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CATSKILL — The Greene County Legislature wants Gov. Andrew Cuomo to veto a bill that lawmakers said would discourage foster families from adopting children.

Out of both chambers of the state Legislature, the Preserving Family Bonds Act is on its way to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s desk. The bill allows family court judges to use their discretion on continued visitation with parents or siblings after parental rights have been terminated.

The proposed bill may have negative consequences for adopted children, according to

“The spirit of this bill is admirable, trying to keep family cohesion, however, an unforeseen consequence of this is that the courts will become a pervasive and constant presence in a child’s life. A foster family may be discouraged from adoption by the courts’ continued changing and altering of visitation. We need to be focusing on what’s best for the child’s wellbeing and continued court interference is not the way to do that.”

— Chris Tague, Assemblyman R-102

the county’s resolution.

“As a result of this act, rather than placing a child sooner with a family member or in a more permanent home, they get tied up in the court system,” Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said.

“It’s not good for the child.”

The act would have an impact on the county’s Department of Social Services and family court system, Linger said.

A constant court presence may discourage families from adopting children, according to

the resolution.

Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, agreed the bill may have unforeseen consequences.

“The spirit of this bill is admirable, trying to keep family cohesion,” Tague said.

“However, an unforeseen con-

sequence of this is that the courts will become a pervasive and constant presence in a child’s life. A foster family may be discouraged from adoption by the courts’ continued changing and altering of visitation. We need to be focusing on what’s best for the child’s well-being and continued court interference is not the way to do that.”

If adoption rates are reduced, it could have an impact on state funding for foster care, according to the resolution.

“Any reduction in the number of adoptive families and individuals will likely cause See BILL A2

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Since 2015, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, has received over $26,000 in campaign contributions from such opioid-producing pharmaceutical companies as McKesson Corp., Johnson and Johnson and Cardinal Health, according to campaign finance disclosure records.

By Massarah Mikati Johnson Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Federal political candidates will no longer be able to receive campaign contributions from opioid manufacturers if a new bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, is passed.

Delgado and fellow New York Rep. Max Rose, D-11, introduced the Save Lives Act Wednesday to block political contributions from corporate political action committees for opioid-manufacturing pharmaceutical companies.

The legislation comes the

month after Delgado had an opioid-focused in-district week Oct. 7-11.

The Save Lives Act would root out influences that perpetrate the opioid crisis, Delgado said in a statement.

“The opioid crisis is deeply prevalent in New York,

the influence of opioid manufacturers and make sure our Representatives work for the people they serve—not special interests.”

According to public records of campaign finance disclosures, neither Delgado nor See PACS A2

Greene backs Dutchess on EPA lawsuit

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especially in our rural communities, and yet pharmaceutical companies and special interests continue to have free rein to advance their agenda by lining the pockets of lawmakers in Washington,” he said. “The Save Lives Act will take important steps to limit

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A General Electric dredging barge excavates soil from the banks of the Hudson River, near Troy, where two of its factories once spilled PCBs into the water for decades, May 16, 2015.

CATSKILL — Greene County lawmakers passed a resolution Wednesday to support a neighboring county in litigation.

As a result of the resolution, Dutchess County will file an amicus brief seeking someone to try to help the court reach its decision by offering facts, analysis or perspective that the parties to the case have not.

The individual will support the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s case against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which was filed in August and will make record of Dutchess County’s objection to the EPA’s certification that General Electric completed its

cleanup of the Hudson River.

The lawsuit alleges that the certificate was issued even though levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a known carcinogen, remain “dangerously high” in some sections of the river.

Ulster County and Rockland County have also agreed to support Dutchess, according to the resolution.

Greene County is taking advantage of an opportunity to support a neighboring county, Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said.

“Greene County fully supports the filing of an amicus curiae brief by Dutchess County and prays that the court vacate the certificate of completion until the ecological health of the Hudson River See EPA A2

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Rose have received campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies that manufacture opioids — though Delgado did well for himself, with just over $9 million contributed to his 2018 campaign.

Not all of New York representatives, however, are scotfree. Since 2015, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, has received over $26,000 in campaign contributions from such companies, including McKesson Corp., Johnson and Johnson and Cardinal Health. Similar companies have contributed $33,000 to the campaigns of Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY,

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The grandfather charged with negligent homicide in the death of his 18-month-old granddaughter, who fell 11 stories from the window of a cruise ship, faces a three-year prison sentence. On Wednesday, he spoke with media for the first time after the incident.

“They can’t do anything worse to me than has already happened,” Salvatore Anello told NBC News following a court appearance in San Juan, Puerto

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since 2007. Paul Tonko, D-20, has received nearly $10,000 since 2014, and Chuck Schumer, D-NY, received the largest amount of campaign contributions from opioid manufacturers, totaling over $80,000 since 2008.

During an Oct. 16 phone call with reporters after his in-district week focusing on the opioid crisis last month, Delgado said he would be brainstorming preventative legislation.

“One of the things I was flagged is we talk a lot about treatment and decriminalizing addiction, but not enough emphasis is put on prevention and how we can get in front of the problem,” Delgado said during the call. “Whether it’s more educational tools, funding prevention centers, we

should be not just reactive but more proactive in our approach.”

The opioid crisis has long been an important issue for Delgado, who is a member of the congressional Freshmen Working Group on Addiction.

In the years 2017 and 2018, Columbia and Greene counties, combined, saw 50 deaths, 155 emergency room visits and 23 hospitalizations due to opioid overdoses, according to the New York State Department of Health. As a whole, New York had more than 1,700 deaths caused by opioid overdoses in 2018.

The congressman’s first major step toward combatting the crisis came in May, when he introduced bipartisan legislation, along with Stefanik,

Tonko and others that would make it easier for physicians to prescribe addiction-treatment drugs.

The opioid crisis has been on multiple politicians’ agendas in recent years. In May, Gillibrand and Schumer secured over $500,000 in funding for organizations in upstate New York tackling the crisis. Also this year, the state government has continued legal action against participants in the crisis, including pharmacy benefit managers.

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On Oct. 28, Anello turned himself in to Puerto Rican authorities, who said the Granger, Indiana, man “negligently exposed the child to the abyss through a window,” according to reporting from The Washington Post.

The child, Chloe Wiegand, died July 7 while the Royal Caribbean International’s Freedom of the Seas ship was docked at a port. Anello had placed Chloe on a railing in a water play area next to a set of

windows. According to Anello, Chloe liked to bang on the glass at her brother’s hockey games.

He wasn’t aware the window was open.

Chloe’s parents, Kimberly and Alan Wiegand, told the “Today” show the cruise line was to blame for their daughter’s death. “We obviously blame them,” Kimberly Wiegand said in an interview that aired during the summer. “There are a million things that could have been done to make that safer.”

The Weigands’ attorney,

Michael Winkleman, said in a statement that the incident was an accident not worthy of criminal charges: “These criminal charges are pouring salt on the open wounds of this grieving family.”

But security video aboard the ship that has not been released to the public led prosecutors to seek charges of negligence. Anello, whose nickname is Sam, posted bail set at $80,000 and had been waiting at home until the preliminary hearing on Nov. 20.

PCBs are contaminants that were released into the Hudson River by GE between 1947 and 1977. An estimated 1.3 million pounds of the contaminant are thought to have been discharged into the river from GE manufacturing plants in Hudson Falls and Fort Edward, about 50 miles north of Albany, according to the riverkeeper. org.

“Trump’s EPA is failing New Yorkers and the environment by putting the priorities of polluters first,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said after announcing the lawsuit.

“The Hudson River is among New York’s most precious natural and economic resources, but despite years of dredging, levels of PCB contamination are still unacceptably high in the river and in fish. We have an obligation to protect the health and vitality of both the Hudson River and the communities along its banks for current and future generations.”

Approximately 54 tons of PCBs remain in the Upper Hudson River, state Attorney General Letitia James said in August.

“Instead of fighting to protect our environment and the health of our communities, EPA is giving GE a free pass after decades of contamination,” state

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said. “By allowing GE to walk away from the Hudson River cleanup, EPA is abandoning its mission and leaving a job unfinished.”

fish caught in the areas of the river affected by PCB contamination.

“Fish remain so contaminated by GE’s cancer-causing chemical that the New York State Department of Health advises children and women under age 50 to eat no fish along the 200-mile stretch of the river from the foothills of the Adirondacks to New York Harbor,” Sullivan said. “This is unacceptable.”

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Many children who enter the foster care system have established relationships with their biological families, according to the bill.

“Many adopted children, no matter the process of their adoptions, find themselves curious about their biological parents and their biological ancestry,” according to the bill. “Satisfying a child’s curiosity about where they come from has been directly correlated to a child’s well-being.”

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exchange of pictures, social media and Skype or other forms of video chat, according to the bill.

“Even when a biological parent is unable to care for their child, post-termination contact allows the child to retain a relationship with his or her parent and/or sibling and may allow that biological parent to play a positive role in the child’s life,” according to the bill. “Biological parents can reinforce with their children, through posttermination contact, that the termination was not the fault of the child and that the parent still loves and cares for the child, even if he or she is unable to parent him or her.”

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the state to be unable to comply with other federal laws including the Family First Prevention Services Act, jeopardizing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal foster care assistance,” according to the county’s resolution.

New York is ranked among the lowest in the U.S. for complying with the federal mandate to achieve timely permanency for children in need of adoption, according to the resolution.

The bill, introduced by state Sen. Diane Savino, D-23, and Assemblywoman Latoya Joyner, D-77, was drafted with children in mind.

“Research shows that children benefit from strong, health family bonds,” according to the text of the bill. “Under current law, family court judges are not allowed to protect the rights of children to contact or visit with their parents and siblings after parental rights have been terminated, even when the court deems it in the best interest of children.”

The contact may include, but is not limited to, supervised or unsupervised visitation, telephone calls, emails, letters,

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is verified,” according to the resolution.

Linger cited the importance of due diligence where a lawsuit such as this is concerned.

“There is nothing wrong with taking another look and making sure it was completed as best as it can be,” he said.

Greene County has over 39 miles of Hudson River shoreline.

“Greene County recognizes that the Hudson River is a unique and complex asset, essential to the environmental, scenic and economic well-being of Greene County,” according to the resolution.

In April, U.S. EPA Region 2 Administrator Peter Lopez issued a five-year report on the dredging project GE conducted to clean up PCBs from the Hudson River. At that time, the second of three mandated certificates of completion were issued to GE by the EPA for the project, Lopez said. The third and final certificate is not expected to be issued for at least 50 years to allow for time to pass as the river’s natural ability to recover takes place.

Larisa Romanowski, a public affairs specialist from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, declined to comment in August, citing the pending litigation.

Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay said awarding the certificate of completion prematurely could have an impact on the EPA’s ability to mandate further cleanup of the river by GE in the future.

“If left unchallenged, EPA’s decision could needlessly make it much harder for the agency to get GE to finish cleaning up its mess in the Hudson River,” Gallay said.

In addition to claims that the level of PCBs is too high in areas of the river, James said fish have also absorbed dangerously high concentrations.

“The facts are clear: Hudson River fish remain much too contaminated with PCBs to safely eat, and EPA admits they don’t know when — or if — they ever will be,” James said. “EPA can’t ignore these facts — or the law — and simply pronounce GE’s cleanup of PCBs complete.”

Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan said restrictions remain in place on who can eat

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Three cats believed killed in Philmont house fire

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

PHILMONT — Three cats are believed to have perished in a late afternoon house fire on Eagle Street on Thursday, their owner said.

The fire alarm rang at about 4 p.m., sending more than six fire departments to the scene at 6 Eagle St., near Main Street and Columbia Avenue. Neighbors reported smoke billowing out of a second-story window of the farmhouse.

The homeowner, Jeff Mann, said he believes a space heater, used to keep the cats warm, might have caused the fire. But officials were still investigating the official cause of the blaze late Thursday.

Mann and his wife were in the process of moving into their new home at the time the fire broke out. The couple lost much of their clothing stored on the second floor, Mann said.

Lance Wheeler contributed to this report.

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Jail project spawns a good idea at last When a governing body doesn’t know what to do, it forms a committee. And when the governing body really doesn’t know what to do, it appoints a subcommittee.

This old newsroom parable is apocryphal in the case of the Greene County Legislature, which appointed a three-person subcommittee to expedite future jail construction change orders under $7,500.

This could be the smartest action taken by county lawmakers in the entire jail saga.

The Jail Finance Subcommittee was granted the power to authorize change orders less than $7,500 in

value.

Legislator Matthew Luvera, R-Catskill, disagreed with the appointment of a subcommittee. “I feel this subcommittee should not have the authority to be spending taxpayer money,” he said. We understand Luvera’s concern, but we disagree with his logic. We believe the subcommittee of Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore and legislators Michael Bulich, R-Catskill, and Gregory Davis, R-Greenville, are staunch fiscal conservatives who won’t allow the expense of any more money than is necessary.

A subcommittee is also

preferable to the alternative of holding special Finance Committee meetings when the project needs a change order or a number of small change orders. This will not hold up the project or compel the Legislature to call a special meeting every week.

It’s also preferable to hiring an outside financial consultant or adviser to be on call to make decisions on small change orders.

Finally, taxpayers are being asked to pay for a $47 million jail over 30 years, so a subcommittee consisting of three legislators will work free of charge. And that, at last, is a good thing.

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Bernie Sanders bombs the ‘lock him up’ test Stephen Stromberg

I wish people would not do Trump-like chants at At Wednesday’s Demomy rallies.” Instead, Sandcratic presidential primary ers essentially said, “Well, debate, Bernie Sanders got people think the president an easy question - easy, that is a criminal.” is, for a minimally reasonOn an evening in which able politician seeking to the candidates frequently govern a diverse nation. discussed how the next Sanders gave the wrong president might bring the answer. country together after the “Chants of ‘lock her up” hyper-divisiveness of the are still heard at President Trump era, it became clearDonald Trump’s rallies er than ever that Sanders’s today,” moderator Rachel big idea is that he will unite Maddow noted. “Now some America because America opponents of the president will realize it agrees with are turning the same slohim, not that he can tap gan against him. They’ve into common beliefs that chanted ‘lock him up’ at a transcend his narrow ideorecent World Series game in logical program.

Washington and at a VeterJoe Biden stepped in with ans Day event in New York a better response. and, Senator Sanders, at “I don’t think it’s a good least two of your campaign idea that we mock - that events recently. Senator, we model ourselves after should Democrats discour- Trump and say, ‘Lock him age this? Or are you okay up,’” Biden said. “Look, we with it?” have to bring this country Sanders responded: together. Let’s start talking “Well, I think the people civilly to people. Follow the of this country are catchlaw, let the Justice Departing on to the degree that ment make the judgment as this president thinks he is to whether or not someone above the law. And what should be prosecuted, pethe American people are riod.” saying is: Nobody is above Biden has been overly the law.” Then he pivoted optimistic about his abilto talk about how the coun- ity to strike deals with an try would unite around his extremist Republican Party. agenda.

But he is right that comNo. The right answer promise and civility are the is: “It is understandable hallmarks of a functioning that people are frustrated democracy. Ideologues see with President Trump. these as obstacles. EveryBut everyone else should one else should see them as necessities. The next presiresist stooping to his level.

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Democrats should not embrace tactics that would alienate the other side as much as Trump has alienated his critics, and defeating Trump should represent a clear victory for the rule of law, not encourage more questions about how tenuous it is in this country.

The implication of “lock her up” and “lock him up” is that the other side is so depraved that even the most essential rules can be bypassed in dealing with them. It can never be the case in America that when the presidency changes hands, the previous administration faces prosecution because the other side’s voters have convinced themselves, reasonably or unreasonably, that the last government was filled with criminals. The stakes of losing an election would become so high that there would be no orderly transfer of power - or, perhaps, no transfer of power at all.

When crowds at Barack Obama’s rallies would boo at the mention of a Republican, Obama would always - always - insist, “don’t boo, vote.” Democrats should remember that, not so long ago, a decent human won the presidency and made many people proud of their own side, rather than simply angry at the other.

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The House is now fully entitled to hear from Pence, Pompeo, Mulvaney and Giuliani WASHINGTON — Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s testimony Wednesday made exquisitely clear that the House, in exercising its impeachment power, is entitled to hear from a series of witnesses who have so far either refused requests to testify or not been summoned. They include, at a minimum: Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, former national security adviser John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer.

While we’re at it, Sondland — and the House Intelligence Committee — should be given access to documents that could help refresh his frustratingly spotty recollections. The administration’s high-handed order that witnesses not cooperate with the House probe and refusal to turn over relevant documents is an act of obstruction — and a likely count in the articles of impeachment. But the goal isn’t proving obstruction — it is getting at the truth.

The individuals listed above are firsthand fact witnesses in an inquiry whose seriousness was underscored by Sondland’s stark assessment: “Was there a ‘quid pro quo’? With regard to the requested White House call and White House meeting, the answer is yes.”

In addition, he said with regard to the $400 million in military aid for Ukraine whose release was being held up, “In the absence of any credible explanation for the hold, I came to the conclusion that the aid, like the White House visit, was jeopardized.”

Republicans have conjured up a bunch of smoke about the unfairness and unreliability of hearsay evidence, although hearsay rules do not apply in this setting, nor are they absolute.

They have tried to discredit or play down the significance

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MARCUS of some witnesses on the grounds that they had no direct contact with President Trump. Well, then let’s hear from those who did. The Watergate question is a cliche but one with particular pertinence here: What did they know, and when did they know it? Some fruitful potential areas of questioning: — Pence. Sondland testified that he spoke to the vice president before a Sept.

1 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw. “I mentioned to Vice President Pence before the meetings with the Ukrainians that I had concerns that the delay in aid had become tied to the issue of investigations,” Sondland testified.

Pence’s office responded with a statement denying that account: “The vice president never had a conversation with Gordon Sondland about investigating the Bidens, Burisma, or the conditional release of financial aid to Ukraine based upon potential investigations.” Fine. If this is Pence’s account, it should not be a problem for him to answer questions about it under oath.

— Pompeo. Preparing for that Sept. 1 meeting, which Trump was originally scheduled to attend himself, Sondland testified that he asked Pompeo “whether a face-toface conversation between Trump with Zelensky could help” to get the aid released.

“I would ask Zelensky to look him in the eye and tell him that once Ukraine’s new justice folks are in place ... that Ze should be able to

move forward publicly and with confidence on those issues of importance to Potus and to the U.S. Hopefully, that will break the logjam,” Sondland wrote to Pompeo.

“Secretary Pompeo replied, ‘Yes.’” What did Pompeo know about why the aid was being held up?

— Mulvaney Sondland read from a July 19 email to Mulvaney, Pompeo and others in advance of Trump’s call with Zelensky: “He is prepared to receive Potus’ call. Will assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will ‘turn over every stone’.

He would greatly appreciate a call prior to Sunday so that he can put out some media about a ‘friendly and productive call’ (no details) prior to Ukraine election on Sunday.” Mulvaney responded: “I asked NSC to set it up for tomorrow.” What did Mulvaney & Co. know about the demands for an investigation?

— Bolton. “Everyone was in the loop,” Sondland testified. “On August 26, shortly before his visit to Kyiv, Ambassador Bolton’s office requested Mr. Giuliani’s contact information. I sent Ambassador Bolton the information directly.” Did Bolton speak with Giuliani?

What was the conversation?

— Giuliani. There are too many questions for him to detail here, but you get the point: House members, and the American people, are entitled to hear this evidence.

The Constitution assigns the House of Representatives the sole power to impeach the president. This presumes the power to conduct impeachment inquiries, which presumes the power to call relevant witnesses — whether or not the president who is being impeached is happy about it.

Ruth Marcus’ email address is ruthmarcus@washpost.com. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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The old trick of adding nationalism to a religion To the editor: Does adding nationalism to a religion make it more compelling or immune to criticism?

It is an old trick, of course.

The Byzantines attacked the the Zoroastrian Persians in 629, all in the name of defending Christianity.

Soon after, Mohammad, the great warrior who founded Islam, experienced a vision that he was the last prophet.

His armies swept all before them, including Persians, Jews, Christians, and Turks.

The Crusades were organized on the same concept, sending Christian soldiers to fight the heathens. For

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hundreds of years starting in 1096, armies from Europe were sent to recapture the Holy Land from the followers of Islam.

The fourteen-hundreds saw the mass expulsion of Jews from Spain as well as the conquest of the New World, where fifty-five million indigenous people would eventually be sacrificed to the Lamb of God. Zionists added nationalism to Judaism in the early years of the twentieth century. Ever since that marriage of convenience, we have been told that criticizing Israel’s military expansion and occupation is antisemitic, no matter

how many millions of Palestinians have been dislocated or murdered.

In truth, all religions have been used at some point in history to justify slaughter and territorial expansion.

That doesn’t make it right.

And beginning with the Enlightenment, we have come to question some of the more malevolent of religious dogmas.

“The arc of the moral universe is long,” said Martin Luther King, “but it bends toward justice.” Justice for all peoples facing oppression.

Even the Palestinians.

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Jornov, Michael Eugene Michael Eugene Jornov passed away unexpectedly last week at the age of 60. He was the son of the late Eugene and Katherine Jornov, and lived in Valatie all his life until moving to Hunter in the last few years.

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Cindy V. Mattice WEST COXSACKIE – Cindy V. Mattice, 59, passed away peacefully on November 20, 2019. Born in Coeymans on March 16, 1960 she was the daughter of the late Thomas Hamilton Sr. and Antionette (Frank) Blood. Cindy lived in New Baltimore for 40 years.

Cindy, was a 1978 graduate of R-C-S High School and was a long-time server at the Ravena Diner before opening Cindy’s Old World Coffee and Cindy’s Country Florist. She was a member of the Capital Area Rods and enjoyed riding her Harley Davidson.

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President Trump wants the whistleblower revealed. Others push for more protection.

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When President Donald Trump threatened the whistleblower in the Ukraine matter, it sent a tremor through federal employees across the government.

When Republican members of Congress repeatedly attempted to out that whistleblower during the Trump impeachment inquiry, it made current and potential truth tellers nervous.

When whistleblower advocates hear those comments, they are appalled but know the remarks strengthen the case for tougher whistleblower protection laws.

It should be explicitly illegal for any federal employee “to actively seek and/or reveal the identity of a whistleblower who has requested anonymity,” John Palguta, who spent almost 34 years with the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Personnel Management, said by email. “There is no purpose served, other than intimidation and obfuscation, in the current calls for the public identification of the whistleblower.”

There are laws prohibiting retaliation against federal whistleblowers, but that has not stopped reprisals.

No retaliation has been as frightening as the veiled threat Trump issued to the Ukraine whistleblower in September.

“You know what we used to do in the old days . . . with spies and treason,” he said, referring to the death penalty.

That might be considered harmless Trump bluster, but not if you are a whistleblower who has already suffered retribution. When I asked Robert MacLean, who won the first federal whistleblower case before the Supreme Court in 2015, what impact remarks

by Trump and his allies could have on current and potential whistleblowers, the usually open former air marshal demurred.

“I’m already on welfare, and Uber to keep a roof over my children,” said MacLean, who is still fighting to get his job back. “I’m too scared to honestly answer your question.”

Despite his high court victory, MacLean’s attempt to continue his federal law enforcement career has been blocked

by Transportation Department legal moves.

MacLean’s reluctance is understandable. Criticism of a specific whistleblower by the most powerful person in the

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world, and calls for exposure of that person’s identity, are serious matters felt across the workforce.

“It is beyond credible disagreement that exposing the anonymous whistleblower will have a chilling effect on others who want to defend the law but are afraid of retaliation,” said Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project, in a statement. “The President’s exposure campaign attempts to influence proceedings, by scaring off witnesses whose testimony challenges the President’s actions.”

That campaign, he added, “seeks to erase a first principle sacred in all whistleblower laws - the right to provide evidence anonymously, so retaliation is not possible.”

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

There are laws protecting whistleblowers against retaliation, but “the ability to enforce these laws is very weak,” said Stephen M. Kohn, a lawyer who has represented them for 35 years and a co-founder of the National Whistleblower Center.

In June, Devine sent congressional staffers a series of proposals to strengthen the laws. A major weakness, according to Devine and other whistleblower advocates, is the inability of federal whistleblowers to seek jury trials against those accused of retaliation.

Most federal whistleblowers can take cases to the Merit Systems Protection Board, which serves as a personnel court for

federal employees, but it “does not have the resources for complex cases with national public policy significance,” according to his memorandum.

Subjecting a whistleblower to a bogus, reprisal probe is another tactic that should be prohibited.

Because laws protecting whistleblowers have made it harder to fire them, “the most common retaliation tactic has been opening a retaliatory investigation followed by an offer to resign or face criminal prosecution,” Devine said. “No matter how outlandish the pretext, the prospects of criminal trial are so terrifying that the chilling effect may have net increased.”

Devine and others also would like Congress to increase the ability of whistleblowers to obtain temporary suspension of retaliatory disciplinary actions while their cases are pending. The inability to obtain temporary relief from those actions “has made the (whistleblower protection) law dysfunctional even for those who win,” Devine wrote, because they cannot wait for years to have their cases resolved.

Adding up the various shortcomings in the current law, Devine’s memo concluded that federal employees, compared to private sector employees, “have the nation’s weakest due process options to enforce their whistleblower rights, although they have the most significant duties to the public.”

The Ukraine whistleblower reportedly is an employee of

Parents arrested after baby dies after being kept on a vegan diet Global warming suit against oil industry goes to appeals court Deanna Paul

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The parents of an 18-monthold boy who died in September from malnourishment have been arrested by Florida police on charges of manslaughter and child neglect.

On Sept. 27, around 4 a.m., Sheila O’Leary nursed the child briefly and, she told authorities, became worried when he began breathing shallowly, the Florida Fort Myers News-Press reported. Rather than call for help, though, the O’Learys went to sleep.

The paramedics who responded to a 911 call later that day pronounced the boy dead at the Cape Coral, Florida, home; he weighed just 17 pounds when he died, according to police reports, significantly under the average weight for a child his age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Sheila and Ryan O’Leary told investigators that the vegan family only eats fruit, vegetables and raw foods, such as mangoes, rambutans, bananas and avocados, according to the News-Press. The parents supplemented the toddler’s diet with breast milk.

The child, who was homebirthed had never seen a doctor.

The couple turned

themselves in to authorities on Nov. 6, after the medical examiner’s office released its autopsy findings: the cause of death was malnutrition and complications, including dehydration, microsteatosis of liver, and swollen hands, feet and lower legs.

They were booked at the Lee County jail on charges of felony manslaughter and child neglect. Bond was set for both at $250,000, and an arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 9.

In a statement on his law firm’s website, attorney John Musca, who is representing the 35-year-old mother, called the boy’s death “tragic.”

The toddler, he said, had been “struggling with illness for the past six months, making it difficult for him to eat.

No attorney was listed for Ryan O’Leary, who is 30, in the Lee County jail records.

The O’Learys have two other children together, ages 3 and 5, whom police saw at their residence in September. One had blackened and decaying teeth, the News-Press reported, at both were extremely malnourished, weighing under the third percentile for their age groups.

NBC News reported that the children were removed from the home and are being looked after by the Department of Children and Families’ care.

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New York City urged a U.S. appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit against five of the world’s biggest oil companies, after a federal judge last year rejected a claim that the industry should reimburse the municipal government for costs tied to climate change.

The biggest U.S. city sued in January 2018, seeking to pin financial responsibility for harms caused by global warming on Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and ConocoPhillips. New York demanded billions of dollars to cover the cost of dealing with increased flooding and extreme weather conditions, among other impacts.

New York claims the companies have been responsible for more than 11% of all the atmospheric carbon and methane pollution since the Industrial Revolution more than a century ago. Greenhouse gases constitute a “public nuisance” — an illegal threat to community welfare, similar to a brothel, drug den or illegal hazardous waste dump — and

unreasonably interfere with local land use, the city said.

“All we’re asking for is compensation for the harms,” the city’s attorney, John Moore, said Friday at a hearing in Manhattan before three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. “We’re not seeking to impose regulations.”

The circuit judges considering the appeal are Amalya Kearse, who was appointed to the court by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, Richard Sullivan and Michael Park, both of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump. The panel didn’t say when it would rule.

New York’s case is one of more than a dozen lawsuits against energy companies based on state nuisance and trespass law. New York says it needs money to build sea walls to protect its 520 miles of coastline, launch publichealth programs and take measures to protect property from rising sea levels, increasing heat and violent storms. The city argues that oil companies denied findings of climate-change scientists despite knowing that the use of gas and oil posed

“grave risk” to the planet.

The companies’ attorney, Theodore Boutrous, argued on Friday that New York can’t use state law to address global climate change, and that the city was trying to create “an unprecedented sweeping, interstate, international, world-wide tort.”

“The only way to escape liability is to stop producing oil, according to the city,” Boutrous said. “Global warming is an important problem, but tort suits are not the way to resolve it,” he said.

In July 2018, a federal judge in Manhattan agreed with the industry’s argument, throwing out New York’s suit.

“The immense and complicated problem of global warming requires a comprehensive solution that weighs the global benefits of fossil fuel use with the gravity of the impending harms,” U.S. District Judge John Keenan wrote.

Keenan ruled that the federal Clean Air Act exclusively controls carbon dioxide emissions, barring New York’s suit and similar statelaw claims.

the CIA, which is part of the intelligence community. Intelligence staffers have different whistleblower protections than other federal workers. Most feds can seek retaliation protection from the Merit Board and the Office of Special Counsel. Intelligence whistleblowers don’t have those options, Kohn explained, adding that they “are dependent on the president to protect their rights.”

That makes Trump’s statements even more alarming.

Yet his comments and those from his supporters who want to reveal the Ukraine whistleblower’s identity have what Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, considers a silver lining.

The controversy, she said, “has heightened awareness across the country of the plight of whistleblowers, the dangers they still are exposed to and the need to reform the laws so that they are more adequately protecting” those who expose misconduct.

It’s a silver lining that comes at a stiff price.

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Glad to be in sunny Florida Holiday events at the I am back in sunny Florida where the weather is a heck of a lot nicer than it is up north!

The arctic blast that came in last week signaled a decisive end to the fall weather. I left my home in Conesville a few days earlier than I had planned to escape an upcoming storm. I was accused by the locals of bringing the cold weather down with me, since this past weekend was decidedly “un-Florida like.” It was in the 50s and windy with a few showers that felt more like an October day in New York. Two days later, though, it is back up in the 70s and sunny! I love spending my winters here on the Gulf Coast, but I cannot say I am happy with how the Sunshine State prioritizes its environmental policies.

I just got this press release from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Agency.

Today, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Executive Director Eric Sutton applauded Gov. Ron DeSantis for his Bolder, Brighter, Better Future budget recommendations for the 2020-2021 fiscal year.

The budget will continue to fund high priority conservation items like invasive python eradication, red tide research, and coral reef disease response and restoration. Budget highlights: n $9.9 million to combat Invasive Species, which includes an additional $1 million for python removal. n $3 million for the State Reef Fish Survey to estimate reef fishery populations. n $1.9 million for Red Tide Research, which includes two dedicated staff. n $4 million for Mechanical Removal of Invasive Plants. n $2.4 for Coral Reef Disease Response and Restoration. n $600,000 to Combat Wildlife Disease.

It seems to me they have their priorities seriously screwed up.

Almost $10 million for “invasive species” with $1 million slated for python removal alone, $4 million for mechanical removal of invasive plants, yet only $1.9

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BEYFUSS million for Red Tide research?

This is a disgrace in the eyes of many people who love the coastal waters and the ecosystem that they encompass.

With millions of dead fish littering the beaches and toxic fumes that cause anyone walking on or near a beach to suffer coughing fits from the Red Tide spores, you might think seriously addressing this problem is more important than killing pythons or cutting down trees.

The amount of money budgeted this year is far less than the state spent 10 years ago even, and the issue is now far more serious.

Red Tide threatens coastal ecosystems far more than pythons or roadside weeds. The negative impact of Red Tide on Gulf tourism alone is a heck of a lot more than the $1.9 million they plan to spend on research.

The state will spend $3 million just to survey fish populations on coastal reefs that are already being devastated by Red Tide. What they have already discovered is that Red Tides kill off most of the reef fish.

Last year’s Red Tide outbreak caused the three most popular sportfish in the region, speckled sea trout, redfish and snook to be restricted to “catch and release” only for an indefinite period. It is hard to convince people to spend $800 on a chartered fishing trip only to have to release all the fish they catch.

The sport and commercial fishing industry is still reeling from the aftereffects of last year’s outbreak. Tourists come to Florida mainly to recreate on or near the coast. When the local news

from Tampa warns residents and tourists to completely avoid the beaches in Sarasota County, as was the case on the news last night, due to concerns over respiratory irritation, things are out of control. Tourists and residents should also refrain from eating local fin fish or shellfish, and try not to notice the tons of dead fish on the beaches. It is pretty hard to ignore the stench created by the decaying fish even miles inshore, as was the case last winter, and it seems like a repeat this season as well.

Imagine if a toxic algal bloom wiped out most of the marine life along a 100-mile stretch of the Hudson River and forced residents to avoid even going near the river due to respiratory irritation? Imagine having to bring in front-end loaders to remove millions of dead fish lining the shoreline from Albany to New York City. Imagine if the entire north or south shore of Long Island was similarly impacted.

This is what has occurred on the Gulf coast of Florida and the governor’s response is to spend less than $2 million to “conduct research.”

If you are contemplating a Florida vacation this winter, as thousands of New Yorkers are, you need to be aware of the Red Tide Issue and plan accordingly.

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The Willows will be open to the public 1-4 p.m. Dec. 7.

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art work, local children’s author and illustrator, Jessica Loy will be doing a book signing.

Loy is an accomplished painter and graphic designer, as well as an environmentalist. She is a professor at the College of Saint Rose, where she teaches graphic design.

Her books include “Weird & Wild Animal Facts,”

“When I Grow Up: A Young Person’s Guide to Interesting and Unusual Occupations” and “Follow the Trail: A Young Person’s Guide to the Great Outdoors.”

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I have a lot to be thankful for

HARVEST FAIR

HOLIDAY SALE

WEST CAMP — St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 4203 Route 9W, West Camp, will be holding a Harvest Fair 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Nov. 23. The Fair will be held in the Fellowship Hall with various items for sale including handmade items, seasonal and Christmas decor, “Granny’s Attic” and a bake sale. Light refreshments will also be available. The Fellowship Hall is handicapped accessible via the ramp at the back of the brick building. All are welcome.

TANNERSVILLE — The Kaaterskill United Methodist Church, 5936 Main St., Tannersville, will hold a holiday sale 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 30.

Holiday decorations, gifts for all ages, new or nearly new and more.

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR AND BAKE SALE CAIRO — A Christmas bazaar and bake sale will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 23 at South Cairo United Methodist Church, 25 County Road 67, Leeds. Cookies, coffee and tea will be served.

THANKSGIVING DINNER COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie United Methodist Church, 103 Mansion St., Coxsackie, will serve a Thanksgiving dinner noon-2 p.m. Nov. 28. The menu includes turkey, stuffing, corn, sweet potato casserole, green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, pumpkin and apple pie.

No charge, come as you are.

ST. NICHOLAS BAZAAR CAIRO — The Cairo United Methodist Church annual St. Nicholas Bazaar will be held 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Dec. 7 in the Fellowship Hall, 488 Main St., Cairo. There will be baked goods, holiday items and homemade soup and sandwich lunch. Eat in or take out. There will also be a baby shower with all items going to the neo-natal unit at a local hospital.

WINTER CRAFT FAIR SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, Winter Craft Fair will be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 14. Breakfast and lunch will be available, plus a bake sale to support Church Women United. Thrift Shop ‘Boutique’ will be open as well. For information, call Emily Shutter at 518-813-0661.

Advertising Deadline: Wednesday, Dec. 18

Thanksgiving is about to fade into the sunset, once again leaving a trail of memories and leftovers.

It’s one of my favorite holidays, focusing on family and food, which explains my fondness for it, I’m sure.

Just a quick glance around the table and I have a whole list of things I’m thankful for.

There’s nothing better than a house full of loved ones and good smells!

I’m thankful for a lot of things. I’m thankful for the Pilgrims who started this custom almost 400 years ago.

Many of their traditions live today — inviting the neighbors over, for one.

We invited them — I was kind of hoping that in the spirit of the holiday they’d dress like Indians and maybe knock off a couple of the deer that roam freely over our lawns and drag them over for the feast. They didn’t — maybe next year. The Indians stayed with the Pilgrims for three days and feasted.

They had to — there were no refrigerators to store the leftovers in. When the food was all gone, they formed a conga

WHITTLING AWAY

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BROOKS line and danced through the woods, which I think was the start of the Macy’s Parade.

They then hopped into an ox cart and drove to the mall where they spent the rest of the day trying to find a parking spot.

I’m thankful that I’m a carnivore during this festive season. A feast just isn’t a feast without meat. A Hubbard squash stuffed with dressing or a turkey sculpted out of tofu just wouldn’t be the same and they’re so hard to baste or make gravy out of. Someone told me last week that “vegetarian” is an old Indian word that means “One who hunts poorly,” but I wouldn’t put money on it.

I really do have a lot of respect for vegetarians and their dedication and on occasion have even thought of giving it a try myself, but then thoughts of prime rib or a thick pork chop just wipes those ideas away.

I’m thankful that I’m not a turkey. I’ve tried feeling sorry for them, honest I have, it’s just that they taste so darn good. They’re a marvel of genetic engineering — we’ve taken one of the smartest of all wild fowl and made it into something that is actually dumber than a Jerry Springer Show contestant. It’s a real challenge to bag a wild turkey, requiring stalking skills and wily woodland wisdom.

Imagine hunting on a Butterball ranch, no gun necessary, just carry a bowling ball and drop it on the head on a chubby prospect. How could you tell it was a Butterball ranch, you may ask? Simple, just look for the little round white pop-up button on the birds’ chests as they walk by.

I wonder if Butterball eggs have those little buttons on them when they put them into the incubators. They are

handy little things but awfully chewy and I don’t think they’re very nourishing.

Most of all, I’m thankful for my family and my friends.

Without them my life would be flavorless and flat. I’m thankful for you who read my column week after week, probably hoping to see some improvement. Those of you who have so kindly emailed me especially deserve my thanks — your feedback keeps me going. I love your comments and stories, keep them coming! A writer with no audience would be a sad thing indeed.

Lastly, I’m thankful for leftovers! Turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, pumpkin pie, enough to last for days.

My only worry is that some morning I may wake up and discover that this little white plastic button has appeared on my chest.

Thought for the week — Why is it called “after dark” when it really is “after light.”

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

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Monday, December 2nd: Greenville Public Library; 11177 NY-32, Greenville. NY 12083 | 10:30am - 11:45am

Behaviors | Understanding and Responding to Dementia - Related Behavior - Behavior is a powerful form of communication and is one of the primary ways for people with dementia to communicate their needs and feelings as the ability to use language is lost. However, some behaviors can present real challenges for caregivers to manage. Join us to learn to decode behavioral messages, identify common behavior triggers, and learn strategies to help intervene with some of the most common behavioral challenges of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Behaviors | Understanding and Responding to Dementia - Related Behavior - Behavior is a powerful form of communication and is one of the primary ways for people with dementia to communicate their needs and feelings as the ability to use language is lost. However, some behaviors can present real challenges for caregivers to manage. Join us to learn to decode behavioral messages, identify common behavior triggers, and learn strategies to help intervene with some of the most common behavioral challenges of Alzheimer’s disease.

Wednesday, December 4th: Hudson Area Library; 51 N 5th St, Hudson, NY, 12534 | 5pm - 6pm

Behaviors | Understanding and Responding to Dementia - Related Behavior - Behavior is a powerful form of communication and is one of the primary ways for people with dementia to communicate their needs and feelings as the ability to use language is lost. However, some behaviors can present real challenges for caregivers to manage. Join us to learn to decode behavioral messages, identify common behavior triggers, and learn strategies to help intervene with some of the most common behavioral challenges of Alzheimer’s disease. *All programs are free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged.

Light refreshments will be served.

For more information or to register for one of the above programs, contact Sierra Snoody at 518-867-4999 Ext: 1691 or ssnoddy@alz.org

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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

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The It’s OK to Dream Turkey Bowl was played on Thursday night. Sports, B9

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Chatham held its Fall Sports Awards banquet in the high school auditorium recently.

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Joe Forgione of Cairo shot this nice seven point buck on the second day of the season. You may recognize Joe. He was the “J” of “N&J” Market, Gas Convenience and Sporting Goods and his wife Nancy the name behind the “N” of “N&J.” The store had a teriffic 30-year run from 1974 till 2004 on Route 145 in Cairo.

The Giving Spirit

By Larry DiDonato For Columbia-Greene Media

Sportsmen and women have a special place in their hearts for those in need.

They work hard every hunting season to bring high quality protein in the form of venison to anyone who may have a need for it.

Each year, various organizations like, Hunters Helping the Hungry, the Venison Donation Coalition, and individual sportsmen’s federations, clubs and deer hunters, coordinate the donation of deer to local food pantries.

Many deer hunters are very generous with their time and effort and take deer to be donated to various cutters, a few of whom are listed below:

Venison Donation Program Cutters Greene County Berkshire View Farm Custom Meats 518-731-1316 838 Alcove Road Hannacroix Rich’s Custom Meat Shop 518-966-8597 303 Maple Avenue, Greenville *Columbia County Gary Peters 518-392-7146 George Road, Ghent Randy Plass 518-755-6928 156 Footbridge Road Extension Columbiaville *The Columbia County Sportstmen’s Federation See GIVING B7

Porreca’s 298 single, 734 triple sparks Hudson Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Freshman Zach Porreca fired a 298 single and finished with a 734 triple to lead Hudson to a 5-0 victory over Coxsackie-Athens in the Patroon Conference bowling opener for both schools on Thursday.

Porreca also rolled games of 213 and 223 for the Bluehawks, who had a total pinfall of 2,761. C-A’s total pinfall was 2,558.

Damien Calvo led the Indians with a 544 triple.

Catskill 5, Chatham 0 CHATHAM — Zach Todriff tossed a 222-616 to highlight Catskill’s 5-0 victory over Chatham in Thursday’s Patroon Conference bowling action.

Michael Jubie had a 202-528 for the Cats. Ryan Prasenski spun a 242 single and Davis Whittaker had a single game of 208.

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Chatham honors Fall athletes Columbia-Greene Media

CHATHAM — Chatham High School held its 2019 Fall Sports Awards Night recently in the CHS auditorium.

Due to playoffs, their football program held a separate awards banquet. These events recognized this season’s outstanding varsity athletes and were sponsored by the Athletic Booster Club.

Award winners: Boys Cross Country: Ultimate Teammate Award – Derek Roberts, Rookie of the Year – Caden Holsapple; Varsity Golf: Ultimate Teammate Award – Vinny Marasco, Rookie of the Year – Taylor VanWie, Lifetime Achievement – Zach Gregg.

Varsity Football: Ultimate Teammate Award – Casey Sitzer, Scholar Athlete – Thomas VanTassel, Offensive MVP – Quinten Kastner, Defensive MVP – Sean King, Coach’s Award – Kyle Nehmens.

Boys Varsity Soccer: Ultimate Teammate Award – Timmy Jeralds, MVP – Tobias Jeralds, Rookie of the Year – John Wisseman; Girls Varsity Soccer: Ultimate Teammate Award – Maria Castellanos, MVP – Julia Rose, MVP – Caroline Paolucci, Most Improved Player – Haley Pulver, Hustle & Heart Award – Addie Potter.

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Chatham football awards receipients.

Girls Varsity Tennis: Ultimate Teammate Award – Lily Nowak, MVP – Jahnyah Armstrong, Most Improved – Hannah Spock; Girls Varsity Volleyball: Ultimate Teammate Award – Morgan Simmons, Panther Award – Veah Daigle, Rookie of

the Year – Abby Taylor, Coach’s Award – Erin Madsen.

Cheerleading: Ultimate Teammate Award – Julia Gosselink, Coach’s Award – Lauren Warner.

Barkley says he can bust out of his slump by running his way again Pat Leonard New York Daily News

Saquon Barkley insisted late last season that he isn’t Superman, but the Giants’ slumping running back sounded like he wants to jump in a phone booth and change for Sunday’s game against the Chicago Bears.

Barkley said during an upbeat yet candid group interview that he has let outside noise get him away from being himself as a runner. He wore his hoodie pulled up while he spoke, like Odell Beckham Jr. once did in this same space.

He is in a self-described “funk” after the Jets humbled him for one rushing yard on 13 carries. He is averaging 2.4 yards per carry (72 rushes, 175 yards) from Week 3 in Tampa on. That’s going back even

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miss. The reigning Offensive Rookie of the Year even alluded to staying true to himself as people have tried to change his running style throughout his career.

“I felt like watching film — I’m not gonna say you guys (in the media) — but I allowed, I don’t know what it was, for me not to be me,” Barkley said.

“And I don’t care. That’s who I am. And that’s what I’m getting back to this week. I’m gonna go out there and ball and have fun and go out there with my brothers and whatever happens, happens.

“I’m not gonna be worried about, ‘oh, if he’s hitting it too much’ or if he’s not, he’s not doing this or doing that,” he said, repeating criticisms See BARKLEY B7

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Pro basketball

Texans 20, Colts 17 Indianapolis Houston

NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct GB Boston 11 3 .786 — Toronto 10 4 .714 1.0 Philadelphia 9 5 .643 2.0 Brooklyn 6 8 .429 5.0 New York 4 11 .267 7.5 Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 12 3 .800 — Indiana 8 6 .571 3.5 Chicago 5 10 .333 7.0 Cleveland 4 10 .286 7.5 Detroit 4 10 .286 7.5 Southeast W L Pct GB Miami 10 3 .769 — Orlando 6 8 .429 4.5 Charlotte 6 9 .400 5.0 Washington 4 8 .333 5.5 Atlanta 4 10 .286 6.5 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct GB Denver 10 3 .769 — Utah 9 5 .643 1.5 Minnesota 8 7 .533 3.0 Oklahoma City 5 9 .357 5.5 Portland 5 11 .312 6.5 Pacific W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers 12 2 .857 — L.A. Clippers 10 5 .667 2.5 Phoenix 7 6 .538 4.5 Sacramento 6 7 .462 5.5 Golden State 3 13 .188 10.0 Southwest W L Pct GB Houston 11 4 .733 — Dallas 9 5 .643 1.5 Memphis 5 9 .357 5.5 New Orleans 5 9 .357 5.5 San Antonio 5 10 .333 6.0 Late Wednesday’s games Dallas 142, Golden State 94 Chicago 109, Detroit 89 Utah 103, Minnesota 95 Denver 105, Houston 95 L.A. Clippers 107, Boston 104, OT Thursday’s games Milwaukee 137, Portland 129 New Orleans at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Atlanta at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Washington, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Miami at Chicago, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Boston at Denver, 9 p.m.

Golden State at Utah, 9 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF New England 9 1 0 .900 287 Buffalo 7 3 0 .700 211 N.Y. Jets 3 7 0 .300 164 Miami 2 8 0 .200 139 South W L T Pct PF Houston 7 4 0 .636 265 Indianapolis 6 5 0 .545 244 Tennessee 5 5 0 .500 203 Jacksonville 4 6 0 .400 189 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 8 2 0 .800 341 Pittsburgh 5 5 0 .500 200 Cleveland 4 6 0 .400 192 Cincinnati 0 10 0 .000 147 West W L T Pct PF Kansas City 7 4 0 .636 308 Oakland 6 4 0 .600 225 L.A. Chargers 4 7 0 .364 224 Denver 3 7 0 .300 172 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF Dallas 6 4 0 .600 286 Philadelphia 5 5 0 .500 234 N.Y. Giants 2 8 0 .200 203 Washington 1 9 0 .100 125 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 8 2 0 .800 238 Carolina 5 5 0 .500 228 Tampa Bay 3 7 0 .300 277 Atlanta 3 7 0 .300 220 North W L T Pct PF Green Bay 8 2 0 .800 250 Minnesota 8 3 0 .727 289 Chicago 4 6 0 .400 169 Detroit 3 6 1 .350 244 West W L T Pct PF San Francisco 9 1 0 .900 295 Seattle 8 2 0 .800 275 L.A. Rams 6 4 0 .600 243 Arizona 3 7 1 .318 248 Thursday’s game Houston 20, Indianapolis 17 Sunday’s games Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Denver at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Miami at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 1 p.m.

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

Carolina at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m.

Dallas at New England, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m.

Monday’s game Baltimore at L.A. Rams, 8:15 p.m.

PA 108 170 255 305 PA 249 226 197 222 PA 196 202 228 276 PA 256 250 218 197 PA 197 230 289 253 PA 199 257 313 262 PA 205 205 174 272

0 10 7 0 — 17 0 10 3 7 — 20

First Quarter HOU—Fairbairn 35 yard field goal, 13:42.

Second Quarter IND—Brissett 5 yard rush (Vinatieri kick), 4:28.

HOU—Hopkins 35 yard pass from D.Watson (Fairbairn kick), 1:53.

IND—Vinatieri 36 yard field goal, 0:00.

Third Quarter IND—Williams 13 yard rush (Vinatieri kick), 5:46.

HOU—Fairbairn 36 yard field goal, 2:43.

Fourth Quarter HOU—De.Hopkins 30 yard pass from D.Watson (Fairbairn kick), 12:34.

TEAM STATISTICS IND HOU First Downs 19 16 Total Net Yards 304 397 Rushes-Yds 39-175 24-99 Passing 129 298 Sacked-Yds Lost 1-8 1-1 Comp-Att-Int 16-25-0 19-30-1 Punts 5-47.8 2-47.0 Punt Returns 0-0 2-23 Kickoff Returns 3-50 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 3-29 4-27 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-0 Time of Possession 33:17 26:43 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-IND, Jt.Williams 26-104, Hines 9-51, Brissett 4-20. HOU, C.Hyde 16-67, D.Johnson Jr. 5-22, D.Watson 3-10.

PASSING-IND, Brissett 16-25-0-129. HOU, D.Watson 19-30-1-298.

RECEIVING-IND, Ebron 4-44, Doyle 3-28, T.Hilton 3-18, Jt.Williams 3-17, Hines 2-10, Rogers 1-12.

HOU, Fuller V 7-140, De.Hopkins 6-94, Akins 3-26, Fells 1-24, D.Johnson Jr. 1-8, Stills 1-6.

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 22 14 3 1 4 33 Florida 22 12 5 2 3 29 Montreal 22 11 6 4 1 27 Buffalo 22 10 9 2 1 23 Tampa Bay 19 10 7 2 0 22 Toronto 23 9 10 2 2 22 Ottawa 22 10 11 0 1 21 Detroit 24 7 14 2 1 17 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 24 16 4 3 1 36 NY Islanders 20 16 3 1 0 33 Carolina 22 13 8 1 0 27 Pittsburgh 22 11 7 4 0 26 Philadelphia 22 11 7 0 4 26 Columbus 21 9 8 3 1 22 NY Rangers 19 9 8 1 1 20 New Jersey 20 7 9 1 3 18 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 23 14 4 3 2 33 Colorado 22 13 7 2 0 28 Dallas 23 13 8 1 1 28 Winnipeg 23 13 9 0 1 27 Chicago 22 9 9 2 2 22 Nashville 21 9 9 1 2 21 Minnesota 22 9 11 2 0 20 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Edmonton 23 14 6 2 1 31 Arizona 22 13 7 2 0 28 Vancouver 23 11 8 3 1 26 Vegas 23 11 9 3 0 25 Anaheim 23 10 10 3 0 23 Calgary 25 10 12 3 0 23 San Jose 22 10 11 1 0 21 Los Angeles 21 8 12 1 0 17 Wednesday’s games Ottawa 2, Montreal 1, OT NY Rangers 4, Washington 1 Thursday’s games Boston 3, Buffalo 2 Florida 5, Anaheim 4, OT NY Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT Philadelphia 5, Carolina 3 Columbus 5, Detroit 4 St. Louis 5, Calgary 0 Vancouver 6, Nashville 3 Minnesota 3, Colorado 2 Tampa Bay 4, Chicago 2 Dallas 5, Winnipeg 3 Toronto at Arizona, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Vegas, 10 p.m.

Edmonton at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

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

NY Rangers at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

GF GA 78 56 84 80 75 69 62 66 69 64 73 81 61 70 58 91 GF GA 90 73 67 49 77 66 74 59 68 68 55 69 64 67 51 74

GF GA 70 62 78 64 66 56 64 70 65 67 74 74 60 72 GF GA 76 63 64 49 76 68 72 67 63 69 62 78 65 78 53 75

Jimmie Johnson’s legacy: A seven-time NASCAR champion and one of the good guys Scott Fowler The Charlotte Observer

CONCORD, N.C. — To understand exactly how Jimmie Johnson was at one point as a NASCAR driver, you should remember the verb that his name inspired.

Unflappable, confident and brimming with California cool, Johnson rocketed to a record five straight series championships from 2006-10. So people started wondering how they could “Jimmie-proof” the Cup series.

Change the playoff format? Modify the spoiler? What could stop the No. 48 Chevrolet?

It turns out nobody was going to “Jimmie-proof” anything, other than Father Time. Johnson, 44, hasn’t won much the past couple of years, didn’t make the playoffs in 2019 and so now he has decided that he’s finally going to slow himself down.

Johnson said Wednesday he was going to stop driving fulltime after the 2020 NASCAR season, which means he’s about to have a 38-race retirement party next year and then go on to whatever comes next.

What will that be? He’s not exactly sure, but he does know how he’d like to be remembered as a driver.

“For being one of the good guys out there on the track,” Johnson said Thursday, “not for standing up and holding a trophy somewhere. More of that heartfelt thing than the stats.”

Fair enough. It’s impossible to dislike Johnson if you know him even a little bit. He was — and is — one of the good guys.

But it would also do Johnson a disservice to recite the most important statistic of his career — he has won seven Cup series championships overall, which ties him with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. for the most ever. If you’re putting four drivers atop NASCAR’s Mount Rushmore, those are three of them.

You can argue among yourselves about the fourth.

When Johnson was at his best, he was “a computer in the car,” as his longtime team owner Rick Hendrick said Thursday during a press conference to explain why Johnson would no longer be a full-time driver after the 2020 NASCAR season.

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“Jimmie was a machine who could really dissect a car like I’d never seen before,” Hendrick said.

Johnson was a lot more than that, of course — a husband, a doting father, a charitable dynamo, a marathon runner and a guy who climbed on top of a golf cart once and broke his wrist horsing around up there.

People didn’t remember that last one too often, though. Johnson was widely thought to be perfect, so perfect that people sometimes couldn’t stand it.

Bruton Smith, the owner of Charlotte Motor Speedway and also a neighbor of Johnson’s for many years, once told me that the best thing that could happen to NASCAR would be for Johnson to get out of his race car, haul off and slap somebody.

“I just think it would help him maybe get away from that vanilla part of Jimmie,” Smith said. “He would show people the other side of Jimmie Johnson. Hey, if he needs to, he can hit me.”

That wasn’t Johnson’s style, though he could be aggressive on the track when he needed to be.

He has won 83 Cup Series races, although the last one came in 2017. His seventh Cup championship came in 2016, but he fell to 14th in 2018 and then missed the playoffs for the first time in 2019 with an 18th-place series finish.

Still, Johnson said his poor results for the past two seasons weren’t the reason he will step away. Instead, he said, he felt it in his gut. He knew it was time, he said, in much the same way he knew long ago it was time to ask his future wife to marry him.

And spending time with his two daughters, ages 9 and 6, also played a part. His 9-year-old, Genevieve, drew the biggest applause of Johnson’s retirement news conference when she introduced her father along with her younger sister, Lydia.

The biggest NASCAR drivers have these long-runway retirements, allowing their race teams to go on a search for their

successor and their sponsors to get a lot of bang for the final-year buck. Johnson will undoubtedly compete for some victories next year, too, especially at his favorite tracks.

“Next year is not a mail-it-in year,” Johnson said. “We’re going to win races and compete for a championship.”

Johnson will continue to race some, in other series and as part of “one-off” deals. A fitness buff who forced other NASCAR drivers into the gym as they tried to keep up with him, it’s likely he will do some more endurance racing of some kind. But the dayto-day grind will be gone this time next year.

Hendrick said he knew something was up when Johnson called him and asked for a private meeting. “Every time one of these drivers calls me and wants to come to my house, I know that’s not a good situation,” Hendrick

said.

Johnson was never as beloved a figure as Dale Earnhardt Jr., but his results were a whole lot better.

It was Gordon who succeeded Earnhardt as the dominant driver in the sport in the late 1990s, and then it was Johnson who succeeded Gordon in that role.

“I thought I had things figured out,” said Gordon, who is a close friend of Johnson’s and was in attendance at the news conference. “And then Jimmie Johnson started beating me on a regular basis.”

Johnson did that to everyone — for years. His was a sustained excellence, the sort that every athlete strives to achieve. As a young driver, he dreamed of winning a single NASCAR race. He has won 83 of them — so far. One of the big questions surrounding his departure is who will succeed him.

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Mayweather teases return, days after saying he was still retired Matt Bonesteel The Washington Post

At some point, Floyd Mayweather will honest-to-God retire. No more boxing. No more cash-grab farces against Japanese kickboxers. No more fighting MMA stars.

That point may be now. Unless it isn’t.

Speaking Saturday at the opening of one of his boxing and fitness gyms in Torrance, California, the 42-year-old Mayweather told Reuters that he was done with boxing, citing the sport’s violent nature and the fatal in-ring injuries suffered by a number of fighters, including American super welterweight Patrick Day in October.

“I’ve got calls to get back into the ring, but my health is my wealth,” Mayweather said.

“Boxing is a very, very brutal sport. In the last few years a lot of fighters have died inside that squared circle.”

Thursday night, however, Mayweather seemed to change his mind. “Coming out of

retirement in 2020,” he wrote to accompany a photo of him in boxing gear.

What Mayweather means by “coming out of retirement” remains to be seen. He told Reuters on Saturday that he still planned on doing exhibitions, such as his fight against Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa on New Year’s Eve, a three-minute, three-knockdown fight that he claimed netted him $9 million.

“I think I make more doing that than most fighters make fighting,” he said Saturday.

There’s also his interest in mixed martial arts, perhaps spurred by his 2017 boxing match against UFC star Conor McGregor. On Wednesday night, Mayweather sat next to UFC President Dana White courtside at the Clippers-Celtics game in Los Angeles and wrote Thursday on Instagram that the two were “working together again to bring the world another spectacular event in 2020 (the two have known each other for years, ESPN reports,

and worked together to bring the McGregor fight into existence).

The official UFC Instagram account shared that photo along with Mayweather’s “coming out of retirement in 2020” photo, fueling speculation that Mayweather and UFC have something brewing.

“Eventually I will move on

to build my brand in MMA but for right now I’m in boxing, and boxing will always be at the top as long as I’m involved,” was all Mayweather said Saturday.

Mayweather’s retirement dance has been one of sport’s longest-running sagas. Mayweather first announced his retirement after beating Ricky Hatton in December 2007, but

he was back 21 months later fighting Juan Manuel Márquez.

He fought nine more times after that until retiring again in 2015 with a 49-0 record, titles in five weight divisions and the distinction of being the highest-grossing boxer in history in terms of pay-per-view buys.

Then came the fight with McGregor in 2017, a 10th-round

TKO in which Mayweather reportedly banked $300 million.

“This was my last fight,” Mayweather said afterward.

Unless it isn’t, and Mayweather decides to fight Canelo Alvarez. Or Manny Pacquiao (again). Or McGregor (again).

Or works out something with White to step into the octagon in some form.

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Grandma’s fear of pet snake causes family uproar Dear Abby, My niece, “Vicki,” will be 18 in a few days.

She works part-time and has started college.

Her mom, my sister, lost her husband last year.

Vicki did some research on finding herself the right pet because my sister has allerDEAR ABBY gies. With her own money, Vicki purchased a little garter snake.

Unknown to us, Grandma had an incident with a snake as a child. Grandma has now threatened to never visit Vicki! She said, if anyone gets sick, don’t call her. Vicki now feels she must choose between Grandma and her pet, and she’s heartbroken.

My niece doesn’t drink, sleep around or use drugs. All she wanted was something to love after losing her father. We don’t think her grandmother should make her choose, feel guilty or threaten a fractured relationship.

Please advise.

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Grandma’s reaction is extreme, to say the least. A compromise would be for everyone to agree that when Grandma visits, Vicki’s garter snake will be kept out of sight and confined to its little “herpetarium.” But if Grandma can’t accept that, Vicki will have to visit Granny at her house.

Dear Abby, How do you let friends know that you’ve outgrown them without hurting their feelings? I have a couple of friends I would rather not socialize with anymore. I feel I have changed and grown into a different person. I’m sure these people will confront me one day about why I don’t return their calls or want to do things with them anymore. I don’t want to hurt their feelings or have an unpleasant confrontation with them. Can you help?

Outgrown In The Midwest Not returning phone calls is rude, but no law says that you are obligated to return them immediately. A reason might be that you are busy.

People are legitimately busy these days. If you are challenged about why you are less available, an honest answer might be, again, that you are busy or the activity is of less interest to you than it used to be.

Relationships do not always remain static.

But no one has a right to create an unpleasant confrontation because you are not at their beck and call. If you are cornered, it is all right to reply that you feel you have changed, it’s nothing personal, but you don’t wish to hang out as often as before.

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Doctor should be testing both vitamin D levels I have a severe vitamin D deficiency. My blood test indicates a level of 21. I have severe cramps in my hands, feet and legs caused by this deficiency. I know because when it is normal, I don’t have the cramps. These numbers are after I have been taking megadose vitamin D2 (50,000 IU). At my last appointment, TO YOUR my doctor said, “For some GOOD HEALTH reason, your body is not accepting it.” She then gave me another prescription for the same. Any suggestions?

DR. KEITH ROACH

In general, when something isn’t working, don’t keep doing the same thing and expect a better result. Still, I agree with your doctor that your body isn’t absorbing the vitamin D. This should prompt a search to find out why. Celiac disease, pancreas enzyme insufficiency and history of bariatric or stomach surgery are the most common causes.

Vitamin D2 isn’t quite as effective as vitamin D3. If no cause is identified, it might be worth high daily doses of D3 and careful monitoring of your blood level.

Finally, make sure your doctor is checking the right blood level. If she is giving you D2 and checking D3 blood levels, that would explain the discrepancy (but it would not explain the cramps, which can be a symptom of severe vitamin D deficiency). In my lab, I order the combined D2 and D3 level.

Why isn’t there a blood test or X-ray to find pancreatic cancer before it’s too late?

Screening for pancreatic cancer is appropriate for those few people with a history of familial pancreatic cancer or other cancer risk syndromes, such as Peutz-Jeghers syndrome. For

people at average risk, no blood test or radiology study has been identified that has more benefit than harm. Pancreatic cancer is uncommon — only about 1 person in 10,000 per year are diagnosed. So, many people would need to be screened in order to find a case. The tests are not perfect; so, many people need further invasive testing to prove they don’t have pancreatic cancer.

More people are harmed from the follow-up testing than get benefit from finding pancreatic cancer early.

If new tests are proven to be so good that invasive testing will not be necessary, we can consider the costs against the benefits.

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In a recent column, there was a man with calcifications in his blood vessels. Could the root of his calcium problem be parathyroid disease? It wasn’t mentioned.

The four parathyroid glands are normally located around the thyroid gland in the neck.

High levels of parathyroid hormone, almost always from a benign tumor of the parathyroid gland, cause high levels of calcium in the blood.

This calcium comes mostly from the bones and can lead to osteoporosis and fractures. But, it can also lead to abnormal calcium depositions, especially kidney stones.

There is some evidence that people with hyperparathyroidism are more likely to develop disease and calcification of the blood vessels, both of the brain and the heart. I congratulate M.H. for considering it, even if high parathyroid hormone is only a rare cause of blood vessel blockages.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are not one of those selfish or self-involved individuals who feels it is foolish to stick your neck out for others; on the contrary, you will always do what you can to assist those in need, even if it means putting yourself in harm’s way by doing so. You are forward-thinking and courageous; you never let yourself become mired in the past, and your view of the future is bright and positive — and, at the same time, always realistic.

You can spot danger a mile away, and this allows you to do all you can to avoid it yourself, or help others avoid it.

Always confident, your capabilities are many, and you have very likely been endowed with a wide variety of talents — any one of which, when developed to the fullest, can bring you success and contentment.

Also born on this date are: Miley Cyrus, singer and actress; Bruce Hornsby, musician; Harpo Marx, comedian and actor; Boris Karloff, actor; Billy the Kid, Old West outlaw; Franklin Pierce, U.S. president; Chris Hardwick, comedian.

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 24 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Someone may only be offering excuses today, but what you’re after are the very real reasons why something happened the way it did.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Difficulties are unavoidable today, especially when

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you stand face to face with a rival. He or she may know what you’re thinking.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Whatever is standing in your way as the day opens is likely to vanish before you swing into action. It may not be gone for good, however.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may be provided with an alibi by someone who doesn’t even know what it is you’ve been accused of. Keep everything on the “up and up.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You must go through the proper channels today if you want to do something differently from the way it’s spelled out in the rulebook.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You can pick up the pace today without leaving anyone behind. Should any of your fears be justified, it will be in a moment of doubt.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — One message comes through loud and clear, but another may be very difficult to decipher — and it’s the one that makes all the difference.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may be considering a major change in either your personal life or business affairs — but don’t try to alter both at the same time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A friend holds the key to a mystery you’ve been trying to solve for quite some time. It is offered to you as the opening salvo in a negotiation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’re not sure where you’ll be at day’s end, but one thing is for sure: You will be closer to your final destination. Pace yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can benefit from a collaboration that begins almost with-

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

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

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

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Answers (Answers Tuesday Monday) Jumbles: CROSS PINCH SUNKEN POETRY Answer: After selling almost all of his pickups, the horse was a — ONE “TRUCK” PONY

Solution to Friday’s puzzle

11/23/19 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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Provide the word that is formed by combining the two given words. (e.g., Work and alcoholic Answer: Workaholic.)

Freshman level 1. Breakfast and lunch 2. Documentary and drama 3. Britain and exit 4. Situation and comedy 5. Cocker spaniel and poodle Graduate level 6. Biography and picture 7. Motor and pedal 8. Bold and audacious 9. Chuckle and snort 10. Brain and maniac PH.D. level 11. Web and log 12. Flounce and blunder 13. Glamor and ritz 14. Transfer and resistor 15. Sky and peer-to-peer

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Brunch. 2. Docudrama. 3. Brexit. 4. Sitcom. 5. Cockapoo. 6. Biopic. 7. Moped.

8. Bodacious. 9. Chortle. 10. Brainiac. 11. Blog. 12. Flounder. 13. Glitz. 14. Transistor. 15. Skype.

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

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Dated: November 14, 2019

By Order of Windham Fire District No. 1 Katherine Murray LEGAL NOTICE The bond resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, was adopted on the 15th day of October, 2019, subject to a per-

missive referendum and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Coxsackie, New York is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of the law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution. /s/ Nikki M. Bereznak Village Clerk The following is a summary of said bond resolution: 1. The title of the bond resolution is: BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF COXSACKIE, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK, ADOPTED OCTOBER 15, 2019, AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF A PUBLIC WORKS TRUCK, INCLUDING APPURTENANCES RELATING THERETO, STATING THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST OF SAID ACQUISITION, TOGETHER WITH CERTAIN COSTS PRELIMINARY AND INCIDENTAL THERETO IS $164,001.00, A P P R O P R I AT I N G SAID SUM THEREFOR AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF UP TO $164,001.00 SERIAL BONDS OF THE VILLAGE TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION. 2.

The resolution, among other things, authorized the Village of Coxsackie, New York (the “Village�) to acquire a public works truck, in particular, one 2019 International HV 507 SFA 4x4 with a dump body and plow equipment provided and installed by Viking, including appurtenances related thereto, (the “Public Works Truck�) stating the estimated maximum cost of said acquisition, together with certain costs preliminary and incidental thereto is $164,001.00, appropriating said sum therefor and authorizing the issuance of up to $164,001.00 serial bonds of the Village to finance said appropriation.

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3. The estimated maximum cost of the Public Works Truck, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and the financing thereof, is $164,001.00 and said amount was appropriated therefor in the bond resolution.

To finance said appropriation, serial bonds of the Village are authorized to be issued in the aggregate principal amount of up to $164,001.00 pursuant to, and in accordance with, the provisions of the Local Finance Law, constituting Chapter 33-A of the Consolidated Laws of the State of New York (the “Law�).

4. The period of probable usefulness of the specific objects or purposes for which the bonds authorized by the resolution are to be issued is fifteen (15) years, within the limitation of Section 11.00(a)(28) of the Law. The bond resolution summarized hereby is available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Village Clerk, 119 Mansion Street in the Village of Coxsackie, New York, Greene County, New York.

Please take notice that the Village of Coxsackie Historic Preservation Committee will hold a Public Hearing on December 10, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at the Village of Coxsackie Hall, 119 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY. The subject of the Public Hearing will be to review the proposal received by Sharon Mahota & Joe Alves at 12 Reed Street, Coxsackie, NY bearing Tax Map #56.20-1-12, for rear yard improvements including installation of privacy fencing to connect to the shed at the rear of the property. Landscaping will be done inside the fenced in area, to include fruit trees, garden boxes and a rear patio area. Details of the proposal can be viewed at the Village of Coxsackie Offices, 119 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY. Respectfully Submitted, Nikki Bereznak, Clerk PUBLIC NOTICE GERMANTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL The Germantown Central School Board of Education is seeking transportation bids for special education transportation for the remainder of the 20192020 school year.

Specifications may be obtained in the District Clerk’s Office between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Bids must be in the hands of the District Clerk by 9:00 a.m. on December 4, 2019 at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON FIRE PROTECTION CONTRACT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Durham, Greene County, New York at the Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham, NY on December 3, 2019 at 7:30 PM in the evening for the purpose of considering contracting with the Oak Hill-Durham Volunteer Fire Company for fire protection to be furnished by said Company to the Oak Hill Fire Protection District on the following general terms: A. The Fire Company shall answer and attend upon all fire calls within the foregoing Fire District and shall provide emergency service in the case of accidents, calamities, or other emergencies in connection with which the service of firefighters would be required for a period of one (1) year.

B. For such service the Fire Company shall receive the sum of $134,001.00 in the year 2020.

C. Any loss or damage sustained by the fire apparatus or equipment of the said Fire Company in its performance of said Contract shall be borne by it and not by the Town.

D. Each contracting party shall assume the obligations imposed upon it by appropriate statutes of the State of New York for medical expense, compensation or other benefits or claims arising by reason of injury or death of a firefighter or

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swering, attending or returning from any fire call within the district.

E. Such other incidental terms as may be necessary and proper in connection with such contracting.

ALL persons interested in the matters will be heard at such time and place specified.

Dated: November 21, 2019 Janet Partridge, Town Clerk Town of Durham

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON FIRE CONPROTECTION TRACT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Durham, Greene County, New York at the Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham, NY on December 3, 2019 at 7:30 PM in the evening for the purpose of considering contracting with the East Durham Volunteer Fire Company for fire protection to be furnished by said Company to the East

Durham Fire Protection District on the following general terms: A. The Fire Company shall answer and attend upon all fire calls within the foregoing Fire District and shall provide emergency service in the case of accidents, calamities, or other emergencies in connection with which the service of firefighters would be required for a period of one (1) year.

B. For such service the Fire Company shall receive the sum of $140,175 in the year 2020.

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D. Each contracting party shall assume the obligations imposed upon it by appropriate statutes of the State of New York for medical expense, compensation or other benefits or claims arising by reason of injury or death of a firefighter or member of the emergency relief squad which may be sustained by reason of answering, attending or returning from any fire call within the district.

E. Such other incidental terms as may be necessary and proper in connection with such contracting.

ALL persons interested in the matters will be heard at such time and place specified.

Dated: November 21, 2019 Janet Partridge, Town Clerk Town of Durham

TOWN OF DURHAM GREENE COUNTY NEW YORK NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AMBULANCE CONTRACT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Durham, Greene County, New York at the Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham, NY on December 3, 2019 at 7:30 PM in the evening for the purpose of considering contracting with the Durham Ambulance, Inc. for emergency ambulance service to be furnished by said corporation to the Town of Durham on the following general terms: 1. Provide ambulance, rescue, and emergency services to the Town during the period January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020 at any and all places and locations within the geographical boundaries of the Town of Durham for the sum of $245,000.

2. The contract shall not limit the right of the Rescue Squad to provide emergency services to individuals not within the geographic boundaries of the Town of Durham. Services shall be available to the Town of Durham at all times; however, in the event the Rescue Squad allows its ambulance to leave the Town of Durham, it shall make alternative arrangements to service the Town of Durham during the absence of its equipment.

ALL persons interested in the matters will be heard at such time and place specified.

Dated: November 21, 2019 Janet Partridge, Town Clerk Town of Durham

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Barkley could be commenting at some level on how he is being coached to run a simpler, more downhill style at times. But he did not overtly say that, and he has been a firm supporter of head coach Pat Shurmur all season, including during this six-game losing streak.

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I did too (little),” he said. “Like say if a (blocker) got beat quick, I would take what they give me, and I would just — not go down with ease, but be more focused on securing the ball and live for another down.

Where there’s times when I can make that person miss and do what I do best.

“So I’m not worried about pressing,” he continued.

“I’m not worried about not (enough) or doing too much.

I’m worried about going back and playing how I know I play, how I’ve played my whole life since I was a little kid. That’s a message my dad told me since I was a little kid, when people tried to change my running style in high school and middle school and so on and so on.”

He said he can’t just take what the defense gives him.

It’s not in him. Just look at last year’s Bears game, when he famously jumped over thenChicago safety Adrian Amos,

who is now a Green Bay Packer.

“If the defense is on the ball and doing a really good job, and I’m just taking what they give me, I feel like I’m not trying,” he said. “That’s the biggest thing I want to get to. Yes, defenses are going to make plays. It’s the NFL. But sometimes I can make that person miss or make two guys miss — and it might be so simple as making two guys miss and getting a five-yard gain. I’m not saying make a guy miss and go 70 yards ... That’s what I’m gonna try to do.”

So why has Barkley gotten away from that? He intimated that he knows why but won’t say.

“I don’t know. That’s a good question,” he said. “And if I do know the answer, that’s something for me to know and not for you guys to know. That’s for my family to know.”

Part of the reason is that opposing defensive coordinators

are keying on taking Barkley away and succeeding. Barkley said opposing coaches have told him after games that their priority was to shut him down and make the Giants beat them in other ways.

NFL Network reported that was the Dallas Cowboys’ game plan two games ago, when Barkley rushed 14 times for 28 yards and made just one big play on a 65-yard screen pass.

“Teams know we have Saquon,” right guard Kevin Zeitler said. “Teams know you want that guy to have the ball in his hands. So either way, it doesn’t matter, you’ve got to find a way to get it done and open it up.”

Zeitler said the Giants’ running game isn’t failing because of any one issue. He said it’s typically a lot working with a different short-circuit every time. The entire offensive line needs to be more consistent, including the interior of left guard Will Hernandez and

returning center Jon Halapio.

Shurmur said Barkley is “like everybody else” on the Giants: “he’s got to make more good plays and (fewer) bad ones.”

The head coach admitted that in the Jets game, “we anticipated running the ball more and better against the Jets, and it didn’t happen, so we threw it more and we had success doing that.” But of course, they lost the game. To function optimally, they want to get Barkley going.

Of course when the Giants are playing catch-up down big, that might force them to pass the ball more, too. But they get down big in the first place in part because they can’t run the ball. It’s not fair to just blame the rushing struggles on the defense or deficits.

On Thursday, Barkley’s comments recalled what he said after a frustrating 28-27 Week 16 road loss at

Indianapolis last winter.

He’d been held to 21 carries for 43 yards on the ground, and he bristled at the suggestion that an injury had sidelined him for two snaps early in the fourth quarter.

“I mean, I know people think I’m Superman or whatever, but I do got to come out and get air sometimes,” Barkley said then.

Those words were confirmation of Barkley’s mortality in his effort to put this team on his shoulders. Thursday was a reminder, however, that Barkley at his core does not settle.

A part of him always will think he can be Superman, for one Sunday, at least.

“I haven’t jumped over a guy yet this year,” he said with a smirk. “I don’t know if it’s this week but we’ve got a couple more games to get that done ... I’m gonna go back to having fun.”

Catskill rolled games of 993, 1,006 and 1,017 for a total pinfall of 3,016. Chatham answered with games of 805, 835 and 819 for 2,459.

Rensselaer 4, Taconic Hills 1 GREAT BARRINGTON — Rensselaer earned a 4-1 victory over Taconic Hills in Thursday’s Patroon Conference bowling

match at The Cove.

The match was close throughout and came down to the last game. Taconic Hills won the first game, 705-695.

The second game went to Rensselaer, 709-651, with the rams taking the third,770-704.

Total scores for both teams were Taconic Hills 2,060, and

Rensselaer 2,174.

Maple Hill 5, Cairo-Durham 0 EAST GREENBUSH — Michael Laney’s 593 triple led Maple Hill to a 5-0 victory over Cairo-Durham in Thursday’s PAtroon Conference bowling match.

Phil Decker’s 557 triple

topped the Mustangs. KEvin Ackerman added a 529.

Maple Hill 24, Ravena 8 EAST GREENBUSH — Kate Ackerman’s 200-505 helped Maple Hill defeat Ravena, 248, in a Colonial Council girls

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Maple Hill rolled games of 780, 864 and 784 for a 2,428 total. Ravena hit a 659, 784 and 788 for 2,231.

Kyra Price added a 169-484 to the Wildcats’ cause. Rachel Gardner had a 195-469.

Kayla Stanton led Ravena with a 198-461.

Jim Bashford at 518-2652789 or Bill Van Deusen at 518929-3108 I urge you to donate a deer and patronize these establishments to show them your support as they show theirs by supplying venison to anyone in need.

One more example of the generous work the sportsmen and women do in our community, is the Federation of Polish Sportsmen’s donation of Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings for two large families of up to 12 people through the Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Inc. The generosity of hunters and cutters is not surprising as

they continually seek opportunities to give back to their communities. Whether it be our youth, veterans, or those in need of basic necessities, you can count on our local sportsmen to come through with a giving spirit.

Speaking of the giving spirit, with big game season once again in full swing, it once again takes place right in the middle of Christmas shopping season. Picking the right gifts for that sportsman or woman in your life can be a challenge.

Here are a few suggestions: For Fishing: Fish finding electronics, rod racks, fly rod, and baitcasting outfits, specialized ice fishing equipment, apparel, portable

shelters, all make great gifts for fishermen. Maybe buying a rod and reel of a bit better quality than they would ever buy for themselves would work well if it fits your budget. Stocking stuffers like a grab bag of lures, soft and hard baits, terminal tackle, and neck buffs are welcome additions to most fisherman’s inventory of needed equipment.

Pick the brains and expertise of knowledgeable staff at local or big box sporting goods retailers.

For Hunting: Optics, camo, orange, and cold-weather clothing, ammo storage boxes, or possibly a gun safe can make the life of your hunter easier. Stocking

stuffers can include handwarmers, gloves, mittens, smart wool socks, or a fleece neck gator to name just a few.

Toward the end of deer season around the first and second week of December, a lot of hunting equipment goes on clearance. You can shop both brick and mortar stores and online to find deals.

If it seems overwhelming to pick just the right gift for just the right activity, a great fallback is a gift card.

Gift cards are an especially good choice for bigger ticket items like firearms and bows which can be very function and user specific. Plus, for firearms, the purchaser is legally required to be present for the

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Have a Happy Thanksgiving and a Safe and Enjoyable Remainder of the Deer Season Remember to report poaching violations by calling 1-844-DEC-ECOS. You can share any comments with our sports desk at sports@registerstar.com *If you have a fishing or hunting report, photo, or event you would like to be considered for publication, you can send it to: huntfishreport@gmail.com

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Goodbye byes, hello playoff races. With Thanksgiving right around the corner, the homestretch for the NFL season is heating up.

This is the final week for byes, as the Cardinals, Chargers, Chiefs and Vikings are off.

Teams haven’t fared too well off a bye, going 8-16 straight up and 9-15 against the spread.

Teams in that spot this week are the Giants, Packers, Seahawks and Titans.

Favorites went 9-4-1 ATS last week, but underdogs still lead 89-70-3.

My most confident picks ATS this week are the Ravens, Seahawks, Jets and Titans. Avoid (and don’t watch) Lions-Redskins and SteelersBengals.

1 p.m. Games RAIDERS (6-4) AT JETS (3-7) Raiders by 3; O/U: 46.5 When the Raiders beat the Chargers on TNF, I Googled their schedule and tweeted that they’d be a wild-card team. That was based on BRAD MILLS/USA TODAY them beating the Jets to get to 7-4. Now? I see it differently. This isn’t because the Jets beat New York Jets tight end Ryan Griffin (84) celebrates after scoring a touchdown against the the two-win Giants and one-win Redskins, Washington Redskins at FedExField. although the team’s first winning streak obvi- to avoid a 1-3 start and rolled at Buffalo to get DOLPHINS (2-8) AT BROWNS (4-6) ously boosted morale. This is more about how to 4-4. This will be tougher. The Eagles’ plodBrowns by 10.5; O/U: 44.5 great a spot this is for the Jets. Similar to their ding offense won’t do enough against a reinOnly the Browns could turn their biggest win Week 6 matchup with the Cowboys (who had vigorated Seahawks defense that played its best into their biggest loss. Now, they’re big favorthe Eagles the next week in prime time), the game of the season in the overtime MNF classic ites. This is a lot of points, but this could be the Jets host a Raiders team that could already be at San Francisco before their bye week. Jade- spot for their first blowout win at home against looking ahead to next week’s AFC West clash veon Clowney could wreck this game, too. This a ‘D’ that just allowed 37 points to the Bills. Nick at Kansas City. Oakland’s success is all about was originally the SNF matchup before it was Chubb runs wild and ex-Dolphin Jarvis Landry Josh Jacobs and its O-line, but guess who is No. moved to an early start. That won’t affect Rus- catches a pair of TDs. 1 at stopping the run? Yep, the Jets. On the flip sell Wilson and Pete Carroll, though: According The pick: Browns side, the Raiders have a bottom-6 pass defense, to Odds Shark’s Joe Osborne, Seattle is 5-0 SU STEELERS (5-5) AT BENGALS (0-10) so expect Sam Darnold to air it out. Upset! Jets in its last five trips to the East Coast, and even Steelers by 6.5; O/U: 38.5 win, 24-20.

This is the front-runner for “Game To Be more impressive, 9-0 ATS in its last nine spots The pick: Jets as an underdog. Wilson finds a way to eke out Shown The Fewest Times on NFL RedZone.”

GIANTS (2-8) AT BEARS (4-6) Pittsburgh’s ‘D’ will earn the win, but the ‘O’ another win.

Bears by 6.5; O/U: 40.5 is so shorthanded that I’ll take the points and The pick: Seahawks What do you do when one of the worst ofhope the winless home team shows up against BUCS (3-7) AT FALCONS (3-7) fenses takes on one of the worst defenses? Well, its biggest rival.

Falcons by 4; O/U: 51 besides from not watching, you take the points.

The pick: Bengals After dominant wins at New Orleans (26-9) Especially when it’s this many. The Giants are and Carolina (29-3), it would be SO NFL for AtLIONS (3-6-1) AT REDSKINS (1-9) off a bye, so hopefully they addressed their pass lanta to return home and lay a dud. This should Lions by 3.5; O/U: 41.5 coverage. Luckily for Big Blue, the Bears’ QB be a close, high-scoring game as both pass deYou’d usually never want to lay points on the options aren’t intimidating. The defense can fenses will struggle. Also, the Falcons host the road with a backup QB, but when the alternabe, though, so Daniel Jones can’t turn it over. Saints on Thanksgiving night, so they could be tive is a Redskins ‘O’ with 17 points or fewer in Look for Saquon Barkley to regroup after his looking ahead to facing their biggest rival again. eight straight and 3, 7, 0, 9 and 9 in five of them, 1-yard rushing effort against the Jets as the GiThe pick: Bucs it’s the only choice. ants keep this close.

PANTHERS (5-5) AT SAINTS (8-2) The pick: Lions The pick: Giants Saints by 9.5; O/U: 47 BRONCOS (3-7) AT BILLS (7-3) SEAHAWKS (8-2) AT EAGLES (5-5) This is Carolina’s season, so expect everyBills by 4; O/U: 37.5 Much like the Bills’ 6-2 vs. 2-6 matchup with thing it’s got as it tries to stay in the wild-card Eagles by 1; O/U: 48 When Philadelphia’s back has been against race. The Panthers can keep this in single digits. the Browns in Week 10 (a 19-16 loss at CleveThe pick: Panthers land), this 7-3 vs. 3-7 is a lot closer than you the wall, it has responded. It won at Green Bay

A new generation of elite quarterbacks arrived just in time to save the NFL Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

For the NFL’s current superstar quarterbacks, this is the definitive torch-passing season. That’s how we should expect history to judge it. Twenty years from now, we will look back and cite 2019 as the year in which one immensely persistent, accomplished and deep era of QBs finally yielded the floor to a transformative new collection of signal callers.

If you’re paying attention, this season keeps making the shift indisputably clear.

Let’s start with an exciting MVP race, led

by Russell Wilson and Lamar Jackson with Deshaun Watson just on the outskirts of the discussion. They’re putting on dazzling displays, racking up ridiculous stats and collecting the wins necessary to win the coveted award. But more than that, the way they play and their impact on success is allowing us to have a richer conversation about their value and contributions.

The NFL MVP may always be a quarterback’s award; over the past 12 seasons, Adrian Peterson (2012) is the only non-QB to win it. But there is more nuance to this race, however, than simply asking which traditional ol’ dropback quarterbacks on good teams are playing well. To appreciate the greatness of these candidates, you can look into how their teams are built around them, how they influence the running and passing games and how they each approach the position differently. They also happen to be African American, and if you include the prolific play of Dak Prescott (leading the NFL with 3,221 passing yards), the consistent wow factor of reigning MVP Patrick Mahomes and the solid first season of No. 1 pick Kyler Murray, there has never been this many black quarterbacks receiving this much acclaim at once. The social significance matters, but it’s even bigger than race. No matter the color of the quarterback’s skin, the stodgy NFL is adapting better to the evolution of its athletes and realizing that there should be no singular way to play the most challenging position in sports.

On the other hand, the steady quarterbacking greats, many of whom have defied Father Time for so long, have endured their challenges in 2019. Ben Roethlisberger succumbed to an elbow injury two games into the season. Drew Brees, another quarterback who never gets hurt, missed five games with a thumb injury.

Eli Manning lost his starting job to Daniel

Jones. With Philip Rivers struggling, there’s the thought that the Los Angeles Chargers might move on from their 37-year-old star, who is a free agent at season’s end. Even Tom Brady has been human of late - which will probably result in him winning playoff games and calling out the haters again come January - but to cover our bases, we must remind you that he is 42 years old just in case he is truly starting to act 42.

A year ago, we witnessed a wonderful year for quarterbacks all around, a remarkably convergent season in which young, middle-aged and old passers lit up scoreboards and showed us just about every intriguing facet of modern and classic offense. It wasn’t meant to last multiple seasons, though. The fireworks of 2018 - which included the dynamic debut of Mahomes, the prologue of Jackson’s NFL story, 16 QBs who posted passer ratings of at least 95, 12 who threw for at least 4,000 yards and nine who reached at least 30 touchdowns - provided the most compelling evidence that a horde of talent was available to replenish the league.

And this has been the year of separation.

The best of that horde has emerged in unmistakable fashion. The best are ready to elevate the game. And the persistent legends? Well, they’re old now. Many of them are still capable of greatness, but they’re not the story. They’re better off pacing themselves than trying to carry the game.

The point isn’t that Brady, Brees and Co. are done. In fact, it’s more likely that those quarterbacks, both in their 40s, meet in the Super Bowl than any other QB combination. But if the New England Patriots are to play for a seventh championship, it figures to be because their elite defense has taken pressure off Brady and the offense. And if the New Orleans Saints advance all the way to Miami, it figures to be because they have the league’s most complete team, which they showed in going 5-0 without Brees.

The point is that the new era is here.

And it has staying power, even though it’s doubtful that many of these quarterbacks - more mobile, more susceptible to injury - will enjoy the same longevity of their predecessors. And this movement, after years of NFL resistance, could advance the sport in a way Brady, Brees and Peyton Manning couldn’t.

Consider that, since 2003, there has only been one season in which the NFL all-pro team didn’t include Brady, Brees, Aaron Rodgers or the retired Manning as one of

its honorees. That lone season was 2015, when Cam Newton (MVP) made the first team and Carson Palmer (insert astonished face emoji) was on the second. If you add Brett Favre to that list, you can go back 20 years and declare that, since 1999, there has only been one season in which one of those five quarterbacks wasn’t on the allpro team.

Keep that in mind when pondering the historical significance of this QB quintet.

The league was blessed to have such crossover among legends who rank as elite even among the all-time elite. You’re talking about five of the top 10 or 12 quarterbacks ever to play the game, all in a cluster, all of whom played or are playing for as long as possible.

But if the 2019 season ended today, Wilson and Jackson would be the all-pro representatives at quarterback. Watson would be the next in line. Wilson, who turns 31 next week, is the only of the three even in his prime. This is a big deal. The ageless don’t own the path anymore.

One final stat to chew on: From 2003 to 2017, 10 combined MVP awards went to Manning (five times), Brady (three) and Rodgers (two). In that time, there have been just two instances in which multiple seasons passed without one winning the award. Mahomes got it last year. Another first-timer is poised to win it this year. And these aren’t one-hit wonders. We have arrived at a watershed moment.

“It’s great to be in the conversation,” Wilson said. “At the end of the day, when I come into this season, I’m trying to be the best player in the National Football League every time I step on the field, every time I get a chance to play. . . . What helps is finding a way to win in tough moments and everything else, and I look forward to that opportunity just to play one game at a time, one moment at a time, and just embrace it all. It’s a great thing.

“I think about where I come from. Being a guy from Richmond, Virginia, where a lot of people told me I wouldn’t be able to do it, and just being able to play in the league, it means a lot just to be able to play and have this opportunity to play the game.”

Despite having doubters because of his 5-foot-11 frame, Wilson has been a star since his rookie season. He won a Super Bowl in his second year. He is a six-time Pro Bowl honoree, and he has an unfathomable record (83-38-1) so far in his career.

think. Denver has had a ton of tough luck with close losses, including last week after leading 20-0 at Minnesota. The Broncos will be able to run the ball and keep this another field-goal difference. For whatever reason, Buffalo has historically struggled the week after playing Miami, losing their last five such instances and 13 of 17 dating since 2010.

The pick: Broncos 4 p.m. Games COWBOYS (6-4) AT PATRIOTS (9-1) Pats by 6.5; O/U: 45.5 New England is 9-1 because of its defense and special teams. Tom Brady said it himself after last week’s 17-10 win. The ‘O’ will be raring to go, but that doesn’t mean this is an easy cover. Dak Prescott (NFL-best 3,221 passing yards) is having a career year, and while this is by far the toughest secondary he’s faced, Ezekiel Elliott should help open up the passing game.

Dallas hangs around in a fun one.

The pick: Cowboys JAGS (4-6) AT TITANS (5-5) Titans by 3; O/U: 42 At home off a bye, Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry will get the best of a Jaguars team that lost its last two by 23 and 20. The Titans have won the last five home meetings.

The pick: Titans SUNDAY NIGHT PACKERS (8-2) AT 49ERS (9-1) 49ers by 3; O/U: 48 This game was flexed to SNF, and for good reason. The winner takes one step closer to a first-round bye, and anytime you can get Aaron Rodgers vs. the NFL’s best defense, it’s ratings gold (and red). The Packers struggle to stop the run, so Tevin Coleman should hit for some big plays as Kyle Shanahan’s run-heavy scheme keeps Rodgers on the sideline. When he’s on the field, Nick Bosa will get after him.

The pick: 49ers MONDAY NIGHT LOCK OF THE WEEK RAVENS (8-2) AT RAMS (6-4) Ravens by 3; O/U: 46.5 Lamar Jackson and the running Ravens look unstoppable. Two of their last three wins were 37-20 vs. the Patriots and 41-7 over the Texans.

If they could rattle Deshaun Watson, imagine what they’ll do to Jared Goff. He will be blitzed early and often, and don’t be surprised if former Ram Marcus Peters takes him to the house for another of his signature pick-6s. Jackson will of course dazzle with his legs and arm. I can see the headline in bright lights now: LA-MAR! The pick: Ravens

Pitino says he told the Knicks to draft Donovan Mitchell Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

PHILADELPHIA — It’s hard to complain with the way Frank Ntilikina has progressed since moving into the starting lineup this season.

But if the Knicks listened to Rick Pitino, they would’ve had All-Star Donovan Mitchell instead.

“I tried to get the Knicks to take him, and (they said) nah they can’t take him at that number,” Pitino said Wednesday on Sirius NBA Radio.

Ntilikina was drafted eighth by the Knicks in 2017, five spots before the Jazz selected Mitchell — arguably the best player of the class. The Knicks, led

by Phil Jackson at the time, were interested in a point guard and worked out Mitchell. He was certainly under consideration and it would’ve been a homecoming since Mitchell is from Greenwich, Conn.

But the Knicks passed.

“Because they didn’t think he could play point guard. They questioned certain things,” said Pitino, who coached Donovan at Louisville. “Donovan is a worker. He’ll get in the gym and he’ll perfect it.

He doesn’t have an ego but he wants to be the best. He doesn’t have a chip on his shoulder, he has a boulder on his shoulder because he wasn’t heavily recruited out of high school. He was ranked 55th in high school instead of top 10, top 15, and he’s always out to prove that he’s one of the better players.”

Ntilikina, meanwhile, has undergone a crazy

career arc in New York. He was picked, in part, because of his fit in Jackson’s triangle. But almost immediately after Ntilikina was drafted, James Dolan fired Jackson.

The new front office of Scott Perry and Steve Mills acquired multiple young point guards to play above Ntilikina, including Emmanuel Mudiay and Elfrid Payton.

During Ntilikina’s rookie season, LeBron James declared the Knicks should’ve drafted Dennis Smith Jr. instead. A year later, the Knicks traded for Smith Jr. Due to injuries to Payton and Smith Jr., Ntilikina moved into the starting lineup on Nov. 1 and is logging consistent pointguard minutes for the first time in his career.

He’s taken a huge step forward over the last seven games and, statistically, the Knicks are much better when he’s on the court.

Wednesday night’s loss to the Sixers was another example: the Knicks had a 13-point advantage when Ntilikina was subbed out with 1:29 left in the third, and then trailed by 1 when he was re-inserted with 8:42 left in the fourth.

The Frenchman has appeared way more confident offensively. Or, as one scout told the Daily News, “it’s like he stopped worrying and said to himself, I don’t give a f---.’ “ Coach David Fizdale agreed, noting that Ntilikina has stopped concerning himself with outside noise.

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Matt Dallas soars above the rim during the Rashad Barksdale It’s OK to Dream Foundation Turkey Bowl at the Hudson Youth Center on Thursday.

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Gervais to host Globes fifth time

By HAL BOEDEKER Orlando Sentinel

In grand news for awardsshow watchers, Ricky Gervais will be back to host the Golden Globes in his take-no-prisoners style for a fifth time.

“Once again, they’ve made me an offer I can’t refuse,” Gervais said in a statement. “But this is the very last time I’m doing this, which could make for a fun evening.”

NBC will present the 77th Annual Gervais Golden Globe Awards at 8 p.m. Jan. 5, from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents awards in 25 categories: 14 for movies and 11 for television.

Prognosticators say the early favorites on the movie side include “The Irishman,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Marriage Story” and “Parasite.”

On the TV side, look for Netflix’s “The Crown” to do well. That lavish look at the life of Queen Elizabeth II starts streaming Sunday, and Oscar winner Olivia Colman takes over the role.

Nominations will be announced Dec. 9.

The Golden Globes usually offer the most fun of the awards shows. Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh hosted this year.

The best news for now is that Gervais will be back, because he keeps the night intriguing and repeatedly stuns the celebrity audience.

“There is always a palpable electricity in the room when Ricky takes the Globes stage.

His return as master of ceremonies at the Golden Globes is much anticipated,” said Paul Telegdy, chairman of NBC Entertainment. “It is sure to make for an unexpected evening. We can’t wait to see what he has up his sleeve.”

“Ford v. Ferrari” stars Christian Bale (in car) as a World War II vet who is a mechanic and car racer. Merrick Morton/ Twentieth Century Fox

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By KATIE WALSH Tribune News Service

‘FORD V FERRARI’

“Ford v Ferrari,” James Mangold’s meaty, muscular slice of mainstream movie entertainment, wastes no time getting off to the races. The film opens with Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) in the heat of his victorious drive at the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France. During a nighttime pit stop, he hops out of his Aston Martin, extinguishes his racing suit, yells, “Am I on fire?” and jumps back in his vehicle. We’re given a bug’s-eye view of the road, careening just above the asphalt, plastered to the low-riding windshield zipping around deserted nighttime country roads. Viscerally, it’s nothing less than a straight thrill ride. “Ford v Ferrari” rumbles and roars with verve. You can practically smell the diesel fumes wafting off the screen.

It’s the story of a couple of guys who love cars and live to make them go fast: Shelby and his pal, Ken Miles (Christian Bale). In the mid-’60s, they happen to find themselves the

3.5 stars out of 4 CAST: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Caitriona Balfe.

DIRECTOR: James Mangold RUNNING TIME: 2 hours, 32 minutes.

INDUSTRY RATING: PG-13, for some language and peril

pawns in a war between a behemoth Detroit automaker and a smooth Italian sports car magnate. “Ford v Ferrari” is their tale of being wedged between automotive giants battling it out in a war for gas-guzzling glory.

In a fit of pique, Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) demands his team come up with a brilliant idea to drum up car sales. Enter a young and dashing exec, Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal), who suggests getting into the racing world, a chance to market cool and sporty James Bond-type vehicles to hip young boomers. Begrudgingly,

Ford goes for it. Iacocca taps Shelby, who taps Miles, a salty Birmingham, England-born WWII vet living in Los Angeles with a wife (Caitriona Balfe) and kid (Noah Jupe), working as a mechanic and participating in local races, pissing off customers and sponsors alike with his prickly personality. As singularly obsessed as he is with automotive performance, Shelby knows Miles is Ford’s only hope at beating Ferrari at their own game.

However, “Ford v Ferrari” is a bit of a misnomer. Ferrari isn’t the antagonist here, Ford itself is. It might as well be called “Ford v Ford” for all the bickering, in-fighting and sabotage. It’s largely levied by Josh Lucas’ slimy marketing exec, Leo Beebe, who spends most of his energy getting in the way of Shelby and Miles.

Harboring a personal grudge against Miles, whom he sees as unmarketable, Beebe throws wrench after wrench into their success, trying to force the squeakiest clean outcome See ‘FORD’ C2

John Legend is People’s Sexiest Man Alive (and no one is having more fun than Chrissy Teigen)

By BETHONIE BUTLER Washington Post

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are seen in West Hollywood, Ca. Legend was named this year’s People’s Sexiest Man Alive. John Sciulli/Getty Images

Chrissy Teigen made a cryptic confession to her nearly 12 million Twitter followers Tuesday night: “I have big news and it’s killing me I can’t say it and it’s not a baby,” the model and author wrote.

About an hour later, the news broke: her husband, singer John Legend, had been named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. “My secret is out,” she wrote alongside a photo of the annual issue’s 2019 cover, which depicts the 40-year-old (real name: John Stephens) with one eyebrow raised as he buttons — or, perhaps, unbuttons — a dapper suit jacket.

A flurry of tweets followed: There

was “#EGOTPSMA,” which Teigen wrote in a reference to the EGOT status the singer achieved last year.

She added a trio of heart-eye emoji while retweeting People’s official announcement. “The kids ... do not care,” she reported of the couple’s young children, sharing a video of 3-year-old Luna and 1-year-old Miles as they offered lackluster reactions to their dad’s latest accolade.

And because she’s a celebrity on social media, she predicted that some outrage would follow. “I cannot WAIT for people to get mad about John being the sexiest man alive. it’s my new Starbucks holiday cup,” she wrote before tweeting a spicy response to one such critic.

Teigen also retweeted a self-deprecating tweet from Legend, who shared a photo of himself as a bespectacled teen next to an alluring, more recent photo of last year’s Sexiest Man Alive, Idris Elba. It wasn’t exactly a fair comparison, she conceded, noting that Elba was “prob still very hot” in the mid-’90s.Legend also acknowledged in his People interview that he had an “awkward phase,” particularly leading up to his years at his Ivy League alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

The kicker to Teigen’s Twitter celebration arrived three hours after Teigen noted she had not-so-subtly tweaked See LEGEND C2

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By Jan Belinger Cornell Cooperative Extension Genesee County Master Gardener

The leaves have fallen, the perennials have turned to mush and we’ve had our first snow in the garden. Is your garden view empty or do you still have a garden to enjoy from your window? Adding conifers to your garden helps create a structural backbone for the garden because they are a year round presence.

One definition of conifers is “any of a group of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs (such as pines) that typically produce cones and have leaves resembling needles or scales in shape.” Fir, pine, spruce, yew, hemlock, arborvitae, cedar and juniper are all conifers. The term “evergreens” includes most conifers as well a large variety of other plants, such as boxwood and rhododendron, which keep their leaves through the winter.

Conifers are invaluable in the landscape. They come in a diverse range of sizes, shapes, colors and textures adding interest to the garden year round.

We admire the fresh color of their new growth in spring before exuberant flowers take over the show. Conifers and other evergreens make a great backdrop for blooming perennials and annuals. As flowering plants start to fade in the fall, many conifers seem to glow, especially the gold ones. Conifers provide color and structure to the snow covered garden and give us something to look at until spring arrives. Conifers and evergreen plants also provide much needed habitat for wildlife.

There is a conifer for pretty much any landscape. They range in size from large, eighty foot trees to prostrate plants growing only a few inches tall. Shapes include flat creeping ground covers; horizontal spreaders; upright, pyramidal or cone shaped; roundish balls; columnar and even weeping and contorted forms. Foliage can be shades of green, gray-green and bluegreen or gold; some are even variegated.

When choosing a conifer to add to your landscape take into account the size at maturity, plus its shape, color and texture. What is the ultimate size of the space that you want filled? Plan your landscaping around that dimension. Otherwise the cute little plant you bring home from the nursery may engulf your house ten years from now. Is the species or variety you are considering suitable for your site? Many conifers are not tolerant of their roots standing in water.

If your soil is not well-drained you need to look for a conifer adapted to wet soil conditions.

Is it cold hardy to the area? Conifers are a long term investment. It is always a good idea to research what plant will work for your site before you spend the money. Of course we all have those “love at first sight” plants that we have to take home with us, but have no idea where they will go.

Dwarf conifers are do not grow to the normal height of their species which makes them a good option for smaller gardens as they mix well with perennials, roses and deciduous shrubs. They can be a focal point, add height or a sense of depth to a narrow bed. They can also provide stability and

PEXELS

Conifers are invaluable in the landscape. They come in a diverse range of sizes, shapes, colors and textures adding interest to the garden year round.

consider trying ‘Green Giant’ arborvitae (Thuja standishii x plicata). This is a large, fast growing tree, reportedly growing 2 to 3 feet per year until it matures. Once established it is resistant to wind and ice damage. It is also reportedly less palatable to deer than other arborvitaes. (Although hungry deer will eat just about anything in the winter.) At maturity plan for it to be around 60 feet tall and 20 feet wide.

While it tolerates a wide range of soils it will not do well on poorly drained sites and it is sensitive to salt.

Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis) ‘Mr. Bowling Ball’™ may be worth growing just for the name. A slow grower at 24 to 30 inches tall and wide. It has unusual threadlike sage-green

foliage. It naturally forms a perfect ball that does not require pruning to maintain its round shape. It can be used in borders, rock gardens and foundation plantings, or highlighted as a specimen.

Dwarf Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) ‘Nana’ has dense, dark green needles on horizontally spreading branches.

Slow growing to 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide it makes a dark, green cushion amid smaller flowering perennials. It often forms a flattened top which adds interest. It is best grown in rich, consistently moist, slightly acidic, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade.

Juniperus horizontalis ‘Blue Chip’ is a creeping juniper that forms a low ground cover that typically grows 8 to 10 inches

tall and spreads up to 10 feet wide. It has steel-blue foliage throughout the year with purplish tips in winter. You can plant it on slopes or along retaining walls for erosion control. Once established it needs only occasional watering. It is reported to be resistant to deer.

This winter as you look out your window, consider the places in your garden where you can add a conifer. This versatile group of plants can be used in the landscape regardless of how much space you have.

Resources for this article include: Virginia Cooperative Extension, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, Chicago Botanic Garden and Monrovia.

‘Ford’

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with his preferred optics.

“Ford v Ferrari” is ultimately a story of the way human ingenuity can be subsumed by corporate practice. Mangold, and writers Jez Butterworth, JohnHenry Butterworth and Jason Keller, underline the notion that this kind of racing requires human touch, not an algorithm, and the Ford racing program chafes against the quirky, flawed genius behind the wheel. Underneath the hood of the muscle car madness is a surprisingly radical treatise on the corporate exploitation of human labor.

Damon is fun to watch as the dry, drawling Texan Shelby. But

her Twitter bio to reflect the news: “the sexiest man alive just made me a ham sandwich,” she wrote.

It’s been an eventful few months for the celebrity couple, who have been married since 2013. Teigen is wellknown for her lively social media presence, particularly her willingness to confront trolls critiquing everything from her parenting approach to her appearance.

Her clever comebacks found an even broader audience in September when President Donald Trump derided the couple on Twitter after seeing Legend, one of his most

vocal celebrity critics, on an MSNBC town hall special.

Teigen was widely praised for her pointedly vulgar response to the president’s tweet, in which Trump called Legend “boring” and referred to the best-selling cookbook author as his “filthy-mouthed wife.” Just over a month later, the couple and their children appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair as the magazine proclaimed them “The First Family We Deserve.”

“Legend calls himself a nerd. Teigen admits she’s kind of a basket case,” writer Karen Valby noted in the accompanying article. “They adore each other.”

Legend reiterated the nerd label in his People interview, noting that he loves to do crossword puzzles. He

recalled writing songs for girls he liked as a kid, but told the magazine that it wasn’t “extremely effective” at the time.

He would go on to pen “All of Me,” the soul-baring ballad he dedicated to Teigen, who later joked that she should have also been congratulated when Legend received a Grammy nomination for the song.

“Without me there is no all of me,” she wrote.

Teigen is also — at least partially — responsible for the glow-up that landed Legend on People’s closely watched annual issue. “She always looks amazing,” Legend told the magazine. “And I get to stand next to her a lot and I don’t want to be a huge let down ... so I try to dress well enough to be worthy of being next to my wife.”

structure in a garden through the seasons. Dwarf conifers can even be used to control erosion and eliminate mowing on a slope. Another plus is that pruning is not generally required to maintain the size or form of dwarf conifers.

True dwarf conifers average about one-twentieth the characteristic size of their species.

Most dwarf conifers grow one to six inches per year and after a decade of growth will be around 6 feet tall. Intermediate dwarf conifers will grow six to fifteen feet tall in ten years.

Conifers that grow less than 1 inch a year and are less than 1 foot tall after 10 years are considered to be miniatures. Be aware that dwarf is a relative term when applied to conifers.

Before purchasing a conifer

labeled as dwarf, find out its expected mature size. Check multiple sources if possible.

Some dwarf conifers are the result of nature. Seedling mutations can result in a dwarf variety. Bud mutations (sometimes called “sports”) can result in a dwarfed habit. Sometimes a disease or genetic mutation results in a witches’ broom growing on a full sized tree. All of these changes can then be propagated and result in a dwarf form of the parent conifer. Dwarf varieties can also be created through grafting.

A normal growing species is grafted onto a dwarf rootstock.

This slows down its growth creating a new dwarf cultivar.

If you are looking for a fast growing conifer to create a living screen, you may want to

Christian Bale and Matt Damon star in “Ford v Ferrari.” Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox

Bale, predictably, is the heart and soul of “Ford v Ferrari,” rangy and wiry, speaking an accent native to his UK homeland for the first time in a long time.

His twitchy, obsessive performance is deeply humane, a

portrayal of a man who may not have been the picture-perfect company spokesman, but one whose unique life experiences gave him his incredible skill.

That’s something corporate strategies could never snuff out.

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The sheet pan paprika chicken with tomatoes and parmesan, the tomatoes burst open and meld with the chicken fat to create a sauce. This sheet-pan chicken dinner stars two ingredients, paprika and parsley, you may be taking for granted. Christopher Testani/New York Times

PAPRIKA & PARSLEY get starring roles NOT JUST DECORATIVE: These ingredients deserve your attention wBy MELISSA CLARK New York Times

I

used to think that paprika and parsley were just for show — nothing more than powdery red dashes on creamy deviled eggs, and verdant speckles breaking up the brown monotony of beef stew. Pretty, but expendable.

I understood the herbal intensity of parsley when I tasted whole leaves mixed into a butter lettuce salad. Next to the mildness of the other greens, the leaves were bracing, mineral and a little edgy, an ingredient to be used with care, not taken for granted.

Paprika and I had a similar moment after I bought a new tin to make chicken paprikash.

When I opened it, an actual aroma wafted out. I dipped in a finger and took a lick. It was sweet and earthy, a less pungent cousin to the spicy New Mexico chile powder I adore for chili, which makes sense given that they’re both ground from dried red chiles.

This recipe celebrates these unsung ingredients, combining them with chicken and cherry tomatoes for an easy, gloriously

colorful sheet-pan meal.

Some of that color comes from the cherry tomatoes, which create a sauce as they roast.

Their juices leak onto the pan, condensing and mingling with the rendering chicken fat.

Thin-skinned cherry and pear tomatoes tend to be juicier than sturdier grape tomatoes, but use what you have.

I also add bell pepper and mild slices of poblano chiles to the pan, to add complexity to the straightforward sweetness of the tomatoes, and to nod to the paprika, showcasing chiles in their fresh and dried states. There’s another good reason, too: Although there are many peppers in the markets right now, they start to shrivel as the weather gets colder.

Roasting gives them a new life.

You can use any chicken parts for this dish, as long as they still have their bones and, preferably, skin for the richest flavor. I’m partial to drumsticks so I can eat them with my hands and gnaw on the cartilage. But white-meat lovers take heart: This dish works perfectly See PAPRIKA C6

The sheet pan paprika chicken with tomatoes and Parmesan, can use any chicken parts as long as they still have their bones. Christopher Testani/New York Times

Mandoline: Cutting edge of kitchen tools NICE TO HAVE: Device

slices faster and easier than a knife, if you know how to use it

By BECKY KRYSTAL Washington Post

In the kitchen, I think tools generally fall into two categories: musthaves and nice-to-haves. Musthaves possess wide appeal across the board. They’re things it would be hard to do much cooking without — a chef’s knife, skillet, saucepan and a variety of other utilitarian pieces.

Nice-to-haves begin edging into that gray area where they’re essential for some people but not others. Or maybe they do a job that you can accomplish another way but a lot faster or easier.

To me, a mandoline is a nice-tohave. I don’t own one, although I’ve often seen its advantages.

A mandoline is a tool that’s designed to give you very thin, even slices of vegetables and fruits. It consists of a stationary blade that attaches to a platform or other framework that lets you move the produce over it.

“I think they definitely have their place,” says Kate Merker, chief food director of Good Housekeeping and several of its sister publications at

A mandoline offers precision cutting. Stacy Zarin Goldberg/Washington Post

Hearst. “I would like to think I have pretty incredible knife skills,” but not as fast as what a mandoline can do.

If you’re considering whether to buy one, or just want to know how to safely use the mandoline you already have, read on.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR Be sure you find something durable. Good Housekeeping recently tested a bunch and probably held about 20, Merker says. Some were just “not hefty enough,” she says.

Wobbly, unstable mandolines are not only inefficient but also potentially dangerous. They should also be able to hold up to firm pressure and, of course, firm vegetables. And if they don’t slice cleanly, there’s absolutely no point.

Some models include a foot that lets you stand the mandoline on the counter. Others, such as the nofrills Benriner that Merker likes, are shaped like a paddle with only a handle. That makes it easier to slice

directly into a bowl. Think about the cuts you’re most likely to use. Blades that do julienne and waffle cuts are available on certain brands. If you’re mostly in it for the thin slices, Merker recommends something like the Kyocera. Being able to adjust the thickness of the slices is a major plus.

Good Housekeeping gave props to brands that have rubberized handles for no-slip gripping and textured surfaces that keep the food from sliding around.

In its rigorous equipment testing, America’s Test Kitchen offers several other features worth considering. Look for a mandoline with a long enough platform that you can slice long vegetables, such as zucchini.

Be sure the surface and hand guard can accommodate large items, such as potatoes. You should be able to slice the vegetables and swap out the blades without your fingers getting too close to the sharp edges. Good mandolines are easy to clean and can be stored safely and compactly.

WHY YOU MIGHT NOT NEED ONE If you have patience and a sharp knife, you may not feel the need to buy a mandoline. If you don’t mind slightly uneven or thicker slices of vegetables, you can live without it. If

the thought of your hand in proximity to a very sharp blade is something you cannot wrap your head around, or you can’t fathom adding one more tool to your crowded kitchen, don’t beat yourself up, especially if you have a food processor at your disposal.

SAFETY It’s easy to be intimidated by a mandoline, but “if used the right way, it can be safe,” Merker says. She suspects a lot of people ditch the hand guard as soon as they get the mandoline. Not a good idea. “It’s not worth losing your fingertips,” she says. Hand guards do just that: Protect your paws from the blades. They securely hold the food so you can focus on your slicing motion.

If you’ve lost you guard or don’t feel it is effective — ATK dinged some models that did not hold the food securely or mangled it — at the very least, use a cut-resistant glove. There’s also no reason you can’t use a glove in conjunction with the hand guard. If you insist on no protection whatsoever, know when to stop slicing so your fingers don’t get too close to the blade.

A little chunk of leftover vegetable (snack on it! throw it in broth!) is more desirable than a trip to the ER. See MANDOLINE C6

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In Cold War Berlin, the Americans had a tunnel, but the Soviets had a mole

By STEVEN V. ROBERTS Washington Post

Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation

By Steve Vogel Custom House. 530 pp. $29.99 This book is really two separate stories. One is about a tunnel, the other about a traitor; one embodies ingenuity, the other evil. But they intersect in Berlin during the depths of the Cold War, when the West was petrified that the Soviets would stage an unprovoked and undetected assault. Steve Vogel quotes CIA chief Allen Dulles warning President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953, “The Russians could launch an atomic attack on the United States tomorrow.”

That fear of annihilation motivated the United States and Britain to dig a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Soviet sector, where the allies could tap into key telephone lines that ran close to the border and overhear the plans of Russian military and intelligence officers. Richard Helms, later the CIA director, called it “the most elaborate and costly secret operation ever undertaken within Soviet-occupied territory.” Costly and risky, but the stakes were enormous. As Vogel writes, “The Berlin tunnel was born of ... desperation.”

The Soviets were equally desperate.

Their goal was to counteract Western power and pressure, and they had a secret weapon — not a missile but a man, a highly placed British intelligence officer named George Blake who had turned against his country years before and was assigned to take minutes at a top-secret meeting that outlined the tunnel project.

He gave his Soviet handlers a copy of those minutes and a “simple sketch” of

the tunnel’s route.

Here is the supreme irony at the core of this tale: The Russians heard about the tunnel before it began, yet did nothing to stop it. So few people were in the know that if Moscow tipped its hand, Blake would have immediately fallen under suspicion, and he was too valuable to risk exposure. “In essence,” writes Vogel, “the KGB foreign intelligence directorate was sacrificing Soviet military, political, and scientific secrets to protect its own secret — George Blake.”

The tunnel operated for 11 months before the Soviets decided that Blake was safe and they could score a propaganda victory by disclosing the excavation while their new leader, Nikita Khrushchev, was visiting London in April 1956. But in fact, as the Washington Post editorialized, the Russians made a “grievous mistake” by revealing the tunnel, which provided clear “evidence that

the tradition of Yankee resourcefulness and ingenuity is not a myth after all.”

Moreover, the information gleaned from the wiretaps about Soviet strengths and strategy “remained valuable for a decade and more,” noted Helms.

This is a fascinating, fast-paced narrative, and Vogel is particularly well-suited to write it. A former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, he was born in Berlin in 1960, the son of a CIA agent, and “the city always held a mystique for me,” he writes. For good reason. Cold War Berlin was a divided city symbolizing a divided country, a divided continent and really, a divided world.

And the political and military rivals that faced off there didn’t build bridges of understanding. They built a tunnel, and later a wall, which only aggravated their animosities instead of easing them.

If Berlin was a divided city, Blake was a divided personality, who spent his whole life seeking a clear identity and never quite finding it. His father, Albert Behar, was a Turkish Jew who earned British citizenship by fighting with the Brits in World War I. His mother was a Dutch Protestant, and he was raised a Christian in Rotterdam, but after his father’s death, 13-year-old George was sent to live with rich relatives in Cairo.

He returned to Holland at the outbreak of World War II, became a courier for the Dutch resistance, escaped through France and Spain to England where his mother had changed the family name to Blake, and enlisted in the British navy.

His commander then “took a fateful step” and recommended Blake to the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. In 1948 he was assigned to the Korean capital, Seoul, and on July 2, 1950, he was captured by North Korean soldiers and spent three years as a prisoner of war. While in captivity he embraced

the communist cause and offered to spy for the Soviet Union.

Why? The man who had once considered the priesthood had lost his faith, “so there was a vacuum in my mind,” he later said. That vacuum was not just religious but political and personal. Was he Behar or Blake? Jew or Christian? Dutch or British or Turkish? He was an officer in the “hallowed SIS,” but “he deeply resented the class consciousness and snobbery he encountered” in British society, especially from the family of a girlfriend who objected to their romance.

For Blake, writes Vogel, “declaring allegiance to communism was akin to a religious conversion.” A man without a country or a cause had found a creed that filled the hole in his soul. “To betray, you first have to belong,” he once said. “I never belonged.”

Blake was eventually arrested in 1961 and after a brief trial was sentenced to 42 years in prison, “the longest sentence imposed in modern British history, going back 150 years.” But on Oct. 22, 1966, he managed to escape with the help of three confederates who tossed a rope ladder over the prison wall. He eventually made his way to Berlin and from there the KGB flew him to Moscow, where he lives today at age 96.

“George never has any regrets,” his cousin insisted, but this reader is not convinced. His wife and children left him, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the communist dream died. Berlin has been united for many years now, but Blake remains a man who never quite belonged anywhere and still doesn’t.

Roberts, a former Europe correspondent for the New York Times, teaches journalism and politics at George Washington University.

A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life

By CELIA WREN Washington Post

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

By Sheila Weller Sarah Crichton/FSG. 402 pp. $28 Carrie Fisher had at least one thing in common with Princess Leia, the character that defined her career — a dry wit. “If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable” was Fisher’s “main maxim,” Sheila Weller notes in a new biography, “Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge.” This engrossing, gracefully written, occasionally hagiographic book doesn’t just repeat the motto, it illustrates it, recounting numerous tales about how Fisher, who struggled with mental illness and addiction, managed to find the funny in it all — and share that with audiences, both as an actress and a writer.

Weller never met Fisher, who died in 2016 at age 60 after going into cardiac arrest on an airplane. Members of the actress’ family have reportedly disavowed this book as unauthorized. But “Carrie Fisher” reads as definitive, drawing on myriad interviews, media analysis, close readings of Fisher’s writing and at least one chat with a Star Wars groupie. Do you want

to know what science-fiction illustrator inspired the metal bikini Fisher wore in “Return of the Jedi”? Or how her first date with Sen. Chris Dodd (DConn.) went in the mid-’80s?

(Hint: not well.) The book is full of such tidbits, while also delivering a somber look at Fisher’s final days.

Fisher’s difficulties began early on in a life marked by extraordinary privilege, achievement and trouble. Among the early traumas was the breakup of her parents’ marriage. Her father, singer Eddie Fisher, deserted her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, for Elizabeth Taylor when Carrie was a toddler, sparking a scandal. It was an experience, Fisher told a friend, that showed her “how to pine for men, but not how to love them.” After catapulting

to her own fame as Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise, Carrie Fisher coped with substance abuse and bipolar disorder; a romance with (and brief marriage to) singersongwriter Paul Simon; a relationship with agent Bryan Lourd, who left her for a man after fathering her daughter, Billie; and the judgmentalism of a public that sneered at her for becoming older and stouter than the svelte royal who sent a hologram to Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Fisher mined her potboiler life for fiction and nonfiction, most notably in the novel “Postcards From the Edge.”

Her autobiographical onewoman show “Wishful Drinking” became a book and HBO special. Along the way, Fisher gained a reputation as a latterday Dorothy Parker. “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die” is one of many Fisher zingers quoted in this book.

While illuminating how Fisher’s personal trauma catalyzed her wit, Weller shows that the life of this Tinseltown scion touched on major issues of our day. Fisher’s honesty about her bipolar diagnosis, and her accounts of electroshock therapy, drew needed attention to mental-health issues. The tale of her battle with addiction reverberates as

America grapples with an opioid epidemic.

Perhaps most notably, the take-charge spunkiness of her Leia made the character a feminist icon: The princess turned general appeared on signs at women’s marches in January 2017. Adding to Fisher’s power as a symbol for the #NastyWoman era were her ripostes to the body-image shaming she endured after “The Force Awakens” opened in 2015. “Men don’t age better than women; they’re just allowed to age,” she observed.

Fisher was born into, suffered from and fueled celebrity mania. She hobnobbed with so many boldface names that Weller’s book sometimes reads like a parody of a TMZ post. Fisher’s enduring friendship with Salman Rushdie! The time she exchanged phone numbers with Stephen Hawking! The night Dan Aykroyd saved her from choking on a Brussels sprout!

Weller posits that Fisher’s glittery friendships and acquaintanceships were symptoms of her needy craving for love but were also a reflection of her immense warmth, generosity and personal magnetism. In describing these qualities, Weller — author of “Girls Like Us,” a group biography of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon — sometimes creeps up to the

edge of gushiness. Fisher’s “honesty about her problems gave her a strength — empathy toward and relief for others with problems; a unique, wise humor that would grow over the years,” the book notes at one point. “Few women, or men, seemed to possess the charisma of Carrie Fisher,” it marvels at another.

But for the most part, the book doesn’t rave as much as it quotes others raving: Penny Marshall calling Fisher “brilliant,” Albert Brooks calling her “irresistible,” Richard Dreyfuss appreciating the way “she made everyone feel at home.” Weller’s biography seems to still shiver with the pain so many people expressed upon learning of Fisher’s death.

That pain may point not only to love of Star Wars but to the way Fisher’s story affirms our (sometimes) suppressed misgivings about our culture’s deference to fame and commercial entertainment. The emotion also echoes the poignant evidence laid out in this book, bearing witness to Fisher’s strength, compassion, talent and ability to alchemize pain into art.

Wren, who often writes about theater for The Washington Post, reported on Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking” in 2008.

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

VIETNAM: AN EPIC TRAGEDY, 1945-1975

By Max Hastings. (Harper Perennial, $22.99.)

Hastings, a British journalist and military historian who reported on the war, chronicles the conflict and its staggering destruction, excoriating both sides for corruption and inhumanity.

The United States, he argues, failed most egregiously in not helping create a viable South Vietnam. Times reviewer Mark Atwood Lawrence called the book “monumental.”

UPSTREAM: SELECTED ESSAYS

By Mary Oliver.

(Penguin, $17.) The Pulitzer Prizewinning poet, who died this year, turns her attention to the natural world that inspires her as well as to her literary forebears, including Emerson and Whitman. Writing in The Times, Daphne Kalotay called the book a “gem of a collection” that “offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts.”

BOOMER1

By Daniel Torday.

(Picador, $18.) The millennial protagonist of Torday’s third work of fiction is a jobless Ph.D. who is forced to move back home but hits a cultural nerve by creating an alter ego that declares war on boomers and inadvertently starts a movement. Times reviewer Olivia Sudjic called the novel a “contemporary satire with Shakespearean echoes.”

SEDUCTION: SEX, LIES, AND STARDOM IN HOWARD HUGHES’S HOLLYWOOD

By Karina Longworth.

(Custom House, $17.99.) This portrait of the eccentric studio head places Hughes’ pursuit of control over women, including Ava Gardner and Bette Davis, front and center. The book is “guaranteed to engross anybody with any interest ... in Hollywood, in ... #MeToo and in the never-ending story of men with power and women without,” Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote in The Times.

MELMOTH

By Sarah Perry. (Custom House, $16.99.)

Perry retells Charles Robert Maturin’s 1820 Irish horror novel about a man who’s sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, setting it in contemporary Prague and making the protagonist a lonely, wandering woman who bears witness to terrible crimes. Times reviewer Danielle Trussoni called the book a “Gothic stunner.”

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Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tribune News Service

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 9, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Blue Moon. Lee Child. Delacorte 2. The Guardians. John Grisham.

Doubleday 3. The Starless Sea. Erin Morgenstern.

Doubleday 4. The Night Fire. Michael Connelly. Little, Brown 5. The Institute. Stephen King. Scribner

6. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry. Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Schuster 7. Noel Street. Richard Paul Evans.

Gallery 8. The Dutch House. Ann Patchett. Harper 9. The 19th Christmas. Patterson/Paetro.

Little, Brown 10. The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek.

McLaughlin/Neal. Crown

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Triggered. Donald Trump Jr. Center Street 2. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers.

Brian Kilmeade. Sentinel

3. Finding Chika. Mitch Albom. Harper 4. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier. Ree Drummond. Morrow 5. Acid for the Children. Flea. Grand Central 6. Talking to Strangers. Malcolm Gladwell.

Little, Brown 7. Me. Elton John. Holt 8. Grit & Grace. Tim McGraw. Harper Wave 9. The Book of Gutsy Women. Clinton/ Clinton. Simon & Schuster 10. Blowout. Rachel Maddow. Crown

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

Berkley

2. The House Next Door. James Patterson.

Grand Central 3. Wyoming Heart. Diana Palmer. HQN 4. You Don’t Own Me. Clark/Burke. Pocket 5. Sea of Greed. Cussler/Brown. Putnam 6. Someone to Remember. Mary Balogh.

Berkley 7. Beauchamp Hall. Danielle Steel. Dell 8. Never Tell. Lisa Gardner. Dutton 9. Doctor Sleep (movie tie-in). Stephen King. Pocket 10. Sworn to Protect. Shirlee McCoy. Love Inspired

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Every Breath. Nicholas Sparks. Grand

Central 2. The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah. Griffin 3. Redemption. David Baldacci. Grand Central 4. The Chef. Patterson/DiLallo. Grand Central 5. The Overstory. Richard Powers. Norton 6. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin Books 7. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate.

Ballantine 8. The 18th Abduction. Patterson/Paetro.

Grand Central 9. Taste of Home Copycat Restaurant Favorites. Taste of Home 10. Cracking the AP World History: Modern Exam. Princeton Review

By Hideo Yokoyama.

Translated

by Louise Heal Kawai.

(MCD, $19.)

In this second novel to appear in English

by Yokoyama, who was a newspaper reporter before turning to thrillers, a journalist decides to scale a rock face that was the scene of the world’s deadliest plane crash 17 years earlier. The challenging climb becomes a chance to reflect on bitter newsroom politics and solve one final mystery.

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NO ESCAPE North-South vulnerable, North deals NORTH ♠7 ♥ A 10 8 2 ♦ KQJ8 ♣ A Q 10 6 WEST ♠KQ6542 ♥ 74 ♦ 10 7 5 2 ♣K SOUTH ♠A8 ♥ KQ5 ♦ A943 ♣7543

EAST ♠ J 10 9 3 ♥ J963 ♦6 ♣J982

The bidding: NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 2♠ 1♣ Pass 1♦ 3♠ 4♠ 5NT* Pass All pass 6♦ *Pick a slam Opening lead: King of ♠ North’s three-spade cue bid just showed a good hand — not necessarily a diamond fit. It gave South some slam interest and he was happy to play in either minor. North chose diamonds.

South won the opening spade lead

with his ace and saw that he had to hold his club losers to one if he hoped to make his contract. He got started right away by leading a low club at trick two. He intended to finesse dummy’s 10. This was reasonably safe as West might have led a singleton club if he had one. Even so, king-jackfourth of clubs in the East hand would probably defeat him. That changed when West played the king, which South captured with dummy’s ace.

South cashed the king and queen of diamonds, learning that West started with four diamonds to go with his presumed six spades. West’s likely starting shape was 6-2-4-1. Declarer led a heart to his king and ruffed his last spade. He cashed dummy’s jack of diamonds and crossed to his hand with the queen of hearts to draw the last trump. West had the expected shape, so East’s hand was easy to count. East had started with 4-4-1-4 distribution and was now down to jack doubleton in both hearts and clubs.

South could just play the ace and another in either one of those suits to endplay East and force him to lead the other one. Nicely played!

Thanks for this deal to Larry Cohen and his great web site — www.larryco. com.

(Bob Jones welcomes readers’ e-mails: tcaeditors@tribpub.com)

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are not one of those selfish or selfinvolved individuals who feels it is foolish to stick your neck out for others; on the contrary, you will always do what you can to assist those in need, even if it means putting yourself in harm’s way by doing so. You are forward-thinking and courageous; you never let yourself become mired in the past, and your view of the future is bright and positive — and, at the same time, always realistic. You can spot danger a mile away, and this allows you to do all you can to avoid it yourself, or help others avoid it.

Always confident, your capabilities are many, and you have very likely been endowed with a wide variety of talents — any one of which, when developed to the fullest, can bring you success and contentment.

Also born on this date are: Miley Cyrus, singer and actress; Bruce Hornsby, musician; Harpo Marx, comedian and actor; Boris Karloff, actor; Billy the Kid, Old West outlaw; Franklin Pierce, U.S. president; Chris Hardwick, comedian.

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 24 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Someone may only be offering excuses today, but what you’re after are the very real reasons why something happened the way it did.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Difficulties are unavoidable today, especially when you stand face to face with a rival. He or she may know what you’re thinking.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Whatever is standing in your way as the day opens is likely to vanish before you swing into action. It may not be gone for good,

however.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may be provided with an alibi by someone who doesn’t even know what it is you’ve been accused of. Keep everything on the “up and up.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You must go through the proper channels today if you want to do something differently from the way it’s spelled out in the rulebook.

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Bitters & Soda takes the classic combination, removes the small amount of alcohol in the bitters, and puts it in a can for convenient sipping. Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune

Bitters and soda now in a can NO ALCOHOL: Beverage embraced by those Pork chili verde is a fine alternative to tomato-based chili. Justin Tsucalas/ Washington Post

cutting back on drinking

Chili verde a delightful, comforting alternative

By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

Some people have a strict definition of chili, but to me a major joy of the dish is that it’s more a big open field than a narrow path, with plenty of room to play. I suppose at a minimum it needs to include some kind of chile, plus meat (or poultry) and/or beans simmered in a savory, seasoned liquid (with all due respect to the never-beans-in-chili crowd).

But within those parameters, there is so much room for variation, it makes me practically giddy. I’m constantly plotting a different take on the one-pot wonder, especially this time of year when I crave easy meals that are comforting, warm and nourishing.

One of my favorite casual party strategies is to make three very differently seasoned pots of chili — one vegetarian, one meat and one poultry — and have them simmering on the stove with toppings set out in bowls for guests to help themselves.

One variation that has made it to my weeknight table, and has won over many a party guest, is this tomatoless white and green number

made with fresh poblano and jalapeño peppers, white beans, large white corn kernels (hominy) and ground pork. Using both pork and beans makes it a win both taste-wise and nutritionally, because you get meaty flavor in every bite despite a modest amount, plus lots of hearty protein and fiber. (You could substitute ground turkey, if you prefer.) Simmered in broth with earthy spices, and spiked with a bright hit of lime, each bowl gets topped with fresh cilantro and a dollop of yogurt — a bowl of goodness that launches you into a world of chili possibilities.

PORK CHILI VERDE 4 to 6 servings This sumptuous white and green chili delivers gentle heat from fresh poblano and jalapeño chiles, as well as a filling heartiness from white beans, large white corn kernels (hominy) and ground pork. Simmered in broth with earthy spices — and no tomatoes — it’s a totally different and delightful chili experience.

Storage Notes: The chili can be refrigerated for up to 5 days.

1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium yellow onion, diced (about 1 1/2 cups) 3 medium poblano peppers (about 3 ounces each), seeded and finely diced (about 1 1/2 cups) 3 tablespoons seeded and finely diced jalapeño pepper 2 cloves garlic, minced or finely grated 1 teaspoon ground cumin 3/4 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, or more as needed 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or more as needed 12 ounces lean ground pork (may substitute ground turkey) Two (15 1/2-ounce) cans no-salt-added white beans, such as cannellini, drained and rinsed 4 cups low-sodium chicken broth One (15 1/2-ounce) can hominy, drained and rinsed 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt (whole-milk or reduced fat), for serving 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro leaves, for serving 4 lime wedges, for serving In a large heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven over medium heat, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the onion, poblanos and jalapeños and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are soft,

6 to 8 minutes. Add the garlic, cumin, oregano, coriander, salt and cayenne pepper and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds.

Add the pork and cook, breaking up the meat with a spoon, until no longer pink, about 3 minutes. Add the beans and the broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the ingredients have melded, about 20 minutes. Using a spoon, mash some of the beans on the side of the pot to thicken the mixture a bit.

Add the hominy and taste the stew. Season with more salt and/or cayenne pepper, if desired, and continue to cook, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until the ingredients have warmed through and the chili has thickened, about 15 minutes.

Ladle into bowls and top each with a dollop of yogurt, a sprinkle of cilantro and a lime wedge.

Nutrition | Calories: 360; Total Fat: 16 g; Saturated Fat: 4 g; Cholesterol: 55 mg; Sodium: 500 mg; Carbohydrates: 33 g; Dietary Fiber: 9 g; Sugars: 2 g; Protein: 25 g.

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Drink too many hard seltzers last night? Fear not, help is on its way. Help that comes in a can.

You can now buy bitters and soda in a can from The Bitter Housewife, an artisanal bitters company out of Portland, Ore., available online for easy delivery to your bedside or boat dock.

Long a remedy for hangovers, hiccups and general queasiness, the combination of cocktail bitters and bubbly water helps in several ways.

First, the bubbles soothe the stomach and the effervescence encourages much-needed hydration. Second, the various herbs and botanicals in the tincture fix the rocky digestion. And third, the tiny bit of alcohol in most bitters may be just enough to offset the body’s craving for a touch of booze.

The Bitter Housewife made its own version of the classic combination, dubbing it simply Bitters & Soda. It reformulated its original Old Fashioned Aromatic bitters recipe, throwing out the alcohol and the sugar, but leaving the cherries, warm spices, fresh ginger and bitter gentian in the mix.

The result — a lively, stimulating beverage that tastes like good ol’ Angostura bitters and soda, without the boozy kick.

Genevieve Brazelton Freshly ground black pepper

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with bone-in breasts.

A sprinkle of Parmesan added before roasting lends tang.

Then to finish, chopped parsley brings brightness and herbal depth, and yes, even more color. But don’t think of leaving it out; it’s pretty, but not expendable.

SHEET-PAN PAPRIKA CHICKEN WITH TOMATOES AND PARMESAN Yield: 4 servings 3 pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken parts (breasts, drumsticks, thighs or a mix) Kosher salt 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling 1 1/2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar, plus more for serving 2 garlic cloves, finely grated 1 tablespoon sweet paprika 1 teaspoon Espelette pepper or smoked hot paprika (pimentón)

By LISA FUTTERMAN

Bell peppers and jammy cherry tomatoes round out the simple sheet pan paprika chicken with tomatoes and parmesan. This sheet-pan chicken dinner stars two ingredients, paprika and parsley, you may be taking for granted. Christopher Testani/The New York Times

1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 pint cherry tomatoes (preferably different colors), halved

1 poblano chile or 1 small green bell pepper, thinly sliced 1 cup thinly sliced sweet bell peppers (red, yel-

low or orange) 1/3 cup grated Parmesan 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley, for serving

Mandoline

Merker says. That way you can push the vegetables away from you and take advantage of your natural momentum.

Don’t slice side to side. If you want uniform slices, which is pretty much the whole point, be sure you apply even pressure to the vegetable. Especially with firm or lumpy vegetables, it can help to start by creating a flat surface, so don’t hesitate to use a knife to slice off one edge. ATK suggests halving large items if necessary and says it’s safer and sturdier to put the food on a cutting board and then press the guard onto it, rather than pointing the prongs up and pushing the food onto them.

strain,” Merker says. Potatoes are an obvious choice, as are radishes, fennel, beets and winter squash. It’s helpful for softer foods that you still might want a thin slice on, including pears, zucchini, cucumber, onions and even citrus.

Stay away from softer foods that are more likely to be crushed than sliced, such as tomatoes. Mandolines are not always the most efficient tool for slicing, either. For heads of cabbage or a bunch of Brussels sprouts, Merker prefers a food processor.

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HOW TO USE IT The best motion for slicing on a mandoline is to have the mandoline handle facing you,

WHAT TO USE IT FOR “I really want to use the mandoline for harder vegetables that feel like they’re a

DISHES THAT BENEFIT FROM ONE Gratins or dishes with scalloped vegetables will make the most use of a mandoline.

Chips — apple, beet, potato — also help the tool earn its keep.

Thinly sliced fruit atop a tart is

1. Heat oven to 425 degrees.

Season chicken all over with salt, and place it on a rimmed baking sheet.

2. In a small bowl, stir together olive oil, vinegar, garlic, paprika, Espelette and oregano.

Pour over chicken, tossing to coat.

3. Add tomatoes, poblano and sweet peppers to baking sheet, spread vegetables around the chicken. Season vegetables lightly with salt and drizzle with a little more olive oil. Sprinkle Parmesan all over chicken and vegetables.

4. Roast until chicken is golden, crisp and cooked through, 25 to 35 minutes. Stir the vegetables halfway through cooking but don’t disturb the chicken. If white meat is done before dark meat, remove it as it finishes cooking.

5. Transfer chicken to plates.

Stir vegetables around in pan, scraping up all the delicious browned bits from the bottom and sides of pan, and stir in

founded the Bitter Housewife five years ago with her husband, crafting small-batch bitters in pure, classic flavors.

Soon she started noticing that her customers were trying to drink less, and were often buying her excellent bitters purely for use with their homemade sparkling water.

“People told me, ‘I keep a bottle of your bitters in my car, in my desk, in my purse so that I can put it in my seltzer,’” says Brazelton. These soda-alternative seekers form a huge part of the canned Bitters & Soda audience. “If you are choosing not to drink, you still get this great craft beverage that doesn’t make you feel like you are sitting at the kiddie table.”

As with any good canned beverage, the temptation to mix a drink with it is present and palpable. (Tempting, that is, if your friends are like mine and like their La Croix spiked with tequila and their White Claw dosed with flavored vodka.) Brazelton agrees: “People don’t need to be told to mix anything with alcohol.”

If you choose to go that route, Bitter Housewife Bitters & Soda screams for whiskey. Whatever your brown liquor of choice may be — rye, Irish whiskey or bourbon — mixing it with Bitters & Soda makes a terrific highball before dinner. I the parsley and black pepper to taste. Taste and add salt if needed, and a drizzle of vinegar if you like. Spoon vegetables over the chicken to serve.

AND TO DRINK ...

What kind of wine goes best with chicken? Just about any.

Chicken pairs with most everything, from a moderately tannic Bordeaux to a light Vinho Verde.

The accompanying flavors are usually more fussy. The good news here is that the savory notes of this dish will likewise embrace many wines. Choose a rustic Gigondas or a peppery syrah if you’re in the mood for a red. An Oregon pinot noir or a Portuguese Bairrada would do nicely as well. Prefer a white?

Why not a chardonnay? You know you like it. From where?

Anywhere. Chenin blanc would be delicious. So would an Austrian riesling, or a godello from northwestern Spain. Leave it to the sommeliers to decide which particular cuvée echoes the sprig of parsley. Pick what you enjoy.

A mandoline is a tool that’s designed to give you very thin, even slices of vegetables and fruits. Stacy Zarin Goldberg/Washington Post.

another way to go. Julienne vegetables for slaw, salad or, yep, fries. If you’re a fan of pickles, the mandoline is your friend.

Merker likes to slice cucumbers so thinly that when tossed with

rice vinegar, they’re ready to go on top of a rice bowl. “I think mandolines are really great for ribbons,” she adds, such as zucchini that can be used in lasagna and roll-ups or marinated.