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Nepotism policy under scrutiny

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CATSKILL — Greene County lawmakers plan to change employment policies regarding the hiring of relatives, the county administrator confirmed Thursday.

The current policy, which prohibits a family member from working as a subordinate for a direct relative, has been in effect since 2007. Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden reviewed the policy after controversy over Sheriff Greg Seeley’s intent to hire his son as a deputy surfaced last month.

“I reviewed this policy, which

is years old,” Groden said in a statement. “Now there is debate as to whether or not the policy is even legal. Denying someone career opportunities for no other reason than family ties is questionable. This county has many employees who are related to each other, even including spouses both working for us.

Plus, we have a civil service system that reviews an applicant’s credentials to determine if they qualify for employment. DNA is not a disqualifying event. We will be updating our Administrative Manual accordingly.”

In July, Groden said Matthew Seeley could not be hired until

Sheriff Greg Seeley retired, according to current policy.

He would also have to take the civil service exam Sept. 14 and pending those results, then he could be hired, but not by his father, Groden said.

Groden said Matthew Seeley was hired as a provisional employee May 18.

“Matthew Seeley is employed as a provisional employee, pending his completion and successful scoring of a civil service exam,” Groden said. “If he passes the exam and is reachable, meaning he must score in See SCRUTINY A2

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Greene County Sheriff Greg Seeley speaks at a Public Safety Committee meeting.

Reports of harmful algae blooms has DEC uneasy

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Deer season forecast

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DEC recently announced the forecast for the upcoming 2019-2020 deer season PAGE B1

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A suspicious algae bloom that is being monitored by the state Department of Environmental Conservation at the Basic Creek Reservoir in Albany County. The bloom was first reported June 28.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is asking recreationalists to be on the lookout for harmful algae blooms that can be hazardous to the health of people and pets.

Blooms typically appear in mid-August. Touching, swallowing and inhaling the toxic blooms are dangerous for both humans and their four-legged friends, the DEC warns.

People should avoid swimming, boating, otherwise recreating in, or drinking water with a bloom, according to a statement issued by the DEC. High levels of the blooms are linked to breathing difficulties, allergic reactions and vomiting. In pets, the algae can cause liver

damage, respiratory paralysis and organ failure.

No blooms have been reported in Greene County so far this year. But in Columbia County, a suspicious algae bloom was found in a small, localized area in Trachtman Pond in Gallatin on July 14, and is being monitored by the DEC. In nearby Wilcox Memorial Park Pond in Stanfordville, Dutchess County, a suspicious algae bloom was reported Aug. 4 by the state Department of Health. The bloom was small and localized. The park is monitoring the situation. Visitors can contact the park for the most up-to-date information on the bloom.

The DEC found harmful algae blooms in Washington Park Lake in Albany in mid-July. Signs were posted

around the park warning of the blooms and photos to help parkgoers recognize algae blooms.

The DEC tracks harmful algae blooms across the state, also known as HABs, using a map on its website.

Individuals can report suspicions of blooms to the DEC. If you suspect that you have seen a HAB, use a form available on the DEC website. Email HABsInfo@ dec.ny.gov if you are not able to complete the form.

“DEC has seen an increased number of HABs reported for water bodies across New York State, which may be partly due to an increased awareness of the public,” the DEC said Friday. “Cyanobacteria have been present in water See ALGAE A2

Police: Tussle leads to injury An argument over a woman landed a man in the hospital with a stab wound to the abdomen PAGE A3

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County obtains low interest rate for jail

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CATSKILL — Greene County officials Thursday secured an interest rate a full point lower than originally expected on a $39 million bond for the construction of the new county jail in Coxsackie.

Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc, was the successful bidder, with an interest rate of 2.49%, according to a statement issued by the county.

“Interest savings will total $7,667,000 over the life of the bonds, which is about $255,000 per year,” according to the release.

Originally, county officials were going through the motions to borrow the money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture at 3.5% interest. But by going to the general bond market, the county is getting a considerable cost savings.

“Due diligence resulted in over $7 million of savings in interest costs on this project,” Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou said in a statement Thursday. “We received seven strong bids from well-respected financial institutions. The recent credit rating upgrade made a considerable difference in the rate and savings.”

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Work began this summer at the new Greene County Jail site off Route 9W in Coxsackie.

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the top three spots, he will be appointed as a permanent employee,” Groden said. “Provisional status is very common in governmental employment as civil service tests are only given infrequently and eligible lists have expiration dates.”

Matthew Seeley is being paid $22 an hour and works parttime as a per diem employee, Groden said.

“Currently all new hires are Provisional and Per Diem as there is no current Civil Service Test,” Groden said.

Matthew Seeley is not receiving benefits for this position, Groden said.

Several legislators were surprised to learn that the policy was going to be changed.

“It was put in place for a reason,” Legislator William Lawrence, R-Cairo, said. “You don’t want someone hired for a bias reason working for you.”

Groden is working on language changes with the state Civil Service Office, he said.

Then the draft will go to the Administrative Manual Committee, of which Lawrence is a member and Groden oversees, before going to the full Legislature.

“I can’t give an honest opinion until I see the wording,” Lawrence said.

The board has not discussed changing the policy, Lawrence said.

“My belief is, don’t fix something that’s not broken,” he said.

Lawrence felt out of the loop,

he said.

“You’re catching me unaware,” he said. “We assumed [Matthew] would be hired after the sheriff retired in December.

I think they should have gone through the change in wording before they hired him.”

Legislator Jack Keller, RCatskill, was not aware of any pending changes. Keller supports the current policy.

“You cannot work for a direct relative, not in government,” Keller said.

Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said he supports the current policy.

“It has worked so far up until this point and if it needs clarification, that’s what we’ll do,” Linger said. “I can’t give an opinion until I see the update.”

Linger agreed that the board had not discussed the matter.

Legislator Matthew Luvera, R-Catskill, said the board does not have to initiate the change to the policy, just approve the change.

As county administrator, Groden has the authority to initiate changes to the Administrative Manual, Luvera said. As a county department, the sheriff’s office should not receive special treatment, Luvera said.

“The sheriff’s office should be following the policy like everybody else,” he said.

Legislator Michael Bulich, RCatskill, agreed.

“I think it’s a good policy,” Bulich said. “I don’t see why he’s even provisionally employed.”

Because the sheriff is an elected official, the Legislature has no authority over his constitutional powers, Groden said.

The sheriff also has control

over who he hires and appoints, Luvera added.

The sheriff said last month he disagrees with the current policy.

“I’m furious my kid has to get penalized over this,” he said. “That policy is absolutely wrong.”

Matthew Seeley put in the time and training to become a deputy and deserves the position, the sheriff said.

“I’m not disputing the policy exists,” he said. “To be honest, I don’t know if I ever looked at the manual.”

Seeley said he thinks he and his son are being treated unfairly.

“This is the thanks I get after 34 years with this county?”

Seeley said. “Are you serious?

This is the thanks I get from The Daily Mail after all the help I’ve given you? You know, what goes around comes around.”

Sheriff candidate Diana Benoit, who is running on the state Independence line, spoke out against nepotism.

“It should be about what you know, not who you know,” Benoit said last month. “There has to be standards for hiring, more than just what civil service has. You have to be careful with nepotism and hiring families.”

Sheriff candidate Pete Kusminsky, who is running on the Republican line, said the issue could reach beyond the county.

“This could be a civil service issue and Greene County would have to abide by their rules as well as any applicable county administrative policy that deals with employment,” he said.

Columbia County does not have a policy against favoritism,

Human Resources Director Michaele Williams-Riordon said.

Albany County also does not have a policy, Director of Communications Mary Rozak said.

The Legislature had discussed an anti-nepotism policy, Rozak said, but it did not come to fruition.

Greene County’s policy states: “Greene County will avoid the practice of appearance of favoritism in hiring and the assignment of employees.

Therefore, an employee’s immediate relative will not be hired for or assigned to a position within the chain of command of the current employee or in the same work unit as the current employee.”

The policy also applies to transfers — an employee cannot transfer into the chain of command of their relative or into a relative’s unit.

The manual also lists as an informational item stating that any county employee who has a relative seeking employment should completely recuse themselves from the hiring process.

Immediate relatives are defined as a spouse, mother, father, brother, sister or child, according to the manual.

The policy does not prohibit relatives from working in the county.

“This policy does not prohibit the hiring of an employee’s immediate relative for a position which is not in the immediate chain of command of the employee or which is not in the same work unit as the current employee,” according to the manual.

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Many scientists believe that climate change is a factor in the occurrence of HABs and the fact that reports of HABs are increasing worldwide supports that.”

A comparison of 2019 to previous years won’t be available until all data is reviewed and evaluated this winter.

Health symptoms should be reported to the state Health Department at harmfulalgae@ health.ny.gov and your local health department.

“HABs may be present in all parts of a water body,” according to the DEC’s website.

“Avoid recreational activity in discolored water, or water that has visible scums.”

Harmful algae blooms have appeared in more frequently in the south, and have shut down beaches. Three dogs in Lake Allatoona, North Carolina, died last week after swimming in a pond laced with blue-green algae.

“Following Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo’s 2018 State of the State announcement, state

agencies allocated more than $82 million in competitive grants for projects to address nutrient pollution in water bodies that have been affected

by HABs,” the DEC said Friday.

“These funds are in addition to a multi-year HAB research, advanced monitoring, and pilot programs initiated in 2018 at a cost of approximately $10 million. These expenditures do not include funding allocated for day-to-day drinking water quality monitoring and response undertaken by water purveyors in response to a specific HAB event.”

If you or your pets come into contact with blooms, rinse thoroughly with clean water to remove algae.

“Stop using water and seek medical attention immediately if symptoms such as vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, skin, eye or throat irritation, allergic reactions or breathing difficulties occur after drinking or having contact with blooms or untreated surface water,” according to the DEC. To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@ thedailymail.net, or tweet to @ amandajpurcell.

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The state Department of Environmental Conservation is asking those enjoying outdoor recreation this summer to keep an eye open for suspicious-looking algae that could pose potential health risks to people and animals.

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Jail From A1

County lawmakers passed a resolution last September to borrow $39 million for the project. The county was to contribute $8.1 million for the 60-bed facility.

Last week, the county’s bond rating was increased from Aa3 to Aa2 — the third highest rating for fixed debt.

The bond rating acts as a fiscal report card for the county, Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said.

“What they want to read in this evaluation is that this county is going to pay us back, they are going to make their payments on time. This

is essentially a report card,” Groden said.

Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, was pleased with the savings.

“The low interest rate exceeded our expectations, and will result in significant savings for the taxpayer,” he said.

“Public safety is the county’s first priority and the jail and sheriff’s office will provide modern and efficient essential services.”

Groden attributed the results of the sale to proper budgeting, he said.

“The county’s finances are very strong,” he said. “We have been budgeting funds for the jail for several years, and when you factor the low cost of borrowing money with competitive construction

costs, it’s the perfect time to build a public facility. The County’s decision to issue the bond sale was timed to be the most advantageous to the existing bond and investment market.”

Construction on the new jail off of Route 9W in Coxsackie began in late June.

The project is expected to take 18 to 24 months to complete, Groden said.

HUDSON RIVER TIDES High tide: 4:36 a.m. 4.4 feet Low tide: 11:20 a.m. 0.1 feet High tide: 5:07 p.m. 3.9 feet Low tide: 11:30 p.m. 0.6 feet

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CALENDAR 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 Special County Resources, special meeting regarding Authorizing Review Of Agricultural District No. 124; special Public Works special meeting is regarding Authorizing Geotechnical Investigation Of Slope Failure On County Route 2, Prattsville; 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

Thursday, Aug. 22 n Greene County Legislature CWSSI

public hearing 6 p.m. Emergency Services Building, Cairo

Monday, Aug. 26 n Catskill Village Planning Board

7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Tuesday, Aug. 27

Restitution awaited in assault case

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — A city man accused of beating another Hudson man unconscious in July will have to wait several months before he is sentenced as attorneys decide the amount of restitution in his case.

Lance M. Fongemie, 35, was indicted in August on a charge of second-degree assault, a class D violent felony. Fongemie is accused of punching Brett Worth during a verbal argument that escalated on the street near Bliss Towers, 41 N. Second St., on July 15.

Worth attempted to punch back but fell to the ground in

mid-swing. Fongemie allegedly punched Worth in the face multiple times, even after he was unconscious.

Worth suffered a broken nose and a broken bone under his eye and he received nine stitches on his brow.

Fongemie allegedly called the victim a f****t minutes before the first blow.

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka told the court Thursday that he spoke to Worth prior to the court appearance.

“He looks remarkably better, but, as I said, he continues to require additional surgeries,” Czajka said.

Columbia County Judge Jonathan Nichols on

Thursday committed to a fouryear prison sentence in the case and a maximum of three years Lance Fongemie post-release supervision.

The maximum sentence for the assault charge is seven years and the minimum is two years. Nichols gave Fongemie until Sept. 3 to submit a response to a plea agreement in the case. As part of the plea, Fongemie would have to waive his right to appeal.

If Fongemie does not take the plea, he faces a trial and

the possible maximum sentence, Nichols told him.

Worth will need several reconstructive surgeries, the cost of which is yet to be determined. A pre-sentence investigation would take about six to eight weeks, but it may take three to four months to determine the medical costs, which Fongemie will be ordered to pay. Fongemie is being held in the Columbia County Jail without bail.

“If I make a commitment to sentencing based on the information that I know now, it is going to be contingent on the determination of restitution,” Nichols said. “That is going to be at a much later date, I suspect.”

In response, Attorney John Leonardson, who represents Fongemie, told Nichols that he and his client understand the circumstances.

Nichols estimated the restitution in the case would likely be “significant.” He reviewed the tapes of Fongemie’s interviews with police before committing to the sentence.

“I have reviewed Mr. Fongemie’s criminal history, and he has some assaultive behavior,” Nichols said.

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

Police: Man stabbed in argument over girlfriend

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON – An argument over a girlfriend landed a man in the hospital with a stab wound to the abdomen Thursday, police said.

Hudson police found an unidentified 19-year-old lying on the sidewalk on Front Street in the area of Schuyler Court Apartments, 20 Columbia St., after receiving a 911 call at 9:14 p.m.

The man was taken to Columbia County Airport by Greenport Rescue Squad where he was then airlifted to Albany Medical Center for treatment. He was in stable condition Friday, police said.

Police are expected to release information on the suspect shortly.

The suspect ran away on foot before police arrived on the scene. Witnesses in the area at the time of the alleged stabbing reported to police that the argument began over a girlfriend.

The incident is still under investigation, police said.

Anyone with further information is asked to contact the Hudson City Police Department, Detective Division, at 518-828-3388.

The New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Livingston, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and Greenport Police Department assisted Hudson police with the investigation.

Check back for more information on this developing story.

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Police search for evidence after an unidentified man was allegedly stabbed on Columbia Street in Hudson late Thursday.

n Catskill Town Planning Board 7

p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, Aug. 28 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

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Olana summer market returns HUDSON — The Olana Summer Market returns for its second year with an impressive lineup of artisans. The market will take place 10 a.m.5 p.m. Aug. 24 and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Olana State Historic Site. More than 30 artisans, eateries and musicians will be set along Olana’s picturesque Ridge Road, within Frederic Church’s 250-acre designed landscape. Come shop, discover, picnic, relax and enjoy the views.

The curated lineup of local artisans includes a variety of pottery, jewelry, woodwork, accessories, and housewares from artists located in the Hudson Valley, New York City, and the Berkshires. Artisans include: impeccable stationery products from Grant House Press, beautiful ceramics from Round Designs and Reclaimed Designs Mosaics, exquisite jewelry from The Peach Tree

and Lu Mabey, delicious beverages from Tousey Winery and Olde York Farm, and more.

The event will feature live music and a variety of food for picnicking on Olana’s expansive landscape. On Saturday and Sunday food, desserts, and drinks will be available from an assortment of food trucks and vendors, including: Gracie’s Luncheonette, Leeds; Inner Flame Kitchen, Hudson; Nancy’s Artisanal Creamery, Woodstock; Delightful Bites by Nina, Cairo; and Classy Camper Cocktail Co. Musicians Justin Tracy (guitar and vocals), Anthony Michael (jazz), Steve Osso (guitar), as well as bands the Warren Street String Band Jam (bluegrass) and Superbloom (indie pop rock) will perform on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.

On-site shuttle service for visitors will be available at designated pick-up points in

parking areas, and at the entrance and exit to the market.

Ridge Road is a half mile path along natural, uneven terrain.

Good walking shoes and water are suggested. For those who have mobility needs, we encourage calling the ticket and information desk at 581-7510344 for assistance in planning a visit.

Visit Olana early on 9-10 a.m. Aug. 25 and join Stephanie Fischer as she leads Yoga of the Earth, a monthly gentle morning yoga practice, imaged in the beauty of Frederic Church’s expansive Hudson River view at Olana.

The market will take place rain or shine. In the event of severe weather, visit www.olana. org/olana-summer-market.

Admission is a suggested donation of $5/person. All proceeds go towards supporting the work and mission of The Olana Partnership.

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Let the handlers of predatory priests pay in full Priests are supposed to offer spiritual comfort to adults and counsel young people on the values they will need later in life. They are not supposed to be sexual predators taking advantage of children.

That’s what makes the release of a list of alleged pedophile priests from this area, including one formerly of the Sacred Heart Church in Cairo, a tragedy and a disgrace. The priests were named in lawsuits filed against the Albany Diocese by alleged sexual abuse victims under the Child Victims Act. It’s an offensive litany of accusations, both legally and morally. Father Sean McMahon, a priest from Ireland, was assigned to the Sacred Heart Church in

Cairo. In 1984, according to the lawsuit against him, McMahon engaged in unpermitted sexual contact with an alleged victim who was 16 at the time. Details of the alleged sexual contact were not outlined in the court papers.

McMahon is the second priest from the Cairo area to be accused of sexually abusing a minor. Father Jeremiah Nunan was the former pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Cairo and Our Lady of Knock Mission in East Durham. Nunan was permanently barred from ministry June 30, 2018 by Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger after the Albany Diocese Review Board ruled that he had sexually abused a minor in the early 1990s.

It’s horrifying to note that Nunan, McMahon and nearly two dozen other suspected priests in this region were continually moved from one parish assignment to another, always one step ahead of civil litigation or criminal prosecution or both.

Many of these alleged predatory priests are dead; others are in their 80s and 90s, old enough to have lived a long time with their heinous allegations.

But the institutions that handled and protected them still exist. It is legally and morally right to make them account to the fullest extent for shielding alleged predatory priests and covering up their reprehensible acts.

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Exposing the truth about opioids The Washington Post

The truth hurts. Also, the truth will set you free. Both old sayings receive validation in the The Post’s continuing investigative reporting series on the history of the prescription opioid industry and the addiction epidemic it helped to spawn. It is indeed painful to find out that millions of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills flooded poor communities in Appalachia as pharmaceutical companies and the Drug Enforcement Administration failed to heed signs of large-scale inappropriate prescribing. Yet there is a certain liberation in finally being able to point to specific data, which might help assign responsibility for what may be U.S. health care’s most fateful systemic failure in recent history.

It is one thing to suspect, for example, that many doctors and pharmacies were little more than “pill mills” supplying untreated addicts rather than legitimate pain patients. It is quite another to know, as The Post reported Monday, that nearly 35 billion opioids - about half of all distributed pills - were handled by just 15 percent of the nation’s pharmacies between 2006 and 2012. The American people gain from know-

ing that, and knowing that a single drugstore in tiny Albany, Kentucky, purchased nearly 6.8 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills during that period, equivalent to 96 a year for all 10,000 or so men, women and children in surrounding Clinton County. This was the most on a per capita, per county basis in the United States. We needed someone to ask what, if anything, the store’s owner, Kent Shearer, has to say about that, and about the fact that he was a business partner of a nearby doctor who pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally prescribing opioids. Shearer declined to comment to The Post’s reporters, though other companies have commented.

The DEA has kept such data for years, off-limits to the press and public.

The Justice Department, the DEA’s parent agency, maintained that publication could compromise ongoing investigations.

Drug companies argued that to disclose them would risk legitimate trade secrets. The Post and the Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia sued for release of the database, which formed part of the record in the massive federal lawsuit against the drug companies that will go to trial in an Ohio courtroom

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Oct. 21. Noting an overriding public interest in disclosure, and invoking Justice Louis Brandeis’s maxim “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” a three-judge federal courtruled in favor of the newspapers, enabling some of the remarkable journalism now before the public.

There is always a tension between discretion and disclosure, between keeping the public informed about the workings of large systems and permitting the specialists who operate them to handle delicate matters in private. Nowhere is that tension more relevant than in health care, where medical expertise, proprietary information and patient privacy are all at a premium. Like all good things, however, those may be taken to an extreme or converted into excuses for unwarranted concealment.

Any ordinary person who knew that a single pharmacy in small-town Kentucky was handling millions of potentially addictive pills over a sevenyear period might have rung an alarm, even if the bureaucracy, industry and doctors didn’t. The problem is that no ordinary person could know - until now.

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Amash’s independence shows voters they don’t have to settle for binary choice GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — It is difficult to discourage and impossible to manage Justin Amash because he, unusual among politicians, does not want much and wants nothing inordinately. He would like to win a sixth term as congressman from this culturally distinctive slice of the Midwest.

He does not, however, want it enough to remain in today’s Republican Party, which he has left because that neighborhood has become blighted.

Amash, 39, a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, also has left that onceadmirable faction because he does not define freedom as it now does, as devotion to the 45th president.

He is running as an independent, which might accomplish two admirable things: It might demonstrate that voters need not invariably settle for a sterile binary choice. And it might complicate Donald Trump’s task of again winning Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, which he did in 2016 by just 0.2 percentage points.

With a city named Holland and a college named for John Calvin, West Michigan’s culture reflects its settlement by Dutch Americans, who set about vindicating Max Weber’s connection between the “Protestant ethic” and the “spirit of capitalism,” a spirit incubated in 17th and 18th century Amsterdam. Distinguished Michigan denizens of Dutch descent have included Peter De Vries, America’s wittiest novelist.

Local Christian schools drummed into Amash and other young sinners fear of a particular moral failing: pride.

His one-word description of his constituents — “modest” — suggests an aversion to vanity, vulgarity and ostentation that has an obvious pertinence to the leader of Amash’s former party. Amash compares West Michiganders — culturally, not theologically — to Mormons. Donald

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WILL Trump carried 16 states by larger margins than he carried Utah, and won only 51.6% in Amash’s district, which traditionally has been the epicenter of Michigan Republicanism. “I think,” Amash says dryly, “the Trump people are confounded by this area,” where Trump held his final 2016 rally.

A few hours after Amash declared his independence from the husk of the Republican Party, he marched in several Independence Day parades where “I got an overwhelmingly positive feeling.” This might indicate increased negative feelings about Trump, who carried Michigan by just 10,704 votes out of 4,799,284.

In Amash’s single term in the state legislature, he cast the only “no” vote on more than 70 measures. In 2013, he had the gumption to vote against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act for no better reason than that there was no reason for it, and it was inimical to federalism: It “created new federal crimes to mirror crimes already on the books in every state.” His average margin of victory in four reelection contests has been 15.1 percentage points.

Amash, the son of a Palestinian refugee who arrived in West Michigan in 1956, is philosophically unlike Grand Rapids’ most famous son, whose philosophic interests were few and did not include Amash’s favorite Austrian economists (Von Mises, Hayek). Amash, however, shares Gerald Ford’s devotion to the idea, if not the

actuality, of Congress. Ford’s pipe, loud sport coats, decency and legislative seriousness validate a famous judgment: “The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there.”

Presently, Congress is rarely a legislative, let alone a deliberative, body. Two years ago, when Republicans controlled the House, a Republican congressman defended a committee chairman accused of excessive subservience to the president by saying: “You’ve got to keep in mind who he works for. He works for the president. He answers to the president.” Pathetic.

Because congressional leaders live in terror of spontaneity among the led, hearings designed to generate publicity are tightly scripted, which is why, Amash says, such hearings are “an elaborate form of performance art” and members “often look as though they are asking questions they do not understand.” Congressional leaders’ stern message to potentially unmanageable members is to pipe down and “live to fight [for spending restraint, entitlement reform, open House processes, etc.] another day.” Amash’s campaign slogan should be: “Vote for someone who is as disgusted with Congress as you are.”

The Libertarian Party might ask Amash to take his — actually, it’s the Founders’ — message to the nation as the party’s presidential nominee.

He does not seek this — he has three young children — but does not summarily spurn the idea of offering temperate voters a choice of something other than a choice between bossy progressivism and populist Caesarism. Or he could become the first non-Republican the Grand Rapids area has sent to Congress since 1974.

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Israel barring Omar, Tlaib is good for Democrats and bad for Republicans Ed Rogers The Washington Post

Israel made a mistake in denying Reps. Ilhan Omar, DMinn., and Rashida Tlaib, DMich., the opportunity to visit.

First, it was disrespectful to the U.S. Congress, which has been a consistently stalwart friend of Israel. Setting aside the foreign policy views of these two congresswomen, U.S. congressional delegations should not be denied entry anywhere. Period.

Second, Israel made a political mistake that will reverberate within the United States’ domestic political environment with unintended consequences. The best thing that could happen for friends of Israel is to let these two congresswomen go to Israel and talk - not despite their views but because of them. Only by

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listening to what they have to say can the truth behind their anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric be revealed. By denying them entry, Israel has turned its U.S. opponents into martyrs and distracted attention from their wrongheaded views rather than bringing them out into the open. I was actually looking forward to their trip, thinking it was going to produce a real headache for Democrats.

The Democratic Party has a troubling strain of anti-Semitism running through it in greater force than at any other time in my memory. Britain’s Labour Party has a similar problem right now, but U.S.Israeli ties are so tight that it is a bigger problem in Washington.

But Israel’s shortsighted move allows the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to

score points by defending this half of “the Squad” instead of being on the defensive for the wild things they may have otherwise said during their visit to Israel. I am sure all of the candidates who hope to be President Trump’s opponent in November 2020 are breathing a sigh of relief.

Denying Omar and Tlaib a platform to visit the country they have both maligned was a mistake. It did them a service, not Israel. Israel should reconsider this decision if for no other reason than for the sake of its defenders in the United States. The vibrant, strong and democratic society that it is can easily afford the misguided showboating of a couple of members of Congress. In fact, it would remind us how much our countries should, and do, have in common.

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Neil R. Gentile Neil R. Gentile 71, of Greenport died Wednesday August 14, 2019 at his home. Born on April 1, 1948, he was the son of the late Robert and Elena (Liquori) Gentile. Neil was a graduate of the University of Bridgeport and worked for the NYS Dept. of Labor for over 30 years. He was a member of Sacred Heart/ Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Roman Cath-

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James Robedee James Robedee, 89, formerly of Coxsackie, died Aug. 15, 2019.

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Ronald Platner Sr Ronald Platner Sr., 88, of the country. Ronald is survived Greenport, passed away on by his daughter in law, Lois PlatAugust 14, 2019 at Glens Falls ner. Grandson, Ronald Platner III, Hospital. He was born on Febru- his great granddaughters; Madary 14, 1931 in Germantown. He elyn and Mia Nestoryak. Also by graduated from Germantown his nephew William and his wife High School, shortly Anna Kraft. In addition thereafter he married the to his wife, he was also late Vivian Lighthart. predeceased by his son Ron worked for New Ronald Platner Jr. and York State in the divihis sister Marilyn Kraft. sion of child protective A funeral service will services. A lover of anibe held on Tuesday, mals both big and small; August 20, 2019 at even having his own 1:00pm from the Bates horse farm. Vivian and & Anderson – Redmond Platner he were known in the & Keeler Funeral Home, harness racing world, 110 Green Street, Hudhaving raced their horses at the son. Interment will follow in CeSaratoga harness track. He was dar Park Cemetery. Visitation will a New York Yankees fan through take place at the funeral home and through, especially Derek from 11:00am to 1:00pm also Jeter. He enjoyed genealogy and on Tuesday. For directions or to family history, and was an avid leave a message of condolence reader. Also over the years he please visit www.batesanderson. had many Pen Pales from all over com

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59 dogs removed from a home — one was reported missing two years ago Justin Wm. Moyer The Washington Post

Fifty-nine dogs were removed from a home Tuesday in rural Montgomery County, Maryland, including one that had been missing for two years and was reunited this week with its original owner, authorities said.

Animal services officers searched the home in the in the Dickerson area after receiving a report of a dog that had been “humanely euthanized because of its poor condition,” the Montgomery County Animal Services Division said in a statement.

In addition to the 59 dogs, officers also removed three cats and two turtles from the home.

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for various medical issues, officials said. County officials said the incident remains under investigation.

States struggle to update outmoded and insecure voting systems for 2020 Alyza Sebenius and Kartikay Mehrotra Bloomberg

States operating outdated and insecure voting machines face major hurdles in protecting them in time for the 2020 presidential election, officials said at a meeting of elections experts.

Budgets are strained, decision-making authority is diffuse and standards put in place years ago haven’t kept up with today’s cyberthreats, according to testimony Thursday to the Election Assistance Commission in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The Senate Intelligence Committee reported last month that Russia engaged in “extensive” efforts to manipulate elections systems throughout the U.S. from 2014 through “at least 2017.”

The Brennan Center for Justice reported Thursday that states will have to spend more than $2 billion to protect their election systems in the next five years, including replacing outdated machines or purchasing the software improvements necessary to help harden existing equipment against hackers.

Updating software is a “regular and important part” of cybersecurity, the Center for Democracy & Technology warned in a statement.

But even when a software patch is available, states can’t compel “severely under-resourced” local elections officials to buy and implement the improvement, said Jared Dearing, executive director of the Kentucky State Board of

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On top of those hurdles, Dearing said, the process of certifying elections equipment to federal standards leaves machines in “a time capsule of when that system was developed.”

The commission was created in 2002 to establish voting machine standards for manufacturers and vendors in the aftermath of the irregularities exposed during the 2000 presidential election. Many voting machines across the U.S. haven’t been updated since the first generation of rules were approved in 2005.

The commission has been debating new standards and will review new security requirements on Sept. 5.

Even if the new regulations were to be approved next month, it will take voting machine manufacturers as long as five years to build and roll out new machines, Commissioner Benjamin Hovland said in an interview with Bloomberg News last month.

“My biggest ask of this organization is to hustle up with certification and standards,” Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill said.

“People are out buying things right now and they need help.”

Elections pose other unique obstacles as well.

“If an important (software) patch comes out three to four weeks before an election, it causes us to wait to

implement because we can’t interfere in the election process that is already in motion,” said Kyle Ardoin, Louisiana’s secretary of state.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security is offering election equipment vendors testing to detect vulnerabilities -- a program gaining “increased interest,” said Geoffrey Hale, the director of he elections division of CISA. Merrill said local elections officials are hard-pressed to ensure the safety of their equipment.

“My biggest fear is vulnerability at the local level, and so that’s exactly what we’re working on,” said Merrill.

President Trump held call with Dimon, Moynihan, Corbat as markets plunged Jennifer Jacobs and Jenny Surane Bloomberg

President Donald Trump held a conference call Wednesday amid a plunge in the stock market with three of Wall Street’s top executives -JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon, Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan and Citigroup’s Michael Corbat.

The three chief executives were in Washington for a previously scheduled meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on banking secrecy and money laundering, according to people familiar

with the matter. On a conference call, they briefed the president, who was at his resort in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The talks came during a tumultuous day in markets as Trump’s trade war with China continued to cast a cloud over the global economy. Stocks plummeted as signs appeared in the bond market a recession could be on the horizon.

Moynihan, speaking in a Bloomberg Television interview on Friday, said the turmoil has been driven by issues outside the U.S., and that

recession risks are low.

“We have nothing to fear about a recession right now except for the fear of recession,” Moynihan said.

Back-and-forth posturing

by Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping has kept investors on edge amid volatility that’s gripped markets for most of August. China called looming U.S. tariffs a violation of accords, while Trump said Thursday that any deal with Beijing must be “on our terms.”

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Fearful Argentines pull dollars from banks after election shock Ignacio Olivera Doll Bloomberg

Argentines have been withdrawing dollars from banks and keeping them at home since President Mauricio Macri’s defeat in a key primary election sent the peso tumbling.

Savers pulled more than $700 million from their dollardenominated accounts on Monday and Tuesday alone, according to the most recent official data. That’s equivalent to 2.3% of total dollar deposits in the financial system. It was also the largest

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two-day withdrawal in percentage terms in more than five years.

Long used to currency crises, many Argentines are still traumatized by the so-called corralito -- economic measures to stop a 2001 bank run that effectively froze bank accounts and halted dollar withdrawals.

Those dollars are

considered part of the central bank’s gross foreign reserves, and the withdrawals help explain why reserves dropped by $2.6 billion this week, to $63.7 billion.

Foreign reserves are also falling because policy makers are selling dollars to shore up the peso — so far this week, $503 million were used in currency market interventions.

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Say what you mean, mean what you say In younger days, I used to consider old people opinionated and set in their ways.

How silly that seems to me now. I now realize that over the years you start to see things clearly and get a firmer grasp on the ways of the world and how they work. The right and wrong of things becomes more obvious and you give up the wishy-washy ways of your youth. You have more time to seriously consider, analyze and be annoyed by things that you took for granted or just let slip by during the more rushed times in your past.

Currently, I’m working on how the English language has changed in the past 20 or so years. It’s a pretty good old language and has served our ancestors well for centuries. It has changed over the

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BROOKS years, we’ve added tons of new words and changed the meanings of tons of others.

These were changes for the good for the most part, language being a living, growing kind of thing. The thing that annoys me is the present day rush towards euphemisms.

Remember them? My introduction to them came in third

grade came when one of my classmates tearfully reported me to the teacher for having said that she was “fat.” She was! Privately, the teacher agreed with my assessment of her physical size but said that there were better words to use, words that weren’t quite as rude or painful. She suggested “Chubby, Plump or Pudgy.” It really didn’t make a lot of sense to me since they all meant “fat” but I used them since their use allowed me access to the playground at recess time.

Euphemisms now bloom everywhere, they’re like the dandelions of our language.

There’s even a euphemism for euphemisms, its called being “politically correct” and it’s annoying! The over use of euphemisms is removing the fat,

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sugar and spices from our language it becomes more and more bland and boring.

Have you noticed that there are no more old people?

They’ve been replaced by senior citizens. Nobody dies any more, they “pass away” “cross over” “go to a better place” “expire.” The last wake I went to was held in “The Slumber Room” at the local funeral parlor. The guy didn’t look like he was napping, he looked dead. Funerals are where old euphemisms hang out anyway. The guy could have been a nasty old bugger who beat his wife, kicked his dog, drank a bottle of gin before lunch and locked his grandmother in a closet for years and somebody at his funeral will mention how attentive he was towards his

wife and dog, how he supported local businesses and how overprotective he was towards his grandmother. He “looks so peaceful” “looks like he just went to sleep” “He was so young” “He will be missed” are all phrases you’re likely to hear. I want to have the kneeler in front of my casket wired so when someone kneels on it, a tape recording of my voice is triggered and I can be heard saying something like, “Hi, Thanks for coming, wasn’t I a wonderful person?

Don’t I look like I’m sleeping?

I’m not, you know, I’m dead.

Have a nice day.” That would please me.

We need to rethink some of the current popular phrases and get back to saying what we mean. Old isn’t a dirty word, do we really need “senior

citizen, golden-ager, mature adult, elderly, people of age” and so on and so on. My third grade classmate was fat, today she’d be obese, overweight, plus sized, plump or have superfluous flesh. Fat is a good simple word that communicates well with others. It may not be “politically correct” but then, I’m old, opinionated and set in my ways.

Thought for the week — I’m not a person who thinks he can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share. — George Carlin Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.com.

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Commander Tom Andreassen and past commander Sal Pusatere celebrated Patrick Angelo’s 60 years with the Honeyford Memorial American Legion Post 110. Pat Angelo was born in Catskill and served in the Navy during World War II on the USS Alamance Landing Craft. He is pictured in the center with Andreassen and Pusatere.

The Catskill Elementary School Student Council members presented a $1,200 check on Aug. 13 to Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou and Greene County Tourism Director Heather Bagshaw for the Vietnam Traveling Wall Memorial Fund. This money was raised during their Memorial Day Flag fundraiser, where they purchased 300 flags and donated them to the Town of Catskill Veteran’s Cemetery. Pictured from left in the front row are Jaydyn Rose, Callie Rose, Peter Markou, Kylie O’Connell, James Story, Lorenzo Ivery and volunteer member in training Marcelo Ivery; back row, Barb Erceg, John Rivers and Heather Bagshaw.

Still time to plant some fall vegetable crops Although we are halfway through August and the harvest season is well underway, there is still time to plant some fall vegetable crops as well as cover crops. The days are getting noticeably shorter and we have had a few chilly nights in the 50s, as is often the case later this month. Cool season crops like lettuce, spinach, other salad greens, beets, carrots and radishes can all be started from seed now and will be in prime condition in late September.

I know that many people don’t like beets due to their musky flavor and the messy red liquid they produce, but there are two types of beets that do not have these characteristics. Chioggia is an heirloom beet variety that is not solid red and does not “bleed” when cut or cooked. It has concentric, red colored rings within a mostly white root.

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BEYFUSS Like all beets, it requires a good deal of cooking to soften the flesh, but the flavor is very mild and sweet. I think that kids may even take a liking to this pretty and very healthy vegetable. The other “nonbleeding” beet is the Golden beet, which features sweet yellow flesh and a decidedly milder flavor than the red types.

The only downside to these two varieties is the fact that

the seeds do not have high germination rates compared to the standard varieties. Beet “seeds,” as packaged, are actually capsules containing 2 or 3 individual, viable, seeds with a pod. This means that they usually require thinning regardless of how thinly they are sowed. Both the golden and striped beets have much lower germination rates though and should be planted thickly. As they grow, the thinned plants can be cooked. Beet greens are really very tasty steamed or stir fried with onions or shiitake mushrooms and seasoned with a bit of balsamic vinegar. Beets can tolerate a pretty good amount of shade and can be sowed in the shadow of taller plants such as tomatoes. They are ready to harvest about 40 days after planting and taste even sweeter if they are subjected to a mild frost. Optimal

harvest size is about the size of a golf ball. If allowed to grow into tennis ball size they can be quite woody in texture.

Beets also store well in the refrigerator for two weeks or so and even longer in a root cellar.

Carrots are also an excellent fall crop that may be planted right now. My experience is that home grown carrots really do taste much better than supermarket types.

They come in a rainbow of colors and shapes from half long to really long (12 inches or more). The seeds are slow to germinate and they also require thinning for best results.

Unlike the “baby” carrots you see for sale in the markets, they need to grow long enough to develop their characteristic sweet taste, which also gets sweeter after mild frost. “Baby” carrots are actually full size carrots that are

cut into bite size pieces before packaging. Carrots take longer to mature than beets, but still should produce a decent yield in October if planted now and they also store very well.

Turnips are another underappreciated root crop that taste best when harvested at golf ball size and subjected to cold temperatures. Like beets, their greens are also pretty tasty although I much prefer beet greens. They can be ready to harvest in as little as 30 days.

Lettuce seeds do not germinate well in warm soil, but that can be avoided by covering the row of seeds with a wooden board, such as a 2 by 4, to shade the seed and keep the soil cooler. Remove the board every day to inspect and as soon as the seeds sprout the boards are removed. They may also be sown in the shade

of taller plants.

If you have open areas in your garden where the zucchini or beans have died, lettuce has bolted, or you already pulled them out because one can only eat so much of these prolific summer vegetables, it is a good idea to sow a fall cover crop. Winter rye can be seeded as late as midOctober and it will still grow waist high by next May while out competing almost any weeds. Winter rye contains natural herbicides that also suppress the growth of many weeds. It will require serious equipment to till in it next spring however since it forms a pretty dense sod. Oats will sprout and grow very quickly as a cover crop. They will be killed by a hard frost and are very easy to till in next spring.

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

Stream program announces Ashokan Watershed Month

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SHOKAN — The Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program (AWSMP) has declared that September 2019 is Ashokan Watershed Month!

Help us celebrate the unique characteristics that make the Ashokan watershed so special for those who live and visit here.

During September, AWSMP and its watershed partners are offering a series of events that are educational and fun for the entire family. Take a self-guided “Ashokan Watershed Adventure” to important stream sites from the top to bottom of the watershed and win a patch and other prizes. For artsy types, attend a plein air painting workshop and learn about the stream features that you’ll be painting. If you want to get outside, take a guided paddle at

Kenneth Wilson Campground, explore the Esopus Creek on a Rail Explorers rail car, or learn about fly fishing and the Esopus Creek fishery. There will also be a series of talks and interpreted walks on the topics of Ashokan Reservoir operations, watershed wetlands, and paleoclimate. We’ll wrap up the month with a volunteer riparian planting project near one of our stream restoration projects followed by a closing party and social hour.

Most of these events are free and family friendly, but registration may be required.

Watershed residents can call the office with stream-related questions at 845-688-3047 or stop by in Shokan.

Visit ashokanstreams.org for more information.

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Church Briefs INDOOR YARD SALE WEST CAMP — St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 4203 Route 9W, West Camp, will hold an indoor yard sale 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Aug. 17 in the brick Fellowship Hall. There is quite an assortment of household items, crafts, and many wonderful treasures, something for everyone. The indoor sale will be in the brick Fellowship Hall which has handicap access to the second floor via the ramp at the back of the building. St. Paul’s is located on Route 9W south of Catskill in West Camp near the West Camp Firehouse.

NICKEL SOCIAL ACRA — The Cairo United Methodist Church annual nickel social will be held Aug. 24 at the Acra Community Center, County Route 23B, Acra. Doors open at 1 p.m. with drawings to begin at 2 p.m. There will be door prizes, 50/50, specialty table and more. Refreshments will be available.

FALL FESTIVAL SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will be holding their Fall Festival 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 7.

The church is celebrating 230 years. Celebrate the anniversary, browse through photos, documents and memorabilia, and listen to stories. And, of course, it will be a day of country church fun. The festival features many vendor booths including crafts, bake sale, flowers and plants, and much more. Enjoy lunch at the lunch/snack bar, starting at 11 a.m. In addition, fried dough and ice cream sundaes will be provided. There will be a Bouncy Bounce for the kids and a community business booth auction which starts at 12:30 p.m. And don’t forget the 50/50 raffle. For information, call Lisa Perry at 518-767-3292 or cell 518-253-5734.

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. All ages. Girls and women. Boys and men. Then head on down Main Street to the car show or up Main Street to the Greek Festival.

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WINDHAM — Hope Restoration Christian Fellowship, 117 Route 296, Windham, will hold Family Game Night 6-8 p.m. Aug. 23. In addition to free pizza, there will be board games, word games corn hole and more. Families are encouraged to bring their favorite games. Game night will be held rain or shine.

ATHENS — The Senior Angels’ fourth annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28 at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens.

Open to all seniors 60 and older. Doors open 11 a.m.; lunch served noon-2 p.m. There will be music, door prizes and conversation over coffee and pie 2-4 p.m. For information, or to donate to help offset costs, contact the Department of Human Services at 518-7193555 and ask to speak to Ken.

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.

The Singing Rabbi returns Aug. 18 to Temple Israel of Catskill CATSKILL — Rabbi Y’Israel Lutnick, an international singing sensation whose music has been produced on CDs and in various electronic formats and appears on You Tube, will be performing again for Temple Israel of Catskill. Y’Israel is an annual visitor to Rhoda Lake in Copake, where his family are now in their fourth generation of residency.

His aunt and uncle, Ellen and John Langton, are members of the temple.

This year Seth, as he is known to friends and family, will be paying tribute to the great Broadway producers and hits. In Catskill, we last heard Seth croon to the best of Sinatra. Other great tunes will

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Rabbi Seth is shown at a concert he performed in 2014 in Catskill.

be sung this time, and we know that he will share valuable information about the shows they are from as well. His knowledge of American theatre and music mimics a walking encyclopedia.

The concert is scheduled for 4 p.m. Aug. 18 at the temple, 220

Spring St., Catskill. Parking is available at the temple and across the street safely along Gardiner Street (no parking along Spring Street). The side entrance of the temple facing the Cole House is handicap accessible, those needing it can enter from there.

There is no admission fee, however good will tax-deductible donations to Temple Israel Cemetery would be greatly appreciated. You may bring cash or check that day, or mail your check to the temple at the above address if unable to attend. Funds benefit perpetual care of the cemetery in Jefferson Heights.

For information, call 518-9435758.

Third Hudson Valley Farm and Food funding accelerator program accepting applications for third FFFA program HUDSON — Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation (HVADC) is now accepting applications for its third Farm and Food Funding Accelerator (FFFA) program.

For producers and makers in Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer and Washington counties the opportunity is now open to participate in this intensive training program which has brought in nearly $1 million in outside investments to businesses that graduated from the program thus far. Applications for this exclusive program will close Sept. 16.

For local food entrepreneurs on the verge of scaling their businesses, one impediment to growth can be the access to capital. The HVADC FFFA Program is an opportunity for farm and food enterprise owners to develop the necessary skills and materials to build their businesses and approach financial sources.

Launched in 2016 with a class of nine Peers, a second FFFA program of ten Peers recently completed a seven month curriculum beginning in November 2018, and culminating with the Peer participants making final pitch presentations to potential funders on June 26.

Through a customized program, FFFA participants engage in expert instruction, one-on-one counseling and technical assistance, field visits, group interaction and industry networking events to learn how to build their refine their business models and define new market opportunities in anticipation of pitching to potential funders and investors. As a fast track program preparing businesses to access capital, typical curriculum includes business plan writing, financial planning, management strategies, marketing, capacity building training and pitch development. Training sessions are conducted by

HVADC, its industry partners, industry professionals, and institutional and retail stakeholders in the Hudson Valley food system. Peers from the prior FFFA classes also participate as mentors and counselors.

Throughout the program and in particular at the final pitch events, FFFA participants are given the opportunity to connect with the growing network of funders that support local food systems through methods such as equity, loans, grants, crowdfunding, as well as HVADC’s Hudson Valley Agriculture Loan Fund.

Past Peer participants have already achieved growth, found funding and developed new markets.

Applications for the intensive FFFA training program are now being accepted at www.hvadc.org through September 16.

There is no fee to participate in the FFFA program once accepted, but applicants must be a farm, food, fiber or agriculture-dependent business having their home office, farm or production facility in the Hudson Valley, and sourcing the majority of their product ingredients from the region, as well as the majority of their labor force. They must be able to make a commitment to the time and resources required of the training program and be able to commit the same to future FFFA participants as a peer or mentor.

Participants in the just concluded 2018/2019 FFFA class were: Battenkill Valley Farms, Berle Farm, Farmer & Baker, Gray Family Farm, Gopal Farm, J.S.K. Cattle Company, Local Artisan Bakery, Miracle Springs Farm, Phoenicia Honey Co., and Veeda Holi Hydration.

Those participating in the 2016/2017 class were: Argyle Cheese Factory, Balet Flowers and Design, Fishkill Farms, The Green Onion, Lavenlair Farm, les collines, Minkus Family Farms, Raspberry Fields Farm, and

Soukup Farms. In addition to funding, past Peers have garnered scholarships or concessions through pitch competitions with Middletown’s Race4Space (Farmer & Baker), SUNY ADK Business Plan Competition (Lavenlair Farm and Argyle Cheese Factory), the SUNY New Paltz marketing intern completion (Gopal Farm) and the farmers market association business plan contest (Battenkill Valley Farms).

“Through the FFFA program participants are also exposed to a number of sales and networking opportunities through event participation, such as in the past, showcasing at the kick offs for Hudson Valley Restaurant weeks, the Taste New York and Buyer ConneX events, and presenting at the Access to Capital program,” said Mary Ann Johnson, Deputy Director, HVADC. “Event participation provides the Peers the chance to hone their business models and presentation skills to be prepared to address potential funders at the end of the program.

We have also found that the networking with other FFFA Peers both current and prior, provides the prospect for invaluable collaboration and creativity, leading to sales opportunities, new product development and references,” she continued.

There is a nominal application fee of $15 for the FFFA program (waived for those who have served in the military’s five branches), while participation in the program is free if accepted.

Applications are being accepted through Sept. 16.

Funding for FFFA is made possible by the US Department of Commerce Economic Development Agency. Accepted applicants will be notified in October.

Additional details and application information about the FFFA may be found at www.hvadc.org or by calling 518-432-5360.

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Pastor: Fr. Scott VanDerveer Weekly Mass: 9:00 a.m. Wed & Thurs Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m.

Food Pantry Hours: Tues & Thurs 10-11 a.m.

Wednesday 6-7:00 p.m.

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• Sunday Worship 11:00am (all are welcome) • Church School: “Faith Builders Kids Christian Education” Wednesday at 7pm • Wednesday, Bible Study & Prayer - 7-8:30pm (all are welcome) • Food Pantry, Last Saturday of the month, 10-11am and last Monday of the month, 5-6pm, or by appointment • Thrift Shop Open April 12 - Mid Oct., Thursdays 10 - 4 Saturdays 10 - 2 and when Food Pantry is open. (Handicap Accessible) • Youth Group - Grades 6 - 12 2nd and 4th Thursdays @ 6:30pm

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If you don’t • Sunday Morning Praise Time @ 10:00AM • Sunday School @ 10:15AM have a Church • Sunday Morning Worship @ 10:30AM Fellowship & Refreshments following Sunday Worship Service home, we invite •• Weekly Bible Study @ 7:00PM Monday Evenings you to join us. • Communion Sunday is the first Sunday of every Month “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

Asbury United Methodist Church 5830 State Rte. 81, Greenville, NY 12083 518-966-4181 - Rev. Dale Ashby, Pastor www.asburyumcgreenvilleny.com • minister.asburyumcny@gmail.com secretary.asburyumcny@gmail.com • Facebook: @asbury.greenville.ny

Sunday Worship July 1-Labor Day: 9:00 am September-June: 8:00 & 10:00 am Sunday School: 10:00 am Sept. thru June Stephen Ministry Caregiving Program Weekly Bible Study - Faith-based Book Study

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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.

Moths at Mountain Top Arboretum 7:30-10 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville. With Dylan Cipkowski and Conrad Vispo (Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program). This workshop is limited to 20 participants. Pre-registration is required. Members, free; non-members, $10. For information and to register, call 518589-3903.

Registration runs from 9-11 a.m. This show is continuing a tradition started by the late Rick Mundelein in support of cancer patients. There will be TOP 20 TROPHIES with other trophies including Motorcycle, 1990 & newer, People’s Choice and Rick Mundelein memorial trophy and $500 for best in show classic. Music, Chinese Auction, 50/50 & Cancer Patient Aid informational booth available.

For information, call 518-8191249.

CORNWALL — Flutter in to Hudson Highlands Nature Museum 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 17 and Aug. 18 for its Butterfly

TANNERSVILLE — Night Creatures: Scouting Bats and

Weekend at the Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, on Muser Drive across from 174 Angola Road, and discover the beauty and unique qualities of butterflies, moths and caterpillars. At 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., join Environmental Educators for a presentation all about Monarch Butterflies followed by tagging and releasing Monarchs as part of the Citizen Science project from “Monarch Watch.” Museum members, $8/adults, $5/ children; not-yet members, $10/adults, $7/children. For information, visit hhnm.org or call 845-534-5506 ext. 204.

ARKVILLE — The Catskill Center will host Robert and Johanna Titus for their presentation, The Catskills in the Ice Age, 7-8 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Catskills Visitor Center, 5096 Route 28, Mt. Tremper. A question & answer session will follow. The Titus presentation is free and open to the public as a special edition of the Catskill Center’s Member Program Series. For information, call 845-586-2611, cccd@catskillcenter.org or visit catskillcenter.org.

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COXSACKIE — Playing With Fire performs 6-8 p.m. Aug. 18 at Coxsackie Riverside Park, Betke Boulevard, Coxsackie.

Admission is free.

STAMFORD — The Neave Trio (Anna Williams, violin; Mikhail Veselov, cello; Eri Nakamura, piano) and mezzosoprano Carla Jablonski are presented by Friends of Music of Stamford at 3 p.m. Aug. 18 at Stamford United Methodist Church, 88 Main St., Stamford. Adults, $12; seniors and students, $6; children 13 and younger, free.

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HUDSON — Former Hudson High football star Leroy Collins will hold a book signing event on Wednesday, August 28 from 6-8 p.m. at the Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth Street.

Collins will be signing copies of his new book: The Running Back: True Story from the Wheelchair to the NFL. The 1995 Hudson graduate went on to enjoy a standout career at Alfred State and the University of Louisville,

before signing with the NFL’s Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent. He also spent time on the practice squad of the Jacksonville Jaguars and is currently a motivational speaker and President of the NFL Alumni Upstate New York Chapter.

Prior to the book signing, Collins will be a guest on The Drive Time Radio Show with Vern Cross, Kamal Johnson, Ranier Blue and Jahnessa Mackey on WGXC 90.7 FM from 5-6 p.m.

Maybe Bell stumbled upon the fountain of youth for running backs

DEC recently announced the forecast for the upcoming 2019-2020 deer season.

Biologist’s, “…expect the statewide buck harvest to be similar to 2018 and antlerless harvest to increase slightly.”

The 2018 “Bowhunter Sighting Log,” one of many tools DEC uses to gauge numbers of deer on the landscape, “suggest a growing population, with an average of 7.4 deer seen per 10 hours and 3 antlerless deer seen per antlered deer.”

They point out the generally mild 2018-19 winter experienced statewide, resulted in “strong winter survival.”

The early green-up experienced this spring helps deer survival tremendously since that is a critical period for deer coming off a winter that offers less than optimal forage selection. The early wet spring and continued wet weather in early summer this year led to lush, ample forage throughout which is in stark contrast to the near drought conditions experienced last year during the same period.

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Deer season in New York spans four months in vastly different habitat types depending upon what region of the state you hunt. For greater detail on the forecast closer to home, local DEC biologists provided the following information for those who hunt in Region 4:

“Region 4, occupying the central-eastern area of New York, includes 9 counties and covers almost 4 million acres.

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NEW YORK — Le’Veon Bell may have inadvertently stumbled on a cure for the short shelf life that many NFL running backs face. It’s given Saquon Barkley food for thought. Saquon Barkley is curious to see if it works.

Bell, who sat out last season with the Steelers as part of a dispute over his contract, will play for the Jets in 2019. Should he have a typically productive season with the Jets, and maybe another half dozen in the NFL after that to play into his mid-30s, there is a chance that his time off could wind up serving as a fountain of youth.

And it could push others toward considering a sort of gap year in their careers in the future.

Might we soon see running backs deciding to trade in a season of their prime to extend the longevity of it?

“That’s actually a really good question that could come into play,” Barkley, the Giants’ glimmering second-year back, told Newsday when the theory was proposed to him in training camp this week. “Not for me,” he quickly added, “but for other players.”

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Former Hudson High student-athlete Caleb Canty is hosting the first For the Culture Basketball Tournament today at Oakdale Beach on North Sixth Street in Hudson.

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Canty, who was named an All-Region III second-team selection after averaging 21 points and five assists per game for Hudson Valley Community College this past season, hopes to bring area fans out to watch the competition.

“There’s going to be seven teams and it’s a double elimination tournament,” Canty said. “We are going to have a dj and a cookout. All the food was donated.”

There will be plenty of recognizable names on hand competing.

“We have Keiland Cross and Isiah Heard playing for “The Lot,” Canty said. “We will also have Trahshon Burrell and Jamil Hood playing for Team Rush.”

Other local standouts expected to play include Barry King Jr., Shane Morris, Chris Kidd, Matt Dallas and Robert Piano.

The games will be two 16-minute halves with a running clock. The first round

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HUDSON — Former Hudson High student-athlete Caleb Canty will host the first For the Culture Basketball Tournament today at the Oakdale Beach courts on North Sixth Street in Hudson.

The double elimination tournament is sponsored by Jon Mabb’s Primal Movements Gym and will bring together some of the best local and regional basketball talent for a double elimination tournament. The games begin at 2 p.m.

Canty explained what motivated him to put the tournament together.

“I was just walking down the street one day looking around and I was just thinking, things aren’t the same around here,” Canty said. “No one is outside, there’s nothing going on anymore and I wanted to change that.”

matchups are Team 518 vs. 1 Level at 2 p.m., Team ATK vs. Get Buckets at 2:45 p.m. and Team Rush vs. 518 Elite at 3:30 p.m. Each team will play at least two games.

Canty hopes to make the tournament an annual summer event.

“I feel like year one was rushed so we will see how it goes, but I’m already looking forward for year two,” Canty said. “I have some big plans for it!”

Having graduated from Hudson Valley this past May, Canty is looking forward to the next step in his academic and athletic career at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica.

“I’m looking forward to get to SUNY Poly and seeing what me and my team can make happen over there,” Canty said. “They were one game away from the tournament last year so hopefully we can win that one game this year and make a pretty good run!”

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Baseball American League East W L Pct GB NY Yankees 81 42 .659 — Tampa Bay 71 51 .582 9.5 Boston 64 59 .520 17.0 Toronto 51 73 .411 30.5 Baltimore 39 82 .322 41.0 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 72 48 .600 — Cleveland 73 49 .598 — Chi. White Sox 54 65 .454 17.5 Kansas City 43 78 .355 29.5 Detroit 36 82 .305 35.0 West W L Pct GB Houston 78 43 .645 — Oakland 68 52 .567 9.5 Texas 60 60 .500 17.5 LA Angels 59 63 .484 19.5 Seattle 50 72 .410 28.5 Tuesday’s results Houston 6, Chi. White Sox 2 NY Yankees 8, Baltimore 3 Toronto 3, Texas 0 Boston 7, Cleveland 6, 10 innings Seattle 11, Detroit 6 Chi. White Sox 4, Houston 1 Wednesday’s results Texas 7, Toronto 3 NY Yankees 6, Baltimore 5 Boston 5, Cleveland 1 Chi. White Sox 13, Houston 9 Detroit 3, Seattle 2 Thursday’s results Seattle 7, Detroit 2 Cleveland 19, NY Yankees 5 Minnesota (Pineda 7-5) at Texas (Payano 1-1), 8:05 p.m.

Chi. White Sox (Lopez 7-9) at LA Angels (Heaney 1-3), 10:07 p.m.

Houston (Sanchez 2-0) at Oakland (Fiers 11-3), 10:07 p.m.

Friday’s games Cleveland (Civale 1-1) at NY Yankees (Tanaka 8-6), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle at Toronto (Waguespack 3-1), 7:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Brooks 0-3) at Boston (Porcello 109), 7:10 p.m.

Detroit (Norris 3-10) at Tampa Bay (Morton 134), 7:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Odorizzi 13-5) at Texas (Minor 116), 8:05 p.m.

Chi. White Sox (Giolito 12-6) at LA Angels (Sandoval 0-0), 10:07 p.m.

Houston (Verlander 15-4) at Oakland (Roark 1-1), 10:07 p.m.

National League East W L Pct GB Atlanta 72 51 .585 — Washington 65 55 .542 5.5 Philadelphia 63 58 .521 8.0 NY Mets 62 59 .512 9.0 Miami 45 75 .375 25.5 Central W L Pct GB St. Louis 63 56 .529 — Chi. Cubs 64 57 .529 — Milwaukee 63 58 .521 1.0 Cincinnati 57 63 .475 6.5 Pittsburgh 50 70 .417 13.5 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 81 42 .659 — Arizona 61 60 .504 19.0 San Francisco 60 61 .496 20.0 San Diego 56 64 .467 23.5 Colorado 54 67 .446 26.0 Wednesday’s results Colorado 7, Arizona 6 Washington 17, Cincinnati 7 Philadelphia 11, Chi. Cubs 1 LA Dodgers 9, Miami 1 Atlanta 6, NY Mets 4 Thursday’s results Miami 13, LA Dodgers 7 Philadelphia 7, Chi. Cubs 5 Cincinnati 2, St. Louis 1 NY Mets 10, Atlanta 8 San Francisco (Rodriguez 4-6) at Arizona (Young 4-2), 9:40 p.m.

Friday’s games Milwaukee (Houser 5-5) at Washington (Corbin 9-5), 7:05 p.m.

San Diego (Paddack 7-5) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 4-7), 7:05 p.m.

Chi. Cubs (Hendricks 8-9) at Pittsburgh (Musgrove 8-11), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 8-8) at Cincinnati (Castillo 11-4), 7:10 p.m.

LA Dodgers (Maeda 8-8) at Atlanta (Soroka 102), 7:20 p.m.

Miami (Alcantara 4-10) at Colorado (Gray 10-8), 8:40 p.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 9-9) at Arizona (Leake 0-1), 9:40 p.m.

Interleague Tuesday’s results Minnesota 7, Milwaukee 5 St. Louis 2, Kansas City 0 San Francisco 3, Oakland 2 Pittsburgh 10, LA Angels 7 Tampa Bay 7, San Diego 5 Wednesday’s results Milwaukee 6, Minnesota 5 San Diego 7, Tampa Bay 2 Oakland 9, San Francisco 5 LA Angels 7, Pittsburgh 4 St. Louis 6, Kansas City 0 Friday’s game NY Mets (Syndergaard 8-5) at Kansas City (Montgomery 1-3), 8:15 p.m.

Pro Football Preseason Week 2 Thursday’s games Philadelphia 24, Jacksonville 10 N.Y. Jets 22, Atlanta, 10 Cincinnati 23, Washington 10 Baltimore 26, Green Bay 13 Oakland 33, Arizona 26 Friday’s games Buffalo at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Chicago at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m.

Miami at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Cleveland at Indianapolis, 4 p.m.

New England at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Houston, 8 p.m.

Dallas vs L.A. Rams, at Honolulu, HI, 10 p.m.

Sunday’s games New Orleans at L.A. Chargers, 4 p.m.

Seattle at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Monday’s game San Francisco at Denver, 8 p.m.

Jets 22, Falcons 10 N.Y. Jets Atlanta

6 0 3 13 — 22 0 10 0 0 — 10 First Quarter NYJ—T.Montgomery 1 yard rush(Kick failed), 11:05.

Second Quarter ATL—Tavecchio 24 yard field goal, 3:33.

ATL—I.Smith 4 yard rush (Tavecchio kick), 0:33.

Third Quarter NYJ—Bertolet 49 yard field goal, 5:20.

Fourth Quarter NYJ—D.Burnett 9 yard pass from Falk (Bertolet kick), 11:38.

NYJ—Burgess 28 yard interception return(Kick failed), 1:25.

TEAM STATISTICS NYJ ATL First Downs 13 20 Total Net Yards 199 340 Rushes-Yds 31-96 29-87 Passing 103 253 Sacked-Yds Lost 1-4 5-26 Comp-Att-Int 13-20-0 27-43-1 Punts 6-45.7 5-47.6 Punt Returns 3-16 3-18 Kickoff Returns 2-60 2-39 Interceptions Ret. 1-28 0-0 Penalties-Yards 6-50 12-118 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-2 Time of Possession 25:21 34:39 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-NYJ, T.Montgomery 7-36, Bi.Powell 5-20, McGuire 5-14, D.Webb 1-13, T.Cannon 6-6, V.Holmes 3-3, Darnold 1-3, Falk 2-2, Siemian 1-(minus 1). ATL, Ollison 9-44, I.Smith 5-13, Br.Hill 4-12, Mt.Simms 2-8, Brooks-James 5-5, M.Ryan 2-3, D.Freeman 1-2, Blake 1-0.

PASSING-NYJ, Darnold 5-7-0-46, Falk 4-4-041, Siemian 2-4-0-10, D.Webb 2-5-0-10. ATL, M.Ryan 10-14-0-118, Mt.Simms 9-19-1-85, Schaub 8-10-0-76.

RECEIVING-NYJ, Rb.Anderson 3-32, D.Burnett 2-24, Enunwa 2-14, T.Cannon 2-9, McGuire 1-10, Do.Thompson 1-8, Da.Brown 1-8, J.Bellamy 1-2. ATL, Ja.Graham 4-55, Dv.Gray 3-45, I.Smith 3-45, Hooper 3-20, C.Ridley 2-28, Worton 2-20, Brooks-James 2-16, A.Gray 2-15, Zaccheaus 2-0, Hardy 1-15, Gage 1-11, Blake 1-5, Paulsen 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-NYJ, NA. ATL, NA

Dale Earnhardt Jr., family survive fiery plane crash in Tennessee Joe Marusak and Brendan Marks The Charlotte Observer (TNS)

When their plane skidded off a runway and crashed in Tennessee on Thursday afternoon, retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife, Amy, and their 1-year-old daughter, Isla Rose, escaped the aircraft before flames engulfed the cabin, officials said.

“They were extremely lucky,” Elizabethton Fire Chief Barry Carrier said at a news conference streamed on WCYB, the NBC affiliate in Bristol, Tenn. “It looks like everything worked in their favor, instead of against them.”

Nobody was seriously hurt, Carrier earlier told station WJHL. In an evening news conference, officials said Earnhardt’s family and two pilots were “lucky to escape,” according to WCYB. They referred questions about Earnhardt’s condition to his representatives but said he had been taken to the hospital “non-emergency.”

Officials credited the quick response by area EMS and firefighters for helping the passengers and mitigating any potential environmental problems with fuel runoff.

“Under the circumstances, we are extremely blessed and fortunate,” Carter County Sheriff Dexter Lunsford said at the news conference.

Carrier said the plane was burning when the passengers escaped and that firefighters saw flames coming from where the family had just been sitting.

“There’s a door near the front, the nose (of the plane),” Carrier told reporters about the condition of the plane after flames had been extinguished. “Beyond that, it’s pretty much destroyed.”

By 6:45 p.m., WCYB reported that Earnhardt Jr. left Johnson City Medical Center by police escort. He was the only person aboard the plane who was taken to the hospital, according to ABC News.

Those aboard suffered cuts and abrasions, and Earnhardt was “conscious and talking,” Lunceford told reporters.

“Everyone is safe and has been taken to the hospital for further evaluation,” Earnhardt’s sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller tweeted about 4:45 p.m.

The family’s dog, Gus, also was on board and was not harmed, according to the sheriff.

Elizabethton is 14 miles south of Bristol Motor Speedway, where Earnhardt was scheduled to work this weekend as part of NBC’s broadcast team.

In a statement Thursday night, a spokesperson for NBC Sports said: “We’re incredibly grateful that Dale, his wife Amy, daughter Isla, and the two pilots are safe following today’s accident.

“After being discharged from the hospital, we communicated with Dale and his team, and we’re all in agreement that he should take this weekend off to be with his family,” according to the statement. “We look forward to having him back in the booth next month at Darlington.”

Videos posted on Twitter showed the plane’s fuselage cracked in two and a combination of flames and black smoke billowing from the opening. Photos taken later showed the plane was almost fully engulfed in flames.

The busy Highway 91 near the airport was closed to traffic as the plane sat burning, the Bristol Herald Courier reported.

In the evening press conference, Lunsford, the sheriff, said the road is heavily traveled, particularly at the time of the accident.

“The fact that no one was injured, we’re extremely lucky,” he said.

FAA records show the plane is registered to

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NASCAR Nationwide Series drivers Danica Patrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. talk following their qualifying laps for the DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 24, 2012, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Earnhardt Jr. and his wife were involved in a plane crash on Thursday in Tennessee but unhurt.

Mooresville, N.C.-based JR Motorsports, the NASCAR team owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kelley Earnhardt Miller.

In a statement to CNN, the Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna Citation “rolled off the end of Runway 24 and caught fire after landing at Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Tennessee at 3:40 p.m. today. Preliminary indication is that three people were aboard, they evacuated and no injuries were reported to the FAA. “The FAA will investigate and the National Transportation Safety Board will determine probable cause of the accident,” according to the FAA’s statement.

Just before 6:30 p.m., the NTSB tweeted that it would send two investigators to the scene.

Earnhardt’s crash is just the latest in a long line of NASCAR aircraft wrecks.

Several famous drivers, including Hall of Famers Alan Kulwicki and Davey Allison, died in plane crashes in the 1990s.

Kulwicki was killed when his plane wrecked in April 1993, also en route to Bristol Motor Speedway. Two months later, Allison attempted to land his helicopter in the infield of Talladega Superspeedway before it went nose up and crashed. Allison did not survive the injuries he sustained.

In 2004, several Hendrick Motorsports officials perished when a team plane hit a mountain near Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. That wreck killed team

owner Rick Hendrick’s brother and son, as well as the team’s general manager.

Roush Fenway Racing owner Jack Roush has also been involved in two airplane crashes, once in 2002 and later in 2010, but survived both.

Earnhardt Jr. transitioned to the broadcast booth in 2018 after 18 full-time seasons in the NASCAR Cup Series, the highest level of stock car racing. There, Earnhardt emerged as not only one of the sport’s most talented drivers, but also its most marketable.

Following the death of his father, Dale Earnhardt, in a crash at the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt went on to win NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver Award 15 times.

His streak, which ran consecutively from 2003 until his retirement in 2017, fell one short of the record held by Hall of Famer Bill Elliott.

When fellow NASCAR stars Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Danica Patrick left the sport in recent seasons, Earnhardt emerged as the face of NASCAR. He also served as racing’s public voice of sorts, speaking out about social justice issues.

Earnhardt reached that status without ever winning a championship at NASCAR’s highest level. He won 26 races over the course of his career, including the prestigious Daytona 500 twice.

Earnhardt retired from full-time Cup Series racing in 2017 because of concerns about previous head injuries and because he wanted to start a family. Earnhardt remains active in the sport as a race analyst for NBC.

NASCAR playoff race heats up at Bristol Motor Speedway Field Level Media

Tight racing, hot tempers and amazing finishes typically characterize the annual Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway night race, and with playoff hopes on the line as the regular season nears its conclusion, it’s easy to expect all that high drama in Saturday night’s Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

The last four Bristol races have a been Busch Brothers Battle – with current Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series points leader Kyle Busch winning three of them, including the sport’s first season visit this April. His older brother, Kurt Busch, returns to the track as defending winner of this late summer night race.

Kyle Busch, of Joe Gibbs Racing, and Team Penske driver Joey Logano have been vying for the regular-season championship all year. Busch takes a 20-point lead into Bristol.

And while that’s a compelling battle atop the standings, there is also an intense competition at the playoff cutoff line. Four drivers – Ryan Newman, Clint Bowyer, Daniel Suarez and Jimmie Johnson – are separated by 22 points from Newman in 15th to Johnson in 18th.

Fifteenth-place Newman holds a 10-point edge over 16th-place Bowyer, who sits six points to the championship good over 17th-place Suarez and 12 points to good on 18th-place Johnson.

Bristol should be an especially interesting race for these drivers, who coincidentally finished in consecutive order in April. Bowyer was seventh, Suarez eighth, Newman ninth and Johnson 10th.

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NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Busch (18) before the Consumers Energy 400 at Michigan Speedway.

Johnson is the only one among the four with a series victory at Bristol – winning twice in 2010 and then 2017, the last time a driver not named Busch celebrated in Victory Lane. His 21 top-10 finishes there are most among active drivers.

Both Newman (2005) and Bowyer (2008) have visited Bristol Victory Lane in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. And Suarez scored his career-best Xfinity Series result at Bristol – runner-up in 2015 and 2017 Xfinity races at the track.

Among those four drivers, Johnson has led the most laps – nearly triple the next-best output. He’s been out front 914 laps in 35 starts. Bowyer has led 281 laps in 27 starts. Newman has been out front 123 laps in 35 starts, and third-year driver Suarez has led five laps in five races.

Of course, all you need to lead is the last one. And rest assured, these four drivers in particular, know that.

FIVE TO GO FOR XFINITY SERIES With five races remaining to set the 2019 Xfinity Series 12-driver playoff field, Friday night’s Food City 300 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway (7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) will be an extra dose of adrenalin in an already typically show-stopping short track stop.

While the series’ “Big 3” – championship leader Tyler Reddick, Christopher Bell and Cole Custer – have accounted for 13 of 21 wins. It has been three races – the longest span on the season – since one of those drivers hoisted a trophy.

Chase Briscoe earned his career first series win at Iowa, and Austin Cindric

has won the two races since – roadcourse events at Watkins Glen, N.Y. and the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. A win at Bristol would make the Team Penske driver Cindric only the ninth driver in series history to win three consecutive events. Bell is the last to do so, winning three straight last July.

Defending series champion Reddick has led the championship standings for the past 18 races, earning three wins but really maintaining the top position thanks to the Richard Childress Racing driver’s 18 top-10 finishes through the opening 21 events.

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Bell, a fiverace winner, is ranked second and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Custer – also, a fivetime winner this season. Of the three top drivers, however, only Bell has won previously at Bristol, taking the checkered flag for the first time at the track this April.

Six drivers have clinched playoff positions with wins – Reddick, Bell, Custer, Michael Annett, Briscoe and Cindric – and six more have a healthy lead on the field in the playoff standings. Justin Allgaier, rookie Noah Gragson, Justin Haley, rookie John Hunter Nemechek, Ryan Sieg and Brandon Jones are still vying for a victory to guarantee their playoff berth.

But Jones, 12th in the driver standings, does have a solid 108-point gap on 13thplace Grey Gaulding.

Allgaier most likely shows up at Bristol the most motivated among those still looking for the first win of the season.

The veteran and former Bristol winner (2010) led a race-high 138 laps and won both stages of the April race before being collected in a late-race accident and ending up with a 30th-place finish.

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Gio Urshela and the Yankees’ MVP

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TORONTO — It was 10:30 a.m. Sunday, and inside Gio Urshela’s locker in the visitor’s clubhouse at the Rogers Centre, his good luck charm was wearing his sunglasses.

“He had a long night,” Urshela said, laughing.

“He” was a 12-inch plush toy who is perhaps the team’s biggest pre-trade-deadline addition.

The previous day, the parrot — named after Edwin Encarnacion — was sporting Urshela’s goldcolored bracelet around his neck while Urshela was manning third base. Parrot Edwin has also sat in the dugout, celebrated home runs during games and ridden in his own seat on the team’s charter plane.

“I take him with me everywhere,” Urshela said.

Except on the field, where Urshela, 27, has been a breakout star this season, one of several little-known players who have lifted the New York Yankees amid a crushing season of injuries.

The late-blooming third baseman, long recognized primarily for his defense, has resurrected his career with the Yankees, who have been without star third baseman Miguel Andujar since he had shoulder surgery in May. And this season, Urshela’s colorful personality has emerged along with his offensive prowess.

Urshela had developed a reputation across parts of three major league seasons as a strong defender with a weak bat. But after a minor league trade from the Toronto Blue Jays to the Yankees in August 2018, he revamped his swing

with help from the Yankees’ Class AAA hitting coach, Phil Plantier. Urshela, who was re-signed this winter on a minor league deal, has had many hitting coaches throughout three major league organizations, but Plantier’s words about using his legs resonated.

“That’s where you get the power to drive the ball,” said Urshela, who has also lowered his hands and abbreviated the leg kick in his swing.

Despite being an aggressive swinger, Urshela’s ability to make better contact has led to this: a .335 average through Wednesday with a .964 on-base-plus-slugging-percentage that is the highest mark on a team loaded with power hitters. Thanks to a torrid stretch last week in which he smashed six home runs despite missing two games with bruised legs, Urshela extended his season total to 18. Before this season, his career total was eight.

“He’s been not a good but a great player for us all around,” said Yankees manager Aaron Boone, adding later, “It’s a tribute to him, his talent, his ability to grow in this game, his ability to make adjustments.”

And to have fun. Urshela, while often soft-spoken in interviews, has brought his own goofiness to the buttoned-up franchise. After stellar defensive plays or key hits, Urshela points to his dugout or laughs. When Francisco Lindor, shortstop for the Cleveland Indians, Urshela’s former club, robbed him of a hit during a game in June, Urshela taunted his best friend from the dugout.

“I always try to have fun,” said Urshela, a native of Cartagena, Colombia. “I try to be happy.

It’s how I play and feel good.”

Parrot Edwin is the latest example. Urshela’s fondness for Encarnacion dates to their time together on the 2017 Indians. When the Yankees acquired Encarnacion from the Seattle Mariners on June 15, former teammates of the slugger, including Urshela, were thrilled.

Aside from being a proven power hitter, Encarnacion possesses his own playful side. After a home run during the 2012 season, he rounded the bases with his right elbow out as if he were holding a parrot. His teammates found this hilarious, dubbed it the “Edwing,” and encouraged him to continue. They bought a stuffed animal parrot to use in the dugout.

Fans seized on the idea, too, bringing plush toy parrots stadiums where Encarnacion was playing or dressing up like a bird. The idea of buying a plush toy parrot for the Yankees clubhouse didn’t occur to Urshela until a month after Encarnacion had arrived.

Urshela ordered a stuffed scarlet macaw on Amazon, and it arrived in time for the last game of the Yankees’ series in Minnesota on July 24. (Urshela couldn’t remember the price, but a near exact toy was available for $12.38 as of Wednesday.)

Encarnacion hit a ninth-inning solo home run that day. It was his 30th of the year, the eighth straight season in which he has reached that mark. As he entered the dugout after the homer, infielder Gleyber Torres handed him the plush toy, which had been hiding in the dugout all game. As he high-fived laughing teammates, Encarnacion did so with parrot Edwin in hand.

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Football wisdom holds that most running backs see their skills diminish from the pounding they take by the time they hit 30 years old.

There are certainly outliers to that invisible barrier, but for the most part it continues to hold true despite advancements in training and medical care. This is a league where quarterbacks now routinely play up to and beyond 40, but the rules are designed to protect them from harm. Running backs get no such shield, and their bodies tend to break down much quicker.

Bell is 27 and has played five NFL seasons at a very high level. If he can play another five or six in this second stanza of his career, he’ll have exceeded timeline expectations for his position. And he might owe it to not playing in 2018.

Bell has already spoken about how fresh he feels coming back with the Jets. In an interview with ESPN Radio in New York in late July, he said he believes that the year off will add years to his career.

“It’s like football, you recover a little bit, but you have bumps and bruises that don’t fully heal,” he said. “Over the course of your career, your shoulder or knee or ankle or toe, you get used to it hurting.

When I took this whole year off and came back, I can’t remember what was hurting in Pittsburgh. I literally can’t

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and urban areas.

The varying deer populations throughout the region reflect this mixture of habitat type, and overall hunting opportunities abound. The 2018 deer season produced generally desirable results compared to the previous season.

Buck harvests increased in twelve of the region’s eighteen Wildlife Management Units (WMUs), and seven of those increases were over 15%.

Twelve of the WMUs are at or close to our population objective and will issue the same number of Deer Management Permits (DMPs) as last year.

Three of the units with antler restrictions (4O, 4P and 4W) had a modest increase in buck harvest and will provide more opportunities to receive a DMP this year. None of our units will issue fewer DMPs than last year. Unit Summaries for the 2019 Season The annual buck harvest is used as a gauge of population size and its relationship to the desired population level.

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New York Jets running back Le’Veon Bell (26) prepares for a game against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

remember what aches I had.”

Barkley isn’t there yet. He’s still just 22, has played only one NFL season. Even after he had 351 touches as a rookie, he said he was “chillin” and ready for more had the Giants made the playoffs.

But the NFL turns young men old very quickly. Especially running backs. Todd Gurley of the Rams is already starting to show signs of wear.

Leonard Fournette of the Jaguars has had a few dings that have slowed him down since his rookie season. Ezekiel Elliott’s highest rushing total, touchdown total, and yardsper-carry average in his career

came in his first season with the Cowboys.

Like a new car that diminishes in value the second it is driven off the lot, Barkley may never be as good or as fresh or as productive for the rest of his career as he was in 2018.

A year off at some point, though, might help him — or any running back — recoup and recharge.

Players get a halftime break in games. Why not a halftime break in their career?

Say a great running back has a window of eight prime seasons as a ballpark average.

By the time he’s done playing five, which would be the

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extent of a rookie contract for a first-round pick, he’d only have three left. But if he took a year off, he might have another five in him. Maybe more.

That could not only add to the span of his career, but make him more valuable as a free agent.

It wouldn’t only help players, but teams. Running backs know the clock is ticking.

That’s why Elliott and Melvin Gordon of the Chargers are holding out this summer, each trying to get new deals in place after just three seasons of service. The pressure is on them to make as much money as they can in what figures to

But Urshela made one thing clear: The parrot was a privilege, not a right. “That day, we took it out,” Urshela said. “But I put it away because he didn’t hit home runs.”

Indeed, Encarnacion didn’t. Eight home runless games after parrot Edwin appeared, Encarnacion was hit by a pitch Aug. 3 and suffered a hairline fracture in his right wrist. The injury may sideline Encarnacion (and parrot Edwin) until sometime in September.

As disappointing as the injury was, Encarnacion couldn’t help but laugh when parrot Edwin appeared in the dugout at the next game with his right wing wrapped in medical tape, courtesy of Urshela.

“He’s like a good-luck charm,” Urshela said.

“We have him there, and we keep winning.” For the record, the Yankees were 65-35 (a .650 winning percentage) before parrot Edwin arrived and have gone 16-6 (.727) with him in tow.

“It started as a joke, but it’s become a tradition,” said pitcher Domingo German, who has been spotted rubbing the parrot’s head in the dugout during games. “It’s a long season. You have to find ways to have fun and manage the stress.”

Even the stoic D.J. LeMahieu, an infielder, smiled when asked about Urshela and the parrot.

“It’s funny,” he said.

Urshela was proud to note that during the team’s previous home stand in New York he had seen a few fans at Yankee Stadium holding up plush toy parrots of their own. “The stuffed animal is getting famous,” he said.

be a short period of time. Elite running backs feel the need to push the contractual envelope sooner rather than later.

A year away from the physical drains of football could reduce that urgency. Players might be more likely to play out their initial deals – or at least play deeper into them — if they knew their value could be improved following a season off.

Those holdouts, if they linger, could turn into sabbatical seasons anyway. It did for Bell last year.

This isn’t any other job so it’s not as simple as putting in for vacation. And there are repercussions. Bell did leave a lot of money on the table when he skipped 2018. But that could conceivably be made up for on the back end if he does squeeze an extra year or two or three out of his time in the league because of the hiatus.

A player would have to have a measure of financial security in place to willingly skip a season’s worth of paychecks, but that’s not unreasonable given what highly-drafted players make entering the league these days.

Bell also received backlash from his teammates in

Pittsburgh and from fans around the country. He was painted as selfish and ungrateful. If such power moves become more common, the recriminations might become less intense. But a player would still need to be able to stomach the backlash.

All of which means Bell is a kind of real-time experiment for this possibility. If he remains a stellar player for the Jets throughout the life of the four-year deal he signed with them, then can cash in on another contract with the Jets or another team when he is 31, it may start to open eyes about the benefits of not playing.

People are watching.

Barkley is watching.

“If he does that, that might come into play,” the Giants running back said. “If you ask me that question in three or four years I can answer that question better.”

As for now?

“I would say no,” Barkley said. “I don’t think so. I don’t think it will shift toward that way. I don’t think so.”

But it does have him thinking.

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The tightknit knuckleball community includes Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey and two-time World Series champion Tim Wakefield. They showed that, if mastered, the pitch is one of the most effective in baseball, nearly impossible to hit. Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Willie Stargell, a Hall of Famer, once compared its flight to “a butterfly with hiccups.”

But coaches and knuckleballers believe the pitch may be nearing extinction.

Forever underestimated, never fully embraced on the instructional level and long an option of last resort for struggling pitchers, the knuckleball has always been somewhat rare. Its peak came in the 1970 season, when seven major league practitioners of the floating, fluttering, slow ball combined to earn 47 wins and 44 saves.

But last year, just 727 knuckleballs were thrown in the majors, the fewest since the statistic was first tracked by Baseball Savant in 2008, and that number could dwarf this year’s total.

Boston Red Sox right-hander Steven Wright is the only active knuckleballer in MLB, and he has been limited this season by a suspension and injuries. A knuckleballer has yet to record a victory this year.

The decline has been exacerbated by a confluence of factors, above all baseball’s emphasis on velocity and spin rate, characteristics that are virtually absent from a knuckleball. The focus on grooming pitchers who can overpower hitters makes it even harder to find coaches who can teach the knuckleball or organizations with the time and patience to develop a knuckleballer.

“Spin rate and velocity that’s the rage,” Colorado Rockies pitching coach Steve Foster said. “It’s always been a scout’s delight.”

Foster said his knowledge of the knuckleball - next to nothing - is indicative of its increasing rarity. As a player, he never played alongside someone who threw it. He hasn’t coached a knuckleballer, and he is almost certain the Rockies don’t have one in their entire organization.

“For a knuckleball, it has to be the right place at the right time with an organization that has patience,” he said. “In today’s game, it’s hard to find that that exists.”

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Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Steven Wright (35) pitches during a July game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Fenway Park.

One of the few remaining knuckleballers has bounced around the minors, pitched in South Korea and earlier this season was sent to the Toronto Blue Jays’ Class AA affiliate after being designated for assignment. Ryan Feierabend, 33, was a third-round draft pick in 2003, when his fastball sizzled in the low 90s. He had fooled around with the knuckleball previously, but after years of scuffling he decided to deploy the pitch with more frequency. He felt he had little to lose.

Without the knuckleball, he says he would “be sitting at home trying to find a job.” But he also understands the stigma.

“Not only could it make for an interesting day behind the plate, but is a team willing to sacrifice all of the time [to develop a knuckleballer]?” Feierabend said. “As a knuckleballer, you get labeled as a junk-ball pitcher. Kids don’t want to be known as that, even if they get guys out.”

Feierabend gets at a number of the factors that endanger the knuckleball.

Catching the pitch isn’t easy.

Teams often reason it isn’t worthwhile to carry an otherwise inferior catcher just because he catches a knuckleball well. Velocity isn’t only in demand - it’s simply cooler.

There also are changes across the sport in swing paths: The knuckleball is designed to induce flyballs, a no-no for

pitchers in today’s era of the launch angle, which itself came into vogue to counter the increase in power pitching.

All of this leads Wakefield to believe nobody will get drafted again by throwing the knuckleball.

Wakefield was a struggling position player who became a knuckleballer because a coach spotted him throwing one in the outfield just for fun. Soon he was in the instructional league as a full-fledged knuckleballer.

Quickly, he learned his margin of error was small and the group that could mentor him was even smaller. “I don’t know what to tell you” about the pitch, pitching coaches told him. He started jotting down self-help tips.

“I had to be my own pitching coach,” said Wakefield, who won 200 games in a 19-year major league career that ended in 2011.

Dickey had been an allAmerican, an Olympian and a first-round draft choice by the Texas Rangers thanks to a mid90s fastball combined with a quality change-up. But as his velocity declined, he became a spot starter and long reliever, a journeyman with a rising ERA. In an April 2005 meeting, Rangers pitching coach Orel Hershiser proposed an idea.

He knew Dickey threw a decent knuckleball once or twice per start, and he asked him if he would be interested in a demotion to the minor leagues to

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implement the pitch full-time.

“We watched Tim [Wakefield] come in here and kick our butts with a 68-mph knuckleball,” Dickey recalled being told. “We want one of those guys. You’re the closest we have to that. Go be that guy.”

Dickey had to change the mechanics that made him a major leaguer, and he spent hours on minor league bus rides with little to do but think about who he was and where he was headed.

Doubt lingered with him from his very first start as a knuckleballer, when he was clubbed for 14 hits and 12 runs.

It took Dickey five years to feel comfortable with the pitch, but in 2012 he led the National League in strikeouts for the New York Mets and won the Cy Young.

“It will be sad when it’s a lost thing,” said Dickey, who retired after the 2017 season, another cause of the massive drop in knuckleballs thrown in MLB since then. “It’s a great piece of curiosity that keeps people engaged, rather than just seeing another right-hander that throws 92. Throughout, I felt this tugging on my heart: ‘I want to succeed because I know what it takes and how hard it is.’ “ But this also is how the

knuckleball, however threatened or disrespected, has hung on: Through patient, staunch pitchers such as Dickey, Wakefield and Feierabend, on the brink of quitting but determined to revive their careers.

And perhaps that is the craft’s path to survival.

While Wakefield acknowledged the unlikelihood of a

knuckleball renaissance, he said: “I don’t think it’ll ever disappear. It’s a very valuable weapon. The pitcher himself becomes very versatile for the club. You can start, relieve, pitch on short-days’ rest, multiple days in a row. Things like that create a dynamic for a ballclub.”

Wakefield said there will always be career hiccups, guys whose promising trajectories came to a screeching halt, leaving them with the choice of quitting the game or trying the knuckleball. He would know.

“I always say, ‘I wish there were more people throwing it,’ “ Wakefield said. “Just have fun.

The whole point is getting an out. I used to love the phone call [to the bullpen] that I was coming in after someone throwing 95. It’s a complete change of pace, and I have movement.”

But with fewer clubs appearing open to the idea of letting a player test out an unorthodox pitch for years in the minors, there is no guarantee the experiment will work.

“There’s no entry point outside of failing,” Dickey said.

“The hopeful part of my heart says it’s the natural ebb and flow of the pitch. The realistic part of my heart feels more and more front offices are not so inclined to give that type of pitch a chance over a guy who throws hard.”

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Greatest athlete of all time?

Simone Biles is in the conversation Jim Souhan Star Tribune

In 56 years of sports watching and 40 years of sports writing, two eyewitness moments rise above all others: 1. Usain Bolt sprinting through the curve in the 200 meters in Beijing, moving at a speed that seemed impossible.

2. Simone Biles twisting and levitating in Rio on her way to the all-around gold medal.

Most debates about the greatest athlete of all time skew toward our most popular sports and most celebrated performers.

Jim Brown was an otherworldly running back who also excelled at lacrosse and probably could have excelled at the decathlon. LeBron James is a 6-8, 250-pound physical specimen who is supremely conditioned and coordinated.

Michael Jordan and Tom Brady are our most celebrated major-sport winners, and it’s possible that no athlete has ever won at all levels the way Maya Moore has. Bolt set world records in events that may represent the purest form of sport — no judges, officials or teammates come into play.

But I’m starting to wonder if Biles is the most remarkable, and perhaps greatest, athlete I’ve seen.

This week, Biles became the first woman to execute a triple-double — three twists and two flips — while winning the floor routine en route to her sixth all-around U.S. gymnastics championship title.

She is a dominant athlete in a sport not known for longevity. She is stunningly fast, powerful, and agile, and as is the case with all gymnasts, she is required to possess enough athletic bravery to even attempt maneuvers that would land lesser athletes on their heads, and in the hospital.

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Simone Biles competes on the balance beam during the AT&T American Cup competition at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on March 7, 2015.

Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve notes Biles’ “extreme grace.”

“Athleticism is one thing, but to combine that with grace ...” Reeve said. “I recognize that in her because grace was not my thing.

“She was already talented but this has gone to this place that is incredible to watch. I can’t wait for what lies ahead for her. The god-given ability, the athleticism, combined that with a competitive fire and the most extreme grace, that’s

Simone Biles. It’s incredible.”

Comparing athletes from different sports and eras is an intriguing parlor game because of the impossibility of the task. You can’t compare Michael Jordan and Simone Biles, or Bolt and Serena Williams.

But if you wanted to try, you couldn’t rely solely on statistics. You’d have to believe that what you saw from that athlete was unique and transcendent.

Jordan was a dominant player, but he didn’t win as many titles as Bill Russell or score as many points as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. To believe that Jordan is the greatest is to impose your own parameters on the debate.

Here’s why Biles has a chance to at least enter the conversation, for me if not for more traditional sports fans: She is doing what other humans can’t do, what other women have never done, and is doing so in a way that fulfills the dictionary definition of “awesome.”

The degree of difficulty in her sport is off any chart. I grew up hearing the saying, “The hardest thing to do in sports is hit a round baseball with a round bat.” I would posit that performing a tripledouble during a floor routine in which you hurl yourself to the ceiling and can’t afford to make a single misstep is a little tougher.

Even comparing Biles and Bolt makes for an intriguing debate. Bolt mastered the purest form of sport — running faster than anyone ever had at two distances.

He is unique because of his performance, not because of his skill. He is not even considered a great technical runner by those capable of judging. He simply runs fast, employing a skill that most begin practicing, without instruction, at the age of 2.

Biles, in contrast, is dominating a sport that is unnatural and inherently difficult. Nobody vaults at the age of 2.

Jim Thorpe. Jim Brown. Jordan. LeBron. Bo Jackson. Serena. Pele. Michael Phelps. Muhammad Ali. Bolt.

That list might contain the greatest athlete in history, but I’ve never seen any of them produce something as otherworldly as a Simone Biles floor routine — not even when Bolt flew through the curve in Beijing.

UFC needs an antihero: Nate Diaz returns just in time John Branch The New York Times News Service

STOCKTON, Calif. — Nate Diaz was stoned in an ice bath.

The antihero of the Ultimate Fighting Championship was on his patio, neck-deep in training for his first fight in three years.

He closed his eyes behind his sunglasses.

Summer in California’s Central Valley was in full heat-blast mode. Landscapers trimmed the vast lawn with their buzzing mowers while Diaz’s father-inlaw tinkered with a construction project by the pool. Diaz’s friends were in the shade, smoking marijuana.

The day’s group training would begin in a while — a 7-mile run in the 100-degree heat, a middle-of-the-night session at the gym — but the biggest concern of the afternoon was running out of weed.

“So maybe now I’m hella high, but if I hop in the ice bath it’ll kick me up, wake up my cells,” Diaz said. “It turns me from ‘I don’t want to go’ to ‘let’s go’ real quick.”

UFC brands itself as the counterculture edge of the sports world: brash, bloody and unscripted. But as mixed martial arts have bulled into the mainstream, Diaz remains a reliable mutineer. He is the pot-smoking, straight-talking, Stockton-representing renegade who, at the top of his career, had the gall to essentially disappear for three years.

Diaz stands out in a tent of circus performers by doing nothing but being himself. That much was on display when he strolled into his open workout Wednesday smoking a CBD joint from his own cannabis business and proceeded to pass more out to fans. He had planned to stop smoking marijuana a couple of weeks before his fight against Anthony Pettis on Saturday at UFC 241 in Anaheim, California, because the compound in weed that causes psychoactive effects, THC, remains a banned substance for which fighters are tested.

“Myself and the fans, his fans, have just come to learn that he is very unique,” the UFC president, Dana White, said in a phone interview. “He looks at things completely different than most normal people do.”

Maybe a refresher is in order: In his second-to-last UFC fight, in March 2016, Diaz pummeled and temporarily quieted Conor McGregor with a second-round submission.

It was, at the time, the biggest

pay-per-view event in mixed martial arts history, and when Diaz was handed the microphone after ending McGregor’s 15-fight winning streak, he uttered four words — “I’m not surprised,” followed by a 12-letter obscenity — which together became the most famous quotation in UFC history. The words are memorialized on a mural of a bloodied, victorious Diaz painted on the side of a building in his hometown, the last word replaced by an ellipsis.

The upset rocketed Diaz from crowd-pleasing journeyman to genuine star, out of the shadow of his older brother, Nick, also a top UFC fighter.

There were mainstream television appearances, as roughedged and unscripted as Diaz himself, everywhere from Kimmel to Conan. He ate tacos with Anthony Bourdain.

In his last fight, a grueling rematch with McGregor five months later, which raised their old pay-per-view record, Diaz lost by split decision. A defeat without disgrace, there was instant talk of a trilogy, as if McGregor and Diaz were UFC’s Ali and Frazier or Leonard and Duran.

It did not happen. McGregor, a cultural crossover act, cashed in the next year by boxing Floyd Mayweather. Diaz, to the disappointment of his 2.9 million Instagram followers and millions of fight fans, mostly disappeared.

Three years later, at a time when UFC seems a bit lost, needing to fulfill its media contracts and finding few stars, one of its biggest was in his backyard, looking lean, smoking pot and telling stories.

Unfolding himself out of the tub, Diaz, 34, picked up his phone and zoomed in on UFC’s promotional poster for the fight. He shook his head at the scowl.

“Look at this picture they’re using,” Diaz said. “They always want me to be that. … “ And here he referred to himself by that most unprintable of nouns.

“They always promote one and demote the other,” Diaz said. “I’m always being demoted.”

Diaz wanted the poster changed.

“Do you know how many fighters have called and complained about the poster in 20 years?” White said. “One. One guy.”

This fight could lead to more Diaz fights, including that third one with McGregor, sure to be

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Nate Diaz competes against Conor McGregor during UFC 202 on August 20, 2016 at T-Mobile Arena.

bigger than the others, though a pending sexual assault investigation of McGregor remains an obstacle. It is not hyperbole to suggest that even after Diaz’s three-year layoff, today’s UFC might need him more than he needs UFC. ‘Even Then He Was Getting in Trouble’ Diaz lives about 1 mile from where he grew up, within earshot of Highway 99, unglamorous central California’s clogged major artery. His parents met at a diner. His mother was a waitress. His father was a line cook, and still is. Diaz is looking to buy them a restaurant of their own.

The stucco house Diaz shares with Misty Brown and their 1-year-old daughter, Nikayla, is sprawling and cluttered. It is decorated in the competing styles of Pottery Barn and Little Tikes.

The walls look to be Diaz’s domain. A Bruce Lee poster hangs over the mantel. Bob Marley smokes a joint over the guest toilet. A den turned into a workout room has a painted caricature of Diaz and Tupac Shakur over the tagline “Thug Life,” a stoned Mickey Mouse titled “Hollyweed” and a framed copy of a 2017 Dope Magazine cover featuring the Diaz brothers.

“See how it’s crooked?” Diaz said. “I framed that myself.”

Diaz and Brown have been together for 12 years. They met long before that, at nearby Salas Park, when she was at cheerleader practice and he was at football practice.

“He was always running laps,” she said. “Even then he was getting in trouble.”

Diaz’s first fight was in sixth grade (“I headlined the park,” he said), and he followed his brother into jujitsu, out of high school (both boys dropped out) and toward sanctioned fighting. At 21, with his brother rising in UFC, Diaz was cast on the “Ultimate Fighter” reality series, which he won.

The Diaz brothers are known for taunting opponents before, during and after matches, but it was Nate who gave two middle fingers to an opponent in the middle of a fight. In 2013, UFC suspended him for tweeting gay slurs.

While Nick has faced significant charges of his own outside the sport — including three counts of domestic battery, which were later dismissed — the pair’s close connection is part of their draw. Nick, two years Nate’s senior, failed or dodged drug tests before being given a five-year suspension for a positive marijuana test after a 2015 fight. It was later overturned, but he has not fought since.

Through their ownership of a CBD business, Game Up Nutrition, and Nate’s insistence on vaping marijuana during the McGregor postfight news conference, the Diaz brothers’ proclivity for cannabis is a part of what made them rebels. Or helped turn marijuana mainstream.

“That’s all me,” Nate Diaz said. “And my bro, who planted the seed. You’re welcome” — and he added that familiar expletive.

Brown rarely accompanies Diaz into the spotlight but is quick to defend him — to her own skeptical family years ago, to all those who judge Diaz by his public persona.

“It’s wrong that he comes off as the middle finger mean guy that you can’t have a conversation with, when deep down inside he’s one of the most passionate people I’ve met,” Brown said. “There’s the portrayal of him on TV, and when people meet him they say, oh, he’s not mean at all.”

At home and among friends, his default emotion is ease, not anger. His laugh is a sort of giggle, and when he smiles his face scrunches up and his eyes tighten. It looks like he’s doing a Robert De Niro impression.

Brown echoed what Diaz has said before: He does not like to fight.

“It’s just something he knows how to do,” Brown said.

It is a job to Diaz but entertainment to everyone else. He has no patience for the false rituals of showmanship, angling instead to be the anti-McGregor.

“He’s got a facade of some sort,” Diaz said. “All of them do. They don’t even realize it.

They’re just jumping into the line. They’re like robots.”

Diaz took a deep tug from a pipe.

“I’m a little politically incorrect, but on accident,” he said.

Moments later, he stood up without a word, trailed by his English bulldogs, Machiavelli and Liz. He climbed a ladder to the 10-foot roof of a pool house under construction, paced off his approach, then ran and flung himself over a stretch of concrete into the pool.

‘You Got to Know Not to Redline’ For most of a decade, Diaz was better known for taking abuse while outlasting opponents in action-filled fights. Officially, his UFC record is 20-11, but only two of those losses did not go the distance.

He credits his endurance to triathlons. He was training for one in the spring of 2016 when McGregor’s next scheduled opponent, Rafael dos Anjos, backed out with an injury. UFC was desperate to keep McGregor atop the card. Diaz stepped in as a replacement 11 days before the fight.

Triathlons teach you about pace, controlling exertion, Diaz said. He stood to pantomime his swim, bike and run at a recent race near Lake Tahoe. He talks with his whole body.

“You got to know not to redline,” Diaz said. “That’s what happened to Conor.”

The two quickly agreed to a rematch, set four months later, but Diaz said he instantly regretted signing the contract, feeling undervalued. When White canceled the fight over McGregor’s questions about promotional obligations, Diaz saw an opportunity. He raised his asking price when UFC called again and forced White to treat him to a steak dinner to hash out a deal, the same as White had done with McGregor. Diaz also persuaded White to let him deliver a Stockton Slap, which the fighter promptly posted on Instagram.

“That’s what this culture loves,” White said, explaining that Diaz gives the finger to “the man” and does his own thing.

“Nate Diaz is absolutely difficult to deal with, but I don’t dislike Nate Diaz.”

After McGregor exacted revenge in the rematch, Diaz had talks for other fights but no matchups he loved. White grew tired of waiting, publicly suggesting that Diaz turned down dozens of fights. That infuriated Diaz further.

For most of two years, Diaz publicly vacillated on the reason he was reluctant to accept deals. Behind the scenes, though, he was being sued by his management agency, Ballengee Group, which claimed that Diaz owed it more than $1 million after Diaz cut ties with Ballengee between the McGregor fights. Diaz worried that future payouts might get caught up in the quarrel.

The suit, filed in Texas, was dismissed in 2018 because of questions over jurisdiction, and Ballengee threatened to refile it in California or Nevada, where Diaz lived and mostly fought.

Then an appealing opponent surfaced in Dustin Poirier, and Diaz and Ballengee settled for an undisclosed amount.

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Poor hygiene could be a relationship deal-killer I’ve been dating my boyfriend for a year and a half. We’re both 30, and we have pretty much decided to tie the knot. The only thing holding me back is his hygiene.

When we met, he wasn’t all that into showering and using deodorant.

Slowly, over time, he has started to shower daily and DEAR ABBY wear deodorant, but he still doesn’t brush his teeth.

His apartment is my biggest nightmare. It is filled with opened delivery boxes, there are beard trimmings all over the bathroom, a pink ring of death in his shower, and his stovetop — well, you get the point.

Should I mention that I’m one of the cleanest people I know? I grew up with well-dressed, great-smelling men in my life.

They’re the walking, talking real-life versions of a men’s fashion commercial.

Is this a make-or-break situation? We get along in so many other ways.

Hygiene’s The Problem

JEANNE PHILLIPS

I’m glad you asked. Yes, this is a make-orbreak situation, and it needs to be resolved before you sign up with this “cellmate” for life. While I appreciate his making the effort to shower as a step in the right direction, his lack of attention to his dental health is a cause for worry. Decaying teeth and periodontal disease can cause serious health problems — including heart issues — later in life and may be related to Alzheimer’s disease.

If you think his living conditions are a turnoff now, consider how they’ll affect you if you marry him. He either never learned or doesn’t care to pick up and clean up after himself. That task will be all yours. If you really love him, draw

the line now, and perhaps it will put him on the right path. Better late than never.

My boyfriend of several years financially supports his parents for cultural reasons. It was expected of him from an early age because he is the only child, and he intends to support them for the rest of their days.

Not only does he pay their mortgage and provide a sizable monthly allowance, but I have just learned that he is paying off all of the debts his father has accumulated over the years as well. This is in addition to the tens of thousands of dollars in spending money he has given them to visit the homeland every few years. Combine this with his massive school loan repayments and it’s unlikely he will have enough to be able to retire, let alone for us to have children.

I am at the age where if I am going to have kids, it needs to be within the next few years, and it is looking unlikely. I love him dearly, but I’m wondering if I should stay with him, knowing that his parents will eventually need to live with us for the rest of their lives. Even questioning this is making me feel guilty and selfish. (By the way, he has told me he would have proposed by now but couldn’t afford a ring as all of his discretionary income goes to his parents.) Advice?

Getting Resentful

TO YOUR

Four expert groups now GOOD HEALTH recommend against the use of antibiotics prior to dental cleanings in people with prosthetic joints. Your dentist should know that the use of antibiotics does not reduce the risk of developing an infection in the joint you had replaced. The downsides include not only the development of resistance you mention, but also allergic reactions and a wide variety of uncommon other reactions. I can’t comment on your particular case, as you might have an unusual situation I don’t know about. However, most people are more likely to have harm than benefit from antibiotic treatment prior to routine dental cleaning, even if they have a joint replacement.

In contrast to joint replacements, there are a handful of people with heart problems who need antibiotics prior to dental procedures.

Most of these involve prosthetic heart material,

DR. KEITH ROACH

Classic Peanuts

Garfield

Have you told your boyfriend how you feel? If you haven’t discussed it with him, you should.

He sounds like a caring and dutiful son. However, unless you intend to join him in becoming a childless indentured servant to his parents, end the relationship.

Antibiotics and before dental cleaning not needed for some My question involves my dentist insisting on my taking four antibiotics before any procedure even as minor as a cleaning. I have had a very successful knee replacement. Does this overuse of antibiotics contribute to the increase of “superbugs” that now appear to be very threatening?

Family Circus

Blondie

a heart transplant, congenital heart disease or prior history of valve infection.

Recently, some friends and I thought about taking OTC motion sickness tabs every day, even when not boating. Then, we’d always be ready for any motion sickness situations.

It seems like a great idea, but would we develop a tolerance for motion sickness tabs and have to take more as time goes by?

I don’t recommend it. OTC motion sickness tablets are generally antihistamines, and they have the potential for side effects, especially sleepiness, falls and motor vehicle accidents.

More importantly, there is some evidence of tachyphylaxis — that they will be less effective over time. Taking a higher dose might be more effective, but then the risk of side effect becomes even higher.

I would recommend keeping the motion sickness tablets with you (or even on your boat), so you are ready anytime.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a quiet, easygoing individual who can also be quite vocal and aggressive when you have been challenged in any way. You have a dark, smoldering quality that can put some people off, but it is quickly overlooked by those who get to know you. You are deeply connected to the world around you and the people in your life; you are not one to forget birthdays, anniversaries or other important dates in the lives of those around you, and you are always the first to reach out to, and lavish gifts on, those who have been through difficult times. Still, when your back is up, you are not one to be crossed.

You are quite protective of your personal life; indeed, no one really knows what you do in private except for the very few individuals whom you invite into your inner sanctum.

Also born on this date are: Robert De Niro, actor; Dustin Pedroia, baseball player; Donnie Wahlberg, actor; Sean Penn, actor; Davy Crockett, statesman and war hero; Mae West, actress; Maureen O’Hara, actress; Belinda Carlisle, singer.

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 18 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Take care that you don’t fall into a bad habit just because someone close to you has adopted it. You can go your own way with confidence.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may be accused of “micromanaging,” but the truth is that you are not comfortable without overseeing what others are doing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You have many responsibilities to fulfill at this time, and you should start close to home. A family member needs you!

Baby Blues

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’ll have to keep many balls in the air today if you are going to pass a certain approaching marker ahead of your closest competitors.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re waiting patiently to get the word to move — but you may decide it’s worth getting started before you hear the word “go”!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Unlike others today who can benefit from getting off the blocks quickly, you’ll want to hang back just a bit to assess the competition.

Beetle Bailey

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — The more you surround yourself with others today, the safer you will feel — but there are some things you’ll have to do on your own.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — An accident threatens to have you spinning out of control — but you know well enough to control your reactions and minimize any damage.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’re prepared for almost everything — but that “almost” is the key today. What happens may require you to step out of your comfort zone.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Appearances are more important today than they have been in the recent past. You’ll want to avoid being judged — even by family members.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may be disappointed that an old memory doesn’t satisfy you as it used to — but this is actually a good sign! You’re moving forward quickly.

Pearls Before Swine

Dennis the Menace

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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Answer here: Yesterday’s

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

Finger Level 1

2

3

4

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

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Answers Tuesday (Answers Monday) Jumbles: IMPLY DRAFT BEWARE CASINO Answer: Henry’s skill in reducing costs for production of the Model T resulted in — “A-FORD-ABILITY”

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Solution to Friday’s puzzle

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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Each answer contains “finger.” (e.g., These are trimmed and polished during a manicure. Answer: Fingernails.)

Freshman level 1. A group of lakes in central New York state.

2. Recovery of these from a crime scene is important forensic evidence.

3. Term for someone who has a tendency to drop things.

4. What is the common name for your minimus?

5. A 1964 James Bond film starring Sean Connery.

Graduate level 6. Term for the third finger of the left hand.

7. Verb meaning to tell the police that someone has committed a crime.

8. A young or small fish.

9. If something is readily available, it is “at your _____.”

10. Pitcher who won the MVP and Cy Young Award in 1981.

PH.D. level 11. What is the common name for your medius?

12. Title of a 1971 album by the Rolling Stones.

13. A strip of wood on the neck of a stringed musical instrument.

14. Term for a biscuit and also a cocktail.

15. A disorder characterized by catching or locking of the involved finger.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Finger Lakes. 2. Fingerprints. 3. Butterfingers. 4. Little finger. 5. “Goldfinger.”

6. Ring finger. 7. Finger. 8. Fingerling. 9. Fingertips. 10. Rollie Fingers. 11. Middle finger. 12. “Sticky Fingers.” 13. Fingerboard. 14. Lady finger (ladyfinger). 15. Trigger finger.

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?

Mutts

Dilbert

Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Tenth month 4 Gemstones 9 Book jacket part 13 Deafening 15 Nonconformist 16 Thick cord 17 Great __; tall dog 18 Major airline 19 Remove the lid from 20 Bland 22 Bank teller’s call 23 Black-eyed __ 24 Third word in “Old MacDonald” 26 Soap opera 29 Like a careless job 34 Group under a teacher 35 Heckle 36 Actress Larter 37 Asian staple 38 “There’s no such __ as a free lunch” 39 Spoil 40 Chewed on 41 Part of BYOB 42 Bisect 43 Most annoying 45 Complains childishly 46 Org. for Nuggets & Knicks 47 Flying insect 48 Moreover 51 Override; bump 56 First word in a warning 57 Bring together 58 Caspian & North 60 Be adjacent to 61 Vexes 62 Canvas 63 Throngs 64 Chris of tennis 65 “Go __ a kite!”

DOWN 1 Obsolete 2 Winter garment 3 Bluefin, for one

Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

4 Traumatic experience 5 Rinds 6 Suffix for punish or perish 7 “Why don’t we!”

8 Hockey no-no 9 Fern parts 10 Bound along 11 Peak 12 __-up; like repressed anger 14 Hate 21 Pekoe & oolong 25 Well-suited 26 Leftover bit 27 Upper crust 28 Marathons 29 Actress Eva Marie __ 30 Respirator 31 Drags 32 Small fruit 33 Eats 35 That’s partner 38 Hold dear 39 Most impulsive

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Non Sequitur

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41 High chair accessory 42 Shanties 44 Actor Don __ 45 Woods 47 Slightly more than a yard 48 Early man 49 Gray wolf

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50 Give the cold shoulder to 52 Brown or Fordham: abbr.

53 __ up; amass 54 Unable to hear 55 Title 59 __ on; watch from hiding

Rubes

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hen Isabela Moner first heard that the beloved animated Nickelodeon show “Dora the Explorer” was getting an aged-up, live-action adaptation, she was admittedly concerned about the idea.

“It’s natural to wonder if what you love is going to be corrupted just to make money off us fans,” said the 18-year-old star of “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” (opening Aug. 9). “I was skeptical about what Hollywood would do to something that was special to me.”

But that’s not the case here, stresses Moner, because the movie has everything kids and parents remember about the series, which debuted in 2000. That includes Dora’s signature look: bangs, a hot pink shirt and bright orange shorts.

Moner, who starred in “Instant Family,” “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” “100 Things to Do Before High School” and “Transformers: The Last Knight,” isn’t just your average teen nostalgic about the bilingual exploradora’s adventures — she was involved in the show’s animated 2014 spinoff “Dora and Friends,” which turned Dora from a 7-year-old to a tween. Moner was the voice of one of the friends, Kate, so playing the high school version of Dora came naturally to her.

“When I read the script and realized it was really clever and fun and kid-friendly, I thought ‘this will work,’” the Cleveland, Ohio, native said. “It’s very touching to see all the characters and animals, Boots, the backpack and the songs.”

In the movie, Dora lives with her archaeologist parents (Eva Longoria and Michael Peña) in the South American jungle, with only pet monkey Boots to keep her company. When her parents go to Peru to search for a legendary Incan city of gold,

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Isabela Moner stars as a teenage Dora in “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.” The character was originally a 7-year-old on the “Dora the Explorer” animated TV series, which debuted in 2000. Vince Valitutti/Paramount Pictures

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they send the previously home-schooled Dora to live with her cousin Diego (Jeff Wahlberg) and his family in Los Angeles, California.

Trusting and enthusiastic, Dora is the ultimate fish out of water when she attends public high school for the first time.

“She’s not sarcastic at all, she doesn’t have a phone, she doesn’t have social media. She’s completely out of the loop, which I think is funny and has a good dynamic,” Moner explains. Eventually Dora, Diego and two classmates end up in Peru, where Dora’s explorer skills guide them on a dangerous rescue mission.

Moner may be considerably more social media savvy than Dora, but she actually has a lot in common with her legendary character. Peruvian on her mother’s side, Moner is bilingual in English and Spanish (she even learned some lines in the indigenous language Quechua for the role). She also loves to sing and dance (she got her start in musical theater), and she adores animals.

During the four-month film shoot in Australia, which stands in for Peru, Moner learned a lot about the unique animal and plant life Down Under — a very Dora-ish thing to do.

“I did a lot of exploring, no pun intended. The plants, the animals, the insects ... it’s like, where did these come from, how did they end up here?

It’s crazy,” she said. “I visited the zoo and an animal hospital and even got to see a surgery on a koala.”

Moner believes, whether audiences watched the original show or not, Dora could be just the inclusive and intelligent role model today’s kids and teens need.

“Right now it’s really cool to not care, so Dora’s unwavering optimism, her unshakable nature, the strength of her character, her contagious sense of joy. That’s all important for kids and teens to see.”

MORE ABOUT MONER Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio Siblings: Two brothers. Jared is 22; Gyo is 15.

Pets: A dog that is a Staffordshire terrier-Rhodesian ridgeback mix. “His name is Pluto, and he’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Education: Graduated from high school; studying psychology at a community college.

Favorite book and why: “Prayers for the Stolen” by Jennifer Clement. “It’s super empowering and educational. It’s about young Mexican girls, and one in particular who’s an immigrant to the U.S.” Favorite movie to re-watch: “Elf” (2003). “My family loves it.”

Musical artist she loves: “The obvious answer is Beyoncé, but also right now, this Spanish artist Rosalía. She takes classic Spanish flamenco music and makes it modern.”

Actor she’d most like to work with: “Donald Glover. He’s also my celebrity crush. I love him so much.”

Upcoming projects: “Let It Snow” comes out around Thanksgiving on Netflix. “It’s a Christmas [romantic comedy] for older kids and teens.” It’s based on a holiday short-story collection by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle.

Disney with kids vs. no kids. That is the debate that is taking place online after one anonymous angry mother’s rant about millennial age visitors to Disney World.

While the rant was made on Facebook, it was Twitter user JenKatWrites who posted it to her account with the original poster’s name blacked out that has caused the online Disney population to speak out.

In the rant, a mother of a 3-yearold describes the challenges of parenting a toddler while upset at the care-free manner in which young visitors to Walt Disney World go about their day. The catalyst occurred when her son saw a young woman eating a pretzel, wanted his own pretzel, and ended up crying because the mother told him he could get a pretzel later, citing that the line for said pretzel was too long.

It’s standard parenting at Disney World. Many of the challenges detailed in the rant are challenges most parents face with tired, cranky children at the Happiest Place on Earth.

“DW is a FAMILY amusement park!!!! yet these IMMATURE millennials THROW AWAY THEIR MONEY ON USELESS CRAP!!!!! They have NO idea the JOY and HAPPINESS it is to MOTHERS WHO BUYS THEIR BABIES TREATS AND TOYS!!!! THEY WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE THE EXHAUSTION THAT IT IS TO CHASE A 3 YEAR OLD AROUND AND GETTING STARES AT ASSUMING IM A BAD MOTHER!!!!,” reads part of the post.

No doubt those with children at the park, especially those dealing with challenging temperaments, could on occasion be jealous of those enjoying the theme park without children.

That said, the rant veers off the rails, especially with its reliance on invective.

Reaction to the July 19 post, which had more than 70,000 likes as of early last week, has been mostly pro-millennial.

“Sounds like she’s resentful she’s not having fun because she’s too overwhelmed with toddler needs, and envious of unencumbered women (likely her own age) who are actually having fun. Sounds like she’s the one who needs to grow up and stop blaming others for her own choices,” reads a comment from Twitter user orangepeel18.

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This buzzed-about game isn’t just about ‘80s arcade nostalgia ‘198X’: Game is about

trying to find your place in the world

By TODD MARTENS Los Angeles Times

Booting up “198X,” a 1980sstylized genre mash-up, I knew I was in for a heavy dose of nostalgia as well as a romanticized view of game arcades. I didn’t expect a sense of loneliness nor the confusion, anxiety and unease that permeate adolescence, all of which “198X” lovingly brings to the fore.

In my nostalgia, I wasn’t sentimental over the games or culture of another era. What I missed was an overriding sense of fear and excitement for the possibility of the unknown, which “198X” creates by focusing on Kid, who longs for the escape from suburbia

offered by the lights of the big city and the malleable worlds of video games. But what’s made “198X” linger long after its short two-hour play time is the way the game explores how interactive experiences shape our worldview.

A narrative adventure with condensed versions of arcade games (a beat ‘em up, a racing game, a ninja game, a scifi shooter and a role-playinggame), “198X” impresses in the diversity of its offerings.

But “198X” isn’t a simple celebration of the ‘80s aesthetic now in vogue with the likes of “Stranger Things.” Its pixel art is gorgeous, with details down to puffy orange foam on headphones and its emphasis on neon as a contrast to cookiecutter homes and as a beacon into something unknown. As Kid experiences the difficulty of growing up, “198X” uses its

198X, a game by Hi-Bit Studios. Hi-Bit Studios

retro games-within-a-game as metaphors.

Some are relatively simple.

Young and coddled by the

familiarity of suburbia, the urban brawler represents the fears and danger that may or may not exist beyond the

walls of our home. But when Kid, whose gender is undefined, falls for a punk rock girl who appears unattainable, the

racing game turns into an endless drive on city highways, a plea to be somewhere and with someone else. Any sense of competition disappears as “198X” turns into a cinematic experience and Kid narrates a dream of embarking on a more personal quest to explore and learn from heretofore undiscovered people, places and cultures.

While Kid at this point has graduated from childhood games, “198X” never abandons its thesis that there’s poetry in video games, their imaginative worlds a gateway to self-discovery as potent as any other medium.

The masks, the skeletons and the bamboo forests that Kid’s avatar explores in the ninja game make it clear there’s plenty to see and hear beyond whatever worldview we grew up with.

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A child’s bedroom has a Star Wars theme in a vacation rental in the Solara and Reunion resort-home neighborhoods of Kissimmee, Fla. Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel

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galaxy far, far away Disney’s Star Wars inspires themed rentals in Florida

By MARCO SANTANA Orlando Sentinel KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The room looks like it’s straight out of the forest moon of Endor in “Star Wars.”

A disabled TIE fighter — the attack vehicle of choice for the Empire in the “Star Wars” movie series — sits in the middle of the room, doubling as a TVviewing cubicle and bed.

A stormtrooper stands guard as well in one of the 12 bedrooms of the house on Muirfield Loop, where a night’s stay runs between $1,300 and $3,000 per night, depending on the season.

As Walt Disney World barrels like a runaway tauntaun snow lizard toward its highly anticipated Aug. 29 opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, some vacation rental properties in Central Florida have been trying to capitalize with

themed rooms.

“We are pushing them hard because we know there is a lot of hype around the Galaxy’s Edge opening,” said Sharon Harley, founder of the property management company Jeeves Florida Rental. Her group has been on social media promoting such houses.

Harley said she expects more customers to be interested in rooms decked out in “Star Wars” decor.

The attraction’s opening could provide a big opportunity for officials with Experience Kissimmee, which oversees a fast-growing vacation rental industry.

The city has several newly built neighborhoods made up exclusively of vacation rentals. More and more, these homes are managed by businesses rather than individual homeowners.

Tourism officials say high-profile openings such as Galaxy’s Edge boost the rental market.

“It’s going to be great for business for everybody,” Experience Kissimmee President and CEO DT Minich said. “‘Star Wars’ will be huge for us. There has been a lot of buzz and excitement around it already.”

For Minich, the Star Wars opening The robot BB-8 from Star Wars is part of the backdrop in a child’s bedroom in a Kissimmee- area vacation rental. Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel

Scenes from the vacation rentals in the Solara and Reunion resort-home neighborhoods of Kissimmee that feature Star Wars-themed kids bedrooms. Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS

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powerful,” reads another from user mstankow.

“Who ever this woman is should be banned from the park. Because my daughter is grown that means I can never go there again. I think not. The one who made that child cry is the mother. The attitude and cursing of that mother sets a real good role model example for that child. Not,” reads a post from Twitter user mbhistmajor.

“As a single man who loves to go to Disneyland, as far as I’m concerned the place is wasted on children. Do you think they are sophisticated enough to understand the artistry? The craft? The layers of nostalgia? Hell no. They’re just all dErP miCKeY mOuSE,” reads a post from PaxtonTroll.

While the park is certainly popular with families, and the Disney empire has been built around those with children who want nothing more than to visit the parks, it has always attracted visitors of all ages.

Walt Disney himself was appreciative of both young and old.

“Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children’s approach to life. They’re people who don’t give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought — sometimes it isn’t much, either,” Disney said.

His goal in his business ventures was never to focus on just the children.

“You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway,” he said.

will mark another major debut in a series of new attractions.

“The parks are going to continue to evolve,” he said. “If the theme parks weren’t here, we wouldn’t be here.”

Depending upon the time of year, number of guests and extravagance of a vacation home, they can be had for as little as $30 per night, per person.

However, mansion-style homes, which Harley said have been rented by celebrities in the past, can run into the thousands of dollars per night.

The rooms are a mix of commissioned wall paintings, commercially licensed decals of main characters and papier-mache Imperial war vehicles.

They depict scenes from the movies, with some more specific than others.

For instance, a wall painted to look like a desert with C-3PO and R2-D2 decals make one of the rooms appear to be straight out of “Return of the Jedi.”

It’s a way to entice vacationers to choose rental homes that expand their Star Wars experience during their visit, said Michael Terry, associate professor at University of Central Florida’s Rosen College of Hospitality Management.

“It’s not just, ‘We are going to the theme park.’ Now, it’s, ‘We live it from morning to night,’” Terry said.

Disney could not be reached for comment.

Although some rooms are themed around other movies, whether it’s “Toy Story” or the Disney princesses, the longevity of the “Star Wars” series means it will likely draw more specific interest, Terry said.

“This is not a one- or two-generation thing,” he said. “It’s a three-generation experience. Everybody is excited. It’s not mom and dad taking kids to see Star Wars. Now it’s the kids taking mom and dad to Star Wars.”

Guests watch a show near a statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Allie Goulding/Tampa Bay Times/TNS

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The college search can be a great excuse for a family vacation

By John Carpenter Chicago Tribune

When my daughter put two California colleges on her list, I casually wondered whether it would be cool to take the train there from Chicago and maybe drive down the Pacific Coast Highway from Berkeley to Pomona. Her eyes lit up, and the decision was made.

Parenting tip: When your 17-year-old agrees to spend 57 hours on a train with you, followed by three days in a car, you say yes and book the tickets as fast as you can.

This tendency of mine to turn school visits into diversionary adventures might seem like parental avoidance. I look at it as an aging dad shaking his fist at the modern college-search stress machine.

The plan was this: Sally and I would ride Amtrak’s venerable California Zephyr to the Bay Area, where my wife, Mary — whose love for me does not extend to my fondness for rail journeys — would arrive by air and join us. After a tour of Berkeley and a few days in San Francisco, we’d rent a car and drive south at a leisurely pace, with a short hike in Big Sur and stops in Monterey and Santa Barbara. After a night in the Los Angeles suburbs, er, the bucolic foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, we’d hightail it home in the traditional manner, uncomfortably folding ourselves into an airborne metal tube.

The first thing you need to know about taking a 2,438-mile train ride is that patience is both required and rewarded. Also, reserving a sleeper car is highly recommended. It’s not cheap, but all meals — in our case, seven of them, times two — were included for a grand total of $1,119.

Our Superliner Roomette was tight but efficient: two comfortable seats facing each other, with a pop-up table between. At night, those seats slide down to make one bed, while an upper bunk drops from above. Both beds are made up with mattresses, sheets, blankets and pillows — hardly a four-star hotel, but comfortable enough.

And there is something lovely about sleeping on a train.

The gentle rocking of 2 million pounds of steel surging across the Midwestern prairie at 70-plus miles an hour is oddly soothing. And when you feel a stop, you can pop up on an elbow and groggily look out at, say, Holdrege, Neb., at 2:30 a.m.

I’ll be the first to admit that I pull out my phone in idle situations that might otherwise involve conversing with strangers. But I found the polite conversation that the dining car requires refreshing. Sally and I

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The writer’s daughter, Sally Carpenter, soaks up the scenery as Amtrak’s California Zephyr climbs into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.

were seated with two strangers for each of the seven meals we had on the train, and all were pleasant, interesting companions. Even better was watching my daughter smoothly rise to the challenge of seven consecutive “So what do you want to study in college?” questions.

(She isn’t sure yet.)

Especially memorable was meeting the grandson of a recently deceased literary legend, who was returning from the funeral. Our conversation

continued in the cafe car, where he offered my daughter kind and helpful observations on his own college experience.

A big allure of the Zephyr is the scenery, specifically the two giant mountain ranges it crosses. After a morning stop in Denver, the train begins its long, wandering path through the Rockies, with breathtaking views around every turn. Later come the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern California, where we ooohed and aaahed

at the sweeping vistas through Donner Pass.

In Berkeley, I booked the Graduate hotel thinking it was a playful take on the college town’s role in the famous 1967 movie. Spoiler alert: It isn’t. But it is part of a Chicago-based chain of boutique, college-adjacent hotels. We were able to enjoy a quirky, comfortable home base and get a good sense, beyond the traditional tour, of both the town and the University of California, Berkeley, which

was across the street.

Few things make one look more like a dorky tourist than participating in a Segway tour.

But a sketchy outfit in San Diego once let my daughter ride one when she was 7, so we honored the memory by joining a tour in San Francisco. Highly recommended, optics be damned.

And shame on you if you visit San Francisco and don’t venture north to Muir Woods. Our hike among the mighty coastal redwoods was sublime.

Our first leg of the drive south was a challenge, as it was a spectacularly good beach day, with all the traffic that brings.

We were rewarded in Monterey with a balcony room at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, and my daughter and I soon found ourselves standing over the ocean, mesmerized by the seals and otters playing below.

I was skeptical of the hotel restaurant, as I live by the rule that eateries with spectacular views are often good but rarely great. But Schooners Coastal Kitchen was the latter, especially the cioppino, which exploded with flavor.

Day two of our 500-mile drive was everything you’d expect from one of the world’s great motorways. With mountains on our left and the broad, majestic Pacific on our right, it was all we could do to not stop at every scenic turnout.

When researching hiking options along the Big Sur coast, we found the Jade Cove Trail online. But we had to ask some locals for help finding it in real life. A short walk through some thick vegetation later, and there we were atop a sheer cliff, peering over a breathtaking green, rocky inlet. We searched in vain for a path down, finally spotting a knotted rope disappearing over the edge. No thanks. Later, we found a more accessible inlet and dipped our toes in.

A sign at our Big Sur lunch spot, Whale Watcher Cafe, declared “No WIFI!” in a polite but scoldy, handwritten scrawl near the cash register. Good for them. We watched for whales instead. (No luck.)

We got our taste of Southern California beach culture in Santa Barbara. Mary used her frequent flyer miles to book the Californian, an upscale, elegantly casual spot across the street from Stearns Wharf. It was worth the splurge, but there were any number of worthy options along Cabrillo Boulevard, the beach strip.

Claremont, home to Pomona College, was our final stop. We had to put up with nearly three hours of L.A. traffic to reach it, but that memory took a backseat as we cruised the streets lined with dreamy purple jacaranda trees. Our hotel, Hotel Casa 425, was another excellent walk-to-campus find.

You might have noticed that in this story about college visits, I haven’t said much about the colleges. They were great. And lovely. Far better, though, was the unhurried time for conversation ... and silence. And I’ll always remember the smile I had trundling down an old wooden staircase behind my wife and daughter, the kind of women who’d rather stop and put their feet in the Pacific than push through to the next hotel.

Airlines add bigger luggage bins but don’t want you to pack more

By Hugo Martin Los Angeles Times

Passengers who board American Airlines flights may notice that the overhead bins on the new Airbus A321 Neo planes have more luggage space — 40% more to be exact.

The world’s biggest carrier has added six of the new Airbus planes with plans for seven more by the end of the year, bringing a total of 70 Neo planes into the fleet over the next several years. Other airlines, including Delta and Alaska, are also adding Airbus and Boeing aircraft that come with larger overhead compartments.

Airlines are promoting the bigger bins as an effort to ease the frustration of passengers who can’t find space to stow their carry-on luggage. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to let passengers stuff the roomier bins with more or bigger bags: None plan to ease carry-on bag restrictions, and Alaska Airlines last year reduced the maximum size of carry-on luggage by 32%.

Instead, travel experts say, carriers are addressing a problem they created over the last decade by charging to

check luggage and cramming more seats into each cabin to boost profits. The luggage fees prompted flyers to pack more into carry-on bags to avoid checking suitcases; the extra seats mean additional passengers and, thus, more carry-on bags.

The move to larger overhead compartments comes after years of experimentation with a long list of new ways to increase revenue — such as charging for early boarding, extra leg room and other previously free amenities — so that airlines could remain profitable amid economic downturns, competition, rising wages and fluctuating fuel costs.

The bigger bins also could be money makers for airlines because passengers are less likely to clog plane aisles while stowing and retrieving carryon bags, which leads to costly delays. And the megabins create additional real estate that airlines can, in effect, rent out by enticing flyers to pay for early boarding to ensure their bags get into a nearby overhead.

United Airlines said it has begun installing larger bins on some existing 737 planes and is taking delivery of new 737

aircraft with bins that can hold up to 62 additional bags on each plane.

United rations its bin space by forbidding passengers who buy the cheapest fare — basic economy — to put luggage in the overhead bin. Any basic economy passenger who brings a bag that doesn’t fit under the seat is charged to check the bag into the cargo hold.

Airlines shrug off the contention that they created the problem of insufficient overhead luggage space, saying the new planes now offer more than enough space for all the carry-on bags.

The bigger bins are good news for airlines because they eliminate the flight delays that come when flyers are unable to find space for their carry-on luggage and are forced to check the bags into the cargo hold.

“The faster they can get people seated and close the door, the better,” said Madhu Unnikrishnan, editor of the publication Skift Airline Weekly.

A takeoff delay on one flight can disrupt an entire day’s schedule of takeoffs and landings, costing an airline overtime pay for workers and compensation costs for passengers

whose flights have been delayed.

Boeing Co. and Airbus, the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturers, design the planes, but the airlines make the final choices for the interior layout of each model, either by accepting a design offered by the manufacturers or choosing a third-party interior aircraft designer that can customize the seats, bathrooms and overhead bins for each model.

The bins on the A321 Neo can fit 40% more luggage because they are built with a thinner, lighter material, along with a door that flips up instead of having the entire luggage compartment pivot down to let passengers load bags. The bins are 2 inches deeper and 2 inches taller, allowing flyers to line up bags on their sides rather than load them flat.

“Customers will have an easier time finding space for their carry-on bag, helping expedite the boarding process,” said Kelsey Gion, a spokeswoman for American Airlines. “The Neo is a win-win for both our team members and our customers.”

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eight A321 Neo planes with the larger bins but also flies 79 Boeing 737-900 ERs, which include a different overhead compartment design that can hold up to 48% more luggage.

The bins on Alaska Airlines’ 737-900 ERs are deeper and hang about 2 inches lower, which the carrier says make it easier for flyers to load heavy carry-on bags.

Alaska Airlines carrier began installing the larger bins over the past few years but despite the larger luggage space, the carrier announced last year

that it was shrinking the maximum size of carry-on bags to bring the carrier in line with the size limits of competing airlines.

Delta Air Lines has ordered 100 A321 Neo planes containing larger overhead bins, with delivery expected to begin next year. In addition, the carrier ordered 90 A220 planes that are advertised as having “high capacity overhead bins.” The carrier began accepting the new A220 planes last year and expects all 90 to be delivered by 2023.

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Amid a new outbreak, revisiting Ebola’s ravages

By LENNY BERNSTEIN Washington Post

Crisis in the Red Zone:The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come

By Richard Preston Random House. 375 pp. $28 Chances are you haven’t noticed, but Africa is once again experiencing a serious Ebola outbreak. This one is in Congo, where about 1,700 people have died over the past year and 2,500 have been infected with the deadly virus, which inflicts days of agony, hemorrhaging, diarrhea and vomiting.

This time, health authorities are grappling with more than the difficulty of quarantining and treating people in small villages far from modern medicine, or resistance from frightened people suspicious of outsiders in moon suits. This crisis also happens to be taking place in a conflict zone, where violence between rival groups sometimes makes it too dangerous for medical aid personnel to get in and save lives.

But Ebola is not on the radar here in the West. Unlike in 2014, when fear of an Ebola epidemic in the United States reached something approaching hysteria, few are aware. We have been protected — so far — by geography. Until recently, the virus had not reached an area with a major airport, and there still is relatively little chance that someone with the highly contagious disease will board a plane and bring it into our midst.

Ebola? So 2014.

Which is one lesson from Richard Preston’s harrowing, horrifying new book, “Crisis in the Red Zone,” an almost day-by-day account of how Ebola smoldered largely unnoticed in small villages along the GuineaSierra Leone border before it exploded and overran a city hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, five years ago.

The line between a confined local emergency and a widespread, even international crisis remains perilously thin, Preston shows.

Despite the efforts of the best and brightest health experts, we are still hostage to the virus’ location, the vigilance of those keeping watch and the effectiveness of the response.

“Ebola’s only mission [is] to never stop replicating, and to never stop moving from person to person,” Preston writes, “and thereby to make itself immortal in the human species.”

The new book is a sequel to Preston’s 1994 best-seller, “The Hot Zone,” which focused on the 1976 Ebola outbreak and the discovery that the virus was accidentally transported to a government

It is important to remember, as Preston takes pains to point out, that Africans stemmed the outbreak themselves, ultimately organizing to quarantine the sick and halt the spread of the virus. Could they have done it without the international aid groups’ treatment centers?” lab in Reston, Va., in a shipment of infected monkeys.

In this work, Preston meticulously traces the 2014 outbreak from a tree in Guinea, where a toddler was probably infected when he came in contact with a bat that carried the virus; to the death of a village healer, whose funeral exposed hundreds of people who touched her body; to Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone, which, ultimately, is consumed by the virus.

People from aid groups like Doctors Without Borders and the small circle of Western experts in these dangerous pathogens rush in to help, sometimes exposing themselves to lifethreatening situations, as waves of Ebola victims descend on the hospital.

Local doctors and nurses, clad in stifling moon suits to protect against the virus,

work under unimaginable conditions. The heat is unbearable. Wards designed for a small few hold dozens of victims. It is impossible to keep up with the human excrement, blood, urine, vomit and sweat, which are everywhere, as dying victims lay helpless on cots or drag themselves about the small facility.

Which means that the virus also is on every floor, wall and square inch of victims’ skin. A single, microscopic particle of Ebola that finds its way to an eye, a mouth or a break in the skin usually means death for the medical staff.

Ultimately, small mistakes are made by exhausted caregivers, and the heroes of Preston’s book fall, one by one. First some of the nurses who stayed to care for patients when others fled. Then the revered chief nurse, “Auntie” Mbalu S.

Fonnie. And finally Humarr Khan, the physician in charge, who tried but failed to keep his finger in the dike.

In the book’s most excruciating sequence, Khan lies dying in a Doctors Without Borders treatment unit while an experimental medication that could save him sits in a freezer 100 feet away. With only six doses available worldwide, doctors, aid group officials and Khan’s friends across the globe clash over whether it is ethical to give him the medicine — which had never been tested in humans — while local patients have no access to it.

In the end, Khan dies never knowing of the potential cure within his reach. Later, another dose is used to help save the lives of two American health-care workers in Liberia.

Knowing, as we do, that the 2014 Ebola outbreak did

reach the United States and infected health-care workers here, and nearly spread to Lagos, Nigeria, a city of 20 million, before it was snuffed out, does nothing to diminish the power of “Crisis in the Red Zone.” A major flaw of the work, in fact, is that Preston barely mentions the world beyond Kenema, save for a few words about the more than 11,000 people who died, almost all of them in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Nor do we see the delayed response by the World Health Organization and parts of the U.S. government. It is important to remember, as Preston takes pains to point out, that Africans stemmed the outbreak themselves, ultimately organizing to quarantine the sick and halt the spread of the virus. Could they have done it without the international aid groups’ treatment centers and the labs set up by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? As a reporter who covered the epidemic in two trips to Liberia during the outbreak, my guess is probably not.

But in large part, it is the citizens of these three countries who deserve the credit.

There is also no mention of the man who would lead the U.S. response should the current outbreak threaten this country: President Trump, who forcefully advocated barring the two American missionaries infected with Ebola from treatment in the United States.

“Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days — now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!” Trump tweeted in July 2014. Would he feel the same way now? Fortunately, President Barack Obama and public health leaders ignored Trump and others. Kent Brantly, Nancy Writebol and a few other Americans, including a freelance journalist, were treated in this country without endangering the public.

The book ends on a hopeful note, citing the research that, at the time, was leading to the development of cures and vaccines. Now those advances are being put to work: More than 100,000 people have been given an experimental vaccine to protect them from the virus in the Congo outbreak.

Is it enough? No one knows. Ebola mutates quickly and ably, adapting to survive. “The warriors who stand watch at the gates of the virosphere understand that they face a long struggle against formidable enemies,” Preston concludes.

“Many of their weapons will fail, but some will begin to work ... If viruses can change, we can change too.”

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 3, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

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

Doubleday 4. Dark Age. Pierce Brown. Del Rey 5. The New Girl. Daniel Silva. Harper

6. Labyrinth. Catherine Coulter. Gallery 7. Summer of ‘69. Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown 8. Chances Are... Richard Russo. Knopf 9. Under Currents. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s 10. Window on the Bay. Debbie Macomber. Ballantine

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Unfreedom of the Press. Mark R. Levin.

Threshold 2. Becoming. Michelle Obama. Crown 3. Three Women. Lisa Taddeo. Avid Reader 4. Girl, Stop Apologizing. Rachel Hollis.

HarperCollins Leadership 5. The Pioneers. David McCullough.

Simon & Schuster 6. Dare to Lead. Brene Brown. Random House 7. A Dream About Lightning Bugs. Ben Folds. Ballantine 8. It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way. Lysa TerKeurst. Nelson 9. Eat to Beat Disease. William W. Li. Grand Central 10. Justice on Trial. Hemingway/Severino.

Regnery

3. Connections in Death. J.D. Robb. St. Martin’s 4. Willing to Die. Lisa Jackson. Zebra 5. Frontier America. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle 6. Cottage by the Sea. Debbie Macomber.

Ballantine 7. Crucible. James Rollins. Morrow 8. Laughter in the Rain. Debbie Macomber. Harlequin 9. Past Tense. Lee Child. Dell 10. The Seekers. Heather Graham. Mira

MASS MARKET

1. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate.

Ballantine 2. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng.

1. The Reckoning. John Grisham. Dell 2. Turning Point. Danielle Steel. Dell

TRADE PAPERBACK

Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

GIVE ME YOUR HAND

By Megan Abbott.

(Back Bay, $16.99.) Two scientists, high school friends who have become nemeses but work in the same lab, face off in this thriller.

The twisty plot turns on the dark impulses lurking in female bonds and the lethal stress of a dysfunctional workplace.

Times reviewer Ruth Ware said Abbott’s book “should cement her position as one of the most intelligent and daring novelists working in the crime genre today.”

THE SEAS

By Samantha Hunt.

(Tin House, $15.95.) The narrator of this mesmerizing comingof-age tale lives in a tiny fishing village, where gossip trails her as she falls for an Iraq War veteran and mourns her missing father, who disappeared into the sea.

First published in 2004, the novel has Hunt’s trademark blend of psychological realism and the fantastical — the narrator believes she’s a mermaid.

CONAN DOYLE FOR THE DEFENSE

By Margalit Fox. (Random House, $18.)

Fox, a former obituaries writer for The Times, recounts how Arthur Conan Doyle used his own investigative prowess to clear a man wrongly convicted of murder. Fox places Conan Doyle’s quest for justice for an immigrant Jew in a larger picture of a hidebound society moving toward modernity.

THE PERFECT WEAPON: WAR, SABOTAGE, AND FEAR IN THE CYBER AGE

By David E. Sanger.

(Broadway, $17.) Sanger, The Times’ national security correspondent, argues that cyberwarfare has caught America unprepared for this new battlefield. Times reviewer Paul R. Pillar called the book “the most comprehensive, readable source of information and insight about the policy quandaries that modern information technology and its destructive potential have spawned.”

THE WITCH ELM

By Tana French. (Penguin, $17.)

The narrator of French’s luxuriant mystery, a publicist at a Dublin art gallery, comes upon a skull in the walled garden of his uncle’s home, where he has gone to recuperate after a brutal beating. With his own memory shattered, he struggles to piece together a sketchy story of murder.

Times reviewer Stephen King called the book “extraordinary.”

DOPESICK: DEALERS, DOCTORS, AND THE DRUG COMPANY THAT ADDICTED AMERICA

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tribune News Service

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS

Penguin 3. The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris. Harper 4. The Art of Racing in the Rain (movie tiein). Garth Stein. Harper 5. Ambush. Patterson/Born. Grand Central 6. The Woman in the Window. A.J. Finn.

Morrow 7. The Flight Girls. Noelle Salazar. Mira 8. The Secret Orphan. Glynis Peters.

Harper Impulse 9. Born a Crime. Trevor Noah. Random/ Spiegel & Grau 10. Official SAT Study Guide (2020 ed.).

College Board

By Beth Macy.

(Back Bay, $17.99.) This harrowing history of the opioid crisis traces its roots to 1996, when Purdue Pharma released OxyContin. Since then, as Macy recounts, a public health emergency has also become a political minefield.

Talking to desperate users, families and medical workers, she paints a picture of communities in distress as the powerful look away.

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CALM AND CONFIDENT North-South vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠ 10 8 4 3 ♥ A982 ♦ KQ7 ♣54 WEST ♠Q5 ♥ K7654 ♦ A93 ♣QJ9

EAST ♠A972 ♥ J 10 3 ♦ 542 ♣ 10 6 2 SOUTH ♠KJ6 ♥Q ♦ J 10 8 6 ♣AK873

The bidding:

SOUTH WEST NORTH 1♣ 1♥ DBL* 2♠ Pass 3♠ 4♠ All pass *Negative

EAST 2♥ Pass

Opening lead: Five of ♥ Kerri Sanborn, of Delray Beach, Florida, has been one of America’s leading players for more than four decades. She was South in today’s deal.

Sanborn has declared many hands in her long career with only a 4-3 trump fit. Very few, however, have

seen her as the player with only three trumps. She accepted North’s invitation with an air of great confidence. She let the opening heart lead run to her queen and calmly led the king of spades from her hand.

East ducked his ace, thinking it a routine move defending against declarer’s “known” four-card trump holding.

Sanborn led a diamond to dummy’s king, winning the trick, and a diamond back to her jack, losing to West’s ace. West, who thought Sanborn’s trumps were headed by the ace and king and maybe the jack, put dummy in with the queen of diamonds hoping Sanborn would take a trump finesse. Sanborn cashed the ace of hearts and ruffed a heart.

The ace - king of clubs and a club ruff brought Sanborn up to nine tricks.

She led a heart from dummy, and when East ruffed with the seven, Sanborn over-ruffed with the jack and had 10 tricks. East might have ruffed with the ace and led a spade to West’s queen, but then the 10 of spades in dummy would be the tenth trick. There might have been a little egg on the defenders’ faces, but it was very well played by Sanborn!

(Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this paper. Please send your e-mail responses to tcaeditors@ tribpub.com)

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a quiet, easygoing individual who can also be quite vocal and aggressive when you have been challenged in any way. You have a dark, smoldering quality that can put some people off, but it is quickly overlooked by those who get to know you. You are deeply connected to the world around you and the people in your life; you are not one to forget birthdays, anniversaries or other important dates in the lives of those around you, and you are always the first to reach out to, and lavish gifts on, those who have been through difficult times. Still, when your back is up, you are not one to be crossed.

You are quite protective of your personal life; indeed, no one really knows what you do in private except for the very few individuals whom you invite into your inner sanctum.

Also born on this date are: Robert De Niro, actor; Dustin Pedroia, baseball player; Donnie Wahlberg, actor; Sean Penn, actor; Davy Crockett, statesman and war hero; Mae West, actress; Maureen O’Hara, actress; Belinda Carlisle, singer.

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 18 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Take care that you don’t fall into a bad habit just because someone close to you has adopted it. You can go your own way with confidence.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may be accused of “micromanaging,” but the truth is that you are not comfortable without overseeing what others are doing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You have many responsibilities to fulfill at this time, and you should start close to home. A family member needs you!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’ll have to keep many balls in the air today if you are going to pass a certain approaching marker ahead of your closest competitors.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re waiting patiently to get the word to move — but you may decide it’s worth getting started before you hear the word “go”!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Unlike others today who can benefit from getting off the blocks quickly, you’ll want to hang back just a bit to assess the competition.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — The more you surround yourself with others today, the safer you will feel — but there are some things you’ll have to do on your own.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — An accident threatens to have you spinning out of control — but you know well enough to control your reactions and minimize any damage.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’re prepared for almost everything — but that “almost” is the key today.

What happens may require you to step out of your comfort zone.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Appearances are more important today than they have been in the recent past.

You’ll want to avoid being judged — even by family members.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may be disappointed that an old memory doesn’t satisfy you as it used to — but this is actually a good sign! You’re moving forward quickly.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — A message received must be passed on to others almost immediately. If it is not, you risk the destruction of something you value greatly.

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Family-owned amusment park remains

A TIMELESS TREASURE FUNLAND: Delaware

an outdoor pool are nice perks.

Doubles range from $219 to $389 in July and August.

attraction delights fans year after year

Big Fish Grill 20298 Coastal Hwy. 302-227-3474 bigfishgrill.com Seafood served any way you can imagine and at affordable prices. The warm and familyfriendly atmosphere gives it a neighborhood feel, and the brown butcher paper table covers will keep artists of any age entertained. The dessert menu features peanut butter pie, along with cinnamon ice cream. Open for lunch 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sundays, dinner 4 to 9:30 p.m. daily. Entrees start at $16.

By CHRIS LINDSLEY Washington Post

Many of the beach cottages and bungalows that once filled the town of Rehoboth Beach, Del., have long since given way to modern, multilevel homes that are hulking by comparison.

Weekly rentals go for $10,000.

At the Tanger Outlets on the Coastal Highway, visitors can pick up bangles at Alex and Ani or Kate Spade handbags, then drive a couple of miles to sip a craft beer at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats.

But just a few dozen feet away from the beach is a living reminder of Rehoboth’s simpler days. Funland, an amusement park and arcade that has been run by the same family since 1962, offers “old fashioned fun” and “a slower pace of life” at prices that have barely budged in more than a half-century.

No tourist trap here, and no come-ons either. Many firsttime visitors simply happen upon this collection of rides and games on an acre of prime real estate on the boardwalk between Delaware and Brooklyn avenues. Funland didn’t raise prices for its first 25 years, and its iconic green tickets, which are good for life, have increased in price just 30 cents, from 10 cents to 40 cents, in 57 years.

I should know. I was part of Funland’s staff for six summers — from 1980 through 1985 while in high school and college — and have vacationed in Rehoboth Beach since 1968.

While I have visited the park every summer since, I’ve spent much more time at Funland the past two summers — working on a book on the history of the park and the family that runs it called “Land of Fun: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Amusement Park for the Ages” that was published in May. Change is often not easy for a fourth-generation family business like Funland, but that can be a good thing. Two of the park’s rides — the boats and fire engines, at one ticket each — are the oldest and cheapest operating in Delaware. They date from the late 1940s. That’s the era when small cottages were the houses of choice in this sleepy town founded by a Methodist minister in 1873 as a place to hold religious camp meetings.

Rehoboth today is more akin to an upscale D.C. suburb, and it’s known as the “Nation’s Summer Capital.” Washingtonians of all political persuasions vacation here, and the reasons are plenty: proximity; a wide and pristine beach and ocean; great restaurants; an LGBTQand family-friendly culture.

And, of course, the old-fashioned appeal of Funland.

The boats and fire engines are two of five rides — the merry-go-round, helicopters and the sky fighters being the others — that Funland’s owners, the

Funland, an amusement park and arcade on the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk in Delaware, has been run by the same family since 1962.

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Fasnacht family, acquired when they purchased the amusement park Sport Center in the spring of 1962. The rides, gleaming as always, hold special meaning for families who have had three and four generations ride them.

The sale of Sport Center, which had stood on the same site on Rehoboth’s boardwalk since 1939, was completed just a week after the Great Atlantic Storm of 1962, a powerful nor’easter that destroyed almost all of Rehoboth’s boardwalk and beachfront businesses.

That included Dolles, perhaps Rehoboth’s best known landmark after the beach and ocean. Located at the corner of Rehoboth Avenue — the town’s main drag lined with shops, art galleries, restaurants and hotels — and the boardwalk since 1927, the candy shop lost almost everything in the storm. One survivor was an almost 2-ton taffy machine, which is still in use. As part of the rebuild, the owners created a large orangeand-white sign above the store that’s in almost all promotional photos of the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, and which draws people from near and far to buy its salt water taffy, caramel corn, fudge and other sweets.

Funland’s games are as big a draw as the rides for many, and like the rides, they are not often replaced. Three games that debuted when I worked there are still going strong. The derby horse racing game is the park’s most popular, which has been true from the day it arrived from England in 1982. Players roll a red ball toward holes with the numbers 1, 2 and 3 next to them with the “William Tell Overture” playing in the background. Get your ball in a hole, and your horse moves that many spaces. All the prizes are plush horses of varying sizes.

Good luck getting an open seat between 8 and 10 p.m. on most

nights, as the line is often three and four people deep behind each of the 12 seats.

Whac-a-Mole is an amusement park and carnival staple; what makes Funland’s special is the $1 price. Frog Bog is like something out of “Gulliver’s Travels,” as you place a rubber frog on a catapult, which you activate with a mighty swing with a mallet, sending the frog flying in search of a lily pad. Everyone looks like a winner here, including those simply watching the fun.

My favorite game is Funland’s oldest: Skee-Ball, which awards prizes for scores of 250 or higher. While the prizes are good, for my family, earning bragging rights by registering the high score is all that matters. On a recent visit, my wife, daughter, son and I all rolled winning scores, with three of us topping 300.

After Skee-Ball we often walk to the Royal Treat, an old-fashioned breakfast and ice cream place just a block north at 4 Wilmington Ave. for sundaes.

The property the Royal Treat inhabits is also owned by the Fasnacht family, and is operated by a longtime family friend from Hershey, Pa., where most of the Fasnacht family lives during the offseason. Not surprisingly, the Treat, as it is called, serves only Hershey’s ice cream.

Then it’s back to Funland to ride the park’s signature attraction: the haunted mansion.

We get in a long line, which is almost always the case at Funland’s most popular ride, celebrating its 40th anniversary this summer. The ride was pioneering when it debuted in 1979; it was one of only a handful of “dark rides” — the industry term for haunted or spooky rides — with the track up in the air rather than on the ground.

This produces more suspense for riders, as you can’t tell which way you are going next, making

the tricks and special effects more impactful.

The black haunted mansion car takes us up to the second floor, where the fun begins. You notice different things in every room, and the ride still strikes a good balance of scary and fun, just as I remembered it doing the first time I rode it 40 years ago. Industry experts such as the Dark Attraction and Funhouse Enthusiasts (DAFE), an organization that documents and supports dark rides, have taken notice. DAFE’s member surveys from 2002 through 2011, the last year it did them, listed Funland’s ride as one of the 10 best in the country.

Others on this list included dark rides at Disneyland, Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Islands of Adventure.

Those parks have rides bigger than the entire footprint Funland occupies, on which it runs 20 rides and 17 games.

Our night ends with a trip on the Paratrooper, a ride similar in many ways to a Ferris wheel.

The view from the top provides great views of the town, boardwalk, ocean and park.

Funland has made some notable changes over the years.

One is an increased emphasis on thrill rides. The best example is the SuperFlip 360, which swings riders 360 degrees, and at one point provides an upsidedown view of Funland from 40 feet in the air. There’s also a continued emphasis on safety, with gates around all the kiddie rides to prevent kids from getting too close while rides are in motion, and winner-every-time games — lifesavers for parents of young children unwilling to leave peacefully without a prize.

Overall though, I find it comforting Funland has remained so similar in look, feel, sound, smell, pricing, games, rides and fun over the years. It’s like the local old-fashioned amusement park people of a certain

age fondly remember going to as kids — most of which are long since gone.

Consider 90-year-old Al Fasnacht, who co-founded Funland with his parents and brother Don so long ago. He has been operating kiddie rides for 90 minutes or longer six or seven nights a week for more than 45 years, and there is no place he would rather be. Consider that he works every day with his three kids, part of Funland’s third generation, and grandkids, who represent the family’s fourth generation, and many other relatives, more than 30 in all, with the fifth generation not far behind.

Park visitors talk to Al and take pictures with him on a nightly basis; he symbolizes Funland’s timeless feel and old-school family values, traits he hopes the park maintains for decades to come.

My educated guess: He needn’t worry.

INFORMATION: The Avenue Inn & Spa 33 Wilmington Ave. 302-226-2900 avenueinn.com This charming inn a block from the beach offers comfortable rooms perfect for a beach resort, many with great views of Rehoboth Avenue. Amenities include free breakfast, parking, beach chairs and a beach shuttle, indoor swimming pool and sauna. Two- or three-night minimum stay during July and August. Doubles from $359.

The Oceanus 6 Second St. 302-227-8200 oceanusrehoboth.com This long-standing Rehoboth hotel provides contemporary and clean rooms in a great location two blocks from the beach and a very short walk to the lively Rehoboth Avenue scene. Free parking and

Nicola Pizza 8 N. First St. 302-227-6211 nicolapizza.com There are many pizza choices in town, but only one offers a “pizza sandwich” that has become a Rehoboth tradition. The Nic-O-Boli is dough with three kinds of cheese, pizza sauce and toppings, folded over and baked. Traditional pizza and other Italian options are also available at this or the nearby Rehoboth Avenue location.

Open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

Entrees start $6.25.

Funland 6 Delaware Ave. 302-227-1921 funlandrehoboth.com Funland tickets are $0.40 each; rides cost from 1-6 tickets. Arcade games start at $0.25.

Hours vary seasonally. During peak season, games open at 10 a.m., rides open at 1 p.m. and the Haunted Mansion opens at 5 p.m. Closing is determined nightly; usually not before 11 p.m. during peak season.

Dimitra Yoga 43A Rehoboth Ave. 302-227-3450 dimitrayoga.com Start your day with a yoga class on the beach. Meet on the beach in front of the Henlopen Hotel at the north end of the boardwalk just off Lake Avenue.

Bring your yoga mat or beach towel — or go barefoot in the sand. Classes offered at 8 a.m. daily through Aug. 31, no preregistration required. Studio yoga classes are also available at various times. $11 per person for beach classes, $20 for studio classes.

Tanger Outlets 36470 Seaside Outlet Dr. 302-226-9223 tangeroutlet.com/rehoboth More than 100 name-brand outlet stores in three locations just miles from the beach are a go-to destination for bargain shoppers on non-sunny days. A coupon book is available at the shopper services center for $5.

Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays.

Online: beach-fun.com

Don’t like dry sandwiches? Try this veggie-packed, messy ciabatta

By JOE YONAN Washington Post

Nothing disappoints me more than a dry sandwich. So here is a recipe by my friend Pati Jinich, host of the public-television series “Pati’s Mexican Table,” that has you bathe grilled

vegetables in a tart cilantro vinaigrette before piling them between ciabatta rolls and topping with cheese.

GRILLED EGGPLANT, ZUCCHINI AND POBLANO CIABATTAS 6 servings

1 pound poblano chile peppers (3 or 4) 1 1/2 pounds zucchini (about 2 large), trimmed 1 1/2 pounds Italian eggplant (about 1 large), trimmed 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for the grill or pan 1 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt, or more as needed 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 cup tightly packed fresh cilantro leaves and upper stems, coarsely chopped (may substitute parsley or mint)

1/4 cup canola oil or safflower oil 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 2 garlic cloves 1/2 teaspoon packed dark brown sugar (optional) 6 ciabatta, sourdough or other large crusty rolls 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces) crumbled queso fresco, mild feta or farmer’s cheese (optional) If using a gas grill, preheat to medium-high (about 375 degrees). If using a charcoal grill, light the charcoal or wood briquettes; when they are ready, distribute them evenly under the cooking area for direct heat. For a medium-hot fire, you should be able to hold your hand about 6 inches above the coals for about 4 to 5 seconds.

Grill the poblanos until they are blistered and completely charred on the outside, 6 to 8 minutes, turning them frequently with tongs. Transfer

them to a bowl and cover with a plate. Let them steam for at least 10 minutes and up to 2 hours. Fill the bowl with water and use your fingers to remove the charred skin, then split open each pepper and discard the stem, cluster of seeds and veins. Pat the peppers dry and tear into strips. (If desired, you can char the poblanos under an oven broiler instead.)

Cut each zucchini and eggplant in half crosswise, then cut them lengthwise into ¼-inch slices. Brush the zucchini and eggplant slices with the olive oil. Sprinkle with ½ teaspoon of the salt and the pepper. Grill the zucchini and eggplant slices on one side until lightly charred and fork-tender, 6 to 8 minutes.

Allow to cool slightly.

In a blender, combine the cilantro, canola or safflower

oil, vinegar, garlic, brown sugar (if using) and the remaining 1 teaspoon salt and puree until smooth. Taste and add more salt, if needed. Pour the vinaigrette into a large bowl. Add the eggplant and zucchini and the poblano strips and gently toss. Let the vegetables sit for at least 5 minutes and up to 30 minutes before assembling the sandwiches.

Split the rolls in half and toast them lightly. Place a generous amount of the dressed vegetables on the bottom halves and top each with ¼ cup of cheese. Put the top halves of the rolls on top, press together, and serve. (If you’d like, you can split the rolls on the top, leave them hinged and stuff the vegetables inside, hot-dog-style.)