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—GOOD MORNING Tuesday, September 1,2020 | gainesvilletimes.com LOTTERY I Drawings for Monday, August 31,2020 CASH 3 Midday: 4-5-4 Evening: 6-5-5 CASH 4 Midday: 6-4-9-5 Evening: 2-2-4-5 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 9-4-4-3-9 Evening: 7-1-2-2-1 Previous days’ drawings FANTASY FIVE (8/30) 5-14-18-30-41 POWERBALL (8/29) 5-21 -22-29-43 Power Ball: 10 Current jackpot: $56M MEGA MILLIONS (8/28) 3-9-50-53-64 Mega Ball: 1 Current jackpot: S78M Lottery numbers are unofficial. The Georgia Lottery Corp.: 404-215-5000. LET’S SAVE TOURISM Don’t cancel your trip. Change the dates. ExploreGainesville.org is #TourismStrong LV\TEST COVID-19 DATA Aug. 31 NGHS data Aug. 31 DPH data for Hall County Total COVID-19 patients: 107 Total cases: 7,714 Gainesville COVID-19 patients: 75 Cases per 100k: 3,738.33 Braselton COVID-19 patients: 24 Deaths: 125 Total discharged: 1,998 Hospitalizations: 836 Total deaths: 255 Percent positive tests in last 2 weeks: 10.6% My ex-boyfriend just called to say he’s happy Dear Carolyn: Last semester, I ended a 11 / 2-year, semi-long-distance relationship (different colleges). Toward the end, he was never satisfied, and I could never do anything right to make him happy. I got tired of putting my own happi ness and sanity aside to appease him and finally ended it. He was angry and begged me to come back, but I was emotion ally exhausted. We went back and forth and finally agreed on a three-month silence to give each other space to heal. We also agreed to call each other if we became involved with other people. I wasn’t interested in dat ing anyone else. A few nights ago, he called to tell me he was, indeed, dating someone else. He’s also happy, has acknowledged he wasn’t happy with me and is branching out and becom ing more open-minded — something I wished for while we were together. Oh, and we agreed to never speak again. Well, I feel like a Band-Aid has been ripped off my heart and it won’t stop bleed ing. I feel like I really failed him. I had wanted him to be content with his life so badly! I know I need to get over this, but I don’t know how. — Confused and Crying I hate to make such a difficult situation sound so easy, but I believe it is: He has your number. But good. Everything you describe can be explained by his wanting control over you. You worked to please and appease him. He wasn’t satisfied. You worked harder. He remained unsatisfied. You reached the point where you couldn’t work any harder, and quit. He got angry. He hounded you to come back. When you refused, he hounded you to call it a break instead of a breakup. You relented. He then broke up with you. He shifted all blame for his problems onto you because you wanted to make him happy. He declared himself happy with someone-else — maybe because he is, but possibly because he knew you’d think you had failed. He declared the matter closed, denying you the last word. There is nothing wrong with wanting to make someone happy. There is something very wrong with people who take advan tage of that impulse in others. And there is something wrong with want ing to make someone happy even when you have proof of what it’s costing you. That’s why ridding your conscience of this guy is only part of the work you need to do. The other part is to realize your alarms didn’t go off during two years of manipula tion. They still haven’t gone off; that clang ing you hear is me. Please ask yourself why you were so ready to change. There are better people to make happy and better ways to make them happy, such as remembering birthdays, doing your share of the housework, being yourself. When those aren’t enough, he isn’t the right one for you Chat with Carolyn online at noon each Friday at www.washingtonpost.com. CAROLYN HAX tellme@washpost.com CELEBRIS REPORT Boseman’s death leaves another sad mark on 2020 Kobe Bryant. Rep. John Lewis. And now, Chadwick Boseman. So far, 2020 has been marred with bad news and tragedy with the deaths of several popular Black icons including Bryant, Lewis and recently Boseman, who died Friday. All three were viewed as leaders in their respec tive fields of sports, politics and film — places where people, particularly in the Black com munity, have often looked for inspiration during a year of racial tension and protests against the police brutality of unarmed Black people. But for many, the loss of another major figure such as Boseman is taking a toll. The actor, who starred in the blockbuster super hero Marvel film “Black Panther,” shock ingly died at the age of 43 in his home in Los Angeles after he privately battled colon can cer for four years. “These are pillars in our community,” Rev. A1 Sharpton said. “In times of instabil ity, you depend on pillars. It’s bad enough when there’s a storm outside and you hear the lightning and thunder. It gets worse when the pillars that you’re building and standing on (are) shaking. It’s like they’re chipping away at our foundation. The very building is shaking down, because the things that under gird and protect us from the storms are being removed.” Sharpton called Boseman an important pil lar that humanized several Black historical trailblazers in his roles — including color line breaking baseball star Jackie Robinson, legendary singer James Brown and the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Jus tice Thurgood Marshall. Boseman’s family said he endured “countless surgeries and che motherapy” while portraying King T’Challa of Wakanda in the Oscar-nominated “Black Panther,” a film that proved a person of color could lead in a successful superhero film. “For him to pass at this time when we are disproportionately affected by COVID and have all of these attacks by law enforcement, and him being the symbol bringing us to Wakanda, it’s just a blow,” Sharpton said. “To hear that our superhero who projected a posi tive light was now gone, it was a gut blow.” Boseman was elevated to a stage that many Black actors don’t get the chance to occupy, said Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James. And his ability to be “transcendent” on that stage brought a comic book charac ter to life for many in the Black community. “Even though we knew that it was like a fictional story, it actually felt real. It actu ally felt like we finally had our Black super hero and nobody could touch us. So to lose that, it’s sad in our community,” James said, lamenting on the loss of “the Black Panther and the Black Mamba in the same year.” In January, Bryant died in a helicopter crash involving eight others including his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. Lewis died in July after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. 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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For our digital subscription offerings, go to gainesvilletimes.com/subscribe TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1894, the Great Hinckley Fire destroyed Hinckley, Minnesota, and five other communities, killing more than 400 people. In 1923, the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Yokohama were devas tated by an earthquake that claimed some 140,000 lives. In 1939, World War II began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. In 1941, the first municipally owned parking building in the United States opened in Welch, W. Va. In 1942, U.S. District Court Judge Martin I. Welsh, ruling from Sacramento, Calif., on a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Fred Korematsu, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals. In 1945, Americans received word of Japan’s formal surrender that ended World War II. In 1969, a coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power. In 1972, American Bobby Fischer won the international chess crown in Reykjavik, Iceland, as Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union resigned before the resumption of Game 21. An arson fire at the Blue Bird Cafe in Montreal, Canada, claimed 37 lives. In 1983, 269 people were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace. In 1985, a U.S.-French expedition located the wreckage of the Titanic on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean roughly 400 miles off Newfoundland. In 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a “desperate SOS” as his city descended into anarchy amid the flooding left by Hurricane Katrina. In 2018, at a nearly three-hour memorial service for the late Ari zona Republican Sen. John McCain in Washington, McCain’s daughter and two former presidents called for a return to civility among the nation’s leaders. BIRTHDAYS Actor George Maharis is 92. Conductor Seiji Ozawa is 85. Attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz is 82. Comedian-actor Lily Tomlin is 81. Actor Don Stroud is 77. Conductor Leonard Slatkin is 76. Singer Archie Bell is 76. Singer Barry Gibb is 74. Rock musician Greg Errico is 72. Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw is 70. Singer Gloria Estefan is 63. Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers is 59. Jazz musician Boney James is 59. Singer-musician Grant Lee Phillips (Grant Lee Buffalo) is 57. Coun try singer-songwriter Charlie Robison is 56. Retired NBA All-Star Tim Hardaway is 54. Rap DJ Spigg Nice (Lost Boyz) is 50. Actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira is 49. Actor Maury Sterling is 49. Rock singer JD Fortune is 47. Actor Scott Speedman is 45. Country singer Angaleena Presley (Pistol Annies) is 44. Ac tor Boyd Holbrook is 39. Actor Zoe Lister-Jones is 38. Rock musician JoeTrohman is 36. Actor Aisling Loftus is 30. TODAY IN HISTORY PHOTO Associated Press Children board a train at Ealing Broadway Station, West London, England, as they are evacuated from London, in preparation for war on Germany, Sept. 1, 1939. All of the children wear identity labels and carry gas masks. Find local events at gainesvilletimes.com/calendar HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21 -April 19). You’ve made overgenerous gestures in the past and never been sorry for them, though you’ll toss and turn at night if you think you could have done more in the situation. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Those who are cut off from their own experiences will be uncomfortable embracing the full realm of experience, including some that most oth ers experience in their day-to- day lives. Try to understand instead of judge this. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ve still got a chance to go where the sun is hot and the sunbathers are cool. Get your work done so you can enjoy your leisure. Get busy so you can have your fun. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Because you are open and ready for new experiences, life will come rushing in to greet you. You’ll have fasci nating exchanges, and you’re an essential part of the expe rience for others. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re in the middle-person position and therefore tasked to trans late and mitigate. What one person thinks is hilarious will fall flat with the next. Consider your audience before you forward. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). A friend minimizes the mistakes and maximizes the attributes and is generally on your side. Such friends help you under stand what loyalty really looks like. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). The way things are laid out will make a huge difference in your efficiency and also in the feeling you have about an experience. You’ll do much in the way of organizing — an effort well spent. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Tension is rigidity; relaxation is flexibility. A very special relationship will thrive be cause you strike just the right balance between these two states. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Vacations aren’t always tremendously relaxing. In these times, they aren’t even tremendously vacationing. Nonetheless, there’s a place in your mind where you can take a break. Find it; do it. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You’ll put in the extra effort to take good care of yourself. Since you know that lack of sleep or proper nourishment makes you cranky, you’ll be sure to plan to get both. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The voice of inspiration is difficult to hear if your inner chatter is loud enough drown it. Exercise is the easiest and fastest way to quiet your mind. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You feel powerful but it’s not even the start of what you can become. Take charge of what you have control over and give no energy to the things outside of that.
