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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2013


A NOTE TO READERS OF RIPPLE IN STILLWATER - THANK YOU


Karl Bremer, journalist, photographer, friend and the proprietor of this blog
passed away January 15, 2013 from complications related to pancreatic cancer.

Ripple in Stillwater will remain on the web as an archive and resource for
reporters, historians and anyone who shares Karl's passion for music, art, the
environment and the beautiful St. Croix Valley.

We want to thank the many loyal readers of Ripple in Stillwater.

If this is your first time here, if you just happen to be here via a search or
link from another website, Thank you for stopping by. Please stay awhile, read
and enjoy Karl's many well-crafted articles and photos. If you find something
here worth mentioning elsewhere, please credit the author and link back to the
source. Thanks again.

Articles About and Tributes to Karl Bremer:

Stillwater Gazette: "Local blogger Karl Bremer dies"- Avery Cropp

Firedog Lake: "Ave Atque Vale, Karl Bremer" - Phoenix Woman

Pioneer Press: "Obituary: Stillwater journalist Karl Bremer dies" by Mary
Divine.

Star Tribune: "Obituary: Blogger Karl Bremer kept Stillwater on its toes" Kevin
Giles.


Stillwater Patch: "Ripple in Stillwater Writer Karl Bremer Dies" - Shawn
Hogendorf

FDL: "Come Saturday Morning: Here’s to You, Karl Bremer" - Phoenix Woman
(February 18, 2012)

Star Tribune: "Stillwater-based political blogger keeps ire stoked" - Kevin
Giles (February 20, 2012).







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MONDAY, JULY 30, 2012


BAYFRONT BLUES FESTIVAL CALENDAR BY RIPPLE IN STILLWATER AUTHOR KARL BREMER NOW
AVAILABLE




The first-ever Bayfront Blues Festival calendar is hot off the press, featuring
16 months of Bayfront Blues Fest images by award-winning Ripple in Stillwater
photographer Karl Bremer.


The 12" x 18" calendar covers September 2012 – December 2013 and includes
Bremer’s images from more than two decades of Minnesota’s largest music
festival. Featured blues musicians are: Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Koko Taylor,
Trudy Lynn, Dr. John, Lonnie Brooks, Cyril Neville, Sonny Landreth, Marcia Ball,
Alison Scott, Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia Copeland, Paul Metsa, Taj Mahal, Anne
Harris, Big Walter Smith, Scott Graves, Luther Allison, Bernard Allison, Ruthie
Foster, Harold Tremblay, Sugar Blue, Bobby Rush, John Mooney, Jimmy Thackery,
and Dickey Betts.

To order, send $17.45 ($14.95 calendar and $2.50 S/H) via Paypal for Paypal
account saintcroix@aol.com. Or, send a check or money order for $17.45 to: Karl
Bremer, 10949 Stonebridge Tr., Stillwater, MN 55082.

The calendar also is available at Valley Bookseller in Stillwater.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012


BAYFRONT BLUES FEST CALENDAR




The first-ever Bayfront Blues Festival calendar is hot off the press, featuring
16 months of Bayfront Blues Fest images by award-winning Ripple in Stillwater
photographer Karl Bremer.

The 12" x 18" calendar covers September 2012 – December 2013 and includes
Bremer’s images from more than two decades of Minnesota’s largest music
festival. Featured blues musicians are: Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Koko Taylor,
Trudy Lynn, Dr. John, Lonnie Brooks, Cyril Neville, Sonny Landreth, Marcia Ball,
Alison Scott, Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia Copeland, Paul Metsa, Taj Mahal, Anne
Harris, Big Walter Smith, Scott Graves, Luther Allison, Bernard Allison, Ruthie
Foster, Harold Tremblay, Sugar Blue, Bobby Rush, John Mooney, Jimmy Thackery,
and Dickey Betts.

To order, send $17.45 ($14.95 calendar and $2.50 S/H) via Paypal for Paypal
account saintcroix@aol.com. Or, send a check or money order for $17.45 to: Karl
Bremer, 10949 Stonebridge Tr., Stillwater, MN 55082.

The calendar also is available at Valley Bookseller in Stillwater.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2012


MONEY LAUNDERER AND GOP DONOR FRANK VENNES JR. NETS RIPPLE IN STILLWATER TWO
MORE AWARDS


Felon-on-the-run Frank Vennes Jr.

By Karl Bremer
 
Ripple in Stillwater collected two more Minnesota Society for Professional
Journalists Page One Awards June 19, bringing to three the total number of
MN-SPJ awards this blog has won in less than two years online.
 
In the online category, I won First Place for “Best News Portrait” for my photo
of convicted money launderer and GOP donor Frank Vennes Jr. as he ran through
the streets of St. Paul trying to flee from my lens following a federal court
appearance in September 2011. After chasing him for two blocks, I was able to
capture the fleet-footed felon on the run before he ducked into a bank building.
 
For the second year in a row, I won in the special “Best Use of Public Records”
category, where media of all types and sizes compete against one another. This
year, my three-part series “Lawyers, Guns & Money: An Inside Look at the
Political Pardon of Frank Vennes Jr.”, won Third Place.

In addition to the two 2012 SPJ Page One Awards, I won a second place 2011 Page
One Award for “Best Use of Public Records” for my series on recently-captured
fraudster and GOP donor "Bobby Thompson." And this spring, City Pages voted
Ripple in Stillwater “Best Local Blog” in its Best of the Twin Cities 2012
competition.

A tip o' the hat to fraudsters and Ponzimen everywhere! As long as you keep
plying your slippery trades in these parts, Ripple in Stillwater will be there
to cast a light upon you.

Photo Copyright ©2011 Karl Bremer



 
 

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012


SOMETIMES YOU'VE JUST GOTTA LEAVE THE PLANET


Like a fly, Venus crawls across the upper-right area of the
setting sun's face June 5.


By Karl Bremer

Here at Ripple in Stillwater World Headquarters in Stillwater Township, we
sometimes tire of the daily grind of boondoggle bridges, fraudsters,
money-grubbing politicians and other cancers, and prefer instead to focus on the
beauty of the visual image rather than the printed word.

Last night, we (me and my trusty Nikon D300) turned our gaze skyward to record
the last transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun in our
lifetime. This happens when the orbit of Venus passes directly between Earth and
the sun. The last time it occurred, in 2004, it was cloudy in these parts; it
won't happen again until 2117.

Using the same technique I used to shoot the partial solar eclipse May 20 (see
below), I zoomed in on our neighboring planet as it made its historic trek
across the setting sun at dusk last night. It's the little black dot in the
upper-right area of the image above.

Venus kept us entertained earlier this spring as it danced across the twilight
sky with Jupiter for several weeks (also see below).

Look for more images from the award-winning lens of Ripple in Stillwater in the
future.

A partially-eclipsed sun sets on Stillwater Township May 20.




Venus (bright star above left side of pergola) performed a
celestial spring ballet March 15 with Jupiter (brighter star
to upper-right of Venus).




All photos by Karl Bremer.



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THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012


BUY A WOLF LICENSE TO SAVE A WOLF
















By Karl Bremer


Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Evidently, the Minnesota Deer Hunters
Association and a majority of the Minnesota Legislature—the parties responsible
for ramming a wolf hunting season through the Capitol five years ahead of
schedule.

When the federal government removed gray wolves from the endangered and
threatened species lists in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan in January, the
wolf haters ramped up their bloodthirsty lobbying efforts for a 2012 season to
start shooting them legally for the first time in Minnesota since the 1970s.

The DNR states that “Minnesotans clearly value wolves. Public opinion surveys
and attitudes demonstrated during development of the state's wolf management
plan show people view the animal as ecologically important, scientifically
fascinating, aesthetically attractive, recreationally appealing and significant
for future generations. Only a small minority fear and dislike wolves or believe
Minnesota would be a more desirable place without this apex predator.”

Yet it was that “small minority” that drove the legislature to start killing
wolves this year rather than wait five years to see how the population
stabilized after federal delisting, as the original plan called for. That same
"small minority" has been shooting wolves illegally for decades and is now just
looking for cover for their cowardly deeds. It's one of the few federal crimes
that I hear people--including one state lawmaker--openly admit to committing.

'PENT-UP ENTHUSIASM'

DNR Fish & Wildlife Director Ed Boggess told a legislative panel earlier this
year: “There’s been a pent-up enthusiasm, a pent-up demand to hunt wolves.” It’s
not likely that “enthusiasm” is driven by a sudden popularity of wolf fur among
hunters.  And it’s certainly not for their meat.

The wolf season has little to do with protecting farmers from wolf depredation
of livestock, either; they already are compensated for those losses. It has
equally little to do with population management of wolves. According to the DNR,
Minnesota’s wolf population—the largest in the lower 48 states—has remained
“relatively stable” at around 3,000 for the past decade without a hunting
season.

A total of 6,000 wolf licenses will be made available via lottery (5,400 hunting
and 600 trapping/snaring); 95 percent will be sold to residents and 5 percent to
nonresidents. A quota of 400 wolves will be allowed to be killed during the
season.

So the legal killing of wolves has been signed, sealed and delivered by the
State of Minnesota, and the season is set. Nothing more that can be done about
it, right?

Well, perhaps.

$34 TO SAVE A WOLF?

If you’re willing to invest $34, you can buy a chance on saving one wolf’s life.
Simply enter the lottery for one of the 6,000 licenses—a $30 wolf license must
be purchased to enter the lottery, which costs another $4—and if you win the
right to kill a wolf, don’t exercise it.

There’s nothing that requires you to use a wolf license just because you buy
one. Since there’s a cap on the number of licenses sold, every license that is
won in the lottery but not used reduces the chances that the wolf kill quota set
by the DNR will be reached.

Ordinarily, this might be seen as unwise meddling in a scientifically-based
hunting season. But there is nothing scientific about this wolf hunting season.
It’s a purely political response to satisfy the bloodlust of a vocal minority of
wolf haters. A season on wolves is not necessary to maintain a desirable wolf
population. In fact, the DNR hasn’t even determined what Minnesota’s maximum
wolf population should be, only that it shouldn’t fall below a winter population
of 1,600.

So if you think a season on wolves is one of the most idiotic things to come
down the pike since a mourning dove season, step right up and invest $34 on a
chance to buy a wolf a reprieve from the executioner. It may not stop the
jackpine savages from shooting wolves altogether, but at least you’ll get the
satisfaction of making them work a little harder to "get their wolf."


As a deer hunter who knows the value that wolves provide in culling deer herds
of their unhealthy numbers, among other benefits for the soul, I plan to do just
that.

 

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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012


RIPPLE IN STILLWATER PICKS UP TWO 2012 MINNESOTA SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL
JOURNALISTS AWARDS




By Karl Bremer

Convicted money launderer Frank Vennes Jr.


I’ve been notified by the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists that I
have won two of the organization’s 2012 Page One Awards: one for “Best Use of
Public Records” and one for “Best News Portrait.”

The “Best Use of Public Records” award--the second year in a row Ripple in
Stillwater has won in this category--was for my series “Lawyers, Guns & Money:
An Inside Look at the Political Pardon of Frank Vennes Jr.” The “Best News
Portrait” award was for my photo of convicted money launderer and GOP donor
Frank Vennes Jr. on the run through the streets of St. Paul trying to flee from
my lens after a federal court appearance in September 2011.

In less than two years online, Ripple in Stillwater has racked up three
professional journalism awards and another alt-media “best of” citation. In
addition to the two 2012 SPJ Page One Awards, I won a second place Page One
Award last year for “Best Use of Public Records” for my series on
recently-captured fraudster and GOP donor "Bobby Thompson." And this spring,
City Pages voted Ripple in Stillwater “Best Local Blog” in its Best of the Twin
Cities 2012 competition.

Not bad for a cancer-ridden, unpaid blogger, if I do say so myself.

The specific 2012 Page One Awards will be announced and given out at the annual
Minnesota SPJ Awards Banquet June 19 in St. Paul.


Photo © Copyright 2011 by Karl Bremer




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