Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians.

A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with “psychoticism” now says it got it wrong. Very wrong.

The American Journal of Political Science published a correction this year saying that the 2012 paper has “an error” — and that liberal political beliefs, not conservative ones, are actually linked to psychoticism.

“The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed,” the journal said in the startling correction.

“The descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.”

In the paper, psychoticism is associated with traits such as tough-mindedness, risk-taking, sensation-seeking, impulsivity and authoritarianism.

The social-desirability scale measures people’s tendency to answer questions in ways they believe would please researchers, even if it means overestimating their positive characteristics and underestimating negative ones.

The erroneous report has been cited 45 times, according to Thomson Reuters Web of Science.

Brad Verhulst, a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher and a co-author of the paper, said he was not sure who was to blame.

“I don’t know where it happened. All I know is it happened,” he told Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks corrections in academic papers. “It’s our fault for not figuring it out before.”

The journal said the error doesn’t change the main conclusions of the paper, which found that “personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes.”

But professor Steven Ludeke of the University of Southern Denmark, who pointed out the errors, told Retraction Watch that they “matter quite a lot.”

“The erroneous results represented some of the larger correlations between personality and politics ever reported; they were reported and interpreted, repeatedly, in the wrong direction,” he said.

Summary: Turns out liberals are the real authoritarians. A political-science journal that published an oft-cited study claiming conservatives were more likely to show traits associated with “psychoticism” n…


AUCTIONS held periodically by moving and storage companies to clear out unclaimed or impounded goods are a popular resource for people who traffic in things secondhand, like used-furniture sellers, people with booths at flea markets and, occasionally, antiques dealers. But anyone can attend these, and for the sharp-eyed, or the lucky, the right auction can be a treasure hunt of sorts, yielding items ranging from the welcome to the worthless.

"A lot of what we auction off is stored records of bankrupt companies," said Jack Fuchs, owner of Whitehall Storage in Manhattan. But interesting items do turn up, like good second-hand furniture, CD's, near-new televisions and computers.

Moving and storage company auctions can be attractive for anyone looking for functional household items at modest cost. A box of old small appliances needing a cleaning can go for $15 or $20, for example.

But auction shopping is a far cry from visiting a department store or even a flea market. For example, lots tend to be enormous -- and bulky. Though moving companies sometimes sell matched items, like bedroom sets, in single lots, more often the bidding is for the complete contents of a 250-cubic-foot container.

And at so-called mini-storage companies, where customers rent partitioned rooms the size of a walk-in closet or larger, bids are made for a room's entire contents.

Sales are almost always in cash. And buyers usually must pick up their purchases within five days.

Taking possession can be a happy surprise or a shock, since bidders often buy some of their goods without seeing them. When bidding for a room at a storage company, for example, interested buyers receive an inventory sheet of the room's items. But since they are not allowed to enter the room or touch anything until after the auction, often all they see are items visible near the door.

Legal considerations determine the rules and rituals of most moving and storage company auctions. After dispatching warnings to delinquent clients through certified mail and in local newspapers, moving and storage companies can sell the client's goods to help defray unpaid bills.

Auctions occur when a company winds up with sufficient inventory to warrant a sale. For some companies, that can be every two or three months.

The best place to learn of sales is the auction listings of newspaper classified advertisements. Trade papers like the Arts & Antiques Weekly also publish auction notices. At an Auction House

Though some sales are held on the moving or storage company's premises, others take place at auction houses, like Country Auctions, an eight-year-old concern in Long Island City, Queens. Much of Country Auctions' inventory comes from moving and storage companies, including Whitehall. Items are sold singly or in small lots, and visitors can view them an hour before sale. There is no admission fee.

"You never know what will be at an auction," said Ray Brachfeld, Country Auctions' owner, an auctioneer for 30 years. He numbers a carousel horse from a room that sold for $2,000 and a player piano in a $50 room among his most interesting sales.

"But those are the exceptions," he added. "It's usually abused used furniture or clean used furniture." A chair in need of new upholstery can sell for as little as $10.

Beginning next week, auctions will be held on Friday nights at 7 o'clock. Estate sales are usually held on every fifth Thursday at 10:30 A.M. (There is a sale today.) COUNTRY AUCTIONS , 9-11 43d Avenue (Vernon Boulevard), Long Island City, Queens 11101; (718) 482-1500. Quick Bidding

Though it may not be possible to see much of the contents in a mini-storage room, the price may be right. Rooms start for as little as $10 and can go to a few thousand dollars, said Nick Sprayregen, owner of Tuck-It-Away, a 14-year-old mini-storage company with warehouses in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Most rooms sell for $100 to $300.

"Bidding usually lasts 60 seconds," Mr. Sprayregen said. Tuck-It-Away usually has an auction every month at one of its warehouses. The next is scheduled for June 20 at 11 A.M., at 3261 Broadway, at 131st Street, in Manhattan.

TUCK -IT -AWAY , (212) 368-1717. Mostly Mysteries

When Liberty Moving and Storage, an agent of Allied Van Lines, holds its annual auction on July 8 in its two Long Island warehouses, most of the goods will be in closed containers. (Bidders can consult inventory sheets.) The containers usually sell for $500 to $600, said Madeline Connelly, Liberty's accounts receivable manager. But they can go for thousands of dollars.

Occasionally, containers are broken up, with large items like bedroom sets sold separately. Most sales include mystery boxes. "A lot may consist of six or seven boxes with just the top boxes open," Ms. Connelly said. "So you see dishes in the top box but can't see the contents below." LIBERTY MOVING AND STORAGE , (212) 223-6440 or (516) 234-3000. Moonlighting as a Store

Siegler Brothers has been a moving company since 1895, but it also sells old furniture, electronic equipment and computers from its warehouse in Greenwich Village.

"Often, when you move someone, they ask you to take things away," the owner, Richard Siegler, said. "And we wind up with it."

Instead of holding auctions, Siegler Brothers sells second-hand goods outright. A turquoise-and-white laminate file cabinet from an office the company moved recently is priced at $60, while a sturdy white Parsons-style desk is $100. A country-style oak table with modestly carved legs is $200.

SIEGLER BROTHERS , 264 West 11th Street, New York 10014; (212) 675-2333.

Photo: At Country Auctions in Queens, Ray Brachfeld shows African mask to Eric Flanagan. (Ed Quinn for The New York Times)


Mykyta Kryvonos sat in his bedroom spinning a desktop globe, a view of the world at his fingertips, on the eve of his first trip to the most prestigious national junior tennis tournament in the United States.

"I like to see where my next match is," Kryvonos said as he traced the route from his home in Flushing, Queens, to Kalamazoo, Mich., the site of the United States Tennis Association Boys' 16's Super National Hard Court Tennis Championships.

The 15-year-old Kryvonos could also track his journey from Ukraine, where he was the top-ranked under-13 junior, to the two-family house on 166th Street in Flushing. And now Kryvonos hopes that his performance in the boys' nationals, which began Friday and runs through next Sunday, will put him on the tennis map.

Kryvonos, who is seeded 16th in the tournament, could be on his way. After a first-round bye, he won his second-round match, 1-6, 6-1, 6-0, over Shan Sondhu yesterday.

College scouts, sponsors and professional agents are among the thousands of spectators at the national boys' 16's and 18's championships, which are run simultaneously on the courts of Kalamazoo College. Jimmy Connors and Stan Smith won national boys titles there, and Andy Roddick and Jan-Michael Gambill reached the finals. Traditionally, getting to the finals means entry into the junior United States Open later this month.

"I'm excited to play at Kalamazoo," said Kryvonos, a 5-foot-10 baseliner with a powerful forehand and potent serve who reached the boys' 16's national clay court final two weeks ago. "I love competition, and winning."

Kryvonos's indomitable work ethic was forged among the steel factories of Donetsk, Ukraine. At age 12, Mykyta Kryvonos (pronounced Meh-KEE-tah Kreh-VAH-nos) was the country's best, but money for private court time and lessons was scarce. Every day after school he would take a 45-minute bus ride to Lokomotiv, the state sports club on the outskirts of Donetsk.

The club had only one indoor court for nearly 45 students, so Kryvonos and his best friend, Dimitri Tolok, now the top Ukrainian junior, would wait for the others to go home for dinner. Intense practice sessions, often lasting well past midnight, followed on the dilapidated wooden court with its creaky floorboards.

"We would have to walk miles in the darkness to get home, running through the snow past high bushes that looked like strangers in the night," Kryvonos said.

The Kryvonos family obtained a permanent visa to the United States in the autumn of 1999. Around the time that Eastern Europeans were celebrating the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kryvonos and his parents, Sergey and Nataly, were on a plane headed to America. "I remember that day," Sergey Kryvonos said. "Our friends met us at J.F.K. and took us to Flushing."

The same friends brought the family to the Fila Sports Club in nearby Long Island City, where Kryvonos got his first taste of winter tennis the American way: 20 indoor courts in bubbles hovering overhead like perfectly blown gum. There he met Andy Udis, a nationally ranked player on the senior circuit, who became his favorite hitting partner.

"Andy gave me shoes," Kryvonos said. "I had never seen so many pairs except maybe in a store."

Like "The Little Prince" in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic who travels to new planets, Kryvonos is discovering a world here where he can pursue his dreams. Tennis is his first priority. School comes second. Kryvonos will enter his junior year at Keystone National High School, a home-school program that allows students to earn a diploma at home.

"It allows me to fit schoolwork around my tennis," Kryvonos said.

Sergey Kryvonos, a mining engineer who designed tunnels for the coal industry in Donetsk, has not worked since arriving in the United States. Instead he has devoted his time to helping his son's tennis career, transporting him to training sessions and tournaments around the country.

"Whatever Mykyta wants, I'll do what I can to help," a smiling Kryvonos said, sitting in the family's living room where his son's trophies shine like sparkling jewels on the mantel. "He has big dreams to become a tennis professional."

Meanwhile, Nataly Kryvonos has supported the family as a software specialist at the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

"I save my vacation time go to Mykyta's tournaments," she said.

For seven months she did not get to see her son much. In July 2000, Kryvonos and his father moved to the Rick Macci Tennis Academy in Pompano Beach, Fla., where Jennifer Capriati, Roddick, and Venus and Serena Williams once trained.

Macci remembers the hard-working youngster.

"Mykyta has natural talent and ability," Macci said. "But with boys it's hard to tell how good they'll be. Their game may be technically sound, but there's the X factor. Will they get tall enough? Do they have a good work ethic? Is their heart in it? Those factors matter most."

The Kryvonoses left Macci's academy in February 2001. "There were many players," Kryvonos said. "I needed more personal attention."

Nick Brebenel, a former Romanian national team member, is currently coaching Kryvonos at his private indoor court in Glen Head, N.Y. Brebenel has worked with Andrei Pavel and Max Mirnyi, currently top-30 players on the ATP Tour.

"Mykyta has a big chance to become the next American superstar," said Brebenel, who admires his student's discipline and focus.

And if Kryvonos does get to the final in Kalamazoo on Saturday, he will not have to look at his globe to find the location of his next international tournament. It will be right outside his doorstep at the U.S.T.A. National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.

Summary: Mykyta Kryvonos, who grew up in the Ukraine, intends to make his mark in the U.S.T.A.'s Boys' 16's Super National Hard Court Tennis Championships.


A mistake I made before travelling to Japan was to watch Lost in Translation and fall prey to Sofia Coppola’s soft-focus illusion. After two weeks of shooting around the country by Shinkansen – the fleet of high-speed, bottle-nosed beauties – it became clear that the film was little more than a stereotypical, insular portrait of a magnetic, complex and multilayered nation.

Almost everything in Japan is designed for efficiency: packets of chopsticks come with a toothpick; a sachet of mustard with ketchup squeezes out two separate lines on a hot dog. And trains are designed to take passengers from one destination to another as fast and as safely as possible. Nothing more. The average delay is 36 seconds and a series of earthquake countermeasures triggers automatic braking that can stop a train travelling at 187mph within 300m – while our own trains are cancelled as a result of leaves on the track.

"The spirit and soul of other Asian countries heaves out of train doorways – Japan’s trains are rather more sterile"

But where the spirit and soul of other Asian countries heaves out of train doorways – from clanging tea vats and steaming dumplings, to raucous card games and rocking babies – Japan’s trains are rather more sterile. They slide up the platform with stealth, their bodies gleaming. On a blue square outside the doors, marked by a pair of painted white feet, a line of passengers makes a queue at a right angle. They slip in, take their seats, put in earphones, swipe their phones or shut their eyes. No one speaks. Sometimes they bring out ekiben – bento boxes containing regional specialities sold at stations. These beautiful wooden boxes are fitted with rice, breaded pork fillets or chicken teriyaki, black shreds of nori, or ginger, pickled pink. Ekiben look more like antique lacquered pieces for a mantelpiece, but are fast being replaced by the warm waft of KFC on board.

Excitement at the unveiling of another high-tech model Photo: GETTY

During my first ride on the Sakura Shinkansen from Osaka to Hiroshima, I stood a 10p piece on its side and (just to check), stood on one leg in the aisle – neither of us fell over. Nothing but a low whistle of wind filled the cabin and when a fellow bullet train shot the other way we tilted for no more than a few seconds. All heads were bowed, some dozing, some reading, when the conductor entered the carriage, removed his hat and bowed deeply before working his way up the aisle checking tickets.

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The Kyushu Seven Stars luxury service Photo: GETTY

After he reached the top of the carriage, he turned and bowed again before leaving. No one looked up and I felt bad. But it didn’t matter, nothing was lost in translation. In that small motion it became clear that Japanese trains didn’t need music and mess and colour to be alive and filled with soul.

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Frank Aram Oski, a specialist in blood diseases and cancer in children who recently retired after 10 years as head of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, died on Dec. 7 at his home in Baltimore. He was 64.

The cause was prostate cancer, the center said.

Dr. Oski was a strong advocate of children's health care. An expert in childhood blood disorders and nutritional deficiencies, he campaigned against commercial promotions of cow's milk as an alternative to mother's milk for babies.

The Children's Center credited him with redefining its missions in research, patient care and teaching. During a decade as director of the center, from 1985 until last year, he served as senior editor of the textbook ''Principles and Practices of Pediatrics.''

His book ''The Practical Pediatrician,'' a guide for parents, was published this year. Altogether, he was the author or co-author of 300 academic papers and 20 books.

Dr. Oski went to Baltimore with an international reputation in hematology and the clinical care of young patients with blood disorders. His research led to insights into iron deficiency and its effects on behavior and learning, into why premature infants develop anemia and into why children with sickle cell anemia suffer strokes. He helped define the folic acid components in an infant's diet and documented the clinical and laboratory manifestations of vitamin E deficiency.

Frank Oski was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1954 and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1958.

He trained in pediatrics and hematology at Children's Hospital Medical center in Boston. He joined the faculty in Philadelphia in 1965 and in 1972 became professor and chairman of pediatrics at Upstate Medical Center at the State University of New York in Syracuse.

In 1985 he was appointed professor of pediatrics and department chairman at Johns Hopkins University and physician in chief at the Johns Hopkins Children's Medical and Surgery Center.

At his death he was the editor of Contemporary Pediatrics, a journal he founded, and sat on the editorial board of The European Journal of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology.

Dr. Oski is survived by his wife of 39 years, Barbara Fassett Oski; two daughters, Jessica Oski of Burlington, Vt., and Dr. Jane Oski of Kayenta, American Samoa; a son, Jonathan, of Westbury, Mass.; a brother, Richard, of Philadelphia, and two grandchildren.


This piece originally appeared on AllBusiness.com.

Starting your own business is no small undertaking, so it’s worth taking the time to really think through the decision and plan out your strategy for the long, rewarding road ahead.

Six entrepreneurs from FounderSociety, a network for entrepreneurs, share the top questions a would-be business owner should ask themselves before diving headfirst.

1. What problem am I trying to solve?

“The first thing you should ask yourself before starting a business is ‘What problem am I trying to solve?’ Too often, entrepreneurs are enamored with the idea of starting a new venture, owning their own company, and reaping the financial rewards of having a successful business that they overlook what really matters. If you don’t passionately focus on solving a common problem, you will likely fail.” – Damon Nam, Verse

2. Do I have the time?

“I am sure you have the passion to do it, but do you have the time? I have always found the easy part is the idea; the challenge is finding the time to make that idea a successful company. Do you have time now, and will you in the future? Now’s the best time to ask yourself these questions and plan accordingly.” – Jason Fisch, Fisch Solutions, Inc.

3. Why am I doing this?

“What you do and how you do it isn’t as important as why you do it. Why are you attempting to create and build what wasn’t there before? Why does your business need to exist? Why should anyone care? These are questions we try to explore with every brand and project we work on.” – Steven Picanza, Latin & Code

4. Is this five years’ worth of “interesting”?

“If you’re successful, you will spend at least five years working on the challenge you’re trying to solve. Ask yourself if the business problem is interesting enough that it can occupy 90 percent of your mental space for the next five years.” – Lisa Curtis, Kuli Kuli

5. What differentiates my business idea?

“People want something innovative, yet familiar. If you’ve come up with an amazing idea, make sure you do your research on potential competitors’ products or services to ensure what you will provide isn’t already out there. Then, think about how your business’s products or services offer an added upside for users.” – Jessica Baker, Aligned Signs

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6. Can I last six to 12 months without making any money?

“It’s not the most exciting or fun question to ask yourself, but it’s the truth. Starting a business isn’t easy, and there will come times when you simply won’t be able to cut a paycheck for yourself. Before starting a business, make sure you have the necessary finances and resources in place to weather any disasters that may arise before hitting your eventual success.” – Zac Johnson, Start a Blog

Summary: According to six entrepreneurs who have already done it.


HAS K-9 LIVES: Tracy Aron yesterday with her dog, Kai, who leaped before he looked and plunged four stories. (Robert Miller)

QUITE A TALE: Kai, in the arms of his owner, Tracy Aron, landed on this ledge. ( )

Kai, a 2-year-old Shiba Inu puppy, thought he could fly, but it turns out he can only fetch.

Yet he miraculously survived a four-story fall from the roof garden of an Upper West Side townhouse after hurling himself over an unguarded ledge.

“It’s a miracle,” owner Tracy Aron, a Broadway theater producer who lives on West End Avenue, told The Post yesterday. “A week after falling 50 feet, he’s able to walk up and down the stairs.”

Kai took flight Dec. 3 after Aron led him up to the roof for his morning constitutional. A lattice fence surrounding the garden had been removed because of a renovation, and Kai playfully jumped from roof to roof, bounding over the knee-high ledge.

“I said, ‘Kai, come back!’ ” recalled Aron. “He was looking right at me and my girlfriend and just launched himself from the back of the building thinking there was another roof. We watched him fall and then heard a thud and his crying.”

Traumatized and panicked, Aron knocked hysterically on her neighbors’ doors crying for help.

Aron’s friend dialed 911, where an operator told her any animal-related issues had to be dealt with by 311. An operator with 311 told her to call 911. On the third try, she told 911 to come help the three adults who were now sitting on the dangerous ledge and needed help. “I thought, ‘He’s dying on the ledge and no one will help and we’re wasting time,” said Aron. “I’ve never felt so guilty about anything in my life.”

The police helped transport the injured pooch to BluePearl Veterinarians, where a vet placed the pup in the intensive-care unit for three nights.

But a week later, Kai was home and healthy — although he can’t see out of his right eye and is on steroids to reduce swelling. Amazingly, he broke no bones.

Aron had recently returned to the city from a four-month stay in Northern California. Her friend Javier had cared for her pet, and she was shocked to see Kai had put on 10 pounds while she was away. “My friend is a little chubby,” she said. “I said, ‘You just want him to look like you.’ ”

Now she admits the extra layer of fat might have been what saved Kai’s life.

Summary: HAS K-9 LIVES: Tracy Aron yesterday with her dog, Kai, who leaped before he looked and plunged four stories. (Robert Miller)QUITE A TALE: Kai, in the arms of his owner, Tracy Aron, landed on this l…


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is enjoying her new bachelorette pad, which she's sharing with some of her close female friends, a source tells PEOPLE.

star has moved after listing her Calabasas home,

for a reported $2.7 million.

"Kylie has moved and is updating her new place and lives with some of her friends," a source tells PEOPLE of Jenner, 18.

Jenner's move comes one month after her

. Following the breakup in mid-May, Jenner has been linked to rapper

She's also been spending time with family. Over the weekend, Jenner celebrated celebrated Father's Day with Caitlyn Jenner. "Happy father's day to this incredible soul," Jenner wrote on Instagram, captioning a photo of Caitlyn holding her as a baby. Keeping Up with the Kardashians airs Sundays (9 p.m. ET) on E!

Summary: The star has moved on from the home she purchased in February 2015


Decades ago, an early morning raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York sparked violent protests among gay patrons who fought back after police burst in and tried to arrest them for daring to drink and dance with members of the same sex.

Nearly 50 years later, officers armed with assault rifles stand guard outside the historic bar, protecting patrons after a gunman in Florida staged a massacre at a gay nightclub and spread fear of more attacks.

The irony isn't lost on the gay community that used to see police as the oppressor and counts the 1969 Stonewall Inn raid as the start of the gay rights movement.

Stonewall Inn nightclub raid on June 28, 1969. Crowd attempts to impede police arrest outside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. NY Daily News News Archive / Getty Images

"Once upon a time they hit us with nightsticks, and now they're our protectors," said Gil Horowitz, 80, a retired research psychologist in New York who took part in the riots at Stonewall.

At gay pride parades this weekend, that evolution will be on display in cities like Denver, where the first parade in 1975 was in response to police raids on gay bars and arrests of gay men. On Sunday, police will march in solidarity and will have a robust presence among the crowd of 300,000 plus people.

"That's a snapshot of 40 years of progress," said Jason Marsden, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, named for the University of Wyoming gay student who died after he was beaten and tied to a fence by two men in 1998.

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Living an open gay lifestyle was unheard of across most of the U.S. just decades ago, and police routinely raided private gay clubs. During the raids, vice officers would beat the patrons — sometimes the targets were those not wearing sex-appropriate clothing — and arrest them on morals charges. The persecution reflected views in society at large: Until 1973, the American Psychiatric Association classified homosexuality as a mental disorder, and it was only in 2003 that a Supreme Court ruling declared state sodomy laws to be an unconstitutional violation of personal privacy.

The change in attitude didn't happen overnight, and it doesn't mean echoes of the past don't resurface, even in places seen as progressive.

On June 18th, 2016, a group of about 200 people held a rally at Grand Central Station, in New York, where the names of the Orlando shootout victims were read, the group then marched down Seventh Avenue to the Stonewall Inn on the West Village were a 10 minute silence were held in memory of The Pulse victims. Erik McGregor/Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images

In San Francisco, the police department has been shamed by the recent discovery of racist and homophobic text messages traded by officers. And a long-standing undercover police tactic in the Southern California city of Long Beach was dealt a blow last month when a judge dismissed lewd conduct and indecent exposure charges against a man arrested in a public bathroom. The judge said police improperly targeted gay men in the sting operation.

Numerous studies in the past six years have shown there is still a strong distrust of law enforcement, especially among LGBT people feeling bias, harassment or being assaulted by law enforcement, said Jeremy Goldbach, assistant professor at the University of Southern California School of Social Work.

"The relationship has changed in some ways, but I don't know it has changed as much as we would like to think," he said.

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But in cities across the U.S., police officers who once were criticized for enforcing outdated laws are instead undergoing robust LGBT cultural sensitivity training.

Atlanta's police department has two full-time officers assigned as LGBT liaisons. Officer Eric King, one of the liaisons, said they try to regularly visit and keep in touch with businesses that focus or draw LGBT customers. King, who is gay, said building a direct line of communication is important to build trust.

He hopes LGBT leaders, working with city and police officials, can develop a plan that makes people feel secure but not "like big brother is watching."

"I wouldn't want there to be an overconcentration of police where people are always in fear, but I do want them to know we're present if you need us," King said.

DC police presence and support for the gay community was apparent at the DC Pride Festival on Pennsylvania Ave. June 12, 2016 in Washington, DC. Katherine Frey / The Washington Post/Getty Images

While large departments for years have been more welcoming to the gay community and many have gay officers on the force, rural, conservative states are trying to catch up, too.

In the Idaho communities of Boise and Pocatello and in Missoula, Montana, officers are assigned as liaisons to the gay community.

More people are openly gay and demanding they be treated as just another part of the larger community. Montana state Sen. Diana Sands said that is driving the shift in attitude.

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"That change has been revolutionary in the last decade," said Sands, who is gay.

In Anchorage, Alaska, Police Chief Christopher Tolley will march in the city's parade, and has ordered extra officers to be on scene, not because there's been an identified threat but to show support for the LGBT community. And in Juneau, at a gay pride festival last weekend, a woman wearing a pride T-shirt asked a police officer if her shirt made her a target.

Motorcycle police officers provide security for the 2016 Gay Pride Parade June 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Security tightened in the aftermath of the deadly shootings June 12 at the Pulse Nightclub. Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images

"I am here to put myself between anyone who would hurt you and that T-shirt," Lt. Kris Sell told her.

Looking back over nearly 50 years of progress, Horowitz, who was arrested during the second night of rioting at the Stonewall Inn, said even if things haven't come as far as they need to, the changes in society have meant there is at least the appearance of acceptance.

"Police were homophobic at that time, maybe still a little bit. They understand now they're not supposed to exhibit it," Horowitz said. "If they act as if they accept us, whether they do or not, that's all we can really ask."

Summary: Today police officers protect members of the LBTQIA community, when in 1969, they raided Stonewall Inn to arrest people forsame sex dancing.


WHEN Franz Kafka was readying ''The Metamorphosis'' for publication, he implored his editor not to allow pictures of Gregor Samsa's transformation into a cockroach. ''Not that, please not that!'' the author wrote. ''The insect cannot be depicted. It cannot even be shown from a distance.'' The publisher complied, illustrating ''The Metamorphosis'' instead with a door opening into darkness - an image at once more abstract and yet more terrifying. What shakes Kafka's readers, after all, is not the prospect of turning into an insect but the recognition that one can experience the helplessness of an insect before the maze of dark thresholds that is the modern world.

To understand where the director Martha Clarke has gone both wrong and right with ''The Hunger Artist,'' her new mixed-media theater piece about Kafka at St. Clement's, it helps to imagine her torn constantly between the conflicting impulses to depict the cockroach and the spectral door. An hourlong melange of Kafka fiction and biography, this work often settles for the kind of representational illustration that Kafka rightly assumed would diminish the power of his words. The dancers among the seven-member company, the impressive Rob Besserer and Paola Styron, are too frequently found mimicking the Francis Bacon-like contortions of the stories' human and animal figures - or, with the aid of the child actor David Jon, forming shadowy replicas of Franz's Freudian familial constellation. The actress Brenda Currin, in an atypically shrill turn as an informal narrator, will just as redundantly use her vocal and facial mannerisms to pound in the implications of every twist of plot.

But Ms. Clarke, an exceptional theater artist whose past works include another Kafka adaptation (''A Metamorphosis in Miniature,'' 1982) and last season's startling ''Vienna: Lusthaus,'' is also capable of exposing the anxiety beneath her texts. With the aid of Paul Gallo's exquisitely ominous lighting and Robert Israel's striking set - an expansive graveyard of dark earth in the foreground, a pinched room out of Beckett in the rear - the director does at times open a door on the murky psychological landscape where Kafka's anguished figures reside.

The most effective - which is to say the most disorienting - sequences invariably feature the actor Anthony Holland. With his checked three-piece suit, bowler hat and pale features, Mr. Holland looks like a refugee from a faded sepia photograph. His soft voice, unpretentiously conversational in tone yet mesmerizingly grave, could be Kafka's: the civilized Old World cadences of Prague are accelerated just a bit by the gallows humor of the paranoid Jewish ghetto comic. The actor lets his middle-aged body work for him, too. When Ms. Clarke gets to her deconstructed capsule retelling of ''The Metamorphosis,'' it is Mr. Holland's stiff, knee-knocking posture in a chair or his subsequent, sluglike crawl through the dirt - not the stylized gesticulations of others behind him - that capture the dreadful burden of being Gregor Samsa, the traveling salesman soon to be discarded with the trash.

For all the sophistication of the other theatrical means employed in ''The Hunger Artist,'' little of it transports us as much as the utter simplicity of Mr. Holland's acting. In ''Vienna: Lusthaus,'' Ms. Clarke employed the same designers and composer (Richard Peaslee) as well as some of the same performers to take us on an associative, ever-accelerating waltz through the cataclysmic art and history of fin-de-siecle Vienna. Even though the techniques she uses this time are also the same, ''The Hunger Artist'' doesn't gather the cumulative dramatic or intellectual momentum of the last piece - and it isn't as unified as Ms. Clarke's previous, literal-minded re-enactment of Bosch's ''Garden of Earthly Delights.'' Instead, she offers us a fairly arbitrary grab bag of uneven sketches. The segments are stitched together by prettily sung pastiches of Czechoslovak folk songs and by a few artsy tableaux, often featuring a framed photo of Kafka, that invite us to scarcely more stimulating purpose than worshiping at the master's shrine. *

The text, by the playwright Richard Greenberg (''The Maderati''), is more of a reduction than the intended distillation of its source. The adapter aspires mainly to boil down the few selected stories to Hollywood-film-treatment size - sometimes at the price of a distorting oversimplification. The speeches drawn from Kafka's diaries and letters (to his father and his fiancee, Felice Bauer) are of fortune-cookie brevity and, for those unfamiliar with the writer's life, likely to prove inscrutable. Given the evening's title, metaphors of starvation are emphasized throughout, but the correspondences between the Kafka fable ''A Hunger Artist'' and Kafka's own biography are more subtle than the didactic linkage Mr. Greenberg eventually provides.

Ms. Clarke stages that titular story, set in the world of sideshows, as a Fellini circus, with carnality and cruelty lurking behind every tightrope and illusion act. The sequence may have more to do with the director's own signature treatment of eroticism than with the Kafka original, but it is magically choreographed - far more finished than the evening's billing as a ''work in progress'' suggests. It's also to Ms. Clarke's credit that she has avoided most of the banalities of depicting Kafkaesque evil. There are no pro forma excerpts from ''The Trial'' or ''The Castle,'' and - a last-second evocation of a mass grave excepted - no pat visual formulations of totalitarian horror.

In keeping with this director's past work, ''The Hunger Artist'' tries to present Kafka as a dreamer anyway - as the artist he was, not as the social prophet posterity has found him to be. Ms. Clarke probably comes closest to her goal in the evening's first segment, ''A Country Doctor.'' As the doctor, played by Mr. Holland, advances toward the nightmarish bedside scene of a young patient's death, the nightmare of a servant girl's rape back home, mimed behind him, tugs at his guilty memory. Yet it's Ms. Clarke's imaginative use of the depth of the stage here, more than any recited text or corporal image, that pulls us, at least fleetingly, into the relentless anxiety of the doctor's illogical but completely lucid dream. The difference between Kafka and what follows in ''The Hunger Artist'' is that in Kafka, you don't wake up. IMAGE AND WORD: THE HUNGER ARTIST, based on writings by Franz Kafka; conceived and directed by Martha Clarke; created with the Company; composed by Richard Peaslee; adapted by Richard Greenberg; set and costumes designed by Robert Israel; lighting designed by Paul Gallo; costume construction by Sandra Woodall Costumes, San Francisco; illusions by Ben Robinson; production stage manager, Steven Ehrenberg. Presented by Music-Theater Group and the John F. Kennedy Center. At St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street. WITH: Rob Besserer, Brenda Currin, Anthony Holland, Jill Jaffe, David Jon, Bill Ruyle and Paola Styron.

Photo of Anthony Holland (Swope Associates/Carol Rosegg)

Summary: LEAD: WHEN Franz Kafka was readying ''The Metamorphosis'' for publication, he implored his editor not to allow pictures of Gregor Samsa's transformation into a cockroach. ''Not that, please not that!'' the author wrote. ''The insect cannot be depicted. It cannot even be shown from a distance.'' The publisher complied, illustrating ''The Metamorphosis'' instead with a door opening into darkness - an image at once more abstract and yet more terrifying.


Photo: Scott Strazzante / Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle

A pillow fight breaks out on Howard Street dur ing the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco.

A pillow fight breaks out on Howard Street dur ing the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco.

A pair of women dressed as Golden State Warriors' cheerleaders head down Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A pair of women dressed as Golden State Warriors' cheerleaders head down Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man in a rooster costume runs on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man in a rooster costume runs on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Construction workers watch the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Construction workers watch the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Two inflatable pandas jog on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Two inflatable pandas jog on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Participants enjoy a drink at the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants enjoy a drink at the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Dressed as San Jose Sharks' Joe Thornton, James Nielsen of Novato waits on Howard Street for the start of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Dressed as San Jose Sharks' Joe Thornton, James Nielsen of Novato waits on Howard Street for the start of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

A Bay to Breakers' participant runs with a basketball hoop to salute Stephen Curry's back to back MVP awards in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A Bay to Breakers' participant runs with a basketball hoop to salute Stephen Curry's back to back MVP awards in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

David Diersdein waits for the start of the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

David Diersdein waits for the start of the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Beau Dufresne of Sunnyvale and Matt Jasie of Santa Cruz frolic in the center of Howard Street as a wave of runners pass by during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Beau Dufresne of Sunnyvale and Matt Jasie of Santa Cruz frolic in the center of Howard Street as a wave of runners pass by during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants run in Golden Gate park during Bay 2 Breakers on May 16, 2016.

Costumed participants run in Golden Gate park during Bay 2 Breakers on May 16, 2016.

Costumed participants enjoy the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Costumed participants enjoy the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

A man feigns panic as he tries to catch a volleyball tossed into the air by his running partner at the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man feigns panic as he tries to catch a volleyball tossed into the air by his running partner at the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Chelsea Tabart runs past a group of construction workers on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Chelsea Tabart runs past a group of construction workers on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

David Diersdein races down Howard Street at the start of the Bay to Breakers' race in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

David Diersdein races down Howard Street at the start of the Bay to Breakers' race in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Isaac Mukundi (right) and Tsegay Tuemay Weldlibanos raise their arms as they cross the Bay to Breakers finish line in first and second place, respectively, in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Isaac Mukundi (right) and Tsegay Tuemay Weldlibanos raise their arms as they cross the Bay to Breakers finish line in first and second place, respectively, in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

The Bay to Breakers pink gorilla celebrates behind the Isaac Mukundi, winner of the 2016 race, as he gives an interview minutes after crossing the finish line in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

The Bay to Breakers pink gorilla celebrates behind the Isaac Mukundi, winner of the 2016 race, as he gives an interview minutes after crossing the finish line in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15,

A male Waldo elbows a female Waldo in the face as they cross the finish line of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A male Waldo elbows a female Waldo in the face as they cross the finish line of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man dressed as a bottle of Sriracha approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man dressed as a bottle of Sriracha approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group dressed as Care Bears celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group dressed as Care Bears celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A pillow fight breaks out on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A pillow fight breaks out on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Beau Dufresne of Sunnyvale and Matt Jasie of Santa Cruz frolic in the center of Howard Street as a wave of runners approach during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Beau Dufresne of Sunnyvale and Matt Jasie of Santa Cruz frolic in the center of Howard Street as a wave of runners approach during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Beau Dufresne of Sunnyvale and Matt Jasie of Santa Cruz frolic in the center of Howard Street as a wave of runners approach during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Beau Dufresne of Sunnyvale and Matt Jasie of Santa Cruz frolic in the center of Howard Street as a wave of runners approach during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Two participants dressed as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton run together on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Two participants dressed as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton run together on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Late arriving participants wait for elite runners to pass before getting to start line on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Late arriving participants wait for elite runners to pass before getting to start line on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A man dressed in a cap and gown holds out a sign as he approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man dressed in a cap and gown holds out a sign as he approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Nude participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Nude participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

James Hunter and Ana Plascencia Casillas wave to the crowd as part of a centipede on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

James Hunter and Ana Plascencia Casillas wave to the crowd as part of a centipede on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

James Nielsen of Novato (31184) and Cameron Bierwith of Alameda (31185) race with the elite runners at the start of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

James Nielsen of Novato (31184) and Cameron Bierwith of Alameda (31185) race with the elite runners at the start of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Runners take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A purple gorilla, t-rex and yellow banana run the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A purple gorilla, t-rex and yellow banana run the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A runner wearing a wig and a Go Pro celebrates as he nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A runner wearing a wig and a Go Pro celebrates as he nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Jordan Jensen of Seattle makes his way toward the Bay to Breakers finish line in San Francisco on Sunday.

Jordan Jensen of Seattle makes his way toward the Bay to Breakers finish line in San Francisco on Sunday.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Palmer Lamb of San Francisco shakes his "Trump in the Rump" during the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Palmer Lamb of San Francisco shakes his "Trump in the Rump" during the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Racers, including a couple in onesies celebrate as they approach the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Racers, including a couple in onesies celebrate as they approach the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A view of the crowds on the Hayes street hill during the Bay to Breakers race.

A view of the crowds on the Hayes street hill during the Bay to Breakers race.

Spectators watch the festivies take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Spectators watch the festivies take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A bubble machine livening things up on Fell Street during the Bay to Breakers race.

A bubble machine livening things up on Fell Street during the Bay to Breakers race.

Alcoholic beverages are confiscated during the Bay to Breakers race.

Alcoholic beverages are confiscated during the Bay to Breakers race.

The 'Beta Theta Breakers' sorority on Hayes St. cheers on Bay to Breaker runners.

The 'Beta Theta Breakers' sorority on Hayes St. cheers on Bay to Breaker runners.

A lemonade stand at the bottom of the Hayes Street hill serves the participants in the Bay to Breakers race.

A lemonade stand at the bottom of the Hayes Street hill serves the participants in the Bay to Breakers race.

A man and a woman dressed in wedding garb celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man and a woman dressed in wedding garb celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A woman wearing a pink tutu approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A woman wearing a pink tutu approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A woman dressed as Rey from Star Wars celebrates as she nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A woman dressed as Rey from Star Wars celebrates as she nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Nick Ridge (left) runs on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Nick Ridge (left) runs on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group of costumed "Wonder Women" take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A group of costumed "Wonder Women" take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A group of people enjoy the Bay to Breakers' race from above The Chieftain on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group of people enjoy the Bay to Breakers' race from above The Chieftain on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Pac-Man and a Ghost race toward the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Pac-Man and a Ghost race toward the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A group of participants dressed as Waldo take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A group of participants dressed as Waldo take part in the 2016 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants go under the David Hasselhoff limbo stick at the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants go under the David Hasselhoff limbo stick at the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

A man dressed as Jesus gives out high-fives on Fell Street during the Bay to Breakers race.

A man dressed as Jesus gives out high-fives on Fell Street during the Bay to Breakers race.

Spectators watch participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Spectators watch participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Spectators attending a convention at the Moscone center watch participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Spectators attending a convention at the Moscone center watch participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Costumed participants take a break outside the Intercontinental hotel part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take a break outside the Intercontinental hotel part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take park in a disco line at the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed participants take park in a disco line at the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Spectators serenade the participants taking part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Spectators serenade the participants taking part in the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Craig Needham of San Jose (left) participates in his 47th Bay to Breakers in a row in San Francisco on May 15, 2016. He walked the race with his son Josh (right).

Craig Needham of San Jose (left) participates in his 47th Bay to Breakers in a row in San Francisco on May 15, 2016. He walked the race with his son Josh (right).

Participants check their smart phones during the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Participants check their smart phones during the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A costumed Bernie Sanders appeared at the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A costumed Bernie Sanders appeared at the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Costumed revelers at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Costumed revelers at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants take part in the Bay to Breakers race in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants in the Bay to Breakers race take a break in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Participants in the Bay to Breakers race take a break in Golden Gate park on May 16, 2016.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

Costumes at the 2016 Bay to Breakers race.

A costumed participants holds a Barak Obama face during the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

A costumed participants holds a Barak Obama face during the Bay to Breakers race on Howard Street in San Francisco on May 15, 2016.

Aea of costumed revelers now packed into Panhandle, GGP for the Bay to Breakers after party.

Aea of costumed revelers now packed into Panhandle, GGP for the Bay to Breakers after party.

Runners head down Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners head down Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

James Nielsen of Novato (31184) and Cameron Bierwith of Alameda (31185) race with the elite runners at the start of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

James Nielsen of Novato (31184) and Cameron Bierwith of Alameda (31185) race with the elite runners at the start of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Late arriving participants wait for elite runners to pass before getting to start line on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Late arriving participants wait for elite runners to pass before getting to start line on Howard Street during Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

At 9:15 am, Bay to Breakers' participants wait to enter The Chieftain: Irish Sports Bar Pub on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

At 9:15 am, Bay to Breakers' participants wait to enter The Chieftain: Irish Sports Bar Pub on Howard Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man dressed as Jack Daniel's nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man dressed as Jack Daniel's nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

"Donald Trump" and "Hillary Clinton" run the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

"Donald Trump" and "Hillary Clinton" run the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners head into the final straightaway during Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners head into the final straightaway during Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Men dressed as Batman and Robin approach the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Men dressed as Batman and Robin approach the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners round the final curve of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners round the final curve of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man wearing a horse head celebrates as he nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man wearing a horse head celebrates as he nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

crosses the finish line of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

crosses the finish line of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man riding a dinosaur nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man riding a dinosaur nears the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man advocating for the removal of the Internal Revenue Service approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man advocating for the removal of the Internal Revenue Service approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

The Bay to Breakers pink gorilla poses for a photo near the finish line in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

The Bay to Breakers pink gorilla poses for a photo near the finish line in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group of tacos celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group of tacos celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group of runners race in matching multicolor socks at Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group of runners race in matching multicolor socks at Bay to Breakers in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man records with his phone as he approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man records with his phone as he approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners head into the final straightaway during Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners head into the final straightaway during Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners celebrate as they approach the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners celebrate as they approach the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners head into the final straightaway during Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners head into the final straightaway during Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A couple in onesies approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A couple in onesies approaches the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

The Bay to Breakers pink gorilla celebrates behind the Isaac Mukundi, winner of the 2016 race, as he gives an interview minutes after crossing the finish line in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

The Bay to Breakers pink gorilla celebrates behind the Isaac Mukundi, winner of the 2016 race, as he gives an interview minutes after crossing the finish line in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15,

A man holds above the crowd a basketball hoop and sign celebrating Steph Curry's MVP award at the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man holds above the crowd a basketball hoop and sign celebrating Steph Curry's MVP award at the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Members of the Asics Aggies Running Club cross the finish line to win the centipede division of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Members of the Asics Aggies Running Club cross the finish line to win the centipede division of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Runners at the start of the Bay to Breakers race.

Runners at the start of the Bay to Breakers race.

A man and a woman dressed in wedding garb celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A man and a woman dressed in wedding garb celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A team of runners wearing greater than shirts celebrate as they approach the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A team of runners wearing greater than shirts celebrate as they approach the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group of tacos celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

A group of tacos celebrate as they near the Bay to Breakers finish line at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Isaac Mukundi raises his arms as he crosses the finish line first to win the 2016 Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Isaac Mukundi raises his arms as he crosses the finish line first to win the 2016 Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Patrick Smyth (left) and Daniel Mesfun embrace after crossing the finish line of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Patrick Smyth (left) and Daniel Mesfun embrace after crossing the finish line of the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, May 15, 2016.

Texas man wins Bay to Breakers in 35 minutes, 23 seconds

They came dressed as clowns, monsters, zombies and Donald Trump for the annual two-legged bit of aerobic nonsense known as the Bay to Breakers.

The costumed participants in the race, so-called, were heavy this year on all things scary, such as political candidates.

“I have an unusual sense of humor,” said John Seumptewa, who was wearing an orange-blond Trump wig and waiting for the starting gun. “I make fun of everything. This guy is definitely stupid enough to be president.”

Seumptewa, from Seoul, said wearing the wig for 7 miles was “not nearly as uncomfortable” as the real guy with the orange-blond hair was making everyone else feel.

Running in a Bernie Sanders wig was Richard Gould of Novato. It was uncomfortable too, he said.

“I’ll be sweating anyway, so I’ll just be sweating a little more in the wig,” Gould said. “I’ll be OK. I’m Bernie. I don’t take towels from big corporations.”

The early arrivals for the race, which has attracted 1.8 million runners since it began in 1912, negotiated a maze of steel barricades, outhouses, homeless folks in doorways, cops, guards and more outhouses. The guards stood ready to confiscate all contraband, including non-see-through backpacks. All race bags, unlike all race candidates, must be transparent.

The course runs west on Howard Street and then over the feared Hayes Street Hill and through the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park to the finish line at Ocean Beach. Along the way are posted seemingly every available portable toilet for rent in the Bay Area.

Runners were bound by race rule 142 (“Competitors must wear clothing that is clean, designed and worn so as not to be objectionable”) although it was not clear how that applied to a zombie with spikes coming out of his head.

The early arrivals waited for the starting gun in giant “corrals” on the side streets near the starting line at the foot of Howard Street. The “A” corral was for the sub-six-minute-mile speedsters who figured to be done with the entire race in slightly more than half an hour, about the time the slowpokes in the “H” corral were crossing the starting line.

And that was the case because Isaac Mukundi of Grand Prairie, Texas, crossed the finish line with a time of 35 minutes and 23 seconds, exactly one second ahead of second-place finisher Tsegay Tuemay Weldlibanos of Tampa, Fla. The fastest female was Caroline Chpkoech, with a time of 40:36.

At the finish line, the winners and the tens of thousands of runners behind them were fully entitled to receive shiny finisher’s medals, energy bars, freebies, loud music and all the bananas they could consume on the premises.

While fleet of foot, the 2016 winners were well off the course record set in 2009 by the legendary Sammy Kitwara of Kenya who crossed the finish line in 33 minutes and 31 seconds without benefit of an outhouse.

In the side streets of the South of Market area were waiting hordes of unregistered runners who traditionally slip into the passing throng and run for free, dodging course marshals along the way who are empowered to kick them out. Other course marshals were watching for folks relieving themselves without the benefit of an outhouse, another iconic element of the race despite the “no public urination” signs. In the Panhandle, cops were seen catching violators midstream and giving them a stern talking to.

There were 40,000 registered runners and thousands more freeloaders. Paying customers were far below the record of 110,00 set in 1986.

Cops tucked away in strategic spots monitored the passing runners to make sure that the stuff they were hydrating with was the stuff they were supposed to be hydrating with. Into the trash bins went countless cans of beer along with at least one full bottle of Tequila.

Officers arrested seven people, five of them for public intoxication. Three other participants were given miscellaneous citations, police said. But no major problems were reported, and public drinking seemed down from previous years.

Jim Guida and his brother, Ralph, were running as movie icons the Blues Brothers.

“We’re on a mission from God,” said Jim, although it was a silent mission because his brother had forgotten to bring his harmonica.

Dennis Bott was Hulk Hogan (“he gets people excited”), and John Hearney ran with a basketball hoop on his head that strangers kept trying to dunk various items into, to his growing annoyance.

Also in the mix were T-shirted members of something called “Team F— It Up,” a Rubik’s Cube, an ersatz Golden State Warriors starting five, a woman wearing a T-shirt that said “Sometimes I Open My Mouth and My Mother Comes Out,” along with any number of Batmen, Supermen and Spider-men.

Steve Trutane, 51, ran his fifth straight Bay to Breakers while barefoot. He said it builds foot strength, and no one disagreed.

David Sobyra of Fredericksburg, Va., said he was dressed as a homicidal clown, whatever that might be. He said that he bought the costume online for $30, which is less than the entry fee for the race and that it was his first time dressing up as a clown, homicidal or otherwise.

Taylor Watson, dressed all in yellow, said she was part of a seven-member team that was running as a rainbow. As yellow, she said, her job was to keep up with red, orange, green, blue, indigo and violet.

“I’ve never been part of a rainbow,” she said. “I already owned a yellow shirt, so that’s why they assigned me to be yellow.”

Halfway through the course, on the fabled, fearsome Hayes Street Hill, the extra weight from all the heavy costumes was making their owners work twice as hard as their fellow runners in Lycra.

A dozen people carried a 20-foot-long Star Destoyer spaceship from the “Star Wars” film franchise. Instead of blasting out laser weapons, it blasted out dance music, attracting hordes of other runners who danced beside the space ship as they ran.

Lucia Foltanova and Hiro Kajima decided to dress themselves as the newly dead. They ran inside of cardboard boxes designed to look like their own coffins.

“Death doesn’t always have to be morbid,” said Kajima. “Death can be fun.”

Andrew Bickmeyer dressed as a shepherd. Running alongside him were 24 friends, dressed as sheep.

“Sheep coming through!” Bickmeyer called out. “Sheep coming through!”

Chronicle staff writer Brandon Mercer contributed to this report.

Steve Rubenstein and Evan Sernoffsky are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email srubenstein@sfchronicle.com, esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com

Summary: The costumed participants in the race, so-called, were heavy this year on all things scary, such as political candidates.  “I have an unusual sense of humor,” said John Seumptewa, who was wearing an orange-blond Trump wig and waiting for the starting gun.  The early arrivals for the race, which has attracted 1.8 million runners since it began in 1912, negotiated a maze of steel barricades, outhouses, homeless folks in doorways, cops, guards and more outhouses.  Runners were bound by race rule 142 (“Competitors must wear clothing that is clean, designed and worn so as not to be objectionable”) although it was not clear how that applied to a zombie with spikes coming out of his head.  [...] that was the case because Isaac Mukundi of Grand Prairie, Texas, crossed the finish line with a time of 35 minutes and 23 seconds, exactly one second ahead of second-place finisher Tsegay Tuemay Weldlibanos of Tampa, Fla.  At the finish line, the winners and the tens of thousands of runners behind them were fully entitled to receive shiny finisher’s medals, energy bars, freebies, loud music and all the bananas they could consume on the premises.  While fleet of foot, the 2016 winners were well off the course record set in 2009 by the legendary Sammy Kitwara of Kenya who crossed the finish line in 33 minutes and 31 seconds without benefit of an outhouse.  In the side streets of the South of Market area were waiting hordes of unregistered runners who traditionally slip into the passing throng and run for free, dodging course marshals along the way who are empowered to kick them out.  Other course marshals were watching for folks relieving themselves without the benefit of an outhouse, another iconic element of the race despite the “no public urination” signs.  Cops tucked away in strategic spots monitored the passing runners to make sure that the stuff they were hydrating with was the stuff they were supposed to be hydrating with.  Officers arrested seven people, five of them for public intoxication.  Jim Guida and his brother, Ralph, were running as movie icons the Blues Brothers.  Dennis Bott was Hulk Hogan (“he gets people excited”), and John Hearney ran with a basketball hoop on his head that strangers kept trying to dunk various items into, to his growing annoyance.  [...] in the mix were T-shirted members of something called “Team F— It Up,” a Rubik’s Cube, an ersatz Golden State Warriors starting five, a woman wearing a T-shirt that said “Sometimes I Open My Mouth and My Mother Comes Out,” along with any number of Batmen, Supermen and Spider-men.  Halfway through the course, on the fabled, fearsome Hayes Street Hill,  the extra weight from all the heavy costumes was making their owners work twice as hard as their fellow runners in Lycra.  A dozen people carried a 20-foot-long Star Destoyer spaceship from the “Star Wars” film franchise.  Instead of blasting out laser weapons, it blasted out dance music, attracting hordes of other runners who danced beside the space ship as they ran.


06/20/2016 AT 11:40 AM EDT

Nearly 10 years have passed since the untimely death of

's bond with her father is as strong as ever.

champion took to Instagram on Sunday, to wish her late dad a Happy Father's Day. The post featured a throwback photo of a young Bindi alongside Steve, waxing a surfboard with the caption: "I love you. I hope I'm making you proud."

Steve died in 2006 after being fatally attacked by a stingray while filming a documentary off the coast of Australia.

Bindi, 17, hasn't let the memory of her father fade in the slightest. A little over a month ago, she took to Instagram to promote her father's role in a nonprofit organization called

, with a throwback photo of Steve holding a large lizard. Followed by launching the first-ever Steve Irwin Gala Dinner in Los Angeles to raise funds for the organization.

While attending the Gala in May, Bindi told

that it's wonderful to see how her father's impact touched so many animal rights supporters.

"It's absolutely wonderful to see everything really come together," said Bindi. "I think it's been a huge process of planning, but we've loved every minute of it. We wanted to really make sure we captured the event perfectly. Everything that Dad stood for has kind of been showcased tonight, and that means a lot. So we wanted to make sure it was absolutely perfect."

"I think that Dad was so wonderful because he was like this human hurricane – I can see a lot of that in myself," she added. "I'm not a very patient person. If I want to do something, I have to do it right now! I kind of share the same love for all wildlife, and all wild places. I think those similarities are really, really strong."

Summary: Irwin lost her father in 2006 due to a stingray attack


HAUPPAUGE, L.I., Sept. 13— Twenty-one people have been indicted in what the State Attorney General described today as a conspiracy by organized crime to dominate private garbage collection on Long Island.

The Attorney General, Robert Abrams, accused 16 corporations of using coercion and bid-rigging, and said they had illegally assigned collection territories to control carting.

Mr. Abrams said this had resulted in overcharges for garbage collection of more than $10 million a year in Suffolk County alone. He said investigations of the industry were continuing on Long Island and elsewhere in the state.

The criminal charges, contained in three indictments by a Suffolk County grand jury, follow a two-year investigation by the Attorney General, the State Organized Task Force, the Suffolk County District Attorney and the Suffolk and state police.

Among those indicted was Antonio Corallo, 71 years old, of Oyster Bay, L.I., whom state authorities described as the head of the Lucchese organized- crime group. They said Mr. Corallo split quarterly payments of more than $50,000 collected from each of the carting companies with Paul Castellano, whom they described as the head of the Gambino crime organization.

Salvatore Avellino Jr., 48, of Nissequogue, L.I., described as an owner of the Salem Sanitary Carting Corporation of Bohemia, L.I., and Mr. Corallo's chauffeur, were named in one of the indictments. Also named was Salvatore Santoro, 68, of City Island in the Bronx, called by authorities an underboss in the Lucchese organization.

The three are charged with conspiracy, coercion and violation of general business law.

The indictments charge that the Lucchese organization conspired with the officers of 15 private garbage-collection companies and an industry association, the Private Sanitation Industry Association of Nassau/Suffolk, to control collection routes, set prices and intimidate carters who declined to join in the conspiracy.

James J. Corrigan Jr., the executive director of the association, was among those indicted.

The indictments say that disputes that arose among the conspirators were settled by a ''commission'' composed of Mr. Corallo, Mr. Castellano and the bosses of the three other organized crime families. All but One Arrested

The defendants, with the exception of Mr. Corallo, were arrested by the police this morning. All but Mr. Santoro live on Long Island. They were led from the State Office Building in Hauppauge following a news conference for arraignment before Justice George F. X. McInerney of State Supreme Court. They entered not guilty pleas and were released after the judge ordered each to post $10,000 bail by Monday.

The charges carry a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.

Albert Guadelli, a Queens lawyer who represents Mr. Corallo, said he was trying to reach Mr. Corallo to arrange his surrender to authorities.

Thomas Longa, 55, of Syosset, L.I., and Emedio Fazzini, 53, of Westbury, L.I., were also charged in the indictment naming Mr. Corallo and Mr. Avellino. They were described as board members of the Private Sanitation Industry Association.

Those named in the second indictment, in addition to Mr. Corrigan, were: Charles Cannizzaro, 43, of Deer Park, Raniero Calatosti, 46, of Commack. Edward DeMatteo, 51, of Dix Hills. Ernest DeMatteo, 27, of North Babylon. Nicholas Ferrante, 55, of Syosset. John Haynes, 50, of St. James. Robert Schuman, 56, also of St. James. Vincent Maggio, 40, of Miller Place. Vincent Montesano, 46, of Dix Hills. Joseph Pezza, 36, of Old Brookville. Pasquale Pezza, 63, of Huntington, L.I. Frank Rotundo, 38, of Northport, L.I. Anthony Vespucci, 39, of Fort Solonga.

A third indictment of attempted grand larceny in a related investigation named the following: Pat Sesti, 59, of Centerport. Fred Lomangino, 52, of Lloyd Harbor, L.I.

The corporations listed in the indictment, all Long Island concerns, were the following: Salem Sanitary Carting Corporation of Bohemia. Detail Carting Company of Ronkonkoma. Jamaica Ash and Rubbish Removal of Westbury. Harbor Carting of Commack. Island Carting Company of Hicksville. Sail Carting and Recycling Company of East Northport. Unique Sanitation of West Babylon. Standard Commercial Cartage of Smithtown. Maggio's Carting Service, of Mount Sinai. Vinnie Monte's Waste Systems of Bay Shore. A-1 Carting Company of Glen Cove. Wayside Sanitation of Northport. Sail Sanitation of Kings Park.


LOS ANGELES - Anonymous sex and casual hookups are rife. So it's only fitting that now there are anonymous E-cards to warn guys and gals they may have been exposed to HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. A person infected with an STD can send former sex partners anonymous E-mails suggesting they get tested, courtesy of inSPOTLA.

org, a new Web site sponsored by the L.

A. County Health Department. The site offers six eye-catching E-cards - including one featuring a barebacked man wrapped in a white towel - that can be sent free of charge. "It's not what you brought to the party, it's what you left with . . . " reads one E-card. The sender can fill in the disease and write a short message, but doesn't have to give a name or personal E-mail address. With the simple click of a mouse, the recipient can access information about STDs and where to go to get tested. "The goal is to get people tested, quickly . . . to slow the spread [of diseases]," said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the health department. "It's one-stop shopping.

" Health officials believe about 60,000 people have HIV or AIDS in L.

A. County, but one quarter of them don't know they are infected. Fielding said studies have shown many people use the Internet to find casual sex partners, so E-mail may be the best way to get back in touch when there's bad news. "If they met online, that may be the only contact information they have.

" And sometimes, he said, people want to avoid "an uncomfortable conversation.

Summary:
LOS ANGELES - Anonymous sex and casual hookups are rife. So it's only fitting that now there are anonymous E-cards to warn guys and gals they may have been exposed to HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.
   A person infected with an STD can send former sex partners anonymous E-mails suggesting they get tested, courtesy of inSPOTLA.org, a new Web site sponsored by the L.A. County Health Department.
   The


If you like watching other people be really good at word games, then a most exciting time of the year is upon you. On Aug. 9, the National Scrabble Championships will begin in Buffalo, N.Y., and won’t conclude until a player is deemed supreme.

To celebrate this annual battle of the tiles, TIME reached out to top players and asked them what secrets they might share with the masses. Here’s what they said.

“Players of all levels should try to keep their thoughts two turns ahead.”

This nugget comes from John Chew, co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association. Each play, he says, should lead to a player being ahead in points not after the current turn but after the following one.

“Look for common prefixes and suffixes.”

Separating out groups or pairs of letters often found at the beginning or end of words can help you make sense of what’s left, says Chris Cree, also co-president of the Association. Take a scramble of letters like: EGINRTY. Throw the -ING suffix on the right, place the RE- prefix on the left, he says, and you’ve got RETYING all straightened out.

If you’re serious about playing Scrabble, top female player Robin Pollock Daniel says that hitting the books is the way to go. This not only helps you spot sanctioned words, she says, but helps you brilliantly challenge missteps among your opponents. Studying, for instance, is likely the only way you’re to learn that M-B-A-Q-A-N-G-A (a style of jazz-influenced popular music) or Q-U-I-N-Z-H-E-E (a snow shelter) are both totally allowed. The latter, incidentally, is among new words just added to the official Scrabble dictionary.

“Learn from people who play better than you.”

True Scrabble players, Daniel says, have learned how to check their egos at the church basement door. Studying other people’s games, in person, and online, is one of the best ways to make your own game better.

“Play different word games—don’t just play Scrabble over and over!”

Fully exercise your nerd muscles with a round of Boggle, Quiddler or Word Yahtzee, says Will Anderson, currently ranked #6 among Scrabble players in North America. You can even use your Scrabble tiles to play another game, like Pirate Scrabble, a.k.a. Anagrams, a.k.a Grabscrab.

When you find a word you want to play, Daniel says, don’t be rash and throw it down all willy-nilly-like. Reset your brain box and see if you can find another word. “Sometimes it will be your original choice,” she says, “but more often than not, you’ll find something superior.”

This is an edition of Wednesday Words, a weekly feature on language. For the previous post, click here.

Summary: In advance of this year's national championships, TIME asked experts to let their secrets out of the bag


534 West 26th Street, Chelsea

James Siena's captivating paintings look as though they were created by someone in an altered, mildly ecstatic state of consciousness. Made in rich, glossy enamel on medium-small aluminum panels, the paintings at first resemble funky retro-style patterns for kitchen linoleum or bathroom tile. In fact, as the art historian Robert Hobbs explains in a catalog essay, the pattern in each picture is determined by the sorts of algorithmic formulas that software engineers use.

Executed by Mr. Siena, however, these recipes for spiraling lines, nesting boxes, recursively proliferating lattices and other sorts of all-over patterns produce something far from soberly rationalistic. Mr. Siena's hand imparts to the images the wobbly linearity of underground comic book art; his decorative impulses give them an elaborately detailed, jewel-like quality -- fields of fine, zigzagging lines buzz like Op Art. And his color choices, ranging from close harmonies like cream and ocher to bright primaries, are seductively sensuous.

The combination of systematic complexity, comically eccentric style and hedonism is mesmerizing and irresistibly delightful.

On view in the small rear gallery are more than three dozen of Mr. Siena's postcard-size drawings, each a different pattern drawn in pencil or colored pencil. These are not as labor-intensive or materially luscious as the paintings, but they are more various, and they display a mind excitingly alive to possibilities. KEN JOHNSON

Summary: Gorney Bravin & Lee  534 West 26th Street, Chelsea  Through Nov. 10      James Siena's captivating paintings look as though they were created by someone in an altered, mildly ecstatic state of consciousness. Made in rich, glossy enamel on medium-small aluminum panels, the paintings at first resemble funky retro-style patterns for kitchen linoleum or bathroom tile. In fact, as the art historian Robert Hobbs explains in a catalog essay, the pattern in each picture is determined by the sorts of algorithmic formulas that software engineers use.