Local boxing legend Junior Albers puts up his dukes.
Born in 1951, Wilfred Albers Jr. learned to fend for himself at the dinner table as one of nine children. Then, as a Yurok tribal member growing up in Eureka, he had to be tough and prove himself, sometimes with his fists. In high school in the 1960s there was a tradition where teenagers would come to a gathering for a fight to prove who was the toughest kid from the toughest school. Wilfred Junior Albers was a target. According to his little brother Ernie, Junior just wanted to take his frustrations out with gloves on in the boxing ring.
As
Western Stars comes to a close, the countrypolitan orchestral swoops found throughout the album are replaced by gentle acoustic fingerpicking, plaintive piano, muted pedal steel guitar and mallet-struck tom-toms. And the weather-beaten men who inhabit the record are replaced by a long-shuttered motel, outside of which Springsteen recalls an affair he once had there and drinks to its memory.
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Much of the material on
Letter to You was inspired by the 2018 death of George Theiss, the singer of Springsteen s first band, the Castiles. But it s not hard to hear the record s lovely final track, I ll See You in My Dreams, and think Springsteen is also singing about late E Street Band members Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici. As with
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Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
So says Terry Malloy, the longshoreman who testifies against his
union in “On the Waterfront.” The line, said by Marlon Brando, resonates all
through the picture because the story is about conscience and so is the story
behind the story. This was the film made in 1954 by Elia Kazan after he agreed
to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, named former
associates who were involved with the Communist Party and became a pariah in
left-wing circles.
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“On
the Waterfront” was, among other things, Kazan s justification for his decision
to testify. In the film, when a union boss shouts, “You ratted on us, Terry,”
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ROCHESTER, Minn. U.S. public health officials have reported that Black communities are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with higher infection and mortality rates than the general population. These disparities relate to the prevalence of underlying chronic diseases, and social and economic inequality, according to Mayo experts. Now as the number of COVID-19 cases across the U.S. surge, Mayo Clinic researchers are working closely with Black churches on disparities in emergency preparedness and providing access to culturally relevant, evidence-based health information. The early results of this research were published Thursday, Dec. 10, in
Preventing Chronic Disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s (CDC) public health journal.