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HUDSON — Columbia Memorial Health temporarily furloughed approximately 125 employees Tuesday from departments that have seen a recent decrease in volume.

These include employees working in physicians’ offices, elective procedures, diagnostic testing, the emergency room and Rapid Care.

With the total number of admissions to the hospital also decreasing, CMH has seen revenue cut nearly in

half. Hospitals throughout the region are seeing expenses continue to increase as prices grow for supplies and personal protective equipment.

Also on Tuesday, the Senate passed a $484 billion COVID-19 relief plan that includes aid for hospitals and small businesses, and funds to expand testing.

The measure allocates $75 billion for hospital relief and could go to the House as early as Thursday.

“We are working closely with our trade associations to

advocate for fair and meaningful federal and state assistance,” CMH spokesman William Van Slyke said.

State officials said Tuesday that New York will reopen by region, and elective surgeries and procedures will resume in counties without significant risk.

Reopening strategies have not been announced for the Capital or Hudson Valley regions as of Wednesday.

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Columbia Memorial Health wants “fair federal and state assistance.”

Cuomo outlines ‘tracing army’ plan

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The state will work with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to develop a contact tracing program to reduce the COVID-19 infection rate across the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday afternoon during a coronavirus briefing in the state Capitol.

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ALBANY — The state will develop a COVID-19 tracing program to control the coronavirus infection rate with about $10 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.

Bloomberg, a 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate and his company Bloomberg Philanthropies committed $10.5 million to help build and

execute the new program. The contact tracing program will be done in coordination with the downstate region as well as New Jersey and Connecticut.

“One of the most critical pieces of getting to a new normal is to ramp up testing, but states have a second big task: To put together an army of people to trace each person who tested positive, find out who they contacted and then isolate those people,” Cuomo said during his daily briefing. “This partnership with

Mike Bloomberg to create an unprecedented, nation-leading contact tracing program will do just that and serve as a model for the rest of the nation.”

A contact tracing program of this scale has not been implemented in New York or anywhere in the United States. An expert panel will review the data, which could be replicated across the nation.

The program will launch immediately.

Contact tracing starts with a person infected with COVID-19 and interviewing

that person to identify people they made contact with during their illness and in the few days before symptoms began.

Officials then alert their contacts about their risk of infection and refer medical providers to them.

People who are not ill are asked to stay home for 14 days to ensure they don’t spread COVID-19 to others, according to the governor’s office.

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Senate passes emergency COVID funding

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

After running out of funds to aid small businesses through its Economic Injury Disaster loans and Paycheck Protection Program, the U.S. Small Business Administration is anticipating more funding from the federal government.

Weighing in on the additional funding, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, said small businesses will need more help to rebound in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“There is more work ahead, including funding for state and local governments, particularly for counties and municipalities in rural areas like NY-19,” Delgado said.

The U.S. Senate passed

“There is more work ahead, including funding for state and local governments, particularly for counties and municipalities in rural areas like NY-19.

Our farms are essential to our rural way of life and are critical to our local economy here in upstate New York.”

— U.S. REP. ANTONIO DELGADO, D-19 legislation Tuesday to provide the SBA with an additional $320 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, $50 billion for its Disaster Loans Program and $10 billion for Economic Injury Disaster loan grants. The SBA stopped accepting applications for the programs about a week ago. As of April 16, the SBA had accepted 1.04 million loans through the Paycheck

Protection Program.

A new development with this round of funding is that small farmers will be eligible for Economic Injury Disaster Loans for up to $2 million and emergency grants of up to $10,000.

Delgado advocated for farmers to be included in the funding, along with 85 other members of Congress in a bipartisan letter dated April 2.

“Our farms are essential to our rural way of life and are critical to our local economy here in upstate New York,” Delgado said in a statement.

“They merit access to the same resources our small business owners are provided under the CARES Act. I called for the SBA to make our local producers eligible for the economic injury disaster loan program, as intended by Congress.

“I am pleased bipartisan leaders have made this needed clarification to make sure our farmers will be eligible for such funds. Small businesses and family farms need assistance immediately and this package ensures we do just that. It also provides resources in support of our hospitals and funds for much-needed testing.”

Through the Paycheck Protection Program, businesses can apply for two-year loans for up to $10 million.

The funding can be used to cover payroll, rent, utility and mortgage costs. The SBA will cover the first two months that are used for approved expenses, although at least 75% of the funds must be spent on See FUNDING A8

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With some states getting ready to lift their stay-athome orders and relax their social distancing measures, it may seem that health officials have the coronavirus outbreak under control.

But researchers say there’s still much they don’t know about the virus — and the answers to their questions could help determine when it will be safe for life to return to normal.

The mysteries scientists are most eager to solve have shifted somewhat since this coronavirus began sickening people in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Instead of learning more about its origins and predicting how widely it might spread, the priority now for many researchers is to find ways to treat those who are sick and protect those who aren’t.

The Times spoke with several scientists to find out which issues are at the top of their minds as they work to understand the coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes.

Q. Which treatments actually work?

Doctors have tried a variety of drugs, including medicines developed to treat malaria, autoimmune diseases and Ebola. Despite high hopes for some of them, so far none has been proven to be a silver bullet.

The National Institutes of Health released its first set of treatment guidelines for COVID-19 on Tuesday, warning healthcare providers to exercise caution with their patients. The Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved any medicines to treat the new disease, and the jury is still out on potential treatments such as the Ebola drug remdesivir, which is still being tested in clinical trials.

For now, the agency isn’t giving advice on the malaria drug chloroquine or several drugs of high interest, many of which are undergoing clinical trials.

However, the agency does recommend that clinicians avoid using hydroxychloroquine in combination with the antibiotic azythromycin, in part because of its potential to cause erratic heart rhythms. It also frowns on the combination of the HIV drugs lopinavir and ritonavir, which is sold under the brand name Kaletra.

The NIH also discouraged the use of other classes of drugs, including interferons, Janus kinase inhibitors, ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (although COVID-19 patients can have the latter two if they were already taking them for other conditions such as cardiovascular disease). Systemic corticosteroids should be avoided for most hospitalized patients who are not critically ill, according to the new guidelines, which will be updated as more data become available.

“Definitive clinical trial data are needed to identify optimal treatments for this disease,” an expert panel convened by the NIH wrote.

One of the quickest ways to speed treatments to patients is to test drugs that have already been through safety testing in the context of another disease. Among others, researchers are trying anticoagulation medicines because

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San Bernardino County Department of Public Health holds community drive-thru sample collection event for COVID-19 testing at Montclair Plaza, in Montclair, California.

they may mitigate the blood clotting experienced by some critically ill COVID-19 patients.

Drugs aren’t the only treatment options on the table, said Dr. Kathryn Stephenson, who runs the clinical trial unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Center for Virology and Vaccine Research. There’s a deceptively straightforward technique being tried called proning, in which clinicians turn patients onto their stomachs. This appears to help drain the lungs and improve patients’ oxygen levels. (The NIH panel recommends this practice for certain COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilators who have refractory hypoxemia.)

Sorting through the mass of information being produced on these treatments, and determining which results are reliable, will be a big challenge moving forward, researchers said.

“People are trying lots of different things,” Stephenson said. “We’re all struggling right now with what of these treatments, if any of them, actually work.”

Q. Which antibodies confer immunity, and how many do you need?

Tests that can reliably identify people who have been infected with the coronavirus are needed to determine how many people may have developed immunity, which in turn will help guide decisions on when and how the economy can be reopened and people can resume their normal, daily lives.

Serology tests look for antibodies — specialized biomolecules made by the body in response to infection by a particular pathogen — in samples of blood serum.

The problem is that not all antibodies are neutralizing antibodies that attach to the surface of a viral particle and prevent it from attacking the body’s cells, said Dr. George Rutherford, an epidemiologist at UC San Francisco. On top of that, scientists aren’t completely sure which antibodies are connected to a protective immune response for this particular virus.

That’s a key metric for creating vaccines, he pointed out.

“Vaccines need to produce neutralizing antibody, and the neutralizing antibodies have to protect against reinfection,” Rutherford said.

“So I think that goes right to the top of my list of scientific questions.”

Stephenson agreed.

“Many of these blood tests are proposed as a way to detect who is immune and ready to go back to work,” she said.

“But we don’t know how to interpret those levels yet.”

It’s also unclear what concentration of antibodies is needed to actually confer immunity, Stephenson said.

It’s possible that a low level might not protect as well as a high level. Either way, scientists need to know how much a vaccine will need to trigger the body to produce in order to be effective.

Determining what antibody level defends against the virus is also important to researchers investigating a treatment known as convalescent plasma. The hypothesis is that antibodies in the blood fluids of COVID-19 survivors can be transfused to patients to help them fight an active infection. (Preliminary study results are promising.)

But if different survivors have different levels of antibodies in their blood, the plasma from one former COVID-19 patient may not be as effective as plasma from another, Stephenson said.

Q. Who is immune, and for how long?

We don’t just need to know which antibodies confer immunity, said Yonatan Grad, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard University. Scientists also need to figure out which COVID-19 survivors have high levels of immunity and how long that protection lasts.

For example, do people who have mild symptoms or no symptoms develop an immune response that’s as strong and as durable as people who weathered more severe infections? If not, what’s the range of immune response? Does age influence a survivor’s immune protection? What other factors may be at play?

Answering these questions will help illuminate the extent of immune protection different communities have — and what a potential reopening of the economy might look like, researchers said.

Q. Which mitigation strategies are actually working?

Public health officials and policymakers have instituted all kinds of policies to slow the

spread of COVID-19 and help “flatten the curve.” They’ve closed schools, shuttered nonessential businesses, ordered residents to remain indoors and advised them to wear masks and observe social distancing rules if they absolutely must venture out.

Governors around the country are developing plans to lift some of these restrictions. The problem is that we don’t yet know which of them are actually working and whether any of them can be safely relaxed, Grad said.

“Which social-distancing efforts have actually been effective in flattening the curve?” Grad said. “Does it require the most stringent of these mitigation efforts — that everyone try to stay at home as much as possible — or does having kids go to school matter?”

Keep in mind that each community experiences the outbreak in a different way, Grad said. There are many reasons for this, including different starting times and different contact patterns among members of those communities.

“This pandemic is made of many very local epidemics,” he said.

Yvonne Maldonado, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Stanford University, agreed.

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NY to double testing capacity to 40,000

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ALBANY — The state will double its COVID-19 diagnostic testing in the coming weeks, President Donald Trump and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed Tuesday, to address New York’s testing bottleneck days after the two leaders traded barbs about their pandemic response.

Trump, Cuomo and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met Tuesday afternoon with a team of White House officials to discuss testing and how states can work together with manufacturers and the federal government to correct the virus testing logjam.

The state can conduct 20,000 COVID-19 diagnostic and blood antibody tests, which determines a person’s coronavirus immunity, per day. State and federal officials will work over the next several weeks to double New York’s combined diagnostic and antibody test rate to 40,000 per day. The governor would not specify a date or week when the state expects to reach its new capacity goal.

“It’s a complicated issue on a lot of levels,” Cuomo said of testing during a briefing Tuesday in the state Capitol in Albany.

Trump and Cuomo agreed states must coordinate virus testing in their laboratories.

New York has about 300 labs.

“New York has a lot of very exceptional laboratories — most of the states do,” Trump said during Tuesday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing. “I’m proud of the relationship my administration has forged with New York. I can say very honestly with New York state and New York City have been great to work with.”

The federal government will address national manufacturers’ inability to procure and produce millions of chemical reagents, swabs, vials and other testing kit materials — most of which are contingent on China and the

Courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office

The state and federal governments devised a plan to address New York’s COVID-19 testing bottleneck during a White House meeting between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon. Cuomo discussed his meeting with the president and White House officials during a briefing in the state Capitol on Tuesday night.

international supply chain.

“The federal government will work with the state on the national manufacturers and distributors to help secure additional tests,” Trump said. “I hope this model will work with the other states as well.”

States cannot do international supply chains, Cuomo said.

“Not at this time ... and it’s not what we do,” he added.

“That’s where the federal government can help. That’s what we agreed in this meeting. That is an intelligent division of labor.”

Cuomo discussed the state’s looming $10 billion to $15 billion budget shortfall with the president after the Senate approved a $484 billion COVID-19 bill Tuesday for additional smallbusiness relief. Congress’ fourth emergency COVID-19 funding bill does not give money to state or local governments.

“Which, to me, is just a mistake, frankly,” Cuomo said. “Fund small businesses, fund airlines, but you

don’t fund police, you don’t fund fire, you don’t fund health care workers ... You cut the aid to schools in this state.”

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, Cuomo said.

Trump said he would work hard to secure funding for states in the next piece of legislation Congress passes, Cuomo said.

“Trump said he would take care of it and I believe he will,” the governor added. “State governments are broke ... The state governments are now responsible for the reopening and the governors have no funds to do it.

“And we hope there is another piece of legislation.”

The federal government will waive the requirement for New York for a local government to match FEMA funding by 25%.

The Federal Drug Administration authorized more

than 50 take-home diagnostic tests and four antibody tests Monday night, Trump said.

“Lab Corps intends to make home collection kits available with a doctor’s order in the coming weeks,” the president said.

Americans with COVID-19 antibodies could donate them as part of a convalescent plasma treatment medical professionals are working to develop to combat the virus.

Sufficient testing is required to identify and curb the pandemic spread and safely reopen the state and national economies, Cuomo has repeatedly said. After adequate testing is secured, officials must develop an efficient method to trace positive COVID-19 cases.

Both Trump and Cuomo spoke of a productive, positive meeting at their individual press briefings Tuesday night.

Cuomo and Trump agreed to bring back the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort, which has been docked at Pier 88 in

the New York Harbor since March 30. The 1,000-bed facility was originally slated for non-COVID-19 patients, but was converted to treat virus patients, which reduced its capacity to 500.

The Comfort will return to its base in Virginia as New York’s hospitalization rate has continued to decline over the last week.

The ship treated 172 patients as of Monday. About 1,200 virus patients to date were treated at the 2,500bed temporary hospital at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, constructed last month by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

“The Javits Center has been a great help to them,” Trump said. “We will bring the ship back at the earliest time and will get it ready for its next mission. It was an honor.”

New York did not reach expert projections of needing double its 53,000 usual hospital beds, but the Comfort ship treated patients and was necessary, the governor said.

“We agreed at this current rate we don’t need the Comfort anymore,” Cuomo said.

“Did you need the beds? Yes. It helped 172 people ... 172 people is nothing to be trifled with. The Comfort brought comfort and saved lives.”

Trump and Cuomo did not discuss using anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment. More than 20 hospitals, primarily downstate, using hydroxychloroquine as a virus treatment sent their preliminary results to the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday. Results will be made public at a later date.

Tuesday’s meeting in Washington was, overall, a success, Cuomo said.

“I thank all the people on the president’s team who made themselves available,” the governor said. “It was a lot and it was complicated, and the resolution was good across the board.”

FASNY stresses cooking safety to keep everyone fire safe during pandemic ALBANY — Families and individuals across New York are staying home to practice social distancing to help flatten the COVID-19 curve.

With many restaurants closed or limited to take-out or delivery services, more New Yorkers are cooking at home. Cooking and baking can be a positive activity for family connections but it also can lead to some lapses in home kitchen and cooking fire safety. Some local fire departments and dispatch agencies are seeing an increase in calls for minor kitchen fires and burnt food incidents. Local volunteer fire departments are working hard to protect

their neighbors and respond to calls for help during these challenging times.

The Firemen’s Association of the State of New York is asking for the public’s help in keeping themselves and others safe as we all work together to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the National Fire Prevention Association, kitchen fires are the number one cause of home fires and are the number one cause of home fire injuries. The leading cause of fires in the kitchen is unattended cooking.

“We typically see an increase in home kitchen fires around the winter holidays

when families host large dinners,” said FASNY President Steven E. Klein. “We want to make sure during this pandemic, as everyone is staying home, that we can avoid unnecessary tragedy.

Kitchen fires can be avoided by following some simple safety tips like never leaving the stove unattended and checking that smoke alarms are in good working order.”

FASNY would like all New Yorkers to follow a few cooking safety tips as social distancing continues throughout the state. n Remain in the kitchen while cooking. Whether you’re frying, grilling, baking or broiling food, it’s

always a good idea to supervise cooking directly. With many New Yorkers working from home, or attending to school-age children that are now home more, it is very easy to become distracted while cooking. n Most cooking fires involve the stovetop, so keep anything that can catch fire away from it, and turn off the stove when you leave the kitchen, even if it’s for “just a second.” A second is all it takes for a house fire to start. n If you’re simmering, boiling, baking or roasting food, check it regularly and use a timer to remind yourself that you’re cooking. n For homes with

children, have the kids remain outside the kitchen area while food is being prepared. Pets should also be kept out of the kitchen while cooking. The safest chef is an undistracted chef! n Avoid loose or dangling clothing when cooking, particularly around the stovetop burners on gas ranges. n Make sure your smoke detectors are functioning by pressing the “test” button. If needed, replace the batteries – and if not functioning after testing, install brandnew smoke alarms.

Tips provided by FASNY and the National Fire Protection Association.

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Placing hope in a regional restart They say politics make strange bedfellows. And, as it turns out, so do pandemics.

After a meeting at the White House on Tuesday with President Donald Trump, Gov. Andrew Cuomo emerged to say that he and the commander-in-chief will work together on federal assistance for New York state to help fight the COVID-19 outbreak.

The unexpected announcement of the day was Cuomo’s pivot to a plan to restart the economy on a region-by-region basis, which seemingly contradicts the governor’s statements two weeks ago that such a strategy would encourage people in lockdown in other areas to travel to places where businesses are open.

Another hopeful sign is that good things will come from Cuomo and Trump’s tete-a-tete in Washington.

At the very least, it will discourage the blame game the two leaders have been playing since the onset of the pandemic.

At best, it could result in the doubling of the number of tests the state conducts — an increase the governor says has to happen before business returns to normal in

New York.

Cuomo said Tuesday the state will increase the rate of testing to learn whether people are carrying COVID-19 antibodies, get an idea of the mortality of the virus and the number of people who actually died of coronavirus and how many died of ancillary conditions.

Economically, the state is divided into 10 regions, each with its own special characteristics. In other words, Greene and Columbia counties are in a completely different situation than the New York metropolitan area. Variations will be analyzed and a phased-in plan to reopen businesses and schools will be formed.

Cuomo and Trump made good progress with their meeting. A phased-in schedule to restart the state’s economy, one region at a time, sounds workable, provided it is carried out safely and doesn’t lead to a new spike in the virus.

This happened in Singapore, where a restart plan got a premature green light.

New York is different in many ways from Singapore, however, and if a gradual, regional approach is done correctly, it will be good for all.

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Land O’ Lakes spreads a good idea (c) 2020, The Washington Post

“To better tell its farmer-owned story.”

That was the non-explanation offered by Land O’ Lakes dairy company for the redesign of its packaging. No elaboration was offered for why the illustration of a Native American woman that has defined the company’s products for nearly 100 years is being dropped. So we have to assume that the company realized times have changed and so (thankfully) have sensibilities about the use of Native people as mascots, logos and other adornments. We wish the company had been more candid, but what is important is that it recognized the harm caused by its Indian stereotype. Others should follow suit.

The Minnesota-based farm cooperative launched a phase-in of the redesign in February to little notice. Instead of the long-familiar maiden kneeling by the side of a blue lake holding an offering of a stick of butter, the new designs include illustrations of a field and a lake and are labeled “Farmer-Owned.” An article this month about the rebrand in the Minnesota Reformer sparked reactions and a surge of attention on social media.

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, D, a citizen of the White Earth Nation of Ojibwe, thanked the company for the “important and needed change. Native people are not mascots or logos.” Kevin Allis, chief executive of the National Congress of American Indians, said Americans need to learn about the “beauty and diversity of

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tribal nations, peoples and cultures today and discarding antiquated symbols like this are a step in the right direction.” There was, of course, predictable criticism from those who saw the company as caving in to political correctness and from some consumers who fondly recalled the iconic logo as part of growing up.

Land O’Lakes was hardly unusual in its use of Native American imagery. An exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian - and accessible online - catalogues the ubiquity of these images in modern American life, from baking powder boxes to classy motorcycles to Kanye West Tshirts to sports teams. These decontextualized stereotypes have no relation to the reality of Indian country but are branding tools that minimize the needs and worth of a diverse population. The American Psychological Association has recommended the immediate retirement of Native American mascots and symbols because they have a negative impact on the self- esteem of American Indian children. A growing number of companies, universities, high schools and sports teams have moved to eliminate or minimize use of Native American imagery.

A notable exception is Washington’s football team, with its particularly offensive name. Daniel Snyder has vowed never to renounce the slur. Let’s hope decisions like that of Land O’Lakes will make it harder for him to stick to that wrong-headed position.

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Two cases that could help restore constitutional equilibrium WASHINGTON — The nation’s second-most important court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, sits at the foot of Capitol Hill, half a mile from where Congress sits and a mile from the White House. The court frequently referees disputes between the federal government’s political branches, and next Tuesday will be a portentous day there. The full court will hear oral arguments in two related and combined cases, the final resolution of which might occur on Capitol Hill, in the Supreme Court.

At issue is the already much-damaged equilibrium of the Constitution’s separation of powers. If both cases are decided correctly, the vitality of Congress will be enhanced and the pretensions of presidents will be chastened. Today’s column concerns the case involving Congress’ investigative powers.

A subsequent column will address the case concerning Congress’s core power, that of controlling government’s purse strings. Tuesday’s arguments will concern standing — whether the House can seek a judicial remedy for its injuries. If it has standing, it should win on the merits.

Both cases are, therefore, vital to what University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, in his just-published book “The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers,” calls the need to “recage the executive lion.”

A year ago, the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Don McGahn, who had been the White House Counsel, to testify concerning matters relating to oversight of the Trump administration and the possible impeachment of the president.

McGahn refused to comply, arguing, as the president directed, that a close presidential adviser enjoys “absolute immunity” from such compulsion. The committee filed suit for enforcement, lest Congress’ oversight function be rendered anemic, even nugatory.

After a district court ruled in favor of the House

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WILL committee, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, reversed the district court, holding that a congressional committee lacks standing to enforce subpoenas against executive branch officials. If this stands, it will place almost all of the government beyond Congress’ investigatory reach. In March, the D.C. Circuit agreed to Tuesday’s rehearing before nine of the court’s active judges.

The three-judge panel was influenced by the absence of such subpoena-enforcement suits by early congresses. It is, however, fallacious to reason that a power not exercised must be nonexistent. Furthermore, the panel ignored half a century of declining institutional civilities. The Framers anticipated wary, rivalrous and jealous relations between the political branches, but not the coarse aggressiveness of the past 50 years, of which McGahn’s claim, argued by the Justice Department, of “absolute immunity” is symptomatic.

The committee argues that beginning with George Washington and for nearly two centuries, presidents “overwhelmingly recognized Congress’ right to information and fully complied with requests or sought to accommodate Congress’ interests.”

And, the committee says, beginning with suits pertaining to Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, until today, courts “have uniformly held that committees have standing” to seek judicial enforcement.

Perhaps the D.C. Circuit panel was being droll when it suggested that a congressional committee make “a polite request” for executive

branch information. It certainly was being fanciful when saying committees could hold executive officials in contempt, a toothless gesture in an era of pandemic contempt. The panel also suggested what the Judiciary Committee properly calls the “constitutional brinkmanship” of impeachment.

But as John Quincy Adams explained long ago, it would make a “mockery” of impeachment for the House to lack, as a D.C. Circuit panel would have it, the power to obtain pertinent evidence.

Given that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that Congress “cannot legislate wisely or effectively in the absence of information,” and given that private parties have standing to enforce compliance with subpoenas, there is, the committee says, no justification for treating a congressional committee less favorably than private parties. Courts have hitherto held that individual legislators or groups of them lack standing to assert an institutional injury. However, the House has, as an institution, authorized the committee’s suit. The committee says courts frequently resolve disputes about “the allocation of power between government entities.” If subpoenas cannot be enforced, this judicial abstention must mean that a president has no incentive to cooperate, or negotiate a compromise, with a Congress concerned about executive negligence or corruption.

McGahn’s argument, the committee says, reflects “a pattern of nonaccountability” by the modern executive branch. The next column, concerning the other case to be argued Tuesday, concerns an even more egregious abuse by the uncaged lion: the unconstitutional nullification of Congress’s control of spending.

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We must stand with those on the margins To the editor: Nearly 400 years ago, John Donne wrote, “No man is an island.” Last Sunday night the One World concert echoed that message, repeatedly instancing how interconnected we are with everyone around our country and throughout the world. The program also highlighted the greater vulnerability of those living in poverty, especially in low-income countries where access to essential health services is

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severely compromised. This population is also at greater risk in the current COVID-19 pandemic because of their inadequate health care systems.

I urge Representative Richard Neal and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey to ensure that Phase 4 of the U.S. COVID-19 response includes support for critical programs in low income nations as well as at home. We need to increase our support for international

organizations, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, as well as for U.S. programs focused on global health.

Strengthening health care systems in poverty-stricken countries is good for them and for us. We live in a global world. We cannot afford to make access to health care a zero sum game.

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George Bruce Sr. George Bruce Sr. 78, of Kin- Stuyvesant, NY. derhook, NY passed away on George is survived by his Friday, April 17, 2020 in Hud- wife of 56 years, Jean Bruce, son, NY. Born in Albany, NY his children: Raymond Bruce at Bradley Maternity Hospital of South Dayton, NY, daughon November 2, 1941, he was ters Patricia (David) Ogden of the son of Sarah (Lane) Bruce Kinderhook, NY and Jeanette Hoose and Raymond E. Bruce.

(William) Snyder of Kinderhook, George attended Ichabod NY and George (Teraesa) Bruce Crane Central School District. Jr of Nelson, NE. George is also He went on to serve survived by his granda 2 year enlistment children: Michelle Ogin the United States den of Kinderhook, Navy and served on Samantha (Derrick) the USS Essex during MacCormack of Kinthe Cuban Blockade derhook, David Ogden in 1962. George marJr of Troy, Johnathan ried his wife, Jean, on Snyder of Kinderhook, June 10, 1963. He was Anastasia and Jillian employed by O’ MalBruce of South DayBruce Sr. ley’s in Latham as a ton, NY, Nicholas and mobile home set-up Jackson Bruce, Robert technician. He was then em- and Jacob Swift of Nelson, NE. ployed as a machinist at ITT & George is also survived by his Harper in Castleton, Huyck Felt great grandchildren, Finnigan in Rensselaer and Freihofers. and Logan MacCormack of KinHe was also employed by New derhook. He is also survived by York Motor Coach, Questar III a niece. He is predeceased by and Michael Johnston as a bus his mother, his father, and his driver leading up to his semi re- sister, Nancy Stammel. tirement in 2003. In retirement, Funeral arrangements are he and his wife enjoyed driving through Raymond E Bond Futheir RV to Florida, preferring to neral Home in Valatie, NY. Interspend their winters in northern ment and funeral services will be Florida with their campground held at Saratoga National Cemfriends from across the country. etery at a later date. In lieu of During summers at home, he flowers, donations in George’s was employed at Camp Pon- name may be made to St John’s tiac in Copake NY. George was Lutheran Church, County Route also a lifetime communicant of 26A, Stuyvesant, NY and Valatie St. John’s Lutheran Church in Rescue Squad.

June Segrue June Segrue, née Spencer, three brothers, Gilbert Spencer was born on June 18, 1935 to (Donna), Curtis Spencer and Edith Winters Spencer and Cecil Joseph Spencer (Lela). She is Spencer, and passed away on survived by her sons James and April 20, 2020. Born in Freehold, his husband Ralph Simmons of “Junie” was raised in Cairo.

Poughkeepsie, and Kevin and Junie graduated from Cairo his wife Laura Russell-Segrue Central School in 1954 and went of Hudson, Ohio, her grandto work at John Eardaughters Kelsey Segle’s drug store before rue and Clare Segrue of meeting her husband Ohio, her brother ClifDonald. Junie and Don ford Spencer and his were married on April 2, wife Mary lou of Cairo, 1961 in Cairo. Together and several nieces and Junie and Don opernephews. Junie was ated the Pub-on-thea devoted wife and Hill restaurant in Acra, mother and a loving and later they owned grandmother. More and operated Lawyer’s than anything, Junie Segrue General Store in East enjoyed the company Durham. In later years, Junie of people, especially her family went to work at the Guaranteed and friends. Her down-to-earth Irish Shop in East Durham. An nature, her hearty laugh and her industrious and people-oriented dry wit will be sorely missed by person, Junie loved going to all who knew her. work and meeting the public.

Following the existing health She was sociable and always guidelines, and out of an abunready for a card game, a shop- dance of caution, the services ping trip with friends, or any out- and burial will be private. Memoing that ended with ice cream. rial contributions can be made Besides her parents she was to The Alzheimer’s Association predeceased by her husband of online at https://www.alz.org or 46 years, Jeremiah Donald Seg- by post at National Processing rue, four sisters, Eleanor Spen- Ctr., Alzheimer’s Association, cer, Gertrude Dittmar (Charles), POB 96011, Washington D.C., Lulu Quick (Lloyd) and Har- 20090-6011. Condolence page riet Mazzara (Salvatore) and by at ajcunninghamfh.com.

Michele A. Hauser Michele A. Hauser, 52, of band Michael Hauser, two Kinderhook, NY, died Monday, daughters: Samantha Hauser April 20, 2020 at Whittier Reha- (Brian Pitts) of Alexandria, VA bilitation Center in Ghent after a and Dakota Hamm of Kindercourageous battle with cancer. hook, her son: Andrew Hauser Born April 25, 1967 in Hud- of Kinderhook, a sister: Debbie son, NY, she was the Johnson of Kinderdaughter of Frank and hook. She is also surDorothea (Algie) Masvived by her two nieces, ten of Kinderhook.

Amanda Hill and Ashley Michele was a 1985 Johnson. graduate of Ichabod A Celebration of her Crane High School life will be held at a later and worked there in date in order to protect the cafeteria. She was the health and wellbeaffectionately known ing of her family and Hauser as the “Lunch Lady”. friends. For those who She loved her job and wish, contributions missed her kids terribly after may be made in her memory having to retire because of her to the Valatie Rescue Squad, illness. She was a Girl Scout P.O. Box 242, Valatie 12106 or Leader for Troop 1333 in Valatie the Palmer Engine and Hose and the Treasurer and longtime Co. Ladies Auxiliary, P.O. Box member of the Palmer Engine 191 Kinderhook, NY 12106. and Hose Co. Ladies Auxiliary in Arrangements are under the diKinderhook. rection of the Raymond E. Bond She is survived by her hus- Funeral Home, Valatie.

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What is a coronavirus antibody test?

By Catherine Marfin The Dallas Morning News

Antibody tests have offered hope for progress against the coronavirus because they may help understand the outbreak and help society return to normal.

Studies of the tests, which look for COVID-19 antibodies that indicate a person has recovered from the virus, have ramped up this month.

The National Institutes of Health announced that it would begin recruiting as many of 10,000 volunteers for a study of the tests, and Major League Baseball said its employees would participate in a similar study conducted by Stanford University.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also began a preliminary study of antibodies this month.

Here’s what you need to know about antibody testing.

Q. What is an antibody test?

A. When you recover from a virus, cells in your immune system “remember” it to help the body the next time you’re sick. Antibodies help fight off the infection when the virus enters your body, making you immune.

An antibody test, which is also called a serology test, looks for evidence your immune system has responded to the virus before.

Typically, the test looks for two types of antibodies, IgM antibodies, which are produced early on in an infection, and IgG antibodies, which appear after you have recovered.

IgG antibodies generally stay in the body much longer than IgM antibodies.

To test for antibodies, you have to give a blood sample, usually with a finger prick.

Q. If I have antibodies, am I immune to the coronavirus?

A. There’s still a lot doctors don’t know about immunity to COVID-19.

Although the presence of antibodies indicates your immune system has responded to the virus, scientists don’t

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Massachusetts General Hospital found about one in three people sampled in Chelsea, Mass., carried coronavirus antibodies.

know how long that immunity will last or how effective it is.

Health experts say it’s possible some people will develop a stronger immune system response than others, and it’s not known whether the novel coronavirus behaves the same way as the common cold, another strain of coronavirus that doesn’t lead to lasting immunity.

It’s possible COVID-19 may behave like two other strains that have caused outbreaks, SARS and MERS, which some health experts believe gives infected people immunity for about a year.

“If we look at MERS coronavirus, we would see people who would have an antibody response for maybe 10 months, maybe a year,” Dr. Maria van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization technical lead for the COVID-19 response, told CNN. “Even there, we didn’t know if that conferred protection. So for ... (COVID-19), the answer is we don’t know yet, but those studies are being done.”

It’s possible the novel coronavirus could mutate over time, making antibodies to the current form of the virus useless.

For now, health experts think the presence of COVID-19 antibodies probably provide some protection for

some amount of time.

Q. How accurate are the tests?

A. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration relaxed its rules for COVID-19 tests in February, allowing companies to develop them more quickly.

Since then, it has approved only one antibody test, which is made by the company Cellex.

Health experts have said that without the normal thorough review, many tests are likely to be inaccurate. Scott Becker, CEO of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, told CNN dozens of companies are flooding the market with inadequate tests.

“It’s just deceptive,” Becker said. “They’re selling these tests, but nobody has checked their quality. We need some level of scientific review and rigor on these tests.”

Health experts have said tests that haven’t been thoroughly vetted can produce false positives, giving people the wrong idea that they are immune.

Tests that have high validity can still be wrong more often because the accuracy of the test depends on where they’re being used. A test that is 90% accurate in an area where COVID-19 is widely present can produce a significant number of false positives in a

Trump tells Navy to destroy any Iranian gunboats harassing US

By Josh Wingrove Bloomberg News (TNS)

President Donald Trump said he’s ordered the U.S. Navy to destroy any Iranian gun boats that harass American ships at sea.

Trump issued the warning “to shoot down and destroy” the ships in a tweet sent from his iPhone Wednesday morning. It comes after 11 gunboats from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps crossed the bows and sterns of American ships at close range last week.

U.S. Central Command called the Iranian maneuvers “dangerous and provocative actions” in a statement, and said at the time that that American commanders on the scene “retain the inherent right to act in self-defense.”

The U.S. military vessels were conducting joint integration operations in the international waters of the Persian Gulf when the Iranian ships

harassed them, Central Command said in the statement.

The Iranian ships came within a 50-yard point of approach with the USS Lewis B. Puller and within 10 yards of the bow of the Coast Guard cutter Maui, according to the statement. Iran has disrupted shipping routes in the Gulf and used asymmetrical warfare to undermine American interests across the Middle East, though rarely does it target U.S. ships directly.

Trump’s comments could mark another flare up of tensions between the U.S. and Tehran.

Going back to the Obama administration, Revolutionary Guard members in small but agile speedboats have harassed U.S. ships, but the encounters usually have ended with warnings from the Americans to back off. In 2017, a U.S. Navy guided-missile naval destroyer fired warning shots at four

Iranian rapid-attack craft in the Strait of Hormuz.

An Iranian surface-to-air missile system shot down a U.S. Navy surveillance drone last June while it was operating in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said the drone was over its territory.

The attack escalated regional tensions.

Early this year, the U.S. killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. An Iranian counter attack on a U.S. base in Iraq didn’t kill anyone, but left American soldiers with head injuries, which Trump downplayed the severity of. (c)2020 Bloomberg News Visit Bloomberg News at www. bloomberg.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Police: Claverack man charged with sexual abuse

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

CLAVERACK — A Claverack man has been charged with sexual abuse, according to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.

Alejandro Lopez, 24, is accused of having sexual contact with a victim under the age of 13 at a private location in the town of Stockport on different occasions during the summer of 2016, the sheriff’s office said.

Columbia County sheriff’s deputies received a report on April 13 that a child under 13

was a victim of sexual abuse, according to the sheriff’s office.

An investigation

by Deputy Alejandro Samantha Lopez Plass and Investigator William Dunspaugh revealed the alleged victim was subjected to sexual contact, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Wayne Lopez said.

Lopez was arrested Tuesday and charged with one

count of first-degree sexual abuse, a felony, according to the sheriff’s office.

He was arraigned before Columbia County Court Judge Richard Koweek and released on his own recognizance, with a scheduled appearance in Hudson City Court on June 11 at 8:30 a.m., sheriff’s officials said.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Columbia County District Attorney’s Office and the Dr. Stephen and Suzanne Menkes Child Advocacy Center.

population that hasn’t been as badly affected, health experts say.

“It is kind of a strange thing,” Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who studies issues surrounding tests and screening, told National Public Radio. “An antibody test is much more likely to be wrong in a population with very little COVID exposure.”

Also, some health experts say it’s possible an antibody test could mistake another strain of coronavirus, like the common cold, for COVID-19.

Q. If we don’t know that much about immunity, how can tests help?

A. Antibody tests can help health officials and researchers know how common the virus is. The tests may be especially useful for finding out who had the virus without knowing it, because they had mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.

Public officials hope that the tests can be used to help determine who can return to work safely.

Also, the presence of antibodies can help with experimental treatments for COVID-19 in which antibodies from a person who has recovered are injected into a person who is sick.

There are questions about how effective that treatment will be, but some companies have begun collecting plasma to treat sick patients.

Q. Where can I get an antibody test?

A. COVID-19 antibody tests aren’t widely available yet.

Health experts say it probably will be several weeks before there are more of them, and even then they may be reserved for health care workers and other first responders.

Health experts recommend contacting your doctor to see whether it’s possible for you to be tested.

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Stratton VAMC holding strong The history of plumbing on the mountain top

By Abby and Gabby For Columbia-Greene Media

PRATTSVILLE – Thank you doctors, nurses, National Guard, active military, first responders, firemen, rescue, squads. Prayers for your health and safety and sanity.

Was in touch with Michele at Stratton VAMC and they are holding strong. Since March 1, approximately, they have been in lockdown on the 9th Floor, Long Term, the floor all of us support during the year and especially at Christmas.

No cases of COVID-19 have been reported on that floor – thank you to our VA staff.

Former Prattsville resident Pam Young gives us wonderful news on son Joey Marsh. Dad Joe and Grandpa Tony still live here and Grandma JoAnn is a longtime employee at the Great American. His Grandpa Gary Young still resides in Gilboa. Much of his immediate family still live in the area. He will be graduating from Mohonasen Central High School in Rotterdam in the top 10% of his class of 212 students.

He was a NYSPHSAA scholar-athlete during all of his high school career, awarded to student-athletes with a 90 or above average. He was awarded the Section II Grasso Division First Team Offensive Lineman award last season for football and reported in the Times Union.

He will be staying on the offensive line at St. John Fisher College. He also played basketball and lacrosse while in high school. He will be majoring in economics and finance at St. John Fisher and may be attending law school in the future. His current high school GPA is 96 while handling his extracurricular activities and course schedule. He is a member of Peers for Peace, member of the National Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society.

By Dede Terns-Thorpe For Columbia-Greene Media

Joey Marsh

Pam and Joey lost their home, the Bellinger homestead, during Hurricane Irene.

That tragedy actually turned out good for Joey as he got to continue playing his favorite sport and will continue playing in college. He will be attending St. John Fisher College in the fall and was awarded the Trustee scholarship and admitted to the Honors program.

The family still has strong ties to the area. We know his great-grandmothers Martha Marsh and Evelyn Bellinger are smiling down. His current grandmothers are proud JoAnn Haskin and Donna Ramundo. The Bellingers and Marshes have and are longtime residents of Prattsville. No slouch herself, Pam has been in finance for 26 years, working in Albany, and would like to think that’s what piqued Joey’s interest. He grew up watching CNBC. We are so incredibly proud of him.

Pam says, “We are so very proud of this kid. Honestly, I was so worried when we moved here after losing the

house when he was in 4th grade but he has excelled ever since. He even wrote about that day in his college essay, how a tragedy shaped him into the resilient young man he is today. God bless. Pam.” Amen.

Heartfelt sympathy to the family of Charles “Chuckie” Brainerd, Vietnam veteran, who passed on April 14. His wife, Donna Cammer of Prattsville, predeceased him. He leaves daughter Cathy and son Tim and wife Luann and three grandsons, as well as brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews. A service was held in his honor on April 17, in Gilboa, his hometown.

Sympathy to the family of Gary Truesdell, who died recently. He was a tough farmboy who had weathered many health crisis in recent years.

He said that’s what kept him going and that was the cause of his bad health. Our condolences.

Happy birthday to Elliott Oakes and Dana Hommel on April 27. B.J. Murray is wished happy birthday on April 30.

What day is it? Must be May already Another week gone by, or has it been a month? I can’t tell anymore.

A friend already changed the April calendar, thinking it MUST be May already. The only constant I have is Mondays I write to you. No church on Sunday, no WAJPL meetings.

I have plenty of paperwork to catch up on, but no one is in the offices that I need to contact. If I’m lucky, I get a message stating that the party will get back to me, but even that doesn’t happen. Maybe someday soon we will be back on track.

I watch the news on TV, and hear about all the people standing in lines waiting for food. We have no idea how this is, as we are so very fortunate that we have food in abundance. I want to thank the elves who dropped in the other day and left me food.

My sons are in need of food as their work at the slopes was abruptly stopped, and we don’t know when, or if, their summer work will begin. We also have the breakfast/lunch program provided for the children and families and those over 60 of the WAJ School district. It is on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at Hope Restoration parking lot. Whereas many are suddenly “poor,” we are always considered a low- income area, so we have the resources and are VERY grateful for them.

The Hensonville Fish Fry will continue for, at least, one more week as the Greek Orthodox Easter is this week.

The Ecumenical that was to be held in Lexington in May, has been cancelled. We keep hoping things will open up soon, but we thank everyone for staying home and wearing masks when you have to go out. Please stay safe, and remember to protect others as well as yourselves.

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LULA

ANDERSON Happy birthday to Norman Koehler, who is the big 80. Your best friend, Franklyn Holdridge, would have been 80 on April 7.

Judy is having her birthday on April 23, and anniversary on May 1 (or, as John likes to refer to it, May Day).

The last of my sisters-in-law passed this week — Juanita Anderson, who lived in Hamburg.

My husband had nine siblings, all married. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or bad, but I’m the sole survivor (in-law) of that generation. They got married in Margaretville, and first night stayed at the Green Gables in Hensonville. Now all that is left is the pillars.

AS I REMEMBER IT In the days before modern technology and big box stores, the hardware store was the place everyone went to get whatever they needed. Whether you owned a summer home, a farm, a small business or permanent residence, you could find exactly what you needed at the hardware store.

The long-standing Windham Hardware is now owned by Jim and Diane Lawrence, who took over from his folks, Bert and Helen. Previously, it was owned

by Ed and Margaret Dickoff.

Now, you might think that it was just a store, but the operator had to know a little about

everything.

Need a pane of glass, what size, cut to fit. Do you need putty, glass points? Would you like to bring in the sash and we can fit it? What size nails do you need? Is your saw is getting dull, just bring it in and we’ll sharpen it. Siding fell off your house? We can match it, and give you advice on how to fix it.

Do you need a certain type of paint? Yup, it can be mixed to match. Advice given about what type of paint you need? Just ask.

You can find carpet tacks. Do you know what a carpet tack is? Or what it is used for? Do you know what a tack hammer is? Do you know the difference between a fence post staple and a household staple? Are they interchangeable? Just ask. You can have a free history lesson.

Kitchen products could also be found at the hardware store.

Pressure cookers need a gasket to seal? What size do you need?

It’s here. Look around, I’m sure we have it.

John lost one of his jelly bags that he used to strain sap. Went to the local hardware store.

The only place that knew what a jelly bag was. Unfortunately, they hadn’t been restocked for two years, but she knew where it had been. Advice given — use a paint strainer. Have two sizes, different grades.

Even today, the Windham Hardware Store is a throwback to yesterday. You can get a gas grill, paint, nails, screws, etc.

Just ask, and if they don’t have it, they can help you find it. Stop in and visit. Tell them Lula sent you.

Just an addition for anyone who looks at the lovely Victorian building, upstairs are apartments and local people still live there. It is not an Airbnb to make a fast buck.

With the shortage of toilet paper today (tissues, hand wipes, anything that will do the job), I thought it an appropriate time to write about the history of plumbing on the mountain top.

“The Plumbers’ Trade Journal, Gas, Steam, and Hot Water Fitters Review,” Volume 30 of the year 1900 tells quite a bit on the subject. The timing seems right for sharing this.

PLENTY OF BUSINESS AT TANNERSVILLE, N.Y. “Plumbers are having a rich harvest up at Tannersville, N.Y., as will be seen by the following work which is being done.

“Samuel Jacobson, the proprietor of the Fairmont (later known as the Grand), is enlarging and improving that property at a cost of $12,000.

(That amount is equal to about $369,500.00 today).

John Shady, of New York, is adding twenty-six rooms to the Gilbert House (later the Cold Spring). Burgess Howard, woodturner, has moved to the site where he will erect a building 60 x 30 ft., 2 1/2 stories in height.

“The American (vicinity of 5874 Main St.), proprietor Clarence Wiltse, is being enlarged by the addition of twelve new rooms, bath, etc.,

and Daniel Fromer of the Weldon (10 Spring St.) will shortly enlarge that hostelry.

(This was the site of the later Red Cross Hospital).

“Contractor Renwick Dibble contemplates building in the spring. In Onteora, Twilight, and Santa Cruz Parks, cottages have sprung up, and the sound of the hammer and saw is heard in the fastness.

And, thanks to the admirable system of waterworks just completed by Willard F. Inman of New York City, contracting engineer, at the cost of $38,000, the Tannersville fold are busy installing sanitary plumbing. The master plumbers who are rapidly growing rich there are Joseph J Burkle of Haines Falls, Amos McCreery, and F. P. Allen of Tannersville, and Henry Weiber of Rondout, who has a gang of men employed in Tannersville.”

There were no plumbing laws at that time, and there were all kinds of plumbers or men who termed themselves as such. (Our town must have had responsible plumbers: Burkle, McCreery, and Allen are names that are read frequently in the construction field).

In John Mac Gahan’s Twilight Park, the first 100 Years, he tells of the taxation on plumbing in the cottage parks. “The Park Association

taxed each cottage for water depending on how many facilities it had. Joseph Burkle, a plumber in Haines Falls, in 1910, listed all Santa Cruz units.

Dr. Hayward’s cottage had, for example, two WCs (water closet, aka toilets), three tubs, three basins, two sinks, and one faucet. WCs cost $4, tubs $4, sinks $3, and faucets $1.

There was only one shower, which cost the same as a tub, $4. MacGahan added, “Another of the extra charges was for water: cottages were assessed a nominal fee for the number of water outlets in each. This was before pollution interfered with our freedoms, and the quality of Twilight’s water was superb.

Summer residents looked forward to the first drink of clear, pure nectar from the reservoirs; weekenders invariably took a bottle back to their chlorinated city homes and hoped it would last through most of the week.”

If you haven’t had a chance to pick up this book, it’s written with humor, as well as being historical. Thanks, John MacGahan.

Until next week, take care, be thankful, and be kind.

One never knows how our act of kindness can brighten someone’s day. Stay safe during this troubling time in America.

Ellouise Cole grateful for the birthday wishes

By Chris Dwon For Columbia-Greene Media

Our local Mountain Top residents are being careful and staying at home as much as possible so not much news to share.

I did get a phone call from Ellouise Cole and she wanted to say thank you to everyone who sent her birthday cards.

She received 55 cards for her 90th birthday and she is most appreciative.

Ellouise’s birthday was April 16 and she was surprised when her granddaughter Kimmie, husband Brian and their two boys, Brian and Eddie, came to wish Ellouise a happy birthday with a sign that said “Happy 90th Birthday Gram.”

They stood outside while Ellouise was on her balcony.

Kimmie also brought a large, beautiful bouquet of flowers.

Ellouise had many phone calls that day. She got a call from her son Craig Benjamin telling her to come out onto her balcony. There was Craig, wife Linda, grandson Corey, wife Erika, their children Angelia and Carisa, and grandson Chad and his family.

They held up a sign that said “Happy Birthday Gram. We love you.” Was a very special day for a special lady. Ellouise was so happy and grateful for all the wonderful heartfelt wishes.

Happy birthday wishes are sent out to Marilyn Carreras on April 24. April 25 Dr. Elena Suditu celebrates her birthday. Bill Gannon’s birthday is April 26. Happy birthday on April 27 to Bud Osborn. Pastor Elliott Oakes celebrates his birthday on April 27. On April 28 it’s Lessia Clinton’s birthday. Best wishes to all of you.

A reminder from town of Lexington officials to Lexington residents: if you are in need of assistance getting groceries, medical supplies or medications, please call Peggy Rappleyea at 518989-6491 or Charlotte, town

clerk, at 518-989-6476 X101.

A Zoom Beginner Tai Chi Class with Nina Pfeffer began April 16 at 11 a.m. through the Catskill Recreation Center. If you would like to join, please contact Director Rebecca Manning at becky@catskillrecreationcenter.org, 845586-6250 for instructions and details.

Greene County Department of Human Services Senior Nutrition Program menu for the week of April 27 – May 1 is as follows: Monday— Quiche Lorraine, quinoa, hash brown, California mixed vegetable, fruit cocktail; Tuesday—Baked chicken quarter with gravy, mashed potatoes, Monaco mixed vegetables, pumpkin pudding with granola topping; Wednesday—National Shrimp Scampi Day— shrimp scampi, brown rice, broccoli, pineapple delight; Thursday—National Oatmeal Cookie Day—American goulash, fresh salad with chickpeas, wax beans, oatmeal raisin cookie; Friday—Pork chop with gravy, fresh salad, braised cabbage, baked sweet potato, fresh fruit. Persons over 60 are eligible for meals.

Suggested donation is $4 per meal. Call at least a day in advance to reserve your meal.

The number to call for the Mountain Top Senior Service Center at the Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, is 518263-4392. There are no meals being served indoors at the Jewett Municipal Building.

Take-out meals only for you to pick up. The Meals on Wheels program is continuing. If you receive your meals through the home- delivery program, it would be appreciated if a small table or something is set up outside so the meals can be left there to avoid personal contact.

If you need food during this difficult time, the Tannersville Food Pantry at 1 Park Lane behind the firehouse can help.

The number to call is 518-5895942 and leave a message.

The pantry is open 1-3 p.m.

Wednesdays and 11 a.m.1 p.m. Saturdays or call to set up a delivery. This pantry is sponsored by the Kaaterskill/East Jewett Methodist Churches with support from the Village of Tannersville and community donors. Donations are also kindly accepted.

Take care of yourself and others, be thankful, considerate, respectful, courteous, and please be kind to one and all.

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HIGHLIGHTING ‘EXTRAORDINARY NEIGHBORS’ DURING COVID-19 TROY — WMHT Public Media (PBS - Public Broadcasting Service), is seeking submissions for “Extraordinary Neighbors,” a multiplatform project highlighting the extraordinary people in the community who are exhibiting kindness, creativity, and more to help their neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WMHT is accepting nominations at https://www.wmht. org/ExtraordinaryNeighbors.

“Extraordinary Neighbors” will be featured online on WMHT’s social media platforms and at https://www. wmht.org/ExtraordinaryNeighbors. A selection of entries will be included in montage interstitials on WMHT-TV. As Fred Rogers of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” once said, “All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we’re giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world.

That’s one of the things that connects us as neighbors — in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.”

WMHT looks forward to sharing the stories of the “Extraordinary Neighbors” in the community.

Support for WMHT’s “Extraordinary Neighbors” is provided by CSEA. WHAT: A new initiative called “Extraordinary Neighbors,” to highlight people making a difference in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WHERE: WMHT’s social media platforms and https://www. wmht.org/ExtraordinaryNeighbors.

WHEN: Accepting nominations immediately.

MORE: https://wmht.org/ ExtraordinaryNeighbors.

About WMHT WMHT is the only locally owned, nonprofit, multichannel public communications organization that reaches beyond the traditional broadcasting model to act as a leader by convening arts, culture, learning and civic interests.

WMHT focuses on community, culture and connections by providing entertainment, enrichment and engagement through television, radio, digital media and educational services.

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CALENDAR LISTINGS Murder Cafe’s Radio Theatre is LIVE. Even though our live shows have been suspended due to our current condition of social distancing, you can still count on Murder Cafe to continue to give you a diversion and some much needed entertainment.

As a response to the pandemic, we are proud to announce our journey into “theatre of the mind” - radio.

We now have our first two broadcasts available on a variety of platforms such Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Castbox and our website murdercafe. net. We’re going to make it easy for you however, by giving you direct access to our programs in this email.

Let us know what you think about his new direction. We welcome any and all feedback.

Stay tuned. Next week we’ll be adding a third program, another classic suspense mystery - The Lodger.

Until we meet again, give us a listen.

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WMHT also operates RISE, a radio reading service for the blind and print disabled.

For more information, please visit https://www.wmht.org/ ExtraordinaryNeighbors or contact Mary Gribulis at mgribulis@wmht.org or 518-8803523.

A heist film about racism, shot in Hudson

By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media

Eight years after “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and six years before “The Sound of Music,” director Robert Wise made “Odds Against Tomorrow,” a heist picture about racial prejudice.

Wise shot many of the outdoor scenes in and around the streets and alleyways of Hudson. Even seeing the picture on television today, the landmarks and other points of interest are recognizable. Remarkably, the thieves’ intended target in this 1959 movie, now the Trustco Bank at 507 Warren St., hasn’t changed much in the last 60 years.

The plot is simple and direct.

Three men plan a bank robbery.

But two of the men are divided by hatred, which complicates things. Wise gives us a compact, sharp and suspenseful crime drama. Robert Ryan plays the bigot who openly despises and distrusts his confederate, played by Harry Belafonte, a bright and brazen Everyman.

Ed Begley, more subdued than usual, plays the former policeman who masterminds the

Harry Belafonte, Ed Begley and Robert Ryan in a scene from “Odds Against Tomorrow.”

caper and plays referee to his snarling partners.

Working from a script by Nelson Gidding and Abraham Polonsky (who was blacklisted when the film was released and had to wait years for full credit), Wise tells a riveting story about the planning and commission of a crime to be carried out by three men who are not professional criminals. It sets up, perhaps too neatly, the sympathy generated for Belafonte, at the suggested violence promised

by Ryan. But since both men are so brutally blunt, Belafonte is not just an innocent victim.

The robbery, which occupies the final third of the movie, goes awry in a freakish twist of fate, and the distinction between hero and thug is literally burned away. The final action takes place among oil tanks where both would-be robbers die in a fiery explosion, inspired a bit too slavishly by James Cagney’s death in “White Heat.”

The heavy-handed final message is the blast left the bodies of both men, black and white, enemies in life, indistinguishable in death.

Wise’s astute staging, however, results in a build-up of

dramatic tension of an extraordinarily high quality. Under his tight, strong guidance, the movie’s suspense accumulates from start to finish without letting up. The action is fast, tense and, above all, clear.

Wise, who edited Orson Welles’ masterpieces “Citizen Kane” and “The Magnificent Ambersons,” brings Welles’ intensely sharp pictorial quality to the movie. Following the techniques of Welles’ documentary style, the cinematographer Joseph Brun captures a look of harsh reality.

The actors provide crisp performances. Ryan is outstanding, cold and psychotic as a drifter from the South whose hatreds run so profound and vicious that he trembles when he’s enraged. Belafonte is thoroughly credible as a Harlem musician whose passion for gambling forces him into crime. Begley conveys the subtleties of a cold-blooded, scheming and corrupt policeman. They are supported by fine performances from Shelley Winters and Gloria Grahame.

APRIL 23 Ceramics from The Collection of Mario Buatta Thursday, April 23, 11 a.m.

Ceramics from the Collection of Mario Buatta features a curated selection of porcelain and earthenware from the 19th – 20th century and reflects the designer’s iconic style. From traditional tableware to trompe l’oeil cabbages there is sure to be a surprise to grace every surface. Included in this online auction is porcelain by Wedgwood, Spode, Derby, Vladimir, Lady Anne Gordon, Mottahedeh and many more.

Thursday, April 23, 11 a.m., https:// www.stairgalleries.com/stair-auctions/buatta_ceramics/ Stair Galleries, 549 Warren Street, Hudson, 518-751-1000 www.stairgalleries.com

APRIL 24 Objects, Treasures & Trifles from The Collection of Mario Buatta Friday, April 24, 11 a.m.

Mario Buatta adored anecdotes and, in keeping with the spirit of a successful room telling a whimsical story, he mingled color, pattern and delightfully themed objects with abandon. His signature style championed delicate detail with a circus of myriad themes including a taste for Brighton Pavilion Orientalism, Gothic tracery, objects based on the Animal Kingdom, and Mother Nature’s cornflowers and cabbages.

Balancing high and low creative touches with ease, Buatta reveled in lofty and lovable accents, gingered up odd juxtapositions, and had a field day with the multiple layers that make rooms memorable.

Featuring toleware, treen, lacquer, chintz pottery, papier-mâché, shell work, animalia, decoupage and decalcomania (to name but a few…) the sale Objects, Treasures & Trifles is a cornucopia of chic as only Maestro Mario could conjure!

Friday, April 24, 11 a.m., https:// www.stairgalleries.com/stair-auctions/buatta_objects/ Stair Galleries, 549 Warren Street, Hudson, 518-751-1000 www.stairgalleries.com

APRIL 25 24-Hour Drone – Web Based!

Saturday, April 25 - Sunday, April 26 For our last six years, 24-HOUR DRONE has kicked our Basilica season into bloom, and been a sacred wake-up call for our building in her winter hibernation. In our 10 year anniversary season, for our spirits and our creative community, we are committed to keeping 24-HOUR DRONE alive, and to activating those 24 HOURS of sound in a new world way.

With 24-HOUR DRONE’s in-person event postponed until April 2021, we will continue to collaborate with our long-established local and international community, with web-based DRONE programming taking place during its previously scheduled weekend of Saturday, April 25 – Sunday, April 26.

Saturday, April 25 - Sunday, April 26, https://basilicahudson.org/24hour-drone/ Your Own Home Agnes of God – Virtual Play Reading Saturday, April 25, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Join The Two of Us Productions/ RARE, Inc. for an exciting event in this very difficult time…Virtual Play Readings! Readings are free and open to the public, but please register so we can make sure you get connected.

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APRIL 28 Virtual Open Mic Tuesday, April 28, 7:30 p.m. …..by Club Helsinki!!

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A8 Thursday, April 23, 2020

A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients Ariana Eunjung Cha The Washington Post

Craig Coopersmith was up early that morning as usual and typed his daily inquiry into his phone. “Good morning, Team Covid,” he wrote, asking for updates from the ICU team leaders working across 10 hospitals in the Emory University health system in Atlanta.

One doctor replied that one of his patients had a strange blood problem. Despite being put on anticoagulants, the patient was still developing clots. A second said she’d seen something similar. And a third. Soon, every person on the text chat had reported the same thing.

“That’s when we knew we had a huge problem,” said Coopersmith, a critical-care surgeon. As he checked with his counterparts at other medical centers, he became increasingly alarmed: “It was in as many as 20, 30 or 40% of their patients.”

One month ago, when the country went into lockdown to prepare for the first wave of coronavirus cases, many doctors felt confident they knew what they were dealing with.

Based on early reports, the novel coronavirus appeared to be a standard variety respiratory virus, albeit a contagious and lethal one with no vaccine and no treatment. They’ve since seen how covid-19, the disease the novel coronavirus causes, attacks not only the lungs but the kidneys, heart, intestines, liver and brain.

Increasingly, doctors are reporting bizarre, unsettling cases that don’t seem to follow any of the textbooks they’ve trained on. They describe patients with startlingly low oxygen levels - so low that they would normally be unconscious or near death - talking and swiping on their phones. Asymptomatic pregnant women suddenly in cardiac arrest. Patients who by all conventional measures seem to have mild disease deteriorating within minutes and dying at home.

With no clear patterns in terms of age or chronic conditions, some scientists hypothesize that at least some of these abnormalities may be explained by severe changes in patients’ blood.

The concern is so acute some

Relief From A1

outpatient surgeries and treatments can resume in counties where hospitals have over 25% capacity for the county and that have seen fewer than 10

Cuomo From A1

Germany, Singapore and South Korea effectively used contact tracing during the COVID-19 outbreak.

“We’re all eager to begin loosening restrictions on our daily lives and our economy, but in order to do that as safely as possible, we first have to put in place systems to identify people who may have been exposed to the virus and support them as they isolate,” Bloomberg said in a statement Wednesday. “I’m honored to partner with Gov. Cuomo and New York state to

Funding From A1

payroll. Payments will be deferred for the first six months and interest rates are at 1%.

Through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, small businesses can apply for up to $10,000 in relief.

Greene County Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Friedman was pleased to hear about the new funding.

“We have been anticipating that the federal government

doctor groups have raised the controversial possibility of giving preventive blood thinners to everyone with covid-19 - even those well enough to endure their illness at home.

Blood clots, in which the red liquid turns gel-like, appear to be the opposite of what occurs in Ebola, Dengue, Lassa and other hemorrhagic fevers that lead to uncontrolled bleeding.

But they actually are part of the same phenomenon - and can have similarly devastating consequences.

Autopsies have shown some people’s lungs filled with hundreds of microclots. Errant blood clots of a larger size can break and travel to the brain or heart, causing a stroke or heart attack. On Saturday, Broadway actor Nick Cordero, 41, had his right leg amputated after being infected with the novel coronavirus and suffering from clots that blocked blood from getting to his toes.

Lewis Kaplan, a University of Pennsylvania physician and head of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, said that every year doctors treat people with clotting complications, from those with cancer to victims of severe trauma, “and they don’t clot like this.”

“The problem we are having is that while we understand that there is a clot, we don’t yet understand why there is a clot,” Kaplan said. “We don’t know. And therefore, we are scared.”

The first sign something was going haywire was in legs, which were turning blue and swelling. Even patients on blood thinners in the ICU were developing clots - which is not unusual in one or two patients in one unit but is for so many at the same time. Next came the clogging of the dialysis machines, which filter impurities in blood when kidneys are failing and jammed several times a day.

“There was a universal understanding that this was different,” Coopersmith said.

Then came the autopsies. When they opened up some deceased patients’ lungs, they expected to find evidence of pneumonia and damage to the tiny air sacs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and the bloodstream. Instead,

they found tiny clots all over.

Video meetings were convened in some of the largest medical centers nationwide. Tufts. Yale-New Haven. The University of Pennsylvania.

Brigham and Women’s. ColumbiaPresbyterian. Theories were shared.

Treatments debated.

Although there was no consensus on the biology of why this was happening and what could be done about it, many came to believe the clots might be responsible for a significant share of U.S. deaths from covid-19 - possibly explaining why so many people are dying at home.

In hindsight, there were hints blood problems had been an issue in China and Italy as well, but it was more of a footnote in studies and on information-sharing calls that had focused on the disease’s destruction of the lungs.

“It crept up on us. We weren’t hearing a tremendous amount about this internationally,” said Greg Piazza, a cardiovascular specialist at Brigham and Women’s who has begun a study of bleeding complications of covid-19.

Helen Boucher, an infectious-disease specialist at Tufts Medical Center, said there’s no reason to think anything is different about the virus in the United States. More likely, she said, the problem was more obvious to American doctors because of the unique demographics of U.S. patients, including large percentages with heart disease and obesity that make them more vulnerable to the ravages of blood clots. She also noted small but important differences in the monitoring and treatment of patients in ICUs in this country that would make clots easier to detect.

“Part of this is by virtue of the fact that we have such incredible intensive care facilities,” she said.

The body’s cardiovascular system often is described as a network of one-way streets that connect the heart to other organs. Blood is the transport system, responsible for moving nutrients to the cells and waste away from them. A common cold or a cut on the finger can lead to changes that help repair the damage, but when the body undergoes a

more significant trauma, the blood can overreact, leading to an imbalance that can cause excessive clots or bleeding - and sometimes both.

Scientists call this “hemostatic derangement.” In math, a derangement is a permutation in which no element is in its original position.

Harlan Krumholz, a cardiac specialist at the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center, said no one knows whether blood complications are a result of a direct assault on blood vessels or a hyperactive inflammatory response to the virus by the patient’s immune system.

“One of the theories is that once the body is so engaged in a fight against an invader, the body starts consuming the clotting factors, which can result in either blood clots or bleeding,” he said. “In Ebola, the balance was more toward bleeding.

In covid-19, it’s more blood clots.”

A Dutch study published April 10 in the journal Thrombosis Research provided more evidence the issue is widespread, finding 38% of 184 covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit had blood that clotted abnormally. The researchers called it “a conservative estimation” because many of the patients were still hospitalized and at risk of further complications.

Early data from China on a sample of 183 patients showed that more than 70% of patients who died of covid-19 had small clots develop throughout their bloodstream.

Although acute respiratory distress syndrome still appears to be the leading cause of death in covid-19 patients, blood complications are not far behind, said Behnood Bikdeli, a fourth-year fellow at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, who helped anchor a paper about the blood clots in the Journal of The American College of Cardiology.

“My guess is it’s one of the top three causes of demise and deterioration in covid-19 patients,” he said.

That recognition is prompting many hospitals to change the way they think about the disease and manage it. When the novel coronavirus first hit, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others put

people with asthma at the top of their lists of those who might be the most vulnerable. But European researchers writing in the journal Lancet noted that it was “striking” how underrepresented asthma patients had been. Earlier this month, when New York state released data about the top chronic health problems of those who died of covid-19, asthma was not among them. Instead, they were almost all cardiovascular conditions.

Some medical centers have begun giving all hospitalized covid-19 patients small doses of blood thinners as preventive measures, and many are adjusting doses upward for the most seriously ill. The challenge is the more you give, the greater the danger of upsetting the balance in the other direction and having the patient bleed out.

Another big mystery the doctors hope the blood issue will shed light on is why some maternity patients are collapsing during or after giving birth.

A paper published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM in late March detailed how two women with no prior symptoms of covid-19 ended up in intensive care.

The first was a 38-year-old patient of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan who spiked a fever of 101.3 while undergoing a C-section delivery and began bleeding profusely. The second woman, 33, also underwent a C-section but the next day developed a cough that progressed to respiratory distress. Her heart beat irregularly, and her blood pressure jumped to as high as 200/90.

Several physician-researchers said the relationship between covid-19, clotting and pregnant women is “an area of interest.” Women in childbirth can experience clotting and bleeding complications because of the involvement of the blood-rich placenta, but it’s possible covid-19 may be triggering additional cases by making some women’s bodies “lose balance.”

“There’s lots of speculation,” Krumholz said. “That’s one of the frustrating things about this virus.

We’re in a lot of darkness still.”

new COVID-19 hospitalizations within the past 10 days.

Patients must test negative for COVID-19 prior to any elective outpatient treatment.

“We’re going to allow it in those hospitals and counties in the state that do not have a COVID issue or we wouldn’t need their beds in case of a surge,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo

said.

If a hospital or county that resumed elective treatments no longer meets these qualifications, elective treatment will have to cease, according to the governor’s office.

“It is essential that we continue to support hospitals and health care workers in all regions to ensure they have both

capacity and supplies to treat COVID patients because this virus is by no means defeated,” Cuomo said.

As of April 21, Columbia County had nine total hospitalizations due to COVID-19, with three of those patients in the intensive care unit.

Van Slyke said CMH will not know whether it qualifies and

is able to resume outpatient surgeries until April 28.

Employees who were furloughed could be called back to work with 48 hours’ notice, and it is being assessed on a weekly basis. CMH had not furloughed any employees prior to this, Van Slyke said.

CMH President and CEO Jay Cahalan said Tuesday that

the temporary furloughs allow employees to retain health care, while also being eligible to receive enhanced levels of unemployment funds.

help do that by creating a new contact tracing program on a widespread scale. Coupled with far more testing, it will help us drive the virus into a corner — saving lives and allowing more people to begin getting back to work.”

The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University will build an online curriculum and training program for contact tracers. The state Department of Health will work with Bloomberg Philanthropies to identify and recruit contact-tracer candidates for the training program, including health department staff, investigators from various state agencies, hundreds of tracers from downstate counties and

SUNY and CUNY students in medical fields.

New York’s COVID-19 fatalities reached 15,302 Wednesday — up from 14,828 Tuesday.

The state saw 474 virus-related deaths Tuesday, including 446 in hospitals and 28 in nursing homes. The daily death toll remained flat from 481 fatalities Monday and Sunday’s total of 478.

New York tested 669,982 people, revealing 257,216 positive cases of COVID-19 by Wednesday afternoon. New York City and downstate counties seem to be past the virus apex, or several-day plateau, as hospitalization rates declined to 15,599 Wednesday, down 536 patients from Tuesday.

The state reported 4,690 patients in intensive care Tuesday. Net change in intubations was down 41 fewer patients Wednesday to 3,934 total, according to the governor’s office.

“We’re in a much better place,” Cuomo said. “The really bad news would have been if we concluded we couldn’t control the spread.”

The state will prioritize contact tracing, as testing, tracing and isolating are key to reopening the state and easing socialdistancing measures.

“This has never been done before,” Cuomo said. “We’ve never done it anywhere near this scale. It is an intimidating exercise.”

Cuomo had a meeting with

President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday afternoon for the state and federal government to reach an agreement on ramping up COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody testing. The two New Yorkers have traditionally sparred politically, but the meeting went well and was productive, both the governor and president said.

They also discussed the need for Congress to pass a bill to provide economic relief to state and local governments. Cuomo has repeatedly criticized federal lawmakers for passing four rounds of emergency COVID-19 legislation that gave billions to small businesses, large corporations and airlines, but nothing to help states’ widening

budget gaps.

States most impacted by the virus, such as New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, the top three states in the nation for positive cases, should receive more funding to address their need, Cuomo said.

“Your action should be proportionate and responsible for the problem,” he added.

Trump agreed to waive the state-FEMA match, where states are required to match 25% of FEMA assistance. Cuomo thanked Trump for granting the waiver.

“That’s hundreds of millions of dollars for the state of New York,” the governor said.

was going to inject more funding into these programs,” Friedman said. “It’s a good thing they’re doing right now.

Hopefully the House will pass this bill shortly so this really vital funding will get to our small businesses. We’re really pleased the Senate has passed this, I hope it gets through the House quickly, so the president can sign this and the funds will be released.”

The House of Representatives is expected to vote on the legislation Thursday.

Columbia Economic Development Corporation President F. Michael Tucker

echoed similar remarks.

“The Senate’s passage of the extender of the Paycheck Protection Program and expanding programs to assist hospitals and farms is critical to our ability to continue to recovery on the road ahead of us, to return to a new normal,” Tucker said. “The initial package has provided assistance to many individuals and businesses, but small businesses in particular are in need of more direct access to recovery relief programs.”

Friedman hopes to see funding on a more local level in the future, possibly in

the form of Block Grants, or funding distributed by a local development corporation, Chamber of Commerce or a county’s economic development office, he said.

Columbia County Chamber of Commerce President Jeffrey Hunt wants to see more lenders approved in this round of funding for businesses that may not have a relationship with a bank, he said. Potential lenders such as Columbia Economic Development Corporation or the Chamber itself are currently ineligible because of their 501C6 status, Hunt said.

“Many Chambers are

closing because they can’t get funding as well,” he said.

Hunt expressed appreciation for the funding designated for hospitals.

“I’m happy they are including funding for hospitals, especially our rural hospitals,” he said.

Business owners need to be prepared for the long haul, Friedman said.

“There has been a lot of conversations about reopening the economy but I would caution business owners and the public on what that will look like,” he said. “It’s likely to be a slow opening, it’s likely to be

phased. If you’re looking for a map as to how that might happen, look at how it was closed down and flip it in reverse. I caution people who think it’s going to happen quickly. Folks need to plan for well beyond May 15.”

A phased opening is critical, Friedman said.

“If we do this wrong and we get a second wave (of COVID-19) and it is as bad or worse as this wave, the impact economically will be far worse than this has been, so we have to do this right,” he said. “I’m advising people to be patient and cautious.”

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Long Island high schools call off spring seasons Columbia-Greene Media

There will be no high school spring sports on Long Island in 2020. Section XI and Section VIII both announced independently Tuesday that they will cancel their spring seasons due to COVID-19.

In a statement released

by Section XI, Executive Director Tom Combs said, “This decision was made in the best interest of the health and safety of all of our student-athletes, staffs and communities.

“The decision was not

an easy one to make, however, in what the world is experiencing at this time, it is the most prudent decision to make.”

The decision comes a week before the New York State Public High School Athletic Association is set to announce whether or not to play the upcoming spring state tournaments.

Nassau and Suffolk counties currently have a combined 59,233 confirmed cases according to the New York State Department of Health.

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New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski (87) runs against Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Kendall Fuller (23) in the AFC Championship game on Jan. 20, 2019 at Arrowhead Stadium.

Bucs found a guy to keep the party going: It’s Gronk!

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Dr. Fauci explains why quarantined MLB games are likely to be part of ‘new normal’ Arash Markazi Los Angeles Times

Sports fans will have to embrace a “new normal,” which probably means not being able to attend live events at crowded stadiums, for the rest of this year, Dr. Anthony Fauci says.

Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who often gives updates during President Trump’s daily coronavirus briefings, told the YES Network on Monday that sports could resume this year despite the COVID-19

pandemic but games would have to take place in venues without fans or with fans practicing social distancing.

“I cannot see a return this year to what we consider normal,” Fauci said. “There would have to be some degree of (social distancing). It could be as stringent as only television or it could in the stadium with significant difference of space between people and even then, wearing a facial cover.”

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TAMPA, Fla. — He’s a monster. That’s what you hear from the Bucs. Or a mahnstah, as they say in New England.

That’s why they wanted tight end Rob Gronkowski to come out of retirement and play in Tompa Bay as much as Gronk wanted to play football again with Tom Brady.

Sure, he hasn’t worn a helmet and shoulder pads in a year and he seemed to have become worn down during his NFL career by a list of injuries we can

list later.

He missed 13 games in his final three seasons in New England. But he’s only 30, apparently in excellent shape and now the best tight end on the Bucs roster, on or off the wrestling mat.

Almost as soon as Brady signed a two-year, $50 million contract with the Bucs last month, Gronkowski made his representatives aware he was ready to join up with Brady in Tampa.

On Tuesday, the Bucs acquired Gronkowski’s rights, his

$10 million contract for 2020 and a seventh-round pick from the Patriots in exchange for one or their two fourth-round selections in Thursday’s NFL draft. The deal is pending the outcome of a physical that Gronkowski took with an independent physician in Boston and likely passed with flying colors.

It figures, right? Gronk has always wanted to keep the party going.

He tried the WWE and was the 24/7 champion of WrestleMania 36 on April 5. But the

chance to play with Brady?

Without Bill Belichick in his earhole?

You can see Gronkowski wanting to spike his career the way he caroms the football to the rafters in the end zone after scoring a touchdown.

Entering Thursday’s NFL draft, the Bucs’ tight end position lines up like this: Gronkowski, O.J. Howard, Cameron Brate and Antony Auclair. We’ll get into whether one of those will be leaving town in a second, but just consider those See GRONK B3

Minor league baseball prepared to cut 40 teams in new restructuring plan Bradford William Davis New York Daily News

Cutting 40 minor league teams appeared impossible, unthinkable and unpalatable. Now, it might only be the beginning.

Minor League Baseball is willing to agree to Major League Baseball’s proposed downsizing from 160 affiliates down to 120, including the elimination of Rookie and Short-Season ball, when it reenters negotiations over the next Professional Baseball Agreement.

Cutting a quarter of minor league teams would be the minors’ new starting point in negotiations between the two parties, per Baseball America’s sources.

MiLB called their rumored concession “largely inaccurate” in a statement released Tuesday.

“There have been no agreements on contraction or any other issues,” the statement read. “MiLB looks forward to continuing the good faith negotiations with MLB tomorrow as we work toward an agreement that best ensures the future

of professional baseball throughout the United States and Canada.”

If Baseball America’s characterization of MiLB’s position is correct, it would be a major about face from MiLB’s previous position on MLB’s early proposal, which also included pay increases and facility upgrades for minor league ballplayers. Minor League commissioner Pat O’Conner openly disputed their changes, described the downsizing as a “death See BASEBALL B3

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Here’s how networks plan to broadcast an NFL draft unlike any other Barry Jackson Miami Herald

A quarantined society unlike anything we’ve seen in modern U.S. history necessitates an NFL draft broadcast unlike anything we’ve seen in U.S. history.

So instead of ESPN and NFL Network serving up dueling draft cablecasts with raucous fans around them in Las Vegas (which was supposed to be the site of this year’s draft), the two networks are combining on — and simulcasting — one draft telecast which an ESPN executive calls the most complicated event he has ever produced.

ESPN and NFL Net will have cameras at the homes of more than 170 people — including a coach or general manager from every NFL team (often both), commissioner Roger Goodell (who will announce picks from his home), 58 draft prospects, all of the on-air talent and even some fans and first responders.

The decision to produce a joint telecast, instead of separate versions on ESPN and NFL Network, was a sensible one, according to Mark Quenzel, NFL Network’s senior vice president of Mike Windle/Getty Images for ESPN programming and production.

A view of the logo during ESPN The Party on Feb. 5, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif.

“To have two distinct broadcasts, it doesn’t make any sense (during a pandemic),” Quenzel The best way to do this is the way we’re doing it Seth Markham, ESPN’s vice president/prosaid. “Everyone would be better served doing it in now. The number of potential things you can do duction, said his biggest concern is the technology of airing a draft in which none of the people a unified situation than doing everything twice. at any given moment is mind-boggling.”

interviewed will be in the same room and most will be inside their homes.

“This is the most complicated event I’ve been involved in, and I’ve been at ESPN 27 years in June,” he said. “The coordination that it’s taking and the magnitude of the event we have to do — and the amount of feeds coming in — (is remarkable). We haven’t been face to face with our employees to have any meetings.

“Now we’re adding a joint broadcast, which is the 100% right thing to do. We’re excited about it. We do enjoy challenges. This is one we never wanted to have and hopefully one we never have again.”

Because of social-distancing rules implemented by the Connecticut governor, ESPN is setting up two control rooms in its Bristol, Connecticut, studios, with each having no more than seven people and each of those people at least six feet apart. Typically, ESPN would have one control room with more than 20 people. All off-camera staffers on the draft telecast will be required to wear masks, but on-air talent will not be.

“You are talking about producers wearing masks trying to communicate with the talent; that’s not ideal,” Markham said. “But we believe it’s the safest environment, and the governor of See DRAFT B3

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Pro basketball 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

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Transactions FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Dallas Cowboys - Waived WR Lance Lenoir Jr..

Detroit Lions - Re-signed DB CB Mike Ford and CB Dee Virgin to a one-year, $750,000 contract.

Green Bay Packers - Acquired DE Jamal Davis II and DT Gerald Willis III off waivers from the Miami Dolphins.

Jacksonville Jaguars - Cut RB Taj McGowan.

Los Angeles Chargers - Re-signed T Trent Scott to a one-year, $750,000 contract. Re-signed DE Isaac Rochell to a one-year, $825,000 contract.

Miami Dolphins - Cut LB Jake Carlock, WR Andy Jones, and WR Terry Wright. Waived DE Jonathan Ledbetter.

Seattle Seahawks - Acquired DB Linden Stephens off waivers from the Miami Dolphins. Resigned G Mike Iupati to a one-year contract. Resigned TE Jacob Hollister to a one-year, $3.26 million contract. Re-signed G Jordan Roos to a one-year, $750,000 contract. Re-signed G Kahlil McKenzie. Signed TE Luke Willson to a one-year contract.

NCAA FOOTBALL Western Kentucky - Announced QB Steven Duncan has left the program and is expected to pursue a graduate transfer to another school.

BASKETBALL NCAA BASKETBALL Gardner-Webb - Announced G Jose Perez has left the program and is expected to transfer to another school.

Kansas State - Announced F James Love III has left the program and will transfer to Eastern Michigan.

Louisville - Announced G Darius Perry has left the program and will transfer to Central Florida as a graduate.

VCU - Announced F Marcus Santos-Silva has left the program and is expected to pursue a graduate transfer to another school, announced him has withdrawn from the NBA draft.

Draymond Green talks team loyalty in dominant eras of Warriors, Bulls Des Bieler The Washington Post

Like so many other sports fans on Sunday, Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green watched the first two episodes of “The Last Dance,” ESPN’s 10-part documentary series on Michael Jordan’s quest to win his sixth NBA title with the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls. The Golden State forward said Monday that he enjoyed what he saw, particularly what he considered parallels to what his team recently went through, but there was at least one thing that did not sit well with him.

Jordan’s reaction to teammate Scottie Pippen’s contract-related unhappiness “disappointed” Green, he said in comments posted online by Uninterrupted’s “WRTS: After Party.”

As recounted in Part 2 of the documentary, Pippen entered the 1997-98 season as arguably the most underpaid athlete in professional sports. His salary of about $2.8 million for that season was not only less than a 10th of what Jordan would make but it only amounted to the sixth-highest salary on the Bulls and 122nd-highest in the NBA. Bulls management, led by owner Jerry Reinsdorf and General Manager Jerry Krause, made it clear that they were opposed to any renegotiation of the contract extension Pippen signed in 1991, despite his crucial role as the No. 2 star of a dynasty that had racked up five championships over the previous seven seasons.

Knowing he was much closer to getting traded than to receiving a welldeserved raise, Pippen decided months earlier to delay foot surgery until the start of the 1997-98 campaign. With the seven-time all-star out for the first two months, Chicago got off to a slow start that left the hypercompetitive Jordan fuming, and more than two decades later Jordan saw fit to criticize Pippen’s decision as “selfish.”

“Me as a teammate, if Scottie Pippen does that, I’m not going to be mad at Pip,” Green told Uninterrupted’s viewers, saying he “had no issue” with Pippen’s absence from the start of that season. “Because I understand what you’re doing, and at the end of the day, I’m rolling with you. Because when it all boils down to it, clearly that [Bulls] organization showed they’re going to take care of themselves. They’re not going to take care of [the players].”

Jordan also offered effusive praise of his longtime former sidekick, declaring

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Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) argues as NBA official Tyler Ford (right) ejects him during a Feb. 27 game against the Los Angeles Lakers at Chase Center.

that he “would never be able to find another tandem, another support system, another partner in the game of basketball like Scottie Pippen.”

“Whenever they speak Michael Jordan, they should speak Scottie Pippen,” Jordan added. “Everybody says I won all these championships. But I didn’t win without Scottie Pippen. That’s why I consider him my greatest teammate of all time.”

However, of Pippen’s gambit in showing the Bulls’ front office what it was missing, Jordan said, “Scottie was wrong in that scenario.”

“He could’ve got his surgery done as soon as the [previous] season was over and be ready for the season,” Jordan added. “Scottie was trying to force management to change his contract, and Jerry [Reinsdorf] wasn’t going to do that.”

“I was kind of a little disappointed when Mike, still to this day, is like, ‘Scottie was wrong.’ Like, no. You roll with your dogs, because they ride with you,” Green said Monday. “You’re making $36 million, and this guy is making $2 [million], yet you’re saying that when you mention [Jordan’s] name there’s no way you cannot mention Scottie Pippen’s name? And he’s just supposed to sit there? That don’t make sense. . . .

That’s crazy.”

Steve Kerr, the player on those Bulls who went on to coach Green and the Warriors to three titles in five NBA

Finals appearances between 2015 and 2019, did not recall Pippen’s absence causing much angst in Chicago’s locker room.

“Everyone respected Scottie so much,” Kerr said Tuesday, according to ESPN. “We felt his frustration. He probably should have been the secondhighest-paid guy in the NBA, or definitely top five. So we all felt for [Pippen]; nobody resented him for having that surgery. Later, we all understood, let’s give him his space, and he’s going to be there for the second stretch of the season for us.”

Kerr’s presence was among the ways Green said he was struck by the similarities between the 1997-98 Bulls and his 2018-19 Warriors, who were also going for a third straight championship. That Golden State team, though, was hampered by major injuries to Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson in the Finals and suffered an upset loss to the Toronto Raptors.

There was another major difference for Green - one that led him to reveal he’s still unhappy with Durant, who departed for the Brooklyn Nets last summer.

The Bulls knew their season would be their “last dance,” as then-Coach Phil Jackson dubbed it before it began, because he was assured of being in his final season with Chicago and the organization also appeared intent to move on from Jordan and Pippen.

According to Green, Durant’s impending free agency led to uncertainty among the 2018-19 Warriors about what the future held for their championship nucleus.

Describing Durant’s refusal to clarify whether he planned to re-sign with the Warriors “the elephant in the room,” Green said it resulted in constant, distracting questions from reporters.

“Every time we spoke to the media,” Green said, “Klay and myself was asked about our contracts and it was strictly due to Kevin, because while that was going on, Klay was saying: ‘I want to be a Warrior forever. I want to be here; we started this thing. This is where I want to be.’ I’m saying: ‘I want to be here for my career. We started this; we built this.

I want to finish my career here with the guys I started it with.’

“And then you kind of had Kevin [saying], ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do next year,’ and it don’t matter, but it does matter because you’re not the only person that has to answer that question,” Green continued. “And to be quite frank with you, you’re honestly the last person that has to answer that question because you don’t really say [expletive], like you don’t say much to the media.

“If anything, you tell them to ‘shut the [expletive] up.’ Well, I don’t tell them to ‘shut the [expletive] up.’ I kind of have a conversation. So I’m stuck answering that question all the time.

“And due to that, there was always an elephant in the room amongst us as opposed to [the Bulls],” Green added.

“They didn’t have that elephant.”

The three-time all-star, who has a Pippen-like role with the Warriors as a defensive stalwart with playmaking ability, said “The Last Dance” was providing him more than just a greater appreciation for his predecessor.

“I’m definitely enjoying watching this, and in a weird way it’s kind of motivating, to try to go win more,” Green said. “They’ve done some great [expletive], so just watching this I’ve gotten some more motivation to get back to work and try to get more done. Because this [expletive] is legendary.”

Green also said the series served as a reminder to him of “how [expletive] hard it is to win.” To emphasize that point - which probably had something to do with Jordan’s irritation at Pippen’s absence to start that season - he repeated, “It’s [expletive] hard to win.”

Krause and Reinsdorf are the perfect villains for ‘The Last Dance’ Paul Sullivan Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Every superhero movie needs a good villain, and even though it’s a documentary, “The Last Dance” is no exception.

The first two episodes of the 10-part series make that perfectly clear.

Michael Jordan naturally plays the lead role of the superhero, a lovable, goodhearted man who writes letters to his mother in college and is intent only on keeping his merry gang together against the forces of evil.

FILE PHOTO The designated bad guys trying to disband our super- Chicago Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, right, confers with general hero’s crew to start their own manager Jerry Krause during a news conference on July 23, 1998. rebuild are Bulls Chairman up to no good. from his foot injury late in Jerry Reinsdorf and his loyal It’s a shame Krause no lon- 1986 to help the team make henchman, general manager ger is alive to get a chance to the playoffs. A doctor said Jerry Krause. refute the many allegations, there was a 10% chance of reOr think of Jordan as James including a scarred childhood injuring the foot, a risk Jordan Bond, Reinsdorf as Goldfinger and Krause as Oddjob, the guy — filled with teasing about his was willing to take. Reinsdorf doing the dirty work for his height — that allegedly fueled was against it and explained boss. You couldn’t ask for bet- his anger and resentment as the Bulls weren’t going anyter characters, which is why he rose to a position of power. where anyway, so why risk it? we’re so excited to see how it You almost feel sorry for him They wound up making the all plays out, even though we at times, but then you remem- playoffs in spite of limiting ber Krause was the one who Jordan’s playing time against already know the ending.

Krause obviously will serve told Jackson he wasn’t com- his wishes.

We then were treated to as Jordan’s primary antago- ing back even if the Bulls went nist throughout the series, 82-0, a quote replayed in the Jordan’s glorious 63-point performance in a doublewhich makes sense because opening credits.

Reinsdorf at least gets a overtime loss to the Celthe’s so well-suited for the ics at Boston Garden, one of chance to defend himself and role. His not-so-subtle hatred the more enjoyable — albeit the team’s decisions.

He sugof coach Phil Jackson sets the story in motion, forcing our gests that a rebuild after 1998 heartbreaking — games in hero to use his athletic super- was necessary because the Chicago sports history.

If Reinsdorf and Krause had powers in hopes of foiling the Bulls players, besides Jordan, wouldn’t be worth keeping their way, that moment never plot to break up the greatest around at that stage of their would’ve happened. The two team ever.

The documentary’s pro- careers. He explains that he Jerrys preferred getting a highducers couldn’t have scripted advised Scottie Pippen not to er draft pick to making the a more telling scene than the sign the ludicrous long-term postseason.

It reminded me of the memone in which Krause sits si- contract that made Pippen lently in the front row of the so bitter and hostile, even his orable comment Reinsdorf made in the summer of 1997 team bus, shifting his eyes teammates took note.

But the part that really that anyone who thought the sideways at the boarding players while looking straight made me cringe was when White Sox could catch the Inahead. Krause looks like he’s Jordan wanted to come back dians was “crazy.” The Sox

were only 3 ½ games behind at the time, but because Reinsdorf and general manager Ron Schueler had no faith in the team, it led to the infamous “White Flag” deal at the July trade deadline.

Imagine if the 2019 World Series champion Nationals had given up when they were .500 and treading water near the end of June.

“The Last Dance,” at least so far, makes it apparent Jordan would do anything to win, even risking his own health, while Reinsdorf seemingly was more concerned about his financial investment than actually winning games.

Money also seems to be a thematic motif in the documentary.

Being underpaid affected Pippen’s attitude so much, he decided to wait until the start of the 1997-98 season to have ankle surgery, hurting the team. In his interview, Pippen casually admits: “I’m not gonna (bleep) my summer up trying to rehab for the season.”

Jordan calls Pippen’s decision “wrong” and “selfish.” A substandard contract also played a huge factor in the divide between Krause and Jackson, who coined the season “The Last Dance,” giving the documentary its title.

While Jordan also was vastly underpaid throughout most of his career, Reinsdorf made up for it after the 1995-96 season by giving him a one-year, $30 million deal that by far was the biggest in NBA history at the time, dwarfing Patrick Ewing’s $18.7 million salary.

The contract brought back memories of White Sox spring training in Sarasota, Fla., in 1996. I was the Sox beat writer a few years after being a Bulls sidebar writer during their

first two title runs. Reinsdorf, as was his tradition back then, took the traveling beat writers to dinner at a nice restaurant in downtown Sarasota.

I wound up seated across from the chairman, who loved to engage in spirited debate with writers. But the conversation at the table turned to a recent report Jordan was going to ask for $25 million to return in 1996-97, a figure that seemed astronomical even for the world’s greatest player.

“Well, looks like you’ll have to pay him whatever he wants,” I told Reinsdorf.

“No,” he replied. “I don’t.”

“Yes, you do. It’s Michael Jordan. You can’t let Michael Jordan leave Chicago. They’ll never forget it.”

“I don’t have to do anything,” he said, ending the discussion.

The Bulls wound up winning their fourth title, and Jordan got his deal done quickly in July.

“This is something Jerry (Reinsdorf) and I agreed upon,” Jordan told the Associated Press. “It really didn’t take any negotiations, which is the way I wanted it. I’m very happy with the agreement we have. This team could have a good chance of winning the championship again. Then after that, you don’t know. They may want to take a business approach to it and change the team. And I want to give them the flexibility to do that.”

After the fifth Bulls title, Jordan’s view on giving management the “flexibility” to rebuild the team obviously had changed.

Good thing, or else we never would’ve been treated to the exquisite drama “The Last Dance” provides.

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2020 NFL draft: Top running backs Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune

Here are Eddie Brown’s top 10 running backs: 1. Jonathan Taylor (Jr., Wisconsin, 5-foot-10, 226 pounds) Two-time Doak Walker Award winner (best running back) and unanimous AllAmerican. Taylor is comparable to Saquon Barkley. He was an accomplished prep track athlete (won back-toback state titles in the 100 meters). He’s sixth on the FBS alltime rushing list (6,174 yards).

Number of collegiate touches and ball security (18 career fumbles) could cause him to slip into the second round, but it shouldn’t. Projected: 1st or 2nd round 2. D’Andre Swift (Jr., Georgia, 5-8, 212) Swift features elite speed and balance. He’s a threat as a receiver and enthusiastically handles his responsibilities in pass protection. Projected: 1st or 2nd round 3. J.K. Dobbins (Jr., Ohio St., 5-9, 209) Only two-time Heisman winner Archie Griffin ran for

more yards (4,459) in Columbus. Dobbins is a home-run hitter with elite vision and open-field elusiveness. Projected: 1st or 2nd round 4. Cam Akers (Jr., Florida St., 5-10, 217) Dynamic talent who produced at a high level despite a below-average offensive line and quarterback play the last three seasons. Akers was the No. 3 overall player in the 2017 recruiting cycle. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 5. Clyde Edwards-Helaire (Jr., LSU, 5-7, 207) Athleticism lags behind other top backs in this draft class, but he’s dynamic in the passing game and a quarterback’s friend in pass protection. He also steps it up in biggest games (four of his seven 100-yard rushing performances were vs. top-10 ranked teams: Alabama, Clemson, Florida and Auburn).

Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 6. Antonio Gibson (Sr., Memphis, 6-0, 228) More receptions in college than carries, but he’s an explosive play waiting to happen.

Gibson scored 14 touchdowns

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In this file photo, running back Jonathan Taylor of Wisconsin runs a drill during the NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 28 in Indianapolis, IN.

on only 77 offensive touches and was second in the FBS as a senior with seven plays of 50-plus yards (two rushing, five receiving). Projected: 3rd to 5th round 7. A.J. Dillon (Jr., Boston College, 6-0, 247)

Highly-productive workhorse (Eagles all-time leading rusher) who wins with elite size, strength and straightaway speed. Dillon doesn’t offer much as a receiver or in pass protection. Projected: 4th or 5th round

8. Zack Moss (Sr., Utah, 5-9, 223) Moss is a bruising playmaker (16 plays of 25-plus yards in 2019) with a strong stiff arm.

There’s every-down potential if his medicals stay clean. He has dealt with knee, ankle and shoulder issues the past four seasons. Projected: 2nd to 4th round 9. Darrynton Evans (Jr., Appalachian St., 5-10, 203) Lightning in search of thunder. Evans is equal parts complimentary back and slot receiver with track speed. Potential impact kick returner at the next level (averaged 25.7 yards per return with three career touchdowns). Projected: 3rd to 5th round 10. Ke’Shawn Vaughn (Sr., Vanderbilt, 5-9, 214) Decent pass catcher and blocker, but he shines in the playmaking department.

Vaughn scored eight touchdowns of 60-plus yards the last two seasons (most in the FBS).

Projected: 3rd to 5th round BONUS. Lamical Perine (Sr., Florida, 5-11, 216) Physical playmaker who is

an asset in the passing game (as a receiver and blocker). Thirddown back is his floor. Projected: 4th or 5th round BONUS. Anthony McFarland Jr. (So., Maryland, 5-8, 208) McFarland wins with dynamic speed and agility. He strings together moves like choreographer. Scouts will appreciate the amount of tread left (Slightly over 500 total touches in college and high school combined). Durability is a concern. Projected: 4th to 7th round BONUS. Joshua Kelley (Sr., UCLA, 5-11, 212) Kelley showcased his allaround potential during Senior Bowl week. He’s a worthy steward of the football (only three fumbles on 492 total touches as a Bruin). Projected: 3rd to 5th round BONUS. Eno Benjamin (Jr., Arizona St., 5-9, 207) Capable three-down option who was the first Sun Devils player since the mid-70s to surpass a thousand yards rushing in back-to-back seasons. Projected: 4th to 7th round

2020 NFL draft: Top quarterbacks Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune

Welcome to draft season!

This is the 11th of 11 positional breakdowns leading up to the NFL draft (Thursday-Saturday).

Here are Eddie Brown’s top 10 quarterbacks: 1. Tua Tagovailoa (Jr., Alabama, 6-foot-0, 217 pounds) I understand the durability concerns. I do, but it was clear Tagovailoa had “it” when he replaced Jalen Hurts as a true freshman in the National Championship game and led the Crimson Tide to victory.

Projected: Top 10

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targets to go with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.

Here’s the thing with Gronk.

You’re not just getting a great football player. You’re getting a beer chuggin’, knuckle-headed bundle of energy injected into the Bucs’ locker room. Oh, and he’s a future Hall of Fame tight end with three Super Bowl rings.

Gronkowski had some ties to Tampa Bay before Brady and

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sentence.”

“This is not strictly about facilities and player health and

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Connecticut has told us we need to do it that way.”

On the ESPN side, only Trey Wingo, who will host all seven rounds, and Suzy Kolber, who will interview draft picks, will be working out of ESPN’s studios.

ESPN’s other announcers will be at home — including Mel Kiper Jr., Booger McFarland and Louis Riddick (those three will join Wingo as the

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games in the short term might be the much-talked-about “Arizona bubble plan” where all 30 teams would be quarantined in central Arizona hotels and play games in 10 spring training ballparks without fans. Fauci believes that plan could work.

2. Joe Burrow (Sr., LSU, 6-4, 221) Intangibles are off the charts and he’s fresh off the greatest single-season a collegiate quarterback has ever produced. Will the Bengals be able to replicate Joe Brady’s scheme? Projected: First overall 3. Jordan Love (Jr., Utah State, 6-4, 224) Love’s drop in production was due to an exodus of talent following his sophomore season. He’s still raw, but very talented and there’s a Mahomes-mentality that can be developed here. Projected: 1st or 2nd round

4. Justin Herbert (Sr., Oregon, 6-6, 236) Herbert is a dual-threat quarterback with elite arm talent and all the physical attributes a coach could dream of. The issue has always been consistency and he’s had four years to rectify it. Projected: 1st round 5. Jake Fromm (Jr., Georgia, 6-2, 219) Fromm is light years ahead of most when it comes to the mental aspects of quarterbacking. His accuracy is impressive as well, but his physical traits are lacking (size, arm and athleticism). Projected: 3rd to 5th round

6. Jalen Hurts (Sr., Oklahoma, 6-1, 222) The Heisman runner-up grew significantly as a passer under Lincoln Riley’s tutelage.

The son of a coach, Hurts will have to continue the growth in the NFL to earn an opportunity to start. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 7. Jacob Eason (Jr., Washington, 6-6, 231) Eason is a prototypical pocket passer with a 50 caliber attached to his right shoulder. My Magic 8-ball says “ask again later” when it comes to projecting because of a small sample size.

Projected: 2nd or 3rd round

8. James Morgan (Sr., Florida International, 6-4, 229) Morgan is a strong developmental prospect with prototypical size, arm talent and intangibles. He’s a two-time team captain who received the honor shortly after he transferred from Bowling Green. Projected: 4th or 5th round 9. Jake Luton (Sr., Oregon St., 6-6, 224) Luton was one of only three FBS quarterbacks with 21-plus touchdown passes against three or fewer interceptions in 2019. The other two were Alabama’s Tagovailoa and Ohio State’s Justin Fields. Projected:

6th round to UFA 10. Nate Stanley (Sr., Iowa, 6-4, 235) Three-year team captain (the second in school history) has the NFL’s required arm talent, but will need to develop a better imagination for the position.

Projected: 4th or 5th round BONUS. Steven Montez (Sr., Colorado, 6-4, 231) It’s clear Montez is very talented (he has elite arm talent and athleticism), but his accuracy is spotty and he has questionable instincts. Projected: 5th to 7th round

Gisele moved into Derek Jeter’s Davis Islands mansion.

He owned a 4,700-square foot home in South Tampa, Chez Gronk, that he sold for $2 million in 2013. He also is currently an investor in Rocca, an Italian restaurant near Armature Works in Tampa, which earned the first 10 from the Tampa Bay Times food critic.

This made too much sense to not happen.

Brady is taking a pretty big leap of faith that after 20 seasons with the Patriots, he can change zip codes, teams and head coaches and win another Super Bowl with a franchise

that hasn’t reached the playoffs in a dozen years.

To do it without a single player he has met before may have been asking a little much.

Brady will know where Gronk is on and off the field. Put on any video of the Patriots in the past four seasons and you will see him making plays — spectacular catches in traffic, bulldozing over tacklers, running away from linebackers and safeties and getting the celebration going in the end zone.

Of course, you’re not just adding Gronk. You’re adding Gronk’s athletic family: father Gordon and brothers Gordie Jr.,

37, a former first baseman for the Angels’ farm system; Dan, 35, a former Maryland football player who was drafted in the seventh round by the Lions and played for the Patriots, Broncos and Browns; Chris, 33, a former Arizona fullback who played for the Chargers, Cowboys, Colts and Broncos; and Chris, 27, a former fullback at Kansas State who played for the Bills and Patriots.

Mental note: Find the Gronkowski tailgate and call Uber.

There are some potential pitfalls to signing Gronk. His body is a medical journal. Since

joining the Patriots, he’s had a forearm fracture, a back fracture, torn ACL, torn MCL (both knee injuries on the same play), a hamstring pull, a chest lung bruise, a herniated disc and multiple concussions.

And that’s just on the field.

Also, what happens to a player like Howard? It’s no secret the Bucs aren’t going to pick up his fifth-year option. They tried to trade Howard last October and are shopping him before the draft. He’s a great character guy, a freakish athlete at 6-foot-6, 242 pounds who can run a 4.52 40-yard dash. But he has suspect hands and lacks natural

instincts for the game.

A year with Brady may help him, but the only use Gronk ever had for O.J. is with vodka.

But one of the best years Brady ever had was with Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez lining up in the same formation.

The Bucs are in win-nowat-all-costs mode. They’ve got Brady. Gronk. You have to wonder how long before Julian Edelman reunites the three amigos?

This is crazy, insane and a heck of a lot of fun. Everything Gronk will be for the Bucs.

wellness,” O’Conner said in an October interview. “I think it’s a matter of them wanting to exert more control over the minor leagues.”

MiLB’s efforts had attracted Congress’ attention, summoning a bipartisan “Save Minor League Baseball” taskforce

plainly sympathetic to their interests. Former presidential candidates Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren had also expressed their public frustrations of MLB’s cutdown.

But, their tact also drew MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s

ire.

“When people publicly attack a long-time partner after they’ve committed to confidentiality in the negotiating process, usually people don’t feel so good about that,” Manfred said regarding the war of words during the 2019 Winter

Meetings.

Now, MiLB’s leverage is thought to be as depleted as their finances thanks to the coronavirus’ spread, leading them to yield to MLB’s desire for a consolidated minor league system with four affiliates increased control over minor

league operations.

Meanwhile, MLB has already stripped down the 2020 and 2021 drafts as part of their coronavirus contingency plan with the MLB Players Association, likely decreasing down the next wave of minor league talent.

primary voices on night one), plus Todd McShay (who will be prominently featured on day three), information men Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen and team reporters Josina Anderson, Jeff Darlington (who’s covering the Dolphins and three other teams), Dan Graziano, Sal Paolantonio, Mike Reiss, Dianna Russini and Ed Werder.

Only three of NFL Network’s announcers will be used on the draft simulcast: Daniel Jeremiah, Michael Irvin and Kurt Warner.

“Seth and I talked about using our respective talent a lot,”

NFL Network’s Quenzel said.

“We are still formatting without regard to who’s saying what to who. You will see Kiper and Jeremiah on the screen at the same time. It’s not, ‘Let’s do an NFL Network segment and (then) let’s do an ESPN segment.’”

The networks decided not to use NFL Network’s information men — Ian Rapoport, Mike Garofolo and Tom Pelissero — but neither those three nor anyone employed by ESPN or NFL Network will be permitted to tweet picks before they’re announced by the

commissioner.

Meanwhile, ABC will produce its own broadcast for the first round Thursday night and the second and third rounds on Friday night. That broadcast which will be heavy on player profiles, including the journey draft prospects have taken to get to the NFL. Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer and Maria Taylor will spearhead ABC’s coverage and will all work out of ESPN’s studios.

That broadcast, which will have as much of a college focus as an NFL focus, will also feature ESPN/ABC college

analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack commenting from their homes, as well as McShay, who also works as a sideline reporter on college games.

Last April, 46% of the audience for that ABC broadcast was female.

“That’s an amazing statistic when you can draw a female audience for an event like that,” Markham said, adding that before ESPN and ABC debuted the ABC-only broadcast last year, “we were underserving the college audience that knows these players and

loves these players. We underserved a female audience and a general audience. On the ABC side, that was something we focused on.”

But there won’t be the live music component that was featured on ABC’s draft telecast last year.

“Last year, we had a little more of the celebrity factor,” Markham said. “It’s not appropriate to do that this year in our opinion.”

ABC will simulcast the ESPN/NFL Network coverage for rounds four through seven on Saturday.

“People who know more about baseball structure than I do have said it, but I think it’s reasonable,” Fauci said.

“You could either have a situation where you get the group of players together and you put them in a few cities and you make sure they’re not infected and you test them so they don’t infect each other and you have baseball — as much as it’s tough to say — in a spectator-less environment.

You have people playing in which people can watch it on television. The revenues are not going to be the same as when you have a packed stadium, but I think having them play on television is certainly better than nothing.

“Another version of that is to limit the amount of people in a stadium and make sure you seat them in a way where they are really quite separated and maybe even wearing

facial covers and masks. I know people look at that and say, ‘What are you, crazy?’ but to me, it’s better than no baseball at all.”

It may be possible to seat fans six feet apart and make sure they’re six feet apart in concession lines and bathroom lines, but Fauci said it’s more likely that live sports will return this year without fans.

“I think it’s quite likely,

although it’s always dangerous to predict, I think it’s more likely that you’re going to have television baseball than spectator baseball,” he said.

Fauci thinks having live games again could provide some comfort to people at home. The Brooklyn native, who grew up a Yankees fan, said he attends about a dozen Washington Nationals games a year and watches another 50

or so on television.

“I love baseball,” Fauci said. “I played baseball in the sandlot leagues and the Coney Island league in New York City and I love watching it.

I’m a very strong baseball fan.

I just love the rhythm of the game. It soothes me. When I’m really stressed, I go to (Nationals Park) and sit down and watch Max (Scherzer) and watch Stephen (Strasberg), it makes me feel good.”

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Dick Vermeil and Carl Peterson built the 1980 Eagles and a wine-soaked friendship that persists to this day David Murphy The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Christmastime, Southern California, around midnight: A ‘69 Volkswagen coupe eases off the 405 and heads east through the quiet streets.

The man behind the wheel is chasing something, though he does not know what. At least, not concretely. What he does know is that the man who is waiting for him wants the same thing. And while the exact manifestation of this desire will not reveal itself for another seven years, both men will end the night convinced they were meant to chase it together.

And so the man behind the wheel heads east, and the man who is waiting for him heads downstairs to the parking lot where they will meet. They are young men, one more so than the other. Like most of their generation, they are fortunate to be so. That month, the newspapers would carry the story of a 32-year-old special-operations officer from Ohio gunned down southwest of Saigon.

In different circumstances, who knows? Even all these later, any thought of those days elicits thoughts of those who did not get to live them.

Every generation is defined by its circumstances.

These would be theirs.

Back home, Pepper Rodgers was leaving UCLA for Georgia Tech, and several members of his staff were hoping not to follow.

Carl Peterson had spent his life in Southern California, most recently as a graduate assistant for the Bruins. Dick Vermeil, an assistant coach with the NFL’s Rams, had been hired as Rodgers’ replacement. But the Rams were in the playoffs, and that meant time was scarce. The three hours he’d found for interviews happened to be the first three of the morning.

So that is where it begins: after midnight, in a parking lot, outside a makeshift office building, where the Rams share space with the local municipal golf course. Vermeil likes what he hears from Peterson, and later offers him a job. The year is 1973.

Late January, 1981, the Louisiana Superdome: A fledgling personnel director stands against the wall of a locker room at halftime and tries to process what he sees. Fear? Probably not the appropriate word. War, recession, pandemic — that’s fear. Maybe Charlie Johnson felt fear during the nine months he spent driving a Jeep around Da Nang. But not playing defensive tackle.

Whatever it was, Carl Peterson had never seen it in his seven years with Dick Vermeil. Something about him demanded a complete dedication to the cause, whether it was a 6 a.m. staff meeting or a five-mile run.

During their first spring at UCLA, he’d listened as Rams coach Chuck Knox delivered a heartfelt toast to his former assistant while a group of Rams and Bruins coaches were out to dinner.

This wasn’t a simple professional courtesy — Knox was standing on top of the restaurant table.

A good leader earns your respect. A great leader smiles as you shout it from the rooftops.

For Peterson, that had meant giving up coaching after nearly a decade of working his way toward the top. After two years at UCLA and a two-touchdown Rose Bowl victory over heavily favored Ohio State, Vermeil had accepted Leonard Tose’s offer to return to the NFL. He’d brought Peterson with him to the Eagles, but after a disappointing first season the head coach decided that he needed a trusted voice in the front office.

Three years later, the Eagles’ victory over the Cowboys in the NFC championship game served as a fitting testament to the move. Shortly after transitioning to the front office, Peterson had spent several weeks following a longtime scout named Jackie Graves on a tour of the nation’s historically black colleges.

At the time, Graves had been particularly high on a running back from Abilene Christian who lacked a prototypical NFL body. Trust me, Graves had told him, this young man has compensating ability.

It was a phrase that Graves would repeat more than once in May 1977: in the fifth round, when they drafted a defensive back out of Kansas, in the sixth, when they took another one from Tennessee State.

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Dick Vermeil, right, shares a laugh with president and general manager Carl Peterson during a 2001 news conference to announce Vermiel’s hiring as Kansas City Chiefs head coach at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

“Carl,” Graves would say, “this young man has compensating ability.”

The following spring, Peterson assembled his coaches and scouts in a conference room at Veterans Stadium. Pick by pick, they watched the nation’s best college players disappear from their board. By the time the Eagles’ first selection arrived, 119 of them were gone, none of them Graves’ guy.

“Carl,” Graves said, “he has compensating ability.”

Three years after the Eagles finally selected Wilbert Montgomery with the 154th overall pick, the diminutive running back compensated them with a 194-yard rushing performance in their win that put them in the Super Bowl.

The team they took to New Orleans featured plenty of similar players. Charlie Johnson, Reggie Wilkes, Dennis Harrison, Tony Franklin, Max Runager — all came in the third round or later.

Jerry Robinson, Petey Perot, and Roynell Young came in the first and second rounds in ‘79 and ‘80.

Yet when it came to a stage like the Super Bowl, the players were not the only rookies. The veteran coaches whom Vermeil had consulted about his schedule structure for the two weeks before the game had advised him to ease up on the intensity of work during the week before the game. But given Vermeil’s unfamiliarity with such a concept, perhaps he needed a definition.

The week of the game, the Eagles were an hour into practice at an outdoor field near the New Orleans airport when a downpour chased them into the locker room. So Vermeil bused them to the Superdome.

“The pace Dick went at in his career, his life, was just extraordinary,” Peterson says. “I don’t know anybody who could survive with his energy and intensity on four hours’ sleep like Dick Vermeil. You couldn’t stay up with him. And on top of that, he’d work out like a demon.”

Whether it was the work or the stage or the talent of the opponent, the only time the Eagles had a chance in Super Bowl XV was the pregame introductions. Down 14-3 at halftime, Vermeil desperately tried to command his players’ focus.

“But they were in a coma,” Peterson said.

“That’s one of the few times I can ever remember that happening.”

Winter 1982, the bowels of Veterans Stadium: A familiar silhouette appears in an office doorway.

There is a concerned look on Marion Campbell’s face.

“You should talk to Dick,” the Eagles’ defensive coordinator says. “He isn’t doing well.”

Later, Peterson visits with his friend. It has been only two years since they returned from

New Orleans buoyed by the thought of their next Super Bowl together. In the meantime, life has intervened.

Peterson accepted a generous offer to run the fledgling USFL’s franchise in Philadelphia, while Vermeil found himself stuck in the middle of a contract dispute between the NFL and its players.

The strike began after two weeks of play. Neither the team nor its coach was able to recover.

“I could tell he was getting to the end of his rope,” Peterson says now. “He was worn out.

Mentally. Physically.”

It takes another seven years for Peterson to think it might be done for good. The Chiefs hire him as their president and general manager. He tries to hire Vermeil as his head coach. Instead, the Chiefs’ preseason television broadcast gets a new color analyst.

“I didn’t want to end up in the same hole I was in when I left,” Vermeil says now. “I didn’t think that I could do that.”

For eight more years, that is how it goes, Peterson leading the Chiefs out of irrelevance, Vermeil announcing their least relevant games. They speak every Friday, sometimes more, and visit in the summer.

Peterson drafts Derrick Thomas, acquires Joe Montana, and falls in love with a Kansas girl.

Vermeil finds himself enjoying the broadcasting life, and his vast property in Chester County.

The Chiefs get within a game of the Super Bowl in 1993. That’s the closest they will come.

Late January, 2000, the Georgia Dome in Atlanta: A veteran NFL executive stands quietly on the sideline and tries to process what he sees. In the middle of an artificial turf field, a 63-year-old coach guides a football team through its final preparations. There is little about him that would stand out to the casual observer. But from a vantage point of 19 years, the change is startling to see.

Truth be told, he’d expected this, however long it took. There’d been a tinge of disappointment on that day in 1997 when Vermeil announced he was ending his 14-year hiatus. Not only would he be coaching in the same state as the Chiefs, he’d be doing it with the organization in which they both began.

Peterson already had a coach, and a future Hall of Famer at that. But he also knew that the opportunity to avenge that night in New Orleans might finally be dead.

Still, the decades had taught him a thing or two about the value of these opportunities. When he’d arrived in Kansas City, the folks liked to tell a story about some players from the Chiefs’ 1969 championship team who skipped the parade to

attend the Pro Bowl. Hey, they’d figured, there’ll be more parades.

He’d finished 1999 in one of those confrontations with mortality that will periodically plague any NFL executive. The previous year, longtime head coach Marty Schottenheimer had departed for the Washington Redskins. The Chiefs finished 9-7 under new head coach Gunther Cunningham but missed the playoffs for the second straight season.

Meanwhile, he watched from afar as Vermeil’s once-moribund Rams became the Greatest Show on Turf.

“You always say you’ll be back next year,” Peterson says now. “Well, it doesn’t happen that way.”

Years later, Peterson will remember plenty about that week of Super Bowl XXXIV, starting with the moment he watched Vermeil lift that trophy above his head. Mostly though, he will remember the man whom he saw at that walkthrough.

“I’ve never seen him so relaxed,” Peterson says.

With any luck, this August in Calistoga, Calif., there will be an old coach on a tractor. And, perhaps, an old friend will join him.

Wine had always been in Vermeil’s blood, and that is not just a figure of speech. Great-grandfather Jean Louis Vermeil emigrated to America during the 1890s gold rush. He brought the family recipe to California, passed it down to a grandson named Jean Louis II, who in turn passed it to a son familiarly known as Dick. Every year, he returns to the local vineyard to help with the harvest.

In 1999, Vermeil fulfilled a lifelong quest when he partnered with a Chester County winery to produce a vintage that bore his family name. In fact, two years later, it was over a glass of Jean Louis Vermeil cabernet that he fulfilled another longtime dream.

After stepping down from the Rams in the wake of the Super Bowl win, Vermeil and his confidants quickly understood that he’d made a grave mistake.

“Dick’s essence is leading men, young men, to a collective goal,” Peterson says. “And he still had more to give.”

This time, Peterson had a job to give him, and would not take no for an answer. In 2001, after another mediocre season, the Chiefs executive parted ways with Cunningham, then hopped on a plane to Philadelphia and drove to Chester County.

“We went over to a Sovana Bistro, drank a bottle of Vermeil wine, and said, let’s go back to work,” Vermeil says.

They were partners then, and they are partners still. In 2008, Vermeil launched his own winery in the Napa Valley, with Peterson among the founding investors. Today, the coach pours his energy into selling wine; Vermeil Wines currently produces 2,500 cases a year.

“The NFL has 32 teams,” he says. “There are over 500 wineries in the Napa Valley. One of the things we have to overcome — when you have a sports figure’s name on a bottle, it can still be good.”

As for the Chiefs ...

“It was a great five years,” says Vermeil, 83. “My only disappointment, one of the only in my entire career, was not being able to do a good enough job to hand Lamar Hunt a trophy.”

Team founder and owner Hunt died less than six months after Vermeil announced his third and final retirement, in December 2005. Three years later, Peterson left the Chiefs.

Peterson, 76, spends most of his time on a private cruise ship, where he and his wife own a condo. While he never got a chance to hand a trophy to Hunt, this February he finally got the opportunity to feel the thing for himself.

When the Chiefs beat the 49ers in Miami to claim their first Super Bowl in 50 years, the roster still featured one holdover from Peterson’s tenure: punter Dustin Colquitt, whom he’d drafted in the third round in 2005. In the celebratory aftermath, Peterson tracked down Andy Reid and delivered a long-simmering message.

“Andy,” he said, “Thanks for accomplishing the mission.”

Peterson attended the parade.

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John Clayton’s final 2020 NFL mock draft: Three QBs in the top six John Clayton The Washington Post

Even though the 2020 NFL draft is likely to be driven by quarterbacks, with three passers potentially going within the first six picks, there figures to be a lot of maneuvering by teams to land the top offensive linemen, cornerbacks and wide receivers.

The Jacksonville Jaguars (No. 9) and Cleveland Browns (No. 10) are in interesting spots, with several players expected to be coveted in that range. A team such as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (No. 14), who have only two years to win with Tom Brady at quarterback, could look to move up to take a right tackle. The Denver Broncos (No. 15) could try to jump up to select one of the draft’s top receivers.

Those are just a few of the possible trades we could see when the first round begins Thursday at 8 p.m. Eastern time. But for our final mock draft, we won’t try to predict trades and instead simply project which players will be selected with each of the first-round picks.

1. Cincinnati Bengals: Joe Burrow, QB, LSU The only suspense to this pick will be whether the Bengals can find a trading partner for former starting quarterback Andy Dalton.

Either way, Burrow, the Heisman Trophy winner, is Cincinnati’s quarterback of the future.

2. Washington Redskins: Chase Young, DE, Ohio State There appears to be no way Coach Ron Rivera would accept trading down and robbing himself of a Julius Peppers-type edge rusher.

3. Detroit Lions: Jeff Okudah, CB, Ohio State General Manager Bob Quinn could trade down and let the Miami Dolphins or Los Angeles Chargers move up and draft their quarterback. If not, I believe he’ll choose Okudah over defensive tackle Derrick Brown and linebacker/safety Isaiah Simmons.

4. New York Giants: Tristan Wirfs, T, Iowa GM Dave Gettleman can’t afford to take any risks, which is why I think he will choose Wirfs over fellow tackle Mekhi Becton, who had a tainted drug test at the combine.

5. Miami Dolphins: Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama There appears to be internal debate over whether to take Justin Herbert or a position player instead of Tagovailoa. I think Tagovailoa’s potential will be too hard to pass up.

6. Los Angeles Chargers: Justin Herbert, QB, Oregon GM Tom Telesco talked Friday about how players who get injured in college often have similar issues in the pros. That’s why it seems more likely Herbert, and not Tagovailoa, winds up with the Chargers.

7. Carolina Panthers: Isaiah Simmons, LB/S, Clemson Coach Matt Rhule and the Panthers will consider Brown, the defensive tackle, but in Simmons they would get a positionless defender who can thrive at linebacker or in the secondary.

8. Arizona Cardinals: Mekhi Becton, T, Louisville This one gets a little tricky. Becton could fill the Cardinals’ need at right tackle, given his

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size (6-foot-7, 364 pounds) and athleticism. If they are scared off by his tainted drug sample, they could consider Brown.

9. Jacksonville Jaguars: Derrick Brown, DT, Auburn They need to restock their defensive line, making Brown an ideal fit if he is available and if the Jaguars can resist potential trade offers from Tampa Bay, Denver and Atlanta.

10. Cleveland Browns: Andrew Thomas, T, Georgia Thomas would fill the Browns’ biggest need as the best pure left tackle prospect. But Cleveland could trade back and draft a tackle later or try to trade for the Redskins’ Trent Williams.

11. New York Jets: Jedrick Wills, T, Alabama General Manager Joe Douglas will be tempted to take the draft’s top wide receiver.

But with Wills, he can complete the rebuilding of New York’s offensive line with a pro-ready player.

12. Las Vegas Raiders: Jerry Jeudy, WR, Alabama Coach Jon Gruden likes talented wide receivers. General Manager Mike Mayock likes prospects who excel at top college programs.

All three of this year’s top wideout prospects - Jeudy, Henry Ruggs III and CeeDee Lamb check both boxes. Jeudy’s footwork and route running make him the choice.

13. San Francisco 49ers: CeeDee Lamb, WR, Oklahoma The 49ers could select a cornerback if they don’t opt to trade down, but Lamb would improve the offense and fill the void left by Emmanuel Sanders.

14. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Javon Kinlaw, DT, South Carolina The Bucs could move up to draft a right tackle for Brady. They could also look to trade back. Kinlaw would be a luxury pick who enhances a strong defensive line.

15. Denver Broncos: Henry Ruggs III, WR, Alabama If the Broncos trade up, it may be for Jeudy.

But Ruggs would give Broncos boss John Elway the speed he is looking for on offense.

16. Atlanta Falcons: CJ Henderson, CB, Florida I will be surprised if Henderson makes it to the 16th pick. The Falcons, Jaguars and others are trying to trade up to get him. The Falcons need a cornerback after cutting Desmond Trufant.

17. Dallas Cowboys, K’Lavon Chaisson, OLB, LSU If the Cowboys stay put, Chaisson would be a great fit as a pass-rushing outside linebacker in their switch to a 3-4 defense.

18. Miami Dolphins: Austin Jackson, T, USC The Dolphins will be looking for a center but could find one in the second round. It is likely they take the best available tackle here, either Jackson or Ezra Cleveland.

19. Las Vegas Raiders: A.J. Terrell, CB, Clemson Terrell checks all the boxes for Mayock, whose team has a desperate need at cornerback. He is taller and faster than Trevon Diggs and Kristian Fulton, and he also comes from a big-time college program.

20. Jacksonville Jaguars: Trevon Diggs, CB, Alabama The Jaguars are desperate for cornerback help after trading Jalen Ramsey and A.J. Bouye, but don’t be surprised if they take Cleveland, the offensive tackle. Diggs gets the nod over Fulton because of his size.

21. Philadelphia Eagles: Justin Jefferson, WR, LSU His stock has been rising, and many think he is not far behind the top three receivers.

22. Minnesota Vikings: Kristian Fulton, CB, LSU

The Vikings’ top three cornerbacks from last season are gone, so they need to get one with one of their two first-round picks - even if that means trading up.

23. New England Patriots: Xavier McKinney, S, Alabama McKinney is a good fit and the best player on the board in this scenario, edging out Oklahoma linebacker Kenneth Murray. But don’t be surprised if the Patriots trade up for Tagovailoa if he slides down the board.

24. New Orleans Saints: Kenneth Murray, LB, Oklahoma All of the Saints’ starting linebackers are free agents next year, and Murray (6-2, 241) gets the nod over LSU’s Patrick Queen (6-0, 229) because Sean Payton prefers bigger linebackers.

25. Minnesota Vikings: Ezra Cleveland, T, Boise State The Vikings need to replace Stefon Diggs, but they know the second round is a good spot to find a receiver in this draft. Cleveland could be a long-term replacement for Riley Reiff.

26. Miami Dolphins: Grant Delpit, S, LSU It would make sense for the Dolphins to take running back D’Andre Swift or center Cesar Ruiz, but Delpit is a talented defensive back who can help make up for the loss of Minkah Fitzpatrick.

27. Seattle Seahawks: Yetur Gross-Matos, DE, Penn State General Manager John Schneider hasn’t drafted in Seattle’s original first-round spot since 2011, so the Seahawks are likely to trade down. But if they don’t, Gross-Matos would be a no-brainer given their need for a pass rusher.

28. Baltimore Ravens: Patrick Queen, LB, LSU Don’t be surprised if the Ravens trade up to get Queen or Murray, the other top inside linebacker in this draft. If both are gone, they will probably trade back and take a wide receiver or Ruiz.

29. Tennessee Titans: Isaiah Wilson, T, Georgia The Titans could go for a cornerback or they could trade down, but they need a long-term replacement for right tackle Jack Conklin. Wilson’s stock has been rising.

30. Green Bay Packers: Denzel Mims, WR, Baylor Other than Davante Adams, the Packers are thin at wide receiver. They have to take the best available pass catcher here.

31. San Francisco 49ers: Marlon Davidson, DL, Auburn No team needs to trade down more than the 49ers, who don’t have picks in Round 2, Round 3 or Round 4. A cornerback is a possibility if they stay here, but so is an interior defensive lineman to replace DeForest Buckner.

32. Kansas City Chiefs: Cesar Ruiz, C, Michigan The Chiefs return 20 of 22 starters, but the interior of their offensive line is thin and Ruiz has been on the rise. After re-signing Bashaud Breeland, there is less pressure to get a cornerback in the first round.

Another hurdle in MLB’s empty ballpark plan: How much to pay players Dave Sheinin The Washington Post

When Major League Baseball and its players’ union reached agreement on a modified economic deal last month - completing it on the very day the 2020 season was supposed to have begun - it was taken as a sign of goodwill between sides that are typically at odds, and a statement of shared purpose as the sport plotted a way forward through the coronavirus pandemic.

But now, that goodwill is in danger of being squandered over the issue of how players should be paid for games without fans. And even as the sport navigates massive hurdles in its quest to start the 2020 season — which would almost certainly be played at neutral sites in empty stadiums, at least in the early stages — the widening rift with the union presents another, unforeseen one with the power to scuttle the entire plan.

At the heart of the issue is a dispute over what was agreed to in March. The union believes the matter of player compensation was settled: per the agreement, players would receive prorated portions of their salaries based on how many games are

played (or a total of $170 million in the event the entire season is wiped out).

“Players recent reached an agreement with [MLB] that outlines economic terms for resumption of play, which included significant salary adjustments and a number of other compromises. That negotiation is over,” Major League Baseball Players Association chief Tony Clark said in a statement Tuesday.

“We’re now focused on discussing ways to get back on the field under conditions that prioritize the health and wellbeing of players and their families, coaches, umpires, team staff and fans.”

However, the league views the March agreement as pertaining specifically to games with fans, and that games without fans - minus the lost revenues from ticket sales and concessions - would require compensatory adjustments in the salaries going to players.

“In the agreement reached earlier this spring, the commissioner’s office and the MLBPA agreed that the season would not commence until normal operations including fans in our home stadiums - were possible,” deputy commissioner Dan Halem said in a statement.

“If circumstances require,

we will, consistent with our agreement with the union, negotiate in good faith over a framework to resume play without fans that is economically feasible for the sport.”

Halem’s statement, perhaps not coincidentally, uses language similar to what’s contained in the agreement, particularly a stipulation that says the sides “would discuss in good faith the economic feasibility of playing games in the absence of spectators or at appropriate substitute sites.”

MLB has estimated around 40% of its operating revenue comes from ticket sales and related on-location, game day purchases, and some teams could begin furloughing, laying off or reducing the salaries of certain employees beginning May 1.

Without additional salary relief from players, the league could argue it would lose money by playing games without fans. But the union points out there would also be cost savings from games without fans - without the need to pay ushers, concessionaires and other stadium workers, for example - and that the lost revenues could be recouped from a full or expanded postseason.

The rift appears to have been revealed accidentally

last week when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D, describing on CNN a conversation he had had with New York Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon, said: “Apparently, [MLB] would have to make a [new] deal with the players, because if you have no one in the stands, then the numbers are going to change, right? The economics are going to change.”

The sides are unlikely to discuss the salaries dispute any time soon - or any specific conditions for the resumption of play - because any such talks would require significant progress toward a plan for starting the season, a notion which remains muddled by factors outside the sport’s control.

Although MLB has looked into opening its season without fans in Arizona - using the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Chase Field and 10 spring training facilities, and with players and essential personnel sequestered in a protective bubble of self-isolation and frequent testing - significant roadblocks remain, particularly in regards to the number of new coronavirus cases and the availability of testing, before that becomes a legitimate possibility.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of

Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is among those who have endorsed the idea of baseball resuming this summer without fans, if the virus is under control and testing is widely available, so as not to divert necessary resources from the general public. The league has made clear it won’t move forward until it receives assurances from government and public health officials that it is safe to do so.

“I think we all need . . . to wait for the situation to unfold more, [with] more information, and then make realistic decisions on what’s possible,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said in an interview with the Associated Press. “The threshold question is the health question, and that’s where we’re spending the most time.”

But players clearly believe the “Arizona plan” - or alternate ones that could also include sites in other states - would already require significant sacrifices for them, including an inherent risk to their health and a willingness to be isolated apart from their families for months at a time.

Three-time American League MVP Mike Trout, whose wife is due to deliver their first child this summer,

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and three-time National League Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw, a father of three, are among the superstar players who have expressed skepticism at the feasibility of such a plan.

“There are a lot of red flags.

There are a lot of questions,” Trout said last week on NBCSN. “Obviously, we would have to agree on it as players.

I think the mentality is that we want to get back as soon as we can. But it has to be realistic. It can’t be sitting in our hotel rooms, and just going from the field to the hotel room and not being able to do anything. I think that’s pretty crazy.”

Amid such an atmosphere, it might considered a welcome development - even a return to normalcy, in a sense - if MLB and the union begin bickering over salaries, because it would mean conditions had advanced to the point where baseball could start looking at concrete plans to start the 2020 season.

But should the whole enterprise be derailed by the most basic and timeless of arguments, a fight over money, it might also be considered an unpardonable sin.

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Mom over supporting a house full of freeloaders Dear Abby, My grandson, his girlfriend and, recently, my son, are living with me. She is the only one working. My grandson has been sitting on his butt the last 2 ½ years and does minimal work here in my home. All three of these DEAR ABBY “adults” live here for free. I am 79 and on a fixed income. I pay for everything.

They were supposed to be saving money so they could get a place of their own. All they do is spend, spend, spend. They sleep all day and play games on their computers all night. I have seriously considered shutting off the internet to see what they would do.

I have been talking to a counselor due to my stress and anger issues. The counselor has strongly advised me to evict them. My daughter told me if I do, I’ll never see her or my two young grandchildren again. She means it.

I’m tired of being the caregiver. I’m also afraid of my 24-year-old grandson, who has terrible anger issues. Should I put them out or, to keep peace in the family, continue to let them use me?

Used Up

help from the authorities to guarantee your safety from him. As to your daughter, I predict she’ll keep the grandchildren from you only until she needs something — so be prepared. And please, continue talking to your therapist, who seems to have more of your interests at heart than your family members.

There will never be peace in your family as long as you allow yourself to be held hostage by threats and intimidation. Your anger issues will resolve themselves if you act on the advice your therapist is giving you and evict these parasites.

First, discuss this with a lawyer to see what steps you must take, and because you fear your grandson will become violent, you may need

Do not offer apologies or explanations unless you must. Simply ask the backups if they would be willing to step in “should the need arise.” If you are pressed about why they are not your first choice, answer honestly. Your reasons should be respected. This is not a popularity contest; it is a serious consideration for the future of your children.

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Dear Abby, My wife and I are in our mid-40s with two kids (9 and 6). We are in the early stages of our estate planning, and the topic of who would look after our kids has been discussed.

Our first choice has lovingly agreed to have our kids join their family if my wife and I should die. However, many estate planning forms ask if there is a secondary option on who we want to be our children’s guardians in case our primary choice can no longer fulfill that role. How do we tactfully ask our second choice if they are willing to be the backup? I worry that the couple may be offended that they aren’t No. 1, and this may cause tension and seriously damage our relationship with them.

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Viagra and Cialis usually safe for those with heart disease I am an 80-year-old man who still has psychological drive, but who has lost the physical ability for an erection. Is there any safe way to restore this? I have had multiple bypass surgeries, so I am fearful of medicines like Viagra or Cialis, but I wonder about the safety of testosterone.

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH Although older men often have decreasing ability for an erection, finding out the underlying cause is important before trying medications. In men with a known history of blockages in the artery — whether in the heart (leading to a stent or bypass), brain (leading to stroke or TIA) or elsewhere in the body (claudication, painful calf muscles with walking is a common symptom) — it is worth considering whether the arteries that supply the penis with blood flow might also be blocked. This might require specific treatment. In men without known blockages, erectile dysfunction is a clue that there might be arterial disease and should always be considered.

Treatment with sildenafil (Viagra) or similar drugs is usually safe in people with heart disease; however, these drugs may not be used by men who take nitroglycerine or related drugs. Further, they can drop the blood pressure, but your heart doctor can tell you whether it is safe for you.

DR. KEITH ROACH

What’s the difference between smoking tobacco, marijuana or clove to our body? They all are from plants. Why are some OK or legal and the others are not?

Just because a substance is a plant or

plant-derived does not mean it is safe.

Tobacco contains nicotine, a habit-forming and moderately toxic chemical. Cigarette smoke is dangerous. It causes dramatic increase in the risk of heart disease and cancer, and smoking kills approximately 500,000 people per year in the U.S. alone, 7 million worldwide. It is legal.

Cannabis contains, among other substances, the psychoactive chemical THC, which causes a euphoria (“high”) in most people. This can cause poor judgment, especially at higher doses, and it increases driving risk. There is good evidence that cannabis, when used by teenagers, causes an increased risk for schizophrenia.

However, the number of deaths due to cannabis is very low. There are certainly case reports of deaths linked to cannabis use. But that number is extremely small compared with tobacco.

Clove cigarettes are usually made with tobacco as well, so they have the same risk as regular tobacco cigarettes.

Smoking any substance can cause damage to the lungs, potentially leading to chronic lung disease. These are less likely in cannabis smokers, as they tend to smoke much less than tobacco smokers. Cannabis extracts may also be ingested, rather than smoked, negating that risk.

Many states are in the process of legalizing cannabis for medical and recreational use. In the U.S., federal law continues to view cannabis and its extracts as illegal substances, although the U.S. government has generally not been enforcing the law in recent years.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you have been called a “schemer” by some, an “upstart” by others and a “genius” by still others, and all of these monikers, and more, are well-deserved — though they say more about those who apply them to you than they do about you. And why is that? The fact is that very few people can match you for your sheer energy, insight, creativity and output — and that makes them insecure about themselves and defensive when it comes to their relationships with you. You are never insecure or defensive; you are known for your positive outlook and your ability to see the good in almost everyone around you.

When it comes to domesticity, you are something of a puzzle — for you derive great strength and inspiration from hearth and home, and yet you are often looking for reasons to be elsewhere.

Also born on this date are: William Shakespeare, playwright and poet; Shirley Temple Black, actress and ambassador; George Lopez, comedian; Taio Cruz, singer; Valerie Bertinelli, actress; Lee Majors, actor; Roy Orbison, singer.

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

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You must watch over another today to ensure that he or she maintains some peace of mind — as you can, even under considerable personal pressure.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Patience is a virtue, surely, but it is also a rare commodity. Today, you must do all you can to promote it at home and at the workplace.

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Baby Blues CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may be asked to share your opinions in an “official” setting today — but now is not the time to rock the boat. You can choose to keep mum.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’re headed in an unusual direction today, but that’s not what is concerning you most. The real issue is a current lack of connection.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may not make it quite as far as you had hoped today, but the progress you do make is likely to win you praise from the powers that be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’ll want to watch what others are doing very carefully today, as there are things you can learn, surely, but imitation should be avoided.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — The information you seek is either outdated or unavailable today.

You must be willing to continue your efforts while in the dark.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You feel a strong pull in a certain direction today — but that way lies a certain danger to which you’re not willing to expose yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — As always, appearances can be deceiving — and today you’re almost certain to learn a thing or two about that. A friend sticks up for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — What happens today may require some explanation when all is said and done, so you’ll want to be sure you understand it fully.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — What you share with a friend or loved one may prove more valuable to both of you than anticipated. Something telling is in the works.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Your fear of the unknown is holding you back today. You have what it takes to turn in a stellar performance — if you will only let yourself.

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B8 Thursday, April 23, 2020 Close to Home

SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

LTESY WOLRP RMSEMU NLOYFD

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.

Places named after people Level 1

2

3

Name the person after whom the geographical location is named. (e.g., Washington state. Answer: George Washington.)

Freshman level 1. Colombia (country) 2. America (USA) 3. Pittsburgh (city) Graduate level 4. Bolivia (country) 5. Pennsylvania (state) 6. Victoria, B.C. (capital city) PH.D. level 7. Saudi Arabia (country) 8. The Philippines (country) 9. Bismarck (North Dakota)

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

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THE (Answers tomorrow) Yesterday’s

Jumbles: ELUDE KNOCK SCULPT PUPPET Answer: To build a submarine to reach the ocean’s lowest point, it took — DEEP POCKETS

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Solution to Wednesday’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. Christopher Columbus. 2. Amerigo Vespucci. 3. William Pitt. 4. Simon Bolivar. 5. William Penn. 6. Queen Victoria. 7. Abdulaziz bin Saud (founder). 8.

King Philip II of Spain. 9. Otto von Bismarck (German chancellor).

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

Dilbert

Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Hand-__; laboriously stitched 5 Ice cream concoctions 10 Tomorrow’s shout 14 Laughing syllables 15 TV’s “The __ Is Right” 16 Golfer’s target 17 Shallowest of five 18 Like a team that wins every game 20 Primitive transport 21 Experts 22 Off-kilter 23 Begin one’s garden 25 Expected at a certain time 26 Trusty mounts 28 Past, present & future 31 Is a breadwinner 32 Magnificent 34 “__ you later!”

36 Letters from Greece 37 Fleeting 38 Lively 39 2,000 pounds 40 Rural streets 41 Make angry 42 Snob’s problem 44 Came in second 45 Grunter’s utterance 46 Campbell or Watts 47 One of seven deadly sins 50 20th-century U.S. president 51 Hardwood tree 54 Entrepreneur 57 Friendly nation 58 __ mitts; pot holders 59 Nonconformist 60 Word attached to jack or doodle 61 Orangey drink 62 Unkempt 63 __ A personality; go-getter DOWN 1 Old Mets stadium 2 All __; listening 3 Speaking very softly

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Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

4 Edinburgh refusal 5 Ignores with contempt 6 “Ripley’s Believe It __!”

7 Has __ on; claims in advance 8 Part of a blackjack 9 Yellow or Black 10 Longest river entirely in England 11 Mongolian desert 12 Misfortunes 13 Agents’ commissions 19 Jeer at 21 Launch sites 24 Part of the eye 25 Unable to hear 26 End of summer: abbr.

27 Chevy SUV 28 Little wooden pegs 29 In particular 30 Do a waiter’s job 32 Tiny weight 33 __ of; free from 35 Gazed at

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Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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37 “Nonsense!”

38 Stitched joining 40 Correct 41 Walk with heavy steps 43 Day trip 44 Not completely 46 Schnozzes 47 Aberdeen native 48 Volcano danger

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49 __-and-shut case 50 Isn’t truthful 52 Swat 53 Excessive publicity 55 Location of the humerus 56 Actor Marvin 57 Toward a ship’s rear

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