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—GOOD MORNING Friday, August 28, 2020 | gainesvilletimes.com LOTTERY I Drawings for Thursday, August 27, 2020 CASH 3 Midday: 8-0-6 Evening: 8-9-8 CASH 4 Midday: 0-1-1-3 Evening: 9-0-9-1 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 9-0-9-1 -9 Evening: 3-2-8-2-7 Previous days’ drawings FANTASY FIVE (8/26) 8-9-21-28-29 POWERBALL (8/26) 8-12-19-47-58 Power Ball: 2 Current jackpot: $47M MEGA MILLIONS (8/25) 8-10-15-17-57 Mega Ball: 12 Current jackpot: $68 M 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 LV\TEST COVID-19 DATA Aug. 27 NGHS data Aug. 27 DPH data for Hall County Total COVID-19 patients: 123 Total cases: 7,365 Gainesville COVID-19 patients: 87 Cases per 100k: 3,569.2 Braselton COVID-19 patients: 23 Deaths: 120 Total discharged: 1,934 Hospitalizations: 829 Total deaths: 249 Percent positive tests in last 2 weeks: 10.1% Standing firm against Mom’s pleas to visit during pandemic Hi, Carolyn: My parents have not seen my sister or me since Christmas due to COVID-19. My sister and I are both in our early 30s and live in the D.C. area with our respective significant others. My parents live in New England. We had concrete plans to see one another several times but canceled them by mutual agreement. Now my mother is behav ing as if we have not seen her by choice. Basically now that she and my dad are allowed to eat in restaurants again, they are acting like the pandemic doesn’t exist and we are simply choosing not to visit. My comfort level with traveling has not changed, and my sister works in health care and is exposed to COVID patients. My parents also live in a state with heavy restrictions on out-of-state travelers. I recently had a painful phone call where she cried and flat-out asked me to drive up there in defiance of travel restrictions. When I explained that I do not want to be the reason they potentially get sick, my mom argued she could just as easily get the virus buying groceries. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that their friends see their adult children constantly. Weaponized guilt is pretty common in my family, and usually works on me. Under normal circumstances I would have already booked a flight just to keep them happy and make myself feel less awful. What do I do? — Interstate Guilt You know how some people are taking this unique, can’t-go-freaking-anywhere pandemic opportunity to clean out their closets? Just this morning I dealt with my Fll-deal-with-it-later desk drawer because I couldn’t close it anymore. You’ve known your parents were using good emotions against you in bad faith, as leverage — but instead of deal ing with it, it was easier to do whatever they demanded to “keep them happy.” Now imag ine each one of your capitu lations as a nuisance object stuffed away somewhere. Your junk drawer won’t close anymore. You can’t appease your way up 1-95 so you have to deal with the guilt directly. The direct, no-appeasement method for dealing with guilt is to deny it traction. It’s a basic, three-step process: 1. Know your own mind and motives. 2. Use that self-knowledge to say yes or no to things in good faith. 3. Disengage from people who use emotional arm-twisting to try to change your answers. To repetitive pleading, say: “It’s not up for discussion. [Change subject.]” To baseless accusa tions: “I’m sorry you think that.” For pres sure beyond these boundaries: “I have to go, we’ll talk soon. [End interaction.]” To address the larger dynamic, note how you explain yourself: “It’s risky,” “It’s illegal,” “It’s about their friends.” See this for the defensive reflex it is. Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com CELEBRITY REPORT Computer pioneer Spielberg, director’s father, dies at 103 Arnold Spielberg, father of filmmaker Steven Spielberg and an innovating engi neer whose work helped make the personal computer possible, has died at 103. Spielberg died of natural causes while surrounded by his family in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to a statement from his four children. Spielberg and Charles Propster designed the GE-225 mainframe computer in the late 1950s while working for General Electric. The machine allowed computer scientists at Dartmouth College to develop the pro gramming language BASIC, which would be essential to the rise of personal computers in the 1970s and ‘80s. “Dad explained how his computer was expected to perform, but the language of computer science in those days was like Greek to me,” Steven Spielberg told the General Electric publication GE Reports. “It all seemed very exciting, but it was very much out of my reach.” Later on he understood. “When I see a PlayStation, when I look at a cellphone — from the smallest calculator to an iPad — I look at my dad and I say, ‘My dad and a team of geniuses started that,”’ Spielberg said in the family statement. Arnold Spielberg said of his son in a 2016 interview with GE Reports, “I tried to get him interested in engineering, but his heart was in movies. At first I was disap pointed, but then I saw how good he was in moviemaking.” Arnold helped Steven produce his first full-fledged movie, “Firelight,” made in 1963 when the budding director was 16. “The story was a forerunner to Steven’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind,’ with aliens landing on Earth, and I built the spe cial effects,” Spielberg told the Jewish Jour nal in 2012. “But while Steven would ask for my advice, the ideas were always his own.” The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Arnold Spielberg was born in Cincinnati in 1917. He was obsessed with gadgetry from the start, building his own crystal radio at age 9 and a ham radio at 15, developing skills he would use during World War II as a radio operator and chief communications man for the 490th Bomb Squadron, also known as the “Burma Bridge Busters.” His experiences during the war were part of the inspiration for his son’s 1998 film “Saving Private Ryan.” Arnold Spielberg graduated from the University of Cincinnati and went to work in computer research for RCA, where he helped develop the first point-of-sale com puterized cash register, before moving on to GE. Late in life he worked on the archiving technology used by the USC Shoah Founda tion, an organization founded by his son to preserve personal histories of the Holocaust. Steven Spielberg, 73, was Arnold Spiel berg’s firstborn child. He also had three daughters: screenwriter Anne Spielberg, producer Nancy Spielberg and marketing executive Sue Spielberg. 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In 2013, a jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed 13 lives. On the 50th an niversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, President Barack Obama stood on the same steps as he challenged new generations to seize the cause of racial equality. BIRTHDAYS Actor Ken Jenkins is 80. Actor David Soul is 77. Former MLB manager and player Lou Piniella is 77. Actor Barbara Bach is 74. Actor Debra Mooney is 73. Singer Wayne Ds- mond (The Osmonds) is 69. Actor Daniel Stern is 63. Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Ham ilton is 62. Actor John Allen Nelson is 61. Actor Jennifer Coolidge is 59. Country singer Shania Twain is 55. Actor Billy Boyd is 52. Actor Jack Black is 51. Actor Daniel Goddard (TV: “The Young and the Restless”) is 49. Olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans is 49. Country singer Jake Owen is 39. Country singer LeAnn Rimes is 38. Actor Alfonso Herrera is 37. Actor Sarah Roemer is 36. Rock singer Flor ence Welch (Florence and the Machine) is 34. Actor Katie Findlay is 30. Actor/singer Samuel Larsen is 29. Reality TV star Alana Thompson. AKA “Honey Boo Boo,” is 15. TODAY IN HISTORY PHOTO II i 5 r\l ttr\ ■ i — JOT “ ■ l K'l —MB \ l 1 ll wL A flif fii msMtil / ■ ’rife -'tvH- * Associated Press Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses marchers during his “I Have a Dream” speech Aug. 28,1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Find local events at gainesvilletimes.com/calendar Find Gainesville Times on your podcast app to listen to our Inside The Times series, where you can learn how stories come together and get to know our staff. HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY She (Times gainesvilletimes.com A Metro Market Media Publication ©2020, Vol. 73, No. 109 Friday, August 28, 2020 HOW TO REACH US 345 Green St. N.W., Gainesville, GA 30501 P.0. Box 838, Gainesville, GA 30503 (770) 532-1234 or (800) 395-5005 Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Drive thru open: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.. 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There’s a type of pain that lets up at the exact same time that the job is finished — sweet re lief. This won’t deter you from taking the same task on. The more times you do, the easier it gets. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Right and wrong are obvious. Most of life falls into narrower cat egories. Address the gray ar eas with different barometers: kind/unkind, effective/ineffec tive, energizing/draining, etc. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll ponder the underlying meanings and connected personal truths. A little goes a long way with this so don’t wallow in the depths. Soon your brain craves either action, comfort or rest. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). Don’t wait for praise. They seldom say what you want or need to hear. They only see the public result of what you’re doing, but you’re also on a private journey that requires internal reinforcement you’ll have to provide yourself. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It is only natural to want to be under someone’s skin the way they are under yours. Does it comfort you to know that perfect balance and mutuality is not the norm in love? Some one always gives more. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). No one gets to be all one thing today. Introverts will have to do extraverted things and vice versa. Agreeable people will have to have the guts to disagree. Disagreeable people must learn to acquiesce. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) What is more important than people’s feelings? Not a lot. But when you come across it, you’ll know and you’ll do what’s necessary instead of what makes everyone happy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18). Success is a pretty simple equation really. You’ll decide which tasks seem worth your while, then you’ll work hard at them and be as kind as pos sible in the process. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Today’s paradox: You care about others more than you care about yourself, but if you don’t take care of yourself first, you won’t be able to take care of them either.
