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ALBANY — The state will take ventilators and personal protective equipment from private institutions that are not using the supplies and redistribute them across New York to hospitals with the highest need to combat coronavirus COVID-19, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared in an executive order Friday.

The National Guard will transport the ventilators and PPE across the state to hospitals and medical centers that need them. The equipment will be returned or the hospital or institution will be reimbursed for the equipment after the pandemic.

“Am I ‘seizing’ ventilators?

No — I’m taking excess equipment to save lives,” Cuomo said Friday during a COVID-19 briefing in the state Capitol. “I won’t be in a position where people are dying and we have several hundred ventilators in our state somewhere else. I apologize about the hardships to those institutions. I’m not going to let people die because we didn’t redistribute ventilators.”

The state’s virus-related deaths climbed to 2,935 by Friday afternoon, up from 2,373 Thursday. At 102,863 positive cases, just over 14.4% of positively infected New Yorkers are

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared an executive order Friday in the state Capitol that the state will take ventilators and personal protective equipment from private institutions that are not using the supplies and redistribute them across New York to hospitals with the highest need to combat coronavirus COVID-19.

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Albany Medical Center President and CEO Dr. Dennis McKenna explains the decision to accept downstate COVID-19 transfer patients as Hospital General Director Dr. Fred Venditti looks on.

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ALBANY — In a move area hospital officials are calling a “moral obligation,” Capital Region hospitals have begun accepting COVID-19 transfer

patients from overwhelmed New York City hospitals.

Columbia Memorial Health, which is part of the Albany Medical Center network, has not accepted any transfer patients, but CMH officials have indicated

that they would be willing to do so.

Albany Medical Center accepted 14 transfer patients from a hospital in Queens on Tuesday. On Thursday, an additional 25 transfer patients

were distributed to area hospitals including Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, St. Peter’s Health in Albany and St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy. Officials defended their decision to accept those patients at a press conference

at Albany Medical Center on Friday.

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Gillibrand frustrated by lack of COVID-19 tests

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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, (D-N.Y.) pays a visit to the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin while on a fund raising swing through Texas on Feb. 21, 2019.

The state’s federal lawmakers are frustrated with the lack of tests for the coronavirus while government agencies work to approve a vaccine that could take more than a year, officials said Friday.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ronald Yee with the National Association of Community Health Center held a teletown hall Friday with senior citizens and AARP members from across the state to answer their questions about the coronavirus and to provide an update on the federal government’s efforts to combat the pandemic.

The nation has three different COVID-19 tests, Gillibrand said: The traditional swab test, commonly done in a hospital; the Abbott ID NOW™ rapid test, which can be done in 15 minutes; and the blood antibody test, to test for the presence of COVID-19 antibodies, or immunity.

Hospitals are often backlogged with swab tests, Gillibrand said, adding the rapid test is prioritized for rural and other atrisk areas, including states like New York and for the military.

“It’s not as easy as you’d think to get it,” Gillibrand said of the rapid test. “Hopefully it gets sent out in the next two weeks to rural areas or places without tests available. I think it also See TESTS A2

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hospitalized, or 14,810 people, with 3,731 patients in the intensive care unit. To date, 8,886 infected patients have been discharged.

State officials study various expert models to determine a moderate projection for the number of hospital beds, ventilators, gloves, masks and other personal protective equipment the state will need. From projections earlier this week, Cuomo said the state could need 37,000 total ventilators to combat the virus at its apex, or height, of the curve.

Cuomo said Thursday at its current rate, the state’s ventilator stockpile will be depleted in six days as about 300 COVID-19 patients enter intensive care every day. It’s unclear how many ventilators will be redeployed to downstate hospitals. All elective surgeries have ended in the state to free up ventilators. The state has developed several other measures in case of a ventilator shortage, including splitting ventilator tubes for two patients per machine, using anesthesia machine ventilators and converting BiPAP machines to ventilators for COVID-19 patients.

“Several hundred ventilators doesn’t fix the problem, but it’s a significant number,” Cuomo said. “If you find 300 excess ventilators, you’ve found another day. Several hundred could

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Capital Region. Allocating patients from downstate hospitals happens quickly, and CMH facilities may have been too full with local patients to receive any downstate patients in this first round of transfers, said Dr. Fred Venditti, Albany Medical Center’s general director and executive vice president for system care delivery.

“I know that yesterday they had a fair number of vented patients,” he said. “I want to say that they had at least five patients on ventilators yesterday.”

Columbia Memorial Hospital has seven critical care beds and has plans to increase that number to 17 if necessary, Venditti said.

CMH may receive future transfer patients as New York City hospitals become increasingly unable to manage the high rate of COVID-19 infections.

“We have a call every morning with 12 institutions and Columbia Memorial is part of that,” Venditti, said.

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needs to go to the at-risk places.”

Gillibrand is frustrated with the lack of tests available to New York and the nation and is constantly asking about the shortage. Hospital labs also don’t have the capability to perform the needed number of tests.

“I’ve been asking it nonstop myself,” Gillibrand said. “You have a swab and a reagent [in a regular test], and there was a lack of reagent readily available. All of these hospitals are begging FEMA for more supplies to do more testing.

“It’s been frustrating for me and our hospitals,” she added.

“It’s a challenge. Until we have the rapid test in every community, everyone won’t get tested. I think it’s weeks away.”

COVID-19 testing is free for New Yorkers eligible to receive a test. If you think you may need a COVID-19 test, call 1-888-3643065.

Experts have limited information about reinfection, or a person contracting COVID-19 second time, Yee said, adding some reports have suggested people become immune after recovering from the illness, but it is unclear how long the immunity lasts.

“I would not say that’s fact yet,” he said. “I would not act that way around people who have had it. What we’ve seen is

represent several hundred lives.

So, am I willing to deploy the National Guard and inconvenience people for several hundred lives?

You’re damn right I am.”

The state’s first temporary medical center at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, which has 2,500 beds, opened Monday. Javits will accept and treat COVID-19 patients. Initially, the facility was reserved for patients not infected with the virus.

“We don’t have any nonCOVID people to any great extent in the hospitals,” Cuomo said, thanking President Donald Trump for approving Javits to treat people with the virus.

“Hospitals have turned into ICU hospitals for COVID-19 patients.”

The 1,000-bed U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort, which is docked at Pier 88 in the New York Harbor continues to be for non-COVID-19 patient overflow. Patients infected with the virus will not be treated on the ship, Cuomo said, because it would be too difficult to disinfect.

The governor called for a national deployment of ventilators and resources from other states as rolling COVID-19 peaks hit the United States.

“The federal government does not have enough material to say, ‘Whatever you need, I can get you,’” Cuomo said Friday. “Each state has to help every other state as we go along...

When our curve is over, New Yorkers are going to take what

we’ve amassed: our equipment, personnel. We’re going to take our knowledge to any community that needs help. New York will be there for any community that needs us.”

The House of Representatives passed a historic $2.2 trillion emergency COVID-19 bill March 27 that cuts financial-assistance checks to middle-class and lower-income Americans and increases unemployment benefits to more workers to be paid for four months. The governor was displeased with the bill and called it “terrible” last week because he said it provided inadequate relief to state governments.

Cuomo pleaded for more funding to help close the expected 10 to $15 billion revenue shortfall in the executive budget caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor spoke to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday about the fourth anticipated federal relief bill and said she pledged to make sure New York receives more federal assistance.

The fight against COVID-19 is projected to continue through the spring and early summer.

Working against the virus every day but seeing the death toll and positive cases continue to rise is difficult, Cuomo said.

“It’s hard knowing you’re in charge of the ship at this time,” the governor said. “Eventually, you go through the darkness and find the light, and we’re going to find the light.”

Columbia County had 57

positive cases of the virus as of Friday afternoon. Two people have died and five remain hospitalized; two patients are in intensive care. Sixty people are under mandatory quarantine and 22 under precautionary quarantine. Nine residents have suspected cases, but have not been tested.

Greene County has 27 cumulative positive cases of COVID-19 in Windham, Durham, Greenville, Hunter, Cairo, Catskill, Athens, Coxsackie and Halcott as of Friday afternoon. Four people are hospitalized with the virus, with the other cases recovering at home. Twelve cases have been cleared and discharged, with 15 remaining active cases, according to Greene County Public Health. The county has 79 people under precautionary quarantine who are self-monitoring for possible exposure.

The state’s most dense virus hot spots have remained downstate and in New York City. Positive cases of the virus have been detected in 57 counties in the state, including the city, with 57,159 cases in New York City, 12,351 cases in Westchester County, 12,024 in Nassau County, 10,154 cases in Suffolk County, 4,289 in Rockland County and 267 in Albany County.

To see the complete county breakdown of positive COVID-19 cases and deaths statewide, view the COVID-19 map and tracker at hudsonvalley360. com/site/covid19.html.

Chief Medical Officer Dr. Clifford Belden and President and CEO Jay Cahalan usually participate on the daily phone call, Venditti said.

“They have said generically that they would accept patients if they have capacity,” said Venditti.

Belden was not present at the press conference, the fourth held at Albany Medical Center since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Hospital officials must anticipate local need based on the number of positive cases in the community before they agree to accept COVID-19 transfers from New York City hospitals.

An analytics team at Albany Medical Center is using data from area medical facilities to predict regional hospital capacity, officials said.

Until that data can provide an accurate picture of capacity, each hospital must make its own decision when to commit to taking transfer patients.

“Dr. Belden has got to go take a look at what is going on in the hospital, does he have capabilities, who is in the emergency room,” Venditti said. “There is a little bit of an assessment that

goes on before he says yes.”

The decision this week to begin accepting transfer patients comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo warns that the peak could be fast approaching in New York City, the nation’s epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis. The governor’s office is providing logistical assistance to transport patients upstate, area officials said.

“The New York City area is under tremendous stress,” said Dr. Dennis McKenna, who became Albany Medical Center’s president and CEO on April 1. “It was our time to help those people down in New York City.” He noted that accepting transfers is standard practice among large medical facilities, with Albany Medical Center treating more than 16,000 transfer patients in the last 15 years.

By accepting certain transfer patients, Capital Region hospitals are helping to free up space in New York City hospitals, McKenna said. “These emergency departments have 50, 60, 70 people waiting to be seen, so every person we move out helps them and someone else downstate.”

“It doesn’t matter where the call comes from. We are here to

take patients in need. We have a moral obligation to do so,” said St. Peter’s Health Partners Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Steven Hanks, echoing other hospital representatives who said their facilities have a moral and professional responsibility to act.

Hospital officials sought to challenge public perception that accepting infected COVID-19 patients from downstate will increase the Capital Region’s rate of infection. The virus is already spreading through community transfer upstate, officials said.

“We already had COVID-19 patients and suspected patients,” Venditti said. The infected cohort is kept separate on special COVID-19 units, often in negative pressure rooms to prevent the virus from spreading to other units in the hospital, he said.

As more health care workers become infected with COVID-19, hospital officials continued to emphasize that they have adequate supplies of PPE, or personal protective equipment, to safeguard staff and patients.

Fifty health care workers at Albany Medical Center have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said.

people have maintained their immunity. Time will tell.”

Recent studies have shown COVID-19 cannot travel through water, Yee said. Tap water is safe to drink, but beverages or smaller amounts of liquid should be protected from other people.

“Viruses will be diluted dramatically if it gets through the water system,” the doctor said.

“Be careful if someone who’s sick is drinking out of a cup or bottle. But in the general water supply, it’s not an issue.”

Professionals at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Tarrytown are working on growing COVID-19 antibodies in mice and testing them in humans to develop a drug therapy for the virus.

A COVID-19 vaccine has been developed, Gillibrand said, but will take a year to 18 months for federal approval.

“I don’t know if we can expedite that to have it for next flu season,” the senator said.

The House of Representatives passed a historic $2.2 trillion emergency COVID-19 bill March 27 that cuts financial-assistance checks to middle-class and lower-income Americans and increases unemployment benefits to more workers to be paid for four months. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act is giving economic impact payments of up to $1,200 for individuals, $2,400 for married couples and $500 for each qualifying child,

for people who filed their 2018 taxes with adjusted gross income up to $75,000 for a single person and up to $150,000 for married couples filing joint returns.

The bill was the third federal relief bill to combat the pandemic and is not the last, Gillibrand said, adding the measure sent billions in aid to hospitals and middle-class Americans.

“This is the first down payment on this crisis,” she said Friday. “This is our triage to help workers, families and older Americans help handle this crisis. There will be another phase.

This was the most urgent funding out first.”

Social Security recipients who do not file income tax returns will get the $1,200 check and do not need to take further action, the senator said. If you have a bank account on file with the IRS, the check will be direct deposited. Otherwise, checks will be mailed to eligible households.

The bill gave New York about $5 billion with $1 billion to New York City, Gillibrand said.

“The bill was never intended to close state budgets,” Gillibrand said. “The state’s budgets are going to be continually, continually challenged because

they don’t have revenues coming in if people can’t keep their businesses open. The governor’s budget is going to get a bigger and bigger hole as the weeks and months go on. The next bill hopefully we will have more money for states and localities to help them with their budgets.”

Yee reviewed the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s social distancing guidelines, including staying home except for essential travel such as the bank or grocery store, remaining six feet away from people not in your household, regularly washing your hands, disinfecting frequently touched objects and surfaces and coughing or sneezing into your elbow.

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

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

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE/Budget discussion 4 6 p.m. Virtual Meeting Only (see website for link)

NOTICE OF SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION Flint Mine Solar, LLC (“Flint Mine Solar” or “Applicant”) is proposing to construct a 100 megawatt-AC (MW-AC) major solar electric generating facility in the Towns of Athens and Coxsackie, Greene County, New York (“Flint Mine Solar Project” or “Facility”). To construct and operate the Facility, Flint Mine Solar must obtain a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need (“Certificate”) from the New York State Board on Electric Generating Siting and the Environment (“Siting Board”) pursuant to Article 10 of the Public Service Law and the Siting Board’s rules (16 NYCRR Part 1000). This notice announces that on or about April 17, 2020, the Applicant will file an Article 10 Application seeking a Certificate from the Siting Board.

Tuesday, April 7 n Catskill Town Board 6:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill 518-943-2141 n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Wednesday, April 8 n Athens Village Board 6:30

p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m.

Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830 n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m.

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posed Tentative Budget Public Hearing 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Workshop Meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m.

Monday, April 13 n Ashland Town Board 7:30

p.m. Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature health services; county resources; public safety; county services; public works; economic development and tourism; Gov. Ops. and finance 6 p.m. (via tel-com or Zoom - Instructions for audio/video conferencing to follow.) Note: Due to COVID–19 meetings will be tentative and subject to change

Tuesday, April 14 n Catskill Town Planning Board

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Firefighters battle a garage fire in Cairo on Thursday.

Cairo fire destroys garage, damages house

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

CAIRO — A fire destroyed a garage and caused some damage to a house in Cairo late Thursday afternoon, Cairo fire officials said.

Cairo firefighters were dispatched to 50 Sala Drive at 5:25 p.m. after a caller reported hearing a “boom” and seeing flames coming from a garage, according to Greene County 911.

Arriving firefighters reported the garage was fully involved and the flames were beginning to spread to the house, and requested mutual aid from the Round Top and East Durham fire companies, fire officials on the scene said.

Firefighters were able to

stop the fire with minor damage to the home and some smoke damage, however the garage and all of its contents, including several vehicles, were destroyed, Cairo Fire Chief Ray Feml said.

The fire is thought to have started in a wood stove, Feml said. Both of the home’s occupants were able to get out safely, fire officials reported.

Neighbors on the scene said the home is owned by the Sala family.

Vernal Butler Road and Sala Drive were both closed to traffic while firefighters worked at the scene.

Cairo Ambulance, Cairo Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, and Town of Cairo Police assisted at the scene.

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The Flint Mine Solar Project is a proposed zero-emission solar energy facility that will assist the State in meeting the goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which include obtaining 70% of the State’s energy generation from renewable sources by 2030 and significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The 100-megawatt Facility would consist of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, electrical inverters and collection lines, collection and point of interconnection (POI) substations, access roads, and construction-related work areas. The Facility may also include energy storage components. The Facility is proposed to interconnect with the State’s electric grid along the National Grid 115 kV LaFarge to Pleasant Valley line and the National Grid 115 kV Feura Bush to North Catskill line. Following construction, ownership of the POI switchyard would be transferred to National Grid.

A map of the project is attached to this notice.

Positive impacts of the Facility include diversification of the State’s energy supplies, new employment opportunities (both temporary construction employment and full-time jobs), and increased revenues to county and local tax bases, payments to the local hospitality industry, and purchase of local supplies and goods. The Applicant has attempted to minimize impacts to land associated with the Facility by limiting the disturbance to forested lands and wetlands to the maximum extent practicable, and by proposing to set aside at least 250 acres of lands to be conserved as habitat for protected grassland bird species. The construction and operation of the Facility may result in minor environmental impacts as more fully described in the Application, including, but not limited to: impacts on terrestrial ecology; impacts to forested land, wetlands and agricultural lands; and impacts to people, including noise, traffic and visual impacts.

The State’s Article 10 process requires that a prospective Applicant complete several steps prior to submission of an Application and dictates the materials which must be included in an Article 10 Application. These regulations can be found at 16 NYCRR 1001.1 et seq. Prior to submission of the forthcoming Application, Flint Mine Solar filed a Preliminary Scoping Statement (PSS) on November 2, 2018 with the Siting Board and, following a public comment period, prepared a response to material comments submitted January 11, 2019. On January 3, 2019, a pre-application conference to consider intervenor funding requests was held and the scoping stipulation process was ordered to commence. Stipulations were negotiated with parties, filed for public comment, and executed by the parties. The Applicant is now ready to file an Application. The Applicant also intends to submit a request for a Water Quality Certification (WQC) under Section 401 of the federal Clean Water Act. The WQC is necessary to obtain a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the minor disturbance to federally regulated wetlands required to construct the Facility.

The forthcoming Application includes, among other things: studies and analysis of the environmental setting of the Facility; maps and visual simulations of the proposed Facility, including preliminary design drawings and related information; copies of reports, studies and plans submitted in support of the Application; and an assessment of impacts of construction and/or operation of the Facility relating to land use; consistency with State energy planning objectives, including climate change and renewable energy goals; public health and safety; terrestrial ecology, water resources and aquatic ecology, including avian habitat and wetlands; communications, transportation and utilities; cultural, historical and recreational resources; visual and noise impacts; electric magnetic fields; and impacts on the statewide electrical system.

A copy of the Application will be served on the Chief Executive Officer of each municipality in which any portion of the Facility is located, as well as those persons and agencies enumerated in 16 NYCRR 1000.6. The record of this proceeding, including the Application, may be examined during normal business hours at the Offices of the New York State Department of Public Service (DPS) at 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223, and may also be viewed at the following public repositories: Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely Street, Coxsackie, NY; D.R. Evart Library, 80 Second Street, Athens, NY; Coxsackie Town Hall, 56 Bailey Street, Coxsackie, NY; Athens Town Hall, First Street, Athens, NY. Libraries often have free internet access.

Once an Application is filed and determined by the Siting Board to be complete, the Siting Board will schedule a public hearing on the Application. The Siting Board will also issue a notice of availability of application intervenor funds that are available to be used by parties to participate in formal review of the Application. A pre-hearing conference will be scheduled by the Hearing Examiner to identify intervenors, award intervenor funds, identify issues for the hearing, and establish a case schedule. Additional hearings regarding the application and project impact assessments will be scheduled by the Hearing Examiner as needed. After hearings, the stakeholders may brief their positions and the Hearing Examiner will issue a recommended decision upon which the Siting Board will base its decision. Article 10 requires that all proceedings on the Application, including a final decision by the Siting Board, must be completed within 12 months of when the Application is determined to be complete.

Upon filing the Application, the Applicant will provide funding in the amount of $100,000 to be disbursed by the Siting Board to municipalities and other local parties to help pay expenses, including attorneys and consultants, associated with participating in the Article 10 process during the application review phase. By law, fifty percent (50%) of these intervenor funds are reserved for municipalities. Following the filing of an Application, the Hearing Examiner or the Secretary will issue a notice of availability of application intervenor funds that provides a schedule and related information describing how interested members of the public may apply for application funds. Requests for application funds must be submitted to the Hearing Examiner within thirty (30) days after the issuance of the notice of the availability of application intervenor funds. Following the submittal of any intervenor funding requests, the Hearing Examiner may schedule a pre-hearing conference to consider fund requests.

Contact Information Flint Mine Solar LLC Patrick Doyle 2021 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203 Toll Free Number: 1-866-218-0658 info@hudsonenergydev.com

NYSDPS Article 10 Coordinator James Denn 3 Empire State Plaza Albany, NY 12223 Tel No. (518) 474-7080 james.denn@dps.nygov

The Application will also be available at the Siting Board’s website at (http://www.dps.ny.gov/). To access documents, go to “Search” on the top of the webpage and search using the Case Number 18-F-0087, or visit the Project-specific website maintained by the Applicant: http://www.hudsonenergydev.com/flint-mine-solar.html.

File a Request for Notices Any interested member of the public may file a request with the DPS Secretary to receive copies of all notices concerning the Project. Written requests should be sent to the DPS Secretary at secretary@dps.ny.gov or sent by mail to the following address: Honorable Michelle Phillips Secretary to the Commission NYS Public Service Commission Empire State Plaza Agency Building 3 Albany, New York 12223-1350

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Do your job, federal government In these frightening and uncertain times, we can’t run out of the tools health officials need to do their jobs. Yet that is what’s happening.

The state will run out of stockpiled ventilators in less than a week if several hundred new COVID-19 patients continue to enter intensive care units each day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.

Doctors, nurses and first responders are doing their jobs at incredible risk. It’s time for the federal government to do its job and supply ventilators to pandemic zones.

State officials study various expert models to determine a moderate projection for the number of hospital beds, ventila-

tors, gloves, masks and other personal protective equipment the state will need. Cuomo said the state could need as many as 40,000 ventilators to combat the virus at its peak. The peak could hit New York in the next seven to 30 days, depending on the model, Cuomo said Thursday during a briefing.

The federal government sent New York 4,400 ventilators and the state has purchased 17,000 ventilators from China at about $25,000 each, costing a minimum of $425 million. Cuomo anticipates the delivery of 2,500 machines to the state within the next two weeks.

The state sent 400 ventilators to NYC Health +

Hospitals and 200 to Long Island and Westchester hospitals Wednesday night. The 600 machines were the first from the state’s stockpile to be deployed.

President Donald Trump said Friday the federal government is not “an ordering clerk” for the states. This is not the attitude the country needs in these interdependent times.

Put another way, supplying ventilators is the task of the federal government; it needs to do more. Millions of doctors, nurses and first responders are doing their jobs.

It’s time for Washington to do its job.

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Some 77 percent of the U.S. public support the bipartisan $2.2 trillion coronavirus crisis economic package, according to Gallup. Undoubtedly this wide consensus reflects not only the sheer magnitude of the crisis to which the law responded, and the lack of viable alternatives, but also the degree to which Congress kept its focus on the most immediate needs of individuals, firms and health-care providers, with a minimum of non-germane pet spending items or permanent policy changes.

There were, alas, exceptions. Probably most regrettable is the bill’s creation of a new tax exclusion for employer payments of employee student loans up to $5,250 each through the end of 2020. Undoubtedly, student debt burdens many households, which is why it made sense for Congress to postpone payments on governmentprovided loans for six months in the bill. The tax break, however, provides a measure of actual principal relief Congress opted not to offer more generally, but only to relatively advantaged bor-

rowers: those who have jobs, earn enough to itemize their tax returns and work for the 8 percent of employers who already provide such support as taxable income under current law. Lobbying to make this provision permanent has already begun - and should be resisted.

The same goes for certain other tax breaks in the bill, especially provisions temporarily and, given the crisis, arguably necessarily, expanding business deductions for interest costs and net operating losses. Restrictions on those were among the few offsets to the 2017 tax bill’s broader largesse for corporations; the tougher treatment of interest costs was expected to raise almost $478 billion by 2032, with the salutary effect of discouraging excessive corporate debt. This might be a time for emergency tax relief, but not for a permanent narrowing of an already diminished federal tax base.

Already, there are signs of a less balanced debate over what may be inevitable additional coronavirus economic relief in the coming weeks. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi,

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The chief beneficiaries of the deduction would be suburban upper-income households in high-tax blue states such as Pelosi’s California; the top 17 percent of earners claimed 77 percent of the benefits prior to the 2017 change, according to the Tax Policy Center. Yes, states need federal help to get through this crisis; this huge upward transfer of income is an unfair and inefficient way to do that, especially if it’s retroactive - a pure windfall.

So far, both parties in Congress have mostly not used the crisis to pursue long-standing but tenuously related legislative goals. All who may be tempted to start behaving differently should take note that this was not only good policy but good politics too.

Crises and the collectivist temptation WASHINGTON — Today’s pandemic has simultaneously inflicted the isolation of “social distancing” and the social solidarity of shared anxiety. In tandem, these have exacerbated a tendency that was already infecting America’s body politic before the virus insinuated itself into many bodies and every consciousness.

It is the recurring longing for escape from individualism, with its burden of personal responsibility. It includes a concomitant desire for immersive politics, whereby people infuse their lives with synthetic meaning by enlisting in mass movements or collective efforts.

These usually derive their unity from a clear and present danger or, when that is lacking, from national, ethnic, racial or class resentments (e.g., President Donald Trump’s and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ not-so-very-different populisms of those who feel victimized).

Not all recoils against individualism are progressive, but progressivism always encourages such recoils. After World War I’s solidarity, which had been enforced by public bullying and minatory government, a progressive philosopher, Mary Follett, hoped that in peacetime America would abandon the idea of “the particularist individual” and natural rights belonging thereto, the better to emancipate government from limits.

Until a taste of the real thing arrived with the coronavirus, there was, in societies perhaps bored by their comforts, a hunger for apocalypse. A great threat can infuse excitement into bourgeois dullness and can justify a flight into exciting collective undertakings.

Hence the thrill many people recently derived from being excoriated by a Swedish teenager for abusing the planet. Earth’s supposedly mortal peril late in this century, still over the horizon, suddenly seems a comparatively manageable menace for a world that, when it will need mitigation measures,

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Political leaders frequently declare war, or its “moral equivalent,” on this or that (cancer, drugs, poverty, climate change, etc.) because they justify muscular measures. In his first inaugural address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that in order for him “to wage a war against the emergency” of the Depression, “we must move as a trained and loyal army” wielding “broad executive power” that should be “as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.” This was understandable, given the severity of pains and the public’s panic. Never mind that the result — unconstrained government meddlesomeness — probably prolonged the 12-year Depression, until rearmament ended it.

Today’s pandemic is an even more valid justification for sweeping exercises of executive powers by governors wielding states’ police powers. Governors know that to the axiom “to govern is to choose” there should be added seven words: “always on the basis of imperfect information.” What is not justified are attempts to use today’s real emergency as an excuse to rewrite the nation’s social contract in order to accustom Americans to life suited to a permanent emergency.

Progressives’ flirtation with the preposterous Green New Deal (the end of beef, and of airplanes, etc.) is so revealing because it envisions federal micromanagement of the economy and individual choices forever.

Consider also the somewhat successful attempt by the House Democratic caucus to lard the current economic rescue legislation with innumerable extraneous extensions of federal power over society. This illustrates progressivism’s eager embrace of temporary crises as hammers to pound Americans into the permanent solidarity that socialism promises — until it produces permanent cynicism and bitterness about the inevitably political allocation of wealth and opportunity.

Inconveniently for progressives, every war must end, no crisis is forever, and individualism — the American idea: the pursuit of happiness as each defines it — reemerges through fissures in the solidarity produced by transient crises. The British, too, understand. In Muriel Spark’s 1963 novel “The Girls of Slender Means,” members of a women’s club go to Buckingham Palace to celebrate V-E Day, relishing “the huge organic murmur of the crowd” in this culmination of wartime solidarity.

“The next day everyone began to consider where they personally stood in the new order of things.” Yes, personally. After wartime’s necessary collective exertions, a solidarity that had been obligatory during danger was undesirable as normality.

After World War II, A.J. Liebling, a war correspondent for The New Yorker, wrote that “you can feel [war’s] pull on men’s memories at the maudlin reunions of war divisions. They mourn for their dead, but also for war.”

Understandably so. Their nostalgia is for a temporary solidarity — aka regimentation — that was crowned by the glory of victory. But nostalgia for a time when society was fused by the heat of war or some other crisis is not a permanent basis for a free and open society.

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Daniel Joseph Borfitz CATSKILL, NY – Daniel Joseph Borfitz, 72, of Catskill died peacefully at his Spring Street home on March 27. He was born on October 14, 1947 at Greene County Memorial Hospital, the son of Emile and Ellen Laughlin Borfitz.

Mr. Borfitz, affectionately known as “Rocky” to his friends, was a 1965 graduate of St. Patrick’s Catholic Central High School in Catskill. He earned an associate degree from Ulster County Community College. He retired as a manager for Capital District Off-Track Betting and was formerly the business manager of the (Hudson, NY) Register-Star.

He was an avid NY Mets baseball and Jets football fan as well as an accomplished golfer. He was a former member of the Catskill Golf Club.

Mr. Borfitz was also an avid reader, he loved history books and mystery novels, daily crosswords. He cared for his mother after the death of his father. Mr. Borfitz was a veteran of the US Army. He served on Military Assistance Command Vietnam

(MACV) Team 68 in Cho Lach on the Mekong Delta in South Vietnam. He served as a radio operator on patrols with the South Vietnamese Army. He was an active member of the SullivanTeator Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 770 in Catskill. Mr. Borfitz is survived by a brother, David E. Borfitz and sister-in-law, Valerie, of Galway, NY; a niece, Cory E. Mescon of Florence, MA, her husband Ben Baumer and two grand nieces, Alice and Arlo Jeanne Baumer, also of Florence, MA. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his sister Jeanne Borfitz of Northampton MA, and a nephew, Tyler Mescon.

A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Hudson later this year. He will be remembered at a Celebration of Life also to be scheduled at a later date.

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Patricia Lois (Patrick) Robinson Patricia Lois (Patrick) Rob- lege in Providence, RI in 1951. inson, born January 16, 1933, She married Jacob C. Robpassed away peacefully on Fri- inson on July 25, 1953. She day, April 1, 2020 at Pine Haven worked various jobs as a bookNursing Home in Philmont, NY. keeper and secretary over the She was 87 years old. She was years. She will be remembered preceded in death by her hus- as a quiet, compassionate, band of 63 years, Jacob C. Rob- strong woman who always put inson. She was the daughter her family first. Jessica Lange of the late George L. and Linda once said, “The natural state of Patrick Sr., originally from the motherhood is unselfishness.”

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Agencies brace for rise in domestic violence

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Statewide stay-home orders do not necessarily mean victims of domestic violence are safe.

“With the pandemic forcing society to stay primarily in their homes, it is understandable that victims of domestic violence are feeling particularly vulnerable at this time,” state Attorney General Letitia James said. “As we take extraordinary steps to confront the threat to public health posed by this global pandemic, we must not lose sight of the very real potential for an increase in intimate partner abuse. I encourage those who experience domestic violence to reach out to relevant resources for help and guidance during these difficult times.”

On average, more than 10 million individuals per year are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.

“Women should know they don’t have to stay in those situations, we will help them relocate, we will help them find safe shelter,” said Melissa DeRosa, secretary to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, at a press conference Friday.

“I spoke to the state police this morning. There is a reported uptick... some reports as high as 15 to 20%. It’s unacceptable on any day, and I want people to know every single case that’s reported, the state police is going to investigate fully and bring the full bear of the law behind it,” DeRosa said.

One in three women and one in four men have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner, according to the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office saw a rise in domestic dispute calls, with five in February of this year, and 16 in March.

“What was noticeable was that nine of the 16 were during the week of March 21,” Sheriff Pete Kusminsky said. That was the first week of the stay-home orders.

Connie Neal, executive director of the state Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said domestic violence often escalates during and after a disaster because of increased isolation and limited financial resources, social networks and support.

“But help is available through a network of domestic

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violence advocacy services across the state of New York,” Neal said. “Advocates can provide confidential assistance with safety planning, emotional support, shelter and referrals for a range of other community services.”

Community Action of Greene County serves Columbia and Greene counties, providing residential and nonresidential domestic violence services, including arranging emergency shelter, legal services, social services, supportive and counseling services, educational outreach, information and referrals.

With mass layoffs and a rise in food insecurity, Community Action Executive Director Florence Ohle said this can add to an already volatile situation.

“The bottom line is domestic violence happens because a person is a batterer,” Ohle said.

“A lot of people are affected by economic crises or unemployment, but not everybody batters.”

Community Action has not had a sharp rise in Domestic Violence Hotline calls, Ohle said.

“Anything that increases your own anxiety or makes you feel like you don’t have a lot of control over a situation can be expressed externally and can certainly increase the risk for people being victimized, whether it is in the home or out in the community at this point,” said Julianne Baumann, program director and clinician with the Child Advocacy Center.

Baumann said the Child Advocacy Center’s hotline has not had an increase in calls, but in preparation for the stay-athome order, staff provided regular clients with direct phone

numbers to remain in touch.

“A lot of our protective factors that we have in place for our children and our families are difficult to maintain at this time, so we’ll probably see an increase in some of the violence that’s happening,” Baumann said.

With schools and other safe spaces closed or running at a minimum, the Child Advocacy Center is collaborating with other Mental Health Association programs, food pantries, school meal programs, law enforcement agencies and other programs to conduct outreach, especially since April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

On a typical day, More than 20,000 phone calls are placed on domestic violence hotlines nationwide.

“Like I always tell people, calling a hotline is not making an accusation,” Baumann said. “It’s oftentimes reporting something that you feel might be an issue or a topic of concern, and you’re putting those concerns in the hands of people who are trained to reach out, to investigate, to provide support and services.”

The Hudson Police Department is implementing measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 to officers and the community, but the department assured residents that officers will always respond to an emergency and there would be no lapse in coverage for the city.

In February and March of 2019, the department answered 39 domestic disputes.

In February and March of 2020, the department had 38.

“I have learned that crime is trending down in Hudson,

Twin County unemployment filings skyrocket

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

Unemployment filings increased more than 2,000% last week, according to a statement from the state Department of Labor.

More than 369,000 claims were filed during the week of March 23-28, according to department, which represents a 2,674% increase compared to last year.

There was also a significant jump from the amount of claims filed for the week of March 16-March 21: going from 80,509 claims to 369,025 the following week.

Layoffs are on the rise across the state as restaurants and bars have converted to take-out and delivery services, movie theaters, casinos, gyms, shopping malls, amusement parks, bowling alleys, barbershops, hair salons, tattoo or piercing parlors, nail salons and other personal care businesses were forced to close due to the rapid spread of COVID-19.

“It’s a difficult time for employees who are out of work and dealing with their own cash flow issues as they wait for unemployment benefits to flow,” Columbia Economic Development Corporation President F. Michael Tucker said.

“Certainly, the unemployment statistics released by the state confirmed the horrendous impact the pandemic is having on businesses and employees,” he added. “Fortunately, the government has provided for and enhanced the unemployment benefits during this time and hopefully businesses will be able to reopen and employees will be able to return to work as soon as possible.”

The region’s unemployment rate was low prior to the outbreak, with Columbia County at 3.8% and Greene County at 5%.

“We were in good shape before the shutdown,” Greene County Economic Development and Planning Director Karl Heck said. “Now, there is a massive surge in unemployment as all businesses have been shutdown due to the pandemic, There’s no way around that.”

The circumstances are unprecedented, Heck said.

“In two weeks, half the job gains from the expansion have gone away according to [the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics],” Heck added. “Not in our life time, we haven’t seen anything like this.”

The Great Depression may have been the last time period that was somewhat comparable, Heck said.

“We’re hearing 20-30% unemployment rates,” he said. “That was the only time you saw numbers close that. Hopefully it’s a very short period of time. Even the worst recession since then was 10%, which is still a lot of people but not the same.” The urgency of the situation is exacerbated by how quickly it happened, Heck said.

“This has happened literally within a few weeks, it makes it a lot harder,” Heck noted. “You’ll see February with 5% unemployment and growth and in March you’re going to see a U-turn. This is pretty much nationwide. It’s not like a hurricane or some other natural disaster where it’s only one state. We’re all in this together.”

The uncertainty about the future

looms, Heck said.

“The threat from the pandemic diminishes the chance that things will return to normal very soon,” he said.

“One of the hardest things with this is you just don’t know.”

The Capital Region labor market, which includes Columbia and Greene counties, was ranked fourth for having the most significant increase in unemployment filings compared to last year, at 2,768%.

The industries with the biggest increases in filings included other services at 9,153%; accommodation and food services at 4,159%; arts, entertainment and recreation at 3,880%; health care and social assistance at 3,847%; and educational services at 3,800%.

The cumulative increase for the weeks of March 9-14, March 16-21 and 23-28 was 425,000 more filings than this time last year.

A similar trend is being reported nationwide.

“In the week ending March 28, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 6,648,000, an increase of 3,341,000 from the previous week’s revised level,” according to a release from the U.S. Department of Labor. “This marks the highest level of seasonally adjusted initial claims in the history of the seasonally adjusted series.”

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported hospitality, retail, health care and construction were among some of the most impacted sectors.

“Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 701,000 in March, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

reported today [Friday],” according to the report. “The changes in these measures reflect the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and efforts to contain it. Employment in leisure and hospitality fell by 459,000, mainly in food services and drinking places. Notable declines also occurred in health care and social assistance, professional and business services, retail trade, and construction.”

The unemployment rate increase is the largest month-over-month increase since 1975, according to the bureau. The number of unemployed rose from 1.4 million to 7.1 million in March.

In New York, the labor department is amping up its filing system to handle the claim volume.

“In recent weeks, the New York State Department of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance filing system has faced an unprecedented increase in volume — including a 16,000% increase in phone calls and a nearly 900% increase in web traffic, compared to a typical week,” according to bureau.

To combat the high volume, applicants follow an alphabetical system when filing according to the first letter of their last name.

Letters A-F can file on Mondays, G-N file on Tuesdays, O-Z file on Wednesday and if you missed your day to file, you can file Thursday through Saturday.

The Telephone Claim Center has extended its hours to include 8 a.m.7:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.6 p.m. on Friday and 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m.

Saturday.

but one stubborn category is domestic violence, which as we see, tends to remain constant,” Police Chief L. Edward Moore said. “I am concerned, though, that the pandemic may cause a spike in it, which may play out over the next few weeks.”

The number of calls in February and March this year dropped 12.8 percent decrease from the same two months in 2019, which had 1,242 calls.

With restriction on bars and social gatherings, there are fewer quality-of-life complaints, Moore said.

Community Action’s Domestic Violence Hotline is 518-943-9211. The Greene County office can be reached at 518-943-9205, Columbia County office at 518-822-0849.

The Child Advocacy Center of Columbia-Greene Counties’ 24-hour emergency hotline is 518-828-5556 or 518-943-4482.

The National Domestic Violence 24-hour hotline is 1-800799-7233, or for teletypewriter 1-800-787-3224. The state Domestic and Sexual Violence 24-hour hotline is 1-800-9426906, or for the deaf 711. The 24-hour live-operated bilingual (English/Spanish) hotline for the Violence Intervention Program is 1-800-664-5580.

Anyone whose life is in immediate danger should call 911.

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Whatever you do this spring, don’t feed the bears!

April 1 was April Fool’s Day, of course, but this year many people are finding it hard to find anything funny at all about the current state of the world.

Please don’t despair, because we will surely get past this crisis in time, as the world keeps on turning.

I am reminded of a line in a Jefferson Airplane song entitled “Eskimo Blue Day.” The line is: “You call it rain, but the human name doesn’t mean [expletive] to a tree.” Our human-centered approach to life on this planet seems to indicate that we are in control. Pandemics such as this remind us this is not the case.

Fortunately, spring seems to be arriving much earlier than most years and we get to enjoy the spring floral displays a couple of weeks earlier than usual. Not being able to go to work almost forces many of us to observe our own tiny space in more detail than we would otherwise. Lots of you enjoy backyard bird feeding as an

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BEYFUSS educational pastime, perhaps as much or even more than gardening!

I do have to remind you that April 1 is when you need to remove your backyard bird feeders, or at least be prepared to bring them indoors every single night. Most of the local black bears have already emerged from hibernation and they are hungry and looking for a handout. If your bird feeder was trashed last fall before the bears hibernated, you can be pretty certain it will be revisited this spring. Bears have a very good memory for

these things.

I don’t think that having a nuisance bear near your property presents much of a threat to your safety, but there is a serious threat to the bear itself.

I will relay a true story to illustrate my point.

A young black bear wanders into a village and finds a few backyard bird feeders, which it trashes, much to the consternation of the residents.

Most people respond by taking down the feeders, but the bear returns and finds some pet food that is placed outside and eats that. The pet owners respond by only feeding inside their homes. The bear returns and finds some garbage cans placed outside the night before they are to be picked up.

The garbage is trashed and the mess has to be cleaned up entirely and quickly. No one likes picking up dirty diapers and other such items scattered around the street.

Since there are NO bearproof garbage cans, garbage must now only be put out

right before pickup, or placed in some sort of dumpster that can be sealed to prevent the bears from getting in, but the odor of garbage lingers far more than any human nose can detect.

The bear returns and smells the odor of garbage coming from a small shed. Garbage has now become a preferred food for this young bruin and it has no trouble breaking into the shed.

The homeowner calls the Department of Environmental Conservation for help. The DEC makes sure the homeowner is complying with all rules and precautions, but the bear continues to return and even enters a neighboring house through a screen door to access pet food stored in a back room, scaring the heck out of the occupants.

At this point the nuisance bear must be captured and relocated by the DEC, at great taxpayer expense and effort.

The trapped bear is relocated elsewhere, but soon finds

another village to pillage. Finally, the DEC has no choice but to euthanize, a fancy word that means “kill,” the young bear.

This is indeed a true story that happened in Delaware County not too many years ago, and has been repeated more than once since then.

The bottom line is that if you care about our local wildlife, you must do everything possible to prevent incidents like this. This is not just my opinion, it is the law.

If you have had a bear encounter at your bird feeder and you continue to put out feed or are careless with your garbage, you are subject to

fines that can be pretty significant, especially for repeated offenses.

Bears are not the only wildlife that are attracted to free handouts. Skunks love outdoor pet food, as do raccoons, possums and rats.

This is a good time to inspect your property and outbuildings to make sure there is no easy access to a denning site under a shed, garage, or barn. Seal all possible entrances as soon as possible, or you may end up having a family of skunks as neighbors this spring!

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

Why not a Senior Olympics to replace the Summer Olympics?

I was saddened to hear that the Summer Olympics have been postponed for a year. Like most of the sedentary folks I know, I’ve always had a great time watching the Olympics.

I would have liked to have been an Olympian. Only a lack of athletic talent and no desire to perspire kept me from reaching that goal. Being a perpetual optimist, I tried to talk myself into the unlikely conclusion that it might not be too late.

The only event it looks like I might have a shot at competing in is shooting. I used to be a good shot, but that hope faded as I remembered I have a little arthritis in my right shoulder that probably would be aggravated by shooting 500 or so rounds a day for practice.

I guess I’ll just continue to watch, although maybe I could be a judge. I seem to catch on amazingly quickly. After five or 10 minutes of watching a sport I’ve never even seen before, I find myself yelling suggestions and questioning the player’s techniques.

Instead of judging, maybe I was cut out to be a coach.

Probably won’t do either, too much time and commitment.

I don’t know how much time I have left before I’m committed, so I guess I’ll just pass on all of it.

I had a little ponder on the matter and I believe the solution would be to have a Senior Olympics. We have Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics and Para Olympics, why not a Senior Olympics? Tailoring the events for seniors shouldn’t be too difficult.

Walker races could be exciting. There could be a wheeled and a non-wheeled division.

Sock wrestling would be fun

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BROOKS to watch. Give a bunch of old-timers each a pair of new, tight-fitting athletic socks, and see who can get them on first.

Penalties would be awarded for muscle tears, hyperventilation, or leg cramps.

Denture spitting for distance or the hundred-foot shuffle and groan would bring out a bunch of older competitors. There could be a small arena set up to look like a

restaurant where contestants would see how many packets of sweetener they could stuff into a standard-sized purse within a set time limit. There could be a comb-over competition, where the object would be to cover the most amount of scalp with the least amount of hair.

Marathon grumbling and complaining should be popular, and the competition to see who could swallow three pounds of various pills in the shortest amount of time could be downright exciting. I think the senior uniforms should be made from polyester and look like really cool leisure suits.

Orthopedic shoes with Velcro fasteners would complete the outfit.

No doubt about it, a Senior Olympics could be a big hit.

Got any ideas for events that I didn’t think of? Let me know.

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

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Editor’s Note: Virtual Worship Editor’s Note: Normally this page is devoted to Church News; however, since churches are closed at this time and there are no church events, we are eager to find out how your

church is handling the temporary shutdown.

If your church is having “virtual worship” or meetings on Zoom, we would be more than happy to include those

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Virtual Worship GHENT REFORMED CHURCH WEST GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, West Ghent, will have Drive-Thru Communion 9-10 a.m. Palm Sunday, April 5. Communion elements and liturgy will be in a sealed plastic bag to take with you.

TEMPLE ISRAEL OF CATSKILL CATSKILL — Temple Israel of Catskill will celebrate Passover online at 6 p.m. April 9 with Rabbi Zoe B. Zak on Facebook. Go to Temple of Israel Facebook page, scross down until you see Live Feed.

If you need more information about any event or service, email Temple Israel at info@templeisraelofcatskill. com or call 518-943-5758.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HUDSON — First Presbyterian Church of Hudson will offer a modified worship service broadcast weekly from the sanctuary for the duration of the closure at the regular worship time 10:45 a.m. on Facebook Live on the church’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ FirstPresHudson/ NOTE: It is important to distinguish this is NOT the Facebook GROUP, which is a closed group, but a public PAGE. It is also important to note

that you can access these gatherings without a Facebook account, but if you would like to actively participate by offering prayer requests, it is recommended you create one if you do not have one already. If you have trouble finding the service during the live broadcast, don’t worry! Facebook will automatically record the service and the video will remain up on the page.

The church is currently in conversation with its sister church, St. Peter’s Presbyterian in Spencertown, to arrange a joint Easter service.

What has usually been the church’s regularly scheduled Bible study at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesdays will be a weekly check-in and discussion as to how to respond as people of faith, considering the strained circumstances everyone faces right now.

A recurring meeting on Zoom has been set up for eight weeks, through May 13, which will use the same credentials each week to log in.

You can either download the Zoom app on your computer or smartphone or join by dialing in or using the link below. Please follow the prompts and enter the meeting ID and provided here: https://zoom.us/j/80808501 3?pwd=bUpqRVF3OWNQNC

80RFM0c0dPdHI3UT09 Meeting ID: 808 085 013 Password: 487712 Dial-in: +1 646-558-8656 (New York) Meeting ID: 808 085 013 First Presbyterian Church will soon offer opportunities to offer recurring pledge and plate offering through the Presbyterian Foundation with a link on the website at FirstPresHudson.org.

Take this opportunity to join a live-streamed worship service with one of the sister churches: Caldwell Presbyterian Church: Live Streaming Sundays at 10 a.m. Visit their website for details on how to join.

First Presbyterian Church of Glens Falls: Live Streaming Sundays at 10 a.m. from their YouTube channel, FPCGF Church.

Mayfield Central Presbyterian Church: Live Streaming Sundays 10:30 a.m. Visit their Facebook page to watch.

Note that you do not need to have a Facebook account to watch a Facebook Live video stream.

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Albany: Live Streaming Sundays at 10 a.m. Visit their website for details on how to join.

MVP Health Care expands access to critical health care services SCHENECTADY — MVP Health Care announced it is providing its New York members free/no-cost access to virtual emergency room services to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).

For MVP Health Care members, this new and groundbreaking option provides on-demand access to an ER physician 24/7 from the comfort of their home.

The emergency medicine trained providers — powered by United Concierge Medicine — can then assess a patient’s need for COVID-19 testing and prescribe appropriate treatment.

“As the public contends with coronavirus COVID-19, it’s essential that we offer our members innovative solutions to fight this pandemic,” said MVP Health Care’s president and CEO, Christopher Del Vecchio.

“We’re leveraging technology during a challenging time to support the health and safety of the communities we serve, and we truly believe that this program is a game-changer for anyone in need of ER triage.”

If a member has symptoms of COVID-19, they are encouraged to use the virtual emergency room as

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MVP Health Care’s myERnow — powered by United Concierge Medicine — will triage patients to the most appropriate point of service, keeping local doctor’s offices, emergency departments and urgent care centers safe, and ensuring all patients get appropriate and timely service.

Most patients need evaluation and reassurance only.

For patients — especially those at high risk — for whom testing is determined to be a reasonable next step, United Concierge Medicine will work with local health departments and providers to determine appropriateness and availability of testing. If testing is determined to be appropriate and available, UCM will coordinate and prescribe testing.

“Our virtual ER platforms utilize the latest technology combined with a highly trained emergency medicine team ready to address COVID-19 symptoms and potential cases,” said Keith Algozzine PA-C, CEO of United Concierge Medicine.

“We are dedicated to ensuring that patients get the right care, at the right place, at the right time. By working with

health plans, local healthcare officials and facilities, we will ensure patients receive timely care and CDC protocols are followed.”

MVP Health Care members can call 1-833-myERnow (1-833-693-7669) 24 hours a day/7 days a week, or visit www.mvphealthcare.com/myERnow to be connected to a live, emergency medicine provider.

MVP Health Care is also reminding members of the following: COVID-19 diagnostic tests prescribed by doctors will be covered in full.

There will be no prior authorization for COVID-19 testing. Now is also a good time for members who have mail-order benefits to consider ordering a 90day supply of medications.

MVP Health Care has plans in place to remain operational in the event of any widespread illness. Should you need anything during this time, do not hesitate to call your plan’s customer service team for questions related to your benefits or care.

MVP Health Care members can begin using the myERnow service immediately.

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Trout, Stripers open, new rules announced

By Larry DiDonato

For Columbia-Greene Media

Trout season opened this past Wednesday, April 1st, as did striped bass fishing on the Hudson River. The trout opener found area streams in great shape.

They were very fishable despite weekend rains. Proof of that can be found in Cairo anglers Jeremy Metzler and his 10-year old son Tyler.

They took advantage of good flow conditions as well as the nice weather, catching two nice trout while fishing the Catskill Creek.

Tyler and his dad each caught a nice 18-inch holdover brown using night crawlers. Its certain they are holdovers since the Catskill has yet to be stocked this year.

According to Greene County Federation of Sportsmen Fish Chairman, Walt Bennett, some area streams have been stocked by DEC staff without the usual army of volunteers due to the corona virus.

He advised hatchery staff will continue to stock streams unaided, with all the usual water bodies being stocked at least once by the end of April. Walt commended DEC for making sure the stocking program ran smoothly despite the challenges brought on by the virus.

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Tyler Metzler, 10, of Cairo, with “twin” 18-inch browns he and his dad caught while fishing on opening day in the Catskill Creek.

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Current 76ers GM Elton Brand a candidate for Knicks GM Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

Leon Rose might look to Philadelphia for his new right-hand man.

According to a league source, Elton Brand has been targeted by Rose as a candidate for Knicks GM. Brand, 41, is currently the Sixers GM and is under contract next season, complicating any designs of bringing him to New York. The source said Rose

wanted to see if Brand was dismissed after the playoffs.

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of the commencement of the striped bass season, DEC issued a press release

announcing anticipated changes to regulations concerning the taking of striped bass.

In fairness the regulators were hampered by the corona virus crisis. There were no surprises here. All the changes now in effect were enumerated in this column two weeks ago and are included in the announcement

by DEC. Here are the changes for the 2020 Striped Bass Recreational Regulations: In the Hudson River and its tributaries: Slot size limit: 18”- 28” total length (No fish smaller than 18” or greater than 28” may be kept) Season dates: April 1st November 30th Daily possession limit of 1 fish per angler In marine waters: Slot size limit: 28” - 35” total length (No fish smaller than 28” or greater than 35” may be kept) Season dates: April 15th December 15th Daily possession limit of 1 fish per angler In the Delaware River and its West Branch bordering Pennsylvania: Slot size limit: 28” - 35” total length See TROUT B3

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Jeremy Metzler of Cairo said it was “great fun” watching his 10 year old son Tyler reel in one of the lunker 18-inch holdover browns, the did the same thing moments later.

Yankees’ Tanaka returns to Japan with his family over coronavirus concerns in the U.S. Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

TAMPA, Fla. — Saying that he felt that the situation with the coronavirus pandemic was dangerous in the United States, Masahiro Tanaka returned to Japan late last month, according to Kyodo News.

The 31-year-old right-hander said he and his family had no symptoms of COVID-19, but he felt it best for his wife and their two children to return to Japan.

Tanaka said he and his family would self-quarantine at home for two weeks at the Japanese government’s request for all residents returning from foreign travel.

Tanaka tweeted about his decision.

“After spring training was discontinued, there was a situation where I was in danger besides the coronavirus infection while staying in Florida,” Tanaka said, according to Kyodo News. “I have decided See YANKEES B3

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New York Yankees starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka (19) tips his hat to the crowd as he is taken out during a recent spring training against the Atlanta Braves at George M. Steinbrenner Field.

New Giants linebacker Kyler Fackrell in a rush to get back to 2018 form Tom Rock Newsday

Kyler Fackrell had a breakout season for the Packers in 2018, and last season he said he felt as if he got even better.

That would seem to be the perfect situation for a player at a highly valuable position like outside linebacker in the NFL who headed into free agency this offseason. Ka-ching!

The only problem was that Fackrell thought he got better but never had much of an opportunity to show it. He posted 10.5 sacks in 2018 and then saw his team sign two big-ticket players — Za’Darius Smith and Preston Smith — that reduced his role to a less-used backup.

“It was obviously not ideal,” he said after having his snap count drop from about 39 per game to 26 per game and his sack total shrink from double digits to just one.

So instead of cashing on a big contract, Fackrell’s options were more limited and he wound up signing a one-year deal with the Giants. It’s a prove-it contract, something similar to the one the Giants gave to Markus Golden last year when he led the team in sacks (and remains a free agent).

So what does Fackrell want to show in 2020?

“I believe that I am better than a one-sack guy,” he said. “That’s really what I’m going to try to prove.”

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Green Bay Packers linebacker Kyler Fackrell (51) high fives cornerback Tramon Williams (38) during a Dec. 29 game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field.

The Giants will give him a chance to show that. He’ll be reunited with his former position coach in Green Bay, new Giants defensive

coordinator Patrick Graham, and be asked to play an important, versatile role.

“I have the utmost confidence in myself,”

Fackrell said on a conference call on Thursday. “I think that I am a very versatile 3-4 outside linebacker. I love to rush and I think I’m good at it and I take a lot of pride in dropping and making plays in space as well. In the kind of 3-4 defense we played in Green Bay, and I think Patrick Graham runs kind of a similar style of defense, having a versatile outside linebacker like that is very valuable.”

Clearly Graham believes in Fackrell. Another believer is new Giants inside linebacker Blake Martinez. They were teammates together in Green Bay for four years and even roommates in rookie camp and training camps.

“He’s an amazing player,” Martinez said. “I think there is a lot of things that he hasn’t been able to show because of certain kind of depth chart things, certain roles he was placed into.

Obviously, he had a 10-sack season two years ago. This last year he was a role player that stepped in and did a lot of great things. I think he is one of the best zone coverage linebackers in the NFL in my opinion. What he has been able to do for us and what he’s been asked to do, he’s done a phenomenal job and I know he is going to be a great asset to this team and show people a lot of great things this year. “ There will be plenty of ways to quantify See GIANTS B3

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Sports Flashbacks BASEBALL 1923 — Banned from baseball despite being cleared of any wrongdoing in the fixing of the 1919 World Series, former Chicago White Sox players Happy Felsch and Swede Risberg file suit against their old team for back salary plus $400,000 in damages.

1961 — Connie Mack Stadium, formerly known as Shibe Park, is sold and will be torn down after the 1963 season to make room for bowling alleys. The park was home to both the Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies.

1966 — Following a special draft, pitcher Tom Seaver signs with the New York Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus. MLB sets up the lottery to avoid a lawsuit threatened by Seaver’s father.

1969 — The Phillies trade veteran first baseman Bill White to the Cardinals for Jerry Buchek and Jim Hutto. White, the future NL president, plays one season with the Cardinals before retiring.

1974 — Pedro Guerrero, 17, is traded from the Indians to the Dodgers for pitcher Bruce Ellingsen. Guerrero will be a five-time All-Star with the Dodgers.

1985 — An owners’ proposal to stretch the League Championship Series from five to seven games is approved by the MLB Players’ Association.

1987 — The Chicago Cubs deal starting pitcher Dennis Eckersley to the Oakland Athletics as part of a five-player swap. Eckersley will transform himself into a Hall of Fame reliever in Oakland.

1989 — Seattle rookie Ken Griffey Jr. doubles off Oakland’s Dave Stewart in his first MLB atbat.

1994 — Cincinnati hosts the first Sunday night opener in MLB history despite the protests of owner Marge Schott. The Reds lose to the Cardinals, 6-4.

2002 — San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds becomes the second player to begin the season with back-to-back two-homer games, joining Hall of Famer Eddie Mathews.

2005 — Tampa Bay outfielder Angel Sanchez is suspended for 10 games after becoming the first major league player publicly identified for violating baseball’s new policy on performance-enhancing drugs.

2007 — Marcus and Brian Giles bat first and second for the San Diego Padres, marking the first time two brothers were back-to-back at the top of a lineup since Matty and Jesus Alou did it for San Francisco in 1965.

2008 — Pitcher Johnny Cueto strikes out 10 hitters in his MLB debut, leading Cincinnati to a 3-2 home win over Arizona.

2009 — Released earlier in the week by the Tigers, Gary Sheffield, 40, signs with the New York Mets for the major league minimum of $400,000.

Yankees’ Britton reveals MLB has discussed several neutral sites to host games Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

TAMPA, Fla. — Zack Britton knows what it’s like to play baseball in an empty stadium. With the Orioles, he pitched in that April 29, 2015 game against the White Sox at Camden Yards. With riots after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, MLB ruled the game would go on without fans. Britton recalled it was eerie and not a lot of fun, but in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic he agrees it could be the way to restart baseball.

The Yankees union rep told Sirius/ XM’s MLB Network Radio channel that empty stadiums and a neutral site for teams like the Yankees whose big league cities are hotspots for the virus are being discussed for when the game is able to resume.

“For the sake of the public I think that that’s the right move, and honestly I think we could possibly need to find a neutral site for a little while

because New York has been such a hotbed for this,” Britton said. “And guys are open to that. I know there are sites they’ve already discussed. I’m not sure if I should even say that publicly, but I know that there’s four sites or four or five sites that are going to have to be added.”

He said that MLB and the union need to discuss how to use these potential neutral sites if they get to that point. The sites would be chosen based on having the resources, facilities and hotels to host a big league team.

Florida and Arizona had been mentioned as possible neutral sites to host big league teams that could not return to their normal cities. It’s not ideal and would undoubtedly affect the games, because minor league stadiums not only are smaller, but also do not have good stadium lighting.

But the players want to work with the owners to get baseball back as soon as responsibly possible and also

play as many games as they can.

“I think the big thing for us obviously is getting the season going and playing regular-season games through that month of October and then you know in a perfect world, obviously, you know, seeing where we are with the expanded playoffs, after that.

“We’re gonna have to have those talks pretty soon, but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter until you know that the virus is under control,” Britton continued. “And people are able to go back to, you know, everyday life, let alone ... to go watch baseball or play baseball.”

Britton said he has been back at home in Texas, spending quality time with his family. He has a gym and bullpen at his place and is able to workout there. He said it’s been a bit of trial and error figuring out how to stay ready for a season that they don’t know when and if it will start.

“When spring training got

suspended I mean I was ready to roll out right to the start of the season. So what I’ve done is, you know, I was just kind of guessing right now, honestly,” Britton said. “I am keeping the intensity up like once a week. In my house here I built the new gym, I’ve got a bullpen in here, so I kind of dial up the intensity and try to go throw. I’ve got a hitting dummy I’ll put in there to try to ... visualize the faces of some hitters and things like that. Obviously you’re never gonna be able to full-on duplicate that experience, but that’s what I’m doing. I’m trying to keep the intensity up there off the mound once a week.

“I continue working out in the gym, throwing like I would, if it was the regular season, but I’m not trying to overdo it off the mound, but I need to keep some resemblance of intensity because I don’t want to go back to whatever type of spring we have and be in a position, we’re not physically ready to go.”

Games without fans do not make financial sense for baseball

BASKETBALL 1962 — Elgin Baylor and Jerry West score 38 points apiece as the Los Angeles Lakers advance to the NBA Finals with a 123-117 win over the Detroit Pistons in Game 6 of the Western Division finals.

1970 — Lew Alcindor (later changes name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) scores 46 points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 115-106 series-clinching Game 5 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers to advance to the Eastern Division finals.

1987 — The New Jersey Nets retire the No. 32 worn by Julius Erving during the franchise’s time in the ABA. 1988 — Chicago’s Michael Jordan scores 59 points to lead the Bulls to a 112-110 win over the Detroit Pistons.

1994 — Boston’s Sherman Douglas dishes out 22 assists to go with 27 points as the Celtics rout the 76ers, 135-112.

1996 — Bryant Reeves scores 28 points and the Grizzlies snap a 23-game losing skid with a 105103 win over the Timberwolves. The streak is currently tied for third longest in NBA history.

1998 — Jordan tallies 41 points in Chicago’s 107-93 win over Minnesota to become the third player at the time to reach 29,000 career points.

1999 — New Jersey’s Kendall Gill ties the NBA record of 11 steals as part of a triple-double that includes 15 points and 10 rebounds as the Nets post an 88-77 victory over the Miami Heat. San Antonio’s Larry Kenon had 11 steals in 1976.

2001 — Jerry Stackhouse scores a franchiserecord 57 points as the Detroit Pistons roll to a 110-83 win over the Chicago Bulls.

HOCKEY 1930 — The Montreal Canadiens complete one of the biggest upsets in Stanley Cup history, securing the title with a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins. The win completed a two-game sweep over the Bruins, who hadn’t lost two games in a row all season.

1945 — Bernie Parent is born in Montreal. The agile netminder appears in 608 career regularseason games with three teams, winning back-to-back Vezina Trophies while leading the Philadelphia Flyers to consecutive Stanley Cup titles in 1974 and 1975.

1976 — Darryl Sittler becomes the first player in Toronto history to reach the 100-point plateau in a season as the Maple Leafs lose, 4-2, to the Bruins. The future Hall of Famer repeats the feat two seasons later.

1977 — The Montreal Canadiens cap one of the most incredible regular seasons in NHL history with a season-ending 2-1 victory over the Washington Capitals. The Canadiens become the first team to register 60 wins, and their 132 points is also a league record.

2006 — Detroit Red Wings legend Steve Yzerman scores the final regular-season goal of his career in a 2-1 shootout win over the Calgary Flames. He leaves the sport with 692 goals, good for eighth on the all-time list.

2007 — New Jersey netminder Martin Brodeur earns his record-tying 47th win of the season in a 2-1 shootout win over Ottawa. Brodeur ties the single-season mark originally set by Philadelphia’s Bernie Parent in 1973-74.

2008 — Minnesota head coach Jacques Lemaire becomes the 12th member of the 500win club, guiding the Wild to a 3-1 victory over the Flames. The win is also significant to the Wild, which clinches its first division title in franchise history.

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 70 44 14 5 7 100 Tampa Bay 70 43 21 5 1 92 Toronto 70 36 25 4 5 81 Florida 69 35 26 4 4 78 Montreal 71 31 31 8 1 71 Buffalo 69 30 31 6 2 68 Ottawa 71 25 34 7 5 62 Detroit 71 17 49 3 2 39 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 69 41 20 5 3 90 Philadelphia 69 41 21 2 5 89 Pittsburgh 69 40 23 6 0 86 Carolina 68 38 25 5 0 81 Columbus 70 33 22 11 4 81 NY Islanders 68 35 23 7 3 80 NY Rangers 70 37 28 3 2 79 New Jersey 69 28 29 6 6 68 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 71 42 19 7 3 94 Colorado 70 42 20 7 1 92 Dallas 69 37 24 5 3 82 Winnipeg 71 37 28 4 2 80 Nashville 69 35 26 5 3 78 Minnesota 69 35 27 4 3 77 Chicago 70 32 30 4 4 72 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 71 39 24 6 2 86 Edmonton 71 37 25 7 2 83 Calgary 70 36 27 6 1 79 Vancouver 69 36 27 3 3 78 Arizona 70 33 29 4 4 74 Anaheim 71 29 33 8 1 67 Los Angeles 70 29 35 3 3 64 San Jose 70 29 36 4 1 63

GF GA 227 174 245 195 238 227 231 228 212 221 195 217 191 243 145 267 GF GA 240 215 232 196 224 196 222 193 180 187 192 193 234 222 189 230 GF GA 225 193 237 191 180 177 216 203 215 217 220 220 212 218 GF GA 227 211 225 217 210 215 228 217 195 187 187 226 178 212 182 226

NHL SCORING LEADERS THROUGH MARCH 11 GP G 71 43 64 34 69 32 70 48 69 35

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Kevin Acee The San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO — As soon as possible, baseball wants to be what it often has been.

After world wars and 9/11 and every summer and fall.

“We want to give everybody something to look forward to,” Padres pitcher Craig Stammen said this week. “Hopefully that’s baseball.”

Multiple players and fans have expressed similar sentiments in recent weeks.

So have people from Major League Baseball and executives with the MLB Players Association, in private conversations and conference calls and interviews.

“The one thing I know for sure is baseball will be back,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN last week. “Whenever it’s safe to play, we’ll be back. ... We will be part of the healing in this country from this particular pandemic. I think it would mark a real milestone in the return to normalcy.”

For those starved for any kind of sensory stimulation or sports satiation, that likely rings true.

MLB and its players’ union agreed not to start playing games until medical experts determine it is safe to hold large gatherings.

But they did allow the possibility of revisiting that stipulation, and Manfred has talked publicly about the possibility of beginning games without fans in attendance.

Financially, however, that is almost certainly not a feasible route for baseball.

“We’d be better off not playing,” said one person involved in many of the talks between MLB and its players. “... To do so for any extended period, the losses are going to mushroom, it would be devastating.”

Without fans paying for parking, buying tickets and food and merchandise, without revenue from in-stadium sponsorship revenue and corporations buying suites, all that is left is television money.

Unlike the NFL, in which every team received $255 million from the league’s national television deals in 2019, MLB teams couldn’t come close to covering their costs through TV money.

Unlike NBA and NHL teams, which were deep into their seasons and had already collected the bulk of their gate

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and sponsorship revenue, baseball teams had hardly begun bringing in money when COVID-19 caused them to suspend spring training and delay the start of the season.

MLB’s national and local television deals generate about $3 billion. Players are due approximately $4.5 billion in salary for the 2020 season. There are also benefits, social security and payroll taxes, plus the expenses of team staff and stadium workers necessary to stage games.

In the Padres’ case, according to information made available to the Union-Tribune in the past and one source’s confirmation this week, they receive approximately $90 million in total TV money in a full regular season. In 2020, that would have

covered less than two-thirds of their expected $145 million payroll.

While player salaries would be prorated and other expenses would shrink in a shortened season, so would TV contracts.

The Yankees, who own their own network, and Dodgers, who get approximately $334 million a year from their local TV deal, are among a handful of teams who could conceivably weather a season played without fans.

But those teams still also generate some $1.5 million in revenue each home game from tickets, concessions and merchandise.

“Turnstile is always huge for everyone when you’ve got 81 home games,” said David Carter, a USC sports business professor.

Carter said it was conceivable the NFL could stage a season without fans in the seats. But he doubted it would work, in part due to the lack of atmosphere that would create even on TV. Further, he said, corporate sponsors would likely balk at such a move for a variety of reasons. Television advertiser reluctance to buy significant time on broadcasts due to a lack of demand for products and services could further complicate every sport’s TV deals going forward.

Carter sees baseball as having an advantage over the other major sports.

“It is the most affordable,” he said, referring to the cost of attending games.

He did predict that every sport could have to deal with the possibility some people will not want to attend large gatherings, at least not right away. In baseball, Carter noted, that could be particularly true given MLB’s older fan demographic.

MLB and the Players Association remain in discussions about what a schedule, compensation and other facets of a shortened season would look like.

As part of an agreement reached last week, each team will pay approximately $5.7 million over the next two months to cover the total $170 million advanced to players. Teams also agreed to pay minor leaguers $400 a week through May. By the end of that period, it is expected MLB will be able to determine if the season can be salvaged and when it might start.

The sides say everything is on the table in terms of solution. That has included, according to two people aware of the talks, discussions about players accepting lower salaries for 2020 and teams sharing a greater portion of revenue.

Such moves are considered highly unlikely, but the two sources said in recent days the virtually countless variables and unknowns make everything to do with this situation impossible to predict.

“If we want to play,” one player said. “We might have to do things like that.

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UConn women beat Tennessee 25 years ago for their first title Alexa Philippou The Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Conn. — Geno Auriemma was ecstatic when he got the call that Rebecca Lobo had decided to play for him at UConn. After all, she was the best center in the country and had chosen to spend the next four years in Storrs over the likes of Stanford, Northwestern and Notre Dame.

But did he think at the time that he had just acquired the backbone to an eventual national championship team?

Certainly not. Nor did he see it coming after getting players such as Jamelle Elliott, Jennifer Rizzotti and Kara Wolters to come aboard.

“We didn’t know any of this stuff,” Auriemma said. “We were just like, ‘Man, we really like these kids, and I think they fit our culture. And if we bring them there, who knows what could happen?’ “ Auriemma and the basketball world would find that out in 1995, when those four and the rest of the 1994-95 Huskies dethroned top-ranked juggernaut Tennessee, went undefeated in the Big East and ultimately strung together a 35-0 record. The culmination of that run, achieved 25 years ago Thursday, was UConn’s first national title, a 70-64 win over the Lady Vols at the Target Center in Minneapolis.

But in the years since, that group has shown that winning the school’s first basketball title was just the beginning, not only for UConn’s dynasty but also for those players’ own meaningful individual trajectories. Because what helped those Huskies win a championship nearly three decades ago has carried over into the rest of their lives, their legacy extending far beyond what any 35 games could ever mean.

Auriemma says he first realized his team — while on the young side — was capable of something special in the middle of the 1993-94 season.

Though the Huskies ultimately fell to North Carolina in the Elite Eight, they had won both the Big East regular season and tournament titles, dropping one game in conference play altogether, while also securing the program’s first 30win season. Next year, they’d

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Fackrell’s impact on the Giants. He noted that, while his bottom-line statistics were down last season, he actually had a much higher percentage of quarterback hits in 2019

return all their major contributors and add highly touted recruit Nykesha Sales.

“When we put it all together, and we threw them all into the pot and started mixing it up, we looked up one day and went, ‘Damn, I think we could win the whole thing with this group,’ “ Auriemma said.

He wasn’t wrong.

They had all the right pieces. As Lobo put it, they fielded “a fiery point guard (Rizzotti), a dominant center (Wolters), a stretch four (Lobo herself) before they were even called that, a creator in Nykesha (Sales),” the latter of whom Rizzotti described as “the perfect finishing piece to our puzzle.” Lobo emerged as the consensus national player of the year that season, while Rizzotti picked up All-American honors.

While all of that was important, it wasn’t what made the Huskies a championship team “We had a really good mix of all the intangible and tangible qualities that you need to be good,” Rizzotti said. “And so our combination together ended up being so much greater than the parts of that team.”

They had a high basketball IQ, which helped Auriemma implement a triangle offense entering the season. The relatively laid back dispositions of senior co-captains Lobo and Pam Webber were perfectly complemented by the more intense ones of juniors Rizzotti and Elliott. Players like Sales and Carla Berube embraced their roles off the bench. Even after media attention soared, no one sought the limelight.

But the Huskies were also self-motivated high-achievers, driven to be great and take down anyone standing in their way. Sometimes their foil was Auriemma, who pushed and jabbed them to overcome their individual shortcomings and come together as a group.

“They were all just very, very mature in how they went about their business and they expected perfection,” said Tonya Cardoza, who was a first-year assistant coach on that ‘95 team. “Every day when they came to practice, it was about beating (Auriemma) and his expectations. And when they left practice, they

with our time at UConn and our experience and I’m sure a lot of my teammates feel the same way,” said Berube, who after a successful stint at Tufts had Princeton primed for the NCAA Tournament in her first season with the Tigers this year. “You want to bottle that up and try to find it in some sort of other way.”

Auriemma’s not surprised by what the players have done as professionals. They were incredibly basketball-savvy, driven and hard-working as college players, laying the foundation for their careers.

And catapulting UConn women’s basketball into a countrywide sensation helped them recognize the influence they would have once they left Storrs.

“That particular group had so much fun playing the game, they had so much fun with each other,” Auriemma said.

“They had such an incredible impact nationally that I think it’s only natural that they would say, ‘Hey, I want to be able to provide this for somebody else. I want to be a part of this for as long as I can.’ “ To the players, though, it’s impossible to untangle where they are now from the people who guided them to the apex that night in Minneapolis 25 years ago: longtime associate head coach Chris Dailey and Auriemma.

“They really do a good job of preparing people to succeed, of preparing people to be hard workers and to give back in some way, to understand what it actually means to work hard,” Lobo said.

And that’s perhaps what endures the most about their legacy.

“I think it’s part of my responsibility to develop the next generation of coaches and officials and broadcasters,” Rizzotti said. “But we’d be remiss if we didn’t go back and say (Auriemma) was the one that inspired us. He doesn’t have to be female to have inspired a generation of females. I think all of us feel like it’s our job to turn around now as females that were inspired by our UConn experience and make sure that we do the same for the next generation.”

either felt that way or they didn’t, but they knew coming in the next day that they wanted to be better. They wanted to try to do something special.”

The team took a massive step in that direction by beating then-No. 1 Tennessee on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in a nationally televised matchup that set shockwaves throughout the basketball world. By the time the national championship game came along, they had steamrolled most of their opponents, with all but one game decided by double figures. A victory over the Lady Vols would mark the first 35-0 season record in NCAA history.

None of that mattered. The players just wanted to win.

And if that ultra-competitive bunch needed any extra motivation, everyone from semifinalist coaches Andy Landers and Tara Vanderveer to commentator Robin Roberts favored Tennessee in the

rematch.

Altogether, it was the perfect storm for perfection that not even early foul trouble for Lobo, a nine-point secondhalf deficit nor the mighty Lady Vols could stop.

“It just seemed magical,” Cardoza said of the season in its entirety, “like it was destined to happen.”

“They were all smart. They all knew the game. They saw the game. They had a feel for the game. They had a feel for each other. They had tremendous rapport with each other,” Auriemma said. “We had great leadership. And they were competitive as hell. We had a couple guys that just had to win. They had to be right about everything. And that carried over.

“What more do you want in a team?”

It took some time for UConn to reach the mountaintop once more. After the Huskies fell in overtime to Tennessee

in the 1996 national semifinals, injuries to stars like Shea Ralph, Sales and Sue Bird kept them out of the Final Four for three straight years. Auriemma insists he thought they were “snake bit” and feared they’d end up a one-hit-wonder. The 2000 national championship was ultimately validation that they weren’t.

Two titles soon became five, and five eventually blossomed into 11. But that 1995 team set the standard and demonstrated both internally and externally what UConn women’s basketball could be — not just by winning national championships, but by impacting the game well beyond the confines of Storrs.

Two years after the title, Lobo became a pillar of the newly created WNBA, a league whose very existence owed in part to how the ‘95 Huskies inspired the country to embrace women’s basketball in a way it hadn’t before. Lobo and Wolters each won an Olympic gold medal. Sales later became the Orlando Miracle’s inaugural player upon its creation.

And what the group has achieved following its playing days may be even more profound.

Lobo, an ESPN commentator, and Wolters, an in-studio analyst for UConn broadcasts on SNY, emerged as media fixtures. Sales entered the coaching ranks as an assistant at UCF after a lengthy career in the WNBA, while Elliott was the head coach at Cincinnati for nine seasons and filled a vacated spot on Auriemma’s staff midway through this past season. Rizzotti, an assistant for the U.S. senior national team, built a mid-major power at Hartford, where she became the winningest coach in America East history and secured six NCAA Tournament bids before taking the reins at George Washington.

Even Berube, one of the ‘95 team’s quietest players and one whom Auriemma hardly envisioned going into coaching, eventually caught the bug.

After temporarily leaving basketball, Berube found herself being pulled right back in, in large part due to what she experienced in Storrs.

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Philadelphia fell a Kawhi Leonard game-winner short of making the Eastern Conference Finals last year but has underwhelmed this season with a 39-26 record. The inconsistency has left coach

Brett Brown on the hot seat.

Brand is a former All-Star with the Clippers who also played with the Bulls, Sixers, Mavericks and Hawks. He was the first overall pick in 1999 out of Duke.

Rose has worked closely with Brand in Philly because, up until February, he served as Embiid’s agent. Rose is also from the Philadelphia area.

Scott Perry is the current Knicks GM but was hired by

Rose’s predecessor, Steve Mills. As the Daily News reported, Perry and the Knicks both have contract opt outs after this season, meaning either side can end the partnership.

Rose is also interested in

hiring Cavaliers capologist Brock Aller for a front office position, sources told the News. A source said Rose requested and received permission to interview Aller before the coronavirus shutdown.

self-quarantined at home for two weeks, as requested by the Japanese government.

“As a person (who) traveled from (a) foreign country, I will continue to take responsible actions.”

Tanaka had initially stayed after MLB shut down spring training. He threw several bullpens at the Yankees closed spring training complex before making the decision to leave. Hillsborough

County, where George M. Steinbrenner Field is located was under a “Safer-At-Home,” order for the past two weeks, before the state issued a Stay at Home order. About a dozen players have remained in

Florida and continued to do individualized and staggered workouts at the stadium.

MLB pushed back the start of the regular season at least eight weeks and the majority of the Yankees pitchers are

working out on their own at home. On Wednesday, Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake said he wasn’t keeping close tabs on Tanaka, a veteran who usually dictates his own preparations.

(10) than he did when he posted those 10.5 sacks (12).

“Pressures are a big thing and I think the league is kind of trending toward recognizing that,” Fackrell said. “Maybe a guy gets 10 sacks but he has half the pressures of a guy who has 8 sacks and is in the quarterback’s face and affecting the quarterback, getting him

off his spot a lot. As a rusher you are more valuable when you can do that more consistently.”

He and Leonard Williams, who led the defensive line in quarterback hits with 11 in just eight games last year but had just a half a sack, can have a nice long conversation about that.

Fackrell also said he wants to improve his play at the line of scrimmage against the run, come up with more tackles for losses and help the passing defense by dropping into coverage.

Those are all ways that he will measure his success in 2020.

The rest of the world? It’ll

probably be by his sack total.

The Giants have spent the last few years in the bottom tier of the league in sacks. They haven’t been in the top half in that category since 2016 and haven’t been in the top 10 since 2014. They now have Fackrell and a group of other young edge rushers in Lorenzo Carter and Oshane Ximines

who they hope can change that habit this season.

For that to happen, Fackrell will have to be more than a “one-sack guy.” Much more.

“I know that I didn’t produce the way that I wanted to last year,” he said. “But I think I have a great opportunity to do that this year and I am looking forward to it.”

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U.S. Open could be played at Torrey Pines later this year Tom Krasovic The San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO — Torrey Pines Golf Course has become a potential candidate to host the 2020 U.S. Open men’s tournament if the event is postponed because of fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report Thursday by Golfweek.

The website said golf’s governing bodies will soon release a revised schedule that would see at least three major championships and the Ryder Cup contested this year.

The U.S. Open is scheduled for June 18-21 at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y., just north of New York City.

But, “it is increasingly likely that we will need to postpone” the event, Craig Annis, the USGA’s chief brand officer, told Golfweek.

Linked to the U.S. Open’s second option, the magazine reported, is a decision on the 149th British Open, slated for July 16-19 at Royal St. George’s in England. Golf Digest reported Wednesday the British Open would be canceled for the first time since 1945, but officials there on Thursday denied a decision had been made. According to Golfweek, if the British Open instead is rescheduled to Sept. 17-20, it would fill a calendar spot that otherwise could allow for a rescheduled U.S. Open at Winged

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In that scenario, Torrey Pines and Pebble

Beach would be possible alternatives to host the U.S. Open later in the year.

Golfweek reported the USGA has had initial conversations with both venues.

Asked about the report Thursday afternoon, city spokesman Tim Graham said, “To my knowledge, the USGA has not reached out to the City’s Golf Division staff to discuss the possibility of hosting this year’s U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.”

Torrey Pines, the site of the 2008 U.S. Open, has long been in line to host the 2021 U.S. Open.

The event was played last year at Pebble Beach.

“Depending on how far out we might have to go it could mean that we need to find a new location,” the USGA’s Annis said. “If we get beyond September we would need to find a U.S. Open-ready course in a place with the right climate and agronomics, with consideration to available daylight hours. We are fortunate to have a number of USGA host site partners who we are engaging with to determine viability.”

According to Golfweek, the revised schedule would see the PGA Championship, which already has been postponed from its scheduled date in May, played Aug. 6-9 at Harding Park in San Francisco. The Ryder Cup would be Sept.

24-27 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, with the Masters moving to the week of Nov. 9.

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Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard watches the Cyclones pregame warmups for their game Sept. 2016 against the Northern Iowa Panthers at Jack Trice Stadium.

As athletic departments brace for financial blowback, college coaching salaries could take a hit Chuck Carlton The Dallas Morning News

Every now and again for decades, someone would decry the rise of college coaching salaries and wonder when it might end.

Ever since Jackie Sherrill helped break new ground in the 1980s, the salaries of coaches have been trending one direction and one direction only – up. Big TV contacts, along with hugely profitable proprietary networks in the game of the Big Ten and SEC, have funneled cash to athletic departments.

Now that steadily upward salary trend may be headed in a distinctly different direction, at least temporarily.

The impact of coronavirus on the U.S. economy in general and on the college sports subset in particular is impossible to ignore or avoid.

Barely three weeks after the NCAA canceled March Madness, coaches, athletic directors and conference commissioners are talking privately about the possibility of a shortened or altered 2020 college football season.

Contingency plans are being formulated. Imagine a conference-only slate or a schedule that’s pushed back or games without fans, just to make sure there is a season with FBS athletic departments heavily dependent on football revenue.

Yes it’s possible, if not desirable.

As Texas A&M AD Ross Bjork noted last month in an interview with the Morning News, “the whole model rises and falls based on football.”

The financial blowback is not just speculation either.

Iowa State, facing a $5 million shortfall from the cancellation of March Madness and the Big 12 basketball tournament, announced $3 million in one-year salary cuts to

coaches. Additionally, coaching bonuses will be eliminated with an estimated savings of $1 million.

Athletic director Jamie Pollard likened the decision to the one to cancel the NCAA Tournament and acknowledged some people were wondering about the move.

“I would contest that a lot of those people are still in denial, much like they were in denial about the basketball tournament, much like many people were in denial three weeks ago about social distancing,” Pollard told reporters Thursday.

While Iowa State isn’t flush with cash like athletic departments such as Texas or Texas A&M or Oklahoma, it is in a power conference. And the Big 12 has been more financially healthy lately than either the ACC or the Pac-12.

That alone should get people’s attention, the Cyclone in the coal mine if you will.

“I would contest that at some point in the near future they’ll be other people doing what we did (Wednesday),” Pollard said.

So should a survey conducted by LEAD1, an association of athletic directors from FBS schools and obtained by The Associated Press. A total of 65% of ADs saw a situation where revenue could drop up to 20 percent, where even the Goliaths of the sport will be feeling the pain.

Another finding: 40% of the ADs responding approved or strongly approve, according to AP, of high earners volunteering to make a financial sacrifice.

With 31 head football coaches having made at least $4 million last season before bonuses according to the USA Today salary database, that’s an inviting target.

The interruption to the 2020 NASCAR season due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been understandably disappointing and disconcerting for racers, fans, teams and the industry as a whole.

But instead of completely retreating during this time of general uncertainty, NASCAR and the racing industry responded immediately to help make a life-saving difference.

The NASCAR Research & Development Center, located outside Charlotte, N.C., has turned its high-tech capabilities into real life medical assistance – manufacturing face shields with its 3D printers and even a prototype human head that Wake Forest doctors and scientists are using to research better treatment supply options.

CORE Autosport, a team in IMSA’s WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, is similarly committed to helping out. Its team shop is manufacturing thousands of facemasks for distribution across the country.

Technique Inc., a Michigan-based company that normally supplies chassis components to NASCAR teams, is making face shields for medical distribution and has ramped up production to 20,000 per day.

Roush Fenway Racing has developed a special prototype “transport box” that helps provide a safe, workable barrier between a COVID-19 patient and the many medical personnel treating them in hospital rooms and transporting them on hospital floors.

When it comes to innovation, rapid response and answering the call, the sport of NASCAR is all in.

“I think NASCAR is in a unique position across the industry and especially at the Cup level where you have some of the best fabricators and engineers in the world and we have all this capability to make all these parts for cars, parts for testing so you have a high talent pool and then you have the machinery and the people needed to kinda do all this now,” said Eric Jacuzzi, senior director of aerodynamics at the NASCAR R&D Center.

“That’s what really puts us in a unique spot to be able to help out.”

Unlike any other major sports, the very essence of NASCAR racing involves cutting edge technology conducted – literally – by

rocket scientists, engineers and tech geniuses who would normally be putting their minds around new racing innovations. Instead of making cars go faster, they are now helping a nation try to manage a historic global medical pandemic.

“Sitting at home for a day or two is great, but I think most people are starting to look at what they can do,” Jacuzzi said. “And the crew we have here working on this stuff is all volunteer. People are volunteering to come here at nine o’clock at night and stay until midnight – all different types of departments. It helps having people do that and even people are taking some parts home and having their teenage children help with cutting things out. So it’s even giving students at home right now the opportunity to contribute.”

“We’re used to working hard and being on the go all the time so it’s a big adjustment for us to kind of have this pause. But this is helping us keep going and really just from an education side, more people are learning about how to run these machines and all that so it’s good for everyone to feel like they are contributing and helping out and they certainly are.”

At the NASCAR R&D Center, Jacuzzi said the idea to mass produce the face shields came from a random homeowners’ association post on a Facebook page.

It was a similarly random connection for Roush Fenway Racing, according to the Roush team’s Operations Director, Tommy Wheeler. Dr. Brian Talenk, the brother-inlaw of Roush’s Simulation Director Marcus Marty, reached out to see if Roush had the capability to help both conceptualize and manufacture a device that would provide another line of defense for the medical professionals treating virus patients.

“I said, ‘Yes, of course we can. Let’s do this now,’” Wheeler recalled.

“That was around lunchtime (last Thursday) so we mobilized here so we could make some prototypes, which we did that afternoon and got them delivered to Brian (Dr. Talenk) to see if they worked.

“What ensued from there was a round of tweaks and things that the doctors and such wanted. He started sending pictures and discussing with his network of physicians and anesthesiologists around the greater Charlotte area. We then did approximately three more prototypes and by Friday – a day later which I’m pretty proud of – we were

online with what we call our Version 2 Box. “They were impressed by that (timing).”

Since then, Roush Fenway Racing has delivered 58 units to hospitals from Wake Forest to Miami. Wheeler describes the devices as something similar to a “sneeze guard” at a salad bar. The clear guard is placed over the patient in bed – covering their upper body from head to about chest level. There are two holes that allow physicians and nurses access, but the protection helps prevent the kind of immediate exposure that has spread the virus.

“When they are intubating people, it can be a messy and high-risk environment, because there’s coughing, there’s fluid, it can become an aerosol,” Wheeler said. “That’s why they’re called aerosol boxes because there’s pressurized air effectively spewing small droplets into the atmosphere.

Imagine you’re in critical care in the ICU or something. What was happening was you’d have two or three healthcare professionals standing around the patient as this (intubating) occurs and wipes out all their personal protection equipment that as we know is already in short supply right now.

“What this does is contains it, so now it moves their outer garments from being the first line of defense to now a secondary or third line of defense. It means we’re wiping out less face masks, less goggles, and effectively, the only thing exposed to the threat is their gloves and sleeves.”

Telling is that all these organizations – plus many more in the auto racing industry – were immediately willing to offer their help. In many cases, teams turned their facilities into impromptu manufacturing hubs, absorbing the costs themselves in the name of providing a greater good.

CORE Autosport, whose Porsches finished second and third in the GT Class of IMSA’s WeatherTech SportsCar Series Rolex 24 at Daytona 2020 season opener, is making thousands of face masks daily to help the supply, improving the product as they go.

“We got this idea, when (team owner) Jon (Bennett) was just sitting at home watching the news like all of us and seeing this national face mask shortage and we looked at each other and thought there was something we had to do to help and very quickly came up with this concept and idea for producing face masks,” said CORE Autosport Team Manager Morgan Brady.

Tom Brady is renting a Tampa mansion owned by none other than Derek Jeter Des Bieler The Washington Post

If Boston fans were unhappy about seeing Tom Brady leave the New England Patriots to join the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the latest development for the decorated quarterback isn’t going to improve their mood.

It seems that Brady is renting a palatial waterfront property in Tampa from none other than Derek Jeter. As in the former New York Yankees shortstop who was a hated figure in Boston while leading the Red Sox’s archrival to five World Series titles.

Now, in what could be the most championship ring-laden real estate transaction of all time, Jeter has become the landlord for Brady, who led

the Pats to six Super Bowl titles over two decades before taking his talents much further south.

According to multiple reports on Thursday, Brady is moving into a residence of approximately 30,000 square feet in Davis Islands, a Tampa neighborhood composed of two islands that were enlarged and developed in the 1920s. In a nod to the city just to Tampa Bay’s west, the home has been dubbed “St. Jetersburg” by some.

Brady’s new digs feature seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, per reports, plus an entertainment room, a billiards room and, it almost goes without saying, a swimming pool.

Jeter, whose playing career ended in 2014, had the

property built in 2011 (per People), but moved closer to Miami after he became a part owner and the CEO of the Marlins. According to ESPN, he got an exemption from Tampa to put up an eight-foot-tall security gate, two feet higher than normally allowed in the city, for privacy.

“Last night, a friend of ours texted us that they heard that Tom was moving into Jeter’s house, but we just thought it was a rumor,” a neighbor told ESPN. “Today when I saw the security and the police out, I was like, ‘Oh! Maybe that’s true.’ “ Apart from being superstar athletes known for coming through in the clutch time and again, Brady and Jeter share a bond via the University of Michigan, where the

quarterback played in college and where Jeter, a native of the state, had committed before being drafted sixth overall in 1992 by the Yankees. In an example of that school tie, they both attended a 2016 National Signing Day event in Ann Arbor hosted by Wolverines football coach Jim Harbaugh.

“There are not many homes in the Tampa Bay market that exist like this, and even fewer that might be available for rent,” a real estate agent who has worked with a number of professional athletes told the Tampa Bay Times. “In this case, you had a preexisting relationship among the parties that could presumably affect the rental amount. But homes I have listed in the past of this scale could ask $75,000 a month or more.”

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2020 NFL mock draft: Four-round projections Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune

Every mock draft since December has essentially had quarterback Joe Burrow and edge rusher Chase Young locked in as the first two picks.

I figured I’d mix it up in honor of April Fools’ Day, especially since the next three weeks it’s go time.

This version will be the last one of the season to feature what I believe should happen (spoiler alert: the Bengals pass on Burrow). From here on out, it’s all about what I believe will happen.

Please accept this alternative mix as a weekly distraction from the crazy world we inhabit.

THE PREAMBLE The NFL draft has become a nice appetizer before our main course in September (cross your fingers). A mock version of said draft is meant to educate, and even entertain. At very least, it helps you pass the time.

The closer we get to draft day, the more I attempt to match what teams will actually do with their draft picks as opposed to what I believe they should do.

Last season, I was the fifth most accurate (out of 101) — most accurate in print — NFL draft prognosticator according to The Huddle Report.

I’m 18th over the past five years.

Follow me on Twitter UTEddieBrown so we can continue the conversation.

Here’s an updated version of my 2020 NFL mock draft, now through four rounds: FIRST ROUND 1. Cincinnati (2-14) — Chase Young, Edge, Ohio St., Jr. This would be the pick if the NFL Draft was simply about taking the best overall players. Top needs: QB, OL, LB, S, TE 2. Washington (3-13) — Jerry Jeudy, WR, Alabama, Jr. The Redskins aren’t taking a quarterback with their top pick. Jeudy is the crown jewel of what is shaping up to be a special 2020 class of receivers. He’ll likely fall outside the Top 10 despite being worthy of this selection. Top needs: OL, CB, LB, WR, TE 3. Detroit (3-12-1) — Jeffrey Okudah, CB, Ohio St., Jr. This pick makes too much sense to mess with. Pairing Okudah with Pro Bowler Desmond Trufant should help mitigate the loss of All-Pro Darius Slay. Plus, the Lions aren’t drafting a quarterback this high either. Top needs: CB, Edge, OL, WR, RB 4. N.Y. Giants (4-12) — Isaiah Simmons, LB, Clemson, Jr. The Giants haven’t drafted a linebacker in the first round since Carl Banks in 1984. The only defensive position Simmons is ill-equipped to play is nose tackle. Top needs: OL, CB, Edge, WR, K 5. Miami (5-11) — Joe Burrow, QB, LSU, Sr. The Tiger King has nothing to worry about, but if he falls in an alternate universe, Burrow wouldn’t fall past the Dolphins. Top needs: QB, OL, S, Edge, WR 6. L.A. Chargers (5-11) — Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama, Jr. The Chargers are reportedly not interested in Cam Newton. It’s unfortunate if it isn’t a smokescreen, because signing the former NFL MVP and drafting Tagovailoa covers all the quarterback bases.

Top needs: QB, OL, RB, LB, WR 7. Carolina (5-11) — Derrick Brown, DT, Auburn, Sr. The Panthers have focused most of their attention on offense during free agency.

Brown is a run-away train who never wears down. He’s just as active in the fourth quarter as he is in the first.

A mediocre performance at the combine could lower his draft stock a bit (but it

shouldn’t). Top needs: DL, CB, LB, OL, S 8. Arizona (5-10-1) — Tristan Wirfs, OT, Iowa, Jr. The Cardinals fleeced the Texans for All-World wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins so they can continue to focus on upgrading Kyler Murray’s protection. Wirfs is the best pass protector in this class, and talented enough to play multiple positions on the line. Top needs: OL, Edge, CB, LB, DL 9. Jacksonville (6-10) — C.J. Henderson, CB, Florida, Jr. The Jaguars need a replacement for Jalen Ramsey and Henderson’s draft stock has been trending up since an impressive performance at the combine. Top needs: CB, Edge, DL, OL, RB 10. Cleveland (6-10) — Andrew Thomas, OT, Georgia, Jr. The Browns added right tackle Jack Conklin, but they need more. Thomas is a big, powerful, athletic lineman with springy footwork and quick hands who’s a dynamic closer in both the run and pass game. Top needs: OL, LB, DL, Edge, WR 11. N.Y. Jets (7-9) — CeeDee Lamb, WR, Oklahoma, Jr. This pick is either an offensive tackle or wide receiver.

Lamb’s elite hands and ball skills are an upgrade over Robby Anderson. Top needs: OL, WR, Edge, CB, RB 12. Las Vegas (7-9) — Henry Ruggs, WR, Alabama, Jr. Coach Jon Gruden wants his own Tyreek Hill. Ruggs is pure electricity with the football in his hands. He scored 25 total touchdowns on 100 touches in his Crimson Tide career. Top needs: WR, CB, LB, OG, S 13. San Francisco from Indianapolis (7-9) — Jedrick Wills, OL, Alabama, Jr. Top three wide receivers are off the board. Wills can begin his career at guard, helping to solidify a weak interior and take over for Joe Staley when he retires. Top needs: WR, CB, OL, DL, LB 14. Tampa Bay (7-9) — Mekhi Becton, OT, Louisville, Jr. The Buccaneers did the impossible by luring Tom Brady away from New England. Now they can focus on protecting the G.O.A.T. You can’t teach Becton’s size (67, 369) and he’s surprisingly nimble, especially as a run blocker. Top needs: OL, DB, DL, RB, QB 15. Denver (7-9) — Patrick Queen, LB, LSU, Jr. This version of a Vic Fangio defense is missing its playmaking linebacker. Queen is a three-down, sideline-tosideline terror with an elite football mind. Top needs: WR, CB, OL, LB, DL 16. Atlanta (7-9) — K’Lavon Chaisson, Edge, LSU, Soph.

The Falcons need to bolster their linebacker corps and pass rush. Chaisson features one of the highest upsides at any position in this draft class. He’s a natural speed rusher who is capable of dropping into coverage and can be an asset in defending the run. The one knock is his durability. Top needs: DB, Edge, LB, OG, RB 17. Dallas (8-8) — Javon Kinlaw, DT, South Carolina, Sr. The Cowboys continue to add talent to their defensive line. Kinlaw has the potential to be a force against the pass and run at the next level. Top needs: CB, Edge, OL, WR, LB 18. Miami from Pittsburgh (8-8) — Jonathan Taylor, RB Wisconsin, Jr. Jordan Howard has shortterm value for the Dolphins, but Taylor would be their long-term solution at running back. His 4.39 40-yard dash in Indy reminded everyone he was an elite athlete on top of the elite production he’s known for. Top needs: QB, OL, S, Edge, WR 19. Las Vegas from Chicago

(8-8) — Kristian Fulton, CB, LSU, Sr. Gruden and GM Mike Mayock have yet to solve the secondary riddle. Fulton is an elite athlete who was the top cornerback prospect coming out of high school in 2016, and has lived up to the hype (for the most part). Top needs: WR, CB, OG 20. Jacksonville from L.A. Rams (9-7) — Justin Herbert, QB, Oregon, Sr. I sincerely doubt the Jaguars will simply anoint Gardner Minshew without providing some legit competition for the position. Herbert has all the physical attributes (prototypical size and elite arm talent) the position requires, but consistency has been his bane. This is where he should go, but he’ll likely be drafted much higher because demand ALWAYS beats quality when it comes to quarterbacks in the draft.

Top needs: CB, Edge, DL, OL, RB 21. Philadelphia (9-7) — Justin Jefferson, WR, LSU, Jr. The Eagles’ wide receiver corps is in shambles. The inconsistent Nelson Agholor signed with the Raiders while DeSean Jackson isn’t getting any younger (or healthier). A surprising 4.43 40-yard dash in Indy likely elevated Jefferson’s draft stock. Top needs: WR, LB, S, OL, RB 22. Minnesota from Buffalo (10-6) — Jeff Gladney, CB, TCU, Sr. Trae Waynes signed with Cincy and the Vikings released Xavier Rhodes. Gladney is a press master who plays a physical game. Top needs: CB, WR, Edge, OG, S 23. New England (12-4) — Zach Baun, OLB, Wisconsin, Sr. The Patriots replenish a depleted linebacker corps and fight the urge to reach for a quarterback. Baun is a natural chasing down the quarterback and is versatile enough to be utilized all over the front seven to create match-up problems. Top needs: QB, LB, Edge, DL, TE 24. New Orleans (13-3) — Kenneth Murray, LB, Oklahoma, Jr. Linebacker is the last hole in the depth chart that needs to be filled for this Super Bowl contender. Murray is an explosive athlete who developed elite instincts during his three seasons in Norman.

Top needs: CB, LB, WR, OL, QB 25. Minnesota (10-6) — Laviska Shenault Jr., WR, Colorado, Jr. The Vikings need a receiver after trading Stefon Diggs to the Bills. Durability concerns have hampered Shenault’s draft stock, but he remains one of the most dynamic playmakers in this draft class. Top needs: CB, WR, Edge, OG, S 26. Miami from Houston (10-6) — Xavier McKinney, S, Alabama, Jr. McKinney is very similar to Minkah Fitzpatrick, the defensive back the Dolphins dealt to earn one of their three first-rounders. Top needs: QB, OL, S, Edge, WR 27. Seattle (11-5) — A.J. Epenesa, Edge, Iowa, Jr. The Seahawks need an edge rusher who can take advantage of Jadeveon Clowney’s presence, assuming he returns. Epenesa racked up 11.5 sacks and forced four fumbles despite facing persistent doubleteams last season. Top needs: Edge, OL, DL, CB, WR 28. Baltimore (14-2) — Yetur Gross-Matos, Edge, Penn St., Jr. The Ravens need to continue stockpiling pass rushers. Gross-Matos needs to add some strength to his frame, but he’s a gifted pass rusher with elite athleticism and a nose for the ball. Top needs: WR, LB, Edge, OG, S 29. Tennessee (9-7) — Ross Blacklock, DT, TCU, Jr. The Titans find a

replacement for Jurrell Casey. Blacklock had Top 15 potential before he missed all of his sophomore season with an Achilles injury. Top needs: Edge, CB, DL, OL, RB 30. Green Bay (13-3) — Jalen Reagor, WR, TCU, Jr. Davante Adams was the Packers only effective wideout in 2019. Reagor is a burner who is capable of scoring from anywhere on the field.

Top needs: WR, DL, LB, OL, TE 31. San Francisco (13-3) — Tee Higgins, WR, Clemson, Jr. The 49ers likely will trade this pick to the highest bidder, considering they won’t be on the clock again until the fifth round. Higgins is the vertical threat the NFC champs are missing at receiver. Top needs: WR, CB, OL, DL, LB 32. Kansas City (12-4) — Cesar Ruiz, OL, Michigan, Jr. The champs need an infusion of talent on the interior offensive line. Ruiz is an upgrade at center and would provide depth at guard. Top needs: CB, LB, RB, Edge, OL SECOND ROUND 33. Cincinnati — Jordan Love, QB, Utah St., Jr. 34. Indianapolis from Washington — Denzel Mims, WR, Baylor, Sr. T.Y. Hilton and Mims would give Philip Rivers a pair of dynamic receivers.

Top needs: WR, Edge, CB, QB, K 35. Detroit — Justin Madubuike, DT, Texas A&M, Jr. 36. N.Y. Giants — Grant Delpit, S, LSU, Jr. 37. L.A. Chargers — Josh Jones, OT, Houston, Sr. Jones would pair nicely with Bryan Bulaga to solidify the tackle position for the Chargers. Top needs: QB, OL, RB, LB, WR 38. Carolina — Trevon Diggs, CB, Alabama, Sr. 39. Miami — Austin Jackson, OT, USC, Jr. 40. Houston from Arizona — Brandon Aiyuk, WR, Arizona St., Sr. Aiyuk is a run-after-thecatch dynamo who would have some huge shoes to fill for the Texans. Top needs: WR, CB, DL, Edge, OL 41. Cleveland — Antoine Winfield Jr., S, Minnesota, So. 42. Jacksonville — Neville Gallimore, DL, Oklahoma, Sr. 43. Chicago from Las Vegas — Jeremy Chinn, S, Southern Illinois, Sr. The athletic small school prospect would pair nicely with Eddie Jackson to solidify the back-end of a once elite defense. Top needs: DB, OL, LB, WR, TE 44. Indianapolis — Lloyd Cushenberry III, OL, LSU, Jr. 45. Tampa Bay — D’Andre Swift, RB, Georgia, Jr. 46. Denver — K.J. Hamler, WR, Penn St., So. 47. Atlanta — Noah Igbinoghene, CB, Auburn, Jr. 48. N.Y. Jets — Lucas Niang, OT, TCU, Sr. 49. Pittsburgh — Marlon Davidson, DL, Auburn, Sr. If you watched Derrick Brown, it was hard not to notice the Tigers other dominant defensive lineman. Davidson’s addition would ease the loss of Javon Hargrave during free agency. Top needs: OL, DL, QB, Edge, DB 50. Chicago — Robert Hunt, OL, Louisiana-Lafayette, Sr. 51. Dallas — A.J. Terrell, CB, Clemson, Jr. 52. L.A. Rams — Terrell Lewis, Edge, Alabama, Jr. The Rams failed to resign Dante Fowler Jr. and released Clay Matthews. Lewis is raw, but very talented. Top needs: OL, Edge, LB, DB, RB 53. Philadelphia — Ashtyn Davis, S, California, Sr. 54. Buffalo — Julian Okwara, Edge, Notre Dame, Sr. The Bills dropped out of the first round, but landed a true No. 1 wide receiver (Stefon Diggs) in a trade with Minnesota. Okwara would

have been a first-round pick had he not broke his leg. Top needs: Edge, OL, CB, RB, WR 55. Baltimore from Atlanta — Donovan Peoples-Jones, WR, Michigan, Jr. 56. Miami from New Orleans — Matt Hennessy, OL, Temple, Jr. 57. Houston — Josh Uche, Edge, Michigan, Sr. 58. Minnesota — Jaylon Johnson, CB, Utah, Jr. 59. Seattle — Prince Tega Wanogho, OT, Auburn, Sr. 60. Baltimore — Malik Harrison, LB, Ohio St., Sr. 61. Tennessee — Khalid Kareem, Edge, Notre Dame, Sr. 62. Green Bay — Cole Kmet, TE, Notre Dame, Jr. 63. Kansas City from San Francisco — Damon Arnette, CB, Ohio St., Sr. 64. Seattle from Kansas City — Jonah Jackson, OL, Ohio St., Sr. THIRD ROUND 65. Cincinnati — Curtis Weaver, Edge, Boise St., Jr. 66. Washington — Ben Bartch, OT, St. John, Sr. 67. Detroit — Chase Claypool, WR, Notre Dame, Sr. 68. N.Y. Jets from N.Y. Giants — Troy Pride Jr., CB, Notre Dame, Sr. 69. Carolina — Kyle Dugger, S, Lenoir-Rhyne, Sr. 70. Miami — Jonathan Greenard, Edge, Florida, Sr. 71. L.A. Chargers — J.K. Dobbins, RB, Ohio St., Jr. The Chargers paid Austin Ekeler, but they still need a primary runner. Dobbins was highly prolific in college and is a breakaway threat the depth chart is lacking. Top needs: QB, OL, RB, LB, WR 72. Arizona — Jordyn Brooks, LB, Texas Tech, Sr. 73. Jacksonville — Ben Bredeson, OL, Michigan, Sr. 74. Cleveland — Troy Dye, LB, Oregon, Sr. 75. Indianapolis — Jacob Eason, QB, Washington, Jr. 76. Tampa Bay — Cameron Dantzler, CB, Mississippi St., Jr. 77. Denver — Bryce Hall, CB, Virginia, Sr. 78. Atlanta — Raekwon Davis, DL, Alabama, Sr. 79. N.Y. Jets — Bradlee Anae, Edge, Utah, Sr. 80. Las Vegas — Jalen Hurts, QB, Oklahoma, Sr. 81. Las Vegas from Chicago — Davon Hamilton, DT, Ohio St., Sr. 82. Dallas — Nick Harris, OL, Washington, Sr. 83. Denver from Pittsburgh — Matthew Peart, OT, UConn, Sr. 84. L.A. Rams — Ezra Cleveland, OT, Boise St., Jr. The Rams offensive line needs an overhaul if the offense hopes to return to its lofty status of 2018. Top needs: OL, Edge, LB, DB, RB 85. Detroit from Philadelphia — Cam Akers, RB, Florida St., Jr. 86. Buffalo — Clyde Edwards-Helaire, RB, LSU, Jr. 87. New England — Adam Trautman, TE, Dayton, Sr. 88. New Orleans — Tyler Biadasz, OL, Wisconsin, Jr. 89. Minnesota — Jabari Zuniga, Edge, Florida, Sr. 90. Houston — Leki Fotu, DT, Utah, Sr. 91. Las Vegas from Seattle — Akeem Davis-Gaither, LB, Appalachian St., Sr. 92. Baltimore — Netane Muti, OL, Fresno St., Jr. 93. Tennessee — Darnay Holmes, CB, UCLA, Jr. 94. Green Bay — Rashard Lawrence, DL, LSU, Sr. 95. Denver from San Francisco — Darrell Taylor, Edge, Tennessee, Sr. 96. Kansas City — Eno Benjamin, RB, Arizona St., Jr. 97. Cleveland from Houston — Jordan Elliott, DL, Missouri, Jr. 98. New England — Van Jefferson, WR, Florida, Sr. 99. N.Y. Giants — Isaiah Wilson, OT, Georgia, So. 100. New England — Alohi Gilman, S, Notre Dame, Sr. 101. Seattle — Isaiah Hodgins, WR, Oregon St., Jr. 102. Pittsburgh — Jake

Fromm, QB, Georgia, Jr. 103. Philadelphia — Evan Weaver, LB, California, Sr. 104. L.A. Rams — Terrell Burgess, S, Utah, Sr. The Rams need to fill voids left by Eric Weddle and Marqui Christian. Top needs: OL, Edge, LB, DB, RB 105. Minnesota — Saahdiq Charles, OL, LSU, Jr. 106. Baltimore — Michael Pittman Jr., WR, USC, Sr. FOURTH ROUND 107. Cincinnati — Willie Gay Jr., LB, Mississippi St., Jr. 108. Washington — Brycen Hopkins, TE, Purdue, Sr. 109. Detroit — Zack Moss, RB, Utah, Sr. 110. N.Y. Giants — Kenny Willekes, Edge, Michigan St., Sr. 111. Houston from Miami — Shane Lemieux, OL, Oregon, Sr. 112. L.A. Chargers — Devin Duvernay, WR, Texas, Sr. The cupboard is bare at receiver after Keenan Allen and Mike Williams. Duvernay is an exciting blend of speed and hands which will make him a danger in the slot. Top needs: QB, OL, RB, LB, WR 113. Carolina — Logan Wilson, LB, Wyoming, Sr. 114. Arizona — Thaddeus Moss, TE, LSU, So. 115. Cleveland — Damien Lewis, OL, LSU, Sr. 116. Jacksonville — K’Von Wallace, S, Clemson, Sr. 117. Tampa Bay — K.J. Hill, WR, Ohio St., Sr. 118. Denver — Logan Stenberg, OL, Kentucky, Sr. 119. Atlanta — Antonio Gibson, RB, Memphis, Sr. 120. N.Y. Jets — Hunter Bryant, TE, Washington, Jr. 121. Las Vegas — Brandon Jones, S, Texas, Sr. 122. Indianapolis — Harrison Bryant, TE, Florida Atlantic, Sr. 123. Dallas — Alton Robinson, Edge, Syracuse, Sr. 124. Pittsburgh — Solomon Kindley, OL, Georgia, Jr. 125. New England from Chicago — James Morgan, QB, Florida International, Sr. 126. L.A. Rams — Darrynton Evans, RB, Appalachian St., Jr. Evans’ speed would pair nicely with Darrell Henderson to create a dynamic backfield for the Rams. Top needs: OL, Edge, LB, DB, RB 127. Philadelphia — A.J. Dillon, RB, Boston College, Jr. 128. Buffalo — Quintez Cephus, WR, Wisconsin, Jr. 129. Baltimore from New England — Albert Okwuegbunam, TE, Missouri, Jr. 130. New Orleans — Michael Ojemudia, CB, Iowa, Sr. 131. Arizona from Houston — Jason Strowbridge, DL, North Carolina, Sr. 132. Minnesota — Jake Driscoll, OL, Auburn, Sr. 133. Seattle — Lamar Jackson, CB, Nebraska, Sr. 134. Baltimore — Lamical Perine, RB, Florida, Sr. 135. Pittsburgh from Miami — Javelin Guidry, CB, Utah, Jr. 136. Green Bay — John Simpson, OL, Clemson, Sr. 137. Jacksonville from Denver — Bryan Edwards, WR, South Carolina, Sr. 138. Kansas City — Shaquille Quarterman, LB, Miami, Sr. 139. Tampa Bay — Hakeem Adeniji, OL, Kansas, Sr. 140. Jacksonville from Chicago — Anthony McFarland, RB, Maryland, So. 141. Miami — Tyler Johnson, WR, Minnesota, Sr. 142. Washington — Amik Robertson, CB, Louisiana Tech, Jr. 143. Atlanta from Baltimore — Antoine Brooks, S, Maryland, Sr. 144. Seattle — Anfernee Jennings, Edge, Alabama, Sr. 145. Philadelphia — Alex Highsmith, Edge, Charlotte, Sr. 146. Philadelphia — Josiah Scott, CB, Michigan St., Jr.

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Boyfriend should find new home after prison Dear Abby, My boyfriend of 15 years is in prison. We have two children together. Our relationship has been rough. We had a fight, and he went to jail for it. Another reason he went to prison is he violated his probation and failed to report.

DEAR ABBY I take the kids to see him, and he still wants us to be together.

He has nowhere to go when he gets out. How do I tell him I don’t want him back at my house without him retaliating on me?

Afraid In Texas

JEANNE PHILLIPS

This is how. Tell him plainly that because of the circumstances that sent him to jail, you no longer want him living under your roof. It’s bad for the children. Therefore, he will be finding other living arrangements when he is released.

Should he stalk or threaten you in any way, go to the police. and ask about a restraining order because he is violent.

Dear Abby, When my husband and I eat a meal, as soon as he’s finished he gets up and wanders around.

We call that the “wandering” phase of his meal.

I have asked him to no avail to stay seated and talk with me. I think it is disrespectful.

My husband also pulls out his phone when we are out with friends. I have told him that what he’s doing is basically telling them he would rather see what’s on his phone than converse with them. He doesn’t do it for the entire meal, but when he does, it irritates me. How can

I get basic manners across to him?

Lonely At Mealtime I knew a person years ago who had an impulse control problem similar to the one you describe your husband having. The man had been in an auto accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury. In your husband’s case, it appears he either has attention deficit disorder or “suffers” from a lack of consideration for your feelings.

There is help for the former, but you can’t teach basic manners to someone who doesn’t want to learn.

Dear Abby, I work as a parcel clerk in a major retail store.

The biggest part of my job is returning shopping carts from the parking lot to the lobby. Shoppers have a habit that makes my job a lot harder than it needs to be, so I want to get this message out to as many people as possible: PLEASE push your shopping cart ALL THE WAY into the next one when you put it away.You have no idea how much faster I could do my job if everybody did this. Thank you for helping get the word out.

Plea From The Parking Lot

TO YOUR

Bleeding is a common conGOOD HEALTH cern when people get tattoos, even when they’re not on anticoagulants (“blood thinners”).

The anticoagulant could make your bleeding more significant.

While bleeding can certainly be stopped with direct pressure, I do not know how that would affect the pigment’s placement in the skin or the artist’s ability to create an aesthetic dog paw tattoo.

I’m not sure why you have an open ulcer, but that could be due to infection or to poor arterial or venous blood flow. While a tattoo is unlikely to cause problems, in the unlikely event of an infection, the complications could be significant.

A tattoo has higher-than-normal health risks for you. It would be best to get the tattoo after going off the anticoagulants (assuming you are on them for some period of time, not indefinitely). Having a letter from your doctor would help. If you decide to proceed, discuss your issues in detail with the artist beforehand and find an experienced and professional studio that follows best practices.

DR. KEITH ROACH

Sadly, my older brother had a stroke a few

years ago after a tumor on his pituitary gland burst and blood went into his brain. He is paralyzed on his entire right side. He is in a care facility, and there are a few more people there who are even more incapacitated than he is. I wonder how these people, who are in their 90s and pretty much totally immobile, are able to live as long as they do without having ANY physical activity. I would think their hearts, lungs, muscles, etc., would just give out due to lack of usage or stimulus.

How is it that they can continue to hang on despite having no exercise for their frail bodies?

I am very sorry about your brother. Visiting such care facilities can be painful, but it is so appreciated.

The human body requires regular exercise and a healthy and diverse diet to work optimally. However, we can survive for very long periods of time with no exercise and with even a poor diet, as history has shown. Our hearts and lungs are made with immense functional capacity, and are able to withstand loss due to damage or disuse for decades. Muscles will atrophy quickly when not used, although they can come back if reused. Unfortunately, a stroke often can permanently prevent muscle use.

Excellent nursing care is needed for people with paralysis, and if he is doing well with no skin problems, thank the nurses.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are likely to prove a model of self-awareness and self-control by the time you reach your maturity — which is likely to be later than most — but when you are young, you may be quite incapable of determining just who you are, what you should do and what activities, people and indulgences are good or bad for you in the long run. Fortunately, you can learn from your mistakes — which is why you will, eventually, know yourself so well. Ultimately, you will be the kind of person other people want to be.

You can be highly critical of others because, as is only natural, you are highly critical of yourself. This doesn’t mean you go through life disappointed and distressed; on the contrary, you know how to maintain a surprising levity even when you are on the lookout for all that is wrong in the world.

Also born on this date are: Robert Downey Jr., actor; Heath Ledger, actor; Maya Angelou, poet; Anthony Perkins, actor; Muddy Waters, musician; Craig T. Nelson, actor; Nancy McKeon, actress; Christine Lahti, actress; Barry Pepper, actor.

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

SUNDAY, APRIL 5 ARIES (March 21-April 19) — When the time comes for you to cover for someone today, you’ll want to be ready. This will require more than routine preparations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20 — You may find yourself waiting on someone who was not aware of the need to stick to a tight schedule. You may have to fill in some blanks.

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Garfield

Glad to help. And may I add that those cute little straps that are meant to secure small children in the upper compartment of the cart tend to get caught and lock the carts together if folks are careless after they unhook their children. It can be next to impossible to untangle those carts.

Tatoo should prrobably wait until after ulcer has healed I had a kidney transplant in 2015, and twice have had thrombosis. Due to that, I have to take blood thinner tablets. I also have an open ulcer on my leg, which I am still treating. Can I still get a tattoo with these ailments? Nothing big, something small, like a dog paw.

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Zits

Baby Blues GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — It’s important to set some reachable goals for yourself today, hour by hour, minute by minute. No one else needs to know what is driving you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — What you do today will certainly be worthy of praise when all is said and done, though not everyone will appreciate it right away.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You must not be deceived by someone who is working at cross-purposes. Stick to what you have planned and what you do best — and don’t dawdle!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Why use two words when one will suffice? Efficiency in all things will be rewarded today, and it begins with the way you communicate with others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Your positive attitude needn’t be threatened by anyone today, regardless of what he or she might do or say. You fly above the fray.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — It’s likely that you will get wind of criticism that has not been offered to you directly — but there’s no need to respond in kind, surely.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — The information you receive today proves faulty in some respects, but you can avoid any setbacks by making instinctive corrections to it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A rough start is to be expected today, but it needn’t sour you to what you are likely to experience throughout the rest of the day.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 29-Feb. 18) — You’ll likely play an important role in someone’s affairs today — but you’re not going to want to be called out by name, surely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — If you’re expecting things to present themselves in an organized fashion today, you’re in for a disappointment.

Much will require sorting out.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

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

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Yesterday’s

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

Americana Level 1

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

Answers (Answers Tuesday Monday) Jumbles: GUILT TEASE VIABLE WARMTH Answer: When King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936, it hit the UK like a — “TITLE WAIVE”

4/4/20

Solution to Friday’s puzzle

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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(e.g., By what name is the Upper House of Congress known? Answer: Senate.)

Freshman level 1. For what newspaper feature is Robert Ripley best known?

2. Then-Republican candidate George Bush said: “Read my lips. No new ____.”

3. What is used to make a jack-o’-lantern?

4. Poker term for five cards of the same suit in order.

5. Who portrayed the rebel in the 1955 film “Rebel Without a Cause”?

Graduate level 6. In the “Li’l Abner” comic strip, what special day for spinsters was held in November?

7. What is the only word spoken by the bird in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”?

8. In what type of game do players win points by propelling steel balls by means of “flippers”?

9. In which state is Pikes Peak?

10. In this 1955 film, Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra play New York City gamblers.

PH.D. level 11. This stew is the official state cuisine of Louisiana.

12. In “The War of the Worlds,” Martians landed in this community in New Jersey.

13. This musician is known for his songs “Honeysuckle Rose” and “Ain’t Misbehavin’.”

14. From which Robert Frost poem is “Two roads diverged in a wood”?

15. Her libertarian views are known from her novels “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.”

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Ripley’s Believe It or Not. 2. Taxes. 3. Pumpkin. 4. Straight flush. 5. James Dean. 6.

Sadie Hawkins Day. 7. Nevermore. 8. Pinball. 9. Colorado. 10. “Guy and Dolls.” 11. Gumbo.

12. Grover’s Mill. 13. Fats Waller. 14. “The Road Not Taken.” 15. Ayn Rand.

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

Mutts

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Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Most excellent 5 Piece of china 10 Cure-__; panaceas 14 Michigan or Titicaca 15 Of the countryside 16 __ year; 2020, for one 17 Like eclairs 18 Amass 20 Letters for many univ. profs.

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Lauren Gunderson is leading virtual lessons on being a playwright amid the coronavirus lockdown. Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Audible/TNS

Want to be a playwright?

Big names will teach you

By ASHLEY LEE Los Angeles Times

PG-13, 101 minutes Clive Owen delivers a wonderfully understated performance as a forlorn divorced dad in this lovely film, the 2016 directorial debut of

Lauren Gunderson rubbed her hands together in excitement.

“We’re about to get this playwriting class started,” said the prolific playwright, wearing her signature vibrant eyeglasses and a Shakespeare Theatre Company sweatshirt.

She then spoke to her students for nearly an hour about shaping a story’s beginning and ending, crafting characterdefining choices and penning effective stage directions.

Because of the coronavirus outbreak, the session Wednesday was no ordinary class.

Rather, Gunderson led these lessons virtually and for free from her home in San Francisco, a region ordered to shelter in place. With her husband and two young children at home with her, she addressed more than 900 people tuning in live. By Thursday, viewership had grown to more than 23,000.

“Right now, there’s something about reminding ourselves about community and insisting on it even though we’re stuck in our houses,” she told the Los Angeles Times.

“I think people are engaging because they believe theater isn’t going anywhere. They’re convinced that we will be back and we will need stories to get us back together.”

Gunderson, the most produced playwright in the country, has taught in-person classes at the Bay Area’s Marin Theatre Company. She got the idea to go online from her “Jeannette” musical collaborator, Ari Afsar, who had recently livestreamed a concert in Los Angeles. After announcing her plan on her social media accounts, Gunderson was quickly flooded with surprisingly specific questions about storytelling. Many came from high school and college students whose courses had suddenly been axed, their playwriting projects left in limbo.

“That convinced me that this doesn’t have to be just a fun distraction for an hour,” she said. “If this had happened to me in college, I would’ve been so distraught and frustrated.”

Gunderson is among many who have pivoted to public digital instruction in this moment of social distancing — many for free or at a low cost.

Jaclyn Backhaus led a virtual, two-hour session last Monday about starting a new play for about 40 students.

Two weeks ago the playwright

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store in the USA” has a about 10,000 different puzzle choices in its inventory.

As the reality started sinking in across the country that AmeriThe store has sold out of many in the recent rush, but it expects cans would be urged to stay home for an indefinite period of time to restock by the weekend as long as it gets its shipments. during the COVID-19 crisis, people have been buying large volA note to customers on Puzzle Warehouse’s website says: “We umes of beans and rice and soap. have received unprecedented interest in our products, with order And puzzles. and customer service levels approaching 10 times normal volume Puzzle Warehouse, a family-owned shop in St. Louis with a for this time of year. While we are doing our best to serve you, the huge selection of puzzles, suddenly found itself overwhelmed circumstances seem to be changing day to day and even hour to with business last week. hour, both on a local and national level.”

“This is beyond even Christmas volume,” said The bulk of the store’s usual business is reguBrian Way, who has owned the store with his wife, lar puzzlers and families, but Way said that in Susan, for about 10 years. “That’s just insane.” the past year or two he’s seen an uptick in young On a normal day, the store sells 1,000 puzzles. In adults “who are looking to get unplugged.” the past week or so, it’s selling as many as 10,000 a The store’s average 1,000-piece puzzle generally sells for about $17. The biggest is a 52,000-piece day. Some sales were through its brick-and-mortar store, which is now closed indefinitely because set that sells for $500; and the smallest is a tiny of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel 234-piece puzzle that comes with tweezers and coronavirus, but the bulk of the orders are online sells for $6. and shipped from the company’s warehouse.

Way said he is happy that he recently bought “We’ve never seen something like this,” said a bigger warehouse and made an early and large Way, 51.

Christmas order from manufacturers before the Puzzle Warehouse, online The store has a backlog of orders taken in re- at www.puzzlewarehouse. coronavirus crisis began, meaning the store had cent days that Way is trying to get to people. more puzzles than usual in stock. com, has been loaded with “Our biggest challenge now is shipping,” said orders for jigsaw puzzles since Before the recent crush of orders, the warehouse Way, whose four children, ages 14 to 19, are help- the coronavirus hit the U.S. had 20 employees. In the past week, Way has hired ing the business while their schools are closed. another two dozen more, most of whom were laid Facebook Way said he was initially shocked at the deoff from other retail or restaurant work, Way said. mand, but now it makes sense.

He said the warehouse has implemented strict san“There’s no sports on TV,” he said. “Do you really want the itization and social-distancing standards.

TV and radio on that’s nonstop corona all the time? People are As states start to force businesses to close, he’s not sure how burned out and need something different.” long the warehouse will stay open, especially now that St. LouThey’re choosing something, he said, that might allow cooped is city and county have ordered people to stay at home. But no matter what happens, he’s grateful that Americans are turning to up families to spend hours together on a shared project.

Big retailers such as Amazon are selling out of puzzles, as are lo- puzzles in a time of isolation and crisis. cal toy stores, many of which have closed because of the outbreak.

“The long and short of it is, we’ll do what we can, while we can,” Puzzle Warehouse, which calls itself “the largest jigsaw puzzle he said.

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10 movies to watch while quarantining STREAMING: Some new and

some older hidden gems for your viewing Kaufman and his antisocial alter ego, Tony Clifton. Weird, confessional and ultimately deeply moving, this chronicle transcends great Hollywood backstage dish to become a poignant meditation on fame, creativity and the fine line between madness and spiritual inspiration.

(Available on Netflix.)

“LEMON” Unrated, 83 minutes

If you haven’t heard of Janicza Bravo, you will: Her new film “Zola,” due out later this year, was one of the buzziest titles at Sundance. “Lemon” was her 2017 directorial debut, a Hollywood satire co-written by Brett Gelman that is every bit as tart and sometimes off-putting as its title suggests.

Gelman plays an acting teacher beset by problems in art, love, career and every other life category you can mention. Reminiscent of “Barry,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and other jaundiced views of L.A. life at its most invidious and self-defeating, “Lemon” isn’t always pretty, but it’s consistently bold and uncompromising in

its stylized aesthetic and adamantly mannered delivery.

(Various platforms.)

“I DON’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE” TV-MA, 93 minutes The title might sound pretentious, but this wackadoodle 2017 mystery is anything but. Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood star as two unlikely sleuths who embark on a shaggier and shaggier shaggy-dog journey to recover her character’s stolen family silver; along the way, they confront all of the selfishness and social ills that are making America increasingly unlivable.

Written and directed by Macon Blair (“Blue Ruin”), this gonzo bagatelle indulges in the kind of bloody mayhem he and frequent collaborator Jeremy Saulnier are known for; but also the same share of sincerity, and spot-on satirical zing.

(Available on Netflix.)

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Masks don’t help, but tossing salt over the shoulder?

Why people want to believe in fake cures

By EMILY BALCETIS Washington Post

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, countless people have turned to covering their mouths and noses with surgical masks. The problem, as the experts keep telling us, is that most masks are ineffective for people who are not sick — and buying the better models, which people aren’t trained to use correctly, limits their availability for those who really need them, chiefly front-line medical providers. The appetite for such medical supplies led Jerome Adams, the Surgeon General of the United States, to tweet: “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS.” Yet the admonition did little to deter the public, who have cleaned out most stores’ inventories.

One reason people are so desperate for masks is that in times of heightened stress people tend to resort to “magical thinking” and superstitious behavior — particularly when there seem to be few ways to exert control over a situation.

The first line of psychological defense in a crisis is often denial. But as evidence of the disease’s scope grows (more than 150 countries affected, over 7,000 deaths, more than 150,000 infected), documented by dire news reports, denial becomes implausible.

That leaves another comforting option: clinging to the belief that one can ward off undesired outcomes by engaging in behaviors that bear little to no relationship to accepted laws of science and nature. According to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll from 2015, for example, although only 24 percent of Americans say they are “somewhat” or “very” superstitious, 60 percent “knock on wood” to prevent unwanted outcomes from occurring.

Some people who do these things may be acting out of habit or tradition, of course — not a firmly held belief in the effectiveness of it as a deterrent. But there is evidence that, for some people, magical thoughts reduce anxieties. In a study involving 167 male and female university students, Harvard University behavioral scientist Alison Wood Brooks and her team concocted a stressful event — everyone would sing, solo, in front of a group of strangers. Some of the test subjects were assigned to draw a picture encapsulating how they were feeling, throw salt over the drawing, crinkle up the paper and toss it in the garbage — arbitrary actions that the research team told participants were superstitious behaviors designed to ward off bad luck. The researchers found that the people who did these things experienced a drop in heart

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screenwriter Bob Nelson (“Nebraska”). Over the course of an eventful weekend — which is supposed to culminate in the confirmation of his 8-year-old son — Owen’s character messes up in nearly every way possible, resulting in what will surely be a permanent rupture with everyone he loves ...or redemption. “The Confirmation” is funny and finely observed, with lovely supporting performances from Maria Bello, Patton Oswalt and the late Robert Forster.

(Various platforms.)

“MISS STEVENS” Unrated, 86 minutes Thanks to “American Horror Story,” Lily Rabe has enjoyed something of a heyday lately. But she should still be better known. In this offbeat 2016 comedy-drama, Rabe plays a high school theater teacher who agrees to drive

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and co-founder of New Yorkbased Fresh Ground Pepper performing arts company learned that New York University was moving all classes online. She wanted to try out her usual pedagogy and get used to the Zoom interface before resuming her three

Among warning letters the Food and Drug Administration sent out in an effort to rid the market of fraudulent COVID-19 remedies was to Herbal Army, maker of “Coronavirus Boneset Tea” and other products. FDA

One reason people are so desperate for masks is that in times of heightened stress people tend to resort to ‘magical thinking’ and superstitious behavior — particularly when there seem to be few ways to exert control over a situation.

rate of five beats per minute compared to people who did not perform the ritual: It quieted their mounting anxieties.

While magical thinking might be a harmless habit in most situations, a quirk of human psychology, it can be deadly in others — as when people hoard masks during a pandemic.

Researchers have studied myriad ways in which people deploy magical thinking as a protection against harm. During the Gulf War in 1991, social scientist Giora Keinan surveyed 174 Israelis who were living under high and low threat of attack from Iraqi missile strikes. In Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan, the danger was

high; in Jerusalem and Tiberias, it was relatively low. Keinan asked all study participants the degree to which they would be likely to (if they had the chance) rip a photograph of Saddam Hussein to pieces during a missile salvo. Or if they would step into their safest, sealed room right foot first — an act thought to bring good fortune. Israelis in the high danger regions endorsed these irrational behaviors 36 percent more strongly compared with Israelis living in safer neighborhoods. Those who were most likely to do such things were the participants who said (in a different part of the study) that they felt uneasy when they

could not control events around them. Magical rituals, in short, offered an illusory sense of control.

Likewise, during the Ebola outbreak of 2016 in West Africa, in which fatality rates for the infected hovered around 50 percent, sociologist Eric Tenkorang surveyed 800 Ghanaians, and found that they generally knew the sources of transmission (contact with bodily fluids, eating brush meat like antelope), symptoms of Ebola at onset (fever, diarrhea) and effective prevention measures endorsed by the World Health Organization: washing hands with soap and altering funeral practices to avoid contact with the body of someone that had died from Ebola. But they also reported believing that hot salt water baths acted as an effective preventive vaccine though doctors had told them otherwise — and they took such baths.

How, during the current pandemic, can we satisfy our psychological need for control — but in ways that effectively reduce transmission of the virus? We can embrace scientifically validated rituals, such as hand-washing, for one thing. We can choose

whether we wash thoroughly every time we use the restroom or touch surfaces like doorknobs. We can control our exposure to others through social distancing. We can choose how we greet others — opting for elbow bumps over handshakes. These are decisions we make consciously, several times a day, and they grant us some sense of self-determination during an uncertain time.

Other decisions, such as avoiding unnecessarily travel, staying in one’s house and keeping an eye out for symptoms in oneself and one’s loved ones are crucial — even if they don’t provide quite the same sense of control as more ritualistic behavior.

But the first step toward adopting healthy habit is recognizing our natural propensity to find protection where it can’t really be found. Which means: Ditch the face mask, grab the soap and embrace your time at home.

Balcetis, an associate professor of psychology at New York University, is the author of “Clearer, Closer, Better; How Successful People See the World.”

a few of her most gifted students to a weekend competition. Conflict, misjudgments and even some high jinks ensue, but in filmmaker Julia Hart’s capable hands, they feel both surprising and grounded. Bonus: a pre-”Call Me By Your Name” Timothée Chalamet hitting his mark as a talented but troubled young actor.

(Various platforms.)

“TRAMPS” TV-MA, 82 minutes You know Callum Turner as the handsome Frank Churchill in Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation of “Emma,” but he had a breakout role in this delightful crime caper as the son of Polish immigrants who becomes embroiled in a scheme gone horribly (and sometimes hilariously) awry.

Smoothly crafted by writerdirector Adam Leon (“Gimme the Loot”), this 2016 loverson-the-lam romance also features Grace Van Patten as Turner’s edgy opposite number, who finds out that the wrong man can sometimes be playwriting courses onscreen.

“I’ve never done anything like this before, and as someone who operates in a writers group modality of teaching, I wondered if the internet might actually make the back-andforth feel more accessible,” she said. “I thought, here’s a chance for me to learn more about this and reach some new folks who are bored and have nothing to do.

Backhaus offered the

Elijah Wood, left, and Melanie Lynskey in “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.” Allyson Riggs/Netflix

Grace Van Patten, left, and Callum Turner star in “Tramps.” Netflix

the right guy.

(Available on Netflix.)

a real estate agent.

(Various platforms.)

Unrated, 104 minutes Joanna Hogg made a bit of a splash last year with “The Souvenir,” which was produced by no less than Martin Scorsese. In that film, Hogg evinced what has become her signature style, which tends toward observing characters as bodies in space, with their environments telling the

audience as much about them as their dialogue and behavior. In 2013’s “Exhibition,” Hogg explores that concept with even more rewarding results, as two artists (played by conceptual artist Liam Gillick and former Slits guitarist Viv Albertine) put their glass-box London house on the market.

Come for the graceful combination of balletic movement, architecture and meditation on creative practice; stay for the Tom Hiddleston cameo as

TV-MA, 120 minutes Tina Mabry’s searing semiautobiographical family drama isn’t a feel-good movie. It’s a feel-everything movie, filled to the brim with love, pain, betrayal, sacrifice and self-preservation — all set against the backdrop of a working-class community in rural Mississippi. Filmed with delicacy and

nuance by Bradford Young (“Arrival”), Mabry’s 2009 portrait is unsparing but also forgiving, as her characters try to break the bonds of poverty, sexual abuse and addiction with only dishearteningly partial success. Tessa Thompson delivers a breakout performance as a young woman whose determination to survive finds its match in her most steadfast loyalties.

(Available via Showtime Anytime.)

session on a sliding scale (from free to $25) and had viewers pay her digitally or donate to an arts organization.

She was surprised by how well her methodology translated digitally.

“We did timed writing exercises, and we got through a lot,” she said.

The playwright was visiting her parents in Arizona when the pandemic evolved in New York. Her mother and

her husband are also college instructors (at Arizona State University and NYU, respectively) and will also be teaching college courses virtually.

“My childhood home is now kind of a remote teaching center!” she said with a laugh. “We’re all helping each other and peeping in on all the Zoom tutorials from each other’s schools.”

Playwright and screenwriter Erik Patterson, who has

hosted an informal playwriting workshop in Encino, Calif., for more than a year, is moving his weekly meetings to Zoom.

He was inspired by USC playwriting professor Luis Alfaro, whose class is now held virtually, and is limiting the meeting to eight people to allow enough time for peer reviewing — a valuable part of any writing workshop.

Weekly meetings for Bridgette Portman’s

playwriting class (April 6-June 1, $200), last held at the Dragon Productions Theatre Company in Redwood City, Calif., will also be conducted on Zoom.

“It’s kind of great because some people couldn’t enroll last time because the commute was just too much for them,” she said. “Now that’s not an issue; it’s open to anyone anywhere with an internet connection.”

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These no-knead English muffins are the ones to beat

By BECKY KRYSTAL | Washington Post Similar to Thomas’s brand, No-Knead English Muffins are a thousand times tastier and easier to make than you may think.

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an you stir together ingredients in a bowl? Can you make pancakes? Then I’m confident you can make English muffins.

Given the increasingly urgent emphasis on social distancing and the challenges of finding certain grocery store staples due to the coronavirus, now might be as good a time as any if your must-haves involve a certain brand known for its enticing nooks and crannies.

With a handful of ingredients and a limited amount of active work, you can have a dozen tender, tall and flavorful English muffins to enjoy now or later. They were never really part of my morning routine. But in my recent drive for better breakfasts, English muffins became an ideal bread for frittata or fried egg sandwiches.

Now I can hardly imagine going a week without this recipe.

Three attempts into testing recipes for the small yeasted rounds, I was feeling as deflated as a failed dough.

Nothing came close to the right texture. What I basically ended up with were griddled rolls. Tasty, just not right.

Then came Stella Parks, she of “BraveTart” and Serious Eats fame, and about as a reliable recipe source as any.

Hers were fantastic. Similar to Thomas’s brand, but a thousand times tastier. Gently pulling apart the warm muffins with my fingers revealed a veritable lunar surface of nooks and crannies, perfect for catching butter and jam once toasted.

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Make sourdough starter for bread, waffles and more BUILDING FROM SCRATCH: It requires

a weekly feeding and regular attention

By CATHY BARROW Washington Post

My sourdough starter has no name. I know there is a trend that suggests I should name it, because if everything goes as planned, I can then bequeath the family starter to future generations. But I just can’t make the commitment. You can make your own sourdough starter from scratch. Stacy After all, I’ve already mur- Zarin Goldberg/Washington Post dered two sourdough starters, one in the ‘70s and another in I’d take another plunge into rabbit hole to share some of their starter. They will be the ‘90s. Naming them did not the world of sourdough.

I am clear-eyed this time. thrilled. You will, of course, help their fate and, really, it’s I know the pitfalls. I know hear the provenance of this just too much responsibility.

But the internet is a pow- that my interest may flag and blob of off-white bubbling erful thing. When everyone I I’m encouraged by a recent mass housed in a plastic deli knew began making their own Food52 story that tells of a way tub. There will be discussions sourdough bread, Instagram- to dehydrate a starter — like of hydration and ratios and ming their eye-poppingly putting my newspaper on va- when to add the salt. About autolyse and gluten developbronzed loaves, sporting ears cation-hold.

If you, too, are hearing the ment and long fermentation. on the surface. I ogled their breads, cut open to expose the siren call of sourdough, the The windowpane. So much classic sourdough’s airy holes. first thing to do is ask a friend shaping, folding and slashing.

It wasn’t long before I knew who is already well down this The conversation may even

veer to flour mills and building a bread oven.

If you have no access to a starter from a cohort, make one yourself. Sourdough starters are a combination of flour and water and bacteria in the air, the very essence, the terroir, of your home. I wanted to know how my own kitchen space, where I cook daily, bake constantly and ferment pickles, might bloom in a sourdough starter. In a little more than week, I had a bubbly, lively, happy starter and I was off and running with crackers, bread and cinnamon rolls.

If you are going to take the leap into sourdough baking, invest in a kitchen scale to weigh the ingredients.

Grams are precise, but if you only have a scale that registers ounces, it will still be more effective than using measuring cups.

To build a starter, mix equal parts flour and water and let it sit on the counter for a day.

Every 24 hours, feed the starter first by discarding all but

about a quarter of what you start with, adding back equal parts fresh flour and water. Every day, the ferment grows and transforms the once rough, dense mixture into a bouncy, wheat-scented bowl of hopefulness.

In a few days, the starter is fed every 12 hours and, after a while it will increase in size in just four hours.

Eventually, having a starter is akin to having a Tamagotchi pet. It requires a weekly feeding, and without this attention the bouncy quality that makes sourdough breads full of air holes is harder to achieve. My nameless starter sat happily in my refrigerator and the weekly feeding schedule resulted in two large loaves of bread every seven days. That was all fine and good until it far outpaced our consumption and freezer space, too. I made so much bread that even friends and neighbors began to scatter whenever we held out a round shape nestled in a tea towel.

SOURDOUGH STARTER Sourdough starter, an alchemy of flour, water and the terroir of your very own kitchen, becomes richer, more flavorful, and more fermented and bubbly with time. It may seem daunting, but creating your own starter is straightforward.

All you need is water, flour, time and a bit of instruction, which we’re providing here.

Build a starter in a week or so, keep it alive with a feeding every week and in a surprisingly short period of time the starter becomes a nuanced, rich, flavorful base for bread, rolls, pancakes, waffles, crackers, English muffins and more.

Use all-purpose flour initially to build a bubbly, fermented starter and once it is reliably rising, add any other grain that inspires — whole wheat, rye, spelt, einkorn — when feeding. Plan a week for the fermentation to happen. The temperature in your kitchen can effect how long this takes.

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Readers stuck at home need books — and community

By ANGELA HAUPT Washington Post

If there’s a silver lining to the sudden need to hunker down as the novel coronavirus upends normal life, it’s that maybe — finally — you’ll have time to read. Provided you have enough books.

Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to access new reading material without leaving the house, and to stay engaged with the bookish community even as libraries and bookstores shutter their doors.

Here’s a guide.

Take advantage of free library resources like OverDrive: Many libraries are closed until further notice, but you can still tap into their tools — even if you don’t have a library card. OverDrive, a company that works with thousands of libraries around the country, offers an “instant digital card.” Sign up and start browsing an impressive collection of e-books and audiobooks.

OverDrive’s Libby app makes it easy to download your picks to whatever device you prefer: Stream an audiobook on your Google Home, for example, or send a book to your tablet or Kindle. Beware that there aren’t unlimited digital copies, so there’s often a waitlist for popular titles. Once your request comes in, you’ll typically have access for seven to 21 days.

Ramiro Salazar, president of the Public Library Association and director of the San Antonio Public Library, says libraries have a “history of rising to the occasion, and that’s what we’re doing right now.”

He asked his staff to look into expanding their books-by-mail program, for example, a longtime service that provides books to those who are homebound. And he said libraries nationwide are working to shorten wait times by increasing the number of digital books available to patrons.

Order from your favorite indie bookstore: On Monday, Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich., reported that in the previous few days, customers had placed more than 800 online orders — compared to a typical five to 10 a day.

Like many independent bookstores, it had turned exclusively to online sales. The small staff was working to process web orders as quickly as possible and thanked customers for giving them a “fighting chance” to weather the unexpected circumstances.

Around the country, many indies are offering local shipping free or for a nominal fee in hopes of luring extra business. In Washington D.C., Loyalty Bookstore implemented curbside pickup and $2 shipping. In addition to new pickup and delivery options, East City Bookshop created a hotline that readers can call or text for recommendations. And Capitol Hill

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Books is scheduling in-person visits for up to four people at a time, as well as free domestic shipping.

Another option is bookshop.org, a recently launched website that shares proceeds with independent bookstores.

Trade physical books for audiobooks: Even if you don’t prefer listening to reading, you’re probably familiar with Audible: The Amazon-owned audiobook company has a catalogue of nearly 500,000 easy-to-download options, from Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club picks to classics. You can listen on a wide array of devices, or even in a web browser. A $14.95 monthly membership includes any title, plus two Audible Originals. (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

Another option is Libro.fm, which offers more than 150,000 digital audiobooks of all genres.

Membership costs about $15 a month. When you sign up, you’ll

select the independent bookstore you want your purchases to support, and typically, the company splits the profits with that shop.

Right now, all proceeds are going to the bookstores.

Both Audible and Libro.fm supply ample instructions, and getting started requires little more than a working device and an eager reader.

Click over to websites that provide free books: For decades, Project Gutenberg has made copyright-free e-books available on the Internet. Don’t expect to find any current bestsellers, but there’s a rich selection of more than 60,000 older titles that you can download to your device or read in your web browser. The site’s “top 100” list includes “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens, “Little Women”

by Louisa May Alcott and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Library of Congress also

offers a selection of free classics you can read online. Many of the choices are kid- and adventure-oriented, like “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Treasure Island.” After Cambridge University Press made more than 700 textbooks free through the end of May, demand was too high for their website to withstand.

There may still be a chance to cozy up with a copy of “Psychopathology” or “Nietzsche,” however. The press is working to “reinstate free access as soon as possible.”

Attend a virtual book talk: Inperson events are on hold, but bookstores are still finding creative ways for authors to engage with readers. Hilary Leichter was scheduled to talk about her new novel “Temporary” at Brooklyn-based Books Are Magic the same day the shop canceled all March events, for example, so staffers pivoted to a virtual version. The shop uploaded a fun, chatty conversation with Leichter (and her ukulele) to its

Instagram page. Upcoming virtual talks will feature Paul Lisicky and Joseph Fink, among others.

Similarly, Washington’s Politics and Prose announced it was launching P&P Live, a series of author events streamed online. Those who tune in can submit questions for the speakers, including Emily St. John Mandel and Bess Kalb. And you won’t have to deal with any D.C. traffic to get there.

Another example of making the best of disrupted plans: Anne Bogel, the popular blogger behind Modern Mrs. Darcy, had to cancel her tour to promote her latest book. So she’s launching the Stay at Home Book Tour, which kicks off March 23 and will include talks by authors such as Kimmery Martin and Ariel Lawhon. No selfies or signing, she says, but the events will be free and open to the first 500 people who log on via the video conferencing platform Zoom.

Participate in an online book club: What to do if half the fun of reading a book is talking about it?

Talk from afar. The D.C. Public Library is putting a virtual spin on its book club: Elizabeth Acevedo’s “With the Fire on High” is up first, and for a few Saturdays, the library will host Twitter chats focusing on different sections of the book.

Of course, no commute is too long in virtual book-club land.

Aside from checking what your local library and bookstores are offering, consider more global options. The Quarantine Book Club, for example, popped up to host online discussions with authors.

And the writer Yiyun Li is hosting a virtual club to discuss Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” — follow along at apublicspace.org.

Live-stream story time: There are many options for children, too.

Penguin Kids is hosting authors and illustrators who will read their stories on Instagram each weekday at 11 a.m., and the Brooklyn Public Library is live-streaming their story time in the afternoon and again before bedtime. Join on the library’s Facebook page or website.

In Ohio, the superintendent of Medina City Schools is livestreaming story time from his YouTube channel. The books — like Ferida Wolff’s “Is a Worry Worrying You?” — are selected to provide kids with support during such unusual times.

It’s also a chance for A-listers to read you a story: Actresses Amy Adams and Jennifer Garner launched #SaveWithStories, a charity-driven initiative in which celebrities read children’s books on Instagram.

Brie Larson, for example, read “Giraffes Can’t Dance,” while Reese Witherspoon delivered a spirited rendition of “Uni the Unicorn.”

Donations will help the nonprofits Save the Children and No Kid Hungry ensure that kids have access to meals during school closures.

Library-set murder mystery a page turner

By OLINE H. COGDILL Sun Sentinel (TNS)

“Murder Off the Page’” by Con Lehane; Minotaur (323 pages, $26.99) The 42nd Street Library in New York City is an iconic building — a treasure trove of books (naturally!), special collections and historical artifacts. It also makes an

intriguing setting for Con Lehane’s spirited series about librarian Raymond Ambler, curator of the Manhattan library’s crime fiction collection.

As Lehane again proves in his third novel, librarians make insightful sleuths, knowing how to ferret out information, piece together far-flung clues and uncover credible

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Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 21, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Boy from the Woods. Harlan Coben. Grand Central 2. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Rae Carson.

Del Rey 3. American Dirt. Jeanine Cummins. Flatiron 4. The Mirror & the Light. Hilary Mantel. Holt 5. Smoke Bitten. Patricia Briggs. Ace 6. The Jerusalem Assassin. Joel C. Rosenberg.

solutions. Lehane joins at least 10 other authors who set their mysteries in libraries.

“Murder Off the Page” is Lehane’s most complex plot as Ray is forced to investigate his friend, bartender and actor Brian McNulty. It begins when Ray helps Shannon Darling research the papers of mystery writer Jayne Galloway.

Ray is thrilled that Shannon

is interested in Jayne, whom he considers an overlooked author. Then Shannon disappears with Brian, shortly after a man is killed in her hotel room. When another murder occurs, Brian is the prime suspect.

Ray and fellow librarian Adele Morgan, who he is secretly in love with, follow a labyrinth of clues that uncover

that Shannon had another identity.

Lehane molds a tight plot that spins on believable twists.

Ray is an affable character with a complicated personal life that includes being guardian of his young grandson. As usual, the 42nd Street Library with its hidden crevices and private rooms emerges as a fully-realized character.

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tyndale 7. Blindside. Patterson/Born. Little, Brown 8. In Five Years. Rebecca Serle. Atria 9. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Charlie Mackesy. HarperOne 10. Journey of the Pharaohs. Cussler/Brown.

Putnam

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. D&D: Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount. Wizards of the Coast 2. Untamed. Glennon Doyle. Dial

3. The Splendid and the Vile. Erik Larson. Crown 4. Find Your Path. Carrie Underwood. Dey Street 5. Open Book. Jessica Simpson. Dey Street 6. The Gift of Forgiveness. Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt. Viking/Dorman 7. Marketing Made Simple. Donald Miller.

HarperCollins Leadership 8. Get Out of Your Own Way. Dave Hollis.

HarperCollins Leadership 9. Dangerous Prayers. Craig Groeschel. Zondervan 10. The Genius Life. Max Lugavere. Harper Wave

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10. Chasing Cassandra. Lisa Kleypas. Avon

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Window on the Bay. Debbie Macomber.

Ballantine 2. Liar Liar. Patterson/Fox. Grand Central 3. Long Road to Mercy. David Baldacci. Grand Central 4. Celtic Empire. Cussler/Cussler. Putnam 5. Longing for Yesterday. Debbie Macomber. Mira 6. Blessing in Disguise. Danielle Steel. Dell 7. The Night Window. Dean Koontz. Bantam 8. Little Fires Everywhere (TV tie-in). Celeste Ng. Penguin 9. The Big Kahuna. Evanovich/Evanovich. Putnam

1. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin Books 2. The Odd 1s Out: The First Sequel. James Rallison. TarcherPerigee 3. The Hunting Party. Lucy Foley. Morrow 4. Normal People. Sally Rooney. Hogarth 5. Learn to Read. Modern Kid 6. Worlds Within Worlds. Kerby Rosanes. Plume 7. The Inn. Patterson/Fox. Grand Central 8. Lost Boy Found. Kirsten Alexander. Grand Central 9. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate. Ballantine 10. The Outsider. Stephen King. Gallery

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ESPEN EXCELLENCE Both vulnerable, West deals NORTH ♠ K 10 8 7 5 ♥ A5 ♦ AK43 ♣86 WEST EAST ♠QJ643 ♠2 ♥ J7 ♥ K 10 9 4 3 2 ♦ Q5 ♦ J 10 7 6 ♣ A J 10 3 ♣95 SOUTH ♠A9 ♥ Q86 ♦ 982 ♣KQ742 The bidding: WEST NORTH 1♠ Pass Pass Dbl All pass

EAST 1NT 2♥

SOUTH Pass 3NT

Opening lead: Jack of ♥ Norway’s Espen Lindqvist is considered one of the world’s best declarers. We have featured him in this space before. He was South in today’s deal.

Declarer played low from dummy

on the opening heart lead. East won with his king and shifted to the jack of diamonds, captured by dummy’s ace.

Lindqvist led a spade to his ace and ran the nine of spades as West correctly refused to split his honors. A heart to dummy’s ace was followed by a low diamond, won by West with the queen. West, out of red cards, shifted to the jack of clubs, won by South with the king. Lindqvist cashed the queen of hearts and led a diamond to the king, leaving this position: NORTH ♠ K 10 ♥ Void ♦4 ♣8 WEST ♠QJ ♥ Void ♦ Void ♣ A 10

EAST ♠ Void ♥ 10 9 ♦ 10 9 ♣9 SOUTH ♠ Void ♥ Void ♦ Void ♣Q742

Lindqvist cashed dummy’s king of spades and continued with the 10 of spades. West won but had to give declarer the queen of clubs for his ninth trick. Beautifully played!

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are likely to prove a model of selfawareness and self-control by the time you reach your maturity — which is likely to be later than most — but when you are young, you may be quite incapable of determining just who you are, what you should do and what activities, people and indulgences are good or bad for you in the long run. Fortunately, you can learn from your mistakes — which is why you will, eventually, know yourself so well. Ultimately, you will be the kind of person other people want to be.

You can be highly critical of others because, as is only natural, you are highly critical of yourself. This doesn’t mean you go through life disappointed and distressed; on the contrary, you know how to maintain a surprising levity even when you are on the lookout for all that is wrong in the world.

Also born on this date are: Robert Downey Jr., actor; Heath Ledger, actor; Maya Angelou, poet; Anthony Perkins, actor; Muddy Waters, musician; Craig T. Nelson, actor; Nancy McKeon, actress; Christine Lahti, actress; Barry Pepper, actor.

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

SUNDAY, APRIL 5 ARIES (March 21-April 19) — When the time comes for you to cover for someone today, you’ll want to be ready. This will require more than routine preparations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20 — You may find yourself waiting on someone who was not aware of the need to stick to a tight schedule. You may have to fill in some blanks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — It’s important to set

some reachable goals for yourself today, hour by hour, minute by minute. No one else needs to know what is driving you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — What you do today will certainly be worthy of praise when all is said and done, though not everyone will appreciate it right away.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You must not be deceived by someone who is working at cross-purposes. Stick to what you have planned and what you do best — and don’t dawdle!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Why use two words when one will suffice? Efficiency in all things will be rewarded today, and it begins with the way you communicate with others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Your positive attitude needn’t be threatened by anyone today, regardless of what he or she might do or say. You fly above the fray.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — It’s likely that you will get wind of criticism that has not been offered to you directly — but there’s no need to respond in kind, surely.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — The information you receive today proves faulty in some respects, but you can avoid any setbacks by making instinctive corrections to it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A rough start is to be expected today, but it needn’t sour you to what you are likely to experience throughout the rest of the day.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 29-Feb. 18) — You’ll likely play an important role in someone’s affairs today — but you’re not going to want to be called out by name, surely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — If you’re expecting things to present themselves in an organized fashion today, you’re in for a disappointment. Much will require sorting out.

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easy steps to

oven-fried

HOT chicken

By GENEVIEVE KO Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — The first day I met Jenn Harris, my LAfriedchickenqueen colleague, I promised to take her to my favorite fried chicken shop in L.A. Broaster Kitchen in Montebello is my go-to for shatteringly crisp chicken. The secret to its chicken — which Harris and I ate for a recent episode of Bucket List — are its broaster machines, which simultaneously deep-fry and pressurecook the chicken to maximize crunch and juiciness.

Since we home cooks do not have pressure fryers in our kitchens and deep-frying is the sort of thing that’s a dealbreaker for many (it takes a lot of oil, spatters hard-to-clean greasy grime and is a mess to clean up), I turn to oven frying in times of crisp chicken need.

It’s not the same but it comes close, especially if you’re making Nashville-style hot chicken. The final drizzle of oil seasons and spices the crust

Sourdough From C3

If you’ve been given a sourdough starter, or if you’ve started one yourself, it’s something you must keep alive. Like the Tamagochi toys of our childhood, with minimal effort, this is not insurmountable. Sourdough starter may be kept on the kitchen counter, which is a good place for it if you are making bread every day. If you are a bake-bread-once-a-week (or less) kind of baker, keep your starter in the refrigerator and feed it weekly. If you are only making bread occasionally, you will still need to feed the starter weekly. It is not unusual for the starter to have some liquid around it. Stir it well before using it in a recipe

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Parks’s recipe is all the more appealing for being a noknead dough, which is mixed by hand for about 5 minutes and then later dropped onto a baking sheet. The wet dough would be impossible to knead anyway. The high moisture and slow rise — on the counter for a few hours and then overnight in the refrigerator once shaped — pave the way for deep flavor and the desired

and hits with the same satisfying wallop as the original.

To nail the other hallmarks of hot chicken, I’ve come up with four workarounds that will give you an easy weeknight crunchy chicken dinner: Use only drumsticks. The meat stays juicy even in the dry heat of the oven.

Substitute a short mayonnaise marinade for a longer buttermilk one. Mayo not only helps glue on the crumb coating, it keeps the meat tender.

Boost the taste and texture of the crumb coating. I combine spices and Parmesan with panko. Cheese may seem unlikely in fried chicken, but here, it acts as an umami boost while helping the crumbs brown.

Panko offers the most crunch of all the supermarket crumb options, but the pieces are a bit large to mimic flour-coated fried chicken. To achieve a similar crust, break the panko into even smaller bits by rubbing them between your fingers or pulsing in a food processor.

Bake the chicken on a wire

Oven-fried hot chicken csn be served with pickles for a bright bite to balance the heat of the chicken. Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times

OVEN-FRIED NASHVILLE-STYLE HOT CHICKEN Serves 6 to 8 Inspired by Nashville hot chicken, this version swaps deep-frying for oven frying but retains the signature spiced oil that coats the chicken at the end. Use your favorite hot pepper sauce in the mayonnaise coating because it stays on the chicken and contributes to its heat level and flavor. Classic Nashville hot chicken is served with sliced white bread and pickles, the former for soaking up the spiced oil and taming the heat, the latter to provide a tart counterpoint.

1/4 cup vegetable oil, plus more for rack 1/4 cup mayonnaise 1/4 cup hot pepper sauce, such as Frank’s Red Hot 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt

12 chicken drumsticks (about 3 1/2 pounds) 1 1/2 cups panko bread crumbs 1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon cayenne 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar 1. Set an oven rack in the top third of the oven, then heat to 450 degrees.

Line a half-sheet pan or rimmed baking sheet with foil and set a wire rack over it. If the rack isn’t nonstick, rub with oil to lightly coat.

2. Whisk the mayonnaise, hot pepper sauce, mustard, ¼ teaspoon garlic powder and ½ teaspoon salt in a large bowl. Add the chicken and turn to evenly coat.

3. Combine the panko, Parmesan, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon cayenne and 1 teaspoon salt in a shallow dish. Roll a drumstick in the mixture to

evenly and completely coat, pressing on the crumbs if needed. Shake off any excess crumbs, then place the drumstick on the rack. Repeat with the remaining drumsticks. If you have time, let stand for at least 15 minutes.

4. Bake until the chicken is golden brown, crunchy and cooked through, about 30 minutes. When you pierce one with the tip of a sharp paring knife, the juices should run clear.

5. While the chicken bakes, combine the sugar with the remaining ¼ teaspoon garlic powder, ½ teaspoon paprika, 1 tablespoon cayenne and 1 teaspoon salt in a medium heatproof bowl. Heat the ¼ cup oil in a small saucepan over medium heat until wavy. Pour over the spices.

Once the sizzling subsides, stir well.

6. As soon as the chicken comes out of the oven, stir the spiced oil again and drizzle evenly over the drumsticks. Serve hot.

rack. Elevating the chicken allows the heat to circulate around it, crisping the crumbs on all sides. Because nobody wants soggy-bottomed fried chicken.

As with any hot chicken, the

spice oil makes or breaks it.

Kim Prince of Hotville Chicken in Los Angeles, a member of the Prince family that operates Nashville’s original hot chicken restaurant, says, “The goal is to make the spice oil flavorful

— not just hot. You don’t need to try to figure out the original spice recipe from Prince’s or any other place. Just find the spices that work.”

The end result is hot chicken that’s as good right out of the

oven as it is the next day cold from the fridge. If you’re afraid of spicy heat and just want a solid oven-fried chicken recipe, use a mild hot sauce in the mayo mix and eliminate the cayenne.

or before starting the discardand-feed cycle.

If the starter languishes for months, it may be possible to reinvigorate it with regular feedings. If it turns pink or smells spoiled, throw it away and start again.

EQUIPMENT: You will need a kitchen scale and a 2-quart storage container with a tight-fitting lid. Opt for glass as it’s nonporous and won’t attract/absorb smells.

NOTES: The flour used to feed will have a direct influence on the flavor of the bread, so feel free to swap up to half the flour by weight with whole-wheat, rye, spelt, einkorn or any milled grain.

Whatever kind of water you drink — tap, filtered or bottled — use it for your starter.

MAKE AHEAD: This process generally takes 7 to 10 days. Start the process at a

time during the day you are always in the kitchen. The feeding takes no more than 20 minutes. The final day or two will be more demanding, checking on and feeding the starter every few hours.

STORAGE NOTES: Store refrigerated in an airtight container indefinitely. Feed once a week.

a wooden cutting board or a stack of towels.

DAY 2: Stir down the starter. Into a medium bowl, weigh 4 ounces of the starter, discarding the balance, known as discard, castoff or spent starter. Clean the storage container.

Into the starter, stir in 4 ounces of both flour and water. This is feeding. Scrape the fed starter back into the storage container. Place the cover on top, but do not seal.

Set the container aside for 24 hours. Repeat on DAYS 3 and 4.

DAY 5 (Or when the starter is both actively bubbling and increasing in volume): The bubbles will begin to get larger and there will be strands of gluten evident when stirring the starter. Discard all but four ounces and then feed with four ounces of both flour and water. Scrape

the fed starter back into the storage container and use a piece of tape to indicate it’s level in the container. In 12 hours, evaluate the starter.

If it has doubled, feed the starter again (discard all but 4 ounces and stir in 4 ounces each flour and water.)

THE NEXT 2 OR 3 DAYS: Feed the starter every 12 hours until it begins to reliably double in 4 hours. Feed once or twice to reassure yourself that it is indeed doubling in 4 hours. Cover the starter tightly and refrigerate, or use the starter to bake bread or crackers, leaving 4 ounces to continue to feed your starter.

Feed the starter once every week or when baking bread. If you’re planning to bake bread and your starter has been ignored for more than 1 week, feed the starter first, letting it ferment on the counter for

about 4 hours to confirm the leavening strength (doubled in size and topped with big, lazy bubbles).

If your starter has been ignored for more than a month it may take up to 4 feedings at 12 hour intervals to revive it.

TO FEED OR MAINTAIN YOUR STARTER: Stir down the active starter. Into a medium bowl, weigh 4 ounces of the active starter. Clean the storage container.

Into the starter, stir in 4 ounces of both flour and water until fully incorporated — this is feeding. Scrape the fed starter back into the storage container. Place the cover on top, but do not seal. Set the container aside for 4 hours, at which point it should have doubled in size. When ready, the starter should be topped with large bubbles and have a strong wheat scent.

texture. The dough is onethird whole-wheat flour, contributing a slightly hearty, nutty flavor and tender crumb.

After a spell in the fridge, the muffins are cooked on a castiron griddle or skillet for about 16 minutes total. Don’t rush the process or crank the heat. Keeping the burner on medium-low for a longer amount of time ensures proper rise and a completely cooked middle. Too many of my other recipes scorched on the outside before the interior set.

To close out my English muffin push, I ended up

making three batches to capture the muffins in various stages for the photographs you see. Sometimes, when I’m testing a recipe, I get tired of eating the results. This one?

Not so much — and everyone at the office who filled a bag to take home agreed. Now it’s your turn.

flavorful interior.

This recipe requires nothing in the way of special equipment. It is simply stirred together in a bowl, dropped onto a baking sheet and griddled on cast-iron. There’s no need for rings to cook the dough, as it holds it shape well.

Make Ahead: The dough needs to rise at room temperature for 4 to 5 hours. The shaped muffins then rise for 12 to 48 hours in the refrigerator. Store the cooked muffins in an airtight container for up to a week at room temperature, a month in the refrigerator or 3 months in the freezer.

together the bread flour, whole wheat flour, kosher salt and yeast until well combined.

Add the milk, honey and egg white, stirring with a flexible spatula until smooth, about 5 minutes. The dough will be fairly wet but elastic, and will start to come together into a ball. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or a plate (or transfer to a lidded container) and set aside at room temperature (70 degrees) for 4 to 5 hours, until the dough is spongy, light and has more than doubled in size.

(The timing is flexible depending on your schedule.)

Generously cover a large, rimmed baking sheet with an even layer of cornmeal (you may use about half to threequarters of it). With a large spoon, dollop out a dozen 2 ⅔-ounce portions of dough; it’s perfectly fine to do this by eye. If you’d like, pinch the irregular blobs with slightly dampened fingers to tidy their shape. Sprinkle with additional cornmeal, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 12 to 48 hours.

Heat a 12-inch cast-iron

skillet or griddle over medium-low heat. (If you have an electric griddle, preheat it to 325 degrees.) When it’s sizzling-hot (check by sprinkling a few small drops of water), add half the butter and melt.

Griddle the muffins until their bottoms are golden brown, about 8 minutes, rotating each muffin 180 degrees halfway through so the outer edges are moved to the center for even browning. Flip with a squareend spatula and griddle until the other side is golden brown as well. Depending on the size of your skillet or griddle, you may have to cook the muffins in batches, adding ½ to 1 tablespoon of butter to the skillet each time. Transfer the muffins to a wire rack until cool enough to handle, then split the muffins by working your thumbs around the edges to pull them open a little at a time. Toast before serving.

About 2 pounds all-purpose flour, plus more as needed to feed the starter About 5 cups water, plus more as needed to feed the starter DAY 1: Into a 2-quart storage container, add 4 ounces or a scant 1 cup of flour and ½ cup water. Stir together: This is your starter. Place the cover but do not seal. Set the container aside for 24 hours, out of the sun and off any cool surface. If the counters are cold, place the container on

NO-KNEAD ENGLISH MUFFINS Makes 12 muffins These no-knead English muffins are chock-full of the nooks and crannies so many of us adore in the breakfast staple. A fairly wet dough and a long overnight rise contribute to the signature texture as well. Whole-wheat flour and a little honey make for a tender,

2 cups bread flour 1 cup whole-wheat flour 2 3/4 teaspoons kosher salt, preferably Diamond Crystal (may substitute half as much table salt by volume) 1 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast (not rapid-rise) 1 1/2 cups cold milk (any percentage) 1/4 cup honey 1 large egg white, cold 1 cup fine cornmeal, for dusting 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, bacon fat or oil, plus more as needed In a large bowl, whisk

Nutrition | Calories: 220; Total Fat: 3 g; Saturated Fat: 2 g; Cholesterol: 5 mg; Sodium: 270 mg; Carbohydrates: 44 g; Dietary Fiber: 3 g; Sugars: 8 g; Protein: 7 g.