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—GOOD MORNING Thursday, July 16, 2020 | gainesvilletimes.com LOTTERY CASH 3 Midday: 6-3-6 Evening: 1 -5-5 Drawings for Wednesday, July 15, 2020 CASH 4 Midday: 0-0-8-3 Evening: 3-6-3-3 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 6-7-3-6-9 Evening: 7-1-3-5-7 Previous days’ drawings FANTASY FIVE (7/14) 1-15-20-21-33 POWERBALL (7/11) 14-19-61 -62-64 Power Ball: 4 Current jackpot: $87M MEGA MILLIONS (7/14) 6-26-55-56-64 Mega Ball: 22 Current jackpot: $101M Lottery numbers are unofficial. The Georgia Lottery Corp.: 404-215-5000. DowntownGainesville.com lib social distance social cJ Main Join us in Historic Downtown Gainesville on Saturday, July 18, 11 a.m. -10 p.m. Two sides of the square will be closed for s l rcGt ... jainesville pedestrian friendly shopping and sidewalk sales, and expanded outdoor seating for dining and park picnics. CELEBRITY REPORT ViacomCBS cuts ties with Cannon, cites ‘hateful speech’ Nick Cannon’s “hateful speech” and anti- Semitic theories led ViacomCBS to cut ties with the TV host and producer, the media giant said. “ViacomCBS condemns bigotry of any kind and we categorically denounce all forms of anti-Semitism,” the company said in a statement Tuesday. It is terminating its relationship with Cannon, ViacomCBS said. The company’s move was in response to remarks made by Can non on a podcast in which he and Richard “Professor Griff” Griffith, the former Pub lic Enemy member, discussed racial bias. The podcast was recorded in May 2019 and released on June 30. “We have spoken with Nick Cannon about an episode of his podcast ‘Cannon’s Class’ on YouTube, which promoted hateful speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theo ries,” ViacomCBS said. “While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we are terminating our relationship with him,” the company said. Cannon produced “Wild ‘n Out,” a com edy improv series for VH1, a ViacomCBS- owned cable channel. He’s been a regular part of TV shows unconnected to the com pany, including as the former host of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and host of Fox’s “The Masked Singer.” He wrote in a lengthy Facebook post Wednesday that he was “deeply saddened” by his firing and accused the company of using his remarks to try to silence “an out spoken black man. “I will not be bullied, silenced, or continu ously oppressed by any organization, group, or corporation,” Cannon said, adding that he was seeking full ownership of “Wild ‘n Out.” “Systemic racism is what this world was built on and was the subject in which I was attempting to highlight in the recent clips that have been circulating from my pod cast,” Cannon said. “If I have furthered the hate speech, I wholeheartedly apologize.” He also, however, demanded an apology from Viacom-CBS, a brand he noted he’s worked with for more than 20 years. Fox also didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Fallon, ‘Tonight’ show return to studio, sans audience The studio is largely empty, but Jimmy Fallon is out of his home and back to the “Tonight” show stage. The NBC late-night host returned to NBC’s Rockefeller Center headquarters Monday, saying he hoped he could provide his audi ence with a little more “normal” during the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m here to show you that there is a light at the end of the tunnel if we keep each other safe,” Fallon said. Fallon, along with other late-night hosts, have been working remotely the past few months of months. The coronavirus pandemic shutdown TV and film production in March for safety reasons. New York has slowly been reopening as other parts of the country are now feeling the full effects of the pandemic. He began his show with a filmed piece showing him “walking” to work, pulling down his mask so a Rockefeller Center secu rity guard knew he was indeed an employee. His backup band, the Roots, were in place. Studio crew members wore face shields and masks. Everyone there had tested negative for COVID-19, he said. There was no audience. Representatives for Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Trevor Noah both said plans were in the works to return to studios but put no timetable on it. Associated Press Cannon ABOUT US AND OUR VALUES The public has a right to know, and The Times is dedicated to that principle and the “continued enlightenment and freedom of the people of North Georgia,” as engraved outside our building. The pursuit of truth is a fundamental principle of journalism. But the truth is not always apparent or known immediately. A professional journalist’s role is to report as completely and impartially as possible verifiable facts so readers can, based on their own knowledge and experience, determine what they believe to be the truth. 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For our digital subscription offerings, go to gainesvilletimes.com/subscribe Hard to watch daughter see her dads indifference Hi, Carolyn: My daughter’s father is from a foreign country where he is back now as a tour ist “driver.” I have taken her to see him several times in the last decade and every time he spends less time with her. I could hire him as our driver, but I refuse to do that. He should want to spend as much time with her as possible. I want to tell him if he wants to see her again, then he needs to come here, which I would pay for. I know my daughter would be crushed if I told her we are not going back to see her dad. She does not seem to let his indiffer ence bother her and she says she loves him all the time. How do I handle this? — Bothered It’s painful to watch your kid be ignored by someone who “should” care. With “should” being, as always, the most use less word in our language when it comes to planning and decision-making. But as painful as it is, here’s a reason to visit: If you stop, then he likely won’t come — right? — and therefore your daughter will associate his absence with your decision. If instead you keep visiting, then your daughter will be able to connect any estrangement with his behavior, to which she can respond directly. Plus, telling her she can’t go is a big change for her to process at once — whereas a series of less and less reward ing visits will educate her incrementally, as she is also growing up and developing emotional resilience. I understand your impulse to correct her unrealistic view of her dad, because, again, it’s hard to watch her get hurt. But reality itself will be a better messen ger than a mom (yes?) who’s losing her patience — if for no other rea son than letting reality handle it allows you not to put your own bond with your kid on the line. Re: Father: My goddaughter used to say she loved her dad all the time. She visited him for two weeks a year, and every year, he’d hire a babysitter to take care of her not only while he worked, but in the evenings when he dined out and came home in time to say good-night. The other adults in her life really struggled with whether to let her keep visiting, but he was dying, and she kept saying how much she loved him. Come to find out she was saying that to keep us from knowing how hurt she was by the way he treated her. But when I ask her if we should have stopped the visits, she says no, because he was the dad she had and she needed to work it out for her self. Which she did, eventually. Keep taking your daughter to see her father and be there for her as she figures out what she probably already knows: He’s not the father she wishes she had. But he’s the father she does have, and she needs to come to grips with that in her own way. The best we can do for kids with an unsatisfactory parent is, I think, to love them through it all, and never, ever, ever make them choose. — Anonymous Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1557, Anne of Cleves, who was briefly the fourth wife of Eng land’s King Henry VIII, died in London at age 41. In 1790, a site along the Potomac River was designated the per manent seat of the United States government; the area became Washington, D.C. In 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico; the same day, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis left Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California on a secret mission to deliver atomic bomb components to Tinian Island in the Marianas. In 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. In 1973, during the Senate Watergate hearings, former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon’s secret taping system. In 1994, the first of 21 pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter, to the joy of astronomers awaiting the celestial fireworks. In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when their single-engine plane, piloted by Kennedy, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. In 2004, Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement by a federal judge in New York for lying about a stock sale. BIRTHDAYS Soul singer William Bell is 81. International Ten nis Hall of Famer Marga ret Court is 78. College Football Hall of Famer and football coach Jimmy Johnson is 77. Violinist Pinchas Zuker- man is 72. Actor-singer Ruben Blades is 72. Rock composer-musician Stewart Copeland is 68. Playwright Tony Kushner is 64. Actress Faye Grant is 63. Dancer Michael Flatley is 62. Actress Phoebe Cates is 57. Ac tor Paul Hipp is 57. Actor Daryl “Chill” Mitchell is 55. Actor-comedian Will Ferrell is 53. Actor Jonathan Adams is 53. College and Pro Foot ball Hall of Famer Barry Sanders is 52. Actress Rain Pryor is 51. Actor Corey Feldman is 49. Rock musician Ed Kow- alczyk (Live) is 49. Pop singer-musician Luke Hemmings is 24. TODAY IN HISTORY PHOTO CHARLES KELLY I Associated Press Aerialist Karl Wallenda makes a short walk at Tallulah Falls, Ga. on July 16, 1970 on the large cable he plans to use in his 1,000-foot walk on Saturday across Tallulah Gorge at a point where it is 700 feet deep. It was Wallenda’s first walk on the cable and his wife told newsmen she was agitated by its lateral swing. | The calendar of events will return at a later date, HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21-April 19). You think that other people are helping you, but what’s really helping is your out standing attitude, which they find irresistible. You’re fun to give things to — money, help, attention — and so you’ll get yourfill. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Inspired by the people around you, you’ll learn something new to please or entertain them. Everything beautiful in the day comes from your desire to make other people smile. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). With certain demands, it’s best just to give into them without fanfare. Letting the other person win doesn’t mean you lose. You’ll be at the service of others, and yet, it is you who will be served the most. CANCER (June 22-July 22). New friends have the poten tial to powerfully affect your life. A gesture of goodwill is in order. You never quite know how you’ll be received, and that risk is what makes the exchange meaningful. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Life is not fair by human standards, but you’ll get the feeling that there’s some other standard in effect today as disparate elements come together in a beautiful balance you would not have predicted. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll come to a point in which you really don’t know what to do next. Don’t fret; any move will do. Once you’re in motion, you’ll fall into the groove that eventually leads to the next move. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). Whether you have a knack for today’s task or not mat ters very little. Action teaches you and allows your natural talents to emerge at the same time, if you have them. And if you don’t — well, the deed will get done either way. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You don’t have to be involved in a grand effort or lofty project to make a difference. Simple acts of kindness and the warmth that emanates from you has impact beyond what you know. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Rituals assist and power you. Doing the same thing over and over is a kind of magic spell. There’s an aim you’d like to accomplish and it’s time to develop some re peatable daily actions to help you get there. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You (and everyone you know) are vulnerable to distraction. Each time your attention goes to something other than what you meant to be doing, it costs you. Take preventative measures to stay on track. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Lateral moves are seldom painful but the rewards they offer will be mild to say the least. More often than not, the way forward is through discomfort. Your willingness to endure it allows for your blossoming. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If you want to hook into a new habit, figure out what’s in it for you and what feels good about it. Otherwise, you’ll be pushing and struggling and it will be impossible to keep up the willpower for very long.
