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HUDSON — Columbia Memorial Health temporarily furloughed approximately 125 staff members Tuesday.

A message from CMH President and CEO Jay Cahalan said while it was an action that no one wanted to take, it was the result of extremely limited options.

The temporary furloughs mean employees will still have health insurance coverage and can receive enhanced unemployment fund levels while not receiving their regular salaries.

Employees who were furloughed could be called back to work with 48 hours’ notice.

With an increase in COVID-19 preparation, there has been a decrease in physician office visits, elective procedures and diagnostic testing in recent weeks, which was predicted, Cahalan said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo authorized state Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker to order hospitals to cancel elective surgeries and procedures in his March 23 executive order. He had previously

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Columbia Memorial Health in Hudson temporarily furloughed 125 employees Tuesday.

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NY to reopen by region, elective surgery resumes Courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office

The state will explore a regional approach to reopening New York’s economy and elective treatment will resume in certain hospitals and counties, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday, as Western New York emerges as the newest COVID-19 hotspot.

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BUFFALO — The state will reopen by region and elective surgeries and procedures will resume in counties without significant risk of a COVID-19 surge as the number of cases

rise in western New York, officials said Tuesday.

Cuomo met with President Donald Trump and White House officials at 3 p.m. Tuesday to discuss testing and how states can work together with manufacturers and the federal

government. Discussion details were not released as of press time.

Different regions of the state may reopen based on COVID-19 data specific to that area, Cuomo said.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will

coordinate Western New York’s public health and reopening strategy, and former Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy will volunteer as a special advisor to coordinate the Finger Lakes’ and Rochester region public health and reopening strategy.

“There’s one state, yes, but there are regional economies within the state,” Cuomo said Tuesday during his daily coronavirus briefing at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in See REOPEN A8

COVID wave buffets nursing homes

By Nora Mishanec Columbia-Greene Media

Nursing homes in the Twin Counties are bracing for more COVID-19 cases as elderly populations around the state continue to be the hardest hit by the virus.

Pine Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Philmont has the largest outbreak in the region, with 24 residents testing positive for COVID-19. Nine Pine Haven residents died of the virus as of Monday, including one death at Columbia Memorial Hospital on Sunday, said Pine Haven spokesman Geoff Thompson.

The first Pine Haven resident to test positive for COVID-19 was readmitted to the nursing home from CMH

on March 20, Thompson confirmed. The person was asymptomatic at the time of his readmission to Pine Haven and began showing symptoms, including fever, two days later, March 22.

By state law, nursing homes are required to readmit residents who have tested positive for COVID-19, a policy that New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker defended during a press conference at the Capitol on Monday.

“The policy is if you are positive you should be admitted back to a nursing home,” Zucker said. “The necessary precautions will be taken to protect the other residents See WAVE A8

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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has also already suspended routine in-person services, but is still offering some emergency services.

At the same time, the White House has ordered federal agencies to begin preparing to return workers to offices and begun to reopen parts of the country, despite a widespread shortage of testing and warnings of a second wave.

The president has

often said the pandemic has strengthened his desire to further restrict access to the U.S., and even to manufacture certain products on home soil.

Cracking down on illegal immigration and a promise to erect a wall at the Mexican border formed the centerpiece of Trump’s election campaign in 2016.

His Gallup approval rating slipped six points last week as scrutiny of his handling of the outbreak has intensified,

Treasury officials finalize agreements with airlines for coronavirus-related relief Lori Aratani The Washington Post

Treasury officials announced Monday that they have finalized agreements with Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines, and United Airlines to provide billions in grant money aimed at keeping thousands of workers on the job.

Officials said they are working to finalize agreements with five other major carriers: Alaska Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, and SkyWest Airlines, all of which have indicated that they plan to participate in the Payroll Support Program, part of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, known as the CARES Act. “The Payroll Support Program is

critical to supporting American workers and preserving our airline industry, which is a vital part of the U.S. economy,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement that accompanied the announcement. “We continue to work quickly to deliver this needed relief.”

About $2.9 billion in initial payments were made Monday to approved applicants, including two major airlines and 45 smaller carriers, officials said. Additional payments will be made to airlines on a rolling basis. The dollars are to be used to pay employees, including pilots, flight attendants and maintenance workers.

Under the terms of the agreement, airlines must agree to pay back 30% of what they receive. They must also agree not to furlough workers until Sept. 30,

cannot issue dividends or buy back their stock until late 2021 and must limit executive compensation.

Treasury officials said they received hundreds of applications for the program and are working to review applications as quickly as possible.

The Cares Act included $29 billion in grants to airlines for payroll support $25 billion to passenger carriers and $4 billion to cargo operators. In addition, the legislation provides $25 billion in loans or loan guarantees.

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President Donald Trump said he’ll sign an executive order temporarily suspending immigration to the United States as the country tries to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Trump made the announcement by tweet late Monday night and did not offer specifics, such as the time frame or the scope of who would be affected. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

He tweeted that he made the decision “in light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens.”

It’s the latest measure taken by Trump and his administration to restrict the U.S. border amid the pandemic.

Trump has imposed broad travel restrictions on China, Europe, Canada and Mexico to curb the virus’s spread, and the State Department last month temporarily suspended routine visa services at embassies and consulates.

and the U.S. leads the world in total reported cases.

Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, wrote on Twitter that the suspension was “not only an attempt to divert attention away from Trump’s failure to stop the spread of the coronavirus and save lives, but an authoritarianlike move to take advantage of a crisis and advance his anti-immigrant agenda.”

Since becoming president, Trump has sought to curb immigration and migration widely -- restricting travel from some majority-Muslim nations, pushing to erect the wall, striking deals to almost immediately deport asylum seekers from some countries and moving to reduce the number of refugees that the U.S. accepts. He’s also repeatedly criticized leaders of so-called sanctuary cities and mused about trying to end automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S. His previous travel restrictions have been swiftly met with legal challenges.

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Joe Biden posted his biggest monthly haul of the campaign in March thanks to his sweeping primary victories, raising $46.7 million as donors consolidated around his candidacy after most of the other Democrats dropped out of the presidential race, new filings show.

The majority of that money was raised in the first two weeks of March, coinciding with the primary wins that solidified his path to the Democratic nomination, but his fundraising dipped as the campaign went fully virtual to comply with coronavirus distancing requirements, according to new filings Monday and figures provided by the campaign.

In an email to supporters Monday night, Biden acknowledged that he likely will not keep up the fundraising pace this month as the global pandemic halted the momentum generated by his victories in March. And he said he recognized the challenges he

faces in catching up with President Donald Trump’s massive reelection war chest.

The Biden campaign entered April with $26.4 million, filings show. The Democratic National Committee and its affiliated fundraising committee, which raises money for state parties, had another $42 million on hand, filings show.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and their affiliated fundraising committees, have raised more than $1 billion toward the president’s reelection, including $212 million in the first three months of 2020, and entered April with roughly $244 million in cash on hand, filings show.

“He has a lot more money than us, and we are facing an uphill battle trying to catch up now,” Biden said in his note to supporters Monday night.

Still, Biden raised more money in the month of March than the previous two Democratic nominees did in the same month — a sign of the donor enthusiasm among Democrats for the November election. And after some

technological glitches as the campaign shifted to a fully virtual fundraising schedule, donors said his campaign adjusting to remote fundraising during the pandemic.

“This has been the best response I’ve ever had to any fundraising letter I’ve sent out [than] I have for 30, 40 years,” said Bill Singer, a Democratic donor and member of Biden’s national finance committee.

“The people I’m talking to may have been for [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren, may have been for [Pete] Buttigieg, may have been for [Sen. Amy] Klobuchar or even [Sen. Kamala] Harris, but all that is behind them.

They’re all saying, ‘We’re all in for Joe. He’s the nominee. We have to beat Trump. We have to do it.’ “ The Democratic National

Committee posted a big monthly haul of $32.5 million, more than half of which came from leftover presidential campaign funds donated by billionaire Mike Bloomberg last month. The Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund raised $2.5 million in March.

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CALENDAR EDITOR’S NOTE: Most events and meetings are being cancelled due to the virus outbreak. Please call ahead to confirm.

Wednesday, April 22 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1551 n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830

Thursday, April 23 n Coxsackie Village 2020-2021

Proposed Tentative Budget Public Hearing 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, April 27 n Catskill Village Planning Board

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

Wednesday, April 28 n Catskill Town Planning Board cancelled 518-943-2141

Monday, May 4 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m.

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Greenville CSD BOE/Budget discussion 5 6 p.m. Virtual Meeting only (see website for link)

Tuesday, May 5 n Durham Town Board workshop

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

Thursday, May 7 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

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

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

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

Police: Traffic stop turns up heroin, cocaine

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — A traffic stop on Broad Street in the village led to the arrest of two Greene County residents on felony drug charges, state police said.

State police Saturday afternoon stopped a 1999 Ford Ranger operated

by Anthony Biagioni, 49, of Catskill, for vehicle and traffic violations, according to police.

Biagioni’s driver’s license was

suspended and he was in possession of a crack pipe, police said.

As he was being taken into custody, Biagioni fled on foot, but was caught a short time later, state police said.

The female passenger, Ashley Ether, 32, of Cairo, was observed stuffing items into her purse and was told to get out of the vehicle, state police said.

A search of Ether’s purse turned up heroin, crack cocaine, Oxycodone and a glass smoking device, state police said.

A small black scale and hypodermic

needles were also found at the scene.

Biagioni was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both felonies; obstruction of governmental administration, resisting arrest, and criminal use of drug paraphernalia, all misdemeanors, state police said.

Biagioni was arraigned in Catskill Village Court before Judge William Jacobs and sent to the Greene County Jail without bail, state police said.

Ether was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and tampering with physical evidence, all felonies; obstruction of governmental administration and criminal use of drug paraphernalia, both misdemeanors; and controlled substance in a non-original container, a violation, state police said.

Ether was given an appearance ticket for Catskill Village Court on May 21.

Downstate wants more control over budget

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

ALBANY — A downstate slate of lawmakers is looking to amend the state Constitution to allow the Legislature to play an equal role in crafting the state budget.

Two weeks after the state’s 2020-21 budget was adopted, lawmakers introduced two bills — one in the state Senate and another in the Assembly — that would create “co-equal branches of government” when it comes to the annual state budget process.

The governor typically creates a proposed budget, which is then approved or rejected by the state Senate and the Assembly.

The legislation was introduced in the state Senate by Sens. Alessandra Biaggi, D-34, Gustavo Rivera, D-33, James Skoufis, D-39, and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, D-75.

In 1927, state constitution gave the Executive branch — the governor — control over crafting the proposed budget each year, which is then approved or modified by state lawmakers. The process creates

“a disproportionate balance of control” over what is included in the budget, according to the legislators who sponsored the bill.

Under the proposed legislation, the executive budget would identify and separately state each legislative proposal, and lawmakers would then be able to reduce, eliminate or add new items.

The bill’s proposal came two weeks after the state budget was approved amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“This year’s austerity budget is a microcosm of what is wrong with the construction process and the disproportionate power dynamics in Albany,” Biaggi said. “The unilateral control the Executive branch holds over the state budget process undermines the constitutional duty of legislators to make thoughtful spending and policy choices on behalf of the New Yorkers we represent. It is neither fair, nor just, to subdue the voice of the people in this critical and highly consequential decision-making process.”

Gottfried, who sponsored the bill in the Assembly, said the state budget increasingly

includes more than appropriations, but policy proposals as well.

“The current system is extraordinarily weighted toward Executive power, and really undemocratic,” Gottfried said in a statement. “This bill is about serving the people we were elected to serve by asserting our equal role in budget and policy making.”

But some lawmakers in the Twin Counties oppose the proposed legislation, saying state lawmakers already have an impact on the budget process, and that their Democratic colleagues failed to stand up to the governor.

“The fact of the matter is the state Legislature already has an equal role in the state budget process,” state Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, said. “The problem is that the Senate Democratic Majority has failed to assert its prerogative, continually allowed the governor to insert non-budgetary measures into the budget, and failed to exercise proper legislative oversight.”

In January, Jordan called for the budget to not include “controversial” policy changes such

as bail reform without “greater public scrutiny” and public hearings, Jordan said.

State Sen. George Amedore Jr., R-46, argued the Legislature already has the power to reject or amend the budget, and there is no need for the proposed bill.

“I don’t think it is necessary.

I think it’s a bunch of freshman members of the Legislature trying to get cover on budgets they voted for and supported, and they want to use it for their own political gain. It is very unfortunate,” Amedore said. “There are three equal branches of government, and we are all co-equal. If you don’t like the budget, then stand up and try to fix it.”

During his time in the state Legislature, Amedore said he has voted both for and against budgets, and that he has advocated for changes he would have liked to see in the final budget.

“You need the Executive to lay out a budget and it is the Executive’s proposed budget.

Then each house — the Senate and the Assembly — works on and has multiple hearings on the budget itself and what the Executive has proposed, from prior years to forward years,” he

said.

Amedore said the proposed legislation is being used to distance its supporters from the budget that was passed earlier this month.

“This notion that they don’t have equal say, I find it hilarious because [with] one-party rule that we have in Albany, this is just members trying to get cover for voting for a bad budget,” Amedore said. “They want to hide behind saying they don’t have any control in changing it.”

Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, voiced his opposition to the $177 billion state budget that was passed April 3.

“At a time when people are counting on their government to meet their needs more than ever, this governor has failed the people yet again by neglecting to provide transparency in the budget process,” Tague said.

“It disrespects our constituents and our founding principles when voters are told three people in a room know the needs of their communities better than they do, and the people deserve a say in how their tax dollars are spent.”

GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER

Tuesday, May 12 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518731-2718

Wednesday, May 13 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1551 n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Monday, May 18 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m.

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday, May 19 n Athens Village Planning Board

6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, May 20 n Cairo Town Board workshop meeting 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville

Thursday, May 21 n Coxsackie Village Planning

Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

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 Anthony Ramos, 21, of Bronx, was arrested at 10:36 p.m. April 10 in Cairo and charged with operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Nicholas W. Martin, 41, of East Durham, was arrested at 8:30 p.m. April 10 in Durham 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 Ryan A. Bruckman, 26, of Saugerties, was arrested at 1:58 a.m. April 12 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Joshua V. Brooks, 27, of Coxsackie, was arrested at 9:11 p.m. April 11 in Coxsackie and charged with operation of a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving

while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors, and first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a class E felony. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Darryl Cintron, 31, of Catskill, was arrested at 9:55 p.m. April 14 in Catskill and charged with false impersonation, a class B misdemeanor. He was held. n Peter M. Nielsen, 55, of Cornwallville, was arrested at 3:04 p.m. April 15 in Durham and charged with second-degree strangulation, a class D felony; third-degree assault and criminal obstruction of breathing, both class A misdemeanors. His arrestee status is unknown. n Daniel J. Green, 24, of Catskill, was arrested at 10:43 p.m. April 16 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was released to a third party. n Jason A. Nichols, 36, of Nassau, was arrested at 9:39 p.m. April 17 in Catskill and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor; first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a class E felony; and operation of a motor vehicle while

impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Shiann Zarcone, 19, of Ravena, was arrested at 6:15 a.m. April 18 in Coxsackie and charged with third-degree assault and second-degree obstruction of governmental administration, both class A misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Ashley C. Ether, 32, of Acra, was arrested at 2:45 a.m. April 18 in Catskill and charged with tampering with physical evidence, a class E felony; fourth-degree criminal possession of narcotic drugs, a class C felony; thirddegree criminal possession of narcotic drugs with intent to sell and criminal possession of a controlled substance, both class B felonies; seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia, both class A misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Anthony S. Biagioni, 4, of Catskill, was arrested at

2:45 a.m. April 18 in Caskill and charged with fourthdegree criminal possession of narcotic drugs, a class C felony; third-degree criminal possession of narcotic drugs with intent to sell and criminal possession of a controlled substance, both class B felonies; resisting arrest, second-degree obstruction of governmental administration, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree use of drug paraphernalia, all class A misdemeanors.

He was held. n Denise K. Lawlor, 52, of Acra, was arrested at 4:15 p.m. April 18 in Cairo and charged with assault, second-degree menacing, and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, all class A misdemeanors. She was released on her own recognizance. n Marvin D. Tefft, 63, of Athens, was arrested at 3:15 p.m. April 18 in Cairo and charged with petty larceny, a class A misdemeanor. He was held in lieu of a bail bond. n A 17-year-old male, of

Palenville, was arrested at 10:24 p.m. April 18 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket, n Brian J. Juman, 21, of Accord, was arrested at 8:24 p.m. April 18 in Cairo and charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony; second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia, a class A misdemeanor; and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was released on his own recognizance.

GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE n Vonyetta A. Dewitt, 33, of Albany, was arrested at 3:06 a.m. April 13 in Athens and charged with operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, an unclassified misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket.

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Celebrating an environment in crisis It is one of the paradoxes that makes the COVID-19 crisis not only brutally ironic, but sad and tragic.

Attention is rightly focused on the pandemic and its byproducts — social distancing, masks, and schools, stores and sports shut down by this merciless virus.

But our environment is a key to our health, as well, so we should remember that today is Earth Day 2020.

Celebrations this year will be virtual, not actual. Students will not go to school to participate. Officials will not gather beside river and streams, or next to woods.

We will observe the day as we have for the last five weeks — in quarantine, on our computers, from the isolation of our homes.

In addition to a pandemic disease, we are witnessing a tragic reversal of the environmental clock in which the progressive notions of green, sustainable energy and the phase-out of fossil fuels are being sacrificed to the Trump administration’s reactionary policies and unbridled passion to support big oil.

Earth Day, which began as a rebuke to wanton environmental desecration and an expression of love for the gifts we enjoy from Mother Earth, is slipping away, both as emblem and as reality.

The coronavirus leads the discussion on Earth Day, but the issue of climate change is not far behind. Meteorological experts tell us that it is no longer a question of stopping

climate change, but of living with it.

Under the Trump administration, the environment is losing its standing. The president has weakened the Environmental Protection Agency to the point of inefficiency. Activists who care about the environment are branded as radicals. The administration is opening up drilling rights in environmentally sensitive areas without consultation with Congress and no public hearings.

Today is Earth Day. There is nothing wrong with celebrating our environment. If nothing else, though, it will be a celebration of our ecology’s resilience.

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How to speed up testing?

A ‘shark tank’ for government. tions have pointed toward a possible solution.

There is no safe path forWe propose a competiward to combat the novel tive “shark tank” - much like coronavirus without adethe reality-TV show about quate testing. To contain co- entrepreneurs, but this time vid-19 and persuade Ameri- utilizing the capacities of cans to leave their homes government itself, in coordiand return to work and nation with the private secschool, the United States tor - to pull out all the stops will need tens of millions of and create new technologies diagnostic tests. Deborah designed to produce tens Birx, the coordinator of the of millions of diagnostic coronavirus task force, says tests by August. If there’s a there are now 1 million tests bold idea out there that will available weekly; by midwork, we need to make sure June, there will be 2 million the funding is available to to 2½ million available. get it approved and in the That is impressive - but hands of health-care providnot nearly enough. We ers quickly. We also should should squeeze every test improve serologic tests to possible out of current techdetermine whether somenologies, but we need tens of one already has had the millions more to really get a disease and has now created handle on how far and wide this disease has spread. This the necessary immunity to demand will only grow as the hopefully fight off the disease in the future. country goes back to work The first place to find and some 100,000 public these technologies is at the schools and more than 5,000 National Institutes of Health, colleges reopen, we hope, in where two dozen early-stage August. testing concepts are under As the heads of two U.S. development.

Some utilize Senate panels responsible CRISPR gene-editing techfor public health, we have nology.

At least one allows been talking with experts you to use your cellphone to across the government and photograph your test swab the private sector to find result and send it to a docanyone who believes that current technology can pro- tor. Several may incorporate wearable technology. duce the tens of millions of The second place is the tests necessary to put this Biomedical Advanced Revirus behind us. Unfortusearch and Development nately, we have yet to find Authority (BARDA), a divianyone to do so.

However, those conversa- sion of the Department of

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BARDA has been working across government and industry to invest in multiple innovative ideas to achieve accurate, fast and easy testing capabilities and build new capacity. BARDA will also play a critical role in partnering with private companies to manufacture and produce tests as necessary and as breakthroughs are discovered.

We must invite breakthrough ideas to our socalled shark tank. We must innovate. And we must use our best scientists at these two agencies and across government to do this faster than ever before.

By incorporating a shark tank environment in government research, we can more quickly develop the necessary technologies to get more tests into circulation.

While there is a risk of failure with any research - in science, success is not guaranteed - we also could produce the one mighty great white shark that will help us combat this disease.

This is the time for both government and its industry partners to step up and pull out all the stops.

Alexander, R-Tenn., is chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Blunt, R-Mo., is chairman of the Senate’s health appropriations subcommittee.

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We’re confronted with competing theories about the origin of this novel coronavirus and competing strategies for dealing with it, as well as gross uncertainties in the absolute number of infections and recoveries.

The things that are easiest to track are the number of hospitalizations of the diagnosed, and those actually dying with the virus while hospitalized or in a secure setting.

The infectious rate (distinguished from the disease rate) appears to be quite high, but mortality rates based on known infections will result in the highest possible rate. This is because the deaths are exactly known, while the known infections are but a part of the total number of infections. It’s like comparing five deaths to 100 infections (5/100) with five deaths to 1,000 or 10,000 infections (5/1,000, 5/10,000). The mortality rate is dependent on the denominator.

Mortality rates based on population have little uncertainty because the population is fairly static (births and deaths evening out) but result in the lowest possible rate at any time figured because the numerator (deaths) increases daily. As of time of writing, the U.S. mortality/population ratio is about .01% (1/100th of 1%), with Belgium showing the highest country rate of .04% (Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center).

According to Center figures, mortality as a ratio to world population is greatly less, about .0005% (5/10,000th of 1%). These ratios inch up daily, but do not lack precision.

We’ll continue to hear that information will become more precise over time, leading to better informed decision making.

This sounds reasonable until one considers the nature of complex systems such as the one we’re currently trying to figure our way out of. As complexity increases, decision making becomes more imperfect.

Public dispensers of strategy and policy, seeking credibility, may speak with a confidence beyond what

JAMES

ROTHENBERG is warranted. As life all too often teaches us, all we can usually do about even minimally complex things is offer an educated guess. Though we crave assurances, the universe does not exist to satisfy us.

To hold conflicting ideas in our head, to argue with oneself is an antidote to selfindoctrination. Orthodoxy, by definition, has been unable to produce a single idea.

It is the unique ability of our species to doubt and question. And, somewhere along the line, as a result of all the doubting and questioning, light sometimes appears.

In all probability, our understanding of this coronavirus experience will remain imprecise, even long after it passes. We have the Spanish flu for an example. We don’t know where, when or how it started. There are broad estimates, but due to the complexity we lack reliable figures on the number of infected and the number of deaths. What we do know is that it was highly infectious with a sudden onset, and that it was probably not a good idea to be fighting a world war simultaneously with the epidemic.

This last clause can inform a direction our own country could be taking, now and in the future, although it never has. We in the United States live in the world’s reigning technological and military superpower, but its moral power is puny. Capitalism, in its higher form of imperialism, cannot spare a conquest. We keep them all. Our “exit strategy” is not to leave.

We have yet to move beyond the formulation of “the rules of war” as a high water mark of our advanced civilization.

As I’m writing this, the “Global Citizen” musical telecast is playing. To

promote the idea of a world together, the “Global Citizen” logo never leaves the top left of the viewing screen.

This presents a problem that individuals have been unable to solve since organized nation states came into being.

You cannot declare yourself a citizen of the world without coming into conflict with whatever state claims you as a citizen. For matters that could prove consequential for the state, declaring yourself a global citizen will surely make you an enemy of the state. The very mention of world citizenship draws suspicion and invites investigative files. No allegiance?

A socialist? A communist?

The music program is thoughtfully organized around the universals of love, fellowship, caring, appreciation and cooperation.

Here, “global citizen” is deprived of political meaning which is a subject worth taking up. It is illogical to think that growing world problems such as global warming, resource shortages, pollution, natural disasters, nuclear proliferation and war — particularly war — can be properly addressed with our current mindset.

An alien looking down on Earth could quickly spot what has so far eluded us — that the system of competing states bears responsibility for and is incapable of dealing with problems in a way that meets the basic needs of all the world’s inhabitants. Ideally, a world government based on socialist principles of worker emancipation with goods produced for social usefulness instead of idle profit. An economy that repairs the poor in the path of the approaching trillionaires. And, recognizing our still-primitive nature, a supra-national police force.

Farfetched? Very. But the risks are real. A century ago the Spanish flu was raging in the foxholes of World War I. Today the coronavirus rages in a world roiled in conflicts, just this side of WWIII. Same world. One world.

James Rothenberg, of North Chatham, writes on U.S. social and foreign policy.

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Assessment scam To the editor: Recently our town, Taghkanic, has gone through a reassessment processes, however where is the due process in this event. With government offices closed the people have no recourse to mount a reasonable defense against over evaluation. Nor can they collect the proper comparison data to present to the grievance board, if in fact grievance day goes forward.

We can’t even be assured that the courts will be open to file an article 7 and/or 78s, and many do not possess or have the capability to do it electronically.

One thing we do know is that, according to our Town assessor, that roll will be filed in the county clerk’s office on May 1, 2020.

Now folks, it’s safe to say when you see a 2.4 acre parcel that is half wet land and the other flooded with an

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assessment that goes from $13,300 to $35,000, it’s a good bet that the assessor is not taking his medication or the town is scamming.

Now it begs the question where is Gov. Cuomo, that my local paper loves so much.

Being he enjoys signing executive orders why not sign one to suspend the assessment filing until next year. An order to suspend would not put the town through the additional expense of re-evaluation the following year and it would allow residents and citizens of the USA to have fair impartial hearings and not be placed at a total disadvantage.

Also one might ask where is our state representation on this matter, where is this Didi Barrett. Being she is the Governor’s yes vote on abortions, bail-reform, sanctuary cities and gun laws you think she would come out of hiding and grab his ear for the

people that elected her.

Another question is why isn’t the attorney general’s office investigating why these assessments values that have been creeping up every year as much as 108% at a time without any notification of increase. Oh wait!!

I forgot they’re busy suing drug companies, the President, and the NRA while the rest of us fall victim to a tax assessment scam. It seem to me that criminals and illegal immigrants are being treated better than the tax paying home owner. I would suggest that we all start calling the Governor’s office and this so called ‘representative’ we have and demand something be done to enforce the constitutional rights of us all. We can’t let a local town government take advantage of a national health crisis and pick our pockets.

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Fritz A. Carlson Fritz A. Carlson, 91, of Route Schuchman; grandfather of Britt 23A, Catskill died Easter Sun- Carlson, Beth Carlson Cramer, day, April 12, 2020. He was born Kjell-Erick and Cortney Carlson, in Bergen, Norway, a son of the Kurt Carter and Sarah McWillate Algot and Marie Karlsson. liams, great grandfather of LlanFritz immigrated to the US as ya, Zander, Theodore, Sadie, an infant. At age 20, Fritz mar- Sloane, Lochlan, Colton and ried Vivian E. Nordin on Septem- Addy, and uncle to many nieces ber 11, 1948. They moved their and nephews. family to Platte Clove A funeral service in 1959 where they was conducted by ran a seasonal boardPastor Cathy Schuyler ing house in Elka Park, with interment in Town while continuing his caof Catskill Cemetery reer with Esso, Humble where he was laid to Gasoline and then Exxrest next to his beloved onMobile. In 1990 Vivwife. In lieu of flowers, ian and Fritz moved to memorial contributions Catskill where they atmay be made to the tended Catskill United Catskill United MethodCarlson Methodist Church. ist Church, 40 WoodLoving husband of Viv- land Ave., Catskill, NY 12414 ian Carlson who died August 4, and the Town of Catskill Ambu2013, father of Eric R. Carlson lance, 439 Main St., Catskill, NY and his wife Kathleen of Catskill, 12414. Friends are welcomed to Barbara Carter and her hus- send messages of condolence band Scott of Columbia, MD to MillspaughCamerato.com, and the late Fritz Carlson and mail condolences to the famhis wife Lynn of Tannersville; ily “c/o” Millspaugh Camerato brother of the late Bodil Wad- Funeral Home, 139 Jefferson sworth, Eva Spinner and Ingrid Hgts., Catskill 12414.

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Saudi economy shaken by oil crash Vivian Nereim and Verity Ratcliffe Bloomberg

The meltdown in oil markets is turning back the economic clock for Saudi Arabia, putting it on track for the deepest contraction in two decades with a budget deficit approaching levels last seen after the crash in crude four years ago.

Already under lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s largest crude exporter is bracing for a double impact from the oil rout and unprecedented production cuts negotiated by OPEC and its allies. With Brent trading close to $20 a barrel, or almost a quarter of the level Saudi Arabia needs to balance its budget, offsetting the economic pain from the crisis could further stretch public finances.

“This has changed everything,” said Monica Malik, chief economist at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. “So much of the recent recovery was based on the fact that the oil price had been above $50-$60, providing support to economic activity, and that’s just been decimated.”

The latest oil setback presents difficult choices for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose economic transformation plans already risked budget cuts as government revenue was suffering from the pandemic and plummeting energy prices.

The kingdom now faces other mounting challenges: the coronavirus is shutting down vast swaths of the $779 billion

son Willy. Irene was a homemaker and took many children into her care. From adopting to foster children who she thought of as her own to babysitting. She was always helping and volunteering either in person or through letters and donations. She was exceptionally religious and was always ready to give and to help.

She was the type of person that comes around once in lifetime.

She turned the sorrows of her life into love for others. She worked for a time at Godiva Chocolate in Manhattan. She was a member of St. James Church in Chatham.

A memorial celebration will be planned for a future date. For on-line condolences, visit wenkfuneralhome.com

Richard T. Furfuro Richard T. Furfuro, lover of God and Country, age 76 years, of Coxsackie, N.Y. originally of Brooklyn, N.Y. passed away on April 16, 2020 at St. Peter’s Hospital, Albany, N.Y. He was born on October 19, 1943, in Brooklyn, N.Y. and is the son of the late Rocco and Mildred (Lentino) Furforo.

During his lifetime, Richard served his country proudly in The U.S.A.F. from 1964-1968, he was employed by Pan Am Airlines at J.F.K. Airport, and he was a member of The Community Life Church, in Catskill, N.Y. He was a family man who was a Christian and loved God and Country.

Besides his parents, Richard is predeceased by his wife Maria,

who passed away on November 5, 2015. Survivors include his two daughters Denise Tedesco and Cindy Furforo, four grandchildren Marissa, Erica, Nicholas and Amie, and four great grandchildren Maria, Carmela, Aiden and Eli. Services will be private due to the current social distancing situation. Interment next to his beloved wife Maria will be held with military honors at the family plot of The New Athens Rural Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of The W.C. Brady’s Sons, Inc. Funeral Home, 97 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, N.Y. 12051, Condolences may be made at www.wcbradyssonsinc.net.

economy and unemployment is poised to spike as businesses struggle to survive.

Analysts say they can hardly cut their forecasts fast enough. Gross domestic product could shrink more than 3% this year in what would be the first contraction since 2017, according to Malik.

Meanwhile, the government’s budget deficit could widen to 15% of economic output, said Mohamed Abu Basha, head of macroeconomic analysis at investment bank EFG Hermes in Cairo. The fiscal shortfall reached 4.5% last year after peaking at just over 17% in 2016, according to

the International Monetary Fund.

The collapse on Monday in the price of West Texas Intermediate crude below zero has little direct impact for Saudi Arabia, since it sells only about a 10th of its oil to the U.S. The kingdom’s fate is much more closely tied to the price of global benchmark Brent which is also falling, in part because of low U.S. prices.

“Yesterday’s price slump was psychologically very important,” said Eugen Weinberg, Commerzbank’s head of commodity research. “There is a possibility it will change perceptions forever.”

Pastor facing arrest warrant for backing his church bus toward a coronavirus protester Sarah Pulliam Bailey The Washington Post

Irene Ansmann, age 79, of Austerlitz passed away Thursday, April 9, 2020 at Pine Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was born in Flushing, Queens on May 30, 1940 to the late Albert and Frances Sulzbach. She grew up in College Point, Queens.

Irene is survived by her daughters, Mary (Andy) Gerhardt of Austerlitz, NY; Suzanne Collins of Naugatuck, CT; her grandchildren, Andrew, Madeline and Luke, a great granddaughter, her sister Jane Arnold, stepsister Anne Wendel, many nieces and nephews and foster children Elaine Montchal and Kenny Musgrove. Irene was predeceased by her daughter, Theresa and grand-

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The city skyline of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Feb. 10, 2020.

A megachurch pastor in Louisiana who has defied stayat-home orders intended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus by holding large worship services is facing criminal charges for driving a church bus backward toward a protester outside the church, authorities said Monday.

Pastor Tony Spell has drawn nationwide attention for continuing to hold services attended by hundreds of people at his Life Tabernacle Church near Baton Rouge, despite facing six misdemeanor charges in March for violating orders from Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, D, that limited mass gatherings.

Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran said police have a warrant for Spell’s arrest. He is wanted on a charge of aggravated assault related to the bus incident, which took place Sunday. According to Corcoran, Spell was driving a bus and backed it up on the shoulder of the road, stopping the vehicle within a few feet of a protester.

A parishioner is also facing charges for swerving his car toward a protester. No one was hurt in either incident.

“He was trying to intimidate the protester,” Corcoran said.

He said police reviewed video of the incident, which local television outlets aired.

Spell wrote in a text message that he would not surrender

and that authorities would have to take him out of his church. A bus driver as well as a pastor, Spell said he had just finished dropping off church members before his encounter with the protester.

“I approached a man who verbally assaulted my wife and little girls. He’s a crotchgrabbing, middle-finger using against my church ladies,” Spell wrote in a text message.

“What would you do to a man like that?”

Spell said that he has reported the protester to the police every day for 36 days but that police have not responded to his complaints. He said he stopped the bus “because it was a waste of time.”

“This is the proudest day of my life to be persecuted for the faith,” he wrote in a text message.

When asked whether he considered Sunday’s incident to be an act of faith, he suggested he would block a Washington Post reporter on his phone.

Corcoran said the lawyer representing Spell has been hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms, and a member of his congregation has died of complications from the virus.

Spell’s legal team also includes former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore.

The vast majority of churches nationwide have stopped holding in-person services since state and federal guidelines have prevented mass

gatherings. But some churches have continued to meet, with some gatherings exacerbating outbreaks in states across the country.

Spell’s Life Tabernacle Church is a Pentecostal church that teaches in signs of the Holy Spirit, such as healing and speaking in tongues. He previously told The Post that his church could not easily transition to online services.

“We’re a Pentecostal denomination, and when we gather and pray, the Holy Ghost comes in the midst.

There are healings, signs, wonders, some things done together in the church that can’t be done in a live stream,” he said.

Spell has also directed his parishioners to donate their stimulus checks through his website to ministers, evangelists and missionaries.

Corcoran said the church is the only one in the area that he’s aware of that has defied the governor’s orders.

“He has said that he has healed HIV, he’s healed cancer, he’s asked people with coronavirus to come to his church where he can heal them,” Corcoran said. “He can’t do that. It’s a huge health risk.”

Corcoran said that Spell has spoken with Tony Perkins, head of the conservative Christian advocacy group Family Research Council, and agreed to abide by the governor’s rules but has not.

Hong Kong crisis escalates as Chinese government voiced its support for the seizure of pro-democracy activists Gerry Shih The Washington Post

The constitutional crisis engulfing Hong Kong expanded dramatically on Tuesday as the Chinese government voiced its support for the seizure of more than a dozen pro-democracy activists and asserted Beijing’s “rights and responsibilities to maintain the constitutional order” in the city.

With the statements, the Chinese government explicitly doubled down on its position that Beijing has the power to intervene politically in Hong Kong. The move threw further doubt over the credibility of the Hong Kong mini-constitution that ostensibly guaranteed the city a high degree of autonomy from Chinese meddling until 2047, half a century after its handover from British rule.

Long-standing questions about the efficacy of the autonomy provision, known as Article 22 of the Basic Law, were sharpened last week after Beijing’s liaison office said Friday it was not bound by the noninterference law and was legally permitted as a supervisory body to voice its criticism of legislative affairs in Hong Kong, including a filibuster by opposition lawmakers.

A day later, on Saturday, Hong Kong

authorities arrested some of the city’s most strident anti-China voices in a coordinated and unprecedented operation, taking in figures such as the former legislators Martin Lee and Albert Ho and media tycoon Jimmy Lai on grounds of leading protests last year that did not receive police authorization but dominated world headlines.

With Hong Kong’s streets in recent months cleared of mass protests due to the coronavirus, legislators and activists in the city’s pro-democracy camp say the Communist Party and the Hong Kong authorities have used the opportunity to cripple their movement through a multipronged approach while world attention has been diverted elsewhere by the pandemic.

Aside from the mass arrests and increasingly pointed declarations about China’s “supervisory” role over the city, Chinese officials in Hong Kong, including the newly installed director of the central government’s liaison office, Luo Huining, have called for improved “national security education” in Hong Kong and the passage of a national security law that would toughen up law enforcement and prosecutorial powers to help prevent protests.

Chinese officials have consistently

framed the massive, sometimes violent protests as an extremist uprising stoked and manipulated by the United States and directed on the ground by some of the activists Hong Kong police arrested over the weekend.

Beijing said on Tuesday that it “fully supported” the arrests of figures who had been involved in illegal assembly and “extreme violence.” In its statement, the Chinese cabinet’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office said it was American support for the protesters that in fact amounted to a “political conspiracy” and a “reckless trampling of human rights and rule of law in Hong Kong.”

“The law is sacred and everyone is equal before the law,” the central government office said. “No one has extrajudicial privileges, and those who violate the law must be prosecuted in accordance with the law.”

In a separate statement, Beijing leaned into its claim that it holds “supervisory” powers over Hong Kong and said the central government “must intervene” if a situation arose that harmed the country and Hong Kong.

“The Central Government grants the Special Administrative Region a high degree of autonomy, which does not mean that the Central Government does not

have or surrender its supervisory power,” said the statement. “In Hong Kong, whenever the central government exercises power in accordance with the law, there are always people who clamor: ‘the central government is intervening in Hong Kong’s autonomous affairs.’ Let us ask these people: When Jimmy Lai publicly clamored to ‘fight on behalf of the United States,’ why didn’t you come out and express your opposition?”

The Hong Kong Bar Association issued a statement Monday saying there was no provision in the Basic Law giving central Chinese authorities “supervision” over affairs the Hong Kong government administers on its own.

Statements from Beijing and Hong Kong officials on “such a highly important legal issue have caused deep public unease,” the lawyers’ group said.

Fitch Ratings downgraded Hong Kong’s long-term debt on Monday, citing “deep-rooted, sociopolitical cleavages” that threatened to tarnish the city’s reputation as a smoothly run international hub.

Beijing is “taking a more vocal role in Hong Kong affairs than at any time since the 1997 handover,” the ratings firm noted.

“He’s trying to hide behind the First Amendment,” Corcoran said. “No one has asked him not to preach the word or preach a service. We just ask that he adhere to the order that was given by the governor and the president, put it on social media or FaceTime like the other churches, but he’s refused to do that.”

Vice President Pence has explicitly asked Americans to avoid worship services, though measures to limit gatherings have set off legal battles across the country as some churches have sued over the issue. A federal court in Kansas issued a temporary restraining order Saturday against the governor’s order capping church gatherings at 10 people.

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More memories from a Greene County milk tester

By David Dorpfeld, Greene County Historian For Columbia-Greene Media

NYDHIC from 1963 to 1974.

Following are his memories of those years.

Two weeks ago I was spurred to write a column about dairy milk testing after reading an article in the spring 2020 edition of “The Times of Halcott.”

Milk testing is a system that New York state farmers began to use in the 1940s under the auspice of the New York Dairy Herd Improvement Cooperative (NYDHIC). In the beginning the program focused on “measuring milk and butterfat production from dairy cattle so farmers could better manage feeding and breeding strategies to improve farm profitability.” Once a month the NYDHIC tester would arrive at the farm to weigh each cow’s milk production and measure butterfat content.

Testing was widespread in Greene County.

To my surprise, last week I received an email from Clarence Soule in Jewett, a milk tester in Greene County for the

By Clarence Soule Your article “Milk Tester” caught my interest as I was a milk tester for Greene County 1963 through 1974. As a youngster I found it interesting watching the milk tester and visiting with him at my brother’s farm. In FFA class in school we learned how to test milk and used the centrifuge for reading the butterfat content.

I had just been married on Nov. 3, 1962, when an ad appeared in the Windham Journal for anyone interested in being a milk tester for Greene County. Applicants were instructed to contact the Agricultural Agent of Greene County. I jumped at the chance of a good job. I was contacted in person by the agent one evening in January 1963. I was found qualified and if I signed a paper, I

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Placard displayed by farmers to show they were participating in the NYDHIC milk testing program.

would be enrolled the following week at Cornell University in Ithaca for a two week course to become a NYDHIC Supervisor, a big title.

Off I went to Ithaca in one of the coldest winters on record, leaving my new bride to rely on her family and mine for protection. I came home on the weekend to find the

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water to our home was frozen. Welcome to home making! To make a long story short, I started the job the week after school; 28 herds of official testing that were supervised night and morning plus 18 herds on owner sampling. Owner samplers did their own samples and submitted the results to me.

My wage was 25 cents per cow for the samples I took and 10 cents a cow for owner samplers. Not bad, but out of that was cost for gas and cars.

Once a month I was required to turn in my paperwork with the results of my findings to the Secretary/ Treasurer who lived in Climax. I would also pickup my paycheck for the month. Also while in Climax I would go to another tester’s home to pick up the acid needed to perform my butterfat testing for the following month.

I had a few places where I stayed overnight with farm families in Halcott Center. I had five farms there and one owner sampler. Your article was right about these folks becoming like family and very good friends.

In my years as a milk tester, I went through three new cars and a few good used ones. My wife and I had three children and lived a happy life. Didn’t make much money because I was self-employed with no

benefits. With 28 herds there was also no time off. I thank God for my wife, who was my unpaid help.

News and Notes: This year many people have suddenly become interested in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

Documenting first-person memories to events like that become important to researchers years later. With that in mind, the Association of Public Historians of New York State has suggested that historians immediately begin documenting their community’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. I have been doing this for Greene County for the past month. My observations will be deposited in the archives of the Greene County Historical Society’s Vedder Research Library when the pandemic is over.

Reach columnist David Dorpfeld at gchistorian@gmail.com or visit him on Facebook at “Greene County Historian.”

Virtual Bowl to End Epilepsy to be held now through June 1 ALBANY – Join supporters and people from throughout the Capital Region living with and affected by epilepsy for the Epilepsy Foundation of Northeastern New York’s first ever VIRTUAL Bowl to END EPILEPSY, now through June 1.

Due to COVID-19, the organization has gone virtual with its annual Bowl to END EPILEPSY fundraising event.

Throughout the next several weeks leading up to June 1, there will be fun ideas to play virtually, contests for great prizes, games, and more!

Check outFacebook page (@ efneny) for updates. Register to participate, fundraise, or make a donation at https://bit.

ly/EFNENYbowl2020. Those who raise $50 or more will receive a free tote bag. Don’t forget to ask your company if they will match your donation. Trophies will be awarded to the Top Fundraising Individual, Friends and Family Team, and Company Team that raises the most money.

One in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime.

It can affect anyone at any age, and one in three people living with epilepsy cannot control their seizures with any available treatments.

By supporting these individuals and families whose lives have been impacted by this life-altering diagnosis,

EFNENY officials say they promise those living with epilepsy that they will fight for a cure, fight for safe and welcoming communities, and fight to lessen their burden.

Participants raise critical funding to support programs and services provided to people affected by epilepsy in the Capital Region.

We need each other more than ever before to continue the fight to raise awareness and funds so that we may continue to provide the programs and services people affected by epilepsy so desperately need.

Seizures haven’t stopped and neither has our fight to End Epilepsy.

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Congratulations to Forest Ranger Jaime Laczko on receiving his captain’s bars from DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos. Laczko was promoted from lieutenant on April 2. Laczko will be responsible for emergency management and response for the Division of Forest Protection’s Albany headquarters. He will work closely with the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Northeast Fire Protection Commission, and will serve as agency contact to DEC federal agency wildfire partners.

State Parks COVID-19 update ALBANY - State Parks encourages New Yorkers to recreate locally, practice social distancing and use common sense to protect themselves and others. Getting outdoors to walk, jog, hike, ride a bike, or visit a park or state lands is a healthy way to stay active, spend time with your immediate household family members, and reduce stress and anxiety while practicing social distancing.

While indoor spaces and restrooms at state park facilities may be closed to prevent community spread of COVID-19, parks, grounds forests and trails are open during daylight hours, seven days a week. For the safety of visitors, all state park playgrounds, athletic courts and sport fields are closed.

Visitors are asked to

#recreatelocal, choose parks that are close to your home and follow CDC/NYSDOH’s guidelines for preventing the spread of colds, flu and COVID-19. Your support and patience is appreciated as the community navigates this public-health crisis together.

Learn more about COVID-19 and its impact on NY State Parks Visit: COVID-19 UPDATE. Parking limitations in effect: To encourage physical social distancing at popular parks, trailheads and scenic areas, State Parks may reduce the number of available parking spaces on high visitation days. Have a plan ready to visit a different park or another park area.

Early season camping: Due to the global health crisis, all campgrounds, cabins,

and cottages are CLOSED to overnight visitation through April 30. All visitors with reservations will be issued a full refund. They ask for your patience as refunds are processed.

Camping reservations: New York state has suspended all new camping, cabin and cottage reservations for the 2020 season until further notice. They are assessing campground status on a daily basis. If you’ve made a reservation for the season beginning May 1, and it is determined your campground is safe to open, your reservation will be honored. However, visitors who wish to cancel an existing reservation may do so and receive a full refund.

Thank you for your patience as we work to protect the safety of our visitors and staff.

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Drive-thru chicken and biscuit dinner SELKIRK - The Bethlehem Grange 137, 24 Bridge St., Selkirk, will serve a chicken and biscuit dinner, take out only, 4-7 p.m. May 2.

Dinners will include salad and dessert. Reserve your dinners in advance, by May 1.

To reserve the number of needed dinners, call 518421-1384 and speak to Carol Carpenter.

If your phone does not display your name or number, enable it to display your name or number.

At the same time, you can drop off any used clothing,

men’s, ladies’, children’s, shoes, boots, belts, purses, linens, curtains, stuffed animals, pillowcases, etc. in the Clothing Shed, in the southeast corner of the parking lot.

The Grange is also accepting the pull tabs from pet foods, soda, beer, canned fish, soups and anything else that has the pull tabs.

The pull tabs are being collected for a community service project for the Ronald McDonald House.

These can be dropped off when you pay for your dinners.

At the same time, soda, beer cans and water bottles will also be accepted these for the Bethlehem Grange Juniors. The deposit money from these cans and bottles goes towards their community service projects.

The Grange is also accepting worn or tattered American flags in its mailbox at the front of the Grange Hall, where the small flag is located.

Any worn or tattered American flags that are received are properly disposed of by the American Legion Post 37.

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Social Security for children and younger wife Dear Rusty: I am 59. My wife is 48 and has been a stay-at-home mom for 15 years. We have children aged 13, 10 and 5. I know it makes sense to delay the start of benefits, but I understand that it’s more complicated when small children are involved. Does it make sense for me to begin receiving benefits at 62 so I can also collect more for the children?

Signed: Older Father Dear Older Father: Yes, the issue is more complicated when children are involved. Here’s why: If you claim your own Social Security (SS) at age 62, your minor children would be able to receive child benefits, and your wife would also be able to receive “child-in-care” benefits, even though she is not yet age-eligible for regular spouse benefits. Usually, a minor child is entitled to 50%

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GLOOR of the parent’s full retirement age (FRA) SS amount, and a younger care-giving wife is entitled to the same. But when there are multiple dependents collecting on the same worker’s record the Family Maximum applies.

The Family Maximum limits the amount of total benefits which can be received by the family to 150% to 188% of the worker’s FRA benefit amount.

Social Security determines

the Family Maximum for each individual case with a complex formula that uses your “primary insurance amount” (or “PIA,” the amount you get at your FRA). Your PIA is broken into 4 parts and a different percentage of each part is taken and summed up to arrive at your Family Maximum.

Then your PIA is subtracted from the Family Maximum amount and the remainder is equally divided among your minor children and wife.

Once a minor child turns 18 (or 19 if still in high school) that child no longer receives benefits and the Family Maximum is recomputed, with the new amount equally divided among the remaining dependents. When your youngest child turns 16, your wife will no longer be eligible for childin-care benefits. But there’s more to consider.

By taking your benefit at age

Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program.

Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea.

All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited. The suggested donation for each meal is $4.

The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County homebound meal clients. Those wishing to receive lunch at a center are asked to call the respective location at least a day in advance.

Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens; 518-9452700.

Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518-6229898.

Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett; 518-2634392.

Washington Irving Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill; 518-943-1343.

Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, Mansion Street, Coxsackie; 518-731-8901.

For the foreseeable future, there will be no congregate

meals at any of the Greene County Nutrition Centers, including Jewett. Home delivered meals will still be delivered, and if you want a meal, you can order the day ahead and pick it up at the center to take out.

APRIL 22 THROUGH APRIL 29 WEDNESDAY: Salisbury steak with gravy, beet salad, broccoli, baked potato, tropical mixed fruit.

THURSDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, Monaco mixed vegetables, cherry cheesecake.

FRIDAY: Whole wheat lasagna, fresh salad with carrots and chickpeas, Italian mixed vegetables, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Quiche Lorraine, quinoa, hash browns, California mixed vegetables, fruit cocktail.

TUESDAY: Baked chicken quarters with gravy, mashed potatoes, Monaco mixed vegetables, pumpkin pudding with granola topping.

WEDNESDAY: Shrimp scampi, brown rice, broccoli, pineapple delight.

APRIL 29 THROUGH MAY 6 WEDNESDAY: Shrimp scampi, brown rice, broccoli,

pineapple delight.

THURSDAY: American goulash, fresh salad with chickpeas, wax beans, oatmeal raisin cookie.

MONDAY: Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, mandarin oranges.

TUESDAY: Taco casserole, green beans, vanilla pudding w/ granola.

WEDNESDAY: Baked chicken w/gravy, mashed potatoes, carrot coins, mixed tropical fruit.

MAY 6 THROUGH MAY 13 WEDNESDAY: Baked chicken w/gravy, mashed potatoes, carrot coins, mixed tropical fruit.

THURSDAY: Spaghetti w/ meat sauce, Italian mixed vegetables, fresh salad w/spinach and beans, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Swedish meatballs, noodles, red cabbage, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Sloppy Joe, cauliflower and green beans mix, sweet potato, pears.

TUESDAY: Macaroni and cheese, 3 bean salad, stewed tomatoes, pineapple chunks.

WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf w/ gravy, mashed potatoes, spinach, apple pie.

Alzheimer’s Association offers free virtual education classes for all New York residents ALBANY – While the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health of millions in this country and around the world, the novel coronavirus presents unique challenges for more than 5 million Americans, including 410,000 in New York, living with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.

The Alzheimer’s Association, Northeastern New York chapter is offering free virtual education programs in the coming weeks to help all local caregivers throughout our 17-county area.

The Alzheimer’s Association offers a number of education programs that can help those living with Alzheimer’s and their families understand what to expect so they can be prepared to meet the changes ahead and live well for as long as possible.

“During this challenging time, it’s critical that all New York caregivers have access to Alzheimer’s Association resources even if they cannot venture out,” said Alzheimer’s Association, Northeastern New York Executive Director Beth Smith-Boivin.

“The COVID-19 crisis is altering Americans’ daily lives, but the needs of Alzheimer’s caregivers cannot be put on hold. These online programs allow us to connect with caregivers and provide necessary information even amid the current crisis.”

Each virtual education program is approximately one hour and allows the audience to ask questions and engage with others going through the journey online.

UPCOMING VIRTUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS INCLUDE: - 10 Signs of Alzheimer’s: 2 p.m. April 29.

- Coronavirus (Covid 19) Tips for Dementia Caregivers: 4 p.m. April 22.

- Dementia Conversations: 2:30 p.m. April 23.

- Effective Communication Strategies: 3 p.m. April 30.

- Meaningful Engagement, Activities at Home: 12:30 p.m. April 24; 10 a.m.

April 28.

- Recognizing and Coping with Caregiver Stress: 4 p.m.

April 27.

- Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia: 2 p.m.

April 23.

For a complete list of upcoming programs, or to register for a program, visit alz. org/crf.

In addition to the virtual education classes, the Alzheimer’s Association offers online community resources at alz.org including ALZConnected®, a free online community where people living with Alzheimer’s, caregivers, family and friends can ask questions, get advice and find support.

More than 16 million family and friends, including more than 1 million in New York provide unpaid care to people with Alzheimer’s or other dementias in the United States.

To help family caregivers navigate the current complex and quickly changing environment, the Alzheimer’s Association has also offered additional guidance to families at alz.org/COVID19.

The Alzheimer’s Association free, 24/7 Helpline, 800272-3900) offers around-theclock support for caregivers and families impacted by Alzheimer’s and all dementia.

62, it will be cut by 30% from what it would be if you waited until your full retirement age to claim, and that reduction is permanent. Plus that reduced benefit will mean your wife’s benefit as your widow, should you pre-decease her, would be less than it might otherwise be if you waited until later to claim.

Until you reach your full retirement age, you will also be subject to Social Security’s “earnings test” which limits the amount of money you can earn before Social Security takes back some of your benefits. The limit for 2020 is $18,240 and if you exceed that amount, SS will take back benefits equal to half of the excess over the limit. They take back those benefits by withholding your SS until they recover what you owe because you exceeded the limit. And, if your benefits are withheld

because you exceed the earnings limit, your children and wife will not get their benefits for any month(s) that your benefits are withheld. FYI, the earnings limit increases by about 2.6 times in the year you reach your FRA and no longer applies once you reach your FRA, but any dependent benefits not paid because you exceeded the earnings limit are lost and cannot be recovered.

So, as you can see, there are many things you should consider. If you will be retired from working at age 62 and don’t need to worry about the earnings limit, then claiming then, along with the dependent benefits, could be a prudent choice. But if you will continue to work and earn a significant salary, you might very well find that the benefits you and your dependents lose due to the earnings limit will overshadow any advantage

you might gain by filing at that time. And, you might also find that the permanent cut in your own benefit because you claimed early, along with the reduction to your wife’s future survivor benefit amount, will make claiming at age 62 less attractive.

This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the National Social Security Association (NSSA). NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website (amacfoundation.org/programs/socialsecurity-advisory) or email us at ssadvisor@amacfoundation.org.

What people with high blood pressure need to know about COVID-19 DALLAS — Many people have concerns about staying healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those with a chronic condition such as high blood pressure — a reading above 130/80 — may face an increased risk for severe complications if they get the virus.

With nearly half of Americans dealing with high blood pressure, the American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, is sharing information about the risks as the situation rapidly evolves.

What is the real risk?

Based on what we know today, elderly people with coronary heart disease or high blood pressure may be more susceptible to the coronavirus and more likely to develop more severe symptoms. That means it’s vital to follow guidance about keeping other conditions well controlled and maintaining good health and hygiene.

Data from the outbreak in Wuhan, China[ii], shows a 10.5% death rate among people with COVID-19 who also have cardiovascular disease, 7.3% for those with diabetes, 6.3% for those with respiratory disease, 6% for those with high blood pressure and 5.6% for those with cancer.

Could blood pressurelowering medicines make people with COVID-19 sicker?

According to the latest guidance from the American Heart Association, Heart Failure Society of America and the American College of Cardiology, issued March 17,2020: Do not stop taking prescribed angiotensin

converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-i) or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) medications for high blood pressure, heart failure or heart disease.

These medications don’t increase your risk of contracting COVID-19. They are vital to maintaining your blood pressure levels to reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke and worsening heart disease.

If you’re a cardiovascular disease patient with COVID-19, your health care provider should evaluate you before adding or removing treatments. Changes should be based on the latest scientific evidence and shared decision-making.

CAUTION IS KEY Some common habits or over-the-counter medicines and supplements can be “BP raisers.”

Over-the-counter medications. Common pain medicines called NSAIDs (e.g., naproxen and ibuprofen) can increase your blood pressure. Decongestants are also known BP-raisers.

People with heart concerns should limit or avoid them, especially if their blood pressure is uncontrolled.

Drugs such as acetaminophen are less likely to increase blood pressure. People should ask their doctors about OTC medicines.

Some prescription medicines. People taking medication for mental health, corticosteroids, oral birth control, immunosuppressants and some cancer medications, should monitor blood pressure to make sure it’s under control.

Alcohol and caffeine.

People should limit both, because too much can raise blood pressure. Caffeine

should be capped at three cups per day in general, and most people with high blood pressure should avoid it.

Herbs and food combinations. “Natural” supplements and home remedies might not be safe. Some herbal supplements, such as licorice, can raise blood pressure.

Connecting with health care providers and pharmacist.

Patients should ensure they have enough prescription medications to last for a prolonged period or see if they can get a larger supply than normal.

Mail-order systems may be available for people who can’t or don’t want to leave home.

Medications should be taken exactly as prescribed.

Decreasing or stopping them could raise blood pressure to dangerous levels. People with concerns should talk to a doctor or pharmacist.

Keep follow-up appointments. Some doctor’s offices offer virtual visits when possible.

Getting support. The American Heart Association’s free online Support Network offers support for those with similar conditions or health concerns.

Emergencies don’t stop for COVID-19 High blood pressure increases the risk for heart attack and stroke. Certain heart and stroke symptoms require immediate medical intervention, and every second matters. Calling 9-1-1 at the first sign of heart attack, stroke, or cardiac arrest saves lives. Fast access to medical treatment is the No. 1 factor for surviving a cardiovascular event.

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required hospitals to increase inpatient capacity by 50%.

“Most of that is understandable; what was less predictable is the dramatic decline in the number of [emergency department] visits, Rapid Care

visits, total number of admissions to the hospital, and the sharp drop in the number of patients placed in an observation status,” Cahalan said.

Many would-be patients are concerned about visiting hospitals and having access to health care services with the stay-at-home order in effect.

These, in addition to the soaring costs of personal

protective equipment, or PPE, created an “unprecedented financial crisis for hospitals and health care organizations,” Cahalan said.

These changes have cut revenue nearly in half, while at the same time increasing expenses, which is being seen in hospitals throughout the region.

Businesses and

organizations are being assisted by the federal government’s CARES Act, which includes enhanced funding levels for furloughed employees. Hospitals are utilizing similar programs to preserve the workforce, and are working with the government to make them more accessible.

“We all know that health care is different from other

services and businesses, now is the time that we need to strengthen our health care system, not lose time that we could be spending on preparation for the next surge,” Cahalan said. “We will continue to make that point and will likely enlist our staff and community in that effort as well.”

Cahalan said although he wished there were other

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Buffalo. “Depending on that region’s curve is how you’ve got to calculate your strategy. Let’s talk about reopening economies in that regional context and coordinate it regionally.”

Strategies were not announced Tuesday for other parts of the state.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, supports the regional-based plan.

“I am pleased that New York state has recognized that the challenges and circumstances of the North Country are different than New York City when it comes to reopening our economy and getting people back to work,” Stefanik said. “I believe our local county public health officials and hospitals will help guide these decisions. In my role on President Trump’s Task Force to Reopen the Economy, I will be working with my bipartisan colleagues on this regional approach to ensure we balance both public health and the need to get people back to work safely.”

Elective outpatient surgeries and treatments will resume April 28 in hospitals with capacity over 25% and if the county has seen fewer than 10 new coronavirus hospitalizations over the past 10 days. If a hospital or county that resumed elective treatment has a surge in virus cases and exceeds those thresholds, elective treatment will cease, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.

Restrictions on elective surgery will remain in place in Bronx, Queens, Rockland, Nassau, Clinton, Yates, Westchester, Albany, Richmond, Schuyler, Kings, Suffolk, New York, Dutchess, Sullivan, Ulster, Erie, Orange and Rensselaer counties as the state continues to monitor the rate of new COVID-19 infections in the region.

Patients must test negative for COVID-19 before receiving any elective treatment. The state Department of

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there.”

Two Pine Haven residents remain hospitalized at CMH, four residents are continuing to receive treatment at Pine Haven, and eight have fully recovered from the virus, Thompson said Monday.

Responding to calls for greater transparency in reporting nursing-home cases and fatalities, the state health department released data Monday showing that 3,477 nursing-home and adult-care residents have died since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. The deaths account for

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Elective treatment and surgeries will resume in certain hospitals and counties starting April 28, and officials will explore reopening the state by region, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday during a coronavirus COVID-19 briefing in Buffalo.

Health will issue further guidelines.

Erie County, which borders Lake Erie and is home to Buffalo, had 125 virus-related deaths Monday, or about 26% of the state’s daily total. New York’s COVID-19 fatalities reached 14,828 Tuesday — up from 14,347 Monday. The state saw 481 virus-related deaths Monday, including 452 in hospitals and 29 in nursing homes. The daily death toll remained flat from Sunday’s total of 478 deaths.

The high volume of deaths Monday in Erie County shows a growing COVID-19 cluster, or hot spot.

“This is like stamping out a brush fire,” Cuomo said. “You need to run to where the fire is and put it out there...We must be ready to surge and flex support to address a local

25% of all COVID-19 fatalities in the state.

Two residents of Livingston Hills Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Livingston have tested positive, Columbia County health officials confirmed.

“After discovering they had a positive case, using a kit they procured themselves, they asked us for kits,” Columbia County Public Health Director Jack Mabb said in an email. “We sent seven and they have had one positive since.”

In Greene County, 26 residents and staff members at The Pines have tested positive and county officials are continuing to test as testing kits are made available by the state, officials said.

cluster.”

Officials are prepared to move state resources, including medical staff, personal protective equipment, ventilators and other pandemic supplies as rolling curves, or waves, of COVID-19 outbreaks strike different regions of the state and nation at different times.

New York tested 649,325 people, revealing 251,690 positive cases of COVID-19 by Tuesday afternoon.

The state may be past the virus apex, or several-day plateau, as hospitalization rates remained flat at 16,076 patients Tuesday from 16,103 on Monday. About 1,300 virus patients entered hospitals on Monday.

“The change in hospitalizations is down, but not as much as we

The lack of testing kits means the public should take COVID-19 numbers “with a grain of salt,” Greene County Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said. Elderly nursing-home residents can’t be brought to Ulster or Albany counties for testing, he said.

On Monday, Greene County received 100 testing kits from the state, which were used to test individuals at The Eliot at Catskill and The Dialysis Center at Greene Medical Arts Center, Linger said.

The county tested about 25 individuals on a voluntary basis at The Eliot, executive director Colleen Vincent said.

The Eliot, an assisted-living facility, does not have any symptomatic residents or

would like,” Cuomo said.

The state reported 4,729 patients in intensive care Tuesday. Net change in intubations was down 127 fewer patients Monday, according to the governor’s office.

The state and nation’s COVID-19 diagnostic testing bottleneck continues. States must coordinate testing in their laboratories, Cuomo said. New York has 211. But national manufacturers do not have the ability to procure and produce millions of chemical reagents, swabs, vials and other testing kit materials — most of which are contingent on China and the international supply chain.

“They didn’t anticipate this volume,” Cuomo said of testing kit manufacturers. “An ability to ramp

staff members and the testing was a precautionary measure, she said.

“Greene County reached out to assisted living and nursing homes to ask if we would participate in testing for tracing purposes,” Vincent said. The county is looking for asymptomatic people in long-term care facilities.

Columbia County officials said they are making every effort to assist nursing homes and adult-care communities as they work to prevent the virus’ spread among residents.

“Our health department is in contact with the nursing homes on a regular basis,” said Columbia County Board of Supervisors Health and Human Services Chairman Robert Lagonia. “Whatever

options, the only way the hospital saw to access funding benefits for the workforce was to implement temporary furloughs.

New York state remains on PAUSE through May 15.

Abby Hoover is a reporter for the Register-Star. Contact her at ahoover@registerstar.com.

up testing is what we’re all struggling with.”

Federal lawmakers expect to reach a deal on the nation’s next coronavirus relief bill this week.

Cuomo has pushed New York’s delegation, including U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both D-N.Y., to secure adequate funding for state and local governments in the next legislation.

The state will forecast cutting education spending, local governments and hospitals by 20% this week if the federal government doesn’t send money to New York.

“I think it’s a terrible mistake not to provide funding for the states,” Cuomo said, adding funding small businesses, airlines and large corporations is important, but so are other industries.

“How about police, firefighters ... how about our health care workers, our teachers?” Cuomo said.

“We’re not going to be able to fund schools. I don’t get it.”

The rest of the state will be responsive to Erie County, or any other region that shows an increased need for pandemic support, Cuomo said. New Yorkers in upstate counties expressed fear and anger when the governor signed an executive order April 7 to move ventilators and medical equipment from one part of the state to another in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

“When I say we have to move to help Western New York, yeah, there will be some places in the state where you hear a voice that says, ‘No, no, no, we have to worry about ourselves. We have to take care of us and they’re on their own the way we’re on our own,’” Cuomo said. “Not in New York. That’s not how we operate. Nobody is on their own. We are one state, we are one family, we are one community and we’re there to help one another.”

assistance we can give them, we are there for. From day one we have been offering testing.”

The nursing homes must reach out to Columbia County officials for assistance, as they are privately operated companies, Lagonia said.

“I know they have staff deficiencies, but there is not much we can do about it,” he said.

Lagonia said Columbia County has set aside testing kits reserved for use by nursing homes and will continue to make testing available as soon as new shipments arrive.

Pine Haven staff members are monitoring residents for symptoms daily and testing is done in consultation with

the attending doctors and the faculty’s medical director, Dr. Ananthakrishnan Ramani, Thompson said.

“The attending doctor makes his or her own decision whether to order a COVID test or not,” he said. “If we have access to a kit, we will test.”

The facility is testing residents only if they become symptomatic. Even if more tests became available, Ramani said he would continue to follow current protocols, Thompson said.

There have been no confirmed cases at the Whittier Assisted Living Center or the Barnwell Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Lagonia said.

NYC homeless turn to subway during coronavirus crisis

By Clayton Guse New York Daily News (TNS)

NEW YORK — New York City subway ridership has plummeted by 93% during the coronavirus pandemic, but homeless people still turn to mass transit for shelter — and it has raised alarming health and safety concerns for workers and riders.

City data shows roughly 2,000 people sleep on subway trains on a regular winter night; the number dips as the weather warms up.

But since last month, when the MTA was forced to cut subway service because of a shortage of healthy workers, homeless New Yorkers have been concentrated onto fewer trains — and have become far more noticeable.

The situation has Metropolitan Transportation Authority staffers feeling

uneasy, and may be undermining the agency’s efforts to aggressively disinfect each subway car every 72 hours, workers said.

“The homeless situation is out of control like I’ve never seen before,” said Yann Hicks, a subway train operator who’s worked at the MTA since 2006. “They’re setting up shop because they know they can get away with this.

The cops don’t want to touch these homeless people, and we don’t want to go into the same car as them because they’re not wearing masks.”

There’s more to worry about than coronavirus exposure, workers noted. There’s been a troubling trend of subway fires sparked inside train cars in recent weeks — and that’s on top of track fires, which are a fairly common occurrence.

From April 4 through April 17, homeless riders lit three separate fires inside subway trains, according to internal MTA incident reports obtained by the Daily News.

On April 4 around 4:45 a.m., a woman who appeared to be homeless incinerated some papers while on a Manhattan-bound No. 4 train near Borough Hall, according to one report.

In an April 8 incident, a homeless man used a bag full of cans to set off a small fire around 8:20 a.m. on an uptown No. 2 train near 96th St. in Manhattan.

Then on April 17, a homeless man started a small fire in a shopping cart on a Manhattan-bound No. 4 train near New Lots Ave. at 6:10 a.m., just before the morning rush.

None of those fires caused extensive damage to train

cars, but Hicks said he and his colleagues fear another tragedy like the massive blaze set off on an uptown No. 2 train on March 27, which killed a train operator who first ushered passengers to safety before succumbing to the smoke.

MTA data shows the number of fires reported in the subway is up slightly, despite dismal ridership figures.

Transit officials have recorded 68 subway fires in the four weeks since March 23, up from 66 during the same period in 2019, when ridership was at normal levels.

MTA chief safety officer Pat Warren said the number of people using the subway as shelter during the coronavirus pandemic represents “a failure on the city’s part to get these folks to an acceptable, secure facility.”

Warren acknowledged the city faces a shortage of healthy cops and outreach workers who can help manage the homeless crisis underground, but said city officials need to take ownership of the problem.

Officials from Transport Workers Union Local 100 agreed.

“Transit workers are absolutely fed up with the city’s failure to deal with the mentally ill and homeless in the subway system,” said Local 100 president Tony Utano.

“There are a lot of people living in the system who are not regularly washing their hands or practicing other anti-virus measures experts say are critically important to prevent infecting others.”

City Department of Social Services spokesman Isaac McGinn said outreach

workers have made roughly 14,000 engagements with homeless New Yorkers since the pandemic hit the city, resulting in 12 transports for those who exhibited COVID-19 symptoms.

“As we did before this unprecedented crisis, our HOME-STAT outreach teams continue their 24/7/365 outreach, helping unsheltered New Yorkers experiencing homelessness come in off the streets and subways into transitional and permanent housing,” McGinn said. (c)2020 New York Daily News Visit New York Daily News at www.nydailynews.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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New York Jets strong safety Jamal Adams (33) warms up prior to a Dec. 29, 2019 game against the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field.

Jamal Adams should be the Jets highest paid player Manish Mehta New York Daily News

Sirens from the Overreaction Police last week masked the most disconcerting sound surrounding the Jets-Jamal Adams “situation”: Silence.

Adams’ decision not to participate in the Jets voluntary virtual offseason program, which will consist of nothing more than two hours of video conference chats with coaches beginning April 27, doesn’t matter. He won’t miss anything substantive.

The greater concern is Joe Douglas’ continued hedging that makes you wonder whether he’s holding out hope that the right trade offer comes along before or during the draft this week for the Jets unquestioned leader and best player. Two months after Douglas declared that “the plan is for Jamal to be a Jet for life,” he insisted that “nothing has changed from the last time we spoke.”

The general manager also revealed Monday that he hasn’t communicated with Adams’ camp, but “the plan is to connect with Jamal at some point after the draft.”

Douglas, of course, could easily eliminate any doubt about Adams’ future with the team by definitively saying that the All-Pro safety isn’t going anywhere. However, the general manager left wiggle room yet again Monday, waxing poetic about the player without actually making a concrete commitment to

him.

This isn’t a blind Paythe-Man rant.

In a bottom-line, multi-billion-dollar, production-oriented business, the bottom line is that nobody produces more on the Jets than Adams.

“I’ve made it known... that the plan would be for Jamal to be here long term,” Douglas said Monday. “Again, I’ve also made it known that I have to do what’s in the best interest of this team.

If other teams call to talk about players, I’ll listen.

But going into this draft, my intent isn’t to move any players. But if a team calls, we’re going to have conversations. I don’t view it as hedging. I view it as doing my job.”

Douglas has been measured since taking over 10 months ago, but this is the epitome of hedging by every objective view. His position that he’s willing to listen to offers makes sense on the surface, but it’s naive to believe that he isn’t offering counter proposals during such trade discussions. Only Kool-Aid imbibers would think otherwise.

Although Douglas wisely chose not “to get into hypotheticals about engaging (in trade talks),” you’d have had to been born yesterday not to understand the dynamics of such discussions around the league. Whether or not you initiate the call is immaterial. The truth is revealed in whether or not you engaged in the See JETS B3

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Jennifer Lopez (left) and Alex Rodriguez watch in the first half of a Dec. 13, 2019 game between the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers at American Airlines Arena.

Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez take step towards possible Mets’ ownership bid Justin Toscano The Record

Two big names might soon be in the mix for the Mets.

According to Variety, former Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and recording artist and actress Jennifer Lopez, his fiance, have retained JPMorgan Chase to “raise capital for a possible bid on the Mets.”

The report said the couple is working with managing director Eric Menell, the bank’s co-head of North American media investment banking.

In December, Sterling Partners — owned by the Wilpons — said it was in talks to sell the team to hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen. The family could have sold up to 80% of the team.

One condition the Wilpons mentioned in their original statement: Upon completion of a sale with Cohen, Fred and Jeff would still hold their current titles for the next five years. Outsiders wondered what this meant.

Would they use that as a graceful exit?

Did they still want control of baseball operations for five years.

Well, it never got there.

Days before Mets pitchers and catchers reported to spring training, the deal died.

No sale.

On report day, the family issued a statement saying it still intended to pursue a sale. It has not spoken publicly on the matter since.

Rodriguez and Lopez, a Bronx native, are estimated to be worth $750 million.

This is where raising money enters the picture.

In November, John Sherman bought the Kansas City Royals for $1 billion.

Coronavirus shutdown is ‘unchartered waters’ for Dave Eiland, other experienced pitching coaches Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

TAMPA, Fla. — Every so many days during February and March of 1990, Dave Eiland would go to the local high school. He’d scramble to find someone to catch him and the former Yankees right-hander would build up his throwing intensity. During that MLB lockout of 1990, Eiland went to the local fields so he wouldn’t forget the feeling of the slope of the mound under his feet.

He didn’t want to forget the feel of where his arm needed to be when he released the ball.

He wanted to remind himself what it felt like to take that full stride toward the plate.

“That is what is going to be so hard for these guys,” Eiland said about today’s pitchers,

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New York Mets pitching coach Dave Eiland (58) talks with Mets starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard (right) on the pitchers mound during an April 9, 2018 game against the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park.

who are now idling as baseball is shut down during the

national emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

“Some of them may have a mound at home, but for the most part, they don’t. It’s not like a normal offseason, they can’t go to the Driveline Baseball and places like that. They can’t even go to their local high schools and throw off the mounds.

“When they come back it’s going to be really tricky.”

Eiland, who was the Mets pitching coach for a season and a half when Jacob deGrom won back-to-back Cy Youngs and the Yankees pitching coach when they last won their World Series, went through two work stoppages as a player. As a pitching coach, he won two World Series, the most recent in 2015 with the Royals, See COACHES B3

Nets’ Kyrie Irving shoulder surgery timeline could be 6 months: expert Kristian Winfield New York Daily News

When Kyrie Irving suffered his initial shoulder impingement injury in mid-November, Dr. John Kelly IV said surgery was a likely option.

“The longer he experiences pain not relieved by rest, the more likely surgery will be indicated,” Dr. Kelly, the director of Sports Shoulder at Penn Medicine, told the Daily News on Nov. 22.

Irving’s pain was never relieved by rest. Instead it got worse, to the point that the star guard was forced to sit for 26 consecutive games. He eventually received a cortisone shot to return on Jan. 12, but the effects of that shot wore off. Irving’s shoulder became an issue once again, and he ended his season over the All-Star break, validating Dr. Kelly’s prognosis of surgery on March 3.

The Nets provided no timetable for Irving’s recovery, and only the performing surgeon, Dr. Riley Williams of New York City’s Hospital for Special Surgery and his staff, would know precisely what procedure was performed on Irving’s shoulder.

But Dr. Kelly offered a timeline for a young person undergoing any type of shoulder surgery in hopes of returning to athletic competition.

“Most ‘impingement’ in younger athletes is secondary to instability of the shoulder,” Dr.

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Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) dribbles past Washington Wizards guard Gary Payton II (20) during the first half of their Feb. 1 game at Capital One Arena.

Kelly told the News Monday. “Any stability surgery requires at least four months of rehab with an expectation of six months more realistic.”

Six months from Irving’s surgery date points to a September 3 return date. Relax Nets fans, if the season resumes in June or July, Kevin

Durant isn’t walking through that door, and neither is the ankle bully.

The coronavirus outbreak has thrown a wrench into the equation. Not only is the NBA season suspended, but the league has shut down all training facilities across its 30 teams.

As Nets general manager Sean Marks highlighted in an April 1 conference call, several players need the HSS Training Facility in Industry City.

“You can take the other side of this and say this hiatus has shifted rehabilitation back and it’s slowed that,” Marks said.

Dr. Kelly offers some good news. The coronavirus hiatus shouldn’t impact Irving’s recovery in its early stages. Irving is approximately seven weeks into his shoulder surgery recovery process.

“Healing takes time,” Dr. Kelly said, “and there is nothing Kyrie can do to speed the healing of repaired tissue which generally requires 12 weeks. After that, strength, range of motion and endurance are limiting factors.”

Dr. Kelly said if Irving underwent a shoulder stability surgery, he would have to wear a sling for approximately four weeks. He would then gradually work on range of motion in his shoulder, followed by exercises dedicated to strengthening the shoulder.

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2020 NFL draft: Ranking the wide receivers

2020 NFL DRAFT April 23-35 Remote locations Round 1 1. Cincinnati 2. Washington 3. Detroit 4. NY Giants 5. Miami 6. LA Chargers 7. Carolina 8. Arizona 9. Jacksonville 10. Cleveland 11. NY Jets 12. Las Vegas 13. San Francisco f/IND 14. Tampa Bay 15. Denver 16. Atlanta 17. Dallas 18. Miami f/PIT 19. Las Vegas f/CHI 20. Jacksonville f/LAR 21. Philadelphia 22. Minnesota f/BUF 23. New England 24. New Orleans 25. Minnesota 26. Miami f/HOU 27. Seattle 28. Baltimore 29. Tennessee 30. Green Bay 31. San Francisco 32. Kansas City

Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune

Here are Eddie Brown’s top 10 wide receivers: 1. Jerry Jeudy (Jr., Alabama, 6-foot-1, 193 pounds) Two-time first team AllAmerican and Biletnikoff Award winner. Jeudy is a route technician with break-away speed. It’s a rare combination.

Projected: Top 15 2. Henry Ruggs III (Jr., Alabama, 5-11, 188) Ruggs is fast enough to turn off the light switch and be in bed before the room goes dark, but he’s so much more.

Sure, he scored a touchdown every 4.1 receptions and averaged 29.8 yards every time he scored. He also has exceptional hands, is tough as nails and was a gunner on special teams coverage (15 career tackles).

HARRY HOW/GETTY IMAGES Projected: Top 15 3. CeeDee Lamb (Jr., Okla- Jerry Jeudy of the Alabama Crimson Tide celebrates his first quarter touchdown reception against the Clemson Tigers the CFP National Championship presented by AT&T at Levi’s Stadium on January 7, homa, 6-2, 198) Creating after the catch is 2019 in Santa Clara, California. what Lamb does best. He was 3rd round The size/speed/athleticism to score at least eight receiving one of only two FBS receivers 6. Justin Jefferson (Jr., LSU, touchdowns in each of the last combination is impressive. with 40-plus receptions in 2019 6-1, 202) three years. Projected: 1st or Some teams may consider him to average more than 11 yardsJefferson is a fearless, highly 2nd round at tight end. Claypool played after-catch. Projected: Top 15 productive weapon in the slot.

9. Jalen Raegor (Jr., TCU, on special teams coverage all 4. Tee Higgins (Jr., Clemson, He was second in the FBS in 5-11, 206) four years. He had 25 career 6-4, 216) receptions (111), second in Raegor is a home run hitter tackles covering kicks and Higgins tracks the ball like touchdown catches (18) and with impact potential as a re- punts. Projected: 2nd or 3rd he has its GPS coordinates. His third in receiving yards (1,540) turner. Below-average produc- round ball skills are second-to-none his junior season. He isn’t tion as a junior was more about BONUS. Bryan Edwards (Sr., in this draft class. He finished known as a burner despite run- breaking in a true freshman at South Carolina, 6-3, 212) his career tied with DeAndre ning a 4.43 40-yard dash at the quarterback. Projected: 1st or Four-year starter in college Hopkins and Sammy Watkins combine in Indy. Projected: 1st 2nd round after making the varsity team for the most receiving touch- or 2nd round 10. Michael Pittman Jr. (Sr., in high school at only 13 years downs (27) in Clemson history.

7. Brandon Aiyuk (Sr., Ari- USC, 6-4, 223) old. Edwards plays with an imProjected: 1st or 2nd round zona St., 6-0, 205) Pittman makes plays over pressive physicality for a pass 5. Laviska Shenault Jr. (Jr., Aiyuk is an explosive athlete defenders on a regular basis. catcher and is fearless over the Colorado, 6-1, 227) who is capable of scoring any- He recorded only two drops on middle. Projected: 2nd or 3rd A bully with the football in time the ball is in his hands. 140 targets in 2019. His career round his hands (think a bigger ver- If I’m picking nits, he could production on special teams BONUS. KJ Hamler (So., sion of Niners receiver Deebo continue to develop as a route is impressive (17 tackles, three Penn St., 5-9, 178) Samuel). Almost 60% of his re- runner. Projected: 1st or 2nd blocked punts and one punt Pint-sized athlete who posceiving yards came after con- round return touchdown in four sea- sesses blink-of-an-eye speed. tact. Three surgeries on his 8. Denzel Mims (Sr., Baylor, sons). Projected: 2nd or 3rd Hamler tied for the FBS-lead in turf toe, shoulder and a core 6-3, 207) round drops (12) in 2019. Projected: muscle injury since 2018 are BONUS. Chase Claypool 2nd or 3rd round Vertical threat who is the concerning. Projected: 1st to only player in college football (Sr., Notre Dame, 6-4, 238) BONUS. Donovan

Round 2 33. Cincinnati 34. Indianapolis f/WAS 35. Detroit 36. NY Giants 37. LA Chargers 38. Carolina 39. Miami 40. Houston f/ARI 41. Cleveland 42. Jacksonville 43. Chicago f/LV 44. Indianapolis 45. Tampa Bay 46. Denver 47. Atlanta 48. NY Jets 49. Pittsburgh 50. Chicago 51. Dallas 52. LA Rams 53. Philadelphia 54. Buffalo 55. Baltimore f/NE via ATL 56. Miami f/NO 57. LA Rams f/HOU 58. Minnesota 59. Seattle 60. Baltimore 61. Tennessee 62. Green Bay 63. Kansas City f/SF 64. Seattle f/KC Round 3 65. Cincinnati 66. Washington 67. Detroit 68. NY Jets f/NYG 69. Carolina 70. Miami 71. LA Chargers 72. Arizona 73. Jacksonville 74. Cleveland 75. Indianapolis 76. Tampa Bay 77. Denver 78. Atlanta 79. NY Jets 80. Las Vegas 81. Las Vegas f/CHI 82. Dallas 83. Denver f/PIT 84. LA Rams 85. Detroit f/PHI 86. Buffalo 87. New England 88. New Orleans 89. Minnesota 90. Houston 91. Las Vegas f/SEA via HOU 92. Baltimore 93. Tennessee 94. Green Bay 95. Denver f/SF 96. Kansas City 97. Cleveland f/HOU* 98. New England* 99. NY Giants* 100. New England* 101. Seattle* 102. Pittsburgh* 103. Philadelphia* 104. LA Rams* 105. Minnesota* 106. Baltimore* *-Compensatory pick

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NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Toronto 46 18 .719 Boston 43 21 .672 Philadelphia 39 26 .600 Brooklyn 30 34 .469 New York 21 45 .318 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 53 12 .815 Indiana 39 26 .600 Chicago 22 43 .338 Detroit 20 46 .303 Cleveland 19 46 .292 Southeast W L Pct Miami 41 24 .631 Orlando 30 35 .462 Washington 24 40 .375 Charlotte 23 42 .354 Atlanta 20 47 .299 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 43 22 .662 Utah 41 23 .641 Oklahoma City 40 24 .625 Portland 29 37 .439 Minnesota 19 45 .297 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 49 14 .778 L.A. Clippers 44 20 .688 Sacramento 28 36 .438 Phoenix 26 39 .400 Golden State 15 50 .231 Southwest W L Pct Houston 40 24 .625 Dallas 40 27 .597 Memphis 32 33 .492 New Orleans 28 36 .438 San Antonio 27 36 .429 Seasons suspended

Peoples-Jones (Jr., Michigan, 6-2, 212) Immensely talented receiver who underachieved at Ann Arbor. Projected: 2nd to 4th round BONUS. Devin Duvernay (Sr., Texas, 5-10, 200) Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray’s cousin is a statechampion sprinter from Texas, but runs with a running back mentality after the catch. Projected: 3rd or 4th round BONUS. James Proche (Sr., SMU, 5-11, 201) Proche has sticky hands and led the FBS in receptions (111) his senior season (he only had four drops). He’s an asset as a blocker despite being undersized. He will be a 24-year-old NFL rookie. Projected: 3rd or 4th round BONUS. Van Jefferson (Sr., Florida, 6-1, 200) Jefferson rivals Jeudy as a route runner. His father Shawn was drafted by the Chargers in 1991 and played 13 seasons in the NFL. Projected: 3rd to 5th round BONUS. K.J. Hill (Sr., Ohio St., 6-0, 196) Reliable target in the slot.

Hill caught a ball in 49 straight games for the Buckeyes (tying a school record). Projected: 4th or 5th round BONUS. Collin Johnson (Sr., Texas, 6-6, 222) Johnson entered the 2019 season as the top-ranked senior wide receiver prospect for several NFL teams, but a hamstring injury cost him six games and hurt his draft stock.

Projected: 4th to 6th round BONUS. Tyler Johnson (Sr., Minnesota, 6-1, 206) Elite producer with another standout season his senior year. Johnson is the only player in school history with multiple 1,000-yard seasons. Projected: 4th to 7th round

GB — 3.0 7.5 16.0 26.0 GB — 14.0 31.0 33.5 34.0 GB — 11.0 16.5 18.0 22.0 GB — 1.5 2.5 14.5 23.5 GB — 5.5 21.5 24.0 35.0 GB — 1.5 8.5 12.0 12.5

Transactions FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Atlanta Falcons - Re-signed RB Brian Hill to a one-year, $2.13 million contract.

Chicago Bears - Cut TE Trey Burton. Re-signed T Rashaad Coward to a one-year contract. Resigned TE J.P. Holtz to a one-year, $750,000 contract. Signed K Ramiz Ahmed. Signed DB Sherrick McManis and T Jason Spriggs to a oneyear contract.

Cleveland Browns - Re-signed RB Kareem Hunt to a one-year, $3.27 million contract.

Denver Broncos - Re-signed DB Trey Marshall to a one-year, $660,000 contract. Re-signed DB Shakial Taylor to a three-year, $1.76 million contract. Re-signed NT Mike Purcell to a oneyear, $3.26 million contract. Re-signed G Elijah Wilkinson to a one-year, $3.26 million contract.

Re-signed WR Diontae Spencer to a one-year, $585,000 contract. Re-signed WR Tim Patrick to a one-year, $660,000 contract.

Jacksonville Jaguars - Cut WR Marqise Lee. Waived RB Taj McGowan.

Kansas City Chiefs - Re-signed G Andrew Wylie to a one-year, $660,000 contract. Re-signed TE Deon Yelder to a two-year, $1.05 million contract.

Miami Dolphins - Waived DB Linden Stephens.

Waived DT Jamal Davis II. Waived LB Jake Carlock, WR Andy Jones, DT Gerald Willis III, and WR Terry Wright.

Pittsburgh Steelers - Signed T Jarron Jones.

San Francisco 49ers - Re-signed RB Jeff Wilson Jr. to a one-year, $750,000 contract.

Seattle Seahawks - Re-signed DB Ryan Neal to a one-year, $750,000 contract. Signed G Reggie McKenzie.

NCAA FOOTBALL UCLA - Announced QB Austin Burton has left the program and is expected to transfer to Purdue.

BASKETBALL NCAA BASKETBALL Austin Peay - Announced G Terry Taylor will enter the NBA draft.

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Notre Dame tight end Cole Kmet celebrates a touchdown catch against Michigan on October 26, 2019, at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich.

NFL Draft 2020: Ranking the tight ends Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune

Here are Eddie Brown’s top 10 tight ends: 1. Cole Kmet (Jr., Notre Dame, 6-foot-6, 262 pounds) Reminiscent of Jason Witten, his ball skills are second-to-none for his position in this draft class.

The White Sox picked him in the fifth-round of the 2017 MLB draft. Projected: 1st or 2nd round 2. Adam Trautman (Sr., Dayton, 6-5, 255) A no-star quarterback recruit who has blossomed as a passcatcher, but is facing a substantial jump in competition. Still, his athleticism and talent can’t be ignored for a man his size. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 3. Harrison Bryant (Sr., Florida Atlantic, 6-5, 243) Bryant led all FBS tight ends in receptions (65) and receiving yards (1,004) as a senior and became the first Mackey Award winner (best tight end) from a non-Power 5 program. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 4. Albert Okwuegbunam (Jr., Missouri, 6-5, 258) Okwuegbunam (pronounced owe-COO-ay-BOO-nom) is an explosive athlete who has a nose for the end zone (almost a quarter of his 98 career receptions went for scores). Durability concerns could diminish draft stock.

Projected: 2nd to 4th round 5. Brycen Hopkins (Sr., Purdue, 6-4, 245)

Oversized receiver who is a competitive blocker, but needs to fine-tune his route-running. Projected: 3rd to 5th round 6. Colby Parkinson (Jr., Stanford, 6-7, 252) Team captain and potential red zone monster (nine of his 12 career touchdowns). Parkinson wins with elite speed, size and ball skills, but he’s a mediocre blocker. Projected: 4th to 6th round 7. Devin Asiasi (Jr., UCLA, 6-3, 257) Doesn’t shy away from dirty work as a blocker and makes plays in the passing game (14 plays of 20-plus yards the last two years). Projected: 4th to 6th round 8. Thaddeus Moss (Jr., LSU, 6-2, 250) Shined in biggest games (two touchdowns in title game and one in the Peach Bowl). Can’t beat his NFL DNA (father is Randy). Projected: 3rd to 5th round 9. Hunter Bryant (Jr., Washington, 6-2, 248) Potential mismatch due to speed, but isn’t trusted as a blocker. Bryant has an injury history (sprained ACL, LCL and meniscus surgery in his left knee).

Projected: 3rd to 5th round 10. Josiah Deguara (Sr., Cincinnati, 6-2, 242) Team captain and non-stop competitor who can contribute on special teams. Projected: 4th to 7th round

The professional sports leagues will survive. They will lose billions because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but they will bounce back and thrive again. But college athletics? If there is no football this fall? I’m not so sure.

“It’s a whole new ballgame if we find ourselves not playing football,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in a recent conference call.

“It affects everything we do. It affects the largest part of our TV contract, the largest source of campus revenue, which is live gate. If (football) doesn’t happen, the underpinning of what we’ve known as normal goes away and we’ll have major changes to make.”

The colleges already took a mighty hit because of the cancellation of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Division I schools will receive $225 million in revenue this year, down from the $611 million they received last year. The amount the schools will lose if there is no football is almost unimaginable.

Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke and Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour have said their schools are OK, at least for now. Penn State figures to be on more solid ground because it is in the Big Ten, which has been the most lucrative of the college conferences. But then I saw that Wisconsin said it will not grant an additional scholarship year to its senior athletes in the spring sports at least, in part, because of finances, so go figure. Pitt and Penn State will honor those scholarships.

Without football, the athletic budgets of many universities will be devastated.

Everything from ticket sales

to merchandising to sponsorships to fund-raising will be adversely impacted.

“This is way beyond anybody’s imagination,” Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said on a conference call earlier this month.

It isn’t hard to imagine athletics becoming a fartoo-expensive luxury at many schools. Campuses might not be allowed to open in the fall because of the coronavirus. Think about the lost revenue in room and board from students. Athletics certainly will feel the necessary belt-tightening.

Sports will be eliminated.

Cincinnati already has terminated its men’s soccer program, Old Dominion its wrestling program. Many more cuts will follow.

New athletic facilities also will be put on hold. Lyke said Pitt still plans on breaking ground on its “Victory Heights” facilities, which will be funded by private support, in the summer of 2021 but conceded the fundraising push is in “a holding pattern.” What happens if the donations dry up? Baylor announced last week that it is delaying construction of its new basketball pavilion.

There are at least two more things working against the colleges when it comes to playing football in the fall.

The other pro leagues have talked about playing games in arenas and stadiums without fans. But the commissioners of the major college football conferences told Vice President Mike Pence during a 30-minute conference call last week that they would not play games until students are allowed back on campus.

Schools have been closed since mid-March when the pandemic broke, with students taking classes online.

“We were able to talk

about the differences between us and professional sports,” American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco said. “We talked about how academics and college athletics were inseparable.”

I know, that stance seems a little bit of reach to me, as well. Major college athletics about academics just as much as about big money?

Right. But that’s the story from the commissioners and, at least for now, they are sticking to it.

Lyke said in a conference call that “the worst-case scenario would be (the coronavirus) impacting the next academic year. ... If there’s a concern about human contact, we wouldn’t be playing the games.”

“College football is about the cheerleaders and the band and the campus environment on game day,” Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick told ESPN. “We’re interested in solutions that allow us to have a traditional game day experience.”

The other hurdle for the colleges is that some states may open for business sooner than others. What if Pennsylvania, for instance, and 24 other states allow students back on campus in August and the other 25 states don’t? California governor Gavin Newsome has said it’s “unlikely” his state will allow big crowds before next year.

What then?

There has been at least some talk about the college football season being played next spring. Lyke, Barbour and the others have said all options will be considered.

But they are no different than the rest of us. They have no idea when the COVID-19 pandemic will end and how much damage it will leave behind.

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2020 NFL Mock Draft: Will Tua tumble?

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It’s NFL draft week, and quarterback buzz actually appears to be dissipating, with the stock of Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa the most notable example.

Less than a month ago, many expected both the Miami Dolphins (at No. 5) and Los Angeles Chargers (No. 6) to have interest in trading up for Tagovailoa, with the Detroit Lions (No. 3) the likely beneficiary. *Projected trade 1. Cincinnati Bengals: Joe Burrow, QB, LSU A trade appears unlikely, as the Bengals are locked in on Burrow and have been for some time.

2. Washington Redskins: Chase Young, DE, Ohio State Like Cincinnati, Washington appears to be set on Young, who FLM ranks as the best player in the draft.

3. Detroit Lions: Jeffrey Okudah, CB, Ohio State The Lions surely would prefer a slight trade down – with a chance of getting Okudah anyway – but the market might not be there. It’s possible Detroit could take a lesser deal (perhaps a second-rounder from Miami to go to 5).

4. New York Giants: Tristan Wirfs, OT, Iowa Clemson linebacker Isaiah Simmons deserves consideration, but odds are Dave Gettleman will look to help his last two top picks (Saquon Barkley and Daniel Jones). Wirfs or Alabama’s Jedrick Wills make the most sense here, with the ability to start at right tackle immediately and eventually replace Nate Solder on the left side.

5. Miami Dolphins: Justin Herbert, QB, Oregon Would Miami pass on a QB here and wait until No. 18 (or trade up from 18?) to target one? Perhaps. They don’t appear to be in love with any QB besides Burrow. But they aren’t planning another tanking season – just look at what they did in free agency – so they must get a QB somewhere. Given Tagovailoa’s medical history, Herbert is the choice.

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who beat the Mets. So, it’s not surprising that during this uncertain hiatus from baseball, his phone at his Florida home has been ringing. Pitchers he’s worked with in the past, pitching coaches and managers he knows well have all reached out with questions about what he thinks pitchers will face when baseball eventually returns.

“No one has been through anything like this,” Eiland, who is not with any team this season, said. “I guess it’s kind

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conversation. The Jets obviously did with Adams before the trade deadline.

Douglas’ charge is to re-set the foundation amid the Jets’ seemingly annual rebuilding process.

He’s one of the five highest paid NFL general managers specifically to make critical decisions like this one. He’s well within his right to explore any and all avenues with any player, but it’s curious why he doesn’t view Adams as an “untouchable player.” Only Sam

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of rehab,” Dr. Kelly said.

For now, the coronavirus hiatus shouldn’t impact Irving’s recovery, but as he progresses beyond the early stages of his shoulder rehab schedule, Dr. Kelly says self-isolation could complicate the star guard’s recovery.

“Quarantine should not materially affect recovery since most of the therapy now is rather low demand,” he said. “As weeks ensue, and sports specific exercises are needed, and rating of progress becomes more important, supervision is more critical.”

6. Los Angeles Chargers: Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Oregon The Chargers are one of the league’s hardest teams to read, and it’s very possible they pass on a QB entirely.

Georgia’s Andrew Thomas or Louisville’s Mekhi Becton would make a ton of sense here, but Tagovailoa’s ability proves too enticing. If Tua doesn’t go at 6, though, the draft could get wild.

7. Carolina Panthers: Isaiah Simmons, LB/S, Clemson Would the Panthers consider Tagovailoa? Maybe. But he’s not available, and Simmons – a top-five talent – is.

Simmons also fits Matt Rhule’s desire for speed, and fills a huge need after the retirement of Luke Kuechly.

8. Arizona Cardinals: Derrick Brown, DT, Auburn The Cardinals could go in a number of directions, like an offensive tackle (Thomas or Wills) or even Kyler Murray’s former Oklahoma wideout, Ceedee Lamb. But Arizona is in dire need of interior D-line help, and Brown is as stout as they come in the middle. *9. Atlanta Falcons (from Jacksonville): CJ Henderson, CB, Florida The Falcons have only six picks (only one after Round 4), so it might make more sense to trade down. But Thomas Dimitroff is one of the league’s most aggressive GMs, and he desperately needs defensive help, so he gives up a second-rounder to jump seven spots.

LSU DE K’Lavon Chaisson or South Carolina DT Javon Kinlaw could also be targets. *10. Denver Broncos (from Cleveland): Jerry Jeudy, WR, Alabama It’s possible the Broncos could get Jeudy by staying put, but each of the four teams at Nos. 11-14 could take a receiver.

11. New York Jets: Andrew Thomas, OT, Georgia Thomas has garnered top-10 buzz, as have Wills and Becton, but the Jets get their choice of the three here. They opt for a traditional left tackle in Thomas, who is a bit more polished than Becton at this point.

12. Las Vegas Raiders: Ceedee Lamb,

WR, Oklahoma One of the surest things outside the top 10 is that the Raiders will take a wideout in Round 1. The question is who they like best. Would Jon Gruden prefer speedy Alabama receiver Henry Ruggs or the physical, shifty Lamb?

13. San Francisco 49ers (from Indianapolis): Mekhi Becton, OT, Louisville The 49ers will likely explore tradedowns with both of their picks, but Becton would be tough to pass up. Joe Staley is nearing retirement, and the Niners would prefer to keep Mike McGlinchey at right tackle.

14. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Jedrick Wills, OT, Alabama Wills might be the best offensive lineman in the draft, so this would certainly qualify as a slide, The Bucs would be thrilled, as they would get an immediate starter at right tackle, their only glaring hole on the O-line. *15. Philadelphia Eagles (from Denver via Cleveland): Henry Ruggs, WR, Alabama The Browns appear to have a specific target in mind down the board (more on that in a moment). GM Andrew Berry knows Howie Roseman well from his time with the Eagles, helping facilitate a deal for Philadelphia to nab some greatly needed speed on offense. *16. Jacksonville Jaguars (from Atlanta): Javon Kinlaw, DT, South Carolina The Jaguars lost both Calais Campbell and Marcell Dareus earlier this offseason, and Kinlaw would be a great value here, assuming his medical checks out. He plays an awful lot like Chiefs DT Chris Jones, as a powerful, athletic disruptor.

17. Dallas Cowboys: K’Lavon Chaisson, DE, LSU I didn’t think Chaisson would make it this far, but if he’s available, expect the Cowboys to pounce. If not, Alabama cornerback Trevon Diggs would make sense.

18. Miami Dolphins (from Pittsburgh): Austin Jackson, OT, USC The Dolphins must come out of Round 1 with a QB and a left

tackle. Jackson’s tape has blemishes, but some 2019 struggles could be attributed to lingering effects from a blood-marrow donation he gave his sister last summer.

19. Oakland Raiders (from Chicago): A.J. Terrell, CB, Clemson Buzz has been building on Terrell, who had a few bad plays in the national championship game that obscured an otherwise quality performance. Mike Mayock loves to shop at Clemson, and the Raiders badly need a corner.

20. Jacksonville Jaguars (from L.A. Rams): Trevon Diggs, CB, Alabama Diggs remains raw, having switched to cornerback from receiver just a few years ago. But he’s an outstanding fit in the Jaguars’ zone-heavy system. *21. Cleveland Browns (from Philadelphia): Ezra Cleveland, OT, Boise State The Cleveland-to-Cleveland buzz started quietly a few weeks ago and hasn’t let up. They could also target him in a trade-up from the second round, but he appears to be their preference at left tackle.

22. Minnesota Vikings (from Buffalo): Denzel Mims, WR, Baylor The Vikings have a gaping hole at receiver after the trade of Stefon Diggs.

Mims would complement Adam Thielen perfectly as a big guy who can run and make contested catches.

23. New England Patriots: Justin Jefferson, WR, LSU Would the Patriots draft another first-round receiver? Maybe not, but they sure love slot receivers, and Jefferson is great value here. He can also play a bit on the perimeter.

24. New Orleans Saints: Jordan Love, QB, Utah State The Saints just missed out on Patrick Mahomes in 2017. They like Taysom Hill and might very well invest this pick to maximize Drew Brees’ championship window... but they have few glaring needs, and Sean Payton could be tempted (perhaps even via trade-up).

25. Minnesota Vikings: Jeff Gladney, CB, TCU By the end of Round 1, the Vikings should address two of the following:

receiver, pass-rusher and cornerback.

Gladney is a tad on the short side, but he has terrific speed and is highly competitive.

26. Miami Dolphins (from Houston): Xavier McKinney, S, Alabama McKinney took on a role for the Crimson Tide very similar to that of former Dolphins safety Minkah Fitzpatrick when he was at Alabama. McKinney is not as talented as Fitzpatrick, but his versatility would be a perfect fit in Brian Flores’ scheme.

27. Seattle Seahawks: Yetur GrossMatos, DE, Penn State The Seahawks will probably trade down, but if not, Gross-Matos would offer a good balance of value and filling a need.

28. Baltimore Ravens: Kenneth Murray, LB, Oklahoma Murray could certainly go earlier, but it was hard to find an obvious fit.

The Ravens have drafted several Sooners with good results, and Murray has the work ethic and character they covet.

29. Tennessee Titans: Isaiah Wilson, OT, Georgia Wilson is very young (21) and quite raw, but he appears headed for Round 1. He would fill an obvious need at right tackle after the departure of Jack Conklin, though Tennessee still has Dennis Kelly to help ease the transition.

30. Green Bay Packers: Jalen Reagor, WR, TCU The Packers are not locked into a receiver with this pick (as their fans might hope), but Reagor brings explosiveness that would be tough to pass up.

31. San Francisco 49ers: Ross Blacklock, DT, TCU A trade-down seems exceedingly likely, perhaps with Tampa Bay, who could target QB Jacob Eason or a passcatching running back in Clyde Edwards-Helaire.

32. Kansas City Chiefs: Patrick Queen, LB, LSU The Chiefs also need a cornerback, but they’ve been picked on by passcatching running backs of late.

of like 1990 for me in that we didn’t know when the season was going to start, but even then I could go out and throw.

“These are uncharted waters.”

And those can be troubled waters, even for a veteran pitching coach.

The biggest concern about pitchers returning when MLB does finally get the go-ahead from public health officials and set a date to open the season, is injuries. The consensus seems to be that pitchers will need three weeks to get their arms back to a point where they could compete in a regular-season game.

But the seven to 10 day period when they return is scary

for pitching coaches, those first few times throwing with intensity and off a mound and then bouncing back are when injuries can happen.

Eiland said some of the advances made in the technology and training of pitchers since he went through work stoppages in 1990 and 1995 will help. The communications tools, video and biometrics that pitching coaches can use in this situation are vital right now as players are scattered across the world.

But he thinks it will be oldfashioned attention to detail that will be key for a team to get their pitchers through this.

“You’ve got to know your pitchers,” Eiland said. “You’ve

got to be very familiar with their delivery, their arm angles, their release point, their stride. You’ve got to know their body language and understand how they communicate.”

In a sport heavy with tradition and ritual, pitchers are the ultimate creatures of habit. They have built their preparations for the seasons on over 100 years of experience. When MLB resumes, the pitchers will have their normal routines smashed.

Eiland liked his pitchers to show up a little early to ease into the throwing program and most had been throwing for a few weeks before that.

Normally, a pitcher would

throw on flat ground, move to bullpens off the mound, have a hitter stand in and track pitches, throw some live batting practice, maybe have a simulated inning and then begin to build up intensity and volume in game. They would ease through an inning and then 25-30 pitches, 45-50 pitches and then 65-70 before having one spring start when he was backed down before a regular season game.

“There is not going to be time for that, so there is going to be a lot compressed into a few weeks for the pitchers and you are going to have to be watching to see if their arm drops, are they tired? Is their stride in line and their normal

length,” Eiland said. “For some established, veteran guys, they are going to be able to help (the pitching coach), if they know their deliveries and their bodies well.

“But it’s going to be very tricky,” Eiland said. “You are going to have to be able to communicate with your guys and know them well enough to be able to know what you are seeing in them.

“The pressure to get ready is going to be intense,” he continued, “but they’ve got to make sure they stay healthy and you’ve got to help them do that. It’s going to be interesting. These are uncharted waters for everyone.”

Darnold falls into that category.

Nobody would dispute that quarterback is the most indispensable piece to every NFL team’s puzzle, but downplaying Adams’ importance simply because he doesn’t play a pre-determined premium position is a mistake.

Adams plays the most important non-quarterback position on the field: Gamechanger.

In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past halfcentury, Douglas’ employer has had a massive shortage of game changers. Adams is young (24), home grown (No. 6 overall pick in 2017) and farand-away the most productive

player on the roster by virtually every meaningful statistical measure. He’s also the emotional leader and engine of Greg Williams’ defense.

Adams embodies “untouchable player.”

“My opinion on Jamal has been consistent since I arrived here,” Douglas said. “Jamal’s an unbelievable young player.

Again, our plan is to keep Jamal here a long time.”

I have great respect for Douglas, who is trying his best to mend a fractured organization despite the presence of some malignant forces. But he could have handled this situation better to this point.

We’re still early in the process. It’s understandable that

Douglas would focus on free agency and the draft before diving deep into finding a fair solution regarding his best player. But the GM needs to sync his private and public messaging to make it clear that Adams is actually a foundational piece that isn’t going anywhere. Leaving the door ajar for a player of his ilk helps create unnecessary friction.

To that end, Adams absolutely has earned the right to be the Jets highest paid player right now. Why should he play for a penny less than the team’s current highest paid player (C.J. Mosley is averaging $17 million/year)?

Asked whether he believed in a meritocracy that would

require Adams to be the highest paid player, Douglas said: “I’m not even going to touch that one. He’s an outstanding player. And we would like him to be here a long time.”

Douglas’ side-stepping creates clear doubt that could easily be avoided. It’s early enough that the situation doesn’t have to get ugly. The notion that Adams doesn’t have leverage is faulty too.

Although the Jets have contractual control over Adams in 2020 (for $3.5 million) and 2021 (fifth-year option for $9.86 million), the player can – and should – hold out if there’s no light at the end of the tunnel when training camp begins.

It’s myopic to suggest that the new Collective Bargaining Agreement rules denying an accrued season for camp holdouts will serve as a deterrent for Adams. It matters little if he loses an accrued season given that he still has two years left on his deal. He’s getting an extension before the 2022 season with some team. The only way it could potentially matter is if Adams holds out the next two training camps/regular seasons. He will be traded (with a new deal from another team) long before it ever gets that messy.

Winning organizations invest in players like Jamal Adams.

‘Last Dance’ shatters ESPN documentary viewer mark Field Level Media

The first two episodes of “The Last Dance,” a 10-part series about legendary guard Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, attracted the most viewers for a documentary in ESPN history, the network announced Monday.

The two 60-minute

episodes that aired Sunday night averaged 6.1 million viewers, according to ESPN. The first episode averaged 6.3 million between 9-10 p.m. ET, and the second averaged 5.8 million between 10-11 p.m. ET. According to ESPN, its “You Don’t Know Bo” on former two-sport star Bo

Jackson was the previous most-watched documentary on its airwaves. That film averaged 3.6 million viewers in 2012.

“The Last Dance” features never-before-seen footage of Jordan and the Bulls from the 1997-98 season when the franchise was seeking to win its sixth title in eight

seasons. Exploits from other parts of Jordan’s college and NBA careers were sprinkled into the first two episodes.

Part of its allure to viewers was Jordan’s still-legendary status 17 years after he played his final game.

Another was the void sports viewers have felt due to the dearth of live events over the

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According to ESPN, the program drew a 12.1 market metered ranking in Chicago.

Episodes 3 and 4 are slated to air this Sunday night, again at 9 and 10 p.m. ET, respectively.

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The resumption of NBA season might rely on protocols not yet available Andrew Greif Los Angeles Times

When T.O. Souryal heard the PGA Tour planned to resume its season in June, the former Dallas Mavericks team physician didn’t think it sounded far-fetched.

Following social-distancing guidelines on a sprawling golf course, without spectators, seemed feasible. A positive test for the novel coronavirus might derail a player’s season, but not the tour’s schedule.

But restarting the NBA’s 2020 season? Souryal’s experience, during 27 years as the Mavericks’ doctor and two terms as president of the league’s association of team physicians, taught him that would be a complex undertaking. The path to a resumed season remains fraught with uncertainty, including what he calls “the $64 billion question.”

“What do we do if we come back and a player tests positive?” said Souryal, the medical director at a Texas sports medicine clinic. “Until they have an answer for that, I don’t see the NBA or hockey or any other close-quarter team sport coming back anytime soon.”

Since suspending its season March 11 following a positive test by Utah center Rudy Gobert, the NBA has canvassed a former United States surgeon general, public health officials and team doctors, athletic trainers and performance coaches to understand how to get players, coaches and staffers back on the job safely, and to keep them that way.

Five weeks of discussions have yielded few answers and left the league, as well as the country, grappling with how to reopen. Commissioner Adam Silver has said the NBA is still not ready to make decisions about the 2020 season, and that a resumption would hinge on such factors as the availability of wide-scale testing, antibody therapy and vaccination.

“What most people don’t understand about a team sport is that it’s not just the 15 contract players, it’s not just the 53 NFL roster players; it’s the coaches, it’s the trainers, it’s the nutritionist, it’s the strength and conditioning, it’s the ball boys,” Souryal said.

“It’s essentially a little city, and that little city leaves a great deal of risk if any one of those people gets infected. Because that little city, that little community, lives in very close quarters.

“If one of those people tests positive, of course you’re going to quarantine that person, but what about everybody that has come in contact with that person? I don’t know that the NBA, or any other league, has an answer to that question.

And I believe that question will remain a question until we have a vaccine or a pill.”

Such treatments appear to be several months away, Souryal said, in a best-case scenario. In the interim, some leagues have found ways to operate using strict measures to ensure players have not contracted the virus. Multiple daily temperature checks and gobs of hand sanitizer have become the norm for baseball players in Taiwan, which played its first games last week in empty stadiums.

That league has five teams; the NBA has 30, with each still having 15-18 games left on its regular-season schedule. Going straight into the playoffs would leave 16.

“Everybody is going to be nervous and scared and part of the problem is, throughout the 50 states, everybody’s at different stages” of the coronavirus spread, said an athletic trainer employed by an NBA team who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “When can we get to this kind of position to actually play a game? That’s the first step. Then, what do we

have in place? Rapid testing is just one of them. What if someone gets sick? Is there medication that’s going to work, that if someone does get ill that they could get on?

“If one of us, if we’re around a family member, one of us ends up having COVID, then you get isolated from the rest of your family and you hope they don’t get it. It’s going to be the same thing. ... You’re talking about at that point, do you shut down a team?”

Major League Baseball has considered shuttling teams between quarantined hotels and spectator-free stadiums in Arizona, and the NBA has listened to single-location proposals, too.

“This concept falls apart when the bus driver driving the bus from the airport to the hotel is positive (for coronavirus),” Souryal said. “The only way is to ensure all of those people are negative and then to keep them sequestered from any other people. There is not a foolproof way to do this.”

Lawrence Frank, the Los Angeles Clippers’ president of basketball operations, said the rapid testing of players would represent a “huge boost,” according to experts. So would a test to learn which players possess the antibodies to fight the virus.

How quickly NBA teams would be able to act on these types of advances remains unknown; testing capacity continues to lag across the country. Backlash broadsided the league in March after eight teams secured testing for coronavirus at a time of nationwide shortages.

Georges Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public Health Association, said the NBA would “have to avoid at all costs” the optics of reserving an untold number of tests, and the personal protective equipment and medical professionals to conduct them, if such resources are not yet widely available.

“Whatever they do, they have to have a plan and look at what is happening in the rest of the world,” Benjamin said. “... I’m sure most of the players believe they have a community obligation to protect the community.”

Medical experts are concerned about the players’ susceptibility to coronavirus as well as the potential for injuries following a long layoff.

Teams have helped players maintain some semblance of conditioning by delivering equipment such as stationary bikes and weights, and holding group workouts using videochat software. But there is a difference between maintaining fitness and staying in basketball shape.

“These are the best athletes in the world, but the repetitive nature of what they do they’re just not doing at home,” said Tory Lindley, president of the National Association of Athletic Trainers. “They’re just not jumping and landing, jumping and landing to the extent that they would do in any one single prepractice, let alone in practice. As health care providers, we can’t allow that to be truncated. It’d be irresponsible from a health and safety perspective.”

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James said it would take a minimum of five to 10 days to prepare for games. However, an NBA executive not authorized by his team to speak publicly suggested players would need at least three weeks of training to return to basketball shape.

Citing the NBA’s dialogue with an array of medical officials, the athletic trainer was “very confident” the league’s leadership, despite mounting financial losses, would base decisions on safety.

Yes, the Sonics traded Scottie Pippen for Olden Polynice — but there’s a lot more to the story Bob Condotta The Seattle Times

Seattle-area basketball fans tuning in to the opening episodes of ESPN’s “The Last Dance” Sunday night hoping for a much-welcomed sports diversion were instead dealt what might have seemed like an unnecessary and unexpected dagger to the heart.

Or, depending on your age, maybe even an entirely new lesson in some unfortunate Seattle basketball history.

Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen was really a Sonic for a little while?

Yes he was, as the second episode of “The Last Dance,” which details Michael Jordan’s final season with the Bulls, made painstakingly clear a few minutes in, showing the famous (infamous?) photo of Pippen in a Sonics hat during the 1987 NBA draft.

Turns out, the Bulls’ 199798 season, which is the subject of the 10-episode series, was also Pippen’s last season with the Bulls (other than a return for a few games at the end of his career), and the second episode focused heavily on his contract squabble with the team that led to his eventual departure, which in turn led to chronicling how Pippen became a Bull in the first place.

Which led to the picture of Pippen in a Sonics hat.

Yes, the Sonics really did draft Pippen and then trade him to the Bulls, and yes the team came to greatly regret that move.

But as is almost always the case in these things, it’s a little more complicated than simply saying all Seattle got was Olden Polynice — a center who would average 7.8 points in his career and just five points in five seasons with the Sonics — in return.

So, consider this a refresher on how Pippen briefly was a Sonic in 1987 — as well as the maybe more-forgotten story of how he almost became a Sonic again a few years later.

The Sonics entered the 1987 draft coming off one of the more surprising seasons in team history, having gone 39-43 to squeak into the playoffs as a seven seed, but then getting hot in the postseason and upsetting Dallas and Houston to advance to the Western Conference finals against the Lakers. There, they were swept by one of the best Lakers teams ever.

But Seattle seemed a team on the rise with a three-headed scoring monster of Dale Ellis, Tom Chambers and Xavier McDaniel each averaging 23 or more points per game. Seattle also had a good young point guard in Nate McMillan, who had averaged 8.2 assists per game in what was his rookie year.

What Seattle felt it was missing were some big guys up front to add defense and toughness, especially in a conference that at the time featured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with the Lakers and Hakeem Olajuwon with the Rockets.

Entering the draft with two first round picks — their own and one from the Knicks for guard Gerald Henderson — the Sonics and general manager Bob Whitsitt, whose propensity for pulling off major deals had earned him the nickname “Trader Bob,” aimed to try to address their issues up front.

The day before the draft rumors swirled of a possible swap of picks between the Bulls and Sonics, who would go on to be involved in a number of deals over the coming

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Scottie Pippen of the Chicago Bulls during a game on Feb. 15, 1998.

years.

As portrayed in “The Last Dance,” the Bulls were enamored with Pippen, a 6-8 swingman who had been a star at NAIA Central Arkansas and then solidified his standing as a likely top-half-of- the-draft pick with standout play in pre-draft camps.

The reported deal had Seattle giving the Bulls the fifth overall selection that it had gotten from the Knicks and Chicago giving Seattle its choice at 8 — with Seattle also getting a second-rounder in 1988 or ‘89 as well as the right to swap first-round picks with the Bulls in ‘88 or ‘89 in return.

The deal was contingent on a few things — mainly, Pippen being available at five and Georgetown guard Reggie Williams not being available at five.

According to reports at the time, the Sonics would have kept the fifth pick to take Williams if he were still there — Williams had just led a seemingly-undermanned Georgetown team to the Elite Eight and Seattle apparently viewed him as ready to immediately help. Pippen, the view was held by many, might need some time to adjust having played in college at a lower level.

But the Clippers took Williams at four, leaving the Sonics to take Pippen at five for the Bulls, with the trade having been rumored but not yet made official.

The Sonics also hoped that taking Pippen would result in a little run on guards for the next few picks. Seattle also had the ninth pick in the draft and had its eyes set on Alabama big man Derrick McKey. The way the Sonics viewed it at the time, the move worked — seeing Pippen off the board, the Kings and Cavs took guards at picks six and seven (Kenny Smith and Kevin Johnson) — leaving the Bulls to take Polynice at eight for the Sonics and Seattle to then draft McKey at nine, and the trade quickly made official.

The 6-11 Polynice had helped lead Virginia to the Final Four at the Kingdome in 1984 adding a defensive and intimidation presence in the middle that the Sonics coveted. The 6-9 McKey was also known for his defense and allaround game.

Had McKey not been available, the Sonics were reportedly going to take forward Horace Grant, who instead went to the Bulls at 10.

“What we may have done is add two potentially great big men,” Sonics assistant coach Bob Kloppenburg was quoted as saying by The Seattle Times the day after the draft.

While Pippen quickly emerged as the missing piece the Jordan-era Bulls needed to become one of the greatest sports dynasties ever, Polynice would play three seasons for Seattle and part of another before being included in a trade with the Clippers that netted Seattle center Benoit Benjamin in 1991 (Polynice later returned to play for Seattle in 1998-99 as well, and don’t get us started on Benjamin).

The other parts of the deal didn’t yield much on paper, but intriguingly again involved Chicago — and in a roundabout way could be viewed as helping at least a little bit in the Sonics later landing two of their best-known players.

Seattle eventually traded the second-round pick back to Chicago for guard Sam Vincent, and then later traded Vincent back to the Bulls for Sedale Threatt, a starter at guard for Seattle for most of the 1989-90 and 1990-91 seasons.

And then prior to the 1989 draft, the Sonics exercised the option to swap first-round picks with the Bulls, moving from 20 to 18.

Seattle then traded that pick back to the Bulls (we said this got sort of complicated) for 7-foot center Brad Sellers — if you watched the documentary, Sellers was the player the Bulls settled for in the 1986 draft after Jordan insisted on playing late in the year and the Bulls made the playoffs rather than get a lottery pick.

With Sellers in hand, the Sonics then traded their firstround pick in 1990 for Golden State’s at 16 in the 1989 draft, adding to their own at 17.

At 16, the Sonics took guard Dana Barros out of Boston College, the player they most wanted.

As Glenn Nelson of the Seattle Times later wrote, getting Barros meant the Sonics could use their next pick to “take a gamble” on an intriguing forward who was just a year removed from high school named Shawn Kemp.

The Bulls, who had picks at 18 and 20, reportedly were ready to take Kemp.

A couple months later, in August, 1989, the Sonics would get that 1990 firstround pick back from Golden State in exchange for center Alton Lister, a trade made easier by the additions of Sellers and Kemp.

Good thing, as that pick ended up in the lottery where the Sonics got the number two selection the following June and took a guard from Oregon State named Gary Payton.

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Seattle didn’t end there.

After the Payton-Kemp-led Sonics went 63-19 in 93-94 but were bounced out of the playoffs in the first round, Seattle weighed a blockbuster move prior to the 1994 draft — trading Kemp, guard Ricky Pierce and a first-round pick to Chicago for Pippen. Jordan was then in his baseball-inspired first retirement and the Bulls viewed getting Kemp, four years younger than Pippen, as a player to build a future around whether or not Jordan returned.

Seattle, meanwhile, viewed Pippen as a potentially steadying force on a team whose — for lack of a better way of saying it — maturity issues had been viewed as leading to the early playoff ouster.

A player who could team with Payton to form the best defensive backcourt in the NBA. George Karl, the coach of the Sonics at the time, wrote in his 2016 autobiography, “Furious George,” that he called Jordan (the two had known each other for years as fellow North Carolina alums) about the deal.

“Do it,” Karl quoted Jordan as saying. “Scottie can make your other players better.

Kemp can’t.”

But corroborating reports at the time, Karl wrote that the deal was killed in part after rumors leaked and fans angrily took to the airwaves of KJRAM 950 — then the flagship station of the team and owned

by Sonics owner Barry Ackerley — to protest any potential trade of Kemp.

“While we dragged our feet on draft day, (Bulls general manager Jerry) Krause got desperate,” Karl wrote.

“He called to tell me the Bulls would drop the demand for our number one pick. He offered a big chunk of money in the next call. Then he called back to double it. Literally minutes before the draft started, Ackerley backed us out of the deal. When I delivered the bad news, Krause dropped fbombs and called me names.

We’d keep Kemp, they’d keep Pippen.”

The two teams would meet two years later in the NBA Finals where Pippen’s Sonics history was a heavily-discussed subplot, Jordan saying he was glad the 1994 trade hadn’t worked out.

And maybe it only made sense that episode two of “The Last Dance” ended with scenes of Pippen and Jordan commenting on Pippen wanting to be traded by the Bulls — interviews conducted on the floor of KeyArena when Chicago was in town for a game against the Sonics.

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With pro days canceled, non-combine draft prospects are using home videos to get the attention of NFL teams Paul Domowitch The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pro day workouts are an important part of the NFL predraft process, particularly for those players who weren’t fortunate enough to score an invite to the late-February scouting combine in Indianapolis.

But when the coronavirus outbreak forced the cancellation of pro days last month, all of those non-combine players were left hanging.

They had no way of providing testing numbers, or even accurate heights, weights, and arm lengths to teams.

“Pro days are a critical time for those noncombine and small-school kids,” said Jim Nagy, the executive director of the Senior Bowl.

“Because if they didn’t get invited to an all-star game, (pro days) are the only way the league can see how they stack up with the big-school guys.

“If you’re a Division II kid and you get invited to the Senior Bowl, you get a chance to compare yourself to the best of the best. But if you don’t and you didn’t get invited to the combine and don’t have testing numbers, the league doesn’t know if you’re just a good FCS or Division II player or a legitimate pro prospect.”

Shortly after the on-campus pro days were canceled, Nagy came up with a way to help the non-combine players: show them how to shoot their own pro day video.

Obviously, it wouldn’t be as effective as working out in person in front of NFL scouts and coaches. But at the very least, it would provide them with some accurate measurables to give to their potential NFL employers.

“Right after they started canceling the pro days, I had some (player-representation) agencies reach out to me about timing their players,” Nagy said. “I had an agency that had a lot of Day 1 and Day 2 clients that wanted to fly me out to California and time a lot of guys that hadn’t had their pro days yet.

“Well, immediately, my wife said, ‘You are not doing that. You are definitely not doing that.’ Then we talked about, well, maybe they could get a bunch of their kids on a flight” to Mobile, Ala., where Nagy lives, and he could test them there.

“But this was when everything was starting to crest and things were closing. Once that started to happen, I was like, ‘I’ve got to do something

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UCLA wide receiver Jaylen Erwin (15) can’t make the catch, but draws a pass interference penalty on San Diego State defensive back Luq Barcoo in the second quarter at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019.

to help some of these kids.’ I just felt compelled to try to do something. That’s when I thought of having them make their own pro day videos.”

Nagy, who had spent nearly two decades as an NFL scout before becoming the Senior Bowl’s executive director last year, ran the idea by several NFL general managers.

“I called them and asked them if this would be valid for you guys; if it would be a good idea,” he said. “They were like, ‘Oh, man. That would be great. We would definitely take that.’ Once they told me they felt it would be worthwhile, I decided we have to do it.”

Nagy made a “How to Run a Pro Day” video series and put it on the Senior Bowl website. It showed players and their agents and trainers how to do everything: from getting accurate heights and weights to properly filming all of the drills, including the vertical jump, broad jump, three-cone drill, 20-yard short shuttle, 225-pound bench press, and the 40-yard dash.

“Even if teams are skeptical of the 40-yard dash times, you still have the rest of the workout,” Nagy said. “You still have all of the

legitimate side measurables.

“We showed them not only how to conduct it, but how to film it. So, if they put the cameras in the right position, they should have legitimate short-shuttle and three-cone times. Same with the vertical jump and broad jump.

“They’re really able to check every box outside of the 40. And if people film it the right way, you should be able to get a really close 40 time as well.”

Nagy said more than two dozen players or their agents have sent him videos that he forwarded to NFL teams. Many others just put their video out themselves on social media.

The stay-at-home orders, and the closing of all nonessential facilities in most states, has made it a bit of a challenge for players to make their own pro day videos.

“It took a while to find a place to do it,” said Luq Barcoo, a non-combine cornerback from San Diego State. “Places were getting shut down pretty quickly. One minute, I thought we were going to do it here, and the next minute we had to move it someplace else. And then that

place ended up getting closed and we’d have to find another place.”

Barcoo finally found a park in National City, Calif., outside of San Diego, with a football field that hadn’t been shuttered yet. He did all of the running drills there, including the 40. The vertical jump, 225-pound bench press, and physical measurements were filmed at a gym owned by one of his trainers.

Nagy put a disclaimer on the Senior Bowl website warning players that, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, he was not encouraging large group participation for timing, testing, and filming of the videos.

“It basically (should be) just a filmer and the athlete,” Nagy said. “Hopefully people have been mindful of that.”

Well, sort of. Barcoo said there were a total of 12 people involved in shooting his pro day video, including four cameramen. But he insisted that everyone adhered to the social-distancing guidelines.

Barcoo, who figures to be a late-Day 3 pick or a priority free agent, posted his pro day video on Twitter last week. He said he’s gotten positive feedback from NFL scouts.

“I feel it was an overall success,” he said. “A lot of teams have seen it. Others are going to see it. I’m excited about that.”

Barcoo had a 41-inch vertical jump and an 11-foot, 3-inch broad jump, and ran the 40 in 4.41 seconds on the video. Teams likely will take the 40 time with a grain of salt.

“Teams are taking everything outside of the 40 seriously,” Nagy said of the pro day videos.

“Especially if they followed the guidelines we gave them and they’re filming the entire process so it can’t be altered.

“Now these guys have testing numbers. If they’re an FCS wide receiver and they have a 38-inch vertical jump and a 10-6 broad jump and they’re 6-3 and 200 pounds, at least now teams are able to stack them up in terms of physical traits with guys playing in the league and the people who were at the combine. And that’s all these guys are trying to verify right now.

“When all these numbers come in, rather than a guy being an undrafted free agent, a team might say, ‘Why don’t we just take a shot on him in the sixth or seventh round?’ “

UConn’s Scott Burrell reaped benefits from Michael Jordan’s ‘Last Dance’ Dom Amore The Hartford Courant

On the eve of the season, the Warriors traded Scott Burrell to Chicago. After years of playing in vain against Michael Jordan, Burrell now was his teammate.

Welcome aboard?

On the first day of practice, Jordan told him, “You know, Scott, you thought the best part of this trade is that you’re going to be playing with me. You wouldn’t have to play against me anymore. Well, the worst part is now you have to play against me every day.”

Burrell was in for quite a ride, a ride that would lead to his one NBA championship, a relationship that, to this day, is actually warm, and a dynamic that is a recurring theme in the long-awaited and much anticipated ESPN documentary series, “The Last Dance.” With no live sports, the series figures to have a huge, captive audience.

We know Burrell’s story around here.

One of the greatest athletes in Connecticut high school history, recruited at Hamden High as a major college quarterback, drafted in the first round by both MLB and the NBA, a glorious UConn career etched in memory with his perfect pass to Tate George for The Shot in 1990.

When he joined the Bulls on Sept. 22, 1997, he was no rookie, but Jordan, who told reporters in Chicago that year that Burrell is “my pet project” and felt the need to push him like one, thought he was just too nice. That comes through loud and clear in “The Last Dance,” and Jordan has been saying he fears people will think he’s a “horrible guy” after watching it.

Burrell, 49, now the basketball coach at Southern Connecticut State University, worries about that, too.

“I just hope people don’t look at this movie the wrong way and think he’s a bad person, or a mean person,” Burrell says, “or he’s aggressive. He just tried to motivate guys so they prepare, just like coach (Jim) Calhoun.”

The first two of 10 episodes of “The Last Dance” were aired on ESPN on Sunday night, and will be rerun next Sunday before episodes 3 and 4, with two new installments each Sunday through May 17.

The series will be available outside the U.S. via Netflix.

As the title suggests, the series dives deep into the last of Jordan’s six NBA championship runs with the Bulls.

Burrell and Joe Kleine were newcomers to the team, and as Jordan explained at the time, he wanted them to get their first rings.

“When I got there, it was, ‘You better do your job,’” Burrell says. “I’m a new guy on the team. They’ve won five of the last seven championships. Don’t come here and mess up. Do your part. There are no free rides.”

Jordan urged Burrell to go harder and harder in practice, but Burrell was afraid of injuring the sport’s ultimate superstar.

“He was the NBA,” Burrell says. “You don’t want to bump knees or hurt his ankle. The world would come down on you.”

Finally, Jordan told him, “I don’t get hurt. Just keep going hard. Keep playing.”

The film will show some cringe-worthy moments, reviewers say, where Jordan rides Burrell remorselessly. But Burrell, who sat down for an hourlong interview in New York for the series, didn’t seek sympathy then, or now.

“They’re going to make a lot about me and him,” Burrell says, “how he challenged me every day. ... It’s the real Michael — uncut, unfiltered, how he is every day in practice, why he’s great, what drives him and how he drives people, motivates people. I just feel bad if people walk away not knowing what drove him to be the best. I’m afraid people will look at him as a bully or something like that. It’s how a person takes it. I took it as tough love, hard coaching. All the things he said and did to me were making me better, making me mentally tougher and preparing me for life on and off the court.”

Jordan, 57, now principle owner of the Charlotte Hornets, has always been a figure of mystique. He won an NCAA title for Dean Smith at North Carolina and played for the Bulls from 1984-93, and from 1995-98, a five-time MVP with that time off in his prime for the inexplicable foray into baseball. He was MVP of the NBA Finals in each of his six championship runs and came out of retirement again to finish with the Wizards in 2003.

Burrell remembers the aura, and only ranks the auras of Dale Earnhardt, Tiger

Woods and Kobe Bryant as even close.

“There is only one M.J.,” Burrell says.

“He had the package, everything, athletic ability, tenacity, toughness, skill, determination, hard work. Every attribute, he used it to make himself a great player.

It’s amazing what he did every day, without ever taking a day off, performing at a level like no other. An unbelievable person to play with and learn from.”

And there’s still a lot of the Jordan influence in Burrell’s coaching style at Southern, “but you have to tone it down with today’s kids,” he says.

As crazy as it may sound to those old enough to remember him as a Bull, Jordan seems somehow under-appreciated today. When Burrell goes out recruiting, he is asked what Jordan was like — by AAU and high school coaches, not the players. He chalks it up to the social media age. LeBron James’ highlight plays can be seen over and over again on your iPhone; you have to go search for videos of Jordan’s signature moments. When they played golf a year or so ago, Burrell kidded Jordan that to today’s generation, he’s known as “the shoe guy.”

In 1997-98, the Bulls got off to a slow start, with Scottie Pippen injured, but with Jordan’s relentless drive behind them, they finished 62-20. Burrell gave them what they needed off the bench, playing in 80 games, averaging 13.7 minutes, 5.2 points, 2.5 rebounds. In 21 playoff games, he averaged 12.4 minutes, 3.8 points. Jordan’s jumper was the gamewinner against Utah in the decisive Game 6 of the Finals.

“I’m so thankful to be a part of that team, to experience how greatness works,” Burrell says. “It was an unbelievable experience. You win a championship, you realize you played for the best team in the world.”

With “The Last Dance” about to debut, Burrell started getting calls last week from media throughout Connecticut, the U.S., as far away as New Zealand and Australia. He appeared on SportsCenter on Monday afternoon to discuss his role with the Bulls, as well as his full-court pass to George in 1990.

“I texted Michael,” Burrell says, “and said, ‘Thanks for making me have to do all these interviews.’ He texted back, ‘Laughing my (butt) off. You’re welcome. ... Hope all is well.’”

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Archived photo of Colts great Mike Curtis.

Legendary Baltimore Colts MLB Curtis dies at 77 Field Level Media

Baltimore Colts legend Mike Curtis, one of the heroes of Super Bowl V, died Monday. He was 77.

Curtis passed away in St. Petersburg, Fla., according to the Baltimore Ravens.

Curtis, a middle linebacker, played in two Super Bowls for the Colts and intercepted Dallas Cowboys quarterback Craig Morton late in a tie game in Super Bowl V on Jan. 17, 1971. The pick set up Jim O’Brien’s game-winning, 32-yard field goal with five seconds remaining in Baltimore’s 1613 victory.

The Irsay family moved the Colts from Baltimore to Indianapolis following the 1983 season, but that never dimmed current owner Jim Irsay’s admiration of Curtis.

“Rest In Peace, Mike Curtis,” Irsay tweeted on Monday. “One of the game’s most legendary non-Hallof-Famers. Ferocious on the field, a gentleman off the field.”

Curtis was a four-time Pro Bowl selection during 11 seasons (1965-75) with the Colts. The player nicknamed “Mad Dog” also played for the Seattle Seahawks (1976) and the Washington

Redskins (1977-78).

Curtis, who played in 166 career NFL games, recorded 21 of his 25 regular-season interceptions and eight of his nine fumble recoveries during his tenure with the Colts. He returned two interceptions for touchdowns and also scored on a fumble return.

Curtis had three interceptions and one fumble recovery (for a touchdown) in nine career playoff appearances, all with Baltimore.

The highly intense Curtis was also known for a hit he delivered that had nothing to do with the play on the field. During a break in the fourth quarter of a home game against the Miami Dolphins on Dec. 11, 1971, a drunken fan raced on to the field and tried to take off with the ball.

Curtis saw what was transpiring and headed toward the fan to deliver a vicious hit that sent the intruder to the turf.

Curtis was asked about the incident after the game and simply said, “He wasn’t supposed to be on the field.”

Before his star NFL career, Curtis played college football at Duke. He was a firstround pick (14th overall) in the 1965 NFL Draft.

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Brain injury alters friend’s personality negatively I can’t predict how she will react, but you may get through to her. If not, she may end her friendship with you, and you can retain your sanity.

Dear Abby, “Stella” and I have been close friends for 25 years. Two years ago, she was in a car accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury. She has since recovered and returned to work.

Stella’s personality has changed a lot since the accident. Her language and clothing are inappropriate. At 65 years old, her wardrobe now DEAR ABBY consists of miniskirts, spike heels, over-the-knee lace-up boots, halter tops, etc. She says suggestive things to my boyfriend in front of me. He no longer wants to be around her.

Most of Stella’s friends have distanced themselves, and her husband has moved out of their home.

I remember how close we once were, and I don’t want to end the friendship, but I don’t think I can tolerate being around her. How can I help her and keep my sanity?

Too Much Change In Texas

Dear Abby, My significant other, “Bob,” and I have been together for 30 years (never married). The past 10 years of our relationship have not been so good in the bedroom.

Bob has ED and refuses to see a professional about it. He is well aware of how unfair it is to me because my sex drive is still in full swing. Would it be wrong to tell him that since he doesn’t want to seek help for his problem, I am going to find a “friend with benefits”?

I have reached the point where I want to leave him. If he would get help for his problem, our relationship would improve, and I would be willing to stay.

Deprived In Ohio

Be gentle with Stella because her change may be beyond her control. Help her by trying to talk frankly with her. Explain how much her personality and image have changed since the accident, and that some of her actions have made people so uneasy they have distanced themselves. Tell her that her comments to your boyfriend made him uncomfortable, and you need them to stop.

Bob may be so embarrassed about his ED problem that he’s afraid to have a frank talk with a doctor about it. It’s a shame because in many cases there is help for it.

Because you have reached the end of your tether, discuss your feelings with him as openly as you have with me. If you do, it may jolt him into doing something for himself that he should have done a decade ago.

JEANNE PHILLIPS

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Rare condition involves dangerously low calcium levels My grandson is 26 years old and has a rare disease called pseudohypoparathyroidism. The only doctor in our area who knows this disease has only ever seen one case. The medicine my grandson is on is not working and causes bad headaches. His back hurts. He also has blood in his urine and can’t work. He takes .5 milligrams of calcitriol but his calcium is still low. He TO YOUR takes 3 grams of calcium a day.

GOOD HEALTH Can you give me any information about this disease?

DR. KEITH ROACH

Parathyroid hormone raises calcium levels in the blood by increasing dietary absorption, forcing the bones to release calcium and reducing the amount of calcium excreted by the kidney. Without parathyroid hormone, calcium levels in the blood may become dangerously low. This is called hypoparathyroidism. It is quite rare as a genetic condition, but can happen after surgery on the thyroid or parathyroid glands.

Pseudohypoparathyroidism is low calcium levels but above-normal PTH levels. It is normally caused by resistance to the effects of PTH by kidney or bone. The PTH levels are above normal because the body tries to compensate for this resistance to PTH. The cause is most commonly a damaged gene called GNAS1, and if inherited from the mother, the kidney is the primary site of resistance.

People with this condition tend to be short, have a characteristic appearance, and may have developmental delay. The effect of the high PTH on the bones causes different bone problems, including pain, which probably explains the back pain your grandson has.

Calcitriol is the usual treatment, but many people need much higher doses to get the calcium in the normal range: up to 2 mg. Calcium is

usually given 1-2 grams per day.

Because GNAS1 is also present in the pituitary gland, thyroid and testes, people with pseudohypoparathyroidism need to be checked for low thyroid and sex hormone abnormalities.

You can read more about pseudohypoparathyroidism, including support groups, at tinyurl.com/pseudoPTH. My doctor put me on a beta blocker for high blood pressure a year ago. Shortly thereafter, I began coughing incessantly, especially after meals, producing a clear mucus. I returned to my doctor and was switched from a beta blocker to an ACE inhibitor. There was little to no difference in my cough. I consulted an allergist, to no avail. At the urging of my co-workers, I saw a gastroenterologist to see if I had GERD, which I did not.

I began a many months long treatment with an acupuncture specialist, with no results.

One day while reading online I found that both medicines could have the side effect of cough. I returned to my doctor, who switched me to a calcium channel blocker, and within the month my cough was gone. Hopefully, this will save someone else from future suffering.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Look one way today and you’ll see much that you had hoped to see, but look another and you’ll be shown something of yourself you rather fear.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ve risen quickly, and today you’re sure to enjoy the view from on high. The choice is yours: Do you want to abandon this perch?

Hagar the Horrible

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I appreciate your writing. ACE inhibitors — the generic name ends in “pril,” such as lisinopril — cause cough in up to 20% of people, so if you had started with the ACE inhibitor and had a cough, it would have been recognized quickly.

Beta blockers do not normally cause cough.

However, they can precipitate asthma in people who are predisposed. Although wheezing is more common, cough is not uncommon in asthma. Because you also had sensitivity to an ACE inhibitor causing cough, the drug connection was missed.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you have been endowed with tremendous drive, copious talent and the will to succeed, even in the face of considerable hardship. In this way, indeed, you are the “classic” Taurus native, but you also combine with your bullish determination a sensitivity that might confuse those who do not know you well. Yes, you can come off as strong-willed, uncompromising and quite forceful, but there is another side of you that is quite different — and only those whom you choose to be a part of your most intimate inner circle are truly acquainted with this side of you.

Highly creative, you have a tendency to act impulsively when you hit upon a good idea, and you are as flexible in your manner and attitudes as you must be to navigate almost any new or unexpected situation that may arise.

Also born on this date are: Jack Nicholson, actor; Marshawn Lynch, football player; Amber Heard, actress; Peter Frampton, singer and musician; Glen Campbell, singer and songwriter; Jeffrey Dean Morgan, actor; Cassidy Freeman, actress.

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

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Baby Blues CANCER (June 21-July 22) — One mystery is solved today just as another is brought to your attention. You know much, and can keep speculation from getting out of control.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Recounting an experience with a friend has you wondering if it isn’t time to try it once more. What would you gain by doing it over again?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You must make yourself available to those who are looking for the right person for the job that has to be done. You may be the one!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may have forgotten something you deemed “unforgettable” not too long ago — but a friend reminds you of it in no uncertain terms.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may suspect that you’re heading down the wrong road, but now is not the time to share that feeling with anyone.

Explore options.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — A major discovery has you considering an option that was impossible for you only a few days ago. Several doors are opened to you today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Your beliefs may suddenly clash today with those of one who was an important figure in your professional life a short while back.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Things are likely to speed up today — but not in a consistent fashion. You must be ready to navigate a swiftly changing landscape as well.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You are working hard to ensure someone’s success, but you may not be able to come through as promised today. The unexpected intervenes.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You can raise the stakes today and put your competitors on notice that you’re not to be trifled with at this time. Someone you know backs down.

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B8 Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Close to Home

SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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Toys Level 1

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3

(e.g., This toy spring can travel down a flight of steps. Answer: Slinky.)

Freshman level 1. You add ears, eyes, a nose, etc. to a plastic model of a potato.

2. This toy consists of a box with a crank that turns to create a surprise.

3. You remove plastic ailments from a patient with a pair of tweezers.

Graduate level 4. These colorful interlocking plastic bricks can be assembled in many ways.

5. A drawing toy with a flat gray screen with two drawing knobs.

6. This toy hoop is twirled around the waist.

PH.D. level 7. This consists of a toy barrel and 12 plastic monkeys.

8. It is also called a “flying disc” for throwing and catching.

9. This 3-D combination puzzle was invented by a Hungarian professor.

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

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Yesterday’s

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

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

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: MOTTO SIXTH FIBULA CAMERA Answer: When he said his favorite old T-shirt still fit him, it was a — BIT OF A STRETCH

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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Mr. Potato Head. 2. Jack-in-the-box. 3. Operation. 4. Lego. 5. Etch A Sketch. 6. Hula hoop. 7. Barrel of Monkeys. 8. Frisbee. 9. Rubik’s Cube.

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

Mutts

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Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Texas two-__; lively dance 5 Croat or Czech 9 Farm machine 13 Vetoed; put a stop to 15 Fictional story 16 __ about; sing the praises of 17 Fit to be tied 18 Left high and dry 20 Woman’s nickname 21 “__ Me Call You Sweetheart” 23 One side in baseball negotiations 24 Waterbirds 26 Citi Field athlete 27 Candle shop pleasures 29 What each flag stripe represents 32 Boldness 33 Evil demon 35 Where Ménière’s disease strikes 37 “An apple __ keeps…”

38 Daytime serials 39 Alphabetic foursome 40 Touch lightly 41 Roof supports 42 Boy Scout group 43 Feel bitter about 45 Snapshots 46 Drivers’ org.

47 One of the Judds 48 Kidnap 51 American __; MA’s state tree 52 Fore and __ 55 Old name for a locomotive 58 Walk leisurely 60 Largest city in Peru 61 Bug spray 62 Realtor’s delights 63 Notices 64 Agile 65 Shipshape DOWN 1 Tiny cut 2 Grow weary 3 Overstate 4 Hamster or hound

Mother Goose & Grimm

Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

5 What each flag star represents 6 Blood analysis site 7 Chicken __ king 8 Like asps & adders 9 “Now!” 10 __ change; reason to use a blinker 11 __ and above; beyond 12 Takes for better or for worse 14 Remove text 19 __ in; inhabit 22 Curly letter 25 Covetous feeling 27 Lose it 28 Furniture wood 29 Police officers 30 Open to debate, as a contract 31 Email provider 33 Animal with a beard 34 Holiday entrée, perhaps 36 __ up; tears to bits

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Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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38 Rubio & Feinstein 39 “__ Here to Eternity” 41 Sandcastle’s location 42 Famous doubter 44 Good places to sweat 45 Crony

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47 Poor 48 Feels lousy 49 Cheese in a whitish rind 50 Taj Mahal’s roof 53 Pesky insect 54 Midterm or final 56 Ice Cube’s music 57 __ Isaac Newton 59 Guy

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