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ALBANY — A panel of Greene County lawmakers is calling for the state Legislature to reconvene and restore checks and balances to New York government and scale back Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers.

State leaders and local governments want more representation by the state Legislature during the public health crisis.

After missing the April 1 budget deadline and causing an interruption in pay for more than

“As we pivot towards reopening and normalcy, it’s time the constitutional authority of the Legislature is restored and the governor’s emergency powers be reigned in. These powers were always meant to be temporary, and it’s about time we in the Legislature get back to work and represent the people that sent us to Albany.”

— ASSEMBLYMAN CHRIS TAGUE, R-102 120,000 state employees, the Legislature ended session early on April 3 rather than ending June 2.

Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, R-120, began

calling for lawmakers to return to the chamber earlier this month.

The Greene County Legislature’s Finance Committee passed a resolution in support

of Barclay on Monday night, with all committee members seconding the motion.

“The Greene County Legislature hereby joins Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay on

calling the Legislature back into session, to do the work of the people and allow government to go back to the three branches of power and government that the constitution supports,” according to the resolution.

“The emergency powers provided to the governor were always intended to be temporary,” Barclay said May 9. “As we see the COVID-19 threat begin to subside and we move in the direction of reopening New York, the time has come for See SESSION A8

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo welcomes an investigation into the state’s COVID-19 nursing home deaths, he said Wednesday during a pandemic briefing at the state Capitol in Albany.

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo welcomes federal or state officials to investigate New York’s COVID-19 nursing home deaths, he said Wednesday, and religious services and ceremonies can resume statewide with 10 people or

fewer.

Over the past several days, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, joined other Republican New York members of the House of Representatives in calling for an investigation into the state’s adherence to safety and health regulations for nursing homes and long-term care facilities in

the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With 5,403 reported deaths at more than 600 nursing home and adult-care facilities across New York, Cuomo and the state have faced weeks of backlash after COVID-19-positive residents returned to those facilities before they recovered. A March 25 state Health

Department memo declared the state cannot discriminate against COVID-19 nursing home patients and prohibit their return, which potentially infected the most vulnerable New Yorkers — senior citizens and people with underlying conditions.

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Village planners approve Stewart’s Shop

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — The Village Planning Board unanimously approved a site plan on Monday for a new Stewart’s Shop at the corner of West Main and West Bridge street.

The site is currently home to Mountain T-Shirts but a new 3,996-square-foot building and four gas pumps will be installed in its place.

The public hearing on the project, originally scheduled for March 23, was postponed to April 20 due to COVID-19. The hearing was held by teleconference.

Over 80 residents

participated in the public hearing, Village President Vincent Seeley said.

Residents could either ask their question over the phone or text their question to a board member.

“For me, the texting and asking questions ahead of time are good for people who are reluctant to speak during a meeting,” Seeley said. “This new meeting medium allows more people to be heard because they may feel more comfortable not speaking in front of a crowd.”

Village planners requested some design changes, Planning Board Chairman Patrick McCulloch said.

“The original project was too modern for that area of the village,” he said. “It was a peaked roof building. It just didn’t fit.

We had them change the entire building.”

The board also requested some exterior lighting modifications, McCulloch said.

Other changes include smaller signage, reducing the number of pumps from six to four and sidewalks, Seeley said.

“The great part of a project like this is it really pushes us to reimagine sections of Catskill and how they fit into a larger picture while still retaining our See STEWART’S A8

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning appeared to threaten funding for Michigan amid a global health pandemic if state officials move ahead with plans to send absentee ballot applications to every state voter.

It was far from clear, however, if the president understood what he was talking about.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Tuesday morning said, in a story first reported in the Free Press, that she and local clerks will send absentee ballot applications to all of the state’s 7.7 million voters so they can, if they choose to do so, take part in the Aug. 4 and Nov. 3 elections without going to polling places.

Doing so would allow them to avoid the potential threat posed by the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.

But Trump’s post on Twitter about 7:50 a.m. appeared to suggest that Michigan was in the process of sending absentee ballots themselves — not the applications for people to ask for them if they wish to vote — to voters.

He wrote that it’s illegal for anyone to send unsolicited absentee ballots to voters and said that if it occurs, he will “ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!”

He also referred to Benson as a “rogue Secretary of State,” without mentioning her by name.

While it is illegal to send absentee ballots to voters who do not formally request them, it is far from clear that there are the same legal hurdles to sending

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mailing absent voter applications, not ballots,” he said. “Applications are mailed nearly every election cycle by both major parties and countless advocacy and nonpartisan organizations.

Just like them, we have full authority to mail applications to ensure voters know they have the right to vote safely by mail.”

Trump, meanwhile, also wasn’t clear about what funding he was referring to, but Michigan is expected to receive billions in aid from the federal government under legislation previously approved by Congress.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other governors also have been clamoring for Trump and congressional Republicans to support more direct aid for states now seeing sharp revenue declines from the coronavirus shutdowns and layoffs. Last week, the state projected its revenues will take a $3.2 billion hit from the pandemic in the current fiscal year, a staggering amount.

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WASHINGTON — The federal watchdog who issued an early report documenting grave shortages of coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment at overwhelmed hospitals will testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Tuesday, a congressional aide said.

Christi Grimm, the principal deputy inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services, documented “severe shortages” of supplies in late March and described hospitals’ intense frustrations with government authorities who were unequipped to address the shortages.

After Grimm issued her report on April 3, President Donald Trump criticized her for serving during the Obama administration and disputed the findings. On May 1, Trump nominated a permanent HHS inspector general to replace Grimm - one of several moves Trump has made to oust inspectors general who served Barack Obama and previous presidents.

Grimm’s appearance before the Oversight and Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., stands to be a high-profile moment of public scrutiny of the Trump administration by the Democratic-controlled House, which has struggled to secure Trump administration witnesses for oversight hearings.

The testimony and questioning - billed as a member briefing, not a hearing - is set to be conducted entirely by videoconference, with the proceedings live-streamed to the public. The congressional aide shared details of the hearing on the condition of anonymity because the briefing had not yet been announced publicly.

According to a draft notice of the hearing, Grimm is expected to brief the panel on her office’s work related to the coronavirus pandemic. “The briefing will address HHS IG’s recent report on hospital challenges in the pandemic, planned work on other aspects of the Administration’s coronavirus response, and HHS IG’s role as a member of the Pandemic Response

Accountability Committee,” it said.

After being confronted with Grimm’s findings on April 6, Trump lashed out on Twitter, writing, “Why didn’t the I.G., who spent 8 years with the Obama Administration (Did she Report on the failed H1N1 Swine Flu debacle where 17,000 people died?), want to talk to the Admirals, Generals, V.P. & others in charge, before doing her report.”

Grimm joined the HHS inspector general’s office in 1999, during the Bill Clinton administration, and took over as acting inspector general in January. Trump’s nominee for the permanent job, federal prosecutor Jason Weida, awaits confirmation by the Senate.

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applications for the absentee ballots to registered voters, though it could be challenged in court. Benson and some local clerks sent out applications to voters before the May 5 local elections in response to the pandemic.

Michigan holds primaries for offices other than president in August and the national general election is on the first Tuesday of November. The state authorized no-reason absentee voting in a referendum in 2018.

Riffing off early criticism of Trump when he referred to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as “that woman from Michigan,” Benson responded on Twitter, saying, “Hi! I also have a name, it’s Jocelyn Benson. And we sent applications, not ballots. Just like my GOP colleagues in Iowa, Georgia, Nebraska and West Virginia.”

Jake Rollow, Benson’s spokesman, also put out a statement saying Trump had it wrong.

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Benson’s office has said it will cost about $4.5 million to send out absentee ballot applications to every voter, with some funding expected to come from federal sources — so it is possible that was the funding to which Trump referred.

But while there have been concerns raised nationally about the potential for corruption and missing ballots, there has been little evidence of widespread fraud caused by an increase in the use of absentee ballots. And while Trump has complained of corruption, he has voted by mail as well, in New York when he lived there and, this year, in Florida, which he has officially made his state of residence.

Democrats say generally that Republican opposition to voting by mail is intended to hold down turnout, especially among supporters of Democratic candidates. Trump won Michigan by less than two-tenths of 1% of the vote in Michigan four years ago.

By receiving absentee ballot applications at home, voters could fill them out and mail or drop them off at local clerks’ offices or take a photo of them and email them to clerks, saving them an in-person visit.

Clerks would then compare the person’s signature with that on file in their offices and mail them an absentee ballot, which then could be mailed back or dropped off.

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U.S. 2019 births fall for fifth consecutive year Alex Tanzi Bloomberg

U.S. births dropped to the lowest level in 35 years.

About 3.75 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2019, down 1% from 2018, according to provisional data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control.

The total fertility rate in 2019 was 1,705 births per 1,000 women -- well below the level at which a given generation can exactly replace itself (2,100 births per 1,000 women). The total fertility rate has been below the replacement since 2007.

“In the long run low fertility might mean the population will grow smaller, but it takes a generation or two,” said Philip

Cohen, professor at the University of Maryland. “During the pandemic, I would expect pregnancy rates, and then birth rates, to fall as people interact less and postpone making long-term commitments and investments.”

“Financial constraints are a factor in the continuing low levels of fertility,” according to Ken Johnson, professor at the University of New Hampshire. “In addition, these fertility declines have been greatest most among younger women (under age 30) and it is unclear whether these births have been delayed or will be foregone.”

“In the short term, there is little likelihood of an upturn in fertility in the shadow of the

pandemic. In fact, I have every expectation that the number of births will diminish in 2021, said Johnson.”

Cohen agrees.

“People interact less and postpone making long-term commitments and investments” during the pandemic, said Cohen, adding that he does “not see any reason for birth rates to be rising anytime soon.”

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Thursday, May 21 n Coxsackie-Athens CSD Regular

Board of Education meeting 6:30 p.m. Remote meeting, for further information go to www.cacsd.org. n Coxsackie Village Planning Board public hearing and meeting 7 p.m. 270 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

Monday, May 25 n Catskill Town Offices closed in ob-

servation of Memorial Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Memorial Day n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 26 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, May 27 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-9451551 n Catskill Central School District public hearing on budget 6 p.m. virtual meeting check website for details

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Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m.

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Saturday, June 6 n Coxsackie Village Clean-Up Day 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Monday, June 8 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, June 9 n Catskill Central School District

board member/budget vote absentee ballot only n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

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Judge upholds Child Victims Act

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

ROCKVILLE CENTRE — The Child Victims Act fended off a challenge claiming the law is unconstitutional.

The legislation, championed by New Baltimore resident and state Senate candidate Gary Greenberg, creates a “look-back” window allowing claimants charging sexual abuse that occurred past the standard statute of limitations to take their case to civil court for a one-year period from the date the legislation was signed into law.

The law went into effect Aug. 15, 2019, and initially allowed civil cases alleging child sexual abuse to be brought against institutions through Aug. 14, 2020, regardless of when the abuse is claimed to have taken place. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the court system coming to a near standstill in New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended the “look-back window” by five months, to Jan. 14, 2021.

A case was dismissed last Wednesday by State Supreme Court Judge Steven M. Jaeger, denying a motion by the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre in Long Island to dismiss 44 lawsuits against the diocese. The motion claimed the law was unconstitutional because it violated the diocese’s right to due process.

“There had been claims

filed by the diocese under the Child Victims Act and they objected to the claims and made Gary a motion to Greenberg have them dismissed based on the claim that the Child Victims Act was unconstitutional, that you can’t go back and bring lawsuits when the statute of limitations has passed,” Greenberg said. “They said the Legislature couldn’t pass the Child Victims Act and victims couldn’t sue the diocese under the look-back window.”

Sean Dolan, director of communications for the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, said the organization is looking to consider the next steps the diocese may take.

“We disagree with the court’s ruling on the due process challenge to the Child Victims Act and we are analyzing our options with respect to appeal of this and other issues,” Dolan said.

Greenberg, one of the law’s architects, agreed with the court’s decision.

“The judge in the case obviously said that victims do have a right to bring the diocese and other institutions to court to seek justice,” Greenberg said. “The Legislature can and

did put the look-back into the law and I am quite pleased with it.”

The Child Victims Act is vital to enabling people to seek justice even decades after child sexual abuse is alleged to have taken place, Greenberg said.

“A lot of victims were abused in the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, and it takes an average victim until their late 40s or early 50s to come to the realization of what occurred to them,” Greenberg said.

Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, was gratified the law was upheld.

“I am very happy this important law has been allowed to stand,” Tague said. “I supported this law and voted for it last year because all victims of sexual abuse deserve justice. Today is a great day for children in this state, as well as those who have had to live with trauma their entire lives due to childhood abuse.”

State Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, agreed with the court’s ruling that the law is constitutional.

“I also support an extension of the look-back period necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on our courts,” Jordan said. “As I said before becoming senator, all victims deserve justice, the opportunity for their voices to be heard and to fully avail themselves of the legal

process.”

Greenberg urged institutions facing lawsuits to let the Child Victims Act stand.

“We are urging the church and other groups that have been sued to allow the process

to work and to allow cases to work their way through court and allow victims to seek justice,” he said. “They have to step up and come to grips with that — victims do have a right to hold them accountable.”

ATTENTION VILLAGE OF COXSACKIE RESIDENTS Clean-up day for Village residents will be held on Saturday, June 6, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. All items must be taken to the compactor and Village residents must have proof of residency. This year, we are also asking the public to follow the governor’s guidelines on face coverings. There will be no charge for furniture, appliances and general clean up items.

No construction/demolition debris will be accepted and normal fees will be charged for household garbage, tires and propane tanks. Recycled items should be separated and put in the proper bins.

FASNY offers lifesaving barbecue and grilling tips ALBANY - As New Yorkers are beginning to emerge from “New York on Pause,” looking towards nicer weather and Memorial Day weekend, many will be dusting off and firing up their grills for the first time in months. The Firemen’s Association of the State of New York urges all New Yorkers to follow some basic rules and tips to avoid accidents and injuries, and to remember not to hesitate to call for help needed.

“The warmer weather will certainly encourage New Yorkers to break out their BBQ’s for some outdoor cooking,” said FASNY President Steven Klein. “We want all residents to stay safe as we emerge from quarantine and heed some basic safety tips. We also remind everyone to continue to follow social distancing rules

to keep their families and other families safe for the coming months.”

According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), from 2014-2018, an average of 19,700 patients per year went to emergency rooms because of injuries involving grills and gas grills were involved in an average of 8,900 home fires per year, including 3,900 structure fires and 4,900 outdoor fires annually. Keep everyone safe by following the important tips below.

Tips from the NFPA and FASNY: - Propane and charcoal BBQ grills should only be used outdoors.

- The grill should be placed well away from the home, deck railings and out from under eaves and overhanging branches.

- Keep children and pets at least three feet away

from the grill area.

- Keep your grill clean by removing grease or fat buildup from the grills and in trays below the grill.

- Never leave your grill unattended.

- Always make sure your gas grill lid is open before lighting it.

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A cautious reopening carries risks The Capital Region was cleared to start reopening Wednesday, one hopeful step closer to getting back to a normal life.

But it is also a work in progress, still under state guidelines. We’re not going to sit down in our favorate restaurant and order a beer and a big meal.

We’re not going to the movies (although drive-ins are open this weekend).

We’re not going to the mall or get haircuts. And we’re not going to throw our face masks away just yet.

We have to remember how we got here.

Since Sunday, the Capital Region, which includes Columbia and Greene counties, had one

benchmark left to reach in the state’s seven metrics monitoring COVID-19 hospitalization, death, infection, testing and contact tracing data. The region is the state’s seventh of 10 to start reopening after five started the process Friday, and Western New York opened on Tuesday.

The Capital Region needed to hire 383 contact tracers and identified 430

by Tuesday. The tracers were trained Tuesday and started when Phase I businesses, including construction, manufacturing and pickup retail industries, resumed Wednesday. To paraphrase the Grateful Dead, it’s been a long, strange trip.

If we don’t handle this early reprieve with common sense and patience, we risk plunging the Twin Counties and the Capital Region back into an even deeper abyss of illness, shutdown and death.

We must still wear our face masks in public, stay at least six feet away from other people, disinfect surfaces and sanitize or wash our hands often.

Rogue businesses that open inappropriately, claiming the restrictions violate their rights, should be avoided and maybe even called out.

We’re on our way back, but we’re not out of the woods yet.

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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ long-planned overhaul of regulations governing how schools and colleges handle allegations of sexual harassment and assault have been released in final form.

As expected, they came under almost immediate court challenge from advocates for sexual abuse victims who claim they will lead to a return to the bad old days when campus rape and sexual misconduct were swept under the rug.

It is fair to question why the Trump administration chose to release the final rules during a global pandemic when schools across the country are scrambling to deal with chaos and uncertainty.

It is also understandable to wish that the department had taken more to heart some suggested changes, including how sexual harassment is defined, how victims are cross-examined and the scope of a school’s responsibility. But the old guidance was in need of improvement, and the new Title IX rules do not provide license for schools to ignore sexual assault and harassment. The revisions, as we observed when the proposal was put out for public comment in 2018, include some changes that would bring needed balance to disciplinary proceedings.

Four advocacy groups for people who have been sexually assaulted filed a federal lawsuit last week seeking to block the provisions from going into effect Aug. 14. The regulations, released May 6, replace the now-rescinded guidance of the Obama administration on how to enforce the 48-year-old federal law

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banning sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs.

The Education Department was right to tell schools, in a 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter, that they needed to deal with longneglected problems of sexual abuse or risk the loss of federal funding. But that led to a different set of problems. Law professors at leading universities said overcorrection in countering the culture of denial resulted in an assumption of guilt that denied the accused any semblance of due process, including access to evidence from investigative reports and the right to a fair hearing.

The basic issue surrounding the new rules is whether bolstering the rights of those accused - starting with a presumption of innocence and requiring a separation between investigation and adjudication of a complaint - will have a chilling effect on the willingness of students to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct. Some changes - such as allowing schools to apply a higher evidentiary standard for sexual abuse cases than are used for disciplinary proceedings - seem ill-advised. It is concerning that schools that are now trying to deal with the dilemmas caused by the novel coronavirus will also, barring court action, have to put in place new (and likely costlier) procedures to deal with sexual abuse and harassment cases.

Equally concerning, though, is that overheated rhetoric about the bad old days could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Coercive plea bargaining is a national embarrassment WASHINGTON — Michael Flynn, who was President Trump’s national security adviser for 24 days and who has been entangled in the criminal-justice system for 40 months, pleaded guilty of lying to FBI agents and now recants that plea. We shall return to Flynn below, but first consider Habeeb Audu, who is resisting extradition from Britain to the United States, where he is charged with various financial crimes.

The Cato Institute’s Clark Neily was asked by Audu’s lawyers to write, in accordance with British extradition practices, a Declaration — an “expert report” — about the risk that Audu would not have a meaningful right to a fair U.S. trial. Neily, a member of the American Bar Association’s Plea Bargaining Task Force and head of its subcommittee on impermissibly coercive plea bargains and plea practices, concludes that extradition would “guarantee” Audu’s subjection to a process that “routinely” coerces through plea bargaining. So Audu probably would experience “intolerable pressure designed to induce a waiver of his fundamental right to a fair trial.”

Plea bargaining is, Neily argues “pervasive and coercive” partly because of today’s “trial penalty” — the difference between the sentences offered to those who plead guilty and the much more severe sentences typically imposed after a trial. This penalty discourages exercising a constitutional right. A defendant in a computer hacking case, Neily says, committed suicide during plea bargaining in which prosecutors said he could avoid a trial conviction and sentence of up to 35 years by pleading guilty and accepting a six-month sentence.

The pressure prosecutors can exert -- piling on (“stacking”) criminal charges to expose defendants to extreme sentences; pretrial detention, nearly always in squalid confines; threatening to indict family members — can cause

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WILL innocent people to plead guilty in order to avoid risking protracted incarceration for themselves and loved ones.

Such pressures effectively transfer sentencing power from judges to prosecutors.

How exactly are these pressures morally preferable to those that used to be administered by truncheons in the back of police stations?

These are reasons why of the nearly 80,000 defendants in federal criminal cases in fiscal 2018, just 2% went to trial and 90% pleaded guilty.

In 2018, 94.7% of criminal convictions were obtained through plea bargains in the Southern District of New York, which is seeking Audu’s extradition.

Prosecutors have discovered that almost any defendant can be persuaded to plead guilty, given sufficient inducements. This discovery has been partly a response to the fact that the over-criminalization of life, and particularly Congress’ indefensible multiplication of federal crimes, means that otherwise the court system would, in Justice Antonin Scalia’s words, “grind to a halt.”

There is, Neily says, “abundant, undisputed evidence” of innocent defendants pleading guilty. Of the 367 convicts exonerated by DNA analysis to date, 11% had pleaded guilty. Various studies have concluded that between 1.6% and 8% of defendants who plead guilty would not have been convicted in a trial. The lowest estimate would mean that in 2009 there were more than 1,250 innocent people incarcerated in the federal system alone,

and many multiples of that number in state systems.

Responding to Neily’s Declaration, the Justice Department complacently asserts that U.S. law guarantees fair trials: Coercive plea bargains are forbidden, therefore they do not occur, so innocent people do not plead guilty.

Move along, nothing to see here.

The DOJ should consult Jed S. Rakoff. In a 2014 essay, “Why Innocent People Plead Guilty,” he wrote that since the last third of the previous century, a fair trial — an adversarial process, conducted in public before a neutral judge and a jury of the defendant’s peers -- has become “all a mirage.” Rakoff is a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Now, about Flynn. Perhaps he lied in an interview with FBI agents. We must, however, take their word for this, because, in accordance with an archaic and self-serving practice, the agents did not record the interview. They wrote their unverifiable version. This, although all FBI agents carry recording capabilities in their smartphones.

After prosecutors threatened to indict his son, who was his business partner (remember the axiom: “A prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich”), a coerced and impoverished Flynn, facing many millions in legal bills, and later selling his suburban Washington house, pleaded guilty.

Perhaps Flynn now regrets leading “Lock her up!” chants at the Republican National Convention. All Americans should regret the need for Neily’s many proposed reforms, including a DOJ Office of Plea Integrity to scrutinize coercive plea bargaining, a national embarrassment.

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EMS Week recognizes front line heroes from May 17-23 To the editor: On behalf of the Columbia County EMS Coordinators Office, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge EMS week and recognize all our dedicated EMS providers in Columbia County.

This year’s EMS Week theme is “Ready today. Preparing for tomorrow.” How appropriate this theme is as we respond to the current COVID–19 pandemic, the likes of which we have never experienced in our careers. As we look back on the events and challenges of the last several months, I am confident that we will gain critical educational and operational changes that will

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All of you as EMS providers are deserving of special recognition this year especially, given the extra precautions you must now take to protect yourselves, your patients and your families.

You are truly on the frontline in protecting our community and for that, as appointed representatives of the Board of Supervisors and on behalf of the residents of Columbia County, we express our deepest gratitude. You have all risen to the challenge of this pandemic, as individuals, agencies and collaboratively as a system. Your professionalism, dedication and

compassion for what you do does not go unnoticed and for that, we will be forever grateful.

We’d be remiss to not also recognize our fellow Emergency Services partners who work alongside us in our mission; the nurses, physicians, 911 dispatchers, Fire and Law Enforcement responders all play an integral role in keeping both us and our community safe.

Once again, our thanks to you all. Happy EMS Week, and continue to be safe.

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CDC issues detailed reopening guidance after initial rejection

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a 60-page document that provides detailed suggestions for different phases of reopening workplaces, schools and restaurants, after an earlier draft was rejected by the White House for being too prescriptive.

The document, which expands on several tools the agency released last week to guide specific types of organizations, was posted on the CDC website over the weekend without fanfare. The guidelines are similar to ones included in the draft, though they pertain to fewer types of businesses and are less restrictive.

The release comes as most states have begun reopening.

The White House coronavirus task force issued broad guidelines for reopening the country on April 16 but largely left the specifics to states on how to restart economic and social activities.

Much of the new guidance provides an overview of public health measures like testing aimed at tracking the virus’s spread and guiding the government’s response. The final 20 pages lay out stages of reopening for child care programs; schools and day camps; companies with highrisk workers; restaurants and

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bars; and mass transit. The document gives detailed suggestions for social distancing, hygienic practices and symptom-checking.

The charts released last week outlined steps that workplaces could take to reopen. The expanded guidelines are intended as a supplement by setting forth “a menu of safety measures, from which establishments may choose those that make

sense for them in the context of their operations and local community, as well as state and local regulations and directives.”

The new guidelines made some modifications to the draft, including eliminating recommendations for religious communities, parks, recreational facilities and gyms. The prior draft included rules for different sizes of social gatherings in various

Carol Morello The Washington Post Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that he should have asked President Trump to dismiss the State Department inspector general “some time ago” but refused to elaborate on why he fired Steve Linick, who was probing Pompeo’s role in a Saudi arms sale, and whether he had used government employees to run personal errands.

In a combative conclusion to a news conference at the State Department, Pompeo would not provide specifics on why he was displeased with Linick’s performance.

“In this case, I recommended to the president that Steve Linick be terminated,” he said.

“Frankly, should’ve done it some time ago.”

Pressed to provide an example of what he described Monday as Linick’s “undermining” of the State Department mission, Pompeo did not expand. But he denied that the inspector general’s firing had anything to do with Linick’s investigations into whether Pompeo used a political appointee to walk his dog and pick up his dry cleaning or the role of Pompeo and the State Department in an emergency declaration that allowed the administration to bypass Congress in authorizing an arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

“Unlike others, I don’t talk about personnel matters,” Pompeo said. “I don’t leak to y’all.”

He called claims that the firing was in retaliation for Linick’s investigations “patently false.”

“I have no sense of what investigations are taking place inside the inspector’s general’s office,” he said. “I couldn’t possibly have retaliated for all the things - I’ve seen the various stories, that someone was walking my dog, to sell arms, to my dry cleaner. I mean, it’s all just crazy. It’s all crazy stuff.”

In what appeared to be a rebuttal to reports that Pompeo had refused to submit to an interview with Linick on the Saudi arms sale, Pompeo said he has no sense of what investigations are underway, with one

exception.

“I was asked a series of questions, in writing,” he said, without elaborating on the substance or topic of the questions. “I responded to those questions with respect to a particular investigation. That was sometime earlier this year, as best I can recall. I responded to those questions. I don’t know the scope. I don’t know the nature of that investigation other than what I would have seen from the nature of the questions that I was presented. I did what was right. I don’t know if that investigation is continuing, I don’t know if that investigation has been closed out. I don’t have any sense of that.”

Pompeo also lashed out at congressional Democrats investigating his actions, launching an extraordinarily personal attack on Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., in particular.

“This is all coming through the office of Senator Menendez,” Pompeo said of the allegations, which have been reported in multiple news outlets. “I don’t get my ethics guidance from a man who was criminally prosecuted.”

Menendez was indicted in 2015 over allegations that he accepted gifts as a bribe from a Florida ophthalmologist. But federal prosecutors eventually dropped the case against him, and the charges were dismissed in 2018.

After slamming Menendez, Pompeo abruptly walked out of the news conference even as reporters continued to shout questions after him.

Pompeo started his first oncamera appearance since Linick was fired by renewing criticism of China for suppressing details about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the pandemic, and its refusal to allow investigators access to facilities, its withholding of virus samples for testing and it censoring of discussion on the pandemic.

“If the Chinese Communist Party wants to demonstrate real openness, real transparency, it could easily hold press conferences like this very press conference and allow reporters to ask him anything that they would like,” he said.

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House to vote on stand-alone small-business loan program fixes

By Lindsey McPherson

Pompeo refuses to say why he wanted inspector general fired

stages of reopening. The tone of the new document is also less rigid, often saying that businesses and organizations “may” follow the practices it describes.

(Jim Saksa contributed to this report.)

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WASHINGTON — The House will vote next week on legislation changing terms of the Paycheck Protection Program that have served as obstacles to some small businesses seeking relief under the forgivable loan program.

“We saw a quick fix on how we could make this work better,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at her weekly news conference Wednesday. “We couldn’t ignore that.”

On Friday, after voting for the Democrats’ massive $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., announced he’d secured a commitment for a vote on his stand-alone bill that would make changes to the smallbusiness loan program sought by hotels, restaurants and other industries.

“Securing a bipartisan vote on this important and timesensitive legislation makes me more comfortable voting in favor” of the broader aid package, Phillips said in a statement. The $3 trillion package passed the House on a 208199 vote.

Some of the PPP flexibility sought by Phillips was included in the larger aid bill. But that measure could be headed for protracted negotiations with the GOP-controlled Senate and White House. Meanwhile, affected small businesses say they can’t afford a delay.

Pelosi said the stand-alone bill will extend the time businesses have to rehire employees and qualify for loan forgiveness under the program beyond the existing June 30 deadline. It would also extend the period for paying back portions of the loans that aren’t forgiven beyond two years.

The law that created the program allowed the Small Business Administration to set loan terms up to 10 years, but the agency instead put a two-year due date on them.

Extending the loan terms would allow businesses to make smaller payments on the amounts that aren’t forgiven under the program.

The bill will also eliminate the “75-25 rule” implemented by the White House that says businesses have to spend at least 75% of the loan on payroll costs and no more than 25% on other expenses like

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rent and utilities. Pelosi called the rule “debilitating.”

Changes to the 75-25 requirement, which wasn’t spelled out in the law creating the program, would benefit businesses with high capital costs relative to labor expenses, like bars and shops that pay more in rent than wages.

Groups like the Independent Restaurant Coalition, which represents about 500,000 smaller, local restaurants, has called for lifting that requirement, though they say they also need a separate bailout to stay afloat.

Phillips introduced his stand-alone bill, which includes some provisions also picked up in the larger leadership-backed relief measure, with Texas Republican Chip Roy. Phillips is the only Democrat on the bill, which has four other GOP cosponsors: Tom Emmer of Minnesota, Fred Upton of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Andy Harris of Maryland.

Their bill would extend the period businesses need to use their loan funds in order to qualify for forgiveness from eight to 24 weeks. It would also ensure businesses that get money under the program can defer payroll taxes under massive March rescue package, eliminating a restriction on “double-dipping” imposed by that law.

Pelosi did not mention Phillips when speaking about the plan for a stand-alone PPP vote during her press conference Wednesday. Instead, she noted that Small Business Chairwoman Nydia M. Velazquez, D-N.Y., gave leadership her blessing for a separate vote.

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Chairman Marco Rubio, one of the architects of PPP, has also been calling for a standalone bill to fix issues that have arisen with the program.

The Florida Republican told reporters Tuesday there was a “large consensus around” extending the eightweek timeframe for using the loans.

“There’s actually unanimity up here for the most part,” on extending the period to 12 or 16 weeks, Rubio said on Fox and Friends on Wednesday morning.

“The only question now is: Can we pass it as a clean bill?”

Rubio added. “Or are Democrats or someone else going to insist that we add something else to it beyond just that provision, that’s not uncontroversial?”

Lengthening the period when the loans could be used will give small business owners more flexibility in how they use the money. That will help the hardest-hit businesses, like restaurants and retailers that have been nearly completely closed due to the virus, hold off on reopening until customers feel comfortable going out again.

But it also changes the program’s original intent from simply keeping workers on small business payrolls to helping the companies themselves recover from the crisis.

Pelosi said she does not see the PPP vote undermining her efforts to get Senate Republicans to negotiate on the broader $3 trillion relief package, which contains roughly $1 trillion in aid to state and local governments.

“No, I’m not worried about that,” Pelosi said. “But this has a sense of urgency about it.”

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Honigsbaum family, Part 2 Taking ‘safe’ Sunday drives

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Last week we talked about the Honigsbaum family and the stores operated by their family. Today’s column will continue with the Honigsbaum family, with a few little family tidbits.

First, I’d like to mention that Goldie Slutzky, a highly respected lady, was born into the Honigsbaum family.

Goldie Honigsbaum Slutzky was a classy lady whose golf game excelled most mountaintop golfers.

The Honigsbaum family also owned stores in Albany named Denby Stores. A cute story is attached to the name.

Mr. Issac Honigsbaum went to New York City on a buying trip for his new, unnamed store.

He realized the store needed a name, or the big-city garment merchants might not talk to him. So, as the story goes, Issac went to a Manhattan telephone directory (no cellphones back then), opened it, and dropped a bit of water on the page. The drop landed on the name John Denby; therefore, Honigsbaum’s store now had a name, Denby’s!

In 1951 Albany shoppers were encouraged to open a Honigsbaum credit card. Tidbit — Back then, each store

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had its charge cards, Honigsbaum’s, J.C. Penny’s, Sears & Roebuck, etc. It was many years before a Visa or Mastercard was available to use in multiple businesses.

Now we’ll regress to 1913 with a story of Frank Honigsbaum’s leather tannery in Tannersville. (Thanks again to Gary Lelonek, the author of “The Jewish History of Tannersville, New York,” for allowing me the use of this material).

A NEW INDUSTRY FOR TANNERSVILLE – NOVEMBER 1913 - The Tannersville Times.

“That Tannersville is to have a new industry is a fact.”

Frank Honigsbaum, one of our clothiers, conducts a shoe store and has made shoes manufactured in the rear of this store. It said he opened a small scale tannery in the basement of his barn and

conducted it for his trade and the local market.

He will use the old method of tanning the leather with the old bark process, thus lengthening the leather’s life.

“Mr. Honigsbaum informs us that after he gets thoroughly started and established, he expects to build a tannery two miles from this village and be able to do wholesale business, requiring the employment of a large force of men. He’ll place a truck on the road for the collection of hides and delivery of the leather.

Mr. Honigsbaum had previously worked in the trade and understood the tanning business from A to Z. The enterprise will be watched with much interest.”

- The Tannersville Times.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find any follow-up information on the Honigsbaum Tannery.

The telephone company, Part 2

By Lula Anderson For Columbia-Greene Media

Another week gone by. That’s about all that I can say.

I had the “luxury” of going to New Jersey this past week for a couple of days. Jackie K is cleaning out her house down there and it’s crunch time for packing. We don’t do anything but drive straight down, pack up belongings, eat what we brought, sleep in sleeping bags, and come back up. The road construction was horrible this time, and the traffic is getting worse. Instead of four hours coming home, it took six. I’m glad to be back in my own home with my furniture, my bed and my belongings.

The forsythia I planted along my border seems to have taken root, and, hopefully soon, I will have a hedge between me and the gas tanks.

The bears are definitely out and about. Several HUGE bears have been sighted in Jewett.

With all of the people who are living full-time in their parttime homes, there has been a lot more added to the all-you-caneat buffets. Please remember NOT to put your garbage outside. If you have trash pickup, get up earlier on trash day and put it out just before it’s picked up. If you are leaving after the weekend, find someone to put it out for you; don’t leave it for scavengers to get into. The roadsides are littered with bags and whatever. Please keep our mountains pristine.

Welcome back to the snowbirds who are slowly making their way up north. Speaking of birds, have you put up your hummingbird feeders yet? Judy and John put theirs up Sunday at 2 p.m. By the time I got there at 3, they were already dining out. It’s great to sit and watch them right outside your dinner table. Grosbeaks and orioles have been visitors at many local establishments. Charlene was telling me about a tufted titmouse who is trying to make a nest in her indoor plants. (S)he keeps knocking on her window trying to get to them. Goldfinches are showing up in record numbers this year, also. Janet Armstrong in East Durham has them in bunches feeding on her niger seed feeder.

If you know of someone who has a working dryer to give away, please call me 518734-5360. One is desperately

needed.

If you know someone who needs a hot meal, Deb Maynard and friends, in conjunction with local restaurants, are delivering to shut ins. Restaurants participating in the program include Brandywine, Windham Diner, Mill Rock and Vesuvio.

The Greek Orthodox Church started with a $100 donation to this program. The restaurants are charging this program $10/ meal. When delivered, the person has the option of a donation to recoup the fees, or a free meal. Donations to this program are being accepted.

Had dinner with my friend, Rose, last night. It was a treat for both of us to sit on the porch (enclosed), and talk. Social interaction is still important to the elderly. As well as getting away from the constant phone calls I get. A very peaceful evening.

The Lexington Farmers Market is opening 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

May 23. A few changes this year: Customers must wear masks and gloves. There will be no rest rooms available. Please leave your canine pals at home or in your car. For safety, volunteers will promote social distancing.

There will be produce, mushrooms, dairy products, baked goods, meat, eggs, Michael’s Beer and more. Come see what your neighbors look like behind a mask. Hope to see you at the market!

Two very special birthday greetings go out to Leona Knox who turned 90 on May 14, and to her old buddy (and mine), Kip Rikard, who also turned 90.

Kip had a drive by birthday party on Sunday. Happy birthday wishes to Janet Nicols, who has a birthday on May 22. Happy anniversary wishes to Albin and Vicky Beckmann, who celebrated 55 years of blissful harmony.

Prayers to the family of William Richards, who passed this week. Prayers and sympathy are extended to the family and friends of Susumu Sato of “Beds on Clouds” Bed and Breakfast, who passed away last week.

Get well wishes and prayerful thanks for Theresa Speenburgh.

Prayers and get well wishes go to Diane Cross who is recovering from surgery. Please keep in mind all those who have pending surgeries, and all those who are self isolating. Prayers and thanks for Richard Hardy who is home from the hospital, recovered from the virus, and

self transporting to his dialysis treatments.

AS I REMEMBER IT Telephone building part 2 As you look at the building as it stands, you go up the stairs and in the front door. To the right (East Side), is a long room.

The Chief’s desk was inside of the door. The switch board ran from the front which was street side, to the back porch. The first 4 positions were local and the rest for long distance, which was anything out of town. Town was just Windham, all other towns had their own stations.

A rolling type desk was located in the center of the room. On this desk was the tickets for the long distance calls, and books to find cities and states, and how to transfer calls to various locations. When a long distance call came in, the operator had to write down the time it came in, where the caller was calling, and the time that it ended. This information had to be tallied up by the operator, initialed, and put in a file. During the night shift, the night operator had to verify the slips, which were sent to billing, and put on the phone bills. During the summer, it was hard to keep up with the billing as so many tourists were calling home. During the summer, the back door of the building was kept open for air circulation.

When Millie Austin worked, her grandson, Lynn Sokoll, would come in to talk to her. Lynn was always her favorite, so he would often come in with his friends Danny Snider and Billy Scarey.

What they really came in for was to hit her up for some money to spend at Morse’s store.

Behind the building is a large barn and a path that went to what is now Thunderbird Terrace. Many black caps grew in the thicket there, and during breaks we would all go out to pick. The chief was Mrs. VanLoan, who had one son. Marge Deyo was supervisor, and later chief. She and her husband, Charlie, lived in the apartment located in the building. Talk about an easy commute.

In 1965, direct dial came to Windham, and the local operators were no longer needed.

Some moved to Catskill, and some just moved on. The Sokoll family moved into the apartment, and Margaret’s Beauty Salon moved into the work area.

Another lifestyle gone. The building is now an art gallery.

PRATTSVILLE – Memorial Day in Prattsville, the American Legion Virgil E. Deyo Post 1327 has found it necessary not to have a Memorial Day parade but to have a closed ceremony due to the pandemic and health guidelines. It is prudent to forego the usual parade and public ceremony this year so we can all be there for next year’s.

Kip Rikard had a great celebration for his 90th birthday.

His family hosted the fete on Main Street, Prattsville, and family, fellow Legionnaires and veterans and friends were there for Kip’s special day. Refreshments were served with Valerie and Trista acting as carhops. Lots of smiles with fire companies from Prattsville, Grand Gorge, Ashland, Windham and Hensonville and their accompanying rescue squads’ sirens blowing making sure everyone heard of the celebration. Happy birthday again, Kip. From Steff and Steve of Winchell’s Corners and Milford: “In times of COVID we have resurrected the ‘Sunday Drives’ that our parents took us on in our youth. We drove out 28 through Milford and Steve made a left hand turn.

We drove a while and found Arnold Lake Road and decided to drive it. Wow, we found Arnold Lake. A very beautiful lake with some wonderful summer camps on it. When we take these drives we are following safety protocols. We have our bandannas. We get in the Jeep in our driveway and do not exit the Jeep until we return to our driveway. We respect the rules but have an interesting time. Since we are new here there are many roads to see and many adventures.

“We discovered the beautiful town of Worcester. What wonderful architecture! And then we found Mt. Vision garden center off Route 205 in Mt. Vision. Twenty-five, read that, 25 greenhouses filled with the most beautiful plants ever!

We loaded up and have been planting. The other day we drove to Laurens. There was a big old house there that I used to drive by in the ‘60s. It looked like it came out of a William Faulkner novel. It is still there and looking good. Then we went to Gilbert Lake State Park. I used to go there for quiet time to study when I was in school. One time a girlfriend and I took out a rowboat and found out that we had no idea what to do when we got to the middle of the lake. We needed

a rescue.

“So, interesting drives, some down memory lane, help us through this lonely time.

We have also purchased a pet stroller so we can take Abbie, our maine coon mix kitty, with us on walks along the lake! She meows a lot but is starting to ‘get with the program.’ Hope you can use some of this. Steff and Steve.”

Yes, we can and we thank them for sharing. They are big fans of Prattsville, supporting many of our veterans’ programs, and they helped out after “the flood.”

The Hermance men continue their hunting successes.

Dad Bob got a turkey on Saturday, with a 9-3/4” beard and weighing more than 20 pounds. Then young Bobby got his second turkey later.

Bob and Carrie helped out friends by thinning out excess perennials and their reward was they got to keep the plants. It was Carrie’s job to replant them.

Happy birthday to Rudy Ehlers on May 23. On May 26 we wish David Lane a happy birthday. Happy birthday wishes go out to Jim Dymond on May 27.

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Memorial Day is May 25: Never forget

By Christine Dwon For Columbia-Greene Media

be produce, mushrooms, baked goods, meat, eggs, beer from West Kill Brewing and more. Please come support the local vendors.

Call Peggy at 518-9896491 or Charlotte, Town Clerk at 518-989-6476 X101 if you are a Lexington resident and need assistance getting groceries, medical supplies and medications.

The Lexington Mission Blessing Box is open to all.

Please take what you need and if you can, leave something for others. The Blessing Box is located next to the Lexington Mission Church across the street from the Lexington Post Office.

Greene County Department of Human Services Senior Nutrition Program for the week of May 25 – May 29 is as follows: Monday—Memorial Day—All senior nutrition sites and main office closed; Tuesday—Eggplant Parmesan, spaghetti, Italian green beans, fruit cocktail; Wednesday—Birthday Lunch—Pork chop and apricots, braised cabbage, scalloped potato, birthday cupcake; Thursday—Crab topped cod, rice pilaf, fresh green salad with red beans, broccoli, pineapple chunks; Friday—Cook’s Choice— Fresh salad, cauliflower, fresh fruit. All persons 60 and older and spouses are invited to participate. Suggested donation is $4 per

meal. Please call at least a day in advance to reserve your meal. Meals are available for pick up only, no meals served indoors at the Mountain Top Senior Service Center that is located at the Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, 518263-4392. Meals on Wheels program is continuing.

The annual Strawberry Supper scheduled for June 12 at the Lexington/West Kill UMC has been canceled.

For those of you of a “certain age,” remember when you were asked at the checkout if you wanted the senior discount and you weren’t quite old enough yet? Then comes the day when you are handed the senior menu or the cashier doesn’t even ask you and gives you the discount automatically?

Every week we thank all those individuals who are on the front lines keeping us safe, the shelves stocked, the health care workers, doctors, nurses, caregivers, law enforcement, firefighters, the military, farmers, teachers, postal employees, pharmacies, truck drivers, custodians and so many more.

Please be respectful, courteous, considerate and kind. We need to care and think about each other.

Memorial Day is observed on May 25. Let us honor, pay respect and never forget.

Congratulations to all the students graduating!

Susan Simpfenderfer was very happy to have her family together to help her celebrate her birthday last weekend. Was good to see each other and be able to spend time together.

Abigail Dwon’s Bows and Chords Spring Virtual Recital was held May 16 on Zoom.

All of the students did a great job performing from their homes and showing the advancements of their musical skills.

Happy birthday to Janet Nicholls on May 22. Also celebrating his birthday on May 22 is Dan Davern. May 23 is Marilyn Soule’s birthday. Happy birthday to Sarah Jordan on May 23. May 25 is William Trach’s birthday.

Happy 41st wedding anniversary to Pastor Bob and Diane Nash on May 26. Best wishes to all.

The Margaretville Telephone Company has provided a WiFi hot spot located by the pavilion at the Lexington Municipal Building. You are welcome to use it either under the pavilion or in your cars. Please be respectful of social distancing.

There will be no Brooks Chicken barbecue at the Lexington/West Kill UMC that was scheduled for May 22. Because of the current situation, the Lexington UMC trustees thought it best to cancel the dinner this year.

The first Lexington Farmers Market for the 2020 season will be 10 a.m.-1 p.m. May 23 under the pavilion at the Lexington Municipal Building and will be held every other Saturday until Oct. 17. New guidelines are in g place this year. All venNow Acceptin dors and customers must New Patients! wear masks and gloves.

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The Conversation, Graduation 2020 Commencement ceremonies for colleges — and high schools — have been cancelled across the country. A group of

authors, poets and filmmakers are sharing their advice for the Class of 2020, who are beginning their adult lives in a pandemic.

How about you? Do you have some advice to offer the Class of 2020?

Everyone is encouraged to

read the collection of mini commencement addresses and then share their own in The Conversation.

MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL ANNOUNCES ONLINE STREAMING For a limited time only, the smash hit “Menopause The Musical” will be available to view at home and a portion of proceeds benefit The Actors Fund, providing financial support for arts professionals.

NEW YORK – GFour Productions, whose collective shows have won 56 Drama Desk and 44 Tony Awards, announced that their international hit show MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL is now temporarily available for online streaming starting today. GFour Productions will donate 10% of all sales to The Actors Fund, which provides emergency financial assistance to performing arts and entertainment professionals and has continued this aid during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 18, 2020, The Fund has distributed $7,528,663 million in assistance to 6,382 people for basic living expenses such as essential medications, to help prevent evictions, cover health insurance, and to pay for food or utilities.

Additionally, GFour Productions has offered a revenue share to participating partners who market the online streaming, as a way to help venues across the country generate revenue at this time.

Participating venues include Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre (Coral Gables, FL);

Akron Civic Theatre (Akron, OH); Bergen Performing Arts Center (Englewood, NJ); Gesa Power House Theatre (Walla Walla, WA); The Grove Theatre (Upland, CA); The Laguna Playhouse (Laguna Beach, CA); Mad Cow Theatre (Orlando, FL); Michigan Theater and State Theater (Ann Arbor, MI); Palace Theater (Waterbury, CT); The Roberts Group (Indiana); the State Theatre New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ); and Tobin Center for the Performing Arts (San Antonio, TX).

MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL® is now available for streaming and can be purchased at MenopauseTheMusical.com.

GFour Productions CEO Seth Greenleaf said, “In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, as producers, we wanted to bring the joy and relief of theatre to our audiences, in whatever way we could.

With the help of Actors’ Equity Association and the original cast and crew of our Breast Cancer Survivor Tour, we’re able to make this available to audiences for a limited time.

We hope to bring some muchneeded cheer and humor to a challenging situation. As for the men quarantined with their menopausal spouses, we recommend viewing it as an educational survival tool.”

“Now more than ever,

GFour feels the need to help support our performing arts community, and the ongoing work of The Actors Fund.

Over the past 19 years, we have raised over $1 million for various women’s charities, and this is a time for us all to pitch in where we can,” Greenleaf added.

MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL® continues to empower women across the globe, keeping hot flashes “HOT” through 19 years of production, playing to more than 17 million fans worldwide. The cast of the MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL online stream features TERI ADAMS (Iowa Housewife), JUDY BLUE (Soap Star), LINDA BOSTON (Professional Woman) and MEGAN CAVANAGH (Earth Mother). The performance was originally filmed in Aurora, IL as the launch of the “Survivor Tour” in 2015 in partnership with Susan G. Komen Foundation.

All actresses are breast cancer survivors or co-survivors.

ABOUT THE CAST TERI ADAMS (Iowa Housewife) has been with MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL since 2006, where she first played the Iowa Housewife at The American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City.

JUDY BLUE (Soap Star) is delighted to be a part of the

MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL® family since 2004.

LINDA BOSTON (Professional Woman) has decades of performing, literary and teaching arts experience.

MEGAN CAVANAGH (Earth Mother) is most recognized as Marla Hooch, from the Penny Marshall movie A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. ABOUT THE SHOW Set in a department store, four women meet while shopping for a black lace bra at a lingerie sale. After noticing similarities among one another, the cast jokes about their woeful hot flashes, mood swings, wrinkles, weight gain and much more. These women form a sisterhood and unique bond with the entire audience as they rejoice in celebrating that menopause is no longer “The Silent Passage.”

Inspired by a hot flash and a bottle of wine, MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL was created as a celebration of women who find themselves at any stage of “The Change.” The laughterfilled 90-minute production gets audience members out of their seats and singing along to parodies from classic pop songs of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

For more information, visit www.MenopauseTheMusical. com.

Norman Rockwell Museum presents Sip, Sketch and Socialize Everyone is invited to an evening of fun to benefit the Normal Rockwell Museum.

Join in for a Virtual Art Party on Friday, May 29, from 5:30 – 7 p.m.

Sip, Sketch, & Socialize on Zoom.

Grab your favorite cocktail, nibbles, paper and a pencil to sketch along with illustrator, professor, and NRM National Council member Chuck Pyle.

All levels of experience (or lack thereof!) are encouraged to join in.

If you are able, donate what you wish so the museum can reopen vibrantly and can

sustain The Virtual Museum.

Don’t forget to don your cocktail attire – it is a party

after all!

Participants will kick off the evening by making a cocktail together. The recipe and details will be sent when you RSVP. “See” you on the 29th!

Register by visiting https:// www.nrm.org/event/sipsketch-and-socialize/ This event is sponsored

by NRM’s Junior Leadership Council and Kelly’s Package Store.

ONLINE LECTURE:

Robert H. Pruyn: An Albany Yankee in the Tycoon’s Court Join in next Tuesday, May 26, at 2 p.m. for a live online lecture “Robert H. Pruyn: An Albany Yankee in the Tycoon’s Court,” with guest speaker Susanna Fessler, professor of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany.

Robert H. Pruyn (18151882), a “good Dutchman” of Albany, served as the second

American foreign minister to Japan, 1861-1865. This was a time of Civil War in the United States and a time of great civil unrest in Japan.

Pruyn prided himself both on his diplomacy and his appreciation of Japanese culture. This talk will focus on some of the lesser-known details of his experience, as

revealed in his many personal letters home, which are held in the archives of the Albany Institute of History & Art. This program is offered free, with a suggested donation of $10. Registration is required.

All participants will receive the Zoom link one hour before the lecture to the email

used during registration. You can register at https://secure. givelively.org/event/albanyinstitute-of-history-and-art/ zoom-lecture-robert-hpruyn-an-albany-yankee-inthe-tycoon-s-court?fbclid=Iw AR32LCrOzGQJbpOHmpiYU 7yGIW-GVFAh0_nKMAzh4pdmw3VbcEGHhtL87aA

CALENDAR LISTINGS Virtual Cinema: Fourteen Through - Thursday, May 28 From Grasshopper Film. Available to screen for three days upon purchase. —- Mara and Jo, in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. Jo, the more outgoing figure, is a social worker who runs through a series of brief but intense relationships. Mara bounces among teacher aide jobs while trying to land a position in elementary education. She too has a transient romantic life, though she seems to settle down after meeting Adam, a mild-mannered software developer. It soon becomes apparent that Jo, despite her intellectual gifts, is unreliable in her professional life, losing and acquiring jobs at a troubling rate. Substance abuse may be responsible for Jo’s instability, but some observers suspect a deeper problem. Over the course of a decade, the more stable Mara sometimes tries to help, sometimes backs away to preserve herself, but never leaves behind her powerful childhood connection with Jo. 2019.

Time & Space Limited expands into the digital realm! In partnership with our film distributors, we offer you a selection of independent films and documentaries available to stream from your devices at home.

THIS INNOVATION IN MOVIE-GOING ALLOWS FOR YOU, THE MOVIEGOER, TO KEEP GOING! AND FOR US – THE FILMMAKERS, THE DISTRIBUTORS, AND YOUR LOCAL, ARTHOUSE CINEMA – TO KEEP THRIVING IN THIS TIME OF SOCIAL DISTANCING. IF PROMPTED, MAKE SURE TO SELECT TSL AS YOUR LOCAL THEATER IN ORDER FOR US TO RECEIVE OUR SHARE OF THE SUPPORT. VIRTUAL FILM SELECTION TO BE UPDATED ON A CONTINUAL BASIS.

$12, through Thursday, May 28, https://timeandspace.org/virtualcinema/ Your Own Home Virtual Cinema: Sorry We Missed You Through - Thursday, May 28 From Zeitgeist Films. Available to screen for five days upon purchase.

—- Ricky and Abby, who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash, are desperate to get out of their financial distress. When an opportunity comes up for Ricky to work as his own boss as a delivery driver, they sell their only asset, Abby’s car, to trade it in for a shiny new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to someday owning his own delivery franchise.

But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further to the edge by an unrelenting work schedule, a ruthless supervisor and the needs of their two teenage children. Capturing the sacred moments that make a family as well as the acts of desperation they need to undertake to make it through each day, this universal story is skillfully and indelibly told with unforgettable performances and a searing script. 2019.

Time & Space Limited expands into the digital realm! In partnership with our film distributors, we offer you a selection of independent films and documentaries available to stream from your devices at home.

THIS INNOVATION IN MOVIE-GOING ALLOWS FOR YOU, THE MOVIEGOER, TO KEEP GOING! AND FOR US – THE FILMMAKERS, THE DISTRIBUTORS, AND YOUR LOCAL, ARTHOUSE CINEMA – TO KEEP THRIVING IN THIS TIME OF SOCIAL DISTANCING. IF PROMPTED, MAKE SURE TO SELECT TSL AS YOUR LOCAL THEATER IN ORDER FOR US TO RECEIVE OUR SHARE OF THE SUPPORT. VIRTUAL FILM SELECTION TO BE UPDATED ON A CONTINUAL BASIS.

$12, through Thursday, May 28, https://timeandspace.org/virtualcinema/ Your Own Home Young at HeART: Playwriting Course Thursday, May 21 - Friday, June 19 UPDATED DATES!!! Learn to write a dramatic monologue in the voice of a character that you conceive, then see your creation enacted by a professional actor. During this 11-session course (Thursdays & Fridays, 10am-Noon), created in partnership with the Ancram Opera House, participants will learn the fundamentals of theatre-making and playwriting through creative writing, skill-building workshops, team-building, research, improvisation and a rehearsal leading to the staging of a final performance. ******All Thursday classes take place at the Ancram Opera House, 1330 County Route 7, Ancram (including the June 17th session) and Friday classes take place at Olana’s Wagon House Education Center, with the exception of classes during the final week, which will take place at Ancram Opera House.

Participants must plan to attend all sessions. This course is for adults 55-plus. $150, Thursday, May 21 - Friday, June 19, https://www.olana.org/ programs-events/

Olana, 5720 State Route 9G, Hudson, 518-828-1872 www.olana.org Virtual Cinema: Beyond the Visible: Hilma AF Klint Friday, May 22 - Thursday, June 4 From Zeitgeist Films. Available to screen for five days upon purchase.

—- Before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Klee made a name for abstraction in visual art, another artist had already beat them to their discovery. Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) painted her first abstract canvas in 1906, four years before Kandinsky, thought to be the movement’s pioneer. This absorbing documentary explores how such an exceptional woman could be erased from the art world for over a century, written out by an industry dominated by the idea of male “genius.” Af Klint did not exhibit during her lifetime, but a recent retrospective broke the Guggenheim Museum’s sixty-year attendance record, suggesting that the world may finally be ready to rewrite history. In English, German, Swedish with subtitles. 2019.

Time & Space Limited expands into the digital realm! In partnership with our film distributors, we offer you a selection of independent films and documentaries available to stream from your devices at home.

THIS INNOVATION IN MOVIE-GOING ALLOWS FOR YOU, THE MOVIEGOER, TO KEEP GOING! AND FOR US – THE FILMMAKERS, THE DISTRIBUTORS, AND YOUR LOCAL, ARTHOUSE CINEMA – TO KEEP THRIVING IN THIS TIME OF SOCIAL DISTANCING. IF PROMPTED, MAKE SURE TO SELECT TSL AS YOUR LOCAL THEATER IN ORDER FOR US TO RECEIVE OUR SHARE OF THE SUPPORT. VIRTUAL FILM SELECTION TO BE UPDATED ON A CONTINUAL BASIS.

$12, Friday, May 22 - Thursday, June 4, https://timeandspace.org/virtualcinema/ Your Own Home Virtual Cinema: The Wild Goose Lake Friday, May 22 - Thursday, June 4 From Film Movement. Available to screen for three days upon purchase. — When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong (Chinese superstar Hu Ge) accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hiding out in China’s densely populated (and deeply divided) Wuhan province, Zhou becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman, who has mysterious intentions of her own. Featuring gorgeous, neon-drenched cinematography and bursts of shocking, expertly choreographed action. In Chinese with subtitles. 2019 Time & Space Limited expands into the digital realm! In partnership with our film distributors, we offer you a selection of independent films and documentaries available to stream from your devices at home.

THIS INNOVATION IN MOVIE-GOING ALLOWS FOR YOU, THE MOVIEGOER, TO KEEP GOING! AND FOR US – THE FILMMAKERS, THE DISTRIBUTORS, AND YOUR LOCAL, ARTHOUSE CINEMA – TO KEEP THRIVING IN THIS TIME OF SOCIAL DISTANCING. IF PROMPTED, MAKE SURE TO SELECT TSL AS YOUR LOCAL THEATER IN ORDER FOR US TO RECEIVE OUR SHARE OF THE SUPPORT. VIRTUAL FILM SELECTION TO BE UPDATED ON A CONTINUAL BASIS.

$12, Friday, May 22 - Thursday, June 4, https://timeandspace.org/virtualcinema/ Your Own Home

MAY 22 Dumpling + Cocktail Drive-Thru!!

Friday, May 22, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Mei’s Dumplings are back at the distillery to kick of Memorial Day Weekend!!!

To-go cocktails, beer, wine, cider and bottles of spirits can be ordered at www.oldeyorkfarm.com/drivethru and picked up at our takeout window.

Drink Menu: Sugar Shack Old Fashioned, Peony Lemonade, Bloody Hell Bloody Mary, Bottles of Spirits, Growler Fills Farm-to-Table dumplings and sides can be ordered by calling Tony at 516-477-0249. They will be set up in the yard under our tent.

Food Menu (8 Dumplings for $12.00): Pork and Cabbage, Vegetable (vegan), Chicken, Beef and Kimchi, Bacon Cheeseburger, Shrimp Pre-ordering is preferred, but orders can be made on-site the day of.

Please remember to keep 6 feet from other people and wear a mask.

We miss you all and are very excited to kick off this collaboration in celebration of the holiday weekend!

Friday, May 22, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/271019494024613/ Cooper’s Daughter Spirits at Olde York, 284 State Rouite 23, Claverack, 845-480-1237 https://oldeyorkfarm.com/

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A8 Thursday, May 21, 2020

Stewart’s From A1

history and natural beauty,” he said. “We must continue to grow our economic base with viable, profitable, and well managed businesses.”

Cone E Island Ice Cream across the street will remain, Seeley said.

Cuomo From A1

“This is a political season — I get it,” Cuomo said Wednesday afternoon during a pandemic briefing at the state Capitol.

“Anyone who wants to ask why we would do that with COVID patients in nursing homes... the state followed President [Donald] Trump’s CDC guidance.

“Ask President Trump.”

Officials do not regret the way they implemented the CDC guideline, the governor said.

“At the time, the issue was hospital capacity,” Cuomo said, adding officials wanted to free up hospital beds for the tens of thousands of critically ill patients that threatened to overwhelm New York hospitals in March and April.

Nursing homes cannot accept a patient they cannot provide care to, Cuomo reiterated Wednesday, and are required to contact the state Health Department to find a facility to properly quarantine, isolate and treat a virus-positive resident.

Session From A1

“The emergency powers provided to the governor were always intended to be temporary,” Barclay said May 9. “As we see the COVID-19 threat begin to subside and we move in the direction of reopening New York, the time has come for state government to return to its basic principle of representative democracy. The decisions we face in the coming weeks will impact New Yorkers for years to come. When are regions opening up? How do we fix a $13 billion budget hole? What are we doing to help people and businesses fully recover? Answers to these questions need to be developed through a legislative process and in a manner that gives a voice to every New Yorker. One-party rule is rife with issues. But one-person rule is not how our system of government was ever designed to run.”

Copies of the Greene County resolution were sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Barclay, Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, state Sen. George Amedore Jr., R-46, President Donald Trump and the state Association of Counties.

“As we pivot towards reopening and normalcy, it’s time the constitutional authority of the Legislature is restored and the governor’s emergency powers be reined in,” Tague said.

“These powers were always meant to be temporary, and it’s about time we in the Legislature get back to work and represent the people that sent us to Albany.”

Since declaring a state of emergency on March 7, Cuomo has issued 31 executive orders and made modifications to or suspended numerous state laws using authority granted to him by Executive Law Section 2-a of Article 2-B, which allows him to temporarily suspend or

Residents have expressed concern with increased traffic and with the store being in a floodplain, McCulloch said.

“The gas tanks are what they are,” McCulloch said.

The Greene County Highway Department has two aboveground tanks across the street and the marina on West Main Street also had gas tanks, McCulloch said.

“They are double-walled fiberglass tanks,” he said. “They

have shear valves to prevent gas from leaking out.”

Creighton Manning performed a traffic study and is recommending the light at the intersection be adjusted to minimize any traffic impact, McCulloch said.

Several state agencies have reviewed the proposal including the state Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Transportation and Office of Historic

Preservation, McCulloch said.

The state agencies determined the project would have no impact on the community, McCulloch said.

In SHPO’s response, the agency noted the adjacent Cornelius Dubois House, which is eligible to be listed on national and state historic registries.

“It is the opinion of the SHPO that the proposed project will have no adverse impact to historic and cultural resources,”

according to the correspondence dated Feb. 24. “In addition, there are no archaeological concerns associated with this project.”

Seeley believes that the new store is step in the right direction for Catskill’s future, he said.

“We would like to thank the Stewart’s corporation and their team for staying the course with us in these uncertain times,” Seeley said. “We are confident that they will be a great partner

in our ever improving village.

Catskill continues to be a solid investment for residential and commercial properties and all indicators point us towards a boom in the coming year, we just need to work together to get through this and move on in a post-COVID world.”

Seeley is hopeful that the project will be completed by September, he said.

The state is permitting religious gatherings of 10 people or fewer with strict social-distancing guidelines enforced, officials announced Wednesday.

All clergy and parishioners in attendance must wear masks.

Services and ceremonies were allowed starting Wednesday. Socially distanced drive-in and parking lot services will be allowed starting Thursday.

“At this time of stress when I see everyone so anxious and so confused, I think religious ceremonies are important,” Cuomo said, adding they must be held safely and smartly. “A religious ceremony, by definition, is a large gathering. The last thing we want to do is have a religious ceremony with more people infected.”

Cuomo and his aides will meet with the state’s Interfaith Advisory Council to discuss protocols for specific religions and denominations.

New York COVID-19 infections continue to dominate low-income and communities of color — especially in New York City and downstate areas, where the virus hit the nation the hardest. About 27% of

8,000 people the state tested at 24 New York City churches over the last 10 days have COVID-19 antibodies, which indicate they were exposed to and recovered from the virus.

The Bronx had the highest percentage of positive tests at 34%, compared to about 19.9% of the city’s general population, according to the governor’s office.

“The data shows not just a high number of people had a positive, but shows the spread is continuing in those communities and that’s where those new cases are coming from,” Cuomo said. “We’re seeing that pattern continue... That’s where the virus is still spreading.”

The state will expand testing to 44 total churches and 28 additional testing sites and develop education or outreach programs about social distancing and to procure hand sanitizer and personal protective equipment — such as masks and gloves — to target the pandemic in low-income and minority communities. The initiative will be done in partnership with Northwell Health and SOMOS Community Care.

Cuomo directed all local governments statewide to prioritize COVID-19 testing and educational programs to lower socioeconomic and communities of color.

“As you drive through some of these communities, you can see social distancing isn’t happening and PPE isn’t being used,” Cuomo said. “Hence, the virus spreads. ... Focus on lowincome communities. Do the testing and the outreach.”

The state will also expand testing to 40 city public housing developments — up from eight.

New York’s COVID-19 fatalities reached 22,212 Wednesday — up from 22,100 Tuesday.

Johns Hopkins University & Medicine’s online COVID-19 tracker, which includes probable virus deaths in its tally, listed the state’s virus death toll as 28,339 Tuesday afternoon.

The state saw 112 virus-related deaths Tuesday, including 82 in hospitals and 30 in nursing homes. The state’s coronavirus death rate is on a slow decline after totaling 105 fatalities Monday, 106 fatalities Sunday and 139 Saturday.

The state tested 1,505,836

people by Wednesday, revealing 354,370 total positive cases of COVID-19. New York’s hospitalization rates continued a downward trend to 5,570 patients Wednesday, according to the governor’s office.

“This was a long road down,” Cuomo said. “Fast spike, slow decline.”

The Capital District became New York’s seventh region to start reopening Wednesday, joining The North Country, Central New York, the Finger Lakes, the Mohawk Valley and Southern Tier regions, which resumed construction, manufacturing and curbside or instore pickup retail industries May 15, and Western New York, which started Tuesday phase I of the state’s four-phase reopening plan.

The Mid-Hudson Valley, New York City and Long Island regions remain under lockdown.

As the state reopens and officials monitor COVID-19 infection, hospitalization and death rates, the governor reminded New Yorkers the importance of wearing face masks or coverings to protect yourself and others.

Cuomo recalled other recent state surveys that showed COVID-19 frontline workers, including health care, transit and other essential employees, have a lower virus infection rate than New York’s general population.

“It’s because they’re wearing the mask — the mask works,” Cuomo said. “It’s in the data.

It’s not that I’m saying it... It’s that they were right. The masks are protective and they work.”

Officials announced the top five finalists Wednesday in the competition where more than 600 New Yorkers created and shared a 30-second video explaining why people should wear a mask in public. The winning video will be used as a state Public Service Announcement.

One vote per person.

To view the top five videos, vote or for more information, visit WearAMask.ny.gov

modify any statute, local law, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation, or parts thereof, of any agency during a State disaster emergency, if compliance with such statute, local law, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation would prevent, hinder, or delay action necessary to cope with the disaster emergency or if necessary to assist or aid in coping with such disaster, according to governor.ny.gov.

Laws that have been modified or suspended during the state of emergency include: various sections of New York Codes, Rules and Regulations, New York state Penal Code, state Labor Law, Public Health Law, Civil Practice Law and Rules, Mental Hygiene Law, Education Law, General Obligations Law, Real Property Law, Election Law, Criminal Procedure Law, General Municipal Law, Real Property Tax Law, Domestic Relations Law, Business Corporation Law, Partnership Law, Not-for-Profit Corporations Law, General Business Law, Retirement and Social Security Law, Real Property and Proceedings Law, Multiple Dwelling Law, Religious Corporations Law, Environmental Conservation Law, State Administrative Procedures Act, Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act, Insurance Law, Estates Powers and Trusts Law, Workers’ Compensation Law, Banking Law, Public Officers Law, Tax Law, Social Services Law, Public Authorities Law, New York Executive Law, New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law, Urban Development Corporation Act, Transportation Law, Vehicle and Traffic Law, State Technology Law, The Family Court Act, The Court of Claims Act, The Uniform Courts Act, Legislative Law, State Finance Law, Public Service Law, Economic Development Law, General Construction Law, Highway Law, Village Law and General City Law. During Wednesday’s briefing, Cuomo responded to a

question about proposed legislation that would require the governor to submit weekly reports to the Legislature about spending and other updates during a state of emergency.

“Whatever they want to propose, they can propose and I will look at it,” Cuomo said. “I haven’t seen anything. I think, all through this, my updates, I probably have been the most informative elected official

all through this. I’ve done this for about 80 straight days. I’ve briefed everyone every day. I have people come up to me on the street talking about rate of transmission. I feel very good about how exhaustive I have been in communicating the facts. The news hasn’t always been positive and uplifting.

“I don’t know what every other governor has done. I don’t think I can be any more

public in my communication than I’ve been. We televised these for anyone who wants to watch.”

In a briefing April 18, Cuomo said the Legislature would be able to meet remotely, if that’s what they decided to do.

“In terms of passing legislation remotely, they can do that,” Cuomo said. “That’s up to them. As far as getting into a very complex issue that

requires real analysis, and real data, and trying to do that on Zoom conferences, I don’t know that that’s the best way to do it. But that’s up to them as well.”

Requests for comment directed to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins’ offices regarding whether the Legislature will reconvene were not answered.

To see where each region stands on reopening and the complete county breakdown of COVID-19 cases and deaths statewide, view the COVID-19 map and tracker at hudsonvalley360.com/site/covid19.html The Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

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Giants CB Baker pleads not guilty to 8 charges Field Level Media

New York Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker has pleaded not guilty to all eight charges against him stemming from last week’s alleged armed robbery in Miramar, Fla. Bradford Cohen, Baker’s attorney, filed the written pleas to Broward County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon, a day after Baker was released from jail on $200,000 bond.

Baker requested a trial by jury, although NJ.com reports no court dates have been set.

Baker, 22, faces four charges of armed robbery and four charges of aggravated assault after witnesses told police that Baker and Seattle

Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar stole money and expensive watches while armed with a semiautomatic gun at a small gathering at a house in Miramar last week.

Dunbar’s attorney, Michael Grieco, told ESPN that his client plans to plead not guilty Tuesday afternoon to the four armed robbery charges he faces. Dunbar, 27, was also released Sunday morning, on $100,000 bond.

Both men turned themselves in on Saturday, after arrest warrants were issued Thursday. The attorneys for both men have said their clients are innocent, citing affadavits signed by the same witnesses who originally told police of the incident.

According to ESPN, the alleged

robbery happened during an “illegal dice gambling game” at a house in Miramar with 15-20 people present, and that a commotion ensued after parties were accused of using “loaded dice.”

Baker and Dunbar allegedly brandished guns and robbed attendees of money and personal belongings, although there are discrepancies among witnesses as to whether Dunbar had a gun. According to a witness, a third person – identified only as wearing a red mask – also took part in the robbery, but prosecutors have yet to identify that person. The police report said Baker instructed that person to shoot someone, but no shots were fired.

As a condition of his release, Baker

was ordered to turn his gun – which is licensed – in to Miramar Police.

However, one of his attorneys, Patrick Patel, told NJ.com Tuesday that his client will not do so after a Broward County judge approved a grant filed

by Baker’s attorneys. Baker instead must turn the gun into Patel and not possess any other firearms.

“We have concerns, because we don’t believe any of the witnesses in this case,” Patel told NJ.com. “If we just turn the gun in, they’re just going to say, ‘Well, that’s the gun.’ You know what I mean? If we don’t (turn the gun in), they can say it’s a black gun, then it turns out to be a blue gun. It further adds to my suspicion that this is a shakedown.”

Baker will be allowed to return to New Jersey as needed, according to Patel.

Baker was drafted by the Giants in the first round (30th overall) out of Georgia in 2019. He had 61 tackles, two tackles for loss and eight pass defenses in 16 games (15 starts) as a rookie.

Dunbar was acquired by the Seahawks from the Washington Redskins in March in exchange for a 2020 fifth-round pick. He entered the NFL with Washington as an undrafted free agent in 2015 and has 150 tackles and nine interceptions in 58 career games (25 starts). Last season, he recorded a career-high four interceptions in 11 games.

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The St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars engage in the traditional playoff series-ending handshake line after the Stars’ double overtime win in Game 7 in St. Louis on May 7, 2019.

Coronavirus is retiring the handshake David Wharton Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Blood streams in dark rivulets down the side of one man’s face. The other man has a blackened eye as he extends his hand in congratulations or, perhaps, empathy.

The year is 1952 and two hockey teams have just finished a brutal semifinal series. A bloodied Maurice “Rocket” Richard, star of the victorious Montreal Canadiens, looks wobbly standing at center ice for the “handshake line” that has followed every NHL playoff for decades.

The goalie of the losing Boston Bruins, a similarly battered “Sugar Jim” Henry, leans slightly forward as they meet. There is something emotional about his affect, an old

photograph of the moment capturing everything you need to know about this ritual of sport.

Boxers touch gloves before fighting and football players greet each other at the coin flip. In tennis, golf and soccer, competitors wait until after the game. Sportsmanship only begins to explain a custom that endures regardless of animosity or even violence on the field of play.

“It’s rooted in our primate psychology,” said David Givens, an anthropologist at Gonzaga University’s Center for Nonverbal Studies. “Primates, especially chimps and gorillas, will reach out and touch each other’s hands, before aggression and after aggression.”

Evolution and neuromuscular circuitry notwithstanding, the handshake has come under attack — in sport and throughout society

— from COVID-19. Common etiquette has been rebranded as a vector for spreading infection.

“When you consider the sweat factor, in just two months shaking hands has become unthinkable,” said Pam Shriver, among the greatest doubles players in tennis history and an ESPN commentator. “It’s done and I don’t think it’s going to come back.”

The question is, might sports be losing something important?

The physical act has a geometry all its own.

The palm should be perpendicular to the floor, facing neither downward in a show of dominance nor upward in meekness. Contact should be diagonal, the web of skin below each thumb meeting in symmetry. Shake two

PHILADELPHIA — A 24-team NHL tournament — play-in games would be followed by the 16-team Stanley Cup playoffs — could become a reality this summer.

The NHL suspended its season March 12 because of the coronavirus outbreak, but the league’s board of governors had a conference call Monday afternoon and discussed several topics. Among them: what it would take to resume play and the format that would be used.

The NHL’s Return to Play Committee, composed of league executives and some members of the Players Association, have floated an idea in which 24 of the 31 teams would be alive if the season resumed. It would include the top 12 teams in each conference based on winning percentage. The Flyers have the fourth-best percentage (. 645) in the Eastern Conference.

Several formats are being discussed, but nothing has been finalized.

“Nothing to report,” said one person who was on the governors’ call. “Hopefully, we will all know something soon.”

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, speaking Monday at a sports business conference held virtually, said the league was looking at eight or nine places that could accommodate a dozen or so teams at one location.

Multiple games would be played at the locations each day.

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Date set for Belmont Stakes John Cherwa Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in history, the Belmont Stakes will be the first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown. The New York Racing Association announced on Tuesday that the race will be held on June 20 at a distance of 1 miles, rather than the traditional 1 ½ miles.

The Kentucky Derby has been moved from May 2 to Sept. 5 and the Preakness Stakes from May 16 to Oct. 3. The Belmont, originally scheduled for June 6, will be run without spectators.

The date could prove problematic to horses that were expected to run in the Santa Anita Derby, also 1 miles, on June 6. While horses can run on two weeks’ rest, trainers prefer to bring horses back after a month without racing, especially if their previous race was taxing. Owners and trainers on the West Coast will likely have to choose between the $400,000 Santa Anita Derby or the $1 million Belmont Stakes.

Santa Anita spokesman Mike Willman said track administrators thought the Belmont

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Justify crosses the finish line to win the Triple Crown at the 150th Belmont Stakes, in Elmont on June 9, 2018. This year’s Belmont will be run without spectators on June 20.

Stakes would also be run in June and doesn’t think it will lose any top horses with previous

Santa Anita Derby plans.

“We believe Authentic stays,” Willman

said of the likely Santa Anita Derby favorite trained by Bob Baffert.

John Shirreffs, the trainer of contender Honor A.P., said his horse will run in the Santa Anita Derby.

“I think it’s certainly better to support Santa Anita than going somewhere else,” Shirreffs said. “If you have a neighborhood market and all leave, how’s it going to stay in business?”

New York officials believe their race will remain important for 3-year-olds.

“The Belmont Stakes is a New York institution that will provide world-class entertainment for sports fans during these challenging times,” said Dave O’Rourke, chief executive of NYRA. “While this will certainly be a unique running of this historic race, we are grateful to be able to hold the Belmont Stakes in 2020.”

The race will be worth qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby, with the winner getting 150 and 60-30-15 will go to the next three finishers. The Santa Anita Derby has a points structure of 100-40-20-10.

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Sports Flashbacks BASEBALL 1919 — Red Sox southpaw Babe Ruth 
hits the first of his 16 career grand slams. The basesloaded home run proves to be the difference when Boston beats the Browns at Sportsman’s Park, 6-4.

1920 — The Chicago police, dressed as soldiers and farmers, raid the Wrigley Field bleachers arresting two dozen Cub fans for gambling.

1948 — Joe DiMaggio strokes four extra-base hits for the fourth time in his career when he hits for the cycle in a 13-2 rout of the White Sox. 1953 — In just their 13th home game of the season, the Milwaukee Braves’ attendance surpasses the entire total of 281,278 fans attending their 77 games in Boston the previous year.

1959 — The Yankees become a last-place club when they lose to Detroit, 13-6. It marks the first time in 19 seasons that New York has occupied the basement of the American League.

1962 — During the Cubs’ doubleheader sweep of the Phillies, Ken Hubbs strokes eight singles in eight trips to the plate at Connie Mack Stadium.

1968 — For the second time in his career and the second time in franchise history, Jim Fregosi hits for the cycle in the Angels’ 5-4 loss to Boston at Anaheim Stadium.

1976 — A collision at home plate between New York’s Lou Piniella and Boston catcher Carlton Fisk escalates into a bench-clearing brawl. Boston pitcher Bill Lee separates his shoulder during the melee.

1985 — The Indians-Brewers game becomes the first rain-out of the season ending a record streak of 485 major league games played at the start of a season without a canceled game.

1999 — In a twin bill sweep of Milwaukee, Mets’ third baseman Robin Ventura becomes the first major league player to hit a grand slam in both ends of a doubleheader.

2001 — Barry Bonds becomes the 13th player in major-league history to hit home runs in four consecutive at-bats. The Giants’ outfielder went yard in his final two at-bats on May 19th and homers in his first two turns at the plate on this day.

2006 — Barry Bonds catches Babe Ruth with his 714th home run. The historic homer, which ties the designated hitter for second place for career round trippers, comes during the second inning of a contest with the A’s.

BASKETBALL 1975 — Rick Barry scores 36 points and the Golden State Warriors defeat the Washington Bullets 92-91 in Game 2 of the NBA Finals.

1979 — Washington’s Larry Wright scored 26 points and hit two free throws with no time remaining to give the Bullets a 99-97 victory over the Seattle SuperSonics in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

1993 — Charles Barkley caps a 28-point, 21-rebound effort by hitting the game-winning basket with 1.8 seconds left as the Phoenix Suns advance to the Western Conference finals with a 102-100 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the second-round series.

1995 — Mario Elie connects on a go-ahead 3-pointer with 7.1 seconds left and the Houston Rockets survive 46 points from Kevin Johnson to post a 115-114 victory over the Phoenix Suns in Game 7 of second-round series. The Rockets won the final three games.

1997 — Michael Jordan scores 37 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to an 84-77 victory over the Miami Heat in the opening game of the Eastern Conference finals.

2000 — Minnesota Timberwolves forward Malik Sealy is killed by a drunk driver in an auto accident at age of 30.

2001 — Allen Iverson has 21 points and 16 assists and the Philadelphia 76ers advance to the Eastern Conference finals with an 88-87 victory over the Toronto Raptors in Game 7 of the second-round series.

2003 — Kenyon Martin scores 16 of his 25 points in the final quarter and the New Jersey Nets rally from a 11-point, fourth-quarter deficit to record an 88-86 victory over the Detroit Pistons in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.

2005 — Steve Nash scores 39 points as the Phoenix Suns advance to the Western Conference finals by downing the Dallas Mavericks 130-126 in overtime of Game 6 of the secondround series. Nash forces overtime with a game-tying 3-pointer in regulation and sinks the go-ahead 3-pointer in the extra session.

2009 — The Orlando Magic defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the opening game of the Eastern Conference finals despite 49 points from LeBron James.

2018 — With a 126-85 win at Oracle Arena over the Houston Rockets, the Golden State Warriors become the first NBA team to win 16-straight playoff games on their home court.

2019 — In Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, Stephen Curry and Draymond Green lead Golden State to victory while becoming the first pair of teammates in history to each record a triple-double in the same playoff game.

2019 — The Golden State Warriors advance to the NBA Finals for the fifth year in a row, joining the 1957-66 Boston Celtics as the first teams in league history to achieve this feat.

HOCKEY 1940 — Stan Mikita is born in Skloce, Czechoslovakia. One of the first European-born superstars in NHL history, Mikita spends his entire 22-year career with the Chicago Blackhawks, recording 1,467 points and earning induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.

1975 — The Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers play in dense fog at the Auditorium due to higher-than normal temperatures in New York. In another oddity, Buffalo Sabres center Jim Lorentz kills a bat that was flying around the arena. The Sabres go on to win the game 5-4 in overtime.

1979 — The Winnipeg Jets defeat the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 to win their third Avco World Trophy. The victory marks the final game in World Hockey Association history, with the league merging with the National Hockey League in time for the start of next season.

1986 — The Montreal Canadiens and Calgary Flames combine to score four goals in a Stanley Cup-record one minute, 34 seconds in Game 3 of the finals. The Canadiens go on to win 5-3.

1993 — The Montreal Canadiens set an NHL record with their seventh consecutive overtime win in a single postseason, upending the New York Islanders 2-1 in Game 3 of the conference finals.

1997 — The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim fire head coach Ron Wilson, citing ‘philosophical differences.’ Wilson went 120-145-31 in four seasons in Anaheim, leading the club to one playoff appearance.

2004 — Simon Gagne scores 18:18 into overtime as the Philadelphia Flyers force a seventh game in the Eastern Conference finals with a 5-4 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

2011 — Patrick Marleau scores twice as the San Jose Sharks earn a 4-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.

It’s the only game the Sharks win in the series.

2018 — The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1 in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals, and become the first expansion team in their inaugural season to reach the Stanley Cup Final since the St. Louis Blues in 1967-68.

Pro hockey NHL SCORING LEADERS THROUGH MARCH 11 GP G Leon Draisaitl, Edm 71 43 C. McDavid, Edm 64 34 A. Panarin, NYR 69 32 David Pastrnak, Bos 70 48 N. MacKinnon, Col 69 35 B. Marchand, Bos 70 28 Nikita Kucherov, TB 68 33

A PTS 67 110 63 97 63 95 47 95 58 93 59 87 52 85

The 10 most notable measures in MLB’s safety proposal Michael Rand Star Tribune

Major League Baseball recently put together a 67-page manual outlining safety protocols that will need to be followed if players and other team personnel are going to return to play in a few weeks for training and in early July for a truncated season.

The reported measures range from the mundane to the seemingly extreme to the borderline impossible, and they all underscore the fundamental question: Is this worth it?

That can be viewed through two lenses: Is it worth having a season if all these measures — which we’ll get to in a bit — need to be followed?

To that, I would answer with a measured “yes.” If MLB and players are determined to have a season, they must do so in the most responsible way possible. If that means exhibiting what seems like an overabundance of caution, so be it. That’s what the coronavirus pandemic calls for.

The other lens, though, is more complicated: If MLB needs to draft a 67-page (and likely ultimately longer) set of safety guidelines just to hold a season, is it really safe enough — and ultimately worth it from that perspective — to have a season? That’s a fundamental question players are wrestling with, and for good reason. Baseball is not an essential service. It’s a luxury. If there wasn’t so much money at stake, would there really be such a scramble to re-start sports?

To understand both sides of this question, here are 10 of the most notable measures in the safety proposal, as reported by a variety of sources (the manual itself has not been published in full), along with a comment on each: — Those not participating in a game would sit 6 feet apart — possibly in the stands or other auxiliary seating areas — and they would be wearing masks.

That seems like common sense and easily doable, even if the optics while watching on TV might seem strange.

— No high-fives, fist-bumps, hugging, spitting, chewing tobacco or

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Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Urena spits water as he walks to the mound to start an April 9, 2018 game against the New York Mets at Marlins Park. There would be no spitting allowed under the MLB’s safety proposal.

sunflower seeds. If all those things wind up being part of the final protocol and a season really happens, it seems like some of these would be both hard to enforce and could detract from some of the spontaneous emotion that adds to the environment of a game. I’m trying to imagine a walk-off home run under these conditions, even if they are created with good intentions.

— No mascots or bat boys. Maybe the Twins don’t need a new T.C. Bear, after all? Then again, do you really need a mascot if there aren’t fans in the stands?

— Temperature screening at least

twice a day. Again, this one is common sense. And it will become part of a player’s routine. But a lot of little things probably will add up and make everyone involved hyper-aware of the conditions under which they are playing and which we are all living. In ensuring everyone’s physical health, how will it impact their mental health?

— Players should wash or sanitize their hands after every half-inning.

Pitchers won’t need sandpaper to doctor a baseball. Their dry hands will be enough. But again, if you set expectations at a high level then some lapses will still leave everyone relatively safe.

— No use of saunas, steam rooms or therapy pools. That could get tricky for players rehabbing injuries or simply trying to do their daily maintenance routines. In addition to other clubhouse rules, it will probably lead to a pretty sterile — literally and figuratively — atmosphere among teammates.

— When the ball is out of play or in between pitches, fielders are encouraged to retreat several steps away from the baserunner, per The Athletic. If this applies to things like trying to keep runners close at second base, I don’t like it.

If players are going to be second-guessing the way they play the game, it won’t work.

— Every ball put in play gets tossed out, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan, who wrote an excellent piece about what could be the new day in the life for an MLB player. Fine. There are more than enough baseballs to go around.

— Postgame showers are discouraged. Gross. Seems like they could figure out a way to stagger them, at least for those who played in the game. But again, it’s probably safest if everyone showers when they go back to their homes or hotels. Speaking of which ...

— Players would not be allowed to leave hotels while on the road without approval. At home, they would be asked to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Seems extreme. Then again, if there’s no season the players will probably just be at home.

The safety proposal really brings home just how different things would feel to players. The two things they would basically still get are pretty big, though: The ability to compete on the field with few if any meaningful between-the-lines changes ... and, of course, getting paid at least a portion of their 2020 salaries.

Is it worth it? Players individually and collectively will interpret that question and decide for themselves in much the same way a lot of us will make decisions about what we’re comfortable with in our jobs and personal lives in the coming months.

OPINION: MLB should just sit this year out Paul Zeise Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

No spitting. No high fives. No hugging. No showers in the clubhouse. Take two steps back after every pitch to get away from base runners. Third- and firstbase coaches must stand way back. Every pitcher has his own bag of balls. Any ball touched by more than one player is put out of commission. No licking your fingers. No fraternizing with first basemen after you hit a single. No sharing of any equipment. No fans in the stands, of course, and no fighting.

Those are just a few suggestions in Major League Baseball’s 67-page safety protocol proposal. These are the things that would apparently have to take place in order to ensure the safety of players. That’s assuming the owners and players can figure out how to split up hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure the Blake Snells of the world get their money.

I have a better idea after reading all that junk and listening to these players complain about not getting their full salary: How about no baseball in 2020 and check in again in 2021 to see if it is safe to play yet?

If this is what it is going to take to have baseball, then it isn’t worth it. It isn’t even realistic to think all of this stuff can happen. No fighting? Really? So guys in the heat of the moment get beaned in the head and are not going to charge the mound because they will

be rational enough to stay away?

They aren’t allowed to fight now and they still do.

Give me a break.

I am all for safety, but most of this stuff is not necessary because the presumption is everyone who is in the ballpark has been tested regularly and is negative.

And they will be doing daily health screens as well.

And if everyone has tested negative and everyone is being screened daily, why are all the over-the-top measures necessary?

It’s all just pandering and part of the “new reality” we are told we are supposed to live in.

Clearly there are issues when you start bringing fans into the stands, and that changes the dynamic for the players. The players and coaches, though, will be in a controlled environment and the overwhelming majority of them will be in the age group and health category that statistically puts them at an extremely low risk of getting seriously ill.

It isn’t like, say, workers at Wal-Mart who are exposed to random crowds of people of all ages and health statuses every day yet are asked to work with some minimal safety guidelines.

That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be some safety and social-distancing measures taken. I have no issues with having all the bench players sit in the stands 10 feet apart. It is smart to try and make the clubhouse

as safe as possible.

You combine all of these safety measures the league wants to propose with the fact that players view splitting revenues 50/50 with the owners as a “no- starter,” and you come to this conclusion: What is the point of trying to move on with a season? If players don’t want to play for reduced salary, then don’t play. It really is that simple. Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything they don’t want to do.

Regardless, I am optimistic about the NBA returning soon in some form. The 24-team NHL tournament sounds intriguing and could be very entertaining. I think we will have the NFL this fall and it won’t even shock me if there will be fans — though with reduced capacity — in the stands.

Those three leagues all seem like they have players and owners who want to play, are motivated to get back out and play and are willing to work together to get through the issues in order to get back out and play.

Major League Baseball, on the other hand, has done nothing to convince me they are interested in playing any time soon. The opposite actually seems true, given the league’s unrealistic proposals for safety and the players’ unrealistic demands for money. So they should all just save their energy and stop pretending they want to play and get back to us next year.

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Tom Brady, Bucs players take the field at Tampa’s Berkeley Prep Rick Stroud and Joey Knight Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA, Fla. — About 20 minutes after sunrise, just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, the luxury vehicles began rolling past the guarded entrance at Berkeley Preparatory School — a Tesla coupe followed by a Porsche and a Ford truck or two.

On the artificial turf football field, tucked away in a well-secluded enclave of the sprawling campus, Tom Brady and about eight of his Bucs teammates began a two-hour throwing session.

Brady wasn’t the only quarterback.

But he was the only player wearing a bright orange practice jersey over shoulder pads with his Buccaneers’ helmet.

Center Ryan Jensen was there to make sure Brady received the shot gun snaps before launching dozens of passes on this humid 77-degree morning.

If you had any doubt that Brady wasn’t going to find a way for such a gathering when players can’t be together at a team practice facility due to NFL rules during the COVID-19 pandemic, think again.

Brady appeared to be the one organizing the route combinations and situational drills that Bucs receivers, tight ends and running backs ran for about

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four locations would host the games, and they would be played in NHL arenas in cities that are not coronavirus hot spots.

Bettman said there is “still a great deal of uncertainty” as to when the season would restart. Some of the uncertainty revolves around quarantine issues.

Bill Daly, the NHL’s deputy commissioner, said Monday that if one or two players from a team tested positive for the coronavirus, it “wouldn’t necessarily require a team quarantine.”

“That continues to be the medical advice that both we and the Players Association (separately) are receiving,” Daly said in an email.

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to five times, no more or less.

The result of this equation can be far greater than the sum of its parts.

Nelson Mandela helped cement his fledgling presidency in post-apartheid South Africa by way of a famous handshake and pat on the shoulder with a white national rugby star, Francois Pienaar, at the 1995 World Cup championship.

In 1963, the all-white Mississippi State basketball squad sneaked out of town, defying a segregationist history to play in the NCAA Tournament against a Loyola of Chicago squad with black players on the roster. The teams shook hands before tipoff.

“It was amazing, so many camera flashes,” Joe Dan Gold, captain of that Mississippi State team, told the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., in 2011. “That’s when it hit me, this was more than a game. This was history.”

Flouting the ritual can mean trouble.

The Detroit Pistons walked off the court after a 1991 NBA conference final loss without acknowledging Michael Jordan and the victorious Chicago Bulls. Recently asked about public backlash, which persists to this day, former Pistons star Isiah Thomas seemed to have second thoughts.

“Knowing what we know now, in the aftermath of what took place, I think all of us would have stopped to say, ‘Hey congratulations,’ “ he told ESPN’s “The Last Dance” documentary.

To which Jordan responded: “There’s no way you can convince me he wasn’t a (jerk).”

After a 2011 NFL game, coach Jim Harbaugh of the

120 minutes Tuesday.

At times, like he did with receiver Mike Evans, Brady would walk through the route, showing players exactly where to make their cuts.

Brady’s arm looked live and he took advantage of the large collection of pass catchers to also get in some work on deep routes. Among those attending the practice were receiver Scotty Miller, tight ends Cameron Brate and O.J. Howard, quarterbacks Blaine Gabbert and Ryan Griffin, and running back Dare Ogunbowale.

After about an hour, the Bucs moved into the red zone area near the end zone on the east side of the practice field.

Then it was time for some coming out passing drills, simulating the offense back up deep in their own territory.

Last month, Brady made headlines when Tampa Mayor Jane Castor revealed that the six-time Super Bowl winner was asked to leave his workout in a closed downtown park by a member of the parks and recreation department.

“But you know our parks are closed down and so a lot of our parks staff, they patrol around just to make sure people aren’t doing contact sports and things and saw an individual working out in one of our downtown parks, Castor

said. “And she went over to tell him that it was closed and it was Tom Brady.”

Since signing a two-year, $50 million contract with the Bucs, Brady has been itching to get time on the practice field with his teammates.

The lack of an offseason program and organized team activities will be a big hurdle for Brady as he attempts to learn Bruce Arians’ offense.

But apparently, while Berkeley Prep has been closed to students and faculty, the school opened its doors and football field to Brady and what looked to be most of the offensive skill players.

Dominick Ciao, Berkeley Prep’s football coach the past 13 seasons, said Tuesday that he had no knowledge of Bucs players working out at his campus. A former Bucs part-time film analyst for then-defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, Ciao referred further questions to athletic director Bobby Reinhart, who didn’t immediately respond to a voicemail message.

Gabbert, who missed the 2019 season with an injury to his left non-throwing shoulder, appeared to have no trouble hitting receivers in stride Tuesday.

Following the workout, which concluded just after 9 a.m., Brady and his teammates spent about 25 minutes on the field and in the bleachers just talking and doing some relationship

building.

After arriving in Tampa Bay, Brady didn’t waste any time trying to learn the offense. In fact, he inadvertently walked into the wrong Tampa home carrying two duffel bags looking for offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich, who lived next door.

Brady joked about some of his missteps in an Instagram post to Bucs fans a couple weeks ago.

“I’m so happy to be in Tampa Bay,” Brady said. “And I wanted to say thank you guys for welcoming me and my family into your community with open arms — outside of getting kicked out of a park the other day. I’m so excited to be a Buc!” In fact, Brady was excited enough to ask for the phone numbers of every teammate shortly after agreeing to sign with the Bucs. Apparently, he used that list to organize extensive throwing sessions like the one at Berkeley Prep.

Two weeks ago on the Dock Talk with Killer Instagram Live Show, Brate acknowledged to Lightning forward Alex Killorn that he had been working out with Brady. Then he walked it back, saying they were “virtual workouts.”

“Virtual workouts. And you’ve been doing them on your, um, laptop,” Killorn added. “Don’t worry, that will all be edited out of the final version.”

It’s also not surprising that Brady organized the session at 7 a.m. In addition to providing some protection from the heat of the day as well as some privacy, he also is able to determine which teammates are willing to rise early and make the sacrifice to work on improving their timing and chemistry with him.

Last week, receiver Chris Godwin indicated that teams with new quarterbacks may suffer a bit from a lack of practice time. When asked if he had been able to throw with Brady, Godwin said he had not and it’s unknown whether he participated Tuesday.

“No, not quite yet,” Godwin said.

“And that’s one of the things that really sucks for teams with new quarterbacks. You can’t build that chemistry if you’re not able to get together. This isn’t a problem that’s unique to us. And I have enough faith in the fact that Tom has seen enough ball and played with enough receivers that it won’t be too much of a learning curve whenever everybody is able to get back together.”

Based on Tuesday’s workout, it looks like Brady has found a way to start building that chemistry. Oh, and Berkeley Prep’s mascot? The Buccaneers, of course.

Bettman said getting players back to North America is also a concern. According to the NHL, 17% of its players are from outside North America.

There needs to be an abundance of testing before the NHL can return, Bettman said, adding he believes there will be enough capacity to eventually make it work.

“But we certainly can’t be jumping the line in front of medical needs,” he said.

Bettman said that he wanted to complete the season and that fans already have an “emotional investment” in it.

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In an interview aired last set in trying to return.

In interviews since the “If we kept playing, our league was shut down, most week on a Czech Republic NHL players seemed eager to sports channel (CT Sport) sport would be swimming and translated into English against the current a bit,” he return.

Washington defenseman by hockey blog Russian Ma- said. “Money is money; it’s Radko Gudas, a former Flyer, chine Never Breaks, Gudas what currently makes the

world go around. It’s a bit sad they are willing to risk the health of so many players for money.”

According to reports, the NHL stands to collect as much as $500 million in TV revenue if the league returns and holds the Stanley Cup playoffs.

“People miss it,” former Flyers star Simon Gagne said in a conference call with reporters Monday. “ ... Even if it’s in the summer (when it returns), I know people here in Quebec and Canada will watch the game, for sure. In the United States, I’m not sure.”

The NHL has not crowned a champion twice since 1883.

The first time was in 1919 because of the Spanish flu pandemic, which caused an estimated 50 million deaths worldwide and 675,000 in the United States.

The second time was in 2005, when the season was

called off because of a lockout.

In 1919, the Stanley Cup Final was tied after five games (2-2-1) between the Montreal Canadiens and Seattle Metropolitans. The season was then canceled after several players and coaches — some with temperatures as high as 105 degrees — contracted the Spanish flu. Montreal defenseman Joe Hall, who later was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, died from complications from the illness.

This year’s Stanley Cup playoffs were scheduled to start April 8 and end, at the latest, on June 13.

If the NHL returns, the 2020-21 season will likely be delayed, perhaps starting in November or December.

In another matter, the board of governors on Monday did not set a date for the lottery or the draft.

And what about tennis players approaching the net after a match? It might be a way to soothe roiling biochemistry, to get both sides feeling better after heated competition.

“The brain seems to know how to handle these things and how to mitigate by tactile cues,” Givens said. “Shaking hands is a way to lessen the effect.”

Boxers started doing this sort of thing more than 150 years ago. When the Marquess of Queensberry mandated gloves in 1867, fighters became an unwitting precursor to modern times, wearing personal protection and bumping fists.

In hockey, the handshake dates to at least 1908, when teams in an all-star charity game reportedly lined up.

The formality took hold by the 1930s, becoming inviolable.

“As far back as when I was a kid, there was so much respect for the game and what we did,” said Luc Robitaille, a former Kings star and now team president.

“We had to dress up for tournaments, nice pants, no jeans,” he said. “Then, after we played, we shook everyone’s hand. It was just what we did and we never thought of any other way.”

The coronavirus spreads by way of respiratory droplets, mostly through coughs and sneezes. It can be transmitted indirectly if an infected person makes hand-to-hand contact with someone who touches their

nose, mouth or eyes.

There is something ironic in worrying about this when it comes to games such as football and basketball, where bodies often collide, but a 2014 study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found that shaking hands can transmit nearly twice as many bacteria as high-fiving and about 10 times more than bumping fists.

“It is unlikely that a nocontact greeting could supplant the handshake,” the authors wrote. “However, for the sake of improving public health we encourage further adoption of the fist bump as a simple, free and more hygienic alternative.”

It has taken hundreds of thousands of deaths from COVID-19 around the globe to reinforce this notion.

Even before sporting events were canceled because of the outbreak, the NBA advised players to avoid high-fives with the crowd and Major League Baseball warned against accepting pens from fans to sign autographs. Handshakes between competitors were suspended in soccer games, cricket matches and golf tournaments around the world.

“It’s just one thing that should change and probably will change,” University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari said on the “BBN Live” show. “The game ends, you point. ‘See you after.’ Call the guy on the phone. These kids stay in touch anyway.”

If the custom fades — and not everyone thinks it will — experts hope something else will take its place.

Contact might not be required, the mere orientation of the hand conveying fundamental information. Think of a friend raising his hand in greeting or people turning their palms upward in exasperation or confusion.

So a simple nod and wave might suffice, or maybe the Hindu greeting of Namaste, with hands pressed together as in prayer. When the PGA Tour returns with a tournament next month, officials have asked players to consider “a tip of the cap or an air fist bump or something from a distance.”

“You wouldn’t get the full effect of the actual touch,” Givens said. “But the recognition of another’s physical presence, you’re taking them seriously.”

Much like Robitaille, Shriver recalled learning about the postgame handshake as a youngster. “You watched the pros do it on TV,” she said. “You saw your parents at the club.” If the thought of clasping hands now gives her pause — the sweat factor — she suspects that sports will adapt.

For years, players have devised intricate, ever-evolving handshakes and high-fives.

The custom could persist, if only from a distance.

“Each sport has to find a gesture of sportsmanship,” Shriver said. “It’s going to be interesting to see what happens.”

San Francisco 49ers got a little too enthusiastic about winning, bouncing across the field toward his counterpart with the Detroit Lions.

The resulting handshake was more of a stab, followed by a rough slap on the back, triggering a scuffle between the teams.

Detroit coach Jim Schwartz complained to reporters: “I went to shake an opponent coach’s hand and obviously you win a game like that, you’re excited. But there’s a protocol that goes with this league.”

After a rash of postgame fights in 2013, Kentucky high school officials issued a directive that initially appeared to ban handshakes.

A Southern California league had taken similar action years earlier. Officials soon backpedaled in both cases.

As a philosophy professor at Tarleton State University in Texas, Craig Clifford sees the gesture as formative for young players, especially when emotions run high.

“You can’t have a good game without a good opponent, whether you like your opponent or not,” said Clifford, co-author of the book “Sport and Character.” He added: “It’s not about being a nice person. It’s saying, ‘I’m going to give you respect because you’re making it possible for me to play this game.’”

In ancient times, strangers greeted each other by extending an open palm to show they had no weapon.

The up-and-down motion of the early handshake? It might have been a way to jostle loose any knives tucked into sleeves.

Clasping hands transformed into a sign of good faith by the 9th century BC, when a stone bas-relief shows Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III sealing an alliance with a Babylonian counterpart. Much later, in the 17th century, Quakers considered it an egalitarian

alternative to formal bowing or hat-tipping.

Whatever the motive, anthropologist Givens sees deeply instinctual behavior.

Touch ranks among the oldest human senses, behind smell, the fingers laden with sensitive nerve endings connected to modules of the brain.

Skin-to-skin contact has been shown to signal the adrenal glands, limiting production of cortisol, a stressinducing hormone, in both parents and their babies. Researchers suspect the handshake may trigger a similar response, which would be relevant to athletics.

“There is the initial fear before you get in the ring or on the field, a lot of athletes talk about the fear,” Givens said. “There is the adrenaline aspect to sport and you can partially counteract that by reaching out, which puts you a little at ease.”

The hands are linked to another hormone — noradrenaline — that drives anger. In an aggressive state, humans tend to stand taller and orient their palms downward — picture a coach rising up and smacking the lectern in a team meeting.

Too much emotion can be counterproductive to clear thinking and execution on the field. So, like a dog crouching when it encounters another dog, even a vicious linebacker might be subconsciously tempering his anxiety when meeting with opposing team captains at midfield before kickoff.

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KIDS REPORT

The 1918 flu pandemic meant little at-home learning People can go outside and get fresh air, bike rides and play. Vecteezy

Remember the good to make the bad easier LEARN MORE

By RILEY BURNS

Want to learn more about what school was like 100 years ago? You can visit the following websites with an adult’s help: n Search for images of old schoolhouses, playgrounds and class pictures in the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: loc.gov/pictures. n Search for tools that students used, such as slates, Indian clubs, spellers and lunch pails, in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Collections database: americanhistory.si.edu/collections.

Sixth Grade, H.T.Wiley Intermediate School

Children in a classroom between 1919 and 1929. Library of Congress

By GINA RICH Washington Post

If your school is closed because of the novel coronavirus, you have something in common with kids growing up 100 years ago. In 1918, schools closed temporarily in response to a new H1N1 virus. Like COVID-19, the illness it caused spread rapidly in communities because no one was immune to it yet.

Did students still have homework during the 1918 flu closures? Not much, according to Debbie Schaefer-Jacobs, curator in the Division of Cultural and Community Life at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Teachers probably sent reading assignments home, but schoolwork was minimal.

If students wanted to practice spelling, they used alphabet or speller boards, which were popular learning toys at that time.

Outside of school, kids kept busy with chores. Many children also had jobs, from delivering newspapers to helping on farms and even working in factories. That began to change in the 1930s when the government enacted laws regulating how much children could work.

What was it like to go to school a century ago? More than half of the student population attended country or rural schools, while the rest went to city schools. At city schools, your classmates were about your age, but country schools often had students of different ages in a single classroom.

“Indian clubs” helped kids build strength as part of their PE classes. Richard Strauss/National Museum of American History

Kids at country schools brought food to eat at school. They would have used this aluminum lunch pail for milk or soup.

National Museum of American History

States required children to attend school only through eighth grade. Sometimes older kids in country schools stayed longer to help with younger pupils, getting on-the-job training to later become teachers, Schaefer-Jacobs said.

Most kids walked to school, although some rode horses or donkeys. In the 1930s, wagons began transporting students from rural areas to city schools.

Until 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated education was against the law, the vast majority of black students and white children attended separate schools.

Children in the 1900s studied many of the same subjects

you do today, such as reading, writing and math. Students used a book called Webster’s Speller, and reading assignments were challenging.

“Kids back then were reading speeches that presidents gave,” said Schaefer-Jacobs.

The curriculum also included Bible studies — even in public, nonreligious schools — along with penmanship and civics education.

To practice penmanship or work on math problems, students wrote with chalk or charcoal on a slate — a piece of wood with special coating. “A slate was similar in size to a tablet or an iPad mini,” said Schaefer-Jacobs. Slates were noisy when dropped on desks, so some manufacturers wrapped the edges in yarn or fabric and sold them as “noiseless” slates.

Because of the Civil War and World War I, schools focused a lot on patriotism — loyalty and devotion to your country.

Students performed music, put

Students used wrote on slates with chalk to work on math problems or practice penmanship. National Museum of

An alphabet, or speller board, was a popular learning tool in 1918.

American History

National Museum of American History

Closing school for short periods was common, and people understood quarantine because disease was more prevalent with little or no availability of vaccines.”

DEBBIE SCHAEFER-JACOBS Curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History

on plays and wrote essays to showcase their civic pride.

As the United States experienced a massive wave of immigration from the 1880s until 1920, schools also taught patriotism to foreign-born students. In fact, so many people immigrated to America that city schools offered classes at night to accommodate more students.

Physical education (PE) looked a bit different in the early 1900s. In city schools, students exercised in a gymnasium or worked on strength and mobility at their desks using “Indian clubs” — wooden clubs that look like big bowling pins.

“In country schools, there wasn’t an emphasis on PE because those kids were working on farms, getting plenty of physical labor,” said Schaefer-Jacobs.

Older students in country schools also helped with physical tasks: Boys hauled wood for the stoves that heated the classrooms, and girls pumped drinking water from wells.

Most city kids had enough time to walk home for lunch, while rural students brought food to eat at school, packed in a metal pail or tin.

As you continue learning at home, remember that school closures are nothing new. In the early 1900s, “closing school for short periods was common, and people understood quarantine because disease was more prevalent with little or no availability of vaccines,” Schaefer-Jacobs said.

Saturday, March 14, I woke up excited because we were going to my friend’s birthday party at the movies. We pulled into the Salmon Run Mall parking lot later that afternoon.

We were about to go in when, suddenly, my mom’s phone got an alert. She checked it and said, “Oh no, school is closed for the next 5 weeks!” We were all shocked!

We knew about COVID-19 spreading, but didn’t realize it spread that fast. This pandemic is scary and I had a million questions! “When will we get to celebrate pi day at school?” “Are we going to be homeschooled?” “Do we have enough food or supplies?” “Are my friends or family going to get COVID-19?” “Will someone I know die from COVID-19?”

School kept getting closed, until finally school was shut down for the rest of the year. Because of this, I will miss out on a ton of activities such as the kickball tournament, field day, field trips, getting the yearbook, having my yearbook signed and just saying good-bye because it’s my last year at Wiley. I will miss all my teachers and the building itself because I will never walk through those doors as a student again. Not to mention, not being able to go to playgrounds, restaurants and stores.

The hardest thing is not spending time with my friends and family. This is a weird time with all the hand-washing and masks.

It’s hard being in quarantine, but I was just focusing on the bad things. Sure, there are bad things, but I wasn’t even thinking about the good things.

People can go outside and get fresh air.

I can go for bike rides and play outside. We are having more family time by playing board games, watching movies, doing puzzles and going for walks together. Zooming with my class and friends has been fun, just different. Dad and I have been building a fort, while my dad and brother are building a desk.

Mom has been homeschooling us and right now we are working on learning geography and Spanish. My brother and I made an obstacle course on the sidewalk for people going by. My brother had his birthday in March. My grandma and grandpa wanted to do something special for him since they couldn’t be with him.

So, they drove up and put a sign in our yard. The sign read, “Honk for the birthday boy!” All day people honked and honked!

A little after lunch, a kind woman dropped off a balloon! Then later in the evening, another kind stranger dropped off a balloon and a card!

There are other positive things happening right now, too. I’ve been noticing because people are not driving and littering the Earth is cleaner. People are also being much kinder to each other!

The hardest thing is not spending time with my friends and family. This is a weird time with all the hand-washing and masks. It’s hard being in quarantine

Coronavirus is a reality we never imagined

By ANDIE MERRYMAN Special to the Times

What is it like to be a kid during quarantine? A pandemic is never something kids our age would expect to happen.

We are taught about pandemics in

school but don’t think to worry. “That’s in the past, people are smarter, we have better medical supplies, these things won’t happen again.” So most kids in quarantine are still feeling the residual shock that a virus got so out of hand that we need to be inside at all times.

Most of us feel a fading sense of normalcy and a difficulty adjusting. Some kids’ situations are more dire than others depending on who you ask. My family is doing alright, but adjusting is difficult. A lot of families with several residents in their home face a difficult struggle.

During this quarantine, kids my age have been faced with learning more life skills as a result of being at home all the time. So this situation does have a few silver linings.

In summary, this entire situation is hard to describe in a few sentences and can vary from kid to kid, but we are overall becoming

better people, being taught that sometimes life can face you with difficult situations beyond your control.

Despite the struggle we are striving as teachers and school districts try their best to provide for us. This is what it is like to be a kid in quarantine.

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Move over, Harvick? NASCAR rookies Reddick, Nemechek are driving like elite talent Alex Andrejev The Charlotte Observer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There was a 26-year age difference between the ninth- and 10thplace drivers, John Hunter Nemechek and Matt Kenseth, respectively, in NASCAR’s return race Sunday at Darlington.

Although almost three decades separated them, one thing united them — neither driver was expected to place as well as he did. Kenseth, 48, returned to the track for the first time on Sunday after a yearlong retirement from racing. Cup rookie Nemechek, 22, drove in just his fifth official event as a full-time driver in NASCAR’s top series. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, neither driver competed having had any practice in the two months leading up to the race.

Kenseth surpassed his own expectations.

“I don’t know why, but I just had 12th in my head,” Kenseth said. “And I would have been pretty happy with being 12th my first day, so to finish 10th I thought was really, really good.”

“We came in with no expectations,” NemCHRIS GRAYTHEN/GETTY IMAGES echek said after the race. “We just kind of had John Hunter Nemechek on the grid during the NASCAR Cup Series The Real Heroes 400 at the mindset to run every lap and learn the most Darlington Raceway on Sunday in Darlington, S.C. that we possibly could.”

Darlington’s top-10 was rounded out by career Cup Series victory.

Like Nemechek, who is currently ranking other perennial points leaders, including Alex While veteran drivers like Harvick, Kenseth 22nd in points standings, rookie Tyler Reddick Bowman (second place), Chase Elliott (fourth) and seven-time Cup champion Jimmie John- placed in the top-10 for the first time this seaand Denny Hamlin (fifth), all of whom have al- son, 44, who nearly won the first stage of the son. Reddick, ranked 20th in points, finished in ready captured either a race or stage win this race before crashing out in the final stage lap, seventh after racing from a 29th-place start. season. Cup points leader Kevin Harvick, 44, were on display last weekend, the series rookies Kenseth said he watched back-to-back Xfinity Series champion Reddick race in last year’s took the checkered flag for a milestone 50th also made their mark.

Xfinity championship at Homestead-Miami, and called Reddick the “difference-maker.”

“A lot of times, everybody is pretty good when you get to this level,” Kenseth said. “But when I watched Homestead, he’s just incredibly talented. Especially at tracks where you have to run high.”

Reddick, the No. 8 Chevrolet driver, received high praise from another NASCAR veteran, Dale Earnhardt Jr. “He continues to amaze me,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “ ... He’s not making these rookie mistakes that are taking him out of the running, especially at a place like Darlington where it’s easy.”

Reddick has always been a highly touted rookie name in the Cup Series, along with last year’s top Xfinity finishers, Cole Custer and Christopher Bell, who make up the “Big Three” of the rookie class. Sunday, Custer (ranked 24th in points) finished 22nd, and Bell (32nd in points) finished 24th.

Those three, in addition to Nemechek, who started 34th on a grid of 40 drivers and raced his way into the top-10, are proving they can compete with best, even driving for smaller, less well-funded teams. The rookie class will likely continue to shine as drivers’ comfort and confidence grows with each return race on the biggest stage of their individual careers.

While names like Harvick, Johnson and Kenseth have long been in the “best of NASCAR” conversation, 2020 is proving we could soon see names like Reddick, Nemechek and Bell in the same sentence.

What can we learn from Jordan and ‘The Last Dance’?

Dan Wiederer Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — “Most people struggle to be present. People go sit in ashrams for 20 years in India trying to be present.

Do yoga. Meditate. Trying to get here. Now. Most people live in fear because we project the past into the future.

Michael’s a mystic. He was never anywhere else. ... His gift was not that he could jump high, run fast, shoot a basketball. His gift was that he was completely present.

And that was the separator.”

— Mark Vancil, author of “Rare Air,” discussing Michael Jordan’s psyche during Episode 10 of the ESPN Films documentary series “The Last Dance” If only life worked like film or fairy tale, with the ability to press stop — or at least pause — when the delight and exhilaration reaches its pinnacle. If only we all had the opportunity to close the back cover and roll the credits at the highest of highs.

Then we’d know exactly what it felt like to be Michael Jordan late on a Sunday night in Salt Lake City in June 1998.

We’d know the adrenaline and satisfaction pulsing through Jordan’s veins as he held his right hand in the air, the iconic pose captured from myriad camera angles.

Each vantage point carries the same artful impact. The moment had been captured forever.

That’s where the finale of “The Last Dance” led us Sunday, to Jordan’s final shot as a Bull, to that 19-foot pull-up jumper near the top of the key, to that frozen image that hangs on the walls of sports bars and home offices and man caves across Chicago.

Poor Bryon Russell, stumbling and then nudged to his left. Poor Jazz fans — the men with hands clasped behind their heads, the women covering their mouths. All that

tension becoming Delta Center despair as the pebbled Spalding that Jordan shot splashed through the net with 5.2 seconds left.

So clutch. So storybook. So damn poetic.

All of it frozen in time.

“If that’s the last image of Michael Jordan,” Bob Costas said on the NBC broadcast, “how magnificent is it?”

That final shot had delivered another championship.

A sixth championship.

For Jordan, for the Bulls, for their fans, this is arguably the moment of all the impossible-to-count moments.

Every rabid sports city should be lucky enough to sample such invigoration.

Every athlete should be so fortunate to experience a triumph even one-thousandth of that magnitude. Every human should be able to find, even for a handful of fleeting moments, that mystical immersion in the now that Jordan seemed blessed with.

In the final minute of his final game with the Bulls, he tapped into his preternatural microfocus. Jordan didn’t stress over Scottie Pippen’s badly wrenched back. He didn’t fear a three-point deficit on the road with 41.9 seconds left. He didn’t fret over the 20 shots he had missed that night as the needle on his fuel gauge drifted toward “E.” He just dialed in on each moment, one after another.

The driving layup. The hatchet steal from Karl Malone. The iconic jumper.

The team’s final defensive stop.

The bliss of his last championship.

“I had faith,” Jordan told coach Phil Jackson on the court minutes after the final buzzer. “I had faith. ... Every time we were close, I knew we were going to do it.”

The Bulls were in major danger, but all Jordan could see was a path to victory. He

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Michael Jordan holds up six fingers for each Bulls championship as he addresses the Grant Park crowd on June 16, 1998.

was low on energy but full of self-confidence. He was down to his final few grains of sand in an exhausting 14-year odyssey with the Bulls. Yet he remained completely present.

Is it any coincidence that director Jason Hehir accompanied the documentary’s final scene — the one about the Bulls’ emotional coffeecan bonfire — with Pearl Jam’s “Present Tense”?

As Jackson had preached and Jordan had absorbed, the Bulls’ inevitable ending never had to become a debilitating burden. It was simply part of their collective journey, even if it arrived sooner than almost everyone wanted.

Ultimately, that final night in Utah provided a fitting end to the Bulls’ “Last Dance.”

The conquest. The uplifting celebration. The ability, in that moment, to fully appreciate the journey and all of its challenges, learning experiences, struggles and grand rewards.

But was this the way it should have ended?

Shouldn’t Jordan, Jackson and Pippen have been given the chance to chase a seventh title together?

Shouldn’t Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and general manager Jerry Krause have bent over backward to offer that opportunity? Shouldn’t they all have had giant wall art of Jordan’s quote from a year earlier, after the Bulls’ fifth championship?

“We’re entitled to defend what we have until we lose it.”

That sentiment should have played on a loop until the kings were unseated.

Alas ...

All these years later, Reinsdorf has tried to explain how the Bulls core was getting older and more expensive, how roster renovations were an immediate must.

Reinsdorf says in the documentary that “it would have been suicidal” to overpay for Pippen, Steve Kerr, Dennis Rodman and Ron Harper to stick around. The dynasty, Reinsdorf argues, wasn’t detonated.

“It just came to an end on its own,” he says.

Krause, in an excerpt from his unfinished and unpublished memoir that his family provided to K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago, stresses the team’s physical deterioration, its salary-cap

obstacles and the increased pressure that would have put on Jordan to continue being a miracle worker.

Chasing a seventh Larry O’Brien Trophy would have been more demanding than any of the previous six.

Still, Jordan deserved his final word too.

“I felt we could have won seven,” he says. “I really believe that. We may not have.

But, man, just to not be able to try, that’s something I just can’t accept. For whatever reason, I just can’t accept it.”

Ten episodes of “The Last Dance” offered a compelling reminder — or perhaps an awakening — as to how much of a struggle the Bulls’ championship pursuits often were. Especially that “Last Dance” in 1997-98. And while that realization has created a profound spike in appreciation for the team’s greatness, for Jordan’s determination and competitive brilliance, it also subtly teases the idea that a different on-court ending might have been brutally unfulfilling.

Sure, Jordan’s elite talent and self-described “win-atall-costs” mentality provided the ultimate flotation device.

His reliability under pressure was the Bulls’ unmatchable advantage. But isn’t it also fair to reason that the undertow of the physical fatigue, of the emotional struggles, of the internal tension within that team would have become too powerful at some point?

Even in a lockout-shortened 1999 season, isn’t it conceivable the Bulls would have been weighed down by an untimely injury or a Rodman meltdown or a draining squabble between Jackson and Krause? Or Pippen and Krause?

Isn’t it easy to imagine a couple of last-minute Jordan shots missing their mark?

Isn’t it fathomable that the ‘99 Bulls, even with Jordan,

could have been taken under by the Magic or Knicks or Pacers or Spurs? And doesn’t the mere idea of that threaten the sweetness of the way it actually ended on the court for Jordan and the Bulls?

As captivating as that seventh-title debate can be, perhaps it’s better to concentrate on what “The Last Dance” brought back to center stage over the past month. The interest in this epic saga was rarely about the events that weren’t but about all the moments that were, about the impressive and adversity-filled rise of a 6-foot-6 guard from North Carolina and the NBA franchise he dared to carry to incomparable heights.

Through that lens, as narrow and glorifying as it may be, perhaps it’s best to land back in that climactic moment in Utah and pause for reflection and appreciation.

That valiant final-minute mettle. That iconic jumper.

That priceless behind-thescenes footage of the subsequent hours.

The champagne showers in the locker room and Jordan’s congratulatory meeting with Leonardo DiCaprio. The unfathomable mob scene spilling out of the lobby at the Bulls hotel. The piano inside Jordan’s hotel room that he couldn’t play all that well. Yet no one seemed to care.

“Got another one in ya?”

Jordan is asked, presumably about another championship and not another offtune piano piece.

“Come on, man,” Jordan promptly replies. “It’s the moment. It’s the moment.

That Zen Buddhism (expletive). You’ve got to get in the moment and stay here. Just stay in the moment.”

It’s an understandable request. In that moment of all moments, who would ever want to leave?

Rain washes away Xfinity Series race at Darlington Field Level Media

Tuesday night’s Toyota 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway was postponed until today because of persistent rain showers in the area.

Rain initially postponed the scheduled 6 p.m. ET start, which had been moved up with hopes of avoiding inclement weather. Track and NASCAR personnel worked on drying the 1.366-mile historic oval, but the rain did not let up. The 147lap event will instead start at noon

on Thursday.

A second NASCAR Cup Series race, the Toyota 500, was still scheduled for Wednesday evening, although there was more inclement weather in the forecast.

For today’s Xfinity race, JR Motorsports driver Noah Gragson – who won the season-opening Xfinity Series race at Daytona – drew the pole position and will start alongside teammate Michael Annett.

Xfinity Series points leader Harrison Burton will start 12th alongside Stewart-Haas Racing driver Chase

Briscoe, who trails Burton by three points in the standings. This will be the Xfinity Series Darlington track debut for Burton, 20.

Reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch, who is scheduled to compete in all seven of the first NASCAR races back (at Darlington and Charlotte), will start 26th. He is the only former winner in the field.

All cars had passed inspection with no issues before Tuesday’s rain postponement was announced. Kody Vanderwal in the

No. 52 Means Motorsports Chevrolet (originally starting 21st) and Joe Graf Jr. in the No. 08 SS Green Light Racing Chevrolet (originally starting 36th) will both start from the rear of the field for unapproved adjustments.

As with the two NASCAR Cup Series races being held at Darlington this week, no qualifying nor practice sessions have been held. No fans will be in attendance, and the teams and essential NASCAR personnel are maintaining strict social distancing.

The Darlington trio of races – Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race won by Kevin Harvick, Wednesday’s second NASCAR Cup Series race and Thursday’s Xfinity race – mark the return of competition in an adjusted schedule.

Teams move to the NASCAR Charlotte hub later in the week, with four races slated for Charlotte Motor Speedway, including a pair of NASCAR Cup Series races (Sunday and May 27) and an Xfinity (Monday) and Gander RV & Outdoor Truck Series race (May 26).

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Camera captures angry man’s hourlong rant Dear Abby, A few weeks ago, my husband and I had what I thought was a minor conflict, from which I walked away to avoid escalation. I could hear him continuing to rant, so I pulled up the security camera on my phone DEAR ABBY and watched and listened as he continued to say horrible things for an hour or more. He called me a disgusting blob, said there is nothing appealing about me, and I should go out in the yard and kill myself just like my father did.

The words were so painful that I began to sob uncontrollably and screamed in anguish.

He never came to console me. In fact, he told me to “shut up.” I’m not a crier, typically, so his blatant disregard for the effect his words had on me raises another level of concern.

We have since discussed the event, and his first defense was to say he didn’t know I could hear him. Meanwhile, I have to live with the fact that I’m married to a man who has such a low opinion of me that he thinks I should kill myself.

I have no family, and I’m hesitant to upend a life that is finally stable after a chaotic childhood and early adulthood. My husband isn’t typically abusive, but this incident has me questioning everything. We have been together for 22 years and married for nearly 16 with no children. What are your thoughts?

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My first thought is that you and your husband need to find a healthier way to deal with your “conflicts” than your walking out on him, and him saying nasty things into a camera knowing full well he might be heard. If your definition of stability is tolerating further verbal abuse, then you are — and will be — paying a high price for it.

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I sincerely hope the two of you will try to iron out your differences with the help of a licensed marriage and family therapist. After all the years you have invested in each other, it’s worth a shot.

Dear Abby, My husband and I married 20 years ago. He never proposed; he just came home one day from boot camp and said, “We need to get married tomorrow so that I can get paid more,” and we did. I regret that day. It wasn’t what I wanted, and it meant nothing to me.

Since then, so much has happened. He cheated on me while he was in the service, and had PTSD to the point where he tried to kill himself, among other things.

We are now in a happy place and have two awesome kids. I would like to redo our wedding day and for him to propose to me. The problem is, he isn’t ready. He said he hasn’t done it because we have had more lows than highs. He said he will eventually, when he feels the time is right.

My feelings are hurt, and now I’m questioning why I am still here. I have stuck by his side for 20 years, through thick and thin.

I deserve that and much more. I’m not asking for anything over the top. Do you think I’m overreacting, or should I finally move on?

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A tear in artery leaves behind headaches, vertigo and pain Our 44-year-old daughter had an event called VAD, vertebral artery dissection — a tear in an inner artery — which has turned her life upside down. She was very fortunate to have been seen by an emergency room doctor who had heard of VAD and immediately put her on aspirin and Plavix to try to TO YOUR prevent a stroke. The pain was GOOD HEALTH a level 9 out of 10 for the first two weeks, presenting itself as a dagger in her left temple.

She did have a small stroke, which has triggered continuing vertigo. Her neurologist is excellent; however, the prognosis is unknown for the healing of the tear and the relief from the vertigo. Her base headache is a 2-3 with occasional bouts of an 8-9 pain level six weeks later.

What do you know about this frightening malady? Her tear was most likely caused by coughing at the end of a mild case of pneumonia.

DR. KEITH ROACH

Vertebral artery dissections are not common, happening in less than 1 in 100,000 people per year. The initial symptoms can be nonspecific (usually head or neck pain), but sometimes

there are more-specific findings a skilled examiner can recognize. Your daughter’s ER doctor has earned your respect.

Stroke is common, even when treated with anti-platelet drugs such as aspirin and clopidogrel (Plavix). Even minor trauma, such as sports or coughing and sneezing, may trigger the dissection, where blood forces its way between two layers of the blood vessel wall.

The prognosis is generally very good for people with vertebral artery dissection, and depends mainly on the size of the stroke. Given the small stroke for your daughter, it’s likely she will have a good outcome. As many as 90% of people with vertebral artery dissection had an excellent outcome, most with complete resolution of symptoms.

Most authorities advise against contact sports and chiropractic manipulation of the neck after an artery dissection. In addition, she should not take estrogen, such as birth control pills or hormone replacement; estrogen can affect the arterial wall.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Any attempt at disguising what you really think or feel is likely to fall short today — and reveal even more than you’re trying to hide.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You can change the way you feel about your immediate environment by choosing to do something routine in a new way. Soon you’re on your way!

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are never more content than when you are challenging your own boundaries, mental and physical, as well as those of the people around you. You cannot abide the status quo, and will do all you can to shake things up and make changes to routine life — on a daily basis, if you can swing it. You have been endowed with a tremendous intellect and the ability to conceptualize almost any idea in a manner that allows you to communicate it effectively to others.

You are quick to fall in love and quick to commit to the object of your love — but those feelings are not always requited. Indeed, though there are many who may want to enjoy an unbridled weekend with you, not everyone wants to go “all in” with you. This is something that gives you pause, surely — but you can rest assured that your true love is out there.

Also born on this date are: The Notorious B.I.G., rapper; Mr. T, actor; Raymond Burr, actor; Fats Waller, musician; Lisa Edelstein, actress; Leo Sayer, singer; Al Franken, comedian and politician; Henri Rousseau, artist.

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

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Baby Blues LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll have a decision to make today, and in being true to yourself, you may have to disappoint a friend. Recovery can be quick and complete.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — The plan you’re working on is coming together, but today you may suffer a sudden setback when you reveal a bit too much prematurely.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’ll want to be sure that all you are doing is in service of something bigger than yourself. Form and function can be combined.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — When faced with a problem, you should be able to acquit yourself today by remembering where you came from — and where you’re going.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — A conflict arises today when you are unwilling to compromise on a matter of personal taste. Is this issue really all that important?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Use your time well today and you can do more than you have even planned on — despite someone’s unexpected intrusion. Stay the course!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Your original idea for the day may have to be abandoned when someone tosses the unexpected into the mix. You can get used to this, surely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can demonstrate both strength and sensitivity today as you deal with someone who is ill prepared for what he or she is going through.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Focus on the here and now and you’ll surely be released of any issues.

If you get lost in the past, your future is likely to suffer significantly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’re in no mood to be hemmed in today and surely won’t respond well when someone tries to lay down the law — and it’s very likely to happen.

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B8 Thursday, May 21, 2020 Close to Home

SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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Yesterday’s

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

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

Mythical beasts Level 1

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Identify the mythical beast. (e.g., Half man and half goat. Answer: Faun.)

Freshman level 1. Half man and half horse.

2. Head of a bull and the body of a man.

3. Giant with one eye in the middle of his forehead.

Graduate level 4. A lion’s body with a human head.

5. A bird reincarnated from its own ashes.

6. An equine creature with a long horn growing from its forehead.

PH.D. level 7. A winged monster with an eagle-like head and body of a lion.

8. A three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades.

9. A bird with the head and trunk of a woman.

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

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: FIFTH BEGAN SUNTAN DREDGE Answer: The paramedic was trained to use a defibrillator and could use one — IN A HEARTBEAT

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Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Centaur. 2. Minotaur. 3. Cyclops. 4. Sphinx. 5. Phoenix. 6. Unicorn. 7.

Griffin. 8. Cerberus. 9. Harpy.

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Slangy reply 5 Actress Debi __ 10 Artificial; counterfeit 14 “Yours, Mine & __”; Dennis Quaid film 15 Astaire’s dancing sister 16 Actor Rob __ 17 Traffic sign 18 Rams’ home 20 19th letter 21 Unwanted growth 22 Pays attention to 23 Steer clear of 25 Gullible fool 26 Appease 28 Actor Ted 31 Grown-up 32 Amphitheater 34 Girl’s short haircut 36 Cracker spread 37 Move furtively 38 Sheet of floating ice 39 Long __; in the distant past 40 Bookcase tier 41 Armed robbery 42 Prior to today 44 Mournful hymns 45 Fishing pole 46 “Wheel of Fortune” personality 47 Pulsate 50 Fuzzy residue 51 Heavy weight 54 Willful; stubborn 57 Slim to __; long odds 58 Very strong desire 59 1/16 of a pound 60 Make tea 61 Departs 62 One of the 7 deadly sins 63 Usually benign growth DOWN 1 Snout 2 On the __ with; not speaking to 3 Defense attorney’s adversary 4 Uncanny sense

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5 Illness 6 Venerate 7 Eagerness 8 So. state 9 Cartoon dog 10 Gets some shuteye 11 Donut’s center 12 Flabbergasted 13 TV’s “Bless This __” 19 African nation 21 Float on the breeze 24 Contemptible 25 Was unable to float 26 Piggyback ride giver 27 Old saying 28 Lacking 1 of the 5 senses 29 Mandatory; required 30 Adjustable loop 32 Once more 33 Cath. or Episc.

35 Plays the horses 37 Opposite of barefoot 38 Bouquet greenery

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Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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40 Hoity-toity folks 41 Suggestion 43 Crumbles over time 44 Hazard 46 Lombardi or Edwards 47 Hoodlum 48 Main character in a story

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49 All the __; currently “in” 50 Yearn 52 Individuals 53 Mr. Gingrich 55 “Ode __ Nightingale” 56 Gallop 57 “Will & Grace” network

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