, Abby Gilbertson-Cottington, who owns the bar with her husband, told CNN. Most patrons stayed at least 6 feet apart, except for one couple who she believed may have been married.

The owner of Limanski's Pub, Kathy Goedde, was watching the news when she saw the order was overturned. "I was pretty happy about that," she told WTMJ. She's limiting capacity to a third of what the bar could hold and reminding patrons to keep social distance, WTMJ reported.

This is It!, an LGBTQ+ bar in Milwaukee, posted a note on its Facebook page telling customers it wasn't ready to reopen just yet. "We, like you, want life to return to normal, but we will not force any actions or decisions that compromise health and safety," the post said.

Flood?

Perhaps there was a flood of traffic, if a dozen or so people at several bars constitutes a flood.

My concern is the complete lack of any attempts at social distancing at two of the bars. Those people are begging for another wave of infections and another crackdown.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Lockdowns Are Illegal

Yesterday I noted Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Lockdowns Are Illegal

Conservative justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers monthslong stay-at-home order in a ruling released Wednesday.

The 4-3 decision marked the first time a states highest court has overturned a stay-at-home order amid the coronavirus pandemic and sided with Republican leaders who argued the governors administration had overstepped its legal authority.

Bizarre Ruling

In a bizarre ruling the Supreme Court ruled that the State could not order closings because it constituted Tyranny, yet the court allowed local politicians to do the same.

As a result, Madison and Milwaukee immediately reimposed the lockdowns,

The result is 72 counties doing their own thing,

Partisan Judges

We can debate the case all day, without changings anyone's mind on what should be done.

But this seems like a half-assed decision that will please no one, or perhaps half the people, half the time, depending on the county.

One question lingers: Why are there elected partisan judges in the first place?

Mish

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The West Fargo Public Library remains closed to the public at this time.

Library leadership is working closely with fellow City of West Fargo departments to devise plans for library services. More information on any library services can be found at http://www.westfargolibrary.org.

Curbside pickup started May 11. The West Fargo Library now offers no-contact curbside material pickup. Patrons will be able to pick up held items including books, audiobooks, DVDs and music CDs.

The online Summer Reading Program launches June 1. The Summer Reading Program runs from June 1 to July 31. This program allows readers of all ages to participate.

Library staff are also available by appointment to assist patrons with job search or unemployment questions or those who need assistance filling out the 2020 census.

Other programs:

10:30 a.m., Mondays: Wiggle Worms Baby Storytime with Ms. Brittany

Wiggle Worms Baby Storytime is an activity for infants through two-year-old children and their parents. Each session features multiple book readings, songs, rhymes and a sensory activity. Each video is added to the WFPL YouTube page.

10:30 a.m., Wednesdays: Preschool Explorer Storytime with Ms. Brittany

Preschool Explorers Storytime targets children aged 3 5 and features multiple books, songs and activities. Each video is added to the WFPL YouTube page after airing.

11 a.m., Wednesdays: Childrens Craft with Ms. Brittany: Each Wednesday, following Preschool Explorers Storytime, Ms. Brittany will share a craft related to her storytime that children can do at home.

West Fargo Public Librarys Online Book Club is a program for adults aimed to keep readers engaged with other book lovers. Interested patrons can join the Facebook group. The group reads one book per month. Discussion questions are posted weekly. The May novel will be "The Sacrament" by Olaf Olafsson.

E-cards: E-cards allow those who do not have a library card to gain access to digital books and media, research databases, online learning opportunities and more.

For questions, email West Fargo Public Library staff at askus@westfargolibrary.org or via Facebook.

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Washington Nationals read children's books online as part of a program with Prince Georges County Memorial Library System.

You can now have World Championship baseball players read to your children on demand.

The Washington Nationals have teamed with the Prince Georges County Memorial Library System to post a series of online videos where players, such as World Series MVP Stephen Strasburg, read childrens stories to young Prince Georgians or anyone with an internet connection.

The Imagine Your Story partnership between the two organizations is part of the PGCMLS virtual Summer @ Your Library program.

One video shows Strasburg reading Adam Wallaces How to Catch a Dinosaur.

Another video features two-time All-Star Ryan Zimmerman reading Theres No Place Like Space: All About the Solar System from the Dr. Seuss Learning Library Series.

Both videos, along with other ones featuring the reading skills of teammate Will Harris and reading activities showcasing the Nats Sean Doolittle and Anbal Snchez can be found on the teams website.

Anyone in the county can participate in the library systems Summer @ Your Library program, which challenges people to read 30 minutes a day, among other activities.

The program ends Aug. 21.

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With Disney parks and theaters around the world closed for the moment, now's the perfect time to start growing your digital movie library. Right now, some of Disney's best animated movies are 50% off at digital retailers like iTunes and Vudu so you can add to your collection at a discount. Iconic films like Aladdin and Cinderella regularly sell for up to $19.99, though right now they're on sale along with several other Disney greats for just $9.99 each.

Most of the films on sale at iTunes can be found here. If you're not accustomed to using iTunes, you should know that any movies or shows you buy there can be viewed using the Apple TV app, and the app is available on more than just Apple devices. You can download it on streaming devices and some smart TVs for instance.

Any Disney fanatic should take this opportunity to add some of these films to their collection if they're not there already, as we rarely see Disney films on sale for this price. While other films may drop as low as $5 occasionally, that never happens for Disney films like these. On the sale page, you'll find movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, and Moana.

Over at Vudu, you can find The Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty discounted by 50% as well. Even more family-friendly films are on sale for $9.99 right now, including live-action Disney movies like The Jungle Book and Maleficent.

Memorial Day is less than a week away! It's time to start taking note of all the sales and deals that will be going live in a few days, and luckily for you we've compiled the best Memorial Day deals to help speed your research up a bit. Many offers are even live right now.

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Google is rethinking what headphone controls look and how you interact with them in a new project involving capacitive fibers. Aside from just headphones, Google is also adding this tech to things like speaker cords and hoodie drawstrings.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave us a few choice quotes about the status of the company's hardware division, including Pixels and unfortunately it didn't fill me with confidence.

We're rounding up the best games, free and premium, you should be playing today.

If you're looking for some games to either play with the family or trust your kids to play on their own, you've come to the right place! Check out these awesome titles!

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THE CHATHAMS During the COVID-19 shutdown, the Library of the Chathams at 214 Main St. is offering a variety of online services for children, teens and adults, Library Director Karen Brodsky said.

By visiting the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org, one can obtain digital resources including e-books, films, audio, and magazines, Brodsky noted. Weekly online classes, book groups, story hours and other informational programs can also be found on the librarys webpage.

Brodsky advised that residents of the Chathams who do not have a library card may obtain one by emailing mycard@chathamlibrary.org. Please join us as we social distance together, Brodsky invited.

Container Gardening: Master Gardener Marta McDowell will present Container Gardening for Vegetables and More in a livestream lecture at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, May 21; for information, visit the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

Do you have limited space but want to grow some vegetables, herbs or flowers this year? Container gardening may be your answer, said Deborah Fitzgerald, head of Adult Services at the library.

In this live presentation with a question-and-answer session, Fitzgerald said, we will discuss which containers work best, what soil should one use, where you should put your containers, which varieties of plants work best, how to take care of your containers, and how to harvest and store your crops.

Marta McDowell lives, writes and gardens in Chatham. She teaches at the New York Botanical Garden and is one of the founders of the Chatham Community Garden. She became a master gardener in 2009.

Preventing Back Pain: Ricardo Costa, owner of Results Physical Therapy in Chatham Township, will talk about preventing back pain while working from home in a livestream lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 27; for information, visit the librarys website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

Costa earned a doctoral degree in physical therapy in 2006 from Seton Hall University, South Orange. Since that time he has been treating patients in Morris and Union counties. Costa also serves as an Seton Hall University.

Said Fitzgerald, Ricardo prides himself on considering each of his patients individual needs to tailor their treatment. He is here to help you get back to the things you enjoy doing.

For information, visit the Library of the Chathams website at http://www.chathamlibrary.org.

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DeKALB The DeKalb Public Library will offer free virtual events through Zoom meetings and Facebook Live.

Virtual Medicare 101 will be offered 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 25. Licensed Medicare sales representative Carol Cherry will discuss Medicare insurance plans. Please register for this event at dkpl.org. Once you register you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the Zoom meeting, a phone number to call into the Zoom meeting and a password to the meeting. Join the Zoom meeting 5 minutes prior to the program, especially if you havent used Zoom before, as this session is limited to the first 10 people.

Virtual Stories at Home will be held on Facebook Live from 10 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 26, and Thursday, May 27. The live story time will feature books being read and songs. To watch the programs, join the DKPL Stories at Home Facebook group.

Wonder Woman will lead a virtual superhero story time on Facebook Live from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, May 27. The story time will feature singing, engaging storytelling, and the characters will respond to your childs comments by name. To watch story time, join the DeKalb Library + Princess Story Time Event Series Facebook group. All attending families are automatically entered to win a 10-minute Parties with Character diamond package video call with the story time character directly after the event. Superhero and Princess Story Times are presented by Parties with Character.

The library will host a virtual anime and manga club for adults from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 28 via Zoom. During the meeting, the group will play Japanese Salesman, a game where you have to sell odd Japanese products without knowing what they are, and watch Arte. Register online for the event at http://www.dkpl.org.com. Once you register you will receive a confirmation email with a link to the Zoom meeting, a phone number to call into the Zoom meeting and a password to the meeting. Join the Zoom meeting 5 minutes prior to the program, especially if you havent used Zoom before, as this session is limited to the first 10 people. This program is intended for adults.

For additional information about the librarys upcoming virtual events, contact Samantha at samanthah@dkpl.org.

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Inverness public library.

High Life Highland (HLH) libraries have been given top marks as people turn to the charitys online resources during lockdown.

While library buildings are closed people can still access a rage of materials and activities online including Bookbug sessions, e-books, audio books and newspapers.

Bookbug is a national programme for sharing stories, songs and rhymes for young people, with the number of views of sessions rising to 6500 last month from just under 2000 in March.

Pressreader, the online newspaper service, has more than doubled the number of views in April in comparison with the same month last year an increase of 30,000 views.

The number of uses of e-books through the HLH library service has also doubled compared to last year.

One parent, Davina Seaton, said: As you can imagine this has been a very difficult time trying to provide home school and nursery for a three-year-old and a five-year-old who are at different stages of learning.

"The Bookbug sessions online help to bridge that gap for a short time and provide relief and enjoyment for all of us in our household, as we try to watch them as a family.

"Both my children benefit as they are learning whilst having fun and the burden of teaching is lifted from myself. Thank you for helping to bring these vital services to the Highlands during this difficult, stressful and often scary time.

Julie Corcoran, principal libraries manager for High Life Highland, said: It's great to hear that so many people are using and benefitting from our online library services at the moment.

"By using online channels, weve been able to keep many of our services available for people in Highland communities during this unprecedented period. Well keep adapting the range of resources available, as new options become available.

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Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940) is a retired American journalist and former lead news anchor for CNN from 1980 until his retirement in March 2001.

Shaw was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, including stints in Hawaii and at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina, where in 1962 he was a "Message Center" specialist, achieving the rank of Corporal, E-4. He exhibited a passionate interest in the print media, clipping articles from newspapers, and often traveled on weekends to Washington, D.C. He cultivated an acquaintance with Walter Cronkite and had an interest in baseball.[1][2]

Shaw began his broadcasting career as an anchor and reporter for WNUS in Chicago. He then worked as a reporter for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in Chicago, moving later to Washington as the White House correspondent. He worked as a correspondent in the Washington Bureau of CBS News from 1971 to 1977. In 1977, he moved to ABC News as Latin American correspondent and bureau chief before becoming the Capitol Hill Senior Correspondent. He left ABC in 1980 to move to CNN as co-anchor of its PrimeNews broadcast, anchoring from Washington, D.C..

Shaw is widely known for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. Knowing that Dukakis opposed the death penalty, Shaw asked him if he would support an irrevocable death penalty for a man who hypothetically raped and murdered Dukakis's wife. Dukakis responded that he would not; critics felt he framed his response too legalistically and logically, and did not address it sufficiently on a personal level. Kitty Dukakis, among other public figures, found the question inflammatory and unwarranted at a presidential debate. Several journalists also on the panel with Shaw, including Ann Compton, Andrea Mitchell, and Margaret Garrard Warner, expressed an interest in leaving Dukakis's name out of the question.[3]

He is also remembered for his reporting on the 1991 Gulf War.[4] Reporting with CNN correspondents John Holliman and Peter Arnett from the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, he found shelter under a desk as he reported cruise missiles flying past his window. He also made frequent trips back and forth from the hotel's bomb shelter. While describing the situation in Baghdad, he famously stated "Clearly I've never been there, but this feels like we're in the center of hell."

He moderated the October 2000 vice-presidential debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman.

Shaw co-anchored CNN's Inside Politics from 1992 until he retired from CNN in 2001. He has still occasionally appeared on CNN, including in May 2005 when a plane flew into restricted air space in Washington, D.C. He also co-anchored Judy Woodruff's last broadcast on CNN in June 2005. Shaw noted that after 41 years in the business, given what he missed in his personal life, the cost was not worth it.[5]

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Bernard L. Shaw, a former San Francisco police officer who became the bodyguard and husband of Patricia Hearst, the heiress who was abducted in 1974 by a leftist guerrilla organization and then imprisoned for crimes she was accused of committing on its behalf, died on Dec. 17 at his home in Garrison, N.Y. He was 68.

The Hearst Corporation said he died after a long illness but did not specify the cause.

Mr. Shaw gained a kind of reflected celebrity through his association with Ms. Hearst, which the news media saw as an unlikely union of the upper and working classes.

They met in 1976 after she was released on bail pending an appeal of her conviction in a bank robbery, which was carried out with her help, prosecutors said by a radical group that called itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. Mr. Shaw was one of about 20 bodyguards hired by the Hearst family.

Ms. Hearst was 19 when she was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif., on Feb. 4, 1974. She said in a tape recording that April that she had willingly adopted their cause, but her lawyers later said her captors had physically and sexually abused her and brainwashed her into joining them.

Ms. Hearst was also accused of spraying a Los Angeles street with gunfire to help one of her kidnappers escape after he had robbed a sporting goods store. She was taken into custody more than a year after six Symbionese Liberation Army members were killed in a shootout with the Los Angeles police.

After the United States Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal, she was returned to prison, where Mr. Shaw visited her four times a week. His first marriage was dissolved in 1977. President Jimmy Carter commuted Ms. Hearsts sentence in 1979, and she and Mr. Shaw married in a brief but well-publicized Episcopal ceremony at a naval base in San Francisco Bay.

Bernard Lee Shaw was born in San Francisco on Sept. 3, 1945. He attended the University of San Francisco and served in the Army. He began working for the Hearst Corporation in 1983 and was Hearsts vice president for corporate security at his death.

Ms. Hearst, now Patricia Hearst Shaw, survives him, as do their two daughters, Gillian Hearst Simonds and Lydia Hearst-Shaw; two children from his previous marriage, Thomas and Heather Shaw; a sister, Joan Carmignani; and a granddaughter.

Ms. Hearst Shaw said her family had been pessimistic about her long-term chances of staying with Mr. Shaw. My parents gave us a Sears vacuum cleaner as a wedding present, she told Conan OBrien in 1996. They thought it wouldnt last.

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Pygmalion, romance in five acts by George Bernard Shaw, produced in German in 1913 in Vienna. It was performed in England in 1914, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle. The play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system.

Henry Higgins, a phonetician, accepts a bet that simply by changing the speech of a Cockney flower seller he will be able, in six months, to pass her off as a duchess. Eliza undergoes grueling training. When she successfully passes in high societyhaving in the process become a lovely young woman of sensitivity and tasteHiggins dismisses her abruptly as a successfully completed experiment. Eliza, who now belongs neither to the upper class, whose mannerisms and speech she has learned, nor to the lower class, from which she came, rejects his dehumanizing attitude.

The play became famous as a motion picture in 1938 and later as the stage musical My Fair Lady (1956), with a musical score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. A 1964 film version of the musical featured Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.

George Bernard Shaw: International importance

and most popular play, is Pygmalion (performed 1913). It was claimed by Shaw to be a didactic drama about phonetics, and its antiheroic hero, Henry Higgins, is a phonetician, but the play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system. The play is about the training Higgins

Henry Higgins

>Pygmalion (performed 1913). The story was filmed in 1938, starring Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins, and was adapted as the stage musical My Fair Lady in 1956 (filmed 1964), with Rex Harrison as the professor (on both stage and screen).

Eliza Doolittle

>Pygmalion (performed 1913; filmed 1938; adapted as the stage musical My Fair Lady, 1956; filmed 1964).

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