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Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Erin’s Law on Thursday during a private ceremony, earning criticism from child advocacy leaders. The law, which requires schools to provide training for children and faculty from kindergarten through eighth grade on how to identify and report sexual abuse, has been circulating around the state Legislature for nearly a decade. Gary Greenberg of New Baltimore, founder of the Fighting for Children PAC, which lobbies for bills like the Child Victims Act and Erin’s Law, said he feels the signing should have put more emphasis on the victims.

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“The signing is a lost opportunity,” Greenberg said. “This should have been an event for survivors, advocates and coalitions who are and have been working to educate and empower New York’s kids against the heinous crime of childhood sexual assault. We must raise public interest about this epidemic, especially among children, and a public signing would have been a great step forward.” This is not the first time such an event has occurred, Greenberg said. “Mostly attorneys were invited to the signing of the Child Victims Act, and this is the second time the governor has seemed to deprioritize survivors for his own political gain,” Greenberg See LAW A8

Pigs race into fairgoers’ hearts By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

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CHATHAM — From pig races to carnival rides, there was something for everyone at the Columbia County Fair on Friday, its third day at the Chatham Fairgrounds. Bentley Roy-Race, 8, was at the fair for the second day in a row. “I liked the bumper cars. I bumped into a lot of people, but then I got stuck in the corner,” Bentley said. “But I got out.” The fair, now in its 179th year, opened Wednesday and will remain at the Chatham Fairgrounds through Labor Day. The first Columbia County Fair was held in Hudson on Oct. 12, 1841, hosted by the Columbia County Agricultural Society, which continues to hold the event to this day. Friday’s features at the fair included magic shows, acrobats and a hypnosis show. In the evening, the 83rd annual Schoolgirl Queen Contest was scheduled. For animal lovers, the agricultural area offered pig races, an oxen presentation and, if you’ve ever wondered where wool comes from, there were sheepshearing demonstrations. And as there are every day of the fair, there were animal exhibits, 4-H competitions and an exotic petting zoo. For many of the kids, the animals were the best part.

Germantown battled Chatham in a boys soccer scrimmage at Chatham High School. PAGE B1

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And they’re off! The pig races were a highlight of the Columbia County Fair on Friday.

Action to fight overdose crisis urged By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

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ALBANY — Citizens from all across the Capital Region and all walks of life rallied at West Capitol Park on Friday to raise awareness about the overdose crisis. The second annual Capital Region Overdose Awareness Day was held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the park. The event is organized by the Capital Region Harm Reduction Roundtable and spearheaded by the Katal Center for Health, Equity and Justice. Attendants could listen to guest speakers, connect with local resources that were tabling and participate in memorial activities for loved ones they may have lost

to addiction. Greener Pathways Assistant Director and Peer Advocate Carl Quinn attended Friday for the first time. “It’s important to remember why we’re doing what we’re doing,” Quinn said. “Going to these events reminds us we’re here to help people so this doesn’t continue to happen. It reminds us why our jobs are so important.” Quinn said about 10 different counties were represented at the event. “It is effective to bring people together,” he said. A major goal of the event is being heard by state leaders, said Keith Brown, director of See CRISIS A8

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A message scrawled on protective plywood chronicles past hurricanes as the neighborhood prepares for Hurricane Dorian in Cocoa Beach, Fla., on Aug. 29, 2019.

dumps rain for many hours, the city’s lakes could overflow. In North Florida, the St. Johns and Matanzas Rivers have flooded Jacksonville and St. Augustine even when storms have not directly hit the cities, Fugate noted. He also laid out other concerns. Expensive installations along the flourishing Space Coast, around Cape Canaveral, could be affected. Fuel shipments could be delayed by any disruptions at major hubs for cargo such as Jaxport in Jacksonville or Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. Powerful waves in Lake Okeechobee, Florida’s largest inland lake, could test its aging dike. Pounding rains might force the release of polluted waters into fragile estuaries to the east and west, which could lead to toxic algae blooms. “What we’ve always encouraged in Florida is catastrophic disaster planning,” Fugate said. Here’s what hurricane categories actually mean. Powerful winds are what define a hurricane, so they are named and classified based on how hard their winds are blowing. To qualify as a hurricane, a storm must have sustained winds of 74 mph or more. All hurricanes are dangerous, but some pack more punch than others. So meteorologists try to quantify each storm’s destructive

power by using the SaffirSimpson scale, placing it in one of five categories based on sustained wind speed. The National Hurricane Center said on Thursday that Dorian was expected to hit Florida as a “major” hurricane — in Category 3 or possibly Category 4. Category 3 hurricanes, with wind speeds of 111 to 129 mph, can take roofs off well-constructed houses and knock out electric and water systems for days or weeks. Category 4 hurricanes do catastrophic damage, felling most trees and power poles and wrecking some buildings with their wind speeds of 130 to 156 mph. But some experts say the scale is a limited way to assess a storm’s destructive potential because it focuses only on the power of its winds, and not on the surge of seawater that a storm flings ashore, or on the flooding caused by its torrential rains. Most hurricane fatalities and property damage tend to be caused by those factors. Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm when it slammed into the Louisiana coast on Aug. 29, 2005. But it was the storm surge that overwhelmed New Orleans’s flood walls and levees and devastated the city. One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Florida also came on Labor Day. Hurricanes have a tragic history of interrupting Labor Day Weekend in Florida,

including a 1935 storm that killed hundreds of World War I veterans who were working in the Florida Keys. It remains one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the United States in modern history. That storm, a Category 5, had been expected to miss the Keys. But an unexpected change in its route left a group of more than 600 veterans working on a highway construction project exposed to its wrath. An 11-car train sent to attempt a rescue was swept off the tracks by a tidal wave. “Negligence played no part in the failure to evacuate the 684 World War veterans from camps in the Florida Keys,” a New York Times article published days after the storm said, citing an official report to the president that attributed the losses to “an act of God.” The 1935 storm, known simply as the Labor Day Hurricane, pushed up Florida’s west coast after battering the Keys, leading to high tides in St. Petersburg and Tampa and ripping roofs off buildings in Sarasota. In all, 408 deaths were blamed on the Labor Day Hurricane, most of them in the Keys. A crowd of 20,000 mourners later gathered to pay their respects. The Times reported that the bodies of the veterans were burned at the scene “for the protection of those who survived.”

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It’s uncertain where the storm will make landfall. Forecasters expect Hurricane Dorian to arrive somewhere along the east coast of Florida on Monday afternoon. But exactly where is still a mystery, with some prediction models suggesting a direct blow to Central Florida and others projecting the storm to veer north or south. “It all depends on this dance of the pressure systems around the storm,” said Hugh Willoughby, a meteorologist at Florida International University in Miami. If the forecast for its strength holds, Dorian would be the first hurricane of Category 4 strength or higher to make landfall on Florida’s east coast since 1992, when Andrew ripped through the Miami area as a Category 5 storm, causing widespread damage. “The biggest concern will be Dorian’s slow motion when it is near Florida, placing some areas of the state at an increasing risk of a prolonged, drawn-out event of strong winds, dangerous storm surge, and heavy rainfall,” the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 a.m. Friday briefing. The Florida National Guard has activated 2,500 members, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday night. He added that the state had ordered 1 million gallons of water and sent 860,000 bottles of water to counties for distribution. The governor had previously extended an emergency declaration to all of the state’s 67 counties. Many Florida cities are girding for a direct hit. A strike by Dorian in a densely populated region could be especially dangerous, said W. Craig Fugate, a former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He rattled off a list of Florida cities — Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Jacksonville — where, he said, storm surge could be deadly “once you start measuring in feet, not inches.” “That’s not saying it won’t be devastating wherever it hits the shore,” said Fugate, who is also a former director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management. “But the reality is: What drives the response is people.” Orlando is inland in Central Florida, but if the storm

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Trump aide who was his longtime Oval Office gatekeeper resigns By Josh Wingrove Bloomberg News (TNS)

WASHINGTON — An aide and gatekeeper to President Donald Trump resigned from the White House staff Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter. Madeleine Westerhout, whose formal title was special assistant to the president and director of Oval Office operations, had worked for Trump since the transition. The president learned she’d shared details about his family and the White House during an off-the-record discussion with reporters, and

the episode was part of what led to her sudden exit, the people said. The New York Times reported the news earlier Thursday. The White House did not immediately comment on the departure late Thursday, and Westerhout did not immediately reply to a request for comment. According to the people familiar with the matter, Trump was upset that his aides hadn’t told him sooner that Westerhout had spoken to reporters at an off-the-record gathering. Earlier Thursday, Trump

canceled a weekend trip to Poland because Hurricane Dorian is poised to strike Florida. He said that he wanted “to ensure that all resources of the federal government are focused on the coming storm.”

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CALENDAR Monday, Sept. 2 n Athens Town Hall closed for Labor

Day n Catskill Town Offices closed for La-

bor Day n Coxsackie Village Hall closed for Labor Day n Greene County Offices closed for Labor Day

Tuesday, Sept. 3 n Catskill Town Board with public

hearing LL5-19; parking 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Wednesday, Sept. 4 n Greene County Economic Develop-

ment Corporation 4 p.m. Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning Conference Room (Room 427), 411 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature health services; county resources and public safety 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, Sept. 5 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Sept. 9 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill n Greene County Legislature county services and public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Tuesday, Sept. 10 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, Sept. 11 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Vil-

lage Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Zoning Board with public hearing Area Variance V-12 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, Sept. 12 n Greene County Legislature finance

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Hudson 6th among small arts communities By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — From art exhibits to musical performances, Hudson has a vibrant arts community — and now it is receiving national recognition for it. Hudson was ranked sixth in the country for “arts vibrancy” among small communities, according to the 2019 Arts Vibrancy Index Report released by SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Mayor Rick Rector received a letter from the organization notifying him of the community’s selection for the list. “It’s always gratifying to be recognized by others and for recognition of the many aspects of our wonderful community,” Rector said. “Our vibrant embracement of the arts in Hudson is such an integral part of the fabric of our community.” Hudson made the list in 2017 but not in 2018, and now makes its return to the top 10 list in 2019. Enid Futterman, editorial director of IMBY, a network of local websites that posts reviews and articles about the arts in Hudson and broader Columbia County, said she was not surprised Hudson made the list. “I think it is extraordinary that a city of 6,000 people has the depth and breadth of arts that Hudson does. Even though it is such a small community, the number of creative people

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The arts scene in Hudson has been ranked sixth in the nation among small communities.

is an extraordinary resource,” Futterman said. “It might look like a little burg from outside Hudson, but those of us who live either in or around Hudson know that it is not little in terms of talent, creativity and even money.” Communities named in the report are ranked according to size, with large- and mediumsized cities ranked separately. Heading up the “arts vibrancy” list among small communities is Jackson, Wyoming, followed by Summit Park, Utah; Steamboat Springs, Colorado; Bennington, Vermont; and Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts; followed by Hudson in the No. 6 spot. “In this report, we highlight

and celebrate communities big and small, located in every region, that have cultivated higher levels of arts activity per person living in the community,” according to the report. “We use the term ‘vibrancy’ in keeping with Merriam-Webster’s definition of the word to mean ‘pulsating with life, vigor or activity.’” Criteria for selection to the list includes the number and availability of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations per capita, public support and funding for the arts, and total nonprofit arts dollars spent in the community. Artistic quality or arts programming offered by organizations whose core mission is

not the arts, such as parks or libraries, are not measured in the report. Deborah McDowell, owner and founder of Helsinki Hudson, said arts organizations bring more to a community than exhibits and shows. “An arts establishment provides a place for social interaction,” McDowell said. “When we first brought Helsinki Hudson here from Great Barrington, we knew we were an important part of Great Barrington and in Hudson we would be a venue where people could gather and get to know each other and share ideas. We also wanted to bring artists from all over the world to the stage to really celebrate the best of this country,

which I think we do. It’s more important now than ever to understand that artists are the heartbeat of this country.” In addition to Helsinki Hudson, Futterman said Hudson has a great deal to offer in the arts, such as Hudson Hall, Basilica Hudson, The Spotty Dog, The Half Moon, Hudson Eye and local art galleries. “When you think about the number of organizations devoted to the arts in Hudson that have mushroomed in the past five to 10 years, it is staggering,” Futterman said. “It’s really rather remarkable and wonderful.” Linda Mussmann, co-owner of Time & Space Ltd., a theater that offers art films, avantgarde plays and music, said her facility was one of the first to help launch the arts scene in Hudson. “TSL came here early on when there was not a lot of activity, back in 1991, and we were the first space to do full-time arts programming. There was not a lot of energy for the arts in this community at the time,” Mussmann said, adding that things have changed. “There is a lot going on here now and a tremendous amount of investment in the arts community in Hudson.” The arts, Mussmann said, can also serve as an important driver of economic growth and a boon to an area’s tourism industry. “I am delighted to be a part of helping this become a fantastic place to be inspired,” she said.

20th annual Hudson River Valley Ramble kicks off ALBANY — The 20th anniversary of the Hudson River Valley Ramble kicksoff Aug. 31 with a weekend full of activities and continues throughout September with some 200 exciting outdoor adventures across New York’s Hudson Valley. The Ramble offers visitors and residents of all ages an opportunity to experience the distinct cultural heritage and landscape of the region by hiking a trail, visiting an historic site, or paddling on the river during the Northeast’s most beautiful time of the year. For a complete listing of events, visit www.hudsonrivervalleyramble.com. Ramble events are led by

Monday, Sept. 16 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. Town

Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Greene County Legislature economic development and tourism; Gov. Ops; finance; Rep and Dem caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

naturalists, ecologists, historians, geologists and trained volunteers from more than 150 organizations. Events include hikes, walking tours, paddling excursions, festivals, historic site tours, and other family friendly activities. A sampling of Hudson River Valley Ramble events happening this weekend: Lower Hudson River Valley: Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 11 a.m. Celebrate the Bicentennial of the publication of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” as you walk to Washington Irving’s final resting place. Learn more about the talented Mr. Irving, his influence on popular culture today and reflect on why “The Legend” has never been out of print for almost 200 years. Sept. 1 11 a.m. This tour highlights the history of

Untermyer Park and Gardens from its origin in 1862, through each of its three owners, emphasizing its world-famous heyday in the Untermyer years, its dramatic decline after 1940, and the remarkable restoration efforts that have been ongoing from 2010 to the present day. Sept. 11 p.m.Tour the Jacob Blauvelt House and experience architectural style, furnishings, and decorative elements of the house which reflect those of a typical family of Rockland County and the Hudson Valley region in the first half of the 19th century. Mid-Hudson River Valley: Aug. 31 10 a.m. Bring the whole family for Fall Family Day at the Catskills Visitor Center in the Catskill Mountains. Enjoy live music and interactive theater, handson art and science activities,

outdoor adventures on the trail, and lots more. Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 9:30 a.m. Walk the gardens and grounds of Boscobel House and Gardens, including the Frances S. Reese Woodland Trail of discovery, a tranquil mile through the forest. Boscobel’s Great Lawn overlooks its iconic view of the Hudson River, Constitution Marsh, and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Sept. 1 2:30 p.m. Step foot onto Pollepel Island to visit the famous Bannerman’s Castle! Begin your adventure by taking a leisurely paddle across the Hudson River, then circle the island by kayak before stepping ashore. A historian will lead a walking

tour to share a narrated history of the arsenal. Upper Hudson River Valley: Aug. 31 5:30 p.m. Join the Hudson River Estuary Sunset Paddle up to the North Bay, getting a river front view of the Greenport Conservation Area. Aug. 31 10 a.m. Join a park naturalist for a leisurely walk on the Schodack Island State Park’s trails. Learn about invasive and exotic species, native and rare flora and fauna, and what makes Schodack Island unique to the area. Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 10 a.m.Tour the last World War II Destroyer Escort afloat in America, USS SLATER.

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Tuesday, Sept. 17 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30

p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, Sept. 18 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 meeting TBA 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

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Appreciate the workers this Labor Day The first Labor Day was celebrated modestly in 1882 with a small unionorganized parade in New York City. Twelve years later, President Grover Cleveland proclaimed it a federal holiday. Unfortunately, President Cleveland’s proclamation did not usher in a century of friendly, mutually respectful relations between labor and management. Instead, the declaration was the first step toward periods of labor-management strife and occasional violence, punctuated with the rise of powerful unions and, recently, the demise of the unions. There were tangible

benefits. It was partly a century of progressive reforms, labor-management negotiations and, most important, rising prosperity. Reforms included such things as the passage of strict child labor laws and federal and state safety regulations that protected workers from injury or death on the job. Workers’ compensation insurance allowed employees to collect payment in place of their regular salaries if they were unable to work. But we still have many problems — growing poverty, stubborn wage stagnation, unequal pay for women, job discrimination, sexual harassment and workplace violence.

Most Americans use this first weekend in September to relax, barbecue ribs and get ready for a new year of work and school. This Labor Day, however, we are reminded that Americans are working longer hours for less money, taking fewer vacations, watching corporate executives earn millions while wages for the middle class run in place and ponying up higher taxes. Troubling issues of race, class and economic status are infiltrating the workplace. These are the problems to think about this weekend as we fire up the grill and try to make better lives for us and our families.

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‘Take the land.’ Ignore the law. The Washington Post

In service to accelerating the sluggish progress on his border wall - and to the exhilaration he stokes by invoking the wall at his raucous campaign rallies - President Donald Trump is happy not just to bend the rules but also to break them, and not just to ignore the law but also to gut it. “Take the land” - that is the president’s refrain when aides confront him with the legal complexities that might impede his wish to speed the wall’s construction. An eye-opening report by The Post’s Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey casts a spotlight on the lengths to which Trump is willing to go to deliver on his signature 2016 campaign promise, which - despite his constant assertions to the contrary - is still almost exclusively on the drawing board. Specifically, the president, who sees his deadline in explicitly political terms - he promises that 500 miles of fencing will be built by Election Day next year - scoffs at environmental rules, contracting and procurement procedures, and property rights.

What are the niceties of established law, federal regulations or eminent domain compared with Trump’s wish to satisfy his partisans’ chants of “Finish the wall!”? In rushing the project forward, of course, there are potential pitfalls, among them the risk that officials in his administration may be legally liable. To this, Trump has breezily suggested he would grant presidential pardons to those who run afoul of the law - a suggestion subsequently dismissed by a White House official, who assured The Post it was a joke. Hilarious. Whatever his intentions in that regard, word is out in the administration that Trump has approved a carte blanche for cutting corners on contracts and playing fast and loose with environmental impact assessments. As The Post quoted a senior official: “They don’t care how much money is spent, whether landowners’ rights are violated, whether the environment is damaged, the regs or even prudent business practices.” Never mind that Trump

privately admits a wall isn’t the most effective way to halt illegal immigration. Sustaining the cheers at his rallies is the end that justifies his means. Never mind, either, that the prospect of humanitarian disaster is no impediment to Trump’s immigration agenda: Even with Hurricane Dorian bearing down this week on the Florida and Georgia coasts, it was revealed that the Department of Homeland Security had plundered more than $150 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund. That money was shifted to a program designed to detain and return Central American migrants to Mexico while they await adjudication of their asylum claims in the United States. The president is making progress in his crusade to steamroll federal agencies into doing his bidding, notwithstanding rules and regulations. The costs of such an approach are likely to become clear only later - though perhaps in time for voters to assess them at the ballot box in 2020.

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An all-too-real parable of ‘privilege-hoarding’ WASHINGTON — Nestled on the Front Range of the Rockies, the city of Crystal was a largely upper-middle-class paradise, chock full of healthconscious and socially conscious — meaning, of course, impeccably progressive — Coloradans. Then in slithered a serpent in the form of a proposal for a new school, to be called “Crystal Academy,” for “accelerated and exceptional learners.” Suddenly it was paradise lost. This “deliciously repulsive” story (one reviewer’s scrumptious description) with “Big Little Lies” overtones (the same reviewer) is told in Bruce Holsinger’s compulsively readable new novel “The Gifted School.” It is perfect back-to-school reading, especially for parents of students in grades K-12. And it is wonderfully timely, arriving in the aftermath of Operation Varsity Blues — who knew the FBI could be droll? — which was the investigation into a very up-to-date crime wave, the scandalous goings-on among some wealthy parents who were determined to leave no ethical norm unbroken in their conniving to get their children into elite colleges and universities. In Holsinger’s book, school officials, speaking educationese, promise that as 100,000 children compete for 1,000 spots — the dreaded 1% rears its ugly head — there will be “a visionary, equitable, and inclusive admission process.” Four mothers who have been friends forever, but might not be for long, begin becoming rivals in what they regard as a nearly zero-sum game, as they plot to game a process that looks alarmingly fair. Their children are embarked on a forced march to demonstrate that they are “gifted,” a word “that slashed like a guillotine through other topics”: “Advanced math, Chinese, martial arts, flute lessons with the principal player in the Colorado Symphony: by eighth grade Tessa had become a living,

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WILL breathing benchmark, a proof of concept for the overinvested parenting they all practiced with varying degrees of obliviousness and guilt.” This is what Holsinger calls “advantage hoarding” and the “delicate ecology of privilege.” Everything is hypercompetitive, even among Crystal’s 11-year-olds, from History Day at school to the travel soccer teams, which involve “a lot of mileage, a lot of Panera” in an Audi Q7 with a “Feel the Bern” bumper sticker, with “all the Patagonia parents huddled by the pitch, cheering on their spawn in socially appropriate ways.” When one father takes his toddlers to a playground and other parents ask about his children’s ages, he subtracts a few months to make them seem developmentally remarkable, for the pleasure of seeing “that flicker of worry in the parents’ eyes.” And when rival children do not make the cut for the new school, schadenfreude drapes the Rockies like snowdrifts. Because Crystal Academy is to be a magnet for students whose transcripts are clotted with AP (advanced placement) courses, it is definitionally elitist, and consequently an awkward fit for good (and affluent, and credentialed) progressives who are determined to lie and cheat in order to maximize the already considerable advantages of their family cultures. Students’ submissions for a school’s science fair become the parents’ projects. Soon, and inevitably, there is a movement against the

new school: “We are a group of concerned parents strongly opposed to the creation of the new public magnet school for allegedly gifted students. We believe that gifted education should be democratic, egalitarian, and nonexclusive.” Holsinger’s “allegedly” is priceless in conjunction with the insistence on gifted education that eschews exclusivity and inequality. It is not easy being an affluent progressive and a scourge of privilege. The parents in Holsinger’s book insist that their corner-cutting, truth-shading, thumbs-on-the-scale maneuverings and brazen lies are, as people usually say, “all for the children.” All, that is, except for the large dollop that is for the bragging rights of parents who have hitched their status anxieties to their children. Now teaching English literature at the University of Virginia, Holsinger previously was at the University of Colorado, and he says Crystal is a “reimagined Boulder.” He probably did not have to strain his imagination. He told The Wall Street Journal that you take “over-parented kids, over-invested parents, a cutthroat [college] selection process, and the rest kind of writes itself.” He has deftly written a satire that arrives when it is needed most — when it is difficult to distinguish from sociology. As America becomes more cognitively stratified, with rewards increasingly flowing to the well-educated (or expensively credentialed, which is not the same thing), the recent college admission scandal has become, Holsinger says, “one of the great cultural parables of our time.” It is a parable about, in another Holsinger phrase, “privilege-hoarding,” as American life uncomfortably imitates his art. George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Trump refuses to distance himself from his private business — again The Washington Post

Hardly a week goes by in which President Donald Trump’s refusal to distance himself from his private business fails to raise big questions of self-dealing and corruption. The first came when Trump suggested Monday that he would host next year’s Group of Seven summit at the Trump National Doral golf resort near Miami. Trump boasted that the property has “magnificent buildings,” ample parking and proximity to the airport. Here was the president of the United States using his platform at a major international conference to advertise a private resort he owns. Trump puzzlingly insisted that he would not benefit from the arrangement. That is implausible: Even if the profits stemming from an influx of foreign visitors were donated, the struggling resort would still get a financial lifeline that would sustain operations at the property. This is the same ethical mess facing other Trump properties, such as Washington’s Trump International Hotel. Even though profits from foreigners’ hotel stays and party room rentals are supposed to

be donated to the U.S. Treasury, the extra demand undoubtedly tends to sustain the operating budget and high prices for these services at the president’s property. Foreign governments, not to mention domestic interests seeking to influence the Trump administration, clearly see patronizing Trump International as a way to ingratiate themselves with Trumpworld. Then The Washington Post’s Jonathan O’Connell and David A. Fahrenthold reported that Attorney General William Barr booked the Trump International’s Presidential Ballroom for a big party to be held Dec. 8, resulting in what could be more than $30,000 in revenue for Trump’s Pennsylvania Avenue site. Barr’s booking is for a family holiday party, a private event, so there is apparently no threat that Justice Department funds will be funneled into the president’s pocket. According to a Justice Department official, Barr consulted with department ethics officials before booking the ballroom and tried to book rooms at other hotels first. Even so, it is unsettling that a Cabinet member is in a

position to pay a private business owned by the man who appointed him to his extremely powerful position. So are questions about whether Barr would receive any kind of discount, raising concerns about Justice Department impartiality as it defends the hotel and other Trump interests in court. Direct evidence of impropriety is not visible, but questions such as these are inevitable as long as Trump maintains such a close relationship with his private business. No discussion of Trump International would be complete without noting that Trump personally intervened to halt the relocation of the FBI, whose downtown headquarters, across the street from the president’s hotel, is literally crumbling. Redeveloping the site, as was the plan, would likely have resulted in a new hotel meaning unwanted competition for Trump International. By keeping the FBI where it is, the government is stuck with a bill of $170 million in annual rent and is required to house spillover employees in more than 20 sites around the region. Once again, the only winner is Trump.

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Frank J. Klucserits Frank J. Klucserits, 82, of Greenport, died Sunday, August 25, 2019 at Pine Haven Nursing Home. Born on January 13, 1937 in Hudson, he was the son of the late John and Minnie Klucserits of Stockport. Frank Served in the United States Army from 1959 to 1961, returned home with his new bride, Dorothy Cole, from Washington state and settled in Greenport. Frank worked for the Universal Atlas Cement plant until its closing and then worked for the Columbia County Highway De-

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Judge formally drops new charges against Jeffrey Epstein Matt Zapotosky The Washington Post

A federal judge on Thursday granted prosecutors’ request to formally drop the new sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein because of the financier’s death in federal custody. The expected decision came with little fanfare. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman endorsed prosecutors’ earlier request and noted he “incorporates by reference” a transcript of an emotional hearing in the case earlier this week, when more than a dozen women spoke of how Epstein had sexually abused them as children. Epstein, a politically connected multimillionaire who years earlier had resolved similar allegations with a plea deal that has widely been criticized as overly lenient, was arrested in July on new, federal charges of sexually abusing dozens of girls in the early 2000s. Prosecutors alleged he effectively created a personal network of children that he could abuse, paying his victims to recruit others. He had pleaded not guilty and was fighting Berman’s

order that he be held without bail when, by authorities account, he hanged himself in his cell on Aug. 10. For those who say Epstein abused them, his death was yet another instance of him evading justice. It meant that they would never be able to face him at a trial. Prosecutors vowed to investigate and pursue those who aided Epstein in his crimes but - required to do so by law they moved to drop the new charges against him. Though the outcome was inevitable, Berman convened a hearing to consider that request on Tuesday, allowing Epstein’s accusers to speak. One by one, they stood in court and tearfully described how Epstein had coerced, manipulated and abused them, and how they would forever have to live with the effects of his abuse. Some could get financial compensation. At least six of those who say they were victimized by Epstein have joined lawsuits against his estate, and representatives for others say they plan to make similar efforts, although the scope is unclear.

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Johns Hopkins professors argue ‘dual loyalty’ compromises health care Robert Moore The Washington Post

EL PASO, Texas — The “dual loyalty” of health-care professionals who work in U.S. immigration detention facilities undermines the quality of care for migrants held there, according to an article by three professors from Johns Hopkins University published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The professors argue that medical care for those detained under current Trump administration policies that are aimed at deterring migration to the United States create a conflict for doctors and nurses because those policies place the interests of the government over the patients in their care. “Whatever the future of U.S. immigration policy, decent and humane treatment of children, as well as all other detainees, and preservation of independence of physicians and other health professionals to meet patients’ medical and psychological needs are essential,” said the opinion article written by Paul Spiegel, Nancy Kass and Leonard Rubenstein of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. In an interview, Spiegel said the article arose after the professors saw an advertisement from a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana that sought a lead doctor who would be “philosophically committed to the objectives of the facility.” That language was dropped after widespread criticism, but the company still continued to seek a doctor who would work “based on the company goals, objectives and philosophy” rather than explicitly working to protect the best interests of their patients. “Being a medical practitioner, the loyalty always has to be first and foremost to the patient,” said Spiegel, who is the director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins. Spiegel was among of a group of doctors who recently sent a letter to Congress urging the Department of Homeland Security to improve its treatment of influenza in detention facilities, including providing flu vaccines to people when they are taken into custody. Flu was rampant in many overcrowded detention

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Above, a woman works in the Main Medical building at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility known as the South Texas Family Residential Center, which houses families who are pending disposition of their immigration cases on Aug 23 in Dilley, Texas. WASHINGTON POST PHOTO BY JABIN BOTSFORD

Left, bags for clothes and showers are seen in the intake and processing building at the ICE detention facility in Dilley, Texas.

facilities earlier this year, and at least three children died of the disease, according to autopsy reports. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said the agency will not administer vaccines because of the “complexities” of providing the shots and because migrants are supposed to be in their custody for three days or less, said Steven Bansbach, a CBP spokesman. “It has never been a CBP practice to administer vaccines, and this not a new policy,” Bansbach said. DHS officials did not respond to requests for comment. CBP’s refusal to provide flu vaccines is an example of dual loyalty, Spiegel said, something that forces health-care providers to follow agency mandates that run against what would be best for patients. He said flu vaccines are simple to administer and protect the detainees, government employees and the general population. “What we’re talking about

here of course is much bigger than the flu vaccine, but I think I’d say it’s an illustrative example,” Spiegel said. “It doesn’t make a difference if they’re staying for 72 hours because the sooner someone gets the vaccine the sooner they will be protected.” An El Paso pediatrician who treats migrant children after they are released said the dual loyalty of contract health workers in detention facilities results in substandard medical care, with illnesses often going untreated. “We’re still getting calls daily from the volunteers at the shelters that we have here in El Paso that there’s somebody with a blood pressure of 220 over 120, there’s a diabetic with a sugar of 500,” said Dr. Carlos Gutierrez, who has volunteered to treat migrant children for more than 30 years. Gutierrez said government health-care providers don’t provide records of treatment for detainees when they are released and have been told not

Biden confounds critics as fans welcome hugs and overlook gaffes Tyler Pager Bloomberg

Maj. Ginger Tate fought back tears as she told Joe Biden how she waited six years to meet him. They exchanged challenge coins -- hers from her service in the South Carolina Army National Guard and his from his time in the White House — then embraced in a long hug. It was Biden at what his supporters say at his best -- making deep, personal connections with voters. But just moments before, Biden also showed what some critics say is his most exasperating side. Jalon Roberson, president of Limestone College’s black student union, asked him: Why should black people remain loyal to the Democratic Party given the enduring education and wealth gaps? Biden never directly answered. Instead, he talked about the need to inspect candidates’ records. He launched into an extended defense of the 1994 crime bill, passed before Roberson was born, and then concluded by asserting racism was a “white man’s problem.” Biden’s two-day swing through South Carolina this week, during which he hosted four town halls and took questions about climate change, health care and student debt, demonstrated why his front-runner status has some voters cheering and others scratching their heads at why the former vice president’s time in politics hasn’t expired. He worked the crowd and the rope line: He smiled for selfies, he signed photos and he embraced those who wanted hugs. “You wish you could hug me?” he asked a voter in Rock Hill. “I wish I could hug you too.” They then hugged -- despite complaints that marred the launch of his candidacy from women who said

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Former vice president Joe Biden, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, hugs a supporter during a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa, on June 11, 2019.

his touchy-feely style is outdated and unacceptable in the #MeToo era. When he took questions, though, he meandered. He talked about political bygones. He promised his subsequent answers would be shorter, and then they would stretch on for 10 minutes. As the Democratic primary race tightens, Biden’s rivals are hoping his gaffes, his lack of discipline and voter concerns about his age to outweigh the view among many Democrats that he is the best candidate to defeat Donald Trump. But more than a dozen voters who showed up at his events in South Carolina said none of his perceived shortcomings concerned them. For Biden, 76, maintaining his support among black voters like Roberson and Tate is critical for both the primary fight and the general election. In South Carolina, where more than 60% of Democratic primary voters are black, they could be an important firewall for him - especially if he fails to meet expectations in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Biden still leads in all the major polls in early primary states. But political strategists and activists in Iowa and New Hampshire say Elizabeth Warren is rapidly gaining ground on Biden with a superior ground game. His widest lead is in South Carolina, where a Post and Courier-Change Research Poll from earlier this month found Biden led with 36% followed by Warren with 17% and Bernie Sanders with 16%. Among black voters, Biden garnered 45% of support. “What I see in that is he can go on and on because he’s so passionate,” said John Moore, a 22-year-old from Hendersonville, North Carolina. “The reason he can talk so long about ending gun violence is because in the 1990s, he actually passed legislation that banned assault weapons.” Moore was referring to the controversial 1994 crime bill, which Biden wrote and which also included a 10-year ban on assault weapons. Moore, who has come to South Carolina to see Biden as well as other 2020

Democrats such as Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders, said he was most impressed with Biden. “Their answers were a lot shorter than his,” he said. “They were mostly talking points. He was the most genuine candidate that I’ve seen out of all of them.” Still, others worry that Biden’s longwinded answers exacerbates his propensity for gaffes. On Thursday, The Washington Post reported Biden has told an inaccurate story about traveling to Afghanistan to honor a Navy captain, most recently last weekend in New Hampshire. Biden brushed aside the report, saying the main point of his story was “absolutely accurate.” “He’s got to be careful,” Larry Bounds, 65, of Greer, South Carolina, said. “We’ve had several years now of a person who’s not careful with what he says. We don’t need to continue that tradition.” Jane Roosevelt, 59, of Greenville added: “It won’t lose my vote, but I’m worried that it might lose younger people.” Roosevelt, like other supporters, emphasized Biden’s experience, and his ability to connect with voters. The gaffes, they added, pale in comparison to Trump. “You are my man,” Mary Means, 80, blurted out when she was called on to ask a question at a Wednesday town hall in Spartanburg. The crowd cheered, and Biden laughed, before Means asked him about his plans to bolster cybersecurity protections. Means, who is black, said she’s mostly concerned about foreign policy, and believes Biden is best prepared to address it. She was also alienated by Harris and Booker, the major African-American candidates in the race, after they criticized Biden at the debates.

to communicate with community providers. “Whoever signs a contract like that, to care for those refugees with the understanding that they’re not going to be able to communicate with individuals on the outside to provide better continuity of care, that’s totally malpractice,” he said. Spiegel said health care providers should speak out loudly in the immigration debate but avoid the divisiveness that often plagues those discussions. “We should be using evidence to make our points and stay away from the politics and any partisanship,” he said.

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AUG. 31 PRATTSVILLE — Zadock Pratt Museum presents Pratt Rock Park Geologic History with Robert and Johanna Titus at 1 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Museum, 14540 Main St., Prattsville. During their presentation, Robert and Johanna Titus, retired geology and biology professors, will discuss the geologic significance of the Pratt Rock site. Following the presentation, there will be a guided hike at Pratt Rock in Prattsville.

SEPT. 1 COXSACKIE — The Reverberators perform 6-8 p.m. Sept. 1 at Coxsackie Riverside Park, Betke Boulevard, Coxsackie. Admission is free.

SEPT. 3 HUDSON — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties Board of Directors will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 3 at the Extension Education Center, 479 Route 66, Hudson.

SEPT. 4 CATSKILL — Literacy Connections of the Hudson Valley announces a new no-cost, confidential, adult English as another language class in Catskill. The classes will begin at 6 p.m. Sept. 4 at The Children of the King Church, 169 West Bridge St., Catskill. The classes are ongoing, and are open to adults, 18 years and older, from any language background, regardless of proficiency level. To enroll in the class, simply show up at the Children of the King Church. For information, or to volunteer, contact Heather Martin, Columbia and Greene County Coordinator at colgreene@literacyconnections. org or by calling 518-828-1792 ext. 104. ALBANY — The Mendelssohn Club of Albany will hold auditions beginning in September for male singers interested in joining the club for its 111th season. Interested tenors and basses are invited to rehearse with the club at 7:15 p.m. Wednesdays starting Sept. 4 at the New Covenant Presbyterian Church, 916 Western Ave., Albany. Prospective members are invited to sing with the club during subsequent rehearsals in September to become acquainted with the music, conductor and members of the club. Rehearsals are held every Wednesday, and auditions will take place near the end of September. For information, visit the Mendelssohn Club online at www.mendelssohn.org or e-mail the club at info@mendelssohn.org. The Mendelssohn Club will perform its traditional holiday concert on Dec. 13 at The Egg in Albany.

SEPT. 5 CATSKILL — The Honeyford Memorial American Legion Post 110 will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Heights, Catskill. COXSACKIE — Annemarie Barkman, the Queen of Earl, will share her story of wintering in Florida at 6 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie. Longing for an escape from the cold northeast winter? Dreaming of “flying” south? Join as she shares her story of wintering in Florida. She will reveal her tips and tricks to make your dream a reality. Presentation with a Q & A session. Admission is free. All are welcome. Registration required through the online calendar or by calling the library at 518-731-8084. Parking available in rear of building.

SEPT. 9 CATSKILL — The Catskill Glee Club, an all-male chorus, will resume rehearsals 7-9:15 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Community Life Church, 20 West Main St.,

Catskill. The Glee Club also will host a membership mixer 3-5 p.m. Aug. 31 at the Crossroads Brewing Company in Catskill. Prospective members are welcome to meet members, enjoy some fellowship, and sing. New members, from high school to adults, are welcome. The Catskill Glee Club was organized in 1927. Members are from from Greene and surrounding counties. Michael Wright is the conductor and Lou Curschmann is the Club President. Call Bob Gaus at 845-389-1503 or Face Book @ TheCatskillGleeClub for information. DELMAR — The Delmar Community Orchestra will begin rehearsals for its fall/winter season 7:30-9:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Delmar Reformed Church, 386 Delaware Ave., Delmar. The Orchestra, conducted by Michael Blostein, rehearses weekly on Monday evenings at the Bethlehem Town Hall auditorium, 445 Delaware Ave., Delmar, and will perform a series of four concerts, two concerts for residents of area nursing homes and two public concerts. New members are always welcome, and instrumentalists of all ages are invited to participate. For information, visit the DCO website at www.delmarcommunityorchestra.org or contact DCO President Janet Behning at delmarcommunityorchestra@ gmail.com or 914-271-2055.

SEPT. 10 HUDSON — The Faculty and Friends exhibition of art by the fine art faculty of Columbia-Greene Community College and invited friends will be held Sept. 10 through Oct. 3 in the Foundation Gallery, Arts Center Building, C-GCC, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. The opening reception will be 12:30-1:30 p.m. Sept. 10. LATHAM — The local group of The Society of American Magicians, Assembly 24 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the S. W. Pitts Hose Co., 226 Old Loudon Road, Latham. All persons, 16 and older, with any interest in the art of magic are welcome. For information about the organization, or for a link to a local magician, visit WWW. SAM24.SYNTHASITE.COM.

SEPT. 13 TROY — The Friends of Oakwood Cemetery will hold an adult scavenger hut 5-7:30 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Cemetery, 186 Oakwood Ave., Troy. There will be prizes for the individual and team (up to 4 people per team) with the most correct answers in the shortest amount of time. Answer at least 13 clues correctly and you will be entered in a special drawing. Sign in and pick up your clues and instructions at the Earl Chapel between 5 and 6 p.m. Your start time will be recorded. All entries must be turned in at the chapel by 7:30 p.m. to qualify for prizes. The hunt takes place within a restricted area of the cemetery, which will be marked off. The cost is $15 payable at the door. To register and for information, call 518-328-0090.

SEPT. 14 ATHENS — There will be a fall flea market to benefit the American Legion Post 187 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Athens Post, 92 Second St., Athens. There is no admission cost but vendors will be offering a variety of goods and serivies. All donations welcome and appreciated. This event will help fund some necessary building repairs to the Post. For information, including how to be a vendor, call 518965-1550. TANNERSVILLE — Exploring Native Edibles + Ornamentals with Hortus Conclusus 10 a.m.-noon Sept. 14 at the Mountain Top Arboretum Education Center, 4 MAude Adams Road, Tannersville. Join horticulturists, garden designers, and artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano for a visual presentation of edible native trees and shrubs all grown at Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens. They will share the

magnificent diversity of American plants, showcasing rare, highly ornamental, edible varieties that deserve to be used widely by backyard gardeners. Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens is a small botanical garden in the mid-Hudson valley now recognized by the Morton Arboretum’s international ArbNet program as a Level II-accredited arboretum. The gardens have an extensive collection of unusual edible and decorative plantings. By trialing both native and exotic plants, their goal is to push the limits of what can be successfully grown in Zone 6, and help fellow gardeners expand their knowledge base and incorporate some of these garden-worthy plants at home. Members, free; non-members, $10. For information, call 518589-3903. ROUND TOP — A benefit for Carl Zoccola will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Maple Lawn Hotel, 10 Storks Nest Road, Round Top. The cost is $20 and includes a buffet and dessert, eat in or take out. There will be live music, raffles and a 50/50. For information, call 518-622-3058. CAIRO — Friends of the Cairo Public Library will sponsor fall book sales 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 14 and Oct. 19 at the shed behind the library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, weather permitting. The sales include three for $1 paperbacks, 50-cent hardcovers, and $5 bags of books “buy one get one free.” TROY — The Friends of Oakwood will present the next Full Moon Twilight Tour 5:30 p.m. Sept. 14. Led by Oakwood volunteer Heidi Klinowski, the group will start in the magnificent Gardner Earl Chapel, to take advantage of the western sunlight streaming through the stained glass windows. Then we will walk to the monuments of some of Oakwood’s interesting ‘residents” and hear their stories. Uncle Sam’s grave and the panoramic overlook at sunset are included highlights of this walking tour. The cost is $15, payable at the door. To register and for information, call 518-328-0090. If the weather forces us to cancel, we will call you if you have registered. COXSACKIE — Cornell Cooperative Extension presents Emergency Preparedness With A Financial Twist at 6 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) encourages Americans to become more knowledgeable about emergency preparedness by being aware of different types of emergencies and appropriate responses; putting together an emergency supply kit; making a family emergency plan; and getting involved in community efforts. Special emphasis will be placed on the compilation of important financial, legal and health documents. Presenter: Theresa Mayhew, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia & Greene Counties Resource Educator. Admission is free. All are welcome. Registration required through the online calendar or by calling the library at 518-731-8084. Parking available in rear of building.

SEPT. 18 TROY — The Friends of Oakwood will present a new special art program at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18 in the Earl Chapel at Oakwood Cemetery, Troy. For the past 25 years Peter Jung has been the owner of a gallery on Warren Street in Hudson, featuring traditional American paintings. He will share his expertise with an illustrated lecture on the history of the 19th C Hudson River School art movement of landscapes and luminists. We will also hear how he recently restored the family gravesite of the great artist Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880) in the Hudson City Cemetery. Adults, $15; students with ID, $10. Registration is preferred but not required and can be made by calling 518-328-0090.

COXSACKIE — Representatives from the Eddy Alzheimer’s Services and Catholic Charities will be on hand to share information and answer questions about the availability of free support and respite services for caregivers at 6 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie. The Eddy Alzheimer’s Services are a program that provides a wide range of free support and respite services for caregivers across a 10 county region through the Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support Initiative: which is a grant supported by the Department of Health. This is a free presentation. All are welcome. Registration required. Parking available in rear of building. For information and to register, call 518731-8084. TROY — The Sage Singers are accepting singers for the fall 2019 season. The group will be performing Vivaldi’s Gloria and seasonal selections. Rehearsals are held 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesdays beginning Sept. 18 in Bush Memorial Hall, Russell Sage College, 65 First St., Troy. Auditions for this chorus are not “pressure-cooker” events. We simply want to hear your voice, see what vocal range is comfortable for you and check out your basic instincts for melody and harmony. Music reading skills or choral experience is a plus, but not a hard and fast requirement. For information, email Michael Musial at musiam@ sage.edu.

SEPT. 21 TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Arboretume presents Basket Making: Twining with Natural Materials 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Mountain Top Arboretum Education Center, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville. Members, free; non-members, $10; materials, $10. This workshop is limited to 12 participants. Pre-registration is required at mtarboretum.org/events. In this class

Katie Grove will introduce the classic basketry technique of twining, using locally harvested plant materials.

SEPT. 28 SARATOGA SPRINGS — Angel Names Association (ANA) will hold its 14th Annual Memorial Walk Sept. 28 at the Saratoga State Spa Park in Saratoga Springs. The walk is being held in recognition of National Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Awareness month. Registration begins at noon and the walk will follow at 1:15 p.m. The day includes children’s activities, light refreshments and prizes. Everyone is welcome to attend this uplifting, free family event to walk and raise awareness of stillbirth, pregnancy loss and infant death. For additional information, visit www.angelnames.org, contact Michelle Mosca at mgmosca@msn.com or visit the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/angelnamesassociation/. WINDHAM — The VFW Post 1545, 5565 Route 23, Windham, will hold Christmas in September 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 28 at the VFW Hall. There will be gifts, crafts, vendors, antiques and more. Cold and hot drinks and snacks will be available for purchase. CATSKILL — The 2019 Columbia Greene Walk to End Alzheimer’s will be held Sept. 28 at Dutchman’s Landing, Lower Main Street, Catskill. Registration begins at 10 a.m. followed by the ceremony at 11 a.m. and the walk beginning at 11:15 a.m. Registration is necessary. There is no registration fee, however, walkers are asked to make a personal donation and commit to raising funds in the fight against Alzheimer’s. For information, contact Joe Heaney at 518-867-4999 ext. 1679 or joheaney@alz.org. Register at alz.org/walk. The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care,

support and research. Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide and 5 locations in the region, this inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to reclaim the future for millions.

OCT. 19 ATHENS — The Athens Volunteer Fire Department presents Totally ‘80s! Totally Murder!, a rockin’ radical night of mystery Oct. 19 at the firehouse, 39 Third St., Athens. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $45, adults only. Tickets include dinner, dessert, soda, water, wine and beer included. Prizes for best dressed and more. For tickets, contact Karen at 518-634-2035 or Frank at 518-610-3556; or members of the Athens Fire Department. CAIRO — Friends of the Cairo Public Library will sponsor a fall book sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 19 at the shed behind the library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, weather permitting. The sales include 3 for $1 paperbacks, 50 cent hardcovers, and $5 bags of books “buy one get one free.”

OCT. 20 ATHENS — The West Athens Fire Station No. 2, 933 LeedsAthens Road, Athens, will serve a chicken barbecue 1-5 p.m. Oct. 20 to benefit the West Athens-Lime Street Fire Co. Eat in or take out. Tickets are $12. Advance tickets are recommended and available from members.

NOV. 28 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 518-719-3555 and ask to speak to Ken.

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Church Briefs CELEBRATION SAUGERTIES — The historic Katsbaan Reformed Church, 1801 Old King’s Highway, Saugerties, is planning a celebration of our past in the community, and looking forward to our future. The steeple, which has been a landmark for many years, has been restored to its former glory. All are invited to attend the celebration 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 5. There will be historical reenactors, and beautiful organ music on the restored 100 year old organ, from 1-1:40 p.m. At 2 p.m. there will be a dedication of the newly repaired steeple. People are encouraged to tour the 300 year old stone Church. Refreshments will be available. For information, call the Church at 845246-7928.

RUMMAGE SALE SOUTH CAIRO — The South Cairo United Methodist Church, 25 County Road 67, Leeds, will hold a rummage and bake sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 12 and Sept. 13.

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SAUGERTIES — The Katsbaan Ladies Aid Society will sponsor a Mum Sale, Yard Sale & Bake Sale, rain or shine, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 6 and Sept. 7 in the Katsbaan Reformed Church Hall, 1801 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties. There will be lots of colorful Chrysanthemum Plants as well as tables full of household items, toys, books, jewelry and delicious homemade baked goods.

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WINDHAM — The Windham-Hensonville United Methodist Church, 5296 Main St., Windham, will have an Ice Cream Social 5-8 p.m. Sept. 7. There will be sundaes, banana splits, root beer floats and more. The Country Cloggers will perform at 6 p.m.

COXSACKIE — The Columbia-Greene Women’s Perpetual Blessings Luncheon will be held 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 12 at Pegasus Restaurant, 10885 Route 9W, Coxsackie. Donna Peterson, Cornell Cooperative Extension will feature “Getting Ready for Fall”; Linda Larsen and Shirley Algozzine of Cairo will provide the music and Carolyn DiMaura, a teacher from Germantown will speak. Reservations are necessary and cancellations a must. The cost is $12.50, cash only. RSVP no later than Sept. 10. Call Ruth at 518-6347405 or Lynn Overbaugh at

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

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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 518767-3292 or cell 518-253-5734.

CHICKEN BARBECUE CATSKILL — The Catskill United Methodist Church, 40 Woodland Ave., Catskill, will serve its 42nd annual chicken barbecue with continuous seating 4-7 p.m. Sept. 7. Take outs begin at 4 p.m. Menu includes a half chicken, corn on the cob, homemade salads and desserts. Adults, $13; children 5-12, $8; children 4 and younger, free with paid adult. For information and to reserve a ticket, call 518-9432042. Tickets are also available from church members.

REHEARSALS CATSKILL — The Catskill Glee Club, an all-male chorus, will resume rehearsals 7-9:15 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Community Life Church, 20 West Main St.,

FALL FAIR RAVENA — Grace United Methodist Church, 16 Hillcrest Drive, Ravena, will hold its Fall Fair 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 21. Including the Country Kitchen with baked goods, homemade canned goods, homemade candy; locally grown produce; Silent Auction; craft centers; huge book sale: bargain shed; games; bounce house; photo booth; music; chicken barbecue. Special events 10 a.m.-1 p.m.;

appraisals by “Antique Ladies” ($3 per item); and more.

WOODWORKERS SHOW HURLEY — The 13th annual Mid-Hudson Woodworkers Show will be held 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Hurley Reformed Church, 11 Main St., Hurley. There will be displays of fine woodworking items, demonstrations of woodworking techniques, Woodmizer demonstration, gifts for the children and more.

THANKSGIVING DINNER 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 518-719-3555 and ask to speak to Ken.

Watermelons and seeds...or no seeds I am so old that I remember when watermelons had seeds. There was a time that this tasty fruit could only be politely eaten outdoors, where you could spit out the seeds easily, without offending anyone. I never liked having to deal with the seeds since I always ended up crunching and eating a few. My mother warned me not to eat the seeds, or I would end up with watermelons growing in my belly! Of course she also told me that if I did not wash out my ears, I would have potatoes growing in them. So, how DO farmers grow seedless watermelons since they don’t have seeds to begin with? Seedless watermelons are the result of cross- breeding diploid plants with tetraploid plants. Diploid and tetraploid refer to the number of chromosomes living creatures have in each cell. Eggs and sperm are “haploid” cells,

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BEYFUSS meaning they contain half the number of chromosomes that the fertilized adult form will have. Humans get half their chromosomes from mom in her egg and half from dad, in his sperm. For some reason the numbers of chromosomes are referred to as “n.” So haploid cells are “n,” diploid cells are “2n,” triploid cells are “3n,” tetraploid cells are “4n” and so on. In nature, it is not all that

uncommon for eggs and sperm cells to have multiple numbers of chromosomes. Sometimes egg or sperm cells do not split their normal diploid 2n chromosome sets into 1n haploid cells. Sometimes eggs and sperm will end up as entirely 2n and when a 2n egg is fertilized by a 2n sperm, the result is a 4n tetraploid. 4n creatures are often fertile and can reproduce, since they will usually produce 2n eggs and sperm consistently. When a 2n egg is fertilized by a 4n sperm, however, the result is a 3n triploid. Triploid cells cannot neatly divide 3 n eggs or sperm into 1.5n sets of chromosomes, so the end result is a seedless watermelon, which is sterile. So, 3n watermelon seeds may be planted, but in order for them to make fruit, the flowers must be pollinated by either a 2n or 4n fruit growing nearby. Fruit development is

stimulated by the pollination process but all that will be found inside, the soft white “seeds” that you can eat. You can buy seeds to grow seedless watermelons, but the seed pack tells you that you need to grow a “normal” variety nearby. Bananas also contain little, black colored specks that are really just undeveloped seeds. Luckily for banana lovers, these tropical plants can make bananas without ever being fertilized once they reach a certain stage of development. Oftentimes, multiple sets of chromosomes result in bigger individuals with more desirable traits. Plant breeders use chemicals such as colchicine, which prevents pairs of chromosomes from splitting, to intentionally breed more vigorous or showy individuals. Even amateurs can do this by buying colchicine from chemical supply companies and

dipping seeds or young plants into solutions made with it. Actually, you can do this yourself by buying bulbs of the autumn crocus, appropriately named “Colchicum autumale,” and using a garlic press to squeeze out the juice. The juice will induce the mutations as well and will result in some weird looking offspring! Be very careful when handling this chemical because it causes mutations that can be dangerous! People of child-bearing age should never touch it. You might want to throw away that garlic press after using it to crush crocus autumn crocus bulbs! You have probably eaten some other triploid fruit besides watermelons. My favorite apple variety is “Jonagold,” a triploid cross between “Jonathan” and “Golden Delicious,” and there are many other examples. Flower breeders really enjoy creating bigger and

better flower cultivars. Most of the large flowered day lilies have multiple sets of chromosomes, as do Iris and many other ornamentals. My favorite plant, American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius, is a naturally occurring tetraploid that arose from the diploid dwarf ginseng, Panax trifolius. Cannabis indica” marijuana is also a tetraploid of Cannabis sativa. Both plants may contain THC, which gets people high, as well as CBD, which does not. Hemp plants, which I see being widely cultivated these days, are supposed to contain only miniscule amounts of THC by law, but they are visually indistinguishable from pot plants, that do contain lots of THC! Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

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Ellie Lattimore, from Palenville, was one of them. “She likes the animals,” Ellie’s mom, Tiffany Lattimore, said. “We watched the pig races and she definitely enjoyed that. And she especially liked the goats and the sheep.” The pig races drew a packed house as people piled into the stands to watch the little animals run around an oval racetrack, leaping over piglet-sized barriers as fast as they could. They were followed by a race run by a trio of Dachshunds — the winner took a victory lap and then jumped into its owner’s arms as the crowd cheered. “I love when the pigs run around. They are so cute and I didn’t know they could run so fast,” said Brittany Rubin, 10, of Chatham. For the bigger kids, the rides were the highlight of the day. “The scarier the ride, the more fun it is,” said Justin Pierce, 15. On Saturday, at 11 a.m., the annual Firefighters Parade will step off, putting local heroes in the spotlight. The parade will be followed by a day of entertainment, from a mentalist to a magician, a race car display to gymnastics, and for those who like big toys, at 4 p.m. at the grandstand there will be the Monster Tractor Pull. Sunday holds more animals, entertainment and rides, with country singer Frankie Ballard taking the stage at 7 p.m. The fair’s final day will be Monday, and get ready for a rip-roaring good time when the rodeo kicks off at 5 p.m. For more information about the Columbia County Fair, visit columbiafair.com.

said. “That’s two historic bills passed by the Fighting for Children PAC, and zero signings which benefit or recognize survivors or children.” Mother of two and childhood sexual abuse survivor Connie Altamirano agreed. “This could have been a way to notify the public about this important law, and this horrifying epidemic of child sexual abuse,” Altamirano said. For Erin Merryn, founder and namesake of Erin’s Law, Thursday represented a victory. “Today was a win for New York’s children,” Merryn said. “Now [children] will have a voice on how to speak up and tell if they are being abused instead of living in silence.” The law has been a long time coming, Merryn said. “I fought for eight years to pass Erin’s Law in New York and I told legislators I was not going away until they did the right thing,” Merryn said. “I would do it all over again knowing it will save children from a lifetime of pain and suffering. None of this would have been possible without the help of legislators who sponsored the bill, child abuse activists, celebrities and everyday people who picked up the phone and voiced their support to lawmakers and the governor for Erin’s Law as far away as Canada. I am celebrating this victory for all the children it will save.” Because of when the law

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Health & Harm Reduction at the Katal Center. “Pre-election the governor promised to authorize four pilot [harm reduction] sites to see how they would work,” Brown said. “We have seen no movement on that.” Harm reduction involves taking steps to reduce one’s risks of overdosing and other harm while using. “We recognize that not everyone is at a place where they are ready to recover,” ColumbiaGreene Addiction and Recovery Coordinator Danielle Hotaling said in July. “These tips can help save someone’s life and hopefully get them to the point where they are ready to take that step.” Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal introduced a bill last year regarding such pilot sites but it did not get passed, Brown said. “Seventy thousand people died in the U.S. last year from overdoses and drug-related deaths,” Brown said. “The governmental response is not even close to the seriousness of this issue. We have to force the governor and the Legislature to meet the scope of this.” In addition to getting governmental support on the issue, a societal change needs to occur, Brown said. “We need to get away from criminalization and address this as a health issue,” Brown said. “These deaths are preventable. We need to stay focused on the fact that these people are dying unnecessarily. We have to stop treating drug use as a moral failing instead of a health issue.” Attendants at the event came from Albany, Columbia, Greene, Warren, Schenectady, Washington and Rensselaer counties, Hotaling said. “We have a full bus coming from Amsterdam,” Brown said. Brown estimated upwards of 200 people attended the rally and 20 agencies staffed tables.

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was signed, it will be some time before it will take effect, Greenberg said. “Since we didn’t get this law signed before July 1, we now have to wait a whole year to offer these protections and empowerments for our kids,” Greenberg said. “I couldn’t be more proud of my team, and we will continue to stand up for victims and children.” The law has now been passed in 37 states. “Sexual abuse is a nationwide epidemic that has inflicted unimaginable pain on countless children, and we must use every lever at our disposal to stop it,” Cuomo said in a statement. “Many children who have been a victim of these horrific crimes or who are still suffering from abuse don’t have the information or emotional tools they need to fight back. By requiring schools to teach kids how to recognize and ultimately thwart this heinous behavior, we are giving our most vulnerable New Yorkers a voice and empowering them to protect themselves.” Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul agreed that this legislation was a step in the right direction to help protect children. “No child should have to go through the lifetime of pain and suffering caused by sexual abuse and exploitation,” Hochul said in a statement. “This legislation will help to ensure young people have the knowledge and resources to help them recognize and prevent abusive behavior. Erin’s Law builds on our continuing efforts to protect children and combat all forms of abuse across the state.”

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A youngster suggests a time long ago as she strolls through the Chatham Fairgrounds.

“The park was full of people all impacted by this crisis,” Brown said. A new service this year was free transportation in the Albany area, Brown said. Additionally there was a popup safe shape, supervised injecting facility, or SIF. “We have resources available for people to learn about harm reduction, treatment and advocacy,” Brown said. The rally component of the event gave those in recovery or relatives who may have lost someone to addiction a chance to speak out, Brown said. “We want to know what policy and investment they see helping with things and what we haven’t gotten yet,” he said. Hearing personal stories was deeply touching, Quinn said. Quinn heard stories of formerly incarcerated individuals at the rally. “It definitely adds to the event to know there’s a personal reason,” he said. “There were moms and dads who lost their child to overdoses. It was very moving to talk to them.” One of the memorial activities attendants could participate in was to create a headstone for their loved one, Quinn said.

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Hunting season starts Sept. 1 By Larry DiDonato For Columbia-Greene Media

Sunday, September 1st is the official start of the 20192020 hunting season. The two most popular hunted species that open statewide on September 1 are squirrel and Canada Goose. Squirrel season remains open until February

29th (leap year this year). Early Goose closes statewide on September 25th. The generous daily limit of 15 geese is drastically reduced in later goose seasons and ranges from just 2 to 8 birds depending on where you hunt. Check bag limits See HUNTING B10

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The six high school varsity football teams in Greene and Columbia Counties will scrimmage today at various locations. Taconic Hills will host Coxsackie-Athens, Red Hook, Rondout and

Delaware Academy at 10 a.m. Elsewhere, Catskill/ Cairo-Durham goes to Stillwater at 11 a.m.; Chatham travels to Greenwich to scrimmage the host school, Holy Trinity and Cambridge-Salem; Hudson visits See BRIEFS B10

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Germantown battled Chatham in a boys soccer scrimmage on Thursday at Chatham High School.

Rhys Hoskins vs. Pete Alonso a budding rivalry Scott Lauber The Philadelphia Inquirer

Never mind that they haven’t played against each other for seven weeks. It didn’t escape Rhys Hoskins’ notice last month that Pete Alonso was muddling through a three-week offensive funk, the lone hiccup in his smashing rookie season for the New York Mets. “I saw he struggled a little bit out of the gate after the All-Star break,” Hoskins said this week. “But it happens to everyone.” Hoskins certainly knows the feeling. The Phillies slugger has been stuck in the worst slump of his brief big-league career over the last month and a half, and unlike Alonso, he can’t seem to shake it. Perhaps Wednesday night, when he tripled and doubled in a 12-3 rout of the woeful Pittsburgh Pirates for his first multi-hit game since July 24, will represent the turning point. But it figures that Hoskins would be keeping an eye on Alonso. They have so much in common, after all, beyond merely their position on the field. Both first basemen played in college (Hoskins went to Sacramento State; Alonso played at Florida) and possess powerful righthanded swings. And they have had so much success so quickly in their careers that they are already a face of their respective teams. It’s conceivable, then, as the National League East foes meet again this weekend at Citizens Bank Park in a three-game series that

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New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso (20) hits a three-run home run against the Atlanta Braves during an MLB Players’ Weekend game at Citi Field.

has wild-card implications, that Hoskins vs. Alonso will emerge as the rivalry within the

Phillies-Mets rivalry for years to come, just as Jimmy Rollins vs. Jose Reyes was more than a

decade ago. Looming over Hoskins, though, are the same questions that will follow Alonso into future seasons once the shine wears off from his inevitable rookie of the year award: How much better can he get? Is he a genuine superstar or a complementary player on a contending team? “For me, Alonso has kind of risen above Hoskins now where this time last year I would’ve taken Hoskins,” one National League scout said. A year ago, Alonso was still in the minor leagues. But he made the Mets out of spring training, and with 42 home runs entering Thursday night’s game against the Chicago Cubs, he has gone deep more often in one season than any player in the history of a franchise that has boasted such power threats as Dave Kingman, Darryl Strawberry, Mike Piazza, David Wright, and Carlos Beltran. Alonso’s rookie-year success is also reminiscent of Hoskins’ historic home-run binge in 2017. After getting called up by the Phillies 10 days into August, he bashed 18 homers in only 170 at-bats and instantly took the mantle from Ryan Howard as the franchise’s big slugger. It all happened so quickly for Hoskins, who became the Phillies’ de facto team leader well before he marked even the first anniversary of his major-league debut. Regression was almost inevitable, especially See RIVALRY B10

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Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB 88 47 .652 — 77 58 .570 11.0 72 62 .537 15.5 54 81 .400 34.0 44 89 .331 43.0 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 82 51 .617 — Cleveland 79 55 .590 3.5 Chi. White Sox 60 73 .451 22.0 Kansas City 47 88 .348 36.0 Detroit 39 92 .298 42.0 West W L Pct GB Houston 87 48 .644 — Oakland 77 56 .579 9.0 Texas 65 70 .481 22.0 LA Angels 64 71 .474 23.0 Seattle 57 78 .422 30.0 Thursday’s games Cleveland 2, Detroit 0 Oakland 9, Kansas City 8 Tampa Bay 9, Houston 8 Minnesota 10, Chi. White Sox 5 Seattle 5, Texas 3. Friday’s games Oakland (Anderson 10-9) at NY Yankees (Sabathia 5-8), 7:05 p.m. Houston (Miley 13-4) at Toronto (Thornton 4-8), 7:07 p.m. Cleveland (Bieber 12-6) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Gibson 12-6) at Detroit, 7:10 p.m. Seattle (Gonzales 14-10) at Texas (Allard 2-0), 8:05 p.m. Baltimore at Kansas City (Skoglund 0-0), 8:15 p.m. Boston (Eovaldi 1-0) at LA Angels (Suarez 2-5), 10:07 p.m. NY Yankees Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB Atlanta 81 54 .600 — Washington 74 58 .561 5.5 Philadelphia 69 63 .523 10.5 NY Mets 67 66 .504 13.0 Miami 48 85 .361 32.0 Central W L Pct GB St. Louis 73 59 .553 — Chi. Cubs 72 61 .541 1.5 Milwaukee 68 65 .511 5.5 Cincinnati 63 70 .474 10.5 Pittsburgh 57 77 .425 17.0 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 88 47 .652 — Arizona 67 66 .504 20.0 San Francisco 65 67 .492 21.5 San Diego 61 71 .462 25.5 Colorado 59 76 .437 29.0 Wednesday’s games Philadelphia 12, Pittsburgh 3 Cincinnati 5, Miami 0 Chi. Cubs 10, NY Mets 7 LA Dodgers 6, San Diego 4, 10 innings Thursday’s games Miami 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 innings Chi. Cubs 4, NY Mets 1 Pittsburgh at Colorado, 8:40 p.m. LA Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. San Diego at San Francisco, 9:45 p.m. Friday’s games Milwaukee (Anderson 6-3) at Chi. Cubs (Quintana 11-8), 2:20 p.m. Miami (Hernandez 3-5) at Washington (Sanchez 8-6), 7:05 p.m. NY Mets (Wheeler 9-7) at Philadelphia (Nola 124), 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Bauer 1-3) at St. Louis (Hudson 136), 8:15 p.m. Pittsburgh (Agrazal 3-3) at Colorado (Senzatela 8-8), 8:40 p.m. LA Dodgers (Gonsolin 2-1) at Arizona (Gallen 1-1), 9:40 p.m. San Diego (Lamet 2-2) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 8-8), 10:15 p.m. Interleague Wednesday’s games Washington 8, Baltimore 4 Atlanta 9, Toronto 4 Boston 7, Colorado 4 Friday’s game Chi. White Sox (Nova 9-10) at Atlanta (Fried 144), 7:20 p.m.

Pro football NFL PRESEASON American Football Conference East W L Buffalo 4 0 New England 3 1 Miami 3 1 N.Y. Jets 2 2 South W L Tennessee 2 2 Houston 2 2 Indianapolis 1 3 Jacksonville 0 4 North W L Baltimore 4 0 Pittsburgh 3 1 Cleveland 3 1 Cincinnati 1 3 West W L Oakland 3 0 Kansas City 1 2 Denver 1 3 L.A. Chargers 0 3 National Football Conference East W L N.Y. Giants 4 0 Dallas 2 2 Washington 1 3 Philadelphia 1 3 South W L Tampa Bay 3 1 New Orleans 2 2 Carolina 2 2 Atlanta 1 4 North W L Minnesota 3 1 Green Bay 1 2 Chicago 1 3 Detroit 0 4 West W L San Francisco 3 0 Seattle 2 1 L.A. Rams 2 2 Arizona 1 2 Preseason Week 4 Thursday’s games Buffalo 27, Minnesota 23 Indianapolis 13, Cincinnati 6 N.Y. Jets 6, Philadelphia 0 Carolina 25, Pittsburgh 19 Atlanta 31, Jacksonville 12 Cleveland 20, Detroit 16 N.Y. Giants 31, New England 29 Baltimore 20, Washington 7 Tennessee 19, Chicago 15 Tampa Bay 17, Dallas 15 Green Bay 27, Kansas City 20 Miami 16, New Orleans 13 L.A. Rams 22, Houston 10

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Gauff has won over the crowd, now she needs to beat Osaka Christopher Clarey The New York Times News Service

Coco Gauff, a 15-year-old American tennis prodigy, and Naomi Osaka, the world’s No. 1 player, will face each other in a tournament for the first time when they meet in the third round of the U.S. Open on Saturday. The high-profile match is likely to be played in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the largest permanent tennis stadium in the world with its five tiers of seating and capacity for nearly 24,000 spectators. But Osaka and Gauff have been crossing paths in much smaller and quieter venues for some time. Both once trained at ProWorld Academy in Delray Beach, Florida. “I used to see Naomi’s dad every morning,” said Corey Gauff, Coco Gauff’s father DANIELLE PARHIZKARAN/USA TODAY and longtime coach. “We’d be Coco Gauff celebrates her victory over Timea Babos on day four of the 2019 U.S. Open tennis on the first court, and they’d tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. be walking to a back court. That was a couple of years be- her first major singles title. earlier, Gauff had reached the won a singles match at the fore Naomi really broke out.” Nobody who experienced final of the girls’ event at age U.S. Open since Tracy Austin Osaka, 21, has since risen that awkward moment wants 13. reached the quarterfinals at to the top of the rankings and Osaka to feel alienated in But she has made a very age 14 in 1977. But only three won two Grand Slam singles Ashe Stadium again. But Co- quick transition to the pro- girls have done it in the past titles: last year’s U.S. Open comania, which hit Wimble- fessional ranks and is now 22 years: Alexa Glatch in 2005, and this year’s Australian don full force during Gauff’s on the cusp of breaking into Cici Bellis in 2014 and Gauff. Open. But precocious achievefirst-week run, has proved the top 100 despite playing in Gauff, born and raised in difficult to resist. just four tour-level events this ment is no guarantee of fuDelray Beach, has just beture success. Both Glatch “It probably will be a split season. gun to make an impact at this crowd, but Coco will have “Things have happened and Bellis have been knocked level. She reached the fourth enough support,” Corey very fast,” Corey Gauff said. off track by injuries. Though round in her first Wimbledon Gauff said. “She’s settling “Her progression has been the list of under-16 winners as a qualifier before losing to in a little bit now, getting a very fast. I hope we have the includes future Grand Slam the eventual champion, Si- couple of matches under her same kind of run we had two champions like Austin, Jenmona Halep. She is now in belt. She still hasn’t played years ago. I feel good about nifer Capriati, Monica Seles the third round of her first her best tennis, but it’s good it. I think she’s having to play and Martina Hingis, it also U.S. Open after defeating tour to see her fighting through it, some long matches, but she includes players who did not become household names: veteran Timea Babos in three and hopefully she’ll find her can take it. deeply diverting sets Thurs- best game on Saturday.” “At the end of the day, she’s day night and then getting Corey Gauff said that Leon- proved she can play seven serenaded by the near-capac- ard Francois, Osaka’s father, matches in a Slam,” he addity crowd at Louis Armstrong had provided him with advice ed. “Counting qualifying at Stadium with an extended as he navigated his daugh- Wimbledon, she lost in the chant of “Coco.” ter’s path to the pro tour. seventh match to Halep. She “This is just the beginning, “He said, ‘Take your time, knows how to get to seven I promise,” she said in re- it’s a journey,’” Corey Gauff matches.” sponse, looking much more said. “He said, ‘It’s going Gauff has only played two emotional than she had dur- to happen, it will happen.’ so far in New York after reing the match. “I promise to And then I think it was last ceiving a wild card into the always fight for you guys, and year here in the juniors, he main draw. Now, she is the I thank you so much for all the told me, ‘I wouldn’t have her youngest player to reach support. You got me through play juniors anymore. She’s the third round since Anna the past two matches, and I ready.’” Kournikova in 1996. hope you can help me on SatTennis prodigies were once Francois said it despite urday and in my doubles to- Gauff losing in the quarter- much more common in wommorrow.” finals of the U.S. Open girls’ en’s tennis. Twenty-five playIt will be intriguing to see tournament in 2018. A year ers under the age of 16 have how the crowd reacts Saturday. Gauff has quickly become a fan favorite in New York: winners hit by her first two opponents — Anastasia Potapova of Russia and Babos of Hungary — were routinely greeted with restrained applause or near silence. But Osaka could be a different matter. The daughter of a Haitian father and Japanese mother, Osaka represents Japan but has long been based in South Florida and once seriously considered representing the United States. She should have considerable support of her own Saturday, particularly after last year’s contentious final against Serena Williams, when Williams’ clash with chair umpire Carlos Ramos led to boos at the victory ceremony that left Osaka in tears and marred the celebration of

Michelle Torres, Grace Kim and Linda Gates. Much can go awry in the pursuit of tennis excellence, which is one of the reasons the Women’s Tennis Association has long had age restrictions in place to limit tournament play for those under 18. The Gauffs are certainly aware of the pitfalls, but they also recognize, like so many others now recognize, that their daughter has not only the talent but the temperament to compete at this elite level. Osaka’s family once came to the same realization, fighting the odds and the economic challenges to help her on her own remarkable tennis journey. “Obviously she’s an amazing player,” Coco Gauff said of Osaka. “She’s won two Slams. She’s No. 1. She’s only 21. We’re both pretty young, but I’m a little bit newer to the game. So I’m just curious to see how my game matches up against her. Obviously I want to win. I just want to enjoy it, have fun, enjoy the battle.” Gauff will of course be the underdog, but she has given no indication at Wimbledon or Flushing Meadows that she will be overwhelmed by the occasion. “The only thing I’m sure of is that she will give it her all and will fight from the first to the last point,” said JeanChristophe Faurel, her other coach. “She’s not going to be happy just to be out there, I can guarantee you that.”

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The best kind of Darlington (S.C.) Raceway throwback weekend for Jimmie Johnson would include a victory and his ticket to the 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Johnson’s three victories at the notoriously tough 1.366-mile track is most among active drivers who will compete in the Sunday evening Bojangles’ Southern 500 (6 p.m. ET on NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), as are his nine top-five finishes. But among the four drivers closest to earning the final two playoff positions, the seventime series champion has the highest mountain to climb – he sits farthest back in the standings. His No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet will be outfitted in a throwback version to his former off-road racing truck, however. And that won’t hurt the motivational mountain he must conquer. With only two races left to set

the 16-driver playoff field – Darlington and next week’s regularseason finale at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Johnson is 18th in the standings, 26 points behind third-year Cup driver Daniel Suarez, who currently holds that all-important 16th position. Veteran Ryan Newman is 15th with a 12-point edge on Suarez. Clint Bowyer is 17th, two points behind Suarez and 24 points up on Johnson. Among these four, Johnson is the only to have won previously at Darlington. The month of September has been particularly rewarding for Johnson, who has earned 10 of his 83 career victories in the month – second only to October, when he has 14 wins. “Darlington just has its own persona,” Johnson said. “The Southern 500 has always been a spectacle to see. The track is so difficult and gritty to drive, it can tear you up pretty easy. It’s a long night and usually a hot

one. “The throwback theme is a great tribute to the personality and characteristics of Darlington, paying respect to the past. It’s always so much fun walking down pit road before the race. So many have just embraced the concept and go all-in. “We know what we have to do, and I am excited about the direction we have taken as a team.” Johnson will be looking for his first top-10 since a third place in the Daytona International Speedway July race. His position in the standings is the lowest since mid-March, but Johnson has reason to feel confident at both Darlington and Indianapolis – two venues where he leads the field in victories. He’s never missed a playoff berth in his 18-year, full-time career. Suarez, who surpassed both his SHR teammate Clint Bowyer and Johnson last week in the standings, has an iffy track

record at Darlington with finishes of 38th and 29th. Bowyer has only one top-10 finish in 13 starts, and both he and Johnson retired early from last year’s race. Newman’s 10th place was best among this foursome in 2018.

THREE TO GO FOR XFINITY With only three races remaining to set the NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff field, Saturday’s Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 (4 p.m. ET on NBC, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) presents a great opportunity and an equally great challenge for the group of drivers still on the postseason brink. And if that innate excitement weren’t enough, some of NASCAR’s biggest names will be joining the race field this week, including longtime Most Popular Driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is making only his second NASCAR national series start since retiring from full-time competition in 2017. And it comes only two weeks after he

and his family survived a plane accident near Bristol, Tenn. Now an NBC television analyst, Earnhardt had a pair of top10 results in four previous Xfinity Series starts at Darlington. His best career finish in this race was runner-up in 1998. “The Xfinity Series has been competitive this year with the young talent that is in the series right now,” Earnhardt said. “We’ll see how things go during practice and hope to be running with those guys on Saturday.” Five-time race winner Denny Hamlin (No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota) and Ryan Blaney (No. 12 Team Penske Ford) are the other Cup regulars entered this week, making the race one of the most highly anticipated of the season. Richard Childress Racing’s Tyler Reddick – a four-race winner this year and the defending series champion – arrives in Darlington with a 45-point edge on Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell.

The two drivers have only three starts between them at Darlington. Reddick finished third last year, and Bell qualified on the outside pole position but crashed and finished 34th. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Cole Custer remains third in the standings with five victories, completing a triad of domination this season between the championship leaders. Bell, who earned his first win on a road course at Road America last week, has a series-best six wins on the season. His latest triumph put him in elite company, tying him with Sam Ard for the most wins for a driver in his first 64 series starts. Bell has 15 top-five finishes and 16 top10s in 23 races so far, and his 13 stage wins are most in the field. This triumphant trio has set a high bar for sure. And while seven drivers have already clinched a spot in the 12-driver playoff field, there is a lot of competition for the remaining five positions.

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After moving away, woman can’t move on from lost love I have known this man, “Finn,” for years. We grew up together. He was the annoying boy on the playground who turned into my first love when we were in college. We live in different states now, so we have grown distant, although we still talk on holidays and birthdays. It’s been quite a while since DEAR ABBY we were together, but I still can’t get over him. I haven’t tried to find another guy because I know he will be second to Finn, and that’s not fair to him. Is it weird that I still go to text Finn when something big happens but realize I can’t, or that I dream about us still? How do I get over a guy I love and only broke up with because he didn’t want to move? I will never go back to our hometown. It was an awful place. So what do I do? Trying Not To Love Him

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Here’s what you do. Accept the fact that Finn is a “married man” — someone wedded to his hometown, which you have long outgrown. Then stop idealizing a person who didn’t value your relationship enough to consider relocating with you. And finally, accept the reality that this wasn’t meant to be. Allow yourself the opportunity to meet eligible men and quit comparing them to someone you have placed on such a high pedestal that they cannot compete. My 24-year-old son is a good young man and mostly responsible and mature, except in one area. He fails to see the importance of keeping up regular oil changes on his two vehicles that were passed down to him. I keep track of when he’s had the last oil

change, and I start reminding him at the time they are due. I tell him to make an appointment, he says “I will,” but when asked later, he says he hasn’t. I have tried to tell him how important it is. I’ve even made the appointment and taken the vehicles in myself. What can I do to get him to take care of this responsibility by himself? Nagging Mother In Wisconsin The way for your son to learn that lesson is for you to stop nagging and let him suffer the consequences for his irresponsibility. You may have helped the cars by taking them in, but you did not help your son. Classic Peanuts

One of my sisters is visiting our place and staying at our house for four nights. She always brings presents for us when she comes. However, the items are partly used or carry no tags or seals. My other sisters feel the same as I do about it, but no one ever says anything. I am torn between staying silent or speaking out once and for all in plain English. What should I do? Tagless In Maine When someone is a houseguest — even a relative — good manners dictate that a small gift is in order. By small gift, I mean a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of wine, a box of nuts or candy. Your sister is either unaware of the social graces, financially strapped or rude. Accept the “gift” graciously but suggest that next time a bottle of wine or some flowers would be appreciated.

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Lyme disease is caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, and is spread by the deer tick. There are many manifestations of Lyme disease, including rash, many nonspecific symptoms, and late symptoms such as arthritis. Death from Lyme disease is rare, and is usually a result of carditis, which is heart inflammation. This happens in about 1% of cases of Lyme disease. There were nine cases of fatal Lyme carditis reported between 1985 and 2018. People who are treated early for Lyme disease, such as those get the classic bull’s-eye rash, do not get immunity to Lyme. However, people who have had Lyme long enough to develop arthritis do develop some resistance to future episodes. Unfortunately, we are still at least several years away from a Lyme vaccine. I could find nothing to support a significant risk of death from people who get Lyme disease a second (or subsequent) time, so I think you can reassure your friend.

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No significant risk of death contracting Lyme disease twice Someone I know, who is a nurse, mentioned to me that she had Lyme disease about 15 years ago. She said her doctor at the time told her that if she gets it again she will die. Is this true? I would have thought some immunity would be gained once you have it. She is completely healed and said she has no health issues associated TO YOUR with it.

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My wife has many allergies and asthma, as well as frequent migraines, about two or three a month. A family friend has been using Aimovig for the past six months with no migraine symptoms. What can you tell me about this relatively new drug? We’re concerned that the side effects may interfere with her asthma, or any other negative drug interactions. Erenumab (Aimovig) has been recently approved for migraine. In the initial study, it reduced the number of migraine days from 8.3 to 4.6 per month. As an injection, it may cause pain and swelling at the injection site, and has also caused some people constipation and muscle cramps. There are very few drug interactions, and I found no indication that it should make asthma worse. Your family friend has had a much better result than most of the people in the study, and there is no guarantee your wife will do as well. I am awaiting further long-term studies before recommending this class of migraine treatments. It is given once per month, and costs about $600 at goodrx.com.

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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are nothing if not a survivor. You can put yourself through all manner of hardships and difficulties and come out stronger and better than ever before — with a certain eagerness to do it again when given the chance. You can be sensitive and aggressive, forgiving and obstinate, generous and uncompromising — depending on what is required of you in any given moment, or by any given situation. There is a softness beneath the surface that belies any kind of hardness that you like to put on in the face of adversity — a softness that may, at times, rise to the surface and let others know that you are, after all, merely human and subject to fears, doubts and uncertainties like anyone else. Also born on this date are: Richard Gere, actor; Chris Tucker, actor; Van Morrison, singer; James Coburn, actor; Queen Raina of Jordan; Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Buddy Hackett, actor and comic; Debbie Gibson, singer; Maria Montessori, educator. 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, SEPTEMBER 1 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ve been giving a certain endeavor your “all” — or you think you have. The truth is there’s a little more you can give, if you dare. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You mustn’t expect to get results by doing the kinds of things that didn’t work before. You must concoct a whole new way of working! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Thoughts of

what you can do to make a good situation even better will motivate you throughout the day. Progress can be made very quickly. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re ready to give something new a try today, but you must also be ready to fail the first time — unless you are extraordinarily lucky! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can offer more than expected today, and you’ll likely be rewarded handsomely — but don’t fret if you have to wait for feedback. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You must take care that you don’t try to make things too intricate or complicated today. Simple and straightforward gets the job done. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may have less time than expected to finish a certain task that is growing more complicated with each passing day. Work efficiently! ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll earn the praise of someone who is an expert in a certain field that you’ve been trying to break into of late. This is a good contact! TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You do not tire easily as a rule, so when you tire today, you’ll know you’ve earned a rest. Don’t overdo it; listen to your mind and body. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may have to burn the candle at both ends today in order to complete a task on time. And yes, you must be able to work under pressure! CANCER (June 1-July 22) — You may not be feeling quite up to par today, and your style at work may not display the usual flair. Still, you can get required tasks done. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You have the feeling that something is “in the air,” and you are

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

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

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

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

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Identify the woman inducted into the Hall. (e.g., Star of “I Love Lucy.” Answer: Lucille Ball.) Freshman level 1. Her debut cookbook was “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” 2. Jazz singer nicknamed “Lady Day.” 3. She was the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in the 2016 election. 4. Pilot who disappeared with her navigator, Fred Noonan. 5. She was the richest African-American of the 20th century. Graduate level 6. She founded the American Red Cross. 7. The first woman to serve as attorney general of the U.S. 8. Best known for being the instructor and companion of Helen Keller. 9. She became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, 10. She founded the Church of Christ, Scientist. PH.D. level 11. The first second lady and second first lady of the United States. 12. Cultural anthropologist who authored “Coming of Age in Samoa.” 13. Opera singer known for her coloratura soprano roles. 14. She was acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s. 15. Her book “Silent Spring” advanced the environmental movement.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Julia Child. 2. Billie Holiday. 3. Hillary Clinton. 4. Amelia Earhart. 5. Oprah Winfrey. 6. Clara Barton. 7. Janet Reno. 8. Anne Sullivan. 9. Shirley Chisholm. 10. Mary Baker Eddy. 11. Abigail Adams. 12. Margaret Mead. 13. Beverly Sills. 14. Wilma Rudolph. 15. Rachel Carson. 24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Fibula’s location 4 Church walkway 9 Clobber 13 Alimony recipients 15 Laundry problem 16 Explorer Marco 17 Go out with 18 Gurus 19 Got up 20 Jam alternative 22 Eerie sightings, for short 23 Colorado ski resort 24 Computer, for many 26 Like Jacuzzi waters 29 San Francisco transport 34 Not in __; like back-ordered items 35 Buckets 36 Spanish shout 37 Present 38 __ Haute, IN 39 Undergarment 40 Word attached to wax or wig 41 Uses a drill 42 Sharp abrupt increase 43 Songbirds 45 Package 46 Cereal grain 47 Pack animal 48 Command to slow down 51 Significant 56 Bluster 57 Go away 58 Club members’ fees 60 Eczema symptom 61 Shoestrings 62 Fasten 63 Biblical pronoun 64 Warn 65 Firmament DOWN 1 Guided 2 Test 3 “__ job!”; advice to a deadbeat

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Non Sequitur

41 Cry from the flock 42 Shaker contents 44 Detest 45 Least sullied 47 Bekins, for one 48 Judge’s order 49 “Hell __ no fury like a woman scorned”

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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF THE DURHAM TOWN BOARD Please be advised that the Durham Town Board will hold a meeting Tuesday September 3rd at 6pm, for the purpose of interviewing interested candidates in the assessor position. The regular board workshop will begin at 7:30pm. By order of the Town Board Janet Partridge, Clerk Please take Notice that the Town Board of the Town of Cairo will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at the Cairo Town Hall at 7:00PM. This meeting will be to discuss purchase of Real Estate in the Greene County Tax Foreclosure Auction. By Order of the Town Board. Kayla L. Warner Town Clerk TOWN OF GHENT PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that on August 22, 2019 the Ghent Town Board approved a resolution to withdraw $67,646.55 from the Highway Capital Reserve Fund (DB878), established pursuant to the provisions of Section 6c of General Municipal Law of the State of New York, for the purpose of funding the cost of highway repaving until such time as the Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program (“CHIPS”) funding is received from the New York State Department of Transportation. Upon receipt of the CHIPS funding the amount withdrawn from the Highway Capital Reserve Fund will be returned. Such Resolution is subject to a permissive referendum in accordance with the provisions of Section 91 of the Town Law, and shall take effect thirty (30) days after its adoption, unless a petition is presented to the Town Clerk, conforming to the requirements of Section 91 of the Town Law, seeking permissive referendum. Dated: August 22, 2019 s/Michelle Radley Town Clerk

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the TOWN OF GREENVILLE ZONING BOARD of APPEALS, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK, will hold 2 PUBLIC HEARINGS on Tuesday September 10, 2019 at 7:00pm at the Town Hall Pioneer Building, 11159 SR 32 Greenville, New York for 2 applications for Area Variances. The applicant, Greenville Central School District, is seeking the applications for parcels 12.044-27 on SR 81 & parcel 12.04-4-11 on SR 32, Greenville. All those who are interested in this proposal will be provided with the full opportunity to be heard on the date of the Public Hearing. Persons wishing to appear at such hearing may do so in person or by attorney or other representative. Documents in support of this proposed application are available for inspection at the Greenville Town Building located at the Town Hall, Pioneer Bldg., 11159 SR 32 Greenville, NY. Communications in writing in relation thereto may be filed with the ZONING BOARD of APPEALS or at such hearing. DATED: August 29, 2019 BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD of APPEALS OF THE TOWN OF GREENVVILLE Submitted by: Hope Nugent, Secretary to Zoning Board of Appeals

MICHAEL J. RADCLIFFE, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 20, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene, wherein HSBC BANK USA, N.A., AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED NOTEHOLDERS OF RENAISSANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2005-3, RENAISSANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSETBACKED NOTES, SERIES 2005-3 is the Plaintiff and MICHAEL J. RADCLIFFE, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 320 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL, NY 12414, on September 16, 2019 at 10:00AM, premises known as 51 ELKA PARK ROAD, ELKA PARK, NY 12427: Section 196.00, Block 4, Lot 11: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF HUNTER, COUNTY OF GREENE AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 677/2016. David E. Woodin, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York Storage Wars: Abso- 11590, Attorneys for lute Auction at Bells Plaintiff. Pond Storage: Livingston (nr Hudson) 3297 Route 9 South of Bells SUPREME COURT: Pond - September 7, STATE OF NEW YORK 2019, 10 am sharp 9 COUNTY OF COLUMunits BIA #2 Woolard; # 5 Un- TOWN OF TAGHKANknown; # 8 Seymour; # IC 9 Abandoned; #12 909 State Route 82 Hermans; #15 Hart; Ancram, NY 12502, #17 Abandoned; #19 Plaintiff, Pappalardi. SHERIFF'S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL SUPREME COURT OF PROPERTY THE STATE OF NEW -againstYORK - COUNTY OF Index No.: 12665-18 CHRISTIAN HEESCH GREENE HSBC BANK USA, 644 County Route 15 N.A., AS INDENTURE Elizaville, NY 12534, TRUSTEE FOR THE Defendant. REGISTERED NOTE- NOTICE IS HEREBY HOLDERS OF REN- GIVEN that by virtue of AISSANCE HOME EQ- an execution issued UITY LOAN TRUST out of the Supreme Columbia 2005-3, RENAIS- Court, SANCE HOME EQUI- County, against the TY LOAN ASSET- real property of the debtor, BACKED NOTES, SE- judgment CHRISTIAN HEESCH., RIES 2005-3, the Sheriff of the V. County of Columbia will sell at public auction, pursuant to law, in a single parcel, at the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, New York on the 29th day of

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October 2019 at 10:00 am in the forenoon of said day all the right, title and interest which the said CHRISTIAN HEESCH had therein on the 22nd day of January 2019, or at any time subsequent thereto, in and to the lands and premises described and numbered below: 1. All that parcel of real property situate at 644 County Route 15, Town of Taghkanic, County of Columbia and State of New York, being the same premises described in a deed from Kathleen Mary Proper, Individually and As Executrix of the Last will and Testament of Mildred Proper to Christian A. Heesch, and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office on September 16, 1996 in Book 282 of Deeds at Page 985, being approximately 1.2 +/- acres of land, more particularly described in Schedule "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof; and 20, Dated: August 2019 David P. Bartlett Columbia County Sheriff SCHEDULE "A" ,all that piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York, bounded· and described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin in the easterly boundary of the County Road leading from West Taghkanic to Lake Taghkanic, said pin being located S. 64' ll' E. distant 18.35 feet f,rom the southeasterly corner of the easterly headwall of a culvert across the

above mentioned County road, said culvert being located approximately 80 feet southerly from the house located on the lands herein described, running thence N. 58' 54'E. 58.19 feet to an iron pin, thence N. 6' 36' E. 103.14 feet to an iron pin, thence N. 7' 17' E. 159.15 feet to an .iron pin, pin, thence N. 37' 03' W. 185.49 feet to an iron , thence S. 73' 09' W. 105.29 feet to an iron pin in the easterly boundary of the above mentioned County road, thence along the easterly boundary of said County road S. 13' 26' E. 261.3O feet, S. 24"29' E. 168.91 feet to the point of beginning containing 1.2 acres more or less. Being the same premises conveyed to Mildred Proper and Kathleen Mary Proper, as tenants in common, by Mildred Proper by deed dated December 6, 1988 and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office on December 6, 1988 in Liber 614 of Deeds at page 310. The said Mildred Proper died on February 21, 1996,a resident of the town of Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York. Kathleen Mary Proper

was appointed ExecuApts. for Rent trix of the Estate Mil- 298 Greene Co. dred Proper by Letters Testamentary dated EARLTON- 1 bdr upper, private home, Rt 81., inMarch 29, 1996.

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PURLINGMODERN, spacious 2 bdr walk-in apt. Includes; heat/hot water/ cable. Snow & garbage removal. No pets, $1150. 518- 622-8209 or 821-6232.

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ANCRAM- 4+ brd, 1 & 1/2 bath, LR, DR, kitchen, on 2 acres, fully furnished (optional), $1600, (646)523-4225.

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CLASS B DRIVER, experience preferred. Benefits EOE, F/T, P/T. Please call 518-325-3331

Columbia County. Home Care Helper Wanted Private residence, pleasant environment, exp. a plus, but not needed. Will train.518-828-2163

Torig's Pizzeria looking for part-time cook and Pizza maker. Competitive wages. Apply within or call : 518-929-4672. Interested applicant apply only.

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CATSKILL LARGE modern 2 bdr apt. heat/hot water, garbage removal, snow plowing & maintenance incl. $950. Laundry on premises. No dogs. 518-943-1237.

CHATHAMCHARMING small cottage on tree line street near fairgrounds, off st parking, low traffic only, $825 + elec, 518-791-0132

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Trailers, LLC is expanding..we are seeking experienced, qualified candidates for the following full time position: Lead Mechanic/Service Tech, Competitive wages, Holiday and Vacation Pay. "Welding Ability a Plus" Please call 518-622-3019 to set up an interview

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2019-2020 Albion Central School – Full-Time Vacancy – K-12 Physical Therapist beginning September 3, 2019 NYS License in Physical Therapy. Candidates must qualify through civil service. Contact Albion Central School Cindy Ishmael (585) 589-2055 by August 15, 2019. EOE

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The Healthcare Consortium 325 Columbia Street, Suite 200 Hudson, NY 12534 ATTN: Office Manager Email: ccchc@columbiahealthnet.org EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER OF GREENE COUNTY Fiscal Manager, FT To oversee our day to day Fiscal Operations. BA in Accounting and exp. working with Federal & State grants. Benefits include medical/dental/vision, paid time leave, 403b plan, holidays & snow days. Call 518-622-8382 or email resume to emoore@eclcgreenecounty.org EOE

Columbia-Greene Media has an immediate opening for an assistant district manager in our circulation department. The candidate will work closely with our circulation manager to maintain an effective independent contractor delivery team to distribute our news products while meeting the department’s delivery and financial objectives. This is Monday-Friday night-time position that begins at about midnight. PRIMARY ROLE •Assisting with delivery of newspaper routes •Organizing and distributing paperwork •Staging newspapers for delivery by independent contractors •Ensuring previous delivery issues are addresses and resolved in a timely fashion •Communicate and collaborate with management and internal staff SKILL REQUIREMENTS •Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license and current insurance •Basic computer and mobile technology skills •Ability to manage multiple tasks on a daily basis •Excellent time management and communication skills Please send resume including 3 references to: cgmjobs@columbiagreenemedia.com. No phone calls please.

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Here are 6 ideas to make NFL preseason games more tolerable Phil Rosenthal Chicago Tribune

Are you ready for some football, NFL fans? Real football. Regular-season football, not to be confused with the performance art the league has been passing off as “preseason football” the last few weeks. Even if you accept that some competition is needed to help coaching staffs separate real understudies from future salesmen, the current system demands change from a consumer standpoint. Here are six suggestions to improve the NFL preseason and make it more tolerable. 1. Cut it from four games to two. As recently as the mid-1970s, the preseason was six games. That seems as ridiculous today as the current four-game slate will seem in the nottoo-distant future. Back then, there was a lot more hitting in camp, and perhaps it was considered better to hit someone else’s players than your own. But the need for so much contact in practice has been questioned, especially as researchers uncover its ramifications on players’ post-retirement health. It always has been assumed a cut in preseason games would come only with a regular-season expansion to 18 games or additional playoff games. (The switch from six exhibitions to four accompanied an expansion of the season from 14 games to 16.) That’s because everyone knows the owners don’t want to cede revenue. We’ll see how that plays out in negotiations with the players union. But in the meantime, let’s end the charade with these pretend games. Given the amount of network money these teams reap, you have a shaky

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Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton signs autographs for fans following the team’s first practice of training camp at Wofford College on July 25 in Spartanburg, S.C.

franchise if the difference between profit and loss relies on exhibitions. 2. Add neutral-site scrimmages. No one is saying to reduce training camp. Take all the time you want. Just cut back on the faux games. Rams general manager Les Snead offered a great idea in an interview with NBC’s Peter King earlier this year: While reducing the preseason to two games, add a scrimmage with another team at a neutral football-loving site. “Play those scrimmages in great high school stadiums, college stadiums or minor-league baseball stadiums,” Snead said. “It’s a chance to give back and invest in our dedicated

fans who support us even though they might be in a place that’s not close to an NFL franchise city. “Wouldn’t it be fun to see Carson Wentz and the Eagles scrimmage the Vikings somewhere in North Dakota? Or the Seahawks and Texans scrimmaging in Madison, Wis., where Russell Wilson and J.J. Watt played? Good work for the teams, and very beneficial for the fans. And wouldn’t Carson Wentz always remember the time his professional team played in the state he grew up?” Genius. 3. Stop pretending the outcome matters.

Raiders coach Jon Gruden, on the latest edition of HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” seemed awfully pleased in the locker room that his team beat the Packers in their exhibition last week in Winnipeg, but the game was played on an 80-yard field and featured no kickoffs. One might have actually thought it meant something. But who’s kidding whom? The Ravens and Eagles that same night ended their exhibition early because of lightning. That’s how much these games matter. No one has any illusions about spring training baseball or exhibition basketball or hockey. Why football?

The Bears have been at the forefront of a movement within the NFL that — correctly — keeps players a team might actually need in real games out of these exercises because there’s no sense risking potential injury when nothing is at stake. Better to have Mitch Trubisky standing around than limping away. If it actually mattered, the starters would play. 4. Gimmicks, lots of gimmicks — in person and on TV. Might as well treat preseason games as the circuses they are. Get out the gaudy and garish alternative uniforms. Outfit players with microphones and helmet cams. Allow a few fans picked at random to call a play. Stage concerts or other entertainment at halftime. Have fireworks shows. If starters aren’t going to play, maybe they can entertain fans during the TV breaks with combine-style drills (provided they can avoid injuring themselves). Let starters who aren’t playing offer live TV commentary. 5. Fan outreach, like it’s an open practice or family night. Have players take time to sign autographs, take pictures and interact with fans after the game. Maybe give away game jerseys to youngsters in attendance. Send alumni into the stands. Anything to make those who attend the game feel special. 6. Shorten the games. Fifteen-minute quarters should be reserved for real games. Make them 12 minutes during the preseason. If broadcasters adjust accordingly where the commercial breaks fall, no one will miss the time that isn’t there and everyone gets to the postgame selfies sooner.

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Columbia-Greene Media Cares Sponsorships, Trades and Matching Grant Program

Columbia-Greene Media (CGM) serves Columbia and Greene counties, and beyond, with two daily newspapers, one weekly newspaper, a niche business magazine, a weekly shopper, and affiliated websites (including blogs, social media, podcasts and videos). Our media family of products includes The Daily Mail, Register-Star, Chatham Courier, Windham Journal, Ravena News-Herald, Shop & Find and the Columbia-Greene Business Quarterly. As the largest news media provider in the area, CGM connects community members with what’s happening in and around the region. With such a large coverage area, comprised of many smaller communities, CGM has the unique opportunity to leverage its media holdings to promote community organization and events. There are hundreds of wonderful events that take place throughout the year to benefit the community that CGM would love to promote. After thinking long and hard about the best way to support the many grassroots organizations that make up our community, we are proud to announce “Columbia-Greene Media Cares.” We are launching this initiative with our Sponsorship and Matching Grant program:

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Saturday - Sunday, August 31-September 1, 2019 - B9

The Falwells have big plans for Liberty football J. Brady McCollough Los Angeles Times

LYNCHBURG, Va. — Sundays in this sensuous stretch of the Blue Ridge Mountains come with a sense of tradition and inevitability. The hills have seen their share of tragedy, of death and rebirth, but for one family, they have forever cradled divine promises. Jerry Falwell Sr. may be gone, but order is kept. A Falwell has had the pulpit at Thomas Road Baptist Church for more than a half-century, and the faithful file in past the red brick facade and the Jeffersonian white columns to hear the youngest son, Rev. Jonathan Falwell. “This world is full of untruths,” he will say. “People will mock what you believe.” The Falwells like to think vision is in their DNA, passed from their English ancestors who traversed these hills in the 1600s looking for land to own. That’s the part of the family legacy Jerry Falwell Jr., the older boy, has taken on. He reminds a visitor, even while talking passionately about sinners and his brand of Christianity, that he’s not a pastor but a businessman. He figured out how to monetize a “Christ-centered” college education, although he is known more for his hand in electing President Donald Trump — 81% of Evangelical Christians voted for Trump in 2016 — than being the president of Liberty University. If you knew this place in 1971 when Falwell Sr. founded it as Lynchburg Baptist College, you wouldn’t believe your eyes. If you knew Liberty in 2007 when he died and left it to his oldest son to run, you probably wouldn’t either. Jerry Jr. has built $1.6 billion of infrastructure where there was once nothing but trees and grass, a campus created not from a nation’s yearning for forgiveness but rather from an online learning cash cow. The first building that can be seen when approaching the university from the winding Richmond Highway is a towering football palace. On this “Welcome Weekend” Sunday morning in August, hundreds of students are lining up outside Williams Stadium in scorching heat to score a ticket for the season opener when the Liberty Flames host No. 22 Syracuse in the biggest home football game in school history. Signs offering football ticket discounts cover the campus, and posters of the team’s new coach, Hugh Freeze, encourage the effort to “Rise With Us.” Clearly, there is room at Liberty for the country’s Saturday religion. Falwell Sr. had a vision of Liberty being for Evangelical Christians what Notre Dame is for Catholics and Brigham Young is for Mormons, and the newest team in major college football is not subtle with its imagery. The Flames wear red, white and blue. Their mascot is a bald eagle. With so much at stake for Liberty football, there can be no rest on the Sabbath. Inside the immaculate indoor training facility, which Jerry Jr. approved for $29 million, the players gather for a team meeting before practice. It has been an odd week. The team hasn’t seen Freeze since he left practice more than a week before because of back pain so bad he could hardly get out of his truck when he got home. The last they heard, Freeze had developed a severe staph infection requiring emergency surgery. “Hey guys,” Jim Nichols, Freeze’s chief of staff, says as the players settle into a meeting room, “we have a special guest with us today.” Freeze has Skyped in from his hospital bed in Charlottesville to talk to his team for the first time since his health scare. The players are silent, looking up at a weary, grizzled figure wearing a white gown and red Liberty baseball cap. “I just wanted to see you, men,” Freeze says. “Because it’s driving me crazy not to be with you. I miss the heck out of you.” His players have seen him humbled before. Everyone has. In the summer of 2017 Freeze, who had taken Mississippi football to new heights, was fired when it was revealed that he had made calls to escort services across the Southeast from his university cellphone. This news painted Freeze, who had proselytized as a God-fearing and Jesusloving man throughout his ascent in coaching, as a huckstering fraud. But Evangelicals love a redemption tale. Freeze, who came to Lynchburg last December, had lost everything but was a proven winner, and Liberty was going to win big in football, just like everything else the Falwells set their gaze on. With Freeze’s body attacking him from within, Jerry Jr. put the full weight of his clout into motion. He flew a specialist in from Arizona on his private jet, a story that Jerry Jr. would later connect back to his support of Trump. Freeze does not share with his players the political twist of how their school’s president helped him, but he wants them to know something important about the place they’ve chosen for college football. “This university loves you,” Freeze says. The first day of classes is in full swing as Jerry Falwell Jr. strides into a conference room with a sprawling view of an ever-growing campus. Liberty’s grounds are lush with a different kind of green than they used to be; at least a dozen athletic capital projects have been completed since 2010, including a sparkling $32 million office for athletic administration that has few rivals across the country. To be a worthwhile university, Jerry Falwell Sr. thought, you needed to have two elements at the front: music and athletics. Jerry Jr. motions to a university spokesman and asks him to bring over a picture frame. It contains a letter written to him in 2012 by the longtime president of Notre Dame, the late Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. Father Hesburgh relayed the story of how Notre Dame’s 1913 football team had only 16 players when it went to play at West Point, N.Y., and upset Army, 35-13. “We won and it launched us into the big time!” Father Hesburgh wrote. “I think you are on that trajectory now, Jerry, and I just wanted to write

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Liberty University wide receiver Shedro Louis can’t make the catch in front of defensive back Marcellous Harris during a team scrimmage on August 18 at Williams Field in Lynchburg, Va.

you, to encourage you, and to wish you all the best.” “I never met Father Hesburgh,” Jerry Jr. says. “But he knew my father.” The televangelist Falwell Sr., despite his reputation for inflammatory pronouncements once he entered the political arena by founding the Moral Majority, was known to relate to people of all kinds. He had a friendly, round face and laughed easily. The next generation brings more of an edge. Jerry Jr. has a salt-and-pepper beard, wears a suit with no tie and carries a casual posture at the head of the table. He answers all types of questions with no apologies, his words pouring out raw and unfiltered. But when asked about what football can do for Liberty, he defers to the man sitting next to him. “Certainly the football program gives us a great opportunity to build our brand,” Liberty athletic director Ian McCaw says, “and convey to the world what Liberty University is all about.” If the name Ian McCaw sounds familiar, it could be because of his role over 13 years in building the Baylor football program from the ashes into a Big 12 Conference and national contender. It could also be because of his alleged role in the Baptist university in Waco, Texas, not doing enough to protect young women during a massive sexual assault scandal. Women students alleged in court filings and media reports that they informed Baylor of football players engaging in sexual assault, but the school said it could not act without the court’s intervention, ignoring its ability to perform Title IX investigations. The women alleged that sex was used as a way to bring talented football players to Baylor. In 2016, highly successful and beloved coach Art Briles was suspended with intent to terminate, and President Ken Starr was demoted. McCaw then resigned, stating he felt it was in the school’s best interest to promote “unity, healing and restoration.” Baylor, after completing its own investigation, asserted that Briles and McCaw knew of the gang rape of a woman by five football players and did not act on the information. As the wins started to come, Baylor raised $250 million to build McLane Stadium, which opened in 2014, as the Bears climbed into the thick of the College Football Playoff race. But, looking back, McCaw does not think his athletic department put football success over protecting its students. “I voluntarily resigned from Baylor because I didn’t believe in the narrative that this is a football problem,” McCaw says. “It was a campus-wide problem that had been going on for decades. And I felt it very unfairly scapegoated Art Briles in terms of how it was handled. I just felt I couldn’t be a part of it.” Within months of McCaw’s resignation from Baylor, Jerry Falwell Jr. was looking for an athletic director who would know how to transition the school from Football Championship Subdivision to FBS, the top level of college football. He got a recommendation to look into McCaw, and, after doing his research on the Baylor scandal, invited McCaw to Lynchburg for an interview. McCaw says he doesn’t recall Jerry Jr. asking him many questions about what happened at Baylor, but he soon had the job. McCaw saw to it that the football stadium expanded from 12,000 seats to the 25,000, meeting the NCAA’s minimum requirement for FBS status. The program had no league affiliation and would play as an independent, like Notre Dame and BYU, which meant it would have to scramble to fill its schedules. McCaw coaxed Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech and North Carolina to play series that included a game or two in Lynchburg. The Orange, on Saturday, are first up. Still, Liberty has a long way to go before becoming “big-time,” as Father Hesburgh put it in that letter. Jerry Falwell Sr. used to tell people that little Liberty would one day play a game at Notre Dame Stadium. Jerry Jr. believed in his father’s vision. He and McCaw just needed to find the right head coach to who could bring it to life. As Hugh Freeze’s journey to the big-time evolved — from the Memphis area high school coach whose real-life tale with offensive tackle Michael Oher’s adopted parents went Hollywood in “The Blind Side” to the coach at Mississippi who slayed Nick Saban’s Alabama Goliath in back-to-back years — he always knew of Liberty University. “I just had great respect for the fact that they

know who they are,” Freeze says. “They’re unashamed of who they are.” At Mississippi, Freeze could come off like the pastor of a megachurch, but his teams routinely stockpiled top talent, and speculation was rampant around the South that the Rebels’ tactics were not above board. Freeze’s critics were vindicated when an NCAA investigation found that his assistant coaches and some boosters were providing impermissible benefits to players. But that alone wasn’t enough for the Rebels to part with Freeze, who with back-to-back seasons ranked as high as No. 3 had elevated the program as much as any coach since the 1960s. The calls to escort services were the tipping point. In July 2017, the school let Freeze go. Six months later, he walked onto a stage in front of 12,000 students at Liberty with a story to tell. Freeze had been put in touch with David Nasser, Liberty’s senior vice president for spiritual development, through a mutual friend. Nasser was already a fan of Freeze’s, and after speaking with him and his wife, Jill, he became convinced Liberty’s students needed to hear his message at one of their mandatory bi-weekly convocations. Freeze felt he had apologized enough to Mississippi and the football world, but he had not owned his mistakes to the larger community of believers. With Jerry Falwell Jr. on stage watching and McCaw nearby in the audience, Freeze took the mic from Nasser and began. “My world got rocked in 2017,” Freeze said. “And all the walls came crumbling down with what I thought was a private sin that I had struggled with. I confessed to my wife, and two of my friends, in 2016, what I thought was private and was in my rearview mirror. When it became public knowledge in July of 2017, my world crumbled. And the question started being asked: Man, is his faith real? “I began to ask, is it possible that you can have a genuine faith and also have a season in your life that you struggle with a sin? And I started studying the scripture. And I found that is true for every single believer. Every single one of us are broken, and we have an issue. That is why we have faith. “Today is really the first day that I can tell the faith family I’m sorry. Please forgive me.” Someone from the crowd yelled, “I forgive you!” “Thank you,” Freeze said. “Thank you.” Freeze’s wife, Jill, shared the stage that day. The couple had come through a trying time with their three daughters, and she wanted the world to know where she stood on her husband’s authenticity. “This man is the godliest man that I have ever known,” Jill said. Her words brought Freeze to tears. As absolution found him on that stage, Freeze couldn’t have imagined he had just completed a very public job interview. In the months that followed, McCaw kept in light touch. And after the 2018 season, when football coach Turner Gill surprised Liberty with his decision to retire, McCaw had one man at the top of his wish list. Four days later, he announced Freeze as Liberty’s coach. Ask Jerry Falwell Jr. about any reservations he had about Freeze, and he brings up Trump. “Evangelical Christianity is all about forgiveness,” Falwell Jr. says. “It’s all about redemption. That’s what makes it different than most mainline religions. And so that’s why it was so easy for Evangelicals to accept Donald Trump, because that’s what Evangelicalism is all about. It wasn’t a big leap to make.” Jerry Jr. is not willing to judge anyone based only on what can be gleaned directly from their actions. “My dad, when he started the school, there were a lot of what we used to call legalistic Baptists that were really moralists more than they were Christians,” he says. “They believe that you behave a certain way, that’s what makes you a Christian. “My dad was famous for giving students, faculty, staff, a second, third, fourth chance. People don’t realize that because his public pronouncements sounded very moralistic. But in person, he was the most forgiving human being that ever could possibly be.” Jerry Sr. also led Evangelicals into politics. In his autobiography “Strength for the Journey,” he said he was hesitant for many years to use his spiritual influence in the political arena. Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that federally protected a woman’s right to choose an abortion, brought him into the fray. He said he could not sit back any longer about an issue he considered

morally repugnant. Falwell Sr. formed the Moral Majority and was instrumental in getting Ronald Reagan elected President in 1980. Early in 2016, Jerry Jr. followed in his father’s footsteps, surprising many people by endorsing Trump. After that, hiring Ian McCaw and Hugh Freeze to be the brains and the face of Liberty’s athletic department didn’t seem very controversial. At a lunch event for athletic donors, the most invested Flames fans are happy to discuss what Liberty is and isn’t. The Syracuse game is two weeks away, and there is a feeling that the opponents might have the wrong impression. “I’ve read what the Syracuse fans are saying about the game, and they’re really negative, saying we’re hateful,” says David Dolan, a 1990 Liberty graduate. “I don’t hate anybody. I mean, if you come around here, I don’t think you get the idea that we’re hating people. It’s easy to have people politicize everything, especially right now, and, you know, I’ve seen Jerry Junior out with Trump and things like that. So that’s what people are thinking.” Dolan knows that the Falwells love to speak their mind. But, “sometimes, you could lay low,” he offers. When Liberty hired Freeze, Dolan and his wife, Kristi, a 1989 Liberty graduate, were cautious. But then they found the video of Freeze’s convocation testimony. “It seems like someone has to pay the price for the rest of their life for something they did,” Kristi says. “So we did our research.” Said Dennis Fields, a fellow donor, “I think that Liberty giving coach Freeze a chance is just representative of God’s grace. And we need it every day, each and every one of us, right? We can’t throw stones, and there’s a lot of freedom in that.” The school’s name, Liberty, was born of that purpose. But the students do have to follow certain rules in exchange for their freedom to make mistakes. They have to attend convocation twice a week, and students who live on campus are not allowed to visit dorm rooms of the opposite sex. Curfew is midnight, 12:30 on weekends. The school has been accused multiple times of censoring the student newspaper, The Champion. In the classrooms, learning is Christ-centered. That means that pre-med major Mason Wolk, a defensive lineman on the football team, studies a biology curriculum that does not subscribe to the theory of evolution. For the first two decades, the school was in a constant struggle to survive. As an undergraduate at Liberty and while at law school at Virginia, Jerry Jr. took on the stress of keeping his dad’s dream alive. “We were the only two who knew how shaky the university was financially,” he says. The advent of the Internet saved Liberty from going belly-up to its many creditors. With Jerry Sr. and Thomas Road Baptist using the web to circulate his sermons to a wider audience, the university picked up the technology to offer online classes before most others. In 2007, Falwell Sr. died of sudden cardiac arrhythmia in his office at Liberty at age 73. He was buried on campus. It was right around that time, Jerry Jr. says, that it became clear the university was going to turn a corner. His dad died knowing that his risks were going to pay off. Today, Liberty has 100,000 online students, among the top enrollment figures nationally. Falwell Jr.’s goal was to have a $1 billion endowment, but he says it has already hit $2 billion. “That took Harvard from 1636 to 1965,” he says proudly. Now it’s football’s turn. In a phone interview from his hospital bed, Coach Freeze says that, while of course he wants to win, he feels differently than he did during his rise at Mississippi. “My senses are more heightened to my motives being pure about serving these kids and this university,” Freeze says. “And having compassion for the starter that can help me win games and for the walk-on that deserves it just as much. Everything I’ve gone through, it’s made me much more compassionate for people, for whatever they might be going through.” Freeze says that he doesn’t recruit only Christian players to Liberty. Ed Gomes, the team’s director of spiritual development, says he puts players into three faith categories when they arrive: high interest, some interest, no interest. Gomes says he tries to minister by organically building deep relationships. “People think that we’re lining our kids up against the wall and we’ve got the Bible machine guns out when kids make mistakes,” Gomes says. “What’s different here? If you make a mistake, we’re going to try to help you.” After what Jerry Falwell Jr. did to get him the best health care possible, Freeze is even more convinced he is supposed to be here. Jerry Jr. smiles as he tells the story. “I was fortunate to meet a lot of the best medical professionals in the country because I supported Donald Trump in 2016,” he says. Falwell Jr. became friends with Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon who is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Trump. Through Carson, Falwell was acquainted with neurosurgeon Dr. Dilan Ellegala. When it was clear that Freeze had a much bigger issue than back pain, Jerry Jr. sent the university plane to Arizona to pick up Dr. Ellegala and bring him to Charlottesville. “He was within 24 hours of being in danger of losing his life,” Falwell Jr. says. Dr. Ellegala got all of the staph from Freeze’s back. No more showed up in ensuing blood tests, and Freeze was released from the hospital Aug. 21. It is unclear if he will be healthy enough to coach from the sideline for Syracuse, but if not he’ll call the shots from the booth.

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Cobleskill-Richmondville along with Fonda, Unatego and Oneonta at 10 a.m. and Ichabod Crane travels to Watervliet at 10 a.m. The first regular season games will be played Sept. 6-7. PATROON GOLF Hudson 6, Greenville 6 GREENVILLE — Hudson earned a Patroon Conference

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as Hoskins went through the league a second and third time. But his slugging percentage has slid from .618 during that 2017 burst to .496 last season and .474 this year. He has always been an extreme fly-ball hitter, but his detractors believe he has become too obsessed with hitting the ball in the air and

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and season dates later in the year for your zone online or on the map on page 50 of the 2019-2020 Hunting Regulations Guide. Remember, the hunting license year starts annually on September 1 and ends on August 31. That means as of Sunday, last year’s hunting license is no longer valid and you must have purchased the (new) current year’s privileges. Fishing licenses are a different story. They start the day you buy it, then run 365 days from that date. Unless you have a lifetime license, you might want to keep track of its expiration as they no longer run concurrent with your hunting license.

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golf victory over Greenville by way of total strokes. The match ended in a 6-6 tie, but the Bluehawks got the win in total strokes, 323-365. Dan Zito and Matt Gower each had a 48 for Hudson. Trey Smith paced Greenville with a 44. TENNIS COLONIAL COUNCIL Ichabod Crane 7, Albany Academy 0 ALBANY — Ichabod Crane earned a 7-0 victory over Albany Academy in Thursday’s

Colonial Council tennis match. Results Singles: Renee Pascoe(AA) lost to Elise Brennan (IC), 6-0, 6-0; Giulietta Nitido (AA) lost to Zoe Geiger (IC), 6-2, 6-1; Lia Nevo (AA) lost to Maya Brennan (IC), 6-0, 6-4; Mia Corso (AA) lost to Madeline Grout (IC), 6-2, 7-5; Morgan Lindstead (AA) lost to Samantha Lantzy (IC), 6-0, 6-0; Doubles: Chloe Strianese & Callie Koenig (AA) lost to Katie Barnes & Gianna Sandagato

(IC) 6-1, 6-7(TB2-TB2), 6-2; Ali Lucey & Isabel Choma (AA) lost to Meredith Buono & Shannon Ingham (IC), 6-2, 6-2.

hold him up as an example of the downside to the launchangle craze. The numbers seem to support that claim. Hoskins’ average launch angle (25.4) is the highest of any hitter with at least 100 plate appearances this season. His flyball rate (52.1 percent) ranks third. But his rate of hardhit balls, according to Fangraphs, is only 44.9 percent, tied for 51st. Charlie Manuel has watched Hoskins since he was in the minor leagues. In

The worst time to find out you forgot your year-long fishing license had expired is during a routine check by an ECO while your fishing. I think we all know what the likely outcome of that encounter might be, although depending on your demeanor and the date it expired, you may state your case and try to talk your way out of it. To hunt waterfowl, which includes geese, you also must remember to buy, sign, and have in your possession a 2019-2020 duck stamp. If you plan on going goose hunting tomorrow and haven’t secured your duck stamp, you may be out of luck. They are available at some US post offices which are generally only open for a half-day on Saturdays. Other species that share September 1st as opening day include crow, snipe, Virginia

Saba Mokluch (H) lost to Jenna Lennox and Cece Dauney (W). 6-0, 6-0; Double Forfeit.

Waterford 6, Hudson 1 WATERVLIET — Hudson fell to Waterford, 6-1, in its Patroon Conference tennis season opener on Thursday. “It was good effort on the girls part and we got a lot of practice to do and we look to steadily improve for the

season.” Qua said. “I am proud of all the girls for participating.” Hudson will host CairoDurham on Tuesday at 4:15 PM. Results: Emlian Jeune (H) lost to Kiana Williams (W) 6-4, 5-7, 11-9 (tiebreaker);Lizbeth Gomez (H) lost to Kaitelyn Seguin (W) 6-1, 6-3; 3) Yasmeen Akar (H) lost to Izzy D’Ambro (W), 6-1, 6-2; Hudson forfeits to Mckenzie Fletcher (W); Double forfeit. Doubles: Abida Begum and

the nearly three weeks since he took over for deposed John Mallee as the Phillies’ hitting coach, Manuel has observed some potential problems with Hoskins’ mechanics. “Watching him, and he kind of agrees with me, I think it’s something like when he lifts his leg,” Manuel said before Wednesday night’s game. “He’s got about a half-leg kick and his stride and stuff, I think it’s been his timing. He’s back to the routine that he’s always had, and

he’s starting to hit balls on the fat part of the bat. I think he’s first coming out of it.” Hoskins will have to if the Phillies have a prayer of making the playoffs for the first time since 2011. They are built on their offense, specifically the threesome of Bryce Harper, J.T. Realmuto, and Hoskins. With 30 games left in the season, they still have not yet gotten hot at the same time, which partially explains why the Phillies haven’t won more than four games in a row.

“Hey, look, we need Rhys Hoskins to hit,” Manuel said. “He’s a big part of our lineup, of course. We need him to hit. We need for Harper to hit. Those are our big machines. Stop and think about it: When Harper and Rhys Hoskins hit, we usually win.” The Mets say the same about Alonso, who eventually will go through struggles more profound than his 12-for-77 lapse coming out of the All-Star break. Like Hoskins, there will be great attention paid to how quickly

he can get out of it. There will be questions about how good he really is. That’s what comes with being an overnight sensation. “It’s a credit to him that he’s been able to, as of late, bounce back from that and really lift those guys to where they are right now,” Hoskins said. “He’s an impressive young hitter. Covers a lot (of the plate). I haven’t talked to him much, but he’s a good dude, a baseball guy. It should be a little fun, friendly competition.”

and sora rails, and gallinules. If you hunt these migratory birds, you don’t need a duck stamp. But you must get a HIP number before you hunt any migratory game bird or waterfowl. Register online at https:// www.newyorkhip.org/ or call 1-888-427-5447. Write the HIP number on yourhunting license so its easy to retrieve while being checked by ECOs or Federal Fish & Wildlife Special Agents. Just to confuse things a little more, your HIP number is valid from August 1st through June 30th annually and does NOT run concurrent with your hunting license! Early firearms season for bear in selected Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) opens on September 7 and closes on September 22. These WMUs are 4R, 4P, 3A, 3C, 3H, 3J, 3M, 3P, and 3R. While 4W in southwestern Delaware County has

been tentatively approved to be opened for early bear gun season, that change likely won’t take place until after this year’s season has ended. The one WMU that should be opened for those gunning for early bear is 4S, which runs east of State Route 32 and includes traditional bear population strongholds in parts of Round Top, Palenville and Kiskatom. Despite nuisance bear problems which can be severe in the area at times, there is still no plan to ever open up 4S for early firearms season for bear. In fact, a dog was killed by a bear in 4S just this month. Corn fields are once again about to be ravaged by 4S bears just being bears. Despite that, and other serious nuisance bear problems, DEC refuses to include 4S in the early season, even though biological metrics support it.

As for deer, the only early season is for archers in the Northern Zone. That starts on September 27 and closes on October 25. Happy Hunting, Fishing, & Trapping until next time.

Sportsmen’s Club on Sunday, September 22. Dine in or take out a half chicken, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, coleslaw, biscuit, and assorted desserts, from 3-7 p.m.. Cost is $12 for adults and $6 for kids under 12. For tickets and more information, call Barb at 518-8287173, or the club at 518-3923332. Be sure to leave a call back number. Remember to report poaching violations by calling 1-844-DEC-ECOS. You can share any comments with our sports desk at sports@registerstar.com *If you have a fishing or hunting report, photo, or event you would like to be considered for publication, you can send it to: huntfishreport@gmail.com

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NEWS AND NOTES Annual Beef BBQ at Roe Jan Creek Boat Club The annual beef BBQ at the Roe Jan Creek Boat Club will be held at their facility on Sunday, September 15. Grounds open at 1:00 pm, beef dinner served at 3:00 pm. Hot dogs and soda are included. Cost for adults is $14 and $7 for kids. Clams will be available at 1 p.m. For tickets or for more information, call 519-8287173, or 518-828-5954. Be sure to leave a call back number. Chicken BBQ at Kinderhook Sportsmen’s Club There will be a Chicken BBQ at the Kinderhook

LOCAL GOLF VALATIE — Lou Simmons recorded a hole-in-one on Monday at Winding Brook Country Club. Simmons hit his ace using a five iron on the 165-yard 11th hole. The hole-in-one was witnessed by Tom Burns, Bob Simmons, Data Russell and Wayne Euvrad.

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A giant Pikachu hangs at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the District of Columbia for the Pokémon World Championships. Evelyn Hockstein/Washington Post

People are still obsessed with Pokémon WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:

For superfans, this is their Super Bowl By LISA BONOS Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Pikachu was bouncing up and down, weeping with joy. The bright yellow, red-cheeked Pokémon mascot had just acted as an accomplice in a marriage proposal, distracting 19-year-old Avery Ogle, while her boyfriend, 24-yearold Braden Sawyer, got down on one knee and asked if she would be his Player Two for life. Standing in a private spot at the Pokémon World Championships, dressed in a rainbow outfit embodying one of her favorite Pokémon, a balloon-type character called Jigglypuff, Ogle said yes. Coincidentally, she had also planned to propose to Sawyer during the event, which brought an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 people to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this past weekend. After Sawyer surprised Ogle with an opal ring, she dug into a backpack where she’d been hiding gifts for him: an engagement ring and small Pikachu doll wearing a tuxedo. Newly engaged, Sawyer and Ogle pulled the life-size Pikachu in for a three-way embrace. The character — and the cheery Japanese anime world it inhabits — has been a constant source of glee in their

Braden Sawyer, 24, and his fiancee, Avery Ogle, 19, from Orem, Utah, watch the Pokémon World Championships in Washington, D.C. He proposed to her at the convention Aug. 16. Evelyn Hockstein/Washington Post

relationship. The couple met at an anime convention in Salt Lake City three years ago and bonded over their love of Pokémon. Back then, Pokémon Go, the augmented reality smartphone game, was just starting to captivate players around the world (while also leading to injuries, robberies and

security flaws). Sawyer and Ogle still play Pokémon Go — or PoGo, as its fans call it — and often bake treats for fellow players in their local community on special days when rare Pokémon are released in droves. PoGo is just a small piece of the Pokémon enthusiasm that still burns as bright as a dragon’s fiery

breath and has the magnetic power to bond strangers, neighbors, friends, even lovers. The championship weekend was like a ComicCon mixed with the Super Bowl — a whirlwind of casual-to-extreme fandom for this clan of fictional characters and the very real joy their inspire.

Pokémon Co. International says PoGo has 1 billion downloads since its inception three years ago (though the company won’t say how many are active). There’s also the Pokémon card game, which has been around for over 20 years; more than two dozen Nintendo video games; a cartoon television show that started airing in the late 1990s and is in its 22nd season; and more than 20 animated films, plus the recent live-action film “Detective Pikachu.” At the annual world championships, held in a different city each year, approximately 1,500 players as young as 5 years old from nearly 50 countries competed in the card- and video-game championships for a combined $500,000 in prize money. To qualify, hundreds of thousands of players had to battle it out in various regional competitions. The world championship matches are intense. Some last more than an hour in front of thousands of spectators cheering them on and even more watching via live stream. The top competitors play onstage, wearing headsets to cancel out the noise around them, as their every move is dissected by “casters,” video-game sportscasters giving spirited play-by-play narration. Walking through the convention hall, you can hear Italian, Spanish, French, English, Japanese. But everyone has one language in common. A former card competitor See POKEMON C2

‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ takes comedian Jillian Bell on a compelling journey By Katie Walsh Tribune News Service (TNS)

It’s not often that your best friend writes and directs their debut feature film about you, but Brittany O’Neill’s mental and physical transformation inspired her friend/writer/director Paul Downs Colaizzo to make “Brittany Runs a Marathon,” a drama disguised as a comedy about the hard work of changing yourself. Comedian Jillian Bell steps into her first starring role as the funny, frumpy Brittany, a New York

City party girl/slacker whose body can’t keep up with her arty all day/sleep all night routine (Bell also produced the film). Under doctor’s orders, she hits the pavement in search of salvation. And along the way, she finds herself. The ending is right there in the title, but Colaizzo’s film leans into the old adage that it’s all about the journey, not the destination, following the achingly hard work of Brittany’s trek toward the finish line of the New York City

Marathon, and ultimately, toward happiness. Brittany’s problems aren’t unique, and they aren’t insurmountable, but they aren’t easy. She’s got a lame job, flounders in her love life, grieves the loss of her father and has high blood pressure to boot. Living with a wannabe influencer, Gretchen (Alice Lee), isn’t the best influence either. But for all her external problems, the highest mountain Brittany has to climb is getting over herself, a struggle Bell makes

poignantly, piercingly real in her performance and that takes the film into its darkest yet most relatable moments. To anyone who can relate to Brittany’s predicament of feeling stuck and depressed, this may all sound familiar. She’s unable and unwilling to receive and accept help and love from her loved ones, so she wallows in her own bad thoughts and negative spirals. During a particularly nasty relapse, while recuperating from an injury at her sister’s

Jillian Bell is the title character in “Brittany Runs a Marathon.” Amazon Studios/TNS

home, a drunk Brittany spews all her judgmental thoughts (clearly about herself) at another plus-size woman, envious that this person has

decided to choose happiness and joy in her own body rather than self-hatred. It’s an See ‘BRITTANY’ C2

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‘Mermaiding’ is everywhere. But is it a real workout? By ELIZABETH KIEFER Washington Post

On a hot weekday morning in late July, I arrived at Marcus Garvey Pool in Manhattan for a long-awaited meetup with a mermaid. Cookie DeJesus, also known asthe Harlem Mermaid, has become a fixture in those chlorinated waters over the past several years, ever since she took a certification course at World of Swimming, a mermaid school in Brooklyn, and fell in love. Most days, she and her husband, Ralph, who designs many of her aquatic costumes, walk from their apartment to the pool so DeJesus, 57, can do laps in full mer-regalia as part of her workout. Today, as my instructor, she also brought a tail for me. Though I love swimming and have spent plenty of time paddling around public pools in New York, this was my first mermaid-related activity since I was a kid dressing up for Halloween. But other adults have thoroughly adopted the identity: Wearing a mermaid tail, in the water or out, hascaught on in recent years, for reasons that include Disney fanaticism and the fact that the ensembles are Instagram candy. A search for #mermaiding on the platform surfacesmore than 130,000 posts, and a cursory scroll through the results reveals merpeople perched poolside and on beaches and, yes, swimming with tails. There are mermaids who guest-star at birthday parties, perform in aquatic centers, engage in cosplay and photo ops — and also some who swear by tail swimming as a fitness routine. But is it actually a workout? That’s a question I sought to answer by trying it. At the pool, DeJesus met me outside, her crop of short reddish hair and bright green shorts reminiscent of a certain under-the-sea heroine. She carried about 30 pounds of tails and fins in a bag on her shoulder — a little bit of weight training that’s just part of the lifestyle. Not every pool allows mermaiding accoutrements inside, but DeJesus is a fixture at Marcus Garvey, where the staff welcomes her: She knows people, including the pool manager, whose daughter mermaids, too.

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recalls a time he played a matchup with someone whose cards were in Japanese. Because they both knew what powers every character possessed and what each could accomplish when paired with certain special effects, no dictionary or interpreter was necessary. Inside the convention hall, red-and-white searchlights dance overhead, making the ceiling look as if Poké balls, which players use in the game to catch the various characters, are bouncing on the ceiling. Characters are emblazoned on banners throughout the hall — look, there’s a Slowpoke! There’s a nervous Psyduck with his hands pressed against the side of his head. A furry, adaptable Eevee. A muscle-bound Machamp. A snoozy Snorlax. Twenty-somethings lean down to get on the same eye level with 7-year-olds as they trade characters during a PoGo scavenger hunt. Parents hover with snacks, making sure their kids get nourishment and bathroom breaks between rounds of card matches. Some competitors place stuffed-animal Pokémon next to them for good luck. A young girl comes to a card match with a plushie Bellossom, a grasstype character resembling a hula dancer that can deploy solar power against its opponents. A grown man competes onstage with an Ampharos, an electrictype character that can beam light from space, by his side. Ask anyone to name their favorite Pokémon, and they

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an ugly moment, tough to watch, and Bell and Colaizzo don’t shy away from the darkness. Colaizzo has stacked the cast of this dramedy with gifted comedians alongside

Participants pause underwater during a Metro Merfolk class in Washington, D.C. Colleen McCartney

When we sit down on the deck to slip into our outfits, the kids flock to “Mermaid Cookie”; she’s a natural entertainer who also appears at parties and events. First Cookie helps me strap the monofin — like a flipper for both of your feet — around my ankles. Then she demonstrates how to pull on my borrowed tail, which is made from Spandex swimsuit material (a basic tail can be found online for about $35; monofins start at about $25). DeJesus’s tail, however, is special: a neoprene number Ralph sewed himself and decorated with gold painted scales. “This is my mersister, Elizabeth,” DeJesus tells the handful of fans who have gathered around us, reminding them we’ll need some space. She believes it’s her responsibility to maintain the illusion, and in return they believe in her. Reverently, they back away to give us room. After showing me how to step out of my tail in case I start to panic — a real possibility, given how bizarre it feels to be in the water without being able to kick each leg separately

either know right away or can’t pick just one. The characters may not be real, but for many here, they spark wonder or nostalgia — or they’re just cute. Cazzy Medley, a 23-year-old from Maryland who’s been playing the video games since childhood, loves Rockruff because he reminds her of her dog. Even their weaknesses can seem relatable. Ogle loves Jigglypuff because the balloon character enjoys performing, even imperfectly. “It’s kind of inspiring that she keeps going even though people don’t always pay attention to her,” Ogle says on day two of the competition. Her other favorite character is Shaymin, a pink-and-green hedgehog who can dissolve toxins in the air. Shaymin “reminds me of that sweet spot in my childhood when Pokémon was all I did,” she adds. For some, Pokémon knowledge has become their personal superpower. Jonathan Kilburn, a 25-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio, has extreme social anxiety, but Pokémon events “are the only place I feel no anxiety at all,” he says. Because the Pokémon card and video games have been around for so long, fans can connect across generations. Back in Ohio, Kilburn started a Pokémon card league at his public library, which allows him to help younger players improve their game. At the championships, Medley bonded with a teenage girl whose first Pokémon video game is a remake of the first game Medley played as a child. “I felt like she was me,” Medley says. When Austin Knowles was a college student in

— Mermaid Cookie explains her workout. Typically, it starts with jogging around the deck. But today we’re going straight to the core: Sitting on the edge of the pool, we bring our knees in line with the top of the water and practice slowly fluttering our tails before leaning back for reverse crunches. It’s tough on my lower abdominal muscles, and DeJesus reminds me to work from my belly, not my hip flexors, echoing a Pilates mantra. She normally does 20 reps and then swims, pausing to repeat the ab set at each corner of the pool. Long before we ever submerge, I’m already feeling the burn. Some mermaids have formalized their fitness routine through structured classes. Colleen “the Celtic Siren” McCartney, the co-founder of Metro Merfolk, which organizes meetups and mermaid classes, teaches an eight-session tail-swimming course in the Washington area. She always works out her students in the shallow end and emphasizes technique before anything else. “People want to kick their feet below the knees, but it’s not

Poké AK competes in the Pokémon World Championships. Evelyn Hockstein/Washington Post

Pennsylvania, Pokémon gave him an opening to talk to Meredith Romano, a cute girl who lived down the hall. When he learned that she was into the video games, he asked if she wanted to go to a GameStop and buy a new one they were both excited about. Almost seven years later, they’re still playing together — and they’re playing for keeps. On their most recent anniversary, Knowles, who’s a 25-year-old graphic designer, gave Romano, also 25, a pack of Pokémon cards as a

‘BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON’ 3 stars CAST: Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins, Micah Stock, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lil Rel Howery.

Bell, including Michaela Watkins, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Lil Rel Howery, who all

a hinging motion; it’s more like undulating in belly dancing,” she explains. “You need to point your toes and let it emanate from your core.” Once merfolk-in-training have that down, McCartney puts them through circuits including Russian twists and “mermaid push-ups” on the pool deck, barrel rolls through underwater hula hoops and, of course, plain old swimming. She recommends newbies begin with a smaller-size monofin, as bigger, heavier tails require more work. “Once you start doing it, you forget you’re working out,” she adds Standing in the four-foot end of the pool, Mermaid Cookie reiterates the point about the movement emanating from your abdomen, not your knees, demonstrating what she means with a splashy flourish of her tail. The kids erupt in happy screams. Then it’s my turn. I dive toward the bottom, propelling myself forward with a butterfly kick; seconds later, when I come for air, I’m already halfway across the pool. Immediately, I want to keep going. McCartney was right: This feels

less like fitness than plain old fun. That’s not to say I wasn’t getting good exercise.Bianca Beldini, a doctor of physical therapy who is also a USA Triathlon Certified Level 1 Coach, often uses butterfly kick drills in her own training and with her clients. “Swimming is good for strength and flexibility, helps improve your cardiopulmonary functions, yet you’re not dealing with gravitational issues,” she says, adding that it can also be an excellent calorie burn. Though there is plenty of first-person anecdotal evidence about the fitness value of mermaiding, the practice seems too new to have prompted indepth research. Onestudy of professional mermaids does showa few potential health risks. Some are similar to the risks of swimming in general — ear infections, waterborne diseases, unwanted confrontations with sea life — while others are mermaiding-specific, including back pain related to wearing a fin and tail. Though I did in fact get water up my nose while I was swimming, that’s been happening all my life, and it has yet to deter me. For about an hour, Mermaid Cookie and I darted around the pool, chattering back and forth while swimming on our sides. When I ran out of breath, I laid on my back, languidly flipping my tail to stay afloat. Later, I attempted the full butterfly stroke, seeing how high my monofin could propel me into the air. From the deck, Ralph cupped his hands and yelled: “You’re a natural!” Mermaiding felt like a meld of dancing liberated from the particulars of technique and swimming removed from the rigidity of form. I spun and did a handstand for the first time in 20 years. It’s easy to understand why people become so enamored. Riding on the subway to Brooklyn later, feeling as I do after a hot yoga class — damp but wonderfully relaxed — it occurred to me that slipping on a tail felt a little like slipping back to a time before I was fussy about getting my hair wet or worried that the sun exposure was ruining my skin. Twirling through the water that morning felt joyful. Pretending to mermaid had the real effect of making me feel incredibly free.

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bring a natural levity. But the script also offers each performer a meaty dramatic

gift, with a special card he’d designed in the middle of the pack. “When you play this card, a proposal will be made,” the card read, paired with an image of engagement ring. “If you say yes, you will be affected by the status: Engaged.” It was modeled off the game’s item cards, which make a Pokémon character stronger. Romano didn’t see it at first; the card blended in with the pack. But once Knowles pointed it out, and brought out a sparkling ring to match, she said yes. arc. Bell demonstrates her otherwise-unknown dramatic chops, and her performance is surprising and nuanced, yet also incredibly funny when it needs to be. Cinematographer Seamus Tierney brings a handheld immediacy to the look and feel of the film, which is far more indie drama than broad comedy.

Juniors - kids ages 5 to 11 - compete in the Pokémon card game. Evelyn Hockstein/Washington Post

“Brittany Runs a Marathon” has uneven moments, character transitions that happen too abruptly and a bafflingly strange and rather forced meet-cute for Brittany and Jern (Ambudkar), who are both working as long-term housesitters and essentially move into their employer’s home. Nothing about it makes sense, but it’s

easy to overlook the logistics when the performers are so charming and the nuggets of emotional truth the script unearths ring so true. And although it is triumphant, whether or not Brittany runs the marathon isn’t the point. The most important step she takes isn’t over the finish line, but simply showing up to the race.

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Escape Venice’s tourist crush with a trip to Vicenza By BLAIR KAMIN Chicago Tribune

VICENZA, Italy — If you want to break away from the crowds that make Venice a poster child for the term “overtourism” and you love architecture, there is one place you must go: nearby Vicenza, a showcase for the work of the renowned Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. Palladio, who lived from 1508 to 1580, drew inspiration from the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, transforming these models into masterpieces that influenced everything from English country houses to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. The most famous of his works, the transcendent hilltop mansion called the Villa Rotonda, is a short taxi, bus or bike ride from Vicenza’s compact, largely car-free town center, where the main street bears Palladio’s name. The town center itself is stocked with impressive Palladio buildings, including numerous town palaces, or palazzi, one of which houses an excellent and engaging museum devoted entirely to the architect. In the surrounding countryside are Palladio’s villas, where the architect combined opulent living quarters and working farm buildings into coherent complexes that married nature with culture, rusticity and urbanity. Located about 40 miles west of Venice, with a population of about 112,000, Vicenza (pronounced viCHEN-zah) is an ideal day trip. I took a red, sleek-nosed Italo train from Venice’s Santa Lucia station. (Round-trip fare was just under 38 euros, or roughly $42. The trip, oneway, took 39 minutes.) Vicenza once was part of the far-flung Venetian empire, a status still signaled by a pair of towering classical columns that frame an entry to its main square. One is topped by the ubiquitous symbol of Venice, the winged lion. But Palladio’s buildings gave Vicenza a distinct identity. They were classical, weighty and vigorously three dimensional — and, thus, recognizably different from the delicate, highly decorated Gothic facades that line Venice’s canals. Along Vicenza’s main square, for example, is an imposing public building, the Palladian Basilica, that the architect redesigned in the mid-16th century after a portion of the original Gothic exterior collapsed. Palladio, then just 38 years old and a relative unknown, wrapped the building in a two-level stack of exterior passageways, or loggias. Their arched openings and

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The Palladio Museum in Vicenza, Italy features easy-to-grasp displays, like this example of triangular bricks that enabled the museumÃs namesake to form round columns from inexpensive materials.

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A statue of architect Andrea Palladio can be seen next to one of his early buildings, the Palladian Basilica, in the heart of Vicenza’s historic town center.

white marble possess the sculptural power and depth of Roman architecture. And God is in the details. Like an accordion, the rectangular openings on either side of each arch vary in width, an “elastic” solution that accommodates the original building’s uneven dimensions. A good place to take it all in is a small adjacent plaza named for Palladio and adorned with a statue of the bearded architect as well as likenesses of architectural tools and bits of classical decoration. The town center offers numerous other opportunities to see Palladio’s genius. Assorted palazzi reveal the skill with which the architect manipulated the classical orders — Doric, Ionic and

Corinthian — to make individual statements for each of his wealthy clients. Palladio also designed the dome of Vicenza’s cathedral and an elegant entryway on one of its sides. Plaques at each site associated with the architect, written in English as well as Italian, enable visitors to take free, self-led tours. Guided tours are also available for a fee. Among the must-sees in the town center are Palladio’s Teatro Olimpico (admission: 11 euros), which claims to be the world’s first indoor theater. It features a dazzling interior space whose curved seating tiers, frescoes, statuary and robust, classically inspired architecture evoke ancient Roman amphitheaters. The theater, still in use

today, was completed after Palladio’s death. Another mandatory stop is the Palladio Museum (8 euros), which occupies one of the architect’s town palaces, the Palazzo Barbaran da Porto. The museum expertly tells the story of Palladio’s life and work. He was born in nearby Padua and worked as a stonecutter before moving to Vicenza in 1524. Many of his clients were noble families, enriched by a booming silk trade. Seizing on the importance of disseminating knowledge through the printed page, Palladio published his famous treatise, “The Four Books on Architecture,” in 1570. According to the museum, it’s not known where, or from what causes, he died.

As visitors pass through the museum, they are treated to large-scale architectural models of Palladio’s buildings; projected images of smart (and smartly dressed) architectural historians discussing his work; and beautiful, high-ceilinged rooms, some adorned with frescoes. Exhibits show how Palladio relied on form and proportions rather than lavish materials and elaborate decoration to create some of his majestic buildings. For example, he reintroduced a special plaster compound, called marmorino, that coated low-cost materials such as wood and brick to make them resemble stone. Through a clear case, we see triangular bricks, arranged like wedges of cheese, which reveal how Palladio built freestanding columns out of the inexpensive material rather than costly marble. No visit is complete without a stop at the Villa Rotonda, which was commissioned in 1566 by former papal assistant Paolo Almerico and sits about a mile and a half southeast of Vicenza’s train station. A dome inscribed in a cube with four identical projecting temple fronts, the landmark is the iconic Palladian villa and a symbol of the Renaissance — a work of geometric order that is the architectural equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. The villa’s elaborate interior is only open to the public for tours on Wednesday and Saturday (exterior only: 5 euros; exterior and interior: 10 euros), but the exterior and its grounds alone justify a visit. (Private tours can also be arranged.) The building itself is surprisingly austere — magnificent but not opulent; grand but not grandiose. The

sculptures atop its temple fronts and on the sides of its porches are the chief decorative flourishes. You approach from the bottom of a slope, able to see only one facade. Then, as you ascend the hill, the house can be viewed in the round — a perfect sculptural object, perfectly placed for the arcing sun to bring its surfaces to life. On a hot summer day, insects chirp in the background while fields and hills unfurl in the distance. Benches allow for a peaceful spot to admire the building. Its porches provide elevated vantage points from which to view the countryside. This is an ideal building for an idyllic site — a contemplative retreat from the bustle and business of the city. It’s also a model whose influence would extend far into the future. The 17th century English architect Inigo Jones, famous for his symmetrical, well-proportioned country houses, would follow its example, as would Thomas Jefferson, who built Monticello in 1772 and his “academical village” at the University of Virginia in the early 19th century. You can see more of Palladio’s work back in Venice, where two of his great religious structures — the Church of the Redentore and the church for the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore — occupy the spectacular waterfront. The bell tower of the latter contains an elevator that leads you to an outdoor observation deck with stunning views of Venice and its watery environs. It’s another way, besides a trip to Palladio’s Vicenza, to escape Venice’s thick crowds.

Travel dilemmas: Avoid being a jet-lagged zombie By CHRIS ERSKINE Los Angeles Times

“I’m a zombie the first four or five days I travel,” said Chris Baiz of Los Angeles. “Tried everything. I wake up at 1 or 2 a.m. and then lie there awake.” “After returning to L.A. from a New York trip, sleeping through the night and awakening the next day, I found myself bonking around the house like a misguided pinball wizard, dopey and loopy,” said Kathryn Rueby of Torrance. In the case of one recent traveler, jet lag can put you in a mental haze that can lead to agonizing disruptions. “After arriving in Ireland, I fell asleep every two to three hours in the van,” recalled Jory Schulman of Los Angeles.

“I left my backpack at the dry cleaners in Kinsale. Luckily, it was left untouched, as my passport was inside.” What’s the answer? Medical professionals and avid long-distance travelers recommend heavy hydration and advocate quickly adopting the meal times and sleep patterns of your destination. “Rule No. 1: Stay on local time,” said Dr. Robert Winters of Santa Monica, who deals with long-distance travelers as medical director of Westside Travel and Immunizations Inc. “(Experts) say to minimize alcohol, but one drink can help you relax. “Eye shades and earplugs are key while flying,” he added. Instead of watching movies or reading on planes, Winters

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Instead of watching movies or reading try sleeping on overnight flights to help combat jet lag.

favors sleeping, particularly on overnight flights. “I might take an Ambien or melatonin. I don’t do both.” Winters recommended 3

to 5 milligrams of melatonin, an over-the-counter supplement that triggers sleep. When it comes to waking up, sleep experts at the Mayo

Clinic recommend light therapy — either natural sunlight or a lamp — when you’re traveling east. Conversely, experts there urge westbound travelers to draw the blinds in a time zone where the sun is staying up longer than you are accustomed. Body clocks are tricky timepieces, and tough to reset quickly, experts said. During jet lag, cells in two parts of the brain fall out of sync. The health journal Medical News Today said the older the traveler, the worse the symptoms and the longer it takes to recover. Among veteran travelers, conventional wisdom is that every time zone crossed requires a day of recovery. So a nine-hour time change on a trip from Rome would

require nine days to rebound once you return home. The issue is significant enough that aircraft makers are adjusting cabin pressures to help offset symptoms. For instance, Boeing’s 787 is now pressurized at 6,000 feet, 2,000 feet lower than most other aircraft. Altitude chamber tests show that the body absorbs more oxygen into the blood this way, and passengers experience fewer headaches and less fatigue. Although there is no sure cure for jet lag, prevention can make a difference in the severity of symptoms. Frequent fliers cite the benefits of lots and lots of water. “I drink water the minute I get off the plane,” said Mary See JET C6

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In Amazon’s bookstore, Orwell gets a rewrite By DAVID STREITFELD New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — In George Orwell’s “1984,” the classics of literature are rewritten into Newspeak, a revision and reduction of the language meant to make bad thoughts literally unthinkable. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words,” one true believer exults. Now some of the writer’s own words are getting reworked in Amazon’s vast virtual bookstore, a place where copyright laws hold remarkably little sway. Orwell’s reputation may be secure, but his sentences are not. Over the last few weeks I got a closeup view of this process when I bought a dozen fake and illegitimate Orwell books from Amazon. Some of them were printed in India, where the writer is in the public domain, and sold to me in the United States, where he is under copyright. Others were straightforward counterfeits, like the edition of his memoir “Down and Out in Paris and London” that was edited for high school students. The author’s estate said it did not give permission for the book, printed by Amazon’s self-publishing subsidiary. Some counterfeiters are going as far as to claim Orwell’s classics as their own property, copyrighting them with their own names. What unites all these books is that none of them paid the author anything, which means they could compete with legal Orwell titles as a lower-cost alternative. After all, if you need a copy of “Animal Farm” or “1984” for school, you’re not going to think too much about who published it. Because all editions of “1984” are the same, right? Not always, not on Amazon. One reader discovered, to his surprise, that his new copy of “1984” had passages that were “worded slightly different.” Another offered photographic proof that her edition was near gibberish. A third said the word “faces” was replaced in his copy with “feces.” Getting Orwell books that skip a chunk of pages seemed to be a routine experience. Even the titles changed. One edition of “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story” referred to itself on the back cover as “Animals Farm: A Fair Story.” The preface referred to another great Orwell work, “Homage to Catalonia,” as “Homepage to Catalonia.” I started browsing Orwell on Amazon after writing about the explosion in counterfeit books offered by the retailer. The fake books appeared to help Amazon by, for example, encouraging publishers to advertise their genuine books on the site. The company responded in a blog post that it prohibits counterfeit products and has invested in personnel and technology tools including machine learning to protect customers from fraud and abuse. On Sunday, Amazon said in a statement that “there is no single source of truth” for the copyright status of every book in every country, and so it relied on authors and publishers to police its site. “This is a complex issue for all retailers,” it said. The company added that machine learning and artificial intelligence were ineffective when there is no single source of truth from which the model can learn. Bookselling is an ancient and complicated profession, and fake editions of all sorts can turn up anywhere. But Amazon is the world’s biggest bookstore and the standards it sets have ripples everywhere. My newly acquired Orwell shelf was frankly dismal — typos galore, flap copy lifted directly from Wikipedia, covers that screamed “amateur.” Eleven of the books were sold directly by Amazon as new books and were shipped from an Amazon warehouse; one was

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These fake and problematic editions of George Orwell’s books were bought on Amazon. As fake and illegitimate texts proliferate online, books are becoming a form of misinformation. Damien Maloney/New York Times

An interior page of an unauthorized “high school edition” of George Orwell’s 1933 memoir, “Down and Out in Paris and London,” lists a Moira Propreat as the editor. The author’s estate said it did not give permission for the book, printed by Amazon’s self-publishing subsidiary. Damien Maloney/New York Times

sold as a new book by a third party. Prices ranged from $3 to $23. The counterfeits and imports are generally the least expensive editions, and who can blame people for buying those? So they do. A $7.99 legitimate edition of “1984” was recently ranked at No. 72 among all Amazon books. A $5 Indian import was at No. 970, which suggested copies were selling at a steady clip. Most of the distorted texts are likely due to ignorance and sloppiness but at their most radical the books try to improve Orwell, as with the unauthorized “high school edition” of his 1933 memoir. The editing was credited to a Moira Propreat. She could not be reached for comment; in fact, her existence could not be verified. Until recently, improving Orwell was not a practical business proposition. Then Amazon blew the doors off the heavily curated literary world. No longer was access to the marketplace determined by publishers, booksellers or reviewers. Even the most marginal books were suddenly available to

everyone everywhere. Breaking down the doors, however, also let in people who did not appear to care about the quality of what they sell. “Once a week a counterfeit pops up,” said Bill Hamilton, agent for the Orwell estate. “When will a company like Amazon take responsibility for the curation of the products passing through their hands?” If Amazon vetted each title the way physical bookstores do, it would need lots more employees. That would cost more, dragging profits down. I searched my Amazon account for a way to tell the retailer it was selling me counterfeits and came up with nothing. (Amazon suggested I use the blue “report incorrect product information” button on every page, or give them a call. If I returned the book, I could select a reason from some dropdown options provided.) The Authors Guild said that in the last two years, the number of piracy and counterfeiting issues referred to its legal department has increased tenfold. Counterfeit editions are a blow

against the authority of the book and accelerate a dangerous trend toward misinformation. One of the Orwell books I bought was a copy of “Animal Farm” issued by Grapevine India. On the copyright page it declared, “The author respects all individuals, organizations & communities, and there is no intention in this novel to hurt any individual, organization (or) community.” Orwell said no such thing, his estate confirmed. This was a 2019 sentiment tacked onto a 1945 story. But then, in this edition of “Animal Farm,” the author and the past barely exist. There was no copyright acknowledgment, no mention of the year 1945. In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell wrote that “the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” He would have found his point confirmed by another Indian edition of “Animal Farm” sold by Amazon, this one from Adarsh Books. One sentence in the introductory blurb goes like this: “When the animals, the so-called characters in the novel, are making their attempts to learn the alphabet in different ways, is definitely the scene that would be bringing some unexpected laughter to the reader.” The Adarsh edition was seemingly created using an optical scanner, which often results in misspelled words. One well-known passage in “Animal Farm” tells how the seven commandments of the farm are written on the wall. No. 2 goes like this: “Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.” Adarsh’s version goes on to note that the spelling of the commandments is correct “except that ‘friend’ was written ‘friend.’” If you’re confused, it’s because that second “friend” is supposed to be “freind.” One of Orwell’s signature passages was thus rendered incomprehensible. Grapevine and Adarsh are free to publish these books in India. But after I asked Amazon about the Indian editions last week, it removed them from sale in the United States, including a digital “1984.” It also removed the counterfeits I asked about. An email to Adarsh’s address as printed on its edition of “Animal Farm” bounced back. Grapevine did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Even assuming Amazon customers care, it is difficult for them to know they are getting a legitimate edition. Amazon sometimes bundles all the reviews of a title together, regardless of which edition they were written for. That means an unauthorized edition of “Animal Farm” can have thousands of positive reviews, signaling to a customer it is a valid edition. At the other extreme, reviews that expose a counterfeit edition will remain even if the edition itself disappears. A reader complained — and provided photos as proof — that his copy of “Animal Farm” had the words “Chapter IV” inserted into the text anytime there was a word with the letters “iv.” For example: “He was unChapterIVersally respected.” “A literary nightmare,” the reader concluded. The large publishers, which have remained mostly mute since they were on the losing side of an antitrust clash with Amazon over e-reading, are now finding their voice again. Their trade group, the Association of American Publishers, just filed a heavily researched analysis with the Federal Trade Commission that is remarkably blunt. “The marketplace of ideas is now at risk for serious if not irreparable damage because of the unprecedented dominance of a very small number of technology platforms,” the report concluded.

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Doubleday 7. The Turn of the Key. Ruth Ware. Scout 8. Contraband. Stuart Woods. Putnam 9. The New Girl. Daniel Silva. Harper 10. Blood Truth. J.R. Ward. Gallery

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1. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam 2. The Inn. Patterson/Fox. Little, Brown 3. The Bitterroots. C.J. Box. Minotaur 4. One Good Deed. David Baldacci. Grand Central 5. Outfox. Sandra Brown. Grand Central 6. The Nickel Boys. Colson Whitehead.

1. How to Be an Antiracist. Ibram X. Kendi. One World 2. Becoming. Michelle Obama. Crown 3. Dare to Lead. Brene Brown. Random House 4. It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way. Lysa TerKeurst. Nelson 5. Ball of Collusion. Andrew C. McCarthy.

Encounter 6. Trick Mirror. Jia Tolentino. Random House 7. Girl, Stop Apologizing. Rachel Hollis. HarperCollins Leadership 8. The Pioneers. David McCullough. Simon & Schuster 9. Unfreedom of the Press. Mark R. Levin. Threshold 10. Tiny but Mighty. Hannah Shaw. Plume

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Martin’s 5. Laughter in the Rain. Debbie Macomber. Harlequin 6. Crucible. James Rollins. Morrow 7. The Art of Racing in the Rain (movie tiein). Garth Stein. Harper 8. Cottage by the Sea. Debbie Macomber. Ballantine 9. Frontier America. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle 10. Dark Sentinel. Christine Feehan. Berkley

1. The Reckoning. John Grisham. Dell 2. Turning Point. Danielle Steel. Dell 3. Willing to Die. Lisa Jackson. Zebra 4. Connections in Death. J.D. Robb. St.

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain (movie tiein). Garth Stein. Harper 2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather

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NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

SPYING ON WHALES: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF EARTH’S MOST AWESOME CREATURES By Nick Pyenson. (Penguin, $17.) This natural history of whales and their 50-million-year evolution also offers a vivid inside look at scientific passion in action. Pyenson, a curator of marine mammal fossils at the Smithsonian, conveys the thrill of the chase whether he’s hunting whale fossils in Peru or tagging baleens in Antarctica.

AND THEN WE DANCED: A VOYAGE INTO THE GROOVE By Henry Alford. (Simon & Schuster, $17.) The humorist Alford elegantly combines personal history, insights into the emotional and social psychology of dance, and trenchant portraits of greats like Isadora Duncan and Savion Glover. Times reviewer Misty Copeland praised the book and its “heartwarming and hilarious” storytelling.

HALF GODS By Akil Kumarasamy. (Picador, $17.) The characters in this debut story collection, set in the long shadow of the Sri Lankan civil war, witness unthinkable brutality and suffer catastrophic losses. Writing with a style Times reviewer Tania James called “lyrical and affecting,” Kumarasamy shows the tender moments and intimate gestures through which traumatized people piece their shattered lives back together.

THE POISONED CITY: FLINT’S WATER AND THE AMERICAN URBAN TRAGEDY By Anna Clark. (Picador, $18.) The horrifying story of how the mostly African-American citizens of Flint, Michigan, found their water supply tainted by lead and other toxins gets a thorough treatment in this meticulous, sobering book. Starting with segregated housing policies imposed on the city in the 1920s and moving through officials’ criminal neglect and cover-ups of wrongdoing, Clark traces the inevitable racial underpinnings of a deadly health crisis.

MACBETH By Jo Nesbo. (Hogarth Shakespeare, $16.) As part of a series of contemporary novels that are based on Shakespeare’s works, Nesbo, the acclaimed Norwegian thriller writer, transforms “Macbeth” into a crime story, setting it in the grimy, corrupt Glasgow of the 1970s. Times reviewer James Shapiro praised the novel, calling it an “inventive and deeply satisfying” adaptation “suited to our own troubled times.”

THE INCENDIARIES Morris. Harper 3. The Warning. James Patterson. Grand Central 4. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate. Ballantine 5. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin 6. The Woman in the Window. A.J. Finn. Morrow 7. Born a Crime. Trevor Noah. Random/ Spiegel & Grau 8. The Flight Girls. Noelle Salazar. Mira 9. Ambush. Patterson/Born. Grand Central 10. Official SAT Study Guide (2020 ed.). College Board

By R.O. Kwon. (Riverhead, $16.) Extremism, of the romantic, religious and political varieties, animates this story of intoxicating first love between two spiritually lost college students, one Korean-American, one white and in flight from a Bible college. Times reviewer ThuHuong Ha called Kwon’s debut a novel “for anyone who’s ever been captivated by another.”

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ARGENTINA! North-South vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠AJ43 ♥ K8 ♦ A92 ♣AK96 WEST EAST ♠ 10 9 8 6 ♠752 ♥3 ♥ QJ964 ♦ K J 10 6 5 ♦ 74 ♣J53 ♣842 SOUTH ♠KQ ♥ A 10 7 5 2 ♦ Q83 ♣ Q 10 7 The bidding:

SOUTH WEST Pass 1♥ 1NT Pass

NORTH 1♠ 6NT

EAST Pass All pass

Opening lead: 10 of ♠ Today’s deal is from an important tournament held recently in Argentina. Most pairs reached six no trump and failed, due to the foul heart split and the unlucky location of the king of diamonds. One declarer, Argentine expert Monica Angeleri, brought it home.

Angeleri won the opening spade lead in hand with the king. She led a heart to dummy’s king and a heart to the jack and ace as West shed a diamond. She cashed three more spade tricks and four club tricks, thanks to the fall of the jack, to reach this three-card ending with the lead in dummy: NORTH ♠ Void ♥ Void ♦ A92 ♣ Void WEST ♠ Void ♥ Void ♦ K J 10 ♣ Void

EAST ♠ Void ♥J ♦ 74 ♣ Void SOUTH ♠ Void ♥ Void ♦ Q83 ♣ Void

She knew that West had started with five diamonds, and she had to play her for the king, as East could just cash a heart if she had that card. She led a low diamond to her eight, putting West on lead with the 10. West had to lead away from her king of diamonds and Angeleri had her slam. Beautifully played! (E-mail: tcaeditors@tribpub.com)

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are nothing if not a survivor. You can put yourself through all manner of hardships and difficulties and come out stronger and better than ever before — with a certain eagerness to do it again when given the chance. You can be sensitive and aggressive, forgiving and obstinate, generous and uncompromising — depending on what is required of you in any given moment, or by any given situation. There is a softness beneath the surface that belies any kind of hardness that you like to put on in the face of adversity — a softness that may, at times, rise to the surface and let others know that you are, after all, merely human and subject to fears, doubts and uncertainties like anyone else. Also born on this date are: Richard Gere, actor; Chris Tucker, actor; Van Morrison, singer; James Coburn, actor; Queen Raina of Jordan; Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Buddy Hackett, actor and comic; Debbie Gibson, singer; Maria Montessori, educator. 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, SEPTEMBER 1 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ve been giving a certain endeavor your “all” — or you think you have. The truth is there’s a little more you can give, if you dare. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You mustn’t expect to get results by doing the kinds of things that didn’t work before. You must concoct a whole new way of working! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Thoughts of what you can do to make a good situation even better will motivate you throughout the day. Progress can be made very quickly. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re ready to

give something new a try today, but you must also be ready to fail the first time — unless you are extraordinarily lucky! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can offer more than expected today, and you’ll likely be rewarded handsomely — but don’t fret if you have to wait for feedback. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You must take care that you don’t try to make things too intricate or complicated today. Simple and straightforward gets the job done. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may have less time than expected to finish a certain task that is growing more complicated with each passing day. Work efficiently! ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’ll earn the praise of someone who is an expert in a certain field that you’ve been trying to break into of late. This is a good contact! TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You do not tire easily as a rule, so when you tire today, you’ll know you’ve earned a rest. Don’t overdo it; listen to your mind and body. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may have to burn the candle at both ends today in order to complete a task on time. And yes, you must be able to work under pressure! CANCER (June 1-July 22) — You may not be feeling quite up to par today, and your style at work may not display the usual flair. Still, you can get required tasks done. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You have the feeling that something is “in the air,” and you are ready to jump at any opportunity that promises something different. COPYRIGHT 2019 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.

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Middle Eastern dips and spreads to bump hummus off your summer menu onion, breadcrumbs and garlic. Process until the mixture is a thick, smooth paste. With the food processor still running, dribble in the olive oil. 3. Transfer the pepper mixture to a bowl. Stir in the pomegranate molasses, lemon juice, paprika and cumin. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with pita wedges. Nutrition information per tablespoon: 58 calories, 5 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 3 g carbohydrates, 1 g sugar, 1 g protein, 8 mg sodium, 1 g fiber

By ROBIN MATHER Chicago Tribune

Around the Middle East, people of all nationalities relax during the long, languorous summer afternoons. Conversation slows and becomes softer, and attention turns to the mezze, or appetizer, plates. Like tapas, mezze offer little bites of something intriguing. The shared plates encourage conviviality around the table. It’s a great tradition, and suited especially to summer, when humidity and high temperatures can drive appetite into hiding. A lunch or supper of small plates may be just the ticket on a torpid day. If that day includes the appearance of guests, all the better. Hummus is the most famous mezze, of course, but it has become a sad cliche in this country. Chocolate hummus? Hummus made from white beans? Those aren’t hummus — they may be good, but they’re their own thing. Baba ghanoush, the smoky, garlicky eggplant puree which Middle Eastern food writer Claudia Roden famously called “vulgarly seductive,” pleases even those who think they don’t like eggplant. But it, too, suffers from a little too much familiarity. We have three alternative ideas for your summer mezze. The lively Egyptian nutseed-spice mixture called dukkah makes a refreshing change from more sedate offerings. If you ever needed an excuse to eat a lot of good bread with good olive oil, dukkah provides one. If you have leftover dukkah, use to it bread plain ol’ chicken breasts before sauteeing. Eggplants, with their deep purple skin catching the light, look so appealing at the farmers market and supermarket. The Persian dip called kashke-bademjun gives you a reason to scoop up three of the prettiest ones you can find. It traditionally uses whey to provide a lactic acid zing, but you can substitute buttermilk for almost the same effect. Lebanese muhammara gets sweetness from the roasted bell peppers, and walnuts lend texture and rich flavor.

DUKKAH

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For the kashk-e-bademjun, the onions are cooked until caramelized, and the eggplant roasts or grills until it collapses. The eggplant flesh is scooped out, mixed with buttermilk and mint-oil, then served with the onions and cilantro on top.

Although it’s not traditional, we’ve added a couple of chipotles to bump up the heat and complement the roasted peppers’ smoky flavor. Leftover muhammara makes a terrific sauce for grilled, baked or broiled poultry or fish.

KASHK-E-BADEMJUN Prep: 30 minutes Cook: 60 minutes Makes: 8 to 10 servings Kashk is the Farsi word for whey, and bademjun is the Farsi word for eggplant. This Persian dish’s name translates to eggplant with whey, which is the clear liquid you see atop yogurt when it has stood for a while. That plain-Jane name doesn’t begin to describe how good this dish is, however. Unless you have access to a Persian grocer, you’ll probably need to substitute something for the whey in the original form of this dish. Some sources suggest sour cream, but buttermilk more closely mimics whey’s tart, tangy flavor. Ingredients: 3 medium eggplants

4 tablespoons olive oil, divided use 2 large onions, in ¼-inch-thick half moon slices Salt 3 tablespoons buttermilk 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh mint Pepper 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro Pita wedges or toasted lavash pieces, for serving 1. Heat the oven to 450 degrees or heat a grill. Pierce the eggplants in several places with a paring knife, then place them on a baking sheet (or directly onto the grill grate). Roast until the eggplants collapse, 30 to 40 minutes. (For grilling, turn until all sides are blistered and eggplant has collapsed, 15 to 30 minutes.) It’s OK if they char a little. 2. Meanwhile, heat a large heavy skillet over mediumlow heat; add 2 tablespoons olive oil and the onions. Season with ½ teaspoon salt. Caramelize the onions by cooking them slowly, stirring frequently, until they are dark brown. This may take 20 to 40 minutes, or longer. Take care that the onions don’t burn. Set

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Muhammara means “reddened” in Lebanese Arabic, and you can easily see why.

the onions aside off the heat. 3. Let the eggplants cool enough to handle, cut them in half and scoop out the flesh into a bowl. Stir in the buttermilk; set aside. 4. In a small skillet over medium, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil and add the chopped mint. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture is fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir into the eggplant mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 5. To assemble the dish, transfer the eggplant mixture to a serving bowl. Place the caramelized onions atop the eggplant, drizzle remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil over the onions, and scatter the chopped cilantro over everything. Serve with pita or lavash for dipping. Nutrition information per serving (for 10 servings): 97 calories, 6 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 1 mg cholesterol, 11 g carbohydrates, 6 g sugar, 2 g protein, 9 mg sodium, 4 g fiber

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Garripoli of L.A. “For the first 24 hours, just water, no iced tea, no wine. When I come home, it’s the same thing.”

“I was a flight attendant for many years,” said Patricia Dotzler of Los Angeles. “I found that drinking a lot of water starting three days before departure, plus during and after flights ... then taking a good walk after arriving at the hotel helped a lot.”

Like Winters, travel blogger Suzanne Stavert recommended adjusting to local schedules when you get to your destination. “The absolute best way to get over jet lag is to get on local time immediately,” Stavert said. “Do not nap. Stay hydrated, and go to sleep around 9 p.m. the first night of the trip and wake up at a normal local time. It

Ingredients: 2 red bell peppers 1 to 2 chipotles, rinsed of any sauce clinging, stemmed, seeded 1 1/3 cups walnuts ¼ small onion 2/3 cup toasted breadcrumbs or toasted panko 3 cloves garlic ¼ cup olive oil 1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon each: paprika, cumin Coarse salt and pepper Pita wedges

Ingredients: ½ cup sesame seeds 3 tablespoons coriander seeds 2 tablespoons each: fennel seeds, cumin seeds 2 tablespoons coarsely ground black pepper 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes 1 teaspoon coarse salt Bread and olive oil, for serving 1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Spread the nuts on a rimmed baking sheet and toast in the oven until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Set aside to cool. 2. In a dry heavy skillet over medium heat, toast the sesame seeds, stirring constantly, until light golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Pour into a bowl. 3. In the same skillet, toast the coriander, fennel and cumin seeds, stirring constantly until they become fragrant and begin to pop, 3 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a spice mill or coffee grinder kept for spices; process until finely ground. Tip the mixture into the bowl with the sesame seeds. 4. Put the cooled nuts into a food processor, spice mill or coffee grinder; process until finely chopped but not so long that they form a paste. It’s easy to do this by hand if you prefer. It’s OK if some pieces are larger. Stir into the bowl with the sesame-spice mixture. Add black pepper, crushed red pepper and salt. Stir to blend well. 5. Serve with good bread torn into pieces and a dish of fruity olive oil or avocado oil for dipping. Dip the bread into the oil, then into the dukkah. Nutrition information per tablespoon: 71 calories, 6 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 3 g carbohydrates, 0 g sugar, 2 g protein, 131 mg sodium, 2 g fiber

Prep: 30 minutes Cook: 6-8 minutes Makes: about 2 cups This dip’s name means “reddened” in Lebanese Arabic, and you can easily see why. Its flavor is sweet-smokygarlicky, and the walnuts lend their richness to the thick paste. This version, while not

1. Heat the broiler or a grill. Pierce the bell peppers in several places with a paring knife. Place the peppers on a rimmed baking sheet (or directly on grill grates); broil or grill, turning every couple of minutes, until the skin chars and blisters, 6 to 8 minutes total. Transfer the peppers to a paper bag to steam until they’re cool enough to handle. 2. Peel and deseed the broiled peppers; put them in a food processor with the chipotles, walnuts,

has worked for me traveling to any time zone all over the world.” “My dad, who worked in travel for 40 years, gave me one tip: Plan to get in to your destination in the afternoon and force yourself to stay up until a relatively normal early bedtime in the country where you’re staying,” said financial journalist Kathy Kristof of La Canada Flintridge. And more sleep tips from a parent on the front lines: “Don’t let your already grumpy teens sleep all day when you get to Europe; make them adjust,” said Joshua Kreinberg of Pasadena, who vacationed in France with his family in early August. “They are going to be grumpy anyway because they are teens on a family vacation.”

Instead of reading or watching movies try turning off electronic devices and sleep.

MUHAMMARA

Dukkah is a simple dish whose beguiling aroma and complex flavor reward beyond all expectations. Serve it with torn pieces of good bread, dipping in oil then in the spice and nut blend.

strictly traditional, gets a bit of complexity from the chipotle chile. Pomegranate molasses is pomegranate juice that has been reduced to a thick syrup. It’s worth the trip to pick up a small bottle at an Arab grocer, because once you taste the muhammara, you’ll want to make it again and again.

Prep: 20 minutes Cook: 11 minutes Makes: about 1 3/4 cups, about 28 servings The Egyptians are great snackers and love dukkah, a blend of nuts, seeds and spices. Dip a bit of bread into good olive oil, then into the dukkah, and make your mouth happy. Vary this by changing the nuts but try to keep the spice ratios the same. Dukkah should be lively with pepper, and mysterious with spices that don’t appear on the table often. This will keep a month or more in the refrigerator if stored in a sealed jar. 2/3 cup hazelnuts, unsalted cashews, almonds, pistachios, pecans, walnuts or peanuts, or a blend of several

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