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Woman injured in shooting at Academy Sports parking lot

Police believe gun accidentally Public Information Of-
ficer Brandon Lovelady
discharged from inside vehicle; victim said this morning that the
incident is still under in-
teated at OCH and released vestigation and did not say
whether SPD has made
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT 1:38 p.m. In a tweet about any arrests.
an hour later, SPD report- Local Academy Sports
A female victim has been ed a weapon appeared to management said they are
released from the hospi- have been accidentally dis- not authorized to comment
tal after she was injured charged from inside a vehi- on the shooting, and Se-
in what Starkville police cle in the parking lot. nior Communications Di-
believe to be an accidental The victim was taken rector Alyssa Hasbrouck
shooting Tuesday in the to OCH Regional Medical with the store’s corporate
Academy Sports parking lot Center and treated for non office did not respond to a Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
on Highway 12. life-threatening injuries, request for comment. The A woman was shot from the inside of a vehicle in the parking lot of Academy Sports
Starkville police re- OCH Emergency Services store remained open after in Starkville on Tuesday, police say. The victim was treated and released from OCH
sponded to the call at about Director Michael Hunt said. the incident. Regional Medical Center, Emergency Services Director Michael Hunt said.

SOCSD becomes
RECOVERED FROM COVID-19
second district
to leave GTECHS MUW’s Baptist Student Union director speaks
Peasant proposes
‘middle college
out about symptoms, dealing with coronavirus
BY SLIM SMITH
program’ meant to ssmith@cdispatch.com

achieve the same goals For Sam Ivy, it didn’t start with a nag-
ging cough or a fever.
BY TESS VRBIN It started with a bad glass of sweet tea.
tvrbin@cdispatch.com Ivy is the director of the Baptist Stu-
dent Union at the Mississippi Universi-
The Starkville-Ok- ty for Women. He is also someone who
tibbeha Consolidat- has contracted and recovered from
ed School District COVID-19 coronavirus. As evidence of
became the second the latter, he spent most of Tuesday do-
district to cut ties ing yard work at the home of 94-year-old
with the Golden Tri- Daisy Poros, whose house is next door to
angle Early College the BSU.
High School with two “I feel fine now,” Ivy said.
Peasant Ivy most likely contracted the disease
unanimous votes by
the board of trustees at their Tues- during a week-long mission trip to New
day meeting. York City from March 7-13. He was ac-
Superintendent Eddie Peasant companying a group of 24 BSU members
recommended the board not renew from The W and East Mississippi Com-
the district’s memorandum of un- munity College.
derstanding with GTECHS, which “We were out everywhere, proba-
would have allowed the district to bly every borough in the city,” Ivy said.
continue sending students to the “When we got there (COVID-19) wasn’t
early college high school on East considered a big ordeal, but that had
Mississippi Community College’s changed by the time we left.”
Mayhew campus next school year. The city reported its first COVID-19
The district’s current agreement death the day after Ivy returned home.
with GTECHS will end on June As of this morning, the death toll in the
30. Peasant also recommended state of New York is almost 11,000.
the board reject a contract with While the most common reported
GTECHS for the 2020-21 school symptoms of the virus are coughing,
year. fever and muscle aches, Ivy said those Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff
Columbus Municipal School symptoms weren’t the first to appear for Sam Ivy does some yard work at the home of Daisy Poros in Columbus
District voted earlier this month to him. on Tuesday, a sure sign of his recovery from COVID-19 which he most
sever ties with GTECHS. See IVY, 8A likely contracted during a mission trip to New York City in early March.
GTECHS has 222 students from
See SOCSD, 3A

Some shoppers feel safer with new grocery store

Steve Gao, restrictions; others taking them with grain of salt
holds a bag
of hamburg- Columbus grocery stores complying with Scott is among many gro-
cery shoppers who frequent
er buns as
he leaves mayor’s order on safety practices to Kroger, which has imple-
Sunflower mented several policies to
Food Store on
Military Road
slow spread of virus promote social distancing
during the coronavirus pan-
Tuesday after- BY YUE STELLA YU Several feet away from demic.
noon. Colum- syu@cdispatch.com the counter, the blue social
bus grocery On Monday, Mayor Rob-
stores are distancing markers on the ert Smith issued letters to
Sean Scott stood waiting
under more ground said “Please wait 25 food stores around the
— from a distance.
strict guide- Shopping for some rose- here,” so he followed the in- city and established regula-
lines after struction. tions to slow the spread of
mary and garlic to season
the mayor When the masked clerk
the salmon he planned to the coronavirus. However,
ordered new
safety prac- cook, Scott went up to the could not hear him clearly, not all customers favor the
tices. meat and seafood counter at Scott had to lean in a bit fur- decision.
Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff the Kroger in Columbus. ther. See GROCERY STORES, 8A

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Fauci: ‘We’re not there yet’

on key steps to reopen economy
Health officials don’t yet
have the capabilities to
rapidly test for the virus,
isolate any new cases
and track down everyone
that an infected person
came into contact with
BY LAURAN NEERGA ARD
AND JULIE PACE
The Associated Press
WA S H I N G T O N
— Dr. Anthony Fau-
ci, the government’s
top infectious disease
expert, said Tuesday
the U.S. does not yet
have the critical test-
ing and tracing pro-
Fauci
cedures needed to
begin reopening the nation’s econ-
omy, adding a dose of caution to
increasingly optimistic projections
from the White House.
“We have to have something in
place that is efficient and that we
can rely on, and we’re not there yet,”
Fauci said in an interview with The
Associated Press.
Fauci’s comments come as Pres-
ident Donald Trump and others in
the administration weigh how quick-
ly businesses can reopen and Amer-
icans can get back to work weeks
after the fast-spreading coronavirus
essentially halted the U.S. economy.
Trump has floated the possibility of
reopening some areas by May 1 and
said he could announce recommen-
dations as soon as this week.
Fauci said a May 1 target is “a bit
overly optimistic” for many areas of
the country. Any easing off the strict
Trump reverses course on power
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take charge.”
Still, he insisted, “The governors will be very, very respectful of the
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advance and there ment uses information the payouts. Those pay- ing more than $99,000.
from 2018 or 2019 tax re- ments begin to get small-
is absolutely no turns — whichever was er for adults making more

obligation to pay
it back’
Treasury spokeswoman
Patricia McLaughlin
BY AMANDA SEITZ
The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Videos
and online reports claim-
ing that millions of Ameri-
cans will have to repay the
relief checks they receive
from the federal govern-
ment under the $2.2 tril-
lion coronavirus econom-
ic recovery bill are not
true.
The government be-
gan issuing the one-time
payments this week. Most
adults who earned up to
$75,000 will see a $1,200
payout, while married
couples who made up to
$150,000 can expect to
get $2,400. Parents will
get payments of $500 per
child. The checks will be
directly deposited into
bank accounts or mailed
to households, depending
on how you’ve filed your
tax returns in the past.
In recent days, social
media posts have falsely
claimed there’s one catch
to this money — that
you’ll eventually have to
pay it back.
“Next year, you’re au-
tomatically going to owe
$1,200 come tax season,”
one of the videos, viewed
hundreds of thousands of
times on YouTube, falsely
claims. The video has also
been shared widely on
social media platforms in-
cluding Facebook, Insta-
gram, Twitter and TikTok.
The U.S. Treasury De-
partment and Internal
Revenue Service, which
are working to deliver
the money to people, con-
firmed to The Associated
Press that households will
not have to pay back the
money in next year’s tax
filing.
“This is not an advance
and there is absolutely no
obligation to pay it back,”
Treasury spokeswoman
Patricia McLaughlin said
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Reeves closes schools through end of spring semester

Students to continue
distance learning
throughout the state
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
Gov. Tate Reeves has or-
dered all public school build-
ings closed through the end
of the spring semester due to
the spread of
COVID-19 coro-
trol and Prevention began rec-
ommending Americans take
As of Tuesday morning,
Mississippi State Depart-
virus than any other decision
we’ve made.”
navirus.
School dis-
social distance measures and
limit the number of people in
ment of Health reported more
than 3,000 confirmed cases of
Reeves said distance learn-
ing in the state will continue
tricts throughout
the state, includ-
one place.
Reeves signed an executive
COVID-19 in the state. How-
ever, Reeves said Tuesday
through the end of the semes-
ter. Students are excused from
ing in the Golden order on March 19 closing that was significantly fewer end-of-year tests. Reeves also
Triangle, have schools through Friday, saying cases than models had pre- said state officials would work
been using dis- Reeves at the time that he may extend dicted when he initially closed with superintendents to imple-
tance learning to educate stu- the closures if health experts schools, and that school clo- ment any summer programs, if
dents since mid-March, when thought it necessary to curb sures have “had more impact necessary, to prepare students
the Centers for Disease Con- the spread of the virus. on slowing the spread of the for next school year.

SOCSD
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Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Clay and
Noxubee counties. The school is
designed for students who would
not necessarily thrive, either social-
ly or academically, in a traditional
high school and allows students the
opportunity to take college-level
courses and graduate high school
with an associate’s degree.
Students are accepted to
GTECHS on an application basis,
and home school districts receive
state funds for each student who at-
tends there.
But Peasant said he is concerned
that funding from the Mississippi
Adequate Education Program al-
located to SOCSD but diverted to
Starkville students at GTECHS is
actually paying for some students
who previously were homeschooled
or attended private schools. MAEP
funds are allocated to each district
based on a headcount of students
who attended district schools the
previous year.
Peasant also said he does not
believe all students accepted to
GTECHS match the intended tar-
gets of “at-risk” or students trying
to be the first generation in their
families to attend college.
“The purpose of our school is to
provide free and appropriate public
education through public funds for
students that live in our communi-
ty,” Peasant said. “This program,
from my research and the things
I know about it, has actually used
public funds to fund a private-type
setting.”
He estimated that about 40
percent of Starkville students at
GTECHS did not attend Armstrong
Middle School, based on informa-
tion he received from the Lowndes
County School District, the original
fiscal agent for GTECHS. The par-
ticipating districts voted last year
to transfer fiscal agency to EMCC
so GTECHS students would not
have to transfer from their home
districts to LCSD in order to enroll.
Starkville Academy, one of two
private schools in Starkville, has
had two students leave to attend
GTECHS in the five years since the
program started, Head Master Jere-
my Nicholas told The Dispatch.
“It’s up to them as to which indi-
vidual students they accept, (and)
always an individual family deci-
sion on the student’s part,” he said.
A less costly option
The proposed GTECHS bud-
get for the 2020-21 academic year
states that the base cost of sending
one student to GTECHS is $6,609,
so it would cost SOCSD $277,578
to send the 42 students that have
enrolled. The dual enrollment fees
would total another $25,360.
This does not include the rough-
ly $16,000 per year it costs to bus
the students to and from EMCC, or
the cost of individualized education
programs for special-needs stu-
dents, Peasant said.
Last week, when the CMSD
board of trustees ended its own
relationship with GTECHS on Su-
perintendent Cherie Labat’s recom-
mendation. Labat said it would cost
the district $130,000, plus transpor-
tation and special education costs,
to send more than 40 students to
GTECHS. Board President Jason
Spears said this morning that with
additional costs, it might be closer
to $250,000.
Peasant said SOCSD can pro-
vide the smaller class sizes and
dual enrollment opportunities that
GTECHS boasts, and the district
did not have those options five
years ago when it entered into the
GTECHS agreement.
Starkville High School imple-
mented three academic houses
this year: Technology, Engineer-
ing, Construction (TEC); Health
and Human Services (H2S); and
Communication, Arts and Business
(CAB). The initiative is meant to
expose students to skills they will
need for their future careers.
The houses “will coincide a lot
better” with a program Peasant
introduced to the board Tuesday
called the “middle college pro-
gram.” It will allow more students
to take college courses at EMCC
and receive an associate’s degree
with their high school diploma, it
is aimed at the same “at-risk” stu-
dents and it will only cost about
$3,000 per student, Peasant said.
The COVID-19 pandemic is
“making it a little bit difficult” to get
the program ready for next school
year, but it might happen, Peasant
told The Dispatch.
SOCSD hopes to implement
GTECHS’ “family-type setting” at
all its campuses with the reconfig-
uration of its schools starting in Au-
gust, when the Partnership School
for grades 6-7 at Mississippi State
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construction to continue
Construction of the Partnership
School will resume Thursday af-
ter it was temporarily halted due
to the pandemic, Peasant said. Co-
lumbus-based West Brothers Con-
struction will work in small groups
adhering to social distancing guide-
lines, and they expect to be finished
in four or five weeks, he said, put-
ting it back on schedule to open for
the 2020-21 academic year.
Gov. Tate Reeves announced
Tuesday that schools statewide
will be closed for the rest of the ac-
ademic year. This means SOCSD
can try to start summer school as
early in June as possible and start
deep-cleaning its buildings in the
near future instead of waiting until
the summer to sanitize them, Peas-
ant said.
The district continues to distrib-
ute meals to students three days a
week, and Peasant said two donors
recently provided face masks for
both the bus drivers and the food
service workers.
“We’ve been able to create the
safest possible environment that we
can with those programs,” he said.

AROUND THE STATE

Mississippi woman
charged in identity
theft over 2 years
OCEAN SPRINGS —
Police say a Mississippi
woman is facing charges
for illegally buying
$140,000 in goods and ser-
vices using the personal
information of a 77-year-
old woman she assisted
with bills and shopping.
Tammie Scott, of Van-
cleave, had access to the
victim’s bank accounts
and credit cards and
used the victim’s person-
al information to open able adult and was being Cheap thrills.
additional accounts and held in Jackson County Go for a walk.
lines of credit, spending Adult Detention Center
thousands over two years, on a $100,000 bond.
Ocean Springs Police
Capt. Ryan Lemaire told
WLOX-TV.
Scott was charged with
exploitation of a vulner-

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Court throws out Trump rollback of school nutrition rules

The 2012 rules required schools to transition
over time entirely to whole grain-rich options
and gradually reduce sodium levels
BY CANDICE CHOI
AP Food & Health Writer
NEW YORK — After mak-
ing a brief comeback on school
lunch menus, white bread and
other refined grains may be van-
ishing again when schools re-
open after a federal court threw
out the Trump administration’s
rollback of school nutrition stan-
dards.
The U.S. district court in
Maryland this week said the
administration did not give
adequate public notice of the
change, which had gone into
effect for this past school year.
The ruling was in response to
a lawsuit brought by the Center
for Science in the Public Interest
and Healthy School Food Mary-
land.
The U.S. Department of Agri-
culture said it does not comment
on ongoing litigation and it’s un-
known how the agency will pro-
ceed. The agency oversees the
national school lunch and break-
fast programs, which serve mil-
lions of free and reduced-price
meals daily.
For now, closed schools that
have continued distributing
meals during the coronavirus
pandemic are operating under
different standards and have
been able to request flexibility
on nutrition standards.
“None of this applies under
the current situation. This is for
when we resume post-pandemic
school operations,” said Laura
MacCleery, senior policy direc-
tor for the Center for Science in
the Public Interest.
But Diane Pratt-Heavner of
the School Nutrition Associa-
tion, which represents cafeteria
operators and food suppliers,
said tighter budgets and strained
supply chains could make it even
harder to meet stricter nutrition
standards once schools resume.
“This is coming at a very dif-
ficult and uncertain time,” she
said.
It’s the latest twist in the
years-long clash over nutrition
standards championed by for-
mer first lady Michelle Obama.
The 2012 rules required schools
to transition over time entirely
to whole grain-rich options and
gradually reduce sodium levels.
But school lunch operators op-
posed the standards, saying new
recipes were resulting in mushy
pastas and cardboard-like piz-
zas, and that students were
throwing away more food.
To allow cafeteria operators
time to adapt, the USDA had
been postponing compliance
dates and granting waivers to
temporarily let schools continue
serving select refined grains.
Then in late 2018, the agency
issued a rule saying it would give
schools greater flexibility by re-
verting back to a previous stan-
dard that at least half of grains
served to students be whole
grain-rich. It also eliminated the
final sodium target.
In the decision Monday,
the Maryland court said the
USDA had previously “spoke
exclusively in terms of delaying
compliance requirements, not
abandoning the compliance re-
quirements altogether.”
Under the relaxed rule this
school year, Pratt-Heavner said
cafeteria operators had report-
ed mostly sticking to the whole
grain-rich foods they had al-
ready incorporated into their
menus. But she said some took
advantage of the option to serve
some harder-to-replace refined
grain items like biscuits and
tortillas, without having to file
paperwork.

Search for a COVID-19 vaccine heats up

NIH infectious disease chief: ‘No red flags’ so far
BY LAURAN NEERGA ARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON — Three poten-
tial COVID-19 vaccines are making
fast progress in early-stage testing
in volunteers in China and the U.S.,
but it’s still a long road to prove if
they’ll really work.
China’s CanSino Biologics has
begun the second phase of testing
its vaccine candidate, China’s Min-
istry of Science and Technology
said Tuesday.
In the U.S., a shot made by the
National Institutes of Health and
Moderna Inc. isn’t far behind. The
first person to receive that experi-
mental vaccine last month returned
to a Seattle clinic Tuesday for a sec-
ond dose.
NIH infectious disease chief Dr.
Anthony Fauci told The Associated
Press there are “no red flags” so far
and he hoped the next, larger phase
of testing could begin around June.
A third candidate, from Inov-
io Pharmaceuticals, began giving
experimental shots for first-step
safety testing last week in the U.S.
and hopes to expand its studies to
China.
Initial tests focus on safety, and
researchers in both countries are
trying out different doses of differ-
ent types of shots.
But moving into the second
phase is a critical step that allows
vaccines to be tested in many more
people to look for signs that they
protect against infection.
Last week, CanSino filed a re-
port showing it aimed to enroll 500
people in this next study, compar-
ing two doses of the vaccine to dum-
my shots. As of Monday, 273 of the
volunteers had been injected, state
media said.
Looking ahead, Fauci said if the
new coronavirus continues to circu-
late widely enough over the sum-
mer and fall, it might be possible to
finish larger studies slightly sooner
than the 12 to 18 months he’d orig-
inally predicted — maybe toward
“mid to late winter of next season.”
“Please let me say this caveat:
That is assuming that it’s effec-
tive. See, that’s the big ‘if,’” Fauci
stressed. “It’s got to be effective
and it’s got to be safe.”
During a news conference in
China, authorities also cautioned
that the studies must be done prop-
erly.
“Although we are in an emergen-
cy, we cannot lower the standards
of safety and effectiveness in the re-
views of vaccines,” said Wang Jun-
zhi, a Chinese biopharmaceutical
expert. “The public is paying huge
attention.”
The World Health Organization
this week counted more than five
dozen other vaccine candidates in
earlier stages of development being
pursued around the world.

Health care workers are 10 percent-20 percent of US virus cases

BY MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK — Be-
tween 10 percent and 20
percent of U.S. coronavi-
rus cases are health care
workers, though they
tended to be hospitalized
at lower rates than other
patients, officials report-
ed Tuesday.
The Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Pre-
vention reported the first
national data on how the
pandemic is hitting doc-
tors, nurses and other
health care profession-
als.
The data is important
new information but not
necessarily surprising,
said Dr. Anne Schuchat,
who is running the fed-
eral agency’s response
to the outbreak. Medical
staff have also been hit
hard in other countries:
Media reports said about
10 percent of cases in Ita-
ly and Spain were health
care workers.
As of the middle of
last week, the CDC had
reports of more than
315,000 cases in the U.S.
The new report focused
on about 49,000 for which
researchers had data
on whether or not they
worked in health care.
About 9,300, or 19 per-
cent, of them were med-
ical professionals. That
included 27 who died.
But the data varied
in how complete it was,
researchers said. In 12
states that did a better
job reporting on whether
patients worked in medi-
cine, around 11 percent
of cases were health care
workers.
Compared with U.S.
cases overall, larger pro-
portions of diagnosed
health care workers
were women, were white,
and were young or mid-
dle-aged adults. That’s
consistent with the demo-
graphics of who works in
health care, researchers
said.
About 10 percent of the
health care workers were
hospitalized with symp-
toms, compared with 21
percent to 31 percent of
overall cases. That may
reflect the younger age
of the workers, as well as
prioritization of testing
for health care employ-
ees, the report said.

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charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Harris was born Nov. 22,
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late Robert Jean Holmes.
In addition to her mother, she is
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West Point and Church Sanders of
Florida; siblings, Susan Rollins of
ine Brown both of Caledonia and Lisa
Fields of Tennessee; and five grand-
children.
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Betty Courtney
AUSTIN, Texas — Betty Jean
Courtney, 79, died April 14, 2020, at
North Austin Medical Center.
Arrangements are incomplete
and will be announced by Memorial
Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Cre-
matory College Street location of
Columbus.
Robert Clarke
COLUMBUS — Robert John
“Bob” Clarke, 58, died April 13, 2020,
at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden
Triangle. Arrangements are in-
complete and will be announced by
Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home
& Crematory Second Avenue North
location of Columbus.
William Gates
WEST POINT — Dr. William
Gates, 82, died April 15, 2020, at Du-
gan Nursing Home in West Point.
Arrangements are incomplete
and will be announced by Memorial
Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crema-
tory Second Avenue North location
of Columbus.
Eula Mae Harless
Services:
A private family graveside
service will be held.
Pineview Memory Gardens
2nd. Ave. North Location
Lenore Prather
A private family graveside
service will be held.
Friendship Cemetery
2nd. Ave. North Location
Robert Clarke
Incomplete
2nd. Ave. North Location
Betty Courtney
Incomplete
College St. Location
Dr. William Gates
Incomplete
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Eula Mae Cochrane Harless, age 82, of
Columbus, MS, passed away April 12, 2020, at
her residence.
A private family graveside service will be
Wednesday, April 15, 2020, at Pineview Memory
Gardens of Selma, AL. Memorial Gunter Peel
Funeral Home & Crematory 716 2nd Ave. North
location is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Harless was born May 24, 1937, in
Aliceville, AL, to the late Sam and Louise Martin
Cochrane. She was a graduate of Aliceville High
School. Mrs. Cochrane worked in the insurance
profession as an office manager for many years
and was a member of the East Columbus Church
of Christ.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in
death by her husband, Olen Edward Harless; and
brothers, Wallace, Charles, James and Eugene
Cochrane.
Survivors include her son, Edward Harless
and his wife Jackie of Moody, AL; sister, Martha
Spencer of Columbus, MS; brother, Ronny
Cochrane of Aliceville, AL; and grandson, Daniel
Harless.
Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis,
TN, 38105-9959.
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Justice Department takes church’s

side in First Amendment suit
Greenville city leaders argued Temple Baptist
Church’s drive-in services violate stay-at-home
orders and could have put people’s lives in jeopardy
BY COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL
BALSAMO AND EMILY
WAGSTER PET TUS
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Justice
Department took the rare step on
Tuesday of weighing in on the side
of a Mississippi Christian church
where local officials had tried to
stop Holy Week services broadcast
to congregants sitting in their cars
in the parking lot.
As the coronavirus pandemic
spread, leaders at Temple Baptist
Church in Greenville began hold-
ing drive-in services for their con-
gregation on a short-wave radio
frequency from inside an empty
church save for the preacher.
Arthur Scott, the 82-year-old
pastor, said Tuesday that it was a
good compromise for his group, a
“wonderful way to preach the gos-
pel and still it’s like they are there,
but you can’t go out and see them,
but you know they’re there.”
The federal involvement adds
to the rising tension over recon-
ciling religious freedom with pub-
lic health restrictions designed to
fight the pandemic, disputes that
are playing out along the same par-
Democratic bills call for racial breakdown of COVID-19 cases
Lawmakers: Data needed to address
any disparities in the national
tisan lines that mark the nation’s
overall divide.
Greenville city leaders argue
the services violate stay-at-home
orders and could have put people’s
lives in jeopardy. Church officials
believe they have been singled out
for their religion, especially after
eight police officers were sent last
week to ticket the faithful, $500
apiece, for attending services, in-
cluding the pastor’s wife.
“We haven’t missed one Sunday
in 45 years,” Scott said. “We love
our people. This is a way we can
preach to them. We’re afraid of the
coronavirus as much as anybody
else. And if we thought we were
putting our people in danger at all,
we wouldn’t do this.”
Even after the mayor said Mon-
day they would not have to pay the
fines, the church is pursuing a law-
suit saying their First Amendment
religious freedoms were violated.
The Justice Department sided with
the church.
With federal prosecutors now
weighing in, the national debate
over how far coronavirus gather-
ing limits can go to restrict religion
could get even louder. President
If passed, the legis-
lation introduced in the
House and Senate on
Donald Trump’s reelection appeal
to devout conservative voters rests
in part on his vocal advocacy for re-
ligious freedom, making the issue
a politically potent one for his ad-
ministration to take up.
The Kansas Supreme Court up-
held Democratic Gov. Laura Kel-
ly’s move to limit faith gatherings
to 10 people, while a federal judge
in Kentucky sided with a church
that challenged the Louisville may-
or’s restrictions on drive-in Easter
services.
The church has been in Green-
ville for more than 65 years. Scott
said his congregants, about 125 in
all, are mostly older and on fixed
incomes, and aren’t tech savvy, so
the radio broadcast was a way to
keep them connected.
Greenville Mayor Errick D.
Simmons, a Democrat, said Tues-
day that city officials had received
calls about people at drive-in
church services getting out of
their cars.
Simmons said the ban on such
gatherings remains in place to try
to save lives as the highly conta-
gious virus continues to spread.
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sponsors of the legisla-
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the demographic data is
needed to address any
disparities in the national
response to the corona-
virus outbreak, which is
taking a disproportionate
toll on African Americans
and other nonwhite popu-
lations.
“Because of govern-
ment-sponsored discrim-
ination and systemic rac-
ism, communities of color
are on the frontlines of
this pandemic,” Massa-
chusetts Sen. Elizabeth
Warren, one of several
hensive national data on
who is getting infected,
who is getting treatment,
and who is dying.”
The latest Associated
Press analysis of available
state and local data shows
that more than 30 percent
of those who have died
from COVID-19 are Afri-
can American, although
blacks make up roughly
13 percent of the popula-
tion in the areas covered
in the analysis.
The Democratic law-
makers sent a letter
March 28 to Health and
Human Services Secre-
tary Alex Azar urging
federal release of the de-
mographic data. The data
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those patients.
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requires HHS to pro-
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COVID-19 statistics in a
report to Congress, no
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Liberty University sued for not refunding student fees

BY DENISE LAVOIE Donald Trump politically. that it is ‘open’ is an illu-
The Associated Press The lawsuit said that sion being put forth to
despite efforts to down- try to keep money that
RICHMOND, Va. play the pandemic, the should be returned to stu-
— Liberty University
university stopped pro- dents and their families,”
has profited from the
viding services and ac- the lawsuit said.
COVID-19 pandemic by
tivities by moving classes In a statement, Liber-
refusing to refund thou-
online, closing its campus ty said it has “tirelessly
sands of dollars in room
and board and other fees to visitors, prohibiting attempted to balance the
owed to students after the gatherings of 10 or more needs of students, em-
school moved classes on- people and closing indoor ployees, and the commu-
line last month, a federal recreation and fitness nity as it has navigated
lawsuit filed Tuesday al- centers. through the unprecedent-
leges. “In other words, the ed health challenges pre-
The lawsuit filed in University’s statement sented by COVID-19.”
U.S. District Court in
Lynchburg accuses the
university — one of the
nation’s largest and most
prominent evangelical in-
stitutions — of purporting
to remain open so it could
refuse to return fees paid
by students and their par-
ents for the remainder of
the spring semester.
The lawsuit also ac-
cuses Liberty and its
president, Jerry Falwell
Jr., of putting students at
risk by telling students
they were welcome to re-
turn to campus following
spring break in March.
The suit cites com-
ments and tweets made
by Falwell in which he
downplayed the serious-
ness of the pandemic and
implied that the govern-
ment shutdowns were an
attempt to hurt President
Opinion
6A WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020
STATE OF THE NATION
It costs to have good,
aggressive journalism
C
onsider this, with apologies to Jona-
than Swift, a modest proposal. Or call
it — apologies to Charles Dickens — a
tale of two cities.
We begin in 2000 as Napster, a service
that allowed music lovers to receive mu-
sic without paying — i.e., to steal it — is
meeting its Waterloo. Sued into submission
by the music industry, it has agreed to start
charging users a subscription fee and to cut
the industry a slice of the money pie, paving
the way for pay services like iTunes and
Spotify. Leonard Pitts
In 2020, we take for granted that this is
how we get our music, but in 2000, those who had grown used to
music being as free as sunshine and rain were apoplectic. “Music,”
one of them wrote, “is not something which should be copyrighted
and sold and still owned by the musician.”
If that plaint sounds painfully naive to you, be advised that a
similar sentiment stalks the business of newspaper journalism. I’m
thinking of the folks who hit me up on Twitter each week, morally
affronted at the idea of — gasp! —paying for journalism. I actually
empathize. Paywalls are annoying and household budgets, limited —
especially now. But see, I also empathize with journalists, who, like
musicians, have car notes to pay and children to feed.
Interestingly, some in the newspaper business are working to
adopt the music-business model, to give readers a way to pay a
once-monthly fee and have access to all the papers. So far, none of
the nascent services has managed to revolutionize the delivery of
news the way iTunes did for music.
A 2019 analysis by the web platform Medium suggests that one
reason — there are many — is that while people want the news, few
are willing to pay for it. It quotes a study from the Reuters Institute at
the University of Oxford that says only 8 percent of Americans have
an ongoing online news subscription. For comparison: 16 percent pay
for music, 23 percent for video.
So, here’s the modest proposal: Support local journalism. Value
it as much as you do Spotify and Netflix. Value it enough to pay for
it. Especially now as advertising revenue shrinks in this collapsing
economy and an industry that was already stressed faces new cut-
backs, furloughs and layoffs.
Which brings us to the tale of two cities. One is Cleveland whose
newspaper, The Plain Dealer, is in a death spiral. This, after the own-
er, Advance Publications, in an apparent union-busting move, laid
off 22 out of 36 newsroom employees earlier this month, reassigning
most of the 14 who remained to cover areas outside of Cleveland. Ten
asked to be laid off, leaving Cleveland, a metro area of more than 2
million people, served by a newspaper with just four reporters.
The other city is Miami, where my home paper, The Miami
Herald, is suing to force the state to release the names of elder-care
facilities where the coronavirus has been detected. Gov. Ron DeSan-
tis was evidently alarmed enough that his general counsel pressured
the Herald’s law firm to back out of the suit. The paper has engaged
another firm, and the lawsuit continues. That’s the kind of aggres-
sive, hold-power-to-account local journalism that makes me proud of
my profession.
What’s happening in Cleveland, on the other hand, makes me
anxious — not simply for my profession, but for my country. Because
where power is not held to account, there can be no democracy,
only authority, only tyranny. So the modest proposal offered here is
actually quite the bargain, one they’d happily snap up in Cuba, Syria
or Sudan.
Yes, it costs to have good, aggressive journalism. But it costs even
more when you don’t.
Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary,
is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Email him at lpitts@miamiher-
ald.com.
OUR VIEW
Wise spending in
uncertain times
F
or those who filed their 2019 taxes with direct deposit, the
Congress-authorized stimulus funds are beginning to show up
in bank accounts this week.
As part of the $2.2 trillion package, an additional $600 is distrib-
uted for each child in the household.
Those whose personal income is above $75,000 will see smaller
checks as well as families whose income exceeds $150,000.
In Mississippi, which has among the lowest per-capita incomes
in the nation, the vast majority of citizens will receive the maximum
amount.
For some, the money could not arrive soon enough — especially
for those who have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 virus. For
others, the money will create a little “breathing room” in the house-
hold budget.
There are still others for whom those funds may not be needed
now, but could be in the future. There are likely those employed
now who may find themselves unemployed at some point as we
continue to make our ways through this crisis.
The money will be well-received, but it’s likely to be sufficient.
There are already efforts in Congress to distribute another round of
stimulus payments.
In the meantime, we urge caution.
Undoubtedly, the arrival of what many Mississippians may
consider a windfall, may lead to binge-spending, which is a reckless
approach and not what the stimulus was designed to address.
Under normal circumstances, putting the money directly back
into the economy — especially into locally-owned business — is
a good outcome. While that still applies, it is remains prudent to
spend wisely in these uncertain times. We all need to be thinking
as long-term as our circumstances permit.
We do not know what the future holds. But we do know that
there may be a time coming — if it hasn’t already arrived — when
every dollar will matter. When you do need to spend, we strongly
encourage you to spend with locally owned businesses. Doing so
has a more positive impact on our neighbors.
One thing is almost certain — COVID-19 will usher in a new era
of austerity and will continue until we are able to resume normal
activities.
Let’s make sure we use these funds wisely.
Dispatch
The
CARTOONIST VIEW
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Voice of the people
Thinks Starkville’s withdrawal from
GTECHS is unfair
It is not fair to the students what they
are doing. They claim to do what’s best for
the students but not allowing them to finish
what they started is just not fair. As a parent
of an upcoming junior at GTECHS, I am
not pleased with their decision to end their
partnership!
Jackelynn Kent
Starkville
Open letter to Lowndes County School
Board
Amid recent events regarding GTECHS
and its partner schools, I am emailing you
to express a sentiment that I am sure the
GTECHS family would agree with me shar-
ing. GTECHS is an amazing opportunity
for students not only to get a head start on
their higher education, but also as a chance
to become part of an amazing, supportive
family that truly cares about its students,
both academically and otherwise. These
teachers and staff members have provided
us with such a welcoming environment
to learn in, and they have pushed us to
think for ourselves rather than follow the
bandwagon at the cost of our own opinions
and values. This program allowed me to
start over the social aspect of my academic
career and helped me learn to come out of
my shell and make new friendships in an en-
vironment where I felt accepted and visible,
and it has challenged me to learn through
applying my knowledge and coming to my
own conclusions with teachers who are
genuinely passionate about their subjects
and the education of their students. Ripping
away this opportunity from those already
in the program and future students looking
to apply would be devastating, as it would
come at the expense of our GTECHS family,
our learning opportunities, and our ability
to make the decision of wanting some-
thing different for our education and our
futures. These last two school years that I
have spent at GTECHS have been the best
academic experience of my lifetime, and
I implore you to consider what you would
be destroying by taking this opportunity
away from us current students and all those
future students who would never have a
chance to see what it’s like to be a part of
such a wonderful family. Thank you for your
time and consideration.
Abby Romig
GTECHS Sophomore
GTECHS is important to my daughter
as well as myself! This program has been a
great way for my daughter and her class-
mates to have opportunities they would
otherwise not had. These young women and
men have started on a path of educational
success and to take that away from them
now would be cruel, unfair and possibly
detrimental to them. I implore you PLEASE
allow GTECHS to continue at least long
enough for the ones already in the program
to complete it.
My daughter began this program in faith
that it was going to be available for her to
complete. Don’t take that away from her or
anyone else please.
Thank you so much for your understand-
ing and consideration of this very important
issue.
Callie Grant, mother of Abby Romig,
Caledonia
In this together
Would you not agree we are living
in perilous times? The coronavirus has
broadsided the entire world. Industry and
businesses large and small have closed. A
stay at home order has been issued by local
and state government except for necessary
movement for health and welfare such as
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pharmacy and groceries.
The one scary thing about this shutdown
is church’s closures. I know the “church” is
not the building, but the people. I fully under-
stand the reason for this, but I see how easy it
is to lose some of our basic rights. There are
those that tried to close gun dealers down,
but want to keep abortion clinics open. Drive
in worship services in Greenville are illegal,
but drive in liquor stores are OK. There are
those in government that have no problem
in oppressing our basic rights. We are on a
slippery slope, so we need to be careful and
watch our government.
On one hand we have seen “models” of the
epidemic from the academic scholars pre-
dicting “Armageddon.” On the other hand,
we see how wrong they were. Who do we
believe? The present administration has dealt
with this pandemic with what information
they have been given. We are in uncharted
waters with more unknowns than known
facts. I hope we can agree that on one thing:
We are all Americans and each of us can do
our part. Each day we are finding out some
positive things. America has the greatest
medical research team in the world. Finger
pointing, accusations and half truths do not
solve anything. Each of us has a part to play.
There are those that are using this crisis
to change this country not for good, but for
control. Ronald Reagan said, “Free people,
worthy of freedom and determined not only
to remain so but to help others gain their
freedom as well.” If you believe in prayer, this
is a good time to pray for our country and
each other. Together we can beat this.
God Bless America!
Lee Roy Lollar
Columbus
Asserts that letters are factual
I saw in last Fridays Dispatch that Paul
Mack seemed to be critical and compli-
mentary of my letters to The Dispatch. He
stated that when I go beyond local topics that
the facts tend to disappear. He stated I had
shown no evidence Scott Colom was backed
by George Soros. I want to make certain that
anyone who reads my letters understands
everything I put in a letter is documented,
verified and factual. I am an adult so this will
be the only time I humor him by giving him
some of the research evidence. If he takes
the time to do a little research of his own he
will find the Colom-Soros collaboration in the
following publications: The Clarion Ledger
10/15/15, New York Magazine 3/27/18,
The Commercial Dispatch 10/17/15, The
New York Times 3/30/17, Mississippi Today
8/20/18 and The Washington Post 11/9/19 to
name a few. My only dealing with Mr. Colom
was with a bad check written to my business.
His office kept the check I turned in for 30
days and returned it to me stating they would
not attempt to collect it. Forrest Allgood’s
staff always collected checks for me with a
100 percent success rate. If Colom’s office
won’t even attempt to collect a check, what
other laws do they refuse to enforce?
I have never mentioned Trump in any of
my letters or the election, but it sounds as if
you would like for me to start. I can’t change
your mind and you certainly won’t change
mine. We have a lot of problems and corrup-
tion in our city government, and I hope we
can work together to at least change this.
Kerry Blalock
Columbus
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Obama endorses Biden as the

best leader for ‘darkest times’
Former president expected to headline fundraisers pected to do so soon, according to a
person familiar with her plans who
for Biden and public events in key swing states, if spoke on condition of anonymity to
discuss her thinking.
such gatherings can still be held during pandemic Two other prominent Democrats
who have yet to publicly back Biden
BY ALEX ANDRA JAFFE, JULIE PACE gressive foil to Biden during the are former President Bill Clinton
AND BILL BARROW Democratic primary. The Vermont and Hillary Clinton, the party’s
The Associated Press senator ended his campaign last 2016 nominee. Hillary Clinton has
week and threw his support behind been in regular touch with Biden,
WA S H I N G T O N
Biden on Monday. including several times since Sand-
— Former President
The former president called ers dropped out of the race, accord-
Barack Obama en-
Sanders an “American original” ing to an aide.
dorsed Joe Biden on
and backed his frequent call for Obama avoided intervening in
Tuesday, giving the
presumptive Dem- “structural change.” But he also the Democratic primary, but fol-
ocratic presidential said that while Democrats “may not lowed the race closely from the
nominee a boost from always agree on every detail,” they sidelines and is eager to take a more
the party’s biggest Obama must unify to defeat Republicans. active public role. He’s expected to
fundraiser and one of “The Republicans occupying the headline fundraisers for Biden and
its most popular fig- White House and running the U.S. public events in key swing states,
ures. Senate are not interested in prog- if such gatherings can still be held
“Joe has the char- ress,” he said. “They’re interested given social distancing guidelines
acter and the expe- in power.” during the coronavirus pandemic.
rience to guide us Sanders reiterated his support of After his endorsement was re-
through one of our Biden on Tuesday, saying it would leased, Obama sent a fundraising
darkest times and be “irresponsible” for his own sup- appeal to Biden supporters, asking
heal us through a long Biden porters not to back the former vice for donations ranging from $5 to
recovery,” Obama said in a 12-min- president. $100.
ute video in which he argued the “I will do everything I can to help The endorsement will test wheth-
coronavirus pandemic reinforced elect Joe,” Sanders said in an inter- er Obama can transfer his personal
the need for better leadership. view. “We had a contentious cam- popularity to Biden. While the for-
The endorsement marked paign. We disagree on issues. But mer president is seen favorably by
Obama’s return to presidential pol- my job now is to not only rally my a wide swath of Democratic voters,
itics more than three years after supporters, but to do everything he was also a deeply polarizing fig-
leaving the White House. He didn’t I can to bring the party together ure during his two terms in office.
mention his successor, President to see that (Trump) is not elected During his presidency, Democrats
Donald Trump, by name and in- president.” lost about 1,000 legislative seats
stead sought to bridge the ideologi- Elizabeth Warren is the only for- around the country, starting with
cal divide among Democrats. mer Democratic presidential candi- disastrous 2010 midterms that also
Obama commended Bernie date who hasn’t yet backed Biden. cost the party control of the House
Sanders, who was the leading pro- The Massachusetts senator is ex- and many statehouses.

Far-right US politicians label lockdowns anti-constitutional

‘Quarantine is only supposed to be issued just before his own
caucus exiled him.
vaccine becomes avail-
able.
for sick people not mandatory for After Washington state
Gov. Jay Inslee issued the
“Quarantine is only
supposed to be for sick
healthy law abiding people’ earliest U.S. mandatory people not mandatory for
healthy law abiding peo-
Washington Rep. Matt Shea closing of schools and
businesses, Shea ques- ple,” Shea wrote on Face-
BY NICHOLAS K. constitutional actions tioned whether Inslee book. “Otherwise consti-
GERANIOS against United States cit- would use the state’s Na- tutionally and legally that
The Associated Press izens,” according to a De- tional Guard to enforce starts creeping into mar-
cember report into Shea’s his orders and if he would tial law territory.”
SPOKANE, Wash. force inoculation of resi-
activities paid for by the
— In deeply conserva- dents after a coronavirus
Washington state House
tive eastern Washington
state, a prominent state
lawmaker kicked out of
his Republican Party cau-
cus labels the coronavirus
as a foreign bio-weapon,
accuses Marxists of using
the pandemic to advance
totalitarianism and rails
against lockdown restric-
tions imposed by the
Democratic governor.
A California teleconfer-
ence last week to consider
sport fishing limits in ru-
ral areas unprepared to
handle influxes of anglers
descended into chaos
— with callers branding
state officials as “fascists”
and declaring it was time
to “make fishing great
again.”
Across the U.S., elect-
ed officials from Pennsyl-
vania to Oklahoma suspi-
cious of big government
and outraged with orders
to close churches, gun
stores and other business-
es deemed non-essen-
tial insist that the public
health response is being
used as an excuse to tram-
ple constitutional rights.
The shutdowns rein-
force long-held beliefs by
some that governments
would eventually use a na-
tional emergency to limit
civil liberties and the vit-
riol is particularly strong
across the pine forests
of eastern Washington
state — where conserva-
tive Rep. Matt Shea is a
co-founder of the Coali-
tion of Western States, a
loose federation of poli-
ticians suspicious of big
government, plus militia
supporters.
Its goal is to “stop un-

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Ivy
Continued from Page 1A
“The first thing that
happened was that I lost
my sense of smell and
taste,” he said. “That Sun-
day after I got back from
New York, I was taking a
drink of some sweet tea. It
tasted like sugar water. I
remember thinking, ‘This
is the worst sweet tea I’ve
ever tasted in my life.’”
Ivy assumed the loss of
taste and smell might be
pollen-related or, perhaps
a nasal infection. He treat-
ed it with over-the-count-
er sinus medicine and
never gave it a thought.
It wasn’t until four days
later, on March 19, that he
realized there was some-
thing more serious going
on.
“I was working at home
that day and began to feel
a little light-headed and
dizzy,” he said. “Then I
started getting chills, so
I took my temperature. It
was 100.4. That’s when I
called the clinic.”
After talking to some-
one at a local clinic, Ivy
went in for a visit the next
day where he was test-
ed for strep throat and
flu, both of which came
back negative. He still
hadn’t developed a cough,
though, but the clinic did
test him for COVID-19,
then sent him home with
orders to self-quarantine.
The results came back
on March 24, confirming
that Ivy had COVID-19.
Upon confirmation,
Ivy’s thoughts turned to
his wife Abby, whom he
married in December.
“By the time I knew
I had it, we had been at
home together for nine
or 10 days,” he said.
“Our apartment here in
Starkville is only 480
square feet, so I knew she
had been exposed.”
Abby never showed
symptoms, though. Now,
more than four weeks
after Sam’s return from
New York — well beyond
the 14-day period when vi-
rus carriers are believed
to be most contagious —
she still hasn’t shown any
symptoms.
Symptoms vary
Ivy said he didn’t show
other signs common to
the virus — coughing,
shortness of breath, tight-
ness in his chest — until
the day he got his test re-
sults back.
Dr. Jim Woodard of Al-
legro Clinic in Columbus
said Ivy’s story emphasiz-
es that there is no single
symptom that indicates
the virus.
Symptoms can vary
and can present at differ-
ent times, Woodard said.
“We haven’t had a
COVID-19 case yet (at
Allegro),” Woodard said,
“but I’ve been reading
a lot about what’s been
happening in other plac-
es. I’ve read about the
loss of sense and smell.
The things we look for
in the virus are the re-
spiratory symptoms —
fever, cough, shortness
of breath, but from what
I’ve read, other symptoms
are sometimes present
and the symptoms don’t
necessarily present at the
same time with each pa-
tient.”
Woodard said the un-
certainty of how the virus
presents itself should be a
sign for people to be more
active in seeking medical
care.
“I’d say it’s better to
over-react than under-re-
act,” he said.
Ivy said he and his wife
extended their self-quar-
antine for five days past
the health department’s
recommendation.
“We wanted to be extra
cautious,” he said.
He said none of the stu-
dents who traveled with
him appear to have con-
tracted the virus.
“There was one stu-
dent who did test, but the
results came back nega-
tive,” he said.
Ivy counts that as a
blessing.
“I’m 24 and in good
health,” he said. “But
since March 15, I was
carrying the virus unbe-
knownst to me. Working
in ministry, it’s not hard
for me to come across
people who are at a high-
er risk. I’m thankful that
I was cautious and had
information and took it
seriously. I realize how
dangerous it could have
been.”

Grocery stores
Continued from Page 1A
Among
the restric-
tions, Smith
required all
food store
e m p l oye e s
to wear
masks and
other pro- Smith
tection gear while work-
ing within six feet of cus-
tomers. Stores must also
set up measuring mark-
ers and signage to re-
mind customers to keep
six feet from each other.
Some stores had al-
ready had similar policies
in place, while others
worked Tuesday to enact
those measures by the
end of day deadline.
Dan Price, manager
at Food Giant, previous-
ly told The Dispatch em-
ployees were not required
to wear masks before the
mayor-issued regula-
tions. Markers are now in
place, and signs remind-
ing customers to keep a
safe distance are set up at
every checkout lane.
Joe Murphy, who
shopped at the Sunflower
Food Store on Military
Road weeks ago, said
there have been some
changes compared to
his last time there. Em-
ployees weren’t wearing
masks back then as they
are now, he said, and the
store on Tuesday made
announcements on air
about social distancing.
“It was refreshing to
hear that … the store is
taking serious measures
in following the federal
guidelines as well as the
city of Columbus,” Mur-
phy said.
However, other cus-
tomers on Tuesday ex-
pressed mixed feelings
about the policies that
were put in place to pro-
tect them.
At Walmart, fences
were set up weeks ago
at both entrances to sep-
arate customers going in
and out of the store, with
a yellow line drawn be-
tween two lanes, employ-
ees said. Signs hung on
the line said, “Thank you
Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff
Donna Gainer returns her shopping cart as she finished loading her car with grocer-
ies she bought at Kroger Tuesday afternoon. Gainer said the regulations in place
make her feel safer out shopping.
The requirement that
employees should wear
masks proved assuring
to Kelly Thompson and
Paula Fuller, who were on
their way to the Food Gi-
ant on Tuesday.
“They are around
more people than we
(are),” Fuller said. “It
makes you feel safer.”
Donna Gainer, a Kro-
ger shopper, said she sup-
ported the restrictions
Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff on food stores, especially
Food Giant now requires all employees to wear masks those requiring employ-
and has signs promoting social distancing in place fol-
ees to wear masks and
lowing a set of regulations Mayor Robert Smith imple-
mented Monday. gloves.
“I feel just a little bit
for practicing social dis- However, he said, social safer,” Gainer said.
tancing. Please keep at distancing at the counter Although she believes
least 6 ft. apart,” and the felt pointless. in taking precautionary
number of customers that “We shouldn’t have to measures during the pan-
can be in the store at one stand back that far,” he demic, Gainer said, she
time has been limited, said. finds comfort in her faith.
well before Smith’s edict And despite the rising “I think God is in con-
issued this week. number of infections and trol,” Gainer said. “That
Scott said the fences deaths from the coronavi- lessens my anxiety a lot.”
around Walmart entranc- rus pandemic, Scott said
es seemed inconvenient he did not feel it is as se-
and unnecessary. rious as conventional wis-
“You got to walk dom has claimed it to be.
around the whole thing “(The government is)
just to get inside the making a big deal and
store,” he said. “I feel like they are scaring people,”
that’s a waste of time.” he said.
Employees who han- But many more
dle food for customers deemed the new regula-
should wear masks, Scott tions helpful to ensure
said, to prevent spitting their safety during the
or talking over the food. pandemic.

Mississippi woman gives $1,200

stimulus check to food pantry
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAY ST LOUIS —
A woman donated the
$1,200 relief check she
received from the federal
government to a Missis-
sippi food pantry amid the
coronavirus pandemic.
Sheron Lambert gave
the one-time stimulus
payment to the Hancock
County Food Pantry,
WLOX-TV reported Tues-
day. The checks are part
of the $2.2 trillion eco-
nomic recovery bill that
will give a $1,200 payout
to individuals and $2,400
to married couples. Par-
ents are also set to receive
an additional $500 per
child.
Lambert said she
doesn’t need the money
and gifted it to the pantry
to help feed hungry peo-
ple in the county. “That’s
what we all need to do,”
she said. “Open our
hearts first.”
Sandra Roberts, a vol-
unteer at the pantry, said
she got “chills” after see-
ing Lambert’s donation.
“She felt like we needed it
more than she needed it,”
she said. Aside from Lam-
bert’s monetary donation,
Roberts said they have
been getting food dona-
tions from other places,
including military bases
and Walmart.
Mississippians over
60-years-old are allowed
to pick up food once a
month from the pantry,
while those under that
age can get food every
three months. Roberts
said everyday foods, in-
cluding peanut butter, are
one of their most expen-
sive purchases.
According to the state’s
Health Department, there
have been 3,087 coronavi-
rus cases and 111 deaths
in Mississippi.

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‘I WANT TO BE PLAYING ON THE LAST DAY EVERY SEASON’
McCray-Penson’s identity will be layered, but her expectations are clear
Nikki McCray-Penson was officially introduced as Mississippi State’s new head coach in a virtual press conference Tuesday. Stops under Pat
Summitt, Dawn Staley and others have given the former Old Dominion coach varying systems and ideas to forge her own path in Starkville.
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com
STARKVILLE — Nik-
ki McCray-Penson isn’t
shying away from expec-
tations. Then again, why
would she?
As a player, Mc-
Cray-Penson twice
earned SEC Player of the
Year honors under Pat
Summitt at Tennessee.
She was a three-time
WNBA All-Star and won
gold medals at the 1996
and 2000 Olympic games
with Team USA.
Jumping into her
coaching career in 2006,
success followed. As an
assistant at Western Ken-
tucky, the Hilltopers won
the 2008 Sun Belt Tour-
nament title and reached
the semifinals of the 2007
WNIT. A nine-year run
at South Carolina under
Dawn Staley brought the
Gamecocks four SEC reg-
ular-season titles, three
conference tournament
championships and the
2017 national title as well.
Finally, in her first
MISSISSIPPI STATE SOFTBALL
Catching up with MSU signee Taylor Middlebrook
BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
Taylor Middlebrook
is ready to forge her own
path.
In November, when the
star infielder from Doug-
lasville, Georgia, signed
to play
softball at
Mississippi
State, she
listed her
intended
major as
marketing. Middlebrook
That’s no
longer the plan.
Middlebrook’s mother
Marcia is a surgical tech-
nologist at WellStar Doug-
MISSISSIPPI STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
head coaching job at Old
Dominion, McCray-Pen-
son breathed life into a
program that had looked
lifeless since legendary
coach Wendy Larry left in
2011 — guiding the Mon-
archs to a 13-win turn-
around in 2019 before
winning the Conference
USA regular season title
this past year.
“We’re going to have an identity where we step out on
the court, and teams are going to know that, but it’s
going to be a fun, exciting brand of basketball.”
But now at Mississip-
pi State — a school that
has reached two national
title games and one Elite
Eight over the past four
years — McCray-Penson
isn’t settling for her past
success. Rather, she’s em-
bracing the future chal-
lenge of greatness.
“We talked to many in
this industry,” MSU Ath-
letic Director John Cohen
said in his opening state-
ment. “Everyone said the
las Hospital, and the Alex-
ander High School senior
has always been partial to
the medical field. So she
decided on a new major
for her time in Starkville:
biological sciences, along
the pre-med track.
But Middlebrook
wants to work with ba-
bies, she said, as she
hopes to carve out her
own niche rather than fol-
low her mom’s trail.
“I feel like this year,
I really became my own
person and figured out
what I actually want to
do,” Middlebrook said.
The slick-fielding, ver-
satile infielder is awaiting
the start of her collegiate
same thing — there was
incredibly high praise for
Nikki’s competitiveness,
her personality, her abili-
ty to recruit, her attention
to detail and her ability to
break down the game of
basketball.”
Speaking with the me-
dia via teleconference on
Tuesday, McCray-Pen-
son was introduced as
the eighth head wom-
en’s basketball coach
in school history. And
while the over-30-minute
session was littered with
questions on assistant
coaching hires and next
moves in recruiting, the
former Tennessee stand-
out’s answers on team
identity and future suc-
cess offered a glimpse
into MSU’s newest bench
boss.
For McCray-Penson,
career, and the mentality
she espoused will likely
serve her well on a skilled
— and crowded — Bull-
dogs roster.
Mississippi State went
25-3 before its season end-
ed due to the COVID-19
coronavirus pandemic,
and the NCAA recently
ruled that all 23 Bulldogs
are entitled to an extra
year of eligibility. Four of
the team’s five seniors are
set to come back, along
with Middlebrook’s fellow
2020 signees: Addison
Purvis and Kylie Taylor.
That’s a lot of return-
ing talent — but Middle-
brook, who said she could
see herself starting right
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her team’s identity will
be layered with influenc-
es. Stops under Summitt,
Staley, former WKU head
coach and current Geor-
gia Tech head coach Nell
Fortner, among others,
have given her varying
systems and ideas to
forge her own path.
She also noted the
dribble-drive offense
Nikki McCray-Penson
Vic Schaefer pioneered
during his eight years
in Starkville has its own
influences in her team’s
play.
But for all the outside
ideas McCray-Penson has
endured in her over three
decades in the game, she
wants her teams to mimic
her own playing style, one
that boils down to three
words: fast, pressure and
hard-working.
As a player at Tennes-
away, isn’t fazed.
“(C)oming in, it’s gon-
na be a fight,” she said. “I
feel like it doesn’t really
matter. The best of the
best should play.”
Based on her high
school resume, the in-
coming freshman can
list herself in that elite
group. She hit .589 with
12 home runs in her soph-
omore season at Chapel
Hill High School in Doug-
lasville and opened her
junior season with four
homers and nine doubles
in just her first 10 games
at Alexander.
But it’s Middlebrook’s
defensive skills that
helped her earn all-state
Josh Lucas/ODU Athletics
see, her transition took
time. McCray-Penson
would frequently show
up late to team activi-
ties. Summitt was fed up.
Even McCray-Penson’s
mother, Sally Coleman,
got involved. But when
it clicked, it clicked. She
was an all-American her
junior and senior year.
Her aforementioned pro-
fessional career followed.
McCray-Penson devel-
oped a discipline and
devotion to her craft that
she hopes to instill in her
players today.
“If you’ve ever seen me
play, I did the little things,
and I took a lot of pride in
that,” she said Tuesday.
“If you’ve watched our
team at Old Dominion,
we were a team that’s
going to play very fast.
We’re going to put a lot
of pressure on you. We’re
going to have an identity
where we step out on the
court, and teams are go-
ing to know that, but it’s
going to be a fun, exciting
See COACH, 2B
honors three times and
garner a No. 42 ranking
on Extra Inning Softball’s
2020 prospect list.
“Taylor is a LSU, Arkansas and other
smooth-fielding infielder
with a great glove that can
play middle infield as well
as third base,” Mississip-
pi State coach Samantha
Ricketts said in a press re-
lease when Middlebrook
signed with the Bulldogs.
“She is athletic with great
speed and has a knack
for coming up with clutch
hits on the biggest stages.
She has definitely shown
that she is the type of hit-
ter you want up with the
game on the line against
some of the nation’s best
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SECTION
Former MSU
DL Lovett
will transfer
to Florida St.
Ex-Mississippi State
defensive lineman Fabien
Lovett announced Mon-
day that he will transfer to
Florida State.
Lovett initially tweet-
ed April
3 that he
was leaving
MSU, after
respond-
ing with
“Wtf” to a
s i n c e - d e - Lovett
leted tweet
from new
head coach Mike Leach
depicting a woman knit-
ting a noose for her hus-
band.
The redshirt freshman
from Olive Branch has
three years of eligibility
remaining and will be a
sophomore for the Semi-
noles in 2020.
Lovett will join former
Mississippi State defen-
sive run game coordina-
tor and linebackers coach
Chris Marve, who left
Starkville for Tallahassee
in the offseason.
Caledonia in search of
new basketball coach
Caledonia High School
is in the market for a new
boys and girls head bas-
ketball coach following
the retirement of former
coach Gary Griffin.
Griffin, who took over
both programs at Caledo-
nia in May 2017, retired
in March, he told The
Dispatch. He also taught
driver’s education at Cale-
donia.
He had been the head
boys basketball coach at
Columbus High School
from August 2016 to
May 2017 before being
replaced by Anthony Car-
lyle. Before that, Griffin
was an assistant with the
Falcons for 16 years.
Caledonia put a listing
on the Mississippi High
School Activities Associ-
ation’s online job board
on Tuesday, seeking a
basketball coach who
can teach social studies
or driver’s education. In-
terested applicants can
contact Gregory Elliott at
gregory.elliott@lowndes.
k12.ms.us or (662) 356-
2003.
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Special Reports
pitchers.”
Middlebrook told The
Dispatch that she chose
Mississippi State over
interested schools, cit-
ing the Bulldogs’ “fami-
ly-based program.”
“The coaches have a
relationship with the play-
ers,” she said. “I felt like
I could talk to my coach
about anything other than
softball. That’s really
what was most important
to me during my recruit-
ment process.”
Middlebrook commit-
ted to Mississippi State
when she was a freshman
at Chapel Hill and Vann
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NFL
Former NFL execs Polian, Kirwan look ahead to strange draft
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bill Polian ran many an
NFL draft, making him
the main man in the room
for several successful
franchises.
Next week, the Pro
Football Hall of Famer
knows who the guys in
demand will be for all 32
teams: the techs.
“I would say simply, I-T,
I-T, I-T,” Polian explains.
“Make sure from the out-
set your communication
is seamless and flawless.
If you can get the name
of the pick in on time and
can effectuate trades, the
rest of it is relatively easy.
“If there are glitches
in communications, for
example as we saw in the
early stages of the pan-
demic, with Zoom and
other platforms, that is a
problem. What happens
if you can’t communicate
and the clock is running
out? It’s up to the I-T
guys at both the club and
league to make sure that
everything works — and
that they have a fail-safe.
“If I were running a
club,” adds the man who
built the Bills, Colts and
Panthers through the
draft, “I’d take a little
more time to make sure
I rehearsed everything
for the actual draft. We
would always make sure
all the communications
work and everything lines
up, but do it all in spades
now. Don’t take for grant-
ed they will work.”
The league and teams
say they are ensuring
Softball
Continued from Page 1B
Taylor Middlebrook bends down to field a ground ball during Alexander High School’s senior night game against
Bremen on Sept. 16 in Douglasville, Georgia. Extra Inning Softball named the MSU signee its No. 42 prospect.
Stuedeman headed up
the Bulldogs, but when
Stuedeman and the school
parted ways last summer,
Middlebrook was uncer-
tain of who would replace
her.
“I was kind of scared in
between, not knowing if
coach Ricketts was gonna
be the coach or not,” she
said. “I’m actually really
glad that coach Ricketts
got the job.”
This spring, as Rick-
etts excelled in her first
year at the helm, Mid-
Coach
Continued from Page 1B
brand of basketball.”
As for expectations,
McCray-Penson was
open about her vision.
In a brief spiel, she laud-
ed Schaefer for his ele-
vation of the Bulldogs
from SEC doormat to
perennial Final Four
contender. Now making
the program her own,
If you don’t read The Dispatch, how are you gonna know?
that everything will run
smoothly, and a mock
draft will be held soon as
a test. But really, this is
uncharted territory. NFL
teams are in a sea of un-
certainty as they prepare
for a draft like no other.
The collection of infor-
mation has been strong,
but hardly as thorough as
in normal times. Cancel-
lations of pro days, in-per-
son visits and workouts at
team headquarters, and
in-depth medical exams
by team doctors adverse-
ly affect preparation for
each franchise.
That said, Polian and
former NFL executive
Pat Kirwan point directly
to team scouts who, like
every other year, were on
the road gathering data
since last summer. So
clubs with the strongest
personnel staffs, who usu-
ally have an edge heading
into the draft, could have
an even bigger advantage.
But as Kirwan points
out, the logistical limita-
tions caused by the coro-
navirus pandemic could
outweigh some of that
diligence — particular-
ly in attempting to make
trades.
“Trading, which has
become a bigger part of
the draft than ever, be-
comes problematic,” says
Kirwan, who like Polian is
an analyst for SiriusXM,
which will cover every
selection in the seven
rounds from April 23-25.
“Say we are all in a
room and three guys are
working phones, trying
dlebrook was watching.
She bought a FloSoftball
account to watch tourna-
ment games on her iPad,
and she even made a
few trips to Starkville —
roughly three and a half
hours away — to watch
early-season games at
Nusz Park.
“I love watching it, but
it’s like, ‘I want to be out
there, too,’” Middlebrook
said.
She bonded with cur-
rent Mississippi State
freshmen Kiki Edwards,
McCray-Penson inherits
a team that should be a
top-10 squad national-
ly entering the 2020 -21
season — whenever that
may be given the ongo-
ing COVID-19 crisis. But
for the first-year head
coach, two things are for
certain based on Tues-
day’s teleconference:
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to get the best deal. The ly, I get that, but it pro-
decision maker, he is not vides a respite from the
going to have the visual terrible news that comes
contact with them that he repeatedly, and in lots of
usually has. How fast can cases has changed the
they respond to make the lives of our fellow citi-
move? zens. Anything you can
“Take Pete Carroll do to lighten the burden
and John Schneider (in is probably a good thing.”
Seattle). They’re in sepa- From a football sense,
rate rooms and they have though, Kirwan wonders
three guys making phone
why a potential delay
calls in other places and
wasn’t in the NFL’s game
a salary cap guy in their
ear. There’s a lot of pres-
sure that goes into that
plan.
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actually staging the draft ed it (adversely). that each row, each
level increases from
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a delay into May at least, the same number only once. The difficulty level
ran a draft. I respect that
something the owners increases from Monday to Sunday.
we are in an entertain-
shot down quickly. Could ment business. But the
there be competitive ad- GMs were told to shut up,
vantages for some teams basically. I want to know
by maintaining the status where the impetus was,
quo? who thinks the show must
“It’s largely moot
go on? It shows a lack of
because it isn’t being
real understanding of the
pushed back,” Polian
moment.
says. “In a certain sort of
offbeat sense, it is proba- “If I hear level playing
bly a good thing to have field one more time. ...
now. While it is trivial in Take two teams where the
the extreme compared to biggest decision maker
what is going on every- gets the virus and can’t
where, it takes people’s make the decisions. What
minds off the news they is the thought process
are hearing. and policy if that hap-
“There is an argument pens? That part of it does
that players getting these not create a level playing
rich contracts is unseem- field.”
ACROSS
1 Dumbstruck
7 Unwanted
email
11 Lively dance
12 Longing
13 Acts the
usher
14 Tooth part
15 Start a round
17 Plays the
ponies
20 Bank job
23 Director
DuVernay
24 Brown in the
funnies
26 Kinsey topic
27 Lobed organ 2 “The Simp- returns
28 Seventh sons” bartender 21 Crunch kin
Greek letter 3 Stout relative 22 League
Courtesy of Caitlyn Hackney
29 Blow up 4 Lemon rind members
31 Mai tai base strips 24 Put a stop to
32 Pigs’ digs 5 Lake near 25 Bowler, for
33 Nile snakes Buffalo one
Desiree Lewis and Madi- she said. “They truly de- 34 Looked 6 Finished 30 Latitude
syn Kennedy — the Bull- served to finish out, and I lewdly 7 Wave rider 33 Rework
dogs’ starter at shortstop feel like they would have 37 Hearty dish 8 Serial crime 35 Take in
this season — from their finished out on top.” 39 Track bet investigators 36 Trade show
time together in the Bir- She’ll come to campus 43 Wife of Zeus 9 In the past 37 That woman
mingham Thunderbolts in the fall, expecting her
44 Show up 10 Got together 38 Brewed
travel ball organization. 45 Relaxed 16 Midwest beverage
time at Mississippi State 46 Packing a
With the players — airport 40 Bee follower
to be “fun, challenging punch
who are “like sisters,” 17 Grounds 41 Leather hue
(and) different” — and 18 Calendar 42 Museum
she said — Middlebrook
shared the highs of the hoping for even more suc- DOWN entry focus
best season in school his- cess in 2021 than the Bull- 1 Crunch targets 19 Folks with
tory and the lows of its dogs enjoyed this spring.
abrupt and devastating “We were set up this
end. year, and we’re gonna be
“They all worked so really set up next year,”
hard this offseason,” Middlebrook said.
Her team’s identity will it fits me and my person-
mimic her own, and the ality, but I’m a compet-
sky-high expectations itor. In my DNA is win-
will be embraced. ning championships. I
“I took a really good want to be playing on the
blueprint from Tennes- last day every season.
see, from South Car- That is a beautiful thing.
olina, and I took that I know what it feels like.
to Old Dominion,” Mc- I know what it tastes
Cray-Penson said. “I like, and it’s a beautiful
kind of shaped it the way thing.”

NASCAR
Larson fired after sponsors walk over slur
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOT TE, N.C.
— As sponsor after spon-
sor dropped Kyle Larson
after he used a racial slur
during a live-streamed
virtual race, his NASCAR
team owner was backed
into a corner.
Chip Ganassi could let
McDonald’s and Credit
One Bank and Chevrolet
pull their funding and
bankrupt his team, or he
could cut ties with the
driver he had plucked
from sprint car racing
and groomed into an elite
stock car driver.
It was essentially out of
Ganassi’s hands.
He fired the 27-year-
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MALLARD FILLMORE
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old Larson on Tuesday could ultimately be an
in what he described as eight-figure blunder.
“an emotional call” — the Larson loses his 2020
only move possible to sta- salary plus the massive
bilize his organization. payday expected from his
“I told Kyle he can next contract. If he even-
come back from this; he tually lands with another
can even come back from team, it will surely be at a
this with our team,” Ga- far discounted rate than
nassi told The Associated the value he had built
Press. “But there really since moving full-time to
wasn’t any choice.” NASCAR in 2013.
Larson’s stunning The unraveling be-
downfall took less than gan Sunday night when
48 hours, unusual in its Larson appeared to lose
details and coming with communication on his
sports everywhere basi- headset with his spotter
cally shutdown during while competing in one of
the coronavirus pandem- the iRacing virtual events
ic. The most coveted up- that have grown in popu-
coming free agent in NA- larity during the sports
SCAR lost almost every hiatus.
sponsor he had in what During a check of his
FAMILY CIRCUS
microphone, he asked his
spotter, “You can’t hear
me?” That was followed
by the N-word. The slur
was directed at his spot-
ter, who is white.
He was suspended
without pay by Ganassi
Monday, then suspended
indefinitely by NASCAR.
Larson, who is half Japa-
nese, was ordered to com-
plete sensitivity training,
but primary sponsors Mc-
Donald’s and Credit One
Bank pulled their support
within hours. Chevrolet
suspended its relation-
ship with Larson, and all
but one commercial part-
ner indicated they were
walking away.
Without funding on the
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EAR ABBY:
I live in a
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populated luxury
high-rise apart-
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that has a diverse
mix of residents.
I have lived here
for four years and
have never really
had many issues,
until recently.
My next-door
neighbor works
in the medical
Dear Abby
field that at times
has very late or early hours
associated with it. I also work
in a field that has odd hours,
so I am empathetic. My issue
is, she has a new boyfriend
she is intimate with anywhere
between 2 and 4 a.m. I am a
light sleeper and get awak-
ened by their sessions togeth-
er. I can hear her voice and at
times, jostling of furniture.
I have thought about telling
the building management, but
it would be obvious that the
complaint would have come
from me, and I don’t want that.
I also don’t want to cause
embarrassment to either of
us. How can I address this
delicately, without causing em-
barrassment, or must I suck it
up and suffer? — SLEEPLESS
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DEAR SLEEPLESS: Write
your neighbor a sweet note
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April
15). Good enough isn’t good
enough for you this year. You’re
going for greatness on all
levels, starting with improving a
relationship or striking up a new
one that makes your personal
life sing. Your work dynamic will
change, allowing you to develop
talents and devote more of your
time to what matters to you.
Gemini and Cancer adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 8, 33,
2, 22 and 18.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Make it a point to get more sup-
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No. 42 Chevrolet as long
as Larson was in the car,
Ganassi had to act. Ross
Chastain, under contract
as a development driver
for Ganassi, will likely
replace Larson whenever
racing resumes.
“After much consider-
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ing has determined that
it will end its relationship
with driver Kyle Larson,”
Ganassi said in a state-
ment. “As we said before,
the comments that Kyle
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and unacceptable espe-
cially given the values of
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explaining the
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ask if there is
anything she can
do to muffle the
sounds you are
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be something as
simple as moving
her bed away
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placing it against
a different one.)
However, if she’s
uncooperative,
as a last resort,
do discuss your
problem with
the building
manager. I assure you, it won’t
be the first time he or she has
heard something like this, or
the last.
DEAR ABBY: I suffer from
a moderate to severe case of
social anxiety. I’m now in my
first relationship with a partner
who tends to move fast, and
whose parents have recently
been asking to meet me. This
has caused tension in our
relationship as well as in his
relationship with his parents.
Because of some past
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I don’t like feeling vulnerable,
especially with people who
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who have had the opportunity to
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
Your daily life doesn’t automati-
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something you have to add.
You’ll go out of your way to show
people you value them.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
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and drama. Be open to breaking
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of interacting that serve every-
one better.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
The norms go out the window
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obvious that this was the
only appropriate course of
action to take.”
Larson apologized in a
video posted on his social
media accounts.
“I made a mistake, said
the word that should nev-
er, ever be said,” Larson
said. “There is no excuse
for that. I wasn’t raised
that way. It is just an aw-
ful thing to say. I feel very
sorry for my family, my
friends, my partners, the
NASCAR community and
especially the African
American community.
“I understand the dam-
age is probably unrepair-
able, and I own up to that.”
etc., and I’m on the verge of
tears or already crying.
I know I’ll have to meet his
parents someday, but I don’t
know how to approach it. I
feel overwhelmed just thinking
about it. Please help. — SO-
CIALLY ANXIOUS
DEAR SOCIALLY ANXIOUS:
I hope you are receiving
professional help for your
social anxiety. You should not
approach meeting your part-
ner’s parents with a negative
attitude. Smile, put your best
foot forward and try to make a
good impression.
Keep in mind that this is
not a performance review, a
professor you need to give
you a good grade or anyone in
authority. They are parents of
a son whose past judgment
about partners may have
been less than stellar, and of
course they have concerns.
It would be nice if they
thought the moon rose and set
on you, but if they don’t, will
it affect your relationship with
your partner? If the answer is
yes, then he may not be ma-
ture and independent enough
to be having a romance with
anyone. Hold a good thought
and stop hiding out.
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also known
as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline
Phillips. Contact Dear Abby
at www.DearAbby.com or P.O.
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when originators are in the
room. You’re such a person.
Your fresh ideas are just part
of the package that comes with
you. You won’t even realize how
creative you’re being.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You’ve extended yourself.
You’ve worked hard to learn,
get hands-on experience and
see what others needed you
to see. Now it’s your turn to be
understood and to let people in
on what you’re dealing with.
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You were eager for good to tri-
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it’s not so much about good and
evil as it is about power and
how a game is played. Rules will
get broken by all sides.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You’ve tuned into the whispers
of trends and dramas. These
are soft words that are not to be
taken too seriously as they can
so easily drift when the wind
blows a different direction.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
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that everyone has a void. As
much as you’d like to fill in the
blanks and supply what’s need-
ed, don’t rush to do so. More
listening and understanding
must happen first.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
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challenge, money or joy, then
what does it bring you? Your
answer to this question may
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of your life.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
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Even once an hour is too much.
Precautions taken to make
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wasting your hours.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
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natural impressionability work
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eyes, mind and experiences
with beauty and you become
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Tuna,
my quarantine go-to
culinary.net
Orange eggs Benedict with hollanda-
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Try this
for a gourmet
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kip the cereal and frozen
foods for a spread like these
orange eggs Benedict with
a homemade hollandaise sauce.
With six servings, it’s perfect for a
family breakfast at home.
Find more breakfast recipes at
culinary.net.

ORANGE EGGS BENEDICT

Serves: 6

Orange hollandaise:
2 egg yolks
1 orange, juice only
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
Water
1 tablespoon white vinegar
6 eggs
stanly.ces.ncsu.edu/medinsteadofmeds.com 1/2 cup butter, softened
Versatile tuna can play a leading role while we’re making more meals at home. Bell peppers, red onion and olives are 6 French baguette slices, 3/4-inch thick
just three flavorful ingredients in this Mediterranean tuna salad. Customize it by substituting other favorite veggies. each
6 thick slices ham
BY JAN SWOOPE 1/2 cup orange marmalade
jswoope@cdispatch.com Orange zest, for garnish

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n To make orange hollandaise: In small
“ eek 5,” I wrote in bowl, add egg yolks, orange juice and
Sunday’s square on the salt. Blend until combined. Gradually
hanging calendar in add melted butter into egg mixture while
the hallway at home. Each Sun- blending. Set aside.
n In skillet, add water halfway up sides.
day square for the past few weeks Add vinegar. Bring to simmer. Break eggs
bears a similar proclamation into water to poach. Cook 3-4 minutes
— Week 1, Week 2, and so on — until whites are cooked through and
marking the passage of time since yolks are still runny. Using slotted spoon,
remove eggs and drain on paper towels.
this coronavirus began changing n Spread butter on one side of bread
our daily routines. For many of slices. Place bread in skillet and cook un-
us, a colossal change is that we’re til golden brown. Add ham to same skillet
home. And as much as we love and cook until browned on both sides..
home, 24/7 home is almost more
n To assemble, spread bread slices with
orange marmalade. Top each with one
home than we bargained for. That slice cooked ham and one poached egg.
kind of home means three meals Pour hollandaise over eggs and garnish
to fix every day. By Week 5, it with orange zest.
means blankly gazing into kitchen
pantries and freezers, wondering
how to avoid making the same
thing ad nauseum. (And asking
ourselves what to do with that can
of beets we bought because it was Nutritious
the last lonely canned vegetable on
the grocery shelf. Or, is that just
me?)
eating at home
Beets aside, I’ve come to realize familyfeatures.com FAMILY FEATURES
that humble tuna has emerged

as sort of a steady-Eddie in my
quarantine cuisine. First and
foremost, my husband and I really
like tuna salad. Second, I stocked
up on packets of tuna (so much
easier than the cans, in my opin-
ion). Third, without much effort, I
can pretend I’ve done something
special by adding chopped pe-
cans, grapes or apples, or even a
bit of Cajun seasoning. Or make
a version with salt, pepper, dried
BUTTER TOGETHER
Tuna-carrot cakes with garlic lemon aioli take less than a half hour to prepare.
minced onion flakes (or onion pow-
der) and garlic powder. Or maybe
next time add a splash of lemon
juice to brighten things up. Versa-
tile tuna can go so many different
ways. A prominent brand of tuna
packets even makes it easy for us,
offering variations like Thai deli
style tuna, hot buffalo style tuna
and lemon dill flavored tuna.
If you’re in a tuna rut at your
I
24/7 home, here are a couple of
recipes that might wake things
up. The first is a Mediterranean
tuna salad full of veggies. Use it
on sandwiches or on top of greens.
Customize it with your favorite
vegetables. The second recipe is a
tuna-carrot cake with garlic lemon
aioli. Both of these can vanquish
same-ole, same-ole.
See TUNA, 5B
f spending additional time in
the comfort of your home has
you rethinking the family menu
and looking for new ways to enjoy
nutritional meals, rest assured
you can make better-for-you food
choices without losing mouthwa-
tering taste.
Easy, efficient at-home recipes
like Thai coconut lime freezer
chicken, burrito beef and cauli
mac and cheese can all be made in
less than an hour while reducing
the intake of carbs and unnec-
essary sugars. All are part of a
balanced Atkins low-carb life-
style, a long-term, healthy eating
approach focused on high-fiber
carbohydrates, optimal protein

How to use it up
and healthy fats.
The eating approach, which
is a more flexible version of the

I
popular ketogenic diet, offers a
am trying to bacon from was mighty thin and ugly, responsibility than ever
balanced mix of foods containing
squeeze all breakfast, but it tasted good. before to “use it up, wear
fiber-rich and nutrient-dense
the life out spinach, and And I have the leftover it out, make it do, or do
carbohydrates while focusing on
of every crumb Colby jack. ham bone simmering away without.” reduced levels of refined carbo-
and scrap that Mine included in the slow cooker right This recipe is hands- hydrates, added sugars and the
comes into our leftover taco now with a few potatoes. It down one of my favorite “hidden sugar effect” – when car-
home from the meat, peppers will become loaded potato ways to do that. It’s a bohydrates convert to sugar when
grocery store. and onions, and soup for tonight’s dinner. version of fried rice, but digested. You don’t see the sugar,
Julia and I pepper jack Thank goodness our I prefer to think of it as but your body does.
made quiches cheese. awesome local grocery “scrambled rice” because Introducing your family to
a few nights We’ve made workers are working it really is not as formal or smarter food choices can also
ago using the Amelia Plair egg scrambles around the clock to be strict as the dish you might support your immunity. According
proportions of out of leftover sure shelves are restocked, buy from your favorite Chi- to research published in “The
meat, vegeta- potatoes au or I’d really feel like I was nese restaurant. The taste American Journal of Clinical Nu-
ble, cheese, and egg we gratin and Easter ham. turning into Laura Ingalls is very similar, though. trition,” simply substituting whole
found in a quiche recipe Easter pie was leftover Wilder out here. I cannot give every grains for refined grains has a
but substituting what was cream cheese filling As it is, I know I am single possible substitu- modest effect on gut microbiota
already in the house for spread over a graham abundantly blessed to be tion that this recipe will and immunity. Refined grains
the specifics. She made cracker crust and topped able to get what we need. accommodate, but trust have had most of the fiber milled
one that included leftover with sliced strawberries. It But still, I feel a greater See BUTTER TOGETHER, 5B See NUTRITIOUS, 5B
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No bread flour? No problem

BY MATT KEMP to make a stunning offering. the United Kingdom — has delicate technique than pound- five days, until the mixture is
The Associated Press Ken Forkish’s white bread posted a recipe online which ing the mixture on a kitchen bubbling and full of life.
with 80 percent biga recipe, uses plain flour — roughly surface and allows the carbon The main point? Don’t be
LONDON —

A
re you struggling to find
bread flour and fresh
yeast at the moment? If
so, you’re not alone.
With millions of people
across the globe stuck at home
due to lockdown measures
imposed during the coronavirus
pandemic, many people are
choosing to make their own
bread, rather than venturing
to the local store to buy their
weekly fix.
But how does one make a
loaf a bakery when yeast and
bread flour seem as precious
and rare as gold dust?
The first option to consider,
if you have a stash of bread
flour but only a small amount
of yeast, is a slow-rise loaf. This
needs less than quarter of a
teaspoon of instant dried yeast
from his 2012 book “Flour,
Water, Salt, Yeast,” is perfect
for these testing times. It uses
a mixture of flour, warm water
and a tiny sprinkling of dried
yeast as a 14-hour pre-fer-
mented base for a larger loaf,
which is bound to impress your
family.
It’s worth noting that Fork-
ish’s recipes use all-purpose
flour, rather than bread flour,
meaning that — hopefully —
you might be able to locate
supplies online or in grocery
stores.
If your search for both bread
and all-purpose flour proves
fruitless but you have yeast at
hand, Chris Young — the co-or-
dinator of England’s Real Bread
Campaign, which champions
independent bakeries across
equivalent to pastry flour in the
United States.
“It has less protein than
bread flour, but a combination of
more water and a longer rising
time than home bakers might
be used to makes the most of it
for great results,” says Young,
adding: “Even if your first
loaves aren’t pretty, they’ll still
taste delicious and, like every-
thing, you’ll get better with
experience.”
Rather than kneading the
dough, Young promotes the
“stretch and fold” technique,
whereby flour, water and a small
amount of yeast are mixed to-
gether in a bowl and then, once
every hour, the home baker
lifts one section of the dough
at a time and folds it over to the
opposite side. This is a more
dioxide created by the yeast
to remain in the loaf, creating
more air bubbles and making
the final product less dense.
Finally, if you’re out of
both instant dry yeast and
all-purpose flour, French baker
Richard Bertinet has some
handy hints about sourdough
— a method which dispenses
with shop-bought yeast entirely
in favor of a natural fermenting
“starter” — made solely of flour
and water.
While whole-wheat or rye
flour are preferable to create a
starter, Bertinet says that you
can use anything you have in
your cupboard — just mix equal
quantities of flour and warm
water in a container, store in
a warm place and repeat the
process every day for around
intimidated by people who try
to complicate the process.
“Sourdough is not a bread,
it’s a way of using a different
type of yeast. It’s a slow process
— that’s all it is. It’s become a
fashion thing, which I despise.
It’s not. It’s a way of baking. You
need to simplify it in your head
a bit more,” explains the baker.
Instead of constructing the
loaf using the stretch-and-fold
technique, Bertinet recom-
mends his own “slap and fold”
method, where the dough is
lifted into the air, slammed
down onto the workbench, then
folded over itself — strength-
ening gluten bonds in the flour
and increasing air in the fin-
ished loaf. The secret, again, is
plenty of water and a long, slow
fermentation.

Nutritious
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out of them, leaving a
refined carbohydrate
that impacts your body
the way sugar would. Opt
for whole grains to get
the fiber you need, along
with protein and healthy
fats.
THAI COCONUT LIME
FREEZER CHICKEN
Prep time: 8 minutes
Cook time: 22 minutes
Servings: 4
1 3/4 cups coconut milk
2 tablespoons basil
1 tablespoon xylitol (sugar
substitute)
1 ounce cilantro
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic
1 teaspoon lime zest (op-
tional)
20 ounces boneless, cooked
chicken breast
20 ounces broccoli flower
clusters
n In bowl, mix coconut milk,
basil, xylitol, cilantro, lime
juice, salt and garlic. For more
citrus flavor, add lime zest, if
desired.
n Add chicken, broccoli and
sauce to 1-gallon zip-top
freezer bag. Squeeze out any
air and seal bag. Freeze bag
flat up to 1 month.
n To cook: Thaw in refriger-
ator overnight. Heat oven to
350 F.
n Place in glass 8-by-8-inch
pan and bake 20-25 minutes.
BURRITO BEEF
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 8 hours
Servings: 6
2 pounds beef arm chuck
roast
4 tablespoons green taco
sauce
1 teaspoon minced garlic Getty Images via familyfeatures.com
2 large scallions or spring This Thai coconut lime freezer chicken can be ready in
onions, chopped about half an hour.
1 jalapeno pepper, diced
2 teaspoons chili powder Nonstick cooking spray n Remove stem and leaves
1/2 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon salt, divided from cauliflower. Cut into
1/2 teaspoon salt 1 head large (6-7-inch diame- small pieces and place in
ter) cauliflower boiling water; cook un-
n Trim fat from beef. In slow 1 cup heavy cream til crisp-tender; about 5
cooker on low heat, cook 2 ounces cream cheese minutes. Drain well then pat Getty Images via familyfeatures.com
beef, taco sauce, garlic, 1 1/2 teaspoons ground between paper towels to Cauli mac and cheese helps reduce carbs and unnec-
onions, jalapeno, chili powder, mustard remove moisture. essary sugars in a healthier family diet.
cumin and salt 8 hours, or 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar n In medium saucepan over
until beef is tender. cheese, divided medium heat, bring cream to cheese, garlic, remaining cauliflower.
n Using two forks, remove 1 clove garlic, minced simmer. Whisk cream cheese salt, white pepper and pepper n Pour into baking dish and
beef and shred. Mix beef with 1/4 teaspoon white pepper and powdered mustard sauce, whisking until cheese top with remaining cheese.
1/2 cup cooking juices before 1/4 teaspoon pepper sauce into simmering cream until melts; about 1-2 minutes. Bake 15 minutes until
serving. smooth. Add 1 cup cheddar Remove from heat and stir in browned and bubbly.
n Heat oven to 375 F and
prepare 9-by-9-inch baking
CAULI MAC AND CHEESE dish with nonstick cooking
Prep time: 10 minutes spray. Heat large pot of water
Cook time: 40 minutes to boiling and add 1/2 tea-
Servings: 6 spoon salt.

Tuna
Continued from Page 4B
MEDITERRANEAN
TUNA SALAD
Prep/total time: 15 minutes
Serves 5 (serving size 1 cup)
2 (5-ounce) cans of tuna packed in water or
olive oil, drained and flaked
1/2 cup minced carrots (approximately 2
carrots)
1/2 cup minced celery (approximately 2 celery
sticks)
1/2 cup minced yellow bell pepper (approx-
imately 1 small bell pepper; substitute with
orange, red or green bell pepper if preferred)
1/4 cup minced red onion (substitute with
yellow or green onion if preferred)
1/4 cup minced olives (substitute with pickles
if preferred)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
Salt to taste (optional)
n In a medium size bowl combine the carrots,
celery, bell pepper, onion, olives, tuna and olive
oil.
n Season with black pepper, cayenne pepper
and salt. Mix well. Serve as a sandwich on
whole-grain bread or on top of salad greens.
(Source: North Carolina Cooperative Extension,
Stanly County Center, from medsinstead-
ofmeds.com)
TUNA-CARROT CAKES
WITH GARLIC LEMON AIOLI
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 5 minutes
Servings: 4
Garlic lemon aioli:
3/4 cup fat-free plain Greek yogurt
1 tablespoon lemon juice or orange juice
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
Tuna-carrot cakes:
3/4 cup fine corn flake crumbs, divided
1/3 cup fat-free plain Greek yogurt
1/3 cup shredded carrot
2 tablespoons chopped green onion
2 tablespoons dill pickle relish or finely
chopped dill pickle
1 can (12 ounces) tuna in water, drained and
flaked
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Chopped green onion (optional)
n To make garlic lemon aioli: In small bowl,
combine yogurt, lemon juice, garlic powder and
salt. Cover and refrigerate until serving time.
n To make tuna-carrot cakes: In medium bowl,
combine 1/2 cup corn flake crumbs, yogurt,
carrot, onion and relish. Add tuna; mix well.
n Place remaining corn flake crumbs on piece
of wax paper. Shape tuna mixture into eight
3/4-inch thick patties. Lightly coat both sides
of patties with crumbs.
n In large nonstick skillet, heat oil over
medium-high heat. Cook patties in hot oil 4-6
minutes, or until golden brown, turning once.
Stir aioli. Spoon dollops on patties. Garnish
with additional onion, if desired.
(Source: Family Features-Marcia Stanley, MS,
RDN, on behalf of Milk Means More. See more
recipes at milkmeansmore.org.)

Butter Together
Continued from Page 4B
me when I tell you that it
will easily absorb nearly
any changes you wish to
make. I cannot think of
a single ingredient that
cannot be substituted or
left out if necessary, so
please feel free to use
what you have on hand.
The measurements I
give are approximations
and based on the ones I
used when I started mak-
ing this dish decades
ago. They are nearly
infinitely adjustable.
Amelia Plair is a mom
and high school teacher in
Starkville. Email reaches
her at mamabadger-
plair@gmail.com.
SCRAMBLED RICE
Butter (about 4 tablespoons)
Diced onion (about 1/2 cup)
Garlic (2-3 cloves, minced)
Cold rice (about 2 cups)
Fresh eggs (2-3)
Soy sauce (or coconut amin-
os; just salt will do in a pinch)
Salt (to taste)
Cooked, diced vegetables (op-
tional, about 1/2 to 1 cup)
Cooked, diced meats (option-
al, about 1/2 to 1 cup)
■ Place a large skillet or
Dutch oven over medium
heat. Melt butter in pan. Add
diced onions. Cook and stir
until onions begin to become
translucent. Add garlic and
cook for another minute. Add
cold rice. Stir and cook for
another few minutes, just long
enough to coat rice with some
butter and warm it up.
■ Push rice to the edges of
the pan, leaving as much bare
skillet in the middle as possi-
ble. If your pan is not nonstick
or you would like to add more
butter or oil at this time, add
it and wait for it to melt. Crack
eggs directly onto bare area
of skillet. Salt eggs liberally.
Stir eggs as they begin to set.
A bit of rice will begin to mix
in with the egg; that is fine,
but your meal will cook much
faster if you are able to cook
the eggs through in the mid-
dle of the pan before mixing
them with all the rice.
■ When eggs are done or
nearly done, mix them togeth-
er with the rice in the pan.
Add soy sauce. Add meat and
vegetables. Continue to cook
until shiny appearance dis-
appears, indicating eggs are
completely cooked. Taste. Add
salt or soy sauce to taste.
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