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CATSKILL — Representatives of the Save the Old Jail Coalition attended the Public Safety Committee meeting Wednesday night to learn where their proposal stood with county lawmakers.

Legislator Jack Keller, RCatskill, gave Meg Nowack of Historic Catskill the floor during the meeting. Nowack, along with the Greene County Taxpayers Association headed

by Wayne Sheridan, hopes to halt the demolition of the former county jail and convert the buildings into something beneficial for the community.

Nowack expressed to the board that she was nervous to get ahead of herself if demolition was imminent.

“We are in the middle of the process,” Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said.

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File photo A local group of investors is interested in buying the old Greene County Jail on Bridge Street in Catskill.

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Changes are being made at the federal level to improve broadband mapping in an effort to make high-speed internet more accessible to rural communities.

The Federal Communications Commission has announced new procedures that will require internet service providers to provide more granular information on where they offer service, and will end the practice of counting a census block as “served” if just a single home on the block has access.

“This is a positive step from the Federal Communications Commission to acknowledge the flawed processes of census-block mapping technologies that overcount rural communities and leave tens of thousands of upstate New Yorkers behind — and I’m glad to see the commission take a vote to end this practice,” U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, said.

The goal is to better pinpoint where broadband access is available, according to a statement from the FCC. Having more accurate information could also make it easier for municipalities to apply for grant money to expand access.

Dubbed the Digital Opportunity Data Collection, the new system will collect

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New mapping requirements and a crowd-sourcing portal to get information directly from individual computer users, is hoped to be a step in the right direction in bringing broadband to unserved areas.

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Greene taking ‘report card’ to bond market

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CATSKILL — Greene County’s bond rating was upgraded in a recent evaluation as officials prepare to go to the bond market for the county jail project.

Moody’s Investors Service gave Greene County a score of Aa2 on Tuesday, an improvement over its previous rating of Aa3. Aa2 is the third highest rating for fixed-rate debt, according to a statement issued

by Greene County. The rating system takes into account the financial strength of a municipality or business and how credit-worthy they are.

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County officials said the latest Moody’s bond rating increase will make shopping in the bond market easier.

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“It’s gratifying to have Moody’s recognize Greene County’s track record of strong and effective fiscal management and our conservative nature of budgeting,” Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou said in a statement Thursday.

“The rating upgrade didn’t happen overnight, it [has] taken years to achieve.”

The county completed the assessment in anticipation of a bond sale for the new jail next Wednesday, said Ben Maslona, vice president and municipal adviser for Fiscal Advisers and Marketing, Inc. “The benefits of the improved See GREENE A2

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geospatial broadband coverage maps from internet providers, which “should improve the FCC’s ability to target support for broadband expansion through the agency’s Universal Service Fund programs,” according to the FCC. The FCC will also establish a crowd-sourcing portal that will gather input directly from consumers, as well as state and local governments, to improve data collection in identifying areas where broadband access is lacking.

Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Matt Murell said the data will be more accurate under the new system.

“It’s a positive move to go from census blocks to actual data so they have an idea of who is being served and who isn’t,” Murell said. “It would help us identify where our gaps are. Our local broadband companies, like Mid-Hudson and G-Tel, have been very forthcoming with the county in terms of information and mapping — where we run into problems is with the larger companies.”

Deputy Greene County Administrator Warren Hart said having specific, on-the-ground information on where broadband is available and where it isn’t would be a step in the right direction for local economic development.

“It would be very helpful to have the internet service providers report to the FCC at the street level so we know exactly what homes and businesses are served by internet and which

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within the next week, including some with investors, she said Wednesday.

Linger suggested Nowack get together with Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden after her meetings.

The two agreed to set up a future meeting.

Legislator Matthew Luvera, R-Catskill, proposed another use for the property.

“Why can’t we build a new building there and keep the sheriff’s office in Catskill?” Luvera said. “I’ve been saying that since the beginning.”

The sheriff’s office moved to a temporary location at 370 Mansion St. while the new jail is being built. The new facility will house the new office.

The county is leasing the temporary office for three years at $3,800 per month for the first year, $4,200 per month the second year and $4,300 per month the third.

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design plans from Barton & Loguidice, an Albany engineering firm, for parking lots with either 23 or 41 spaces.

The Legislature has reserved $500,000 for the demolition of the former sheriff’s office, the main jail complex and the Dblock, which shares a wall with the sheriff’s office. The historic carriage house on the property will remain intact.

“If two weeks from now we were offered $1 million for that and we had a viable plan that came to us, I think the board would listen to that,” Linger said. “At the last meeting, a lot of board members were disappointed with what we didn’t hear.”

At a workshop meeting July 24, Nowack and Cassidy Bua

of Camp Now! shared ideas for the property, including a hotel and restaurant with vocational training, and a boutique museum with rental offices for local nonprofits such as Cultivate Catskill.

During the workshop, Bua did not name what investors were going to fund the project or what the exact offer was.

From January through July 2020, Bua proposed she would coordinate with investors and run a fundraising campaign to prepare to purchase the property. Bua estimated $10 million for the purchase.

When asked which buildings in particular Bua wanted to use for the project, Bua said, “For the moment, let’s assume all of them.”

Bua asked to have a qualified engineer of her choosing to give a second opinion of the structures.

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High-speed internet access is considered a vital commodity in today’s marketplace. A new FCC regulation is expected to eventually make it more available in remote, rural communities.

ones are not served,” Hart said.

“The county has a working relationship with our local internet service providers and works with individual businesses that are looking to either expand or locate in the county. We have that working relationship, but at the federal level we need funding for broadband that would allow the providers to put together a financial plan to serve those truly remote, unserved areas within the county.”

Under the current system, service maps utilized by internet service providers can overstate areas that are covered. The new mapping requirements are aimed at making that data more accurate.

“The FCC’s announced plan to have broadband providers map their actual service area, along with an opportunity for customers to verify they have service, is a welcome transition from the current census-track mapping,” F. Michael Tucker, president and CEO of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation, said. “While this new mapping process will

take time to be implemented, in the long run it will not only document a point-in-time mapping, but will enable more accurate and timely updates to keep maps current.”

High-speed internet is considered a vital commodity in today’s marketplace, and the lack of it can negatively impact economic development.

“Broadband is very important to development,” said Karl Heck, director of economic development and planning for Greene County. “There has been significant broadband expansion in the county in recent years. The information superhighway is vitally important in the 21st century. There are still pockets where work needs to be done; most of the population centers already have high-speed internet and we are working on the more remote areas, which is a problem a lot of counties are dealing with.”

State Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, said the new system will enable communities to better target areas that are lacking broadband access to bring it to

back, they are going to make their payments on time. This is essentially a report card.”

The county had maintained its previous rating of Aa3 since 2011, Groden said, when Moody’s made a change to its scoring system.

Moody’s does periodic evaluations of federal data but an in-depth evaluation, such as one to prepare for a bond sale, is done at the municipality’s request, Groden said.

“To my knowledge the county has never done a full-blown interview like we just did,” Groden said.

Groden said he is proud of the work the county has done to earn its rating.

“I’m proud of the county’s financial management team who have made fiscal responsibility core to everything they do, which allowed Greene County to receive this upgrade,” Groden said. “This confirms our financial strength.”

County officials demonstrated their financial stability with a presentation to the analyst

from Moody’s, as well a tour of county employment centers.

Moody’s subsequent independent review cited strong financial management, consistently sound reserves, conservative budget management and a formal policy to maintain reserves, according to the release.

Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, agreed that the county’s conservative approach is key.

“The Greene County Legislature’s conservative, forwardlooking fiscal policies support financial sustainability and economic confidence,” Linger said.

This rating puts Greene County among eight non-New York City counties including Orange, Putnam, Dutchess

Security upgrades for the building cost between $60,000 and $70,000, Groden estimated.

In order to comply with County Law 216, which states: “No courthouse, civil office of the sheriff, office of the county clerk, county treasurer, clerk of the board of supervisors or board of elections, now or hereafter located in a city or village, shall be removed beyond the limits of such city or village without the approval of a proposition therefor by the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors of the county voting thereon at a general or special election,” the county erected a civil office within the records room of the County Office Building at 411 Main Street, Catskill.

The civil offices processes paperwork for evictions, foreclosures, subpoenas and levies.

more residents and businesses.

“I applaud the FCC’s efforts to improve broadband mapping and provide for public input and utilize crowd-sourcing with the goal of ensuring the most accurate maps and identifying gaps in fixed broadband coverage that must be remedied,” Jordan said. “Expanded, reliable broadband access is vital for rural communities.”

Gallatin Town Supervisor John Reilly, who is also chairman of the Columbia County Broadband Committee, said his group and others have told the State Broadband Program Office that the census-block methodology was inaccurate; it was used at both the federal and state levels. Providers were able to work with the state “to address some ‘holes’ they knew existed in their own service areas,” Reilly said, but some areas of the county still remain unserved “due to this methodology.”

The new data collection, including mapping and the crowd-sourcing portal, will take effect after the federal Office of Economics and Analytics issues a notice announcing the availability of the new collection platform as well as reporting deadlines, according to the FCC. A specific implementation date has not yet been set.

Reilly said the process will probably be a long one.

“The methodology revamping is good news but will likely be a lengthy and time-consuming process and will be hard pressed to help the governor complete the laudable New York state goal of 100% broadband coverage by 2020,” Reilly said.

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rating are reduced interest costs when the county issues debt, which ultimately saves the taxpayers money,” Maslona said. “The upgrade occurred in advance of a planned bond sale next week for the new jail.”

Maslona is working as a consultant for the county, Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said.

The county has set aside $8.1 million for the 60-bed jail and originally planned to borrow $39 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture at 3.5% interest.

Lawmakers are opting to go directly to the general bond market because the interest rate will likely be lower.

“Next Wednesday we will take bids from bond buyers and they will bid rates to us,” Groden said. “What they want to read in this evaluation is that this county is going to pay us

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CALENDAR Monday, Aug. 12 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Greene County Legislature county services and public works 6 p.m.

Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE business meeting 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 Route 81, Greenville

Tuesday, Aug. 13 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7

p.m.; Public Hearing Subdivision Menealos/Rinaldi 7:10 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, Aug. 14 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature workshop 7 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, Aug. 15 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m.; CWSSI public hearing 6 p.m. Hunter Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Monday, Aug. 19 n Athens Town Board regular meet-

ing and informational meeting on solar 6:45 p.m. at Athens Volunteer Fire Department, Third Street, Athens n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature economic development and tourism; Gov. Ops; Finance and Rep. and Dem. Caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday, Aug. 20 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, Aug. 21 n Catskill Central School District

BOE 6:30 p.m. in the High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Palenville Fire House, Route 32A, Palenville n Greene County Legislature CGCC budget public hearing 6:25 p.m.; Regular Legislature Meeting No. 8 6:30 p.m.

Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

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Acklin told police of alleged abuses

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — John Acklin told authorities in Texas before his extradition to New York in 2018 that he allegedly sexually abused two children, according to videos of police interviews played in Columbia County Court on Wednesday.

Columbia County Chief Assistant District Attorney James Carlucci played for the jury tapes of police interviews with Acklin by the Texas Rangers.

Defense attorney John Hillman told jurors that the details of the accounts of alleged acts came from the police and not Acklin, and Acklin was asked whether those events were accurate after hours of questioning.

In the interviews recorded shortly before his arrest in November 2018, two separate police investigators question Acklin about the alleged child sexual assaults, including when he allegedly sodomized a 5-year-old in his garage and allegedly sodomized a female child with a TV remote more than a decade ago.

Acklin left Livingston about 10 years ago, and the alleged sexual abuse ended when he moved away, according to police.

In the video, Acklin is seen with his arms crossed as he answers police questions with short responses. Acklin is heard repeatedly telling authorities he doesn’t know if the abuse occurred and that he can’t remember.

When Acklin was asked

by police for how long he allegedly abused the boy in the garage, Acklin replies, “Probably thirty sec- John Acklin onds. I don’t know.”

On the video, Acklin says he allegedly abused the boy one time, not four times, as the alleged victim has stated.

The Register-Star does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault.

Acklin also says he abused the girl once, using his tongue, finger and a TV remote.

Acklin told the investigators that if he saw the children again, he would tell them he was sorry about

what happened.

Acklin declined to testify, and he is not required to by law.

The defense does not have to prove or disprove anything, Columbia County Judge Jonathan Nichols told the jury. The defense called one witness, Acklin’s sister, Donna Sweet.

Sweet testified that her children were never abused by her brother. She also testified that she never saw her brother alone with any of the alleged victims. Sweet’s children are not the alleged victims.

Closing arguments from the attorneys in the case were expected to be given late Thursday afternoon.

Acklin, 56, of Bandera, Texas, is accused of sexual abuse of children he babysat

more than a decade ago. He was charged with 11 counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, a class A-II felony; 12 counts of firstdegree course of sexual conduct against a child, a class B felony; and nine counts of aggravated sexual abuse in the second-degree, a class C felony.

Two children, a boy and girl under 13 years old, were allegedly sexually assaulted between 2004 and 2006 in Columbia County, according to a March 12 indictment.

Another boy under 11 years old was allegedly assaulted between 1992 and 1996.

To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@ thedailymail.net, or tweet to @ amandajpurcell.

GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER Editor’s Note: A charge is not a conviction. All persons listed are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges can be amended or dismissed.

STATE POLICE n Nathaniel A. Picardi, 28, of Philmont, was arrested at 4:58 p.m. Aug. 3 in Athens and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, possession of a hypodermic instrument and second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia, all class A misdemeanors. He was held in lieu of $3,000 cash bail. n Erin C. Porter, 36, of Catskill, was arrested at 4:30 a.m. Aug. 4 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Keith O’Mahoney, 33, of

Hunter, was arrested at 11:40 p.m. Aug. 4 in Hunter and charged with seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor, and operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs and driving while ability impaired by drugs or alcohol, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Guadalupe Sosa, 21, of New York, was arrested at 1:05 p.m. Aug. 4 in Coxsackie and charged with second-degree introducing contraband into prison and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both class A misdemeanors. Her arrestee status is unknown. n Ardashia Mills, 25, of Albany, was arrested at 9:31 p.m. Aug. 4 in New Baltimore and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while

intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Frank Pozzuto, 56, of Poughkeepsie, was arrested at 3:20 p.m. Aug. 5 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated, aggravated DWI and reckless driving, all unclassified misdemeanors, and speeding, an infraction.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Robert G. Pagan, 37, of Athens, was arrested at 6:01 p.m. Aug. 5 in Athens and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor. He was held. n Brittney L. Wood, 31, of Athens, was arrested at 6:02 p.m. Aug. 5 in Athens and charged with third-degree possession of a forged instrument and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A

misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Deborah A. Delsignore, 50, of Bellmore, was arrested at 9:45 a.m. Aug. 4 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both unclassified misdemeanors; colliding with an emergency vehicle and moving from a lane unsafely, both infractions.

She was released to a third party. n Clifford J. Hart, 45, of Hannacroix, was arrested at 9:17 p.m. Aug. 6 and charged with falsifying business records, a class A misdemeanor, and criminally purchasing or disposing of a weapon, a class D felony. He was issued an appearance ticket. n James J. Yates, 44, of Durham, was arrested at 6 p.m. Aug. 6 in Durham and charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a class E felony. He was held.

The Catskill Center earns national recognition ARKVILLE — One thing that unites us as a nation is land: Americans strongly support saving the open spaces they love. Since 1969, the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development has been doing just that for the people of the Catskill Region. Now the Catskill Center announced it has achieved national recognition—joining a network of over 400 accredited land trusts across the nation that have demonstrated their commitment to professional excellence and to maintaining the public’s trust in their work.

Jeff Senterman, Executive Director of the Catskill Center, says, “As a conservation organization, we value the protection of our unique natural resources and landscapes in the Catskill region. The 17 easements held by the Catskill Center allow property owners

to make the Catskills’ grandeur their personal legacy. Together, we protect important lands in perpetuity.”

Markley Boyer, Catskill Center Board Chair, says, “For 50 years, we at the Catskill Center have recognized the value of protecting the natural state of New York’s Catskills, and we are thrilled to now have our conservation work accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission.

Over the years, we’ve been trusted to care for precious Catskills lands such as the Thorn Preserve in Woodstock and Platte Clove in Hunter. To be so honored in the midst of our 50th Anniversary year empowers and reinforces our commitment for the next 50.”

The Catskill Center provided extensive documentation and was subject to a

comprehensive third-party evaluation prior to achieving this distinction. The Land Trust Accreditation Commission awarded accreditation, signifying its confidence that the Catskill Center’s lands will be protected forever. Accredited land trusts steward almost 20 million acres of land—the size of Denali, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Glacier, Everglades and Yosemite National Parks combined.

“It is exciting to recognize the Catskill Center with this national mark of distinction,” said Tammara Van Ryn, executive director of the Commission. “Donors and partners can trust that the more than 400 accredited land trusts across the country are united behind strong standards and have demonstrated sound finances, ethical conduct, responsible governance, and lasting stewardship.”

The Catskill Center is one of 1,363 land trusts across the United States according to the Land Trust Alliance’s most recent National Land Trust Census. A complete list of accredited land trusts and more information about the process and benefits can be found at www.landtrustaccreditation.org.

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They are supported mainly by a slice of school district budgets that are in turn supported by taxpaying registered voters. For a small amount of money each day, taxpayers open a world of ideas and experiences for themselves and others under the roof of their public library. Libraries are fortresses of independence and knowledge. They offer free and equal access to educational opportunities and, as Columbia and Greene counties struggle to provide broadband access to unserved rural homes, they are a primary source of internet access for many people.

All libraries offer programs and special features for children and adults. The MidHudson Library Association offers access to more than 30

public libraries.

This new round of funding will help the selected libraries complete construction, renovations and other enhancement projects.

Long periods of underfunding or no funding at all have chopped the legs out from local library services and, more important, passed higher costs on to local taxpayers.

The latest round of funding, we are happy to report, is the largest of its kind to be awarded to local libraries.

The grants will open new space for library resources, make some libraries more compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, repairs to library buildings and restoration of historic libraries.

Our libraries provide vital cultural and educational services. It’s past time the state awarded grants to preserve and nurture their role in the community, now and for the future.

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Trump can’t fight extremism and ‘anti-conservative bias’ at the same time The Washington Post

The White House says it is attacking violent extremism on the Internet. If so, it is counterattacking at the same time.

Two currents at cross purposes have emerged from President Donald Trump’s administration in recent days, in the wake of yet another mass shooting apparently inspired by white-supremacist rhetoric on the Internet. The first has some potential. Senior officials will meet with executives of top technology companies on Friday to discuss the rise of violent online extremism, a plague Trump pledged to “do something about” this week. But at the same time, the administration is continuing one of the president’s favorite crusades - against supposed political bias at some of those same companies - in a way that would make it more difficult for them to counter violent extremism.

Another “social media summit” at the White House

last month ended with a promise from the president to consider “all regulatory and legislative solutions” to an epidemic of Internet censorship. One problem: All evidence suggests that such an epidemic does not exist.

Platforms are merely enforcing their terms of service, which often prohibit hate speech and harassment.

Nonetheless, Politico reports that drafts of a proposed executive order are circulating addressing allegations of anti- conservative bias. The president’s actual authority to control online speech is limited, but his ability to rally voters around the idea of a Silicon Valley cabal shutting out dissent is not. Neither is his power to scare companies into letting people break their rules. Firms most fear the sort of “solution” presented by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who has introduced a bill proposing to certify platforms as politically neutral and to remove immunity from lawsuit or prosecution for user-posted content from

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Grants of varying amounts went to libraries in Claverack, Germantown, Hudson, Kinderhook, North Chatham and Hillsdale in Columbia County and Athens in Greene County.

These public libraries, including the ones that did not receive state funding, live up to their names. They are still the “public” libraries. As such, they are the foundations of their communities. They are open to all. They provide a safe and relaxing environment for all patrons. They are inclusive.

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Which country is better equipped to win a U.S.-China trade war?

those who fail that test.

What does this have to do with goal No. 1? Well, “doing something” about whitesupremacist incitement on the Internet would require precisely the sort of behavior that Republicans railing against companies for their supposed liberal bias do not want. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube would step up efforts to take down racist posts that their standards already prohibit, and perhaps strengthen the standards themselves. They would reduce the recommendation of borderline content likely to lead users down the rabbit hole of radicalization. All these efforts would probably hit conservatives hardest, as in all likelihood would Trump’s proposed strategy of developing “tools that can detect mass shooters before they strike.”

An algorithm that combs the Web for violent manifestos, to the extent it worked at all, would surely capture plenty of strident but nonviolent speech in its sweep.

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The United States and China are clearly on a collision course.

Chinese companies abscond with intellectual property, and President Trump introduces tariffs on Chinese goods; President Xi Jinping responds with his own levies, so Trump adds more. China allows the value of its currency to fall, and the United States brands it a currency manipulator. We are now on the verge of all-out economic warfare.

These are the world’s two largest economies, and the collapse of trade between them would hardly bring either one to a grinding halt. But the combatants are not evenly matched. China might seem in a better position to cope with a trade war, since it is a heavily managed economy and the government squashes political resistance. Yet its every maneuver carries enormous risks. Meanwhile, Trump, who manages a durable and flexible economy, is not exactly seeking victory for the American way of doing business. His approach, in some ways right out of Beijing’s playbook, would make our economy quite a bit more like China’s.

The breakdown in trade between the two countries is already causing pain in both economies, as soybean farmers in the Midwest and Chinese textile exporters in Guangzhou can attest. The battle will intensify if rising tensions close off investment flows and dampen the movement of tourists and students between the two countries. But the U.S. economy is about 50 percent larger than China’s, and is less dependent on trade, so its prospects look better. And China exports more to the United States than it imports from the United States (a fact that clearly riles up Trump and was a key instigator for the trade war).

So the near-term pain will be greater for China.

But Beijing does have some advantages. One is the structure of its (mostly) command economy, which is dominated by state enterprises. The majority of banks in China are also state-owned, making it easy for the government to generate a surge of cheap credit - and the subsequent investment that boosts growth. The second advantage is the structure of China’s political system, in which dissent is easier to shut down and bad news about the trade war can be filtered out.

Still, even a state-dominated economy with many economic weapons has to be cautious about which ones it uses; some of them could backfire badly.

One of China’s greatest weapons in a trade war is its ability to disrupt the work of American companies that want to sell into China’s enormous and fast-growing markets or that use China as part of their global supply chains.

But other foreign companies and investors could also begin to see China as an unpredictable and volatile business environment, unconstrained by the rule of law. This would hurt China’s plans for modernizing its economy with the help of foreign investments and foreign technological and managerial expertise.

China could also further cheapen the value of its currency, the renminbi, to offset U.S. tariffs. Here, too, the government faces constraints.

Fear of a major devaluation could cause foreign investors to pull their money out of China, and domestic investors might follow. This happened in 2014-15, when a modest government-orchestrated devaluation set off panic-driven capital outflows in anticipation of further depreciation.

Moreover, even an autocratic government cannot count on getting carte blanche from its people. Xi is not immune to domestic political pressures and must carefully manage the tricky balance between using nationalist sentiments as a rallying cry and actually delivering good economic performance.

Theoretically, China can stimulate a flagging economy by ordering a burst of investment that boosts gross domestic product growth in the short term. But this would probably generate more bad loans in an already fragile banking system.

A protracted trade war would also halt even modest momentum toward market-oriented reforms, a putative objective of the Chinese government.

This would hurt the economy’s long-term growth prospects.

And China’s plan to shift the focus of its economy from staid and inefficient state enterprises to high-productivity and high-value industries will fall short if it loses access to technology from the United States and other Western nations.

In some ways, Trump seems more constrained than Xi because of America’s democratic political system, its more

laissez-faire economy and the limits on his executive power.

But he, too, has some elements in his favor as he does battle with China. Trump has the advantage of managing an economy that is enormously flexible and resilient. And getting tough on China resonates not just with his political base but even with Democrats, many of whom have long called for aggressive U.S. action against Chinese trade and currency practices, even if they disagree with Trump on tactics.

Yet in exercising his power, he could end up making America’s economy a bit more like the state-dominated one operated by Beijing - and, in so doing, permanently damage the U.S. free market. To rescue the agricultural sector from the consequences of the trade war, Trump has already dispatched $28 billion in government subsidies. He has also jawboned American companies to move their production bases back to U.S. shores, rather than letting them make their own commercial decisions. Trump has even pressured the Federal Reserve, whose independence is seen as sacrosanct, to lower interest rates and suggested that the Fed should help drive down the value of the dollar.

With such moves, he risks undermining the true strengths of the United States: the institutions that make the U.S. dollar and the American financial system so dominant.

What is worse, Trump suggests that the rule of law is up for negotiation. After imposing sanctions on Chinese technology companies such as ZTE and Huawei for running afoul of U.S. rules, he hinted that those sanctions could be negotiated away as part of a trade deal. He is fighting a Pentagon process that could award a defense contract to Amazon, whose CEO (who owns The Washington Post) has criticized him.

China has made its lack of independent institutions a source of strength in dealing with external economic aggression. In that model, Trump sees something Washington should copy - and seems ready to abandon what makes the United States special. This truly is a trade war with no winners.

Prasad, a professor at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is the author of “Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi.”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

How to commit mass murder programs To the editor: Again the nation is shocked by two mass shootings, but not at all shocked that five times that many people died from drugs on that very day.

Democrats, idiots that they are, screaming gun control but not media control. News networks, especially CNN and internet companies have been showing a How to Commit Mass Murder show ever since the Colorado movie house shooting.

Not only does CNN tell the next potential psychopath what gun is the best to use they also air the best bullets, clips,

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how to gear up, and get this they air were to get the gun.

I wrote a letter to the Register-Star right after the Colorado shooting stating that with amount of coverage that psycho was receiving that there would be copy-cat killers. Obviously people like Didi Barrett, Coumo, Schumer, and Gillibrand are just not watching the news and worst of all they are incapable of analyzing the problem at hand.

There is no such thing as a common sense gun law that prevents these tragedies, as proven by the gun shots outside the Gov. Coumo’s office.

You want to stop these mass shootings, then for gun sake stop telling mental unstable people how to do it. The time as come for the congress to enact a common sense news law that prohibits information that most law enforcement deem dangerous. It’s time enact a common sense internet law that will block brutal killings and shoot-outs. We need to start writing our representatives saying we want the likes of CNN to stop showing ‘How To Commit Mass Murder’ shows.

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Kenneth L. Buno Kenneth L. Buno, 89, of New K. (Marcie) Buno, Jessica (John) St., Catskill passed away on Ralston, Jordan Buno, Kevin August 8, 2019. He was born M. Buno Jr., Christopher J. in Nunda, NY, a son of the late Buno, Craig M. Rowell, Joel S. Kenneth L. and Mildred Stone (Alyssa) Rowell, Sean L. Rowell, Buno.

Stephen J. Bocchimuzzo and Formerly of Cairo, Mr. Buno Michael J. Bocchimuzzo; great married Eleanor Jordan on Sep- grandfather of Aedan, Mia, Leo, tember 23, 1951 and settled Landon, Lane, Shelby, Hailey, in Catskill. For many years he Ellie, Jacklyn and Caden; uncle worked at I.B.M., Kingston and to many nieces and nephews. was a member of their Quarter Calling hours will be held on Century Club. An avid Monday from 5:00 – golfer, Ken participated 8:00 pm at Millspaugh with Tuesday Golf Crew Camerato Funeral at the Rip Van Winkle Home, 139 Jefferson Golf Club in Palenville.

Hgts., Catskill. The fuHe was a prolific woodneral procession will worker and shared his form on Tuesday at craft with family and 10:00 am from the fufriends. Ken was a paneral home. A Funeral rishioner of St. Patrick’s Mass will be celebrated Buno Church, Catskill and a at St. Patrick’s Church, St. Jude’s Children’s Catskill at 11:00 am. Memorial Hospital supporter. Beloved husband of Eleanor Buno, lov- contributions may be made to ing father of Kenneth K. (Susan) St. Jude Children’s Research Buno of Catskill, Kevin M. (Ma- Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place rie) Buno of Wallingford, CT., Memphis, TN 38105 or the Tammy L. Rowell of Catskill and American Heart Assoc., 4 AtriSandra G. (Franco) Bocchimuz- um Dr #100, Albany, NY 12205. zo of Saugerties; brother of the Messages of condolence may late Jayne Buno and Ruth Gra- be made to MillspaughCamerziano; grandfather of Kenneth ato.com.

James Francis Cusker James Francis Cusker, age tivities during his daily visits to 84 years, of Fort Lee, New Jer- The Richard and Catherine Nest sey, passed away on August 4, Adult Activity Center Ground 2019 after a brief illness. James in Fort Lee. Besides his paralso resided in Cairo and Cox- ents, James is predeceased sackie, N.Y. for a portion of his by his sisters Patricia Wallace life. and Mary Ellen Brink, and his He was born on June 21, nephew James “Chip” Wallace 1935, in Brooklyn, N.Y. and III. Survivors include his nieces is the son of the late Colleen Van Wie (JoJames Francis Cusker seph), Tammi CoburnSr. and Loretta ShutSossei (Steven), Laurie tleworth Cusker. DurWallace and Jennifer ing James’ lifetime, he Wallace, his nephew worked on Wall Street Jeffrey Wallace, sevin Manhattan as an aceral great nieces and countant for the secunephews and their chilrity brokerage firms Jedren. sup & Lamont, Inc. and A Mass of the ChrisIngalls & Snyder. He tian Burial will be celCusker was a devout Catholic ebrated Saturday, and a faithful communicant of August 17,2019 at 10:00 a.m. the Holy Trinity Catholic Church at Sacred Heart Church, Cairo, in Fort Lee, and he was an active N.Y. Fr. Steve Matthews will be member of the Knights of Co- the Celebrant. Interment will follumbus - Unity Fort Lee Coun- low in the family plot in the Cairo cil 8103. James loved sports. Cemetery. Funeral arrangeHe was a league bowler and ments are under the direction he treasured the commemora- of Richards Funeral Home, 29 tive ring he received for bowl- Bross Street, Cairo, N.Y. Coning a perfect game. He followed tributions in his memory may many sports teams and was be made to Holy Trinity Catholic a lifelong fan of his hometown Church, 2367 Lemoine Avenue, team, the Brooklyn Dodgers. In Fort Lee, N.J. 07024. Condohis later years, James’ greatly lences may be made at www. enjoyed his friendships and ac- richardsfuneralhomeinc.net.

George C. Simard George C. Simard, 82, of Hillsdale, NY passed away at his home August 8, 2019 surrounded by his family following a brief illness. George was born in San Diego, CA on October 8, 1936 to Agnes (Miller) and Romeo Simard.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years Joan (Sherman), daughters Kelly Strobel (Alan) of Chatham and Stacey Funk (Charles) of Clarence Center,

NY, six grandchildren; Lau- in 1954. He served in the U. S. Air Force from 1955ren Strobel, Eric Funk 59. A Corvette enthu(Cope), Katelynn Strosiast and avid hunter, bel, Tyler Funk, Ryan George was a lifetime Funk and Daniel Funk. member of the PhilmGeorge is also survived ont Rod and Gun Club by a sister, Ann LeCwhere he served as roy of Georgia, his aunt president from 1982Gertrude Duffield of 1992. He was a carKinderhook and couspenter having built the ins, nieces and nephSimard home where they lived ews. George graduated from Ockawamick School for the past 31 years.

Walmart removes images of violence in stores after shootings Matthew Boyle Bloomberg

Walmart is removing displays of violent video games and movies in its stores as pressure mounts for the world’s largest retailer to act in the wake of two deadly shootings at its locations in Texas and Mississippi in recent weeks.

Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon this week said that the company will be “thoughtful and deliberate in our responses” to the shootings, which left 22 people dead in El Paso, and killed two employees at a store in Southaven, Mississippi.

The company has no plans to stop selling guns or ammunition, spokesman Randy Hargrove said in an interview on Sunday, a day after the El Paso shooting.

That’s not enough for a growing chorus of critics that now includes Sen. and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, who tweeted Friday that the retailer should “do the right thing--stop selling guns.” Warren showed her support for a rally planned by gun-control advocates this weekend in Florida.

A man armed with a rifle was arrested Thursday at a Walmart in Springfield, Missouri.

Supporters of stricter gun laws have said that Walmart, as one of the nation’s biggest sellers of guns and ammunition with more than 4,700 stores, could do more to stem the flow of firearms in the U.S. This week, a worker at Walmart’s California-based e-commerce division organized protests against the company’s policy.

“Walmart will now become a target for activists,” said Ron Culp, an expert on crisis management and former head of public relations at Sears, who now teaches at DePaul University. “Pressure will continue to build so I’d get out in front with some sort of position that goes beyond video

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games in the store. They have to display leadership on this issue.”

Walmart’s new rules on video games were outlined in a memo distributed to stores entitled “Immediate Action: Remove Signing and Displays Referencing Violence.” The directive also said to: - Cancel any in-store events promoting “combat style or third-person shooter games that may be scheduled.”

- Verify that no violent movies are playing on TVs sold in the electronics department.

- Turn off any huntingseason videos that may be playing in the sporting goods department, and remove any monitors that show the video.

“We’ve taken this action out of respect for the incidents of the past week, and this action does not reflect a long-term change in our video game assortment,” Walmart spokeswoman Tara House said.

Nick Chester, a spokesman for Epic Games, the maker of the popular third-person shooter game Fortnite, declined to comment.

Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, an arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, criticized Walmart’s move to restrict images of violent video games.

“Are they aware of some data that video games are causing gun violence?” she said. “It’s an NRA talking point.”

Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, founded and helps fund Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for universal background checks and other gun violence prevention measures.

Some Walmart staffers expressed skepticism of the move on a popular employee message board. One posted the following: “But we still sell real actual guns. And we’re getting rid of virtual violence. Like that’s going to help anything.”

Walmart -- whose founder, Sam Walton, was an avid hunter -- has shifted its gun policies over the years.

It stopped selling handguns in 1993, and in 2015

Marianne E. Polisciano Marianne E. Polisciano, age 83 years, of Acra, passed away on July 30, 2019, at her residence. Marianne was born on December 27, 1935, in Queens, N.Y. and is the daughter of the late Adolf and Elisabeth (Herschenroeder) Resch. Survivors include her son Paul and daughter-in-law Connie, her son, Peter, her daughter Kristine Polisciano Gonzalez and sonin-law Nelson Gonzalez, and grandson Adan Gonzalez. During her lifetime, Marianne was

employed for the N.Y.C. Board of Education as an executive secretary.

Memorial services in her memory will be held at Amazing Grace Church, Route 32, Cairo, N.Y. on Saturday, August 10, 2019, at 4:00 P.M. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Richards Funeral Home, 29 Bross Street, Cairo, N.Y. Condolences may be made at www.richardsfuneralhomeinc. net.

Christine Marrone Snyder Montgomery, NY Christine an active and dedicated memMarrone Snyder passed away ber of St. Paul’s R.C. Church in suddenly on Saturday, August Bullville. She is survived by her 3, 2019 while enjoying a day of brother Andrew and wife Vicboating with family in South- toria, many cousins, and Godampton, NY. She was 64. daughter Naomi. Chris was Born on June 6, 1955 predeceased by her in New York, NY, Chris parents. was the daughter of The family will greet Nicholas and Gemma friends and family for Marrone. While growChris’ visitation at ing up in Coxsackie, Applebee-McPhillips Chris actively particiFuneral Home Inc. 130 pated in the family iceHighland Ave., Middlecream and food busitown NY, 10940 on ness known as Kreme Sunday, August 11, King. As an adult, Chris Snyder from 1 to 5 pm. A Fumoved to Tucson AZ. neral Mass will be celebrated She graduated from the Interior Design Institute and created a on Monday, August 12, at 10 career in interior design. She re- am at St. Paul’s R.C. Church in turned to NY in 1991, continuing Bullville, NY. In lieu of flowers, her design business. Later, she donations may be made to the worked as a school bus driver Columbia-Greene Humane Soin Pine Bush, NY. Chris was ciety, Hudson, NY.

There will be no services.

His body was donated to the Anatomical Gift Program at Albany Medical Center as per his wishes. In memory of George donations can be made to The Community Hospice Foundation, 310 South Manning Blvd.

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ceased sales of assault-style rifles. Last year the company raised the minimum age to buy a gun to 21 from 18 after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

The Parkland massacre prompted other big gun retailers, like Dick’s Sporting Goods, to also restrict sales.

Shares of Walmart fell as much as 1.3% to $107.15 on Friday. They had gained about 17% this year through Thursday’s close.

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FERGUSON, Mo. — Five years to the day after the death of Michael Brown Jr., who was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer, Michael Brown Sr. called Friday for a new investigation of his son’s death.

Brown Sr. asked the prosecuting attorney to reopen the case at a news conference Friday morning. Both state and federal prosecutors declined to charge Darren Wilson, the police officer, who resigned after the shooting.

“As a father, I vowed to protect my children,” Brown said.

“I could not protect him that day and it breaks my heart.”

“We’re not stopping until we get justice,” he added.

The death of 18-year-old Brown Jr. — one of roughly 1,000 people killed by police each year — set into motion profound changes in policing, race relations and society that continue to reverberate.

Ferguson is a dramatically different city today than the one that erupted in violence five years ago after Brown’s death. The City Council,

which had only one AfricanAmerican member in 2014, now has six. The police department, which had only three African-Americans on its 53-member force, is now about half black. Its chief, Jason Armstrong, is AfricanAmerican.

But Ferguson, its residents say, has also stubbornly remained the same place. Black people are still stopped by the police at disproportionate levels. The poverty rate remains above 20 percent. The police department lacks a neighborhood policing plan and has failed to collect data on police use of force.

Friday’s events were include a memorial service, a moment of silence and the opening of an exhibit dedicated to Brown.

On Aug. 9, 2014, Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive when Wilson, who was passing in his police cruiser, told them to move to the sidewalk.

Brown and Wilson began to argue, and within moments, there was a scuffle. Wilson, who is white, shot and killed Brown, who was unarmed.

Brown’s body lay in sweltering summer heat for four hours. As word spread on social media, groups of people began to gather at the scene and at Police Headquarters.

After a candlelight vigil the next night, protesters looted and burned a convenience store not far from where Brown was shot. The demonstrations continued for weeks, highlighted by angry confrontations between protesters and law enforcement officers, who confronted demonstrators with assault rifles and armored vehicles.

In November 2014, a grand jury decided not to indict Wilson, and later, the Justice Department declined to pursue federal civil rights charges against the officer.

But as part of its investigation, the Justice Department found that the police department had routinely violated the civil rights of AfricanAmericans and that the city’s municipal court system was also acting unconstitutionally by ticketing residents for minor violations. Those who received summonses were disproportionately black.

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Summer Paw Picnic a success

By Charlene Marchand For Columbia-Greene Media

The God of all creation again blessed the ColumbiaGreene Humane Society/ SPCA’s annual Summer Paw Picnic with one of the most glorious weather days so far.

Our attendees were treated to a gourmet buffet, a great selection of silent auction items, and a number of successful raffles. Briand Bradley’s “Sky Hunters in Flight” program brought the “tent down,” and Dr. B’s resident kestrel let Brian’s hawk know it was HIS territory. The event brought in $90,000 in much needed funds to support our animal welfare mission at a time when notfor-profits are greatly challenged.

We proudly share the names of our sponsors, and thank all of you involved at a number of levels, for your faithfulness to our animals: Best In Show: Dr. Jerry and Mrs. Darlene Bilinski; Elaine and Mike Gruener; Patricia A. Kenehan; In Memory of Lue and Ernie Kostner; Gisela Marian; In Memory of Robert Olofsson; Kimberly Peregrim, DO. Best Of Breed: Hollie Adams; AOW Associates; The Bank of Greene County; Columbia-Greene Federal Credit Union; Freeman & Howard, PC; Vicky and Andy Marrone; In memory of Angela “Cookie” Poucher; Taize’ Shepherd Kennel and Dog Training Center (Charlene Marchand).

Blue Ribbon: Peter and Barbara Budelman; Russ Gibson and Duncan Calhoun; Dairy Queen-Ghent; Evelyn Bordewick Foundation; Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation; James and Kate Schneider; Scott Shallo, CPA; Colin and Katrina Stair; S.T. Hudson’s Son; Marcia Sullivan.

Red Ribbon: Angerame Architects; Assured Partners NE; Edward Jones Investments; Emerick Family; Kin Chee and Robert Gaus; Peter and Diane Hogan; Kneller Insurance Agency; Main-Care Energy; Marshall & Sterling Insurance; Millerton Co-op Claverack Agway; Pattison, Koskey, Howe & Bucci; Riley TDIEVA + Molly TDIGF; Wood Hill Veterinary; Martin and Lisa Zaretsky.

Yellow Ribbon: Maureen Angerame; Callander’s Nursery and Landscaping; James and Angela Carlucci; Craftech; Cross Creek Farm; Decker Economics; Dell’s Plumbing, Heating and A/C; Jennifer C. Donoghue; Five Star Roofing; Fortnightly Club of Catskill;

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CGHS/SPCA’s two-year-old Chow mix, Doodle, is seen getting some snuggles from Adoption Counselor Alexa Caunitz. Doodle initially came to our shelter in the fall of 2018 due to landlord issues with his previous owner. He has been returned to us twice through no fault of his own. Doodle does not get along with any cats, but he loves other dogs. He loves to play and wants nothing more than to give you all of his attention. He is still patiently waiting to find his forever home.

Future Mobile & Modular Homes; Robert Gibson; Heim Fuel Service; HRI Metals; David Levow and Karen Malina; Sharyn Marks; Old Daley Custom Catering; Ron and Katrina Perez; Quality Maintenance & Upgrades (Spencer and Betty Noel); Rhinebeck Animal Hospital; Richmor Aviation; Margaret Ann Ricketts.

White Ribbon: In Memory of Sal Alessi Jr.; Bonfiglio & Bread; CGM Construction; Columbia Physical Therapy; Countryside Dental; EmKay Cleaners; Equine Center at Oakencroft; Dr. Beth Hendlin, DDS; HL Fuel and HL Propane; James and Patricia Huber; Hudson Veterinary Clinic; Indian Ridge Accounting- Barbara Beers; JGlaski Enterprises; Katie (CGHS 2013); In memory of Fran and Ken Kromer; Bonita and Robert Loyche; Laura Manchester and Chok Dee; Caroline and Brian Merritt; MetzWood Insurance; Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home; Nassau Veterinary Clinic; Danelle Sand, VMD; S&F Technologies; Shed Man; W and B Golf Carts; Wenk Funeral Home.

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Feel free to call us with any questions at 518-828-6044 or visit www.cghs.org. Stop down and see us at 111 Humane Society Road, off Route 66 (about a mile south of the intersection with Route 9H) in Hudson. Our hours are 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. every day. The Food Bank is open to any from the public in need of pet food or for those wishing to donate food anytime during business hours. All of our cats and kittens are “Furrever Free” with all expenses paid. Spay/ neuter clinics for cats are $76 male or female, including a rabies vaccination and a 5-in-1 feline distemper combination vaccination. Nail clipping services are available 10-11 a.m. every Saturday at the shelter, no appointment necessary, for a donation of $5 for cats and $10 for dogs. Charlene Marchand is the Chairperson of the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA Board of Directors.

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Meadow Ridge Heritage Barn update COXSACKIE — The Greene County Historical Society’s Meadow Ridge Heritage Barn has installed on its cupola a weathervane designed by local artist, Ellen DeLucia.

The plant manager of Ducommun (formerly DynaBil Industries) Patrick Canning, was contacted by Hugh Quigley about fabricating the owl weathervane. The project was readily accepted. Project Manager, Matt Lonero, headed a team consisting of Kristi Rosato (programming), Nate Tator (cutting), Al DeLuca (welding), Guy Hazelton (assembly) and Louis Vasquel (painting).

The owl design was transferred into a computer program that was then used to cut stainless steel, aluminum, and titanium into the required pieces. After welding and assembly it was painted. The construction of a unique bearing allows the arrow to rotate in a light breeze.

The owl weathervane, with a 48 inch wingspan, sits 50 feet above the grounds of the Bronck Museum complex.

The project team approached and enjoyed the project as an interesting challenge beyond their usual work of fabricating airplane parts.

The Barn committee, led

by Tom Satterlee and Tim Meier, appreciate the time and effort Ducommun and its employees donated to the project.

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Pictured from left are Hugh Quigley, Guy Hazelton, Kristi Rosato, Al DeLuca, Matt Lonero, Ellen DeLucia, and Patrick Canning, standing in front of the new weathervane they designed and fabricated for the Bronck Museum’s Meadow Ridge Heritage Barn.

To raise funds for further work on the barn the committee is holding a raffle. The cost of the tickets is $5 each or 5 tickets for $20.

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Checks for tickets or general donations to the barn project can be made to Meadow Ridge Heritage Barn, PO Box 44, Coxsackie NY 12051.

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Worm dunking, sports for old guys As I gracefully age, I’m finding the number of sports I can or want to participate in narrows. Still high on the list is fishing, old guys are good at fishing. Nothing gets the old heart pumping like the thoughts of a large scaly denison of the deep leaping into the air trying in vain to shake my hook. Sounds like something you’d read in “Worm and Fly” magazine doesn’t it? Then reality rears its ugly head and I remember that most of the fish I catch don’t jump out of the water, their mother’s won’t allow them to because they’re too small, the fish equivalent of crossing the road alone.

The first challenge before I can stalk the wily trout or whatever is to first stalk the wily worm. I’m a worm fisherman, we are a select breed. I tried fly fishing and managed to stick a fly to the top of my folliclely challenged dome on my first attempt. It did look kind of cute, sort of a furry little barrette, but it hurt so I decided to do without its decorative effect and took a turn at using lures.

A lure, in case you’re not a fisher person, is something made out of plastic or metal that resembles nothing I know of that is edible in nature, it is usually painted in garish colors and has about 15 razor sharp treble hooks hanging off of it. This means that no matter how you handle it, you get stuck. The procedure for getting unstuck is to push the hook in further until the point pops through the other side of the item it’s hooked in,

WHITTLING AWAY

DICK

BROOKS at which time you take your trusty needle nosed pliers and snip off the hook’s pointy part making it easy to withdraw.

This doesn’t strike me as a type of recreational activity I’d like to participate in since I can never find my needle nosed pliers.

So that’s how I became a worm drownder, besides being basically a thrifty type and finding out the cost of the average fly or lure, worms are the cheapest way to go. I take that back, worms are the cheapest bait if you catch your own.

If you purchase them at a bait shop, you’ll come to realize that using chunks of prime rib would be cheaper than buying a dozen worms. Worms come in at about $7.50 a pound at a bait shop, so go catch your own.

Frequently, catching the worms is more fun than fishing. But what’s that you say?

You’ve never caught a worm!

Let an old expert give you a few hints. You can dig for the critters, get a shovel, find some rich moist soil and start turning the dirt over. Don’t do this

in the flower beds however, I’ve found that for some reason this upsets the woman of the house. Digging falls into the category of exercise and since many folks are allergic to sweat, you might want to try waiting until after dark, then go crawling around the lawn with a flashlight trying to grab the night crawlers before they pop back down their holes. This usually results in a can full of half worms but I’ve found that the fish aren’t fussy although the worms are divided on the issue. There are dangers in collecting bait this way also that you should be made aware of.

The neighbors frequently call the police to report suspicious behavior — terrorists trying to tunnel under their home and all.

You know, after giving this more thought — $20 for a license, $50 for a rod and reel, $6,000 for a little fishing boat and trailer, $7.50 for worms, $1.50 for bandages, $6.50 for needle nosed pliers, $75 for gas for the 3 horsepower motor on the boat, plus court costs and legal fees for gathering worms after dark looks a little costly.

A fish fry at the diner is $7, maybe I’ll forgo the thrill of the hunt and take the cheap route.

Thought for the week — If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at whittle12124@yahoo.com.

Church Briefs WOMEN’S LUNCHEON COXSACKIE — ColumbiaGreene Women’s Luncheon will be held 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Aug. 14 at Pegasus Restaurant, 10885 Route 9W, Coxsackie.

The theme is “Obeying Gods Voice.” The feature will be Cathy Hewitt from Coxsackie.

Music will be provided by Annie Drewello, music and band teacher from Catskill Elementary School. Speaker will be Karen Overbaugh who is a

mother of twins from Greenville. Reservations are necessary and cancellations a must.

RSVP no later than Aug. 12.

Call Ruth at 518-634-7405 or Lynn Overbaugh at 910-3826373. Cost is $12.50 inclusive (cash only).

WOMEN’S EXPO WINDHAM — The Women’s Expo will be held 10 a.m.4 p.m. Aug. 17 at St. Theresa’s, 5188 Route 23, Windham. Admission by donation. Listen

to country, folk, rock’n’roll and blue grass music while you have a delicious sandwich or more at Karen’s Country Kitchen. Browse a wide variety of vendors, have a free chair massage or acupressure treatment, enter the putting contest, learn about beekeeping or knitting, or enter a raffle. Treat yourself to a free fitness class.

Talk to WRIP 97.9FM broadcast co-hosts Jay Fink and Sonny Ochs. And much more.

Something for everyone.

Garden pests, garlic, ‘normal’ weather This summer’s weather has returned to some semblance of “normal” as we enter the middle of August. It has been a bit warmer than “normal” with more than 12 days above 90 degrees already recorded in Albany and also a bit wetter due to hit and miss thundershowers that mostly have “missed” my garden. That’s OK with me after a very wet spring that carried over from last winter.

Most years I harvest my garlic in the middle to the end of July. This year I was surprised to see that at least two of the varieties I grew were not ready until early August.

I grew 4, hard necked varieties, this year. Rioja is a red skinned, smallish bulb, Vietnamese, a much larger white skinned bulb, Persian Star, also white skinned and large and a variety called Music that has pinkish skin on the bulb. I have not compared the flavors of them yet since they are still curing. Garlic is best harvested when the individual cloves are visible and clearly defined within the bulb, but before they split the outer skin. Well, both Vietnamese and Persian Star were not quite mature even in early August, but Rioja and Music, were over mature and the cloves had split the skin.

I will use these two first and store the others.

I have always tried to cut off the garlic scapes (flower stalks) as soon as they appear, since I had read that they can be used in various manners, such as making a pesto or just cooked. This year, with the varying maturity times, I missed cutting off some of them and I was pretty surprised to see how much they affected the overall bulb size.

The bulbs that did not have the scapes removed were about half the size of the ones that did have them removed.

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BOB

BEYFUSS My neighbor Werner made the exact same observation with different varieties.

I also learned that planting the largest cloves makes the largest bulbs, by a lot! I only had a couple of Rioja bulbs so I planted some very small cloves from them last October and the resulting bulbs are also very small.

Garlic, onions, shallots, chives and leeks are all called “Alliums” since they are all in the onion family and they are perhaps the easiest crops to grow organically in a backyard garden. I apply one early insecticide spray to the soil shortly after planting to kill off any onion maggots that may appear, but nothing at all after that.

On the other end of the “need to spray” spectrum, are the Brassicas, namely Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower. These crops are subject to several pests and I usually spray them early in the season for root maggots. Right now I am seeing the white butterfly that is laying eggs which will hatch into green colored, cabbage worms in a few days.

These pests can be controlled organically by using the biological products containing Bacillus thurigiensis, sometimes sold as Dipel or “organic caterpillar control”.

Some readers have reported their zucchini or other squash plants abruptly

collapsing and dying. Careful observation of the base of the plants show what appears to be a sawdust like material on the lower leaf stems. This is called “frass” which is a polite term for insect poop! Several weeks ago a non-descript, clear winged insect, called the squash vine borer, laid eggs at the base of the plant that hatched into larvae that eat the inside of the leaf stalks.

There is nothing that can be done at this time except to try to skewer the “worms” that are still inside the stalks with a paper clip. Some people actually welcome the demise of their zucchini plants after a few weeks of production! This is another example of where an early applied prophylactic spray is needed to prevent the egg laying to begin with.

The other major squash pest are grey colored, shield shaped “squash bugs” that can overwhelm all members of the squash family. Some gardeners have even quit growing summer squash (including me) due to these pests which come back year after year. To prevent them from multiplying it is necessary to spray early and often.

Cucumber vines wilting, shriveling and dying is usually due to a disease called “bacterial wilt.” This disease is transmitted by tiny, harmless looking, striped cucumbers beetles that are only about quarter inch long. Their larvae feed underground on the roots where they transmit the disease early in the season.

Once the vines begin to wilt in mid-summer, there is no control. No one likes to spray poisons on food crops, but if applied early in the growing season, these insecticides break down long before harvest begins.

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

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AUG. 11 COXSACKIE — Nite Train performs 6-8 p.m. Aug. 11 at Coxsackie Riverside Park, Betke Boulevard, Coxsackie.

Admission is free.

SAUGERTIES — The Saugerties Antique Auto Club 62nd annual Car-Truck-Motorcycle Show will be held 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Aug. 11 at Cantine Memorial Field in Saugerties. The event will be held rain or shine. It will feature plaques, goodie bags, a flea market music, breakfast and lunch. More than 40 trophies will be awarded. Vehicle registration is $15 and pre-1942 stock vehicles are free. All vehicles welcome with no vehicle cut off year. Club member cars will not be judged. For information, call 845-679-6810 or 845-337-8426.

AUG. 12 CAIRO — The Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad St., Cairo, will host a Guitar Workshop for Beginner/Intermediate players 6-8 p.m. Aug. 12 and 10 a.m.-noon Aug. 17. This workshop will cover the basics like tuning, exercises, major and minor chords and strum patterns, and learning a favorite song. The student must bring a guitar. The workshop is free to participants but preregistration is a must by calling the library at 518-622-9864.

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Local History Group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Greenville Library, 11177 Route 32, Greenville. Thirty Years of Greenville Local History is the program. Thirty years spans both the tenure

of Town Historian Don Teator and the creation of the GLHG. Teator will narrate a timeline of the accomplishments, collections, people and highlights. The public is invited, free of charge, to the program.

Light refreshments will be served.

AUG. 13 LATHAM — The local group of The Society of American Magicians, Assembly 24 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at the S. W. Pitts Hose Co., 226 Old Loudon Road, Latham.

All persons, 16 and older, with any interest in the art of magic are welcome. For information about the organization, or for a link to a local magician, visit WWW.SAM24.SYNTHASITE. COM.

AUG. 14 COXSACKIE — ColumbiaGreene Women’s Luncheon will be held 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Aug. 14 at Pegasus Restaurant, 10885 Route 9W, Coxsackie.

The theme is “Obeying Gods Voice.” The feature will be Cathy Hewitt from Coxsackie. Music will be provided by Annie Drewello, music and band teacher from Catskill Elementary School. Speaker will be Karen Overbaugh who is a mother of twins from Greenville. Reservations are necessary and cancellations a must.

RSVP no later than Aug. 12.

Call Ruth at 518-634-7405 or Lynn Overbaugh at 910-3826373. Cost is $12.50 inclusive (cash only).

CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, will hold a book sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesdays through Aug. 28, weather permitting, in the sheld behind the library.

AUG. 15 CASTLETON — The Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene Counties Board of Cooperative Educational Services will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Questar III Central Office, 10 Empire State Blvd., Castleton.

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COXSACKIE — Silver Chain Band performs 6-8 p.m. Aug. 16 at Coxsackie Riverside Park, Betke Boulevard, Coxsackie. Admission is free. The annual movie night will begin at 8 p.m. Aug. 16 in the park.

PHOENICIA — Ulster Savings Bank, 58 Main St., Phoenicia will hold their annual Community Appreciation Day 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 16. Hot dogs, hamburgers and beverages will be served, while supplies last; arts and crafts for kids, popcorn, games, prizes and giveaways (while supplies last). No account opening is required for attending this event or participating in the raffle. For information, contact Samantha Awand-Gortel, Branch Manager at 845-6885965, ext. 6701.

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AUG. 17 WINDHAM — The Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid is holding the “Cancer Patient Aid CAR SHOW” Aug. 17 at the Chicken Run, 5639 Route 23, Windham. Registration runs from 9-11 a.m. This show is continuing a tradition started by the late Rick Mundelein in support of cancer patients.

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DEC announces hunting licenses, DMP’s now on sale

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Catskill’s Leviticus Johnson (13) goes up for a shot between Coxsackie-Athens’ Dillon Hynes (left) and Josh Kiefer during Thursday’s Columbia-Greene Summer Basketball League championship game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Catskill boys win C-GCC Summer League title

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Catskill’s 1-2 punch punch of Lavon Fernandez and DeVon Haye will no doubt be a force to be reckoned with in Patroon

Conference boys basketball this year.

Fernandez and Haye gave a glimpse of what they’re capable of on Thursday, See CATSKILL B6

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DEC announced this week that sporting licenses and Deer Management Permits (DMPs) for the 2019-20 season are now on sale.

Hunting, fishing and trapping licenses will remain for sale throughout the year while 2019-20 DMPs are available at all license-issuing outlets, by phone, or online through Oct. 1, 2019. The new hunting and trapping licenses are valid from Sept. 1, 2019 through Aug. 31, 2020, while annual fishing licenses are valid for 365 days from date of purchase.

For those looking to get a hard copy of the Hunting Regulations Guide, they will not be available until later this month. However, the electronic version is currently available at https://www.dec.

ny.gov/outdoor/37136.html.

As for DMPs, commonly referred to as “Doe Permits,” DEC says they, “… are used to manage the deer herd and are issued through an instant random selection process at the point of sale. The chances of obtaining a DMP remain the same throughout the application period-hunters need not rush to apply for one.

The 2019 chances of selection for a DMP in each Wildlife Management Unit are available online, through license issuing agents, or by calling the DMP Hotline at 1-866-4724332. Detailed information on Deer Management Permits is available on DEC’s website.”

Expanded Call Center Hours DEC also announced expanded Call Center hours for this year. This gives you more opportunities to buy your hunting, fishing, trapping license, or DMP by phone.

“Beginning Aug. 1, the DEC Call Center is accessible from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays through Oct. 1. Regular call center weekday hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) will resume on Oct. 2.”

To purchase your license by phone, the number is 866933-2257. You can also buy your license or permit online.

Go to www.dec.ny.gov, click on “2019 Sporting Licenses On Sale Now,” then follow the prompts.

Buying a license is important as money generated from their sale is a critical source of funds for conservation in NYS. DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said, “Buying a license helps support DEC’s many important conservation efforts and is the first step before heading out next season to safely and responsibly enjoy this great sport.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Those hunting license dollars go into the Conservation Fund which, among other things, directly supports our Environmental Conservation Officer’s (ECOs) efforts to combat poaching. Let’s make sure that money, estimated at over $30 See DEC B5

Outlaws 15U win Super 8 championship Columbia-Greene Media

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New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold (14) throws a pass during the first half against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on Thursday.

Darnold flashes his star potential in Jets-Giants preseason game Manish Mehta New York Daily News

Sam Darnold showed the special skills that will turn him into a star sooner than later in the Jets preseason opener against the Giants Thursday night. Gang Green’s second-year quarterback quickly carved up his cross-town rivals, giving everyone a glimpse of what

could be a special season for him.

Adam Gase, who hasn’t seen a proper quarterback since Peyton Manning was on his side, was likely doing cartwheels of joy in his head.

Darnold, who had been solid in camp, engineered a 7-play, 75-yard touchdown See GIANTS B5

TROY — The Greene County Outlaws 15U team won the Super 8 Tournament championship recently with a 7-0 victory over the Capital City Kings at Joe Bruno Stadium.

Pat McManus threw a complete game shutout for the Outlaws, striking out 12.

Ethan Conrad ripped a two-run triple for the champs. Dylan Norton had an RBI triple, Alek Wagor, Kasey Moore and Vic Gorman two singles apiece, Isaiah Edmonds a single and an RBI, Isaiah Maines and Adam Carlson a single each and Mike O’Connor drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.

In the first round, the Outlaws beat Waterford Nationals 4-3.

Norton got the win on the mound, pitching 2 innings in relief and striking out 1. Carlson started and worked five innings, striking out three.

Norton, Ethan Conrad, Grayson Van Wie, Maines, Moore, Gorman and Casey Carroll all had one hit for the Outlaws. Maines, Edmonds, Norton and Wagor all drove

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The Outlaws had 3 hits,

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Pat McManus started on the mound for the Outlaws and pitched 5 1/3 innings, striking out five. Bowes got the win, going 1 2/3 innings and striking out one.

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Houston (Miley 10-4) at Baltimore (Bundy 5-11), 7:05 p.m.

NY Yankees (Happ 9-6) at Toronto (Reid-Foley 1-2), 7:07 p.m.

LA Angels (Barria 4-5) at Boston (Johnson 1-1), 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Keller 7-11) at Detroit (TBD), 7:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bieber 11-4) at Minnesota (Smeltzer 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (TBD) at Seattle (Gonzales 12-9), 10:10 p.m.

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Chi. Cubs (Darvish 4-5) at Cincinnati (Bauer 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 14-5) at NY Mets (Stroman 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

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Colorado (Freeland 3-9) at San Diego (Quantrill 4-3), 10:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Smyly 1-1) at San Francisco (Beede 3-6), 10:15 p.m.

Interleague Wednesday’s games Atlanta 11, Minnesota 7 Houston 14, Colorado 3 Chi. Cubs 10, Oakland 1 Seattle 3, San Diego 2 Friday’s games Texas (Allard 0-0) at Milwaukee (Gonzalez 2-1),

White Sox, Yankees will play at the ‘Field of Dreams’ in 2020 LaMond Pope Chicago Tribune

Major League Baseball is building a temporary ballpark at the “Field of Dreams” — the setting for the iconic 1989 baseball movie — and the White Sox and Yankees are coming.

The game, being dubbed “MLB at Field of Dreams,” is scheduled for 6 p.m. Aug. 13, 2020, and will be broadcast nationally on Fox Sports.

Construction of a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark on the Dyersville, Iowa, farm where the film was shot will start Tuesday — one year from the date of the game, according to MLB.com. It will be the first major league game in the state. Dyersville is located about 200 miles west of Chicago.

The high-profile game against the Yankees puts a spotlight on the Sox, who are rebuilding with young talent such as Tim Anderson, Yoan Moncada and Eloy Jimenez.

“We look forward to celebrating the movie’s enduring message of how baseball brings people together at this special cornfield in Iowa,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.

The game, a home date for the Sox, will be played on a Thursday. The teams will take Friday off and resume the three-game series Saturday at Guaranteed Rate Field. “ ‘Field of Dreams’ is an iconic, generational baseball story built upon a deep love of the game that transcends even the most impossible of circumstances,” Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a statement. “The filmmakers tell a beautiful story that resonates to this day. It is

an incredible honor for the White Sox franchise to be the home team against the Yankees in a special setting that will capture everyone’s imagination, just like the movie does.”

The Sox are featured in the film, which stars Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones and Amy Madigan.

Liotta plays “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, who played the final six seasons of his 13-year career with the Sox. The film is based on the book “Shoeless Joe” by W.P. Kinsella.

The movie was nominated for three Oscars, including best picture. It features several famous quotes, including “If you build it, he will come” and the exchange, “Is this heaven?” followed by, “No, it’s Iowa.”

According to the news release, the Sox and Yankees were two of the favorite teams of one of the film’s characters.

“The Yankees organization is proud to participate in such a unique celebration of baseball,” Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said in a statement.

“I fully expect that this experience will exemplify why baseball remains a cherished American pastime.”

Fans attending the game will walk along a pathway through a cornfield to the field, which will pay homage to Comiskey Park, including the shape of the outfield and bullpens beyond the centerfield wall.

The ballpark’s right-field wall will include windows to show the cornfields.

Major League Baseball has branched out to unique settings for games in recent seasons.

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The Fort Bragg (N.C.) Game in 2016 featured the Braves and Marlins. The Royals played the Tigers in Omaha, Neb., home of the College World Series, earlier this season. The annual Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pa., began in 2017, and this season features the Cubs and Pirates on Aug. 18.

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The County 31. would like to comOn or before November 10, any remaining un- mence work as soon claimed monies or other properties will be paid as possible; Contracor delivered to the State Comptroller. tors to indicate anticiNOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING pated schedule on bid AS OWNERS OF UNCERTAIN UNCLAIMED form.

PROPERTY HELD BY Drawings and specifiCOMMUNITY BANK, N.A. cations may be exam45-49 COURT STREET ined, at no expense, at CANTON NY 13617-0509 the office of Wallace The persons whose names and last known ad- Architecture located at dresses are set forth below from the records of 29 Main Street - Suite the above named banking organization to be 3b, Chatham, NY entitled to unclaimed property consisting of 12037 (518) 392-7616 cash amounts of fifty dollars or more. or at the Columbia AMOUNTS HELD OR County Purchasing OWING FOR THE Agent's office, located PAYMENT OF NEGOTIABLE INVESTMENTS, at 401 State Street, CERTIFIED CHECKS OR DEPOSITS Hudson, NY 12534 ANDREW P SCACE (518) 828-2031. CopPO BOX 246 ies of the Contract VALATIE NY 12184 Documents in digital ANNETTE M LEONARDSON format may be ob6 WILLARD PL tained from the ArchiHUDSON NY 12534 tect for a non-refundBECRAFT PUMPER CO #2 GREENPORT able fee of $25.00, 257 COUNTY ROUTE 14 paid by check to "WalHUDSON NY 12534 lace Architecture".

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CHATHAM NY 12037 The successful bidder, STUYVESANT FALLS EXPLORERS at the Owner's discrePO BOX 56 tion, may be required STUYVESANT FALLS NY 12174 to furnish a PerforNotice is hereby given NOTICE IS HEREBY mance Bond and a that an Order entered GIVEN that the County Payment Bond in the of Columbia, New statutory form of pubby the Supreme Court, Greene County, on the York, invites sealed lic bonds required by 17th day of March. bids for the furnishing Sections 136 and 137 2017, bearing Index of materials and labor Number 17-0154, a necessary for the concopy of which may be struction work for the renovations to the exexamined at the Office isting Columbia Emergency of the Greene County County Clerk, located at 411 Services Training Facilities (CCESTF) buildMain Street, Catskill, New York 12414. ing located in the Gegrants me the right to rald R. Simons Comassume the name JAX- merce Park at 50 Drive, ON CHARLES COR- Grandinetti NY 12075.

BETT. The city and Ghent, state of my present Sealed bids will be readdress is Greenville, ceived for five (5) mulNew York. I was born tiple prime contracts: on September 28, Construction, Wheel2013. in Albany, New chair Lift, Plumbing, York.

My present HVAC and Electrical Work. name is JAXON CHARLES EDWARDS.

of the State Finance Law, each for 100% of the amount of the Contract.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any and all informalities and the right to disregard all non-conforming, non-responsive conditional bids.

OWNER County of Columbia 401 State Street, Hudson, NY 12534 PROJECT ARCHITECT WALLACE ARCHITECTURE / William Wallace, AIA 29 Main Street - Suite 3b, Chatham, NY 12037 phone (518) 392-7616 or (518) 781-3061 / bill@wallacearchitectureny.com The Board Of Education of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District is accepting sealed bids for: Transportation for one student from residence Jewett, NY to the Sackett Educational Center daily, 200 Schuurman Rd, Castleton-On-Hudson, NY 12033 for the 20192020 School Year, in accordance to bid specifications.

Bid specifications will be available from the Tannersville High School District Office (518589-5400 X 1000).

Sealed bids must be submitted to the Tannersville High School District Office, attention Amy E. Sylak, Transportation Supervisor, by Tuesday, August 13th at 10:00am at which time they will be publicly opened in the Superintendent’s Office. No faxed bids will be accepted. Final approval will be at 6:30 pm on Thursday, August 15th, at the BOE meeting. The BOE reserves the right to waive any informalities and to reject any or all bids.

INVITATION FOR BID The City of Hudson, Dept. of Public Works will receive bids for the Planing and Paving of

various streets, until 2:00 PM on August 26, 2019 at the Department of Public Works office at which time all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Contract Documents, including drawings and specifications, as prepared by the Superintendent of Public Works, are on file at the office of the Department of Public Works, 520 Warren Street Hudson, New York.

A Certified Check or bank draft, payable to the order of the City of Hudson, or negotiable U.S. Government Bonds (at par value), or a satisfactory Bid Bond executed by the Bidder and an acceptable surety, in an amount equal to 5% of the total of the Bid shall be submitted with each bid.

Attention is called to the fact that not less than the minimum salaries and wages as set forth in the Contract Documents must be paid on this project; and, that the Contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

The owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive any informality in the bidding.

Bids may be held by the Owner for a period not to exceed 45 days from the date of the opening of Bids for the purpose of reviewing the Bids and investigating the qualifications of Bidders, prior to awarding of the Contract.

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LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF COLUMBIA NOTICE TO BIDDER

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that sealed bids will be received for the purchase of the following services: FOR THE PERIOD OF OCTOBER 1, 2019 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 1. M O L D B O A R D CUTTING EDGES & ASSOCIATED ITEMS 2. SAND USED IN SNOW & ICE CONTROL AND SUMMER MAINTENANCE at the office of the Columbia County Highway Department, 178 Route 23B, Hudson, NY, 12534, until 11:00 A.M. TUESDAY AUGUST 20, 2019. Bids shall be contained in envelopes, sealed clearly marked "SEALED BID" and the name of the service being bid. The bids will be publicly read at the office of the Highway Department, 178 Route 23B, Hudson, NY on 11:00 A.M. TUESDAY AUGUST 20, 2019.

If mailing by USPS, send to Columbia County Highway Department, PO Box 324, Hudson, NY 12534. All deliveries other than USPS, send to Columbia County Highway Department, 178 SR 23B, Hudson, NY 12534.

Proposals can be obtained by any bidder at the Columbia County Highway Department, 178 Route 23B, Hudson, NY, and shall be made in accordance with the documents that contain the Instructions to Bidders and the Specifications.

Where two or more responsible bidders submit identical bids as to price, the County of Columbia may award the Contract to either bidder. The County of Columbia may waive any formalities or re-

ject any and all bids and re-advertise for new bids at its discretion.

No bid may be withdrawn by any bidder for a period of 45 days from the date of bid opening.

Anthony F. DeMarco, Jr. Director of Highways Columbia County Highway Dept.

178 State Route 23B (PO Box 324) Hudson, NY 12534 (518) 828-7011 Dated: August 10, 2019

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Darnold, who worked out the shotgun for six of seven snaps, was terrific after his first pass intended for Quincy Enunwa was nearly intercepted by Jabril Peppers. He caught fire after nearly getting picked off.

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Darnold was just getting started. On the next play, he hooked up with Jamison Crowder for a 28-yard catchand-run to get to the Giants 11. Crowder is expected to be

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a security blanket from the slot in Gase’s offense.

The Giants, looking to repair an anemic defense from a year ago, didn’t stand a chance against Darnold, whose dump-off to Ty Montgomery, who started for Bell, put Gang Green on the doorstep of a score.

After a short run by Montgomery, Darnold punctuated the drive by sprinting right on a designed rollout and firing a bullet to Crowder for a 3-yard touchdown.

One year after the Jets were one of the most inefficient offenses on third downs (32.2 percent, ranked 29th), Darnold and Co. converted on both third downs during the opening drive to take an early lead.

“It’s about going out there and ... doing what I can to put the ball in the end zone,” Darnold said in the run-up to the game. “My job doesn’t change just because it’s a preseason game. I’m going to go out there and do the best that I can to find the end zone.”

It was enough for Gang Green faithful, including owner Woody Johnson, to feel downright giddy about what lies ahead for the star-crossed franchise.

It’s no secret that Darnold’s rate of development will determine whether the Jets have any chance of breaking their eight-year playoff drought.

Recent history suggests that a significant leap in his second season is possible. (See: Carson Wentz, Patrick Mahomes,

Mitch Trubisky, etc.)

Darnold entered camp with a streamlined body and proper mindset. He’s playing with more confidence and zip on his passes. Gase has attributed the extra juice on his young quarterback’s passes to proper offseason rest after a hectic pre-draft schedule last year. Darnold believes the extra velocity can be traced to his additional confidence and comfort level with his surroundings.

Whatever the reason, the difference is noticeable.

This is Darnold’s team.

It’ll be incumbent upon Gase, who was hired primarily because of the brain trust’s belief that he was best man to maximize the signal caller’s prodigious gifts, to guide the

centerpiece of the franchise in the right direction.

Darnold gave everyone a taste of what Gase’s offense might look like this season.

Sure, the Giants didn’t build a specific gameplan for the Jets, but it was an encouraging start for the Darnold-Gase duo.

“It’ll be fun to watch our guys be able to go fully at somebody else,” Gase said this week about seeing how his team plays against someone wearing something other than green-and-white. “You want to go against somebody else. Different defense, different looks, different bodies. I think it’s fun for us as coaches to watch.”

It was definitely fun watching Darnold, even if it was only for one drive.

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Former NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony is at rock bottom Kristian Winfield New York Daily News

NEW YORK — If Carmelo Anthony was already at rock bottom, this latest development is the People’s Elbow.

No NBA team has signed the former All-Star to a free-agent deal, not even at a minimum salary. Now, a depleted Team USA has opted not to add Anthony to its Olympic roster — and that’s after Anthony’s camp inquired about joining the team, not the other way around.

Remember, this is a Team USA that can use all the help it can get. The country is sending its C team, not even its B Team, after stars like James Harden,

Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard, Tobias Harris and Bradley Beal withdrew from Team USA training camp to focus on the upcoming season. Anthony, who is at the tail end of his prime and coming off the two most embarrassing seasons of his NBA career, wasn’t even invited.

He was reduced to asking for a seat at the table, then was denied that seat because he’s viewed as a side show.

“I understood why the agent, he’s looking to get him the exposure, looking to get him another shot. But the only way (Anthony) can really be satisfied is for him to have another shot in the NBA, with another team,” Team USA director Jerry Colangelo said.

“With us, that would’ve been more of

a distraction, as we discussed it. We need to focus on this team concept. We have a bunch of new guys and we’re going to go with this new group. And when you insert a different element and it detracts in any way, you lose it.

“That was it. That’s no reflection on Carmelo.”

Yes. Yes it is.

Anthony has long been revered as a player bred for international competition. He is the only NBA player with three Olympic gold medals, and he’s been successful overseas because he’s one of the most unstoppable scorers of all time. Or at least he was as recently as three years ago. Anthony has aged, and the NBA has evolved. His style of play

is no longer attractive. He hasn’t conformed to what the league needs him to be, and his options have shrunk to zero because of it.

Anthony went on ESPN’s First Take for a one-on-one interview with Stephen A. Smith, and to his credit, he said all the right things. He conceded that once upon a time, he was focused more on scoring 30 than getting the win, chalking it up to being a young player on a team that needed him to score to have a chance in a ball game. He talked through his side of the exile in Houston. He said he was willing to take a reduced role, acknowledging he came to that conclusion when he joined the Rockets last summer. He proclaimed

his love for the game of basketball, that it would mean the world to him to have one more shot at proving his worth.

“It felt like s--- somebody in power telling you they no longer need your services, it felt like I got fired,” he said.

“I felt like I don’t want to do this no more. I felt like I loved the game, but the game didn’t love me.”

Talk is one thing and actions are another. Anthony will have to prove all those things true, and he can only do so if he gets an opportunity. Truth be told, there should be room for Anthony in the NBA. He’s a Hall of Fame-level talent, who just hasn’t had the best go these past three years.

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Coxsackie-Athens’ Josh Kiefer (22) drives against Catskill’s Kellen Gibbs during Thursday’s Columbia-Greene Summer Basketball League championship game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

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Catskill’s DeVon Haye shoots over Coxsackie-Athens’ Isaiah Richardson during Thursday’s Columbia-Greene Summer Basketball League championship game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Catskill’s Lavon Fernandez goes to the basket as CoxsackieAthens’ Timmy Simmons defends during Thursday’s ColumbiaGreene Summer Basketball League championship game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

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combining for 36 points as Catskill defeated CoxsackieAthens, 62-39, to win the Columbia-Greene Boys Summer Basketball League championship.

Fernandez and Haye both finished with 18 points as Catskill ran the table in the league, winning all 10 of its games, beating opponents by an average margin of 28 points.

“This championship means a lot,” Catskill coach Andy Gonzalez said. “We came in here with one mentality and that was to work hard on the defensive end every game and the guys got together and committed to it and look where it got us.”

Coxsackie-Athens was missing three of its usual starters and had just five players, but played hard the entire game and gave Catskill a game for most of the first half. The Indians were still within eight, 26-18, with 1:45 to go in the first half, but Catskill closed the stanza on a 10-0 run to take a 36-18 lead at halftime.

Leviticus Johnson scored six of his 13 points in the run.

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Catskill won the 2019 Columbia-Greene Summer Basketball League championship on Thursday with a 62-39 victory over CoxsackieAthens at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Dennis Kiefer said. Five guys, no subs, missing three starters and we did what we did.

We played hard and it doesn’t matter who’s there, we play hard. We knew what we were up again coming in, but I just told

them to come in and play hard. I feel like they Yankees, next man up.”

Catskill went on to outscore C-A 26-21 in the second half to wrap up the victory and the league championship.

Vonis Donely added six points to the Cats’ cause.

Daivon Gaillard had five and Kellen Gibbs two.

With the addition of Hudson transfers Fernandez and Johnson, an already good team was

made even better, but Gonzalez knows the team must maintain its focus at all times in order to reach its ultimate goal.

“At the end of the day they have to put it all together and play good team ball,” Gonzalez

said. “I don’t look at this team as just one dominant player, two, three. We have five dominant players every time we step on that court. We have a bench, this is one team. This is why we did this summer league, to get this team to start gelling, get them together, get them focused and get them ready for when the season starts.”

Should the team be able to play up to its enormous potential, the sky’s the limit, Gonzalez said.

“I think this team can go pretty far,” Gonzalez said. “At the end of th day, though, they have to be hungry for it, keep working together and stay focused. They can’t play that me basketball, they have to play that we basketball.

“I feel as if we can dominate the Patroon Conference if they all work hard and stick together and we can put in some work afte we dominate the Patroon Conference. These guy have to take pride in it, though, and keep working hard.”

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Mom has fallen out of love with good man I’m a mother of two girls, ages 3 and 5. Their father and I are together, but I’m not in love with him anymore. I have felt this way for two years now.

I’m not excited to see him come home. When I take our children out, I hope he DEAR ABBY doesn’t want to come. When he touches me affectionately, I want to pull away. I have talked to him about it, but he doesn’t feel the same way. He wants to do everything he can to fix it.

I’d love that too, but I no longer feel any connection to him.

He’s not a bad guy. He gives me plenty of attention and is good with the kids. I feel like an idiot. What kind of person even thinks about breaking her family up when they’ve got someone so great? How much time should I give this before I call it quits? How much couples counseling should we pay for before we can say we tried, but it didn’t work? Should I stay for the kids even though I’m not happy with him?

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I would love to know what happened two years ago that caused you to begin withdrawing from your partner. You ask what kind of person thinks the way you do? The answer may be a woman who is bored, confused, disillusioned or has stopped putting in the effort that’s required to maintain a satisfactory relationship. Or, you may not have been in love with him in the first place.

If you’re sincere about it, try counseling, first to determine where your relationship went off

track, and second to find a way to save it. Your daughters are little. They don’t need their lives disrupted. Be sure the person you and your spouse choose is licensed. Give it a year. By then both of you will know whether it was worth the money.

I’m 63 and retired. I have two grown sons and grandchildren. Some of them are young, and some of them are young adults.

My husband of 10 years and I have decided to adopt the RV lifestyle and travel. My sons are always busy with their own lives and hardly ever reach out to me except to ask me to baby-sit or to tell me I “need to come see the grandkids.” They make no effort to visit us, although we winter in the same state not far from them. I’m lucky if I ever receive a “How are you doing, Mom?” phone call. We see each family during the holidays.

When we travel, we’ll be on the road four to six months at a time. Contact will be by phone or through social media only. I feel guilty for doing this. Why? Guilty In Texas If I had to guess, you feel guilty because you think it is your duty to be at your adult children’s beck and call. You have a right to the adventure awaiting you, and I hope you and your husband will go ahead with it. If you do, you will make lifetime memories and new friendships together.

If an emergency arises, you can always hightail it back. Remember: You have earned this, so please allow yourself to enjoy it.

People with strong family history of SAH at increased risk My wife’s mother and her mother’s father had subarachnoid hemorrhages (SAHs) — he died immediately, and her mother recovered after a time, during which she suffered delusions. Should my wife receive special monitoring? She has always had migraines, which have for the most part been controlled TO YOUR by medicine, but as we get GOOD HEALTH into our older years (70s), I wonder if we should pay more attention to the possibility of an SAH, and what might that entail.

DR. KEITH ROACH

Most subarachnoid hemorrhages, a lifethreatening bleed into the head from a ruptured aneurysm, are spontaneous events unrelated to genetics. However, they sometimes come related to a genetic condition, such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and polycystic kidney disease. Even when they are not associated with a known condition, people with a strong family history for SAH are at increased risk for one themselves. Someone with one firstdegree relative (like your wife’s mother, in her case) has about a 1% chance of having a SAH in the next 10 years. Someone with two first degree relatives has a 7% chance. Your wife would be in between, with one first-degree and one second-degree relative (her grandfather).

There is no consensus on whether she should be screened (with a CT- or MRI-based angiogram scan), but she should discuss it with

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I have a relative who has had inflammatory bowel disease for 12 years. In November, he was started on Xeljanz. For the past several months, he has had a persistent elevation of alkaline phosphatase. It’s less than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal. Isoenzymes were fractionated, revealing it to be 100% of intestinal origin.

Could this be a harbinger of intestinal perforation?

Tofacitinib (Xeljanz) is a biological medication for inflammatory bowel disease, specifically, ulcerative colitis. It can affect the liver, and a serious but rare side effect is perforation of the intestine. However, this was seen in people taking Xeljanz for rheumatoid arthritis, often in connection with NSAID drugs. There was no increased rate of intestinal perforation in people taking the drug for ulcerative colitis.

An increase of less than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal is a very mild increase. Three times the upper limit of normal is a cause for more concern. About 20% of people with ulcerative colitis will have a transient increase in liver enzymes, and about half of those will be of the alkaline phosphatase.

Based on this information, I think intestinal perforation is unlikely.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are an energetic, forceful and compelling individual. You have a knack for changing the dynamic of a room simply by entering it, and you don’t have to do much to attract attention or win the praise of those around you. You are charismatic and creative and always able to work with someone whose ideas are in sync with your own. Indeed, you work well both in groups and on your own, and you rarely have a preference when it comes to solo or team efforts — as long as the goal you are working toward is one that you value highly.

Your sense of destiny is strong, and you are confident that if you are given even a small chance you can accomplish big things — because such an outcome has been preordained, of course! You don’t have to succeed at everything you do, but you will always work hard to ensure that you enjoy more gains than losses in work and relationships.

Also born on this date are: Antonio Banderas, actor; Suzanne Collins, author; Angie Harmon, actress; Herbert Hoover, U.S. president; Josh Gates, TV show host and producer; Jack Haley, actor; Rosanna Arquette, actress; Sam Warner, producer.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Your command of certain key issues will serve you very well — but you must expect to face opposition from one who is envious.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — It may be time to calibrate your responses to what goes on around you, as there has been far too much overreaction

lately for your own good.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Guesswork may be frowned upon in some circles, but you know that anything that yields the correct answer will work.

Keep on guessing!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You will want to buckle down in the face of unexpected opposition today. Don’t let anyone tell you what you’ve already done doesn’t count.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You must be willing to follow certain rules today; without them, you’re likely to be at sea without any mode of navigation at your disposal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — What you do early in the morning may prove even more important to you later in the day when your energy and enthusiasm are running low.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — There’s a method to your madness today, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Listen to those who are thinking of the common good.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You and a coworker may be after the same overall result, but your methods differ wildly. It’s time to come to some kind of agreement.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Take it easy today when the going gets tough toward midday; you must have plenty of fuel left in the tank to make a final productive push.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You can score a great many points today, but even that might not put you over the top. The contest you are in is sure to be prolonged further.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ve been trying to assess another’s performance based upon your own, but that’s not being fair to either party. Try to be more objective.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’ve been basing decisions upon a false assumption lately. Today, you’ll be able to tell fact from fiction; adjust your approach accordingly.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

Answers (Answers Tuesday Monday) Jumbles: SHAME PETTY HONCHO CLAMOR Answer: The fashion boutique below her apartment was — “CLOTHES” TO HOME

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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(e.g., For what does “R&B” stand in the world of music? Answer: Rhythm and blues.)

Freshman level 1. What is sold by Tiffany & Co. of New York City?

2. Who became the 48th vice president of the United States in 2017?

3. On which network is Sean Hannity a fixture?

4. Which president created the Purple Heart decoration?

5. What popular snack was originally called “Saratoga Chips”?

Graduate level 6. For what product was the John B. Stetson Company famous?

7. In the song, “your daddy’s rich” and what is your mama?

8. Poem: “I never saw a purple ___; I never hope to see one.”

9. Term for the period between 1920 and 1933.

10. Poker term for five cards of the same suit in order.

PH.D. level 11. In which city is the This is the Place Monument?

12. According to the lyrics, what train is “the quickest way to Harlem”?

13. Mary ____ was the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government.

14. What poem begins “Once upon a midnight dreary.”

15. What venue is notable as the headquarters of the Rockettes.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Jewelry. 2. Mike Pence. 3. Fox. 4. George Washington. 5. Potato chips. 6. Hats (cowboy). 7. Good looking. 8. Cow. 9. Prohibition. 10. Straight flush. 11. Salt Lake City, Utah. 12. The A Train. 13. Surratt. 14. “The Raven.” 15. Radio City Music Hall.

24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Golfer Mickelson 5 Partners 10 Mont Blanc’s location 14 Watermelon casing 15 Martini garnish 16 “As ye sow, so shall ye __” 17 Probability 18 Behead 20 Charge for services 21 Franklin & Savage 22 Exhausted 23 Picture border 25 Ethane or xenon 26 Tommy Moe & Picabo Street 28 __ rage; very popular 31 Oakley or Potts 32 Oliver’s lunch 34 St. Joan of __ 36 Blood vessel 37 Serpent 38 Larch or laurel 39 Break a fast 40 Courageous acts 41 Compel 42 Go away 44 Sends in payment 45 Tease 46 Kraków natives 47 Monastery superior 50 Insignia 51 UK network 54 Leaping insect 57 Wahine’s dance 58 Indian garb 59 “__ It to Beaver” 60 Common metal 61 Evict 62 Passé 63 Items sold by the dozen DOWN 1 Univ. teacher 2 Keep out of sight 3 Not precise; vague 4 Joseph Smith’s religion: abbr.

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5 Internet-access devices 6 Coeur d’__, Idaho 7 Tourette syndrome symptoms 8 Zsa Zsa’s sis 9 Next month: abbr.

10 Painter 11 TV producer Norman 12 Cracker spread 13 Zoomed away 19 Know-__; smart aleck 21 Uncovered 24 __ in; bring under control 25 Joy 26 Rescue 27 Bread recipe verb 28 Razorbill birds 29 U.S. state capital 30 Build 32 Pesky insect 33 Fink 35 Mediocre grades

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A wave of new social science research shows that the quality of shows can influence us in important ways, shaping our thinking and political preferences, even affecting our cognitive ability.

In this so-called golden age of television, some critics have pointed out that the best of the form is equivalent to the most enriching novels.

And high-quality programming for children can be educational. But the latest evidence also suggests there can be negative consequences to our abundant watching, particularly when the shows are mostly entertainment.

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‘SESAME STREET’ AS A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT Cognitive ability is a complex characteristic that emerges from interactions between biological dispositions, nutrition and health, parenting behaviors, formal and informal educational opportunities, and culture.

Studying the connection between intelligence and television consumption is far from straightforward, but researchers have developed compelling ways to isolate the effects of television.

Some of the best research has been done on the television program “Sesame Street.” The show, which began in 1969, was meant to develop early literacy, numeracy and emotional skills for children of preschool age. A detailed analysis of the show’s content in its first and second years reveals that 80% of the program was dedicated to those goals, with the rest meant to entertain.

Researchers randomly assigned groups of low-income children ages 3 to 5 into an experimental group and a control group. In the experimental group, parents were given access to the show if they lacked it and encouraged in person once a month to have their children watch the show.

Almost all (93%) parents of children in the experimental group reported that their children subsequently watched the show, compared with roughly one-third of children in the control group (35%). Among See TV C2

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By MIKAELA LEFRAK Washington Post

WASHINGTON — It’s a balmy spring evening, and the patio in front of Lyman’s Tavern in in Washington, D.C., is deserted. Inside, people hover around a row of pinball machines: Attack From Mars, Star Wars, Eight Ball Deluxe, Red and Ted’s Road Show.

The mechanical sounds of the games mix with players’ chatter; it feels like a carnival has been squeezed inside a shoebox-size room.

Some of the region’s best pinball players are here, participating in a charity pinball tournament for a local library branch, one of many tournaments that Lyman’s regularly hosts. At the Pabst Can Crusher, the first machine in the line, Stephanie Traub drops in a coin and starts to play.

A State Department lawyer by day, Traub, 37, is the topranked woman in Washington and 19th in the country, according to the International Flipper Pinball Association, an

Stephanie Traub has played pinball since she was a child growing up in the ’90s but became a competitive player in 2016, and is a regular in the Washington, D.C.-area pinball scene. Andre Chung/ Washington Post

organization that tracks pinball players. Men and women regularly compete against each other in tournaments, though increasingly women like Traub are organizing their own leagues and tournaments to encourage more women to play.

“This game is awful,” she says as her ball falls past the flippers, ending her turn. “Argh!” she groans. Game over.

Today, pinball is having a resurgence as a hobby and bar activity.

The site pinballmap. com lists about 20 bars and

restaurants with pinball machines inside the Beltway alone. Traub says if she wanted to, she could compete somewhere every night of the week.

One of the game’s biggest boosters in the D.C. area is Scott Nash, the founder and

chief executive of the grocery chain Mom’s Organic Market.

He owns about 40 machines; a new one can set you back about $6,000.

I ask Nash why he, a successful businessman and grown man (he’s 54), likes to spend his free time flicking a tiny metal ball around a big box decorated with cartoons.

As a kid, he says, he used to ride his bike to an arcade to play pinball with quarters stolen from his mother’s purse.

Playing now still fills him with that same intoxicating mix of competitive drive and solitary Zen. “It’s the perfect combination of luck and skill,” he says.

“It is, to me, a perfect hobby.”

Like many other area pinballers, Traub considers the pinball room in the College Park Mom’s store to be one of the best places in the region to hone your skills, due to the sheer variety of machines spanning pinball’s three ages: electromechanical machines dating to the ‘30s, classic

games from the ‘70s and ‘80s, and modern machines outfitted with microchips and complex computing systems.

Traub plays in weekly tournaments there and often broadcasts her games on the live-streaming platforms Twitch and Facebook Live.

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by Amazon; Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) They typically attract about 1,000 unique viewers, Traub says, but they’re among the small fish in the growing pinball video ecosystem. One Twitch account, DeadFlip, has 2.7 million unique views. Watching pinball online is an important way to improve your game; it helps familiarize you with machines that you might need to play on during a tournament.

Great pinball players have different strategies for every machine they encounter. Some tournaments use only classic machines, which have shorter game times and smaller flippers than newer ones. Other tournaments have participants play rounds on every era of machine. And See PINBALL C2

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Gordon Ramsay proves he’s indeed no Anthony Bourdain ... at least not yet

By TIM CARMAN Washington Post

Gordon Ramsay has a new TV series, the appropriately self-referential “Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted,” and it’s clearly aiming to fill the food-travelogue void left behind by the late Anthony Bourdain, the chef-raconteur whose signature moves no one can copy. Not even the great Ramsay, a man with more energy than 100 suns.

Announced a year ago, less than two months after Bourdain died, “Uncharted” was met with fierce, white-fanged criticism when the show’s news release touted that Ramsay would be “discovering the undiscovered” and cooking against local chefs in some “friendly competition.”

A month after the announcement, Ramsay defended the project to Entertainment Weekly, saying, “God, the feeble warriors that sit in their dungeons and spout negativity without understanding what we’re doing.”

He then suggested that all of us wait to judge him after viewing “Uncharted.”

Three episodes into the debut season, which launchedlast Sunday on National Geographic, and I’m ready to issue some opinions: “Uncharted” presents a cuddlier, self-deprecating version of Ramsay to the public, a Michelin-starred chef who willingly turns the tables on himself so that he’s the neophyte suffering for the sake of something to eat. Serving up fewer f-bombs (all bleeped) and not a single moment in which Ramsay looks like he might spontaneously self-combust into rage dust, “Uncharted” won’t easily lend itself to YouTube collections of the chef’s greatest outbursts.

Yet Ramsay’s DNA suffuses every frame of “Uncharted.”

Produced by Studio Ramsay, the chef’s international production company, the series isn’t content with vignettes or mere glimpses into a country’s culture. “Uncharted” insists on

Gordan Ramsay and an eel fisherman, Jeremy, hold their latest catch in New Zealand. Camilla Rutherford/National Geographic

injecting a dramatic arc into every episode, so that the narrative builds to a climax over the course of an hour. The climax is usually some kind of cooking challenge in which Ramsay pits himself against a local chef or cooks for a special occasion.

With each episode, Ramsay uses the challenges as motivation to explore a particular food culture. He uses his bare hands to fish for big, freshwater eel, a specialty of Maori cuisine in New Zealand. He repels down a sheer rock face, with a waterfall showering him from above, to hunt for Berber mountain mushrooms. He hikes across the Andean highlands and fords streams to track down Peruvian herbs.

While instructive (and amusing to watch Ramsay make a pinched face and spit out huhu grubs), these Iron Man explorations only underscore the artificiality of this brand of reality television. Ramsay’s pursuits focus almost exclusively on the rural, the indigenous and the preindustrial, at the expense of a country’s more sophisticated takes on cuisine. Conscious or not, Ramsay’s decision to deal with old cooking cultures, each essentially untouched by the modern world, carries a whiff of Western superiority. It’s not the best look for a middle-aged white dude in the 21st century.

At the same time, there’s also something strangely vulnerable about “Uncharted.” Vulnerability is about the last word I’d ever

associate with Ramsay — a guy who has made a living off his invincibility — but you can see it in his eyes as he cooks for Berbers or those with Maori blood in their veins. Yes, he sometimes behaves as if he’s competing with Martínez or Maori chef Monique Fiso, hoping to better their dishes, but it feels like an old adrenaline rush that’s lost its power. Mostly, Ramsay acts as if he’s seeking everyone’s approval.

In those moments, you feel this wave of sympathy and affection for Ramsay, as if he were allowing us a glimpse into the inner life of a poor, working-class kid who perpetually sought the approval of his alcoholic father. Why do I suspect that Ramsay despises the idea of being an object of sympathy?

For years, you could argue, Ramsay has just been redirecting the abuse he endured as a boy onto the chefs, line cooks, managers and restaurateurs naive enough to appear on his shows. Then again, you could also argue he has been passing along his hard-earned wisdom: Ramsay learned at a young age to despise those who lied to themselves and others. He has devoted a significant chunk of his TV career to exposing professionals who deceive the public about the quality of their ingredients, their management and their restaurants. You could label his shows public service television if they also weren’t vehicles to make Ramsay rich

and famous.

“I’d reinvented myself, I suppose,” Ramsay wrote in his autobiography, “Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen.” “I’m not ashamed of that. I’ve never tried to pretend anything else. All I knew was that I didn’t want to be like (my father), and any time I came even close to doing so, I would put the fear of God into myself.”

If you read his memoir, you learn that Ramsay survived his childhood by keeping his head down and working hard. Working hard and putting up with the kinds of kitchen abuse that only a certain kid can. With “Uncharted,” he’s still working hard, perhaps unnecessarily so.

I mean, no one needs to scale a mountain to appreciate the beauty and importance of the Sacred Valley in Peru, even if it makes for good television.

But by keeping his head down, Ramsay has developed a singular focus, which has made him a brilliant chef and a keen observer of those who would betray the cause of gastronomy.

Yet this trait doesn’t make him a great tour guide (a role that he previously attempted with the U.K. series “Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape”). Each of his “Uncharted” episodes is devoted almost wholly to food — and to Ramsay’s obsessive pursuit of it. What made Bourdain an exceptional host was his boundless curiosity, which led him to places far from the kitchen, and his humility, which graciously turned the spotlight on others.

“Uncharted,” it seems to me, is the beginning of Ramsay’s professional shift. The show exhibits signs of a chef moving away from the thrill of competition and the dinner-rush high of the kitchen, the stuff that has fueled his drive for so long. Ramsay may even be trying to shed a little of the body armor that he has worn like a soldier. If my instincts are right, “Uncharted” could make for compelling TV in the not-too-distant future, all without a single scream from the chef known for them.

Scott Nash, the chief executive of MOM’s Organic Market and the owner of VUK, a pinball and pizza parlor, stands among the the pinball machines at VUK. André Chung /Washington Post

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some machines are heavier than others, which makes them harder to “nudge” — that’s when a player bumps or tilts the table to shift the ball’s trajectory. Many manufacturers even install tilting mechanisms to keep players from nudging games too hard.

Nudging is one of the few areas of the game where physical strength comes into play.

In most of the tournaments Traub participates in, she’s one of the only women. Men don’t have much of a natural physical advantage in pinball — no woman I spoke to had any difficulties with nudging — but it remains a male-dominated activity in the same way that video games and bar sports like pool are. Plus, many of the most popular pinball machines are decorated with cartoonish or sexualized images of women. There’s even one called Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons, which features a blond woman in cutoff shorts

less likely to be civically engaged adults and more likely to vote for parties with populist tendencies like Forza Italia and the Five Star Movement.

A handful of American studies along these lines have focused on the political consequences that news media coverage can have, showing that exposure to Fox News could increase Republican Party vote shares significantly, and that exposure to MSNBC increased Democratic Party voting share (but with a much weaker effect).

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watchers, those in the experimental group also watched more frequently.

Over six months, from November 1970 to May 1971, the experimental group gained 5.4 IQ points — a large effect — relative to the control group and showed stronger evidence of learning along several other dimensions. Gains in cognitive performance were especially large for those who viewed the show frequently relative to those who did so rarely or never. A more recent meta-analysis of published research in 15 countries shows that “Sesame Street” has similar effects around the world.

In newly published research, economists Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine examined longer-term effects of “Sesame Street” by comparing the educational outcomes of children and young adults in counties more or less likely to have access to the program during its early years.

They found that children living in counties with better “Sesame Street” coverage were less likely to be held behind a grade level.

Other experimental research is consistent with the original “Sesame Street” findings. Low-income prekindergarten children scored higher on a social competence index six months after being randomly assigned to an experimental group, in which their parents were encouraged to replace age-inappropriate television with educational television.

LESS READING AND MORE WATCHING In Norway, and a handful of other developed countries, average IQ scores have declined slightly in recent years, after rising for many decades. This

and a bikini top holding two watermelons in front of her breasts. Traub herself owns the game Baywatch, complete with Pamela Anderson in a small red swimsuit.

One of the few other women players at Lyman’s, Mollie Lee, tells me that she does consider the images and themes of many of the machines to be sexist, but the 27-year-old likes playing on them enough to put on blinders. The biggest pinball maker in the country, Stern, still designs new games (including, recently, one with a “Game of Thrones” theme), so she hopes more non-offensive ones are on the way. “I can’t wait for the day that there’s a ‘Sex and the City’ pinball machine. It’s gonna happen,” she says, grinning.

Meanwhile, Traub’s gone back to play Pabst Can Crusher again. No one’s watching her closely — it’s bad form to stand over a machine while someone is playing. She has a good turn, and when she’s done, she’s smiling. “It’s very fulfilling, in a weird way,” she says. “You’re alone, but you don’t feel alone.”

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A recent study found children living in counties with better “Sesame Street” were less likely to be held behind a grade level. Sesame Street

is known as the negative Flynn effect, a variation of the more famous Flynn effect, which is named after the psychologist who first published comprehensive evidence of IQ gains over time. Among native Norwegian men taking an exam at age 18 for military conscription, those born in 1974 scored 2 IQ points higher than those born in 1987.

In an academic article published this year, Norwegian economist Oystein Hernaes and his co-authors attributed some of this decline in IQ scores to access to cable television, which also coincided with a sharp decline in reading. After the introduction of cable in 1981, Norwegian teenagers and young adults drastically cut back on daily time spent reading from 1980

to 2000, and increased their time watching TV. Moreover, relative to public television, cable television had far less educational content and was focused on entertainment and advertisements.

To estimate the effect of cable television on IQ scores, Norwegian scholars analyzed data on the introduction of cable network infrastructure by municipality. They calculated years of exposure to cable by considering the age of eventual test takers when cable became available in their municipality. They controlled for any potential geographic bias by comparing siblings with greater or less exposure to cable television based on their age when cable infrastructure was put in.

They estimate that 10 years

of exposure to cable television lowered IQ scores by 1.8 points. In related research, Hernaes finds that exposure to cable television reduced voter turnout in local elections.

BERLUSCONI TELEVISION A similar study was conducted by Italian economist Ruben Durante and his coauthors and released in this month’s issue of the American Economic Review. They examined the introduction of Silvio Berlusconi’s television network, Mediaset, which specialized in light entertainment such as game shows featuring scantily clad women.

The economists documented that Mediaset devoted almost no programming to educational content and did not offer news in early years,

whereas its main competitor — the state-owned channel — devoted the majority of its airtime to news or educational material.

To study the effects of Mediaset, Durante and his coauthors obtained data on the location of Mediaset transmitters in 1985 and calculated the strength of the broadcasting signal in every Italian municipality based on the position of the transmitters and other technical features of the municipality.

They found that children raised in areas with greater access to Mediaset (a standard deviation in signal strength) had lower cognitive scores as adults by the equivalent of 3 to 4 IQ points.

People more exposed to Mediaset as children were also

We know that education increases cognitive ability, so it stands to reason that educational television would also have a positive effect.

Concerns about culture are hardly novel: Plato made a case for regulating the quality of artistic productions to avoid the corruption of youth and weakening of their character. Twenty-three centuries later, it is easier than ever to placate children as well as lose yourself in entertainment options — in the ocean of online videos, podcasts, cable, and streaming shows and movies.

These options are most likely harmless. Some provide relaxation, and others may modestly reshape cultural attitudes for the better; one study found that the introduction of cable TV empowered women in India. High-quality shows and films can be inspiring, even edifying.

Still, media providers and advertisers compete aggressively for our attention. Most lack the altruistic motivations that guided the producers of the original “Sesame Street.”

The evidence from social science suggests that biased or sensationalist news programs may misinform citizens or discourage civic engagement, and that we should also be cautious about what we give up for the sake of entertainment.

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How to use summer’s bounty in loafs that go sweet or savory

By ROBIN MATHER Chicago Tribune

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eed something easy to add to an otherwise mundane menu? Or something simple to take to a potluck, cookout or another social occasion? What you need is a good quick bread. They’re called quick breads because they’re quick to make, at least compared to yeast-risen breads, and they fall halfway between cake and bread. Whether sweet or savory, quick breads can incorporate the best of summer’s fruits and vegetables.

Quick breads have a rich history in American foodways. Life changed for home cooks back in 1846, when baking soda — often called saleratus at the time — was marketed, making the first quick breads easy to bake at home. Mixed with acidic soured milk or buttermilk that might otherwise have gone to waste, baking soda created a chemical reaction that made possible the gas bubbles that leaven these breads.

Further innovation came 10 years later, when baking powder, a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid (like tartaric acid, for instance), became available. Baking powder leavens without an acidic ingredient, further expanding the home cook’s repertoire.

The quick bread family is big. Its members are baked goods made with leaveners other than yeast. The family includes muffins, biscuits, scones, tea cakes and many other siblings. Cornbread is a quick bread, and so is banana bread.

The whole friendly family requires the simplest equipment to prepare. You’ll need two bowls — one for dry ingredients, one for wet ingredients — and a wooden spoon or spatula.

Whatever kind of quick bread you’re making, take care not to overmix the batter. When you stir the wet ingredients into the dry ones, combine with only 10 to 12 quick strokes. The batter should still show wisps of flour and will be lumpy.

Overmixing causes quick breads to deflate after baking, and the baked bread’s interior will have tunnels or holes. Stir add-ins such as nuts or cheese into the batter just before putting it into its baking vessel.

Quick breads can bake in loaf pans, square pans or heavy skillets, whatever is easiest. Baking time will vary depending on what you’re baking in. Expect a loaf to take an hour or more to bake, while a round or square pan or a skillet-baked bread may take just 30 to 40 minutes. Choose your baking vessel to suit your schedule.

Whatever you’ll bake your quick bread in, it should go into a preheated 350-degree oven on the center rack. Start to check if your quick bread is done about 10 minutes before you expect it to finish.

Quick breads are done when a pick inserted in the middle comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. It’s normal for quick breads baked in loaf pans to have a crack in their tops. Under-baked breads will collapse; over-baked quick breads will be tougher and dryer than they should be.

Summer fruits star in a cherry-almond sweet bread that’s terrific as a breakfast or afternoon treat. But don’t stop there. Substitute any summer fruit for the cherries, change out the nuts and choose a different extract. Try blueberries or blackberries with pistachios and lemon extract, or peaches with pecans and rum extract. Ice it with a simple glaze of powdered sugar and milk if you wish.

Bacon and cheddar cheese combine in an evergreen favorite quick bread. Our version has a bit of cayenne for a lively lift.

Vary it by substituting diced ham for the bacon and shredded Swiss for the cheddar, or make a vegetarian version with a Mediterranean bent with chopped Kalamata olives and feta.

Zucchini bread is a summer classic, and we have one for you here. But it’s not a sweet treat. Ours is a savory version with

Crunchy salad is ‘mostly plants’ MEDITERRANEAN CRUNCH:

Michael Pollan would approve

By JOE YONAN Washington Post

Anybody who’s read much of anything about food over the past few years has surely heard the maxim “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”

Coined by Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and other books influential to the sustainable-food movement, the phrase suggests a reasonable path: Avoid processed food, don’t overeat, and put produce at the center of the plate.

His mother and sisters’ new cookbook turns that advice into more than 100 recipes. But in the foreword, Pollan says the “mostly” in his signature phrase got people riled up. “Carnivores were upset I had dissed their favorite food by failing to even mention it, while vegans and vegetarians were incensed that by qualifying plants with ‘mostly’ I was being mealymouthed or, well, chicken: why not only plants? they insisted.”

Pollan held out, and “Mostly Plants” makes the case. As authors Tracy, Dana, Lori and Corky Pollan put it in their introduction, “We believe that the key to eating well, both for our own health and that of the environment, is not to overturn the dinner table, but simply to change its balance.”

I’m a vegetarian, but I’m not a purist, and I support any ideas that help carnivores reduce their meat consumption. That said, the recipe of theirs I tried - and love - is vegetarian through and through: chopped vegetables, tossed with herbs and sitting on a bed of endive leaves underneath a layer of roasted chickpeas and feta.

It’s yet another of the bright and light salads I can’t stop making (or writing about) this time of year. And it’s simply gorgeous on a platter.

If you’re vegan, feel free to leave off the feta.

If it’s just too hot for you to imagine turning on the oven, even for a short 15 minutes, skip roasting the chickpeas. They won’t mind - and neither, I’m sure, would the Pollans. They’re flexible.

MEDITERRANEAN CRUNCH SALAD One 15-ounce can no-salt-added chickpeas, drained, rinsed and patted dry 3 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, or more as needed 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or more as needed One 12-ounce tomato, hulled and cut into 1/2-inch dice (2 cups) 1/2 large English cucumber, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch dice (seedless; 1 1/2 cups) 1 small (4-ounce) red bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and cut into 1/2-inch dice (1/2 cup) 1 small (4-ounce) yellow or orange bell pepper, stemmed, seeded and cut into 1/2-inch dice (1/2 cup) 1/4 small red onion, cut into 1/2-inch dice (1/4 cup) 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh mint, plus whole leaves for garnish 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar 2 Belgian endives (root ends trimmed), leaves separated 4 ounces (1 cup) crumbled high-quality feta cheese Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Spread the chickpeas on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 teaspoons of the oil, season with ¼ teaspoon of the salt and ⅛ teaspoon of the pepper, and toss to coat. Roast for 15 minutes, stirring once halfway through, until the chickpeas have darkened slightly.

Transfer to a plate to cool to room temperature.

While the chickpeas are roasting, combine the tomato, cucumber, bell peppers, red onion, parsley and chopped mint in a mixing bowl. Drizzle in the remaining 3 tablespoons of oil and all the vinegar, along with the remaining ¼ teaspoon of salt and ⅛ teaspoon of pepper. Gently toss to incorporate. Taste, and season with more salt and/or pepper, as needed.

Line a serving platter with the endive leaves.

Spoon the chopped vegetable mixture over them. Scatter the roasted chickpeas and the feta on top, then garnish with mint leaves.

Adapted from “Mostly Plants,” by Tracy, Dana, Lori and Corky Pollan (Harper Wave, 2019).

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Mediterranean crunch salad is nutritious as well as delicioius. Stacy Zarin Goldberg/ Washington Post

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One author asks, can chess be bad for your health?

By ALLAN FALLOW Washington Post

All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything

By Sasha Chapin Doubleday. 240 pp. $24.95 The quest memoir is a balky beast.

To tame it as well as Canadian journalist Sasha Chapin does in “All the Wrong Moves,” you’ll need an obscure but preferably universal target of obsession — chess mastery, in his case — a vague discontent with your present existence, a lover or two, a guru and the globe-trotting freedom to pursue your quixotic quarry. Leaven the chase with comic doses of self-doubt, then sift out any epiphanies at odyssey’s end.

“It’s tricky to explain the appeal of chess to someone who doesn’t play,” Chapin concedes, yet he makes all the right moves in doing just that.

The game’s “infinite tapestry” first hooked him when he joined the Pawnishers, his high school team in Toronto: Chapin fell so hard for the 64 squares that “it felt like a possession — like a spirit had slipped a long finger up through my spine, making me a marionette, pausing only briefly to ask, ‘You weren’t doing anything with this, were you?’”

That fascination spawned an addiction — Chapin’s nearly ruinous (see subtitle) two-year plunge down the rabbit hole of online blitz and live tournament chess. Mesmerized by the game’s “ecstatically various” combinations, he “spent almost all of my money, neglected my loved ones, and accumulated a few infections” to prepare for the Los Angeles Open, where Chapin (rated 1390) hoped to topple a player rated 2000.

Slow your roll there, board freak — didn’t the United States reach peak pawn when Bobby Fischer became world champ in 1972? Nope — chess commands the devotion of 600 million acolytes around the globe today, meaning one in 12 Earthlings play the game in some capacity. Chapin name-checks fellow fanatics Humphrey Bogart, Albert Einstein and ex-world champ Garry Kasparov, the latter exuding “a barely contained combination of rage and desire [at the board], as if he were an intemperate bull forced to sit and have

brunch.” Earlier obsessives included a caliph of the Abbasid empire who refused to abandon a promising endgame when assassins burst into his throne room (he won the game but lost his head), and avant-garde French artists Marcel Duchamp, “a man whose chess problem was a lot like mine”: He spent most of his 1927 honeymoon at the local chess club in Nice. (Madame Duchamp retaliated by gluing every piece in his set to its board, then divorcing Marcel six months later — chuckmate.)

Bullied and ostracized as a child — “nobody liked me,” the author confesses, and “they were probably right not to” — Chapin finds a measure

of peace by pushing 16 miniature warriors around a black-and-white battlefield: “When I played chess, I felt, like, different. ... None of my superficial attributes, which I so hated, translated onto the board. When I was checkmating someone, I shrank in importance compared to the pieces before me.” It’s chess hall as transporter room, and the oversharing wins us over.

A loss to his older brother triggers Chapin’s first renunciation of the game. He attends university, then falls in love with a stripper named Courtney, whose sharp smile “you could easily imagine encircling the necks of her enemies.” Among the

latter is an ex-boyfriend who appears to be “monitoring” (Canadian for “stalking”) the new couple. So the lovebirds share a hit of psilocybin — dropping ‘shrooms is a standard Chapin dating move — and decamp to Bangkok. There the relationship dissolves (shocker!) and Chapin lets himself get sucked back into the chess vortex, entering the Bangkok Open. Slaughter ensues: “I played worse than I ever had,” he confesses.

“I began laughing a crazy, red-faced laugh. A tournament official threatened to eject me if I didn’t quiet down.”

On a reporting trip to Kathmandu, Chapin wanders down “an arbitrary lane” and gets trounced in 20 moves by a chess hustler named Tenjing.

Back home in Toronto he uses the Queen’s Gambit Declined to beat a tournament foe, unleashing manic glee: “Diamonds filled the air, I was sure, which I could pluck out at any time.” But then comes a humiliating defeat at the hands of a “weird, weird kid” — a 10-year-old with the unnerving habit of getting up between moves and rubbing a small patch of the wall for 30 seconds or so.

Desperate to “figure out why I was so terrible,” our hero journeys to the chess mecca of St. Louis for enlightenment by koan-spouting grandmaster Ben Finegold. (Never play f3.)

The secret of chess, please, Mr. Miyagi? You must play as if you want the game to go on forever, Daniel-san.

In the end Chapin ruins precisely nothing, unless you count a couple of botched writing assignments — one of which leads to love with his magazine editor, an empath named Katherine. (Chapin’s idea of pillow talk: “I concluded that spending time without Katherine was objectively nonsensical.”) Realizing that a chess nut’s best move is simply not to make that fateful first one, he finds solace in the example of fellow melancholic Paul Morphy, who torched the chess world for two years in the 1850s before abandoning the game for good: “The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman,” Morphy once said. “The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.”

Fallow, a freelance book doctor in Alexandria, Va., is partial to the Levitsky Attack.

In a new fantasy series, thrilling adventure takes cues from ‘Project Runway’

By ELLEN MORTON Washington Post

Spin the Dawn

By Elizabeth Lim Knopf for Young Readers.

416 pp. $18.99 With all the cutthroat competition of a runway fashion reality show and the thrilling exploits of an epic quest, Elizabeth Lim’s “Spin the Dawn” weaves a stunning tapestry of adventure.

The start of a new YA fantasy series, the novel introduces Maia Tamarin. The youngest child of a renowned tailor, she cherishes her idyllic home and loving family; her greatest sorrow is the knowledge that, because of her sex, she will be barred from following in her craftsman father’s footsteps.

But when tragedy strikes, Maia is determined to stitch

together the pieces of their lives by eking out a living for her family, even if it’s a far cry from their former prosperity.

Fate intervenes, however, when her father is called to vie for a position as imperial

tailor. Knowing he is in no condition to participate, Maia poses as a boy and takes his place in the competition as his heir. It’s not going to be easy: The other tailors ridicule and sabotage her, and she’s forced to test the limits of her skills and creativity during design challenges. But she also meets the intriguing Lord Enchanter, Edan, who helps her harness her own considerable gifts.

She will need Edan’s expertise and all her own grit and aptitude to tackle the final challenge: fashion three dresses fit for a goddess, made of sunlight, moonlight and starlight.

Based in the sights, sounds and stories of ancient China, the novel’s setting is one of its most rewarding aspects. Lim evokes a landscape that is distinct in the crowded field of YA fantasy titles, and she metes

out information at a pace that generates curiosity — though sometimes frustration, too.

Maia and Edan have a tendency of withholding information from one another only to reveal it a few moments or scenes later, leaving the reader with a feeling of needlessly extended dramatics.

The same drawn-out pace of revelation at times undermines the protagonist. The audience is far enough ahead of Maia that she can seem a little slow on the uptake, regrettable in a story about a hero claiming her power. Fortunately, that purpose is otherwise well served, with Maia tracing a satisfying and not entirely predictable arc from obedient daughter to independent woman: “Being surrounded by eleven sweaty, zealously competitive men

wasn’t going to inspire me, so I gathered some supplies from the cabinet and left the Hall of Supreme Diligence to find my own way.”

Though capable of such wry observation, Maia’s voice is usually applied to appreciating the sensory details of her world just as a devoted tailor might. When she cuts her hair to create the illusion that she’s a boy, “the strands whisked down my back, landing at my feet in a pool of black satin.”

Maia’s rendering as a master artist and craftswoman is complete and believable, and she ends this first volume in a predicament that is bound to test her will and skill, and leaves the reader wanting to know what comes next.

Morton is a writer in Los Angeles.

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tribune News Service

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, July 27, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. One Good Deed. David Baldacci. Grand Central 2. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam 3. The Nickel Boys. Colson Whitehead.

Doubleday 4. The New Girl. Daniel Silva. Harper 5. Star Wars: Thrawn: Treason. Timothy

Zahn. Del Rey 6. Under Currents. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s 7. Summer of ‘69. Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown 8. Window on the Bay. Debbie Macomber.

Ballantine 9. City of Girls. Elizabeth Gilbert.

Riverhead 10. Backlash. Brad Thor. Atria/Bestler

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Comfort Food Shortcuts. David Venable. Ballantine 2. Unfreedom of the Press. Mark R. Levin.

Threshold

3. The Pioneers. David McCullough.

Simon & Schuster 4. Becoming. Michelle Obama. Crown 5. Girl, Stop Apologizing. Rachel Hollis.

HarperCollins Leadership 6. Three Women. Lisa Taddeo. Avid Reader 7. Dare to Lead. Brene Brown. Random House 8. The Life of a Wannabe Mogul. Bella Thorne. Rare Bird 9. American Carnage. Tim Alberta. Harper 10. Justice on Trial. Hemingway/Severino.

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MASS MARKET 1. The Reckoning. John Grisham. Dell

2. Cottage by the Sea. Debbie Macomber.

Ballantine 3. Turning Point. Danielle Steel. Dell 4. Past Tense. Lee Child. Dell 5. Saving Faith. David Baldacci. Grand Central 6. The Seekers. Heather Graham. Mira 7. Tailspin. Sandra Brown. Vision 8. Triple Homicide. James Patterson.

Vision 9. The Perfect Couple. Elin Hilderbrand.

Little, Brown 10. In His Father’s Footsteps. Danielle Steel. Dell

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate.

Ballantine 2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris. Harper 3. Ambush. Patterson/Born. Grand Central 4. The Mueller Report. Scribner 5. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin 6. The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited! McElroy/Pietsch. First Second 7. The Woman in the Window. A.J. Finn.

Morrow 8. The Reckoning. John Grisham. Bantam 9. The Flight Girls. Noelle Salazar. Mira 10. Official SAT Study Guide (2020 ed.).

College Board

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

HOW TO STOP TIME

By Matt Haig.

(Penguin, $16.) When readers meet Tom Hazard, the protagonist of this novel, he’s headed for his 440th birthday, and because of a medical condition can expect to live well into his 900s. He wonders about his daughter, who has the same condition, but he has lost track of her and hopes a secret society can help find her.

FLASH: THE MAKING OF WEEGEE THE FAMOUS

By Christopher Bonanos.

(Holt, $20.)

Bonanos, the city editor of New York magazine, offers a compelling portrait of 20th-century photographer Arthur Fellig, whose tabloid images riveted viewers. His life in the city began when he was a poor immigrant child living on the Lower East Side, and culminated in his becoming a photojournalist with practically a supernatural instinct for how to create a dramatic picture.

NUMBER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT

By Lillian Li. (Picador, $17.)

This debut novel focuses on Beijing Duck House, a family-owned establishment in Rockville, Maryland, and the dreams of its owners and workers. For some in the family, particularly those born in China, the restaurant became “the heart-center of the universe.” The family’s generational divides and interpersonal allegiances are pushed to the test after a crisis strikes the restaurant.

REPORTER: A MEMOIR

By Seymour M. Hersh.

(Vintage, $17.95.) A Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist known for his reporting on the My Lai Massacre and the conditions of the Abu Ghraib prison reflects on his decades in the field. He details how journalism has changed since his early days (“when reporters for daily newspapers did not have to compete with the 24-hour cable news cycle”) and explores his complicated relationships with his editors.

Times reviewer Alan Rusbridger called it “a master class in the craft of reporting.”

MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER

By Oyinkan Braithwaite.

(Anchor, $14.95.)

This novel follows the fates of two women in Lagos, a city that strives to repress women. One sister is a nurse; the other is a murderer who has killed her boyfriends. But together, they are allies in a deeply anti-feminist culture.

Times reviewer Fiammetta Rocco wrote that it is “a bombshell of a book — sharp, explosive, hilarious.”

PANIC AND JOY: MY SOLO PATH TO MOTHERHOOD

By Emma Brockes.

(Penguin, $17.) Brockes details her decision to become pregnant while in a relationship with a woman who has a child.

She’s incisive about the cultural expectations surrounding parenthood and single women, and shares the frustrations and elation of becoming a mother of twins. (The book was previously published as “An Excellent Choice.”)

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GUNGA’S SNEAKY PLAY North-South vulnerable, West deals NORTH ♠8 ♥ J73 ♦ K 10 5 ♣ K Q 10 8 5 3 WEST EAST ♠K6532 ♠4 ♥ 10 8 ♥ K6 ♦ A876 ♦ QJ432 ♣94 ♣AJ762 SOUTH ♠ A Q J 10 9 7 ♥ AQ9542 ♦9 ♣ Void The bidding:

WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH 2♠* Pass 2NT** 4♥ All pass *Weak, 5 spades plus a 4/5 card minor **Asks for the minor

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are an energetic, forceful and compelling individual. You have a knack for changing the dynamic of a room simply by entering it, and you don’t have to do much to attract attention or win the praise of those around you. You are charismatic and creative and always able to work with someone whose ideas are in sync with your own. Indeed, you work well both in groups and on your own, and you rarely have a preference when it comes to solo or team efforts — as long as the goal you are working toward is one that you value highly.

Your sense of destiny is strong, and you are confident that if you are given even a small chance you can accomplish big things — because such an outcome has been preordained, of course! You don’t have to succeed at everything you do, but you will always work hard to ensure that you enjoy more gains than losses in work and relationships.

Also born on this date are: Antonio Banderas, actor; Suzanne Collins, author; Angie Harmon, actress; Herbert Hoover, U.S. president; Josh Gates, TV show host and producer; Jack Haley, actor; Rosanna Arquette, actress; Sam Warner, producer.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Your command of certain key issues will serve you very well — but you must expect to (Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses face opposition from one who is envious.

world looking for other possible uses for opening bids of two hearts and two spades. The result on this deal is not likely to garner support for this particular use.

Gunga gave up on spades, knowing that West had five of them, and made the practical bid of four hearts. He played the queen from dummy on the opening club lead and ruffed East’s ace. Knowing that West held five spades, almost certainly headed by the king, Gunga made a spectacular deceptive play — he led the seven of spades from his hand! Poor West had no idea what was happening and innocently played low. West was crestfallen when dummy’s eight held the trick.

Gunga discarded his diamond on the king of clubs and led a heart to his queen. When that held, he cashed the ace of hearts. This drew all of the enemy trumps and there was still one trump left in dummy.

Gunga used it to take a ruffing finesse against West’s king of spades and ended up taking all 13 tricks!

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Love is complicated in the charming ‘First Comes Marriage’

By E.J. LEVY

daughters, ‘Study. Study. Become something.’”

All of it dovetailed with the idea of American success, save one aspect: “In America, you had to fall in love.”

Huda longs for American romance but shows that arranged marriage is rooted in affection, too: in love of family, faith, community.

Love stories typically end with a wedding, but al-Marashi pushes past celebration into tougher terrain.

Honeymooning in Spain, the couple argue over whether Huda may wear a bathing suit.

She settles for wearing his oversize T-shirt and shorts. “I looked ridiculous, I felt ridiculous, and as we walked along the water, I pointed out every topless woman and every Gstring and said, ‘You really think people would’ve been looking at me when there are people here like her?’”

The marital consummation scene is like an outtake from “Bridesmaids”: “We talked about the best position from which to proceed as if we were two naked co-workers assigned to the same project.”

Independent, educated and ambitious, Huda is a character we root — and fear — for, as she discovers marriage’s restrictions. Forgoing graduate school offers to follow her husband to medical school in Mexico, she meets Muslim American women who have not felt pressed to marry, who have chosen to pursue educations, without fear of losing their shot at love. In her struggle to find a middle path between her American love story and Muslim one, she’s ultimately restored by a love greater than romance.

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First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story

By Huda al-Marashi Prometheus. 294 pp. $24 Huda al-Marashi was 6 when she met Hadi Ridha, the boy her family expected her to marry in their close-knit Iraqi American community in California. Whether to have an arranged marriage or an American love story forms the core of “First Comes Marriage,” her charming, funny, heartbreaking memoir of faith, family and the journey to love.

If Jane Austen had grown up as a first-gen daughter of Iraqi parents in the 1990s, she might have written this.

Keenly observed, with indelible characters, al-Marashi portrays the complex mores and manners that govern life and love in the immigrant community of her youth — from the kindly if baffled Baba, her elderly father, to Huda’s formidable mother and the endearingly hapless Hadi, who loves Huda for years, hampered by propriety and his mullet.

Loosely constructed around a series of firsts — first meeting, first kiss — the memoir recounts Huda’s ambivalent exploration of traditional courtship, even as it reveals the appeal of “life made rich by rituals.” Al-Marashi weaves a mesmerizing tale of an American overachiever, whose devotion to excellence extends to the realm of love. “Deep down, I wanted to marry the Iraqi, Shia boy that would make my parents proud,” she writes.

Her journey to marriage is comic but also instructive, correcting stereotypes about

devout Muslims. Islam is sex positive; women are encouraged to achieve: “Our community of brain-drain Iraqis

was filled with women just like Mama. Women who were doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and engineers: they got

married young, had their children, and worked. Even the women who stayed at home ... still whispered to their

Levy is the author of “Love, in Theory,” which won the Flannery O’Connor Prize.

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

LOU REED: A LIFE

By Anthony DeCurtis.

(Back Bay/ Little, Brown, $19.99.) This thoughtful biography is among the best about the musician, tracing Reed’s development into a transgressive artist. DeCurtis, a contributor to Rolling Stone, is one of the few music journalists that the notoriously diicult Reed trusted, and he draws on extensive interviews and research to ofer insight into his subject’s psyche and motivations.

THE KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE THE PEOPLE: STORIES

By Daniel Alarcón. (Riverhead, $16.) In a collection that grapples with the lasting effects of migration, young men learn who they really are. Times reviewer Laila Lalami praised Alarcón’s characters, writing, “Only through the experience of displacement, whether voluntary or involuntary, do they come to truly know their intimate selves.”

WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

By Ta-Nehisi Coates. (One World, $18.)

This collection brings together some of Coates’ best-known essays on race in the United States, touching on everything from President Barack Obama to James Baldwin, reparations to mass incarceration. Each essay — written during the eight years of the irst black presidency — is preceded by a new, short introduction by Coates.

RADIO FREE VERMONT: A FABLE OF RESISTANCE

Books sure to delight your ears Katherine A. Powers

“Fruit of the Drunken Tree”

By Ingrid Rojas Contreras Narrated by Marisol Ramirez and Almarie Guerra (Random House Audio) This moving, terrifying novel is set chiefly in Bogota, Colombia, during the 1990s and is told from the Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 17, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Look Alive Twenty-Five. Janet Evanovich. Putnam 2. Long Road to Mercy. David Baldacci.

Grand Central 3. The Reckoning. John Grisham.

Doubleday 4. Past Tense. Lee Child. Delacorte 5. Every Breath. Nicholas Sparks. Grand

The five best audiobooks of 2018 alien entity and learns that the fate of humanity depends on his guile. Porter’s narration is simply brilliant. He gives an occasionally rueful, all-American guy’s voice to Ivan and branches out to capture the personalities of the additional characters. (Unabridged, 11 ⅓ hours)

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“The Widows of Malabar Hill”

By Sujata Massey Narrated by Soneela Nankani (Recorded Books) The novel begins a marvelously plotted, richly detailed series set in India in the early 1920s. Bombay’s first female solicitor takes up the case of the three widows of the recently deceased Omar Farid, whose agent is bent on disinheriting them. Soon, she discovers that the women have their own dicey secrets, and a member of the household is murdered. The plot barrels along, picking up cultural complexity. Nankani delivers the general narration in a warm American voice and gives the dialogue a trim, restrained Indian accent. (Unabridged, 14 ½ hours)

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points of view of 7-year-old Chula, from a well-off family, and their maid, Petrona, 13, whose father and older brothers have been “disappeared.”

Chula’s worldview is shaped by overheard conversations, broadcasts and her older sister’s erroneous views; Petrona’s by her terrible past and involvement with a young criminal gang member.

Ramirez and Guerra are gifted bilingual narrators who deliver the many Spanish phrases with musical grace.

(Unabridged, 12 ½ hours.)

“The Poems of T.S. Eliot” Central 6. Nine Perfect Strangers. Liane Moriarty.

Flatiron 7. Dark Sacred Night. Michael Connelly.

Little, Brown 8. Elevation. Stephen King. Scribner 9. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven.

Mitch Albom. Harper 10. Sea of Greed. Cussler/Brown. Putnam

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Becoming. Michelle Obama. Crown 2. Homebody. Joanna Gaines. Harper Design 3. It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way. Lysa

Narrated by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins (Faber & Faber) Irons’ narration for this collection of poems, beginning with “The Waste Land,” is forlorn, desperate, crabby and weary — mirroring Eliot’s understanding of a desiccated, exhausted culture bereft of meaning. Portions of this long poem are performed

by Atkins in a range of styles, from blue-stockinged severity to Cockney garrulousness.

The remaining three works, read by Irons alone, are “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Four Quartets” and

— for those of us with a taste for whimsy — “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.” (Unabridged, 3 ½ hours) “The Singularity Trap”

By Dennis E. Taylor Narrated by Ray Porter (Audible Studios) In this top-notch outerspace adventure, Ivan, a down-on-his-luck computer programmer, joins an expedition to the asteroid belt and picks up an object left eons ago by an interstellar craft. It begins to colonize his body, and Ivan finds himself in unwelcome partnership with an

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers TerKeurst. Nelson 4. Whose Boat Is This Boat? The Late Show. Simon & Schuster 5. Girl, Wash Your Face. Rachel Hollis.

Nelson 6. About My Mother. Peggy Rowe.

Forefront 7. Cook Like a Pro. Ina Garten. Clarkson Potter 8. Killing the SS. O’Reilly/Dugard. Holt 9. Magnolia Table. Joanna Gaines.

Morrow 10. Ship of Fools. Tucker Carlson. Free Press

MASS MARKET 1. Leopard’s Run. Christine Feehan.

Berkley 2. First Snow. Nora Roberts. Silhouette 3. Instinct. Patterson/Roughan. Vision 4. Tom Clancy: Power and Empire. Marc Cameron. Berkley 5. Wyoming Legend. Diana Palmer. HQN

“There There”

By Tommy Orange Narrated by Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo and Kyla Garcia (Random House Audio) This debut novel, set chiefly in Oakland, Calif., takes up three generations of Native American men and women struggling against alcoholism, drug addiction, sexual abuse, obesity, debt and depression. The richly detailed storylines gradually converge and culminate in a final gotterdammerung at a big Oakland powwow. Four versatile, empathetic actor-narrators bring emotional force, further amplifying the strong voices already present on the page.

(Unabridged, 8 hours) Powers reviews audiobooks for The Washington Post.

6. Typhoon Fury. Cussler/Morrison.

Putnam 7. Every Breath You Take. Mary Higgins Clark. Pocket 8. A Season to Celebrate. Fern Michaels.

Zebra 9. The Gift of Christmas. Debbie Macomber. Mira 10. A High Sierra Christmas. Johnstone/ Johnstone. Pinnacle TRADE PAPERBACK 1. The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris. Harper 2. The 17th Suspect. Patterson/Paetro.

Grand Central

By Bill McKibben. (Blue Rider Press, $15.) Vern Barclay, the aging protagonist of this novel, is an old-school radio host who wades into radical politics by advocating secession on his show. While reporting a story at a Walmart, things go awry and he and a young activist are forced to go underground.

McKibben is a well-known environmentalist in the state; Times critic Jennifer Senior called the book “a charming bit of artisanal resistance lit.”

THE LAST GIRL: MY STORY OF CAPTIVITY, AND MY FIGHT AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE

By Nadia Murad with Jenna Krajeski.

(Tim Duggan Books, $16.)

Murad, part of the Yazidi religious minority targeted by ISIS militants in Iraq, describes the massacres, torture and sexual slavery she and her community faced. After escaping, she became a spokeswoman for other endangered Yazidis, and she is one of two laureates for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

3. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

Gail Honeyman. Penguin Books 4. Sapiens. Yuval Noah Harari. Harper Perennial 5. The Wife Between Us. Hendricks/ Pekkanen. Griffin 6. Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans. Kilmeade/Yaeger. Sentinel 7. Becoming (large print ed.). Michelle Obama. Random House 8. Less. Andrew Sean Greer. Back Bay 9. Becoming (Spanish ed.). Michelle Obama. Plaza & Janes 10. Sold on a Monday. Kristina McMorris.

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IF YOU’RE 7 YEARS OLD,

JoJo Siwa is the most famous person in the world

By TERRY NGUYEN Washington Post

VIENNA, Va. — The concert opened with a fanatical countdown chant.

“Five, four, three, two ... one!”

Legions of fans in oversize hair bows let out a collective high-pitched shriek. They leaped out of their parents’ arms and the sweaty plastic seats of the Wolf Trap amphitheater, scrambling for a clearer view of the sparkling silhouette onstage: 16-yearold pop sensation JoJo Siwa.

Joelle Joanie Siwa is an enigma to most adults. At first glance, the former “Dance Moms” star looks like an escapee from the Candy Crush universe, whimsically dressed in a mishmash of neon sparkles, rhinestones and glitter. Her music is similarly shiny — a message of self-love, confidence and girl power over a manufactured electro-pop beat. But parents who’ve been through it will tell you: Once a child has sipped the JoJo juice, there’s no going back. It opens the doors to a world of colorfully excessive merchandise, loud YouTube shenanigans and — perhaps her greatest parental selling point — G-rated, good-natured fun.

Her songs, with titles such as “Boomerang,” “Kid in a Candy Store” and “High Top Shoes,” sound juvenile — but then again so are her fans. The Siwanatorz, the official name for her fans, fall typically within the toddler and tween age range.

“It’s fun, but I know it’ll be a shortlived obsession,” Cassie Lutjen said.

For now, the obsession is real, she said, nodding to her daughter Maisie, 7, who was clutching a glittery poster that said “I HEART JOJO.” Maisie recently celebrated her birthday with a JoJo-themed party and owns “too many bows to count,” scattered across their home in Manassas, Va. (A bow was ceremoniously clipped onto Lutjen for the occasion.)

But JoJo’s empowering and cheery lyrics are what makes Lutjen willing to buy into the phenomenon, for as long

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fresh tomatoes, cornmeal and chile powder. It’s a fine accompaniment to a light supper of soup or grilled meat.

CHERRY ALMOND SWEET BREAD Makes: 1 loaf, about 16 servings This bread will slice most easily the day after it’s baked.

Wrap the completely cooled loaf tightly in foil and refrigerate. After its overnight rest in the fridge, it can be stored at room temperature or in the refrigerator. You can also use an 8½-by-4½-inch pan here with good results.

2 ¼ cups flour ½ cup granulated sugar ½ cup packed brown sugar 1 tablespoon baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 ¼ cups milk 3 tablespoons cooking oil ½ teaspoon almond extract 1 cup pitted, coarsely chopped sweet cherries 2/3 cup chopped almonds 1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Prepare a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan with baking spray or lining with parchment paper.

2. In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, stir together egg, milk, cooking oil and almond extract until well combined.

3. Add egg mixture to flour mixture all at once. Stir until

JoJo Siwa performing at Wolf Trap in Virginia. “I always knew this was what I’ve always wanted,” the bow-headed 16-year-old pop sensation said recently.

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as Maisie’s interested.

The thousands of parents who lugged coolers, lawn chairs and picnic blankets to Wolf Trap Friday evening — the dads wearily guzzling beers from plastic cups, the moms sipping spiked seltzers — apparently feel similarly. With many parents wearing JoJo merch themselves — whether of their own volition or not — the scene resembled a cheerleading camp, a sweeping tide of bows clipped onto ponytails, shirts, high-top sneakers and baseball caps.

“I do my best to make the girls happy,” said Jon Blankenship, who had donned a swirly white bow to the delight of his three daughters. His wife was home sick with pneumonia, so as her replacement, he joked, he wanted to at least look the part.

When the line for souvenirs opened up before the show, parents swarmed into two haphazard lines that extended past the shade and into the blazing

midafternoon sun.They hoisted their kids up to survey the available merchandise. “I want the blue T-shirt!” a girl in a pink tutu yelled to her mom, stomping on the deadened grass excitedly.

With her boundless high-ponytail enthusiasm and “come back like a boomerang” positivity, JoJo mostly draws a fan base on the younger side — when life is still sunshine and rainbows. With 9 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, JoJo only needs one gentle algorithmic push to materialize on a child’s screen.

Parents say JoJo seemed to pop up in their lives randomly, usually through a YouTube Kids suggestion that a child clicked on.

“My oldest found her online and from there, they all got into JoJo,” said Dyana Clarke, a mother of three girls.

Her youngest hopped sporadically to the beat of the song “BOP!” surrounded by a group of flailing toddlers. Clarke

speculated that JoJo’s music and personal style will evolve over time “into something campy like Lady Gaga.”

Her oldest daughter, Jocelyn — the family’s first JoJo fan — roamed around their space on the lawn, bored and bow-less. Since she turned 9, her fondness for JoJo has waxed and waned. “I still like JoJo,” Jocelyn said, “but I’m not crazy about her like I used to be.” She shrugged: “I just found more music and different artists that I like now.”

Yet JoJo is inescapable when you’re 9. Most of her friends, especially the younger ones, still fawn over her music videos; her classmates wear JoJo’s line of sparkly Target clothing and throw JoJo-themed birthday parties.

It’s fair to say the JoJo phenomenon isn’t exactly about the music.

The star launched to fame at age 10 via the Lifetime reality show “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition,” and soon she and her mother, Jessalynn, were personalities in their own right, thriving on the catty backstage drama of its sister program “Dance Moms.”

By 2016, she had segued into a pop career, in the mold of Disney stars half a generation older — think Hillary Duff and Selena Gomez — who slid into music after a successful TV stint.

But JoJo, with her “Dance Moms” days behind her, doesn’t have or need the platform of a television series anymore. Though Nickelodeon has since signed her to a deal that has included a TV special and an animated Web series, JoJo largely reaches her fans via YouTube — a vehicle not only for her music but the fabulous world of JoJobranded products. (In two separate videos — one filmed at a Target and the other at a Walmart — we see JoJo scouring the aisles to find all the JoJo goods for sale. One video runs for seven minutes, the other for 12 minutes.)

And while her rise appears to be marked by a combination of many things — luck, YouTube Kids’ peculiar algorithms, her earworm singles — JoJo is a highly intentional teenage celebrity.

“I always knew this was what I’ve always wanted,” she said on the “Today” show in May. “I always knew that somehow, some way ... I was going to get it.” Way back in 2013, on the second season of “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition,” her mother notoriously declared, “I would say it’s my mission in life to make JoJo a star.”

Today, JoJo — who was not being made available for interviews on this tour stop — is a surprising 5-foot-9, and her still childlike voice is growing a little raspier. As a 16-year-old who dresses like a unicorn-obsessed toddler, she has attracted some fairly nasty online attention. Justin Bieber once told her to burn her rainbow customized BMW (and apologized after).

Teenagers gain thousands of likes by mocking her clothing line on TikTok. Internet comments savagely roast her receding hairline.

Yet she seems to have handled the ugly side of fame with surprising grace. She limits comments on her social media and disables them on her YouTube videos, stating that she doesn’t want her young fan base to be exposed to “bad language” online.

“That’s what makes her so inspiring to me,” said Emily Cuthbert, 15, who has followed JoJo since her “Dance Moms” days. “I’m an unironic fan, and I think she’s a great role model to these young girls.”

Cuthbert’s hair, which was tied into two bouncy space buns atop her head, was streaked with pink and teal.

She wore a bright Hawaiian blue shirt, printed pineapple shorts and a fanny pack — a ridiculous outfit for a casual night out, but perfect for a JoJo Siwa concert.

“Do you think JoJo can see me?” asked a tutu-wearing toddler, pointing to the speck that is JoJo onstage.

Her mother suggested they wave, and suddenly, serendipitously, JoJo belted out, “I love you guys!”

The toddler kept waving, mesmerized. The entire arena shook with a chorus of 1,000 piping voices: “I love you JoJo!”

just moistened. Fold in the cherries and chopped almonds. Pour batter into prepared pan.

4. Bake until a wooden toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in loaf pan on wire rack, 10 minutes. Remove loaf from pan. Cool completely on the wire rack. Wrap and store overnight before slicing.

BACON-CHEDDAR QUICK BREAD Makes: 1 loaf, about 16 servings This savory quick bread gets a little bump of spiciness from cayenne pepper, but you can omit it if you wish. You can also use a 8½-by-4½- inch pan here with good results.

6 slices bacon 2 ¼ cups flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon coarse salt, such as kosher salt ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper 3 large eggs 1 ½ cups whole milk 6 tablespoons bacon drippings 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese 1. Heat oven to 350 degrees; coat the inside of a 9-by-5by-3-inch loaf pan with baking spray or by lining it with parchment paper; set aside.

2. Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until it is crisp. Remove the bacon and drain it on paper towels. Reserve the bacon drippings. When the bacon is cooled, crumble or chop it coarsely.

3. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cayenne.

4. In a separate mixing

Summer quick breads are seen in the Tribune studio on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Left, with bacon and cheese, and, right, with cherries and almonds. Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS

bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk and bacon drippings. If you don’t have 6 tablespoons of drippings, use a neutral cooking oil for the rest of the 6 tablespoons.

5. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients.

Use a spoon or a rubber spatula to stir the two together just until combined, about 1 minute. Fold in bacon and cheese.

6. Pour the batter into the loaf pan; bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs, 40-45 minutes. Cool in the pan, 10 minutes, then tip the loaf onto a wire rack to cool completely.

ZUCCHINI TOMATO CHILE CORNBREAD Makes: 8 to 10 servings If you don’t have buttermilk in the house, make a substitute for this recipe by stirring 1½ teaspoons vinegar or lemon juice into ½ cup whole milk.

Let stand for 5 minutes at room temperature and stir before using. ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter plus more for pan 2 large meaty tomatoes, such as roma 2 large eggs, lightly beaten ½ cup buttermilk 1 large zucchini (about 10 ounces), to yield about 2 cups grated 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon each: baking powder, chile powder 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt ½ teaspoon baking soda 1 cup medium-grind cornmeal 1. Position a rack in the middle of the oven; heat to 350 degrees. Butter an 8-by-8-inch baking pan.

2. Dice the tomatoes. Salt generously and place them

The ingredients for a summer quick bread (this one with cheese and bacon) are lightly mixed on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS

in a sieve; let drain, 15 to 20 minutes.

3. Melt ½ cup butter in a small saucepan over mediumhigh heat. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.

Whisk in eggs and buttermilk.

4. Grate zucchini. Add to bowl with butter mixture; stir until well blended. Stir in diced tomatoes.

5. Sift flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda

into a separate bowl. Whisk in chile powder and cornmeal. Add zucchini mixture; fold just to blend. Transfer batter to prepared pan; smooth top.

6. Bake bread until golden and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool in pan, 10 minutes. Remove from pan; let cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.