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HUDSON — A city man accused of nine felonies, including the rape of a child, was released from police custody after his arraignment in City Court on Thursday, prompting a firestorm of protest by the Columbia County District Attorney’s office.

Mohammed Ali, 67, of State Street, was arraigned on three class B felonies: one count of first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child; two counts of firstdegree rape; and six class D

felonies: one count of second-degree course of sexual conduct against a child and five counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

City Judge Brian Herman ordered Ali’s release after his arraignment Thursday on two conditions: that Ali surrender his passport and that he check in with the Columbia County Department of Probation once a day. It is unclear if Ali will be required to check in with the Probation Department by phone or in person.

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka

expressed frustration about the judge’s decision in court Thursday while requesting a restraining order on behalf of one of the alleged victims.

Czajka argued that the depositions detailing the alleged crimes and signed under penalty of perjury by Hudson police detectives should have been enough to send the defendant to Columbia County Jail without bail.

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George Kent, the senior State Department official in charge of Ukraine. Friday’s public hearing questioned Marie Yovanovitch, former ambassador to the Ukraine.

“If we find the president of the United States abused his power and invited foreign interference in our elections, or if he sought to condition, coerce, extort or bribe an ally — if this is not impeachment conduct, what is?”

Adam Schiff, the Democratic head of the House Intelligence Committee and California

representative, asked at the beginning of Wednesday’s testimony.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, said in an interview with the Press-Republican Thursday that she wants testimonies from people with first-hand accounts of Trump’s conduct.

“Both of the witnesses have long lives of public service and have served this country honorably,” Stefanik said regarding Wednesday’s hearing. “But the fact of the matter is neither of those witnesses had ever met

with President Trump, had ever spoken with President Trump.”

The White House has been blocking those close to the president from testifying at the hearings.

Columbia and Greene County residents had mixed reactions to the hearings Friday.

“They want the president out of office and will do anything to make it happen,” said Stephanie Pfeiffer, of Athens.

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Philmont man sentenced in child porn case

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WASHINGTON — The first week of the historic public hearings for the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump brought testimonies that asserted the president was abusing his power to coerce the Ukraine into investigating his political rival former Vice President Joe Biden.

This week’s public hearings came nearly two months afters House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would be

launching a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump for a phone call during which he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do him “a favor” and look into Biden.

The now-famous July 25 call came one week after the United States froze hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Ukraine.

Democrats brought two top government experts to testify in Wednesday’s hearing: William Taylor, the top American diplomat in Ukraine, and

ALBANY — A Columbia County man was sentenced in federal court to six and a half years in prison for having 200 videos depicting children engaged in sexual acts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday.

James Brady, 70, of Philmont, will serve time for distributing and possessing child pornography, according to U.S. Attorney Grant Jaquith. Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy also imposed a 15-year term of supervised release, which will begin after Brady is released from prison. Brady was also ordered to pay $9,000 in restitution.

The announcement was made by Jaquith, with James N. Hendricks, special agent in charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau

of Investigation.

Brady will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison, the U.S. At- James Brady torney’s Office said.

As part of his guilty plea, Brady admitted to using a desktop computer equipped with file sharing to download and distribute child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Special FBI agents and other law enforcement officers executed a federal search warrant at Brady’s Philmont home on March 1, 2018 after tracking and discovering Brady’s activity online, according to court papers.

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As part of his guilty plea, Brady admitted to using a desktop computer equipped with file sharing to download and distribute child pornography.

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alleged to have been downloaded and shared between Dec. 4, 2017, and March 1, 2018, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

In one video, a girl between eight and 10 years of age was raped anally, according to court papers.

Brady also had another video depicting girls between the ages of 3 and 8 raped by several adult men, according to court papers.

“The girls are shown performing oral sex on adult males and being vaginally penetrated,” according to court papers.

Brady was interviewed in

the living room of his home by investigators on the day of the raid. He then admitted to searching for and downloading images of child pornography using his desktop computer, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

“Brady stated that he has been lonely and has been searching for and viewing child pornography for some time,” according to court papers. “Brady understood that it was illegal to download and possess child pornography.”

The case was investigated by state police and the FBI and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sahar

L. Amandolare.

The case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Project Safe Childhood, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, is led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute suspects who exploit children on the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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

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will not be affected by the inquiry.

“The Republicans will support him [Trump] no matter what happens, so I don’t think this will go anywhere,” said Carl Smith, of Catskill.

“But I wish it would.”

Yovanovitch’s Friday testimony and questioning focused quite a bit on the so-called smear campaign launched against her by the president’s personal attorney Rudolph Giulini. She said he and others were launching baseless accusations against her in collaboration with Ukrainians because she adamantly fought corruption.

During Yovanovitch’s testimony, Trump affirmed her concerns about her treatment when he tweeted, “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.

She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint

years in prison. First-degree rape carries a minimum of 5 years to a maximum of 25 years.

Herman said he would be happy to consider a bail application from the District Attorney’s office at Ali’s next scheduled court appearance on Nov. 21.

“If he comes back,” Czajka said.

Herman issued a full stayaway restraining order on behalf of one of the alleged victims at Ali’s arraignment, but declined to issue an order for the other.

Herman later clarified that he could not issue the second restraining order without knowing the name of the second victim.

“I can’t issue an order of protection without a name,” Herman said. “Unfortunately, I could not find any case law that gives me any guidance, but I felt I needed something, on the record, to tie this protected party to this case.”

Czajka argued that the name of the second victim already had been submitted to the court.

“For the life of me, your honor, I have never

understood why this court — and this court alone — insists that I provide ‘good cause’ beyond an actual criminal complaint issued by the Hudson police department, under penalty of perjury, alleging this man committed the violent sexual offenses against two children,” Czajka said. “I would respectfully submit that that alone is sufficient, not only for an order of protection, but that, in addition, this man should have been remanded without bail.”

Herman granted the request for an order of protection for the second alleged victim once Det. Sgt. Jason Finn, the lead investigator, provided her name to the court, which, Czajka said, had already been submitted.

Violent sexual offenses such as rape are exempt from the new state bail reform laws to take effect Jan. 1.

Defense Attorney Michael Howard did not immediately return a call for comment Friday.

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

ambassadors.”

When asked what she thought about the tweet, Yovanovitch called it “intimidating.”

“Some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously,” Schiff responded.

Yovanovitch broadened her experience to underline a trend she said she saw of Trump undermining American diplomacy with partisan attacks.

“This is about far, far more than me or a couple of individuals,” she said. “As Foreign Service professionals are being denigrated and undermined, the institution is also being degraded. This will soon cause real harm, if it hasn’t already.”

The hearings continued to flare partisan tensions, as Republicans reduced the collective 70 years of experience of Wednesday’s testifiers into a political scheme.

“It seems you agreed witting or unwitting to participate in a drama,” Republican U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, CA22, told Kent and Taylor. “The main performance, a Russia hoax, has ended, And you’ve been cast in the low rent Ukrainian sequel.”

However, the Taylor and Kent remained steadfast in

highlighting the misconduct of the president rather than weighing in on partisan politics, refusing to answer questions about whether they thought Trump should be impeached, and responding “No” when asked if they were “Never Trumpers.”

Taylor testified his concern in holding $391 million in military aid to the Ukraine while Trump was putting pressure on the country to investigate Biden, saying security was important for Ukraine and for U.S. national interests.

“To withhold that assistance for no good reason other than help with a political campaign made no sense,” Taylor said. “It was counterproductive to all of what we had been trying to do. It was illogical. It was crazy.”

Key revelations from Taylor and Kent’s testimonies included that Trump was conditioning the U.S.-Ukraine relationship on the country’s public commitment to investigating Biden, that Ukraine felt pressure from the U.S. to do their bid in order to get access to the military aid — unlike what Republicans have argued — that officials understood Trump was more concerned about the Biden investigation than Ukraine

and that they had never seen similar conduct from a president in the past.

Kent also blasted a “campaign to smear” American officials in the U.S., including Yovanovitch, which ultimately resulted in her recall in May. A reconstructed memo of the July 25 call shows that Trump said Yovanovitch was “bad news” and “going to go through things.”

Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, said he was happy the hearings were public so constituents could come to their own conclusions with the facts presented.

“I hope the people of my district watch so that they can hear exactly what I have heard: that the Administration withheld military aid to Ukraine, a strategic ally of this country in the fight against Russian expansion, for political gain,” he said in a statement.

Melanie Lekocevic contributed to this report.

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

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into the accusations, according to court documents.

Ali is accused of sexually abusing two girls under the age of 11 multiple times between 2008 and 2011, according to nine criminal complaints filed against him by the Hudson Police Department.

Some of the acts Ali is accused of include forcibly compelling a 5-year-old girl into sexual intercourse, touching one of the girls’ vaginas with his hands, and touching the breasts of one of his victims on multiple occasions.

The names of the victims cannot be disclosed in court documents under state civil rights law. The Register-Star does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault.

An arrest warrant for Ali was issued after the complaints were officially filed by Hudson police detectives on Sept. 3, 2019. Ali turned himself in to Hudson police at about 9:45 a.m. Thursday, according to the record of his arrest.

Czajka told the judge he is concerned for the safety of the alleged victims after Ali was released.

“These are children victims,” Czajka said, his voice raised. “This man is released on his own recognizance only to provide opportunity for him to go after them again.”

In response, Herman said, “As you’re well aware Mr. Czajka, I can’t set bail as a preemptive measure out of concern for future crimes, even though I would like to do that.”

Ali has no criminal history, according to police records.

Herman brandished what appeared to be Ali’s U.S. passport in court, which Ali had surrendered earlier that day.

The court could have weighed several factors to determine bail was necessary, including Ali’s likelihood to return to court given the severity of the sentences that could be imposed if he is convicted, Czajka said.

The combined sentences of all the charges could equal life in prison for Ali, if convicted.

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As she was told to leave Ukraine, U.S. ambassador was honoring anti-corruption activist who died after acid attack Adam Taylor The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told an impeachment hearing on Friday that when she received a phone call on April 25 telling her to leave Kyiv, she was at that moment honoring a late anti-corruption activist who had been attacked with acid.

“I was hosting an event in honor of Kateryna Handziuk, who is an anti-corruption activist - was, an anti-corruption activist - in Ukraine. We had given her the ‘Woman of Courage’ award from Ukraine,” Yovanovitch told Democratic Counsel Daniel Goodman.

Handziuk was 33 when a man threw sulfuric acid on her in front of her house in Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, on July 31, 2018. She suffered burns over 30 percent of her body in the attack, and succumbed to her injuries on Nov. 4 of that year.

A journalist and an official with the Kherson city council, Handziuk had been a persistent critic of corruption in Ukraine, highlighting alleged problems within the police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

She continued to speak out from her hospital bed, telling Hromadske Television in September that though her injuries made her look bad, she thought she looked “much better than fairness and justice” in Ukraine, “because they are not treated by anybody.”

At the April event in Kyiv, Yovanovitch said, “Kateryna paid the ultimate price for her fearlessness in fighting against corruption and for her determined efforts to build a democratic Ukraine.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also honored Handziuk in Washington in March. “Even after a brutal acid attack, which ultimately claimed her life three months

later, Kateryna refused to be silenced,” Pompeo said at the International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony.

“From her hospital bed, she demanded justice, setting a powerful example for her fellow citizens.”

At Friday’s impeachment hearing, Yovanovitch said that Handziuk’s death was tragic and she had “died a very painful death.”

“We thought it was important that justice be done for Kateryna Handziuk and for others who fight corruption in Ukraine. It’s not a table top exercise there,” she explained “Lives are in the balance. So we wanted to bring attention to this, we held an event, and gave her father - who of course is still mourning her - that award.”

Five men who organized and carried out the attack have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms of up to 6 1/2 years. But Yovanovitch warned Friday that the people

who ordered the killing had not been punished.

“Those who ordered this have not yet been apprehended,” she said.

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NYS Gaming Commission invites charitable organizations to seminars SCHENECTADY — Tis the season when well-intentioned charitable organizations conduct raffles to raise funds for worthy causes. The New York State Gaming Commission’s Division of Charitable Gaming reminds everyone that raffles, like other forms of charitable gaming, are subject to certain laws.

Division Director Stacy Harvey said representatives from the Division will host two seminars 10 a.m.-noon Nov. 20 and Dec. 18 to assist organizations with compliance with the various laws, rules and regulations that govern the conduct of raffles.

Both seminars, which are free to attend, will be held at the at the Commission’s main office in Schenectady. “It’s our job to make sure raffles are conducted legally, and the proceeds raised go to the intended charity,” said Director Harvey.

For organizations thinking

about conducting a charity raffle, Harvey offered these key points for consideration: Raffle ticket sales and drawings may only be conducted in a municipality that has passed a games of chance local law. Raffle tickets may not be sold online or through the mail. Only members of the organization may assist with the conduct of raffles, and no one may be under the age of 18. Alcohol may not be awarded as a raffle prize. This includes gift cards to liquor stores. Raffle prize winners need not be present to win.

A reference guide for the conduct of raffles for authorized organizations, municipal clerks, and chief law enforcement officers is available here on the Commission’s website.

Questions regarding the seminars and seat reservations should be directed to the Division at 518-388-0210.

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Born February 25, 1937, daughter of George A. Hawver and Dorothy (Crosby) Hawver of Hudson, NY, Patricia graduated from Hudson High School in 1954. Throughout her childhood she was close to her cousin, the late Janet (Hawver) Slominsky. She had two younger brothers, George “Skip” Hawver of Black River, NY and Charles “Chuck” Hawver of Hudson.

She was married to the late Vincent J. Wallace, Jr. on January 25, 1957 at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Hudson.

Patricia held many jobs throughout her life, and began her thirty-plus-year career as a Physical Therapy Assistant at Barnwell Nursing Home in Valatie, NY in the late 1960s. She became a Registered Physical Therapy Assistant in the 1970s, an accomplishment she was very proud of. Throughout her career in Physical Therapy she also worked at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson and Pine Haven Nursing Home in Philmont, retiring from full-time employment in 2002.

She also was a waitress at Cedar Meadows Restaurant in the late 1970s.

Throughout her life, Patricia resided in Hudson, Valatie, Claverack, and Greenport. She was active in the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Valatie Fire Department and the Claverack Fire Department.

She enjoyed gardening and tending the flower beds in her yard. She took great joy in creating original pieces of jewelry and giving them as special gifts to her family and friends. Known for her generosity and sense of humor, she never missed a birthday or a special event, and she never missed an opportunity to tell a joke or send a funny card or gift.

She was a highly dedicated and loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

She was a loyal friend to many.

Patricia is survived by her four children, Vincent G. (Ellen) Wallace of Hudson, Michael Wallace of Gorham, ME, Patricia K. Wallace of Hudson and Timothy Wallace of Williamstown, NJ. She is survived by 6 grandchildren, Robert A. Rock, Jr. of Hudson, Kayln Rock Benton (Thomas) of Windham, Patrick Wallace of Portland, OR, Lauren Wallace of Waterbury, CT, Mason Burch of Hudson and Axel Burch of Hudson, and is survived by two great grandchildren, Anastasia Renkiewicz and Parker Benton. She is also survived by her beloved dog Ernie.

Patricia was predeceased by her husband Vincent J. Wallace, Jr. on October 9, 2019. Her father George A. Hawver on January 12, 1993, and her mother Dorothy (Crosby) Hawver on January 28, 2010.

She loved and mourned her pets as she would any friend or family member.

In that respect, she is predeceased by her dogs Teddy Bear, Sparky, Jakey and Chancey.

The Wallace Family extends a special thank you to the staff of The Community Hospice.

Services will be held on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 2:00 pm from Bates & Anderson – Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home, 110 Green Street, Hudson.

Visitation will begin on Sunday at Noon from the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers donations in Patricia’s name may be made to the Columbia Greene Humane Society.

For directions or to leave a message of condolence please visit www.batesanderson.com

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Bullying tactics won’t be tolerated When New York regulators blocked construction of the Williams Pipeline, a $1 billion natural gas conduit that would have run from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and New York, in May, National Grid imposed a moratorium on downstate areas, claiming that without the pipeline, they were not able to meet increasing energy demands in the area.

No matter how you slice this, National Grid’s action comes off as retaliatory and, in sports parlance, sour grapes.

That’s what prompted Gov. Andrew Cuomo to call the move extortion Thursday.

“Either National Grid was grossly negligent in

relying exclusively on the speculative construction of a private pipeline to meet the demands that it was statutorily required to provide,” Cuomo wrote in a letter to National Grid’s CEO and president, “or National Grid deliberately defrauded the people of the state by not developing or pursuing existing supply options to force approval and reliance on a private pipeline to further their business interests at the cost of the customer.”

In either case, National Grid’s action violates the company’s certificate of operation because utility companies are supposed to serve in the public interest. There are 1.8 million customers in New York

City and on Long Island, the moratorium area served by National Grid.

Developers have been unable to provide gas to new buildings, business owners cannot obtain requested upgrades and homeowners have had to fight with the utility company to get suspended gas service restored.

National Grid should not be allowed to jeopardize progress and necessary home service by holding the population of an entire city hostage. This all comes down to money. Cuomo was right to send National Grid a formal notice to revoke its license to operate in New York.

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Case of Bijan Ghaisar has enshrined injustice The Washington Post

The disgrace of the footdragging, stonewalling, shoulder-shrugging twoyear FBI investigation into the unwarranted killing of an unarmed man near the District of Columbia by U.S. Park Police officers in November 2017 has now reached a contemptible travesty of a climax: a decision Wednesday by federal prosecutors to close the case with no charges.

The victim, Bijan Ghaisar, a charismatic, football-loving 25-yearold accountant beloved by his many friends and family, was shot repeatedly in the head by a pair of officers after his vehicle was rear-ended in a minor fender bender in the northern Virginia suburbs. As is obvious from dash-cam footage of the incident, the officers brandished their weapons for no good reason and opened fire even though Ghaisar posed no threat to them or anyone else.

The killing amounted to an execution by officers sworn to uphold the law, who appeared exasperated that Ghaisar, perhaps terrified that the officers had approached him with guns drawn, drove off twice after being stopped before the final, fatal encounter. To be clear: Ex-

asperation does not give police a license to kill. Or at least - we would have thought until this decision that it does not.

Jessie Liu, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and Justice Department officials say they have concluded that evidence is lacking to prove that the officers “willfully” took Ghaisar’s life. To grasp how that offends any notion of justice, one need only watch the video.

To see the footage and then assert the officers did not “willfully” shoot Ghaisar is to proclaim that grass is purple.

Liu’s office, in announcing its decision, said “evidence that an officer acted out of fear, mistake, panic, misperception, negligence or even poor judgment cannot establish the high level of intent required” under the law. A “willful” police shooting, the office said, must meet the Supreme Court’s standard: an act impelled by “a bad purpose to disregard the law.”

If repeatedly shooting an unarmed man - a man who imperiled no one does not amount to “a bad purpose to disregard the law,” then those words are devoid of meaning. And no police officer will ever be charged, no matter how

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egregious the case.

The baffling ending to the criminal case is of a piece with the unjustified duration of the investigation, in the course of which the FBI arrogantly ignored requests for meetings and substantive updates from three senators, a member of the House and the Ghaisar family and lawyer. It is in line with the refusal of Park Police officials to furnish the public with even the most basic information about the incident, including, for more than a year, the names of the two officers: Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard. And it is in keeping with the inhumane actions of police who refused to allow Ghaisar’s family to touch him when he lay in a coma for 10 days before dying and referred to him as “the perp” (as in perpetrator).

The common thread is arrogance and unaccountability. The final evidence of that posture is prosecutors’ refusal to put the evidence before a grand jury.

The Ghaisar family has filed a civil suit against the police. It is their final recourse and last hope to secure a modest measure of justice in a case that has enshrined injustice, and in doing so disgraced the nation.

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Trump was right to abandon the Taliban peace deal. Here’s what a good one would look like.

David H. Petraeus and Vance Serchuk The Washington Post

Two months after President Donald Trump declared U.S.-Taliban peace talks “dead,” diplomacy with the Afghan insurgents is reviving. With the administration already having negotiated a framework agreement with the Taliban, the key question now facing Washington is whether simply to dust off the settlement that was shelved in September or seek substantial revisions.

The Taliban’s position is clear: It maintains that the text from earlier this year “contains answers to all issues” and “only needs signing and implementation.”

Yet the Taliban’s enthusiasm for the deal underscores why the White House should reconsider its terms.

The predicate for any acceptable peace agreement with the Taliban ought to be the organization’s total, unequivocal break with international terrorism. It was, after all, two decades ago, when the Taliban was in power in Afghanistan, that its sheltering of al-Qaida made possible the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and it was the Taliban’s subsequent refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden that forced the United States to invade.

The experience of recent coalition military operations in Afghanistan, moreover, underscores that al-Qaida’s links to the Taliban remain strong.

Under the deal Trump set aside in September, the Taliban appeared willing to promise that Afghan territory under their control would never again be used to launch terrorist attacks against the outside world.

That is a compelling formula at first glance, but inadequate under scrutiny.

For starters, the Taliban as recently as this summer still wouldn’t admit that al-Qaida was the 9/11 perpetrator.

As long as the group denies the facts about past acts of terrorism hatched under its aegis, it is impossible to take seriously its assurances about preventing future

ones.

Even more fundamentally, a Taliban pledge not to allow foreign attacks from Afghan soil does not address the group’s relationship with al-Qaida and other Islamist extremists enjoying sanctuary in Pakistan. A peace deal that ignores this makes little sense.

The Taliban must pledge to break ties with designated terrorist groups everywhere and show through active cooperation with the United States its willingness to fight them.

Any Taliban deal that requires all U.S. forces to withdraw from Afghanistan should be a nonstarter. Precisely because the Taliban’s counterterrorism promises are untrustworthy, it is essential for the United States to retain its own independent means to protect itself against extremist networks, which now include an Islamic State affiliate, in both Afghanistan and the surrounding region.

Exchanging America’s military footprint in Afghanistan for Taliban commitments against al-Qaida would be especially ill-considered. Under such an arrangement, the more the United States fulfills its end of the bargain, the less incentive the Taliban would have to live up to its - and the less ability Washington would have to detect or punish violations.

For that matter, if the Taliban is sincere about turning against groups such as al-Qaida, why wouldn’t it — like other U.S. counterterrorism partners around the world —welcome all the international help it can get against a common enemy?

The Taliban’s vehement insistence that all U.S. troops leave Afghanistan strongly suggests that its purpose in peace talks isn’t to transform its relationship with the United States but to evict its forces so they can then overthrow the Afghan government — which, by contrast, has been a steadfast U.S. ally against terror.

Consequently, the Trump administration should insist

that any peace agreement includes a nationwide ceasefire between the Taliban and the Afghan government, which should remain in place as the two parties then negotiate. Under no circumstances should Washington disengage from the Afghan battlefield while the Taliban is still rampaging on it.

The Taliban will of course resist all of this - conjuring the specter that the group might abandon diplomacy altogether in favor of continued violence, in the hope the United States will eventually give up and go home.

That is indeed a risk. But the right response isn’t to accept a deal that compromises U.S. national security and abandons an important counterterrorism partner.

The United States should instead adopt a force posture that is both sustained and sustainable, with its Afghan partners continuing to bear the overwhelming burden of the fight while the U.S. provides vital support. American diplomacy, meanwhile, can help offset the costs to the United States by securing additional forces and funding from allies worldwide.

Americans and Afghans are united in their desire for peace, but a bad deal with the Taliban would be worse than no deal at all — and from what is known about the accord that was on the table in September, it is likely for the best that Trump backed away.

Rather than re-embracing that agreement, the White House should demand a better one, while making clear to the Taliban and other extremists in the region that an enduring U.S. commitment to our Afghan counterterrorism partners is nonnegotiable.

Petraeus is a former director of the CIA, former commander of U.S. Central Command and chairman of KKR Global Institute, where Serchuk, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, is executive director.

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Thank you for all the kindness To the editor: Thank you for the full-page article regarding my rehabilitation following hip surgery, at the Pines rehab center in Catskill, with my service dog, Sampson.

I started losing my sight 8 years ago, becoming totally black blind 4 years ago. I did not qualify for a guide dog, as I am homebound, and the dogs needs to work daily.

Sampson had been trained in agility, obedience, and passed his canine good citizenship test. The commission for the blind in Albany helped me to register Sampson as a service dog for the blind.

Thank you to Dr. DiGiovanni, for arranging a staff representative from the Pines to meet with Sampson and I before surgery. My recovery was enhanced by the

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compassionate and loving care shown to both of us during rehab. Staff were amazed at Sampson’s ability to guide me around obstacles, and walk quietly beside a walker.

When an Nerf ball bounced off Sampson’s head during one exercise, they were amazed at his calm and puzzled reaction.

Residents came out of their room specifically to Pat Sampson on the head and give him a treat. I was discharged Oct. 23, 2019. One week later, Sampson started showing signs of weakness and distress. He could no longer get up unaided, and stopped eating.

My friend Harry brought both of us to the Catskill animal hospital for his last visit.

The compassion shown to both of us by the wonderful

staff aided in his transition.

My heartfelt thanks to Alix Erenberg for clipping Sampson’s nails these many years so I wouldn’t hurt him. I give my unending gratitude to my friend Harry Bustretsky for burying Sampson next to my beloved Belgian mlon on his property, so Sampson wouldn’t be alone.

Service dogs aid the disabled in many ways. Providing safety, compassion, and love they give over their lives to a disabled person such as myself. Sampson was the best and greatest example of the role of service dog plays in the life of a disabled person.

Thank you for giving him his last hurrah. He was 13, and did his job to the end.

DEBRA BRAIMAN AND SAMPSON CATSKILL

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James W Bell, Jr James W Bell, Jr, 82, of Ger- yearly October trips to Syracuse mantown, NY, passed away on and Middletown for the big yearMonday, November 11, 2019 at end stock-car races.

Columbia Memorial Hospital in In addition to his loving wife Hudson, NY. of 61 years, he is survived by his Born on July 31, 1937, in two daughters, Tammy (Dave) Catskill, NY, he was the son of Albright of Athens, NY, and Terry the late James Bell, Sr and Do- (John) Gaffken of Hurley, NY; rathea (Arp) Bell. He was a grad- his grandchildren, Carina (Brian) uate of Germantown schools. In Benson, Bryan (Vicki) Weaver, 1955, Jim enlisted in the National Kara (George) Augustine, WilGuard with Co. B 152nd Engi- liam Gaffken, Cierra Albright, neer Battalion based in and Christian Albright; Hudson, and served unhis great grandson, Tytil 1965. He attained the ler Benson; along with rank of SSGT and was extended family, countthe mess steward less friends and colJim married Judy leagues.

Bathrick on September Friends may call at 27, 1958 at the Gerthe Burnett & White mantown Reformed Funeral Homes in Red Church in Germantown, Hook on Tuesday, NoBell, Jr NY, and she survives at vember 19, 2019 from home. For more than 2 - 4 & 6-8 PM. The German50 years, James worked as the town Fire Company will conplant manager for BECO Manuduct services at 7 pm. Funeral facturing Company in Germantown, NY. He also worked and services will be held at 11:00 served as a Town of German- AM on Wednesday, November town Police Officer from 1971- 20, 2019 at Burnett & White Fu1986, and was Chief of Police neral Homes, Red Hook. Rev. Ed from 1975-1977. Always active, Harkins will officiate. Burial will Jim was a 50-year member of the be at Germantown Reformed Germantown Fire Company, and Cemetery, Germantown. Meserved as Fire Chief from 1982- morial donations may be made 1987. He also was a member of in James’s memory to the CoNESCOT and was a trustee for lumbia-Greene Humane Socimany years. Since 1959, Jim en- ety, 125 Humane Society Road, joyed going to Lebanon Valley Hudson, NY 12534 or to the Speedway, where he made ma- Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. ny wonderful lifelong friends. Jim Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675, also enjoyed following German- www.woundedwarriorproject. town school sports programs org. Arrangements are under the and cheering for their teams… direction of Burnett & White Fuespecially basketball. When Jim neral Homes 7461 S. Broadway, was younger, he enjoyed snow- Red Hook, NY. For directions, mobiling, boating, and riding or to sign the online guest book, his motorcycle. He also enjoyed please visit www.Burnett-White. camping with his family and their com

Careen Lee Bowen Careen Lee Bowen, 54 of She also leaves her life partner Gallatin, NY passed away on Dave Clark of Gallatin along Wednesday November 13, with his family, Michele and 2019 at Northern Dutchess Eric Delage and Gabriell Clark, Hospital with her loving family all of Catskill and Michael Clark by her side. of Ancram. Additionally she She was born on April 19, leaves her grandchildren, Lore1965 in Hudson, NY to Linda lei Ingles, Autumn Delage and L. (Oakley) Bowen of Ancram, Zekiel Delage and a special NY and the late David L. Bowen aunt, Linda Stickle. Also surSr. Careen attended Taconic viving are many aunts, uncles, Hills and for the past 34 years cousins, nieces and nephews. had been employed by Friends are invited Taconic D.D.S.O. as and may call on Mona supervisor in a residay November 18, dential facility.

2019 from 4:00 – 7:00 She had a love of PM at the Peck and flowers, gardening and Peck Funeral Home, tending to her numerRoute 22 in Copake, ous house plants. CaNY. Funeral serreen enjoyed playing vices will be held on bingo, swimming, tag Wednesday November sales with family and 19, 2019 at 11:00 AM Bowen adding to her large colfrom the funeral home lection of anything associated with Vicar Jackie Jefferson ofwith roosters. She is survived ficiating. Burial will follow in by her mother Linda Bowen, a the West Copake Cemetery. son Brian Ingles and his com- Memorial contributions may panion Amy; a sister and broth- be offered to either the Ancram er in law, Lisa and Robert Stick- Fire Company or the American le all of Ancram and a brother Cancer Society. To send an and sister in law, David and Kim online condolence please visit Bowen Jr. of Johnsonville, NY. www.peckandpeck.net.

Sophie Kathleen Traver Sophie Kathleen Traver, of games of bingo. She continued Conroe, Texas, and formerly of to play golf to age 86, and she Philmont, NY, passed away on faithfully exercised regularly.

November 14, 2019 at the age Sophie was preceded in death of 98. She was born October 2, by her husband Clinton, and her 1921 in Hudson, NY. daughter and son-in-law, KathShe married the love of her leen and Gary Bruhns. She is life on December 25, 1945 and survived by her two daughters, they were married for 56 years Tani Traver of Montgomery, TX, before he preceded her in death. close friends Becky GustamanTogether they started and ran te and Kimberly Lassinger, and the Traver & McCurry Funeral Stephanie and Clay Gaida of Homes in Philmont Rowlett, TX as well as and Catskill. They were her grandson Michael very active members of Bruhns and grandthe Columbia Golf and daughter Hailey Gaida.

Country Club where Sophie was also a wonthey each won sevderful great- granderal club championmother to Enzo and ships. After retirement, Traver Bruhns and Silas the couple moved to and Ian Stall. Always a Cherokee Village, Arstylish dresser, Sophie Traver kansas where Sophie was also known as the and Clint enjoyed their hat lady- no one looked favorite hobby of golf. Sophie better in a hat than she did and was a friend to everyone and her collection was extensive. loved to visit with young and Calling hours will be held old alike. She was an incredible 9-11 AM Monday followed by cook and baker and her recipes an 11:15 AM funeral service will be passed down through the at Traver & McCurry Funeral generations. In her older years, Home, 234 Jefferson Heights, she embraced retirement and Catskill. Interment will be at Cejoined the “Girls” for rousing dar Park Cemetery in Hudson.

Daniel L Blake Daniel L Blake, born July 10, 1943, passed away on November 13,2019 at St Peters Hospice in Albany, NY. Dan was a Vietnam Veteran who served 4 years in the Air Force. He had been employed as a corporation tax auditor by the State of NY. In 1974 he took

a disability retirement due to an auto accident. Dan was an avid outdoors man, enjoying hunting and fishing. He was a very accomplished fly fisherman. He also bred, raised, and raced harness horses for many years. Dan was also a long time member of the Chatham Lions Club. Survi-

vors include his daughter Charity, grandsons Brody and Landon, his brother Francis and Alice Wettach, and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents, Francis and Florence, his twin brother David, brother John, and sister Kathleen.

As per Dan’s wishes there will

be no funeral or wake. A celebration of Dan’s life will be held at a date still to be determined. Arrangements are being handled by French, Gifford, Preiter and Blasl of Chatham. Memorials in Dan’s name may be made to American Cancer Society1 Penny Lane, Latham, NY 12110.

Arthur B. Buchholz, Jr Arthur B. Buchholz, Jr. died on November 8, 2019 at Willow Valley Communities, in Lancaster, PA, just 2 weeks short of his 95th birthday. He was the beloved husband of the late Barbara (Bobby) Buchholz who preceded him in death in 2018.

Mr. Buchholz was born November 23, 1924 to the late Arthur B. and Daisy May (Weeks) Buchholz in Hudson, NY, and was the youngest of 6 children.

The four oldest also preceded him in death, Lewis, Jane (Carter), Marion (Jung), and Priscilla (Frisbee). His sister Ann (Alden) lives in Slingerlands, NY. He is survived by two sons; A. Bruce (husband of Judy) of Moorestown, NJ, and William R. (Bill) (husband of Debbie) of VA, six grandchildren, Major Brian (husband of Katharine), Kevin, Kathleen (Oosthuizen – wife of Stefan), Lauren, Karen and Dan, two great grandchild, Connor and Madeleine, and many nieces and nephews.

He proudly served as Technical Sergeant in the US Army Corps of Engineers during WWII, stationed in the Pacific Theater. While there he saw service from New Guinea, to the Philippines, and with the Occu-

pation Army of Japan. He was locations including Canton and commissioned as a 2nd Lieu- Hamilton, NY. He left GLF to tenant in the US Army Reserves become the Sales Manager at after the war. He often joked that Foster Refrigerator Corporahe had contracted all the jungle tion, in Hudson NY. He went on diseases imaginable, including to take a position with the DiviMalaria, Diphtheria, Dengue sion of Standards for the State Fever, and others from working of New York, in Albany, NY, rein the waters building bridges, tiring with the State as the Direcpiers, and embankments. The tor of Standards and Purchase.

2 battalions he was asMr. Buchholz was a sociated with had 80% long time member of casualties, with a high the First Presbyterian percentage due to disChurch of Hudson, NY, ease. where he was a DeaMr. Buchholz graducon, and member of the ated from Hudson High choir. Most recently, School, and went on he was member of the to graduate from CorFirst Methodist Church nell University, Ithaca, of Lancaster, PA. NY, with a degree in Buchholz, Jr He had many hobAgricultural Engineerbies and interests. He ing. He and Barbara were ac- was an active golfer, playing tive in Cornell Alumni events until he was 93, and shooting and fund raising, and while he his age, (playing Grandpa’s was a second generation Cor- rules). He enjoyed bird watchnelian, he was very proud that ing, and was a covered bridge both his sons (Bruce and Bill) aficionado – traveling to every graduated from Cornell, as well known bridge in New England as his grandson (Brian). While and the mid-Atlantic region, in school, he was a member of while recording each with maps, the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity, and photos, and history. He also a member of the Sage Chapel maintained an active genealChoir. After school, he worked ogy on the Buchholz, Van Alas a manager for GLF (prede- lan, and Kunz families. He was cessor to AGWAY), at multiple very active with the Boy Scouts

of America, attaining the rank of Eagle Scout, and saw both sons and two grandsons attain Eagle rank. He and Barbara traveled the world after retiring, visiting large portions of the United States, Canada, as well as Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, South America, and the Middle East.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2019 in the Thomas Auditorium at, 300 Willow Valley Lakes Drive, Willow Street, PA 17584 at 11:00 A.M. The family will greet friends following the service. A second Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at the Dutch Reformed Church, Route 9-H, Claverack, NY 12513 at 11:00 A.M. The family will greet friends following the service. Memorial contributions may be made to the Claverack Free Library, Route 9-H, Claverack, NY or to Cornell University, College of Agriculture. If desired, flowers may be sent to either the Thomas Auditorium, or to the Claverack Dutch Reformed Church.

To leave an online condolence for the family, please visit: www.

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Trump again asks Supreme Court to block release of his financial records Adam Liptak The New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to shield his financial records from disclosure to investigators for the second time in two days. His latest request asked the court to temporarily block the release of records held by his accounting firm to a House committee while the justices consider whether to hear his appeal in the case.

That stay application followed a petition Thursday in a separate case in which prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking eight years of Trump’s business and personal tax returns. The prosecutors in that case had agreed not to seek immediate release of the records in exchange for a prompt request for Supreme Court review.

There is no such agreement in the case arising from the House subpoena. If the justices do not grant a stay, the accounting firm, Mazars USA, has indicated that it will comply with the subpoena. If the justices do grant a stay, they may act on the requests for

review in the two cases at the same time.

The new case started after the House Oversight and Reform Committee learned that Trump’s ethics disclosure forms did not list a debt for hush-money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 election. Trump and his company reimbursed the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for payments to pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump. The president has denied the relationship.

Trump’s lawyers went to court to try to block the subpoena. They argued that the committee was powerless to obtain his records because it had no legislative need for them. They said the panel was engaged in an improper criminal inquiry and was not seeking information to help it enact legislation.

Lawyers for the committee responded that the records were needed for multiple, proper reasons, and that courts should not secondguess congressional decision-making.

In October, a divided

three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to block the subpoena.

“Having considered the weighty interests at stake in this case, we conclude that the subpoena issued by the committee to Mazars is valid and enforceable,” Judge David Tatel, who was appointed

by President Bill Clinton, wrote for the majority. Judge Patricia Millett, appointed

by President Barack Obama, joined the majority opinion.

In dissent, Judge Neomi Rao, appointed by Trump, wrote that “allegations of illegal conduct against the President cannot be investigated

by Congress except through impeachment.”

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to rehear the panel’s ruling. The three judges who noted dissents were appointed by Republican presidents.

The committee’s case may have been strengthened in the interim by the House’s vote to conduct a formal impeachment inquiry, as congressional authority to seek information in that context is

Roger Stone is found guilty in trial that revived Trump-Russia saga Sharon LaFraniere and Zach Montague The New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Roger Stone, a former aide and longtime friend of President Donald Trump, was found guilty on Friday of obstructing a congressional investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election in what prosecutors said was an effort to protect Trump.

Stone, 67, was charged with lying to the House Intelligence Committee, trying to block the testimony of another potential witness and concealing reams of evidence from investigators. Prosecutors claimed he tried to thwart the committee’s work because the truth would have “looked terrible” for both the president and his campaign. He was found guilty of all seven counts he was charged with.

The government built its case over the past week with

testimony from a friend of Stone and two former Trump campaign officials, buttressed by hundreds of exhibits that exposed Stone’s disdain for congressional and criminal investigators.

Confronted with his lies under oath by one associate, prosecutors said, Stone wrote back: “No one cares.”

They asked the jurors to deliver a verdict proving him wrong.

The evidence showed that in the months leading up to the 2016 election, Stone strove to obtain emails that Russia had stolen from Democratic computers and funneled to WikiLeaks, which released them at strategic moments timed to damage Hillary Clinton, Trump’s Democratic opponent. Stone briefed the Trump campaign about whatever he had picked up about WikiLeaks’ plans “every chance he got,” Jonathan Kravis, a lead

prosecutor, said.

The trial revived the saga of Russia’s efforts to bolster Trump’s chances of winning the White House at the same time that House impeachment investigators are scrutinizing Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine, a foreign ally, for help with his 2020 election.

The jury of nine women and three men deliberated for seven hours over two days before convicting Stone, a 40-year friend of Trump and well-known political provocateur.

Within minutes of the verdict, Trump protested on Twitter that it was unfair.

“So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come,” Trump wrote, though his own administration’s Justice Department waged the prosecution.

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In a second dissent Wednesday, Rao said the resolution did not alter the calculus. “This circuit,” she wrote, “has not determined whether a defective subpoena can be revived by after-thefact approval.” In any event, she wrote, the relevant House resolution did not retroactively endorse the earlier subpoena.

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Our Fall/Halloween Open House was a smash success!

Twenty animals found their forever homes Oct. 26 down here on Humane Society Road. This is why our staff puts in so many hours of grueling work, and it’s days like this when we hit the jackpot! Our fearless president, Ron, was at the grill for the community, pushing out hot dogs and hamburgers along with our newly homed four-legged friends. We’d like to thank local radio personality Bill Williams for joining us at the event with his exciting prize wheel!

Moving on to upcoming events, we’ll be having pet photos with Santa at CGHS/SPCA. On Nov. 23, Santa Claus will be visiting the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA for photos with pets. Santa will be available from noon-3 p.m., with no appointment necessary. Santa is asking participants for a $20 donation to the shelter, and in return, he will email you a holiday photo of your pet’s visit. Photographer Adam Adriance will be volunteering his time and talent to benefit CGHS/SPCA. Dogs will need to be leashed, and cats and exotics (birds, snakes, lizards — Santa loves them all!) must be in carriers. Due to time restrictions, visits are limited to pets only. For information, call 518-828-6044 ext. 100, or email jessica@cghs.org.

In case you’re wondering if you can bring any presents down with you on your way to let your pet visit Santa, here’s a few things that are always on our “Christmas list”: blankets/towels; cat and dog food, toys, and/ or treats; cat litter; dish soap, bleach, laundry detergent; paper towels; First Class or Forever

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If you’re looking for the best snuggle buddy for those cold winter nights, look no further. Duck is a 3-year-old American Staffordshire mix posing with one of his favorite CGHS/SPCA Adoption Counselors, Alexa Caunitz. Duck came to CGHS as a stray, with no one coming to reclaim him. He’s a low-key guy, but he’s always up for a game of fetch! If you think Duck could be your new family member, stop by and meet this gentle giant.

postage stamps; sponges, rubber gloves.

Feel free to call us with any questions at 518-828-6044 or visit www.cghs. org. Stop down and see us at 111 Humane Society Road, off Route 66 (about a mile south of the intersection with Route 9H) in Hudson. Our hours are 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. every day. The Food Bank is open to any from the public in need of pet food or for those wishing to donate food anytime during business hours. All of our

cats and kittens are “Furrever Free” with all expenses paid. Spay/neuter clinics for cats are $76 male or female, including a rabies vaccination and a 5-in-1 feline distemper combination vaccination. Nail clipping services are available 10-11 a.m. every Saturday at the shelter, no appointment necessary, for a donation of $5 for cats and $10 for dogs. Charlene Marchand is the Chairperson of the ColumbiaGreene Humane Society/SPCA Board of Directors. She may be contacted at cghsaaron@gmail.com.

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VALATIE — The First Presbyterian Church of Valatie, 3212 Church St., Valatie, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday. Sunday School and Adult Education begins at 9:30 a.m.

THRIFT SHOP HUDSON — “New to You,” the thrift shop at Christ Episcopal Church, 431 Union St., Hudson, features home décor, kitchen equipment, dinnerware, collectibles, crystal, china, and serving pieces, as well as jewelry, books, CDs, small furniture items, house wares, etc. New to You is open 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday and other times by appointment by calling 518-828-1329.

Christmas merchandise, and needlework supplies and yarn, will be displayed from Nov. 30 through December. As you shop, enjoy a cup of coffee on us. All proceeds are used to fund community outreach. Convenient off-street parking on the circular driveway is located a few feet from Union & Court streets.

LIQUIDATION AUCTION NORTH CHATHAM — The North Chatham United Methodist Church, 4274 Route 203, North Chatham, will be selling off a wide variety of items such as tents, tables, shelving, pallets, lights, etc. on Nov. 16. They will be auctioned off starting at 10 a.m.

Bidder registration and previews will be available starting at 9:30. Note that all items are subject to prior sales and the large tents being sold will have minimum bids. Other than tents, we cannot guarantee security of items not removed on the 16th.

For more information on what’s being sold, go to the church website (northchathammethodistchurch.org). The rain/snow date is Nov. 23 and if we decide to postpone it will be posted on the website by 7 p.m. Nov. 15.

HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR GHENT — Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, West Ghent, holiday gift fair will be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Nov. 16 in the church hall.

Crafters and vendor spaces still available in the Church Hall; Church made soups, sandwiches & pies; church bake sale and raffle. Call 518-828-5946 to reserve a table.

SOUP AND SANDWICH NIGHTS HUDSON — The First Reformed Church, 52 Green St., Hudson, will hold free soup and sandwich nights 5-6 p.m. November through March. Dine in only. The schedule is Nov. 21, Dec. 5, Dec. 19, Jan. 2, Jan. 16, Feb. 6, Feb. 20, March 5 and March 19.

BAZAAR CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, 59th annual bazaar will be held 10 a.m.2 p.m. Nov. 23.

Included will be the Pine Room luncheon, unique gift baskets, yule shop decorations, Good Earth booth, trifles and treasures, knitting booth items, pantry shelf goodies, home boutique gifts, make your own Gingerbread Men and silent auction.

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St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, 206 Union St., Hudson, will hold its Ukrainian food sale 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 23. Included will be pieroties, cabbage rolls and frozen, ready-to-bake apple pies. Come early for the best selection. For information and advance orders, call 518-828-9308.

the Quaker meeting and its programs.

HOLLYDAY BAZAAR RED HOOK — The Hollyday Bazaar will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Dec. 7 at the Red Hook United Methodist Church, 4 Church St., Red Hook.

Sales include attic treasures, crafts, jewelry, holiday wreaths and swags, toys, books, baked goods and candy, in addition to the snack bar for brunch or lunch and live music throughout the day. Everyone is welcome.

For information, call 845-7586283.

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR SCHODACK LANDING — The Reformed Dutch Church of Schodack at Muitzeskill, 902 Schodack Landing Road, Schodack Landing, annual Christmas Bazaar will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 7.

The Christmas Bazaar will include new and gently used Christmas decorations, cards, gifts, and books, as well as a Luncheon Cafe and a Bake Sale. For information, call the Church office at 518-732-7500.

ANNUAL MEETING ALBANY — The Capital Region Jewish Genealogical Society annual meeting will be held 1-3 p.m. Dec. 8 at the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, 184 Washington Ave. Ext., Albany. CRJGS will be hosting a respected expert from New York City, who will deliver a presentation, “Post 1492 Sephardic Dispersion and A Guide to Sephardic Genealogy.”

Sarina Roffé, the author of the book “Branching Out from Sepharad,” will provide an overview of how Sephardic Jews dispersed around the globe after 1492 and will discuss Sephardic resources for genealogy. Following the presentation, join us

to celebrate the holiday season (refreshments and goodies will be served).

BROOKS BARBECUE HUDSON — St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Union Turnpike and Storm Avenue, Hudson, is hosting a Brooks barbecue take out 4-7 p.m. Nov. 22. Tickets are $12. For information, call 518822-8915.

THANKSGIVING WORSHIP KINGSTON — Native Americans and the descendents of some of the earliest European immigrants to the Hudson Valley will gather at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 24 for a Thanksgiving worship service at the Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St., Kingston.

Election campaigning is making me crabby I have to admit that I’m getting tired of the political contests now being waged across this broad land of ours.

They’ve been going on for a year or so and even though they’re, on a whole, a bunch of mostly attractive, fairly articulate millionaires, all of whom have all the solutions for our nation’s current, past and future problems, I’m getting sick of them. I keep asking myself, why don’t these people either get a job or do the one that they have now?

A lot of these folks are elected officials, who’s in charge while they take a year or two off to go campaigning?

It’s getting harder and harder to avoid seeing the candidates in the media spotlight. To bypass their frequent appearances on television, I am now down to watching just QVC and the Cartoon Network. This hasn’t proved to be successful however since I’ve maxed out my credit cards and find much on the Cartoon Network that reminds me of the political fracas that I was trying to avoid.

I realize that as a good citizen, it’s my duty to be informed about the candidates so I can make an intelligent choice at election time and I haven’t missed voting since we worked so hard to get Mr. Lincoln elected. I do believe though that there’s a difference between informing someone about your qualifications and pummeling them about the head and shoulders with a media blitz that goes on and on and on and on. The

WHITTLING AWAY

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BROOKS thing that annoys me the most is the amount of money that the whole process just pours down the old dumper. I’m no economist but I bet one of those national commercials would buy the average poverty stricken American family a new Chevy, pay their rent and feed them well for a year or so.

The amount of money spent on gas for RVs, buses and personal jets whizzing back and forth across the states, political signs flapping, could probably end homelessness in our country. The total cost of just the primary races could put a big dent in our National deficit which would help me sleep better at night.

Maybe it’s my interest in history that’s helping to contribute to my annoyance with the current political process.

Again, I have no facts or figures at my fingertips but I’ll bet the brown speckled banana on my kitchen counter that the combined costs on getting the first 30 of our presidents elected wouldn’t add up to what’s been spent on the current primary races. To be fair, and I always try to be fair,

when you divide the costs out over the number of candidates involved, it probably wouldn’t seem like a lot. I’ve kind of lost track as to how many candidates started the race a year or so ago, but if I remember right, it was two or three hundred, wasn’t it? They’ve narrowed the field down to a dozen or so, spent millions, interrupted my favorite TV shows, been the main topic on the news for weeks and still have at least forty states to go. I’m not looking forward to it.

Why don’t we have a national primary day? Everyone goes and votes for the candidate of their choice on the same day and get the beginning of the election cycle over with quickly. If we did that and limited the running for the office part to a month before the election, I think most of the citizens of this great country would be more interested in participating, the whole process is just getting too lengthy.

I don’t want to start my Christmas shopping when they start putting up the Christmas displays shortly after Labor Day and I don’t want to think about who I’d like to vote for to run the Nation two years before I get to vote. Call me crabby!

Thought for the week — The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

— George Bernard Shaw Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.com.

SCREENING OLD CHATHAM — “The First Rainbow Coalition” screening Nov. 23 in the Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham.

Potluck at 6 p.m. followed by the film at 7 p.m. In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form a multi-ethnic coalition with the Latinx Young Lords Organization and the Young Patriots, a Southern White Organization. Banding together in one of the most segregated cities in post-war America, the Rainbow Coalition changed the face of 1960s Chicago politics and created an organizing model for future activists and politicians.

Eloquent and seamless, the film brings to life a history resonant today, and will promote dialogue not just about the 1960s, but about urgent contemporary discussions on race and class in the United States. This film is co-presented with WMHT Public Media. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served and a moderated discussion will follow. For information call 518-610-3735.

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Hudson Valley Community College’s Hayden Spock (32), a Chatham graduate, flattens a ball carrier during a recent game.

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Kenny Davey, 14, of Austerlitz, with a nice 8 point buck; his first, taken on the Youth Season opener.

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By Larry DiDonato For Columbia-Greene Media

With gun season for deer and bear opening in the Southern Zone at sunrise on Saturday November 16, it’s a good time to briefly review the early season deer and bear take to date.

Early reports indicate the deer take in the Northern Zone is down about 4 percent, with the Southern Zone up approximately 18 percent when compared to the same period last year.

As for this year’s early season bear take, its down

dramatically in the Northern Zone with over a 60 percent decrease from that of last year.

The Southern Zone bear take is also down, but only slightly; about 4 percent less than in 2018.

Factors to consider when assessing potential explanations for the drastic reduction in the North Country bear harvest would have to take into account this year’s abundant crop of both hard and soft mass.

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TROY — Chatham graduate Hayden Spock recently finished up a banner sophomore season with the Hudson Valley Community College football team.

Spock led the Vikings in tackles from his linebacker position with 46, coming up 24 solo tackles and 22 assists.

He also had three sacks, 10 tackles for losses and one interception as Hudson Valley finished the season with an overall record of 5-4.

Spock had a season-high nine tackles and one sack in a 28-22 loss to Nassau CC. He had eight tackles in an 8-7 victory over Navy Prep and seven tackles and two tackles for loss in a 20-14 win over Erie CC. 2017 Ichabod Crane graduate Joe Werner is off to a strong start in his junior year with the SUNY Canton basketball team. Werner had a double-double in Canton’s 75-67 loss to Potsdam and followed that up with

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Ichabod Crane graduate Joe Werner (21) is averaging close to 15 points per game for SUNY Canton.

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Junior guard Caleb Canty is a member of the SUNY Poly basketball team. Canty, who attended Hudson High, had 10 points in a season-opening loss to Boston University, hitting four of eight shots from the field, grabbing two rebounds and handing out two assists in 30 minutes of action.

Hudson High graduate Zack Hedgepeth is averaging 8.4 points per game in helping Columbia-Greene Community College get off to a 3-2 start. Hedgepeth, who helped Hudson post a 26-1 record and was the Section II Class B Tournament MVP in 2016, had a season-high 14 points in a 90-84 loss to SUNY Broome.

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After reports of Astros’ cheating, MLB is left to restore trust Tyler Kepner The New York Times News Service

A.J. Hinch was defiant before Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium last month.

Hinch, manager of the Houston Astros, denied reports that his team had been relaying catchers’ signs by whistling from the bench during the series opener in Houston. He was especially upset that the reports were based on anonymous sources.

“I suggest they put their name by it if they’re so passionate about it,” Hinch said, and it was a good point: Going on the record always lends more credibility to a story. The Astros are learning this now, because Mike Fiers — knowingly or not — has heeded Hinch’s advice.

Fiers put his name behind his comments in The Athletic this week, saying that the Astros electronically (and illicitly) stole signs in 2017, when he was a member of the team.

Their method: monitoring the catcher’s signals from a video feed piped into an area just off the entrance to the dugout, then banging a trash can to alert the hitter. High-tech meets rudimentary.

The Astros won the World Series that year, knocking out the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers while winning eight of their nine postseason home games on the way to their title.

Fiers, who now pitches for the Oakland Athletics, has gone 27-12 with a no-hitter in two years since leaving the Astros.

But the last time he faced them, Sept. 9, he gave up nine runs, including five homers, and got just three outs. The game was at Houston’s Minute Maid Park, where Fiers said the 2017 signstealing had occurred.

Guessing Fiers’ motivation is speculative, of course, but by going on the record with his accusations, he broke a code of silence among players — and when that happens, it usually leads to change.

Baseball people have always been reluctant to speak directly about cheating, using the rationale of mutually assured destruction: If I tell on you, you’ll tell on me.

Think of George Steinbrenner calling the Yankees’ dugout in 1987, demanding that manager Lou Piniella ask the umpires to check the California Angels’ Don Sutton, whom he suspected of doctoring the ball. Piniella refused because he did not want the umpires checking his own pitcher, Tommy John. That logic is why pitchers can still find forbidden ways to get at least a tackier grip on the ball; as long as it is done discreetly, the practice is so widespread that teams have tacitly condoned it.

That is also a reason steroid use went unchecked for as long as it did: Nobody wanted to call out a rival and risk that a teammate could be busted. Until Ken Caminiti’s admission in

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Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch before game four of the 2019 World Series against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park.

Sports Illustrated in 2002 (after he had retired), baseball could easily deny the scope of the problem. But once Caminiti said he had been juicing when he won a Most Valuable Player Award, a testing plan was finally phased in for the next year.

To its credit, baseball is already trying to police electronic chicanery. After the issue flared in the 2018 postseason — when the Astros directed a team employee to use a cellphone camera to survey the home dugouts in Cleveland and Boston — the league banned nonbroadcast cameras between the foul poles and put all television monitors on an eight-second delay — except those used by the team replay assistants, who are monitored by a security official.

Even so, teams take no chances. Before the World Series games in Houston last month, the Washington Nationals gave each of their pitchers a card with five sets of signs they could switch to at any time.

They also consulted with Tony Sipp, a reliever they released in August who had played with the Astros the last few years.

The Nationals won all four games in Houston to clinch their first championship. In the 2017 World Series, however, the Dodgers lost two of their three games in Houston.

“Our advance team that was on Houston talked about it,” Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, said at the general managers’ meetings in Arizona this week. “There was just a lot of speculation at the time about it. And I think we were way better combating that stuff in subsequent years than we were that year.”

Friedman did not blame the Dodgers’ loss on any trickery by the Astros. But the Astros have developed a widespread reputation for pushing any boundary to win, and the drumbeat of stories with that backdrop has clouded their success.

After Jeff Luhnow left the St. Louis Cardinals to become the

Astros’ general manager in December 2011, a Cardinals employee, Chris Correa, illegally hacked into the Astros’ database. Correa, who received a prison sentence and a lifetime ban from baseball, has claimed he was only acting defensively, to see if the Astros had stolen from the Cardinals.

Luhnow mastered the art of the teardown in Houston, weathering a few losing seasons to gain an advantage in a system that rewards the worst teams with more money to spend on amateur talent.

The Astros made shrewd draft choices and trades, including a controversial one for closer Roberto Osuna in 2018, while he was serving a suspension for domestic violence.

The circumstances of that deal were put back under the spotlight last month when Brandon Taubman, then the Astros’ assistant general manager, boasted about it profanely to a group of female reporters after his team had clinched the AL pennant. The team first tried to discredit the report of Taubman’s outburst, which was quickly confirmed by several witnesses.

Taubman was fired, but a league investigation continues.

Boston manager Alex Cora and New York Mets manager Carlos Beltran were both with the Astros in 2017 — Cora as the bench coach, Beltran as a player — and MLB will question both about what they may have known about the sign stealing. Denials aside, it seems logical that if a nonhitter like Fiers knew about the system, everyone else would, too.

“Everybody is trying to find an edge, but we all have to follow the rules,” Luhnow told reporters at the GM meetings after The Athletic’s report was published.

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There is competing and there is cheating, and if MLB finds more people like Fiers to corroborate the 2017 story — and any possible violations since then — it will be emboldened to demand fines, suspensions and forfeiture of draft picks.

If nothing else, baseball must somehow reassure fans and players that one of its most successful teams is not a persistent cheater, too. That may not be an easy sell.

“This Astros thing is bad!!!” veteran Kevin Gausman, who pitched for Atlanta and Cincinnati last season, wrote Thursday on Twitter. “Guys lost jobs, got sent down, missed service time bc of how they were hit in HOU. Does anyone really think they only did this in 17?”

Gausman added a postscript: “#getreal.”

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — This being the Mets, of course Carlos Beltran, less than two weeks into his job as the new manager, is now a person of interest in what could turn out to be the most notorious cheating scandal in baseball history.

Earlier this month, the presumably squeaky-clean Beltran was introduced at Citi Field, where general manager Brodie Van Wagenen stood beaming and praised the nine-time All-Star for his poise, intelligence and relentless hunger to win.

But after The Athletic unleashed on-the-record allegations of an illegal, electronic sign-stealing system employed by the Astros during the 2017 season, and a follow-up story linked Beltran and Alex Cora to the plot, Van Wagenen’s prized hire is now cast in a much different light. So with the GM

meetings wrapping up Thursday, Van Wagenen took a defensive stance as he exited the resort campus, confronted with a handful of Beltran questions that won’t be resolved until MLB’s probe into the matter is complete.

Though the investigation has only just begun, it appears that serious discipline for Beltran, such as a suspension, is a long shot, according to sources. Beltran was a player on that suspect ‘17 team, and MLB seems more focused on targeting the Astros’ higher-ups, such as manager AJ Hinch and GM Jeff Luhnow.

Suspending Beltran and/or Cora — the former Astros’ bench coach and now Red Sox manager — would be an unprecedented measure under Commissioner Rob Manfred and an extraordinary penalty for people who have moved on to other clubs since the alleged crime.

Regardless of the outcome, Beltran’s

Flushing tenure is off to a very turbulent start, despite his denial texts of any wrongdoing to The Athletic. Van Wagenen said he had yet to speak with Beltran since the accusations surfaced (though multiple reporters have) and even mentioned that he didn’t read the articles (stunning, if true).

Coming from the Mets’ GM — the person who hired Beltran after a month-long managerial search — both of those claims are hard to believe. Putting all that aside, however, was Van Wagenen concerned that Beltran could face serious punishment by the Commissioner’s Office?

“I don’t have nearly enough information,” Van Wagenen said, “and I would defer to MLB on any of those questions.”

Well, here’s what MLB is investigating: on-the-record claims that the Astros used a center-field TV camera to capture the opposing catcher’s signals,

him to replace Mickey Callaway. Now both are implicated in the Astros’ signstealing scheme, the details of which had only been whispered about before former Houston pitcher Mike Fiers helped The Athletic expose them to the public this week.

Van Wagenen, along with other top Mets officials, interviewed Beltran five times before deciding on him over ESPN analyst Eduardo Perez. Despite the supposedly meticulous process, the Mets apparently never spotted any red flags from his Astros tenure, and Van Wagenen bristled Thursday when asked if he needed to further vet Beltran to prevent any more surprises.

“Anything that happened, happened for another organization, with Houston,” Van Wagenen said. “I have no idea if anything did or did not. But at this point, I don’t see any reason why this is a Mets situation.”

in real-time, and then have the feed hooked up to a monitor in the tunnel outside the dugout. From there, the information was relayed to the batter by banging on a trash barrel to indicate an off-speed pitch. The Athletic’s report had conflicting sources on whether or not the practice continued during the playoffs, when the Astros won all four home games to edge the Yankees in the ALCS. Beltran, heralded as a baseball savant, is well-known for his ability to detect pitch-tipping as well as decode opposing signs. In 2017, he was on the last stop of his 20-year career as an outfielder/DH for the eventual worldchampion Astros, and teamed with his good friend, Cora.

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COLLECTION OF 2019/2020 SCHOOL TAXES THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE WILL ACCEPT PAYMENT OF 2019/2020 SCHOOL TAXES AS AUTHORIZED BY THE COLUMBIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. PAYMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULENOVEMBER 18, 2019 THRU DECEMBER 2, 2019 (EXCEPT WEEKENDS, HOLIDAY AND NOV 29, 2019) 9 AM UNTIL 4:30 PM RECEIPT FOR PAYMENT WILL BE MAILED TO ALL TAXPAYERS ALL PAYMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED

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MIAMI — NASCAR’s final season-ending championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday will be the perfect finish in a lot of ways.

The four finalists for the main-race crown — Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. — won a combined 21 races this season, none fewer than four.

No interlopers here. The playoffs worked. The cream rose. The season’s four top drivers are left standing, and so someone undeniably worthy is going to ride the Ford EcoBoost 400 to the Monster Energy Cup Series championship trophy.

It’s Super Bowl Sunday. But on four wheels. At 200 mph.

(So what is it that’s missing?)

There is pedigree here. Harvick (2014), Busch (2015) and Truex (2017) all have won

season championships within the past five years. Busch is the winningest driver of this decade.

But there also is the requisite Cinderella-in-a-fire-suit — the easy rooting interest for any race fans whose favorite driver didn’t make the Championship 4.

That would be Hamlin, 38, the only finalist who has not reigned for a season. He has 37 race wins and 258 top-10s in a 15-year main-circuit career, but has yet to end a season smiling.

“It’s motivation, undeniably,” Hamlin said Thursday at an interview session in Miami Beach. “This is the most free we’ve been all year. We’ve got a free ticket to go win a championship. I feel like the racetrack really, really suits my style.”

Asked if his rivals have trashtalked him about never having won, Hamlin smiled and drew laughs in saying, “I think we’re all aware that I have not. It’s

well-documented at this point.”

Hamlin finished second in 2010 despite winning eight races that year and leading into Homestead. He finished third in 2006. He’s had 10 top-10s.

He is the most accomplished active driver to not win a season title.

(So what is it that’s missing?)

Homestead is all but assured an historic finish in its final (for now) season-ending race, before the track and South Florida are relegated to a March date beginning next year as championship weekend moves to Phoenix. The season finale is expected to rotate cities, Super Bowl-style, so Homestead getting the last race again someday cannot be ruled out.

For now, on Sunday, Homestead will either crown a twotime champion, or see Hamlin find his redemption at last after a career of near misses.

There are no neophytes here, no rising stars. The final four average 38.5 years of age, with Busch the kid at 34. They are of the same generation of drivers.

“The four of us have raced each other a long time,” as Truex put it Thursday. “A lot of years.”

They’ve all been on NASCAR’s main stage since around the early 2000s.

“It’s the ‘Old Guys Rule’ up here,” noted Hamlin, looking around at the other three.

“This is the Big 3 (former champions) with the new one,” added Busch.

(So what is it that’s missing?)

NASCAR’s grand finale will be won by one of four finalists who are all accomplished veterans who together have 167 career race wins. All are familiar names with lots of fans.

But none is a true superstar.

None is a transcendent force in the sport.

All four finalists were emerging right around the time Jeff Gordon won his fourth and final season crown in 2001. And all have seen their own career’s timeline overshadowed by Jimmie Johnson, whose recordtying seventh season title came in 2016.

NASCAR finds itself at an interesting crossroads. Something is missing.

Gordon retired after the 2016 season. So did magnetic star and three-time champion Tony Stewart. Dale Earnhardt Jr., never a season champ but voted most popular driver every year, retired after 2017.

That’s a ton of star power, recently disappeared.

Johnson still is active — he’s running at Homestead on Sunday — but he is 44 now and coming off his worst season, an 18th-place finish that left him out of the 16-driver playoffs for

the first time.

Johnson has not announced his retirement. “I’m not done yet” he likes to say. Clearly his best days appear done, though.

Gordon, Stewart and Johnson combined to win 14 of 22 championships between 1995 and 2016. There always was a giant out there. Somebody you loved, or loved to hate. There is not that person now. No giant.

So: Next, please?

NASCAR needs another transcendent superstar like the retired Gordon and Stewart, the fading Johnson or, yes, Dale Jr. — someone who draws a national audience above and beyond hardcore gearheads.

Maybe someone among Sunday’s Championship 4 will be the late-bloomer (“Old Guys Rule”) who still rises to become just that.

NASCAR needs somebody to be.

Joe Manniello’s Week 11 NFL picks Joe Manniello Newsday

If someone tells you they have the NFL figured out, please refer them to Week 10 of the 2019 season. The onewin Jets, Dolphins and Falcons went 3-0 after going a combined 3-21 the first two months.

Two of them won as double-digit road underdogs, proving again that it often pays to fade favorites. Underdogs went 9-3-1 against the spread last week and are 85-61-2 this season.

A whopping eight underdogs won outright in Week 10. This is shaping up to be another big week for the ‘dogs, so bettors beware. In fact, I’m taking 11 underdogs, a personal record.

My most confident picks ATS this week are the Bears, Vikings and Bucs.

There aren’t many stay-away games, but Patriots-Eagles and Jets-Redskins could be tricky ones.

SUNDAY NIGHT LOCK OF THE WEEK BEARS (4-5) AT RAMS (5-4) Rams by 6.5; O/U: 40 Backing Mitchell Trubisky is always risky, but this pick is all about the other quarterback. Jared Goff is living up to the last three letters of his last name, as he’s been off most of the season. He hasn’t received the protection, and his offensive line will have their hands full with Khalil Mack and the Bears defense. Both teams won their divisions last year but now are playing for a wild card and it’s likely neither make it back to the playoffs.

Expect a close, low-scoring slugfest that could be decided by a defensive touchdown. The Bears dominated Goff last year in Chicago on SNF in a 15-6 win, intercepting him four times and sacking him for a safety. This is just way too many points to lay with a Rams team that scored three offensive

points in a 17-12 loss at Pittsburgh last week, and really, is a far cry from last year’s Super Bowl squad.

The pick: Bears 1 p.m. Games JETS (2-7) AT REDSKINS (1-8) Redskins by 2; O/U: 38.5 The Jets were feeling so good after their win over the Giants that Sam Darnold was talking ... playoffs?! Cue the classic Jim Mora soundbite. While a postseason run is unrealistic, a winning streak is not. Even though Washington is at home and off a bye, I’m going with Gang Green. Gregg Williams’ blitz schemes should confuse rookie Dwayne Haskins. Darnold will find former Redskin Jamison Crowder often as the Jets look to improve to 3-1 against the NFC East. This will be close, maybe even overtime close.

Maybe even a tie, so take the points.

The pick: Jets TEXANS (6-3) AT RAVENS (7-2) Ravens by 3.5; O/U: 51.5 It doesn’t get much more exciting than Deshaun Watson vs. Lamar Jackson, two QBs who could fill a Top-10 highlight segment by themselves.

Expect a close, high-scoring game that won’t be decided till late. Houston is off a bye and has played well as a road underdog of 3 or more points, winning outright at the Chiefs and Chargers and losing on a last-second field goal to the Saints in Week 1. Baltimore has won five in a row (4-1 ATS).

I’ve picked against the Ravens all but one week, mainly because of their defense. But the addition of Mr. Pick-6 Marcus Peters has helped as the Ravens held the Seahawks to 16 points and the Patriots to 20. If this spread were less than a field goal, I’d probably go with Jackson, but Watson’s play-making ability and the Texans’ solid run defense should keep this a three-point game.

The pick: Texans JAGUARS (4-5) AT COLTS (5-4) Colts by 3; O/U: 43.5 No matter which QB starts for Indianapolis, I’m going with Nick Foles in his return for Jacksonville. He’s been sidelined since Week 1, and he should give a boost to a team that has had two weeks to stew over a three-point dud in London. The Colts’ magic appears to have run out, losing two in a row, including at home against Miami.

The pick: Jaguars COWBOYS (5-4) AT LIONS (3-5-1) Line: OFF (Matthew Stafford’s uncertain status) Note: If Stafford plays, it’ll likely be Cowboys by 3/3.5; if he doesn’t, Cowboys by anywhere from 4-6 A common theme this week will be how playoff-caliber teams bounce back after losses. Dallas is one of those clubs, and figures to have its way with an overmatched Lions defense. Ezekiel Elliott will have much more running room than he did against the Vikings, setting up Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper to carve up the Lions secondary.

The pick: Cowboys SAINTS (7-2) AT BUCS (3-6) Saints by 6; O/U: 49.5 New Orleans figures to bounce back from its still-hard-to-believe 17-point home loss to Atlanta, but it might not be as easy as you think.

Like the Falcons, the Bucs will treat this as their Super Bowl and go all-out against their first-place division rival.

The main reason to back the Bucs?

Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore suffered a hamstring injury and is unlikely to play, meaning Mike Evans and Chris Godwin could have big games.

The pick: Bucs FALCONS (2-7) AT PANTHERS (54)

Panthers by 4.5; O/U: 49 Atlanta’s 26-9 win at New Orleans as a 13.5-point underdog was the most shocking upset of the season.

Think about it: If New Orleans had been the one getting 13.5, Atlanta still would have covered! The Falcons still have issues but they showed some fight after their bye. Matt Ryan will keep pace with Kyle Allen enough to cover.

The pick: Falcons BILLS (6-3) AT DOLPHINS (2-7) Bills by 6.5; O/U: 40.5 Don’t look now but Miami is hot.

In addition to winning two games in a row, it is on a 5-0 ATS run. One of those covers was at Buffalo in Week 7, a 31-21 loss in which Miami led 14-9 in the fourth quarter. The Dolphins’ players are clearly not tanking, and this is a lot of points to lay on the road with a Josh Allen-led offense.

The pick: Dolphins BRONCOS (3-6) AT VIKINGS (7-3) Vikings by 10.5; O/U: 40.5 Fresh off an impressive primetime win at Dallas, Kirk Cousins and Minnesota return home for a spot in which the Vikings usually dominate: 1 p.m. game against an inferior opponent. I can think of about 25-plus other stadiums I’d rather make my first road start if I were Brandon Allen.

Minnesota is 4-0 at home with wins by 16, 20, 18 and 10 points. With the bye week on deck and a chance to match the idle Packers with eight wins, expect Cousins, Dalvin Cook and the Vikings to roll.

The pick: Vikings 4 p.m. Games PATRIOTS (8-1) AT EAGLES (5-4) Patriots by 3.5; O/U: 45 Both teams are off a bye, and we all know what happened the last time these two teams met after a two-week layoff. Can Carson Wentz do his best

Nick Foles and beat Tom Brady? This won’t be Super Bowl LII exciting, but it should be another close game. Both teams, interestingly, are 14-4 straight up after the bye week, according to PointsBet. The Eagles’ weakness is their secondary, which is the Pats’ strength, so expect Philly to pound the ball and keep Brady on the sideline. If this spread were 2.5, I’d take the Pats but getting 3.5 hooks me back to the home team trying to keep pace with Dallas. Also, I can see Doug Pederson getting frisky in this game and trying two-point conversions, meaning an extra couple points could go a long way.

The pick: Eagles CARDINALS (3-6-1) AT 49ERS (8-1) 49ers by 10; O/U: 45.5 There are two ways to look at this spread: A) Arizona just lost, 28-25, to San Francisco on TNF in Week 9, and should keep it close again as the 49ers are off a taxing 70-minute MNF overtime classic in which they suffered some injuries; B) The 49ers will be extra-motivated after their first loss, and having just saw Kyler Murray and Kliff Kingsbury’s offensive scheme, will have an edge. I’ll go with Door A, for Arizona, which has been one of the NFL’s best bets (7-3 ATS).

The pick: Cardinals BENGALS (0-9) AT RAIDERS (5-4) Raiders by 10.5; O/U: 49 Josh Jacobs should run all over the Bengals’ worst rush defense (173 yards per game). But here’s the thing: Oakland allows the third-most passing yards (283.2) and just lost another player in the secondary. Ryan Finley’s first road start should be a lot easier than his home debut. Also, this is only the second time Oakland has been favored, and its five wins have been by 8, 7, 3, 7 and 2 points.

The pick: Bengals

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player. Yelich’s season ended Sept. 10 when he shattered his kneecap with a foul ball. He hit 44 homers and won the NL batting title (.329) while also leading in OBP (.429) and slugging (.671).

Bellinger, however, won a Gold Glove Award as a right fielder, helping him lead the majors in wins above replacement as calculated by Baseball Reference. Bellinger had 9 WAR, followed by the NL Cy Young Award winner, Jacob deGrom of the New York Mets (7.9), and Yelich (7).

Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw won the MVP in 2014, but Bellinger is the team’s first position player to win it since Kirk Gibson in 1988. That was the last year the Dodgers won the World Series, and their drought has persisted even as they have

won seven consecutive NL West titles.

Bellinger was surprised to find himself tearing up when he learned about his win during a live announcement on MLB Network. He was surrounded by family, including his father, Clay, a former New York Yankees utility player who coached him in Little League and was also overcome with emotion.

“I honestly haven’t cried in a long time; I think the last time was a few years ago when my dog died,” he said, referring to his golden retriever, Angel.

“That being said, I’d never seen my dad show emotion, either.

When I saw that, that really hit me right there.”

Despite needing foot surgery and not playing after Sept.

7, Trout, 28, delivered an overall performance that was too

much for voters to ignore: He hit .291 with a .438 OBP and a .645 slugging percentage. He hit 45 homers (a career high) and drove in 104 runs, and his 1.083 OPS, which led the AL, was even better than his mark in his 2014 and 2016 MVP seasons.

Since the MVP award was first given by the baseball writers in 1931, only one player has won it more times than Trout has: Barry Bonds, who won seven times. Trout became the 10th player to have won it three times, joining Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Joe DiMaggio, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez and Mike Schmidt.

Only Musial had three MVP trophies at a younger age than Trout.

Trout received 17 of the 30 first-place votes from the

writers, narrowly edging Alex Bregman of the Houston Astros, who received 13 first-place votes.

For all of Trout’s success, though, the Angels have not won a playoff game with him.

They have reached the postseason just once in his nine years with the team, when the Kansas City Royals swept them in a division series in 2014. This season — marred by the July 1 death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, a close friend of Trout’s — the team finished 72-90, its worst record in 20 years.

The Angels will have a new manager this next season, Joe Maddon, and Trout said he would eagerly help recruit any free agents. He signed a 12-year, $426.5 million contract extension before the 2019 season.

“I wouldn’t have signed an

extension if I didn’t think they were moving in the right direction,” Trout said Thursday on a conference call from Iowa, where he was on a hunting trip with friends and family. “Very excited for this year to come up — new staff, and we’ve got hopefully big things next year.”

The Angels were the first team ever to go a full season without any pitcher making 20 starts. They could help address that problem by signing the free agent Gerrit Cole of the Astros, who grew up near Angel Stadium. Trout said he wanted the Angels to act aggressively in the market.

“I’m hoping, for sure. I hear a lot of good things about these guys on the market,” Trout said. “Obviously, you saw Cole last year. He was pretty incredible; he was one of the tougher at-bats every time we faced him. But there’s a lot of guys out there that could help the team win, and we’ll see where that goes.”

While Cole and the Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander led the Astros’ pitching staff, Bregman led the offense by hitting .296 with 41 homers, 112 RBIs and a major league-leading 119 walks. He made 91 starts at third base and 59 at shortstop, helping Houston weather an injury to Carlos Correa.

Bregman, 25, heard “MVP” chants in Houston throughout October, but he was left on deck when Michael Brantley struck out to end Game 7 of the World Series against the Nationals.

in reported deer take in early Southern Zone hunting may well be a reflection of last year’s relatively mild winter that generally lacked a sustained, deep snowpack.

The mild winter combined with this past spring’s early green-up and abundant forage do much to lessen the winter kill, even for the most vulnerable fawns who lack the body mass needed to survive harsh winters.

That brings us to this year’s big game hunting forecast. DEC expects the 2019-2020 deer hunting season statewide buck harvest to be similar to that of 2018. DEC increased Deer Management Permit (DMP) issuance by 13 percent this year and even issued permits in some cases where the applicant was

original denied due to undersubscription.

With more deer on the landscape due to the combination of a mild winter last year, abundance of food, and more DMPs issued, DEC expects the deer take should be strong this year.

DEC also issued a pressrelease reminding hunters to hunt safely and provided the following safety tips: Firearms Safety: Point your gun in a safe direction; Treat every gun as if it were loaded; Be sure of your target and beyond; and Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.

DEC also encourages all hunters to wear blaze orange or pink to make themselves more

visible to other hunters. Hunters who wear hunter orange are seven times less likely to be shot.

Tree Stand Safety When hunting in tree stands, use a safety harness and a climbing belt, as most tree stand accidents occur when hunters are climbing in and out of the stand. Also, hunters should never climb in or out of a tree stand with a loaded firearm.

Have a Safe and Enjoyable Opening Week and Happy Hunting, Fishing, & Trapping until next time.

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votes for the MVP award from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, with Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers receiving 10 and Anthony Rendon of the Washington Nationals receiving one.

The award represented an emphatic turnaround for Bellinger, 24, who started only twice for the Dodgers in their fivegame loss to the Boston Red Sox in the 2018 World Series. The Dodgers did not trust Bellinger against left-handed pitchers, who held him to a .226 average with six home runs that season.

“It was a very humbling experience for personal reasons, and I knew that wasn’t the player that I wanted to be,” Bellinger said on a conference call after his award was announced. “I just needed to find a way to be more consistent with myself.”

This year, with help from the Dodgers’ hitting coaches and a better approach to inside pitches, he punished lefties for a .280 average and 18 of his 47 home runs. Overall, Bellinger hit .305 with a .406 on-base percentage and a .629 slugging percentage.

Only one National Leaguer had posted a .300/.400/.600 line in the previous eight seasons (Bryce Harper in 2015), but this year Bellinger had company — Yelich, who won the NL Hank Aaron Award for best offensive

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including berries, apples, and pears, coupled with heavy crops of beechnuts, acorns and other hard mast, black bear need not travel far to feed, making them harder to intercept.

The low bear take so far this year is consistent with past annual fluctuations due to food availability. In the Southern Zone, the reduction in take this year was much less dramatic.

One potential reason for this moderation can be attributed to a lot of early bear hunting taking place in or near agricultural edges in the Southern Zone.

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Carmelo Anthony is coming back, as a Portland Trail Blazer Sopan Deb The New York Times News Service

Carmelo Anthony — at long last — has found a home.

The Portland Trail Blazers and the 10-time All-Star have agreed to a deal, according to a person with knowledge of the deal who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. The agreement was first reported on Thursday night by ESPN, which said the contract was nonguaranteed.

Anthony, 35, last played in an NBA game on Nov. 8, 2018, when he was with the Houston Rockets. He was cut by the team soon after as he struggled adjusting to a secondary role.

After his tenure with the Rockets, Anthony’s future in the league was in doubt. He had just come off a difficult season with the Oklahoma City Thunder, where he was traded after more than six seasons with the New York Knicks. But Anthony insisted that he could still be a productive NBA player. When asked this month if he wanted to play, Anthony said: “2,000%.

Make that the headline.” He also said he was surprised that he was still unemployed.

So, it seems, were some of his friends.

“It’s about damn time!”

Dwyane Wade, the retired Miami Heat guard, tweeted in response to the report of Anthony’s deal. LeBron James responded to Wade’s tweet: “RIGHT!!!!”

Several other players also posted their congratulations, including Jamal Crawford, Isaiah Thomas and Enes Kanter,

who was part of the trade that landed Anthony with the Thunder.

Portland will be Anthony’s sixth NBA team. He started in Denver, playing there for more than six seasons after the team drafted him No. 3 overall in 2003, behind James and Darko Milicic. From there he went to

the Knicks, then spent a season with Oklahoma City and 10 games with Houston. He also was on the rosters for Chicago and Atlanta, cities where he did not even suit up.

The Trail Blazers have struggled this season, starting off 4-8. They have been just above the league average on offense,

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Assuming Anthony can quickly acclimate with Portland, he will have a homecoming of sorts to look forward to on New Year’s Day — when the Trail Blazers travel to Madison Square Garden to play the Knicks.

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Memories of abuse occupy survivor’s thoughts Dear Abby, I have some bad memories connected with my mother, who was physically abusive. It wasn’t consistent, but sometimes she would lose it, and I was beaten quite badly a few DEAR ABBY times. It weighs on my mind intermittently, and I want to have a conversation with her about it. Then I remind myself that it occurred more than 40 years ago.

I’m 48 now, and she’s 74, and it would probably make her extremely upset. Because I’m an adult, shouldn’t I be able to process this on my own? I’m inclined to let it go, but it still pops up in my thoughts. Any advice?

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You are a survivor of sometimes serious physical abuse. There are no “shoulds” when survivorship is involved. If you feel the need to talk this through with your mother, then do exactly that because you are entitled. She may not want to hear what you have to say, but unless she’s on her deathbed, she should be strong enough to withstand a frank conversation. However, before you approach her, I suggest you first talk with a therapist who is licensed and experienced in counseling victims of abuse.

Dear Abby, I own a hair salon and love my job. I make a determined effort not to bring my problems to work, to be positive and not gossip. Unfortunately, my clients don’t always return the favor.

I understand people need a sounding board, but it’s exhausting to hear about every ache, pain and bruise as well as other negative tidbits.

How do I tactfully let these people know my shoulders are only so broad, and their complaints are wearing me down?

Pulling My Hair Out In Idaho I urge you to resist the temptation. “Hairdresser as Confidant and Confessor” has been in existence since the cosmetology profession started. If your clients need to get something off their shoulders (besides their tresses), give them the gift of a willing ear. This is so important that in some communities hairdressers are being taught the signs of domestic abuse and where to refer the victims.

Dear Abby, I’m a teenager who has lived in Boston and a few other places. Now I live in Utah. My two Boston friends were just out here visiting, but they are gone now. I have “friends” here, but they bully me. They make fun of me and call me dumb, or say that I never seem to do the right thing. I have pulled back from them, and I now realize I really have no friends. What do I do?

Help!

Bullied In Utah Friends don’t treat friends the way those individuals treated you, so be glad they are out of your life. Making friends requires putting yourself out there. Consider participating in sports or extracurricular activities, if they are offered at school or in your community. If there are youth clubs, see if any of them interest you. If your family has joined a church, inquire about youth activities you can join. If you do, I predict that in a very short time, you’ll be friendless no more.

Hospice care helps patient’s live last days in more comfort My mother recently had to decide between low probability surgery and more chemo, or hospice care. With her oncologist’s support, she chose hospice.

Mom was fully aware for several weeks while her metastasized endometrial cancer ended her life.

The hospice house allowed TO YOUR Mom to live her few remaining GOOD HEALTH days comfortably, pain-free and with dignity.

Please let your readers know that hospice is not giving up, it is accepting the inevitable with care and comfort.

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I appreciate your writing about a difficult subject. I have referred many of my patients into hospice care, and the overwhelming majority of those patients and their families have reported a good experience, as you and your mom did. I have also seen some of my own friends and family in hospice care and have found that hospice workers are remarkable people. Their wisdom and experience have made a big difference. I have learned over time to refer to hospice early — doing so in a person’s last few days is too late for the most benefit. It is often the case that people in hospice care live their remaining time not only with more comfort and dignity than many people have at the end of their lives in a hospital under standard care, but also it may extend that remaining time.

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I just saw a commercial saying that all adults over 18 should get a whooping cough vaccination if they will be in contact with infants less than 12 months old. My husband, who is 60, wondered if he would need it, as he had whooping cough as a child.

The immunity from whooping cough, whether natural infection or vaccine, is not lifelong. The current recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is to get a one-time booster with the DTaP vaccine up until age 65. This will protect both your husband and any infants he might come in contact with while infected, as the symptoms of whooping cough (pertussis) in adults are usually indistinguishable from a cold at the beginning of an infection when the person is most contagious. Pregnant women should get a booster with every pregnancy.

Some countries vaccinate people every 10 years, and the safety data in people over 65 appears to be reassuring, so it is possible the vaccine recommendations will change, even as the search continues for an even more effective and safer vaccine.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you have been endowed with a competitive streak that is at least a mile wide, if not wider, and you can make a contest out of virtually anything that you or others have to do — whether it is a rare and exceptional task or something utterly familiar and routine. To suggest that you always have to win, however, would be to misinterpret this central aspect of your personality; what’s important to you is taking part, pitting yourself and your skills against worthy adversaries and letting the chips fall where they may.

Your emotions are very near the surface at times, and others must learn when your tears demand attention and when they are simply an expression of heightened emotion — for you can be quite a crier at times! It’s not so much that you take things personally, but rather that you feel things deeply and often quite suddenly.

Also born on this date are: Oksana Baiul, Olympic figure skater; Lisa Bonet, actress; Martha Plimpton, actress; Burgess Meredith, actor; Missi Pyle, actress; Kimberly J. Brown, actress; Marg Helgenberger, actress.

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 17 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’ve been trying to keep a secret for quite a long time, but the fact is that almost everyone close to you knows already — or thinks so.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — As the Bard wrote long ago, “the readiness is all” —

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and today, what happens to you will prove it.

You’ll have others following your lead.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Beginnings and endings will prove all-important today — but that doesn’t mean you can neglect what goes on in the middle! Be thorough.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Your choices may be limited at this time, but you can make the most of what you finally decide on simply by doing what comes naturally.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Don’t neglect those around you who need your assistance with little things. Routine affairs take on greater importance throughout the day.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You fear being at a disadvantage today when faced with a certain challenge, but you’ll acquit yourself well if you trust your instincts.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — There’s always a way to get around certain obstacles, and all you have to do today is visualize the solution in order to make it all work out.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You keep telling someone to give him- or herself a break, when in fact it’s you who could use a little time off. Take your own advice!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’ll have every reason to say yes to a friend or family member today, even though a rival will do his or her best to convince you otherwise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Take stock of all that you have going for you today and you’ll realize that you’re in a very strong position.

You can come through for a friend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — What you do may not attract a great deal of attention today — but you’re likely to say something that turns

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

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

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

” Answers (AnswersTuesday Monday) Jumbles: LEGAL PYLON IMPEDE FABRIC Answer: The fencer lost to his rival after being — FOILED AGAIN

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11/16/19 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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(e.g., “Vulpine” refers to this animal. Answer: Fox.) Freshman level 1. What kind of creature is a mallard?

2. The only mammal that can truly fly.

3. This flightless bird has a three-letter name.

4. “Lupine” refers to this animal.

5. This bird is so named because it often inhabits barns.

Graduate level 6. What animal is the world’s second-tallest animal?

7. This common bird is so named because of its plaintive call.

8. What type of animal is a swallowtail?

9. This flightless bird is an excellent swimmer.

10. Name either of the two main types of camels.

PH.D. level 11. This animal is depicted on the flag of California.

12. This mammal is similar to a hyena but feeds mainly on termites and insect larvae.

13. What large mammal other than humans “sing”?

14. What kind of animal is a bonobo?

15. Lard is the rendered fat of what animal?

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Duck. 2. Bats. 3. Emu. 4. Wolf. 5. Barn owl. 6. Elephant. 7. Mourning dove.

8. Butterfly. 9. Penguin. 10. Bactrian and dromedary. 11. Bear. 12. Aardwolf. 13.

Whales. 14. Chimpanzee. 15. Pig. 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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Zackary Momoh stars as John, Harriet Tubman’s first husband, in “Harriet.” MUST CREDIT: Glen Wilson/ Focus Features

The stars of ‘Harriet’ want you to see Tubman’s

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Cynthia Erivo is Harriet Tubman in “Harriet.” Marvin Joseph/ Washington Post

If we don’t celebrate a moment where we get to actually tell her story in the first place, then we won’t leave any room to tell more.”

CYNTHIA ERIVO Actress

WASHINGTON — There’s a pivotal scene in “Harriet” that finds Araminta Ross — the slave who would go on to help more than a hundred people escape enslavement — gazing toward a gorgeous rising sun as she crosses state lines into freedom. A few scenes later, she will declare herself a new, more widely familiar name: Harriet Tubman.

The sun feels like a visual effect, designed to imbue the moment with the glimmer of hope as Tubman concludes her first harrowing 100-mile journey. But the scene, filmed at the tail end of a gloomy day, actually features a very real sunset.

“It came out of nowhere. The clouds parted — it was this rich orange-yellow-red sun,” actress Cynthia Erivo recalled in a recent interview at a Washington hotel. “It felt like a miracle on set that day. And to be able to get to the point where we’re able to finally move Harriet into freedom felt really monumental.”

It seems fitting that a miracle would happen during

filming for the first major motion picture to tell Tubman’s story. Various iterations of a Tubman biopic have been in the works for decades, but “Harriet,” which hit theaters last Friday, is the first to make it onto the big screen.

“I’m so proud of the film and I’m proud, honestly, that I got to make it,” said director Kasi Lemmons, best known for her magnetic 1997 directorial debut feature, “Eve’s Bayou,” which was inducted into the National Film Registry last year. Lemmons co-wrote “Harriet” with screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard (“Remember the Titans,” “Ali”). Howard also produced the film with Debra Martin Chase and Daniela Taplin Lundberg.

“It just feels really meaningful to have women at the top of a project about one of the most extraordinary women that’s lived,” Lemmons said.

Erivo, meanwhile, is on a short list of women who have played Tubman on-screen. Cicely Tyson portrayed the freedom fighter in the 1978 TV miniseries “A Woman Called Moses.” Aisha Hinds played her in WGN America’s See ‘HARRIET’ C2

Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ dismantles myths the filmmaker helped create

By ANN HORNADAY Washington Post

‘The Irishman,” Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating gangland epic, starts off with a bittersweet inside joke: A long tracking shot — one of the director’s bravura signatures — that threads the audience, not through the labyrinthine hallways and kitchens of the Copacabana, but an old folks’ home, where the film’s protagonist, Frank Sheeran, can be found ruminating on a life not well-lived as much as jampacked with incident, incitement, fierce loyalties and breathtaking betrayals.

As portrayed by Robert De Niro, Sheeran is something of a

cipher in “The Irishman,” which spans several decades as he relates how he came to be a hit man for the Philadelphia mob, a confidante of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa and, ultimately, the guy who put Hoffa down for good in 1975 (to this day, his disappearance is considered an unsolved mystery). This sprawling, colorful, elegiac and often wryly amusing saga — adapted from Charles Brandt’s book “I Heard You Paint Houses” — advances an intriguingly convincing chronicle of how criminal and political forces converged to have Hoffa whacked by one of his closest associates. As one of

Scorsese’s most ambitious films in recent memory, it also manages to revisit the tribal rites and rituals that have fascinated him throughout a wildly productive 60-year career, framing them within a wider social history, as animated by corruption and conspiracy as by the loftiest American ideals.

In other words, for Scorsese fans eager to savor the director’s most personal themes and signature cinematic gestures, “The Irishman” is a feast for the ages, a groaning board of exquisitely photographed scenes, iconic See ‘IRISHMAN’ C2 Al Pacino, right, in “The Irishman.” Netflix

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performances and tender nods toward old age that leave viewers in a mood more wistful than keyed-up.

(For those less enamored of the filmmaker’s vulgarity-spewing antiheroes and crime-world tropes, “The Irishman” will often feel needlessly repetitive, sludgy and self-indulgent.) Scorsese doesn’t shy away from the visceral ruthlessness and male codes of honor and disgrace that have always attracted him. In “The Irishman” they play out slowly, sadly, the better to consider the emptiness at their core.

Spanning 1949 to 2000, “The Irishman” recounts how Sheeran — a World War II veteran who drives a meat truck for a living — meets Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci), a soft-spoken mafia don who is part of a syndicate that controls Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Detroit. After proving his bona fides, Sheeran eventually meets Hoffa (Al Pacino), with whom he forms an indelible bond, becoming the union boss’s steadfast fixer, enforcer and family friend.

Just how Sheeran went from Hoffa’s trusted confidant to murderer forms the emotional arc of “The Irishman,” which was written for the screen by Steven Zaillian. And even if the answer still isn’t entirely clear by the end of the film’s prodigious 3 ½-hour running time, Scorsese gives audiences plenty of atmospheric set pieces and larger-than-life characters to keep them from feeling deprived. De Niro and Pesci, who haven’t worked together under Scorsese since 1995’s “Casino,” get back into harness with one another with the ease of the pros that they are: Pesci’s relatively mild-mannered Bufalino is a particularly surprising and welcome departure from the hairtrigger histrionics of the characters he’s best known for.

But it’s when Pacino arrives on the scene as Hoffa that “The Irishman” truly levitates, the actor making his Scorsese picture debut with a performance that is at once bombastic and subtle, obnoxious and curiously sympathetic. Throughout the film, Sheeran’s daughter Peggy looks askance at Bufalino, while trusting Hoffa implicitly (maybe because he loves ice cream as much as she does).

Played by Anna Paquin as a young woman, Peggy becomes perhaps the most maddeningly paradoxical

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abruptly canceled drama “Underground.”

Erivo, whom the producers scouted during her acclaimed Tony Award-winning run as Celie in Broadway’s “The Color Purple,” admits “it was intimidating” to play such a significant historical figure.

“But I knew it was a huge responsibility,” she said. “We had this massive responsibility to try and tell the story as fully and truthfully as we possibly could.”

The casting of Erivo, who is British and of Nigerian descent, drew some controversy from those who argue that Tubman and other African American icons should be played by African American actors, specifically descendants of slaves. (Some of her critics also point to past comments by the actress that they perceived as mocking black Americans.)

“I’m a black woman first.

Regardless of where I come from — London, Nigeria, wherever, my skin does not change,” Erivo said of the backlash surrounding her heritage. She hopes that her critics will give her and the film a chance: “If we don’t celebrate a moment where we get to actually tell her story in the first place, then we won’t leave any room to tell more.”

Erivo did most of her own stunts for “Harriet,” slogging through muddy terrain and freezing cold water, not to mention the emotional turmoil of portraying a woman who risked her life to free her people. But part of the challenge was reconciling the woman with the legend. “We think of her as a superhero, but we disconnect her from her humanity,” Erivo said.

Tubman’s name has long loomed large in American history, but her legacy has been

Joe Pesci, left, and Robert De Niro in “The Irishman.” Niko Tavernise/Netflix

Robert De Niro, left, and Joe Pesci in “The Irishman.” Netflix

figure in “The Irishman,” largely silenced by the filmmakers (she literally speaks only one or two lines), her increasingly appalled glares at Sheeran serving as stand-ins for conscience in his otherwise amoral, transactional world.

prone to myths and misinformation. Though long overdue, “Harriet” is particularly welltimed, arriving just months after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced (to widespread criticism) that the new $20 bill, set to replace the visage of the nation’s slaveowning seventh president Andrew Jackson with Tubman’s, would be delayed until 2028.

“Harriet” follows Tubman’s journey from her days as a slave on the Maryland plantation of Edward Brodess to her perilous trek to Philadelphia, where she meets William Still (Leslie Odom Jr.) the freed slave-turned-abolitionist who preserved accounts from fugitive slaves that he later published in 1872’s “The Underground Railroad Record.”

The film has received some criticism for focusing on the most well-known aspects of Tubman’s life, relegating less widely explored periods — such as her role as a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War — to (poignant) footnotes. But Lemmons rejects the notion that “Harriet” is a paint-by-the-numbers biopic.

Rather, the director said, the film zeros in on the “momentum and energy” of Tubman’s daring work.

“What she was willing to do for freedom was very exhilarating,” said Lemmons, who spent months researching Tubman. “And it was a ride that I kind of wanted you to go on — and then to notice that your heart was pounding.”

Tubman’s well-documented faith is an underlying theme in the film, with the abolitionist talking to God as she takes each life-threatening journey, made more perilous by regular fainting spells Tubman experienced following a horrific head injury she experienced as a child at the hands of an overseer.

“I realized quickly, this is a Joan of Arc story,” Lemmons said. “This is somebody who had a vision from God to save

One of the reasons “The Irishman” has taken so long to get to the screen was the tricky business of de-aging the lead actors for its earliest scenes; here, the process is barely noticeable, thanks not only to the sophistication of computer technology but Rodrigo

Prieto’s exquisite cinematography, which suggests several different eras through the use of changing palettes (the film toggles between the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and early aughts). Although “The Irishman” is full of familiar Scorsese motifs — one-on-one encounters dripping with subtextual dread, nightclub outings with “the wives” and a crooner onstage, those gorgeous dolly shots — here they’re recapitulated with a more mournful, contemplative tone.

Indeed, “The Irishman” is so full of Scorsese’s most beloved rep players and repeated tropes that it’s difficult not to compare it to such predecessors as “Mean Streets,” “Raging Bull” and especially “Goodfellas.” (The equivalent scene to the Lufthansa heist here is a wonderfully piquant account of the Bay of Pigs operation.) This film is populated by the same thugs, bullies, mooks and mugs — not to mention a Kennedy or two — but by now it’s clear that the filmmaker might be willing to entertain

the possibility that they’re not as inherently interesting as Hollywood’s infatuation with alluring outlaws might suggest.

Of course Scorsese himself has been a chief propagator of those myths, which he dismantles with as much craftsmanship and feeling in “The Irishman” as he did while building them up so seductively in his earlier films. With its obsession with process and how-it-all-went-down chronology, “The Irishman” is tiresome, at times even dull in its pointless arguments and profane ego trips.

But that leaves viewers confronting how movies — especially Scorsese’s — have shaped our most disquieting desires.

“The Irishman” isn’t a soaring achievement: It’s a deliberate, thoughtful and somewhat muted one. No matter where that traveling camera goes, its subverts our expectations at every turn. Which can sometimes feel like a drag, but also exactly right.

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Rated R. Contains pervasive coarse language and strong violence. 209 minutes Ratings Guide: Four stars masterpiece, three stars very good, two stars OK, one star poor, no stars waste of time.

Director Kasi Lemmons, left, had two Tony Award-winning actors at her side with Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr. during “Harriet.” Marvin Joseph/Washington Post

her people. And she felt guided.”

Like most biopics, the film adds a dramatic flourish to some of Tubman’s relationships, expanding the story where historical records fail to fill in the blanks. It is known that Tubman’s first husband, John, a free black man, remarried before she made her first post-freedom journey back to Maryland. “Harriet” imagines an emotional confrontation between the two when Tubman returns, blindsided to learn John — who feared her dead following her daring escape — will not be accompanying her back to Philadelphia.

The film explores an even more complicated dynamic between Tubman and Gideon (“The Favorite’s” Joe Alwyn), a fictionalized Brodess heir

who becomes Harriet’s owner after the death of his father.

Gideon is cruel and ruthless in his pursuit of Harriet, whose escape threatens his family’s debt-ridden farm, but in the mired system of owning other human beings for profit, he displays a warped affection for her.

Edward Brodess had a son who was around Tubman’s age, and Lemmons was fascinated by the idea that the young man would have been in charge of selling a woman he once played with as a child. In her research, Lemmons encountered unsettling photographs featuring white children of slave owners posing alongside black children their families owned. “There’s something always haunted on the faces of the enslaved children, and the white children

seem completely oblivious to the pain in their eyes,” Lemmons said.

The film also shows the tension and support between former slaves and free black people through Harriet’s relationships with Still and other allies she meets through the Underground Railroad network. In portraying the abolitionist, Odom — who grew up in Philadelphia — tried to “find the people behind the statues. The blood pumping in the veins, the heart beating in the chest, the real passion, real lust, real anger. Because that’s the stuff that makes us relate to them today.” He followed the advice from “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who guided Odom when he took on the Tony-winning role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway smash.

“He said, ‘What connects us to the forefathers? Is there a line that we can draw between these people of color to these brilliant dead white guys?’ And it was through the humanity,” Odom recalled.

Despite the presence of two Tony Award-winning actors (not to mention singer Janelle Monáe, in a small but important role), “Harriet” is not a musical. But Erivo — an Oscar away from EGOT distinction after her “Color Purple” run — does sing, invoking lore around slaves who communicated escape plans using spirituals. She downplays her own powerhouse mezzo-soprano, lending Harriet a staid alto as she sings “Wade in the Water” and “Go Down Moses.”

The actress’ vocal range is fully showcased, however, on “Stand Up,” an original song she co-wrote for the film, which plays over the end credits. The song, an even likelier Oscar contender, ends with a reflection of Tubman’s steadfast faith and legacy, through the same words Tubman reportedly said from her deathbed in 1913: “I go to prepare a place for you.”

That legacy is one that Lemmons hopes will inspire audiences, particularly African American women. “We get to own that we had this ... superhero in our past and she’s our ancestor,” Lemmons said.

“And we can draw from her courage and her force of will and feel better about all the fights that we have in front of us.”

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Food How the baby food industry hooks toddlers on sugar

How to enjoy pumpkin’s past RECIPES: For a new

taste, try dishes from the food archives

By MEAGAN HURLEY Dallas Morning News

Fall is full-swing, with Thanksgiving upon us. So, in order to spice up your seasonal dishes, we went digging into The Dallas Morning News Archives to bring out some of the most interesting pumpkin dish recipes.

From classic pie to not-sotraditional pumpkin-filled quesadillas, take a look at some of the recipes through the decades, and maybe even try replicating a few on your own (although the older recipes may need to be approached with caution).

1935: PUMPKIN PIE WITH WINE This recipe for a classic pumpkin pie with a twist from 1935 features sherry wine, which is said to give a “deliciously different flavor” to the pie.

A yogurt-based snack for children contains a teaspoon of sugar per serving, and four servings per pouch. Bill O’Leary/Washington Post

Sweet EXCESS

2 eggs 1 ½ cups cooked pumpkin 1 cup of brown sugar ½ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon ginger ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ cup rich milk 1 tablespoon sherry wine Beat the eggs slightly and combine with all other ingredients. Place in an unbaked pastry shell and bake for ten minutes at 400 degrees then reduce temperature to 350 degrees until filling is done. (Test the custard filling by inserting a clean knife. If the knife is clean when removed, the custard has baked sufficiently.)

By LAURA REILEY Washington Post

L

eading health organizations recently released their first consensus recommendations about what young children should be drinking: only breast milk or, if necessary, infant formula until a baby is 6 months old, with water introduced around then, and plain cow’s milk at around their first birthday.

That’s it. No juice, no flavored or plant-based milks, no caffeinated beverages or sodas.

The good news is parents of infants seem to be on the right track — breastfeeding is on the rise. But once children get into the toddler zone, it’s pandemonium.

There’s been a boom in unhealthy foods and beverages for children six months to 3 years old, packaged for convenience and often promising to make children stronger and smarter.

Dietary supplements said to boost the immune system.

Squeezy pouches boasting 3 grams of protein and 3 grams of fiber.

Oven-baked stone-ground wheat “wafflez,” superfood puffs and a baffling array of toddler milks purported to aid brain and eye development.

Billy Roberts, senior analyst of food and drink at market research firm Mintel, says that there were four times more product launches in the baby and toddler food aisle in 2018 than in 2005, with a huge surge in new toddler foods and drinks, most of which are extremely high in sugar.

What’s driving this surge? Experts point to several factors. Parents are demanding convenient, on-the-go packaging. Industry’s lust for market share has driven advertising aimed at parents of toddlers. And there’s been little nutritional guidance for new parents, who glean what they can from parenting chat rooms, family lore and pediatricians, many of whom

BY THE NUMBERS

14%

of 2- to 5-year-olds who are obese

$14 billion

1957: MINCE-PUMPKIN LAYER PIE

is the annual cost of childhood obesity

This recipe from 1957 is perfect if you have some mincemeat lying around.

29% of an average toddler’s calorie intact came from snacks

had only a single class on nutrition during medical school.

A SNACKING NATION With more dual-income families, convenience has become central to beleaguered parents passing packaged snacks back to hungry and/or bored toddlers in car seats kitted out with cup holders and snack wells.

“Americans are snackers,” said Mary Story, a professor of global health, and family medicine and community health at Duke’s Global Health Institute. “And the food industry is always looking for novel ways to market their products and increase demand.”

For a scientific report for the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, her team found that 29% of toddlers’ calories were coming from snacks, most of which were salty or sweetened processed foods, not fruits and vegetables.

Jennifer Harris leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Connecticut that studies food marketing to children, adolescents and parents, and how it affects diets and health.

She says that toddler snacks are often positioned as healthier than those for adults.

“But we didn’t find that to be the case in terms of added sugar, sodium, saturated fat and calories,” Harris said. “You wouldn’t

A milk-based “toddler drink” contains 3½ teaspoons of sugar per serving.

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give your toddler Cheetos, but you would give them Gerber puffs, which are basically the same thing.”

A yogurt-based Happy Baby snack for children contains a teaspoon of sugar per serving, with four servings per pouch. Happy Tot’s organic bananas and carrots fiber and protein bar contains 2 teaspoons of sugar per serving.

Happy Family Organics did not respond to requests for comment.

Lorrene Ritchie, director of the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, worries that low-income parents will be more inclined to spend their money on these heavily advertised baby foods, toddler milks and packaged snacks at the expense of healthier options.

“The amount of funding spent to promote healthy foods, which is mostly via federal nutrition education dollars such as WIC and SNAPEd, is dwarfed by food marketing which is mostly for unhealthy and ‘treat’ foods and beverages,” she said. “I fear we will never make a big dent in diet-related chronic disease until we level this playing field.”

Researchers found that children who watch 80 minutes of television

per day view more than 800 ads for junk food annually. Toddlers and preschoolers are particularly vulnerable because they can’t distinguish between programming and promotion and don’t yet understand the intent of advertising to persuade.

Infants need to eat about 35 to 50 calories for each pound of their weight, largely to fuel the first year’s rapid growth spurt. That growth slows for toddlers, requiring 35 to 40 calories per pound, according to guidelines from the Institute of Medicine. If a toddler eats a total of 1,200 calories that includes Gerber sweet potato puffs (25 calories and 6% of a day’s carbs per serving) or Welch’s fruit snacks (80 calories and 11 grams of sugar per serving), that may squeeze out the healthy stuff.

Those decisions have consequences. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that nearly 14% of 2- to 5-year-olds are obese (above the 95th percentile for body mass index), a percentage that is higher for African Americans, Hispanics and low-income Americans. A new study says that in the United States, childhood obesity alone is estimated to cost $14 billion annually in direct

1 package Pillsbury Golden Pie Crust Mix or Sticks 1 cup prepared mincemeat 2 slightly beaten eggs 1/3 cup sugar 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon flour ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon nutmeg ⅛ teaspoon ginger ¼ teaspoon cloves, if desired 1 cup hot milk 1 cup canned pumpkin Prepare pastry for 1-crust pie as directed on package.

Spread mincemeat evenly over pastry. In large bowl combine eggs, sugars, flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. Blend in pumpkin; mix well. Gradually add hot milk; mix well. Pour slowly over mincemeat in pastry-lined pan.

Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes, then at 350 for 35-45 minutes until a knife inserted about half way between center and outside of filling comes out clean. Cool.

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You wouldn’t give your toddler Cheetos, but you would give them Gerber puffs, which are basically the same thing.”

JENNIFER HARRIS University of Connecticut research team leader

Pumpkin isn’t just for pie. But it’s good there, too. Dreamstime

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Books & authors

Scaring up some ‘upvotes’

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE: NATIVE AMERICA FROM 1890 TO THE PRESENT

By David Treuer.

(Riverhead, $17.) Treuer, an Ojibwe novelist and nonfiction author, brings a literary sensibility to this sweeping chronicle. It is, he notes, “adamantly, unashamedly, about Indian life rather than Indian death.” Times reviewer Ned Blackhawk called it “an informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait.”

IN PIECES: A MEMOIR

An online following can lead to real recognition. At least two authors on the Reddit nosleep thread have struck deals to turn their stories into Hollywood movies, and another was hired to co-write an episode of Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House.” Pexels

Writers gain fans with their creepy online tales

By AVI SELK Washington Post

When Christine Druga was a little girl, she said, she would sometimes wake in the night to see a man with a wide-brimmed hat and red eyes staring through her bedroom window. Her parents didn’t believe her, so she hid under the covers whenever the man came.

Once, she said, he left a handprint on the outside of the glass.

In 2013, while Druga was raising two children of her own a few miles from her childhood home outside Pittsburgh, she wrote about the hat man on a Reddit horror forum titled Nosleep. She told me her story happens to be true, but that doesn’t matter on Nosleep, where the first rule on the front page is “Everything is true here, even if it’s not.”

Druga is the top administrator on Nosleep, whose indistinguishable mixture of the real and merely realistic (weighed heavily toward the latter, most likely) has helped it grow into the internet’s main source of amateur horror stories — with more than 13 million subscribers and hundreds of thousands of posts along the lines of “My neighbor has been mowing his lawn for 12 hours straight” and “My granddad used to come to my room at night wearing a mask. Now I know why.”

The internet is awash inderivative nightmare fuel (see Slenderman, Momo, and any number of “creepypasta” sites), but nearly a decade after Nosleep was launched, the site remains its premier creative hellmouth, with aspiring authors competing daily for a chance to go viral and perhaps even invade popular culture.

A story about a fictional disease outbreak in Mammoth, Ariz., caused a nonfictional panic in 2014, when the police chief had to assure residents there were not “14 to 55 dead bodies” rotting in the streets.

At least two authors have struck deals to turn their stories into Hollywood movies, and another was hired to co-write an episode of Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House.”

I became obsessed with Nosleep when I discovered it and, like thousands before me, felt compelled to

Tribune News Service

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Nov. 2, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Blue Moon. Lee Child. Delacorte 2. The Guardians. John Grisham. Doubleday 3. The Night Fire. Michael Connelly. Little, Brown 4. The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek. McLaughlin/Neal.

Crown 5. The Dutch House. Ann Patchett. Harper 6. Find Me. Andre Aciman. FSG 7. The Institute. Stephen King. Scribner 8. The Water Dancer. Ta-Nehisi Coates. One World 9. The 19th Christmas. Patterson/Paetro. Little, Brown

try my hand at writing horror for the first time — and attempt to discover the secrets to creating terror that makes people click.

Unfortunately, I have never seen a hat man or anything like it, so my story would have to be fake.

It would also have to truly stand out: On average, 120 stories are posted to Nosleep each day, and all but one or two quickly fall off the bottom of the page into obscurity. Readers can vote any story up or down, and only those that get hundreds or thousands of endorsements remain on the front page long.

“A lot of really new people have asked me what makes your story successful,” said Carter Milford, a computer science student in Atlanta who in March wrote the most popular story in Nosleep’s history — about a woman who gave him an empty glass jar that made everything in his life disappear. “She Sold Happiness in Glass Jars” has been voted up by nearly 27,000 Reddit users, just ahead of “My sugar daddy asks me for weird favors.”

“My answer every time is: a third luck, a third timing, a third your writing,” Milford told me. “I don’t want to be mean, but there are objectively bad stories. Try to avoid writing ‘too many teeth.’ I have no idea why, but I read that all the time: ‘There was a monster who smiled and had too many teeth.’ “ I crossed dentate monsters off my list of possibilities, as well as serial killers, which are so overused that the forum recently banned stories based on them.

My girlfriend told me she was once creeped out by a figure she saw moving around inside an outof-service subway train. We tried to develop this into a plot involving a subway ghost or ghost subway but couldn’t figure out a realistic way to prevent the protagonist from simply running out of the station to safety. Nosleep has a very elaborate list of rules, one of which is that you can’t die at the end of story, or else how would you post it to Nosleep?

I turned to popular authors on the site for advice.

“I’d recommend taking something everyone can relate to, and twist it to make it horror,” said

Visit Now! Learn more about the story www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/ Connor Phillips, a ninth-grade English teacher in Richardson, Texas, who wrote a Nosleep story about a Mickey Mouse costume at Disney World that is opened to reveal the head and spinal cord of a lost child. (He has not shown the story to his class.)

I immediately thought of the hell that is commercial airline travel.

As a reporter, I’ve written about flights infested with bed bugs, contaminated with feces, disrupted by sex acts — and in one case a midair brawl that required a flight attendant to use wine bottles in selfdefense.

My first attempt in the air fright genre was a story about waking up on a plane to find all the other passengers gone. My girlfriend thought it was spooky, but on later reflection I realized I had stolen the plot of Stephen King’s “The Langoliers.” That became the first of at least nine aborted drafts I threw out this month.

Spending all your time imagining plane horror, I have learned, is exhausting and depressing. On a road trip through Pennsylvania countryside in mid-October, I was almost oblivious to the gorgeous scenery while I fantasized about how to hide a body in my carry-on luggage. (It’s impossible, I’ve decided; the bag size restrictions are too strict.)

I eventually found inspiration in a Q&A post by a flight attendant, who said that when a passenger dies on a full flight the crew simply leaves them in their seat.

Finally, my story had a workable premise and a title: “I volunteered to sit next to a dead man on a plane, and deeply regret it.”

“The trick for me is writing exactly what I’d love to read,” advised Thamires Luppi, a writer in Brazil whose Nosleep hits include the stories “My Parents Sold Me When I Was 7” and “I was hired to murder myself.” I can’t say I would love to read about a sitting next to an animate corpse on an airplane, but I

managed to bang out 2,400 words about what it might be like.

“I could see his face reflected in the plexiglass,” I wrote. “It was undoubtedly a dead man’s face: pale, drawn, lips parted, jaw slack. There was no life in it. Except his eyes.

They were moving.”

By the end of the story, quite a lot of my seatmate was moving because I had kicked him out a shattered plane window several miles over the Atlantic Ocean. The plot was ridiculous, but it did more or less what I wanted: flicked at natural fears of flying and of dying.

The writing finally accomplished, I still had to contend with the two other factors in Milford’s formula: luck and timing.

I couldn’t do much about the former, but on the latter got advice from Nosleep veteran Scott Hensman (“I woke up during surgery, they weren’t trying to save me”), who has reverse-engineered the Reddit algorithm that dictates which stories rise to the front of the page.

“If you get 15 upvotes in the first hour, you’ll be in the top for that day,” he told me. “If you reach spot 1, you’ll stay there from the 14th to 18th hour, then start dropping.”

This implied that the best time to post a story was just before the last day’s top story started falling toward the bottom of the page, and preferably during a low-traffic period when I’d face less competition for those crucial first 15 votes.

I did some math, woke up early in the morning Sunday and hit submit.

I don’t think I’ll count “I volunteered to sit next to a dead man on a plane, and deeply regret it” among the writing I’m most of proud of when I’m retired. I doubt anyone is going to make a movie of it, although an aspiring YouTuber asked if he could recite it in a video.

But I must have done something right. It was the most popular post on the site that day, racking up about 6,000 endorsements before it was supplanted by the next hot horror story, “I witnessed something horrifying at Wendy’s,” on Tuesday afternoon.

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers 10. The Deserter. DeMille/DeMille. Simon & Schuster

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier. Ree Drummond. Morrow 2. The Beautiful Ones. Prince. Random/Spiegel & Grau 3. Blowout. Rachel Maddow. Crown 4. The Plot Against the President. Lee Smith. Center Street 5. Me. Elton John. Holt 6. Half Baked Harvest: Super Simple. Tieghan Gerard.

Clarkson Potter 7. Catch and Kill. Ronan Farrow. Little, Brown 8. The Book of Gutsy Women. Clinton/Clinton. Simon

& Schuster 9. Talking to Strangers. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown 10. The American Story. David M. Rubenstein. Simon & Schuster

MASS MARKET 1. Wyoming Heart. Diana Palmer. HQN 2. Beauchamp Hall. Danielle Steel. Dell 3. Sea of Greed. Cussler/Brown. Putnam 4. Never Tell. Lisa Gardner. Dutton 5. A Jensen Family Christmas. William W. Johnstone.

Pinnacle 6. Dark Sacred Night. Michael Connelly. Vision 7. Meant to Be Yours. Susan Mallery. HQN

8. Doctor Sleep (movie tie-in). Stephen King. Pocket 9. The House Next Door. James Patterson. Grand Central 10. Season of Love. Debbie Macomber. Mira

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Every Breath. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central 2. The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah. Griffin 3. Redemption. David Baldacci. Grand Central 4. Open Borders. Caplan/Weinersmith. First Second 5. The 18th Abduction. Patterson/Paetro. Grand Central 6. Of Blood and Bone. Nora Roberts. Griffin 7. The Overstory. Richard Powers. Norton 8. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate. Ballantine 9. Nine Perfect Strangers. Liane Moriarty. Flatiron 10. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin Books

By Sally Field. (Grand Central, $17.99.) The acclaimed actress whose roles have ranged from Gidget to Norma Rae writes movingly of a lonely childhood punctuated by her stepfather’s sexual abuse, followed by a career in which harassment and humiliation were the norm. “This somber, intimate and at times wrenching self-portrait feels like an act of personal investigation,” Sean Smith wrote in The Times.

THE FALCONER

By Dana Czapnik.

(Washington Square, $16.)

Lucy Adler, the fiercely honest 17-year-old girl at the center of this novel, navigates her senior year in 1993 New York City, playing pickup basketball, getting high, managing her desire for an impossible guy and figuring out what she wants and how to get it. Times reviewer Chloe Malle praised Czapnik’s “electric debut.”

KAFKA’S LAST TRIAL: THE CASE OF A LITERARY LEGACY

By Benjamin Balint. (Norton, $16.95.)

This investigation into the fight over control of Franz Kafka’s manuscripts, and his reputation, also explores the writer’s complex friendship with another Jewish author, Max Brod, who escaped from the Nazis to Palestine while carrying Kafka’s writings. Times reviewer Lev Mendes called Balint “a gifted cultural historian with a scholarly sensibility.”

THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO

By Chris Cander. (Vintage, $16.) In this puzzle of a novel about memory, identity and the joys and burdens of music and ownership, an upright piano, beloved by Katya, a musical girl in the Soviet Union, ends up with Clara, an auto mechanic in Bakersfield, California, who does not know how to play it. Times reviewer James Barron called it “immense, intense and imaginative.”

THE STORIES OF ALICE ADAMS. (VINTAGE, $18.)

This collection gathers 53 short stories by Adams, who died in 1999 at her home in San Francisco.

Adams, who also published 10 novels, wrote with a rare frankness about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and paramours, working, loving and losing. Her fluid, deceptively casual voice shines in these selections with a foreword by her longtime editor, Victoria Wilson.

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NO SUCH THING North-South vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠AQJ2 ♥ J654 ♦ A2 ♣Q32 WEST ♠ 10 8 7 4 ♥ 10 9 ♦ 854 ♣J876

EAST ♠653 ♥ Q72 ♦ K 10 9 7 ♣ 10 9 5 SOUTH ♠K9 ♥ AK83 ♦ QJ63 ♣AK4

The bidding:

SOUTH WEST 2NT Pass 3♥ Pass 4♣ Pass

NORTH 3♣ 3♠ 6♥

EAST Pass Pass All pass

Opening lead: 10 of ♥ North’s three-spade bid showed a heart fit with a hand too good to just bid four hearts. This is a common treatment in today’s tournament world.

The opening 10 of hearts lead gave South some options. No one would lead from the queen of trumps against

a slam, so East surely held the queen.

Was it singleton or doubleton? South should play low from dummy in either case. Maybe South should cover with dummy’s jack and guess what to do about the nine later. Not wanting the opening lead to create a trump loser that wasn’t there before, South played low from dummy and won with the ace in his hand. He next cashed the king of hearts and was disappointed that the queen didn’t fall but pleased that the suit split 3-2.

Declarer was in no rush to take the diamond finesse. He cashed three top clubs followed by three top spades.

He was in good shape as he cashed dummy’s last spade. East chose to discard a diamond, but it didn’t matter. South exited dummy with a heart to East’s queen, and East was forced to lead a diamond and give South his contract.

We are reminded of a quote from the late Terrence Reese: “There is no such thing as a blind opening lead, only deaf opening leaders.” South made a control bid in clubs and East hadn’t doubled the artificial threespade bid. The winning diamond lead shouldn’t have been too hard to find.

(Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this paper. Please send your e-mail responses to tcaeditors@tribpub.com)

By Stella Wilder Born today, you have been endowed with a competitive streak that is at least a mile wide, if not wider, and you can make a contest out of virtually anything that you or others have to do — whether it is a rare and exceptional task or something utterly familiar and routine. To suggest that you always have to win, however, would be to misinterpret this central aspect of your personality; what’s important to you is taking part, pitting yourself and your skills against worthy adversaries and letting the chips fall where they may.

Your emotions are very near the surface at times, and others must learn when your tears demand attention and when they are simply an expression of heightened emotion — for you can be quite a crier at times! It’s not so much that you take things personally, but rather that you feel things deeply and often quite suddenly.

Also born on this date are: Oksana Baiul, Olympic figure skater; Lisa Bonet, actress; Martha Plimpton, actress; Burgess Meredith, actor; Missi Pyle, actress; Kimberly J. Brown, actress; Marg Helgenberger, actress.

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 17 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’ve been trying to keep a secret for quite a long time, but the fact is that almost everyone close to you knows already — or thinks so.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — As the Bard wrote long ago, “the readiness is all” — and today, what happens to you will prove it. You’ll have others following your lead.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Beginnings and endings will prove all-important today — but that doesn’t

mean you can neglect what goes on in the middle! Be thorough.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Your choices may be limited at this time, but you can make the most of what you finally decide on simply by doing what comes naturally.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Don’t neglect those around you who need your assistance with little things.

Routine affairs take on greater importance throughout the day.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You fear being at a disadvantage today when faced with a certain challenge, but you’ll acquit yourself well if you trust your instincts.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — There’s always a way to get around certain obstacles, and all you have to do today is visualize the solution in order to make it all work out.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You keep telling someone to give him- or herself a break, when in fact it’s you who could use a little time off. Take your own advice!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’ll have every reason to say yes to a friend or family member today, even though a rival will do his or her best to convince you otherwise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Take stock of all that you have going for you today and you’ll realize that you’re in a very strong position. You can come through for a friend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — What you do may not attract a great deal of attention today — but you’re likely to say something that turns many heads. This is a good thing!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may refuse someone’s unusual request at first, but later on today you’re likely to change your mind. A new bond is quickly forged.

COPYRIGHT 2019 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.

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1975: PUMPKIN PARFAITS The following recipe published Jan. 16, 1975, emphasizes using leftover pumpkin in a parfait to minimize wasting food.

1 envelope unflavored gelatin ½ cup sugar ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon allspice ½ teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon nutmeg 3 eggs, separated 3/4 cup milk 1 cup canned solid-pack pumpkin or homecooked thick pumpkin puree ½ pint heavy cream 1 teaspoon rum, if desired In a medium saucepan thoroughly stir together the gelatin, ¼ cup of the sugar, the salt, allspice, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.

In a small mixing bowl beat together the egg yolks and milk until combined; gradually stir into gelatin mixture.

Add pumpkin and mix well.

Place over low heat and stir constantly until gelatin dissolves, about 5 minutes.

Chill, stirring occasionally,

until mixture mounds slightly when dropped from a spoon.

In a medium mixing bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form; gradually beat in the remaining ¼ cup sugar and continue to beat, if necessary, until stiff peaks form; fold into pumpkin mixture.

In a small mixing bowl without washing beater, beat cream until stiff, adding rum if used. In parfait glasses alternate layers of pumpkin mixture and cream Chill 2 or 3 hours before serving. Garnish, if desired, with extra whipped cream and finely chopped nuts. Makes 6 servings.

1982: PUMPKIN SOUFFLE In the 1980s, more savory pumpkin recipes started popping up, like the following souffle and chowder.

2 cups pumpkin puree 3 eggs, beaten 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese 3 tablespoons minced parsley 3 tablespoons finely chopped green onions ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon black pepper ½ teaspoon basil 1 clove garlic, chopped or pressed 1/3 cup whole wheat bread crumbs Combine pumpkin and eggs. Add remaining

Pumpkin souffles. Dreamstime/TNS

ingredients. Pour into buttered 1 ½-quart casserole and bake at 350 degrees until lightly browned about 30 to 45 minutes. Makes 6 servings.

1989: SPICY PUMPKIN CHOWDER 1 pumpkin (5 to 6 pounds) 1 red onion, diced ½ teaspoon finely chopped garlic 1 teaspoon finely chopped serrano chile 1 tablespoon butter Small pinch each oregano, sage and thyme 5 cups chicken stock 2 cups heavy cream 1 each red and green bell peppers, seeded and cut into ¼-inch dice 1 medium carrot, cut into ¼-inch dice 1 large potato, peeled and cut into ¼-inch dice

Pumpkin parfait. Dreamstime/TNS

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health expenses.

WHAT ABOUT LIQUIDS? What babies and toddlers drink is equally impactful.

Nearly four decades ago, Nestlé was villainized for convincing Third World mothers that infant formula was better than breast milk. In 1981 an international code limiting the marketing of breast-milk substitutes was ratified by the World Health Organization and was adopted by most countries, but not the United States, Harris said.

“The code was designed to protect consumers from unscrupulous marketing,” she said. “When infant formula is marketed to parents, it is positioned as convenient and more scientific because it’s a ‘formula,’ and that it’s an acceptable — if not a better — alternative to breast milk. All of that is prohibited under the code.”

As a result of the marketing prohibition, sales of formula for infants lagged. The multinational companies behind the $55 billion global baby food and formula industry had to expand their customer base, inventing new products.

They developed follow-up formulas for children six months and up, often called “growingup milks” or “toddler milks.”

Frequently marketed for picky eaters, these milks prey on parents nervous about the frequency and quantity of toddler feedings. They often make nutrient claims — “DHA and iron to support brain development” — but Harris said there are no legal requirements that these front-ofpackage claims be supported

by sound scientific research.

These products are typically composed of powdered milk, corn syrup solids and vegetable oil, with more sodium and less protein than whole cow’s milk. A Go & Grow toddler drink from Similac contains 150 calories, with 15 grams or 3½teaspoons of sugar per serving.

A statement from Abbott Nutrition, Similac’s parent company, said that Go & Grow

by Similac does not contain added table sugar.

“The formula’s main ingredients are nonfat milk and lactose — lactose is the naturally occurring milk sugar found in both breastmilk and cow’s milk. It’s a carbohydrate that provides an important source of energy for growing children.”

Toddler milks are more expensive than cow’s milk and aren’t covered by food assistance programs like WIC. They are often purchased by higher-income parents eager to give their children every possible advantage.

But there’s been an unintended, and potentially dangerous, development. Toddler milks are cheaper than infant formulas, which are more nutrient dense, with stricter composition requirements and Food and Drug Administration oversight. Frequently the packaging for infant formulas and toddler milks can look the same, which may lead to instances of infants being fed these nutritionally insufficient products by families trying to economize.

“We’ve done a paper on what the FDA should establish for toddler milks, because there’s no statement of identity and they are called all different things,” Harris said.

“There needs to be clear labeling about the ages the product

Salt and pepper to taste Cut pumpkin in half, scoop out seeds and save for toasting. Place pumpkin halves on a sheet pan cut side down and bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes or until the skin darkens and wrinkles and the pumpkin is soft to the touch.

Remove skin and coarsely dice meat.

In a large saucepan, saute onion, garlic and serrano in butter over low heat until soft; do not brown. Add pumpkin, herbs and chicken stock.

Bring to a boil and simmer uncovered for 45 minutes.

In a separate pan, bring heavy cream to a boil, lower heat and simmer until its volume is reduced by half.

Remove pumpkin mixture from the heat and puree in blender or food processor.

Return to saucepan, add bell peppers, carrots and potatoes and cook until tender.

Add reduced cream and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serves 6.

1991: PUMPKIN PIE QUESADILLAS 1 (16-ounce) can pumpkin ½ cup granulated sugar 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice 8 6-inch flour tortillas 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened at room temperature Sweetened whipped cream Combine pumpkin, sugar and pumpkin pie spice; reserve. Using entire package

of cream cheese, spread an equal amount on each flour tortilla.

Using all of the pumpkin mixture, spread an equal amount over cream cheese on each flour tortilla.

Preheat griddle over medium heat. Use a non-stick surface griddle, or spray with non-stick vegetable spray.

When griddle is hot, place tortillas filling-side-up on griddle and heat for 1 minute.

Remove from griddle and quickly fold in half.

Cover and keep warm while cooking remaining quesadillas.

To serve, cut quesadillas into thirds or quarters and top with whipped cream. Makes 8 servings.

This fall pasta dish features Bosc pears and Gorgonzola

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is intended for, and they need to make sure the packet looks different from infant formula.

There just aren’t that many people talking about these things. The research hasn’t caught up with the market.”

SOME GOOD NEWS There are bright spots in the baby-toddler nutrition world. Long dominated by the tiny glass jars of Gerber and Beech-Nut, entrepreneurs are launching healthier brands in convenient pouches and in the refrigerated aisle of the grocery store.

Neurosurgeon Teresa Purzner recently launched baby food company Cerebelly, with $6.7 million in funding to support a line aimed at brain development. Angela Sutherland and Evelyn Rusli launched Yumi organic baby foods in the Los Angeles area in 2017, a subscription service that mails customers tiny jars of “baby borscht” and parfaits of mango buckwheat pudding. And Serenity and Joe Carr, paleo-diet proponents, started Serenity Kids in 2016, a line of meatforward, higher-fat baby foods available in 3.5-ounce pouches at Whole Foods for $3.99.

Most of these newcomers

are significantly more expensive than Gerber and BeechNut, putting them out of reach for low-income parents. And WIC, which feeds about half of the 4 million babies born in the United States each year, has not approved pouches, sticking with more established shelfstable glass jars that are often anchored by sugary fruit purees.

The government does not have guidelines for daily sugar limits for children under 2. But for children between 2 and 18, a limit of 25 grams of sugar is recommended. In a recent analysis of 469 conventional baby foods in the United States, 35% contained more than 10 grams of sugar in a 4-ounce, single-serve jar or pouch. As a point of comparison, a regular-sized Snickers bar has 20 grams of sugar.

Rick Klauser, chief executive of vegetable-forward Sprout Foods, said major brands take advantage of government loopholes that don’t require fanciful nutrition and ingredient labeling on the front of packages to match up with the order of ingredients on the back.

“Consumers are already frustrated, they think they know what they are feeding their babies, but there’s a gap in my mind between what we’re telling people and what we’re feeding them,” he said.

Klauser said that cleaning up communication on labels is crucial for toddler food products, and that the return on investment will be seen in the reduction of health-care costs.

“By 18 months” he said, “a child’s nutrition journey is more or less forged.”

Fruit adds something special to savory dishes: a generous dose of seasonality. We can get so many fruits yearround, but when they’re at their in-season peak, there’s nothing like, say, citrus to spark a winter salad, grilled peaches to make a barbecue sauce sing of summer or pears to turn a bowl of pasta into something positively fall-ish.

The sweetness of pears is nuanced and subtle, much more so than any hit of sugar, maple or honey we might use to add balance or depth to a dish. But it’s plenty nonetheless. When I first tested this pasta recipe, which originally included a few tablespoons of maple syrup, I found it far too sweet. When I made the dish again without a drop of added sweetener, the Bosc pears stood up beautifully to the Gorgonzola, taking the salty, pungent edge off the cheese.

An immodest amount of butter helped, too.

With the addition of walnuts and cranberries, this dish tastes like a well-balanced cheese plate — one that won’t let you forget what season it is.

PASTA WITH CARAMELIZED PEARS AND GORGONZOLA Pears pair beautifully with the bite of creamy Gorgonzola; the two are commonly found together in many Italian dishes, as the cheese balances the sweetness with just the right amount of saltiness.

Kosher salt 12 ounces rigatoni 1/3 cup walnut pieces 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 4 Bosc pears, peeled, cored and each cut lengthwise into eight wedges ½ cup vegetable broth 1 cup crumbled Gorgonzola cheese, plus more for finishing (may substitute goat cheese) ¼ cup dried cranberries

½ teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Generously salt the water and add the pasta.

Cook until just shy of al dente, tender yet firm to the bite, according to the package directions. Reserve ½ cup of the pasta water before draining. Drain well.

While the pasta is cooking, set a large, deep skillet over medium heat. Add the walnuts and cook, stirring occasionally, until fragrant and lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Immediately transfer them to a bowl or plate, so they don’t burn, and wipe out the skillet.

Set the skillet back over medium heat and add the butter. Once it melts, add the pears. Cook, turning the pears occasionally, until they are lightly browned and tender but not mushy, about 5 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, carefully transfer the pears to a separate plate, leaving behind as much liquid in the skillet as possible.

Add the broth to the skillet and scrape the bottom of the pan to deglaze any flavorful brown bits that may have accumulated. Add the Gorgonzola and bring to a simmer, whisking until the cheese melts and the sauce reduces slightly, about 5 minutes.

Add the pasta and ¼cup of the reserved pasta water to the skillet. Reduce the heat to low and toss to coat the pasta in the sauce. Add the remaining pasta water, 1 tablespoon at a time, if needed, to loosen the pasta. The texture should be creamy and fluid, not pasty.

Divide among warmed plates, add the pears, walnuts and cranberries, and sprinkle with a little more Gorgonzola. Season generously with the pepper and serve.

Based on a recipe in “Simple, Elegant Pasta Dinners” by Nikki Marie.