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Section II Class D Semifinals Quarterback Casey Sitzer leads Chatham into tonight’s Section II Class D semifinal PAGE B1

n REGION

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A Halloween storm downed trees and left thousands of Twin County residents without power.

By Sarah Trafton

Police: Second man charged DiQuann Powell, 24, is the second suspect charged in the killing of Kevin Whitening PAGE A3

n WHITTLING AWAY Enjoy your grumpy day Columnist Dick Brooks declares this a crabby day — and he plans to savor every minute of it PAGE A7

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CAIRO — The weather for Halloween was a horror show.

A powerful storm battered the Twin Counties on Thursday night with heavy rain and high winds that left many residents without power and resulted in a school district closing Friday.

Trick-or-treaters braved the rain Thursday night, but the winds continued to increase in intensity overnight, bringing

trees down onto roads and power lines.

The Cairo-Durham Central School District announced a two-hour delay early Friday morning, but district officials later decided to close school for the day.

As of noon Friday, more than 2,700 Central Hudson customers in Greene County had been affected by the storm. Statewide, the storm See STORM A2

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WASHINGTON — Undocumented immigrant farmworkers, including those in the dairy industry, could have access to work visas and green cards through a new bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday.

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, co-sponsored by 44 representatives including Rep. Elise Stefanik, D-21, would provide undocumented farmworkers a pathway to permanent legal status, or green cards, and farmworkers in the yearround dairy industry access to the H-2A work visa program, which is typically reserved for seasonal and temporary agriculture industry.

Proponents of the bill have said it’s a critical move to support the agriculture industry in its time of crisis due to a struggling economy, attacks on seasonal worker visa programs and an increasing number of employee audits by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

“Agriculture is the backbone of the North Country, which is why I am proud to cosponsor this bipartisan legislation to ensure that our farmers have access to a stable, legal workforce, allowing them to continue to product abundant, safe and affordable food,” Stefanik said in a press release.

Stefanik, who did not respond to multiple requests for further comment, continued in the press release that the “securing a reliable and skilled workforce is essential to maintain the success of (agriculture) operations” that create many jobs and drive the economy of the North Country.

The legislation stipulates that immigrant farmworkers who have worked in agriculture for at least two years prior to the introduction of the bill would be eligible for “certified agriculture worker status.” The status can be adjusted to lawful permanent residency — or a green card — if the immigrant has worked a specified numbers of years before and after the bill is See WORKERS A2

Gillibrand moves to ban incline infant sleepers

By Massarah Mikati Johnson News Service

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., called for a complete ban of the sale of all incline infant sleepers following a Consumer Product Safety Commission Report that found more than 70 infants have died while sleeping in such products.

“As a mother, caring for and protecting my children is my No. 1 priority,” Gillibrand said during a call with reporters Tuesday. “And as a senator, it is to ensure the safety of all children in New York, and my top priority is getting dangerous consumer products off the shelves.”

Gillibrand also co-sponsored the Safe Sleep Act of 2019, which bans the sale and transportation of infant sleepers at an incline of ,ore than 10 degrees.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends babies sleep on hard and flat

surfaces without blankets or stuffed animals. This is to prevent them from suffocating or suffering from other sleeprelated deaths such as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. “Babies in these inclined sleepers can turn their heads or sometimes roll over entirely, causing them to obstruct their airway and lead to suffocation,” Gillibrand said. “People trust that the products they’re buying for their babies are safe, and they should be able to.”

Recalls of such products because of links to infant deaths have commenced.

Dorel Juvenile Group USA recalled 24,000 inclined sleepers, Fisher-Price recalled nearly 5 million Rock ’n Play Sleepers and Kids II recalled 670,000 sleepers. Fisher-Price also recalled about 71,000 sleeper accessories.

But Gillibrand is worried See SLEEPERS A2

Washington Post photo by Todd C. Frankel

Jan Hinson, an attorney in Greenville, S.C., has a collection of Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play sleepers in her office. In 2014, she discovered her 7-week grandson blue and lifeless in an inclined sleeper, she said. He survived.

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has impacted more than 220,000 homes and businesses, and more than 600,000 in the Northeast, according to a release from Central Hudson.

“Our field force of more than 250 electric line and tree workers are repairing damage, and will be joined by 50 electric line workers from Canada on Saturday,” Central Hudson Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations Paul E. Haering said. “In addition, personnel are surveying the extent of the damage to help determine the length of the restoration time, although we do expect repairs will continue into Saturday and possibly later.”

Peak wind speed in Columbia County was 52 mph, recorded in Copake at 1:30 a.m. Friday, National Weather Service meteorologist Ray O’Keefe said.

“In Kinderhook we had winds at 46 mph at 9:45 p.m. and in Greene County, we had 45 mph winds at 8:15 p.m.,” O’Keefe said.

Halloween also set record high temperatures for the date in Albany, O’Keefe said.

“In Albany, it was 75 degrees,” he said. “Our previous record

was 73.”

At the Poughkeepsie weather station, the temperature was 73, which fell short of the record of 78, O’Keefe said.

The warm weather was related to the storm system, O’Keefe said.

“We had a strong storm system that tracked through the Great Lakes and strong southerly winds that brought the warmth,” he said.

In terms of precipitation, Catskill saw 2.4 inches of rain O’Keefe said, while Taghkanic reported 1.37 inches and Livingston reported 1.42 inches.

The town of Cairo has 648 power outages with an estimated restoration time of 2:30 a.m.

A downed tree on Roosevelt Ave. Saturday, the village of Coxsackie has 408, Catskill has 329 with an estimated restoration restoration estimate was 1 p.m. time of 1 p.m. Friday, Hunter Friday.

National Grid had 217 cushas 292 outages, Greenville has 270 outages, Lexington has tomers affected in the Clav243, Durham has 237 outages erack/Livingston area, 23 in with an estimated restoration Stuyvesant, 44 in Stuyvesant/ time of 2:30 a.m. Saturday, New Schodack. Power restoration is Baltimore has 232, the town of estimated at 3 p.m.

The wind is expected to Coxsackie has 26, Jewett has 25, Athens has eight and the village continue until Friday evening, of Hunter has four, according to O’Keefe said.

“The strongest winds will be Central Hudson’s statistics as of from now until mid-afternoon,” noon Friday.

By noon, 41 Central Hudson he said. “By 11 p.m., they will be customers in Columbia County quite light.”

Haering urges residents to were affected: 38 in Ancram and three in Gallatin. Ancram’s use caution.

“Assume all downed lines are live, and keep a wide distance from fallen trees and limbs,” Haering said.

Residents should stay 30 feet away from downed power lines and avoid traveling, if possible, according to Central Hudson.

Residents can stay up to date on restoration efforts by enrolling in text updates by texting REG to 236483, downloading Central Hudson’s app, liking Central Hudson’s Facebook page, calling (845)452-2700 or visiting centralhudson.com/ storms.

Department of Labor.

The New York numbers are unknown, however in the Milked study alone, 93 percent of the farmworkers surveyed were undocumented.

Advocates see some positives in the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, such as providing immigrant farmworkers access to legal status and green cards, which would alleviate certain vulnerabilities to exploitation undocumented workers face.

However, advocates are also concerned that this legislation is a double-edged sword that sustains certain vulnerabilities and introduces new ones.

“Historically we have seen that the guest worker program is a pipeline for labor trafficking, and we see very weak oversight of existing guest worker regulations,” said Emma Kreyche, advocacy director with the Worker Justice Center of New York. “We have reason to be deeply skeptical of expanding this general model for managing the farm labor force and stabilizing it.”

Because the farmworkers’ visas are tied to their employer, Kreyche said employers are granted a high level of power and control over the farmworkers that can be abused. For example, if a worker speaks out about not getting compensated for all their hours worked, a farmer could simply not invite

farmers who have struggled for years to access the workforce they need to stay successful and operational,” he said in an emailed statement. “I look forward to talking to upstate dairy farmers and apple growers while I’m back in the district to fully understand the bill’s impact.”

Tague and Assemblyman Stephen Hawley, R-139, both brought up concerns about how this legislation, if passed, would interact with the Farm Labor Rights Act signed into law this year. Both assemblymen voted against the bill, which ensures farm workers get paid overtime after working 60 hours a week and that they get one day off each week.

Assemblyman Mark Walczyk, R-116, is also in support of the bill.

“I’ve talked to farmers consistently and they’re looking for solutions,” Walczyk said. “Namely, access to the H-2A program.”

Assemblymember Didi Barrett, D-106, was not available for comment Friday.

Massarah Mikati covers the New York State Legislature and immigration for Johnson Newspaper Corp. Email her at mmikati@columbiagreenemedia. com, or find her on Twitter @ massarahmikati.

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enacted.

The bill would also streamline the application process for seasonal worker visas, raise wages and allow agriculture workers access to more green cards.

The access to the H-2A work visa would be groundbreaking for the large dairy industry in upstate New York, which was comprised of nearly 4,300 farms in 2017, according to the state Department of Agriculture.

With low-skill work visas currently reserved for temporary, seasonal industry, the dairy farm industry tends to have largely undocumented workers.

In addition, the grueling nature of dairy farming jobs means most of the 55,000 dairy workers in New York are undocumented immigrants, according to the 2017 report “Milked” about dairy farms by the Workers’ Center of Central New York and the Worker Justice Center of New York. This is especially true of larger farms with greater needs for milking labor and less access to family labor.

Nationally, around half of dairy farmworkers are believed to be undocumented, according a 2016-16 JBS International report prepared for the U.S.

them back for the H-2A program the following year.

“Your eligibility for this program is highly reliant on remaining in the good graces of the employer,” Kreyche said.

“It leaves workers incredibly vulnerable, and of course undocumented workers are also extremely vulnerable.”

The 2017 Milked report found that one-fifth of dairy farmworkers were threatened by their boss, manager or other workers about their ethnicity or citizenship status.

Former dairy farmer Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, said that while he had never personally seen exploitation of immigrant workers among the small farms he was connected to, he doesn’t doubt that such behavior could take place, particularly on larger farms. Despite this, Tague is in support of the bill.

“I would love to see folks on a pathway to citizenship if they’re going to come here and be good citizens and work,” Tague said.

“But this doesn’t go after the underlying problem of the financial crisis that our farmers are in — it goes back to pricing structure.”

U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, was not one of the bill’s co-sponsors, but said it looks promising on paper.

“This bipartisan agreement is a major development for

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, a fashion designer, have pleaded not guilty to new bribery charges prosecutors have brought against them in the college admissions scandal, signaling that they intend, at least for now, to keep fighting the case.

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about the sleepers that have not been recalled, and is calling for all companies selling these products to not only enact a recall, but also to notify all their customers who bought the sleepers about the risks they pose.

“In America, we all have the responsibility to protect

Prosecutors have accused Loughlin and Giannulli of paying $500,000 to get their two daughters designated as recruits to the University of Southern California women’s crew team as a way to ensure their admission to the school.

The couple have maintained their innocence, even as Hollywood gossip magazines have reported that Loughlin

is increasingly worried about what will happen. In contrast, the other Hollywood actress ensnared in the case, Felicity Huffman, who was accused of paying $15,000 to cheat on her daughter’s SAT, pleaded guilty and has already completed her prison sentence. (Huffman was sentenced to 14 days but served only 12, including the day she was arrested.)

babies and children, and retailers have an opportunity to be good actors and help prevent more infant deaths due to these sleepers,” she said.

The Weigand family, from Western New York, is one family that has lost their child due to the inclined sleeper.

Their 6-month-old son, James Tre Weigand III, died nearly two years ago napping in a Fisher-Price Rock ’n Play Sleeper.

The Weigands sued

Fisher-Price in state court.

There are also two class-action lawsuits against the company that were filed in April in the Buffalo U.S. District Court, alleging Fisher-Price knew about but ignored the dangers of the sleepers.

Massarah Mikati covers the New York State Legislature and immigration for Johnson Newspaper Corp. Email her at mmikati@columbiagreenemedia.com, or find her on Twitter @massarahmikati.

Lawyers involved in the case have said prosecutors brought the new charges in part out of frustration with the sentences given out in the case so far, which have ranged from probation to five months in prison, and have all been less than what prosecutors had asked for.

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CALENDAR Monday, Nov.4 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town

Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham 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 public hearing 6 p.m. tentative 2020 county budget in the Catskill High School Auditorium

Tuesday, Nov.5 n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in

observance of General Election Day n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of General Election Day

Wednesday, Nov.6 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, Nov.7 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m. at the

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Town Board meeting/public hearing 2020 preliminary budget 6:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board special meeting/public hearing 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Town Offices closed in observance of General Election Day n Coxsackie Village workshop 6 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Powell charged with murder

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — A second man was charged Wednesday in connection with the 2017 shooting death of Kevin Whitening.

DiQuann Powell, 24, of Hudson, was arraigned in Columbia County Court on a charge of second-degree murder, a class A-1 felony, and two counts of first-degree assault, a class B felony, and first-degree attempted robbery, a class C felony.

Whitening, 31, of New York City, was killed at Third Street and Rope Alley on Aug. 22, 2017 as part of a back-and-forth gun battle. Two toddlers and four adults were shot in the five months that culminated in the fatal shooting of Whitening.

Columbia County Judge Jonathan Nichols ordered Powell held in jail without bail. Powell, also known as “Da Da,” is serving time in prison at Barehill Correctional Facility in Malone on a separate first-degree assault charge, a class B felony.

About a dozen family members and friends were in the courtroom to show support for

Powell on Wednesday.

Christian Simmons, 24, of the Bronx, also known as “Nahkye Tyler” and “Dondre Tyler,” was arraigned in Columbia County Court on a charge of second-degree murder, a class A-1 felony, on Oct. 9. Defense attorney Ian Crimmins entered a plea of not guilty at the October court appearance on behalf of Simmons, who was arrested in New York City by the New York and New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force.

Police declined to comment on the relationship between Simmons and Powell on Wednesday.

“We won’t speak about things related to the evidence,” Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka said, adding that the investigation is ongoing.

Whitening was shot in the chest and killed on Third Street at about 8:40 p.m. Aug. 22, 2017.

He was taken to Columbia Memorial Health, 71 Prospect St., where he died a short time later. Stormy weather prevented Whitening from being airlifted to Albany Medical Center, his mother, Tracy Whitening,

said in August. Family members say Whitening, who was in Hudson visiting his family, was LANCE WHEELER a bystander FOR COLUMBIA GREENE MEDIA in the wrong place at the DiQuann Powell wrong time when he was shot and killed.

“That was a terrible summer,” Czajka said. “And we’re hopeful that there will never be a repeat of that. And I am personally optimistic given the work of the Hudson police under Chief Moore, particularly, because he had no hesitation to seek assistance from other agencies, including, most importantly in this matter, the New York State Police.”

Powell’s assault and attempted robbery charges are part of an alleged attack on Nov. 23, 2016, and are separate from the shootings, Moore said. Details of the alleged assault and attempted robbery were not immediately available Wednesday.

In another incident involving Powell, police said, he allegedly fired several shots at Perry Gilliard, striking him in the arm, back and upper leg on the 200 block of Second Street in Albany on April 2, 2018 at about 5:40 p.m.

Powell pleaded guilty to firstdegree assault, a class B felony, for the shooting, according to the Albany County District Attorney’s Office. He was initially charged with attempted murder, a class B violent felony.

On March 22, Powell was sentenced in Albany County Court to seven-and-a-half years in state prison followed by five years of post-release supervision.

Powell was one of the alleged victims in the back-andforth gun violence in 2017, police said. Powell was on Fifth Street around 9:22 p.m. Sept.

14, 2017 when he stopped in the street to get off his bicycle.

That’s when he was shot in the hip, police said. The shooter, who was described by police as a black man with a beard, wearing a black sweatshirt with

hoodie and glasses, fled on foot, Hudson police said Sept.

15, 2017.

Hudson police have a suspect in the alleged shooting of Powell, Moore said Wednesday, but he declined to reveal the name citing an ongoing investigation.

Lt. David Miller and the Hudson Police detective division, including Dets. Jeffrey Keyser, Christopher Filli and Nicolas Pierro, worked with state police to investigate the shootings. Pierro and Sgt. Jason Finn and Pierro continue to push the case forward, Miller said.

“The summer of 2019 was safer,” Miller said. “We had no serious, violent incidents as a result of this work.”

Assistant District Attorney Ryan Carty is prosecuting the case.

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

Monday, Nov.11 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town

Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Town Offices closed in observance of Veteran’s Day

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Your vote counts Tuesday If the Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives, True Choicers, Your Voice Hearders and Working Families — to say nothing of the colossal voting blocs of police, firefighters, first responders and seniors — have their way, Tuesday will be the most democratic election ever held in the Twin Counties.

The state’s early voting days have come and gone. It is now up to the rank-and-file voters who turn out each November to cast ballots and decide the future course of Greene and Columbia counties.

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be a period of rest and recreation. Tuesday, and maybe Wednesday, will be for triumph or dejection.

Candidates numbering 200 or more in the Twin Counties have fought hard since the spring caucuses and June primaries. But the future now rests on the choices made by the people they will serve.

If the political fates steer the course, and remember, that is never to be taken for granted, Hudson will have a new mayor and possibly a new common council president. Cairo will have a new town supervisor, as will Windham. Kinderhook has closely watched races for the town board. Pitch battles have been waged

for the offices of Greene County sheriff and Columbia County district attorney. No matter how it goes, Greene County will wake up Wednesday morning with a new sheriff. A win here or a loss there could shift the balance of power in several towns for the next two or three years. Communication, sustainability and infrastructure were the three most-used words of the 2019 campaign.

These things could be the realities of 2020 and beyond. The task Nov. 5 is for voters to turn out in big numbers, make your voices heard and shape the future as you want it.

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Rising seas are much bigger danger than experts thought The Washington Post

Here’s another piece of evidence that climate change might be worse than scientists previously predicted.

The seas are rising, and will continue to rise, because hotter temperatures melt land-based ice and expand the volume existing ocean water takes up.

But while much study has examined the shift in amount and warmth of seawater humans will face, there is another variable scientists must get right to assess the risk to humanity: just how many people live in low-lying areas. A new paper suggests previous estimates of land elevation — and, therefore, the number of at-risk people — were wrong.

The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, corrects satellite elevation data, and it “reveals a developed global coastline three times more exposed to extreme coastal water levels than previously thought,” the authors warn. Even under an optimistic scenario in which heat-warming greenhouse emissions are restrained and Antarctic ice sheets remain stable, “the global impacts of sea-level rise and coastal flooding this century will likely be far

greater than indicated by the most pessimistic past analyses.”

And that’s the rosy scenario. If Antarctica’s massive ice sheets became unstable — and there are ominous signs — land that is home to 300 million people would be at risk of yearly flooding by 2050, 50 million more than present projections. Some 230 million more people than current estimates would be vulnerable by 2100.

Eight Asian nations — China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Japan — account for some 70 percent of the people living on at-risk land. Under the newly calculated numbers, China’s population facing the extreme risk of falling below the high-tide line by 2100 roughly triples.

Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and the Philippines see the number of people living below the projected high-tide line increase by five to 10 times. One-third of the populations of Bangladesh and Vietnam live in areas that — if emissions were not restrained and Antarctic ice proved unstable — would sink below the high-tide line.

A massive slice of south Vietnam and large swaths of Ho Chi Minh City are in

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danger. Giant chunks of Bangkok could be washed away. Central Shanghai and Mumbai would see massive problems.

Millions already live behind protective dikes, levees and other floodcontrol systems; millions more will have to do so in the future — or surrender their cities. As the problem worsens, countries will probably be forced to do some of both. “Coastal communities worldwide must prepare themselves for much more difficult futures,” the study’s authors counsel. Even in the United States, “sea-level rise this century may induce large-scale migration away from unprotected coastlines.” In poorer countries, this retreat from the sea could lead to civil strife, instability and violence.

There is at least as much risk that scientists have been more optimistic than alarmist in their projections of what humancaused global warming will do. The choices the United States makes now will determine how safe the world is for generations to come. And, for the moment, the United States is failing these future generations.

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The nation’s report card offers lessons Arne Duncan The Washington Post

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress are prompting some soul-searching about the limited gains over the past decade, but there are outliers worth saluting. More important, we should be analyzing what successful states and school districts are doing differently so that others can learn from them.

Let’s start with the District of Columbia. Scores in the city increasedby three points apiece in fourth-grade math, eighth-grade math and eighth-grade reading. In fact, among the 50 states plus the District, D.C. was the only one to post an increase in eighthgrade reading.

Another bright spot is Mississippi, which has the highest poverty rate in the country and is in the bottom five states for per-pupil education funding. This year, the state ranks No. 1 in the nation for gains.

Mississippi was the only state with an increase in fourth-grade reading, posted the largest gains in fourthgrade math and was one of only three states with an increase in eighth-grade math.

Mississippi has put a big focus on literacy, high standards, tests that are well aligned to the curriculum and a strong accountability system. It has also invested heavily in teacher training.

Louisiana posted nationleading gains in eighth-grade math while Nevada is up four points in fourth-grade math. A decade ago, Tennessee ranked near the bottom in the country. Today, on all four tests, Tennessee is at or near the national average thanks to a strong commitment to high standards, quality curriculum and robust accountability.

At the district level, Denver gained six points in fourthgrade math and four points in

parents and educators.

They invested smartly in the things that students need: quality early learning, more learning time, high-quality curriculum, community schools, wraparound services and well-trained, well-supported teachers.

These successful school leaders take time to learn from each other and share best practices. They understand that improving schools and school systems isn’t rocket science, but change only happens if it is implemented with courage, consistency and commitment.

Still, the NAEP results are sobering. We should be seeing more progress.

The one thing the United States cannot do is use these results as an excuse to go backward to the days when standards and expectations were low. We cannot return to a time when achievement gaps around race and poverty were hidden. We cannot pretend that talent strategies will happen on their own without intentional efforts to recruit, support, retain and hold accountable educators.

Above all, we can’t stand still. Today, a greater share of our public-school students live in poverty, and they are more diverse than ever. They face economic and social challenges earlier generations never faced. In this economy, education has never been more important to our collective success, and the urgency to improve has never been greater.

The proof of what is possible is all around us. The time for excuses is long past. Our children are capable of anything if we just believe in them and invest in them.

Duncan, a managing partner of the Emerson Collective, was U.S. Education secretary from 2009 to 2015.

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Truth should be told about charter schools To the editor: My goal here is not to indicate any position with regard to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposals regarding education, the subject of your editorial of Oct. 30. However, I take strong issue with your apparent defense of charter schools that you focused on in that editorial.

First of all, you, and other supporters of charter schools refer to them as “public charter schools,” a phrase that on its face is a gross misnomer.

They are public only in the sense that they are funded with public taxpayer dollars.

However, unlike true public schools, the public plays no role in selecting the members of charter school boards who determine how taxpayer dollars are spent, nor does the public vote on charter school budgets. Every May New Yorkers vote on school board members and budgets for our real public schools.

Charter schools are just an obvious example of taxation without representation. And, of course, the tax dollars going to charter schools come

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directly out of the budgets of the neighboring public schools.

Additionally, there are many studies that have shown that from an academic standpoint charter schools, overall, are no more successful than public schools. Of course, one could point to some charter schools that do extremely well. Similarly, there are many public schools that are just as, if not more successful. And, yes, there are charter schools and public schools that do not show a great deal of academic success. There’s no significant difference by that measure.

What is significant, and what is often left out of these calculations when people praise charter schools is the fact that these schools may, in some instances, appear to outperform public schools.

But that’s because they often serve far fewer students with disabilities, and those who don’t speak English as their first language. In point of fact, charter schools keep only the students they want, and can discharge their most

problematic students who must then return to local public schools that must accept all students. Just on a baseline of who these schools educate makes it clear that comparisons with public schools to begin with is blatantly unfair.

One aspect of this issue that’s been ignored for many decades is a claim made back when the debate to create charter schools first surfaced in New York State. We were told then that charter schools, free of “troublesome public school regulations,” would be able to be more innovative and be able to create new, exciting and more successful programs to achieve greater academic success. I’m still waiting to see these new and innovative programs. All I have seen are some charter schools which have gone back in time to adopt single-sex classrooms and school uniforms. Nothing new there.

It’s about time that the truth be told about charter schools.

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eighth-grade math. Cleveland is up three points in fourthgrade math.

These states and districts share a couple of characteristics. Most have had bold, consistent leadership for several years. Carey Wright has been Mississippi’s education superintendent since 2013. John White has been Louisiana’s superintendent since 2012.

The eight years of leadership in Tennessee under Gov. Bill Haslam, R, ensured that reform strategies led by state chiefs Kevin Huffman and Candice McQueen received adequate time and support to succeed.

At the district level, Denver’s Susana Cordova has seamlessly built on the progress of Tom Boasberg, who over a decade built a diverse, high-quality portfolio of schools that have made his one of the few large urban districts gaining students.

In the District of Columbia, even with some turnover at the top, the city has charted a steady and purposeful course; for more than a decade, leadership has made a big bet on teacher quality and expanding school choice.

All these districts have been serious about building capacity to support teachers. They have ambitious strategies around talent development, as well as high standards and high-quality curriculum. They share a deep commitment to transparency by keeping parents, principals and teachers fully informed about where they succeed and where they struggle.

They have had the courage to do things that are politically difficult and unpopular, such as evaluating teachers and implementing robust accountability systems. They didn’t succumb to anti-testing fever but instead worked to improve assessments so they required less testing time and more timely feedback for students,

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Christopher Jordan Bramah Christopher Jordan Bramah, Emerson, Harmony and Braden. who lived a life of joy that was While there, Chris began to work repeatedly upended by drug ad- in the utility industry, a path he diction, died suddenly on Thurs- hoped would lead to college, a day, October 31st in Albany. He secure career and a family of his own. was just 25 years young.

When Chris was drug-free, Chris was a unique individual in many ways: a devoted his eyes were bright, his laugh hunter who hated having to was quick and his appetite for use mousetraps, an enthusi- food encompassed everything astic singer of country music from McDonald’s to fine dining and Southern rock as well as and global cuisine, although he would not eat his sisrap, and a frequent city ters cooking. He loved dweller who dreamed helping his nephew of a home in remote with new skateboard Alaska. But Chris also tricks and would frebecame, tragically, quently facetime his part of a statistic -- one niece to watch her of the 30,000 people horseback riding leswho die in this country son. Chris loved being every year from an opiwith family. Christopher oid overdose. As in so Jordan Bramah is surmany of those stories, Bramah vived by his parents, he thought he had it beat this time. Free of opioids Terri Bramah of Florida and for 11 months, Chris was rein- James Bramah (Lauren) of Kintroduced to them by a prescrip- derhook, sister Anissa Alonzo tion pain medication after a re- of Florida, brothers Jim Bramah cent injury. Within two weeks of Florida and Paul Bramah of he was dead, depriving family, Albany; grandmother Janice friends and those he had not yet Malmberg of Hudson; Nieces met but who would have loved and Nephews Jimmy, Alexanhim in the future of a happy guy der, Emerson, Melody, Harmowith a winning smile, a mischie- ny and Braden and aunts and vous sense of humor, a zealotry uncles that loved him dearly. He for watching racing at Lebanon was also survived by his stepValley Speedway and an abid- siblings Steven and Julia.

Funeral services will be held ing pleasure in spending time with those he cared about. Born Monday, 11:00am at the RayMarch 9th 1994, in Schenecta- mond E. Bond Funeral Home, dy, Chris grew up in Rensselaer Valatie, with Rev Nick Becker and Columbia counties, attend- officiating. Burial will follow in ing Maple Hill High School and Kinderhook Cemetery. CallIchabod Crane High School. ing hours will be Sunday from He soon joined his mother, sis- 6-8pm at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers donations ter and two brothers in Florida, a state he loved for its fishing, can be made in Chris’s name to its beaches and the time it af- The Drug Alcohol Abuse Founforded him with his nieces and dation 400 S Swinton Ave Delnephews Jimmy, Alexander, ray Brach, FL 33444

Donald E. Morse Donald E. Morse, on October ried the love of his life Annette 29, 2019 Don passed peace- M. Browne. Not a day went by fully back into the loving arms that he didn’t kiss her good of “Mother and Dad”. Along with morning or good night. Togethhis parents he was welcomed er they formed the most blessed home by his son Don Anthony family. Annette survives him at “DA” and his brothers James, home along with their children Earl and Paul. and their children’s familiesDon was born at home on Don Anthony’s family, Donna, November 3, 1933 in Troy, NY Bernadette, Ronald, Nanette, the proud and devoted son of Carl, Mark, Robert, Gina and James Kenneth and Jeanette Melissa. Grandpa/ GGpa will (Wever) Morse Sr. Don be remembered as the grew up in Troy, NY with greatest man ever by his best friends that just his 32 grandchildren so happened to be his and 17 great- grandbrothers and 2 sisters. children (AKA sweetJames, Earl, Paul, Phil, hearts).

Jack, Betty, Carl and Donald chose to doKay. Don graduated nate his body to Albany from Troy High School Medical College to help in 1951 lettering in footwith ongoing Cancer ball. Don was inducted Morse research. The family into Troy High School has agreed to his wishSports Hall of Fame, alongside es of no calling hours or services his brother Jack in 2005. Don joined the Air Force after high but instead will celebrate his life school and served as an SP in and memory every day. In Don’s Japan and the Philippines dur- memory: Be the first one on the ing the Korean War. When Don dance floor. Sit at the kitchen returned home, he took a job table and teach your grandchilwith the NYC Port Authority. He dren a new card game. Crawl then took a job with the phone around on the floor chasing your company “Ma Bell “before be- great grandkids. Welcome famcoming part of yet another fam- ily and friends into your homeily he loved, respected and pro- make them feel special, loved, tected. In 1966 Donald became important and protected. Just a NYS Trooper ‘where he had a have fun. If you’d like, the famhighly decorated career in the ily feels donations to St Jude’s service of our community. Dur- Children’s Research Hospital ing his time on the job, partners or Shriners Children’s Hospital became brothers and cowork- would be a lovely way to honor Don. To sign the online register ers became family.

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As Trump moves to bully witnesses and derail impeachment, Dems see obstruction Philip Rucker, Rachael Bade and Rosalind S. Helderman The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has sought to intimidate witnesses in the impeachment inquiry, attacking them as “Never Trumpers” and badgering an anonymous whistleblower. He has directed the White House to withhold documents and block testimony requested by Congress. And he has labored to publicly discredit the investigation as a “scam” overseen by “a totally compromised kangaroo court.”

To the Democratic leaders directing the impeachment proceedings, Trump’s actions to stymie their probe into his conduct with Ukraine add up to another likely article of impeachment: Obstruction.

The centerpiece of House Democrats’ eventual impeachment charges is widely expected to be Trump’s alleged abuse of power over Ukraine. But obstruction of Congress is now all but certain to be introduced as well, according to multiple Democratic lawmakers and aides, just as it was five decades ago when the House Judiciary Committee voted for articles of impeachment against then-president Richard Nixon. But Nixon resigned before the full House vote.

“It’s important to vindicate the role of Congress as an independent branch of government with substantial oversight responsibly, that if the executive branch just simply obstructs and prevents witnesses from coming forward, or prevents others from producing documents, they could effectively eviscerate congressional oversight,” said Rep. David N. Cicilline, D-R.I. “That would be very dangerous for the country.”

Democrats argue that the Trump administration’s stonewalling - including trying to stop subpoenaed witnesses from testifying and blocking the executive branch from turning over documents - creates a strong case that the president has infringed on the separation of powers and undercut lawmakers’ oversight duties as laid out in the Constitution.

Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law scholar at Harvard Law School who has informally advised some Democratic House leaders, said Trump’s actions are unprecedented.

“I know of no instance when a president subject to a serious impeachment effort, whether Andrew Johnson or Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton, has essentially tried to lower the curtain entirely - treating the whole impeachment process as illegitimate, deriding it as a ‘lynching’ and calling it a ‘kangaroo court,’” Tribe said.

“It’s not simply getting in the way of an inquiry,” he added. “It’s basically saying one process that the Constitution put in place, thanks to people like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, for dealing with

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President Donald Trump listens before presenting the Medal of Honor in the East Room of the White House on Oct. 30, 2019.

an out-of-control president, is a process he is trying to subvert, undermine and delegitimate. That, to me, is clearly a high crime and misdemeanor.”

In recent weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DCalif., Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and other top Democrats have become more forceful in their obstruction language. They have regularly warned the White House that any attempt to withhold or conceal evidence related to the Ukraine episode from congressional investigators could be grounds for impeachment.

Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, have been accusing Democrats of overreaching, despite their own history of using congressional subpoenas to interrogate Obama administration officials while they held the majority.

“Generally speaking, a fishing expedition that would offer subpoenas for high ranking executive officials is not something that Congress has ever expected in the past nor should it expect now - unless there is a true impeachment,” said Rep. Mark Meadows, RN.C., a Trump confidant.

“A fishing expedition like this, where [they’ve] gone on for three years, hoping they can subpoena everybody who’s potentially talked to the president, is not what congressional subpoena power is all about and it certainly goes against the division of the branches,” Meadows said.

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham proclaimed Trump’s innocence in a statement Thursday and dismissed the inquiry as an “illegitimate impeachment proceeding” that “hurts the American people.”

Lawmakers have wide latitude to decide what constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors” in drawing up articles of impeachment, which would be voted on by the House and, if passed, be subject to trial in the Senate.

The standard for constituting obstruction, therefore, is different than in a criminal probe, such as special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“Impeachment, unlike indictment, doesn’t require that you prove all the elements of the crime,” said Joyce White Vance, a

former U.S. attorney in Alabama during the Obama administration. “Congress is charged with determining high crimes and misdemeanors, not with violations of the federal code.”

Barbara McQuade, another former Obama administration U.S. attorney from Michigan, said there is no standard for impeachment.

“Impeachment is anything Congress says it is for charging purposes in the House and for conviction purposes in the Senate,” said McQuade, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. “There can be some crimes that are not impeachable, like littering or jaywalking, and then there are some that are impeachable but not criminal, such as abusing one’s power for personal purposes as opposed to acting in the best interests of the country.”

Trump’s treatment of Congress’s witnesses is reminiscent of his behavior during the Mueller investigation. He worked to keep witnesses on his side through a mix of personal warmth to those who appeared to remain loyal and public and private hectoring and bullying of those he believed had not.

Trump was especially aggressive with his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who last year pleaded guilty to arranging hushmoney payments to women before the 2016 election and implicated the president in the illegal scheme. When Cohen began cooperating with prosecutors, Trump lashed out, castigating his former employee as a “rat” and calling for Cohen’s family members to be criminally investigated.

Similarly, Trump has been blasting witnesses now testifying against him as part of the House impeachment proceedings, even some administration officials that he appointed.

The president slammed Ambassador Bill Taylor, a longtime Foreign Service officer who agreed to lead the Ukraine embassy at the personal request of Trump’s secretary of state, as a “Never Trumper” who had hired Trump enemies as his lawyers.

Trump applied the same moniker to Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, a decorated Army officer and National Security Council official who flagged

Halloween shooting in Orinda, California leaves 4 dead Thomas Fuller, Jacey Fortin and Elian Peltier The New York Times News Service

ORINDA, Calif. — Four people were killed in a shooting in Orinda on Thursday night, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said.

The sheriff’s office did not immediately respond to requests for information Friday morning, but it said on Twitter early Friday that there were four fatalities and several injuries.

“Orinda officers, assisted by law enforcement officers from the area, arrived on scene and found a large house party with over 100 attendees,” the sheriff’s office added in a statement.

“There were three apparent gunshot victims who were pronounced deceased at the scene. Another died later at the hospital.”

Witnesses told NBC Bay Area, a local news outlet, that the shooting happened at a Halloween party that was being held at an Airbnb rental in Orinda, which is about 15 miles east of San Francisco.

The home where the shooting occurred is on a street shrouded with mature trees on a steep slope above downtown Orinda, a white-collar bedroom community home to technology executives, bankers and professors at the nearby University of California,

Berkeley.

A neighbor told reporters that the party was overflowing into the street.

“There were over 100 people in a house that really can only fit maybe 50,” he said.

Victims limping away from the crime scene could be seen in television footage from ABC7 News, while paramedics were shown loading at least one man on a stretcher into an ambulance.

Two hours after the shooting, people who had attended the party huddled by their cars, still appearing dazed.

None were willing to speak with a reporter.

David Cook, chief of the Orinda Police Department, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday morning. He told The East Bay Times that officers had responded to a call reporting that shots had been fired shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday, and that they arrived to find a party at a rental property.

The shooting occurred two days after three people were killed and nine others injured at a Halloween party in Long Beach, California, 25 miles south of Los Angeles. Three people were killed and at least 13 others were injured in a shooting at a food festival in Northern California in July.

Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president as inappropriate as soon as it ended.

In another parallel to his behavior during the Mueller probe, Trump has also engaged in a relentless campaign to undermine the Ukraine investigation itself as illegitimate. This is partly a political tactic seemingly aimed at persuading his supporters to reject any damaging information that emerges from the probe as tainted and unfair.

Trump has called Democrats leading the process rank names, accused them of treason and has said they should face criminal investigations for unspecified behavior. The president also has revived the same dismissive title for the impeachment inquiry that he wielded effectively for nearly two years against Mueller: “Witch Hunt.”

Trump also directed the executive branch not to comply with congressional requests for documents or testimony - a posture articulated earlier this month in a scathing memorandum to Congress from White House counsel Pat Cipollone that effectively declared war on the inquiry.

Keeping people from testifying based on intimidation or a pretextual assertion of executive privilege is the clearest element of Trump’s obstruction of the congressional inquiry, according to Vance, a University of Alabama School of Law professor. She said Trump’s obstructive actions have been obvious yet have not triggered commensurate outrage because they follow his now-familiar pattern of behavior.

“We’re like the frogs that are boiling,” Vance said.

“It’s happened so persistently that something that’s really just blatant and obvious is obscured.”

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Fun and fungi (fun guy) in the forest I have spent most of this past week in the woods turkey hunting, but so far I have only harvested a nice hunk of Chaga fungus (Inonotus obliquus) and a smaller “Lion’s Mane” (Hericium erinaceus) mushroom.

I carry a folding pruning saw with me in my hunting vest, just in case I happen to find Chaga, which grows on all species of birch, as well as occasionally on beech and hop hornbeam. Chaga is not all that uncommon in a birch forest, but I never find it if I am specifically looking for it, which is why I carry the saw. It is most conspicuous and considered most health beneficial when harvested from paper birch during winter months.

It is pretty easy to identify, since it is black on the outside, but reddish brown internally.

The interior tissue sometimes has white-colored “strands” of fungal mycelium woven through the red. On the outside, it looks like an irregularly shaped, flakey, dark clump of dirt that seems to be erupting from a wound area on the bark.

It is as hard, or even harder than the wood it is growing out of. This is not a fungus you can harvest with your penknife!

The growths may be as small as an orange, or as large as a football. The biggest Chaga I have seen was about 18 inches long and 10 inches thick. That one was growing on yellow birch.

Both Chaga and Lion’s Mane are considered by many as medicinal fungi, but I would consume them even if they were not! Chaga makes a delicious tea. I grind up small (quarter size) chunks of Chaga in a grinder that I recently purchased to grind dry ginseng roots. Dry ginseng roots are even harder than wood and I

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BEYFUSS have destroyed several coffee grinding machines trying to find one that can do the job. I finally found one that seems to handle the roots as well as the Chaga. It is a Cuisinart Spice and Nut Grinder model SG-10.

I have managed to overheat it once already, grinding ginseng roots, and I don’t think the blades are as sharp as when I first used it, but it sure beats the hand-cranked grinder I had been using!

The powdered Chaga is steeped in boiling hot water into a dark-colored liquid that makes a mild-flavored tea. I have learned that a little bit of Chaga powder makes a lot of tea! One tablespoon of powder makes at least two quarts of tea. I use a cup of brewed Chaga tea plus a cup of water, in my coffer maker with two tablespoons of coffee to brew my morning coffee almost every day. I think the flavor of the Chaga tea enhances the coffee flavor for a nice combination.

I sweeten it with local maple syrup and add half-and-half.

I was surprised to find Lion’s Mane still fruiting at this time of the year since few fleshy fungi are found in late October/early November. I usually find this species in August or September. Like Chaga, it is pretty easy to recognize. The one I harvested was growing

on beech, but it may be found on almost any hardwood. It is snow white in color when very fresh, but fades to butter colored after a few days or so.

After that they turn quite yellow, which I consider as not harvestable.

Mushrooms grow remarkably fast and sometimes engulf things that are in their way as they grow! When I cut this one up I found an intact beech nut that was completely surrounded by the fungal tissue. It does not look at all like a typical mushroom, having long spines that hang down, almost like a clump of really skinny icicles.

I don’t think it looks much like a Lion’s Mane though, despite the common name. They also range in size from a tennis ball to almost football size.

Lion’s Mane is very tasty cooked when fresh. The taste and texture are very much like cooked lobster or crab meat.

The flavor is sweet and savory, flesh is somewhat stringy. Not long ago a friend of mine made “mock crab cakes” by substituting Lion’s Mane for the crabmeat in a typical crab cake recipe. It was delicious and had no shell fragments in it!

You can Google these fungi for more details on their purported medical benefits. As I said, I will consume them happily whether they are medicines or not!

I did take one unwanted thing out of the woods with me. A nymph stage deer tick got under my shirt and bit me on my ribcage sometime on the drive home. I guess the permethrin repellent I used on my hunting clothes way back in late April has finally worn off.

Rep. Antonio Delgado announces November mobile office hours KINGSTON — Each month, the office of U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado, D-19, hosts mobile office hours where constituents can meet with the congressman’s staff and receive assistance with constituent services.

This includes any type of support with federal services, from seniors having issues with their Social Security benefits, to veterans needing more information on VA benefits and services, to organizations applying for grants.

In October, Delgado’s office held mobile office hours at locations in Rensselaer, Greene, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan and Ulster counties.

“I am continuing to uphold my commitment to be accessible, accountable, and transparent to everyone in the district. That’s why I’ve opened five district offices, held 26 town halls, and

created in-district advisory committees focused on the priorities important to NY-19 including Health Care, Veterans, Small Businesses, and Agriculture.”

Delgado continued, “I’m proud to announce mobile office hours with members of my staff this November to continue bringing the resources and services from my office directly to the communities I represent. There are a number of ways my office can help cut through red tape and resolve issues tied up in federal agencies. Last month my office enjoyed meeting new folks at mobile office hours and hearing about the issues important in communities across our district. We are looking forward to meeting

more folks in November — hope you’re able to come by!”

NOV. 4: GREENE & RENSSELAER COUNTIES Greenville Public Library, 11177 Route 32, Greenville, noon-2 p.m.; Grafton Community Library, 2455 Route 2, Grafton, 4–6 p.m.

NOV. 18: SCHOHARIE & MONTGOMERY COUNTIES Fulton Town Hall, 1168 Bear Ladder Road, West Fulton, 8–10 a.m.; Canajoharie Village Office, 75 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie, noon-2 p.m.

NOV. 25: SULLIVAN COUNTY Roscoe Free Library, 85 Highland Ave., Roscoe, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.; Mamakating Library, 128 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, 2–4 p.m.

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

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Everyone needs a good grump day I’ve decided that today’s going to be a crabby day. I haven’t had one in a long time so I might as well enjoy it.

I didn’t sleep well last night.

My trips to the refrigerator in the wee hours weren’t too productive. During the times I could have slept, the leg cramps came to visit; walking usually helps so I logged a few miles around the dining room on three different occasions.

At 5:30, I finally gave up and made coffee and settled down to watch the news. The first item was about today being the start of flu season. The weatherman announced it was going to be chilly and rainy.

Things weren’t looking good.

At 6 I woke The Queen, who had coffee. I sat in my recliner to enjoy what was left

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BROOKS of my coffee when the cat decided that it was petting time, jumped into my lap and then left looking indignant because the coffee made it there first and she doesn’t enjoy being damp. I hobbled to the bedroom and changed, taking note of the aches and pains of past stupidities that had

returned with the cold, damp weather to haunt me.

I saw The Queen off for the day and decided to enjoy being grumpy. It’s kind of hard to be in a bad mood when you’re by yourself. The Queen was off to work, The Princess is far off in Brooklyn. I tried being crabby at the cat, it didn’t work. She kept crawling into my now dry lap and purring. Even on a crabby day, it’s difficult to be angry with a contented cat.

I was in danger of becoming my usual cheerful self so I decided to sit and have a ponder about things that make me grumpy. People who hurt others are high on my list. Rapists in particular bother me; I’m glad I’m not a judge because I think they should be taken to the nearest animal hospital to

solve their problem. Eunuchs are nice people, from what I hear.

Some of the merchandising done by stores ticks me off.

The other day I watched a clerk taking down the Halloween display so she could start putting up a Christmas display.

I like Christmas as much or more than most folks. One of my favorite things to whittle is Santa figures, but even though I might not know what day it is, I do know the month, usually.

It’s the end of October, almost a month from Thanksgiving, which used to be the start of the holiday season. We just lived through Halloween, for crying out loud.

Next thing you know they’ll be announcing a new holiday, Hallowthankmas, which

will be celebrated during the months of October, November and December. Maybe these greedy merchants should be boiled in a cauldron with a turkey and stirred by a witch using a Christmas tree.

This is working. I’m having a grand grump! Those Right to Know statements are another thing that bugs me. Sometimes you just would rather not know, thank you very much.

You don’t feel good, you go to the doctor and she prescribes a medicine to correct the problem. You go to the drugstore and get the medicine and all is fine, until you start to read the five or six pages of information listing all the side effects that can occur if you take the medicine. Sometimes it just doesn’t seem worth the risk to take the

stuff. I don’t want to know, I just want to get rid of the condition, not pick up something worse.

This has been wonderful.

I’m properly grumpy and I’m going out in the cold and damp to see if I can sneak up on the deer eating our hosta in the backyard and give it a good kick.

Thought for the week — “There’s an old story about the person who wished that his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish came true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.” — Stroustrup Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

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Jewett United Methodist Church, 2252 Route 23C, East Jewett, will hold a pancake

supper 2-6 p.m. Nov. 10. Menu includes pancakes and maple syrup, eggs, sausage and gravy,

sausage, applesauce and more.

Free will offer to benefit a community family.

Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.com.

Church Briefs IRISH NIGHT FUNDRAISER CATSKILL — St. Patrick’s Church of Catskill, will host Irish Night with the Andy Cooney Band, buffet dinner show/dance at 6 p.m. Nov. 2 at Anthony’s Banquet Hall, 746 Route 23B, Leeds. Tickets are $50. For information and reservations, call Rosemary at 518-943-4259 or Anne at 518965-7778.

TRASH AND TREASURE SALE CATSKILL — Temple Israel of Catskill to hold Trash and Treasure Sale 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 3 at Temple Israel of Catskill, 220 Spring St., Catskill.

This will be the last tag sale of the season. Household goods, furniture, books, and odds and ends from antique to crafty will be on display, all in excellent condition. There is something for everyone, including a delicious bake sale, a 50/50 raffle and, in addition, we will be raffling off a fabulous gift basket. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the temple and the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund.

CHICKEN AND BISCUIT DINNER COEYMANS HOLLOW — Trinity United Methodist Church, 1313 Route 143,

Coeymans Hollow, will serve a chicken and biscuit dinner noon-7 p.m. Nov. 5. The menu includes chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, green beans or squash, cranberry sauce, homemade pie and beverage.

The cost is $11. A lunch menu will be served 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and will include homemade clam chowder.

TURKEY SUPPER NORTON HILL — The Asbury United Methodist Church, 5830 Route 81, Norton Hill, Greenville, will serve its annual turkey supper 4-7 p.m. Nov. 9. Eat in or take out.

Adults, $15; children 6-12, $7; children under 6, free. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling GNH Lumber at 518-966-5333. It is not necessary to visit the store in person.

BANQUET AND SILENT AUCTION BERNE — Helderberg Christian School Vision Banquet and Silent Auction will be held 4-7 p.m. Nov. 9 at the First Baptist Church of Westerlo, 618 Route 143, Westerlo. Adults, $15; children under 10, $8. For tickets and information, call the school office at 518-499-5416 or hcsofficeassist@yahoo.com.

HUDSON — Temple Israel of Catskill, The Jewish Federation of North Eastern New York and Columbia-Greene Community College present a free screening of the acclaimed film, The Last Goldfish, at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Arts Center Theater, Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. Told through a personal archive of photos and home movies, The Last Goldfish, is the story of a daughter’s search for her family’s lost European roots beginning in Nazi Germany and Kristallnacht to their journey to Trinidad, and eventually settling in Australia. The movie is a revelation of how they got there and why. Writer and director, Su Goldfish, is related to Temple Israel congregant, Joyce Federman. Su will hold a question and answer session via Skype from Australia after the viewing. A Havdallah service ending the Sabbath will be conducted by Rabbi Zoe B. Zak, spiritual leader of Temple Israel of Catskill.

Light refreshments will be served.

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House of Worship News & Services Trinity United Methodist 1311 Rte. 143, Coeymans Hollow | NY 12046 • 756-2812

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

Church of Saint Patrick 21 Main Street, Ravena, NY 12143 • (518) 756-3145

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

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

Wednesday 6-7:00 p.m.

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Janine O’Leary, Parish Life Coordinator Fr. L. Edward Deimeke, Sacramental Minister Saturday* 4:00 p.m. EST / 4:30 p.m. DST *1st / 3rd Athens and 2nd /; 4th Catskill Sunday 8:45 a.m. Catskill / 10:45 a.m. Athens

All Are Welcome!

New Baltimore Reformed Church 518 756 8764 • Rt. 144 and Church St. NBRChurch@aol.com • www.nbrchurch.org

Rev. Rick L. Behan, Pastor Sunday Worship - 9:30 AM Communion First Sunday every month Fellowship before and after worship Thursday - Choir Rehearsal 4:45 PM Tuesday - Bible Study 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday - Helping Hands 10:30 AM Come to the Church in the Hamlet! Working together since 1833

Congregational Christian Church 175 Main Street · PO Box 326 · Ravena, NY 12143 Church: (518) 756-2485 | Rev. James L. Williams: (518) 441-8117

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

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BRIEFS We want to hear from you.

To send information to be included in Briefs, email to editorial@thedailymail.net; mail to The Daily Mail, Atten: Community News, One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534; fax to 518-8283870. For information, and questions, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2490.

NOV. 2 HUDSON — Food Network Star Nancy Fuller will serve as mistress of ceremonies for The Community Hospice’s 26th annual “Oh What a Night” gala on Nov. 2 at The Falls, Union Turnpike, Hudson. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at 6:30 p.m., dinner and dancing 8-11 p.m.

The evening will feature a cocktail reception and silent auction, followed by a dinner catered by Mara Simons Jones and dancing the night away with local band Just In Time.

Black tie preferred. Tickets are $150 each. Proceeds will ensure that vital programs and services are available for hospice patients in Columbia and Greene counties. To attend, contact Jodi at 518-943-5425 ext. 8338 or visit www.columbiagreenegala.org.

CATSKILL — St. Patrick’s Church of Catskill, will host Irish Night with the Andy Cooney Band, buffet dinner show/dance at 6 p.m. Nov. 2 at Anthony’s Banquet Hall, 746 Route 23B, Leeds. Tickets are $50. For information and reservations, call Rosemary at 518-943-4259 or Anne at 518965-7778.

COXSACKIE — The Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie, presents an art show and reception at noon Nov. 2. The show features art from our children and young adult art classes this past summer and fall.

Admission is free and all are welcome. For information,

visit www.heermancelibrary. org or call the library 518-7318084. Parking available in rear of building.

MARGARETVILLE — Historian Ray LaFever will sign copies of his recent release of The History of the Town of Bovina, Delaware County, NY 11 a.m.2 p.m. Nov. 2 at Home Goods of Margaretville, 84 Main St., Margaretville. Ray succeeded his late father Charlie as Bovina Town Historian in 2004.

Ray has been writing the town history since 2003. He will offer copies for sale at the signing and refreshments will be available.

SCHENECTADY — The Hudson-Berkshire Division, Northeastern Region National Model Railroad Association will hold an open house noon-5 p.m. Nov. 2 at 4026 Ryan Place, Schenectady. Learn about model railroading, in all scales. Pizza and refreshments will be served. Stay for as long as you wish. For information, call 585-506-2680 or benlmaggi@hotmail.com.

NOV. 3 FREEHOLD — The Hudson Valley Lodge 3-432, Sons of Norway, will host a Scandinavian Craft Fair 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Freehold Fire House, Route 32, Freehold. Handmade ornaments and gift items, white elephant table, Scandinavian foods and baked goods. Admission is free.

CATSKILL — Temple Israel of Catskill to Hold Trash and Treasure Sale 8:30 a.m.3 p.m. Nov. 3 at Temple Israel of Catskill, 220 Spring St., Catskill. This will be the last tag sale of the season.

Household goods, furniture, books, and odds and ends from antique to crafty will be on display, all in excellent condition. There is something for everyone, including

a delicious bake sale, a 50/50 raffle and, in addition, we will be raffling off a fabulous gift basket. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the temple and the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund.

NOV. 5 CAIRO — Friends of the Cairo Library will sponsor a used-book sale 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Election Day, Nov. 5 behind the library at 15 Railroad Avenue, Cairo, weather permitting.

CAIRO — The annual spaghetti & meatball dinner sponsored by the Cairo Hose Company Auxiliary will be held 5-7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Cairo Firehouse, Railroad Avenue, Cairo. Take outs at 4:30 p.m. Adults, $9; children 5-12, $5; under 5, free.

COEYMANS HOLLOW — Trinity United Methodist Church, 1313 Route 143, Coeymans Hollow, will serve a chicken and biscuit dinner noon-7 p.m. Nov. 5. The menu includes chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, green beans or squash, cranberry sauce, homemade pie and beverage.

The cost is $11. A lunch menu will be served 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and will include homemade clam chowder.

Reservations are required and can be made by calling 518828-4157.

COXSACKIE — The Greene County Historical Society will host speaker Ron Gabriele who will offer the program “50 Years After Gettysburg” at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Fedder Research Library, Bronck Museum, 90 County Route 42, Coxsackie. The Second Battle of Gettysburg is the story of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the original battle of Gettysburg which took place July 1-3, 1863. The program will examine how it took four years to plan the commemoration event; the obstacles of organizing such an event including how in 1913 they would transport 54,000 aging veterans from every state to the remote hamlet of Gettysburg in south central PA; how

the U.S Army fed everyone at the event; what the veterans did during the event; the news coverage of the event at the time; the famous dignitaries at the commemoration; and finally the emotional conclusion of the commemoration event. This program is free and open to the general public, but donations would be appreciated in support of the Beecher Scholarship.

NORTON HILL — The Asbury United Methodist Church, 5830 Route 81, Norton Hill, Greenville, will serve its annual turkey supper 4-7 p.m. Nov. 9. Eat in or take out.

Adults, $15; children 6-12, $7; children under 6, free. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling GNH Lumber at 518-9665333. It is not necessary to visit the store in person.

NOV. 9 BERNE — Helderberg Christian School Vision Banquet and Silent Auction will be held 4-7 p.m. Nov. 9 at the First Baptist Church of Westerlo, 618 Route 143, Westerlo.

Adults, $15; children under 10, $8. For tickets and information, call the school office at 518-499-5416 or hcsofficeassist@yahoo.com.

OAK HILL— An all you can eat breakfast will be served 8 a.m.-noon Nov. 9 at the Oak Hill/Durham Firehouse, 103 County Route 22, Oak Hill.

Free will offering will be accepted. Held in conjunction with the 20th Annual Vintage Snowmobile Show and swap meet sponsored by the Northern Star Riders Snowmobile Club.

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NOV. 7 HUDSON — Students and staff at the Questar III Columbia-Greene Educational Center (CGEC) will host their annual Veterans Day Lunch on Nov. 7, 2019 to celebrate and honor local veterans for their service to our country. Area veterans, along with a guest, are invited for a complimentary lunch at the ColumbiaGreene Educational Center, located at 131 Union Turnpike, Hudson. There will be two seatings, 11 a.m.– noon and 12:30–1:30 p.m. A separate dessert room is available after lunch, so guests can enjoy coffee and socializing.

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To Town of Cairo Voters The Greene County Conservative Party Executive Committee is supporting Sherry True as the Town of Cairo Supervisor for 2020.

Earlier in the year, we had endorsed Dan Benoit for Supervisor. Unfortunately, due to the late date of his withdrawal from the race, Dan Benoit’s name will still appear on the Conservative line of the ballot even though he is not running for the position.

Therefore, we encourage you to cast your vote for Sherry True on her ‘’True Choice Party’’ line on November 5th.

Sherry True has pledged to be the first full-time Supervisor the town of Cairo has had in many years. She has no agenda other than to bring the town of Cairo forward in positive ways. Sherry is a life long resident of Cairo and has worked tirelessly for the betterment of the town. For the last four years she has served as Secretary to the Cairo Town Supervisor, and has taken on many of the day to day tasks within the town government.

Sherry has been involved in the the positive changes to the old Cairo Zoning Law, which was enacted by the administration before Dan Benoit became Supervisor. These new changes make the law less restrictive and more business friendly. This is a vital step toward expanding our tax base and reducing the tax burden on individual taxpayers.

As a member of the Cairo Development Foundation, Sherry has been instrumental in obtaining grants for the town of Cairo, including one that funded the purchase of the old Cairo Garage. This building is now a model of the proven Main Street concept that promotes businesses on the first floor and apartments on the upper floors. Other funded plans include the demolition of the adjacent blighted building, which will be replaced with a pocket park and direct access to the Cairo Town Park.

Sherry True has proven that she is dedicated to Cairo, has a vision for its future, and has the work ethic to follow through and get things done for our town. Of the three candidates in this year’s Cairo Supervisor election, only one has not been a Cairo Town Supervisor from the past Sherry True is the best choice as the new Supervisor of the town of Cairo. She is the new voice for the future of our town.

Very Truly Yours, Nick Passero Greene County Conservative Party Chairman Paid political advertisement paid for by Raymond Pacifico Secretary of Greene County Conservative Party

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ECO Vern Bauer (left) and ECO Nate Doig (right) with an illegal deer taken with a crossbow.

Crossbow season opens today

By Larry DiDonato For Columbia-Greene Media

Today, Saturday, November 2 is opening day for using a crossbow to take deer and bear in the Southern Zone in NY. It runs concurrent with the long-established early archery season, until both seasons close the day before regular gun season for big game. This year regular gun season begins at sunrise on November 16.

Crossbows offer some definite advantages as far as ease of operation when compared to compound bows. Becoming proficient with even the most advanced model compound can take weeks, if not months of practice. Crossbows are much easier to learn to shoot.

You can buy one equipped with a scope and become proficient enough for a clean

kill out to reasonable distance in a day. It’s the lack of physical ability required and “point and shoot” similarity to rifle marksmanship that makes it easy to get good with a crossbow quickly.

A friend of mine developed some debilitation in one shoulder and he can no longer pull back his compound bow. This is an extremely common occurrence, especially considering the aging demographic of active hunters in NY. Such injuries would probably not qualify most for a modified crossbow permit.

Now that crossbows are legal in the latter half of the early bow season, hunters with that plight get to do some early deer season hunting. My friend got a great See CROSSBOW B6

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Family Tradition

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VALATIE — On Sunday, runners will take their marks for the forty-ninth annual New York City Marathon. Participants travel from all over the globe to the Big Apple for this infamous test of endurance and willpower each year.

A good number of the runners decide to run with family members and friends to complete this daunting task of twenty-six miles that hits all five boroughs of New York.

They hope to rally around one another to train for and run this incredible race and a large number of the people take pride in just finishing the race.

Derek Grout, 47, of Harvest Spirits (Golden Harvest Farms) has been training for seven months since he and his brother, David, decided to run together this November. Derek had run the NYC Marathon before, back when he was 19, but he says he did not properly prepare for it then.

“Yeah it was like 15 miles in and I was feeling great,” Grout remembers, “...and then at like mile 16, I just felt like I hit a brick wall and I started getting lactic build-up in my legs. And then I was just basically walking from mile 20 to the end.”

Derek grew up on Golden Harvest Farm with his four brothers, and a mother who had developed an affinity for running in 1979. Jayne Zinke,

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76, took up the running mantle forty years ago, just prior to the Olypmic torch coming through Kinderhook, on it’s way to Lake Placid for the 1980 Winter Games.

Zinke began racing in marathons in the 1990s, but has not run one in twelve years.

But she has been sure of her abilities all of these years since then.

“1991 was actually the first time I ran this one in New York,” Zinke recalls, “and I actually ran in the exact time that I had put down on the application, when they ask you to estimate how long it’s going to take you. I put down three hours and fifty minutes, and that’s what the time was when I crossed the finish line.”

Her sons on the other hand, have only run a combined two marathons in their lives.

Derek ran the NYC Marathon back when he was 19, and his brother David just ran his first marathon ever in Moscow, Russia in September.

Jayne actually had gone to Moscow the following spring in after her marathon in New York, and ran the Moscow Marathon to qualify for Boston and run that one too.

Derek said that he and Dave were actually the first ones in the family to sign up for the race this year, and their mother Jayne and another one of their brothers, Doug, who has never run any marathon before, decided to sign up afterwards.

They will not be trying to keep pace with the other brothers, but will just be hanging back and enjoying the race as they just try to finish at their own pace.

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Pro basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic W L Pct Philadelphia 4 0 1.000 Toronto 4 1 .800 Boston 3 1 .750 Brooklyn 1 3 .250 New York 1 4 .200 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 2 2 .500 Cleveland 2 2 .500 Detroit 2 3 .400 Indiana 1 3 .250 Chicago 1 4 .200 Southeast W L Pct Miami 4 1 .800 Orlando 2 2 .500 Atlanta 2 3 .400 Charlotte 2 3 .400 Washington 1 3 .250 WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest W L Pct Utah 4 1 .800 Minnesota 3 1 .750 Denver 3 2 .600 Portland 3 2 .600 Oklahoma City 1 4 .200 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 3 1 .750 Phoenix 3 2 .600 L.A. Clippers 3 2 .600 Golden State 1 3 .250 Sacramento 0 5 .000 Southwest W L Pct San Antonio 3 0 1.000 Houston 3 1 .750 Dallas 3 1 .750 Memphis 1 3 .250 New Orleans 1 4 .200 Wednesday’s games Cleveland 117, Chicago 111 Orlando 95, New York 83 Philadelphia 117, Minnesota 95 Boston 116, Milwaukee 105 Indiana 118, Brooklyn 108 Toronto 125, Detroit 113 Houston 159, Washington 158 Portland 102, Oklahoma City 99 Utah 110, L.A. Clippers 96 Charlotte 118, Sacramento 111 Phoenix 121, Golden State 110 Thursday’s games Miami 106, Atlanta 97 New Orleans 122, Denver 107 San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

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Cleveland at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Orlando, 7 p.m.

New York at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Dallas, 9:30 p.m.

Utah at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

San Antonio at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

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Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA New England 8 0 01.000 250 61 Buffalo 5 2 0 .714 134 122 N.Y. Jets 1 6 0 .143 78 185 Miami 0 7 0 .000 77 238 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 5 2 0 .714 158 151 Houston 5 3 0 .625 212 188 Tennessee 4 4 0 .500 148 135 Jacksonville 4 4 0 .500 173 163 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 5 2 0 .714 214 156 Pittsburgh 3 4 0 .429 150 145 Cleveland 2 5 0 .286 133 181 Cincinnati 0 8 0 .000 124 210 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 5 3 0 .625 226 181 Oakland 3 4 0 .429 151 192 L.A. Chargers 3 5 0 .375 157 157 Denver 2 6 0 .250 125 151 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 4 3 0 .571 190 124 Philadelphia 4 4 0 .500 202 199 N.Y. Giants 2 6 0 .250 158 218 Washington 1 7 0 .125 99 195 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 7 1 0 .875 195 156 Carolina 4 3 0 .571 179 184 Tampa Bay 2 5 0 .286 196 212 Atlanta 1 7 0 .125 165 250 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 7 1 0 .875 215 163 Minnesota 6 2 0 .750 211 132 Detroit 3 3 1 .500 180 186 Chicago 3 4 0 .429 128 122 West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 8 0 01.000 235 102 Seattle 6 2 0 .750 208 196 L.A. Rams 5 3 0 .625 214 174 Arizona 3 5 1 .389 195 251 Week 9 Thursday’s game San Francisco 28, Arizona 25 Sunday’s game Houston vs Jacksonville, at London,, 9:30 a.m.

Washington at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Detroit at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m.

Monday’s game Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 8:15 p.m.

49ers 28, Cardinals 25 San Francisco Arizona

7 14 7 0 — 28 7 0 7 11 — 25 First Quarter ARI—Drake 4 yard rush (Gonzalez kick), 12:11.

SF—Kittle 30 yard pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick), 0:04.

Second Quarter SF—Bourne 7 yard pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick), 9:04.

SF—E.Sanders 1 yard pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick), 0:00.

Third Quarter

ARI—Ke.Johnson 9 yard pass from K.Murray (Gonzalez kick), 9:01.

SF—Pettis 21 yard pass from Garoppolo (Gould kick), 5:55.

Fourth Quarter ARI—Gonzalez 36 yard field goal, 9:24.

ARI—Isabella 88 yard pass from K.Murray (Drake pass from K.Murray), 4:53.

A—60,986.

TEAM STATISTICS SF ARI First Downs 21 19 Total Net Yards 411 357 Rushes-Yds 31-101 23-153 Passing 310 204 Sacked-Yds Lost 1-7 3-37 Comp-Att-Int 28-37-0 17-24-0 Punts 5-46.2 5-50.6 Punt Returns 3-25 3-17 Kickoff Returns 4-70 3-55 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 8-75 9-65 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Time of Possession 34:31 25:29 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-SF, Breida 15-78, T.Coleman 12-23, Garoppolo 3-2, Mostert 1-(minus 2). ARI, Drake 15-110, K.Murray 5-34, Kirk 1-8, Morris 1-4, Zenner 1-(minus 3).

PASSING-SF, Garoppolo 28-37-0-317. ARI, K.Murray 17-24-0-241.

RECEIVING-SF, E.Sanders 7-112, Kittle 6-79, D.Samuel 4-40, Dwelley 4-29, Breida 2-14, T.Coleman 2-13, Pettis 1-21, Bourne 1-7, Wilson Jr. 1-2. ARI, Drake 4-52, Fitzgerald 3-38, Ke.Johnson 2-22, P.Cooper 2-15, Kirk 2-8, Isabella 1-88, Mx.Williams 1-12, Clay 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-SF, None. ARI, None.

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Friday’s games Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Washington, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Vancouver at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Winnipeg at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

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Girardi’s devotion to analytics is rooted in a Northwestern University statistics class Scott Lauber The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — For 44 years, Ajit Tamhane has been a professor at the engineering school at Northwestern University. He has taught, by his uncharacteristically imprecise calculation, thousands of students, scores of whom have appealed for a higher grade. Rarely has he been moved to grant such requests.

Then there was the case of Joseph Elliott Girardi.

An industrial engineering major from Peoria, Ill., Girardi took Tamhane’s statistics course in the mid-1980s and received a final grade that didn’t measure up to what he felt certain he had earned. So, he gathered each of his assignments and exams, marched into Tamhane’s office, and argued for why too many points were deducted here and too few were credited there.

“What impressed me about Joe was how thorough he was and how he presented the evidence,” Tamhane said by phone this week. “He actually succeeded in convincing me to raise his grade.”

The point, Tamhane said, isn’t that Girardi is some sort of master negotiator. It’s that, for more than 30 years, he has exhibited an interest in and a passion for statistical analysis that he claims to have used often as a catcher for 15 seasons in the big leagues and then as a manager for 11 years, 10 at the helm of the high-profile New York Yankees.

But as Girardi takes the reins of the Phillies, it’s fair to wonder about his devotion to analytics, especially considering he got fired by the Yankees two years ago in part because he reportedly pushed back against their progressive use of data.

“Joe came by my office maybe three years ago and said how he learned statistics from me,” Tamhane said. “He said, ‘You taught us the basic principles of statistics. You taught us how to draw inferences and how to use

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New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi during batting practice prior to Game 7 of the American League Championship Series against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017.

data, and I thank you for that.’

He said, ‘I use it all the time.’ “ Analytics has been a hot button for the Phillies over the last few years. At the direction of managing partner John Middleton, they built a researchand-development department that was nearly non-existent before 2015. Four years ago, they brought on general manager Matt Klentak, a 39-year-old with an economics degree from Dartmouth.

Then, after the 2017 season, the Phillies hired a manager, Gabe Kapler, who takes a decidedly data-driven view of the game. But Kapler produced a two-year record of 161-163 and got let go on Oct. 10.

Although the Phillies’ foray into analytics has not yet netted a winning season, Middleton recently doubled down on the use of data. The Phillies likely found Girardi’s inclination to delve into numbers to be desirable.

“I do embrace it,” Girardi said at his introductory news conference. “It is important to me because numbers tell a story over time. They really do. I’m an analytical guy that has an engineering degree that loves math. They can never give me too much information.”

Tamhane can vouch for that.

It would be disingenuous for Tamhane to say that he has a strong memory of Girardi in the classroom. He didn’t know until after the semester that Girardi played baseball for Northwestern, and it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. He isn’t much of a baseball fan, preferring basketball and even cricket.

But Tamhane won’t forget his hour-long meeting with Girardi — a two-time academic all-American — after the final grades were posted.

“That interaction is so distinctly etched in my memory because I never met a student who’d come with that detailed data and evidence,” Tamhane said. “He explained to me how he’s deeply interested in statistics and assured me that the analyses that he had done of the homework problems that I had given, how he had thought about those problems creatively and independently on his own.

It really impressed me.

“I rarely have seen that level of maturity in undergraduates.

It definitely convinced me that this guy’s different. He may not get the top score in the class in terms of the points that he got on the exam, but his thinking is very deep and thorough.”

Tamhane described Girardi

as “left-brained,” meaning that he tends to excel more in mathematics, sequencing and logic.

“Right-brained” people — Girardi’s wife, for example, according to Tamhane — are typically more creative and artistic.

In restating his commitment to analytics, Middleton said the Phillies must evaluate how best to present the data to the players. It’s hardly a unique challenge. Most teams are grappling with how to take the information produced by analysts and apply it at field level. Girardi will have a strong influence on the Phillies’ process.

“I don’t know if there is a perfect way,” Girardi said. “It’s important to understand what players are looking for, what they understand. I’ve always felt is this is a game of reactions. If you act, things happen too fast.

You have to react.

“Players need as much information as they can handle that helps them perform their job to their best, and we’ll continue to talk about ways to disseminate it. I want to know everything, and I want my coaches to know everything and embrace it and be able to help the players.”

It’s a good thing, then, that Girardi learned the basics in a Northwestern statistics class, a subject that meant enough to him to argue for a better grade.

“He gives me a lot of credit — I don’t know if it’s deserved or undeserved — that my teaching and the ‘Moneyball’ book excited him to analyze each batter, each pitcher, their performance, when he should replace a pitcher, and so on,” said Tamhane, who declined to divulge the grade. “He told me all these decisions are very much databased. He uses not very advanced techniques, but simple things like mean, median and histogram and looks at distributions.

“I did not realize that I had inculcated the basic points for him, but that’s what he says.

He’s a very smart guy, no doubt about it.”

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New ‘Pay to Play’ rule will forever change college sports Kevin McNamara The Providence Journal

Imagine a time when you flick on your television and see an Audi commercial with Providence hoops star Alpha Diallo sitting in the front seat of a sweet A8.

How about a Matunuck Oyster Bar spot with Rhode Island guard Jeff Dowtin asking you to swing by for some chowder?

Come summertime, you can sign your aspiring hoopsters up to play in the David Duke Summer Camp.

Welcome to the brave new world of open, free markets in college athletics. While no coach, athletic director or collegiate marketing guru wants to touch this time bomb, it’s coming into view with the speed of a Zion Williamson slam dunk.

In a true rarity, both liberals and conservatives feel giving student-athletes the right to profit off their name, image and likeness is a good thing.

Who doesn’t? Why is it fair for coaches to make millions, athletic departments to raise millions and conference offices to distribute many more millions to their schools when the actual talent

isn’t free to cut any deals?

The NCAA began studying NIL last spring but the passage of a law in California, the Fair Pay to Play Act, spurred proposals in other states and sped up the clock on the issue. Earlier this week the NCAA’s Board of Governors voted unanimously to permit the opportunity to benefit from the use of name, image and likeness “in a manner consistent with the collegiate model.”

No one knows what that means, including Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman and Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith. They chair a working group charged with setting up the framework of this new model. Like every other college president and athletic director who’s created this billion dollar sports business, they’re not sure where to turn next. “Maybe it needs regulation or minimal regulation or heavy regulation. We don’t know.

We’re just not there yet,” Ackerman said.

What every coach and athletic director fears is an “open season” scenario.

Examples? Alabama’s quarterback pulls in $500,000 in commercials.

Third-party agents work their way

into the recruiting process and line up marketing deals with an array of businesses for top hoopsters at certain schools. A crafty coach gets word to a star freshman at another school with few marketing deals and spins tales of grandeur if he’ll transfer and become his next point guard.

Clearly there need to be some “guardrails” instituted in all this.

Whether they satisfy meddlesome legislators who should be worrying about health-care costs and pitiful public education, is anyone’s guess but no one will be served well by a free, wideopen market. The chances the NCAA’s new regulations are labeled restraint of trade and land in court somewhere are almost guaranteed.

“At a big basketball school I think an agent could get a player a $100,000 commercial. A couple of them,” Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim said this week. “Is that where we want to go? OK, that’s fine, if that’s where we want to go. But don’t think it’s going to be a nice, simple thing, like a thousand here, a couple thousand there. It is not going to be that way.”

The unintended consequences in all

this are “a Chinese puzzle, a really difficult puzzle,” according to Boeheim.

As Rhode Island athletic director Thorr Bjorn says “the challenge is going to be how the new rules are followed. I think conceptually this is the next logical step for student-athletes (but) I do worry that the gaps between students participating in some sports versus others is certainly going to expand.”

One issue that could arise: Businesses choose to pay a few star players and cancel agreements with the schools.

This would squeeze budgets and maybe force schools to cut non-revenue sports. “There is a good likelihood that’ll come out of the hide of other programs: men’s Olympic sports programs and women’s programs,” said PAC-12 Commissioner Larry Scott.

As we blur the line between amateurs and the pros it’s awful easy to just tell kids with their hands out to just go pro. That’s old-world thinking. The new world says I may never be good enough to be a pro but have value when I’m in college playing for the Friars or catching passes at Notre Dame.

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“What I do know is the narrative isn’t being painted on what we as colleges are already doing for studentathletes,” Friars coach Ed Cooley said.

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Here’s another possible unintended consequence, one that NCAA leaders really need to think about. How about the fans in the stands, boosters who root for good old State U regardless of who is playing quarterback. They like college sports, not the pros. How many people do you hear say they love taking in a game at the Dunk way, way more that forking over triple the ticket price to see a bad NBA game at TD Garden?

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they played a vital role in getting Jayne and her sons, into this race without having to pass qualifying.

The NYAA helps out local apple growers in promoting their product and helping raise awareness for these local farms that cultivate their own produce. Derek shrugs and laughs that, admittedly, even though the NYAA does help in the process, “people here in NY really already know to go upstate for the good stuff.”

He says that ultimately, the whole training process and support from the NYAA, has done the family a great service by keeping them united toward one common goal of running this marathon on Sunday. And that they’re bond as a family has only been strengthened as a result of this

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teams, Manning’s years were usually measured by — and reflected through — how he performed against this particular NFC East opponent.

Manning has thrown 53 touchdowns against Dallas, more than against any other team.

Whenever Manning faced Dallas, win or lose, it felt memorable. His first start against them was his rookie season in 2004 when he engineered a game-winning drive in the season finale for his first

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collective effort.

Derek then revealed that after the race is finished, they have to walk even further, just to get some ponchos at the end of the race route. In totality, it’s a 25 block walk back to the hotel they’re staying at, so they can take showers and change their inevitably uncomfortable clothing after the marathon.

At the race’s end, Derek and David are planning on trying to keep pace with one another, are shooting for a time around 3 hours and 45 minutes to finish the race together as they’ve been keeping each other accountable in the training process.

“I just don’t want to get to a point where we start actually trying to pull in front of each other,” Derek says, “because I don’t want to hit that wall like I did last time. But just to keep pace and try not to strain too much and finish with that decent time would be the ultimate goal.”

David Grout, before the Moscow Marathon this year. He finished in 3 hours, 43 minutes.

career victory. His overall record against the Cowboys is 14-17.

But that rivalry no longer exists. At least not on a personal level.

“It will be (weird), it will be,” Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said of no longer seeing Number 10 in these bi-annual meetings.

Monday’s game, therefore, will a feel little like when a new actor plays a familiar character. The Giants have a new James Bond.

Welcome to the rodeo, Daniel Jones.

The Giants’ rookie quarterback will make the seventh start of his career on Monday night, but perhaps more

importantly, it will be his first against the Cowboys. He did face them sparingly in a mopup role late in the blowout loss in Week 1, but this will be Jones’ official introduction to the team that is always circled — twice — on the Giants’ schedule.

Part of what has made the Giants-Cowboys series so intriguing over the decades has been the quarterback play by both teams. The two franchises are generally identified by the players at that position, especially against each other. Manning and Tony Romo were always compared against each other. Troy Aikman always stood out against the Giants’ void of a franchise

quarterback for the Giants through most of the 1990s.

More recently, in his last three games against the Giants, Dak Prescott has thrown for 1,053 yards and nine touchdowns without an interception. He’s basically defined the latest chapters of the rivalry.

“Ouch,” Pat Shurmur said when those stats were relayed to him. “We have to get that fixed.”

Especially when it’s a division quarterback doing it against the Giants. Especially when he has a star on his helmet.

Now Jones becomes part of that quarterback tradition.

“It is a rivalry, these two

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70th birthday present this year from his family; a fully outfitted crossbow which he quickly mastered and is putting to good use right now.

While there are many such positive outcomes stemming from adding crossbows as a legal hunting implement for taking game, there are definitely some negatives.

Among the downsides to the ever-increasing popularity of crossbows in NY are their ease of use for illegal hunting as well as legal hunting. Then again, that could be said of most any hunting implement.

The crossbow’s distinct advantage over compound bows are its ease as a “point and shoot” hunting implement and that leads illegal hunters to take advantage of having a “bow” killed deer during the early season.

The amount of movement needed to pull back compounds, recurves or stick bows requires much more stealth and timing for wary deer and bear.

That was likely one of the motivating factors for a number of subjects recently arrested using crossbows illegally

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ECO Dustin Osborne (left) and ECO Jared Woodin (right) with another illegal buck taken with a crossbow in Delaware County in the early archery season.

by NYS Environmental Conservation Officers (ECOs) in Delaware, Otsego, and Albany Counties. Here are two excerpts from the Division of Law Enforcement’s Officer Highlights: Hunting over Bait Leads to Illegal Buck - Delaware County On Oct. 12, ECO Dustin Osborne received an anonymous tip about a subject who had possibly killed an illegal buck with a rifle during the early archery season in the town of

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Deposit. ECOs Osborne and Jared Woodin responded to a hunting camp where the officers discovered empty bags of bait scattered around and a gut pile in the front yard.

No one was at the residence when the officers arrived. The ECOs examined the fielddressed deer’s entrails and found a clean archery shot through its vitals, as well as a cocked crossbow hanging inside the front door. The officers also discovered additional bags of deer bait on the back

of an ATV. Shortly after the ECOs arrived, a subject returned to the camp with an eight-point buck, which he admitted he shot over a bait pile with a crossbow earlier that day.

Crossbows are not a legal implement for hunting big game during early archery season.

ECOs Osborne and Woodin seized the deer and issued the subject tickets for killing a deer over bait, hunting over bait, and killing a deer by means not specified. The subject was

Jayne Zinke, after finishing the Boston Marathon in 1995 in 3 hours, 36 minutes.

teams,” Jones said. “It’s a divisional game, it’s an important game, it’s a big game, and I realize that there’s a rivalry element to the two teams playing, just in that they’ve been in the division and played for a long time. So, I’m excited to be part of that. Yeah, I think I realize it’s a big game.”

It’s also a chance to lay some groundwork for what could be a decade or more of meetings.

For however long Jones wears a Giants uniform as the starting quarterback, he’ll be facing the Cowboys twice a year every year. “(Jones) has played against the Redskins, a division foe, and he’s played against some really outstanding defenses

along the way here,” Shurmur said. “He’s played on the road, he’s played at home. He’s just clicking them all off. This just happens to be the first time he’s (starting) against the Cowboys.”

But Shurmur also admitted it has significance.

“It is important,” he said.

Not just for Monday, but for the duration of Jones’ Giants tenure.

Just as it became for Manning, how Jones plays against the Cowboys will likely become a bellwether for his seasons to come and a measuring stick for his career.

immediately arraigned in the Town of Deposit Court, where he paid a penalty for his violations.

Illegal Deer — Town of Hancock - Delaware County On October 19, 2019 ECO Nathan Doig and ECO Vern Bauer were checking camps in a remote area in the Town of Hancock when they came across an individual who had a six-point buck. Upon checking the deer in the garage, the ECOs noticed several bags of corn and other deer attractants as well as the tag on the deer belonging to the son who was no longer there.

ECO Doig and Bauer interviewed the subject who stated his son had shot the deer behind the house. ECO Bauer located bait as well as a bolt from a crossbow. ECO Doig was able to locate a blood sample that was retrieved for possible DNA testing.

ECO Doig and Bauer confronted the subject with the evidence and the subject soon stated the truth. He stated that he had shot the 6-point buck with a crossbow over bait and used his sons tag. He had used his sons tag because he had shot another 6 point buck the week before.

The subject was ticketed for the illegal deer, hunting over bait, using a crossbow during the regular bow season, using

tags of another, and killing deer in excess of the bag limit.

All tickets returnable to Hancock Town Court.

In two other unrelated cases, ECO Russ Fetterman caught several juveniles shining a light while in possession of a crossbow and several firearms in Otsego County and in Albany County ECO Kurt Swan ticketed a subject with a cocked and “loaded” crossbow in a motor vehicle.

Happy Hunting, Fishing, & Trapping until next time.

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Adam Gase hasn’t learned from his Dolphins tenure Omar Kelly Sun Sentinel

Don’t let Adam Gase’s overall record of 24-31 and the train wreck he’s coaching in New York fool you.

I’m convinced the Miami Dolphins’ former coach will eventually be a good head coach and have said this for years, with one condition attached.

Gase, who is 41, needs to mature.

I knew it wasn’t going to happen during his Dolphins tenure, which burned bright early before crashing and burning when his team quit on him at the end of last season.

We never dissected his final chapter in Miami because it no longer mattered, but the veterans in last year’s locker room had had enough of Gase’s shenanigans — his finger pointing, his excuse making, his blame shifting — and didn’t want him back in 2019.

They had seen Gase throw too many others under the bus too often, and concluded it was only a matter of time before they got run over, if they hadn’t already.

If Gase coming back meant Ryan Tannehill would be Miami’s starter in 2019, as one veteran put it then, “we’re good,” using a colloquialism that’s equates to saying “we’re done here!”

The turning point came the week after the Miami Miracle. The Dolphins were 7-6 after beating New England on that miracle, last second trick play, and the team never came off cloud nine.

Miami got slaughtered 4117 to the Minnesota Vikings the next week and multiple

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New York Jets head coach Adam Gase looks on during the second quarter against the Jacksonville Jaguars at TIAA Bank Field.

players claim Gase threw everyone he could under the bus that week, but his precious quarterback, Tannehill, who completed 11 of 24 passes for 108 yards, in a game when he was sacked nine times.

Miami’s defense allowed 220 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns.

“Everyone got criticized but Tannehill,” the player stressed. “Never Tannehill, and (Gase) was never (going to) change.”

Fully aware that the team was playing for Gase’s job security, the Dolphins seemingly took their foot off the gas, and Miami lost 17-7 to Jacksonville the next week.

With a chance to finish 8-8 on the line, the Dolphins got embarrassed 42-17 in Buffalo in the season finale, in a contest where numerous veterans pulled themselves out the game.

After the loss to Buffalo, numerous players declined to support Gase’s return.

Gase had lost his locker room, and the next day he

seasons.

Notice what happened this week as the Jets organization reportedly upset numerous veterans, elite talents like Le’Veon Bell and Jamal Adams, by discussing them in trade proposals. What came next?

It was Gase’s “they did it, not me buddy,” routine, which he pulled constantly in Miami.

That leads us back to his main issue, the need for this power-hungry human to grow up, take accountability for his actions, and stay in his lane.

He’s respected in the NFL for the work he did with Peyton Manning during his tenure as Denver’s offensive coordinator.

And he should be praised for taking a talent-starved Dolphins team to the playoffs in 2016, because you’ll realize that was miracle after closely examining that injury-decimated roster.

The problem is, Gase always wanted, and needs control. And he won’t stop unitl he has it. But he doesn’t understand his shortcomings, or limitations, and that’s a problem.

I hoped his failure in Miami, the realization that he lost his locker room, would help him mature.

It should help him blossom into the coach he has the potential to be, just like Bill Belichick’s struggles running the Cleveland Browns pushed him to become a legendary coach in New England 15 years later.

But maybe not enough time has passed, because Gase is simply making the same mistakes all over again.

I hope the Jets aren’t expecting a different outcome than what the Dolphins got.

lost his job.

But the Nick Saban protege, the alleged quarterback whisperer bounced back quickly, getting hired by the New York Jets. And despite undergoing a massive spending spree in the offseason, the Dolphins’ AFC East rival appears to be a franchise in shambles.

And considering someone got General Manager Mike Maccagnan fired after the organization allowed him to oversee free agency and the draft, and had him replaced

by Joe Douglas, one of Gase’s longtime buddies, there’s only one thing left to blame for New York’s disastrous 1-6 start.

And it’s not quarterback Sam Darnold’s mononucleosis.

It’s Gase’s ego, which encourages him to deflect blame and prevents him from taking accountability for what’s transpiring.

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Woman’s parents stew over her relationship Dear Abby, My husband and I have a 22-year-old daughter, “Cara,” who is having a relationship with a 65-year-old man, “Gary.” We do not approve of the relationship.

Gary is going through a divorce, and Cara has moved DEAR ABBY into his rented condo with him. She just graduated from college. She doesn’t have a job, has no money and drives an old car. She was always a good student and never did anything wrong. She didn’t date much and was a wonderful child. She and Gary have been together for almost six months now.

Cara knows we love her but do not approve of the relationship. She also knows that Gary is not welcome in our home. She sees nothing wrong with their relationship. She doesn’t socialize with her friends as often as she used to. Gary works full-time and also has a job on weekends. We never speak of him when we talk to our daughter. What is going on? What should we do? When will it end? Where is her head?

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Your daughter — who didn’t date much — thinks she’s in love with Gary. Because she is emotionally involved, she’s thinking with her heart, not her head. What you need to do is loosen up.

Tell your daughter you and your husband will welcome Gary into your home. And when that happens, get to know him and talk with him about the importance of her getting a job in the field for which she has worked so hard to qualify.

Their relationship will end when she finally tires of living with someone who is old enough to be her grandfather, and who has little time to devote to her because he has financial obligations toward his almost-ex-wife. Cross your fingers and hope she grows impatient soon.

Dear Abby, At my preschooler’s concert, another parent asked me to hold a seat for her near the front. I draped a sweater over two seats.

Shortly after, another family arrived, and the grandfather of another child removed the sweater, claiming the seats for members of his family who were also absent.

Three times I tried to explain that I was holding a seat for a parent with a disability who was having a hard time getting to the auditorium. Each time I was rudely interrupted. The man grabbed me by the shoulder, threatened me and even invited me to settle things outside. He later photographed my wife and children.

Not wanting to be that parent who gets into a fight over a seat at a children’s event, I backed down. Afterward, though, I did file a report with the police. Now I am deciding whether to press charges.

I don’t want to overreact, but I have heard from other parents that this man has a tendency to bully. I have always been bothered by stories about violence at kids’ events and feel this man crossed a line. Should I? Provoked In The East

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If this man behaved as you described and put his hands on you, then you were physically assaulted. If there were other parents who witnessed it and would be willing to testify if you press charges, go ahead and pursue it. When you do, the bully will be in the system the next time he does it to someone.

Dear readers: It’s time again to remind you that daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour at bedtime tonight. And while you’re at it, remember to change the batteries in your fire alarms and smoke detectors.

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Lifestyle changes can help with heartburn issues I was diagnosed a few years ago with a large hiatal hernia. After suffering for nearly 40 years with awful heartburn (I needed liquid antacids daily), I figured out that if I ate supper no later than 5 p.m. (most days 4 p.m.), stuck to lower-fat foods and lost weight, I could avoid the heartburn. I haven’t had TO YOUR heartburn now for about five GOOD HEALTH years.

DR. KEITH ROACH

I thank you for writing. It shows just how powerful lifestyle changes can be. While antacids, H2 blockers like famotidine (Pepcid), and even proton pump inhibiters like omeprazole (Prilosec) are generally safe and effective, not having to take medications is better still. Not everyone will have as good a result as yours, but careful diet (low fat, no caffeine, no carbonated beverages), eating earlier in the evening and raising the head of the bed are effective for most people. Losing weight is harder still, but just a few pounds can make a difference.

Avoiding tobacco and alcohol is important as well.

I was interested in reading your recent column on the causes of psoriasis. My mother suffered from it since the age of 9. It was on her legs, elbows, head and pubic area. I cannot stress enough the influence of stress on this condition. When she was quite old with dementia (perhaps Alzheimer’s?) and she had no stress and no memory, her lifelong psoriasis completely vanished.

Thank you for writing, and I think it is fascinating that your mother’s psoriasis went away.

One type of psoriasis — called “guttate,” which means “droplike” — can sometimes go away after a few months, but resolution after a lifelong course is not something I have read about.

A brief search of studies did not reveal a correlation with dementia. I am curious if others, especially my dermatology colleagues, have clinical experience with this. If so, please write to me.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may have to make demands that seem unreasonable at first — but if you’re tactful, you can smooth the way for yourself and others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You can experiment with your own coping skills today. You’re certainly more ready to deal with some things than you are others.

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By STELLA WILDER Born today, you can be quite impulsive when the mood strikes you, but most of the time you are far more likely to watch what is going on around you in a studious manner in order to get as much information as you can about a given situation or circumstance before making a decision or choosing a course of action for yourself — or others. It is not so much that you are cautious, but rather that you never want to go into something new uninformed.

You have a great deal of creative energy, and you’re sure to juggle more than one career at various times in your life. Like so many other Scorpio natives, you are unwilling to be trapped by circumstances; you will always strike out when you feel your freedom is threatened — whether by another person, or by the world at large.

Also born on this date are: Shere Hite, author and researcher; Ann Rutherford, actress; Marie Antoinette, French queen; k.d. lang, singer; Stefanie Powers, actress; Burt Lancaster, actor; Daniel Boone, frontiersman; Ray Walston, actor.

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.

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Freshman level 1. Which musical revolves around a beautiful opera soprano named Christine?

2. What is the barber’s name in “The Barber of Seville”?

3. A boy has an apple shot off his head in this opera.

4. The title siblings come upon a house made of gingerbread.

5. According to the saying, it ain’t over till she sings.

Graduate level 6. The title character of this Giuseppe Verdi opera is a court jester.

7. Title: “The Marriage of ______.”

8. The title character is a temptress who works at a cigarette factory in Seville.

9. Which composer is known for “Ring Cycle”?

10. Translate the title: “Die Fledermaus.”

PH.D. level 11. Wagner’s opera about the Swan Knight.

12. Which Verdi opera is based on a one-word title play by Shakespeare?

13. The title character sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge.

14. It is often performed by ballet companies primarily during the Christmas season.

15. This comic opera is also known as “The Lass That Loved a Sailor.”

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. “The Phantom of the Opera.” 2. Figaro. 3. “William Tell.” 4. Hansel and Gretel.

5. The fat lady. 6. Rigoletto. 7. Figaro. 8. Carmen. 9. Richard Wagner. 10. “The Bat” (“The Flittermouse”). 11. “Lohengrin.” 12. “Otello” (“Othello”). 13. Faust. 14. “The Nutcracker.” 15. “H.M.S. Pinafore.”

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Former Army paratrooper Erik Schlimmer has hiked thousands of miles in the Adirondacks and his experiences have resulted in a pyramid of books about hiking in the mountain range.

He’s the author of “Thru Hiker’s Guide to America,” “Blue Line to Blue Line,” “History Inside the Blue Line,” “Among the Cloud Splitters” and “My Erik Schlimmer Adirondacks,”the last title winning the Adirondack Center for Writing’s Best Memoir award. In 2018, Mr. Schlimmer released, “Cradle of the Union: A Street by Street History of New York’s Capital City.”

But when he talks about his latest book, it’s almost like he’s reluctantly See BOOK C2

THE DETAILS WHAT: “Color Remote: Bushwhacking The Adirondack Mountains” by Erik Schlimmer. Published by Beechwood Books.

WHERE AVAILABLE: On the publisher’s website at beechwoodbks. com. Each copy hand-numbered (out of a limited 1,000) and signed, COST: $40 plus $8 shipping.

A shot of Ampersand Lake from Van Dorrien Mountain, High Peaks Wilderness Complex. Erik Schlimmer Beechwood Books

A SEPARATE PLACE When you develop a relationship to wildland, it becomes a refuge. All my hiking is solo and I’m usually off trail, so I’ve built this intimate relationship with the land.

Keeping with that secretive nature, I’m only willing to share it with 1,000 people ERIK SCHLIMMER Author and photographer

Erik Schlimmer titled this shot, “Why We Camp on Summits.” On Stevens Mountain, Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area/ Courtesy Beechwood Books

On trend: Fly fishing is the new bird-watching OUTDOOR SPORT: Younger

crowds hope to connect to nature and build community

By ALEXANDRA MARVAR New York Times

Step aside, goat yoga. The chic way to unwind now is fly fishing.

That’s right. For some of the same reasons millennials recently flocked to bird-watching, this sport — long dominated by old white men — is gaining popularity with a younger set.

For those who can afford the leisure time and some rudimentary equipment, it offers a reason to be outdoors, a closer connection to nature, an avenue for environmentalism, built-in community, opportunity for creative expression and a

You have this activity which is such a big part of both this area’s historyand its conservation. Almost every aspect of fly fishing was refined, changed evolved in the Catskills.”

TODD SPIRE Full-time fly guide

lifetime’s worth of niche expertise.

Fly anglers who are not vegetarian nor vegan, nor otherwise bound by the code of “catch and release,” see it as an extension of the farm-to-table movement. Plus, it’s very Instagrammable, even as it encourages people to put down their phones.

And where millennials go, hospitality brands follow. Guided flyfishing excursions are now offered at many trendy boutique hotels,

including The Little Nell in Aspen, Colorado; Tourists, the eco-friendly lodge opened by indie influencers including the bassist of Wilco, in North Adams, Massachusetts; and Sage Lodge, a new nature resort just north of Yellowstone National Park in Pray, Montona, which has a stand of fly tackles and nets in its lobby, and daily “Fly Fishing 101” courses at its See FLY C2

Tom Roberts, a co-founder of the Livingston Manor Fly Fishing Club, demonstrates how to fish with a rope attached to a rod in Livingston Manor on Oct. 5. For those who can afford the leisure time and some rudimentary equipment, fly fishing offers a reason to be outdoors and a closer connection to nature. George Etheredge/New York Times

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backyard casting pond overlooking the Absaroka Mountains.

At the DeBruce, a boutique hotel and culinary destination in Livingston Manor, New York, the wall art, bookshelves and nine-course tasting menu are fly fishing-themed. The banner amenity of the hotel, where rooms start at $449 a night (including breakfast and the tasting menu), is half a mile of private river; waders, rods and reels are all available for rental for $75 per day in the Tackle Room near the pool. And in the Great Room, where elegant young couples on honeymoons, babymoons and minimoons pass their happy hours, a full fly-tying station is set up in the corner.

Todd Spire, 45, a digital marketer turned full-time fly guide, has built his Catskills business on this new wave of interest. Over the past four years, his guiding outfit, Esopus Creel, grew steadily by word-of-mouth and Instagram, and this spring, he opened a brick-and-mortar fly shop in Phoenicia.

“You have millennials who are drawn to experiences, looking for authentic ways to experience this place, and you have this activity which is such a big part of both this area’s history and its conservation,” Spire said. And, he noted, the area is of historic importance to the sport. “Almost every aspect of fly fishing was refined, changed evolved in the Catskills.”

And indeed, when clients fish in the Esopus Creek with Spire, they’re waist-deep in the same waters where Babe Ruth fished during the late 1930s. Decades before that, pioneering sportsmen like Theodore Gordon and Edward Ringwood Hewitt fished on the Neversink River. Nearby, on the Beaverkill River, the inventor of the fishing vest, Lee Wulff, perfected the use of his namesake flies, while his wife at the time, Joan Wulff, a competitive angler, brought novel poise and femininity to the craft of casting them.

(She once cast a cigarette out of Johnny Carson’s mouth on the daytime game show “Who Do You Trust?”) Joan Wulff, now in her 90s, still teaches at the 40-year-old school they founded, run out of a cabin

near Livingston Manor.

“I’ve become completely addicted to fly fishing,” said Mike Kauffman, 31, a tech entrepreneur and Manhattan resident who recently bought a home in the Catskills with his girlfriend, Annah Lansdown. “I find it totally meditative — the thing I never knew I needed.”

When he started out this spring, Kauffman knew virtually nothing about the sport: “I was at Phoenicia Diner and I saw ‘Esopus Creel’ on their menu,” he said, referring to an ad. “I thought, ‘Oh man, they spelled creek wrong.’”

But from his first guided outing with Spire, Kauffman and his girlfriend were hooked. “We’re scrolling all day thinking we’re connecting with the world, but our minds aren’t satisfied,” he said. “Being out in that river is a deeper connection to nature I never really had — and I think a lot of people don’t have. It’s something our monkey brain needs.”

Lansdown, 41, a creative director at a digital agency, added, “The water’s rushing around you, and you can’t hear anything. You can’t even hear people yelling at you.

You don’t think about work, or emails, or the city.”

Now, the couple owns all the gear.

And there’s plenty of gear and apparel to own. Newcomers may require waders, vests, tackle boxes, rods, reels, creels, flies and perhaps even fly-tying equipment. Graphite rods can cost as little as $30 but classic bamboo rods — preferred by Brad Pitt in the 1992 movie “A River Runs Through It” — can cost thousands. (For those seeking the highest-end option, Hermés recently debuted a wooden fly rod, priced at $13,790, and a wicker and calfskin creel for $17,420.)

“I can’t put my finger on what it was, but about five years back, something changed,” said Joe Fox, 33, a manager at Dette Flies fly shop in Livingston Manor.

“Especially in the past three years, we started seeing more new faces.”

According to the 2019 Outdoor Industry Association’s “Special Report on Fishing,” fly fishing is the fastestgrowing category of the sport.

Gender and racial diversity continues to tick upward. Age diversity encompasses both categories. Last year, 1 in 4

anglers surveyed were in the 18 to 34 age range.

Fox recently took over the family fishing supply business from his grandmother, who’d herself taken over from his great-grandparents, Winnie and Walt Dette. He launched a web store, and this past year, he and his partner, Kelly Buchta, also a fly angler, moved the business, which had been in the Dette family home in Roscoe since 1928, to a spacious new store on Livingston Manor’s main street. Longtime customers have stayed loyal. New customers continue to arrive.

In 2011, the store experienced a surge of attention shortly after celebrities like Selena Gomez and Steven Tyler, for inexplicable reasons, got into weaving grizzly saddle hackles — long, thin, speckled rooster feathers — through their hair. In short time, the style went viral.

Shops like Dette began to sell out of their fly-tying supplies, and in the lead-up to Bonnaroo that spring, virtually nobody could keep feathers in stock. Prices spiked. Some anglers were furious; others took to eBay with their spare hackles, selling them for 10 times the buying price.

This time, the newcomers are buying Dette’s wares for their intended purpose.

DEFYING THE ‘TWEED BRIGADE’ The name of the Livingston Manor Fly Fishing Club may recall the elite private fishing clubs of the old-school Catskills angling community, but this creekside glamping village — where annual memberships cost hundreds, not thousands, of dollars, and the benefits are tailored to weekenders — is the millennial set’s take.

Tom Roberts, 33, is a founder. With a woolen flatbrimmed cap over shaggy blonde hair, a British accent from his hometown of London and a 1972 Triumph Spitfire in “British racing green,” he cuts a smart picture of Instagram escapism. (His dog, a mutt named Biscuit with the muddled coat of a German pointer, completes the picture. Roberts calls her the club’s director of marketing.)

The property includes a clubhouse, greenhouse and trail through the woods to the edge of the Willowemoc Creek, where a hand-built banquet table runs parallel to the waterfront. Benches are

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strewn with fur pelts. Lights are strung in the trees. Guests and members stay in bedrooms in the main clubhouse, or in canvas tents equipped with a rustic take on luxury amenities, several of them Swedish: Sandqvist bags, Stutterheim raincoats, and sheets by Lexington Company, a bedding brand in Stockholm.

The village’s bustling Main Street is minutes, if not steps away, but it’s hard to tell from here.

“My grandfather was a fly fisherman. My dad and my brother are fly fishermen,” Roberts said. “But I never touched a rod in England. My perception of the sport was that it was stuffy and elitist.

Most of the rivers are private.

It’s the kind of tweed brigade that I’ve always pushed back on.”

An American friend convinced him it would be different on this side of the pond.

“We came up here and got out on the river. I was useless,” Roberts said. “But it didn’t matter.” In fly fishing, he found the same level of Zen that he loved about surfing and sailing. “There are few things we do where our technology is not somehow part of the experience. But in this case, you’re standing in a river. Both your hands are occupied. It’s very hard to make your phone part of that practice.”

Over the course of a few years, Roberts and his wife, Anna Åberg, weekended in the area. When they sought out and purchased the property with a third partner, Mikael Larsson, in 2016, Livingston Manor was beginning to attract attention from more New York City residents. “We thought it would be great to photogenic,” he said. “(The Adirondacks) is difficult mainly due to the our rugged terrain, the thick vegetation and the rocks and boulders and stumps everywhere.”

The color remote photos, he said, are a result of “old-fashioned patience.”

“That’s 15 years worth of photography and thousands of miles in the mountains trying to get these shots,” he said.

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discussing a secret.

“For a writer, I’m actually a pretty private guy,” Mr. Schlimmer said in a phone interview from his home in Rensselaer. “When you develop a relationship to wildland, it becomes a refuge. All my hiking is solo and I’m usually off trail, so I’ve built this intimate relationship with the land.”

“Color Remote: Bushwhacking the Adirondack Mountains,” was released by Beechwood Books (founded by Mr. Schlimmer) in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. The coffee table book contains 321 images. No filters or Photoshop program was used in any of the shots.

“Keeping with that secretive nature, I’m only willing to share it with 1,000 people,” Mr. Schlimmer said.

For the photos in the book, Mr. Schlimmer used 2005 and 2014 models of Sony Cybershot digital cameras and a 2011 GoPro Hero.

Mr. Schlimmer, who graduated in May 2018 with a master’s degree in social work from SUNY Albany, said the idea for the photo book came from his editor. The suggestion sounded good to Mr. Schlimmer, who told his editor that the book would give him a break from the type of research that was required for his previous books.

“Research can be fun, but it’s pretty grinding,” Mr. Schlimmer said. “My editor said, ‘I know you’ve got a couple thousand photos of the Adirondacks. You’ve got a coffee table

A trainer’s fishing flies at the Livingston Manor Fly Fishing Club in Livingston Manor on Oct. 5. George Etheredge/New York

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Erik Schlimmer titled this, “The Biggest Burl in the World.” Near Beaudry Brook, West Canada Lake Wilderness Area. Beechwood Books

book.’”

Mr. Schlimmer, 46, has been hiking the Adirondacks since 1985 when his parents moved the family from Poughkeepsie to Chestertown, Warren County.

“My parents dragged me and my big sister kicking and screaming up to the Adirondacks,” he said. “I was 12, started hiking and the rest is history.”

He first broke out his camera on his Adirondack Park hikes in 2005. The park contains more than 6,000 peaks above 2,500 feet and more than 10,000 bodies of water.

A WANDERING ADVENTURER In the introduction to “Color Remote,” Mr. Schlimmer notes he’s wandered nearly 10,000 miles within the Adirondacks, the bulk of it off-trail. “By taking this novel approach to exploring these mountains, I have become the black sheep of Adirondack photographers,”

he wrote, specializing in photographing “secreted places that are seldom visited, rarely photographed.”

The book is full of color, from a brilliantly red meadow hawk dragonfly against a rocky backdrop at Crab Pond to the fall colors of Wilcox Lake Wild Forest. A shot of a deer gazing at the camera on Page Mountain is titled, “When I Sit Still.”

“I deer hunt, and when I’m out looking for deer, I don’t find them,” Mr. Schlimmer said. “But that was at the right place at the right time. I was just sitting there totally silent and that thing just walked up in front of me.”

Getting such candid wildlife shots in the Adirondacks can be difficult, he said.

“What I tell people in general is that if I go to the Rocky Mountains or even to the South Appalachians, it’s pretty easy to get really good shots, whether it’s mountains or wildlife, especially out west where it’s very

Mr. Schlimmer is an “Adirondack Forty-Sixer,” but his mountain hikes have surpassed such lofty measures.

The Forty-Sixers is an organization of hikers who have climbed all 46 of the traditionally recognized high peaks of the Adirondack Mountains — generally more than 4,000 feet in elevation.

“I did all the 4,000-feet peaks and a year ago finished all the 2,500-feet peaks,” Mr. Schlimmer said. “I just kept getting lower to expand my hiking options.”

All together, he’s climbed 1,200 New York peaks and 500 New England peaks.

Mr. Schlimmer is also the founding member of Friends of the Trans Adirondack Route.

Explaining the route, Mr. Schlimmer said, “The short story is, in 2010, I became the first hiker to cross the entire (Adirondack) park. It took two weeks — 240 miles. I just did it for fun. I had a few weeks to kill.

When I got to the end, I said, ‘That was beautiful and challenging and wild.’”

He also told himself that other people might get a kick out of it. He formed the Friends of the Trans Adirondack Route in

A guest fishes at the Livingston Manor Fly Fishing Club in Livingston Manor on Oct. 5. George Etheredge/New York Times

bring back some of the heritage of fly fishing to this town.

We wanted to connect the town to the name of the place, and to connect the name of the place to fly fishing,” he said.

Still, guests are given the freedom to take it or leave it.

Fly fishing is not for everyone, Roberts acknowledges, and there’s always the hammock and wood-fired sauna. (The sauna sugar scrubs are housemade.)

FINS-TAGRAM Jessica McKay, a Gen Z angler who graduated from college in her home state of Minnesota last year, recently found a job as a fly fishing guide in Estes Park, Colo. She had no experience when she applied, but she loved the outdoors, and the owners gave her a shot. “I’m fudging obsessed,” she posted on Instagram this past summer, with a giant grin and a hefty brown trout. (Nearly 2,000 of her approximately 3,500 followers “liked” that one.)

“The fishing community on Instagram is amazing,” McKay, 22, said over the phone.

“I’ll have people reach out to me and ask me how to get into fly fishing, what are good flies to use, places to go — and I’ve used Instagram so many times to have my own questions answered.”

Derek Eberly, a guide, blogger and elder millennial (born in 1983) in Lancaster, Pa., said social media has helped increase the sport’s popularity.

It also has become more accessible, thanks to classes, including Orvis’ free Fly Fishing 101, which started in 2010, or local guides advertising their services on platforms like Airbnb Experiences.

2013, wrote a guidebook and created a map set.

“So far, we’ve got 14 thruhikers,” he said.

Successful trips have ranged between 11 and 20 days. It ascends three peaks and includes six sections of off-trail travel. It begins in downtown Ellenburg Center and concludes, heading south, 2 miles north of the hamlet of Lassellsville in the town of Ephratah.

“As I was planning the trip, I pieced together dozens of sections of standardized hiking trails, snowmobile trails, a little bit of road walking and a tiny bit of off-trail travel,” Mr. Schlimmer said. “There wasn’t a continuous route in place, so I pieced all those together and named it.”

The success rate for those who have tackled the trail is 50%, he said, and he has witnessed a pattern involving those who don’t finish it. One element in the pattern involves the novice hiker.

“They’re not good at off-trail navigation and they’re probably not very good at lightweight backpacking,” Mr. Schlimmer said. “That population just doesn’t know what they’re getting into.”

But experienced hikers have also been defeated by the Trans Adirondack Route, he said.

“I think what happened is they scoffed at it being ‘only’ 240 miles,” Mr. Schlimmer said.

“They just took it too lightly.”

A TIME MACHINE Mr. Schlimmer prefers not to use GPS on his hikes and carries no phone. He prefers a compass and a paper map.

“I’m old school,” he said.

“It’s a thinking man’s sport.

I like piecing together the

The sport was a natural extension of the DIY culture that brought Eberly as a high school student to skateboarding and punk: building the tackles, tying the flies. “When I went to my first fly shop, they sized me up really quickly and realized I wasn’t going to spend $500 on a fly rod,” he said. “So, they gave me no new information. But I was OK with that. I knew that’s what I was up against.”

Eberly said a resistance to that closed attitude is precisely why he blogs and guides, and that it’s becoming more a thing of the past. “I think these younger anglers recognize the need to make sure that these streams are listed and protected,” he said. “Anglers actually sharing knowledge and organizing these communities online is helping push that forward. What millennials have to learn is outweighed by what they can bring to the conservation side.”

Judy Van Put, a real estate agent and self-declared “fly fishing broker” who has fished in the area since the 1980s, recently received an invitation for an upcoming Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum fundraiser, the second annual Emerging Anglers Dinner. “In addition to a very welcoming atmosphere, they have a live DJ after the dinner,” she said.

“When I first began attending fly fishing dinners they were more formal. I was always very nervous to meet with older guides.” Now there are meet-ups like “Coffee & Casting,” or “Women, Waders and Wine.” “That just isn’t something that would ever have occurred years ago,” she said. “But if it gets more people out on the river, so be it.” information I have to navigate that way.”

As an Army paratrooper, Mr. Schlimmer was stationed in North Carolina and Central America and in addition to the Adirondacks, he’s trekked the mountains of New England, the Catskill Mountains, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountains and the southern Appalachians.

But the Adirondacks, he said, are special for him, giving him a “timeless” feeling that he attempts to share with “Color Remote.”

“The Adirondacks have a timeless feeling, which I don’t really feel in other mountain ranges, especially when I’m off trail,” he said. “When I’m way out in the wilderness area away from the lean-tos, away from the trails and I look around the forest, if I didn’t know better, I wouldn’t know what era I’m in.

It could be 2019, it could be the year 700, because the woods looked pretty much the same for about the last 8,000 years. It takes you back in time.”

But Mr. Schlimmer will soon expand his trekking horizons.

In a few days, he’ll be moving to Colorado Springs.

“My girlfriend and I spent two weeks in Colorado this past summer and fell in love with the place,” he said. “We’re giving it a year. Then we’ll reassess.”

They especially enjoy Colorado’s weather, economic opportunity and new places to explore.

“Albany gets 150 days of sun each year, Colorado Springs gets 300,” Mr. Schlimmer said.

“Colorado has more than 1,000 peaks above 10,000 feet. I’ve climbed four of them.”

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By ALEXANDRA PECCI Washington Post

My 10-year-old daughter, Chloe, squared her feet, raised her arm toward the dark, diamond-paned windows and waved her wand in a triangle pattern as she shouted an incantation into the night air.

“Incendio!”

Immediately, the building’s dark windows glowed with brilliant white light, and a small crowd of people around us gasped and clapped. Chloe looked at me with a smile as bright as the magical glow she had just conjured.

It’s a great time to be a Harry Potter fan.

“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” the first installment in J.K. Rowling’s sevenbook juggernaut, might be more than two decades old, but in many ways, the world of Harry Potter fandom seems more fevered than ever before.

One word helps explain why: immersion.

Fans (remember, the word is short for fanatic) want to do more than passively watch movies or read books. Instead, Potterheads long to taste Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans, ride a broomstick, cast magic spells and get sorted into their Hogwarts house (I’m a Hufflepuff; Chloe is a Gryffindor).

For that kind of deep-dive Harry Potter experience, there are two main options, both of which Chloe and I visited this year.

Chloe cast her lantern-lighting spell in January at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort, sections of the Florida theme park that plunge fans deep into Rowling’s magical realm of flying broomsticks and firebreathing dragons.

In August, we headed to England to visit the Warner Bros.

Studio Tour London — The Making of Harry Potter, which features the real sets, costumes, props, animatronics,

art and more on the soundstages and backlot where the Harry Potter films were made.

Here’s how they compared.

SIGHTS: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter includes two “lands” — Diagon Alley, a magical London neighborhood, and Hogsmeade, a snowcovered Scottish village — within two larger theme parks.

Diagon Alley is the standout. Its entrance is “hidden” from the rest of the park by a brick wall, marked only by signs for the Leaky Cauldron and the London Underground. A gap in the wall reveals a short, twisting path that opens into a rabbit’s warren of cobbled streets, Tudorstyle wooden buildings, and magical shops with names like Slug & Jiggers Apothecary.

Gringotts Bank at the top of the street is a showstopper: It’s a white marble tower capped with a huge, fierce-looking dragon that breathes real fire every 15 minutes and never fails to elicit shocked shrieks from newcomers.

There’s also Knockturn Alley, a street devoted to the dark arts that’s lit with a creepy green glow. Wanted posters of Harry Potter paper the walls, while evil artifacts like human skulls and poisonous-looking potions pack the shelves at the shop Borgin and Burkes. Chloe was visibly spooked, as though she had forgotten we weren’t actually lurking in a dark wizard’s stomping grounds.

At the London studio tour, the sights are kicked up a notch.

Here, too, you can stroll down Diagon Alley, but you’ll also enter the dark and twisting paths of the Forbidden Forest, where mist hovers in the air, giant spiders drop from branches and a centaur stands in the shadowy distance. You can see Harry’s cupboard under the stairs; step inside number 4 Privet Drive; look around Dumbledore’s office, with its magical tools and portraits of snoozing headmasters; peek into the Gryffindor common room, littered with candy wrappers and other teenage detritus; and witness a terrifying scene in which a giant snake is about to devour a Hogwarts teacher while

A model of Hogwarts is among the sets on display on the London soundstages and backlot where the Harry Potter films were made. Alexandra Pecci/Washington Post

A fire-breathing dragon perches atop Gringotts Bank in Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando. Handout courtesy of Universal Orlando Resort

Voldemort and his minions look on.

As for the props, costumes, makeup tools, prosthetics, animatronics, art renderings and movie-magic exhibits here, there are too many to list. Think of an elaborate prop or costume from the films and it’s probably on display: Harry’s glasses. The flying Ford Anglia. A dementor hanging spookily from the ceiling. The entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. Dumbledore’s Pensieve. The electric-purple, triple-decker Knight Bus. Sirius Black’s ragged prison uniform.

Neville’s Mimbulus mimbletonia. Professor Umbridge’s poisonous pink office. Every horcrux. It’s all here.

Winner: London studio tour INTERACTIVITY: In the Wizarding World theme park, interactivity is the name of the game. You can really shop for gag gifts at Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes and chocolate frogs and sugar quills at Honeydukes. The mirror at Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions critiques your wardrobe

in a persnickety voice. Dial 62442 (M-A-G-I-C) in a red British phone booth to hear a message from the Ministry of Magic. You can exchange Muggle money for wizard money and really spend it in the park.

There are live music and dance performances, and the Knight Bus’ conductor will engage you in funny banter. And, of course, there are spectacular rides, like the thrilling Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts, which re-creates Harry’s bank heist, and the Hogwarts Express, which visitors can ride between Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley.

But the biggest hits with our family were the interactive wands, which you can buy at the park. Wave them in different spots (and with the correct movement) to watch magic happen before your eyes. You can ignite lanterns, conjure writing on parchment, make water spout from a fountain, or open and close a magical flower. There are dozens of these interactive spots throughout Diagon Alley and

Hogsmeade, including some that aren’t marked on the map that comes with the wand.

Plus, Ollivanders wand shop is an interactive experience in itself — from each group that enters, one lucky kid (which on our visit happened to be Chloe) gets plucked from the crowd to be “chosen” by a wand. Don’t worry, you can still buy one even if you’re not chosen.

While there are certainly some elements of interactivity at the studio tour — like sitting in a Hogwarts Express train compartment and riding a broom against a green screen — there aren’t as many.

Winner: Orlando park FOOD: Let’s get the most important thing out of the way: You can sample butterbeer at both attractions.

But to go deep into a wizard’s daily diet, the theme park can’t be beat. Get traditional British pub grub at the Leaky Cauldron and the Three Broomsticks; sip fire whisky and pints of beer at the Hog’s Head; sample magical sweets and pumpkin juice at Honeydukes; and indulge in a frozen treat at Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlour.

Winner: Orlando park WHAT’S NEW: Both the theme park and the studio tour opened new attractions in 2019. At Universal, there’s Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure, a thrill ride that whisks visitors among the Forbidden Forest’s magical plants and creatures. At the studio tour, there’s Gringotts Bank, featuring dazzling marble floors, glittering chandeliers and hard-working goblins.

Winner: Tie

In the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Fla., visitors can explore the village of Hogsmeade. Handout courtesy of Universal Orlando Resort

COST: In Orlando, the Wizarding World’s Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade lands are split between two separate parks — which means two admission prices. For our family of three, visiting both parks for one day with a park-hopper pass (which is required to ride the Hogwarts Express between the two) cost more than $500.

Compare that to the studio tour, where adult admission costs about $56 and a child’s

costs about $46. Assuming you need flights and a hotel for both vacations, London may be the better deal, depending on the time of year and your origin city.

Winner: London studio tour ACCESSIBILITY: Chloe walks with forearm crutches and was able to access nearly everything in both London and Orlando. Each attraction’s restrooms and dining options were accessible, too. Two small parts of the studio tour had a couple of stairs. However, the studio tour doesn’t charge admission for a disabled guest’s caregiver; we paid for Chloe’s child admission while I got in free. Check the website for instructions on booking these free “carer” tickets.

Winner: Tie CONCLUSION: So which was better, London or Orlando? Theme park or film set?

For what I’ll call the overall nerd factor, Chloe and I preferred the studio tour, hands down. There were jaw-dropping, OMG moments around every corner and we felt like we barely scratched the surface with our four-hour visit.

But really, we loved both attractions, and choosing between the two depends on your preferences. If you’re looking for theme park thrills and real interactivity, head to Orlando (or the other Wizarding World locations in Hollywood or Japan). If you want to geek out over behind-the-scenes movie magic and walk through magnificent, detailed film sets, London wins. Either way, you can’t go wrong — both experiences are truly magical.

IF YOU GO The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort 6000 Universal Blvd., Orlando 407-224-4233 universalorlando.com One-day ticket that gives access to both parks $170 per person plus tax for ages 10 and up, $165 ages 3 to 9.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London Studio Tour Drive, Leavesden, England 011-44-345-084-0900 wbstudiotour.co.uk Adults about $56 per person, children about $4

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‘The Contender’remembers Marlon Brando as an actor and so much more

By MICHAEL F. COVINO Washington Post

The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando

By William J. Mann Harper. 736 pp. $35 Everybody in my old Bronx neighborhood was excited. They were shooting a scene for “The Godfather” in the local Italian restaurant, and Marlon Brando would be there. Then, big letdown: only Sterling Hayden and some young punk named Al Pacino.

Brando hadn’t been in a notable movie in nearly a decade. He’d appeared in movies that made money and others that bombed, but none like those three early standouts: “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951), “Julius Caesar” (1953) and “On the Waterfront” (1954). Those made him one of the most acclaimed — and bankable — actors in Hollywood, and garnered Oscar nominations and his first win, for “Waterfront” (“I coulda been a contender...”).

Almost 20 years and numerous flops later, the locals were still excited.

William J. Mann’s “The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando” is a big, sprawling, meticulously researched and, for the most part, compelling biography that tells us everything we ever wanted to know about the man and then some.

Brando lived a messy life, so maybe it’s appropriate that his biography is somewhat messy, too, with its notquite-chronological arrangement.

Born in 1924, Brando spent his first years in Omaha, where his mother was active in the Omaha Community Playhouse — something Marlon, oddly, didn’t learn until early adulthood. Then the family moved to Illinois. Both parents were alcoholics, Dad abused Mom, and young Marlon had to rescue her more than once from drunken escapades beyond the family’s property lines. Not the happiest childhood, and when he grew up, he forswore alcohol like it was, well, monogamy.

A prep school teacher recognized his acting talent, and Brando moved soon after to New York, where he impressed theater people, among them the great teacher Stella Adler of the Dramatic Workshop. Eventually Adler’s family took him in, and she became the mother he’d never had, while her daughter Ellen

became his first true love.

Mann ably captures Brando’s blossoming in New York’s theater world. When he acted in a play at the New School, his classmate Mae Cooper recalled, it “gave you the chills.” Was this the apathetic student she’d barely noticed in class?

“It was like suddenly you woke up and there’s your idiot child playing Mozart.” Others, including actress Jessica Tandy, just thought him a “psychopathic bastard.”

Another person central to his development was director Elia Kazan, also involved with the Dramatic Workshop, who worked with Brando first on stage and then on two of his best early movies, “Streetcar” and “Waterfront.”

After those early successes, though, Brando started making movies more for the money than the quality. Some became hits, but by

the 1960s, most were not.

Mann stresses that Brando was also a serious and expansive reader and that he got involved in the civil rights movement, not just offering financial support but also attending rallies around the country. Mann also details the numerous lovers he left heartbroken, including actress Rita Moreno, who attempted suicide during their tumultuous relationship.

By the early ’70s, Brando was pretty much washed up in Hollywood. But young Francis Coppola thought he’d be perfect as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather,” and Brando, who liked the novel, agreed to humble himself and audition for the role. His performance changed the mind of Paramount’s head, and he won the part.

He got along with Coppola. According to Mann, it was his happiest

collaboration since Kazan nearly 20 years earlier, and the movie, released in 1972, reignited his career and won him his second Oscar. But after its success and the succès de scandale of “Last Tango in Paris,” released in the United States the following year, Brando went back to doing movies for cash.

Hence it was even more disheartening when Coppola and Brando reunited seven years later for “Apocalypse Now” and found themselves at odds. Brando was so overweight that he insisted that Coppola shoot around the excess baggage, but Coppola wanted to use Brando’s body to show that his character, the demented Colonel Kurtz, was “a man eating all the time and overindulging.” Brando prevailed.

“Apocalypse,” in its original release, ran 2½ hours, and Brando doesn’t appear until the last half-hour. He’s barely visible. He’s shot in the dark, in murky close-ups, in dim long shots. He might as well have been invisible.

From then on, his films were mostly unremarkable. Brando did get nominated for a noteworthy supporting role in the otherwise unnoteworthy “A Dry White Season” (1989), and he made one surprising comedy, “The Freshman” (1990), in which he gently parodied his own Don Vito role. Mann writes: “Even in his least successful roles, there is something.

None of his performances is a throwaway.” But many were.

In the prologue, Mann also makes the questionable assertion that “Brando’s acting, as great and as important as it is, is not the most interesting thing about him.” But our interest in him, our interest in Mann’s book, springs from his best acting — not from his admirable political activism, his Tahitian island getaway, his frequent affairs, his numerous wives, his many children, the attempted suicides of several people around him, the murder one son committed or the suicide of his daughter in Tahiti. That’s all grist for a bio, but it’s not the main attraction.

A footnote: With the success of “The Godfather,” that Bronx Italian restaurant, Louie’s, should’ve become a tourist destination, folks from all over flocking to it. Alas, it closed before the movie opened.

Word on the street was that the owner got in over his head to a local loan shark and fled town. Too bad.

The owner had a good thing and didn’t know it.

Poetry collections bring pain, and hope, into sharp relief a cloud forms in his lungs, “as if too much dark lived there.” In other pieces, the speaker worries that his young daughter has inherited his destructive behavior — temptation, addiction and self-deception — and wonders if that writing can redeem him. Yet as these edgy, intimate poems show, each “scar’s a door, we know/ that.”

By ELIZABETH LUND Washington Post

“I WILL DESTROY YOU” In his memoir “Another Bulls--t Day in Suck City,” Nick Flynn wrote of his troubled family life, focusing on his father, who had robbed a bank, gone to prison and lived much of the rest of his life on the streets of Boston. (The Robert De Niro film “Being Flynn” was based on the book.) This time Flynn turns his focus on the trauma caused by his mother, who set the family’s home ablaze when Flynn was just 6 years old. In “I Will Destroy You” (Graywolf), his fifth book of poems, Flynn writes how her brazen act — a scheme to collect insurance money — ignited a slow burn in him: “The

“A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER”

child looks back at the window of the room he’s just fled,/ each pane now filled with sparks, each spark one of his toys — / monkey spark, matchbox spark, yo-yo spark.” Years later,

Poet, essayist and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib explores how people reinvent themselves in “A Fortune for Your Disaster” (Tin House), his eagerly awaited follow-up to “The Crown Ain’t Worth Much.” “Some wounds cannot be hushed,” he notes.

“The poem begins with pain as a mirror.” That mirror allows

the speaker to consider both personal losses — the death of his mother, a lover leaving, a strained relationship with his father — and how the larger culture has impacted him and other African Americans. Repeated references to cultural icons, along with Abdurraqib’s masterful use of various approaches and tonalities, contribute to a dazzling patchwork that raises the question, Who defines you, and how do you view yourself?

Toward the end of one piece the answer is, “not everything is Sisyphean. no one ever wants to imagine themselves as the boulder.”

“THE RIVER TWICE” Kathleen Graber takes readers on a fascinating, slow-motion journey in her splendid

third book, “The River Twice” (Princeton University). Simple scenes or observations — watching pigeons build a nest or visiting a thrift shop — expand into rich meditations on change and impermanence.

“Sometimes all options are poor options,” she notes in one of several poems to America. Yet even as she contends with time, grief and fear for the planet, she brilliantly balances intelligence and heart, and never forgets the conscious act of looking for beauty. “Who can doubt that suffering arises from our attachment/ to what cannot last? The sparrow’s high song is such/ clean music. The tops of the trees sway in the wind — / like shadow puppets — against the sky’s hushed ticking.”

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tribune News Service

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 19, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Guardians. John Grisham.

Doubleday 2. The 19th Christmas. Patterson/Paetro.

Little, Brown 3. The Institute. Stephen King. Scribner 4. Olive, Again. Elizabeth Strout. Random House

5. The Dutch House. Ann Patchett. Harper 6. The Testaments. Margaret Atwood.

Doubleday/Talese 7. The Water Dancer. Ta-Nehisi Coates.

One World 8. Ninth House. Leigh Bardugo. Flatiron 9. Bloody Genius. John Sandford. Putnam 10. Child’s Play. Danielle Steel. Delacorte

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Me. Elton John. Holt 2. I Really Needed This Today. Hoda Kotb.

Putnam 3. Catch and Kill. Ronan Farrow. Little,

MASS MARKET

3. Holy Ghost. John Sandford. Putnam 4. Target: Alex Cross. James Patterson.

Vision 5. Doctor Sleep (movie tie-in). Stephen King. Pocket 6. Alaskan Holiday. Debbie Macomber.

Ballantine 7. Year One. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s 8. Kisses in the Snow. Debbie Macomber.

Mira 9. Look Alive Twenty-Five. Janet Evanovich. Putnam 10. Play Dirty. Sandra Brown. Pocket

1. Beauchamp Hall. Danielle Steel. Dell 2. Dark Sacred Night. Michael Connelly.

Vision

1. Every Breath. Nicholas Sparks. Grand

Brown 4. Trailblazer. Marc Benioff. Currency 5. Blowout. Rachel Maddow. Crown 6. The Way I Heard It. Mike Rowe. Gallery 7. Dear Girls. Ali Wong. Random House 8. Talking to Strangers. Malcolm Gladwell.

Little, Brown 9. The Infinite Game. Simon Sinek.

Portfolio 10. Home Work. Julie Andrews. Hachette

TRADE PAPERBACK

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

THE BROWNS OF CALIFORNIA: THE FAMILY DYNASTY THAT TRANSFORMED A STATE AND SHAPED A NATION

By Miriam Pawel.

(Bloomsbury, $20.) Pawel traces four generations of the Brown family and their 24-year political domination of California, recounting the two-term governorships of Edmund (Pat) Brown and his son, Edmund (Jerry) Brown Jr. Times reviewer Lisa McGirr found the book “fascinating.”

THE FAR FIELD

By Madhuri Vijay. (Grove, $17.) The privileged young woman who narrates this debut novel undergoes a political and moral awakening when she travels from Bangalore to a poor Himalayan village in Kashmir, in search of information about her late mother. Vijay’s “command of storytelling is so supple that it’s easy to discount the stealth with which she constructs her tale,” Jan Stuart wrote in The Times.

THE WESTERN WIND

By Samantha Harvey.

(Grove, $16.) Set in medieval England and narrated by a village priest, Harvey’s suspenseful fourth novel tells what happens after a wealthy merchant is found drowned at the beginning of Lent, with murder suspected. Times reviewer Hannah Pittard called the novel “beautifully rendered, deeply affecting, thoroughly thoughtful and surprisingly prescient.”

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY: A NOVEL INSPIRED BY THE LIVES OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND LORENA HICKOK

By Kelly O’Connor McNees. (Pegasus, $15.95.)

This novel imagines the real-life relationship between Roosevelt and the reporter who became Roosevelt’s companion and love interest, from Hickok’s point of view.

Times reviewer Sylvia Brownrigg praised McNees for her portrayal of “an Eleanor Roosevelt who is warm and affectionate.”

DEAR AMERICA: NOTES OF AN UNDOCUMENTED CITIZEN

By Jose Antonio Vargas.

(Dey St., $15.99.) Vargas, brought to the United States from the Philippines in 1993 at 12, has lived as an undocumented immigant ever since then. He offers a history of anti-immigrant sentiment and also recounts how he hid his secret while coming out as gay and becoming a Pulitzerwinning journalist, filmmaker and advocate.

IMAGES AND SHADOWS: PART OF A LIFE Central 2. The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah. Griffin 3. Redemption. David Baldacci. Grand Central 4. The 18th Abduction. Patterson/Paetro.

Grand Central 5. Nine Perfect Strangers. Liane Moriarty.

Flatiron 6. Critical Role Vox Machina: Origins, Vol. 1 7. The Overstory. Richard Powers. Norton 8. A Spark of Light. Jodi Picoult. Ballantine 9. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate.

Ballantine 10. A Well-Behaved Woman. Therese Anne Fowler. Griffin

By Iris Origo.

(New York Review Books, $18.95.) First published in 1970, this autobiography by the English-born author and biographer insightfully captures a vanished time and a fading upper-class milieu. Writing in The Times, Anne Fremantle called Origo “a great scholar who also happens to write superbly well.”

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Puzzles Last week’s puzzle answers

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Solution to Last Week’s puzzle

10/27/19 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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Horoscope

Goren bridge WITH BOB JONES ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

SAFE EXTRACTION East-West vulnerable, North deals NORTH ♠J32 ♥A ♦ AKQ97 ♣AKQ2 WEST EAST ♠7 ♠ K 10 8 6 ♥ Q8765 ♥ J 10 9 3 ♦ J8653 ♦ 10 ♣ 10 9 ♣8654 SOUTH ♠AQ954 ♥ K42 ♦ 42 ♣J73 The bidding: NORTH EAST SOUTH 2♣ Pass 2♠ 3♠ Pass 4♥ 4NT Pass 5♦ 6♠ All pass

WEST Pass Pass Pass

Opening lead: 10 of ♣ We like South’s control bid of four hearts, promising that he did not have two quick losers in hearts.

Blackwood instead would have been a mistake. South would not

have known what to do after a twoace response.

South won the opening club lead with dummy’s ace. There was some chance for a defensive ruff, probably in clubs, so South went after trumps right away. He led a spade to his ace and another spade to dummy’s jack.

This revealed the trump position, which South could have handled easily, but East ducked the jack of spades! The reason why became apparent when South led dummy’s last trump. East won with his king and led the 10 of diamonds. What now?

South had to find a way back to his hand so he could draw the last trump. Still fearing a possible club ruff, he tried to cash the king of diamonds. East ruffed this for down one. Besides guessing to lead a club rather than a diamond, was there anything South could have done?

Yes! South should have cashed the ace of hearts and one high diamond before leading the last trump from dummy. He would then be in the driver’s seat when East won his king of spades. South could win a heart or a club from East in his hand and draw the last trump.

Should East lead a diamond, instead, South could then safely ruff a third diamond to get back to his hand.

By Stella Wilder Born today, you can be quite impulsive when the mood strikes you, but most of the time you are far more likely to watch what is going on around you in a studious manner in order to get as much information as you can about a given situation or circumstance before making a decision or choosing a course of action for yourself — or others. It is not so much that you are cautious, but rather that you never want to go into something new uninformed.

You have a great deal of creative energy, and you’re sure to juggle more than one career at various times in your life. Like so many other Scorpio natives, you are unwilling to be trapped by circumstances; you will always strike out when you feel your freedom is threatened — whether by another person, or by the world at large.

Also born on this date are: Shere Hite, author and researcher; Ann Rutherford, actress; Marie Antoinette, French queen; k.d. lang, singer; Stefanie Powers, actress; Burt Lancaster, actor; Daniel Boone, frontiersman; Ray Walston, actor.

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, NOVEMBER 3 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may have to make demands that seem unreasonable at first — but if you’re tactful, you can smooth the way for yourself and others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You can experiment with your own coping skills today. You’re certainly more ready to deal with some things than you are others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’ll want to start slowly today and be sure that your messages are getting across, even as you look ahead to a major accomplishment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re likely to come up with an idea that is exciting not only to you but to those around you as well. This is the start of something big.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You mustn’t come off as being “entitled” today, though you must also telegraph your natural confidence. You can strike a careful balance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Your schedule may be quite full today, but you’ll still be able to find time for a special friend who needs what only you know how to give.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You want something that you know you cannot have, but that doesn’t mean you cannot enjoy where private thoughts of its acquisition take you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Someone is eager to work more closely with you than ever before, but you may sense there is something going on that you don’t yet know about.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You can prove that you’re as capable as anyone else today when a superior expresses doubts. From now on, things may be much easier for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’re eager to move in a new direction today, but you still have to follow certain rules and regulations that don’t seem to suit your spirit.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’re ready for almost anything that comes your way today. You can be a pillar of strength for someone who is in a much weaker position.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Just when you think it will be impossible to make a certain pressing decision, someone comes through for you in a way that makes the choice easy.

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You can stay in Barbie’s real-life Malibu Dreamhouse RENTAL: Mattel is

offering stays on Airbnb for $60 a night

By CHRISTI CARRAS Los Angeles Times

Mattel announced this Malibu Dreamhouse will be available for users to book for $60 per night starting Oct. 23 on Airbnb. View online at wdt.me/dreamhouse. Airbnb

You’ve heard of Holiday Barbie and Superstar Barbie.

Now get ready for Airbn-Barbie.

The Mattel toy brand announced Thursday that Barbie has listed her Malibu Dreamhouse, a not-plastic, very real luxury villa, that will be available for users to book for $60

per night starting Oct. 23 on Airbnb.

The two-bed, two-bath home will be available to rent for a one-time-only, two-night stay from Oct. 27-29.

Located in the heart of Malibu, Calif., the ocean-front, three-story residence includes an indoor theater, a basketball court, an outdoor dining patio, a meditation space, a hobby studio, a fully stocked kitchen and a sunset-facing infinity pool equipped with a water slide.

In celebration of Barbie’s

60th anniversary, the company will also make a donation to one of the charities involved in the Barbie Dream Gap Project on the guests’ behalf. Plus, visitors will have access to a walk-in closet that doubles as an exhibit showcasing six decades of Barbie’s fashion evolution.

According to the Barbie website, the experience also features a meet-and-greet with celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin, a one-onone fencing lesson with fencing medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad, a globally inspired cooking

lesson with Gina Clarke-Helm of Malibu Seaside Chef and a behind-the-scenes tour of Columbia Memorial Space Center with pilot and aerospace engineer Jill Meyers.

“As a homeowner and entrepreneur, I am excited to be hosting my Dreamhouse for the first time on Airbnb!”

Barbie posted on the homerental site. “It’s full of inspiration, like pictures of the 200+ careers I’ve had and the role models in my life, so I hope it inspires you to remember that you can be anything!”

A pumpkin spice treat you won’t be embarrassed to love

By BEN MIMS

with half the spiced bread crumbs; if you like, sprinkle each with a pinch of flaky salt. Bake the loaves side by side until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the middle of each loaf comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes.

5. Transfer the pans to racks and let cool completely. Unmold and slice or wrap in plastic wrap and store at room temperature for up to one week.

Los Angeles Times

The idea of another pumpkin loaf either makes you excited or makes your eyes roll out of your head. If you’re in the latter camp, I implore you to give my iteration a shot.

Because I like the idea of pumpkin spice things but not their execution, I developed this loaf to be about all the good qualities of the flavor — cloying lattes notwithstanding. I take real pumpkin and roast it with olive oil, salt and pepper to give the puree an umami edge.

The loaf gets a crown of salty bread crumbs, perfumed with the usual “spice” suspects; it’s the ideal contrast to the tender loaf cake. Freshly ground spices do make a difference, but use the pre-ground kind if that’s what you have (but please don’t use pre-ground nutmeg; the flavor is acrid and bitter).

ROASTED PUMPKIN

Makes about 4 cups.

1 whole sugar pumpkin or kabocha squash (3 ½ to 4 pounds) 2 tablespoons everyday olive oil Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

ROASTED PUMPKIN LOAVES WITH SALTY SPICED BREAD CRUMBS Makes 2 loaves.

Why such a strange amount of pureed pumpkin? Because it’s the same amount as one can of pumpkin puree, and if you insist on using canned, I want you to be able to swap it for the homemade version here. In that same vein, you can swap all the spices used in the bread crumbs here for 1½ tablespoons premixed pumpkin pie spice if you don’t have all those called for.

Don’t want to mess with the bread crumbs at all? Omit them and the olive oil, and add the spices to the batter by whisking them with the flour in Step 3.

1 tablespoon everyday olive oil, plus more for greasing

Roasted pumpkin loaves with salted breadcrumbs. Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times

the pans 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting pans ½ cup panko or plain bread crumbs 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1 teaspoon ground ginger ½ teaspoon ground allspice ½ teaspoon ground cloves 1 3/4 teaspoons kosher salt 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda 2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup vegetable oil (see note) 2/3 cup buttermilk 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

3 large eggs 1 3/4 cups pureed Roasted Pumpkin (see recipe below) or one 15-ounce can pureed pumpkin Flaky sea salt (optional) 1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Grease two 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pans with some olive oil and dust with flour, tapping out any excess.

2. Make the bread crumbs: Heat the olive oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the bread crumbs and cook, stirring often, until lightly toasted, one to one and a half minutes. Remove from heat

and stir in the cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, cloves and threequarters teaspoon salt.

3. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and remaining one teaspoon salt. In another bowl, whisk together the sugar, vegetable oil, buttermilk, vanilla and eggs until smooth. Whisk in the pumpkin. Pour the wet ingredients over the dry ingredients and stir until combined.

4. Divide the batter between the prepared pans, then sprinkle each

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.

2. Split the pumpkin from stem to blossom end. Scoop out and discard all the seeds and fibrous strings.

Place the halves cut side up on the baking sheet and drizzle with the olive oil, using your fingers to rub it all over the exposed flesh. Season the pumpkin liberally with salt and pepper. Bake until the pumpkin is very tender and lightly caramelized at the edges, about two hours.

3. Remove the sheet from the oven and let the pumpkin cool.

While it is still slightly warm, scoop the pumpkin flesh from the skins and either mash it or puree it in a food processor. Use immediately or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to three days or freezer for up to two months; thaw before using.

Nursing-home residents see the world without leaving home

By LAUREN LUMPKIN Washington Post

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Jim Halsey, 83, has traveled to Japan and South Korea, through Europe and Central America.

One recent day, he squatted in a narrow, wooden boat and watched as an elephant trudged through a swamp in Botswana.

Halsey, who was an intellectual-property lawyer before he retired, didn’t have to leave his wheelchair at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church to make the trip. He and several other residents at the retirement facility strapped on virtual-reality goggles and journeyed to the country in southern Africa, as well as to Antarctica.

Carleigh Berryman, 22, zigzagged between wheelchairs to fit virtual-reality goggle headsets on the residents of the retirement home. Her company, Viva Vita, is designed to bring virtual-reality experiences to older men and women who can no longer travel.

“It’s exciting. It’s different,” Halsey said about his virtual tour through Botswana. He described orangutans and tigers that appeared in the bulky

set of goggles on his face.

Berryman created Viva Vita while still a student at George Washington University. She secured $5,000 in seed money from the school’s New Venture Competition for budding entrepreneurs.

Berryman entered the competition as a senior — advancing through several rounds while studying for exams and preparing for graduation — and won the runner-up cash prize in April. The money has helped pay for equipment and cover costs associated with registering the company.

Since 2009, the university has given more than $2.3 million in cash prizes and in-kind contributions — such as co-working spaces and legal services — to about 2,000 student entrepreneurs, said Lex McCusker, director of student entrepreneurship programs at GWU. Colleges have been criticized for graduating students who feel unprepared for the real world. But McCusker said the money from GWU has helped graduates launch successful start-ups, including the beverage company Capital Kombucha, the digital marketing agency Social Driver and KnoNap — a napkin that changes colors

Carleigh Berryman, founder and CEO of Viva Vita, watches as Mary Chiappetta, 89, experiences virtual nature scenes at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church, Va., on Oct. 10. Jahi Chikwendiu/ Washington Post

when it detects sedatives and “date rape” drugs in drinks.

This summer, GWU hosted 10 small businesses in its inaugural Summer Startup Accelerator. Berryman and her student intern spent nine weeks refining the company’s business model, connecting with local retirement communities and developing a pitch for investors.

“We did have some investor interest. We had two or three people that we’re still talking

to now,” Berryman said. “We want to gain some more traction and show someone why they should invest.”

Halsey’s wife, Ellie Dasenbrook, 73, stood behind her husband’s wheelchair as he watched the 360-degree video inside his headset. Unlike traditional videos, 360-degree videos are recorded by shooting multiple directions at once.

They provide a panoramic view that moves with the viewer.

A smile spread across Dasenbrook’s face.

“This type of activity is exactly what they need,” said Dasenbrook, who visits her husband every day at Powhatan. “They can’t travel like they used to, but they should still have these opportunities. They need the cognitive exercise.”

The virtual-reality video used by 90-year-old Mary

Chiappetta took her swimming under ice caps in Antarctica.

“I usually watch these things on television,” Chiappetta said. “It’s a wonderful project.

You’ve seen pictures before, but this is right in front of you.”

Berryman got the idea for Viva Vita about two years ago at GWU when she started learning about high rates of anxiety and depression among older Americans. It made Berryman think about her 78-year-old grandmother.

“It’s not something you think about as a young person at all,” Berryman said. “Their symptoms of anxiety or depression go unnoticed or go untreated, and it’s this accepted part of aging.”

In 2017, adults 85 and older had one of the nation’s highest suicide rates: 20.1 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention. The national average among all age groups is 14 deaths per 100,000 Americans.

Jordan Yates, Powhatan’s activities coordinator, said the facility has a geriatric psychiatrist who talks to residents and adjusts their medication dosages. In her role, Yates encourages “as much socialization as possible” among residents.

“I feel like it’s a good way to get them back into the community,” Yates said about the virtual-reality goggles. “It’s bringing them back to the things that they enjoy.”

Viva Vita, a mash-up of Spanish and Latin, means “live life,” Berryman said.

“Maybe we can bring some joy back into these seniors’ lives,” she said. “We can bring something exciting to them so they can keep learning and exploring the world.”

Berryman used her own money and the $5,000 she earned in the New Venture Competition to purchase goggles from Oculus, a virtual-reality company owned by Facebook. She finds free 360-degree travel videos online to play inside the headsets.

Berryman said she has earned “a few thousand dollars in the past few months” by booking sessions with about 10 suburban retirement communities, including Powhatan.

“I’m able to pay my rent, and that is great for me,” she said.

Residents who experimented with virtual reality said they would try it again.

Alice Murray, 87, said that next time, she would like to travel virtually to Ireland.

She called the country home for 20 years.

“It was good seeing all these things without getting out your chair,” she said.