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—GOOD MORNING Thursday, August 20, 2020 | gainesvilletimes.com LOTTERY I Drawings for Wednesday, August 19, 2020 CASH 3 Midday: 8-0-7 Evening: 7-1-9 CASH 4 Midday: 4-0-5-2 Evening: 3-7-5-4 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 8-2-9-1-4 Evening: 4-4-5-3-1 Previous days’ drawings FANTASY FIVE (8/18) 7-14-28-34-38 POWERBALL (8/15) 5-12-34-45-56 Power Ball: 3 Current jackpot: $22M MEGA MILLIONS (8/18) 4-18-26-27-58 Mega Ball: 23 Current jackpot: $49M Lottery numbers are unofficial. The Georgia Lottery Corp.: 404-215-5000. LET’S SAVE TOURISM Don’t cancel your trip. M Change the dates. ExploreGainesville.org is #TourismStrong LY\TEST COVID-19 DATA Aug. 19 NGHS data Aug. 19 DPH data for Hall County Total C0VID-19 patients: 111 Total cases: 6,687 Gainesville C0VID-19 patients: 79 Cases per 100k: 3,240.63 Braselton COVID-19 patients: 26 Deaths: 105 Total discharged: 1,837 Hospitalizations: 793 Total deaths: 228 Percent positive tests in last 2 weeks: 11.6% My boyfriend’s always off helping a friend in need Dear Carolyn: When I started dating “Tim,” my friends were very excited. I don’t usually date, especially long-term. Tim is a great guy, really nice, very funny and endlessly sweet. He constantly overextends himself, drives hours out of his way after work to help a friend and, because of this, has a hard time keeping plans. I have no doubts about our relationship. None of this bothers me. It inspires me to become a better person and help others. However, my friends think I’m being strung along, mistreated, overlooked and ignored. Some have met Tim and are charmed by him. Others are bris tly when I even bring up his name. It both ers me that my friends can’t just be happy for me. I’ve always been wildly indepen dent, without a need for a man constantly around, and it truly does not bother me that Tim is busy lending a hand, even if it’s at the expense of our alone time. I guess I’m asking, where is the line between helping someone else and mis treating your girlfriend? — Girlfriend Are you ever on the receiving end of Tim’s big acts of generosity? Or are you the dependable uncomplaining source of stability as he freewheels so freely? Regardless, are you thrilled to be the part of Tim’s life he possibly takes for granted as he seeks... whatever he seeks? of stability” sounds like a role I’d be crazy comfortable in. But then I do have the emotional needs of a cactus. I could see myself with some lab scientist who constantly loses track of time so I could just leave a bagged lunch outside their door. — Cactus Re: Tim: I was married to “Tim.” My Tim needed to be “the hero,” the guy everyone (but I) could count on. Needed for everyone (but me) to see him as “such a great guy. ” I am also highly independent and didn’t need Tim — wanted him, yes, but needed, no. When my Tim said to me, in front of our marriage counselor, “I mar ried you, what else do you want,” I knew we were done. My Tim had very narcis sistic traits. Really examine your Tim’s motives. — Tim’s Ex Re: Tim: Can you count on Tim to be there, pres ent, for The Big Stuff? When my mother got Alzheimer’s, one of the first things my husband said was, “You know I’ve got your back and so have my family.” This made me cry. It’s one thing for Tim to call saying he’s not coming ‘round that night, helping a friend instead. It’s another thing if he doesn’t put you first when the big stuff hits. — First CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com Re: Tim: Chat with Carolyn online at noon each “Dependable uncomplaining source Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. CELEBRITY REPORT Singer Spears asks court to curb father’s power over her Britney Spears on Tuesday asked a court to keep her father from reasserting the broad control over her life and career that he has had for most of the past 12 years. In documents filed by her court-appointed lawyer that give a rare public airing to the wishes of the 38-year-old pop superstar, she asked that her father not return to the role of conservator of her person, which gave him power over her major life decisions from 2008 until 2019, when he temporarily stepped aside, citing health problems. “Britney is strongly opposed to James return as conservator of her person,” the document says. James Spears has kept his separate role as conservator over his daughter’s finances. For the first 11 years of the conservatorship, he served as co-conservator with attorney Andrew M. Wallet, who resigned from the role early last year. That briefly left James Spears with sole power over Britney Spears’ life, money and career, a situation she says she very much wants to avoid repeating. An email seeking comment from James Spears’ attorney was not immediately returned. Spears says she wants Jodi Montgomery, who has been serving as conservator of her person temporarily, to do so permanently, but she says that doesn’t mean she is waiv ing her right to seek an end to the entire arrangement. The documents also reveal that Britney Spears has no plans to perform again any time soon. She last performed live in October 2018, and early in 2019, canceled a planned Las Vegas residency. The filing gave a rare glimpse at Britney Spears’ own wishes in the conservatorship that has had vast power over her for over a decade. She has almost never spoken pub licly about the matter, and court hearings and documents in the case are cloaked in secrecy, though last year she addressed the court at her request, suggesting she was seek ing changes. In the papers, Britney Spears praises the conservatorship and its work overall, saying it “rescued her from a collapse, exploitation by predatory individuals and financial ruin” and that it made her “able to regain her posi tion as a world class entertainer.” The document was filed a day before a sta tus hearing on the conservatorship, expected to be closed to the media and public. Britney Spears’ attorney said that he expects James Spears will aggressively con test being marginalized, and said that Britney Spears has suggested they retain a lawyer with expertise in complex financial court fights. The conservatorship, known in some states as a guardianship, gave James Spears power over his daughter’s career choices and much of her personal life, including her relationship with her teenage sons. Spears’ ex-husband Kevin Federline has custody of the boys, but she has frequent visits with them. Associated Press 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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Find us on these platforms or reach out to our newsroom at news@ gainesvilletimes.com or 770-718-3435. /gainesvilletimes « @gtimes @gtimesnews TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1862, the New York Tribune published an open letter by editor Hor ace Greeley calling on President Abraham Lincoln to take more ag gressive measures to free the slaves and end the South’s rebellion. In 1940, exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was as sassinated in Coyoacan, Mexico by Ramon Mercader, a Spanish Communist agent working at the behest of Josef Stalin. (Trotsky died the next day.) In 1953, the Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb. In 1955, hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Op portunity Act, a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure. In 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberaliza tion drive. In 1981, Michael Devine, a member of the Irish National Liberation Army, died after a 60-day hunger strike at the Maze Prison in North ern Ireland; he was the tenth and last hunger-striker to die that year. In 1986, postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill went on a deadly rampage at a post office in Edmond, Okla., shooting 14 fellow workers to death before killing himself. In 1989, entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife, Kitty, were shot to death in their Beverly Hills mansion by their sons, Lyle and Erik. Fifty-one people died when a pleasure boat sank in the River Thames in London after colliding with a dredger. In 2005, San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Thomas Herrion, 23, died of a heart attack shortly after a preseason game against the Denver Broncos. In 2008, a Spanish jetliner crashed during takeoff from Madrid, killing 154 people; 18 survived. BIRTHDAYS Writer-producer-director Walter Bernstein is 101. Boxing promoter Don King is 89. Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is 85. Former MLB All- Star Graig Nettles is 76. Broadcast journalist Con nie Chung is 74. Musician Jimmy Pankow (Chicago) is 73. Actor John Noble is 72. Rock singer Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) is 72. Country singer Rudy Gatlin is 68. Singer- songwriter John Hiatt is 68. Actor-director Peter Horton is 67. TV weather man Al Roker is 66. Actor Joan Allen is 64. Movie director David 0. Rus sell is 62. Actor Janies Marsters is 58. Rapper KRS-One is 55. Actor Colin Cunningham is 54. Actor Billy Gardell is 51. Rock singer Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) is 50. Actor Jona than Ke Quan is 50. Rock musician Brad Avery is 49. Rock singer Monique Powell (Save Ferris) is 45. Jazz/pop singer-pianist Jamie Cullum is 41. Actor Ben Barnes is 39. Actor Meghan Ory is 38. 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You thought you were done and wouldn’t return to it, but this business is, apparently, un finished. Otherwise, it wouldn’t keep calling you back. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Today, you’ll tidy up a mess in your personal life. Don’t have a messy personal life? Consider adding more love to it. Love is, essentially, messy. All the best things in life are. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Modern society’s overempha sis on identity is as common as it is problematic. It’s useful to know what you want and what you like, but that shouldn’t be confused with who you are. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). It’s hard to notice any particular thing in a cluttered environ ment. But whatever you drop into a blank space will get all the attention. This is why you clear your mind before con centrating on what you love. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re not sure what you owe those around you. You’re not sure where you end and they begin. That you are willing to delve into such maddening questions is evidence of your evolved soul. None of us stand alone. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You care deeply about an idea and will work to bring it into the real world. Because you cannot give this same treatment to every idea, you’ll also be letting go of ideas you don’t think are very action able. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s a day to celebrate. Celebrate small and privately, celebrate on-blast, celebrate for obvious reasons and for no reason at all. What’s cel ebrated will grow. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). “Tell me something good,” sang Rufus, and Chaka Khan followed up with what has got to be top-of-list for most peo ple, which is to say: “Tell me that you love me.” Don’t hold out with your heart. Express. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll have strong feelings. Don’t try and stop them; rather, you’ll do well to direct them, for instance into work, sports or creative expression. Even anger can be made into something beautiful, powerful and rousing.
