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CAIRO — A lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General’s Office recently identifies Cairo as one of several locations affected

by PFAS. PFAS, or per- and polyfluroalkyl substances are a group of contaminants that resist degradation and accumulate in the human body. PFAS have been linked to serious illnesses such as kidney and testicular cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, preeclampsia and other conditions, according to ag.ny.gov.

PFAS are a group of manmade chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS, GenX and many

other chemicals.

In November, the Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit against several companies that used PFAS in their aqueous filmforming foam (AFF) and related products, which are commonly used in firefighting.

The companies named as defendants in the lawsuit are 3M Company, Tyco Fire Products LP, Chemguard Inc., Buckeye Fire Equipment Company, National Foam Inc., Kiddie-Fenwal Inc., Amerex Corporation, Fire Service Plus Inc., E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company and the Chemours Company.

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Main Street in Cairo. State Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit alleging that a toxic family of chemicals called PFAS is present in the town’s drinking water supply.

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Greene County Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Friedman, Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, Congressman Antonio Delgado and Assemblyman Chris Tague at Thursday’s legislative forum.

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The importance of adequate broadband and cell coverage was emphasized by all three lawmakers. “[Internet] is at this point a basic utility,” Delgado said. “It would be like living without lights.”

Because private companies may not find rural communities to be as profitable, it is up to government to make an investment for the good of the public, and incentivize building out, he said.

Internet service goes beyond support of local business, Delgado said. The service is essential for

CATSKILL — Lawmakers at the national, state and county levels gathered Thursday night to discuss their goals for the new year.

The legislative forum, hosted by the Greene County Chamber of Commerce and held at the Bridge Street Theatre, began at 6:30 p.m. Speakers included U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, state Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, and Greene County Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore.

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telemedicine and education for students in the modern age.

Delgado is working on legislation that will establish a minimum requirement of 100 megabytes per second.

“We have to make sure rural communities are able to compete,” he said.

At the county level, the Economic Development and Planning Department is setting up a task force that will work with cell providers to identify dead zones throughout the county, Linger said.

Tague noted that he had called on the governor during a public

hearing for an additional $500 million for broadband initiatives.

EDUCATION The lawmakers touched on identifying the needs of the workforce to train young adults and find them employment.

“Four-year degrees have been undermined by the changing global landscape,” Delgado said. “Not everybody is meant to go to a four-year college and that is OK.” Delgado has aspirations of passing

Greene Democrats throw support to Hinchey

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CAIRO — The Greene County Democratic Committee on Thursday voted to support Michelle Hinchey in the race for the 46th state Senate District seat held by Republican George Amedore Jr. Hinchey is facing off against New Baltimore child advocate and attorney Gary Greenberg for the Democratic nomination.

The primary will be held in June.

County Democrats held a State Senate Candidates Forum at Gallagher’s Banquet Hall in Cairo on Thursday. Hinchey and Greenberg were invited to participate. Hinchey attended; Greenberg did not.

More than 75 committee and community members turned out for the forum.

“We want to support Democratic candidates and it was pretty unanimous across the committee that Michelle was

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The Greene County Democratic Committee voted Thursday to endorse candidate Michelle Hinchey in the 46th state Senate District seat.

the candidate that we were the most excited about,” said Carolyn Riggs, chairwoman of the Greene County Democratic

Committee. “She has already put in a lot of work since she announced last July and she has been in Greene County often,

talking to committee members, community members and business owners, to get a greater understanding of the issues that

are important to Greene County, and she has taken a proactive approach to addressing those issues moving forward. It is for those reasons that we decided to endorse her.”

Amedore announced late last year that he would not seek another term and is stepping down. Amedore has represented the 46th Senate District since 2007.

Hinchey said she appreciated the support.

“I’m honored to have the support of the Greene County Democratic Committee in my bid for the 46th State Senate seat,” Hinchey said. “I’ve spent the last six months traveling the district and learning the issues that are most important to Greene County, including meeting with family farmers, community leaders and smallbusiness owners. I thank the See HINCHEY A8

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considering our options.”

A spokesman for the family called the decision “one of the darkest days in the history of this special relationship” between the two allies, but said the family was not surprised by the decision. “[The U.S. government] is effectively saying it’s OK for American service personnel to come to the U.K., kill our children and get on the next plane home,” the spokesman, Radd Seiger, told The Post Friday morning. “And I can assure your leaders that is not what’s going to happen. This is far from over.”

At the time of the head-on collision, Sacoolas was living with her husband near the Royal Air Force Croughton station, which is operated by the U.S. Air Force. She has acknowledged that she was driving on the wrong side of the road when she struck Dunn’s motorcycle.

Sacoolas initially cooperated with British police investigators but fled to the United States before their investigation was complete, claiming diplomatic immunity. British investigators later flew to the U.S. to interview her.

Under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, family members of diplomats are covered by immunity while living abroad. But countries can also decide to waive

immunity to allow a diplomat, or family member, to face serious charges.

That’s what the United States has refused to do in this case.

Sacoolas’ refusal to return caused an uproar in Britain and devastated Dunn’s parents.

Dunn’s parents mounted a vigorous campaign to seek justice for their son, including appealing directly to President Donald Trump and even traveling to the White House.

“President Trump, please listen,” Dunn’s mother, Charlotte Charles, said in an interview with Sky News in October, just prior to the White House visit.

“We’re a family in ruin. We’re broken. We can’t grieve. Please, please, let her get back on a plane, come back to the U.K . . .

We could understand how she’s feeling, but more importantly, she needs to face justice, see what she’s done.”

They met with Trump in October, but later said they “were not impressed” by how it went.

In a surprise move, Trump told Dunn’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, that Sacoolas was in the building and ready to meet with them, throwing them off guard. He would not say whether he would waive immunity, but reportedly wanted everyone to have a “hug and makeup moment,” a person with knowledge of the discussions told The

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Months after a British teenager was tragically killed in a wrong-way crash, the U.S. government has refused an extradition request from the United Kingdom to turn over the woman charged in his death, who is married to an American diplomat.

The woman, Anne Sacoolas, claimed diplomatic immunity following the Aug. 27 collision that killed Harry Dunn, 19. She fled to the United States amid demands from British government officials, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to return to face justice.

In a statement Thursday night, a State Department spokesman confirmed that it has declined the U.K.’s extradition request “of a U.S. citizen involved in a tragic vehicle accident,” while expressing condolences to Dunn’s family. The spokesman said that extraditing Sacoolas to face the charges would “set an extraordinarily troubling precedent,” but did not elaborate when asked.

“At the time the accident occurred, and for the duration of her stay in the UK, the U.S. citizen driver in this case had immunity from criminal jurisdiction,” his statement to The Washington Post said. “If the United States were to grant the UK’s extradition request, it would render the invocation of diplomatic immunity a practical nullity and would set an extraordinarily troubling precedent.”

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement he had called the U.S. ambassador in London to “express the Government’s disappointment. We feel this amounts to a denial of justice.”

Raab said the British government “would have acted differently if this had been a UK diplomat serving in the US.” Sacoolas, 42, stands charged with causing death by dangerous driving. The U.K. Home Office said in a statement to The Post that “we are urgently

Post at the time.

Dunn’s parents declined to meet with Sacoolas, saying that any conversation needed to be done the right way with therapists and mediators present; Seigel described the trip to the White House as an “ambush.”

They vowed afterward to continue fighting for their son.

“We promised Harry as a family when we lost him that night that we would make sure justice was done,” Charles said at the time.

On Thursday, Seiger said the family plans to meet with British government officials to discuss the next steps. He is hoping to discuss the possibility of shutting down RAF bases operated by the U.S. military within the U.K. as punishment for the State Department’s rejection of the extradition request (a highly unlikely move) and said that protests are planned in the coming months.

He said that if nothing works under Trump, the family plans to take the fight to a new administration in the future.

“These extradition requests never go away,” he said. “This will hang over Anne Sacoolas’ head forever, and one day, a reasonable administration will come in, will look at this and say, no, this is not how we treat our strongest ally. She has killed a young man, and she has to go back.”

Under British law, causing death by dangerous driving is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

An attorney for Sacoolas, Amy Jeffress, declined comment on the latest development. But Jeffress has previously said that a 14-year sentence for “a terrible but unintentional accident” would be a disproportionate punishment.

“Anne is devastated by this tragic accident and would do anything she could to bring Harry back,” Jeffress said in a Jan. 10 statement provided to The Post. “She continues to grieve for Harry and his family. ... We remain willing to work with the UK authorities to identify a path forward.”

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Similar tragedies shocked neighboring New Jersey suburbs on Wednesday as thin layers of ice on ponds cracked beneath the feet of two teenage boys.

Yousef Khela, 13, slid into frigid water near a public library in East Brunswick around 5 p.m. Just two hours later and 20 miles away, David Tillberg, 14, dropped through the ice in a local park in Carteret.

Neither boy survived the plunge.

“Our small community is saddened and shocked over this tragedy,” Carteret Mayor Dan Reiman said in a statement on Facebook after Tillberg was pronounced dead early Thursday at a hospital.

The neighboring township’s police chief gave a stern warning about the dangers of walking on ice.

“No ice is safe ice. If you see ice on a lake, it’s not safe,” said East Brunswick Police Chief Frank LoSacco, according to WABC. “Don’t go out on any ice unless it’s an ice-skating rink.”

Every year, children and even some old enough to know better venture onto thin ice, despite warnings to stay away.

And in many northern states, where ponds and lakes freeze over every winter, going onto the inches-thick slabs of ice is a common, if risky, recreational

pastime. People fish, skate and drive snowmobiles on thick, clear ice.

So what should you do if you fall through ice?

“First, try not to panic,” Minnesota state officials advise in a guide to surviving an accidental icy plunge. “This may be easier said than done, unless you have worked out a survival plan in advance.”

1. Stay calm.

Don’t let the shock of falling into the ice-cold water take over.

This may be the hardest part of saving yourself.

“Suddenly you find yourself immersed in water so cold it literally takes your breath away,” according to the guide. “And the pain is incredible!”

But you need a clear mind to rescue yourself from the water.

You have about 10 minutes before your body gets too cold to pull itself out.

2. Let your winter clothes act as a buoy.

Keep your winter clothes on. Although you might think a heavy coat or snowsuit will immediately soak up freezing water and sink, they can actually hold warm air that will help you float.

“Heavy clothes won’t drag you down,” Minnesota state officials said.

3. Turn back toward the direction you came from and use the solid ice to pull yourself out of the water.

The ice is probably thicker and stronger where it previously held you up. You’ll need solid ice to support your weight as you pull yourself out of the water.

“If your clothes have trapped a lot of water, you may have to lift yourself partially out of the water on your elbows to let the water drain before starting forward,” according to the Minnesota DNR website.

Reach out and place your arms flat on the ice, and begin to squirm back onto the surface of the ice.

“Two words: kick, and pull,” Gordon Giesbrecht, a professor at the University of Manitoba who studies hypothermia and is known as “Professor Popsicle,” told ABC News. “Put your arms on the ice, and just kick your legs, and just try to pull yourself along the ice.”

Ice picks can help a lot. Fishermen and snowmobile drivers often carry them in case ice breaks. Screwdrivers or even nails driven into pieces of wood as a homemade method can also be used to grip the slippery surface and claw your way back onto the ice, Minnesota officials said.

4. Stay horizontal on the ice.

Don’t stand up too soon.

When you manage to wiggle your way onto the ice, keep lying down. If you stand up, you might cause the ice to crack again.

“Roll away from the hole to

keep your weight spread out,” the Minnesota guide advises.

5. Warm up, quickly and carefully.

Once you’re back on solid ground, the danger is not quite over.

Get somewhere warm, where you can change into dry clothes, as quickly as you can. The water in your clothes will start to freeze immediately, but you should have time before your body begins to lose more heat than it can create.

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CALENDAR Monday, Jan. 27 n Catskill Village Planning Board

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

Tuesday, Jan. 28 n Catskill Town Planning Board

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

Wednesday, Jan. 29 n Catskill Central School District BOE budget workshop 6:30 p.m.

High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill

Monday, Feb. 3 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town

Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

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shop meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Thursday, Feb. 6 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m. at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie Village Workshop meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Feb. 10 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m.

at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, Feb. 11 n Cairo Public Library Board of

Trustees at 3:30 p.m. Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo 518-622-9864 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, Feb. 12 n Catskill Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, Feb. 13 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE audit finance committee 5:15 p.m. in superintendent’s office; regular meeting 6 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

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Hudson men charged in assault in Jewett Staff report Columbia-Greene Media

JEWETT — Two Columbia County men are facing felony assault charges after a physical altercation in Jewett, police said Friday.

William E. Casivant, 20, and Noah O. Casivant, 19, both of Hudson, were arrested at 2:54 p.m. Thursday and charged with first-degree

assault, a class B felony.

William Casivant was also charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class D felony, and Noah Casivant was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class A misdemeanor.

The arrests were the result of an investigation into an altercation that occurred at a house party that took place

on Jan. 11 in the town of Jewett, according to police.

“The physical altercation resulted in the victims receiving head injuries and fractures requiring extensive medical attention,” according to police.

Both suspects were released on their own recognizance and are scheduled to appear Feb. 3 in Jewett Town Court.

GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER Editor’s Note: A charge is not a conviction. All persons listed are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges can be amended or dismissed.

STATE POLICE n Scott H. Cross, 35, of Cairo, was arrested at 7:44 p.m.

Jan. 17 in Cairo and charged with third-degree assault, a class A misdemeanor. He was released on his own recognizance. n Alexis R. Nussbaumer, 24, of Cairo, was arrested at 2 a.m.

Jan. 18 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Issac A. Dymond, 31, of Palenville, was arrested at 3:40 a.m. Jan. 19 in Catskill, and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n MaryGrace Messina, 21, of Copiague, Long Island, was arrested at 9:10 a.m. Jan. 18 in Coxsackie and charged with second-degree introduction of contraband into prison and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both class A misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Jason M. Kropp, 37, of Berne, was arrested at 5:38 p.m.

Jan. 18 in Durham and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both with prior convictions and classified

as class E felonies, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Phillip Garvey, 20, of Jewett, was arrested at 5:15 p.m.

Jan. 20 in Cairo and charged with third-degree assault, second-degree menacing and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, all class A misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Mitchell A. Gluc, 31, of Saugerties, was arrested at 6:38 p.m. Jan. 20 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Liam G. Fitzgerald, 37, of Rosendale, was arrested at 5:01 p.m. Jan. 20 in Durham and charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Michelle L. Stiles, 27, of East Durham, was arrested at 5:01 p.m. Jan. 20 in Durham and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, possession of a hypodermic instrument and second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia, all class A misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Ibraheem Faraj, 44, of Albany, was arrested at 11:55 a.m. Jan. 21 in Windham and charged with sexual misconduct, a class A misdemeanor, and third-degree rape, a class E felony. His arrestee status is unknown.

n Robert L. Simpson, 39, of Catskill, was arrested at 2:31 p.m. Jan. 22 in Cairo and charged with assault with intent to cause serious physical injury, a class D felony, and fourth-degree criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor.

He was held. n Tracy M. Lee, 44, of Trumbell, Connecticut, was arrested at 1:28 a.m. Jan. 23 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Jason E. Wiley, 38, of Catskill, was arrested at 3:16 a.m. Jan. 23 in Athens and charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jason M. Kropp, 37, of Greenville, was arrested at 7:57 p.m. Jan. 22 in Durham and charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket.

Catskill man charged with felony child porn Staff report Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — A Greene County man was arrested Thursday and charged with 270 counts of possessing a sexual performance of a child, a class E felony.

Kevin J. Cook, 52, of Catskill, was arrested at 3 p.m. Thursday by state police. In addition to the 270 counts of possessing a sexual performance by

a child, Cook was charged with 238 counts of possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child, also a class E felony.

Cook was issued an appearance ticket and is scheduled to appear Jan. 30 in Athens Town Court.

The arrest was the result of an investigation by state police in Catskill, the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the state police Computer Crimes Unit.

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Legalized marijuana will take time Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to legalize and regulate adult marijuana use will predictably lead to a confrontation with the state Legislature. In his State of the State and budget addresses, Cuomo vowed this would be the year the state would pass the legislation.

“For decades, communities of color were disproportionately affected by the unequal enforcement of marijuana laws,” Cuomo said. “Last year, we righted that injustice when we decriminalized possession.

This year ... let’s legalize adult use of marijuana.”

The governor’s legislation, if it passes, aims to end the twilight-zone years of marijuana use in New York state.

Legislators last year couldn’t agree on how to regulate entrepreneurial licenses

and where the revenue from the new industry should go, which many advocates argued should be reinvested into communities of color that have been disproportionately impacted by the criminalization of marijuana. Another stumbling block was the legalization versus decriminalization debate, which wasted time in a short legislative session.

The advantages of Cuomo’s refashioned legislation is its comprehensive nature and stance for local control over how marijuana is sold and used. The 200-page bill in his $178.6 billion budget proposal to legalize the use of marijuana for adults 21 and older includes initiatives to direct funds to invest in communities of color and provide them with steady footing to enter the new industry

as entrepreneurs — specifics that were excluded from last year’s iteration. There is also a matter of money. Cuomo’s office estimates that marijuana legalization will bring in $300 million by 2025, with a revenue stream rolling within 18 months.

Various proposals that amend or modify the principles of the legislation will have to be worked out by the statehouse and the Legislature. A social, political and legal upheaval like this won’t come without a struggle. A vast majority of New Yorkers, according to some polls, are in favor of some kind of marijuana legalization. It is time to end this 21st-century model of Prohibition. It will not be easy, but it can be done.

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In May 2018, the WhatsApp account of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who had been the subject of criticism by us and by Post Global Opinions contributor Jamal Khashoggi, sent an unusual video text to Jeff Bezos, The Post’s owner. Soon thereafter, Bezos’ phone began transmitting large quantities of data, and it continued to do so for months afterward. Based on that and other evidence, a private cybersecurity firm concluded with “medium to high confidence” that the phone had been hacked with malware sent from the account used by the crown prince.

That report, in turn, prompted two United Nations human rights investigators to call on Wednesday for “immediate investigation

by US and other relevant authorities” of the alleged hack, which they said “suggests the possible involvement of the Crown Prince in surveillance of Bezos, in an effort to influence, if not silence, The Washington Post’s reporting on Saudi Arabia.” We have an obvious interest in such a probe, as does our owner.

But so, too, do all governments and international companies doing business with the kingdom and its ruler, who has demonstrated a reckless willingness to commit crimes and violate international boundaries.

The forensic analysis of Bezos’ iPhone X, overseen

by Anthony Ferrante of FTI Consulting, is not definitive in its conclusions about the hacking. Some cybersecurity experts have raised questions about the analysis, which was completed in November. Yet what the investigation did find is highly suggestive.

In addition to the export of data from Bezos’ phone following the crown prince’s video text, Bezos subsequently received two texts from Mohammed bin Salman’s WhatsApp account indicating familiarity with then-undisclosed information, including divorce discussions Bezos was engaged in.

If Mohammed bin Salman did target Bezos for surveillance, it would not be an isolated case. As U.N. investigators Agnes Callamard and David Kaye said in their statement, “the

allegations reinforce other reporting pointing to a pattern of targeted surveillance of perceived opponents and those of broader strategic importance to the Saudi authorities, including nationals and non-nationals.” Any investigation, they said, ought to encompass “the continuous, multi-year, direct and personal involvement of the Crown Prince in efforts to target perceived opponents.”

Bezos, of course, is not only the owner of The Post but also the founder of Amazon, one of the world’s largest tech companies. Executives of other firms that, like Amazon, have thought about investing in Saudi Arabia ought to be wondering whether they will become targets of hacking attacks ordered by the crown prince.

And what of Jared Kushner, son-in-law and aide to President Donald Trump, who is known to have exchanged text messages with Mohammed bin Salman? Has his phone been checked? If the Trump administration takes its own security and that of U.S. businesses seriously, it will follow the U.N. advice and thoroughly investigate the alleged Saudi hacks.

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Catalan secessionists ladle a soup of fiction and paranoia BARCELONA — Beneath the sleek surface of this sparkling Mediterranean metropolis boil passions generated by Spain’s version of identity politics. The passions are aroused by demagogues who hope to shatter a nation. The turmoil in Catalonia — the northeastern of Spain’s 17 regions, which exercise considerable autonomy (over police, health care, education, etc.) — is the toll taken by lies used to manufacture grievances. This is pertinent to the United (for now) Kingdom, and wherever populist resentment-mongers stoke feelings of victimization.

The illegal 2017 referendum staged by Catalan secessionists (some are in jail or in exile to avoid trial) yielded a muddy result: The organizers claimed that 90% voted for independence, but turnout was only 43%. Many boycotted the voting because of its illegality.

Nevertheless, 26 days later, the Catalan parliament declared independence. However, on Nov. 10, 2019, in the fourth national election in four years, only 42.5% of Catalans supported pro-independence parties. Nevertheless, secessionist leaders will continue to feed to the gullible fictions such as these: Catalans have more “genetic proximity” to the French than to Spaniards. Madrid is “ripping off” and “strangling” Catalonia. Every year every Catalan family sends to Madrid enough money to buy a car.

(Catalonia, which contributes 19% to Spain’s GDP and 19% of national revenues, has 16% of the nation’s population, and receives about 15.8% of disbursed national revenues.) Madrid elites despise Catalans. (A banner on a balcony here: “Independence means dignity.”)

Having five Catalans among the 11 starters in Spain’s 2010 World Cup-winning soccer team was a plot to subvert Catalan independence by inspiring national sentiment. And so on.

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WILL think a soup of fictions and paranoia will be swallowed? In Britain, the most potent factoid in the 2016 Brexit campaign that won 52% approval was that the U.K. sends to the European Union 350 million pounds ($455 million) a week that otherwise could go to the National Health Service. This propelled Boris Johnson, who has always been parsimonious with truth, into office as the queen’s first minister. In Scotland, where a 62% majority opposed Brexit, a large minority feels, as Catalonia’s secessionists do, that they are a nation without a state. In a referendum two years before Brexit, 45% of Scots favored independence. That might not have been the last such referendum.

Catalan secessionists bowdlerize history in order to weaponize it. At 17 minutes and 14 seconds into FC Barcelona soccer games, independenceminded fans roar. Never mind that 1714 did not, as secessionists insist, end Catalan independence. It ended a war, with few Catalan participants, between two factions supporting rivals for the Spanish throne in Madrid. Secessionists recast the 1936-1939 civil war as a regional conflict between Spain and Catalonia rather than a maelstrom of political pathologies (fascism, communism, anarchism, anti-clericalism).

When Woodrow Wilson proclaimed a right of “self-determination,” Secretary of State Robert Lansing saw dragon’s teeth being sown: “What has he in mind? Does he mean a race,

a territorial area, or a community?” Or perhaps a linguistic cohort? Catalonia’s primary and secondary schools devote more than 12 times more hours to teaching the Catalan language — Francisco Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975) tried to extinguish it — than to teaching Spanish. Catalonia’s public television, which is watched by 84% of those who voted for independence, promotes independence.

Catalans should study Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address, delivered after seven states had voted to secede: “Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments,” none of which “ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.”

Lincoln refuted the South’s “contract” theory of the American union: Can a contract “be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it?”

Catalonia has no such theory: It never was a sovereign contracting entity. Furthermore, Spain’s constitution, which says the nation is “indivisible,” was ratified by a 1978 referendum of the national electorate, wherein 90.5% of Catalonia’s 70% turnout approved it — higher support than in Madrid or the entire nation.

A minority of the 7.5 million Catalans — one-third of whom were born elsewhere — will continue to seethe about being a “stateless nation,” and will remain as prickly as when, centuries ago, people of this region swore this oath to Spain’s ruler: “We who are as good as you swear to you who are no better than us, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord, provided you observe all our laws and liberties; but if not, not.” Spain, however, will not fragment.

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Hunter Biden has to testify Danielle allen The Washington Post

In 100 years, what will President Donald Trump be known for? Not for a deficit-stimulated economy. Not for an erratic and non-strategic foreign policy.

Not for trade wars that make modest adjustments to global economic arrangements. Not for a combative reset of the relationship between religious and secular citizens. Not even for an unstable but consistently cruel approach to immigration.

Trump will be known, forever, for having dragged the entire country inside the world of conspiracy theorists. He will be the Birther President and his tenure, the Presidency of Lies.

Trump’s demand for an announcement by Ukraine of an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden is analogous to his demand for an investigation into Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The Hunter issue is Joe Biden’s birther issue. The biggest difference between birtherism and Hunterism is that Trump pursued the former without any of the trappings of credibility that come with holding the highest office in the land. Nonetheless, he succeeded in forcing a sitting president of the United States to release his birth certificate as the only means by which a baseless conspiracy theory could finally be

quelled.

The Democrats should accept a deal for witnesses in the impeachment trial that involves having Hunter Biden testify, too. Not because having him testify is warranted by the evidence. Not because one wants to give credence to a baseless conspiracy theory. But as a service to the country.

We need this act of public service to stanch the corruption. Trump’s techniques are spreading. Take as an example Pat Cipollone’s opening statement in the impeachment trial.

It was remarkable for the number of times he used the words “ridiculous” and “outrageous.”

This was a revealing detail. It didn’t matter that in between those words he strung together a series of misleading statements. No one would follow it all, but what they would take away was two words: “ridiculous” and “outrageous.” Such is the rhetoric of the conspiracy theorist. The opportunity to speak is a vehicle for a message.

The words in between the message don’t matter much. All that matters is the chance to repeat the basic message frequently.

Obama — no birth certificate; Obama — no birth certificate.

Hunter -corrupt; Hunter — corrupt. Impeachment — ridiculous; impeachment — ridiculous.

Congressional Republican support for the president throughout the impeachment process has been remarkable.

Are they simply trading truth for power? Or are they so far inside the conspiracy theory world of our birther president that they can no longer see out of it?

Yet that feeling of aggrievement, however legitimate it may be, may also be something for Republicans to overcome, to put aside in the interests of restoring a country where we resist the trade-off between power and truth, where we seek to hold power in ways that depend on and advance ethical commitments to truthfulness.

No, our country does not have an unblemished record on that front, not by a long shot. And, no, the Democrats aren’t exactly unsullied knights in white armor rushing to the defense of the truth.

We are all sullied.

Our best baseball teams cheat.

What have we become?

Cheaters from top to bottom?

I pray that that not be the case. I pray that Republicans and Democrats together can find the courage to break us out of the prison of lies and conspiracy theories into which this president has locked this country.

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Police release surveillance photo of suspect, vehicle involved in Md. gull killing Dana Hedgpeth The Washington Post

Authorities have released new details in a case of animal cruelty in which at least 11 gulls were killed after they were lured to a parking lot in suburban Maryland and run over with a vehicle.

The incident happened Jan. 4 in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree store along Fort Meade Road. Laurel police said the suspect lured the gulls with popcorn to the parking lot and then was seen “intentionally running over” the gulls with a vehicle and killing them.

On Thursday, the Laurel Police Department put out a description of the vehicle they say was involved in the incident and a surveillance photo of the suspect.

Police said they believe the

person was in a newer model of a Chevrolet Equinox that was blue-gray in color and had a Maryland license plate.

The vehicle also had a roof rack.

The suspect is described as a black man in his 50s or 60s, last seen wearing a burgundy Old Navy sweater, a dark green jacket, black sweatpants, white sneakers and a beige beanie-style hat.

A $5,000 reward is being offered for information in the case that leads to an arrest.

Audrey Barnes, a spokeswoman for the city of Laurel, has called the case a “senseless act of animal cruelty.”

Colleen O’Brien, a vice president of PETA, has said “it takes a cruel, dangerous person to coax gulls over with the intention of violently killing them.”

Trump headlines annual March for Life rally in Washington Sarah Pulliam Bailey, David Nakamura, Julie Zauzmer and Michelle Boorstein The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday became the first president to speak in person to antiabortion demonstrators at the March for Life rally, an annual gathering to mark the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Trump has endeared himself to the antiabortion movement, particularly through appointing Supreme Court justices who abortion opponents hope will further their cause. He began speaking about 12:30 p.m., before attendees begin their annual march from the Mall to the Supreme Court.

“Today, as president of the United States, I am truly proud to stand with you,” he said.

Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence addressed the crowd via video from his trip to Rome where he had just visited Pope Francis.

“The pro-life movement has a champion in Donald Trump,” Pence said.

“Thanks to your support, and thanks to the leader of Donald Trump, life is winning in America again,” he said.

Louisiana state Sen. Katrina Jackson, a Democrat, also will address the crowd, saying that while she disagrees with Trump on policies and is discouraged by his insults of people, she is “ecstatic” that a president will attend the march.

“We finally have a sitting president at the March for Life,” she said. “It doesn’t make him the face of it. It sets a precedent for future presidents to speak. It’s my prayer the president’s attendance doesn’t make it look partisan.”

Trump’s participation meant extra security for thousands of attendees, who typically meander onto the Mall from all sides in the hours before the rally.

Abortion opponents began to gather in downtown Washington early Friday, some with buttons and signs saying, “I am the pro life generation” and “Religious liberty.”

Among them were people at the Renaissance Hotel, where a march expo was underway.

Melody Wootten, a 49-yearold musician from Sterling Heights, Michigan, said she came for the first time because she heard it would be Trump’s first attendance. She felt a sense of history, along with the Senate impeachment trial underway, and wanted to be present. The abortion issue and the impeachment, she said, constitute “an attack on Christianity.”

“This rally is bringing everything I believe to life,” said, Wootten, who is an evangelical. “In Israel, you can go and see where Jesus was born, and it brings things to life. I’ve seen the Grand Canyon in pictures, but it’s different when you see it. Coming here makes everything come more to life. It’s going to be a springboard to being more active.”

Outside the hotel, where many young marchers were streaming in, was a huge electronic billboard on a truck bed reading, “Abortion is freedom.”

Volunteers handed out signs paid for by the Trump campaign at the entrance to the March for Life, an attempt to brand the annual antiabortion march as something like a campaign rally.

Terry Schilling, who runs the conservative American Principles Project, said hawking the signs was the first campaign volunteering he had done. Schilling praised Trump for speaking at Friday’s March, saying that past marches might have included a short recording from President George W. Bush.

Schilling was skeptical of Trump in 2016 and voted for him only because he thought

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Washington, UNITED STATES: Pro-life and pro-choice demonstrators converge before the US Supreme Court 23 January 2006 in Washington, DC, as tens of thousands of pro and anti-abortion activists rally marking the 33rd anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on abortion. Abortion has been legal in the United States since the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade on 22 January 1973.

Clinton was a worse choice because of the president’s ability to choose Supreme Court justices.

But he has been delighted

by Trump’s record in office, including his tax law, the state of the economy, his understanding of religious freedom - and above all his stance on abortion.

“I could never have been more happy to be wrong,” Schilling said.

Peter Wehner, who was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, said in an email that it became impossible for a president to attend the rally after 9/11. Bush gave a video address and invited the march organizers and a select group of marchers to an event at the White House after the march each year, but officials believed that if he were to attend, it would create security nightmares that would be a huge burden for the marchers.

Trump’s decision to attend the rally comes as he seeks to consolidate support from evangelicals in his reelection campaign amid signs that a portion of his conservative base has been troubled by his conduct.

In December, the evangelical magazine Christianity Today published an editorial calling for Trump’s removal over his efforts to pressure Ukraine’s leader to open an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden, a leading Democratic presidential contender.

The editorial stunned the White House, and Trump has responded by rallying evangelical support through several efforts. This month he held a campaign event at a Latino evangelical church in Miami that included an appearance from Cissie Graham Lynch, granddaughter of Billy Graham, who founded Christianity Today. Last week, the administration announced new federal guidelines to strengthen protections for students who want to pray or worship in public schools.

Early Friday, Eric and Julie Feltes, both 53, came from Greenville, South Carolina, with three of their children and the kids’ youth group. They were waiting to head to the Mall early because of increased security and waits. They were thrilled Trump was attending because they thought it would increase turnout. Trump, Eric said, is the first president to “really vocalize our social issues.”

“Trump is a true conservative president on social issues,” he said. “It feels more Reaganesque.”

For them, abortion is a top issue.

“It all begins with life. If you don’t have that - it all flows from there,” Julie said.

White House aides cited several of the administration’s antiabortion initiatives, including reinstating the Mexico City Policy in 2017 - barring

U.S. funding to nongovernmental organizations that offer abortion counseling in foreign countries - and issuing a rule that prohibits organizations that receive Title X funding from providing abortion services in most cases.

In past years, Trump has addressed March for Life attendees through a video message. Pence became the first vice president to speak at the rally in 2017. Leaders in the antiabortion movement say they have more access to the administration, particularly through Pence’s office, and many post pictures of themselves on social media at the White House.

Daniel Williams, a historian at the University of West Georgia who has written a book on the antiabortion movement, noted that the March for Life founder, the late Nellie Gray, was a pro-labor Democrat who worked in the Johnson administration. In the decades that followed, the abortion issue has become more partisan, he said.

“What we’re seeing is an exacerbation of partisan divides on both sides,” Williams said. “The activists of the 1970s would not have foreseen the pro-life movement be so aligned with one party.”

In the 1980s, Williams said, about one-third of Republican senators favored abortion rights, and surveys showed that a majority of Republican voters favored abortion rights.

Today, nearly every Republican member of Congress is opposed to abortion rights.

A Kaiser Family Foundation survey this week found 84% of Democrats identified as “prochoice” while 68% of Republicans identified as “pro-life.”

Williams said the strategy from antiabortion groups has focused more recently on nominating Supreme Court justices - one reason presidential elections have become so important to activist groups.

“Once they focused on changing the Supreme Court, it made it difficult to work with Democratic presidential administrations,” he said.

Trump once had a troubled relationship with the antiabortion movement because of his past support for abortion rights, and he would sometimes flub conservative talking points on abortion. But his ability to deliver justices to the Supreme Court that activists hope will reverse Roe vs. Wade are central to his reelection, according to Mary Ziegler, a professor Florida State University College of Law. “He has had to do more to prove himself to what is a key constituency than most previous Republicans did after Roe,” said Ziegler, who will have a book coming out in March on abortion and the law in America.

In the Kaiser survey, reproductive health issues, such as birth control and abortion, ranked lower in importance

than many other issues for candidates to discuss. Health care was the top issue, at 21%, while 6% said reproductive health issues were most important.

A common theme among many as they gathered to await Trump’s appearance: they keep calling themselves “pleasantly surprised” by his support for their antiabortion cause.

Billy Naquin of Thibodaux, Louisiana, attending his first March for Life while on a trip to Washington, said when he voted in 2016, national security and the economy were his top issues. On abortion, he didn’t think Trump “would be willing to get into something so controversial.” Trump has outperformed his expectations. He deemed his presidency “awesome. “ The Washington Post’s Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

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Bird feeding, Part 2 Last week I wrote about feeding birds, which is a favorite winter pastime for many local residents. This week I will write about some of the problems that are often encountered.

Most people prefer watching some of the smaller songbirds in the area such as nuthatches, chickadees, juncos, finches and, occasionally, cardinals. Blue jays are generally not as popular and they will sometimes dominate the feeder, chasing away the smaller birds. These noisy mimics also relish black oil sunflower seeds, but starlings and grackles can also be a problem in some areas.

You can buy bird feeders with springs on them that work by closing the feeding holes when heavy birds or squirrels land on the perches.

Often this is enough to discourage the larger birds or squirrels. Less desirable birds to observe, such as starlings and grackles, actually prefer bread crumbs and usually ignore feeders stocked only with black oil sunflower seeds.

Sometimes starlings can be lured away from feeders by scattering stale bread on the ground nearby. Squirrels, on the other hand can be a lot more difficult to discourage.

There are a number of “squirrel-proof” feeders on the market today at prices ranging from $25 to well over $80. Unfortunately they do not always work as well as advertised (save your receipt).

I am not certain that any feeders are completely squirrel proof. Squirrels can be very persistent and they are happy to destroy a feeder to get at the contents. A $50 bird feeder lying on the ground destroyed is not a happy thing to wake up

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BEYFUSS to! If the squirrels can access the feeder at all and it is not well anchored they will manage to get it on the ground and break it.

I have watched a pair of squirrels team up to swing on and rock a feeder back and forth until it comes unhinged. They also can chew holes in the plastic to make the tiny feeding holes more accessible. Although this has not happened to me personally, I have also heard of them unscrewing the tops of some feeders or figuring out some other way to remove the caps.

Once the top is removed they will wiggle down the feeder itself, fill their bellies and wiggle out backwards, showing their flexibility as well as their determination.

One solution is to hang the feeder from a post that is too high for them to jump up to.

Squirrels can leap at least six feet straight up in the air and perhaps even farther from a side angle.

They are also adept at climbing most posts unless some sort of baffle is mounted on it. A baffle shaped like an inverted ice-cream cone and made of a slippery material such as aluminum flashing works best. Most squirrels can figure out how to get on top of a flat baffle, even though they

seem to defy gravity in doing so.

If the feeder is hung from a rope or cable suspended between two trees or poles the squirrels can easily tightrope walk it to get to the feeder.

Coating the cable with something very slippery, such as grease, or perhaps something very tacky, such as tree Tanglefoot, may prevent them from doing their tightrope thing, or you can position baffles on the cable on both sides of the feeder. A 2-liter soda bottle that spins on the cable may also work as a baffle.

Some people in very rural areas are not opposed to shooting the offending squirrels, but this last resort to violence does not always work either. Years ago, when I used to eat gray squirrels, I found out that shooting one squirrel would result in two more showing up within a few days.

Shooting the both of them led to four squirrels appearing and so on. Trapping is equally futile and it is also not legal to transport a live trapped animal in New York state even if you did catch one.

If all else fails consider putting out a platform feeder stocked with kernel corn as a diversion that will also attract wild turkeys and perhaps some of the other larger birds.

An outdoor cat will occasionally catch and eat a songbird, but so do coopers and sharpshinned hawks that also seem to watch our bird feeders. Provide some quick cover nearby, such as a discarded Christmas tree. Remember not to hang any bird feeders in hemlock trees to prevent the spread of the hemlock wooly adelgid.

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

Snowshoe stream walk along Birch Creek SHOKAN — Register now for a Winter Snowshoe Stream Walk with the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program (AWSMP) along Birch Creek. Meet at the end of Lower Birch Creek Road near Pine Hill, from 10 a.m.1 p.m. on Feb. 1. If there is not enough snow for snowshoeing, a “No-Snow” date is scheduled for Feb. 15. If there is still no snow on this date, a regular stream walk will be held without snowshoes.

Snowshoes and walking poles will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring their own gear. Those with limited or no experience snowshoeing are encouraged to attend. Instruction on how to snowshoe properly and safely will be given before venturing out on the trail.

The walk will be approximately two hours in length on NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) wild forest land. There is only a partial trail along the stream so the terrain could

Our membership base is growing

By Aaron Clause For Columbia-Greene Media

To start off, I hope you have all had a joyous and prosperous holiday season. Having been rather busy both personally (with my already full family environment being blessed with my first grandchild), and professionally (with the reset of our filing and computing systems for the New Year), the time consumed led me only to contemplate, rather than write about, all the wonderful things that have happened here at the shelter over the past year, and the miracles that are yet to come.

I’d like to share with you that our adoptions continue to accelerate due to our staff’s high drive toward quality placements. Our adoption numbers are truly staggering over a one-year period. In 2019, we sent home more than 600 animals — that’s more than 50 per month, or almost two per day! Our incoming numbers, on the other hand, continue to drop, showing that our commitment to companion animal population control in our community is paying off.

This past year, we spayed/ neutered almost 1,500 animals. Most of this is due to the generous support of individuals who care about animals — yes, I’m talking to you, reading this right in your own little corner of your living room! At the same moment we’re preventing the sad state of unwanted animals from entering this world, the demand for our low-cost clinics to assist in maintaining the health of everyone’s current beloved pets has skyrocketed. Every wellness clinic is filled, with companions being given a thorough exam by a local vet, and sent home with protection against parasites and diseases. More than 1,500 pets went home from our clinic doors in 2019, happier and healthier than ever before, without breaking their owners’ piggy banks, and we expect the attendance in these much-needed wellness clinics will continue to grow.

Our membership base is one of the highest ever this year, and growing each day.

New memberships are pouring in, and I wanted to share this opportunity with you.

Your memberships help in so many ways that it’s hard to list. I’ll start by saying, our members fight the war on the

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Pearl is a 6-year-old female short-haired cat, pictured with CGHS/SPCA Adoption Counselor Rebecca Warner. Pearl came to the shelter about a month ago as a stray. She loves to curl up on your lap and snuggle! She is also cat friendly. If you are interested in Pearl or adopting from the Columbia-Greene Humane Society, stop by the shelter today or give us a call.

front lines. Their donations put the food on the table for our homeless pets. They eat satisfying, wholesome meals every day. Memberships allow us not only to clean cages and keep the animals in a healthy environment, but also to provide toys and treats for a fun, loving, and caring home-untila-home. Memberships allow us to purchase medication, and keep our dogs and cats free of illnesses and parasites when the cold world of outdoor straydom would forsake them.

Beyond that even, memberships allow a dedicated and talented staff to find homes for our orphans. Not just any old homes, but high-quality, screened homes, which after adoption are filled by our counselors with information and follow-up assistance they need to provide for their new family member permanently.

Memberships help us to track lost pets back to their homes. They let us set up events like Adoptathons, Open Houses, and Channel 10 Pet Connection, and programs like the new CGHS website to give our homeless critters a

wider base of potential adopters. They allow us to set up outreach programs to local schools, which in turn provide for education on the treatment of companion animals.

You can talk with any of these children to see the positive influence they will have on the future for our furry friends!

I keep the faith that we will continue to see our organization’s membership grow, and from there, that we remain able to provide miracles every day for the pets who need them. You can be a part of this.

Although we’d all love to be out of a job for the lack of animals that need our services, it doesn’t promise to be anytime soon. We need your help. So do the animals.

We have many frisky, furry dogs and affectionate cats and kittens waiting in line right now to be the next on our adoption reports — just maybe it’s your home that’s on the other end!

Aaron Clause is an Administrative Assistant at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA Board of Directors. He may be contacted at cghsaaron@gmail.com.

PHOTO BY TIM KOCH

Participants enjoy an AWSMP-guided stream walk on snowshoes along Rochester Hollow in February 2019.

be somewhat challenging.

During the walk, educators from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County will share information about local streams and protecting water resources, and participants will investigate signs of local wildlife. There will be frequent stops to point out interesting features of the stream or to discuss environmental topics. Light refreshments will be

served.

Meet at the NYSDEC parking area at the end of Lower Birch Creek Road by 10 a.m.

The event is free of charge but space is limited. Register early to hold your spot. Register online at https://tinyurl. com/SnowshoeWalk or contact Linda Gonnella at the AWSMP office at lg457@cornell.edu or 845–688-3047 ext.

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In touch with my feminine side DASNY, SUNY announce

By Dick Brooks

WHITTLING AWAY

For Columbia-Greene Media

A good friend recently told me to stay in touch with my feminine side. I don’t think I want to — too much stress! I am very thankful that the Big Guy arranged for me to be male, probably because He realized what a rotten female I’d be.

I revel in my maleness and try to do it without any chauvinism. I believe firmly in equal rights and equal pay. I think we should bring back flogging for participants in any form of domestic violence. I’m a good guy and proud of it.

I do, however, believe in some instances where the sexes should be separated. There should be havens where there is an escape from all this togetherness stuff. I’m not comfortable going to a hair salon for a haircut. I prefer a barber shop with hair on the floor, sports on the TV and the smell of witch hazel in the air. They are getting harder to find.

New or strange big stores make me nervous since I don’t know where the men’s and women’s sections are. I like knowing where the tool section is and where the women’s clothing section is. I want to be in the tool, hardware, automotive or garden section. I don’t want to wander into the ladies’ undergarments section. I recently took a short cut at Walmart and suddenly found myself surrounded by acres of bras and frilly scanties of all kinds. Most uncomfortable! I don’t mind stores like Victoria’s Secret because I know I’m not going in. I do

DICK

BROOKS admit to doing a little window shopping out of the corner of my eye as I pass and can’t for the life of me see how Victoria can keep anything secret wearing those kinds of things.

Hardware stores are comfortable territory. They have few fluffy areas. Most grocery stores are safe also, but drugstores are a different thing.

My faithful canine companion, Telly, likes a daily outing. The highlight of his day is when we board our trusty steed, Ota the Toyota, and venture forth. Telly doesn’t care where we go as long as we go.

I asked The Queen of the castle if she had any wishes while we were out. She said she had some things she needed at the drugstore. She carefully wrote the directions on how to find them in the store and a full description of the items in great detail.

She frequently sends me on a quest with an empty box or bottle in my pocket so I’ll have some chance of returning with the proper item. It makes me feel childish, like when she makes me ask directions when we are lost, but I do realize the wisdom in such

things. Telly and I board Ota and head off to the drugstore, singing along with our favorite oldies station. They like it when I sing — they’re the only ones who do.

We arrive at the drugstore, Telly hops into the back seat and lays down for a quick nap while I shop.

The door slides open, I pull out my note and turn to the right as it directs. The lady section — what did The Queen request? Hair color (not that she needs it) and pantyhose. I drift around until I see the section for hair products, a whole aisle. I cruise up and down until I find the right brand. Hair comes in a few basic colors; blonde, brunette, black, red and white. That’s it, unless you call bald, pink.

There are hundreds of colors facing me and they have all kinds of names, there are colors named after foods, flavors of all kinds, weather conditions, fabrics, famous places, and just about anything else you can think of. I pull out the Queen’s choice and realizing how out of place a balding senior citizen looks picking out hair color products, I head for the cashier and home.

I told The Queen they were out of her flavor of pantyhose.

I’m proud of being a man but there’s just so much a man can take at one time.

Thought for the week — “A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.” — H.L. Mencken Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.com.

Church Briefs PRAYER AND WORSHIP

FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP NEW BALTIMORE — The Food and Fellowship Luncheon Program will be held noon-2 p.m. Feb. 12 at the New Baltimore Reformed Church, 52 Church St., New Baltimore. The menu (subject to change) is baked cod with macaroni and cheese, tossed salad and cherry puff pastries.

Following the meal there will be an informal folk and hymn musical duo from the Third Reformed Church in Albany appropriately named “Strings Attached,” with Mia Galva on auto harp and Sarah Hayes on ukulele. This luncheon is open to all members of the community. To facilitate planning, reservations are encouraged by the Sunday before the luncheon. To make reservations,

GREENPORT — Sacred Heart Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, pizza takeout noon-6 p.m. Feb. 7.

Pizza is $10, extra toppings, $1 each. Call 518-828-8775. Pick up between 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Bake at home also available.

GREENPORT — Sacred Heart Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, pizza takeout noon-6 p.m. March 6. Pizza is $10, extra toppings, $1 each. Call 518-828-8775.

Pick up between 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Bake at home also available.

ALBANY — The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) and the State University of New York (SUNY) announced the completion of a $2 million Health & Counseling Services Center on the University at Albany campus.

The center opened in time to welcome students for the spring semester. The relocation of the state-of-the-art facility to an on-campus location was part of a project to renovate Beverwyck and Schuyler Halls on the Dutch Quad. Together, the renovations totaled more than $33 million.

The project, which will provide students on-campus access to health, wellness, and psychological services, was financed with low-cost, tax-exempt bonds issued by DASNY as part of its SUNY Dormitory Facilities Program.

“DASNY is proud to partner with SUNY and deliver this truly exceptional quality care facility, the first of its kind to be completed on a SUNY campus,” said Reuben R. McDaniel, III, Acting DASNY President and CEO. “Our design and construction teams are at the forefront of creating healthy, meaningful spaces to empower students and help them in achieving academic success. DASNY is pleased to be a part of such a forward-thinking project.

The University at Albany’s

Health and Counseling Services will serve as a model for other campuses across the state.”

“Ensuring the wellness of our students continues to be a leading priority for SUNY, and this new building will enable our UAlbany clinicians to better meet the diverse and immediate health needs of our campus community.” said SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson.

“Our successful partnership with DASNY is resulting in a top-notch facility that delivers quality health care, so our students can thrive on campus and beyond.”

“The Health and Counseling Services Center is emblematic of UAlbany’s strong conviction that students’ health and well-being is key to their success,” said University at Albany President Havidán Rodríguez.

“This new, accessible, and state-of-the-art facility not only brings responsive medical and psychological services to where our students live and learn, but it will also provide them a wide range of holistic resources and training using evidence-based practices. I would like to thank DASNY and SUNY for their support in making this beautiful center possible, and congratulate UAlbany’s facilities team and our excellent staff for their amazing work in bringing this muchneeded facility to life.”

The Health and Counseling Services Center features provider offices, exam and triage rooms, a laboratory, on-site pharmacy and nurse’s station, as well as areas for workshops such as a napping class to help students improve their sleep quality. Other amenities include a kitchen and break room for staff, a meditation room, and a large group room with media capability for use during presentations and training sessions.

Finishes throughout the Center feature natural colors such as blue, green, gray and brown to promote a calming atmosphere for students, visitors, and staff.

The new Health and Counseling Services Center will maintain some of UAlbany’s nationally recognized programs, including mental health promotion and suicide prevention initiatives and the Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program.

The Middle Earth program is entering its fifth decade and provides peer counseling and hotline services to students struggling with drug and alcohol issues, relationship concerns, and eating disorders.

Students will also continue to receive medical, sexual, and gynecological health services from highly trained clinicians in a confidential and supportive environment.

Cairo-Durham seeks nominations for Mustang Pride Hall of Fame

EAST BERNE — The Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold an afternoon of prayer and worship beginning at 4 p.m. Feb. 1.

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call the church at 518-7568764 or email nbrchurch@ aol.com. Include name, contact number and number of reservations being made for this meal. If transportation or physical assistance is needed, leave that information as well.

Dining space is limited to 60 seats. Free will offerings are graciously accepted to offset food costs.

CAIRO — Do you know a person or community organization that has given extensive service to the Cairo-Durham Central School District?

Nominate them for the Mustang Pride Hall of Fame.

Nominees must have contributed to the improvement of Cairo-Durham CSD, with

extensive service through academics, athletics, coaching, teaching, administration, employment, volunteerism and/or community service. Nominees can be past or present staff members, school administrators, board of education members, students and community

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PASTA FAGIOLI GREENPORT — Sacred Heart/Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, will serve a pasta fagioli with sausage meat lunch and dinner on Feb. 20.

One quarter with bread and butter, $8. Call in orders 9 a.m.5:30 p.m. at 518-828-8775. Pick up between 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

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To submit nominations for the Mustang Pride Hall of Fame, visit www.cairodurham.org.

The chosen nominees will be honored at the third annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in April.

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

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

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PFAS From A1

Center in Cairo was among the sites sampled for PFAS, according to court papers. The study found 13.3 parts per trillion of PFAS in drinking water at the site.

Cairo’s public drinking water is supplied by a well at Angelo Canna Town Park, which is fed by groundwater, according to the town’s annual water report.

The training center is located on Mountain Avenue.

The 2018 annual water report found that the town’s levels of PFOS was 13.3 parts per trillion and after treatment, it was 11.3 parts per trillion. The water is treated with soda ash and chlorine, according to the report.

The EPA has a nonenforceable health advisory level of 70

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legislation that would set a goal for the nation to eliminate carbon emissions by 2050 and to identify what jobs are necessary to accomplish that feat by working with high schools and community colleges and developing PILOT programs, he said.

Tague, a former BOCES student, commended ColumbiaGreene Community College’s recent focus on vocational training.

“Not everyone is going to be a lawyer or a doctor” he said.

“Some people work better with their hands or their feet.”

OPIOID CRISIS Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky is working on developing a response to the opioid crisis similar to the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program, Linger said.

Tague said he was dismayed with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s lack of concern for the opioid crisis during the budget proposal.

“Just because the death rate

parts per trillion for PFAS, according to wqa.org.

“We do have it in our water, yes,” Town Supervisor John Coyne said. “Is it within state guidelines, yes. We test it daily and monthly. If it spikes to an alarming level, it is the town’s responsibility to make citizens aware we did have a spike.”

In July 2019, the state Department of Health proposed to set the legal limit for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water at 10 parts per trillion each, according to court papers.

If the new regulation is implemented, Cairo would be mandated to take the necessary steps to remedy the problem, Coyne said.

Local environmental watchdog Riverkeeper advocated for a combined limit of PFOA and PFOS at 2 parts per trillion, Water Quality Program Director Dan Shapley said.

“We felt they should have gone even further,” he said, adding that he believed particularly sensitive groups, such as infants, would benefit from a stricter regulation.

Municipalities can apply for state grants to mitigate the contamination if the levels are above the threshold, Shapley said.

PFAS samples were also taken at Damascus Road Landfill in East Quogue, Sullivan County Airport in Swan Lake, Dutchess County Fire Training Center in Hyde Park, Gotham Ink Corporation in Stony Point, Saint Lawrence Fire Training Center in Potsdam, the former IBM Semiconductor Facility in East Fishkill, the IBM Facility in Poughkeepsie, Nepera-Harriman in Harriman, Cascades Containerboard Packaging/ Frontier Chemical in Niagara Falls, Xerox Facility in Webster,

East Hampton Airport in Wainscott, Harmon Railroad Yard in Croton-on-Hudson, Poultney Street in Whitehall, Wyoming County Fire Training Center in Wethersfield, GE Powerex in Auburn, Sherwood Shoe in Rochester and Oswego County Airport in Fulton.

PFAS dissolve in water and spread readily throughout the environment, leaching into groundwater and drinking water, according to court documents.

PFAS can also spread, and bioaccumulate, by passing from a mother to a fetus through the placenta, or to an infant from breast milk, according to court papers.

In the lawsuit, the state alleges that 3M knew or should have known about the risks of PFAS. “In 1975, 3M concluded that PFOS was present in the blood

of the general population,” according to court papers. “Since PFOA/S is not naturally occurring, this finding should have alerted 3M to the possibility that their products were a source of this PFOS. The finding should have also alerted 3M to the possibility that PFOS might be mobile, persistent, bioaccumulative and biomagnifying, as those characteristics could explain the absorption of PFOS in blood from 3M’S products.”

In 1976, 3M found the contaminant in the blood of its employees, according to court papers.

In 1978, a study conducted by 3M showed that PFOA reduced the survival rate of fathead minnow fish eggs, according to court papers.

“Other studies by 3M in 1978 showed that PFOS and PFOA are toxic to rats and that PFOS is toxic to monkeys,” according

to court papers. “In one study in 1978, all monkeys died within the first few days of being given food contaminated with PFOS.” In 1983, 3M found that PFOS caused cancerous tumors in rats, according to court papers.

Both 3M and DuPont paid fines to the EPA for failing to disclose the health risks of their products, for $1.5 million and $10.25 million, respectively, according to court papers. In April 2016, the state Department of Environmental Conservation designated both PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances.

Former Regional EPA Administrator Judith Enck expressed concern over the news Friday.

“It is a serious concern and all water users should be informed,” Enck said. “Carbon filtration should be installed and the DEC should rapidly investigate the source of the pollution and get it cleaned up.”

or overdose rate has gone down, does not mean the problem is fixed,” he said.

Tague said he believes that federal funding for the opioid crisis should go directly to the communities that need it.

additional paramedic vehicle to its flycar system. The added vehicle will be stationed on the mountaintop. The county is also working on a new radio tower in Hunter, Linger said. “[The flycar] is a good addition,” Linger said. “Especially in a county that doesn’t have a hospital.”

Tague expressed his concern over the state of volunteer fire departments.

“We have a terrible problem with retention and membership,” he said. “These people do, do, do and don’t ask for anything, not even a pat on the back.”

If circumstances do not change, Tague said, he foresees a switch to paid ambulance and fire departments statewide.

“We cannot afford it,” he said.

“That’s $26 billion a year and 1,300 new firehouses and rescue squads.”

Although $12 million in funding has been proposed for emergency services, Tague said he would feel much better if it was $12 billion.

“This country was built on volunteerism,” Tague said.

Tague said he is working on

legislation to make these volunteers tax-exempt.

billion deficit, Tague suggested that more mindfulness is needed with the budget.

“It’s just like at your house,” he said. “You know what your bills are, you know how much you make. You know if you can afford to go out to dinner on a Friday night. We need to put the government on a diet.”

At the federal level, Delgado drafted legislation that will create one centralized website for small businesses to learn about the regulations they must comply with, he said.

Delgado also successfully passed the Family Farm Relief Act, which raises the eligibility requirements to file for bankruptcy.

Tague expressed his appreciation for Delgado’s dedication to the agricultural community.

“Agriculture is still the main driver for the economy in New York,” Tague said.

Tague said $27.5 million has been proposed for agriculture in the state budget proposal, Tague said.

Tague said.

“When businesses want to move into a community, they want to know: Do you have water and sewer set up?” he said.

Not having these services can make a community uninviting to people wanting to move to the area, he said.

Tague worked to secure an additional $100 million per year for five years for the Consolidated Highway and Street Improvement Program, which helps highway departments, he said.

“Our bridges and roads are in need of serious repair,” Tague said.

Tague said $5.5 billion in funding has been proposed for upstate roads and bridges.

Tague is also working on the Clean Water Infrastructure Investment Act, which is an $8 million revolving fund to be used for drinking water, stormwater and sewer water projects.

In Greene County, the Hunter Transfer Station is being rebuilt and improvements to come at the Coxsackie and Catskill locations, Linger said.

PUBLIC SAFETY Greene County is in the midst of constructing its new jail, which has an estimated substantial completion date of January 2021, Linger said.

The county is also developing bids to demolish the former jail and sheriff’s office at 80 Bridge St., he said.

In 2020, county lawmakers will try to address the area’s homeless population, which ranges in number from 17 to the low 50s, Linger said, adding that it is currently around 32.

The county puts up these individuals in motels throughout the county, Linger said.

“It’s an expensive system, and not a very effective system,” Linger said. “So that’s one of the things we’ll be working on in 2020, is to have a homeless shelter right here in Greene County.”

In terms of emergency services, the county is adding an

ECONOMY The local economy is doing very well, Linger said, adding that a recent report showed that the county boasts its highest employment numbers to date.

Additionally, five hotel projects are in the works in the county, which is unprecedented, Linger said. Two are in Coxsackie, one is on Main Street, Catskill, one is at the Catskill Golf Course and one is at the former site of the Quality Inn near Thruway Exit 21 in Catskill.

Tague expressed some concern that tax pressure from the state will increase on local governments.

“It will be tougher and tougher [for local governments] to meet the 2% tax cap,” he said.

The tax pressure can make New York an unsavory place to live.

“Since 2010, 1.2 million people have left,” Tague said.

“Some people say it’s the weather. Listen, it’s not the weather.

People are being taxed out of their properties, homes and businesses.”

In terms of the state’s $6.1

INFRASTRUCTURE Infrastructure can play a key role in attracting businesses and residents to a community,

Hinchey From A1

Greene County Democrats for their support and I’m looking forward to working with them to flip this seat.”

Greenberg said he is staying in the race and that he was not deterred by the committee’s decision to endorse his opponent.

Contributed photo He also explained his decision Candidate Michelle Hinchey addresses the Greene County not to attend the forum.

“Voters decide elections, not Democratic Committee, which voted to endorse her in the race for the party bosses and insiders,” the 46th state Senate District seat.

Greenberg said. “After being notified that the decision to en- with bail reform, or rather the survivors a vehicle to file civil dorse my opponent was made bail debacle that Democrats suits against their abusers.

During Thursday’s forum, before the election to endorse, implemented,” Bogardus said.

I decided I would continue to “We are more interested in Hinchey offered the audience a go directly to the voters and I protecting our citizens, and not brief introduction and then answered questions, followed by attended the Greene County criminals.”

The 46th District stretches the committee’s vote.

Chamber of Commerce to “Michelle Hinchey is a meet with local business lead- from Ulster County up through ers rather than a rigged political all of Greene and Montgomery compelling speaker, clearly counties, and parts of Albany knowledgeable on a wide range meeting.” of issues from economic deSo far, no Republican candi- and Schenectady counties.

Michelle Hinchey is the velopment to health care for dates have announced plans to seek the seat. The candidate fil- daughter of the late U.S. Rep. seniors and renewable energy ing deadline is April 2, according Maurice Hinchey. She lives in solutions,” said Anne Mitchell, Saugerties. vice chairwoman of the Greene to ballotpedia.org.

Greenberg, who lives in New County Democratic CommitGreene County Republican Chairman Brent Bogardus said Baltimore, spearheaded the tee.

The primary will be held the party is talking with possible movement to pass the Child Victims Act in New York state, Tuesday, June 23. Election Day candidates.

“No one has officially an- which gave child sexual abuse is Tuesday, Nov. 3. nounced, so we will defer to any potential candidates to [make an announcement] at the time of their choosing,” Bogardus said. “We are having conversations with people in the district and about their future, and I anticipate there will be an announcement in the near future.

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HUDSON — The annual Patroon Conference boys and girls basketball Coaches vs.

Cancer games will be played Saturday and Sunday at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Six games will be played on Saturday and four more on Sunday.

The weekend begins with the Chatham girls taking on Albany Leadership on Saturday at 11 a.m. The Chatham boys meet Germantown at 12:30 p.m., followed by Taconic Hills vs. Rensselaer girls at 2 p.m., Taconic Hills vs. Rensselaer boys at 3:30 p.m., CairoDurham vs. Greenville girls at 5 p.m. and Cairo-Durham vs.

Greenville boys at 6:30 p.m.

On Sunday, Maple Hill girls play Amsterdam at noon, Maple Hill boys play CoxsackieAthens at 1:30 p.m., Hudson girls take on Catskill at 3 p.m. and the weekend finale features the Hudson boys facing Catskill at 4:30 p.m.

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“Sportsmen are represented in every community, yet they are working individually or in disconnected groups in the interest of fish and game protection. They do not realize the tremendous waste of effort which takes place.

(Where) clubs have united, forming State organizations of sportsmen, clubs and individual(s) are receiving benefits which were impossible while they were working single handed.”

Does this sentiment sound familiar? Does it make you recall scenarios where wellmeaning sportsmen actually work against each other’s interests?

This statement lamenting the dangers of disunity while touting the benefits of a unified message could easily have been pulled from a recent hunting or fishing chat room. Actually, it’s from an article entitled, “Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs,” written in Syracuse, NY more than one hundred years ago in the April, 1909 issue of “Forest and Stream” (forerunner of “Field & Stream” magazine.)

Yet truer, more appropriate words were never spoken on the subject. The potential strength of sportsmen organized in large statewide organizations, acting with unity, power and resolve toward a common goal should not be underestimated.

In 2009, the future of pheasant hunting and stocking in NYS was on the line.

It was determined that the John White and Reynolds Game (pheasant rearing)

farms were to be closed; forever ending a pheasant stocking program that had been in place not too long after that 1909 article was written by the concerned outdoor writer; the one worried that a grass roots movement of hunter-conservationists that had just begun at the turn of the 19th century would founder in fragmented disunity under the weight of petty disagreements over this or that style of hunting or fishing and trapping. The future of hunting in NY, and in fact the nation, hung in the balance.

Fast forward 90 years to the crisis of losing our state pheasant rearing farms in NY. In 1999, the New York State Conservation Council (NYSCC), a collection of county sportsmen’s federations stepped forward, and speaking with one voice representing nearly 60 county federations that comprised its voting membership, stopped that from taking place.

While they did lose the John White Pheasant Farm, they saved Reynolds Game Farm which boasted stocking 50,000 pheasants in 2019.

Now while we can sulk over the reduced numbers of pheasants stocked compared to that time when both game farms were at their peak, NYSCC should remain proud of saving pheasant hunting in NY in 2009. They also played a critical role with their partners in saving the trout hatcheries from the chopping block, and continue to fight for sportsmen’s issues every day.

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Coxsackie-Athens 5, Cairo-Durham 0 CATSKILL — Damien Calvo rolled a 205-577 to lead Coxsackie-Athens to a 5-0 victory over Cairo-Durham in Thursday’s Patroon Conference bowling match.

For Cairo-Durham, Phil Decker was recognized before his last home match as a senior and responded with a 243 high game and a 682 series.

Chatham 5, Taconic Hills 0 GREAT BARRINGTON — Taconic Hills hosted Chatham in a Patroon Conference bowling match at The Cove and dropped a 5-0 decision.

Chatham’s total pinfall was 2,418 while Taconic Hills had 1,955. Taconic’s 3 game totals were 687, 606, and 671, while Chatham’s was 739, 902, 777.

Taconic Hills’ Cameron

Cashman, Boone sound off on the Astros’ sign-stealing scheme Bradford William Davis New York Daily News

NEW YORK — Though the extent of the Astros’ illegal sign-stealing system was only recently unfurled, Brian Cashman said he had long been suspicious of Houston’s schemes.

“We’ve done our due diligence and tried to do everything we could, and have done everything we can to try to protect our signs as much as

possible,” said the Yankees GM in an interview with the YES Network on Thursday. “We’ve continued to evolve over the course of time because of you know, concerns.”

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The moment was symbolic and emotional, the perfect glimpse into a future that has finally become the present for Eli Manning.

The legendary New York Giants quarterback had just finished what many believed would be the final postgame news conference of his career back in December, picked up his bag while walking off the podium and quickly exited the interview room.

Reporters and cameras scrambling in his wake, Manning hustled through a crowded MetLife Stadium hallway when he was met unexpectedly by three oncoming rushers.

The best part is what happened next: a player whose job for 16 years was to avoid such a situation did not even try to dodge them.

No. 10 took the sack, shared by his three daughters: Ava Frances, 8, Lucy Thomas, 6, and Caroline Olivia, 5. Abby, his wife, held their 10-month old son, Charlie Elisha, and watched from a few yards away, smiling.

That was the point where it seemed like retirement started to feel right for Eli Manning.

That day he took the final snap of a decorated career and left the stadium not only with a victory, but with his family by his side — the

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ultimate snapshot of a football life well lived, perhaps foreshadowing even greater things to

come.

Forty days later, the 39-year-old Manning

will officially announce that he is retiring from the game at a news conference at 11 a.m. Friday.

His legacy is complicated, and the debate over his Pro Football Hall of Fame candidacy will surely continue because, well, that’s what we do with everything nowadays.

He is seventh all time in passing yards and passing touchdowns — more in both categories than Hall of Famers John Elway and Joe Montana. He has seven seasons of more than 4,000 yards passing and three with more than 30 touchdown passes.

His streak of durability is incredible, with 210 consecutive starts, second all time to Brett Favre when it ended in 2017, and he never missed a game due to injury.

He bested Tom Brady and Bill Belichick on the biggest stage in sports not once but twice, winning the Most Valuable Player award in Super Bowl XLII and again in Super Bowl XLVI four years later.

There were those remarkable highs and shake-your-head lows — Manning led the league in interceptions three times — and his career regular season record of 117-117 speaks to the mediocrity that has defined Giants football for much of the past decade.

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LeBron, Giannis named All-Star captains as starters revealed Field Level Media

Forwards LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo repeated as captains for next month’s NBA All-Star Game, the league announced Thursday, with the NBA also revealing the 10 players who will start.

The All-Star Game will pit Team LeBron vs. Team Giannis on Feb. 16 at the United Center in Chicago. As captains of the teams, both James and Antetokounmpo will get to select their own teams regardless of conference or team affiliation, with the televised draft occurring on Feb. 6.

Joining James, who moved

into third place all-time among career All-Star selections with 16, among frontcourt starters named from Western Conference teams are his Lakers teammate Anthony Davis (seventh AllStar berth) and L.A. Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard (fourth). The starting guards from the West are Houston Rockets eight-time AllStar James Harden and the 20-year-old Doncic (first) of the Dallas Mavericks.

Coaching Team LeBron will be Lakers head coach Frank Vogel and his staff.

After their 128-113 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night, the 36-9 Lakers have an .800

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LeBron James totaled 27 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists as the Los Angeles Lakers pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 128-113 victory over the struggling Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night in New York.

James posted his 91st career triple-double and 10th this season as the Lakers won for the 12th time in 14 games in front of a crowd that featured former President Bill Clinton and many Los Angeles fans. James exited to a standing ovation from many fans after checking out for good with 4:42 remaining and the Lakers up 23.

James shot 11 of 19 from the floor as the Lakers shot 50 percent overall and hit a season-high 19 3-pointers. James ended the game at 33,626 points, 17 behind Kobe Bryant for third on the all-time scoring list. His next chance at passing Bryant will be Saturday in Philadelphia.

Anthony Davis added 16 points and 11 rebounds to help the Lakers to a 52-41 rebounding margin. Kyle Kuzma also added 16 as the Lakers got 55 points from their bench.

Kyrie Irving scored 20 points but it was not enough as the Nets dropped their fifth straight game and fell to 2-12 in their last 14 games.

Taurean Prince added 18 while Caris LeVert contributed 16 as the Nets shot 44 percent and lost despite hitting 21 3-pointers.

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Davis Bertans scored 17 points to avenge a porous performance in Washington’s 113-100 loss to Cleveland on Nov. 8. Ish Smith chipped in 17 points for the Wizards, who shot 55.3 percent from the field (47 of 85) and 44.4 percent from 3-point range (16 of 36) to improve to 6-18 on the road this season.

Collin Sexton highlighted his 29-point performance by making 10 of 15 shots from the floor for the Cavaliers, who have lost six in a row and 11 of their last 13 games.

Larry Nance Jr. collected a career-high-tying 22 points along with 12 rebounds while Kevin Love added 21 points for Cleveland.

Mavericks 133, Blazers 125 Luka Doncic was named as an All-Star starter for the first time, and the 20-yearold celebrated by posting 27 points and nine assists to lead Dallas past host Portland.

Doncic was one of seven Mavericks to score in double digits, with Kristaps Porzingis contributing 20 points, and Jalen Brunson and Seth Curry adding 17 points apiece as Dallas won for the fifth time in the past six games.

Damian Lillard made eight 3-pointers and had 47 points and eight assists for Portland as part of a stellar two-game run. He set franchise records of 61 points and 11 3-pointers in Monday’s overtime win against the Golden State Warriors. Trevor Ariza added a season-best 21 points in his first game with the Trail Blazers after being acquired from the Sacramento Kings.

winning percentage and have clinched at least a tie for the Western Conference’s best record for games to be played through Feb. 2.

Only the Utah Jazz (31-13, .705) have a remote chance to tie the Lakers. But Vogel earns the tiebreaker (better head-to-head record) over Utah coach Quin Snyder for the All-Star coaching honor since the Lakers are 2-0 against the Jazz this season.

Among Eastern Conference starters, Antetokounmpo is accompanied by frontcourt members Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers (third All-Star appearance) and the Toronto Raptors’ Pascal Siakam (first).

The East guards who will start are Kemba Walker (fourth) of the Boston Celtics and Trae Young (first) of the Atlanta Hawks.

James, who has helped the Los Angeles Lakers to the best record in basketball (359 entering Thursday), held off a charge from the secondyear phenom Doncic as the top vote-getter by fans in the Western Conference.

It marks the third straight year that James, averaging 25.1 points, 7.6 rebounds and an NBA-best 10.8 assists per game this season, has led all players in All-Star votes.

The only players who have received more All-Star selections than James are Kareem

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Abdul-Jabbar (19) and Kobe Bryant (18).

With his 16th start, James will top the mark he currently shares with Bryant.

Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Bucks star and reigning NBA MVP Antetokounmpo topped all Eastern Conference players among fan votes. Antetokounmpo ranks second in the league in scoring (30.0 points per game) and is tied for fifth in

rebounds (12.9 per game).

Fans account for 50 percent of the vote to determine the 10 starters. All current NBA players and a media panel each account for 25 percent of the vote, with every voter completing one full ballot featuring two guards and three frontcourt players from each conference.

The All-Star reserves will be announced on Jan. 30.

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ST. LOUIS – The “Battle of Alberta” seems unlikely to carry over to the NHL All-Star Game on Saturday night.

Agitating Calgary Flames winger Matthew Tkachuk is on the Pacific Division team with forwards Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl of the archrival Edmonton Oilers.

“They are great players,” Tkachuk said. “This isn’t an event to talk about stuff like (the rivalry). This is an event where the best players in the sport are coming here and playing on the same team and going out and having some fun, putting on a show for the fans.”

Tkachuk recently drew the Oilers’ ire with a couple of big hits on Zack Kassian. When Kassian challenged him to a fight on Jan. 11, Tkachuk declined. Kassian punched away anyway, earning a twogame NHL suspension.

Draisaitl suggested he would leave the ice rather

than take a shift with Tkachuk in the All-Star Game.

“It’s such a different atmosphere here, you will be able to put it aside,” said Flames defenseman Mark Giordano, another Pacific team member. “We’re all professional, everybody is going to be professional about it.”

–Matthew Tkachuk and Brady Tkachuk grew up here watching their father, Keith, a two-time All-Star and mainstay for the St. Louis Blues.

They went on to become cornerstone players for the Flames and Ottawa Senators, respectively. Now they are back at Enterprise Center to enjoy their first NHL All-Star Weekend.

Brady was a late addition, subbing in for injured Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews. He was planning on coming home anyway to support Matthew, but he had to cut short his vacation to play.

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“It was pretty surreal to get that call,” Brady said. “I was

in the Bahamas yesterday, so it was a little bit different

Rick Tocchet is coaching the Pacific team in place of fired Vegas Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant. That was the NHL’s seventh coaching change this season.

“This year has been probably worse than most, which is unfortunate,” said Blues coach Craig Berube, who is coaching the Central team.

“It’s hard to watch, to be honest with you.”

Tocchet, who was once fired by the Tampa Bay Lightning, noted that coaching has changed.

“More than ever, your team and the players have to be a partnership,” Tocchet said. “It’s not a dictatorship.

More coaches are understanding that now. They have to make sure that they are on the same page as the players, and that the players have a say.”

weather. But I’m so happy to be home.”

The Tkachuks have a treasure trove of photos of Matthew and Brady as youngsters, posing with the NHL’s biggest names.

“It was just awesome, getting pictures and getting to know a bunch of guys and looking up to some of those guys that were there, (and we) are here now,” Brady said. “It’s unreal that we’re doing it.”

–Also enjoying a homecoming is Washington Capitals forward T.J. Oshie. He was a fan favorite during his tenure with the Blues from 2008-09 to 2014-15.

“I got in a little trouble here when I was younger and no one turned their back on me,” Oshie said. “They’ve always been so great to me, and I think that’s why it makes it so special to be back here in St. Louis and play in my first All-Star Game here.”

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NEW YORK — “Baseball needs this.”

As longtime baseball reporters, MLB executives and members of the Yankees organization gathered Wednesday afternoon in the ballroom of the St. Regis Hotel to see Derek Jeter and Larry Walker put on their Hall of Fame jerseys and hats for the first time, everyone kept whispering to each other “Baseball really needs this now.”

After an offseason where the sport was shaken by the Astros electronic sign-stealing scandal — the biggest cheating scheme that has been exposed since the 1919 Black Sox — baseball lifers were hoping that the celebration of Jeter would turn the page. Jeter was the last true superstar in the game; name another baseball player who crossed into pop culture like Jeter.

The hope is that this focus on the former Yankee captain, whose name was almost always attached to the phrase “played the game the right way,” would put some makeup on the bruises that baseball took this winter.

Jeter, who will be inducted into Cooperstown July 26, is now a part-owner and CEO of the Miami Marlins. He’s acutely aware of the threat to the game this scandal poses.

After a 20-year career that included playing through baseball’s steroid scandal, Jeter was confident that the game will grow, even after this.

“I took a lot of pride in playing the game hard and doing my job every day and being consistent and you know, caring about one particular

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There are 62 counties in NYS. Speaking with Chuck Parker, President of the NYSCC, only 44 of NY’s 62 counties are currently members of the council. Chuck said that just ten years ago the number of county federations was in the mid 50’s and likely were pushing 60 member federations, ten years before that when they saved the Reynolds Game Farm.

That article from 1909 is just as relevant today as it was 111 years ago. Today, as

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Brizzie had the team high triple with a 402, while Chatham’s Andrew Duso had a 481 triple, with a game high score of 215.

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mostly concerning their 2017 World Championship season and confirmed many of their findings. The Red Sox are currently under league investigation for comparable sign-stealing allegations made regarding their 2018 season.

One particularly difficult confirmation: Houston used their sign-stealing operation against the Yankees during the 2017 ALCS, a closely-contested series that the Astros won in

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But years from now, when Brady and Belichick are being lauded for the greatest run for a quarterback and coach combination in NFL history, just remember the part Manning has played in those legacies.

Critics will say the Giants’ defenses that featured Hall of Famer Michael Strahan, Osi Umenyiora, Justin Tuck and Jason Pierre-Paul carried Manning to those titles.

Yet that could not be further from the truth. If anything, it was Manning who raised his level in the playoffs en route to both Super Bowls, including

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thing, and that was trying to help our team win,” Jeter said. “That’s the bottom line. Look, you know, there’s situations that the sport has gone through throughout its history and times it can seem pretty ugly. I also understand that people make mistakes. And unfortunately you have to pay for those mistakes, but I think the

it was then, sportsmen and women are called to coalesce into strong county federations with statewide representation within the NYSCC. NYSCC President Chuck Parker issued a call to recruit all federations to join them in facing the many challenges together with renewed solidarity. He announced big changes coming to their website this month with links to social media to facilitate communication among sportsmen throughout the state. Consider his call for unity, especially in these turbulent political times.

While it’s perfectly natural to disagree on issues of focus and rules about legal take or

one method of taking fish and game over another, it’s absolutely critical, in my opinion, to focus on what sportsmen DO agree upon, and work together toward that common goal.

Sportsmen and women need to seek the common ground, agree to disagree, and make sure you never work at cross purposes and against each other. Such behavior emboldens enemies of hunting, fishing, trapping, and the shooting sports. It simultaneously displays a weak, fractured, movement making it easy to be ignored by those in power.

It’s clear to me that continued and renewed

PATROON Voorheesville 3, Taconic Hills 2 CRARYVILLE — Voorheesville slipped past Taconic Hills, 3-2, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference volleyball match.

Taconic Hills won the first two games, 25-21 and 26-24, but Voorheesville swept the

next three, 25-13, 25-15 and 15-10 to win the match.

For Taconic Hills, Adonias Mercado had 10 digs, 5 kills and 4 aces; Ryan Wilson 7 kills, 2 blocks and 2 assists; Isaac Langer 8 digs, 3 kills, 2 aces and 1 block and Chris Cortwright 4 kills, 3 digs, 1 block and 1 ace.

seven games.

After reading MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s report, Aaron Boone wrestled with the news. “It’s disappointing.

Frustrating. Frankly, I spent a couple days trying to get my head wrapped around the emotions that I was feeling about it,” said Boone.

Hired after the Yankees’ disappointing finish in 2017, Boone’s Bombers lost to Houston, again, in the 2019 ALCS. Both Cashman and Boone expressed their confidence that sign stealing was being eradicated by the league.

“Baseball is now

determined — with the strongest instance of Mike Fiers coming forward and being a whistleblower — to really shed light on some of the things that were occurring down in Houston,” Cashman said.

Boone referred to MLB’s investigation and suspensions of A.J. Hinch and Jeff Luhnow as “significant steps” towards evening the playing field. “(The penalties) will get us to a point where we have a much cleaner, more, much more fair game between the lines,” said Boone. “And that’s where we want things decided anyway.”

unforgettable performances on the road in five of those steps to the Big Game.

That, in and of itself, is worthy of a Hall of Fame bust in Canton, Ohio.

How beloved is Manning by many Giants fans?

When you call him the greatest quarterback in the 95-year history of the franchise, somehow that is perceived as a slight because, in their eyes, he is so much more.

And in some ways, they are right.

“For 16 seasons, Eli Manning defined what it is to be a New York Giant both on and off the field,” co-owner and team president John Mara said, adding: “He represented our franchise as a consummate professional with dignity

and accountability. It meant something to Eli to be the Giants quarterback, and it meant even more to us.”

The amazing part of Manning’s longevity with the Giants, and perhaps the most frustrating part, is that he was largely a myth for teammates in recent years.

Those who won with Eli were long gone, replaced by younger ones who watched him win on TV, but did not win with him.

The respect was always there, but there’s a different bond for the Giants of the Super Bowls of 2007 and 2011 and the players who have come through since.

You stay for 16 years, you’re a part of multiple generations.

Manning was present for

game is gonna move on obviously, and it’s gonna be in a better place for it.”

It’s going to take time for trust in the game to be restored.

Jeter was elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot, which still includes the remnants of anger and frustration over that solidarity among all sportsmen and women is needed for success in the common purpose to ensure a bright future for hunting, fishing, trapping and the shooting sports in New York. Happy Hunting, Fishing and Trapping until next time.

NEWS AND NOTES Canaan Conservation Club’s 21st Annual Hardwater Fishing Derby This event will take place on February 15 from 6 a.m.-1 p.m. at Queechy Lake, Canaan, NY. Register online starting January 15 at https:// canaanconservationclub. weebly.com/ or, in-person at 6 a.m. on the day of the event

steroid era. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds barely gained any votes this year, their eighth on the ballot. Clemens won seven Cy Youngs and Bonds won seven MVPs; both were firstballot Hall of Famers before getting caught up in accusations of PED use.

Their statistics would have made them shooins for the Hall of Fame and neither ever failed a drug test that we know of. The mistrust of that era and circumstantial evidence, however, casts doubt on them and their era, which continues for the voters to this day. They have two more years on the ballot to see if voters can finally come to terms with the steroid era.

In 2023, we’ll begin to see if this electroniccheating scandal will have a long-term effect on the game and the players involved.

In the fallout from the MLB report on the Astros’ “player-driven” sign-stealing, Carlos Beltran’s name and reputation were changed. He was forced out as Mets manager before he even managed a spring training game.

Beltran — the only player named in the report — will be the first player from that Astros 2017 World Series team on the ballot, starting in 2023. It will be the first chance to gauge how the scandal skewed the view of what was his borderline Hall of Fame career.

The celebration of Jeter, the biggest name in the game on the last dynasty in baseball, will give baseball some much needed shine in a season that will be dealing with the fallout of the cheating scandal. It will take years, however, for the game to be in a better place for it, like Jeter said it would.

at Adams Point Beach. Entry fee for adults 16 and over is $15 and $5 for kids 15 and under.

Three cash prizes for largest trout, perch, pickerel, and crappie with a gas powered auger standing in for the grand prize. Other prizes include hand augers, tip-ups and jigging poles. For more information contact Julia Horst at 518-567-4302 or by email at canaanconservationclub@yahoo.com Save the Date: February 15, 2020 The Catskill Mountain F&G Club/Stony Clove F&G Club Youth Ice Fishing Derby The date for this event is scheduled for Saturday, February 15th; ice conditions

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Sign-in begins at 9 a.m. with youth fishing from 10 a.m.noon. There will be prizes for all kids attending, plus refreshments will be available.

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China’s Wang Qiang beat Serena Williams in the third round of the U.S. Open on Friday, upsetting the No. 8 seed 6-4, 6-7 (2), 7-5.

The No. 27 seed will next face Ons Jabeur in the fourth round, after the Tunisian beat Caroline Wozniacki in what turned out be Wozniacki’s final professional match.

Wang won despite numerous blown opportunities, including failing to close out Williams when serving for the match in the second set, losing three of four service points in the second-set tiebreaker, and blowing double-match point in the final game before finally closing it out on deuce, her third match point of the day.

“I’m really happy now, still happy,” Wang said in her post-match news conference. “I always believe I can do this one day. But I don’t know which day, but it’s coming today.

While Williams dominated in

the best and worst the Giants have been.

Hall of Famer Harry Carson suffered a similar fate with the Giants in the late 1970s. His career was almost a complete reversal of what Manning lived through: unfathomable losing early followed by greatness late that culminated in Super Bowl XXI in 1987 and the first of four Vince Lombardi trophies for the franchise.

Manning played a significant role in bringing home two of those for Big Blue.

Manning will forever be linked with Ben Roethlisberger of the Steelers and Philip Rivers of the Chargers — three iconic quarterbacks drafted in the Class of 2004. All three can make their Hall of Fame case, even though Rivers is without

first-serve points won (71 percent to 48) and winners (14-7), she committed 21 unforced errors to Wang’s nine.

“I just made far too many errors to be a professional athlete today,” Williams told the media in her post-match news conference.

“If we were just honest with ourselves it’s all on my shoulders; I lost that match. ... I can’t play like that. I literally can’t do that again. It’s unprofessional and it’s not cool.”

Williams, a seven-time winner in the Australian Open, is still seeking her 24th career Grand Slam victory and first since the 2017 Australian Open.

The two had met only once previously, with Williams nearly posting a doublebagel with a 6-1, 6-0 win in the quarterfinals of the 2019 U.S. Open. They were also scheduled to meet in the third round of the Miami Open last year but Williams withdrew with a knee injury before they could play.

the two Super Bowl rings Manning and Roethlisberger have won in their respective tenures.

Considering what has transpired in their respective markets, neither Roethlisberger nor Rivers would have survived New York and had the success here Manning did.

The trio ended up where they were supposed to end up.

Manning was destined for the Big Apple, and he made sure of that, his desire not to play in San Diego having helped orchestrate a draft day trade that brought the No. 1 overall pick from Ole Miss to the Giants.

“It’s easy to say the championships, and I think those are special memories,” Manning said when asked of what

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he is most proud during his career. “I think just the work every day, came in committed to getting better and finding ways to win games and to improve myself and improve my teammates. I’m proud of the friendships and being a good teammate to all the guys that came in here. Trying to help out anybody who needed help and work. I think the commitment was there and sometimes you got the result, sometimes you didn’t. I think I always gave myself, this team and this organization everything I had.”

Which is why Manning’s legacy as a giant among Giants will last forever.

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NOTICE OF HEARING TOWN OF LIVINGSTON ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that at 7:06 P.M. on Tuesday February 4, 2020, the Town of Livingston Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing at the Livingston Town Hall, 119 County Route 19, Livingston, New York pursuant to the Livingston Town Zoning Law. The subject of the hearing will be an appeal of a decision of the Code Enforcement Officer in regard to the telecommunications tower project of Eger Communications Inc. on Eger Road in the Town of Livingston.

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By order of the Clerk of the Board, Kelly S. Baccaro January 22, 2020 NOTICE TO BANKING INSTITUTIONS Sealed proposals will be received by the Common Council of the City of Hudson, N.Y., at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 520 Warren St, Hudson, at or before 4:00 P.M., on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 from banking houses in the City of Hudson to act as depository of the public monies of said city for a term of two years from and after May 1, 2020.

The proposals shall state the rate of interest, if any, which the bidders will pay to the City of Hudson on the total daily balances standing to the credit of said city.

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Tracy S. Delaney City Clerk TOWN OF TAGHKANIC NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF TAX ROLL AND WARRANT TAKE NOTICE, that I Cheryl E. Rogers, the undersign Collector of Taxes of the Town of Taghkanic, County of Columbia and State of New York, have duly received the tax roll and warrant for the collection of taxes within the Town of Taghkanic for the Year 2020, and that I will receive said taxes at 483 County Route 15, (Taghkanic) during regular business hours Monday thru Friday 9 am to 4 pm and for the month of January Saturday 9 am to Noon.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that taxes may be paid on or before January 31, 2020 without charges or interest.

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1% if paid before the last day of February 29 2% if paid before the last day of March 31 3% + $2.00 if paid before April 30 4% + $2.00 if paid before May 31 TAKE FURTHER NOTICE, that pursuant to the provisions of law the tax roll of the Town of Taghkanic will be returned to the County Treasurer of the County Columbia on the 1st day of June 2020.

Cheryl E. Rogers Town Clerk/Collector Town of Taghkanic Link to Town Website: www.taghkanic.org NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Cairo-Durham Central School Districtinvites the submission of Sealed Bid Proposals to furnish materials and labor to complete theRoof Reconstruction Project Cairo Durham Elementary School all in accordance with the plans and specifications for the following categories of work: ROOFING CONSTRUCTION

Sealed Bid Proposals will be received until 2:00 p.m.prevailing time on February 13, 2020,at the School District Office, 424 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413, (518) 622-8534 bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

Any bid may be withdrawn without prejudice prior to the official bid opening time or any publicized postponement thereof.

Any bid received after the time and date stated above will be returned to the bidder unopened.

The bid documents and contract documents may be examined at the office of MOSAIC ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS, The Frear Building,2 Third Street, Suite 440, Troy, New York12180, telep h o n e (518) 479-4000.Digital Bidding Documents: Complete digital sets of Bidding Documents may be obtained online as a download for a forty-nine ($49.00) non-refundable deposit at Mosaic Associates Architects website:http://www.mosaicaaprojects.comunder 'Current Projects.’ Hardcopy Bidding Documents: One (1) complete set of hardcopy Bidding Documents may be obtained from REVPlans thru Mosaic Associates Architects website http://www.mosaicaaprojects.com, 330 Route 17A, Suite #2, Goshen, New York 10924; Tel: (845) 978-4736, upon deposit of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each combined set of documents. Checks or money orders shall be made payable to Cairo-Durham Central School District. Any bidder requiring documents to be shipped shall make arrangements with REV and pay for all packaging and shipping costs.

The deposit will be refunded ONLY to those bidders who submit a bona fide bid proposal in accordance with the terms in the “Information for Bidders� and who return a complete set of Bidding Documents in COMPLETE, UNMARKED, and NOT TORN condition to REV within thirty (30) days after the award of contract(s) covered by such Bidding Documents, or the rejection of such bid(s). Nonbidders, including material-men and subcontractors, as well as plan holders who do not submit bid proposals, WILL NOT be eligible for a refund.

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need to make the determination if hard copies of the addenda are required for their use, and coordinate directly with REV for hard copies of addenda to be issued. There will be no charge for registered plan holders to obtain hard copies of the bid addenda.

Each bidder must deposit with his bid, security in the form and subject to the conditions provided in the "INFORMATION FOR BIDDERS".

Attention of bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to conditions of employment to be observed and to the minimum wage rates to be paid under the contracts.

No bidder may withdraw his bid within 45 days after the date of the opening of bids.

The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informalities or defects in such bid either before or after opening.

By Order of Board of Education Cairo–Durham Central School District Bridget Agostinoni Clerk PROCEDURE FOR ACCESS TO BUILDING TO EXAMINE SITE OF WORK Bidders are required to inspect the work locations before submitting bids.

This can be done any Monday through Friday, except holidays, during hours when there will be School District Staff Personnel in the building.

Unless directed otherwise, immediately upon entering the building, report to the School Office.

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Building may be inspected by bidders at pre-arranged times during normal school hours. To make arrangements for inspection, call: Kevin Lawton, Director of Facilities, 518-622-8534.

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Real Estate 209 TOWN OF TAGHKANIC PUBLIC NOTICE Auditing of Books PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on Monday February 10, 2020 at 6 pm the Taghkanic Town Board will be auditing the books of the town Clerk/Collector, and the CFO at the Town Hall, Route 82, Taghkanic, NY, with its regular monthly meeting to follow.

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Last November, on the eve of his team fielding an unprecedented three of the four cars eligible for the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series championship trophy, Joe Gibbs sat alongside his team’s former driver – now championship rival team owner – Tony Stewart and reminisced about their time together.

Stewart won two of his three Cup titles driving for Joe Gibbs Racing and the two men smiled and patted one another on the back as they shared their fondest memories of working together with an audience of rapt media members.

They laughed. They told tales. They spoke about the many triumphs and happy times and teased about overcoming the inevitable challenges of their large personalities.

And of course, each of these two great competitors wanted to beat the other.

The next day, Gibbs raised his fifth NASCAR Cup Series championship trophy after Kyle Busch drove to his second Cup title with his JGR teammates Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin finishing runner-up and fourth.

Next week all of NASCAR will be celebrating Gibbs again, this time as a new member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame during the Jan. 31 formal induction ceremony in Charlotte, N.C. As it turns out, Gibbs will – perhaps fittingly – have the three-time Cup champ Stewart and Bobby Labonte, who won the 2000 Cup title driving for Gibbs, as Hall of Fame classmates.

Waddell Wilson and the late Buddy Baker round out the Hall’s 2020 class of five.

“Well obviously, it’s a thrill for me and what you think about when something like this happens is, I get pushed out front, but I think about all the people that built the race team and are a part of it,” Gibbs said upon receiving his selection news last May - deferring as usual to those who work on his team.

“I think about the people and I am thankful.”

This year has been particularly challenging for Gibbs and his family. He lost his son JD, 49, who served as the team president, last January after a lengthy illness. But Gibbs and the team have already been lifted by JD Gibbs’ legacy.

Busch’s championship is the organization’s fifth and it was a fitting conclusion to a season that featured a third Daytona 500 trophy to open the year and ultimately the most wins (19) earned by a single team in a single season in the Modern Era (1972-Present).

Gibbs now has 341 national series wins - the most by any team in NASCAR history. And all four JGR Cup Series drivers - Busch, Truex, Hamlin and Erik Jones - hoisted trophies last year.

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Team owner Joe Gibbs watches a monitor during the Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The 2019 season was certainly the exclamation point to a humble beginning in the sport.

Dale Jarrett, a 2014 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee, was the first driver Gibbs hired in 1992 when the former Super Bowl-winning coach decided to launch a NASCAR career too. Jarrett earned the JGR team the first of its 176 Cup wins in the 1993 Daytona 500 – one of the most iconic moments in NASCAR. It was a momentous afternoon providing the former Washington Redskins head coach the assurance that his racing venture was the right call.

“He might be the first person to come into the sport as a car owner and had a sponsor lined up before he had anything done,” Jarrett recalled. “Not many do that.

“That tells you just how good he is and how motivated he is once he gets to that point he wants to make something happen.

“You talk about humble beginnings. He sat (Jarrett’s crew chief) Jimmy Makar and I down and said, ‘Look, I’ve borrowed $800,000 and that’s all I’m borrowing. If we can’t make this thing get up and going ... I’ll shut this down and chalk it up to a bad investment. But hopefully we make it happen.’

“And he has built this 500-plus employee business up from literally 18 people that first year and an $800,000 loan. It’s just incredible.”

Added Jarrett, “Once you get to know Joe Gibbs you realize he’s going to be successful

at whatever he does but this was a venture he had no idea really how to go about things.

So, he was relying on people - just as he did when he was coaching – he had good people around him to get the best players and put his plan in place.

“It was kind of the same thing with this when he got into racing.”

The approach – Gibbs’ philosophy and his great faith – soon transitioned from new venture to championship caliber standardsetter. After Jarrett, who competed for the team’s first three seasons (1992-94), Gibbs hired the 1991 Busch Grand National (now Xfinity Series) champion Bobby Labonte in 1995.

Labonte spent 11 years with Gibbs winning the 2000 NASCAR Cup Series championship and their fellow 2020 NASCAR Hall of Fame classmate Stewart contributed another two titles to the Gibbs organization in 2002 and 2005.

With Labonte and Stewart, Gibbs’ team during those seasons from the mid-1990s to late 2000s were perennial championship favorites - claiming race trophy after race trophy. It was high octane performance in some of the sport’s most celebrated days. And it remains so today.

It was also good preparation - a test for the coach who was enjoying great results but managing a team of big personalities.

“I used to try and get to the hauler as fast

as I could if he (Stewart) had a bad night because he was going to tear up the inside of the hauler,” Gibbs joked with Stewart in that championship pre-race news conference at Homestead.

The two exchanged stories, long looks, laughter and pats on the back while sharing tales of their pairing. And then Stewart got serious.

“I learned a lot from this guy in the years I was there,” Stewart said, turning in his seat to speak directly to Gibbs. “I’ve said it a million times, if I didn’t work for him, I wouldn’t be where I’m at now.

“I wouldn’t be doing the things that I’m doing now. I wouldn’t be in debt like I am now,” he said allowing a smile. “And I blame it all on you Joe. “But it’s great to have worked with somebody like him because he has worked with so many great people. It’s not something you always see at the race track.

“A lot of it pertains to everyday life, too and when you get a chance to sit with him long enough and when you shut your mouth and listen, spend more time listening than talking you can learn a lot from this guy and I promise you, it helps.”

Certainly with Gibbs’ upcoming NASCAR Hall of Fame induction and his 1996 Pro Football Hall of Fame induction, this 79-year-old natural born leader from tiny Mocksville, N.C. - where Daniel Boone’s father Squire once served as Justice of the Peace - has proven the kind of leader that great drive, abundant faith can produce.

With Jarrett already in the great Hall, Labonte and Stewart joining Gibbs, next week’s honor will likely feel as comfortable as it is so deserved.

“You couldn’t write a book and have this happen,” Labonte said of this Hall of Fame class. “I just sit back and reflect on the times with Joe and it’s awesome we’re all three going in at the same time.

“You just couldn’t ask for anything better than that.”

For all the record number of trophies, major races won and championship celebrations, Gibbs’ most endearing legacy to the sport may well be his philosophy and leadership. His heart and mind - his ability to motivate and to embrace the joy in a job well done.

“He helped me as a driver and I’m pretty sure that Bobby (Labonte), Tony (Stewart), Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin would tell you he just makes you a better person,” Jarrett said.

“He gives you the tools to be a better driver but just conversations with him - if you listen, pay attention and just watch his reactions then you become a better person.”

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New hire is not happy working as a gofer Dear Abby, I recently landed a new job and was excited about doing work that would be directly in line with my education and background. I left a job of more than a decade to pursue this field. My problem is, I’m being asked to carry lugDEAR ABBY gage, make coffee, run errands, etc. This was not in my job description, nor was it what I was hired for.

Abby, I have worked many intern positions. I do not believe I am too good for any job, but I have worked my way up and have abilities that could contribute greatly to this company. What they have me doing now is not beneficial for me or them.

If you believe I should say something, what should it be? I’m afraid they can easily find a substitute who may perform these tasks, as they aren’t every day, but it’s often enough to make me uncomfortable. It’s a small company, and my pay is good, so I don’t want to leave. Please advise me, Abby.

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

I see nothing wrong with having a discussion with your employer. However, because you are so new to the job, it should be done delicately. Tell the person you feel you could be contributing more to the company than you are currently doing, but do not complain about the menial tasks.

It often falls to the newest member of the team to do these things, and the last thing you want is to be perceived as someone who is not a team player. In time you will see if this job is the right fit for you.

Dear Abby, My dad died of cancer a couple of months ago. While we were a bit estranged, I did love him, and his loss was painful. Despite this, I

have accepted things and moved on.

The issue is that anytime I talk to my friends about it, they assume I’m really in shock. My friends are older, so I suspect they think it’s because I’m only 22, but it’s frustrating that they disregard my personal growth and the way I’ve dealt with his death.

I realize I have moved on fairly quickly, but the way I see it, death is a part of life, and what’s done is done. How can I explain to them that while I’m sad, I have accepted what happened without sounding like I didn’t care about my dad?

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Happy New Year to my Asian readers who celebrate the Lunar New Year: The Year of the Rat begins today. I wish a happy, healthy new year to all who celebrate this holiday. People born in the Year of the Rat are said to be instinctive, acute and alert, which makes them exceptional in business.

They are sophisticated and popular in social interaction. But they can sometimes be stubborn and picky. Notable individuals born in the Year of the Rat include not only George Washington, Wolfgang Mozart, William Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, but also Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck, Eminem, Prince Charles of Britain and his son Prince Harry.

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fibrosis gene. Will his sons and nephews carry the gene?

There are over 2,000 mutations in the gene that causes cystic fibrosis, the CFTR gene. In order to have clinical disease, a person must have two abnormal genes. Ninety percent of people with CF have at least one copy of the f508del mutation, making it the most common.

It is likely your son has one abnormal gene and one normal gene. If that is the case, each of his children has a 50% chance of getting the abnormal gene, and a 50% chance of inheriting the normal gene. If the child’s mother has two normal genes, a child who got the abnormal gene would be a CF carrier, like your son. However, if the mother is also a carrier, then each child would have a 25% chance of having CF; a 50% chance of being a carrier, and a 25% chance of having no copy of the abnormal mutation at all.

Since he might have a second abnormal (but less dangerous) mutation, the situation with CF is complicated. A genetic counselor with access to all the specifics of your situation can provide personalized information.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are often having to fight against the darker aspects of your nature, and there are times when you sink into such emotional lows that even the simplest things become quite difficult. At your best, you are one of the most forward-thinking and capable individuals born under your sign; all you have to do to ensure steady progress is to keep your darker moods as infrequent and short-lived as possible.

Highly creative, you like to look at familiar problems in new and unfamiliar ways — and you can lead others down new roads with eagerness and enthusiasm. Honoring the past while embracing the future works well for you in almost all areas of your busy and sometimes complicated life.

Also born on this date are: Alicia Keys, singer; Patrick Willis, football player; Robert Burns, poet; Virginia Woolf, writer; Dean Jones, actor; Tobe Hooper, director; Edwin Newman, TV newsman; Etta James, singer.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

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Point out to your well-meaning friends that your relationship with your father may not have been like the ones they had with their fathers.

That you were “a bit estranged” may have made his death less traumatic than if he had been a major part of your life. It should not be necessary to put on a display of sackcloth and ashes. Everyone grieves differently, so remind them of that.

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Don’t waver.

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Someone from your past resurfaces and makes a surprising request.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Someone may accuse you of being unrealistic, but today you can prove that everything you say must be done can be done. It’s as simple as that!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Another’s needs eclipse your own before nightfall. You may have trouble convincing a loved one that you’re doing the right thing.

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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.

Chapter titles Level 1 2 3 4

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

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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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Identify the book by one of its chapter titles. The author’s name is provided. (e.g., “The Road Through the Forest” (L. Frank Baum). Answer: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”) Freshman level 1. “Marley’s Ghost” (Charles Dickens) 2. “A Mad Tea Party” (Lewis Carroll) 3. “Search for Mr. Hyde” (Robert Louis Stevenson) 4. “The Five Orange Pips” (Arthur Conan Doyle) 5. “Over Hill and Under Hill” (J.R.R. Tolkien) Graduate level 6. “Hester at Her Needle” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 7. “The Old Sea-Dog at the Admiral Benbow” (Robert Louis Stevenson) 8. “The Whiteness of the Whale” (Herman Melville) 9. “Jonathan Harker’s Journal” (Bram Stoker) 10. “Still Knitting” (Charles Dickens) PH.D. level 11. “Laurie Makes Mischief, and Jo Makes Peace” (Louisa May Alcott) 12. “The Battle of the Fangs” (Jack London) 13. “I Begin Life on My Own Account, And Don’t Like It” (Charles Dickens) 14. “The Cemetery of the Chateau d’If” (Alexandre Dumas) 15. “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (Kenneth Grahame)

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. “A Christmas Carol.” 2. “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” 3. “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” 4. “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.” 5. “The Hobbit.” 6. “The Scarlet Letter.” 7. “Treasure Island.” 8. “Moby-Dick.” 9. “Dracula.”

10. “A Tale of Two Cities.” 11. “Little Women.” 12. “White Fang.” 13. “David Copperfield.” 14. “The Count of Monte Cristo.” 15. “The Wind in the Willows.”

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Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and last year’s “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” is consistently snubbed. Tom Hanks, who was nominated for his supporting role as Mister Rogers in the former film, told the New York Times he wanted to work with Heller after reading a story that inspired him to work with more female directors and, then, seeing her debut film, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.”

hat a time to be alive: 2020 is the year that Adam Sandler and Jennifer Lopez didn’t receive Oscar nominations and it was considered a snub.

The academy announced nominations, which included few surprises but plenty of such omissions. Predictably, “Joker,” “The Irishman,” “Once Upon a Time in HolSUPPORTING ACTRESS JENNIFER LOPEZ lywood” and “1917” led the pack with the most nods, which Was J-Lo ever really going to win an were announced Monday. But other Oscar? Well, no, probably not. But that films like “A Beautiful Day in the Neighdidn’t stop the hype machine from goborhood,” “The Farewell” and “Uncut ing into overdrive over her captivating Gems” received little to no love from role in “Hustlers” as Ramona, the ringSandler, who previousthe academy. leader of a group of strippers who start With so many contenders who had ly offered nuanced perfordrugging wealthy clients to steal their hovered around the cusp completely credit cards. (Her pole-dancing scene mances in “Punch-Drunk out of the running, let’s break down instantly became legendary and probawhich exclusions are most glaring.

Love” and “The Meyerowitz bly immediately caused a spike in movFEMALE DIRECTORS iegoers googling her age. She’s 50, for Stories,” joked that if he After presenting the best director catthe record.) Alas, despite earning nods didn’t get awards considegory, Issa Rae quipped, “Congratulafor a Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice tions to those men,” recalling Natalie Award, an Academy Award nomination eration for “Uncut Gems,” Portman’s oft-referenced introduction was not in the cards - and the writing he would return to making while presenting the “all-male nomiseemed to be on the wall as the buzz for nees” at the Golden Globes ceremony other actresses grew louder throughout terrible movies “on purpose two years ago. award season. Still, quite a few people just to make you all pay.”

Four names were more or less cewere very angry: mented ahead of Monday morning’s So expect that.

LEAD ACTORS EDDIE MURPHY nominations: Martin Scorsese for AND ADAM SANDLER “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” This past year saw two comedic icons Bong Joon-ho for “Parasite” and Sam - both with track records of making Mendes for “1917.” Many had hoped Greta Gerwig, who films torn apart by critics - give award-worthy performances. earned a directing nomination two years ago for her solo debut And they were totally snubbed by the voting academy.

“Lady Bird,” would again appear for her critically acclaimed Eddie Murphy was literally and metaphorically hanging adaptation of “Little Women.” But the fifth slot went to Todd out on his couch the past few years, but decided to return to Phillips, whose box-office juggernaut “Joker” landed the most the spotlight for what he has called his “bookend” period. nominations of any project despite being one of the year’s “I don’t want to sit on the couch after ‘Mr. Church,’” he told most divisive films. the New York Times, referring to the 2016 drama. And while There weren’t too many other women who stood a chance Murphy received a best actor nod at the Globes for playing in this arena, though it’s worth noting that Marielle Heller, See OSCARS C2 who has delivered two Oscar-caliber films with this season’s “A From top: Actress and director Greta Gerwig; Jennifer Lopez, left, and Constance Wu in “Hustlers”; Adam Sandler in “Uncut Gems; and Lupita Nyongo from the movie “Us.” Washington Post/STX Films/A24/Los Angeles Times

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5 myths about indoor cycling SPINNING: Instructors

want to shatter your fears

By PAM MOORE Washington Post

When I started teaching indoor cycling in the early 2000s, my playlists, mostly composed of songs I downloaded from Napster, were on CDs. While I’m thrilled that technology has advanced (Spotify! Smartphones!), sadly, the myths surrounding cycling class remain unchanged.

1. INDOOR CYCLING CLASS IS ONLY FOR HARDCORE ATHLETES Indoor cycling is, in fact, the perfect workout for beginners.

It’s non-impact, requires little to no hand-eye coordination, and lets you go at your own pace.

“Indoor cycling is actually one of the best activities for exercisers of all shapes, sizes and fitness levels,” says national award-winning fitness instructor Shannon Fable.

Each bike has a resistance dial that you can easily and quickly adjust to make your workout “infinitely harder or infinitely easier,” depending on your fitness and/or energy levels.

Because all ability levels are welcome, explains Marisa Michael, certified cycling instructor and author of “Bike Shorts: Your Complete Guide to Indoor Cycling,” you get to experience camaraderie with people you wouldn’t necessarily ride with outdoors. It’s true; my Monday lunchtime class regulars have included a former Olympian, a rabbi, a retired aerobics instructor and a new mom.

create a class that allows you to vary your effort, including easy spinning between hard intervals. Working at your maximum capacity for the entire class is a recipe for burnout.

“Getting a good workout is not dependent on being breathless the entire time,” says Fable. “Each drill should have a clear goal (what will you be doing), feeling (what should you be feeling) and time (how long will it last).”

Once you’re clear on these three aspects, you can use the resistance dial to achieve your desired effort level. If you’re concerned about keeping up, let your instructor know beforehand. If the instructor doesn’t suggest modifications, such as shortening hard efforts or dialing back the intensity, there’s nothing wrong with doing so on your own.

2. THE WORKOUT IS DESIGNED TO LEAVE YOU EXHAUSTED

3. YOU’RE COMPETING AGAINST THE REST OF THE CLASS

Your instructor should

You don’t have to be an expert to take a spinning class. Indoor cycling is a great workout for beginners, according to national award-winning fitness instructor Shannon Fable. Pexels

Your biggest competition

is actually yourself — if you choose to compete at all. To measure your own progress, note whether your metrics (such as heart rate, distance, speed and wattage) are changing and whether you feel the workout is getting easier.

What if your studio uses a leader board? This technology displays every rider’s stats for the whole class to see. While it can be motivating for some, it can be a major turnoff for others.

Fable recommends taking the leader board “with a grain of salt.” Many leader boards measure heart rate or power output (wattage) to determine your place, but these metrics alone aren’t always meaningful. “Just because you can get your heart rate higher than the person next to you does not mean that you are ‘winning.’” Also, power measurements may be misleading if they fail to consider your size.

Fable gives the example of a 115-pound woman versus a

215-pound man. “Regardless of her effort level or fitness level, [she’ll] very rarely overpower a 215-pound man due to muscle mass... . If you determined the leader board based on power-to-mass ratio, she’d be in the fight.”

If you want to keep your data to yourself, “your privacy should be respected,” says Michael. She advises asking the instructor to hide it or opting out on your app or online account if the system allows it.

4. IT’S A PAIN IN THE BUTT (AND THE BACK AND KNEES) It’s normal to leave your first few classes with a sore derriere, but that should subside after three to five classes, according to Fable. At that point, coming to class a minimum of once a week is usually sufficient to keep the discomfort at bay.

That said, most regulars invest in padded bike shorts to maximize comfort. A gel

seat cover can also be a quick fix. If all else fails, you can always pedal out of the saddle.

“Please don’t let an instructor tell you standing is the ‘advanced’ move and only to do it if you’re comfortable,” warns Fable. “It’s actually a perfectly safe move and easy for anyone to do with the right resistance and leg speed.”

Nothing enhances your overall comfort and reduces your risk of injury like a proper bike fit. Arrive early for your first class so your instructor can help adjust your bike. Once your settings are dialed in, jot them down in your phone or snap a photo to avoid going back to square one at your next workout. Michael says a good instructor will notice the saddle height and fore-aft position, the position and angle of your knee throughout the pedal stroke, and the handlebar height and fore-aft position. Barring any preexisting conditions, “If these things are correct, you should not feel any knee or back pain.” (If you do have issues such as arthritis or back pain, always check with your doctor before attending a class.)

Even with the perfect bike fit, says Jennifer Sage, master spinning instructor and founder of the Indoor Cycling Association, riders should be wary of “nontraditional” choreography (anything you wouldn’t do on a bike outdoors). This includes performing pushups, crunches or weightlifting on the bike, cycling at a very high cadence with little or no resistance, pedaling backward and tapbacks (where you pedal while standing, centering your body over the pedals and then lean forward and send your hips back, hovering just over the saddle).

At worst, some of these techniques present immediate danger. (Sage recalls incidents involving sliced calves and crushed ankles after riders lost control of fast-moving pedals and an on-bike pushup that resulted in chipped teeth.)

At best, says Sage, these moves are “a massive waste of time” and reduce the effectiveness of the workout. If they’re part of your instructor’s repertoire, and you enjoy them, proceed with caution. But if you experience aches and pains, Sage says, these techniques may be the culprit.

5. YOU NEED SPECIAL SHOES FOR CYCLING CLASS While wearing bike shoes that clip directly into the pedals allows you to transfer your effort more efficiently to the bike, it’s absolutely not a requirement. There’s nothing wrong with wearing sneakers, especially if you have yet to make cycling class a habit.

The stiffer the sole, the better.

“Cycling shoes are not a prerequisite for a great workout,” says Fable.

That said, you’ll get a lot more out of your workout with cycling shoes. Their extremely stiff soles facilitate an efficient power transfer from your foot to the pedals. That stiffness also protects your feet from injuries such as plantar fasciitis, according to Michael. Fable recommends investing in cycling shoes if you plan to attend classes consistently two to three times a week.

Ever since its inception in the early ‘90s, indoor cycling has been a fun, safe workout that’s designed to meet you wherever you are. As we usher in a new decade, let’s allow the myths that have plagued this workout to go the way of the CD player.

Goal: 500 bands in 365 days MINNESOTA: Father, son carry on heavy metal mission

By ALLIE SHAH Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Mason McDeid struggled to catch a glimpse of the band Korn as they performed before tens of thousands of fans last summer at a music festival in Wisconsin.

The 21-year-old Maple Grove man, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, was stuck in the back with his father when a fellow concertgoer noticed their dilemma and offered to help.

“He said, ‘You guys follow me.

We’re going to make a hole,’ “ recalled Mason’s dad, Richard McDeid.

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blaxploitation star Rudy Ray Moore in “Dolemite is My Name,” he got no love from the academy.

Sandler, who previously offered nuanced performances in “Punch-Drunk Love” and “The Meyerowitz Stories,” joked that if he didn’t get awards consideration for “Uncut Gems,” he would return to making terrible movies “on purpose just to make you all pay.” So expect that.

”THE FAREWELL” AND STAR AWKWAFINA Though industry awards tend to more reliably predict Oscar nominations than the Golden Globes, it’s still worth noting that Awkwafina, who took home a Globe for her lead performance in “The Farewell,” was snubbed in the Oscars’ best actress category. As Billi, an American woman who travels to China to say goodbye to her ailing grandmother, Awkwafina left her comedy roots behind to try her hand at a dramatic role — a successful effort, according to critics.

“The Farewell” has earned a number of acting, writing and best picture nominations at other ceremonies, but wasn’t at all embraced by the academy.

“We went by everybody. The crowd parted like the Red Sea.” Mason glided past the mosh pit and saw people body surfing before eventually making his way to the front row. A security guard spotted Mason and got him even closer.

Grabbing his wheelchair, the guard hoisted him above the railing, placing him directly in front of the stage.

“I looked up at Mason and he was just smiling,” Richard McDeid said.

“As I was looking at him, I saw him on the Jumbotron. Korn was onstage, clapping. That was probably the coolest” moment.

Writer-director Lulu Wang stood a decent chance of landing an original screenplay nomination, while Shuzhen Zhao, who plays Billi’s grandmother, has been recognized by a slew of critics awards. In a Laura Dern-dominated supporting actress category, however, Zhao’s chances were slim.

LUPITA NYONG’O IN “US” Horror movies notoriously have a difficult time at the Oscars, but it was hard to stop thinking about Lupita Nyong’o’s double roles in the psychological thriller “Us,” including the unsettling portrayal of her own doppelganger.

But even though plenty of critics felt that Nyong’o deserved the nomination alongside front-runners such as Scarlett Johansson (“Marriage Story”) and Renée Zellweger (“Judy”), it unfortunately wasn’t a huge surprise when she was left off the list — although it certainly angered plenty of fans.

PEOPLE OF COLOR, IN GENERAL The Oscar nominations aren’t as devoid of diversity as last week’s backlash-inducing BAFTA nominations, which included not a single actor of color. But people of color are still overwhelmingly underrepresented among this year’s slate of nominees.

One of the more glaring

That night was but one of many highlights shared by father and son on their epic quest to see 500 rock bands perform live in 2016.

And though they didn’t quite reach their goal (they saw 450 bands by year’s end), Mason and his dad accomplished much — traveling across the country to see Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slipknot and more.

“We’re definitely rock guys,” Richard McDeid said.

Music has been a source of joy and comfort for Mason since he was a small child. He was born with a severe form of cerebral palsy, a neurological

omissions is the academy’s failure to nominate renowned costume designer Ruth E. Carter for “Dolemite Is My Name.” Carter made history last year as the first black costume designer to win her craft’s most prestigious award for “Black Panther.”

The lead and supporting actor categories are dominated by white men. The lead actress category, meanwhile, includes a nod for Cynthia Erivo, the British actress who somewhat controversially portrayed Harriet Tubman in a long-awaited biopic. But Erivo’s nod underscores the idea that actors of color only win praise for playing certain types of roles. Nyong’o, whose devilishly dual role was left out of the running this year, famously won an Oscar in 2014 for portraying a slave in Steve McQueen’s period drama “12 Years a Slave.”

The academy could have surprised Oscar viewers by honoring bolder choices — the polarizing romantic drama “Queen and Slim” or Jamie Foxx’s SAG-nominated performance in “Just Mercy” — for example.

But that seems too much to ask for a ceremony that gave its top honor last year to “Green Book.”

A FEW GOOD MEN It would have been a shock at this point if Joaquin Phoenix, Adam Driver and Leonardo DiCaprio weren’t recognized for their performances in “Joker,”

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Richard and Mason McDeid take a selfie before the Helmet concert. After the show, the band’s guitarist gave Mason a set list and pick, adding to his souvenirs. “We’re definitely rock guys,” Richard said. Leila Navidi/Star Tribune

“Marriage Story” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” respectively, making the last two best actor slots all the more interesting. Antonio Banderas has consistently been in the mix for his role in Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory,” a Spanish film nominated in the international feature category; “The Two Popes” actor Jonathan Pryce has been as well, nominated alongside scribe Anthony McCarten and supporting actor Anthony Hopkins.

Two big-name actors nominated elsewhere but snubbed by the academy include Robert De Niro, the anchor of Martin Scorsese’s crime drama “The Irishman,” and Christian Bale, who plays a racecar driver in James Mangold’s “Ford v Ferrari,” which fared quite well in the technical categories. Taron Egerton, who campaigned like crazy for his performance as Elton John in “Rocketman,” won a Golden Globe but, alas, isn’t in contention for an Oscar.

DOCUMENTARY “APOLLO 11” The best feature documentary category may have given some predictable love to “American Factory,” the Netflix documentary produced by the Obamas’ production company, but nothing for the one documentary considered the front-runner to win: “Apollo 11.” Todd Douglas Miller used

archival footage, including images never seen before by the public, to depict the Apollo 11 moon-landing. It had an impressive haul for a documentary, earning $15 million worldwide at the box office, and won the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. documentary grand jury prize.

But this category can be wild.

Last year, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” was thought to be the movie to beat. The critically acclaimed feature about Fred Rogers earned $22 million at the box office, the most of any documentary in 2018, showing that there is still a strong appetite from the moviegoing public for heartwarming stories about real people who are actually kind.

But, stunningly, it didn’t receive an Oscar nomination.

EARWORM SUPPLIER “FROZEN II” The sequel to Disney’s beloved, Oscar-winning 2013 film about a princess trying to reunite with her estranged ice crystal-wielding sister has received mixed reviews, but we still expected to see it, among the indies and Pixar’s “Toy Story 4,” on the best animated films list. In the end, “Frozen II” managed only to get nominated in the best original song category (for “Into the Unknown”).

That’s no small feat, considering Beyoncé failed to get a nod for “Spirit,” her rousing

gospel-infused track from “The Lion King.”

BEYONCÉ Does the academy want to make a powerful enemy of the Beyhive? The superstar’s fans weren’t thrilled when her ballad from the “Lion King” remake was left off the list for best original song. While she would have faced tough competition with Elton John’s “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from “Rocketman” and Cynthia Erivo’s “Stand Up” from “Harriet,” it’s still surprising that Beyoncé’s star power couldn’t at least edge out “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from “Toy Story 4.”

“A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD” A movie about America’s hero, Mister Rogers, played

by America’s actually-goodperson-actor, Tom Hanks, sounds like it was tailor-made for some Oscars love, right?

Nope. The nihilistic and dark “Joker” led the pack with 11 nominations, while only one nomination went for the movie about a cynical journalist’s friendship with the beloved children’s TV host. “A Beautiful Day” is a feel-good yetgrounded narrative depicting transformation and how to face one’s demons in an actually healthy manner (so, the opposite of “Joker”). Call this a snub for nontoxic masculinity.

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Breakfast on the go

SALT for your recipe

RECIPE: These

make-ahead egg muffins tasty, quick

By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

Whether or not you are into making official resolutions, chances are you are shifting toward eating healthier this time of year. A popular and worthy aim is to start the day with a good breakfast. Doing so not only gives you the nourishment you need to fuel your morning, it tends to set the tone for the day.

These tasty three-bite egg cups are designed to put those breakfast goals within easy reach, even considering the mad rush reality of weekday mornings. Made in a muffin tin, they are like loaded mini-frittatas, packed with the hearty whole grain quinoa and colorful sauteed vegetables — including red bell pepper, fresh spinach and mushrooms — and seasoned with savory onion, garlic, smoked paprika and Parmesan cheese.

Make them up to three days ahead and store in the refrigerator. A quick 60 to 90 seconds in the microwave and these bites are ready, though they’re equally good at room temperature. In an ideal world you’d sit down at an actual table for five minutes and savor these portable cups, but they can also be eaten on the go if need be as you dash out the door.

Delicious and practical, it’s the kind of recipe that could help a resolution stick.

QUINOA AND VEGETABLE EGG BITES Active: 25 minutes | Total: 45 minutes 6 servings You will need about ¹/³ cup uncooked quinoa to get to 1 cup cooked. If you want less smoky-tasting bites, start with ½ teaspoon of smoked paprika and add more, if desired.

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 small yellow onion, diced 1 red bell pepper, diced 4 ounces portobello or cremini mushrooms, coarsely chopped 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon smoked paprika 3 cups packed (3 ounces) fresh spinach, coarsely chopped 6 large eggs 1 cup cooked, cooled quinoa, preferably red 1/3 cup (1 ounce) grated Parmesan cheese 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Preheat the oven to 375 degrees with the rack in the middle. Line a 12-muffin tin with paper liners. Spray the inside of each liner with cooking oil spray.

In a medium skillet over medium-high heat, heat the olive oil until shimmering. Add the onion, pepper, mushrooms and ¼ teaspoon salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables have softened, their water has evaporated, and they begin to brown, about 8 minutes. Stir in the garlic and paprika and cook, stirring, for an additional 30 seconds. Add the spinach and cook, stirring, until wilted. Remove the pan from the heat and let cool slightly.

In a large bowl, whisk the eggs. Stir in the cooked vegetables, quinoa, Parmesan cheese, the remaining ½ teaspoon salt and the pepper.

Using a ¹/³ cup measure, distribute the mixture evenly among the muffin cups. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, until set in the center. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Nutrition | Calories: 190; Total Fat: 11 g; Saturated Fat: 3 g; Cholesterol: 220 mg; Sodium: 290 mg; Carbohydrates: 12 g; Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Sugars: 2 g.

From nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie Krieger.

How to choose the right type of salt for your recipe. Tom McCorkle/Washington Post

EXPERT ADVICE: Start with

learning the four basic types

By BECKY KRYSTAL Washington Post

In a world history of food and cooking, salt is the most universal ingredient. Sweet, savory, meat, vegetable, in the background or in your face, there is salt.

“Salt is the single most important ingredient in cooking and the single most powerful tool for improving the flavor of food,” says Mark Bitterman in his encyclopedic book, “Salted.”

So it’s no wonder that you may experience decision paralysis when it comes time to select a salt from the grocery store shelf or your pantry. Or you may take the exact opposite approach and give absolutely zero thought to this staple ingredient.

Here’s why it matters and what you should consider.

Know the types. There are four types of salt that most home cooks use on a regular basis: table, kosher, sea and finishing. The good news?

They’re all essentially chemically identical — as in salt, or sodium chloride. The differences boil down to how they’re made, their shape and, depending on whom you ask, their flavor.

Table salt is granulated with a fine

texture consisting of small cubes. It often includes potassium iodide to provide iodine (more on that later) and an anti-caking agent to keep crystals from sticking to each other, Harold McGee writes in “Keys to Good Cooking.”

Kosher salt consists of larger, flakier crystals, named because of its ability to help extract blood and moisture out of meat during the koshering process of Jewish dietary law. It is not iodized.

Sea salt can be more or less refined than other types, with smaller or larger crystals. It may feature additional minerals that impart a bitter flavor, McGee says.

Finishing salts often boast pedigree of sourcing and can come in a wide array of shapes and colors.

Understand why the shape and size matters. “The type of salt can make a major difference in how well it blends in. Flakey sea salt and Diamond Crystal brand kosher salt blend faster and better than granular table salt,” Shirley Corriher writes in “BakeWise.” That has to do with how each type of salt is formed. Corriher points out that 90% of a granular salt will bounce off a surface, while 95% of a hollow flaky salt will stick, not to mention dissolve faster. Both factors are major reasons chefs and cookbook authors often express a preference for Diamond Crystal, which is a hollow flaky pyramid. Other kosher salts, such as the common Morton’s coarse salt, are formed when granular salt is flattened by rollers, according to Corriher. She favors sea salt for baking (she advocates

grinding Maldon as needed), as does Rose Levy Beranbaum, who in “The Baking Bible” notes that “it integrates more readily into batter than does a coarse salt.” One other factor to consider: Kosher salt is easier to pinch, pick up and see when you’re, say, seasoning meat. Kosher salt also makes for a clear brine.

In “The Food Lab,” J. Kenji Lopez-Alt calls kosher salt the “only one you absolutely need in your kitchen.” If you’re concerned about iodine deficiency, know that plenty of foods, including dairy, seafood and vegetables, include iodine.

Understand the flavor. Here’s where things get fuzzy. Do different salts taste different? Depends whom you ask. Bitterman, a writer and gourmet food shop owner who calls himself the world’s first “selmelier,” is adamant that they do. He has little use for grocery store salts, describing the flavor of table salt as “drying spray paint, dirt, fishhooks,” kosher salt as “hot, bright, sometimes metallic and/or faintly acrid” and sea salt as “sharp flatness.” Needless to say, he doesn’t recommend using any of them in home cooking.

I fall into the same camp as McGee, who says, “All salts without added flavors taste about the same, especially in food. Exotic origins can be very interesting to the mind but don’t register on the plate.”

If you’re baking, Beranbaum cautions against using iodized table salt, which she says can impart an “unpleasant taste.”

Do what also makes economic sense. Don’t burn your fancy designer salt on pasta water.

Figure out how much you need.

Ideally, recipes will specify what type or brand of salt to use. Otherwise, McGee recommends starting with a smaller amount and increasing according to taste. If you want to change the type specified, keep in mind the uses and characteristics above. Says Corriher: “To get as much salt as there is in 1 tablespoon of granular salt, one must use 1 ½ tablespoons of Morton’s kosher salt or 2 tablespoons of Diamond Crystal kosher salt.”

And keep in mind a tablespoon of each type of salt will have a different weight based on the size of the crystals and how densely they’re packed in the measuring spoon.

Emphasize the finish. For most of us, this is where to get the most bang for your buck with more expensive specialty salts. “Finishing with salt is the linchpin of strategic salting; it’s a versatile cooking technique and one of the most effective ways we have of playing sensually with what we eat,” Bitterman writes.

“The practice of finishing with salt is straightforward: choose an artisan salt, scatter it across the surface of your food, and eat.”

Think about color and texture here, whether you want something that will contrast or complement the food. Finishing salts can be a variety of shapes, from delicate flakes to crunchy crystals. Or make your own flavored topper, combining salt with herbs, spices or citrus zest.

Whatever you choose, season the food at serving temperature, McGee says. Hot food can heighten a variety of flavors, including saltiness.

Baking a better banana bread RECIPE: Peanut butter

adds interesting flavor contrast

By CHRIS ROSS The San Diego Union-Tribune

Benjamina Ebuehi grew up in a Nigerian family in London, and her interest in cooking began when her mother bought her a child’s baking book. As she continued to learn and work her way through other cookbooks, she says it was always the chapters on cakes that interested her the most. She began to create her own cake recipes, gravitating toward “putting flavors at the forefront without overshadowing them with excessive decoration.”

Her passion for baking led to an appearance on “The Great British Bake Off” in 2016, where she created a white chocolate and salted praline cake for the show’s Cake Week.

Now she has a cookbook, “The New Way to Cake,” which features her strippeddown, flavor-forward recipes.

Ebuehi’s vegan version of banana bread includes peanut butter for what she calls a “sweet-and-salty contrast.”

She says her favorite way to eat this is “lightly toasted to crisp up the edges, with a generous spread of salted butter.”

PEANUT BUTTER BANANA BREAD I believe that a good banana

bread should be part of every baker’s repertoire. This version happens to be vegan, which was by no means intentional. I do think this tastes better the next day (if it can last that long), as it gives the flavors time to mingle with each other.

Makes 6-8 servings

4 small ripe bananas, divided 3 tablespoons smooth peanut butter ½ cup vegetable oil 5 tablespoons almond or soy milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup light brown sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon cinnamon Pinch of salt Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 2-pound loaf pan and line the bottom with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, use a fork to mash 3 bananas. Mix in the peanut butter, oil, milk and vanilla and set aside. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Pour the banana mixture into the dry ingredients and stir gently

until just combined.

Slice the remaining banana in half lengthwise. Pour the batter into the loaf pan and gently place the sliced banana on top without overlapping the slices or pushing them into the batter. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until well risen and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Leave to cool completely before slicing.

Tip: For some added texture, use a crunchy peanut butter instead of smooth or fold in chopped, roasted peanuts before baking.

Reprinted with permission from “The New Way to Cake”

by Benjamina Ebuehi, Page Street Publishing Co.

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Books & authors Gen X women, it’s not just you, author says ‘WHY WE CAN’T SLEEP’:

Generation faces unique, often ignored stressors

By ERICA PEARSON Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

“Why We Can’t Sleep” by Ada Calhoun; Grove (267 pages, $26)

New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about

what we read and why

By RON CHARLES Washington Post

1. “The Snowy Day,” by Ezra Jack Keats (1962) 2. “The Cat in the Hat,” by Dr. Seuss (1957) 3. “1984,” by George Orwell (1949) 4. “Where The Wild Things Are,” by Maurice Sendak (1963) 5. “To Kill A Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee (1960) 6. “Charlotte’s Web,” by E.B. White (1952) 7. “Fahrenheit 451,” by Ray Bradbury (1953) 8. “How To Win Friends and Influence People,” by Dale Carnegie (1936) 9. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” by J.K. Rowling (1997) 10. “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” by Eric Carle (1969) The books we return to year after year tell a curious story about who we are.

The New York Public Library has just released the titles of the 10 most checked-out books in its 125-year history. Best-sellers may offer a snapshot of passing fads, but this remarkable list compiled from more than a century of circulation data is like a literary cardiogram of the nation’s beating heart.

Be encouraged. At No. 1 is “The Snowy Day,” by Ezra Jack Keats.

This gently playful picture book one of the first to feature a black child without the trappings of racist stereotypes - was published during the Civil Rights movement in 1962. Keats tells the story of little Peter enjoying a cityscape transformed by winter. The boy makes snow angels, slides down a hill and listens to his footprints: crunch, crunch, crunch. He’s a black child who is every child, and for generations, kids and adults have resonated with those elemental words and images in perfect harmony.

In fact, the list of books most frequently checked out of the New York Public Library is dominated by titles for children, particularly picture books. There’s a practical reason for that: Shorter books get returned more quickly, which makes greater turnover possible. But that numerical justification can’t obscure the real explanation, which is that for generations parents have been turning to libraries to satisfy their

children’s thirst for stories.

And, surely it’s no coincidence that we Americans are drawn from the youngest age - to tales of independent kids. The soporific observations of Dick and Jane appeared in the early 1930s, but the naughty adventure of “The Cat in the Hat” is No. 2 on the NYPL list. As the world knows, Dr. Suess presents the tale of two siblings left alone by their trusting mother to “sit! sit! sit! sit!” in the house on a “cold, cold wet day.” Soon, a zany cat crashes in, announcing, “We can have lots of good fun that is funny!” How delightfully chaotic this book is, how packed with irresistible mischief. But its most subversive moment comes at the very end, after the house has been spotlessly restored and Mother returns to ask, “What did you do?”

Suddenly, the boy narrator turns outward and confronts us with the first great ethical crisis of our reading experience: “Should we tell her about it?” he asks. “Well ... what would YOU do if your mother asked YOU?” That same untamed spirit animates several other books on the NYPL list, especially “Where the Wild Things Are,” by Maurice Sendak. Who isn’t cheered by the example of Max, who dons his wolf suit and “made mischief of one kind and another”? Over the years “and in and out of weeks and through a day,” millions of young readers have fantasized about defying their mothers and leading monsters on a wild rumpus. Here, in lush pictures and a gripping tale is the reassurance we all need - as children and parents - that even if we’re wild, we can come home again and find dinner waiting for us. And it will still be hot.

Slightly older readers are ready for a more complex lesson in the complications of life, and they get it from “Charlotte’s Web.” With his story about the barnyard friendship of a pig and a wise spider, E.B. White made us and our parents cry, which was upsetting but also comforting in ways we couldn’t understand until we had our own children. Writing in a clear, gently witty tone that New Yorker readers enjoyed for half a century, White created a profoundly intimate space, a little sanctuary in which we could learn about death, yes, but also

the persistence of love.

Surely, the least surprising title on this list is “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which sits dead center at No. 5. Since it was published in 1960, Harper Lee’s novel has become the nation’s darling, an emblem of our racial enlightenment. A poll conducted by PBS for “The Great American Read” determined that “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the country’s favorite novel. It was the first book to make many of us aware of the moral power of literature. For generations, lawyers have cited Atticus Finch as their professional inspiration, and white liberals have celebrated his sober principles. In the precocious voice of little Scout, Lee captures the weird amalgamation of our persistent innocence and profound wisdom. But even more crucial to the novel’s success, Lee negotiates our tangled racism and idealism with exquisite dexterity. She challenges the nation’s prejudices while presenting us with a vision of invincible decency.

Other books on this list present our anxieties in far less subtle tones. Two of the top 10 are dystopian novels, nightmarish visions of governments determined to distort and destroy independent thought. Skeptics may say that George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” appear here only because they’ve been assigned in high schools for decades, but if that were the sole driver of these circulation stats, then where are “Huckleberry Finn” and “The Great Gatsby” with their many decades headstart?

No, Orwell and Bradbury prick a nerve deep in our souls. Especially for people who haunt libraries, nothing is as hypnotically horrific as the incineration of books that Bradbury imagined.

And Orwell’s “1984” elaborates on that terror in ways we never forget. Writing in the ashes of World World II, he described a totalitarian society under constant surveillance and devoted to a cult of personality that suffers no dissension. The terrified citizens of Oceania endure such a torrent of deceptive language from their leader that facts become infinitely flexible, essentially irrelevant.

On one hand, it’s encouraging to see such a politically incisive

book garner a wide readership over many decades. But on the other, it’s distressing that the popularity of “1984” has not been enough to keep it from coming true in America.

Only one work of nonfiction appears on this list, and of course it must be that perennial bestseller “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” The abiding mystery is why Dale Carnegie didn’t wheedle himself a higher spot than No. 8. A failed actor from the Midwest, Carnegie discovered early that he had a knack for convincing people they could re-engineer their personalities for fun or profit! One of the greatest self-help books in a nation crazy for self-help books, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” appeared in the midst of the Great Depression, but it’s a descendant of Ben Franklin’s “Autobiography.” Our Founding Father set out the principles for a nation dedicated to self-invention, and almost 150 years later Carnegie reduced those principles to pages of wit-free advice and homespun anecdotes.

It’s a safe bet that everyone who hopefully picks up Carnegie’s book nowadays was raised on the story of another unlikely boy who won friends and influenced people. Given how recently it was published - relative to the library’s 125-year history - it’s magical that “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” appears at No. 9. The youngest - and the longest - book on the list, “Harry Potter” is a phenomenon whose influence will be felt for generations. With their adventures about a humble kid who fights the powers of darkness, J.K. Rowling’s novels have encouraged untold millions of children to read; reinvigorated the fantasy genre; revived the fortunes of publishing; and generated billions for Hollywood (and Rowling).

And finally, gnawing away at the bottom of this list is “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” by Eric Carle. Heedless and oblivious, the lumpy caterpillar consumes everything without regard to anything - not even its own health.

But in the fullness of time, the omnivorous larva is resurrected and transformed in glorious perfection. Is there a more American character in our literature?

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Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Jan. 4, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

Charlie Mackesy. HarperOne 2. The Guardians. John Grisham. Doubleday 3. Such a Fun Age. Kiley Reid. Putnam 4. Criss Cross. James Patterson. Little, Brown 5. A Minute to Midnight. David Baldacci. Grand Central 6. Strange Planet. Nathan W. Pyle. Morrow Gift 7. The Silent Patient. Alex Michaelides. Celadon 8. The Dutch House. Ann Patchett. Harper

9. The Institute. Stephen King. Scribner 10. Blue Moon. Lee Child. Delacorte

9. Live in Grace, Walk in Love. Bob Goff. Nelson 10. Me. Elton John. Holt

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

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1. The Defined Dish. Alex Snodgrass. HMH 2. The Blue Zones Kitchen. Dan Buettner. National Geographic 3. Talking to Strangers. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown 4. Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice. Michelle Obama. Clarkson Potter 5. Body Love Every Day. Kelly Leveque. Morrow 6. Tiny Habits. B.J. Fogg. HMH 7. Girl, Stop Apologizing. Rachel Hollis.

HarperCollins Leadership 8. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier.

Ree Drummond. Morrow

1. Vendetta in Death. J.D. Robb. St. Martin’s 2. Huckleberry Lake. Catherine Anderson. Berkley 3. The First Lady. Patterson/DuBois. Grand Central 4. Silent Night. Danielle Steel. Dell 5. The Best of Us. Robyn Carr. Mira 6. Preacher’s Frenzy. William W. Johnstone.

Pinnacle 7. The Boy. Tami Hoag. Dutton 8. Cut and Run. Fern Michaels. Zebra 9. Hired Guns. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle 10. The 13-Minute Murder. James Patterson.

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TRADE PAPERBACK 1. The Ultimate Instant Pot Cookbook: Foolproof, Quick & Easy 800 Instant Pot Recipes for Beginners. Simon Rush 2. Prayer Journal for Women. Shannon Roberts.

Paige Tate 3. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate. Ballantine 4. Instant Loss: Eat Real, Lose Weight. Brittany Williams. HMH 5. 7-Day Apple Cider Vinegar Cleanse. J.J. Smith.

Simon & Schuster 6. The Overstory. Richard Powers. Norton 7. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin 8. The Woman in the Window. A.J. Finn. Morrow 9. The Wives. Tarryn Fisher. Graydon House 10. Every Breath. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central

I remember seeing it on Facebook, shared by seemingly every woman my age in fall 2017 — hundreds of thousands of times in a few days. A viral Oprah.com essay, in which writer Ada Calhoun described the “new” midlife crisis hitting Generation X. She wrote about women who were exhausted, overwhelmed, pounded by a unique combination of family and financial stress and widely overlooked by a country obsessed with baby boomers and millennials.

Now Calhoun, the author of a memoir, “The Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give,” and an urban history, “St. Marks Is Dead,” explores the issue in depth in her latest book, “Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis.”

Calhoun dedicates her book to “the middle-aged women of America. You’re not imagining it, and it’s not just you.”

She isn’t writing about the stereotypical male midlife crisis of sports cars and marital affairs, but a quieter, more frazzled one, involving sleepless nights and sudden rages behind closed doors. One woman hires a babysitter so she can go watch a movie alone and cry, while another describes destroying her son’s iPad with a hammer after getting no response when repeatedly asking him to help out.

Throughout, she weaves the personal stories of hundreds of Gen X women with history and statistics that show the particular predicament of women born between 1965 and 1980, marrying and having families later and facing the first flares of perimenopause while chasing after little kids and stressing over caring for their parents.

Or awake at night, single, 40-something and broke, scrolling through social media and overthinking everything.

“Gen X has arrived in middle age to almost no notice, largely unaware, itself, of being a uniquely star-crossed cohort,” she writes, arguing that we grew up the first generation of women believing we should be able to “have it all” but instead faced historic obstacles and are the first likely to be downwardly mobile compared with our parents.

“We were born into a bleak economy and grew up during a boom in crime, abuse and divorce. We were raised ‘prespecialness,’ which meant not only no participation trophies but also that we were shielded far less than children today from the uglier sides of life,” she writes, adding that the recessions of the early 1990s, 2001 and 2008 were timed to hit Gen X at particularly difficult life moments.

The book makes a powerful argument to Gen X women to stop saying to ourselves, like Calhoun once did, that we are “lucky and have no right to complain.”

Instead, we should accept that “This is a bumpy stretch in life. We should not expect to feel fine,” she writes.

Calhoun speaks directly to her own generation, peppering the book with so many specific cultural touchstones, from the Challenger explosion to Koosh balls to the slime-filled TV show “Double Dare,” that I found reading “Why We Can’t Sleep” to be a singular experience — driving home her point that Gen X is so often overlooked.

She even ends the book with a list of song titles for a “Midlife Crisis Mixtape.”

Cue up Sophie Tucker’s “Life Begins at Forty.”

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SNATCHING VICTORY East-West vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠AK7 ♥ A52 ♦ J 10 7 3 ♣A64 WEST EAST ♠J92 ♠ Q 10 6 4 3 ♥ K Q 10 7 3 ♥6 ♦6 ♦ 942 ♣ 10 9 5 3 ♣J872 SOUTH ♠85 ♥ J984 ♦ AKQ85 ♣KQ The bidding: SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1♥ 2♥* Pass 1♦ All pass 3NT Pass 6♦ *Diamond fit, at least invitational values Opening lead: King of ♥ Today’s deal is from the World Championships in 2011. The full auction is not available — just the first three bids. We’ve guessed at the rest.

Forgive us if you don’t like our bidding, but we had to get to slam somehow.

Horoscope Slam looked nearly impossible when dummy came down. East had to have a heart, so that he couldn’t ruff the opening lead, and it had to be the 10 so declarer could avoid a second heart loser. South played dummy’s ace at trick one and was both relieved that East followed and disappointed that he didn’t follow with the 10.

South drew trumps in three rounds as West discarded one heart and one spade. South cashed the king and queen of clubs before crossing to dummy with the ace of spades. He discarded a heart on the ace of clubs, then cashed the king of spades and led another spade. East played the queen and declarer had a brainstorm. Instead of ruffing, South discarded a heart.

East, on lead with only black cards remaining, had to lead one. The resulting ruff-sluff allowed South to discard his remaining heart and ruff in dummy. Making six!

Declarer gets high marks for his enterprising play, but the defense could have done better. West should keep all his spades, discarding two low hearts when declarer drew trumps. This would allow East to make the fine play of ducking his queen of spades later and giving South no winning option in the play. No brainstorm, no slam.

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

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are often having to fight against the darker aspects of your nature, and there are times when you sink into such emotional lows that even the simplest things become quite difficult. At your best, you are one of the most forward-thinking and capable individuals born under your sign; all you have to do to ensure steady progress is to keep your darker moods as infrequent and short-lived as possible.

Highly creative, you like to look at familiar problems in new and unfamiliar ways — and you can lead others down new roads with eagerness and enthusiasm.

Honoring the past while embracing the future works well for you in almost all areas of your busy and sometimes complicated life.

Also born on this date are: Alicia Keys, singer; Patrick Willis, football player; Robert Burns, poet; Virginia Woolf, writer; Dean Jones, actor; Tobe Hooper, director; Edwin Newman, TV newsman; Etta James, singer.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You must take care of what’s ailing you today before you can care for anyone else. It’s important that you be in tip-top shape!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — A puzzle is coming together, and the picture is taking shape — but you may be stymied by one important piece that doesn’t seem to fit.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You have only enough time to get a certain job done, so don’t think you can celebrate yet. You are about to take on even more responsibility.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Getting from here to

there is likely to take longer than expected today, but this is not because you lack preparation. Travel issues abound.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Time is of the essence today. Get moving and stay moving — and keep your destination squarely fixed in your sights. Don’t waver.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You are not at war with anyone right now, and you are unwilling to make someone else’s fight your own. This requires much discipline.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — The unexpected has you moving in a new direction before the day is out. Someone from your past resurfaces and makes a surprising request.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Anyone who makes demands of you today is going to have to wait, as you have one or two important personal issues to tend to today.

Don’t delay!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You needn’t travel very far today to make contact with someone who is far more important to a current project than you had realized.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Someone may accuse you of being unrealistic, but today you can prove that everything you say must be done can be done. It’s as simple as that!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Another’s needs eclipse your own before nightfall. You may have trouble convincing a loved one that you’re doing the right thing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You must go into an argument armed with facts and figures, but even then you may not prevail. You must be willing to compromise.

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Norfolk’s varied virtues are sure to enchant

By PATTI NICKELL Tribune News Service

NORFOLK, Va. — The expression on my face must have shown my sheer frustration. I had been waiting half an hour for Fred — make that F.R.E.D. (Free Ride Every Day.) This eco-friendly taxi comes equipped with battery power and solar roof and is available on request for those in need of a ride to a specific Norfolk destination.

As luck would have it, I needed F.R.E.D. on the day it was scheduled for routine maintenance. I was disappointed, but not meeting F.R.E.D. led to meeting Raleigh, a jovial gent who approached me and offered to walk me to my destination, chatting all the way about the virtues of his hometown.

Raleigh, it turned out, was one of a cadre of roving ambassadors whose sole job is to help visitors navigate their way around this southeastern Virginia coastal city.

My destination was the waterfront and the American Rover Cruise Company. Home to the world’s largest naval base, Naval Station Norfolk, and NATO’s Strategic Command Headquarters, the city is as much about water as it is land. My sunset sail courtesy of American Rover would allow me to get the lay of the land (or I should say water).

Departing from the marina on the downtown waterfront, the ship, with its red tan bark sails, has been a Norfolk fixture for more than three decades, taking visitors on an informative tour of the harbor.

If big battleships are more your thing than pleasure craft, the USS Wisconsin juts out of the water like a 60,000-ton steel behemoth. One of the Iowa class battleships known for their speed, she performed gallantly in World War II, the Korean War and the Gulf War before being retired here and opened as a museum.

Pleasure boats cram the downtown marina; water taxis are a common form of transportation between the Norfolk and Portsmouth waterfronts, and if you need any further proof of the water’s importance, the city’s ubiquitous

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mermaid symbols should clinch it.

More than two decades ago, a local sculptor mass produced the casts for 130 mermaids, and then invited artists to design and paint the sea sirens. While no one seems to know exactly how many there are today, most believe they have doubled in number over 20 years.

There’s a baseball-themed mermaid at Harbor Park, home of the Norfolk Tides, and a chocolate mermaid at MacArthur Center Mall. There are mermaid cocktails (try the mermaid water cocktail, a frothy concoction of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum, Blue Curacao and Cruzan Coconut with a splash of pineapple juice, at Stripers).

There’s wine at Mermaid Winery, the first urban winery in Virginia, and mermaid-themed merchandise at the Mermaid Market.

You can even design and paint your own wooden mermaid at the Mermaid Factory in the Ghent Historic District.

Speaking of Ghent, Norfolk may be a watery wonderland, but there’s a lot to do on terra firma as well, and no better place to start than in Ghent. A walking tour of the neighborhood reveals block after

block of Queen Anne, Tudor and Colonial Revival homes surrounding Smith Creek, a Y-shaped inlet of the Elizabeth River, now known as the Hague.

Book ending one end of the district is the marvelous Chrysler Museum of Art. With 50 galleries and 30,000 works of art, the museum opened in 1933, but really gained stature as one of America’s best midsized museums in 1971 when Chrysler heir Walter P. Chrysler Jr. donated his collection of 10,000 works of art.

While the museum has a wide range of objects including a marble bust of Jesus that was the final sculpture of the Baroque master Bernini and a fast-growing photography collection that now numbers 6,000 photos, it’s best known for its incomparable glass pieces, which make up one-third of the collection.

After admiring the museum’s collection of glass, wander over to the Glass Studio and observe the glassmaking process at the only facility of its kind in the mid-Atlantic region. Admission to both the museum and Glass Studio is free.

For art of a different kind, head

out to the Norfolk Botanical Garden, the largest of its kind in Virginia. Celebrated for its spectacular displays of camellias, azaleas and rhododendrons, it has a fascinating history as well.

During the height of the Depression in the 1930s, a grant from the WPA enabled the city fathers to begin clearing out the swampy area for what was to become the azalea garden. Some 220 African Americans were hired to clear the land, but since most of the available men were busy on other WPA projects, 200 of that number were women.

See if you can find the sculpture “Breaking Ground” in a secluded glade honoring these groundbreaking (literally) women.

In recent years, Norfolk — with its bounty of fresh seafood — has developed into a favorite with foodies. Try some of this seafood — especially James River oysters and Chesapeake Bay crabs — at Saltine, a gorgeous space in the downtown Hilton Hotel. Afterward, head up to Grain, a rooftop beer garden where an outdoor terrace offers a fire pit and an excellent view of the waterfront.

Freemason Abbey Restaurant,

housed in a 146-year-old renovated Presbyterian church, has been a local hangout for 30 years. Their mouth-watering, award-winning She Crab Soup practically had me licking my bowl.

Todd Jurich’s Bistro offers the chef’s modern take on timeless Southern fare. For example, crispy fried chicken is the main ingredient in a curry with spicy mustard and sweet plum sauce, while the fried day boat scallops are drizzled with lemon scallion butter and served with truffle fries and remoulade.

Try not to spoil your appetite by overindulging in the decadent bread basket containing crispy baguettes, seasonal fruit and nut bread and the house-made buttery popovers. Bet you can’t eat just one.

Top off your dinner with a sweet treat at Hummingbird Macarons & Desserts, a fairly new addition to the Norfolk scene. A few blocks from downtown on the Freemason Harbor, the Elizabeth River Trail leads to an unexpected sight: a brightly painted pagoda surrounded by koi-pond fountains and guarded by Chinese lions.

What was once a storage tank has metamorphosed into a beautiful bakery where you can grab an upstairs terrace table and nosh on macarons, sip tea or champagne and enjoy the view of the gardens and harbor.

Of course, you’ll be needing a place to stay — one that exemplifies Norfolk’s charm and friendliness. I recommend the Page House, a Ghent District jewel just a five-minute walk from the Chrysler Museum.

Owners Karla and Donya have turned this red-brick building, listed on the National Register, into a bed-and-breakfast with seven guest accommodations (four rooms and three suites). This bastion of Southern hospitality has a loyal clientele who return every year to rock away their cares in one of the front-porch rocking chairs or sip a glass of sherry in the drawing room before retiring for the night. And just wait until you taste Donya’s breakfasts.

ABC is reviving ‘thirtysomething’

By NICK VADALA The Philadelphia Inquirer

It’s been nearly 30 years since the Philly-set ABC drama “thirtysomething” wrapped its initial run, and now ABC has announced a pilot order for a possible sequel series.

D u b b e d “thirtysomething(else),” ABC’s updated take follows the children of characters from the initial series, with actors Timothy Busfield (Elliot Weston), Patricia Wettig (Nancy Weston), Mel Harris (Hope Murdoch), and Ken Olin (Michael Steadman)

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condition that affects his mobility and speech. Mason can’t walk or speak. But he sure can smile — something he does a lot at concerts and any place where there are lots of people.

reprising their original roles.

ABC has not yet revealed new cast members, or said whether “thirtysomething(else)” would be set in Philadelphia.

“Apparently, raising children (even grown children) never ends, but who could have known how hard it would be for them to raise their parents?” ABC’s description of the pilot reads.

Originally airing on ABC from 1987 to 1991, thirtysomething was created by Ed Zwick and Lower Merion native Marshall Herskovitz, who are also behind the upcoming pilot.

The show, which took place in locations like Chestnut Hill and Bryn Mawr, followed couple Michael and Hope as they and their friends advanced into their 30s — a decade of their lives in which their countercultural youth started clashing with their newly middle-class yuppie lifestyle.

Across its four-year run, the show racked up more than a dozen Emmy Awards (out of more than 40 total nominations), and took home two Golden Globes. The series celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017.

A longtime patient at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare, he has undergone more than 100 surgeries.

“We don’t let that stop us,” Mason’s dad said about his condition. “It doesn’t mean we can’t do things. It just means that we do them differently.”

When Mason was little, he cried constantly. He was experiencing a lot of discomfort, his father said. Richard McDeid tried everything to calm down his son. He even played music — from classical to New Age. Nothing worked. Finally, the frustrated father decided to play something he liked: Metallica.

To his surprise, Mason liked it, too. He stopped crying and

started to fall asleep. And with that, a metalhead was born.

From that day forward, whenever Metallica was playing, Mason would start squealing excitedly, Richard McDeid said.

As Mason grew older, he started to go to concerts with his dad. One year, they saw a couple hundred bands perform. So they decided to see if they could double that number in 2016.

“We look for ‘impossible’ goals,” Richard McDeid said.

Getting out to see so many bands perform in so many different places has been difficult, at times. On the first lengthy road trip for Mason, there were a lot of logistics to figure out. Dad and son arrived at one hotel, and discovered they’d been put in a room with just one bed, Richard McDeid said. He gave his son the bed and slept on the floor.

And not all concert venues had good access for people in wheelchairs. At the Warped tour, for instance, festival organizers gave wristbands to people with wheelchairs so they didn’t have to fight the massive crowds to get inside, Richard McDeid said. At other places, they weren’t so lucky and waited in long lines for more than an hour.

Since “thirtysomething’s” premiere, the show has become something of a cultural touchstone for TV drama lovers, and went on to inspire similar dramas such as NBC’s “This is Us,” for which star Ken Olin serves as an executive producer. Co-creators Zwick and Herskovitz, meanwhile, continued working together after their thirtysomething run, including on shows such as My So-Called Life and Nashville.

While “thirtysomething” may have been set in Philadelphia, there’s no guarantee it

Timothy Busfield and Ken Olin in the original “Thirtysomething.”

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will stay here. In 2014, scores of Philadelphia millennials were crushed to learn that

“Boy Meets World” sequel “Girl Meets World” had moved to Manhattan.

Rich McDeid and his son Mason McDeid enjoy the Helmet show with special guests Local H at Fine Line Music Cafe. Leila Navidi/Star Tribune

To celebrate his birthday last month, Mason and his dad trekked to the Fine Line Music Cafe in downtown Minneapolis on a frigid night to see the band Helmet.

Once again, they ended up with the best seats in the house — up front, near the stage.

At the end of the concert, Helmet’s guitarist handed a

smiling Mason a pick and a set list. They were the latest additions to his collection of band souvenirs, which fills an entire room.

With the new year, Mason and his father have made a new resolution. They’ll continue seeing bands, but they’re raising the stakes. The goal for 2017: Take Mason to a large

music festival in Europe.

Crossing the ocean is something that neither father nor son has experienced, and they’re eager to see the wider world, no matter what kind of obstacles they face.

“We don’t know how we’ll get there,” Richard McDeid said. “But we’re going to make it happen.”