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—GOOD MORNING Thursday, June 4, 2020 | gainesvilletimes.com LOTTERY I Drawings for Wednesday, June 3, 2020 CASH 3 Midday: 8-3-0 Evening: 2-8-3 CASH 4 Midday: 4-5-4-3 Evening: 1-2-0-1 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 1 -8-6-5-9 Evening: 3-8-5-9-9 Previous days’ drawings FANTASY FIVE (6/2) 5-16-20-38-39 POWERBALL (5/30) 13-32-41 -58-60 Power Ball: 14 Current jackpot: $135M MEGA MILLIONS (6/2) 9-20-23-26-29 Mega Ball: 8 Current jackpot: $378M Lottery numbers are unofficial. The Georgia Lottery Corp.: 404-215-5000. LET’S SAVE TOURISM Don’t cancel your trip. M: Change the dates. ffldtedfcfid ■ ICONVENTION ^VISITORS BUREAU\. ExploreGainesville.org is #TourismStrong CELEBRIS REPORT Judge gives control of Joe Exotic’s zoo to rival Baskin WYNNEWOOD, Okla. - A federal judge in Oklahoma has awarded ownership of the zoo made famous in Netflix’s “Tiger King” docuseries to Joe Exotic’s chief rival. In a ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Scott Palk granted control of the Oklahoma zoo that was previously run by Joseph Maldonado-Passage — also known as Joe Exotic — to Big Cat Rescue Corp. Maldonado- The Florida group was Passage founded by Carole Baskin, who also featured promi nently in the hit Netflix series. Maldonado- Passage is currently serving a 22-year federal prison term for killing five tigers and plotting to have Baskin killed. Baskin previously sued Maldonado-Pas sage for trademark and copyright infringe ments and won a $1 million civil judgment against him. Palk’s judgment Monday found that ownership of the zoo was fraudulently transferred to Maldonado-Passage’s mother in an attempt to avoid paying the judgment. The decision said the zoo animals must be removed from the property within 120 days but it does not detail what should happen to them. Attorneys representing Big Cat Rescue Corp. did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Maldonado-Passage remains incarcer ated in Fort Worth, Texas. In a handwrit ten letter posted Monday on Twitter, he repeated his plea for a presidential pardon. Cinema chain AMC warns it may not survive the pandemic Movie theater chain AMC warned Wednesday that it may not survive the coro- navirus pandemic, which has shuttered its theaters and led film studios to explore releasing more movies directly to viewers over the internet. All of AMC’s theaters are shut down through June, which means the company isn’t generating any revenue. AMC said it had enough cash to reopen its theaters this summer, as it plans to do. But if it’s not allowed to reopen, it will need more money, which it may not be able to borrow. The company said that even when local governments allow theaters to reopen, AMC may still have problems if entertainment companies delay releasing new films. “Due to these factors, substantial doubt exists about our ability to continue as a going concern for a reasonable period of time,” AMC wrote in a regulatory filing. And people may not want to go sit in crowded spaces because they fear the virus. AMC believes that desire for social distanc ing is temporary and that people will want to go to the movies again. Apart from the pandemic and its economic aftershocks, the movie business in the U.S. and Canada has benefited from rising ticket prices, but admissions have been gradually declining since 2005. Sequels, remakes and superhero movies dominate the box office. Meanwhile, the rise of streaming services — Netflix and a growing stable of rivals — is providing new competition. 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For our digital subscription offerings, go to gainesvilletimes.com/subscribe Injured dancer feels like shes lost her identity Dear Carolyn: Until last year, I was a professional ballet dancer. Dancing is all I ever wanted to do and I trained nonstop since I was 6.1 got into a great program and as soon as I graduated, I was one of the lucky few who got a job onstage. Last year, I fell — not while dancing — and badly fractured my leg. There were complications and it was a long, slow battle. I’m finally better and it looks like I’ll dance again, but doctors have said I will not have the stamina to dance professionally, not now, probably not ever. I’m devastated. I don’t know who I am, if I’m not a dancer. People keep suggesting I can teach, but I don’t have the temperament and don’t really like children and don’t have the experience or reputation to draw older students. I need to figure out what to do with my life but I just want to curl up and cry. My savings are gone due to medical bills, and my boyfriend and friends are all danc ers. Everyone kept telling me things would get better, but they’ve gotten worse. I can’t tell my family since they all just want so much for me to be OK that I pretend I am. But I’m not. What do I do? — Lost This sounds devastating, I’m sorry. But not hopeless. “Doctors have said” is not the same thing as a certainty. If you want this, then Plan A is to go get it. You’ll need a Plan B only if Plan A proves impossible. But work on one anyway, because there was always going to be an “after” for your dance career to some degree — and you can think through one even as you train. I also urge you not to reject so many pos sible Plan B’s out of hand. Can’t teach, don’t like kids, can’t get adult students... these are the “nopes” of someone who hasn’t yet tried. As I say to my kids (who I am sure never want to hear this again): Don’t cut yourself before you even try out. You are also an artist, from the inside out. That inside hasn’t changed. And when the business of dance returns to stages, it will be the end product of multiple career paths, not just dancing — from choreog raphy to philanthropy to physical therapy. Widen your scope. Again, just in case. You also say your people aren’t available to you as support, but withdrawing from them (preemptively?) is not the answer. The answer is to do the extra work to engage. To isolate yourself in your negative feelings is potentially dangerous to your mental health. What your family wants is for you to be well, not to get sicker from pretending you’re well. On this medical journey, were you ever evaluated for depression? It could explain your sense of hopelessness. Even if what you’re feeling isn’t depres sion, there’s still a cloud around your think ing. You have life left, you have spirit, you have value. You just don’t know yet where you’ll take them. That’s scary but also nor mal; it takes time to see all the ways to take who you still are and put this person — who is injured, not erased — on a rewarding new path. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1812, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Terri tory, to avoid confusion with the recently admitted state of Loui siana. The U.S. House of Representatives approved, 79-49, a declaration of war against Britain. In 1919, Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizens the right to vote regardless of their gender, and sent it to the states for ratification. In 1940, during World War II, the Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ended. In 1942, the World War II Battle of Midway began, resulting in a decisive American victory against Japan and marking the turning point of the war in the Pacific. In 1944, U-505, a German submarine, was captured by a U.S. Navy task group in the south Atlantic; it was the first such cap ture of an enemy vessel at sea by the U.S. Navy since the War of 1812. The U.S. Fifth Army began liberating Rome. In 1972, a jury in San Jose, California, acquitted radical activist Angela Davis of murder and kidnapping for her alleged connec tion to a deadly courthouse shootout in Marin County in 1970. In 1985, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling striking down an Alabama law providing for a daily minute of silence in public schools. In 1998, a federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in prison for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. BIRTHDAYS Sex therapist and me dia personality Dr. Ruth Westhejmer is 92. Actor Bruce Dern is 84. Musi cian Roger Ball is 76. Actress-singer Michelle Phillips is 76. Jazz musi cian Anthony Braxton is 75. Rock musician Danny Brown (The Fixx) is 69. Actor Parker Ste venson is 68. Actor Keith David is 64. Blues singer- musician Tinsley Ellis is 63. Actress Julie Gholson is 62. Actor Eddie Velez is 62. Singer-musician El DeBarge is 59. Actress Julie White is 59. Former tennis player Andrea Jae ger is 55. Rhythm and blues singer AIB. Sure! is 52. Actor Scott Wolf is 52. Actor-comedian Rob Huebel is 51. Comedian Horatio Sanz is 51. Actor- comedian Russell Brand is 45. Actress Angelina Jolieis45. Actor Theo Rossi is 45. Rock musi cian Zac Farro is 30. TODAY IN HISTORY PHOTO CC I Associated Press Equal Rigths Amendment demonstrator Mary Whitmore of Seattle, Wash., encourages friends who have chained themselves to the brass rail outside the Illinois Senate chambers in Springfield, June 4,1982. Whitmore was reading a press account of an ERA bill being tabled in North Carolina on that day. These demonstrators spent the night at the Capitol and plan to stay until authorities make them leave. | The calendar of events will return at a later date. HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21-April 19). There is a symbiosis between the superhero and the su pervillain, friend and enemy, predator and prey. You have a healthy respect for the op ponent who gives you the chance to be as sharp as you can be. TAURUS (April 2D-May 20). The science shows that daily cardio can be as effective an anti-depressant as some types of prescriptive medi cine. Relatedly, you’ll solve a problem with a low-cost, low- risk, totally natural remedy. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Job descriptions are just constructs used to attract the right applicants. The real job is to do what it takes to get a result. Whether a task is tech nically your job or not may be irrelevant to the big picture of what needs doing. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your quiet confidence comes as a result of the kindness at the bedrock of your character. You’re kind on purpose, on accident, without reason, without warning; you’re kind in theory and in practice. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll revel in your freedom. Being left alone to live as you like without being nagged, judged or subjected to the whims of authority is the perk of adult hood you cherish. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It is safe to assume today’s work will come easily to you. This cosmic offer is only good for the next 24 hours though. What’s coming won’t be harder; it will just be better approached without assump tions. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). You become like the people around you and this is why you’re pretty choosy about whom you allow to the inner circle, or, for that matter, any concentric circle of which you are the center. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You know the sensation you get when you look back on old photos and realize that a lot of your concerns back then were needless? Be happy now. Cast worry aside. Trust time. It will handle so much for you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your cosmic gift of the day is a clear demarcation on the point of diminishing re turns. This prevents you from unnecessary work and frees you to focus on what matters most to you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Judges get paid to judge. Why should those who aren’t judges do this for free? You refuse to concern yourself with matters that do not di rectly concern you. It takes less energy to live and let live. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The rules and boundaries are not as ambiguous as they would appear. What they are is undiscovered. You can find them by asking, researching or crossing them. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You want what’s best for all. You prefer to use subtle tac tics like charm, friendliness and reward to incentivize people toward your aims. In the rare case that doesn’t work, right is might.
